I see your point regarding procrastination, but I disagree with playing online not being real social interaction. There would have to be some set definition of what real social interaction is, for this to be true. Does real social interaction require physical presence in the same area? If so, then talking to your friend on the phone isn't social interaction, and that's just untrue.
The only game I play that isn't about playing with other people is Civilization IV. Otherwise, every game I enjoy has some element of either a) competition, b) cooperation, or c) both. Counter-strike, WoW, etc, would be the most prominent examples for me.
If people don't play games for social interaction, why is the chat screen constantly rolling on most multiplayer games? Why do people join clans/guilds/etc? How do you organize a 40 person raid on an imaginary dungeon? I can't get 40 people together in real life, but I can in a game. And that's not about social interaction?
... but it is a well known fact that you have to defend every little attack on your trademarks, or else possibly rights to them as the term becomes diluted by public use. the legal system forces overzealous protection of trademarks, basically.
"simple formula discovered makes it possible to calculate the Nth binary digit of Pi without computing any of the first N-1 digits, and do the computation with very little computing power."
Doesn't this make it possible to assign an extremely large number to N - say, a billion times bigger than we've ever calculated pi out to before - and see if that resolves to a zero? And, if so, proving that pi eventually ends? and working backwards from this theoretical point, couldn't you quite easily find the last digit of pi basically using a binary tree method?
... is just to get a standard out there for everyone to use. As a web developer, the last thing I want to do is learn two more languages. Figure out what makes the most techical sense and stick with it. I'm sick of big companies creating headaches for developers(see the various implementations of ecma/jscript/javascript).
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Yeah, it does, but I don't play it. :)
Heh, true and true.
:)
On the other hand, do you have ANY IDEA hw much phat lewt I could get with 40 homies in real life?
I see your point regarding procrastination, but I disagree with playing online not being real social interaction. There would have to be some set definition of what real social interaction is, for this to be true. Does real social interaction require physical presence in the same area? If so, then talking to your friend on the phone isn't social interaction, and that's just untrue.
The only game I play that isn't about playing with other people is Civilization IV. Otherwise, every game I enjoy has some element of either a) competition, b) cooperation, or c) both. Counter-strike, WoW, etc, would be the most prominent examples for me.
If people don't play games for social interaction, why is the chat screen constantly rolling on most multiplayer games? Why do people join clans/guilds/etc? How do you organize a 40 person raid on an imaginary dungeon? I can't get 40 people together in real life, but I can in a game. And that's not about social interaction?
Yeah, we all hate BSOD, and most of us hate windows, blah blah blah. When a guy gives 20 million dollars, could you cut him a break?
Christ.
the How can individual users claim that they have no responsiblity for what's being served by their machines?
same way the US government can claim they have no responsibility for what the regimes they install do after the fact?
whats good for the goose..
... but it is a well known fact that you have to defend every little attack on your trademarks, or else possibly rights to them as the term becomes diluted by public use. the legal system forces overzealous protection of trademarks, basically.
if they have found a:
"simple formula discovered makes it possible to calculate the Nth binary digit of Pi without computing any of the first N-1 digits, and do the computation with very little computing power."
Doesn't this make it possible to assign an extremely large number to N - say, a billion times bigger than we've ever calculated pi out to before - and see if that resolves to a zero? And, if so, proving that pi eventually ends? and working backwards from this theoretical point, couldn't you quite easily find the last digit of pi basically using a binary tree method?
This sounds like a good way for people to get rid of all sorts of evidence from crimes.
every distro is buggy. that's why they have errata pages, update pages, etc.
watch for patches, and install them when they come out. it's that simple.
... is just to get a standard out there for everyone to use. As a web developer, the last thing I want to do is learn two more languages. Figure out what makes the most techical sense and stick with it. I'm sick of big companies creating headaches for developers(see the various implementations of ecma/jscript/javascript).