No, our old assumption was that people could not grow beyond 1m/3feet even as adults. We then started looking for them, and found lots of adults over this size. The scientists have adjusted their theory so that it can explain the existence of people over 1m/3feet is size. The side effect of their model is that it also predicts that adult people under 1m are probably quite rare.
I have a MBP and I almost never use it unplugged, but it's great to just fold it, put it and the power supply in my backpack, take it somewhere, open it, and continue working. It will work a couple of hours on the battery without the power supply, but I rarely use it that way. It's just a very portable desktop.
Yeah, I was also thinking something along those lines. Those more fancy AT commands are often non-standard on your basic modem, so you'll need to read the manual to see what does what.
In general there should be a command to just pick up the phone on an incoming RING and wait for the user to +++ATH and also keep the volume enables (default it goes off after the handshake, but if incoming is VOICE, then it will need some special commands anyway).
Should be trivial to at least hear what is happening on any half decent modem, you'll need one where you can talk back from your microphone, and where preferably the audio from your modem is piped into your soundcard mixer too. I'm not so sure about that part of the setup, will depend on the drivers and hardware of the modem. An external modem might be an advantage here, if it has audio in/out.
Exactly. The new thing looks like a brick. I think the old kitt wasn't very good at corners, but at least it looked good. This looks like the Arnie of cars, while you need van damme.
Well, I don't know but the story sound similar to a friend of mine. But he moved to Hawai instead, which I think is a choice I would also vastly prefer.
Still I must say; He definately has a cool job.;-)
I just bougt a new gaming machine two weeks ago, at the local shop at teh corner. The guy behind the counter asked me if I wanted XP or Vista. Well, that was an easy choice: XP
Microsoft does the same and sometimes Windows point releases cost as much or even more:
Windows 3.0/3.1/3.11
Windows 4.0 a.k.a. Windows 95 Windows 4.03 a.k.a. Windows 95 OSR2 Windows 4.1 a.k.a. Windows 98 Windows 4.9 a.k.a. Windows ME
Windows NT 5.0 a.k.a. Windows 2000 Windows NT 5.1 a.k.a. Windows XP Windows NT 5.2 a.k.a. Windows 2003
And the gaps in release dates of the above aren't a lot different from the OS X ones, maybe a bit larger (1.5-2 years vs. 1-1.5 years) and they have some clever naming system since 1995, but then so does Apple (Panther, Tiger, Leopard)
True reading/writing Terabytes/day is a pain using current harddrives, even in some nice raid setup.
I really like the bigger drives that are coming, but I haven't figured out how to write/read the fastest, Flash disks, Huge disk buffers in RAM, machines with big stiping disk arrays, or lot's of small systems. I'm currently writing/reading about 100 GB/hour, but this needs to scale to about 5-10 TB/hour in 1-2 years. While this is easily possible, figuring out the cheapest way to do it is not.
We've been doing radio-interferometry already quite a bit longer, I work at the WSRT, which became operational in 1970. http://www.astron.nl/p/WSRT2.htm
From http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~cwalker/talks/aaas_2001/tsld007.htm, it looks like VLBI is already 40 years old.
* 1967 First VLBI
o Jan: U. Florida - 1 kHz on Jupiter bursts
o Apr: Canadian group 448 MHz, 1 MHz bw
o May: NRAO-Cornell 610 MHz, 360 kHz bw
o June: MIT-NRAO-Cornell OH masers
* 1968 Jan. First multi-station observations
o Already global - includes Onsala, Sweden
I think part of the problem is that for these large projects they usually bring in a group of outside developers that do not know the processes at the organisation well enough, lack "domain knowledge" so to speak. In the worst cases I know of the developers are actually then barred from talking to people in the organisation, preferably future users, and are required only to work on some incomplete and often incorrect spec that was written as part of the tender.
Also people are commenting here that the automated process should mimic the earlier (non-automated?) one. Often this ends up as the old procedures begin implemented, not the general process, which might lead to very sub-optimal procedures as a lot do not translate well to another system.
