Yes. I wondered if someone would comment on this. What sort of registry changes are made, as we had a terrible time getting and app to work over RDP and thought this may have been a ossibiilty, but turned out jut to be a poorly written app.
I never really got into the whole RTS thing, I tried to play C+C back in the day but the whole thing just seemed so... boring. Drawn out. Anyway the one game that did get me paying was Z. This game was so much more immediate, a round would last maybe up to an hour. The way the resources were auto managed depending on which zones were captured meant you could concentrate on micro managing the troops to win the level.
Excellent multiplayer action with network play was really addictive as well. These games could last a lot longer as a human was always a better opponent.
The second version out in around 200 or so added 3D graphics and was good to play as well, but it suffered from a lot of AI bugs and things IIRC, and to be honest I never actually completed that game.
Another RTS game I am reminded of was Total Annihilation. Never really got into that either but my friend would play it constantly and it was a good game to spectate.
Yeah. That's pretty annoying. Plus, if you use them when you move to another computer without them you have to double think to perform certian actions. The new(ish) Dell mice have a back and forward right where a right hand thumb sits. I actually physically removed them from my mouse as they were a right PITA.
It Scots, there are still plenty of people who pronounce 'night' as 'nicht' - that's 'ni' as in 'Nick', 'ch' as in, well the Scottish 'ch' (greek X as in LateX), and a hard 't' as in 'Tango'.
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. !
We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes. But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes. Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese. Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice, But the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, When couldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
The cow in the plural may be cows or kine, But the plural of vow is vows, not vine. And I speak of a foot, and you show me your feet, But I give a boot - would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? If the singular is this and plural is these, Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be nicknamed kese?
Then one may be that, and three may be those, Yet the plural of hat would never be hose. We speak of a brother, and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren.
The masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim! So our English, I think you will all agree, Is the trickiest language you ever did see. I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble, but not you On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps, To learn of less familiar traps? Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; it's said like bed, not bead; For goodness sake, don't call it deed! Watch out for meat and great and threat, (they rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother. Nor both in bother, broth in brother. And here is not a match for there. And dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose -- Just look them up -- and goose and choose. And cork and work and card and ward, And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart. Come, come, I've hardly made a start. A dreadful language? Why, man alive, I'd learned to talk it when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried, I hadn't learned it at fifty-five!
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I think there was a sarcasm detection failure. However, apparently in the states people still refer to further and higher education as being at school. That's very strange to me. In the UK School is where you go till you are 16/17.
No one seems to have mentioned this so far, but - You are in the army, in Afghanistan, and you need the laptop to do SCHOOL WORK? Is this normal? School kids are getting sent out to fight wars?
Shouldn't you be in school doing school work? Do they have army teachers and things shipped out to Afghanistan as well? What happens if you are in a lesson and you get attacked? Do you take a pencil, eraser, workbook AND a machine gun to class?
I know this is a shocking revolation but still true. If possible I would love to see what would happen if you sat a 1950s kid down in front of a 2008 exam, my guess is the results would be similar.
Not quite the same, obviously it's quite impossible to sit a 1950s kid in front of a 2008 exam (unless you invent time travel first), but Channel 4 in the UK did a series on this going the other way around called That'll Teach 'Em.
I can't remember the outcome or anything but there's a few article on the net about it.
The quality of the screen has 10x the affect on the final picture than the number of pixels be it 1080p or 720p. In this respect plasmas wipe the floor with LCDS as plasmas are much better, and more like a CRT in terms of tech. I have never been impressed by the quality on any LCD TV I have seen. They always looks so processed and posterised, with shimmering edges. And they tend to highlight MPEG artifacting on compressed digital TV streams alot more than plasmas or CRT.
It's like digital cameras, more mega pixels does not mean better quality. I'd take a 720p plasma over a 1080p LCD anyday - unless I was gonna use the LCD as a computer monitor.
Am I the only one who has no frikking idea what these messages are, or where they are or how to find them or what the heck this article is on about?
Someone please explain where you are finding these numbered lists of seemingly random sentences?
Yes I am logged into google, all I see is a up arrow and a cross beside each result and some search results for the orwellian accordian thing. I seriously don't get this.
Jusging from the comments it appears it doesn't matter but I feel like I'm missing something obvious here.
I wonder how much pollution/CO2 was 'pumped in to the atmosphere' when making these panels. Presumably from what I've read on solar panels, it was probably around 620 Tonnes, as the general figure is it takes 10 years to recoup the enegery expended in making these things. How long are these panels expected to last?
