I used to play various Vampire Wars based MUDs and was only limited by my imagination....... When I play a game with graphics I'm stuck with what's on the screen
Ah, the Infocom defense, huh?
My perspective is rather different. Part of the experience of gaming is allowing the game designers to convey their ideas to me through the game. Graphics are just another tool for them to do that more effectively.
Do you know the old expression "a picture is worth a thousand words"? It's actually not true. A picture can convey things that would be nearly impossible to effectively communicate, regardless of how many words you might throw at the problem. (And, in fact, the more precise and elaborate your wording, the less effective it becomes...)
What annoys me and other drivers is that cyclists will obey the law when it suits them.
You might not be aware of this since your powers of reasoning seem lacking, but cyclists are not one giant collective controlled by a hive mind.
Quite true... But it's also true that the folks doing this shit are making the rest of us look bad by association. Whether or not drivers manage to distinguish between responsible cyclists and irresponsible ones, the irresponsible ones are still a problem for cyclists in general.
It also means that I must give you 3 feet of clearance when passing (so none of that darting down the middle of two lanes of stopped traffic that some bikers and motorcycles like to do).
Yeah, seriously. I like to bike to work - but I hate when people take "I have a small vehicle" to mean "I have free rein to weasel my way through traffic anywhere I'll fit." It's disrespectful and it's reckless.
I was stopped at a traffic light one time, to make a left turn (on bike)... This was on a normally 2-lane road (one each direction), with a third lane at the intersection for a right-turn lane.
A guy in a trailer truck was making a right turn onto the road - after making the turn, he stopped his truck and took a minute to yell out the window about how bikes shouldn't be on the road, and how he could have hit me (I was well within my lane, and he didn't hit any of the cars in front of or behind me), how I should be on the sidewalk, etc...
It's frustrating, the level of misinformation that's out there about where bikes should be. Fortunately, on my route to/from work it's mostly residential roads without too much traffic - I can generally get from place to place without inconveniencing others too much and without drivers hassling me...
I believe the law here (Massachusetts) is that there are some places where bikes are expected to use sidewalks - I think it was industrial areas or something.
Well, don't forget, the expression (ant.weight *) evaluates to a function which multiplies things by ant.weight. So ((ant.weight *) (50 + ant_comfort_factor)) is still a valid way of expressing the same basic computation.
You know what's awesome about slashdot? That I could laugh at this post... before I clicked the story.
That's the great thing about the Standard Joke Set: Jokes from the Standard Joke Set can be used and enjoyed with minimal related context, and only the simplest of introductions. Because the audience already knows and likes the joke, jokes from the Standard Joke Set never fail to amuse.
Of course, using Standard Jokes in this way is somewhat suboptimal from a bandwidth utilization standpoint. The joke is shared knowledge, so really all that is needed is some unique way of identifying the joke. One method coming into common use is to simply use the order of the jokes on the Standard Joke List as a numeric identifier. The grandparent post, for instance, could be more optimally represented as simply "#24!" - though unfortunately this compact representation would be disallowed by Slashdot's post filters. (These obsolete rules are therefore in need of revision. As a provisional measure it may be worth introducing the SJS into the "gzip" compression algorithm as globally recognized patterns - that way, the site can stream out a gzip-compressed version of the page and network traffic, at least, will be optimized.)
It's important to note, however, that the Standard Joke Set is no substitute for being funny. You can't just say "#18!" and expect people to laugh. You need to know how to tell it right.
(This concludes my presentation of standardized joke #303. You may commence laughter at your convenience.)
It only breaks implementations that only support short names, if you write files with long names to the filesystem and rely on them ending up with LONGNA~1 type filenames.
If your filenames are all 8.3 and you write them to a disk for your implementation that only understands 8.3, everything still works. If your filenames are long, you write them to a disk for your implementation that only understands 8.3, but you don't make any assumptions about what the filenames will be when converted to 8.3, everything still works.
