"Sounds a little like... I don't know... a sorceress? Except for that cute "pockets of space outside the normal flow of time". That sounds like Star Trek."
Yeah, the Wizard has awesome abilities like "enhanced tachyon field", "inverse neutrino pulse" and "transporter accident".
"On Thursday morning, a comment period will open on the various proposals on who should hold the keys and sign the root -- ICANN, Verisign, or the US government's NTIA."
ICANN: Organisation situated in the US, can be heavily influenced and controlled the US government Verisign: Private company that is only interested in profit and is situated mostly in the US thereby it can be heavily influenced and controlled the US government NTIA: US government
to strip the files of DRM they wish to retain control(or get sued heavily by angry people with useless files) of the ability of the user to play DRMed music files.
Walmart should have offered to strip any files and then stop using DRM. The users are no stuck the an uneasy status quo as well as Walmart.
The brown-eyed girl looks plain now. Not ugly, just plain. The before picture had a more expressing face.
The pictures on this page (http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer/beautification2008/) are absolutely lame. The "before" pics had people in a neutral to a tiny bit of sad face(look at the lips). The new pics simple lift the corners of the lips and tada, better results. That's not better, that's cheap. Since the days of tell-sell I have realised that the before/after contruct was purely based on non-smiling/smiling people because it's that much of a change. This algorithm fails and should not be touted as the best thing since sliced bread.
Also, it makes Woody Allen look like someone who is 90.
Well, he has a good idea. Let's remove the smallest planet from the list of planets. Ofcourse, if you try this the all but smallest planet will now be the smallest planet. That way we will remove all planets from the list of planets thus breaking the main power source of the IAU. They will be powerless to stop us and then we will add pluto to the list of planets of the new astronomical agency tapping the power of all the planets. Then we can increase the number of planets by including objects in the Kuiper Belt. These planets will also be tapped.
"we are switching over from analog to digital television transmission in february 2009. at that date, analog tv will simply disappear. if you have an older tv without a converter, it simply won't work. to get this to happen, the government and broadcasters had to sit down, make a timetable, and implement it"
There is a HUGE difference. You can stick to analog transmission as long as you(as a govt or broadcasting corp) like because the analog singnal won't run out. With ipv4 you can simply run out of available adresses. After that, you won't be able to get another ipv4 address. And NAT is a big turd so that isn't going to solve anything. Neither is big corp. ipv4 handout of addresses since it will only delay the inevitable. In 2 years the world NEEDS to be ready to accept ipv6 addresses and routing. Failing to do so will create a stagnation in the development of the internet on a massive scale.
I think it is absolutely ALARMING that people are no casual about this. Is the internet going to stop working? No, but it will stop growing. We need to be ready when the ipv4 well dries out. Don't do this and expect a LOT of problems.
lol, I play Sauerbraten but I am not a lover of metal. So I turn the sound of completely and turn on some harpsichord or organ music. It prevents be from being frustrated when I get killed a lot. Somehow I find it harmonious.
From what I have learned about Diablo III is that you decided to do away with the classic potion system. No more stacking potions and using them rapidly when your health is drained by some (tough/horde of) enemies. I can understand that you wish to abolish the "inventory obsession" that sometimes plagued D2(haven't played D1). The problem is that the potions were a reaction to rapid health loss by a player. This is all too common in a D2 because of the hordes of enemies and relative high speed of the game.
My question is: Now that you have abolished the potion system in favour of the "health(or mana) orb" system, aren't you afraid that this will affect the speed of the game? The fact that you lose a lot of health was part of the exciting rush in the game resulting in the player always being alert to any danger. Will that Diablo feel persist or will this be a real breaking point in the Diablo series?
Use SSL. Should be safe. Or maybe a SFTP to the FTP server. These questions should seriously be asked. Try to be Eve and break( tap/alter/corrupt) the connection between Alice and Bob.
"3. Have 10-50 kids (more than that and you might just be inviting mutiny)."
4. Let each of those kids have another 10-50 kids. 5. Outbreed the rest of the country eventually(or settle in Liechtenstein for quicker results) 6. Elect yourself as head of state or use your numbers to start a rebellion 7. Use your country to take over the world 8. ?????? 9. Profit (10. Realise that being paranoid pays off)
Slashdot Mirror
and a pony
"Sounds a little like... I don't know... a sorceress? Except for that cute "pockets of space outside the normal flow of time". That sounds like Star Trek."
Yeah, the Wizard has awesome abilities like "enhanced tachyon field", "inverse neutrino pulse" and "transporter accident".
"On Thursday morning, a comment period will open on the various proposals on who should hold the keys and sign the root -- ICANN, Verisign, or the US government's NTIA."
ICANN: Organisation situated in the US, can be heavily influenced and controlled the US government
Verisign: Private company that is only interested in profit and is situated mostly in the US thereby it can be heavily influenced and controlled the US government
NTIA: US government
CHOOSE: US, US, or US
American election time!
to strip the files of DRM they wish to retain control(or get sued heavily by angry people with useless files) of the ability of the user to play DRMed music files.
Walmart should have offered to strip any files and then stop using DRM. The users are no stuck the an uneasy status quo as well as Walmart.
yay for drm
The brown-eyed girl looks plain now. Not ugly, just plain. The before picture had a more expressing face.
