The problem with Perl is that from the very first moment it was pushed as the "there's more than one way to do it" language, and that's *WRONG*
Are you saying that there is only *one true way* to do things in C? How about C++? Java?... I think you're complaining that Perl is inherently obfuscated, when it's just compact. I think maintainability has more to do with the programmer style that wrote the code...but it's the same in any other language!
Could you take a job that requires Perl code (written by others) maintenance and be sure that you won't have problems?
For my current project, I code in perl pretty much all day (and get paid for it)... and it was written by someone else. It's not easy, but Perl is the best language to do the job (due to extreme text processing requirements).
Well if you want to statistically measure something with mean "mu" and standard deviation "sigma"
I think you're confusing things here. There are a few major components to the equation, which fully is:
SD"sigma" = SQRT(Variance)
where Variance = sum(deviations^2)/N
where deviations are the individual differences from the mean for each observation, and N is the number of observations.
By saying that the sigma is 1/SQRT(N), you are trivializing the deviations, and I think that's why Jucius Maximus has a point.
Also, the deviations can be more carefully selected when there is a smaller group.
Unless you're talking about the USB support, which is broken in the latest AMD 760MPX chipset
Okay, mr. troll... I suppose you mean USB 2.0 (not 1.1, as this works fine). In this case, the vendor ships a free PCI USB2 card, yes.
Question is: do you use USB 2? And which self-respecting geek purchasing a multiproc mobo won't have a nice case with 5+ PCI slots anyway? I only have four, and I'm only using one of em.
XviD falls prey to the problems inherent with MPEG4, as previously discussed here. Fix that, and I'm all up for it. (personally, I don't see any way around the issues)
In the interim, there's Ogg Tarkin, but it looks like they're too busy with Vorbis right now.
You make it sound like bnetd is one large system
for fraudulent people.
People that have licenses (like me, two even, since my Broodwar came bundled with another Starcraft) also suffer from that.
Hey, I have SC/BW, too. And all my friends have legal copies as well. But I was looking at it from the game producer's point of view. You don't want to kill the chicken that lays golden eggs, do you?
I don't believe bnetd is bad. I like it, I used FSGS before they were shut down by blizzard. It's just that I see how hard it is for Blizzard to be "fair" and still run a successful beta. They hardcoded their beta app to connect to battlenet, and ppl cracked. I'm sure that a nice note to the providers would have made them shut down their network to Warcraft3... or not... and then the source is out there. Unless they want to spend lots of time changing the protocol to break with bnetd, they have to find some way to shut down the released code.
[CONSPIRACY THEORY] Perhaps M$, or some other interest that wants to see Blizzard fail (there are quite a few), is encouraging/funding these hacks, since toppling the king would create a void and allow AgeOfEmpires3 (or wahtever) to gain more popularity... [/CONSPIRACY THEORY]
I'm always disappointed that Blizzard's betas only let you play multiplayer, but that's life.
It amazes me that people can't think through why this is the case. Put yourself in Blizzard's shoes (ok, brrr). If you release a Beta that's a stand-alone game, why would the tester every buy the full product when it comes out? People are cheap, and that's why there's rampant copying of the Beta (hell, even I have a cracked copy).
The purpose of a beta program is to test the product (interface, network utilization, balance), test the market readyness, and expose any critical bugs that might hinder a good rollout. If you're players are on your network you can get a pretty good idea of a lot of these things (I wonder if the program does a callback if there's a crash/etc.). If it's standalone, not only would you have to have finished standalone missions (hint: they're probably still being produced/tested), but you'd lose out on any ability to monitor critical statistics. On the other hand, if you people do warez your Beta, and connect to your network, at least you have more useful stats from determined fans.
On the side of the BnetD v. Blizzard, I can see their point of view. They make great games, cater to the user even after the sale (battle.net, custom maps), they make sure that their games are reasonably compatible with older hardware (I can still play Starcraft with my 5 year old laptop)... and what happens? Major Anger because people want to steal their beta program and play it off their network? Of course, I understand the problems with Blizzard's position in this case, and I support the EFF. I've made my donations in the past, but I'm just a bit iffy on this case.
On a side note, I hope they fix the balance issues with the Undead. Undead are way overpowered.
Hold on there, pal... Since Tyan *does NOT make* MPX motherboars, you're running an 760MP motherboard... not an 760MPX. This is important because this problem does not exist on 760MP motherboards. Athlon XP's work fine on those mobos.
What I'd like to know is does anyone have an MPX motherboard with two athlonXP's running stable? And for how long?
I absolutely *cannot* stand recurring charges on my card (and they didn't say whether I would receive a second charge a year from now), and I don't really feel that the benefits of being a member were worth $60. So I donated $20.
