I was about to tell you you were wrong. I was about to tell you that some places are stuck with web apps that don't support anything but IE6.
...then I remembered that the last of our web apps finally implemented IE7 support several months ago, but no one has bothered to implement the simple pilot test it would take to confirm IE7 support for all applications and then migrate to IE7. I guess I better get the stick out and start poking.
And yet, we nerds keep buying the "latest greatest" technology and enabling them. Remember when people used to say paid DLC would never catch on because we were to used to free patches? Same basic principal, certain people gotta have it, though, and that's what gives these companies the ability to keep pushing incompatible the time frame for designed obsolescences shorter and shorter.
As aa parent, I can say that no matter how my child's school comes across pictures, they have NO BUSINESS what my child does off of their property unless *I* ask for their involvment. The exception would be if my kid is getting in trouble for bringing in inappropriate pictures to school.
I don't care what they thought they saw this kid doing, theirrights stop with informing the parents.
All he has to do is approach the speed of light and time will slow sufficiently to allow him to make his routes. It may even account for his long life.
This is a server processor. If you are either gaming or compiling on your server, you are doing something wrong. My servers here at work tend to do a high volume of low processor intensity transactions... therefore, more cores (and more simultanious transactions) is far more important than high speed.
Also, by shoehorning this into a 40w envelope, they're obviously going for power efficiency over horsepower. Interesting fact: power usage is one of the largest costs of a data center, and it's growing.
I really hope a politician of some sort with some tech savvy (mod funny lol) gets a hold of this and realizes that opensource is the way to go for voting machines.
With open source, diebold (or whomever) is still making money because someone needs to build the machines, and someone needs to manage the opensource project, but all those who are concerned about the integrety of the vote can contribute and find/fix exploits like this.
Secondly, you do have a point about breaching experiments, but I also find it highly suspect that he was "shocked" that teleporting people to an insta-death and inflicting negative in-game effects on people would tick them off. To see a better study, I'd have liked to see him try it as both a hero and a villian to see how the cultures differed, and, perhaps, do more varried experiments than just hang out in the zone cheap shotting and verbally abusing people for three years.
We are all very grateful that you have the guts to stick up to the *IAA and put copyright laws under scrutiny. I truly believe that the more of these go to court, the more likely we are to see copyright reform that favors the people, because these suits and those arguing them tend to do a good job of getting in to the press just how absurd copyright law can be.
That being said, can you please all drop the crusader attitude for just a second? Perhaps you could start by not commiting felonies in contempt of the proceedings against you. I doubt you have the money to follow that felony case through to the supreme court, and in the mean time, you're only going to disenfranchise yourself to the jury and public at large.
Can we please get some defendants who are willing to act like an average citizen for the duration of their suit before going back to being a raging crusader? Think of it as taking on a secret identity to help your cause. You might actually win if you don't look like a complete social misfit to the jury.
Having read the full article, it appears as though the "researcher" did nothing more than hang out in the combat zones in CoH/CoV and teleport the oposing faction in to a line of guards who would instakill anyone who got too close. (making the line "but he was too skilled to be driven off" extra hillarious).
He would then troll the general chat with stuff like (direct quote here):
"Yay, heroes. Go good team. Vills lose again,"
I couldn't make this shit up if I were trying.
His grand conclusion?
in the game's chat box, users like Hunter-Killed responded, "U are a major sh--bird."
Another player added, "I hope your mother gets cancer." Yet another wrote, "EVERYONE HATES YOU."
Myers was stunned by the reaction, since he obeyed the game's rules.
"If you aren't a member of the tribe, you get whacked with a stick," he said. "I look at social groups with dismay."
What's this guy's next "research" project? Going down to the bus station and punching old ladies in the nose?
This guy wasn't doing research, he just wanted a tax write off and a grant to do nothing but sit around and be a dick on the internet.
Are these stand alone apps or WMC plugins?
I have a windows vista (I know, I know, but I've had a ton of issues getting mythbuntu to work and work well) box running the Media Browser plugin, and it's a really awesome set up. It automatically adds my new media to its library (this is a basic WMC feature), it pulls movie posters, cast information, and all relevant metadata from IMDB... it's just all in all fantastic.
I'm not looking to add another standalone program to my HTPC box, but I would be fine with adding hulu TV if it was a plugin and worked without stepping on the toes of Media Browser.
The hulu site says it's optimized for WMC, but seems to indicate it is a standalone program. Does anyone have experience with it?
I saw some posts above citing lack of speed as a detracting factor in this game. I would like to disagree, and here's why:
The passenger vehicle elements are there, and proper strategy might dictate riding a jeep back and forth from spawn point to objective (and to strategic flanking points near the objective), ferrying people much more quickly than they could ordinarily move. The massive scale of the maps coupled with the slow movement allows for a much larger tactical and strategic scope while the comedic elements and differing character abilities still allow for intense gun fights when you do get where you're going.
