I think the GP was referring to the fact that space is a pretty good insulator. Add sunlight and stuff can get fairly hot up there.
A thick rubber glove *under tension* would provide an inward force that acts like air pressure and keeps your blood at ~an atmosphere of pressure, keeping your blood from boiling.
Basically, the GP may be wrong, but not obviously so. No need to flame him.
Donkey Konga isn't really comparable to Samba de Amigo. SdA is basically DDR with your arms, DK is more like Beatmania games that give you a small piano keyboard. Indeed I think there were drummania games. Konami arcade games, originally, though I think there was a (PS1?) home console adaptation.
I have something similar, it's pretty cool. e.g. in Elite Force some guns have recoil which pushes your aim upwards, and getting shot down in Rogue Squadron is incredible - the stick throws itself around maniacally. Not that many games support it though, and of course I'd rather play anything that isn't a flight sim with a mouse.
I don't see something like this really taking off on a console though - with serious force feedback you need to rest it on a desk. Plus they tend to need their own power adaptor - not a problem to send that power from the console of course, but I can see manufacturers getting nervous about potentially electrocuting someone, or the family dog...
If you think it's only using 50% of the CPU (and it's not just windows reporting it oddly), then try running two instances of the same game and seeing how the performance does.
Obviously there are other factors here (graphics card, enough RAM), so choose your game carefully. It'd probably be easier just to use some simpleish single-threaded app.
Also you can generally turn off HT in the bios, if you're really interested in seeing what effect it has.
-J
The AC is right - space telescopes are useful since the air scatters light (as well as absorbing and emitting quite strongly at specific frequencies). This all adds up to a strong background, so a space telescope can see fainter objects like very distant galaxies - extremely useful for stuff like cosmology.
Ground telescopes will never completely replace space telescopes (unless we put them on the moon:), it's good to at least have one so it can do the stuff that ground telescopes aren't capable of.
"The melancholy in my statement perhaps belies my own awareness of the fact that I believe myself to be wishing in one hand and crapping in the other"
"I would agree, it's high time for the gloves to come off,"
I really wouldn't take your gloves off right now.
what is it with "save the president's daughter"
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Why do people apparently find this such a compelling plot?
List of STPD games:
Res. Evil 4
Die Hard Arcade
Silent Scope ( - whole presidential family kidnapped)
anyone else got more to add?
Maybe you'd want to become a doctor to heal the sick? Most people who are doctors now are highly intelligent and dedicated; they could probably have gone into higher paying employment (and avoided medical school) if they tried.
And, by the way, even if you don't have any altruistic impulses, those sick people could include you or your family.
I think your point is valid to an extent, in that there are some genuinely awful and dangerous jobs that someone has to do, like mining. But I suggest that everyone could be paid the same and people with undesirable jobs could simply work fewer days per week.
I tried - ordered on 29th December. Out of stock at my local store, so I went for home delivery. They let me place the order, then emailed me to tell me they were out of stock at the warehouse as well, and wouldn't be honouring that part of the order. Of course, I went for the bundle (also half price with the gamecube), so now I have a 3rd party GC controller and Mario Sunshine, but no cube. Ha bloody ha. If you already have a GC and want to pick up a half-price game it might be worth a look, but if you actually want to buy a cheap gamecube from Argos, make sure they have one in your local branch.
It's one thing when you are getting material, it's another altogether when your material is used without permission. On one occasion, I had a school ask if they could make 500 copies of one chapter in a book I wrote for distributiuon to their students. They had no desire, or intent, to compensate me for my work.
And you didn't let them? Wow. You're short-sighted (and apparently rather misanthropic, but we'll leave that). Giving away one chapter to raise awareness of your work and tempt people into buying the whole thing is a tactic many authors (and other artists) employ. And everyone wants to market to kids - they've yet to go through the hi-spending "salary and no offspring" phase, and they'll still be buying your books long after you're dead. And you missed a situation where they absolutely have to read your work.
Still, you don't want the sales anyway, right?
You're on the right lines, but we should call it something really positive, something they couldn't possibly want to ban.
They're pretty hard hearted, they're already happy being know as people who want to ban sharing. But lets see them try to ban JesusKittenShare (the premier opensource implementation of the RespectYourElders protocol) and www.cutebabies.org, the popular.behappy listing site.
Nvidia driver installation isn't that hard - you just run a script as root and hit yes a few times. OK, you might need your kernel source installed, but then if you don't like messing with stuff you probably did an "everything" install anyway.
p.s. I did this just a couple of days ago - my stupid cheap FX5200 doesn't work with the default FC2 drivers so X doesn't start. So I tried www.nvidia.com in lynx and found they'd set up the site so text-mode browsers can get to the linux/BSD graphics drivers really easily. Classy.
Slashdot Mirror
www.ebay.com
Am I arrested yet?
I'm more an import -window root screen.png man myself.
Well, you could set up 5 gaming boxes for your quake clan without having to learn how to NAT, or mess with setting up ports. Good practice for IPv6.
