I bought both Humble Bundles. I hadn't bought a commercial game in a decade when I paid $20 for the first bundle-- big mistake. Was really unimpressed. Maybe World of Goo was worth $5 or $10, but the others... Boring, no replayability, poor gameplay. Gish even refused to run, and support was non-existant. I then wished I had stayed with OSS games, some of which are much better, and I could have tried to solve the issue myself, at least. So for HIB2 I payed only $8... if I am really happy with at least one game I plan to drop more.
If you are looking to buy one of the Bundles, I recommend you either try the demos first (which I was too lazy to do) or just pay the minimum, and later, if you like the games, add more.
You can symlink instead of copying, no duplicate files and keeps your directory structure. I also set dropbox' folder to a hidden path: ~/.dropbox-sync, so it wont clutter my home.
I have a sparcstation "pizzabox" I can get myself to part with. I still fire it up now and then, but I dont' really have any use for it.. keep it mostly because I like the design. I have thought of building modern hardware into the case, but it wouldn't be the same.. and the display connector is propietary, so i couldn't use that Any ideas of what I could do with it?
Nah, we could date it really easily. There's radioactive carbon dating. Oh, won't work. Well, you can look at the sedimentation layers. Oh, won't work. Well, there's always guesswork.:)
There are other radiometric dating methods besids carbon-14, specially for things that old. One of them is rubidium-strontium (50 billion yeras half life?). It works on inorganic stuff too, although i don't know if it works for martian inorganic stuff, but I'm sure one could adapt it.
Really, the dating itself isn't as important as if water was or was not there.
Yeah. And AlternativeTo, ohloh, Linux GameTome, Stackoverflow, slashdot! It didn't help my project, but then, it's only starting and pretty niche too. If there is no relevant question on StackOverflow, make it up and answer it yourself. Google for your keywords and try to plug your project anywhere.
A 3.5 (Richter?) magnitude quake would be enough to be felt from a couple hundred meters away, but scarcely do any damage... How did they calculate that 9 million USD damage?
The way stereo works on an LP isn't that each side of the groove has a track.
[...]
the up and down motions of the needle comprise both channels, while the sideways motions are a single channel. Mix that single channel in phase with the mono signal and that channel's signal is cancelled out from the mono channel, leaving the other channel.
What's the difference? That's two ways of describing the same thing. In both cases the sideways motion represents the difference between channels.
Recently I started experimenting with FreeBSD, and the difference is enormous. FreeBSD and OSS, not linux and alsa, are finally rescuing me from bondage to the Mac platform.
That's interesting. Could you go into details? How did you set it up? What DAW or other software are you using? What hardware?
I'm not aware of any. I believe that the only "standalone" cell phones these days are phones where the features that scare off individuals such as yourselves are turned off at the factory.
I own the closest thing to a standalone cell phone you can get: a motofone. No games, no camera, no pda. It's not the features per se that scare me off, it's the distraction, short battery life, high price and bad usability of most phones compared to this one.
Also use a zoom lens and take the shot from as far as possible, to reduce curvature. The longer the focal distance, the flatter the picture will appear.
Reading books about the technology involved, of course. Reading the documents that describe the fileformats. Paper books can last that long. If they can still read, that is. But I they can't I am sure they'll find out. 1000 years in not that much in the future in terms of age of civilization, after all.
From what I have heard they were able to make cd's like that. The only reason they didn't (in a time where recordable cd's were just a consumer's wet dream and cd's were only used for music) was that the replacement market would disappear for the music industry. [...] Maybe for very specialised purposes for high prices, but not in any ordinary shop.
Low cost CDs take long enough to degrade as it is. You don't want millions of 1000-year-lasting CDs or DVDs piling up in the garbage dumps. It's ok if they are available for a higher price (10x at least) to archivists, people will think twice what they put on them.
It seems that it is possible. I don't know if this vaccine works that way, but a couple years a story got posted on slashdot about a compound that "could not only inoculate the patient against future infection, but destroy an HIV infection in progress.":
Slashdot Mirror
I bought both Humble Bundles. I hadn't bought a commercial game in a decade when I paid $20 for the first bundle-- big mistake. Was really unimpressed. Maybe World of Goo was worth $5 or $10, but the others... Boring, no replayability, poor gameplay.
Gish even refused to run, and support was non-existant. I then wished I had stayed with OSS games, some of which are much better, and I could have tried to solve the issue myself, at least.
So for HIB2 I payed only $8... if I am really happy with at least one game I plan to drop more.
