A variable must be definitely assigned before its value can be obtained. The example class Test { static void Main() { int a; int b = 1; int c = a + b; ... } } is invalid because it attempts to use the variable a before it is assigned a value
Do we even trust that this company can track Gnutella users? You have to send in a WRITTEN APPLICATION to get a fully operational version of the program. I suspect they are still trying to figure out how to get the correct IP for Gnutella users.
> "Most in the online business community recognize that what Napster is doing threatens legitimate e-commerce models and is legally and morally wrong."
Translation: We don't know how to make any money off of napster. We don't give a shit about the morality of it, but we do have lots of lawyers.
> "If the courts allow Napster and services like it to continue to facilitate massive copyright infringement, there is a grave risk that the public will begin to perceive and believe that they have a right to obtain copyrighted materials for free,"
Translation: This scares us shitless.
> "The record companies are trying to shut down Napster--an entirely legal system of file sharing that reflects the heart and soul of the Internet"
Translation: Everyone knows that napster is used almost exclusively to violate copyright, but it does have legitimate uses, so the law is on our side. Yeah!
The article did mention AMD adding support for 16 or 32 directly addressable floating-point registers, which would help in large part to relieve the register pressure of IA-32.
To be, or not to be, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler at this time to suffer the squids and rockets of Europa's oceans, or take arms against this sea of troubles, and by opposing, end it.
Re:It just looks bad to extroverts
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"Being around other people is often a physically and psychologically draining experience for me. This is because, for whatever reason, spontaneous conversation does not come easily. I find myself searching for a topic or something interesting to say."
I have this problem to some extent. I suggest you pay attention to other people who are extroverted and notice what they are saying. 95% of the time it is something about which you probably would think "well, that's not interesting" or "that's not worth saying". The other 5% of the time they actually have something to say. For extroverts, the majority of communication is phatic, that is, it serves to bond you socially, and the actual content of the conversation is mostly filler. Many introverts (well, I, and I think, others) believe that the more important part of conversation is information transfer. It isn't for most people.
I urge you to do an expirement with someone you are close to. Let them know what you are doing so they don't think somethings wrong with you, because the change will be drastic. FORCE yourself to say everything you are thinking. Sure, you won't be able to cram as many thoughts/second into your life (because speaking is slower than thinking) but you won't notice because you'll be busy talking. Don't feel bad about it. You'll still have hours of time at work and home to think your thoughts.
You'll be surprised at first how different this makes you feel. It will cause a noticeable change in your mental state. I felt light-headed and had to sit down:) But you'll also feel invigorated, because you don't have to spend a lot of effort censoring your thoughts before you speak them.
You'll also be surprised at the response you get. I found that many of the things I thought would be uninteresting did interest people. Many of the things I thought would be hurtful were not. Randomly changing the topic because some stray thought entered your mind doesn't really disconcert people. That's how real people communicate - there's no script that has to advance during the conversation, no plot point that has to be resolved by the end of the episode.
Above all, don't take yourself so seriously. If you say something shocking or stupid, just apologize. It's that easy.
OK, end of crash course on extroversion. I'm sure this won't help a lot of people, but I identify strongly with your post, and these things have helped me. Good luck.
This would be to prevent the "cartel" discussed in the article. I think they will leave some leeway, in case there are legitimate reasons to be playing two or more mp3s from the same account simultaneously.
The easiest way to cheat would be to borrow and beam your friend's CDs. A good afternoon of beaming and you could double your collection.
I would suppose mp3.com keeps an LRU list of the last 10 or so MACs to access a particular account, and denies access if multiple MACs try to access the site at the same time or if accesses occur from too many MACs in quick succcession.
Instead of actively researching the topic, I would just pad my bibliography with the references from my one source. I am sure that quite a lot of disinformation is spread in this way, out of pure laziness.
In the long term (from one to two hundred years or more) what do you see as the practical applications of particle physics? Will our engineering ever be advanced enough to create new forms of matter or different types of elementary particles besides those which can be created in accelerators now?
Re:How to free up *other* old games?
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One of the reasons that the source may not have been released is that the source may no longer exist. Hard to believe, but computer game companies are pretty unorganized when it comes to keeping source around, especially source from 1992.
A utillity to generate new SIDs (called NewSID, strangely enough) is available from http://www.sysinternals.com under NT utilities. It's certainly easier to clone a machine and run this utility than to use NTs automated install.
If a poster has a trollish history, make all "Troll" moderations count triple. That way trolls will still get moderated down with the normal moderation system, people who want to read EVERYTHING (on slashdot, not Everything:) ) will still get to see them, but moderation points will still be available to moderate up good posts.
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Just say "Sorry, I don't have time". They're adults. They can handle it.
A variable must be definitely assigned before its value can be obtained. The example
...
class Test
{
static void Main() {
int a;
int b = 1;
int c = a + b;
}
}
is invalid because it attempts to use the variable a before it is assigned a value
Ooh! An IP Address and a filename! Wow!
Do we even trust that this company can track Gnutella users? You have to send in a WRITTEN APPLICATION to get a fully operational version of the program. I suspect they are still trying to figure out how to get the correct IP for Gnutella users.
I think we should all go to the grocery store, buy a pound of our favorite meat, and send it to PETA.
