Recent content by Arcadian83

Hi, OP here, I'm not working on this anymore, so feel free to use my modified .xml any way you like. I never fixed the river problem, despite trying pretty hard, so watch out for that. Otherwise, enjoy!

Added uninstall directions. My apologies for not instructing to backup the XML in the first place. What's BAT?

The roads in Civ4 are winding and whimsical. This can appear creative, but it can also be confusing as to what tiles are roaded, look too unorganized for your highly developed areas, and generally look like spaghetti. An example looks like this: The same example with straighter roads...

Bertrand Russell was not necessarily an Atheist: see his own writing "Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?" (1947) for more on that. For a short answer, a quote from him tells that strictly speaking, he was an agnostic. Stylesjl's definition: is close enough to Britannica's for me -at least...

I used Swing briefly, and found SWT to be a breath of fresh air. I found Java Web Start to be very handy for easily launching Java apps, whether in web pages or in the file system offline.

Microsoft snuck in Windows Genuine Advantage as a default "critical update". No one noticed. Kind of scary, seeing as how the typical user has nothing to gain and much to lose by installing it (sometimes genuine copies get false-positived as non-genuine). Anyways, at least they let you avoid...

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page Wikiversity aims to do just this with voluntary collaboration ala Wikipedia. The main problem is populating more sophisticated topics, since experts are less plentiful and don't have as much free time. I would love to see this succeed.

Sounds like you just need a wireless router/switch/hub which has wired connections as well. Most of them have that, so the choice from there is up to you. I'd advise looking at ratings and reviews on Amazon, Newegg, TigerDirect, etc, to find out what's good/cheap. Your cable modem is your...

Please someone correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think you can do that. By definition, an alias is renaming one of the columns of the result of the query. That column is derived from the query's execution, so to use it in formulating the query is circular. The Id column in the result...

That's exactly what I do. Why is it silly? View the results, tilt your head 90 degrees to the right, and ignore the left (top)-most column. Classic bell-curve. X axis = number of options from the top Y axis = number of votes

Good psychology poll! It shows that random isn't random with people when they don't use external guidance (like dice). People either chose the first option (surprised so few chose the last, given the frequency of radioactive monkeys around here), or a 'random' value. 'Random', according to...

As has already been stated, programmers will always find a use for that extra processing power and space. However, look at sound cards (not speakers, mind): they reached a dead-end owing to the limit of human ability to percieve differences in sound. I forsee a similar dead-end for graphics...

I like this sort of music :) Power-noise-ish: Terrorfakt Iszoloscope EBM-ish: Pride and Fall In Strict Confidence electro-industrial-ish: Dismantled Decoded Feedback Ivory Frequency Gothic Rock-ish: Clan of Xymox Project Pitchfork Experimental-ish...

Et in Arcadia ego The memento mori is fascinating, and symbolizes well the human condition, or perhaps more particularly, the mortal condition.

I painted something. It's a copy of a picture in "an omnipresence in wired" by ABe, the same pic as my avatar (which is now my painted version). Here's a detail of the face: