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Twelvepack wrote:
You ever tried out the OCremixes site? what they have there is 90% shit, but there are a few that have the same nostalgic appeal, but are arranged to be a lot of fun to listen to. A must for anyone who actually cares for oldschool soundtracks.
I'm 90% disappointed with remixes and prefer the originals instead.
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moozooh wrote:
Just out of curiosity, what would you think/do if for some reason you failed to witness the respective events (for instance, if they happened in a totally different manner or not at all)?
It would still be interesting. Though my first thought would be "I must have gotten here at wrong day, guess I'll settle in for a few weeks... Oh, but I don't know any of the languages spoken here, I'm screwed."
But if something interesting (read: something that concurs with Bible) would fail to happen for an unspecified length of time, I would probably try my best to investigate why not, despite the obvious language problems.
Cpadolf: I prefer music where I can fill in my own words and yet choose to not do so (a complex way of saying that I prefer music without singing). I find console game soundtracks my most common variety of music. I also intellectually enjoy some classical music.
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Raiscan wrote:
If you could visit any point in time, where would you go and why? Don't worry, you will not cause any paradoxes and you can return to the present at any time you wish.
How nice that you added the "don't worry" part, because that's what I would have pointed out otherwise :P
The times I would like to visit:
-- Some of the days when Christ walked on earth
---- Because I just would like to be there to see those events myself.
---- Some of those nights too. There was no light pollution! You could see the sky in its awesomeness. Today, stars can be invisible due to the glow of cities more than 100 kilometers away.
-- Near future, say, 60 years from now
-- Farther future, say, 400 years from now
-- Much farther future, say, 3500 years from now
-- A lot farther future, say, 14000 years from now
---- Just because I'm curious how the future progresses. Of course, I couldn't take any information back with me because then I would be making a paradox...
If was also thinking of some astronomically distant event in the past but I couldn't think of anything that I could/would want to observe and that wouldn't take millennia to unfold.
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Dromiceius＞ I have no idea. I haven't heard that from anyone else.
mushroom＞ Both Official and BitTornado.
Twelvepack＞ Answered already when Vatchern asked.
Raiscan＞Gentoo and Debian. Debian in the server, Gentoo in others. As for why ― I got the perception that Debian has the lowest workload for maintenance of all distributions (yet ability to extend it without significantly breaking anything), and it seems to be exactly that. On the other hand, Gentoo is for lots of experimenting and I just wanted to try it out.
Dasrik＞ I'm similar to you in this aspect: I pray rarely. However, I believe that a prayer is not supposed to be a ritual; rather it is supposed to be two-way communication with God. During the days I pondered how I'm going to answer your question, I stumbled across this page, which details some different forms of prayer. It contains some aspects that I hadn't considered before.
I do three kinds of prayer:
― "Petition", i.e. ask God to fulfill a wish. It may be that I wish to find my lost keys, or that I wish that it won't rain so much. When I was a teenager, there was this one summer where God seemed to always answer when I asked that the rain goes away within a certain amount of time. Usually no more than 15 minutes. Then again, there are a lot of times when nothing seems to happen.
― "Battle", i.e. ask for support for someone else when it is reasonable to think that spiritual issues may be involved. These prayers may often last for a long time. (For me, 5 minutes is a long time when it comes to prayers…) An example situation could be that someone is contemplating suicide.
― "Just talk". This is rare, I usually only do this when I am stopped by something in the life.
I don't do ritualistic prayers such as the good night's prayer.
I find myself most motivated in the "battle" type of prayers. Unfortunately, it is also the most consuming kind of prayer, because it is, well, battle. However, I'm very convinced that it helps.
Like I said, because I'm much similar to you in this aspect, I'm not really in a position to give you good instructions on how to improve your prayer life, but at least I hope that this message of mine helps you in some way.
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Nice. I especially liked the level 26.
I'm not 100% sure the decision to only use 3 balls and no other powerups was a wise one, but it didn't bother me enough. Yes vote.
The movements of the paddle were a good combination of modesty and liveliness. It worked out satisfyingly. It didn't distract from the main show, but it wasn't apathetic waiting either.
So, seven of the ten doors remain closed for the entire game? How disappointing :)
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Baxter wrote:
Doesn't every person think of themselves as being either smart, or 'right'?
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So how do you truly know that you are either 'smart' or 'right' about something?
(Sorry to hijack the question addressed to someone else, but it is a fascinating topic.)
You have a good question. I have came to believe that no person can actually comprehend anything smarter than what they are themselves. Each person thinks that there's nothing more intelligent; for some, it is even insult to suggest otherwise. One just cannot comprehend how someone could be more intelligent, hence yes, everyone thinks of themselves as being 'smart' and/or 'right'.
Such comparisons can only be done on a mutual common ground. Being 'right' can sometimes be proven through logic. Sometimes not.