I think that SDL and OpenGL need to try and get ahead of DX, as that will make more game developers consider using it. (And usability, I understand that it's not only in features that DX has an edge, but also in ease of use and level of abstraction of all hardware, not just the graphics card.)
Someday I'll have to move to PCIe, SATA, and multi-core; perhaps that will be the time. If it's with a 64 bit OS, so much the better.
I (well my boss actually), just bought an Apple Macbook Pro, I just wanted to point out that your list doesn't mean Vista&DirectX, as the list sounds a lot like my new laptop. A bit off topic maybe, but it will be interesting how Apple will compare to DX10 & Vista when OS 10.5 is out in a month or so.
I don't realy care how they do it, f I can download it, or need to buy a box of the shelve, but I would like it if somehow SuSE came with DVD support. My Medion laptop I bought 1.5 years ago has a separate linux partition with a DVD player. It boots when you push a special "play DVD" button, without running Windows & friends. Even comes with the source for the kernel and other stuff that's on there, not the DVD players software though. But my conclusion is, that commercial closed source DVD playing software exists for Linux and I don't see that if every Windows PC can have PowerDVD on it, then a Linux distro can't do the same, at least for it's non-OSS off-the-shelve boxes.
Don't get me wrong, I would prefer a free legal DVD player, but am also willing to pay for a non-free one, if it saves me a lot of hassle.
There are plenty quests, my character is almost level 64 ad has done only a few quests in Outland (not friendly with thrallmar yet). I still have about 20 quests left , mostly in EPL and Silithus. I have killed as few monsters as possible, leveling almost exclusively on quests, often stealthing past mobs if I could.
If you do all quests in Azeroth, you will be level 64 before you need to go to Outland.
The problem with the TBC instances is that the design assumed people are already established level-60 raiders and will clear the content before the first 25-man dungeons easily.
I am not level 70, only 63, so I can only comment on what I see, but I have been to Zul'Gurub and Onyxia and Molten Core before level 60, and have had a lot of fun, learning how to raid in the process. There are no equivalent raids at level 70, a nice 25-man instance, that you would be able to beat with a group of level 68-69 players, if very skilled, or a group of reasonably skilled level 70s. All level 70 instances seem "heroic only mode".
The logistical difficulty of having a 10 man raid as bottleneck to 25-man content is not helping.
I started playing WoW 8 months ago, and I now am level 63. I agree with the "catching up" feeling. I feel that in this sense TBC is worse as the original game, I have not experienced level 70 content yet, but it does sound like a rat race, wth most people stuck in Karazhan. I have been to Zul'gurub, Molten Core and Onyxia around level 57-62 and had much fun in green/blue gear.
I liked most of the levelling experience in the original WoW. I as fortunate to start on a new server a few days after it started. A general problem on older servers seems to be that all content below level 70 is almost deserted. An other problem seems to be gold selling services. Both are symptoms of the effect you describe. If I new a good solution, I would probably be making millions in game design.
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No, our old assumption was that people could not grow beyond 1m/3feet even as adults. We then started looking for them, and found lots of adults over this size. The scientists have adjusted their theory so that it can explain the existence of people over 1m/3feet is size.
The side effect of their model is that it also predicts that adult people under 1m are probably quite rare.
We have.
in 1995 by the Galileo a probe was dropped into Jupiter.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap951207.html
But if you think it will just sink in until it 'hits' then check your physics on large gas giants again.
I have a MBP and I almost never use it unplugged, but it's great to just fold it, put it and the power supply in my backpack, take it somewhere, open it, and continue working. It will work a couple of hours on the battery without the power supply, but I rarely use it that way.
It's just a very portable desktop.
Yeah, I was also thinking something along those lines. Those more fancy AT commands are often non-standard on your basic modem, so you'll need to read the manual to see what does what.