The pictures on this page (http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer/beautification2008/) are absolutely lame. The "before" pics had people in a neutral to a tiny bit of sad face(look at the lips). The new pics simple lift the corners of the lips and tada, better results. That's not better, that's cheap. Since the days of tell-sell I have realised that the before/after contruct was purely based on non-smiling/smiling people because it's that much of a change. This algorithm fails and should not be touted as the best thing since sliced bread.
Also, it makes Woody Allen look like someone who is 90.
Well, he has a good idea. Let's remove the smallest planet from the list of planets. Ofcourse, if you try this the all but smallest planet will now be the smallest planet. That way we will remove all planets from the list of planets thus breaking the main power source of the IAU. They will be powerless to stop us and then we will add pluto to the list of planets of the new astronomical agency tapping the power of all the planets. Then we can increase the number of planets by including objects in the Kuiper Belt. These planets will also be tapped.
?????
Singularity
Keep the SD card in your underwear. They are NOT going to look for it unless they absolutely must.
"we are switching over from analog to digital television transmission in february 2009. at that date, analog tv will simply disappear. if you have an older tv without a converter, it simply won't work. to get this to happen, the government and broadcasters had to sit down, make a timetable, and implement it"
There is a HUGE difference. You can stick to analog transmission as long as you(as a govt or broadcasting corp) like because the analog singnal won't run out. With ipv4 you can simply run out of available adresses. After that, you won't be able to get another ipv4 address. And NAT is a big turd so that isn't going to solve anything. Neither is big corp. ipv4 handout of addresses since it will only delay the inevitable. In 2 years the world NEEDS to be ready to accept ipv6 addresses and routing. Failing to do so will create a stagnation in the development of the internet on a massive scale.
I think it is absolutely ALARMING that people are no casual about this. Is the internet going to stop working? No, but it will stop growing. We need to be ready when the ipv4 well dries out. Don't do this and expect a LOT of problems.
This is total lunacy!
lol, I play Sauerbraten but I am not a lover of metal. So I turn the sound of completely and turn on some harpsichord or organ music. It prevents be from being frustrated when I get killed a lot. Somehow I find it harmonious.
Boneheaded security guard:
tee? Sounds like ee.
No fly fur u.
Being a security guard, so easy even a caveman can do it.
That's easily solved by Calculus. An infinite number of additions can result in a finite number.
Example: Consider 1/3 (one third)
Written our it's 0,3333333333333....
You can turn that into a sum namely
0,3 + 0,03 + 0,003 + 0,0003 + .....
You can write that as a sum //Forgive the crappyness of plain-text // Slashdot is many years behind on this one...
Sum from n=1 to n=infinity of 3/10^n
So here it is, a infinite sum making a finite number. Glad to have busted that one.
From what I have learned about Diablo III is that you decided to do away with the classic potion system. No more stacking potions and using them rapidly when your health is drained by some (tough/horde of) enemies. I can understand that you wish to abolish the "inventory obsession" that sometimes plagued D2(haven't played D1). The problem is that the potions were a reaction to rapid health loss by a player. This is all too common in a D2 because of the hordes of enemies and relative high speed of the game.
My question is: Now that you have abolished the potion system in favour of the "health(or mana) orb" system, aren't you afraid that this will affect the speed of the game? The fact that you lose a lot of health was part of the exciting rush in the game resulting in the player always being alert to any danger. Will that Diablo feel persist or will this be a real breaking point in the Diablo series?
I want to know what the answer is to life, the (warcraft)universe and everything.
True, and I have also heard from a reliable source that a large herd of elephants stormed Wall Street being the actual guilty party to the crash.
And let him cast Dispell. Should work against any "geomagnetic reversal" buff cast on the earth.
Says the guy posting to Slashdot.
"Your source code or your life!"
I can see this being effective.
Use SSL. Should be safe. Or maybe a SFTP to the FTP server. These questions should seriously be asked. Try to be Eve and break( tap/alter/corrupt) the connection between Alice and Bob.
"3. Have 10-50 kids (more than that and you might just be inviting mutiny)."
4. Let each of those kids have another 10-50 kids.
5. Outbreed the rest of the country eventually(or settle in Liechtenstein for quicker results)
6. Elect yourself as head of state or use your numbers to start a rebellion
7. Use your country to take over the world
8. ??????
9. Profit
(10. Realise that being paranoid pays off)
Yeah, that weapon will always remain in my memory as "Weapon number 7".
**ZOMG SPOILERS**
Three shots to kill the machinegun-spider endboss.
**END SPOILERS**
"I prefer to protect my 8 year old from some of the crap that goes on in public forums."
Yeah, those libertarians here creep me out on occasions.
"Neither Microsoft nor any OEM has confirmed the rumor, and only a few scattered bloggers have picked it up."
Including Slashdot.
Because I didn't want to read the lame-ass articles related to it. Stop masking Idle as Entertainment or anything else.
I will keep posting this as long as you keep pushing Idle on us.
Fuck you
"Now that VA Linux owns Slashdot, the days of open-source community love are
numbered."
How wrong can a quote be. Thanks Google for unmasking yet another doomsday quote.