You know what? Seriously, if Blizzard isn't going to include LAN play in SC2, I'm not going to buy it. I'm going to pirate it just to spite them. In fact, I'm going to pirate a version that hackers have put together that includes LAN play or some kind of feature to specify what "Battle.net" server the game uses. So I can set up my own Battle.net server. I will donate my hard earned money to pay hackers to hack SC2 to shreds just so that I can play the game as it should be played.
Fuck you Blizzard. Seriously, fuck you. LAN play is what makes StarCraft a great game. If you're going to turn corporate stingy motherfuckers on us, then we are going to turn on you.
Just so long as they remake Descent I and Descent II. Everything after those two involved too much not-in-a-mine. Sure, that was probably because technology had advanced far enough to make rendering a large(er) 3D landscape feasible, but that's not what Descent was about!
You're right, but it's not the AJAX that is the cause. It's the incompetent "web developers" who think AJAX is going to solve all of their problems by getting them a better job and making them worth more. These are the same people who firmly believe that Ruby on Rails is the only way to create an AJAX application and not-so-coincidentally couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. I should know. I went to high school with them:)
The likelihood of the moon forming with the same rotational period as its revolution period is very slim. The moon had a much shorter rotational period originally, but tidal forces dragged at it and slowed it down. Now the two are in lock-step. I remember hearing that eventually the earth will do the same thing, so anyone standing on the moon would always see the same side of the earth.
I think you're both sort of right. The photo paper is insensitive to the red light because the photons in red light carry less energy per photon and can't alter the chemical structure of the crystal halides in the emulsion. I think, at least. Photo + chem + physics = my reasoning
I'd also like to point out that, on average, the skin has a surface area of 16.1 to 21.5 sq ft. At 14.5 psi (pounds per square inch, average atmospheric pressure) that's 233 to 312 pounds of force keeping you from exploding.
To answer your question, yes. The pressure of the atmosphere is greater than the vapor pressure of the gasses dissolved in your blood. This keeps the gasses from escaping. If you remove that pressure, the gasses escape or "boil" out.
You're basically asking "You mean to tell me that the earth pushes back on the beams holding up my house? So it has no structural integrity on its own?"
That would be censorship, and from what I've seen of the opinions of everyone around here, that wouldn't fly. I think a better compromise would be to give the users of Slashdot a means to "ignore" certain anonymous cowards by their IP. Or maybe someone could write up a greasemonkey script that lets you block slashdot comments that match a certain phrase like "dropped a brown rope."
You are kidding arent you ?Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
That's bizzare. I did this in firefox 3.0.4 and it actually took longer than Internet Explorer 7. Not just a bit longer either. It was significantly longer. More comparable to Google Chrome than Firefox. Maybe it has nothing to do with the JavaScript bit but more with rendering the <div> elements?
You think that just because we've elected a president of black descent suddenly all forms of racism against blacks will stop? Can I please have some of what this guy is smoking?
That is a fascinating article with a superb ending. Ironically, though, I have other things to do this morning so I skipped to the end after about 7 paragraphs:P
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FF 3.5.2 works fine for me in Win XP and in Debian
IE 7/8 work fine too
Am I missing something here? Or was it only Opera that it doesn't work properly in
You know what? Seriously, if Blizzard isn't going to include LAN play in SC2, I'm not going to buy it. I'm going to pirate it just to spite them. In fact, I'm going to pirate a version that hackers have put together that includes LAN play or some kind of feature to specify what "Battle.net" server the game uses. So I can set up my own Battle.net server. I will donate my hard earned money to pay hackers to hack SC2 to shreds just so that I can play the game as it should be played.
Fuck you Blizzard. Seriously, fuck you. LAN play is what makes StarCraft a great game. If you're going to turn corporate stingy motherfuckers on us, then we are going to turn on you.
Just so long as they remake Descent I and Descent II. Everything after those two involved too much not-in-a-mine. Sure, that was probably because technology had advanced far enough to make rendering a large(er) 3D landscape feasible, but that's not what Descent was about!
You're right, but it's not the AJAX that is the cause. It's the incompetent "web developers" who think AJAX is going to solve all of their problems by getting them a better job and making them worth more. These are the same people who firmly believe that Ruby on Rails is the only way to create an AJAX application and not-so-coincidentally couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. I should know. I went to high school with them :)
The likelihood of the moon forming with the same rotational period as its revolution period is very slim. The moon had a much shorter rotational period originally, but tidal forces dragged at it and slowed it down. Now the two are in lock-step. I remember hearing that eventually the earth will do the same thing, so anyone standing on the moon would always see the same side of the earth.
Doesn't the wikipedia entry you linked to say that it was discontinued in 2005?
Score: +1, Not over thinking it
Score: -1, Wooosh
Really?
Score:-1, Naive
I think it goes "since I accidentally the whole jar of exlax"
Posting here for the april fools achievement too! I hope there really is one of those. Otherwise I'm going to be be modded down for being off-topic.
Preempted an off-topic mod (2009/04/01)
Raise your hand if you just had to mouse over that link to see where it pointed ...
I've always wondered what the street value of a $100 federal reserve note was ...
WOOOOSSHHHHH
I think you're both sort of right. The photo paper is insensitive to the red light because the photons in red light carry less energy per photon and can't alter the chemical structure of the crystal halides in the emulsion. I think, at least. Photo + chem + physics = my reasoning
I'd also like to point out that, on average, the skin has a surface area of 16.1 to 21.5 sq ft. At 14.5 psi (pounds per square inch, average atmospheric pressure) that's 233 to 312 pounds of force keeping you from exploding.
To answer your question, yes. The pressure of the atmosphere is greater than the vapor pressure of the gasses dissolved in your blood. This keeps the gasses from escaping. If you remove that pressure, the gasses escape or "boil" out.
You're basically asking "You mean to tell me that the earth pushes back on the beams holding up my house? So it has no structural integrity on its own?"
That would be censorship, and from what I've seen of the opinions of everyone around here, that wouldn't fly. I think a better compromise would be to give the users of Slashdot a means to "ignore" certain anonymous cowards by their IP. Or maybe someone could write up a greasemonkey script that lets you block slashdot comments that match a certain phrase like "dropped a brown rope."
Oh! OHHH! Let me do one :)
You are kidding arent you ?Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
Oh no :(
To keep your iPhone in or your penis?
That's bizzare. I did this in firefox 3.0.4 and it actually took longer than Internet Explorer 7. Not just a bit longer either. It was significantly longer. More comparable to Google Chrome than Firefox. Maybe it has nothing to do with the JavaScript bit but more with rendering the <div> elements?
You think that just because we've elected a president of black descent suddenly all forms of racism against blacks will stop? Can I please have some of what this guy is smoking?
That is a fascinating article with a superb ending. Ironically, though, I have other things to do this morning so I skipped to the end after about 7 paragraphs :P