Oh and the N64 analog stick seems to wear out after a few years, don't have one but a friend has some that are pretty flaky. Not sure how good they where to begin with though. My gamecube controllers seems to be working like a charm still atleast, so hopefully nintendo has improved on the N64 design.
My old NES has some problems with the connections on its back, making it very sensitive to movement of the wires to avoid flickering. Seems to be pretty common for other people too. The SNES controller cross is badly designed. Underneath the cross there's some graphite or metal powder glued on. The powder gets worn off after a while making it impossible to move the character. This has happened to most of the powergaming friends I have and I'm not sure how hard SNES controllers are to get nowadays.
More of a directX problem I think, don't think directX is able to draw on anything but the first card and device. Can't play directx games if I have my tv-out as the primary device, took a while to figure out.
Last decent sounding theory was something along the line of that the high freqency signal from the phone penetrates deeper into the body than an open fire, infrared or something with a higher intensity but lower frequency.
Sure money comes from the goverment but there isn't a 'goverment owned' or 'goverment controlled' backbone in the way of how the roads are owned. There isn't a single govermental backbone.
I currently got 100mbit flatrate for under 18 dollars in Umeå, Sweden. This is not because of some goverment controlled backbone, but because of a smart local energy company. What they have done and similar companies in other cities is to lay down fiber everywhere in the city. Basicly laying down fiber everytime they dig to do some water/heating/electricity maintainance and in a few years with minimal 'extra' work they got a city-wide network that they sell internet access to. So you got a lot of cities with highspeed 'intranets' around Sweden. The companies provides access to the citynet and pay for all access outside the network. Basicly all network traffic inside the city is free, they just provide ip addresses, DNS and stuff like that, besides peering outside the network.
The national companies on the other hand want a national backbone so they either buy fiber from some of the big phone companies, buy access from the railroad company or simply create their own fiber network. But they only need to connect the citywide networks keeping the reduntant digging inside the cities (which I guess is much more expensive) down.
Meanwhile, I and most of the city enjoy high-speed internet for a low cost. The few areas that aren't connected are the ones were the last few meters are missing, house owners not wanting to pay to have someone dig and install internet in the neighbourhood.
All this was accelerated by the University getting 10mbit internet into all apartments for students 10 years ago and have since 'forced' all apartments to become connected to be attractive to young people.
yeah but you can keep the rewards after reaching rank 14 (highest pvp rank). This means people play nonstop for a few weeks to get from rank 13 to rank 14 then stop playing and some other person reaches rank 14.
Easily Heroes of Might and Magic 3, I constantly keep going back to play it. With the two expansions it's a really good game that unfortunatly takes way too much time and lacks multiplayer (or rather that turnbased multiplayer sux). This means I play it a lot and get bored after spending a week playing nothing but homm3 and don't play it for 6-12 month.
... I expect to go back to the university teaching, doing research or something similar. Seriously when I've been programming for 30 years I expect to be pretty bored about implementing an algorithm or solving a problem I've done before. I don't think management would be the thing for me, being more of a hands on person I don't think I would like to make the decisions. Research is the field when you know how to code and are fed up with the current programming assignments.
About 10 years ago I swore not to buy an ATI chip, as I had nothing but trouble with my Mach64 card. Since then all my gfx cards have been nvidia and I couldn't be happier with the stability. Sorry, but I'm not trading in all these years of happy and stable nvidia gaming for ATI supposed stable drivers. Most of my friends have had trouble with ATI cards in the last years and very few have had problems with nvidia. So unless nvidia gets far behind in the graphics race I won't switch, I don't want to go the ATI instability of my Mach64. The nvidia drivers > ati drivers isn't some myth, lots of people have had that experience over the last years and are happy nvidia owners because of that.
They elevate the 'water' before sending it up in space. Then they open the dam and let the 'water' accelerate down the 'waterfall' reaching a high velocity to move the probe forward.
What I have heard is that Zeiss is NOT making the lens, simply designing the best lens given the limitation Sony has given them. Sony then makes the lens based on that design. Main drawbacks of the camera is obviously the fixed lens and not being an SLR, 24mm is not that wide of a wide angle and 120mm is not that much of a tele. Since the light hits the sensor instead of reflecting up to the eyepiece without touching the sensor it shows the scene as the camera interprets it not as with a SLR an untouched view of the scene through the lens. Basicly you get the laggyness and limited resolution of the lcd in exchange for a picture of what the image might look as. I got an SLR for those reasons, what I see in the eyepiece is the scene which I can interpret and the nonlaggyness of an LCD. Try finding out if an 10Mpixel image is sharp by looking at a 200k resolution LCD.
An infinite number of monkeys would probably not create something random like Shakespearian novels, but rather something more in the lines of "Throwing Feces for Dummies", "Learn to cast poo in 21 easy lessons" or some monkey pr0n.
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Sounds like the Tac-2 death after playing a bit too much Spy vs Spy on the c64.
Oh and the N64 analog stick seems to wear out after a few years, don't have one but a friend has some that are pretty flaky. Not sure how good they where to begin with though. My gamecube controllers seems to be working like a charm still atleast, so hopefully nintendo has improved on the N64 design.
