Can we write in Linus Torvalds for President instead?
Nope. Non-native born citizens can not, under any circumstances, be President. Welp, one circumstance, but I don't think that Linus is over 200 years old.
Being the first person to achieve subterranean supersonic travel: priceless.
Subterranean, as in, underground. The humorous value comes from the fact that any person foolish enough to do this would hit the ground, keep on going, and actually travel faster than the speed of sound in dirt.
And, the domain holder using NameZero is legally bound by the user agreement to not use code to break the frame himself in their NameZero control setup. That's what some people don't seem to grok and assume that if the intent was good that the domain holder would have removed the frame etc etc...
Slashdot and Taco aren't users of NameZero and they can do whatever they want with their own site. Maybe this causes conflict with business partners or the web code, but just how isn't readily apparent to me.
The domain is pointing directly at Slashdot.org. The user (NameZero actually owns the domain) cannot break out of the frames without pointing it at another site, risking the/. effect and NameZero's wrath. From a legal standpoint, there's nothing the user can do to remove the frame. He is contractually obligated not to do so. Slashdot is not.
He should get MORE email until he understands what his options are, and what few options anyone else has. The only possible solution, one that Taco doesn't seem to be taking advantage of, is to politely or forcifully ask NameZero to stop hosting the site and/or hand over the domain. The user really has no control over it.
Taco should stop attributing this banner to some form of malice, and pretending like someone is out to get Slashdot.
Me, I'm voting for Bush, since I think we all deserve a tax break [1], not just those of us who engage in whatever behavior the government wants to encourage [2]..
2 relates to your beliefs about social engineering. Whatever. That's another debate. I'd like to talk about 1. I'd like to address the idea that "we all deserve a tax break." First and foremost, none of us deserve a tax break until the debt is paid off.
It's the people's money, right? Why isn't it the people's debt? "Those naughty politicians spent all the money, it's their debt!" Shucks to that. Who elected these politicians? The people did. Whose votes did they count on while increasing spending and decreasing taxes? The people's. Who is ultimately responsible for their dispicable deeds? The people, who fell for expensive magic tricks.
If you want to argue that we're being taxed too much, I would argue that we weren't being taxed enough, and now the time has come to take responsibility. The people can afford it; they have been affording it. All we have to do is NOT increase spending or decrease taxes, yet both parties place paying down the debt behind tax cuts because it'll get them more votes.
I'm tempted to take a screenshot lest it never happens again. Though with the current bout of political coverage, it's been happening quite a bit.
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Who is he to tell anyone else what they should or shouldn't like?
The President, duly elected by the people. If you don't like what he says, don't vote for him. Some of us do, and thank you for thinking about our freedom and all, but it's an acceptable compromise in our view.
Oh, please. Whoever registered the domain name isn't getting anything from it; the frame and banner are NameZero's. If NameZero didn't require them, I'd bet that they wouldn't be there and it'd be a transparent link to the real Slashdot. There's nothing "slimey" about it.
When AT&T introduced their 1-800-OPERATOR collect-call system, MCI diverted a noticeable fraction of the income stream by activating a similar service on 1-800-OPERATER (a number they conveniently already owned).
So, they already owned it, but they didn't actually use it until the possibility arose. My question is why in the world did they own OPERATER? Were they planning to start their own ad campaign with the misspelt mnemonic? Why but for this confusion would you have it?
Please email Taco about this.. He is really confusing the intent of NameZero. They're NOT trying to make money of his domain or be slimey by cybersquatting. It wasn't even their choice to register the domain. Someone else, probably someone who frequently typed slahsdot.org, had to register it, and that person doesn't get any money whatsoever from it. There's nothing slimy about it. Frankly I'm mad at Taco for jumping to conclusions without even trying to understand what's going on.
Hell, if he was all that mad about it, he could include Javascript code to break out of the frame easily.
Running sideways is pretty god damned hard. You can do it, but you really have to practice at it without tripping over yourself or turning around in the process.
