You can't 'rename' an inode. inodes don't have names, directory entries (filenames) point to inodes, and as you probably know, there can be multiple pointers (hard links) to any given inode. You could reNUMBER an inode... but why?
Yeah, no kidding. And who's gonna pay for all the land that will be needed for this? Right, eminent domain, pennies on the dollar probably, and handed over to a private corporation (and foreign owned too).
If you could actually do that, that would be nice. But between your username being taken, your username being invalid (too short, etc), your password being invalid (not tough enough to pass crack rules) your password expiring/needing changing, etc, forgetting the particulars of the above and needing to create a new account, etc, it may as well all be unique logins/passwords to each site.
Does it depend on how you launch the new window? Somewhere along the line, I noticed that if you started a new IE by clicking the IE icon, your session cookies were not shared between the windows. But if you started the new window with Ctrl-N (or File / New / Window), the cookies were shared. Is there a 'launch in separate processes' option for IE like there is for Explorer that I accidentally selected? I don't remember. But, it does happen to be a rather nice feature.
With DUI, each offence gets worse. The first one is a stiff warning.
In most jurisdictions, DUI is a very serious offence, first or otherwise. Many places will suspend your locense and put you in jail for it. As it should be. I hope you weren't implying anything.
lots of people who have turned off the firewall in XP sp2 because it stopped apps from working (VPN in particular)
What VPN client in particular would that be? We use checkpoint, and I know that it did not work with SP1 firewall... had me mystified for a while why it wouldn't come up one day, then I realized that I've turned on the firewall earlier.
The SP2 firewall, on the other hand, I left that on to see what would happen, and aside from a 'this app needs access to the intarweb, allow?' popup, things are working just fine with both of them running.
As a chess teacher once told me, "People who play classical openings generally do so because the ideas in them work. People who play oddball openings generally do so because they're unprepared and don't think they can compete, and want to change the battlefield to give themselves an unfair advantage. If you see an oddball opening, ask yourself, 'what is my opponent afraid of?'". While I think it's obviously presumptuous to apply this logic to everybody who does unconventional things, I do think it's applicable in many cases.
This is bad... and Go seems to be even worse in this respect. If you're not playing 'by the rules', no one takes you seriously.
I think I'm pretty good at chess. I didn't get there by reading books and going to chess clubs or studying chess. I did it by learning the basic rules and playing the game. I wouldn't know a 'classic' opening if it hit me in the head. There are some obvious and necessary first moves that will open you up and allow to plan and execute a strategy. But memorizing opening moves (and even worse, their names) seems like a waste of time to me, and hardly shows anything about how good you are at the game, or how smart you are, or that you're hiding something or other. The kind of people who do that likely also belong to Mensa and advertise that fact at every opportunity.
Drop the elitist snobbery, and look at whether your oppenent is kicking your ass, regardless of orthodoxy, rather than whether his opening sequence has a name in some dusty book.
And that is one reason why there is separation of church and state, and why this whole 'faith-based' approach is BAD.
At first glance, moral and legal guidelines align. But not always. Of course murder is illegal, it's immoral in all (?) societies, no one's gonna argue with that. What about marriage to a 10 year old? Marital rape? Pre/non-marital rape? Personal property? Revenge? Contraception? Incarceration? All issues that differ across cultures represented in the US. If there was no church/state separation, only the prevalent flavour of catholic beliefs would be represented. Most of its rules on most issues would align with majority of the population, and most would be what we'd describe as 'fair' and equitable, but there are be important cases where they don't line up, and the answer proscribed by catholicism is NOT 'right'.
Stem cell is not one of those differeing issues, at least not for me with the info I have. The question I'd have is why embryonic stem cells? Is there a problem with the adult stem cells? Are they harder to obtain?
If it has so many bugs that it's not worth paying (very much) for, why is it worth using? It's kinda like the free2all P2P argument: if the music is so shitty it's not worth paying for, why are you spending time to download and listen to it? It's shitty after all, right?
It's not "I think that activation is a bad idea," it's "activation is a bad idea, you idiot!"
First of all, he never said such thing.
He needs to shut up with crap like that if he's going to play journalist.
Second, that's handy, because he's not playing journalist. He's an editor.
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One semi-cool thing about Valve's controversial Steam system is that it probably helps against cheaters in online games.
