>=98 RON petrol is still referred to as super unleaded here in the UK? If you google you'll see results for Sainsburys, Tesco etc have super unleaded. Sometimes it may be called premium I suppose. At most places there's standard unleaded, super/premium unleaded (think Shell's V=Power) and diesel (and sometimes premium quality diesel, again you can get Shell V-Power stuff). Perhaps Super Unleaded used to mean something different but all my life I've just thought of it as higher quality petrol.
I tried it in my 125cc bike a few times, it was noisier, felt slightly more torquey and IIRC I got more miles out of a tank. I run a diesel car these days, haven't done any tests on different grades of fuel for mileage or anything like that, but if 'super' type stuff is available I buy it. Everyone else is always whining about the cost of fuel, I've stopped even checking the prices and just fill up.
I've been doing a lot more walking these days anyway (started off when I got a driving ban for speeding in the summer), so I'm probably only using 3/4 the amount of fuel I used to each month, plus I'm getting decent exercise:)
Probably true for all domestic model cars, but I think some Japanese imports are meant to be 98 RON only (or whatever the higher standard is). If you know your car is going to only be run on super you can have it tuned accordingly to get more power.
In America it's the 'premium' stuff that is 95 RON, whereas here that's the minumum! I'm guessing that in Japan they only run 98 RON or higher, can't find much info on that though.
Doesn't mean you have to start installing viruses on her machine, wasting her time by filling her inbox with pointless spam, and occasionally changing her desktop to pictures of hardcore porn and dead people. Extreme example perhaps, but what you are suggesting is that they just give her unrestricted access from the off, and there are plenty of nasty things to find out there.
Personally I'm pretty happy I didn't have regular access to the 'net until I was about 14 (that was in 1998), otherwise I probably would be even more messed up. Nothing wrong with trying to limit her exposure to bad things and gradually ease up over time. I wish I hadn't been so interested in porn because I became a bit of an addict, and it seems like a total waste of time, but I guess that's hormones for ya.
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Think you're smart, eh? What happens when grandma is a promiscuous porn star with digital Tourette syndrome and a highly inappropriate image based email sig!?
Actually if you check my post just above you'll see that Dell still call them laptops - and you don't get much bigger or more common than Dell when it comes to home computing..
Fuel standards in Europe are higher than for the USA though (higher RON fuel). You can tune european models of cars to get more power because of that, and some cars are meant to be run only on 'super unleaded' rather than just standard unleaded petrol (I think because you can get higher compression without pinking or something). That probably means that you can tune them to be more fuel efficient than US cars too, but someone will no doubt correct me on the details:)
Meh, I'd never really thought about it before. Try this Dell link. Notebooks, subnotebooks etc are still all just subcategories of 'laptop', and a desktop is still a desktop even if it goes under your desk:p Some other poster pointed out that some manufacturers may be scared of lawsuits about burned laps and such so that's why the term laptop isn't used as often. Perhaps for the Dell US site they avoid the term completely, but people in the UK still haven't given in to the sue-happy culture quite yet (though we will still complain a lot:) ).
No reason you can't bring along an extra monitor, keyboard and mouse and just use the laptop in a shut configuration. That's what I do when I'm at work anyway. It's still easier carrying around a laptop bag than a medium sized desktop case. You'd still have to bring along a monitor unless you want to risk leaving the laptop open to food/drink as you say, but if that is a problem, just be thankful that you don't have to lug around CRTs anymore! 21" CRTs are crazy heavy:P
I haven't RTFA, but last time I saw an article like this it was for an extremely low power server, which only served a page once every 5 seconds or something crazy like that. Perhaps this server has a decent response time, but I'm assuming it will still be pathetic compared to a fully fledged server, or even just a mobile phone.
As for the malware angle, what do you mean? I don't see the benefit in carrying around a microserver when you have a legion of zombies at your disposal (as most malware authors probably do) - zombies are harder to trace back to you than something that you are carrying around with you or have physically planted somewhere!