Despite that, I don't think a game like Quake needs to be realistic. In fact, I like Quake because it isn't truly realistic. Do people bitch that Tetris isn't realistic? Why should Quake be any different?
I'm a little confused by the current rash of realism-based games like SOF or CS. The "realism" seems quite arbitrary and independent of its effect on gameplay. You have a gun that takes five seconds to reload, but you conviently forget the fact that you can't really reload a gun while dodging bullets, switching weapons and running for cover. Real SWAT people spend months training for fifteen seconds of action and don't particularly find it fun.
I'm epileptic so that is probably the cause, but I can differentiate between 75hz and 85hz. 85hz looks continuous, and 70hz or below hurts my eyes and will give me a headache after extended use. 60hz REALLY hurts; if I look at it for anything more than a few seconds and I'll get a bad headache.
Florescent bulbs, too, are a problem, but rarely. Usually they come in pairs like was mentioned and don't bother me. On the other hand I can spot a bulb that's about to break a mile away (they start to flicker more rapidly). I was recently at a fair and realized for the first time that even normal store bought strobe lights are a problem (they were a part of a ride).
So, why is the common practice to quote the maximum framerate and not the minimum framerate?
Because it's nearly impossible to measure the minimum framerate in many games, we assume that a card or system that has a higher average FPS will have a higher minimum FPS in gameplay conditions. This point is debatable, but not illogical.
Why are "timedemo" tests usually lightweight compared to actual gameplay?
We can't compare actual gamplay FPS taken from different sources, so a standard demo is used to consistent basis for comparison. As above, it isn't likely to truly represent gameplay, but the contrast between two cards or systems is likely to be the same.
In a busy situation, both will likely take the same performance hit, and the one with the higher average FPS will probably still be on the top.
Ok, my bad, I assumed that the Dreamcast only works with Sony's ISP.
Like I said, you already have a computer. You already have a video card, so its cost isn't calculated into the cost of upgrading unless it's a POS (and for $450 it'd better not be). You have $500 to blow. You can either blow it on making your computer fast enough to play the latest games, or you can blow it on the latest system and the latest games. Either way you're blowing it and either way you no longer have the option of blowing it on the other.
So, it boils down to personal preference. My point is that the consoles offer little other than the games "everybody" plays. This isn't enough for me, but it seems to be for you. I like Tony Hawk and I may very well like SSX, but I'll be much happier with Tony Hawk on a used PSX with money to spare on upgrades for my computer.
Well I'll be. Doc Hollywood, which is indeed PG-13 in the US, had a topless skinny dipping scene with Julie Warner's exposed breasts. Link: Celebrity Nudity Database (kinda porn)
Seeing as how you're posting on Slashdot, there's a very high probability that you own your own computer. Also, given that you have money to spend on not only a computer but a PS2 and games, it's likely that you have a lot of disposable income.
With that disposable income and a semi-decent computer you can:
Upgrade your computer to a monster, play all of the latest games (even many console games) with a better online experience and still use the same hardware for other things.
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Buy a brand new console every year that isn't compatible with other systems and does nothing but play games. If you're lucky, it'll include a sub-standard DVD player or online play through a crappy dialup gaming ISP even though you already have a better ISP. And your computer is too slow to play PC games and in general pretty much sucks for everything but word processing and IRC.
for about the same price. Wow, that's pretty biased.:D
Now, which one you choose (or maybe you don't have to choose and have enough money for both) depends largely on how much you value your computer experience and how much you value the games everyone else is playing.
Myself, I find playing Q3 or UT on my PC is much more fun than any of the Final Fantasy or Street Fighter games, though there are a few PSX games I do like. (Driver, Chrono Cross and Tony Hawk come to mind.) Bleem! sucks donkey balls, but I'm looking to buy a used PSX.. the PS2 needs to come down a LOT and the PS2 games need to get better before I'll spend money on it.
The trojan just collected passwords and emailed them back to the attackers. The attackers then used those passwords to access Microsoft's external network for employees working offsite. They didn't "get around" the firewall, though it would be trival to do, by having the client initiate the connection.