If you are looking to buy one of the Bundles, I recommend you either try the demos first (which I was too lazy to do) or just pay the minimum, and later, if you like the games, add more.
You can symlink instead of copying, no duplicate files and keeps your directory structure. I also set dropbox' folder to a hidden path: ~/.dropbox-sync, so it wont clutter my home.
TFA says it will be available for free download in December.
If you haven't, try naev. It's one of the more mature EV clones out there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_given_to_the_Spanish_language
I have a sparcstation "pizzabox" I can get myself to part with. I still fire it up now and then, but I dont' really have any use for it.. keep it mostly because I like the design. I have thought of building modern hardware into the case, but it wouldn't be the same.. and the display connector is propietary, so i couldn't use that
Any ideas of what I could do with it?
Nah, we could date it really easily. There's radioactive carbon dating. Oh, won't work. Well, you can look at the sedimentation layers. Oh, won't work. Well, there's always guesswork. :)
There are other radiometric dating methods besids carbon-14, specially for things that old. One of them is rubidium-strontium (50 billion yeras half life?). It works on inorganic stuff too, although i don't know if it works for martian inorganic stuff, but I'm sure one could adapt it.
Really, the dating itself isn't as important as if water was or was not there.
I agree.
Yeah. And AlternativeTo, ohloh, Linux GameTome, Stackoverflow, slashdot! It didn't help my project, but then, it's only starting and pretty niche too.
If there is no relevant question on StackOverflow, make it up and answer it yourself.
Google for your keywords and try to plug your project anywhere.
Bash does that already, see bash manual: programable completion. It just works out of the box on Ubuntu's console (and many others, probably).
I have heard that is more efficient to run a large psu at lower loads than a small psu at maximum load. I don't know if it is true, though...
Of course not! 90% of people don't
I conducted a study with 13 people, 12 of which didn't understand statistics... so the figure is precisely: 92,3076923077%. Now you know.
That's an intensity (subjective) scale. They said magnitude (I assume Richter).
A 3.5 (Richter?) magnitude quake would be enough to be felt from a couple hundred meters away, but scarcely do any damage... How did they calculate that 9 million USD damage?
The way stereo works on an LP isn't that each side of the groove has a track.
[...]
the up and down motions of the needle comprise both channels, while the sideways motions are a single channel. Mix that single channel in phase with the mono signal and that channel's signal is cancelled out from the mono channel, leaving the other channel.
What's the difference? That's two ways of describing the same thing. In both cases the sideways motion represents the difference between channels.
It really reads like spam...Tried it and seems it's decss!
Recently I started experimenting with FreeBSD, and the difference is enormous. FreeBSD and OSS, not linux and alsa, are finally rescuing me from bondage to the Mac platform.
That's interesting. Could you go into details? How did you set it up? What DAW or other software are you using? What hardware?
Keynesian balloons?
It probably is some kind of social experiment to see who people trust over the Internet and under time pressure.
They still even make standalone cell phones.
I'm not aware of any. I believe that the only "standalone" cell phones these days are phones where the features that scare off individuals such as yourselves are turned off at the factory.
I own the closest thing to a standalone cell phone you can get: a motofone. No games, no camera, no pda. It's not the features per se that scare me off, it's the distraction, short battery life, high price and bad usability of most phones compared to this one.
Also use a zoom lens and take the shot from as far as possible, to reduce curvature. The longer the focal distance, the flatter the picture will appear.
They don't even vote for the president. I understand they have this "representative democracy" thingy, where states choose electors as they see fit.
Reading books about the technology involved, of course. Reading the documents that describe the fileformats. Paper books can last that long. If they can still read, that is. But I they can't I am sure they'll find out. 1000 years in not that much in the future in terms of age of civilization, after all.
From what I have heard they were able to make cd's like that. The only reason they didn't (in a time where recordable cd's were just a consumer's wet dream and cd's were only used for music) was that the replacement market would disappear for the music industry. [...] Maybe for very specialised purposes for high prices, but not in any ordinary shop.
Low cost CDs take long enough to degrade as it is. You don't want millions of 1000-year-lasting CDs or DVDs piling up in the garbage dumps. It's ok if they are available for a higher price (10x at least) to archivists, people will think twice what they put on them.
It actually does say: They claim capacity 300 miles, $4 a recharge. Thats 1.35 cent a mile.
It seems that it is possible. I don't know if this vaccine works that way, but a couple years a story got posted on slashdot about a compound that "could not only inoculate the patient against future infection, but destroy an HIV infection in progress.":
http://science.slashdot.org/story/07/07/22/0437213/HIV-Vaccine-Ready-For-Clinical-Trials