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No, it's a completely legal copy. I bought it and it worked on this computer. Windows later killed over (look for another thread by me in this forum) and I put Linux here. After a few months I decided I wanted to play civ again so installed it on pretty much my dad and sister's computer. So as far as I'm concerned, it should have worked. I did google for this and found this thread, which is where I heard about the monitor being the problem: http://forums.devhardware.com/archive/t-21267/Frequency-Out-of-Range- The first thing I did to actually try to fix it was searching for a driver. I found *the* driver for it (CM1772PF) but it also asks for another file I cannot find: The file that gives a 404 is indeed the file I need! http://www.gnrnordic.com/downloads.htm http://www.gnrintl.com/downloads/driver/PF770.icm I have an inf file from http://www.gnr.co.uk/downloads.jsp but this file, when run with the stupid windows thing tells me I need the icm file. I did try getting the driver off the restore CD (it has a folder /driver/monitor) but the setup as far as I can tell just put a bunch of random files on my hard drive that are currently doing nothing. It did not install the driver. I called emachines but they werent any help. I was like "Your website says that you can download monitor.ini but does not have the file that it says it has. I need a driver for whatever monitor came with T2682. Driverguide.com does not have it." She's like "um..." I hade to go over my monitor problem several tiems before she finally decided that I needed to register. Then told me to get in a chat at their website. The website sucks. Go to it and try to find what you need. I know what civ would say as well. Pretty much everything I've currently dug up about it (I hate customer service) Nope. Goes strait to a spash screen, or something, then the game. The "opening movie" plays but the game does not. Well, it plays. I can hear it. Just cant see it. Are you completely sure about that? If so, why does GNR offer drivers (although incomplete) for their monitors? Maybe its what you said with preset variables. At any rate, could you like, explain exactly how I'd go about doing that? Thanks. I know the wizard says "update driver" which is how I was tryign to install the file I found for my monitor.

I'm tryign to get civ 3 on Windows. I did read someware that the monitor can be the problem, but to fix it (in windows) I need drivers. I looked in the config file but didnt find anything on screen resolution.(I cant post it because its on the windows computer. I'm using Linux) But in a readme I found requiremnts: 1024X768 which I believe is what its running right now.

I installed Civilization 3 (basic) on my XP computer but when I run it it says "Frequency Out Of Range." Then gives some Frequency is: whatever, safe range (I think) whatever. It's the monitor telling me this. I messed around some in properties and changed a few things like colors, resolution, refresh rate, etc. This didnt fix civ, but under 32 colors, bzflag does not run. (fortunately I dont need to reboot when bzflag does this... F12. I have to reboot every test run on civilization. I've read some about this, and one fix is with drivers. I found *the* driver for it (CM1772PF) but it also asks for another file I cannot find: The file that gives a 404 is indeed the file I need! http://www.gnrnordic.com/downloads.htm http://www.gnrintl.com/downloads/driver/PF770.icm I do know that the monitor on my Linux box works with Civilization; I had it installed before Windows started being stupid (ok, it was always stupid but it got dumber). I've done some research but nothing seems to help me. No driver files. Changing settings is tedious (reboot after *every* test). I dont want to swap monitors.

I didn't say your chances of something good happen will increase. It cannot increase. The probability stays the same. I'm saying that you can be positive because it is not possible for things to continue going bad. Logically, although entirely possible. Mossoi I think has found something though. I was being bright, I guess, and never realized that if things are goign good then something bad is inevitably going to happen...things cant stay good forever. But at least things even out. But nor cna they stay bad

Hey, another girl. And just like the majority of them, she uses really birght colors that hurt the eye! No offence but I can guess what her profile looks like with AIM. Oh well.

Oh, yes. I didn't realize that. I think this is sortof the same thing that mossoi was talking about. I was more trying to say what I've posted bellow but I guess what I typed sliped my mind. Even so, one will at least know that the bad luck cant go on forever. It must eventually, around the corner, be a bright future. Unless you have bad luck consistently; the average is low. However, even you have to admit that w/ 10 heads in a row, after another 50 throws, the probability would be much closer to 1:1. And after say 1000, the average would be most likely right on the money....The more times you 'throw the dice,' the closer to average it would become. I used to have a program in C++ the demonstrated this but I dont think it was saved before my last format It wouldn't take very long to reproduce but people here probably understand probability enogh that I dont have to demonstrate it. (I used it another forum, but that was a year or so ago and probably no longer there) So in a way, as long as the average is pretty much constant* then it's safe to say that no matter how bad somebody's life is going, it must eventually get better. *After 20, 50, whatever years, the line is going to be pretty much set. A couple events are not going to deviate the line by any large factor.

