Set Quake 3 on picmip level 20... voilla! No satanic imagery!
As someone who was taking care of a minor who was religiously sensitive I understand some of the issues, and was appaled that most games tout religious content in some way.
It's not even even that the game designers have a message they want to get across, it's purely just for it's shock value.
Most kids aren't shocked by it nowadays, mostly just because they are spiritually desensitized... which IS a bad thing.
I'm not a christian or dogmatic in any way... I view the use of religion in games as fouling a potentially enligtening subject.
Unless you have pulsed light input which is in sync with the shock wave passing through the crystal?
Since most light sources are periodic (pulses). (Tubes/TVs/Monitors/Plasma Displays/fluorescent), perhaps there is (some) posibility this could be applied.
Like many great discoveries, we do not fully see the benifits immediately.
I fear that a Slashdot moderator was a bit biased when moderating this previous post of mine...
Either that or they cannot understand english.
I simlpy spoke my mind, and being rated a Troll is clearly a misuse of moderator power.
I consider myself a hacker, and made a point of not mistaking hackers with criminals (or criminal hackers). This point seemed to hit a nerve with someone... perhaps said criminal hacker? -shrug-
It's like saying I steal software because I believe in Open Source and Free Software. When the point to Free Software is the giving, and not the taking.
How about if the US Army would recruit ex-murderers? Hmm... would you only feel safe if they weren't back home?
I think the amount of young destructive criminal hackers this precedent is CREATING far outweighs the small ammount of benefit gained by employing an ex-crimnal hacker.
The LAWs are there not just for punishing the guilty, but to serve as a deterent for future disdeeds.
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I understand your sentiments, but they are flawed.
Your attiture "but once it has started, please end it quickly" draws attention away from the fact that it was started in the first place as we are swept up in a rush of patriotism.
This will set a precedent for next time... just ignore the people and push through to the end... once the war is started, they'll see the error of their ways.
A lot of FUD being generated by the US Goverment.
Lots of "what ifs?"... after generating enough the American people start playing the odds. They buckle. This was not a descision made based in Logic and proof.
I for one love the exiliration of war, I'm just an average testosterone-filled male. But that's my reptile brain... and I control it. My higher thought functions feel sadness and remorse. It seems some Americans lack this facility. (*nudges Bush*)
I think the statue of liberty should go to France, it may be more at home there.
America is so NOT the land of the free. It is one huge prison where the barriers are the confines of the mind. (In that it is closed...)
To all the blindly patriotic people who will mod this down: Go ahead... My Karama is at it's ceiling anyway... it will give me something to work for again in future. -shrug-
The difference is between tactics and stratagy (at at least depedning on that I think the difference betweens these two terma are...)
It's very subtle, small board have little strategy and lotsa tactics, and inverse for large boards. Computers are good at tactics since brute force seems to seem like tactics to people.
Not problem, it's not bickering if I'm wrong... -grin-
A friend of mine once sent me mail ising Caesar's algorythm (ROT13) which I got pretty easily... then he decided to make a random scrambling... so I proceeded to adapt my program using probabalistic distribution in English (I used texts from HHG as my source reference -grin-), and automatically descramble any such texts. I've also written software that defines recursive rules for any type of language structure, and added the letter distribution proability to this... and voilla!)
PS: I can email you a copy of these programs if you want... just email me at lailoken on freeshell.org
On the topic of ISPs implementing this... if they do get a false positive, then the source user will get a bounce, and the sender can always find another method to get it to you. Really important stuff mostly don't get sent by email anyway... Besides one can always have opt-out policies regarding spam filtering... thus protecting the ISPs... my ISP does this.
Once again you are right about the last point, but an active approach would solve this...
Agreed that this is not the best way to filter spam... it is fraught with peril.
What I was suggesting is that ISPs actually employ these methods... thus the average user will not even know they were spammed. (Most IPSs employ a troop of Geeks who know where to do: "strings/dev/random")
Personally I prefer an active approach (such as ASK), and preferably the one with the features that has a minimal impact on legitemate users. I still receive about 30 spam mails a day, but with a combination between my IPSs anti-spam system, and my active spam protection, I see about 1 every month only.
Wow, slashdot articles with titles deserving of tabloid magazines?
It's more specifically a test between a slow heuristically based massively parralel computer and a fast serial rule-based weighted system. (simplified, yes I know.)
A computer can count faster then we can, but then we can build 3D representations of objects and spaces just by looking at them, and then traverse them effeciently (aka walking)
If it's games we want to make the battlefield, why not just toss chess and get a propper game... for instance Go. Computers still have some time to go before they can really compete on dan level...