I'm sure any smartphone could work well as a web server, and it would have wireless:) The only thing stopping this kind of future for the last few years (okay so mobile webservers are utterly pointless, but mobile browsing is extremely useful) seems to be greedy telcos.
For graphics and sound it's not important sure. But someone who has spent no money on their sound and graphics card (unless they're building a server) has probably spent sod all on the actual mobo, processor and hard drive as well, so they are going to suffer anyway. After using someone's sempron based laptop last week, I really can't understand why anyone would consider it worth saving a couple of hundred pounds or four hundred dollars or whatever on their machine, if it means that they literally have to wait more than four times as long for it to do anything. Of course I haven't experienced a dual core budget machine, they may fare a bit better.
I used my old iRiver i120 to play chess once on a long bus journey and plane flight (not to mention listening to music), whereas previously it didn't have any games, and couldn't even do basic stuff like delete/rename files, check free space and get a more accurate reading of how much battery life is left (percentage rather than just 3 bars or whatever it was).
I kind of know what you mean, I think I have even seen that too a long time ago on an old Linux distro or some Mac shareware (but didn't really get what was happening).
I know that genetic/evolutionary algorithms are about finding answers to computing problems rather than for simulating biological evolution, but hearing those phrases tends to make me think about a game that simulates genetics and evolution.
I do find some flight sims fun (the original A10 Attack was probably my favourite) interesting, and I love driving sims etc. It is pretty personal. I'm sure people who were interested enough to actually study biology would find an evolutionary simulation even more interesting than me.
I'm not much of a platformer myself (I only completed my first Mario game a couple of years ago when I found an old SNES in the holiday house we were staying in), but even I could see that the guy running around the level just wasn't very well co-ordinated or experienced. He ended up cheating just to show off the level. That game does look like good fun though, especially if level editors are going to be provided with it and there's the multiplayer element:) I was pretty underwhelmed at first there because I wasn't expecting it to be a 2D affair, I was expecting them to be wandering around inside a moving 3D body. That would have been pretty impressive for 24 hours work..!
I've not done much modelling and level editing in the past, but designing levels for a 2D platformer is pretty easy (yes I made a platform game as a teenager, though the levels weren't dynamic, and I've also spent time making Half-Life levels and mods etc).. in this case it was the ideas that were important rather than the implementation since I expect all the funky stuff like the kinematics for the bouncing platforms, swings and such is built into the game engine. Still, good stuff to get it all built from scratch in under 24 hours..
It wouldn't have to be long if the generations went quickly. I admit it isn't the most game like idea in the world - it would perhaps be better called a simulation than a game.
It could be turned into a game if you were able to do stuff like introduce predators as you say, and perhaps change the terrain and atmosphere and so on to try to fulfil certain challenges, that kind of thing. You could have a mode where you can only set certain initial conditions and then watch it like a movie afterwards, and see if everything progresses to beat the challenge. I don't think it would be that boring anyway, and the mechanism of evolution itself would still be through natural selection even if you have contrived the circumstances yourself:)
Hmm, well I wouldn't call the individual enlightenment brainwashing per se (unless someone was purposely setting up an environment that they knew could be used to change their perceptions), though they both need to have the brain becoming vulnerable to that kind of change in its beliefs. Brainwashing is usually a forced process, whereas enlightenment is more 'natural' and apparently even more sudden than the few days it takes to brainwash someone properly.
Yeah, there are different places where it can be seen, but for myself the most obvious example was religion. Other things can affect someone's life deeply sure, but things like which OS you use ultimately won't try to affect your morality as deeply as a religion tries to (though the open source movement could come close I suppose!). My own experience recently wasn't so much that I have realised the Truth - more that I realised something is a lie, and the truth is something I still need to look for. When it comes to operating systems and such, I have my preferences, but I've used many different ones in my lifetime, and things change too quickly to become too entrenched with any one system. I'm trying to view everything in life along the same lines I suppose. A lot of my plans for the future were destroyed over the last 7 years of my life (and over the last decade I've had to let go of idealistic ideas about Amiga OS becoming successful and that kind of thing!). There's little that I'd campaign for at this point in my life because I've realised I've got no idea what the hell is going on with me, let alone the rest of the world!