In general there should be a command to just pick up the phone on an incoming RING and wait for the user to +++ATH and also keep the volume enables (default it goes off after the handshake, but if incoming is VOICE, then it will need some special commands anyway).
Should be trivial to at least hear what is happening on any half decent modem, you'll need one where you can talk back from your microphone, and where preferably the audio from your modem is piped into your soundcard mixer too.
I'm not so sure about that part of the setup, will depend on the drivers and hardware of the modem. An external modem might be an advantage here, if it has audio in/out.
No Yeti?
Exactly. The new thing looks like a brick. I think the old kitt wasn't very good at corners, but at least it looked good. This looks like the Arnie of cars, while you need van damme.
Well, I don't know but the story sound similar to a friend of mine. But he moved to Hawai instead, which I think is a choice I would also vastly prefer.
;-)
Still I must say; He definately has a cool job.
In europe we sleep on wednesday from 3:00-11:00, not tuesdays, you insensitive clod!
I just bougt a new gaming machine two weeks ago, at the local shop at teh corner. The guy behind the counter asked me if I wanted XP or Vista. Well, that was an easy choice: XP
I have a Macbook Pro for everything else.
Just my drop in the list of games that were great in my opinion:
- Invaders
- Defender of the Crown
- Paganizu
- Flightsimulator (4, 2000, 2003)
- Lemmings
- SimCity (&2000/3000)
- Civilization (I, II, CtP, CtP2)
- Myst, Riven
- Quake
- Halflife
- Dune 2
- Warcraft (1, 2, 3)
- Commnd & Conquer (&RedAlert)
- Battlefield 1942
- World of Warcraft
Just some games I enjoyed a lot.
Microsoft does the same and sometimes Windows point releases cost as much or even more:
Windows 3.0/3.1/3.11
Windows 4.0 a.k.a. Windows 95
Windows 4.03 a.k.a. Windows 95 OSR2
Windows 4.1 a.k.a. Windows 98
Windows 4.9 a.k.a. Windows ME
Windows NT 5.0 a.k.a. Windows 2000
Windows NT 5.1 a.k.a. Windows XP
Windows NT 5.2 a.k.a. Windows 2003
And the gaps in release dates of the above aren't a lot different from the OS X ones, maybe a bit larger (1.5-2 years vs. 1-1.5 years) and they have some clever naming system since 1995, but then so does Apple (Panther, Tiger, Leopard)
True reading/writing Terabytes/day is a pain using current harddrives, even in some nice raid setup.
I really like the bigger drives that are coming, but I haven't figured out how to write/read the fastest, Flash disks, Huge disk buffers in RAM, machines with big stiping disk arrays, or lot's of small systems. I'm currently writing/reading about 100 GB/hour, but this needs to scale to about 5-10 TB/hour in 1-2 years. While this is easily possible, figuring out the cheapest way to do it is not.
We've been doing radio-interferometry already quite a bit longer, I work at the WSRT, which became operational in 1970.
http://www.astron.nl/p/WSRT2.htm
From http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~cwalker/talks/aaas_2001/tsld007.htm, it looks like VLBI is already 40 years old.
* 1967 First VLBI
o Jan: U. Florida - 1 kHz on Jupiter bursts
o Apr: Canadian group 448 MHz, 1 MHz bw
o May: NRAO-Cornell 610 MHz, 360 kHz bw
o June: MIT-NRAO-Cornell OH masers
* 1968 Jan. First multi-station observations
o Already global - includes Onsala, Sweden
* 1969 Oct. First US/USSR observations
Free beer if you play hockey at this club and are 18-25:
http://endandit.nl/regionaal/2007/07/20/gratis-bier-zuipen-op-larensche-hockeyclub
Free beer at Heineken Light events to promote the new beverage:
http://www.heinekenlight.com/index.html
TRavel agency TUI offereing "beer included" trips to Mallorca
http://mips.tui.de/MIPS/mips;MIPSSession=DJQMyD6xjL9ytLQlXXLmTY7Cdjk7B4vy0xRMyGcrWnG7VWfjnWy9!1378868524?cmd=init&mipsId=10039
Yes, it looks like the defense was approaching this from the wrong angle.