It's not the production house, or the DVD manufacturers that you are stealing from, but from your local movie houses that are denied the oportunity to have first showings of the film.
Saying this, I do however agree that region locking is not the way to do it... I have bought films like "Tron" that are RPC1 (I am in RPC2) even though this film is ancient. (Disney maintains the right to re-release it on cinema or something? Pha!)
For instance, there is the problem that some of my favorite movies are plainly just not available locally! What to do? Do I import the from amazon.co.uk rather at about 2 times the price of the already ludicrously high $ rate?
It's no win for me otherwise... thank god for non region-locked DVD players!
RPC coding was the biggest reason for me to rip to DivX initially, so that I would be ensured to be able to play my movies with future DVD players.
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Set Quake 3 on picmip level 20... voilla! No satanic imagery!
As someone who was taking care of a minor who was religiously sensitive I understand some of the issues, and was appaled that most games tout religious content in some way.
It's not even even that the game designers have a message they want to get across, it's purely just for it's shock value.
Most kids aren't shocked by it nowadays, mostly just because they are spiritually desensitized... which IS a bad thing.
I'm not a christian or dogmatic in any way... I view the use of religion in games as fouling a potentially enligtening subject.
Since most Dreamcasts will now become Linux routers, it only makes sense that games will suffer... -grin-
Gotto go and get my lead underwar right away! ;)
No, no...
X-Ray glasses already exist! 2 bn. comics can't be wrong!
-grin-
Having the ultimate sunglasses... have it shift Ultra-violet to a more visible frequency...
Or perhaps even infrared/heat?
Cool glasses that make you see in the dark? (military applications?)
Whee!
Unless you have pulsed light input which is in sync with the shock wave passing through the crystal?
Since most light sources are periodic (pulses). (Tubes/TVs/Monitors/Plasma Displays/fluorescent), perhaps there is (some) posibility this could be applied.
Like many great discoveries, we do not fully see the benifits immediately.
Meta-moderators, take note:
I fear that a Slashdot moderator was a bit biased when moderating this previous post of mine...
Either that or they cannot understand english.
I simlpy spoke my mind, and being rated a Troll is clearly a misuse of moderator power.
I consider myself a hacker, and made a point of not mistaking hackers with criminals (or criminal hackers). This point seemed to hit a nerve with someone... perhaps said criminal hacker?
-shrug-
It's like saying I steal software because I believe in Open Source and Free Software. When the point to Free Software is the giving, and not the taking.
And should be treated as such...
How about if the US Army would recruit ex-murderers? Hmm... would you only feel safe if they weren't back home?
I think the amount of young destructive criminal hackers this precedent is CREATING far outweighs the small ammount of benefit gained by employing an ex-crimnal hacker.
The LAWs are there not just for punishing the guilty, but to serve as a deterent for future disdeeds.
Argh... always confuse the two...
%-)
Bostly because: George Orwell's pen name was derived from filmmaker George Orson Wells.
It's great how Sci-Fi becomes reality! :)
Way to go Orson Wells!
I understand your sentiments, but they are flawed.
Your attiture "but once it has started, please end it quickly" draws attention away from the fact that it was started in the first place as we are swept up in a rush of patriotism.
This will set a precedent for next time... just ignore the people and push through to the end... once the war is started, they'll see the error of their ways.
A lot of FUD being generated by the US Goverment.
Lots of "what ifs?"... after generating enough the American people start playing the odds. They buckle. This was not a descision made based in Logic and proof.
I for one love the exiliration of war, I'm just an average testosterone-filled male. But that's my reptile brain... and I control it. My higher thought functions feel sadness and remorse. It seems some Americans lack this facility. (*nudges Bush*)
I think the statue of liberty should go to France, it may be more at home there.
America is so NOT the land of the free.
It is one huge prison where the barriers are the confines of the mind. (In that it is closed...)
To all the blindly patriotic people who will mod this down: Go ahead... My Karama is at it's ceiling anyway... it will give me something to work for again in future. -shrug-
Hey, mod me down! I've k
Same here... :)
But that's because I'm still a 20 kyu player.
Computers cannot compete on dan level.
The difference is between tactics and stratagy (at at least depedning on that I think the difference betweens these two terma are...)
It's very subtle, small board have little strategy and lotsa tactics, and inverse for large boards. Computers are good at tactics since brute force seems to seem like tactics to people.