The game is good. In the earlier beta it had some horrific problems with the netcode/lag correction and hit detection. Aside from that, though, it is quite fun.
I would say comparisons to TF2 are somewhat deserved. It is a class based FPS with objective oriented missions.
The vehicles add an extra element, from jeeps which are a simple troop transport (which the passengers can shoot from) to tanks, to airplanes (which are mostly useless unless you have a joystick as they are near impossible to control), but they do function as a fast troop transport as one person can sit on each wing.
Graphically, it's nothing to write home about (they're not bad, but come on, it's web based), however the level building/character customization aspects are a very interesting aspect.
Each of the classes has unique abilities the ones I remember from the first beta include "I eat gernades" which allows the heavy gunner to eat gernades thrown by the enemy to heal himself, first aid "healing auras" that heal people around you. Etc.
Further, the load out options add a whole lot of strategy to the game. There are various weapons from fast firing but low accuracy, to high accuracy slow, to close range high damage. Secondary weapons add even more strategy by allowing you to use gernades for anti personal, dynamite for anti-tank/booby traps.
There are some comical elements such as the ammount of knock back caused by explosions, but the strategic gameplay of capture points, and the map design were all very good.
Over all, I recomend at least giving this game a shot, especially considering the price.
While I never went back to the beta when they reopened, I do wish I had, it was because of time that I didn't, not because of any lacking in the game's fun factor.
It sounds like they've made some addittions since the last distro I tried, which was at least a year back. I will have to give it a shot again (i tried to earlier but it wanted me to break apart my RAID array which isn't gonna happen).
Well, sometimes "simple" does not equate in to user-friendliness. The fact that it is a "simple pick list" is the issue. You're confronted with a list of applications, some well named, some not. Sorted by type... and not much else. If I look for a firefox add-on, to continue the comparison, I can sort by type or keyword, and get a brief description of the application click it for a detailed explanation as well as reviews and comments...
I'm not BASHING Linux, keep in mind. I would like to see it catch on, I'm just giving my advice. Sorry I can't program, or I'd build it. As it is, I'll give my opinion.
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Embedded devices? The kind without a file system, right?
TRWTF is that this is slashdot, not TDWTF...
I was about to tell you you were wrong. I was about to tell you that some places are stuck with web apps that don't support anything but IE6.
...then I remembered that the last of our web apps finally implemented IE7 support several months ago, but no one has bothered to implement the simple pilot test it would take to confirm IE7 support for all applications and then migrate to IE7. I guess I better get the stick out and start poking.
LOL, have you ever seen the first computer generated designs for the f-117a? It was certainly mega efficient at scattering radar.
It's a haiku!
You know... origami? Very clever if you ask me.
And yet, we nerds keep buying the "latest greatest" technology and enabling them. Remember when people used to say paid DLC would never catch on because we were to used to free patches? Same basic principal, certain people gotta have it, though, and that's what gives these companies the ability to keep pushing incompatible the time frame for designed obsolescences shorter and shorter.
I bet you could burn an encryption key to the disk from the player itself, thereby locking it to a single player. The *IAA would gobble that shit up.
It will be late 2012 before the LHC gets to full power? Hmmmmmmmm.... Awfully forboding to me.
As aa parent, I can say that no matter how my child's school comes across pictures, they have NO BUSINESS what my child does off of their property unless *I* ask for their involvment. The exception would be if my kid is getting in trouble for bringing in inappropriate pictures to school. I don't care what they thought they saw this kid doing, theirrights stop with informing the parents.
Mod it insightful or something so the poster gets some Karma. This was too good, and more than just funny.
All he has to do is approach the speed of light and time will slow sufficiently to allow him to make his routes. It may even account for his long life.
This is a server processor. If you are either gaming or compiling on your server, you are doing something wrong. My servers here at work tend to do a high volume of low processor intensity transactions... therefore, more cores (and more simultanious transactions) is far more important than high speed.
Also, by shoehorning this into a 40w envelope, they're obviously going for power efficiency over horsepower. Interesting fact: power usage is one of the largest costs of a data center, and it's growing.
I really hope a politician of some sort with some tech savvy (mod funny lol) gets a hold of this and realizes that opensource is the way to go for voting machines.
With open source, diebold (or whomever) is still making money because someone needs to build the machines, and someone needs to manage the opensource project, but all those who are concerned about the integrety of the vote can contribute and find/fix exploits like this.
OK, firstly, "troll"? really?
Secondly, you do have a point about breaching experiments, but I also find it highly suspect that he was "shocked" that teleporting people to an insta-death and inflicting negative in-game effects on people would tick them off. To see a better study, I'd have liked to see him try it as both a hero and a villian to see how the cultures differed, and, perhaps, do more varried experiments than just hang out in the zone cheap shotting and verbally abusing people for three years.