How does it help against cheating? It doesn't verify the executable or data files, in fact there are already cracks out that bypass Steam altogether., and no-CD cracks for HL2 that Steam doesn't notice.
If they didn't have masks, they would need faces. Would they all look the same? Look at the city people, they all look different.
Also, you're not allowed to kill anything that has a face/looks human/has emotions. Notice the real people are indestructible, so you couldn't kill them even if you wanted to. The zombies have faces, but they're all the same, plus, they're zombies, duh, ok to slaughter by the dozen.
HL2 uses an iterative engine, like FarCry. More details/plys pop in as you approach. This breaks in a couple of cases in both games: when using zoom view. When you look at some feature, it looks one way; but when you zoom in the feature will change completely, sometimes revealing things behind it as it reshapes.
But I find Farcry had a better tuned engine. For example in HL2 you walk into a room, and see a table. As you approach, suddenly a bunch of drawers pop in and it's a desk! Just like that! In the same room, just feet away! You can nail the moment of transition down to the exact pixel. I think if you're in a small room, that should be the most detailed view, no matter where you stand. Maybe when you pick up an object it could zoom in on it more. But in the same room? Eech.
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Steam works fine in a disconnected mode after you've authenticated, for one thing.
Ah... that's why so many people can't play offline even after confirming their registration and after Steam says the game is 100% complete and ready for off-line play? Apparently the problem is that those users logged out of Steam completely (!) or improperly.
And for another, it's completely braindead easy for them to push out a small patch to Steam users that removes Steam as a requirement
And they would do this out of the goodness of their hearts?
Yes, there are patches out that will make HL2 not use Steam (they fake it out), but they're illegal.
Re:Spolier: Brief synopsis of Half-Life 1.
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"Scientists in the sinister government base are building a teleporter when it screws up and pours out monsters that kill everyone"
Oh yes, HL2 is EXTREMELY linear. It's a total rail, even more so than Doom 3, at least all (most?) the doors in D3 opened. Just when you think you've jumped around and stacked things to get to some promising looking location, and the door's locked!
HL2 = only 1 way to do it. There's only one path you can take through any given level, and it's an obvious one (just find the one open door).
As an aside for people who've ditched the hover boat: don't. You'll just get stuck and will have to start over, assuming you don't die first, possibly from boredom walking through the empty River Hazards part.
The one interesting rail mement I found in HL2:
In the Ravensaomethingorother map, when you run into the preacher, there's a big fire between you and the preacher, who is on a balcony. Anyways, to your left is a big container (one of those that look like metal grain elevators). Just past it, to the left of the fire, a big dark space. Turn on your flashlight, and you will see that it is a ledge with a fence behind it, and some catwalks. Eventually, you will end up on that ledge. Thing is, you can bring in some furniture and barrels from the building you just came out of, and stack it against the fence (1 barrel and two desks will do it, or 3 barrels). This gives you enough clearance to jump over, but you can't! There's an invisible wall! The reason for this is that that part of the map is to be explored later, and of course, there is only 1 way in.
Duh.
Feels like I'm playing Doom 3, except there's lights, and the weapons aren't as effective. The machine gun is the most useless thing in the game. Just use the handgun. Crowbar works well on zombies and headcrabs. You can also throw things at enemies, remember that. Gravity gun and saw blades make a wicked combo.
So there are some redeeming things about HL2. But if people are calling Doom 3 an engine demo, then by logical extension HL2 must be the demo for Source. It's the only conclusion. There's no level or mission design to speak of. It's just a friggin rail.
For some level variety, try FarCry. You can get lost on some of those maps.
Uh.... my unlocking took over 1 hour, and neither my CPU nor my disk were pinned. In fact, CPU usage was so low, I was wondering whether the process was hung and if I should kill it. Then about half hour in I saw some movement, and waited a bit more. On the steam monitor I could see every few minutes a packet would stroll in. Definitely problems with 'overloadedness'.
From my first 20 minutes playing reaction I've got to say this game is so much more open-ended then Doom3
How is it any more open ended than Doom 3? That you can throw things at cops? You'll get sick of it in about 30 minutes. Then what? You're just as much on a rail in HL2 as you are on D3. All the doors that you're not supposed to walk through are locked. There is one path through the levels, and one path only.
