The currently computed tables weigh in at well over half a terabyte
Is that actually a lot? I mean that's half of one cheap hard drive, unless it's purely the computational time to generate 500GiB of Rainbow Tables that's impressive here, and if that's the case would it not be better advertising it as such?
It's not like in that month there is nothing you can do while it levels! And it's not like any one skill could really have determined the outcome of a battle, unless you were exactly equally matched in ship, ship equipment, etc. It's certainly not a boring game to play once you get into the social aspect of it all, something not nearly as important in any other game I've played, even other MMOs (WoW for example). If you go into it and float about doing level 1 missions by yourself not talking to anyone then yes, I can see how it would be the most boring game!
The coders take the time they would have used to "optimize" and instead better document, test, and debug the code
This sounds absolutely bloody awful! Optimization is so much more fun that testing and documentation, the most boring elements in the whole of computer science!
Not if you're like me and use a das keyboard! Passwords were a bloody nightmare when I started learning Dvorak with my Das Keyboard, I wouldn't advise doing it without having the layout written out somewhere as a backup!
A wiki wasn't exactly what I was looking for, it was more just a very simple place to leave comments, like a thread on 4chan or something to that extent. Though I have never run a wiki so I guess it might work. I did run phpBB for a while, but it's more advanced than what I was looking for, and I don't think it's the best for anonymous comments (registration is a stress!)
When I had the money for hosting I just put up a page where you could post comments. Nothing special, took about 10 minutes in Perl and anyone could leave a comment! Although if you do that you need to make sure it has spam protection, often hidden fields do the trick!
I'm finding it's good for speeding up little things, like conversions, and exact values I might like. Yesterday on/. the "Obama needing cars to get 42 MPG" article for example, I just threw "42 MPG" into WA and it gave me it in British MPG:) That's the first it's been handy for me, if I remember to use it for things like that I can see it being quite the time saver!
I'd agree with this. I've suprised myself in the early hours of the night, even if I'm pretty tired if everyone is in bed and the place is silent I tend to get a lot done.
you will always get German search results preferred
http://google.com/ncr seems to block it forwarding you to a country website, at least that's what I use if I want to use.com instead of.co.uk, or if I'm browsing through a proxy in another country. Alternatively you could log in and set your country to America? I think that would work anyway, the cookies from gooogle.de shouldn't work on.com so there'll be no previous search data to throw you German results.
Is it me or has the number of comments of an article been taken off the beta index?! I for one am not happy with this! Going back to the original, hmph. To keep on topic, yeah it's a little silly:)
I guess you could pull down an old version and modify the version number in the extention, I beleive that would stop it updating as it would think it was a later version.
I'd imagine you could maybe combine them into a video and play it over a few minutes? Regardless it would be good if you need a high quality indavidual frame of something, I'd imagine
Yes, it is. Of course, all sorts of other things might contribute. Upgrades to the kernel, GNOME, major applications, the compiler, or even changes to compiler flags used could have helped.
Well then this isn't specific to Ubuntu at all then? Any distro that recently upgraded to 2.6.29 and the 1.6 Xorg will be experiencing the same benefits?
Are you aware of any good objective measure of interface "snappiness"?
No I guess not, But if the article writer had at least put some hypothesis into why the "snappiness" had increased it would have been a much better read, for me anyway, I guess I can agree that the user experienced speed improvements can be of some benefit.
So basically this isn't actually any kind of real test? "oh this feels faster, shiny!" What upgrades has ubuntu had to X that may have made it faster? Is it using Xorg 1.6 or something? I'd prefer evidence to a random user's sense of responsiveness:S
As somebody who learned HTML and Javascript with GeoCities
I must say I remember Geocities being one of the easiest ways to get on the web, This was back when I was about 8 years old, learning HTML, buying shared hosting, writing a website, etc were far beyond me back then. So in that way at least Geocities was a good thing:)
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Is that actually a lot? I mean that's half of one cheap hard drive, unless it's purely the computational time to generate 500GiB of Rainbow Tables that's impressive here, and if that's the case would it not be better advertising it as such?