I believe what happened was that the trojan was pre-programmed to scamper about looking for passwords, then emailed them to an account somewhere. Then the attackers could have used the passwords to log in in the same manner as regular employees for whom there was a hole in the firewall.
Frankly, I'll be surprised if they got anything more sensitive than a newer build of Whistler.
There exists a PC game controller that looks and acts exactly like the PSX (non-analog) controller. It's quite popular with the Bleem! crowd, or so I hear.
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I've used an HP48 in the past, and now use a TI calculator (I'm taking a class where TIs are required). I have to say that I really miss my RPN, and truth be told, I occaisionally get mixed up and try to use RPN on my TI. I dunno, I have less problems in Qwerty than in Dvorak. Qwerty is kinda ingrained in my brain and I rarely forget the layout, but switching to Dvorak from Qwerty is initially a little confusing.
Also, it's worth noting that there are keyboards out there that can switch back and forth between Dvorak and Qwerty on the hardware level with a switch. Whether or not you want to carry a keyboard around wherever you go is up to you.;)
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True, but you don't need a calculator and a conversion table to go type in Dvorak. An email (hah! both non-hyphenated and used as a singular noun!) typed in Dvorak is still legible to a person who doesn't know it. You don't have to convert the whole world if you want to type effficiently.
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"A lot" can't become "alot" simply because having the division serves a useful purpose. "A lot" isn't a word but two; connecting them would remove the article "a" and render any sentence gibberish.
"You have a (noun)," makes sense; "you have (noun)," does not. It would take quite a bit of grammar work to accept "alot," not mention a new form of noun that doesn't require an article. (Don't try to suggest that it become an adjective, unless you want to say "damn you've got alot RAM.")
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For me, I have all my computers set up to switch between Dvorak and Qwerty at the press of a hot key. Granted, you can't do that on every system you use, but I use my own computers the most and for others I don't mind typing in Qwerty.
And anyway, if we were to abandon Qwerty, then that's it. It'd be gone; games would have to be compatible with its replacement; and every system you used would support that replacement.
That's exactly what I was thinking when I wrote this:
If the wrapper works the way I think it does (and it probably doesn't)...
Dunno though; from what I've gleaned from the emails, it seems like the Crystal Space and the wrapper would do just that (allow non-licensed games), and that Sony doesn't have a problem with permitting at least the initial development.
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Personally, I'd recommend beta-testing IE 6, since IE not only has won the browser wars, it's clearly a better browser - and will remain so.
Did you actually say that a Microsoft product is somehow better than an Open Source product? on Slashdot? Are you crazy?
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Can we write in Linus Torvalds for President instead?
Nope. Non-native born citizens can not, under any circumstances, be President. Welp, one circumstance, but I don't think that Linus is over 200 years old.
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I saw a (Score:5, Flamebait) the other day..
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I don't think you read it right:
Being the first person to achieve subterranean supersonic travel: priceless.
Subterranean, as in, underground. The humorous value comes from the fact that any person foolish enough to do this would hit the ground, keep on going, and actually travel faster than the speed of sound in dirt.
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And, the domain holder using NameZero is legally bound by the user agreement to not use code to break the frame himself in their NameZero control setup. That's what some people don't seem to grok and assume that if the intent was good that the domain holder would have removed the frame etc etc...
/. effect and NameZero's wrath. From a legal standpoint, there's nothing the user can do to remove the frame. He is contractually obligated not to do so. Slashdot is not.
Slashdot and Taco aren't users of NameZero and they can do whatever they want with their own site. Maybe this causes conflict with business partners or the web code, but just how isn't readily apparent to me.
The domain is pointing directly at Slashdot.org. The user (NameZero actually owns the domain) cannot break out of the frames without pointing it at another site, risking the
He should get MORE email until he understands what his options are, and what few options anyone else has. The only possible solution, one that Taco doesn't seem to be taking advantage of, is to politely or forcifully ask NameZero to stop hosting the site and/or hand over the domain. The user really has no control over it.