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Yes. I wondered if someone would comment on this. What sort of registry changes are made, as we had a terrible time getting and app to work over RDP and thought this may have been a ossibiilty, but turned out jut to be a poorly written app.
Uunless you are speaking British English, in which case it would be pronouced "one hundred and eighty dollars".
Excellent multiplayer action with network play was really addictive as well. These games could last a lot longer as a human was always a better opponent.
The second version out in around 200 or so added 3D graphics and was good to play as well, but it suffered from a lot of AI bugs and things IIRC, and to be honest I never actually completed that game.
Another RTS game I am reminded of was Total Annihilation. Never really got into that either but my friend would play it constantly and it was a good game to spectate.
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... not that it actually matters since karma isn't expressed as a number any more.
I thought karma was (post rating) - (no of posts)
I think (although I may be wrong) that the funny mod doesn't count towards karma.
Yeah. That's pretty annoying. Plus, if you use them when you move to another computer without them you have to double think to perform certian actions. The new(ish) Dell mice have a back and forward right where a right hand thumb sits. I actually physically removed them from my mouse as they were a right PITA.
It Scots, there are still plenty of people who pronounce 'night' as 'nicht' - that's 'ni' as in 'Nick', 'ch' as in, well the Scottish 'ch' (greek X as in LateX), and a hard 't' as in 'Tango'.
You may like this if you haven't seen it before :
English in the European Community:
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. !
We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes.
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.
Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese.
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
When couldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,
But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.
And I speak of a foot, and you show me your feet,
But I give a boot - would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
If the singular is this and plural is these,
Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be nicknamed kese?
Then one may be that, and three may be those,
Yet the plural of hat would never be hose.
We speak of a brother, and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim!
So our English, I think you will all agree,
Is the trickiest language you ever did see. I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat,
(they rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother.
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there.
And dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose --
Just look them up -- and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come, I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Why, man alive,
I'd learned to talk it when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five!
Original Source Unknown..
may I add, 'Look up procedure to amputate some ones arm'
+1 . I too have experienced this. I think it's really just brain/mind still not accepting that that person is gone forever.
I propose Butt-Riffsss.
This is due to you using the 'beta index' on slashdot. It sucks. Turn it off. Then everything will be fixed. Can't find the link, it's in your preferences somewhere though. Help and preferences, Index, General - Uncheck use beta index, I think.
What is this MAC you speak of?
Like the C2D procs that the Macs have inside them?
I think there was a sarcasm detection failure. However, apparently in the states people still refer to further and higher education as being at school. That's very strange to me. In the UK School is where you go till you are 16/17.
Shouldn't you be in school doing school work? Do they have army teachers and things shipped out to Afghanistan as well? What happens if you are in a lesson and you get attacked? Do you take a pencil, eraser, workbook AND a machine gun to class?
wow!
Not quite the same, obviously it's quite impossible to sit a 1950s kid in front of a 2008 exam (unless you invent time travel first), but Channel 4 in the UK did a series on this going the other way around called That'll Teach 'Em.
I can't remember the outcome or anything but there's a few article on the net about it.
Here is the link to the programmes web site:
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/teachem/series.html
Perhaps your favourite TV download service may have a copy you could 'borrow'.
The quality of the screen has 10x the affect on the final picture than the number of pixels be it 1080p or 720p. In this respect plasmas wipe the floor with LCDS as plasmas are much better, and more like a CRT in terms of tech. I have never been impressed by the quality on any LCD TV I have seen. They always looks so processed and posterised, with shimmering edges. And they tend to highlight MPEG artifacting on compressed digital TV streams alot more than plasmas or CRT.
It's like digital cameras, more mega pixels does not mean better quality. I'd take a 720p plasma over a 1080p LCD anyday - unless I was gonna use the LCD as a computer monitor.
Someone please explain where you are finding these numbered lists of seemingly random sentences?
Yes I am logged into google, all I see is a up arrow and a cross beside each result and some search results for the orwellian accordian thing. I seriously don't get this.
Jusging from the comments it appears it doesn't matter but I feel like I'm missing something obvious here.
I wonder how much pollution/CO2 was 'pumped in to the atmosphere' when making these panels. Presumably from what I've read on solar panels, it was probably around 620 Tonnes, as the general figure is it takes 10 years to recoup the enegery expended in making these things. How long are these panels expected to last?
http://images.google.com/images?client=opera&rls=en-GB&q=it's+a+tarp&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&um=1&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title It's a tarp!
MythTV feels like using a computer to watch TV. Why does ther have to be so many menus and things? Look at VDR for a lesson on how to do a GUI.
What is the difference between a duck?
OK, mom!