I was just thinking about this the other day. I dont know how much sense this makes. I call it the If something bad has happened something good must soon happen theory. Lets say that we can quantify "goods" and "bads." Anything that will make somebody happy is "good" and anything that will piss somebody off and otherwise put them in a bad mood is "bad". Tripping over a chair is "bad" while finding a new quarter is "good." So I'm going to call the average of these positives and negatives in a person's life as their "luck." Although most things that happen in one's life can be largely controlled or altered (paying attention, making good of the bad, etc) I think luck will still do. I dont have a better name. Now if we were to graph everything that happened in somebody's life, they would logically straddle this line. Therefore, if you're having a "bad" day, the next must logically have a higher probability to be a "good" one. If the next day is another bad one, then the day after must logically have an even greater chance of being a good day, and in fact an excellent day. Of course, "luck" can always change but it would seem that the average of goods and bads must stay about the same from day to day. Except maybe like, big changes in a life such as moving or a new car, getting married, whatever. But in general, when nothing special is happening, it is easy to be positive... Remember, if things just haven't been going to well for you recently, look on the bright side: just around the corner you are going to be very "lucky." Not only is this a good way to live your life (always being positive), it is logical that bad always leads to good. A possible implication to ones life is to try to push the "luck" line, or average higher and thus your life would be better as a whole.

Hm, I thought there was. There are creationists arguing such to 'disprove evolution'http://www.digitalphilosophy.org/digital_philosophy/11_conservation_of_information.htm Google found a talk origins article on this too. Not like the conservation laws however (energy and matter), information cannot be destroyed (though it can be created). This is a natural consequence of entropy. (ie, if it decreases locally then it must increase someware else) In Chemistry, an endothermic reaction is when heat is taken from the surrounding area as opposed to radiating heat: heat is taken in by the system. I used this to denote that black holes do not give off more heat then they take in.

Hawking used to believe that gaining info from a black hole was impossible: ie, all information is lost. I still have one of his books that say this. However, Hawking was wrong. It is in fact possible to gain information from the dark depths of a black hole. The conservation of information holds true even in a seemingly inderthermic envirement.

I actually wouldnt mind having a cracked XP. I've looked around for a download but not very much. I dont like Windows that much. Here is an example of where illegal becomes legal: I have an emachines computer that came with windows XP. XP screwed over, Linux is a hell of alot better, wahtever. My plan was to dual boot with Linux and Windows because I had to reinstall XP and try Linux while I was at it. The restore CDs do not have a partition manager. I found out that Linux was alot better but I would still like to have XP because of a game I like playing. The restore CD wants to format hda, which has all my Linux OSes. So therefore, I cannot install Windows with out an actual XP CD (as opposed to emachines resotre CD). This would require downloading/cracking the operating system. Normally illegal but I have a license to it. So it depends on some things as to whether or not its legal. Personally I dont really think I'll end up putting Windows back, but if I'm ever board I may find it. I'd love to have Microsoft call me up so I can explain how Windows sucks so bad I had to install Linux...and then how I'm about to overwright the XP partition with Sun Solaris (just to add a kick to the end of my story). lol, that would be great. I'd love to hear the response on the other end! PS: Cracking Windows wouldn't really get you a phone call. Most things you can get by with if you know what you're doing...and most of the time even if you dont.

There are plenty of games for Linux. Alot of the big game engines are open source. I guess alot of 'commercail' games arent though. Whihc kindof sucks.

Another loop hole, especially for websites is a sort of disclaimor. I've seen internet privacy act as well some "electronic communications privacy act." I found that someware and thought it was pretty cool. Question: would work? lol, pretty muhc like "You cannot use this site." As a side note: Substantial Non-infringing Use in Peer-to-Peer application

...and DirectX isnt the best thing to learn anyway. Try teaching yourself OpenGL in your spare time. That will at least make your degree easier plus it can be fun making 'amature' games.