One way to analyze intelligence is through the assumption that intelligence is the ability to spot the relevant, and is the basis between many graphical tests such as the test used by Mensa. It is one of the best ways there is to an objective comparison of 'smart'ness, but not comprehensive.
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Xipo wrote:
We will meet less enemy and skip much if using Mad City (J) instead of Bayoubil.
Quote from the author:
The American version of this game is a lot more difficult than the Japanese one (Mad City), although this video makes it seem easy.
The author chose the USA version exactly because it is more difficult. It is a guideline here to choose the more difficult version if possible. An exception is when the only thing it (the more difficult version) does is make the movie more boring.
(Personally, I think this game is boring regardless.)
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mr_roberts_z wrote:
1. Have you ever fully banned anyone from the forum?
2. Will you celebrate (or take notice in any way) when you make your 5000th post?
1. Yes (Marsh8472)
2. Not planning to.
Baxter wrote:
Dear Bisqwit, I'll ask my question here, since (0) it's the only place where you'll answer it appearantly (IRC ísn't good enough anymore).
(1) How can you justify locking TheEnglishMan's "Ask me something"-topic?
If the reason is "we already have enough of those", I think it's a really bad reason. It was ok when you made the same topic as Fabian, it was ok when Upthorn made the same topic, it was ok when Omni made the same topic. These "ask me anything"-topics put someone in the center of attention for no particular reason... and I could see that others (like TheEnglishMan) also want their own "ask me something"-topic to also get some attention. Yet, while he did nothing different than you, Upthorn or Omni (creating a duplicate topic), his was locked and the others were not.
(2) How about locking all "Ask me something"-topics?
If there are questions for a particular person, a private message will work just as well. Maybe compiling a list of people who enjoy getting tons of useless questions in their inbox could be compiled (just a suggestion).
(0) I just may take some time.
(1) I think Upthorn's post was already enough to demonstrate that enough is enough. Not more are needed. The "trendwhore" argument is a good one.
(1b) I started my thread with a step backwards because of the very reason that it was a duplicate of Fabian's thread (one of the things hidden behind the "more" word in the thread starting post). Still, I thought it may be possible that because of my position as a site administrator, the thread could still have value even in the presence of Fabian's thread.
(2) I don't see a reason to lock this thread, nor a reason to lock Fabian's thread. Neither are abusive or detrimental to the forums.
Upthorn wrote:
I think he means he doesn't understand what "I was unofficially officially not a member anymore," means.
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mr_roberts_z wrote:
Dear Fabian:
Hän , jotta sinun kehittynyt asiantuntemus -lta kielenkäyttö aikaa antaa , on minun Finnish joten aivan niin hirmuinen?
You are saying:
He, in order that your developed expertise -from use of language gives time, is my "Finnish", so that almost as terrible?
(As precise translation of what you wrote as possible (precise not possible because English grammar restricts on the word order, losing some of the ill-adviced nuances). Yes, SysTran is absolutely horrible at translating from/to Finnish.)
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Tub wrote:
how could they decide to stop offering you anything based on a closed source bios? there are no forced upgrades, so what'll work now will in theory work forever, or at least until material breakdown.
Unless of course they added an expiration timer or something, but they could easily hardwire the thing. How will the open source bios protect you from that?
A BIOS can still do ill-adviced decisions. Imagine for example, a BIOS manufacturer makes a contract with Microsoft and adds code in the BIOS that checks that if the product ID in the Windows installation on the disk matches certain blacklist, it would refuse to boot anything.
Or like my IBM laptop is: I cannot perform a BIOS update unless I have a fully charged battery plugged into it in addition to the power cord. However, the reason I would like to perform a BIOS update is because the current BIOS misinterprets the battery's signals and does not allow to fully charge it.
Tub wrote:
How can open source software protect you from a network interface card that's abusing DMA capabilities to sniff your RAM and send suspicious information directly over the network? Actually listening to the outgoing packets should allow the NIC to detect your IP/gateway/DNS, so it's a feasible attack.
That's true though. In fact I thought about it; open source hardware, before you even posted that. It's probably the next item on FSF's list :)
Tub wrote:
Also, since phpBB was mentioned: have you taken a look at phpBB3 yet? It's probably infeasible to upgrade the heavily modified tasvideos forum, but are there any features in phpBB3 you'd like to have here?
I haven't. It's still a release candidate only? I can wait. :)
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Nach wrote:
truth re: IRC
Ah, yes that must be how it was.
arkiandruski wrote:
I am not a programmer and only have a basic understanding of binary and hexidecimal, but I notice that 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256 all are very popular numbers. However, 1024 is the next number that seems to be important. Why doesn't 512 get the same amount of attention as the others?
These numbers are powers of two, of course.
However, as it often is, numbers decrease in popularity as their scalar value increases. 1024 is more popular than 512, despite being larger in value, probably because it is the factor used in the binary kilo, i.e. kibi. A kibibyte (previously called kilobyte) is 1024 bytes.