PETA
501 Front St.
Norfolk, VA
23510
That is a fabulous idea. Unfortunately it requires either
a) A DHCP server on your network or
b) Someone to set the IP and add it to your windoze machine
and
a) Knowing how to use FTP. On Windows, this is actually pretty easy.
b) An ethernet card and hub in your main machine
I would buy such a thing but for the 90% of people using Win98, USB works great.
> "Most in the online business community recognize that what Napster is doing threatens legitimate e-commerce models and is legally and morally wrong."
Translation: We don't know how to make any money off of napster. We don't give a shit about the morality of it, but we do have lots of lawyers.
> "If the courts allow Napster and services like it to continue to facilitate massive copyright infringement, there is a grave risk that the public will begin to perceive and believe that they have a right to obtain copyrighted materials for free,"
Translation: This scares us shitless.
> "The record companies are trying to shut down Napster--an entirely legal system of file sharing that reflects the heart and soul of the Internet"
Translation: Everyone knows that napster is used almost exclusively to violate copyright, but it does have legitimate uses, so the law is on our side. Yeah!
> It also needs an underpowered CPU with all the load taken by the most sophisticated graphics chip ever created.
So a Pentium III with a geForce or NV15?
The article did mention AMD adding support for 16 or 32 directly addressable floating-point registers, which would help in large part to relieve the register pressure of IA-32.
Perhaps XBasic is what you are looking for. http://www.maxreason.com/softw are/xbasic/xbasic.html
To be, or not to be, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler at this time to suffer the squids and rockets of Europa's oceans, or take arms against this sea of troubles, and by opposing, end it.
"Being around other people is often a physically and psychologically draining experience for me. This is because, for whatever reason, spontaneous conversation does not come easily. I find myself searching for a topic or something interesting to say."
:) But you'll also feel invigorated, because you don't have to spend a lot of effort censoring your thoughts before you speak them.
I have this problem to some extent. I suggest you pay attention to other people who are extroverted and notice what they are saying. 95% of the time it is something about which you probably would think "well, that's not interesting" or "that's not worth saying". The other 5% of the time they actually have something to say. For extroverts, the majority of communication is phatic, that is, it serves to bond you socially, and the actual content of the conversation is mostly filler. Many introverts (well, I, and I think, others) believe that the more important part of conversation is information transfer. It isn't for most people.
I urge you to do an expirement with someone you are close to. Let them know what you are doing so they don't think somethings wrong with you, because the change will be drastic. FORCE yourself to say everything you are thinking. Sure, you won't be able to cram as many thoughts/second into your life (because speaking is slower than thinking) but you won't notice because you'll be busy talking. Don't feel bad about it. You'll still have hours of time at work and home to think your thoughts.
You'll be surprised at first how different this makes you feel. It will cause a noticeable change in your mental state. I felt light-headed and had to sit down
You'll also be surprised at the response you get. I found that many of the things I thought would be uninteresting did interest people. Many of the things I thought would be hurtful were not. Randomly changing the topic because some stray thought entered your mind doesn't really disconcert people. That's how real people communicate - there's no script that has to advance during the conversation, no plot point that has to be resolved by the end of the episode.
Above all, don't take yourself so seriously. If you say something shocking or stupid, just apologize. It's that easy.
OK, end of crash course on extroversion. I'm sure this won't help a lot of people, but I identify strongly with your post, and these things have helped me. Good luck.
This would be to prevent the "cartel" discussed in the article. I think they will leave some leeway, in case there are legitimate reasons to be playing two or more mp3s from the same account simultaneously.
The easiest way to cheat would be to borrow and beam your friend's CDs. A good afternoon of beaming and you could double your collection.
Any ideas why they would send the MAC address?
I would suppose mp3.com keeps an LRU list of the last 10 or so MACs to access a particular account, and denies access if multiple MACs try to access the site at the same time or if accesses occur from too many MACs in quick succcession.
Instead of actively researching the topic, I would just pad my bibliography with the references from my one source. I am sure that quite a lot of disinformation is spread in this way, out of pure laziness.
In the long term (from one to two hundred years or more) what do you see as the practical applications of particle physics? Will our engineering ever be advanced enough to create new forms of matter or different types of elementary particles besides those which can be created in accelerators now?
One of the reasons that the source may not have been released is that the source may no longer exist. Hard to believe, but computer game companies are pretty unorganized when it comes to keeping source around, especially source from 1992.
What if the other person lives in another city or country?
A utillity to generate new SIDs (called NewSID, strangely enough) is available from http://www.sysinternals.com under NT utilities. It's certainly easier to clone a machine and run this utility than to use NTs automated install.
If a poster has a trollish history, make all "Troll" moderations count triple. That way trolls will still get moderated down with the normal moderation system, people who want to read EVERYTHING (on slashdot, not Everything :) ) will still get to see them, but moderation points will still be available to moderate up good posts.
My comment is offtopic. The above comment is as on-topic as one could be. I think this is possibly the worst moderation I have ever seen.
Given my calculations, this gives a feature size of 0.012microns. Seems pretty iffy w/ current tech.
No, you upgrade to Office 2000.
I love the "blazingly fast 300MHz PowerPC G3 processor--great for...sending and receiving email".
:)
I didn't know email was so CPU-intensive. Maybe it's just a crappy TCP/IP stack
> I think I'll patent thinking.
Why? The market is so small. Better to patent stupidity.
Please.