We are all very grateful that you have the guts to stick up to the *IAA and put copyright laws under scrutiny. I truly believe that the more of these go to court, the more likely we are to see copyright reform that favors the people, because these suits and those arguing them tend to do a good job of getting in to the press just how absurd copyright law can be.
That being said, can you please all drop the crusader attitude for just a second? Perhaps you could start by not commiting felonies in contempt of the proceedings against you. I doubt you have the money to follow that felony case through to the supreme court, and in the mean time, you're only going to disenfranchise yourself to the jury and public at large.
Can we please get some defendants who are willing to act like an average citizen for the duration of their suit before going back to being a raging crusader? Think of it as taking on a secret identity to help your cause. You might actually win if you don't look like a complete social misfit to the jury.
Thanks,
WiglyWorm
Having read the full article, it appears as though the "researcher" did nothing more than hang out in the combat zones in CoH/CoV and teleport the oposing faction in to a line of guards who would instakill anyone who got too close. (making the line "but he was too skilled to be driven off" extra hillarious).
He would then troll the general chat with stuff like (direct quote here):
I couldn't make this shit up if I were trying.
His grand conclusion?
What's this guy's next "research" project? Going down to the bus station and punching old ladies in the nose?
This guy wasn't doing research, he just wanted a tax write off and a grant to do nothing but sit around and be a dick on the internet.
burn it with heaters!!!!!!
So... people are punching "slashdot.org" in to the google toolbar less often? Maybe they just found out what the address bar is for? Besides, for google trends to have any meaning, it needs to be placed relative to something. http://google.com/trends?q=slashdot%2C+fark%2C+digg%2C+reddit&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1
Are these stand alone apps or WMC plugins? I have a windows vista (I know, I know, but I've had a ton of issues getting mythbuntu to work and work well) box running the Media Browser plugin, and it's a really awesome set up. It automatically adds my new media to its library (this is a basic WMC feature), it pulls movie posters, cast information, and all relevant metadata from IMDB... it's just all in all fantastic. I'm not looking to add another standalone program to my HTPC box, but I would be fine with adding hulu TV if it was a plugin and worked without stepping on the toes of Media Browser. The hulu site says it's optimized for WMC, but seems to indicate it is a standalone program. Does anyone have experience with it?
For now. This IS ea we're talking about.
I saw some posts above citing lack of speed as a detracting factor in this game. I would like to disagree, and here's why: The passenger vehicle elements are there, and proper strategy might dictate riding a jeep back and forth from spawn point to objective (and to strategic flanking points near the objective), ferrying people much more quickly than they could ordinarily move. The massive scale of the maps coupled with the slow movement allows for a much larger tactical and strategic scope while the comedic elements and differing character abilities still allow for intense gun fights when you do get where you're going.
The game is good. In the earlier beta it had some horrific problems with the netcode/lag correction and hit detection. Aside from that, though, it is quite fun. I would say comparisons to TF2 are somewhat deserved. It is a class based FPS with objective oriented missions. The vehicles add an extra element, from jeeps which are a simple troop transport (which the passengers can shoot from) to tanks, to airplanes (which are mostly useless unless you have a joystick as they are near impossible to control), but they do function as a fast troop transport as one person can sit on each wing. Graphically, it's nothing to write home about (they're not bad, but come on, it's web based), however the level building/character customization aspects are a very interesting aspect. Each of the classes has unique abilities the ones I remember from the first beta include "I eat gernades" which allows the heavy gunner to eat gernades thrown by the enemy to heal himself, first aid "healing auras" that heal people around you. Etc. Further, the load out options add a whole lot of strategy to the game. There are various weapons from fast firing but low accuracy, to high accuracy slow, to close range high damage. Secondary weapons add even more strategy by allowing you to use gernades for anti personal, dynamite for anti-tank/booby traps. There are some comical elements such as the ammount of knock back caused by explosions, but the strategic gameplay of capture points, and the map design were all very good. Over all, I recomend at least giving this game a shot, especially considering the price. While I never went back to the beta when they reopened, I do wish I had, it was because of time that I didn't, not because of any lacking in the game's fun factor.
Clearly now is the time for even more drilling!
We shall drill right ON TOP of the supervolcano, thereby relieving the pressure artificially and averting catastrophy.
This was a triumph!
It sounds like they've made some addittions since the last distro I tried, which was at least a year back. I will have to give it a shot again (i tried to earlier but it wanted me to break apart my RAID array which isn't gonna happen).
Well, sometimes "simple" does not equate in to user-friendliness. The fact that it is a "simple pick list" is the issue. You're confronted with a list of applications, some well named, some not. Sorted by type... and not much else. If I look for a firefox add-on, to continue the comparison, I can sort by type or keyword, and get a brief description of the application click it for a detailed explanation as well as reviews and comments...
I'm not BASHING Linux, keep in mind. I would like to see it catch on, I'm just giving my advice. Sorry I can't program, or I'd build it. As it is, I'll give my opinion.