Is that really true? I haven't seen the patch. The description in the article says the short filename is set to 11 invalid characters - it doesn't say whether those 11 characters form a unique filename.
Remember, the 8.3 short filenames also preserve the file extension as well - this is used by quite a lot of software to determine the type of the file.
So an implementation that uses just the short filenames would lose the ability to identify the types of the files, and it might not have access to a unique "filename" for the files, at all...
Let's suppose a new version of Windows started checking whether files with long filenames also had short filenames - and when encountering such a file, popped up a dialog saying "your filesystem may be corrupt. Please run scandisk" or whatever.... Wouldn't that be fun?
Windows has its file systems which isn't an abuse. I don't know whether there's an API for installing a foreign file system, but the lack of one isn't abuse either.
If you wanted to implement a file system on top of Windows, there's nothing to prevent you from doing so. It's not as if Windows uses AI to scan your code and displays an error message like "You are running a patent-free filesystem, application will close".
I guess you haven't checked out the various links to the "Ext2 IFS for Windows: Release Notes"...
Basically it seems that, in Vista, the ability to execute programs stored on a third-party filesystem was broken. They didn't need to use "AI" to find out if a third-party filesystem was being run, they simply used a string comparison on the filesystem type.
I don't see any indication that UDF supports journaling or anything else to maintain filesystem integrity--is that the case? If this is true, I don't see how it will be suitable for general filesystem use....
Yeah, but if it's to be used as a replacement for FAT...
Right, so computers A and B on the same LAN, communicating to the internet through router X would each send messages to X's IP address... The request would go out over the LAN, the router would see it and say, "Hey, that's my IP address! I don't need to forward this out onto the Internet at all!"
Actually, my router doesn't talk. I think it would be fun if routers did actually speak things like that out loud, as though they were going through some kind of thought process and sharing it with the room. "Hey, I got an incoming connection from somebody! Ooh, someone's trying to ssh in! I don't know who it is - I wonder if they'll be able to login? Oh, now they're trying port 80. Aw, that's cute. They're trying the factory-default password... That brings back memories..."
Instead of everyone connected over a 100mbps local network, you now have 8 players funneling out through the same shared Internet connection.
Does all the data exchanged between computers in the game have to go out through Battle.Net? I would have thought that most of the actual game-state data would go host-to-host with no intermediate. In that case, the data wouldn't have to go out past the router...
Still not an ideal situation, though. What if you want to host a game somewhere you don't have internet access handy?
Design patterns? The open source community doesn't need no stinkin' design patterns. We just code by the seat of our pants into oblivion!
Yessir, a cowboy ain't need but three things in life: his hat, a good pair o' boots, and his Linux machine... Fancy city folk can have their newfangled patterns and such...
Seriously... Since when was JJ Star Trek about "Integrity"? Or coherency, for that matter... It's about attaching a name people know to the cinematic equivalent of a liquid lollipop...
Maybe we can use the old "long-s" glyph when spelling Microfoft?
(This joke would work better if I could put the proper Unicode glyph in there... But Slashdot appears to foil my attempt at writing "MicroÅoft"... Check this box!)
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Dune II? You barbarian!
I replay the original Dune about once every 2 years, just for the heck of it.
"I am Duke Leto Atreides, your father". Gee, thanks dad for finally coming clean, I never would have guessed!
Well, Paul was born out of wedlock... Maybe there was some lingering confusion?
I used to play various Vampire Wars based MUDs and was only limited by my imagination.......
When I play a game with graphics I'm stuck with what's on the screen
Ah, the Infocom defense, huh?
My perspective is rather different. Part of the experience of gaming is allowing the game designers to convey their ideas to me through the game. Graphics are just another tool for them to do that more effectively.
Do you know the old expression "a picture is worth a thousand words"? It's actually not true. A picture can convey things that would be nearly impossible to effectively communicate, regardless of how many words you might throw at the problem. (And, in fact, the more precise and elaborate your wording, the less effective it becomes...)