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Meh, I wasn't trying to troll, I was just trying to be reasonable:p But you can't reason with people if they aren't in the right frame of mind (as you have well explained), so I think it's better not to harass people, but I'm probably the exception to the rule. It's a major failing of humans that they always have to look at things as two sides of a coin rather than trying to be balanced. Someone who stops believing something and then immediately jumps to the opposite beliefs on every aspect of their life, has not learned a thing from the experience..
When I was talking about talented European and Asian dev houses it was still in the context of games.
I haven't really used any Sage software, I just know it's quite well known, so I thought it must be pretty good quality (as far as accounting software goes). But I suppose that was silly of me, considering Microsoft's example!
Wow. Nice rant there. I haven't played it, and I don't care if I miss out on it. It doesn't even sound like it has any interesting stuff like actual natural selection type evolution - everything is done manually. I'd like a game where the creatures were able to mutate and evolve through natural selection, possible to adapt to environments or something like that. That would be interesting (if it wasn't too contrived).
Yep I've tried it. I can't remember if it still had the issue of dialog boxes popping up behind the main window - I think it did - but I'm used to the normal GIMP way of doing things now anyway, so I've grown to prefer it;) If they could just sort out the popup dialogs to pop up in front then I'd be happy.
At least they sorted the bug where if you didn't enter in a filetype for your picture, the whole thing would crash. I don't see how basic stuff like that gets past them!
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>=98 RON petrol is still referred to as super unleaded here in the UK? If you google you'll see results for Sainsburys, Tesco etc have super unleaded. Sometimes it may be called premium I suppose. At most places there's standard unleaded, super/premium unleaded (think Shell's V=Power) and diesel (and sometimes premium quality diesel, again you can get Shell V-Power stuff). Perhaps Super Unleaded used to mean something different but all my life I've just thought of it as higher quality petrol.
I tried it in my 125cc bike a few times, it was noisier, felt slightly more torquey and IIRC I got more miles out of a tank. I run a diesel car these days, haven't done any tests on different grades of fuel for mileage or anything like that, but if 'super' type stuff is available I buy it. Everyone else is always whining about the cost of fuel, I've stopped even checking the prices and just fill up.
I've been doing a lot more walking these days anyway (started off when I got a driving ban for speeding in the summer), so I'm probably only using 3/4 the amount of fuel I used to each month, plus I'm getting decent exercise :)
Probably true for all domestic model cars, but I think some Japanese imports are meant to be 98 RON only (or whatever the higher standard is). If you know your car is going to only be run on super you can have it tuned accordingly to get more power.
In America it's the 'premium' stuff that is 95 RON, whereas here that's the minumum! I'm guessing that in Japan they only run 98 RON or higher, can't find much info on that though.
Doesn't mean you have to start installing viruses on her machine, wasting her time by filling her inbox with pointless spam, and occasionally changing her desktop to pictures of hardcore porn and dead people. Extreme example perhaps, but what you are suggesting is that they just give her unrestricted access from the off, and there are plenty of nasty things to find out there.
Personally I'm pretty happy I didn't have regular access to the 'net until I was about 14 (that was in 1998), otherwise I probably would be even more messed up. Nothing wrong with trying to limit her exposure to bad things and gradually ease up over time. I wish I hadn't been so interested in porn because I became a bit of an addict, and it seems like a total waste of time, but I guess that's hormones for ya.
Think you're smart, eh? What happens when grandma is a promiscuous porn star with digital Tourette syndrome and a highly inappropriate image based email sig!?
That's going to work well when they're checking their email at their friends house or school
Actually if you check my post just above you'll see that Dell still call them laptops - and you don't get much bigger or more common than Dell when it comes to home computing..