That link has been bookmarked, it's realy nice.
I think this is a reasonable list:
http://www.apple.com/games/articles
I think part of the problem is that for these large projects they usually bring in a group of outside developers that do not know the processes at the organisation well enough, lack "domain knowledge" so to speak. In the worst cases I know of the developers are actually then barred from talking to people in the organisation, preferably future users, and are required only to work on some incomplete and often incorrect spec that was written as part of the tender.
Also people are commenting here that the automated process should mimic the earlier (non-automated?) one. Often this ends up as the old procedures begin implemented, not the general process, which might lead to very sub-optimal procedures as a lot do not translate well to another system.
I think that SDL and OpenGL need to try and get ahead of DX, as that will make more game developers consider using it. (And usability, I understand that it's not only in features that DX has an edge, but also in ease of use and level of abstraction of all hardware, not just the graphics card.)
Someday I'll have to move to PCIe, SATA, and multi-core; perhaps that will be the time. If it's with a 64 bit OS, so much the better.
I (well my boss actually), just bought an Apple Macbook Pro, I just wanted to point out that your list doesn't mean Vista&DirectX, as the list sounds a lot like my new laptop. A bit off topic maybe, but it will be interesting how Apple will compare to DX10 & Vista when OS 10.5 is out in a month or so.
I don't realy care how they do it, f I can download it, or need to buy a box of the shelve, but I would like it if somehow SuSE came with DVD support. My Medion laptop I bought 1.5 years ago has a separate linux partition with a DVD player. It boots when you push a special "play DVD" button, without running Windows & friends. Even comes with the source for the kernel and other stuff that's on there, not the DVD players software though.
But my conclusion is, that commercial closed source DVD playing software exists for Linux and I don't see that if every Windows PC can have PowerDVD on it, then a Linux distro can't do the same, at least for it's non-OSS off-the-shelve boxes.
Don't get me wrong, I would prefer a free legal DVD player, but am also willing to pay for a non-free one, if it saves me a lot of hassle.
There are plenty quests, my character is almost level 64 ad has done only a few quests in Outland (not friendly with thrallmar yet). I still have about 20 quests left , mostly in EPL and Silithus. I have killed as few monsters as possible, leveling almost exclusively on quests, often stealthing past mobs if I could.
If you do all quests in Azeroth, you will be level 64 before you need to go to Outland.
The problem with the TBC instances is that the design assumed people are already established level-60 raiders and will clear the content before the first 25-man dungeons easily.
I am not level 70, only 63, so I can only comment on what I see, but I have been to Zul'Gurub and Onyxia and Molten Core before level 60, and have had a lot of fun, learning how to raid in the process. There are no equivalent raids at level 70, a nice 25-man instance, that you would be able to beat with a group of level 68-69 players, if very skilled, or a group of reasonably skilled level 70s. All level 70 instances seem "heroic only mode".
The logistical difficulty of having a 10 man raid as bottleneck to 25-man content is not helping.
I started playing WoW 8 months ago, and I now am level 63. I agree with the "catching up" feeling. I feel that in this sense TBC is worse as the original game, I have not experienced level 70 content yet, but it does sound like a rat race, wth most people stuck in Karazhan. I have been to Zul'gurub, Molten Core and Onyxia around level 57-62 and had much fun in green/blue gear.
I liked most of the levelling experience in the original WoW. I as fortunate to start on a new server a few days after it started. A general problem on older servers seems to be that all content below level 70 is almost deserted. An other problem seems to be gold selling services. Both are symptoms of the effect you describe. If I new a good solution, I would probably be making millions in game design.
As none of the links in the article actually seem to link to a description/picture of the device, here is one for your enjoyment:
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/texas_insturments_ti_58.html