The date is 2009-Aug-9... so 12:34:56 7-8-9 actually happened two years ago today.
The problem is that I have trouble delivering more than a single horsepower sustained.
The fact that you are as powerful as a single horse is amazing enough.
Your mom thought so.
What annoys me and other drivers is that cyclists will obey the law when it suits them.
You might not be aware of this since your powers of reasoning seem lacking, but cyclists are not one giant collective controlled by a hive mind.
Quite true... But it's also true that the folks doing this shit are making the rest of us look bad by association. Whether or not drivers manage to distinguish between responsible cyclists and irresponsible ones, the irresponsible ones are still a problem for cyclists in general.
It also means that I must give you 3 feet of clearance when passing (so none of that darting down the middle of two lanes of stopped traffic that some bikers and motorcycles like to do).
Yeah, seriously. I like to bike to work - but I hate when people take "I have a small vehicle" to mean "I have free rein to weasel my way through traffic anywhere I'll fit." It's disrespectful and it's reckless.
I was stopped at a traffic light one time, to make a left turn (on bike)... This was on a normally 2-lane road (one each direction), with a third lane at the intersection for a right-turn lane.
A guy in a trailer truck was making a right turn onto the road - after making the turn, he stopped his truck and took a minute to yell out the window about how bikes shouldn't be on the road, and how he could have hit me (I was well within my lane, and he didn't hit any of the cars in front of or behind me), how I should be on the sidewalk, etc...
It's frustrating, the level of misinformation that's out there about where bikes should be. Fortunately, on my route to/from work it's mostly residential roads without too much traffic - I can generally get from place to place without inconveniencing others too much and without drivers hassling me...
I believe the law here (Massachusetts) is that there are some places where bikes are expected to use sidewalks - I think it was industrial areas or something.
Well, don't forget, the expression (ant.weight *) evaluates to a function which multiplies things by ant.weight. So ((ant.weight *) (50 + ant_comfort_factor)) is still a valid way of expressing the same basic computation.
You know what's awesome about slashdot? That I could laugh at this post ... before I clicked the story.
That's the great thing about the Standard Joke Set: Jokes from the Standard Joke Set can be used and enjoyed with minimal related context, and only the simplest of introductions. Because the audience already knows and likes the joke, jokes from the Standard Joke Set never fail to amuse.
Of course, using Standard Jokes in this way is somewhat suboptimal from a bandwidth utilization standpoint. The joke is shared knowledge, so really all that is needed is some unique way of identifying the joke. One method coming into common use is to simply use the order of the jokes on the Standard Joke List as a numeric identifier. The grandparent post, for instance, could be more optimally represented as simply "#24!" - though unfortunately this compact representation would be disallowed by Slashdot's post filters. (These obsolete rules are therefore in need of revision. As a provisional measure it may be worth introducing the SJS into the "gzip" compression algorithm as globally recognized patterns - that way, the site can stream out a gzip-compressed version of the page and network traffic, at least, will be optimized.)
It's important to note, however, that the Standard Joke Set is no substitute for being funny. You can't just say "#18!" and expect people to laugh. You need to know how to tell it right.
(This concludes my presentation of standardized joke #303. You may commence laughter at your convenience.)
It only breaks implementations that only support short names, if you write files with long names to the filesystem and rely on them ending up with LONGNA~1 type filenames.
If your filenames are all 8.3 and you write them to a disk for your implementation that only understands 8.3, everything still works. If your filenames are long, you write them to a disk for your implementation that only understands 8.3, but you don't make any assumptions about what the filenames will be when converted to 8.3, everything still works.
Is that really true? I haven't seen the patch. The description in the article says the short filename is set to 11 invalid characters - it doesn't say whether those 11 characters form a unique filename.
Remember, the 8.3 short filenames also preserve the file extension as well - this is used by quite a lot of software to determine the type of the file.