FarCry is a very fun game, also a shooter (so pretty much on a rail as well), but at least there are MULTIPLE rails, so you can wander around the islands at will, bypass guards, attack from behind, etc.
After playing for about 2 hours, I'm decidedly underwhelmed by Half life.
You forgot that it also requires a CD to play this single-player, online authenticated and decrypted game.
What utter retardedness this install activation and unlocking process was. While I run into the CS Source problem, many times, too many times, because Google doesn't have the troubleshooting pages indexed yet. Thankfully I did have enough space on disk, so I didn't see the other install issue. I'm also running into the suttering sound problem people are describing in the forums, so I have to reload the game every 2-10 minutes.
After playing HL2 for about 1 hour, I am decidedly undewhelmed. This is breakthrough? This is fun? I have to admit, FarCry is far superior to this nonsense. AND it comes with a manual and a CD case (Farcry also comes on 5 CDs). In fact, HL2 is the ONLY game I ever bought that did not come with a CD case. How the fuck am I supposed to take care of the disk, that is REQUIRED to play, if it doesn't come with a case?!
Stupid stupid Valve. I hope some heads will roll after this retarded (and completely predictable and avoidable) fiasco.
Well, there is one problem that even non-early adopters will have to deal with: if you install HL2 without installing CS Source, you're gonna be shit out of luck halfway through CD 4 (of 5). Until Valve runs another CD master and gets it to distributors, people will be wasting all kinds of time fighting with that one. Probably AT LEAST one reboot and re-install, thinking they did something wrong.
At least you managed to get the thing installed. Check this out:
http://promos.vugames.com/halflife2/
I mean, how the fuck does something like that slip by? I know, I know, it says 'may occur'. May occur my ass. That's just marketing-CYA-speak.
All they had to do was run two tests:
1. Full install. 2. HL2-only install.
When there's a non-recoverable fatal fucking install error, on CD _4_ of 5, you've got some serious QA issues! Your number 1 errata is 'install doesn't work'. Morons.
Wasting my goddamn time.
I wonder how many non-web savvy gamers will be returning the boxes to stores for exchange because theirs doesn't work.
So after over an hour re-trying the install, cleaning the CDs, rebooting, copying around (I even burned a copy of the CD thinking it was somehow faulty), I'm starting to look forward to playing the game.
Hope it starts up.
After all this trouble, and having to log into Steam, it BETTER NOT ask me for the CD to play.
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You can't 'rename' an inode. inodes don't have names, directory entries (filenames) point to inodes, and as you probably know, there can be multiple pointers (hard links) to any given inode. You could reNUMBER an inode... but why?
Yeah, no kidding. And who's gonna pay for all the land that will be needed for this? Right, eminent domain, pennies on the dollar probably, and handed over to a private corporation (and foreign owned too).
If you could actually do that, that would be nice. But between your username being taken, your username being invalid (too short, etc), your password being invalid (not tough enough to pass crack rules) your password expiring/needing changing, etc, forgetting the particulars of the above and needing to create a new account, etc, it may as well all be unique logins/passwords to each site.
Does it depend on how you launch the new window? Somewhere along the line, I noticed that if you started a new IE by clicking the IE icon, your session cookies were not shared between the windows. But if you started the new window with Ctrl-N (or File / New / Window), the cookies were shared. Is there a 'launch in separate processes' option for IE like there is for Explorer that I accidentally selected? I don't remember. But, it does happen to be a rather nice feature.
In most jurisdictions, DUI is a very serious offence, first or otherwise. Many places will suspend your locense and put you in jail for it. As it should be. I hope you weren't implying anything.
What VPN client in particular would that be? We use checkpoint, and I know that it did not work with SP1 firewall... had me mystified for a while why it wouldn't come up one day, then I realized that I've turned on the firewall earlier.
The SP2 firewall, on the other hand, I left that on to see what would happen, and aside from a 'this app needs access to the intarweb, allow?' popup, things are working just fine with both of them running.
That's an official Gimp tutorial? Does it really have to sound so insulting?
?!?
It does?! Looks nothing like any stereo I've ever seen.
You mean, we WERE moving, billions of years go, WRT quasars. The light's still catching up.