Hopefully this will keep the best desktop distro in swing...
Kazaa BV was able to change settings stored deep inside Morpheus users' computers as they logged on to the file-trading network.Isn't this a case of intrusion into the user's computer. Wonder if they can do that.... I mean, like if its fair or not...
DOUBTFUL. Read the part about the "as they logged on"... it can easily be argued that the users were on KaZaA's property at that point, and I'm sure that the liscence states that conditions about login, etc. could be changed at will. Remember, you're liscencing the software.. you don't own it.
One small point about Certified Letters. No matter if you sign for it or not, once the USPS drops it off at your house, it is considered not only delivered, but also read.
This is HUGE. Why you say? What if you move, or had someone steal mail from your mailbox? I've had that happen, had my creditcard #'s stolen. What if the same slimy bastard decides to take my certified mail, and throw it away? Have I read it? YES, according to USPS. Obviously, I haven't been notified.
Can someone clear up the details on certified vs. registered mail? Because I've moved around a lot, and AFAIK, there may be someone (perhaps corporation) who thinks I owe them some money...
Here's a PC-based example, since you don't quite understand how a regular mac app could benefit.
Basically, you are ALWAYS running multiple apps in any modern, pre-emptive multitasking OS. One of them just happens to be the kernel, etc. Of course, this is a highly simplified view.
Please donot mod me down immediately. Here's what I'm suggesting... what if we setup a virus that proliferated via outlook, etc. whose payload was that it wrote out coherent-sounding anti-M$ email, emailed the links provided, then replicated. Perhaps it can even email them consistently, with a rotating style (think markhov chain).
Okay, if this fails (the recipients know that they're being spammed via virus), we can at least invalidate the email angle of the M$'s campaign.
And here's the scary part... what if M$ is already doing this???!! Hell, they have access to their internal "bugs" far more easily than we do.
Harry Potter is known around the world and has even had a movie done about the characters.
Martin and Sawyer's fans are few and far between.
So the Hugo is a popularity contest now? I somehow doubt that the Hugo award was designed to facilitate "market entrenchment". But I suppose the corporations who fund this have something else to say about it.
Rampant commercialism/consumerism...
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Are those 399 of them newfangled Euro-dollars???
Are you saying that there is only *one true way* to do things in C? How about C++? Java? ... ...but it's the same in any other language!
I think you're complaining that Perl is inherently obfuscated, when it's just compact. I think maintainability has more to do with the programmer style that wrote the code
Could you take a job that requires Perl code (written by others) maintenance and be sure that you won't have problems?
For my current project, I code in perl pretty much all day (and get paid for it)... and it was written by someone else. It's not easy, but Perl is the best language to do the job (due to extreme text processing requirements).
I think you're confusing things here. There are a few major components to the equation, which fully is:
SD"sigma" = SQRT(Variance)
where Variance = sum(deviations^2)/N
where deviations are the individual differences from the mean for each observation, and N is the number of observations.
By saying that the sigma is 1/SQRT(N), you are trivializing the deviations, and I think that's why Jucius Maximus has a point.
Also, the deviations can be more carefully selected when there is a smaller group.
Are you saying that Microsoft wrote a denial of service attack called MS-DOS (aka multi-source denial of service)?
Cool, but that thing must leak radio interference like noone's business, eh?
Okay, mr. troll... I suppose you mean USB 2.0 (not 1.1, as this works fine). In this case, the vendor ships a free PCI USB2 card, yes.
Question is: do you use USB 2? And which self-respecting geek purchasing a multiproc mobo won't have a nice case with 5+ PCI slots anyway? I only have four, and I'm only using one of em.
yeah, I know, YHBT and all...
Where do you want to "Go" today?
Mr. Keynes is a human being. Corporations are NOT. His arguement does not hold for them.
In the interim, there's Ogg Tarkin, but it looks like they're too busy with Vorbis right now.
People that have licenses (like me, two even, since my Broodwar came bundled with another Starcraft) also suffer from that.
Hey, I have SC/BW, too. And all my friends have legal copies as well. But I was looking at it from the game producer's point of view. You don't want to kill the chicken that lays golden eggs, do you?
I don't believe bnetd is bad. I like it, I used FSGS before they were shut down by blizzard. It's just that I see how hard it is for Blizzard to be "fair" and still run a successful beta. They hardcoded their beta app to connect to battlenet, and ppl cracked. I'm sure that a nice note to the providers would have made them shut down their network to Warcraft3... or not... and then the source is out there. Unless they want to spend lots of time changing the protocol to break with bnetd, they have to find some way to shut down the released code.
