You're preaching to the deaf. All the rational arguments in the world aren't going to convince the $400-volume-knob crowd that the godless computers aren't ripping the color, warmth, texture, flavour, and smell out of their wax-cylinder and vacuum tube audio.
After all, just look at this chart: you can clearly see how digital audio is ultimately a series of ugly, jagged, sharp steps, while analogue audio is infinitely variable...
You need to know where every chokepoint, every item spawn, every enemy spawn is, and be able to instantly visualize every route between any two arbitrary points on the map.... Randomizing the maps makes this skill less important.
No, it doesn't. It's just as important. You just need to be smart and adaptable enough to figure it out as you play. You know, like real life.
Of course, it makes it harder for Rain-Man players like you who have a conniption if your spaghetti isn't served on the exact same Big Bird plate every day.
Thanks, I was completely unaware of the power factor issue. That's really interesting.
Now all we need to do is find a way to contain all the power factor losses inside my house, so I can reap that benefit too.:) Is there any good way to store power locally, while presenting a purely resistive load to the grid?
Assuming that you're spending money heating your house in the winter, isn't it effectively impossible to "waste" electricity? Any electricity you consume is going to end up as heat (minus an irrelevant amount as light and kinetic energy), which you want anyway.
Of course, if your main heat source is not electricity (e.g. gas), electricity might be slightly more expensive. But I think the basic idea holds.
I know that we've had irregularly shaped discs before (think the business-card shaped kind), but the difference between those and this "thing" is that they were symmetrical, as you pointed out. They'd spin fine (ok, maybe not at 52x always), but they would be "balanced" as they spun. This thing is lopsided as hell.
Since when is symmetry required for rotational balance? It just has to have its center of gravity at the axis. You can be sure that they've balanced the the disc carefully.
Um, perhaps because no Office XML file format EXISTED before.
Why is somebody like you trying to 'excuse' problems with the 'old version' by bringing up that there's a new version?
The old formats were all binary formats. The new Office will support open XML formats, which is cool. The poster was just wondering what "debacle" surrounded the new formats. (Which I don't get either. In the context of "open standards" and "dirty tricks", the Office XML license terms seem reasonable.)
Personally, I wasn't even aware there was now a new 'Office 2007' out with new 'better, improved, the-problems-are-all-gone' file formats.
Then why the hell did you post your ignorant message, fool? You should shut up if you have no idea what you're talking about. Much less post with your ill-deserved karma.
If you don't get what I am saying, you're beyond hope.
No, we don't get what you're saying because it makes no goddamn sense.
Better yet, beat DX10. Why is it impossible? Is it superior hardware vendor cooperation...
Yes. MS has actually been doing a very good job with DX for the past several versions, but technically it would certainly be possible for someone else to implement a similar set of APIs. What someone else couldn't do is convince / strongarm all the video/audio/controller/etc. component manufacturers to support that API, and indeed design their hardware expressly for that API's architecture. You need a huge critical mass. And to do this while at the same time driving the technology forward with each release is even harder.
The article is written so badly that's it's very hard to figure out the meaning. But this bit seems to describe the "entry point" to the infection:
Here, we have something different - an Instant Messaging attack launched by a webpage forcibly dumping executable files into a PCs temporary files directory, via some nifty VisualBasic scripting.
and further on:
So, how does this happen? First of all, you need to hit an infection site using Internet Explorer - this exploit doesn't work in Firefox, for example. Due to the way these files are downloaded onto the PC, you can effectively make any site a potential threat and can scatter these files around wherever you like.
This sounds like a straight up "go to a web page and an arbitrary executable runs" attack. That would be a HUGE security hole in IE that has nothing to do with the rest of this issue. Not that it's never happened before, but I somehow doubt that this would be the first place we'd hear about it.
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When I watch the listings on the TV guide channel on TV, I occasionally change the channel by accident as I try to page back or forward.
Wow, it's an interface so simple, a 7 year old can use it!
I think you're a little out of touch with modern kids. My son would was perfectly comfortable using a mouse, keyboard, and joystick to launch and play his favorite games. At 3. My wife does simple spreadsheets with her grade 1 class.
(Mod: -1 Sad, Because it's the actual goddamn reason that M.U.L.E. wasn't remade by Dani Bunten in the '90s. Some EA fucktard wanted to add guns, and she wouldn't let them.)
Google didn't create Google Earth, they bought it outright. Competitors to Maps and calendar had been out for years beforehand. (Although Google did incrementally improve the state of the art.)
Voodoo Graphics (aka Voodoo 1) definitely supported 640x480. Myself, I usually ran it at 512 too. Even that was so much better than 320, that I was willing to trade for a few extra fps.
Um, no. GLQuake looked better in every respect than software rendering. Higher resolution, higher framerate, and 16 bit color. Some folks complained about the "blurriness" of bilinear texture interpolation, but that was only because they hadn't realized that it was better yet.:)
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You just Godwinned yourself. I've never seen that before.
You're preaching to the deaf. All the rational arguments in the world aren't going to convince the $400-volume-knob crowd that the godless computers aren't ripping the color, warmth, texture, flavour, and smell out of their wax-cylinder and vacuum tube audio.
After all, just look at this chart: you can clearly see how digital audio is ultimately a series of ugly, jagged, sharp steps, while analogue audio is infinitely variable...
You need to know where every chokepoint, every item spawn, every enemy spawn is, and be able to instantly visualize every route between any two arbitrary points on the map. ... Randomizing the maps makes this skill less important.