This is bad... and Go seems to be even worse in this respect. If you're not playing 'by the rules', no one takes you seriously.
I think I'm pretty good at chess. I didn't get there by reading books and going to chess clubs or studying chess. I did it by learning the basic rules and playing the game. I wouldn't know a 'classic' opening if it hit me in the head. There are some obvious and necessary first moves that will open you up and allow to plan and execute a strategy. But memorizing opening moves (and even worse, their names) seems like a waste of time to me, and hardly shows anything about how good you are at the game, or how smart you are, or that you're hiding something or other. The kind of people who do that likely also belong to Mensa and advertise that fact at every opportunity.
Drop the elitist snobbery, and look at whether your oppenent is kicking your ass, regardless of orthodoxy, rather than whether his opening sequence has a name in some dusty book.
And that is one reason why there is separation of church and state, and why this whole 'faith-based' approach is BAD.
At first glance, moral and legal guidelines align. But not always. Of course murder is illegal, it's immoral in all (?) societies, no one's gonna argue with that. What about marriage to a 10 year old? Marital rape? Pre/non-marital rape? Personal property? Revenge? Contraception? Incarceration? All issues that differ across cultures represented in the US. If there was no church/state separation, only the prevalent flavour of catholic beliefs would be represented. Most of its rules on most issues would align with majority of the population, and most would be what we'd describe as 'fair' and equitable, but there are be important cases where they don't line up, and the answer proscribed by catholicism is NOT 'right'.
Stem cell is not one of those differeing issues, at least not for me with the info I have. The question I'd have is why embryonic stem cells? Is there a problem with the adult stem cells? Are they harder to obtain?
If it has so many bugs that it's not worth paying (very much) for, why is it worth using? It's kinda like the free2all P2P argument: if the music is so shitty it's not worth paying for, why are you spending time to download and listen to it? It's shitty after all, right?
First of all, he never said such thing.
He needs to shut up with crap like that if he's going to play journalist.
Second, that's handy, because he's not playing journalist. He's an editor.
How does it help against cheating? It doesn't verify the executable or data files, in fact there are already cracks out that bypass Steam altogether., and no-CD cracks for HL2 that Steam doesn't notice.
That's easy.
If they didn't have masks, they would need faces. Would they all look the same? Look at the city people, they all look different.
Also, you're not allowed to kill anything that has a face/looks human/has emotions. Notice the real people are indestructible, so you couldn't kill them even if you wanted to. The zombies have faces, but they're all the same, plus, they're zombies, duh, ok to slaughter by the dozen.
HL2 uses an iterative engine, like FarCry. More details/plys pop in as you approach. This breaks in a couple of cases in both games: when using zoom view. When you look at some feature, it looks one way; but when you zoom in the feature will change completely, sometimes revealing things behind it as it reshapes.
But I find Farcry had a better tuned engine. For example in HL2 you walk into a room, and see a table. As you approach, suddenly a bunch of drawers pop in and it's a desk! Just like that! In the same room, just feet away! You can nail the moment of transition down to the exact pixel. I think if you're in a small room, that should be the most detailed view, no matter where you stand. Maybe when you pick up an object it could zoom in on it more. But in the same room? Eech.
Ah... that's why so many people can't play offline even after confirming their registration and after Steam says the game is 100% complete and ready for off-line play? Apparently the problem is that those users logged out of Steam completely (!) or improperly.
And for another, it's completely braindead easy for them to push out a small patch to Steam users that removes Steam as a requirement
And they would do this out of the goodness of their hearts?
Yes, there are patches out that will make HL2 not use Steam (they fake it out), but they're illegal.
You mean like Doom 3?
Oh yes, HL2 is EXTREMELY linear. It's a total rail, even more so than Doom 3, at least all (most?) the doors in D3 opened. Just when you think you've jumped around and stacked things to get to some promising looking location, and the door's locked!
HL2 = only 1 way to do it. There's only one path you can take through any given level, and it's an obvious one (just find the one open door).
As an aside for people who've ditched the hover boat: don't. You'll just get stuck and will have to start over, assuming you don't die first, possibly from boredom walking through the empty River Hazards part.