My old NES has some problems with the connections on its back, making it very sensitive to movement of the wires to avoid flickering. Seems to be pretty common for other people too.
The SNES controller cross is badly designed. Underneath the cross there's some graphite or metal powder glued on. The powder gets worn off after a while making it impossible to move the character. This has happened to most of the powergaming friends I have and I'm not sure how hard SNES controllers are to get nowadays.
More of a directX problem I think, don't think directX is able to draw on anything but the first card and device. Can't play directx games if I have my tv-out as the primary device, took a while to figure out.
Last decent sounding theory was something along the line of that the high freqency signal from the phone penetrates deeper into the body than an open fire, infrared or something with a higher intensity but lower frequency.
Sure money comes from the goverment but there isn't a 'goverment owned' or 'goverment controlled' backbone in the way of how the roads are owned. There isn't a single govermental backbone.
I currently got 100mbit flatrate for under 18 dollars in Umeå, Sweden.
This is not because of some goverment controlled backbone, but because of a smart local energy company. What they have done and similar companies in other cities is to lay down fiber everywhere in the city. Basicly laying down fiber everytime they dig to do some water/heating/electricity maintainance and in a few years with minimal 'extra' work they got a city-wide network that they sell internet access to.
So you got a lot of cities with highspeed 'intranets' around Sweden. The companies provides access to the citynet and pay for all access outside the network. Basicly all network traffic inside the city is free, they just provide ip addresses, DNS and stuff like that, besides peering outside the network.
The national companies on the other hand want a national backbone so they either buy fiber from some of the big phone companies, buy access from the railroad company or simply create their own fiber network. But they only need to connect the citywide networks keeping the reduntant digging inside the cities (which I guess is much more expensive) down.
Meanwhile, I and most of the city enjoy high-speed internet for a low cost. The few areas that aren't connected are the ones were the last few meters are missing, house owners not wanting to pay to have someone dig and install internet in the neighbourhood.
All this was accelerated by the University getting 10mbit internet into all apartments for students 10 years ago and have since 'forced' all apartments to become connected to be attractive to young people.
yeah but you can keep the rewards after reaching rank 14 (highest pvp rank). This means people play nonstop for a few weeks to get from rank 13 to rank 14 then stop playing and some other person reaches rank 14.
Easily Heroes of Might and Magic 3, I constantly keep going back to play it. With the two expansions it's a really good game that unfortunatly takes way too much time and lacks multiplayer (or rather that turnbased multiplayer sux). This means I play it a lot and get bored after spending a week playing nothing but homm3 and don't play it for 6-12 month.
And software pirates mean more global warming? =)
Try it and see if you feel more at home, if you don't you havn't lost anything.
I've installed X from ports so if that counts then, yes.
more autotool hell, woohoo.
... I expect to go back to the university teaching, doing research or something similar. Seriously when I've been programming for 30 years I expect to be pretty bored about implementing an algorithm or solving a problem I've done before. I don't think management would be the thing for me, being more of a hands on person I don't think I would like to make the decisions. Research is the field when you know how to code and are fed up with the current programming assignments.
Sorry, but my nvidia drivers for my Riva TNT was perfectly stable under windows 98. Guess what, I wasn't running windows XP back then.
About 10 years ago I swore not to buy an ATI chip, as I had nothing but trouble with my Mach64 card. Since then all my gfx cards have been nvidia and I couldn't be happier with the stability. Sorry, but I'm not trading in all these years of happy and stable nvidia gaming for ATI supposed stable drivers.
Most of my friends have had trouble with ATI cards in the last years and very few have had problems with nvidia. So unless nvidia gets far behind in the graphics race I won't switch, I don't want to go the ATI instability of my Mach64.
The nvidia drivers > ati drivers isn't some myth, lots of people have had that experience over the last years and are happy nvidia owners because of that.
They elevate the 'water' before sending it up in space. Then they open the dam and let the 'water' accelerate down the 'waterfall' reaching a high velocity to move the probe forward.
The problem is when the environment REMOVES instead of HIDEING the functionality, which is what people feel the gnome project is doing.
What I have heard is that Zeiss is NOT making the lens, simply designing the best lens given the limitation Sony has given them. Sony then makes the lens based on that design.
Main drawbacks of the camera is obviously the fixed lens and not being an SLR, 24mm is not that wide of a wide angle and 120mm is not that much of a tele. Since the light hits the sensor instead of reflecting up to the eyepiece without touching the sensor it shows the scene as the camera interprets it not as with a SLR an untouched view of the scene through the lens.
Basicly you get the laggyness and limited resolution of the lcd in exchange for a picture of what the image might look as.
I got an SLR for those reasons, what I see in the eyepiece is the scene which I can interpret and the nonlaggyness of an LCD. Try finding out if an 10Mpixel image is sharp by looking at a 200k resolution LCD.
An infinite number of monkeys would probably not create something random like Shakespearian novels, but rather something more in the lines of "Throwing Feces for Dummies", "Learn to cast poo in 21 easy lessons" or some monkey pr0n.
Isn't that called open-source?