Three levels redesigned completely, one almost done and six more to go.
I don't remember whether the password entry screen works yet. It is difficult to use, that's for sure.
Happy pies to you too. :)
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Blublu wrote:
Bisqwit wrote:
(...) it is my understanding that until the child is old enough to make consciously a choice that they know is not good, they are pure and eligible to get to heaven.
Isn't that be a rather dangerous belief? Earlier in the post, you said you didn't know if this is true, but it's just that there was this mother who murdered her children for precisely this reason. Since she was already going to hell, she believed she was doing a good deed and the best thing for her children, ensuring them an eternity of happiness in heaven by killing them. Even if her children did get to heaven, did she do a good thing or a bad thing?
Mad people find ways to do mad things regardless of what they believe in. Often, those people have decided their actions long before they fabricate up the "reasons" for them.
Blublu wrote:
If faith and the real world (ie hard evidence) contradict each other, is it possible the real world is wrong?
Is this a loaded question? Seems that way to me.
Blublu wrote:
Do you believe I will literally burn in hell for all eternity, or is hell more of a "symbolic" thing? As far as I know, I'm a good person, yet I believe there is no god. (strong atheism)
I don't believe anything as for your fate. I can only deduce, but I will avoid saying it because things may always change for you and I prefer not to be one who dooms.
However, as for the definition of hell: I know tho twings. (1) It is irreversible eternal separation from God and (2) it is described as continuously painful.
Item 1 alone could allow the interpretation of it being your existence voided out, as if you permanently stop existing like you didn't before your birth, but item 2 was also described by Jesus, so that cannot really be it I guess. In the Revelations it was also described as a lake of fire, which matches with item 2, but to which degree that was symbolic I also don't know.
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mr_roberts_z wrote:
D. Bq.:
1. Do you have anyone from the TASVideos forums on Skype, and if so, do you talk to them with audio and/or webcam?
2. If you had to choose one TASer who's no longer around anymore to have come back, who would it be?
3. About how much does this site cost to keep up per month? (Excluding stuff like new hardware costs and repairs)
4. What do you think was the most controversial...(and why?)
a) topic on the site?
b) movie made on the site/community?
5. Many people on this forum seem to be Finnish. Have you ever met a single one in person?
6. How many movies have you seen across the net that originate from this site without any information regarding how it was made or where it comes from? (eg, omg guy beats super mario borthesr in 12 mins lolol)
1. Yes, and no. I don't talk with anyone via Skype :P (Mostly because nobody wants to talk to me, and also, mostly because nowadays I only have Skype at work, where I cannot really talk off-business; the Linux version here at home works but I don't have the necessary audio hardware for it.)
2. Choose one, that's a tough one. I would like to see Walker Boh do more TASes.
3. Not much. The network bill is paid by my company, and electricity is rather cheap. If I spread the costs of hardware updates evenly across their lifetime, I guess around $2 per day, perhaps less. My electricity bill is around 25..30 € per month, but that includes also things like the refrigerator, the oven and the washing machine.
4a. I'm too good at forgetting. I would need to search in order to answer this. Sorry.
4b. Recent Hitler no Fukkatsu comes to my mind. There was a lot of arguing about it.
5. I've known Warp personally even before the forming of this site. Others, no. Not even AnotherGamer who lives in the same ~30kpop city as I.
6. Around ten I guess. The last time it happened was the first time when I played the copyright violation card and had Youtube remove it.
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Warp wrote:
You don't even have to consider it because Finnish law gives you the undisputed right to reverse engineer programs. It even explicitly says that an usage license stating otherwise has no effect on this right.
Yes we have. Trusted Computing is a mechanism by which computer code may be executed on your computer without you having any possibility of figuring out what it does: it is sent to a dedicated chip in some encrypted format.
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Deep Loner wrote:
Another question: I remember that you have (had?) some kind of tile/sprite identifier program that you used to make the cool animated .gifs of Racoon Mario jumping around. Could that idea eventually be expanded into an efficient 8/16-bit video game video codec?
It's the exceptions that doom the idea.
X264 is a very good general-purpose video codec, and it does adequate motion detection.
Deep Loner wrote:
And doesn't this commitment to answer everybody's questions kind of make you a slave to them? : )
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Kyrsimys wrote:
Still your education is only limited to the second degree. Your CV says you have studied for 1 year in a third degree school, EVTEK. What made you quit?
Problems maintaining the rhythm of day required for successful studies.
I had skin problems (rash) that made it difficult for me to sleep, and my tendency to code late at nights did not help either. I also did not integrate well with the other students.
I actually went to the entrance exam of that same school this year, but after being accepted, I did not join, because I realized that I'm not going to get to study interesting stuff right away, instead I would need to do those stupid physics calculations for a year and more and consume lots of paper. Didn't attract.
The path to university studies hasn't been clear for me. I didn't go to "lukio", which nevertheless seems to be the minimum requirement to many things.