Try searching the URL, or a base of it and looking for the cache. Or try searching for the title of the message, or some of the content and see if you find anything. Generally if you suspect something, the title will always give it away in google.

Computer science is supposed to be more algorithm studies then anything else, I think. I dont know very much abotu the diferent degrees, but there was a professor at my school advertising that WVU had a 'game programming' course. I forget the details fo the degree though.

the big bang...?

One form of AI is bassed off how the brain works. It's called, as you can guess, Neural Networks/Genetic Algorithms. Most application to make it smarter realy on evolution (ie, if it dies then certain nodes change). I dont know much about constucting a net itself though...I've always found function to use instead, but I think it's basically like nodes (a varible) that talks to each other...i dont know. Try google for neural net.

no offence, but XP looks horible

If I'm not mistaken, time IS a dimention. Just like space. In quantum mechanics, time is actually represented as imaginary regualr space. In relativity it's much the same thing as spacial, however. When you accelorate, the rate at which such occurs is subtracted from the other dimentions. This means that the faster foward you go, the slower time becomes just like the slower the rate of motion in non-accelorated spacial dimentions. Common sense. In QM, the only reason time is represented imaginary is so the mathmatics work out. In some scenarios, time is also treated just like another spacial demintion. (forgive pselling)

Yeah, I always install everything. One time I didn't think I'd want something, and ended up wishing I had it. The only reason I put /home in separate partitions is because if something ever went wrong, all you have to do is specify that partition as your /home mount on install. When it boots, all your configurations, files, etc will still be there. And when you reinstall extra software, most of the time they find their configurations! home can be shared among certain distros but I've heard it's hard to set up. It should just be like "Install has detected that /home is already being used by XXX. Would you still like to use this partition?" Of course, all my files are on a partition I call files. I make tiny home partitions just to use as configuration backups. I find it convenient.

hm... I was told it was all text. Originally I was planning on installing FreeBSD, Mandrake, Slackware, and Debian along with my already installed fedora. A friend told me not to install slack or debian as they were text bassed...he knows I've been doing Linux for maybe two months now - I always get help from him. I have the ISOs for Slackware so with my now working floppy CD booter I'll install it on the remaining 8G. (I put my /home and a SWAP on a second HD. I really wish Linux distros could share a /home partition...)

He was actually looking for a blueprint...and managed to get a download. Don't know why. I dobt it's available anyware.

I recently had some problems with my bootloader orginating from a borken Cd reader...my other writer, no matter what I did, was never recognized by BIOS...so I installed a bootloader on a floppy and, a word of advice, never isntall the rpm for smartboot.... w/o knowing my HD bootloader was replaced with a hardware bootloader, I installed FreeBSD. To my suprize I was not able to boot into it. Nor was I able to get back in FC3! I read up on GRUB then used the files still in my boot partition to create a floppy boot that got me in fedora. From there I dlaoded the latest GRUB, copied all my previous GRUB files, installed it, copied old image, devices, and boot settings, etc. Got GRUB back to the way it was before smartboot was installed. Anyway, it is only configured for FC3 (old files). I want to be able to boot into my other recently installed OS! This would be alot easier if I could mount my FreeBSD install, but everything I've tried has failed. And yes, module ufs is loaded. So I am asking for anybody with FreeBSD (5.3, but I can probably work w/ any version) to give me their GRUB settings for it, and possible the file in your boot folder (vmlize or something). I don't think I need the FreeBSD file but I'd like to set up GRUB locally because if I ever resized or changed anything before my hda3 partition I'd have to go in and edit root=whatever. Not too big of a deal though.

Fedora and Gentoo are definitely my favorite. FreeBSD is, I've heard, pretty fun as well...though I need to fix my bootloader to get in my newly installed unix OS. lol. Debian has no GUI/ is entirelly text. Do not use unless you know alot about Linux. Slackware is also entirelly text. I had a bad ISO recentally too. Tried burning twice and both time I got the same results. Just try dloading again, finding another miror, etc Or of course use a diferent version.

Ok, my friend wants the "specs" on the Hubble teliscope. We found soem stuff over gnutella, but no go. Google wasn't much help either.