Fuel standards in Europe are higher than for the USA though (higher RON fuel). You can tune european models of cars to get more power because of that, and some cars are meant to be run only on 'super unleaded' rather than just standard unleaded petrol (I think because you can get higher compression without pinking or something). That probably means that you can tune them to be more fuel efficient than US cars too, but someone will no doubt correct me on the details :)
Meh, I'd never really thought about it before. Try this Dell link. Notebooks, subnotebooks etc are still all just subcategories of 'laptop', and a desktop is still a desktop even if it goes under your desk :p Some other poster pointed out that some manufacturers may be scared of lawsuits about burned laps and such so that's why the term laptop isn't used as often. Perhaps for the Dell US site they avoid the term completely, but people in the UK still haven't given in to the sue-happy culture quite yet (though we will still complain a lot :) ).
I was just joking with my original post btw.
They're called laptops for a reason! Except these ones are netbooks. So perhaps they are to be rested on top of a modem and held like a book.
No reason you can't bring along an extra monitor, keyboard and mouse and just use the laptop in a shut configuration. That's what I do when I'm at work anyway. It's still easier carrying around a laptop bag than a medium sized desktop case. You'd still have to bring along a monitor unless you want to risk leaving the laptop open to food/drink as you say, but if that is a problem, just be thankful that you don't have to lug around CRTs anymore! 21" CRTs are crazy heavy :P
I haven't RTFA, but last time I saw an article like this it was for an extremely low power server, which only served a page once every 5 seconds or something crazy like that. Perhaps this server has a decent response time, but I'm assuming it will still be pathetic compared to a fully fledged server, or even just a mobile phone.
As for the malware angle, what do you mean? I don't see the benefit in carrying around a microserver when you have a legion of zombies at your disposal (as most malware authors probably do) - zombies are harder to trace back to you than something that you are carrying around with you or have physically planted somewhere!
I'm sure any smartphone could work well as a web server, and it would have wireless :) The only thing stopping this kind of future for the last few years (okay so mobile webservers are utterly pointless, but mobile browsing is extremely useful) seems to be greedy telcos.
For graphics and sound it's not important sure. But someone who has spent no money on their sound and graphics card (unless they're building a server) has probably spent sod all on the actual mobo, processor and hard drive as well, so they are going to suffer anyway. After using someone's sempron based laptop last week, I really can't understand why anyone would consider it worth saving a couple of hundred pounds or four hundred dollars or whatever on their machine, if it means that they literally have to wait more than four times as long for it to do anything. Of course I haven't experienced a dual core budget machine, they may fare a bit better.
There's only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the bloody Dutch.
Other cool things you get for it are stuff like Doom, a Gameboy emulator etc. Very cool.
I used my old iRiver i120 to play chess once on a long bus journey and plane flight (not to mention listening to music), whereas previously it didn't have any games, and couldn't even do basic stuff like delete/rename files, check free space and get a more accurate reading of how much battery life is left (percentage rather than just 3 bars or whatever it was).
I kind of know what you mean, I think I have even seen that too a long time ago on an old Linux distro or some Mac shareware (but didn't really get what was happening).
I know that genetic/evolutionary algorithms are about finding answers to computing problems rather than for simulating biological evolution, but hearing those phrases tends to make me think about a game that simulates genetics and evolution.
I do find some flight sims fun (the original A10 Attack was probably my favourite) interesting, and I love driving sims etc. It is pretty personal. I'm sure people who were interested enough to actually study biology would find an evolutionary simulation even more interesting than me.
I'm not much of a platformer myself (I only completed my first Mario game a couple of years ago when I found an old SNES in the holiday house we were staying in), but even I could see that the guy running around the level just wasn't very well co-ordinated or experienced. He ended up cheating just to show off the level. That game does look like good fun though, especially if level editors are going to be provided with it and there's the multiplayer element :) I was pretty underwhelmed at first there because I wasn't expecting it to be a 2D affair, I was expecting them to be wandering around inside a moving 3D body. That would have been pretty impressive for 24 hours work..!
I've not done much modelling and level editing in the past, but designing levels for a 2D platformer is pretty easy (yes I made a platform game as a teenager, though the levels weren't dynamic, and I've also spent time making Half-Life levels and mods etc).. in this case it was the ideas that were important rather than the implementation since I expect all the funky stuff like the kinematics for the bouncing platforms, swings and such is built into the game engine. Still, good stuff to get it all built from scratch in under 24 hours..
It wouldn't have to be long if the generations went quickly. I admit it isn't the most game like idea in the world - it would perhaps be better called a simulation than a game.
It could be turned into a game if you were able to do stuff like introduce predators as you say, and perhaps change the terrain and atmosphere and so on to try to fulfil certain challenges, that kind of thing. You could have a mode where you can only set certain initial conditions and then watch it like a movie afterwards, and see if everything progresses to beat the challenge. I don't think it would be that boring anyway, and the mechanism of evolution itself would still be through natural selection even if you have contrived the circumstances yourself :)
Hmm, well I wouldn't call the individual enlightenment brainwashing per se (unless someone was purposely setting up an environment that they knew could be used to change their perceptions), though they both need to have the brain becoming vulnerable to that kind of change in its beliefs. Brainwashing is usually a forced process, whereas enlightenment is more 'natural' and apparently even more sudden than the few days it takes to brainwash someone properly.
Yeah, there are different places where it can be seen, but for myself the most obvious example was religion. Other things can affect someone's life deeply sure, but things like which OS you use ultimately won't try to affect your morality as deeply as a religion tries to (though the open source movement could come close I suppose!). My own experience recently wasn't so much that I have realised the Truth - more that I realised something is a lie, and the truth is something I still need to look for. When it comes to operating systems and such, I have my preferences, but I've used many different ones in my lifetime, and things change too quickly to become too entrenched with any one system. I'm trying to view everything in life along the same lines I suppose. A lot of my plans for the future were destroyed over the last 7 years of my life (and over the last decade I've had to let go of idealistic ideas about Amiga OS becoming successful and that kind of thing!). There's little that I'd campaign for at this point in my life because I've realised I've got no idea what the hell is going on with me, let alone the rest of the world!
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nobody does a good christian-baiting trolling like someone who still went to church last month
Meh, I wasn't trying to troll, I was just trying to be reasonable :p But you can't reason with people if they aren't in the right frame of mind (as you have well explained), so I think it's better not to harass people, but I'm probably the exception to the rule. It's a major failing of humans that they always have to look at things as two sides of a coin rather than trying to be balanced. Someone who stops believing something and then immediately jumps to the opposite beliefs on every aspect of their life, has not learned a thing from the experience..
When I was talking about talented European and Asian dev houses it was still in the context of games.
I haven't really used any Sage software, I just know it's quite well known, so I thought it must be pretty good quality (as far as accounting software goes). But I suppose that was silly of me, considering Microsoft's example!
Wow. Nice rant there. I haven't played it, and I don't care if I miss out on it. It doesn't even sound like it has any interesting stuff like actual natural selection type evolution - everything is done manually. I'd like a game where the creatures were able to mutate and evolve through natural selection, possible to adapt to environments or something like that. That would be interesting (if it wasn't too contrived).
Yep I've tried it. I can't remember if it still had the issue of dialog boxes popping up behind the main window - I think it did - but I'm used to the normal GIMP way of doing things now anyway, so I've grown to prefer it ;) If they could just sort out the popup dialogs to pop up in front then I'd be happy.
At least they sorted the bug where if you didn't enter in a filetype for your picture, the whole thing would crash. I don't see how basic stuff like that gets past them!
EA is a publisher, not a developer (for the most part). Rock Band is an EA game (which was a surprise to me) and it's definitely worth it..