It's not like in that month there is nothing you can do while it levels!
And it's not like any one skill could really have determined the outcome of a battle, unless you were exactly equally matched in ship, ship equipment, etc.
It's certainly not a boring game to play once you get into the social aspect of it all, something not nearly as important in any other game I've played, even other MMOs (WoW for example).
If you go into it and float about doing level 1 missions by yourself not talking to anyone then yes, I can see how it would be the most boring game!
This sounds absolutely bloody awful!
Optimization is so much more fun that testing and documentation, the most boring elements in the whole of computer science!
Not if you're like me and use a das keyboard!
Passwords were a bloody nightmare when I started learning Dvorak with my Das Keyboard, I wouldn't advise doing it without having the layout written out somewhere as a backup!
We should harness energy from our own universe instead!
Wait that didn't go so well for Rodney did it...
They patched the rt2870 to work for the Edimax EW7710Un, now I can finally stop patching it myself!
You couldn't have just dropped the link?!
A wiki wasn't exactly what I was looking for, it was more just a very simple place to leave comments, like a thread on 4chan or something to that extent. Though I have never run a wiki so I guess it might work.
I did run phpBB for a while, but it's more advanced than what I was looking for, and I don't think it's the best for anonymous comments (registration is a stress!)
When I had the money for hosting I just put up a page where you could post comments.
Nothing special, took about 10 minutes in Perl and anyone could leave a comment!
Although if you do that you need to make sure it has spam protection, often hidden fields do the trick!
I'm sorry did I say your money _or_ your life? /blackadder
Oh I'm terribly sorry I meant your money _and_ your life!
Not the most accurate but it's what I can remember for now!
Is it just me or does just about everything on that demo seem entirely pointless? :S
Why would anyone ever need a rotating button?
I'm finding it's good for speeding up little things, like conversions, and exact values I might like. /. the "Obama needing cars to get 42 MPG" article for example, I just threw "42 MPG" into WA and it gave me it in British MPG :)
Yesterday on
That's the first it's been handy for me, if I remember to use it for things like that I can see it being quite the time saver!
I'd agree with this.
I've suprised myself in the early hours of the night, even if I'm pretty tired if everyone is in bed and the place is silent I tend to get a lot done.
I wonder if they _sorted_ it themselves..
http://google.com/ncr seems to block it forwarding you to a country website, at least that's what I use if I want to use .com instead of .co.uk, or if I'm browsing through a proxy in another country. .com so there'll be no previous search data to throw you German results.
Alternatively you could log in and set your country to America?
I think that would work anyway, the cookies from gooogle.de shouldn't work on
No it's a common saying, you're not meant to take it liter.... oh
Is it me or has the number of comments of an article been taken off the beta index?! :)
I for one am not happy with this!
Going back to the original, hmph.
To keep on topic, yeah it's a little silly
Well I wouldn't say "perfectly" ;)
It would break under strict mode
Depends who you ask I guess
I guess you could pull down an old version and modify the version number in the extention,
I beleive that would stop it updating as it would think it was a later version.
Oh god my eyes, what is th.. AHHH
Note to self: NEVER use bright yellow as a background colour
I'd imagine you could maybe combine them into a video and play it over a few minutes?
Regardless it would be good if you need a high quality indavidual frame of something, I'd imagine
Well then this isn't specific to Ubuntu at all then? Any distro that recently upgraded to 2.6.29 and the 1.6 Xorg will be experiencing the same benefits?
No I guess not,
But if the article writer had at least put some hypothesis into why the "snappiness" had increased it would have been a much better read, for me anyway, I guess I can agree that the user experienced speed improvements can be of some benefit.
So basically this isn't actually any kind of real test? :S
"oh this feels faster, shiny!"
What upgrades has ubuntu had to X that may have made it faster? Is it using Xorg 1.6 or something?
I'd prefer evidence to a random user's sense of responsiveness
I must say I remember Geocities being one of the easiest ways to get on the web, :)
This was back when I was about 8 years old, learning HTML, buying shared hosting, writing a website, etc were far beyond me back then.
So in that way at least Geocities was a good thing