[CONSPIRACY THEORY]
Perhaps M$, or some other interest that wants to see Blizzard fail (there are quite a few), is encouraging/funding these hacks, since toppling the king would create a void and allow AgeOfEmpires3 (or wahtever) to gain more popularity...
[/CONSPIRACY THEORY]
Is it a wonder that they targetted their beta for network play?
So you could say that you're dynamically loading the gerald626 graphics/media library when playing nethack. Good analogy, I like that :-)
It amazes me that people can't think through why this is the case. Put yourself in Blizzard's shoes (ok, brrr). If you release a Beta that's a stand-alone game, why would the tester every buy the full product when it comes out? People are cheap, and that's why there's rampant copying of the Beta (hell, even I have a cracked copy).
The purpose of a beta program is to test the product (interface, network utilization, balance), test the market readyness, and expose any critical bugs that might hinder a good rollout. If you're players are on your network you can get a pretty good idea of a lot of these things (I wonder if the program does a callback if there's a crash/etc.). If it's standalone, not only would you have to have finished standalone missions (hint: they're probably still being produced/tested), but you'd lose out on any ability to monitor critical statistics. On the other hand, if you people do warez your Beta, and connect to your network, at least you have more useful stats from determined fans.
On the side of the BnetD v. Blizzard, I can see their point of view. They make great games, cater to the user even after the sale (battle.net, custom maps), they make sure that their games are reasonably compatible with older hardware (I can still play Starcraft with my 5 year old laptop)... and what happens? Major Anger because people want to steal their beta program and play it off their network? Of course, I understand the problems with Blizzard's position in this case, and I support the EFF. I've made my donations in the past, but I'm just a bit iffy on this case.
On a side note, I hope they fix the balance issues with the Undead. Undead are way overpowered.
Isn't that what they said about the original Xbox? I think this is just a case of MS playing both sides.
Yet another case of playing both sides. MS knows when it's good to leverage the Intel duo-poly, and when it's good to not be loyal.
"Never surrender; never give up." - Jerry Sanders
"Never give up; never surrender" - Galaxy Quest
Hold on there, pal... Since Tyan *does NOT make* MPX motherboars, you're running an 760MP motherboard... not an 760MPX. This is important because this problem does not exist on 760MP motherboards. Athlon XP's work fine on those mobos.
What I'd like to know is does anyone have an MPX motherboard with two athlonXP's running stable? And for how long?
Please mod up parent post!
I absolutely *cannot* stand recurring charges on my card (and they didn't say whether I would receive a second charge a year from now), and I don't really feel that the benefits of being a member were worth $60. So I donated $20.
Hopefully this will keep the best desktop distro in swing...
DOUBTFUL. Read the part about the "as they logged on"... it can easily be argued that the users were on KaZaA's property at that point, and I'm sure that the liscence states that conditions about login, etc. could be changed at will. Remember, you're liscencing the software.. you don't own it.
This is HUGE. Why you say? What if you move, or had someone steal mail from your mailbox? I've had that happen, had my creditcard #'s stolen. What if the same slimy bastard decides to take my certified mail, and throw it away? Have I read it? YES, according to USPS. Obviously, I haven't been notified.
Can someone clear up the details on certified vs. registered mail? Because I've moved around a lot, and AFAIK, there may be someone (perhaps corporation) who thinks I owe them some money...
More like, selectivity through obscurity. alt.hackers don't want to "secure" their channel, but just be selective about it.
This is a societal prinicipal that's been going on for years, dumbass.
Basically, you are ALWAYS running multiple apps in any modern, pre-emptive multitasking OS. One of them just happens to be the kernel, etc. Of course, this is a highly simplified view.
Okay,
#include flame_retardant_suit.h
Please donot mod me down immediately. Here's what I'm suggesting... what if we setup a virus that proliferated via outlook, etc. whose payload was that it wrote out coherent-sounding anti-M$ email, emailed the links provided, then replicated. Perhaps it can even email them consistently, with a rotating style (think markhov chain).
Okay, if this fails (the recipients know that they're being spammed via virus), we can at least invalidate the email angle of the M$'s campaign.
And here's the scary part... what if M$ is already doing this???!! Hell, they have access to their internal "bugs" far more easily than we do.
Think about it...
When I bring this up in IE, it asks whether I want "to view the non-secure items?". Ironic, for sure, but the http:// version works fine as well.
Netscape (v6.x) seems to have no problems showing both without prompting (guessing this is default)
Am I missing something?
And what customer base would that be, corporate citizens? It's a wonder why they failed there... :-)
Martin and Sawyer's fans are few and far between.
So the Hugo is a popularity contest now? I somehow doubt that the Hugo award was designed to facilitate "market entrenchment". But I suppose the corporations who fund this have something else to say about it.
Rampant commercialism/consumerism...