Tell me about it, I'm taking a class atm where we are using Excel over com as a simple database(in VB *shudder*).
This is so incredibly slow that some people have moved the data to xml and then read the files with xml just because it's an incredible speedup.
It takes almost 3 minutes to read 25*51*5=6375 fields. As these are float I assume 2bytes/value which gives a whopping speed of 70 bytes/second.(could be that we are doing something horribly wrong here, maybe someone want to enlighten me, I've never used com nor vb before this, but we're using the way that was presented in the labs)
Atitd is all about figuring things out at the forefront, if you join later you will still be figuring out things at the forefront, just a slightly different one.(especially if you join a guild like some parent poster up the tree suggested)
Disclaimer: I haven't played atitd since the beta(don't have time to do both that an everquest, barely have time for everquest).
The problem with that kind of thinking misses one big point. One of the largest reason people keeps playing mmorpgs is because of the community, ie they get friends on their server. If you are forced to switch server to try something new out it's probably not worth it unless you can convince at least some of your friends to start a new character too.
This hurts anyone that makes friends(or enemies that they love to hate).
Doh! I've been making fun of the fact that they're saying w2k is built on new technology technology for some time now and it appears that they're not...
...they're actually saying windows 2000 is built on NT technology when I boot but it really means it's built on Northern Telecom Technology?
If the xor key was a cookie recipe you could
prolly just mail it and noone would try xoring
the encrypted message with it. Then you just send
different recipes about half a day after sending
each encrypted message( or once every day and use
them just the days you get encrypted stuff).
yeah I know, security through obscurity and all,
but it's fun to speculate =). And if you were
only two peeps using it security through
obscurity could also work. It's just the
obscurity thing that's hard to maintain when the
group gets large.
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Or another one(these people have a server up and running) Read more here..
If you don't speak hungarian you can always try it by
1)Install stunnel<PLUG>(apt-get install stunnel)</PLUG>
2)run "stunnel -c -d localhost:6667 -r segfault.sirc.hu:6657" as root(I don't know if it's the same syntax for MS windows).
3)connect to localhost:6667 with your favorite IRC-client.
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>Supper secret IRC command that will let you do this..../join #(channel name)
Ever heard of "invite only"? This would also let the people on the channel see that you're there.
>IRC is more like a club.. Everything is public and quite a few people are jerks.
This doesn't mean that I shoul accept that any jerk treats me like shit(or listen's to private conversation, or whatever)
Just because it traditionally IRC have been easy to spy on IRC users doesn't mean that it should be.
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I'm sad to say that I agree fully with your last post but the first one could have used a little restriction. You didn't say that it was the only thing that mattered in _business_, you said that it was the only thing that _mattered_. And I think that there's a pretty wide gap there.
Also, we can affect by only buying stuff that we believe are good, and produced not harming any animals or whatever. At least I like to think that we do have that power.
Lastly, hope my point got through, I'm not used to discuss these things in english.;)
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>Therefore NEXT lost. The "true nerd" perspective doesn't mean squat. Nerds don't generate sales, marketing does. >That doesn't make it right but it makes it a fact.
Ehrmm..quick sanity check..do you mean that anything that the big companies and world economy doesn't care about doesn't count? Like, love, sex(except for the sort sold..)friends, to be respected, poverty and so on.
I meant it more in the ironic way: A good reason to choose win2k(meant to be great for servers and so on) is that it's good for games(a much more "non-serious" area). As a matter of fact I can't even get win2k to start on my computer(k6-2 with tnt2 and no "odd" hardware).
Then you might not be building space-going rocket, or shuttles?
The Liquid Hydrogen and Oxygen cost approx. $650,000 per launch of the Shuttle Atlantis quite explosive when the ignition is turned on the Temp is 6,000 Deg Fahrenheit producing 24,000,000 lbs. of thrust from the Morton-Thiokol engines.
Ehh..about the can't use it at tests thingie...as I have understood it, school is there to prepare you for your grown-up life, it's not a goal in itself to have high grades. And, more importantly, your boss will not care if you use this kind of device in your daily work(well, he might if you do representative work). Btw, there's nothing that says that this kind of device has to be visible to the rest of the world.
D*mn, I had to look augmentation up in a real book, Lexin(eng-swe online dictionary) didn't have it..
Is the patented part of RTLinux part of a modified GPL:ed code(I assume so but I'm not that deep into RTLinux)? In that case the matter is quite clear: the patented part is also GPL:ed and he must make it available and anyone may use it as long as they release any modifications under GPL. (heard this before?) The fact that it is patented does not remove the GPL.
You're right windows doesn't alway crash, it does n't crash more than 1/day for me(this is an average, some days I don't use windows and some days it crashes lots of times)
Personally I love pratchett and have a all discworld books, I wouldn't say that his SF books are compulsory though. From what I've read, SF is what's he's not good at(unfortunately).
-The Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy, even though it's not traditional sci-fi, it's a must read. -Any short story(or collection thereof) by Philip K Dick. Not the novel's though, they are generally not worth the effort, short story's are what he's good at. -Vurt, by Jeff Noon. -Dreamsnake, by Vonda N Mcintyre.
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Tell me about it, I'm taking a class atm where we are using Excel over com as a simple database(in VB *shudder*).
This is so incredibly slow that some people have moved the data to xml and then read the files with xml just because it's an incredible speedup.