The one interesting rail mement I found in HL2:
In the Ravensaomethingorother map, when you run into the preacher, there's a big fire between you and the preacher, who is on a balcony. Anyways, to your left is a big container (one of those that look like metal grain elevators). Just past it, to the left of the fire, a big dark space. Turn on your flashlight, and you will see that it is a ledge with a fence behind it, and some catwalks. Eventually, you will end up on that ledge. Thing is, you can bring in some furniture and barrels from the building you just came out of, and stack it against the fence (1 barrel and two desks will do it, or 3 barrels). This gives you enough clearance to jump over, but you can't! There's an invisible wall! The reason for this is that that part of the map is to be explored later, and of course, there is only 1 way in.
Duh.
Feels like I'm playing Doom 3, except there's lights, and the weapons aren't as effective. The machine gun is the most useless thing in the game. Just use the handgun. Crowbar works well on zombies and headcrabs. You can also throw things at enemies, remember that. Gravity gun and saw blades make a wicked combo.
So there are some redeeming things about HL2. But if people are calling Doom 3 an engine demo, then by logical extension HL2 must be the demo for Source. It's the only conclusion. There's no level or mission design to speak of. It's just a friggin rail.
For some level variety, try FarCry. You can get lost on some of those maps.
Uh.... my unlocking took over 1 hour, and neither my CPU nor my disk were pinned. In fact, CPU usage was so low, I was wondering whether the process was hung and if I should kill it. Then about half hour in I saw some movement, and waited a bit more. On the steam monitor I could see every few minutes a packet would stroll in. Definitely problems with 'overloadedness'.
How is it any more open ended than Doom 3? That you can throw things at cops? You'll get sick of it in about 30 minutes. Then what? You're just as much on a rail in HL2 as you are on D3. All the doors that you're not supposed to walk through are locked. There is one path through the levels, and one path only.
FarCry is a very fun game, also a shooter (so pretty much on a rail as well), but at least there are MULTIPLE rails, so you can wander around the islands at will, bypass guards, attack from behind, etc.
After playing for about 2 hours, I'm decidedly underwhelmed by Half life.
You forgot that it also requires a CD to play this single-player, online authenticated and decrypted game.
What utter retardedness this install activation and unlocking process was. While I run into the CS Source problem, many times, too many times, because Google doesn't have the troubleshooting pages indexed yet. Thankfully I did have enough space on disk, so I didn't see the other install issue. I'm also running into the suttering sound problem people are describing in the forums, so I have to reload the game every 2-10 minutes.
After playing HL2 for about 1 hour, I am decidedly undewhelmed. This is breakthrough? This is fun? I have to admit, FarCry is far superior to this nonsense. AND it comes with a manual and a CD case (Farcry also comes on 5 CDs). In fact, HL2 is the ONLY game I ever bought that did not come with a CD case. How the fuck am I supposed to take care of the disk, that is REQUIRED to play, if it doesn't come with a case?!
Stupid stupid Valve. I hope some heads will roll after this retarded (and completely predictable and avoidable) fiasco.
Well, there is one problem that even non-early adopters will have to deal with: if you install HL2 without installing CS Source, you're gonna be shit out of luck halfway through CD 4 (of 5). Until Valve runs another CD master and gets it to distributors, people will be wasting all kinds of time fighting with that one. Probably AT LEAST one reboot and re-install, thinking they did something wrong.
At least you managed to get the thing installed. Check this out:
http://promos.vugames.com/halflife2/
I mean, how the fuck does something like that slip by? I know, I know, it
says 'may occur'. May occur my ass. That's just marketing-CYA-speak.
All they had to do was run two tests:
1. Full install.
2. HL2-only install.
When there's a non-recoverable fatal fucking install error, on CD _4_ of 5,
you've got some serious QA issues! Your number 1 errata is 'install doesn't
work'. Morons.
Wasting my goddamn time.
I wonder how many non-web savvy gamers will be returning the boxes to stores
for exchange because theirs doesn't work.
So after over an hour re-trying the install, cleaning the CDs, rebooting,
copying around (I even burned a copy of the CD thinking it was somehow
faulty), I'm starting to look forward to playing the game.
Hope it starts up.
After all this trouble, and having to log into Steam, it BETTER NOT ask me for the CD to play.
Oh, there's lots of lost and sunken cities. But none found so far match the technological and cultural attributes of Atlantis.