No, it doesn't. It's just as important. You just need to be smart and adaptable enough to figure it out as you play. You know, like real life.
Of course, it makes it harder for Rain-Man players like you who have a conniption if your spaghetti isn't served on the exact same Big Bird plate every day.
So that it still sounds perfect on those occasions when you choose to play your music back at 1/4 speed.
How long before, for instance, China bans its citizens from using it you think?
Why would they? Google works with them to ensure that China's citizens see exactly what their government wants them to.
Damn straight, Fastload rocked. Of course, it would have been nice if the C64's disk IO hadn't been completely braindead to begin with.
"Um, the 80s called. They want their sci-fi plots back."
Ok, how about a different one, then:
You've actually been remotely operating on real people the whole time!
Thanks, I was completely unaware of the power factor issue. That's really interesting. Now all we need to do is find a way to contain all the power factor losses inside my house, so I can reap that benefit too. :) Is there any good way to store power locally, while presenting a purely resistive load to the grid?
I've spent time thinking about this recently.
Assuming that you're spending money heating your house in the winter, isn't it effectively impossible to "waste" electricity? Any electricity you consume is going to end up as heat (minus an irrelevant amount as light and kinetic energy), which you want anyway.
Of course, if your main heat source is not electricity (e.g. gas), electricity might be slightly more expensive. But I think the basic idea holds.
When you get to high school you'll cover this stuff in physics class.
The ghost-in-the-mirror bit still freaks me out.
Sorry, I don't have any great ideas on what to put in an intellectual property lecture.
But would you be able to ask your professor to bring back bootleg copies of X-Men 3 and Microsoft Office for me? Thanks!
I know that we've had irregularly shaped discs before (think the business-card shaped kind), but the difference between those and this "thing" is that they were symmetrical, as you pointed out. They'd spin fine (ok, maybe not at 52x always), but they would be "balanced" as they spun. This thing is lopsided as hell.
Since when is symmetry required for rotational balance? It just has to have its center of gravity at the axis. You can be sure that they've balanced the the disc carefully.
Why is there a new version?
Um, perhaps because no Office XML file format EXISTED before.
Why is somebody like you trying to 'excuse' problems with the 'old version' by bringing up that there's a new version?
The old formats were all binary formats. The new Office will support open XML formats, which is cool. The poster was just wondering what "debacle" surrounded the new formats. (Which I don't get either. In the context of "open standards" and "dirty tricks", the Office XML license terms seem reasonable.)
Personally, I wasn't even aware there was now a new 'Office 2007' out with new 'better, improved, the-problems-are-all-gone' file formats.
Then why the hell did you post your ignorant message, fool? You should shut up if you have no idea what you're talking about. Much less post with your ill-deserved karma.
If you don't get what I am saying, you're beyond hope.
No, we don't get what you're saying because it makes no goddamn sense.
Better yet, beat DX10. Why is it impossible? Is it superior hardware vendor cooperation...
Yes. MS has actually been doing a very good job with DX for the past several versions, but technically it would certainly be possible for someone else to implement a similar set of APIs. What someone else couldn't do is convince / strongarm all the video/audio/controller/etc. component manufacturers to support that API, and indeed design their hardware expressly for that API's architecture. You need a huge critical mass. And to do this while at the same time driving the technology forward with each release is even harder.
The article is written so badly that's it's very hard to figure out the meaning. But this bit seems to describe the "entry point" to the infection:
Here, we have something different - an Instant Messaging attack launched by a webpage forcibly dumping executable files into a PCs temporary files directory, via some nifty VisualBasic scripting.
and further on:
So, how does this happen?
First of all, you need to hit an infection site using Internet Explorer - this exploit doesn't work in Firefox, for example. Due to the way these files are downloaded onto the PC, you can effectively make any site a potential threat and can scatter these files around wherever you like.
This sounds like a straight up "go to a web page and an arbitrary executable runs" attack. That would be a HUGE security hole in IE that has nothing to do with the rest of this issue. Not that it's never happened before, but I somehow doubt that this would be the first place we'd hear about it.
When I watch the listings on the TV guide channel on TV, I occasionally change the channel by accident as I try to page back or forward.
I think you're a little out of touch with modern kids. My son would was perfectly comfortable using a mouse, keyboard, and joystick to launch and play his favorite games. At 3. My wife does simple spreadsheets with her grade 1 class.
And combat too!
(Mod: -1 Sad, Because it's the actual goddamn reason that M.U.L.E. wasn't remade by Dani Bunten in the '90s. Some EA fucktard wanted to add guns, and she wouldn't let them.)
Google didn't create Google Earth, they bought it outright. Competitors to Maps and calendar had been out for years beforehand. (Although Google did incrementally improve the state of the art.)
Yes, all the bundles of coloured wires look nice. But holy mother of home theatre, check out the links to the project pages!
Might be an ok place to watch a flick.
This is what a hardcore geek does when he sells his dotcom to Microsoft.
Voodoo Graphics (aka Voodoo 1) definitely supported 640x480. Myself, I usually ran it at 512 too. Even that was so much better than 320, that I was willing to trade for a few extra fps.
Um, no. GLQuake looked better in every respect than software rendering. Higher resolution, higher framerate, and 16 bit color. Some folks complained about the "blurriness" of bilinear texture interpolation, but that was only because they hadn't realized that it was better yet. :)
You put a lot of effort into that. It's too bad your timing calculation is completely wrong.