It takes almost 3 minutes to read 25*51*5=6375 fields. As these are float I assume 2bytes/value which gives a whopping speed of 70 bytes/second.(could be that we are doing something horribly wrong here, maybe someone want to enlighten me, I've never used com nor vb before this, but we're using the way that was presented in the labs)
No, I think they found it cheaper to drop bombs on them instead.
I read on the internet that alot of BSD is open source.
Atitd is all about figuring things out at the forefront, if you join later you will still be figuring out things at the forefront, just a slightly different one.(especially if you join a guild like some parent poster up the tree suggested)
Disclaimer:
I haven't played atitd since the beta(don't have time to do both that an everquest, barely have time for everquest).
Wasn't the Tron "computer" scenes handdrawn?
I remember reading this somewhere.
The problem with that kind of thinking misses one
big point. One of the largest reason people keeps
playing mmorpgs is because of the community, ie they
get friends on their server. If you are forced to
switch server to try something new out it's probably
not worth it unless you can convince at least some
of your friends to start a new character too.
This hurts anyone that makes friends(or enemies that
they love to hate).
Doh! I've been making fun of the fact that
they're saying w2k is built on new
technology technology for some time now and
it appears that they're not...
...they're actually saying windows 2000 is built
on NT technology when I boot but it really means
it's built on Northern Telecom Technology?
If the xor key was a cookie recipe you could
prolly just mail it and noone would try xoring
the encrypted message with it. Then you just send
different recipes about half a day after sending
each encrypted message( or once every day and use
them just the days you get encrypted stuff).
yeah I know, security through obscurity and all,
but it's fun to speculate =). And if you were
only two peeps using it security through
obscurity could also work. It's just the
obscurity thing that's hard to maintain when the
group gets large.
Use the bezier select tool.
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Did anyone notice the requirements on Ingava?... To bad I got linux so I can't install it :(
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Or another one(these people have a server up and running) Read more here..
If you don't speak hungarian you can always try it by
1)Install stunnel<PLUG>(apt-get install stunnel)</PLUG>
2)run "stunnel -c -d localhost:6667 -r segfault.sirc.hu:6657" as root(I don't know if it's the same syntax for MS windows).
3)connect to localhost:6667 with your favorite IRC-client.
--
>Supper secret IRC command that will let you do this.... /join #(channel name)
Ever heard of "invite only"? This would also let the people on the channel see that you're there.
>IRC is more like a club.. Everything is public and quite a few people are jerks.
This doesn't mean that I shoul accept that any jerk treats me like shit(or listen's to private conversation, or whatever)
Just because it traditionally IRC have been easy to spy on IRC users doesn't mean that it should be.
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I'm sad to say that I agree fully with your last post but the first one could have used a little restriction. You didn't say that it was the only thing that mattered in _business_, you said that it was the only thing that _mattered_. And I think that there's a pretty wide gap there.
;)
Also, we can affect by only buying stuff that we believe are good, and produced not harming any animals or whatever. At least I like to think that we do have that power.
Lastly, hope my point got through, I'm not used to discuss these things in english.
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>Therefore NEXT lost. The "true nerd" perspective doesn't mean squat. Nerds don't generate sales, marketing does.
>That doesn't make it right but it makes it a fact.
Ehrmm..quick sanity check..do you mean that anything that the big companies and world economy doesn't care about doesn't count? Like, love, sex(except for the sort sold..)friends, to be respected, poverty and so on.
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I meant it more in the ironic way:
A good reason to choose win2k(meant to be great for servers and so on) is that it's good for games(a much more "non-serious" area).
As a matter of fact I can't even get win2k to start on my computer(k6-2 with tnt2 and no "odd" hardware).
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Yup, it's nice that Microsoft has released such a good gaming platform.
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Oops, only the first line is mine, the rest should be marked as a quote.
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Then you might not be building space-going rocket, or shuttles?
The Liquid Hydrogen and Oxygen cost approx. $650,000 per launch of the Shuttle Atlantis quite explosive when the ignition is turned on the Temp is 6,000 Deg Fahrenheit producing 24,000,000 lbs. of thrust from the Morton-Thiokol engines.
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Ehh..about the can't use it at tests thingie...as I have understood it, school is there to prepare you for your grown-up life, it's not a goal in itself to have high grades. And, more importantly, your boss will not care if you use this kind of device in your daily work(well, he might if you do representative work).
Btw, there's nothing that says that this kind of device has to be visible to the rest of the world.
D*mn, I had to look augmentation up in a real book, Lexin(eng-swe online dictionary) didn't have it..
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Err..which one do they use for rocket fuel?
And, have you ever seen a wearable that is powered by gasoline?
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Is the patented part of RTLinux part of a modified GPL:ed code(I assume so but I'm not that deep into RTLinux)? In that case the matter is quite clear: the patented part is also GPL:ed and he must make it available and anyone may use it as long as they release any modifications under GPL. (heard this before?) The fact that it is patented does not remove the GPL.
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You're right windows doesn't alway crash, it does n't crash more than 1/day for me(this is an average, some days I don't use windows and some days it crashes lots of times)
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Personally I love pratchett and have a all discworld books, I wouldn't say that his SF books are compulsory though. From what I've read, SF is what's he's not good at(unfortunately).
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the 2001, 2010 ... series by Arthur C Clarke.
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-The Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy, even though it's not traditional sci-fi, it's a must read.
-Any short story(or collection thereof) by Philip K Dick. Not the novel's though, they are generally not worth the effort, short story's are what he's good at.
-Vurt, by Jeff Noon.
-Dreamsnake, by Vonda N Mcintyre.
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