I think the GP was referring to the fact that space is a pretty good insulator. Add sunlight and stuff can get fairly hot up there.
A thick rubber glove *under tension* would provide an inward force that acts like air pressure and keeps your blood at ~an atmosphere of pressure, keeping your blood from boiling.
Basically, the GP may be wrong, but not obviously so. No need to flame him.
Donkey Konga isn't really comparable to Samba de Amigo. SdA is basically DDR with your arms, DK is more like Beatmania games that give you a small piano keyboard. Indeed I think there were drummania games. Konami arcade games, originally, though I think there was a (PS1?) home console adaptation.
Rez was originally a Dreamcast game, it only got ported to PS2 after the DC died. The graphics are allegedly better on Dreamcast...
Been around in PC gaming for years. e.g.
b ProductID=98344
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?We
I have something similar, it's pretty cool. e.g. in Elite Force some guns have recoil which pushes your aim upwards, and getting shot down in Rogue Squadron is incredible - the stick throws itself around maniacally. Not that many games support it though, and of course I'd rather play anything that isn't a flight sim with a mouse.
I don't see something like this really taking off on a console though - with serious force feedback you need to rest it on a desk. Plus they tend to need their own power adaptor - not a problem to send that power from the console of course, but I can see manufacturers getting nervous about potentially electrocuting someone, or the family dog...
Of course an unreleased OS is the most secure ever - it's never been exploited! Even OpenBSD can't say that...
If you think it's only using 50% of the CPU (and it's not just windows reporting it oddly), then try running two instances of the same game and seeing how the performance does. Obviously there are other factors here (graphics card, enough RAM), so choose your game carefully. It'd probably be easier just to use some simpleish single-threaded app. Also you can generally turn off HT in the bios, if you're really interested in seeing what effect it has. -J
The AC is right - space telescopes are useful since the air scatters light (as well as absorbing and emitting quite strongly at specific frequencies). This all adds up to a strong background, so a space telescope can see fainter objects like very distant galaxies - extremely useful for stuff like cosmology. Ground telescopes will never completely replace space telescopes (unless we put them on the moon :), it's good to at least have one so it can do the stuff that ground telescopes aren't capable of.
Well, it's a mod for C&C Generals. So, no.
I bet his system also plays a mean game of Tekken!
(joking, I love tekken...)
"The melancholy in my statement perhaps belies my own awareness of the fact that I believe myself to be wishing in one hand and crapping in the other"
"I would agree, it's high time for the gloves to come off,"
I really wouldn't take your gloves off right now.
Why do people apparently find this such a compelling plot? List of STPD games: Res. Evil 4 Die Hard Arcade Silent Scope ( - whole presidential family kidnapped) anyone else got more to add?
That's my impression too. The word "Legos" sounds like the name of an ancient Greek hero to me.
I can't see their site. Maybe it's censored?
Buy Commander Keen. Quite possibly the best 2d platformer, until Abuse anyway.
link to id shop
Maybe you'd want to become a doctor to heal the sick? Most people who are doctors now are highly intelligent and dedicated; they could probably have gone into higher paying employment (and avoided medical school) if they tried. And, by the way, even if you don't have any altruistic impulses, those sick people could include you or your family. I think your point is valid to an extent, in that there are some genuinely awful and dangerous jobs that someone has to do, like mining. But I suggest that everyone could be paid the same and people with undesirable jobs could simply work fewer days per week.
I tried - ordered on 29th December. Out of stock at my local store, so I went for home delivery. They let me place the order, then emailed me to tell me they were out of stock at the warehouse as well, and wouldn't be honouring that part of the order. Of course, I went for the bundle (also half price with the gamecube), so now I have a 3rd party GC controller and Mario Sunshine, but no cube. Ha bloody ha.
If you already have a GC and want to pick up a half-price game it might be worth a look, but if you actually want to buy a cheap gamecube from Argos, make sure they have one in your local branch.
Oh yeah? Let me introduce you to my good friend, Mr Hovercraft.
Check and mate, sucker!
You're on the right lines, but we should call it something really positive, something they couldn't possibly want to ban. They're pretty hard hearted, they're already happy being know as people who want to ban sharing. But lets see them try to ban JesusKittenShare (the premier opensource implementation of the RespectYourElders protocol) and www.cutebabies.org, the popular .behappy listing site.
Nvidia driver installation isn't that hard - you just run a script as root and hit yes a few times. OK, you might need your kernel source installed, but then if you don't like messing with stuff you probably did an "everything" install anyway. p.s. I did this just a couple of days ago - my stupid cheap FX5200 doesn't work with the default FC2 drivers so X doesn't start. So I tried www.nvidia.com in lynx and found they'd set up the site so text-mode browsers can get to the linux/BSD graphics drivers really easily. Classy.
Their first call:
"Hi. Got Skype?"
And do they mention that migrating must be done in december - show the users xsnow and they'll forget windows in a second...