So an implementation that uses just the short filenames would lose the ability to identify the types of the files, and it might not have access to a unique "filename" for the files, at all...
Let's suppose a new version of Windows started checking whether files with long filenames also had short filenames - and when encountering such a file, popped up a dialog saying "your filesystem may be corrupt. Please run scandisk" or whatever.... Wouldn't that be fun?
Windows has its file systems which isn't an abuse. I don't know whether there's an API for installing a foreign file system, but the lack of one isn't abuse either.
If you wanted to implement a file system on top of Windows, there's nothing to prevent you from doing so. It's not as if Windows uses AI to scan your code and displays an error message like "You are running a patent-free filesystem, application will close".
I guess you haven't checked out the various links to the "Ext2 IFS for Windows: Release Notes"...
Basically it seems that, in Vista, the ability to execute programs stored on a third-party filesystem was broken. They didn't need to use "AI" to find out if a third-party filesystem was being run, they simply used a string comparison on the filesystem type.
I don't see any indication that UDF supports journaling or anything else to maintain filesystem integrity--is that the case? If this is true, I don't see how it will be suitable for general filesystem use....
Yeah, but if it's to be used as a replacement for FAT...
It won't saturate any reasonable broadband connection. Ever looked at how much data WC3 transmits back and forth? Not much at all. a few kb/s maybe.
I didn't know you could play Wing Commander 3 online!
Right, so computers A and B on the same LAN, communicating to the internet through router X would each send messages to X's IP address... The request would go out over the LAN, the router would see it and say, "Hey, that's my IP address! I don't need to forward this out onto the Internet at all!"
Actually, my router doesn't talk. I think it would be fun if routers did actually speak things like that out loud, as though they were going through some kind of thought process and sharing it with the room. "Hey, I got an incoming connection from somebody! Ooh, someone's trying to ssh in! I don't know who it is - I wonder if they'll be able to login? Oh, now they're trying port 80. Aw, that's cute. They're trying the factory-default password... That brings back memories..."
God, I thought I was the only one who still remembered what douchebags Blizzard were about bnetd.
What happened to all the wankers who hooted and hollered about boycotting them after that?
I'm still boycotting them! I've always boycotted them!
Who's Blizzard, again?
Instead of everyone connected over a 100mbps local network, you now have 8 players funneling out through the same shared Internet connection.
Does all the data exchanged between computers in the game have to go out through Battle.Net? I would have thought that most of the actual game-state data would go host-to-host with no intermediate. In that case, the data wouldn't have to go out past the router...
Still not an ideal situation, though. What if you want to host a game somewhere you don't have internet access handy?
Design patterns? The open source community doesn't need no stinkin' design patterns. We just code by the seat of our pants into oblivion!
Yessir, a cowboy ain't need but three things in life: his hat, a good pair o' boots, and his Linux machine... Fancy city folk can have their newfangled patterns and such...
He's a robot who turns into a Porsche 935. He's voiced by Scatman Crothers.
Binary verses text mode?
1-to-the-01101
1101101
1001000
0101101!
Word!
Seriously... Since when was JJ Star Trek about "Integrity"? Or coherency, for that matter... It's about attaching a name people know to the cinematic equivalent of a liquid lollipop...
Maybe we can use the old "long-s" glyph when spelling Microfoft?
(This joke would work better if I could put the proper Unicode glyph in there... But Slashdot appears to foil my attempt at writing "MicroÅoft"... Check this box!)
of course there's an explanation - she's 1/2 cylon.
That's funny... She doesn't look like a toaster...
Captain PLAAANEEET!
'Cause the Planeteers had one, or something.
"In the absence of an external interfering force (e. g., army of the Soviet Union), the fate of a nation is determined by its people. Period. "
No country operates in a vaccuum. Period.
A sentence that is an ordinary kind of statement should usually end with a period. Period.