Strategy is more like a feeling though...
-grin-
Not problem, it's not bickering if I'm wrong... -grin-
A friend of mine once sent me mail ising Caesar's algorythm (ROT13) which I got pretty easily... then he decided to make a random scrambling... so I proceeded to adapt my program using probabalistic distribution in English (I used texts from HHG as my source reference -grin-), and automatically descramble any such texts. I've also written software that defines recursive rules for any type of language structure, and added the letter distribution proability to this... and voilla!)
PS: Here was the order of probabilities:
Fortune : etaoinsrhlducmygfwpbvkxjqz
HHG1 : etaoinhsrdlucgmwyfpbvkxzjq
HHG2 : etaoinhsrdlucgmwfypbvkzxjq
HHG3 : etaiohnsrdlucwgmfypbkvxjzq
HHG4 : etaoihnsrdluwcgyfmpbkvxjzq
Chaucer : ethoansridlywufmgcbpkvqjxz
PS: I can email you a copy of these programs if you want... just email me at lailoken on freeshell.org
On the topic of ISPs implementing this... if they do get a false positive, then the source user will get a bounce, and the sender can always find another method to get it to you. Really important stuff mostly don't get sent by email anyway...
Besides one can always have opt-out policies regarding spam filtering... thus protecting the ISPs... my ISP does this.
Once again you are right about the last point, but an active approach would solve this...
Agreed that this is not the best way to filter spam... it is fraught with peril.
/dev/random")
What I was suggesting is that ISPs actually employ these methods... thus the average user will not even know they were spammed. (Most IPSs employ a troop of Geeks who know where to do:
"strings
Personally I prefer an active approach (such as ASK), and preferably the one with the features that has a minimal impact on legitemate users. I still receive about 30 spam mails a day, but with a combination between my IPSs anti-spam system, and my active spam protection, I see about 1 every month only.
It's inefficient to have so much memory overhead.
Besides, if I were a spammer, I could pad it with high entropy data at the end to make up for my warbling.
Wow, slashdot articles with titles deserving of tabloid magazines?
It's more specifically a test between a slow heuristically based massively parralel computer and a fast serial rule-based weighted system. (simplified, yes I know.)
A computer can count faster then we can, but then we can build 3D representations of objects and spaces just by looking at them, and then traverse them effeciently (aka walking)
If it's games we want to make the battlefield, why not just toss chess and get a propper game... for instance Go. Computers still have some time to go before they can really compete on dan level...
This thread is absurd.
But it is faster in arithmetic.
The article seems to be C/C++ oriented.
What about really portable cross-platform languages such as Python? Or is that too easy? Do we really WANT to suffer with C in this day and age?
A cool cross-platform RAG GUI IDE builder:
http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/
Scientists who worry about these things aren't part of the real world and deserve to be called boffins.
A boffin is a dysfunctional scientist, and not just any scientist.
-grin-
It's not the production house, or the DVD manufacturers that you are stealing from, but from your local movie houses that are denied the oportunity to have first showings of the film.
Saying this, I do however agree that region locking is not the way to do it... I have bought films like "Tron" that are RPC1 (I am in RPC2) even though this film is ancient. (Disney maintains the right to re-release it on cinema or something? Pha!)
For instance, there is the problem that some of my favorite movies are plainly just not available locally! What to do? Do I import the from amazon.co.uk rather at about 2 times the price of the already ludicrously high $ rate?
It's no win for me otherwise... thank god for non region-locked DVD players!
RPC coding was the biggest reason for me to rip to DivX initially, so that I would be ensured to be able to play my movies with future DVD players.
My 2 cents.
Me.
Most of the blockbuster films aren't even worth the hard disk space I use to rip them to! :)
Seriously though. They won't be missed.
Independent film... yay!
Besides, I do not understand... I've spent more money on film with the advent of DVDs than I have spent in the total time prior.
America, the land of content censoring.
It seems the terrorists are actually winning every day... still.
-sigh-
Now, now...
I'm sure chips can't spell better than Slashdot editors!
-sigh-
CDEX is possibly the best CD ripping program out there, and certainly one of the more popular!
It has excelent support for ogg and mp3 files!
Yes, yes... it's for win32. A platform is a platform is a platform. Anyone care to port it to Linux? (It's already GPL)
I think we are breeding a strain of super resistant-bacteria resistant human...
"Stupid f*^$ing white man..." - Dead Man
-grin-
I've stopped buying antibacteria/antibiotic hand-soap. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger, right?