Taco should stop attributing this banner to some form of malice, and pretending like someone is out to get Slashdot.
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Me, I'm voting for Bush, since I think we all deserve a tax break [1], not just those of us who engage in whatever behavior the government wants to encourage [2]..
2 relates to your beliefs about social engineering. Whatever. That's another debate. I'd like to talk about 1. I'd like to address the idea that "we all deserve a tax break." First and foremost, none of us deserve a tax break until the debt is paid off.
It's the people's money, right? Why isn't it the people's debt? "Those naughty politicians spent all the money, it's their debt!" Shucks to that. Who elected these politicians? The people did. Whose votes did they count on while increasing spending and decreasing taxes? The people's. Who is ultimately responsible for their dispicable deeds? The people, who fell for expensive magic tricks.
If you want to argue that we're being taxed too much, I would argue that we weren't being taxed enough, and now the time has come to take responsibility. The people can afford it; they have been affording it. All we have to do is NOT increase spending or decrease taxes, yet both parties place paying down the debt behind tax cuts because it'll get them more votes.
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Gotta love it:
(Score:5, Flamebait)
I'm tempted to take a screenshot lest it never happens again. Though with the current bout of political coverage, it's been happening quite a bit.
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Who is he to tell anyone else what they should or shouldn't like?
The President, duly elected by the people. If you don't like what he says, don't vote for him. Some of us do, and thank you for thinking about our freedom and all, but it's an acceptable compromise in our view.
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Oh, please. Whoever registered the domain name isn't getting anything from it; the frame and banner are NameZero's. If NameZero didn't require them, I'd bet that they wouldn't be there and it'd be a transparent link to the real Slashdot. There's nothing "slimey" about it.
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When AT&T introduced their 1-800-OPERATOR collect-call system, MCI diverted a noticeable fraction of the income stream by activating a similar service on 1-800-OPERATER (a number they conveniently already owned).
So, they already owned it, but they didn't actually use it until the possibility arose. My question is why in the world did they own OPERATER? Were they planning to start their own ad campaign with the misspelt mnemonic? Why but for this confusion would you have it?
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Please email Taco about this.. He is really confusing the intent of NameZero. They're NOT trying to make money of his domain or be slimey by cybersquatting. It wasn't even their choice to register the domain. Someone else, probably someone who frequently typed slahsdot.org, had to register it, and that person doesn't get any money whatsoever from it. There's nothing slimy about it. Frankly I'm mad at Taco for jumping to conclusions without even trying to understand what's going on.
Hell, if he was all that mad about it, he could include Javascript code to break out of the frame easily.
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Running sideways is pretty god damned hard. You can do it, but you really have to practice at it without tripping over yourself or turning around in the process.
Despite that, I don't think a game like Quake needs to be realistic. In fact, I like Quake because it isn't truly realistic. Do people bitch that Tetris isn't realistic? Why should Quake be any different?
I'm a little confused by the current rash of realism-based games like SOF or CS. The "realism" seems quite arbitrary and independent of its effect on gameplay. You have a gun that takes five seconds to reload, but you conviently forget the fact that you can't really reload a gun while dodging bullets, switching weapons and running for cover. Real SWAT people spend months training for fifteen seconds of action and don't particularly find it fun.
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I'm epileptic so that is probably the cause, but I can differentiate between 75hz and 85hz. 85hz looks continuous, and 70hz or below hurts my eyes and will give me a headache after extended use. 60hz REALLY hurts; if I look at it for anything more than a few seconds and I'll get a bad headache.
Florescent bulbs, too, are a problem, but rarely. Usually they come in pairs like was mentioned and don't bother me. On the other hand I can spot a bulb that's about to break a mile away (they start to flicker more rapidly). I was recently at a fair and realized for the first time that even normal store bought strobe lights are a problem (they were a part of a ride).
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So, why is the common practice to quote the maximum framerate and not the minimum framerate?
Because it's nearly impossible to measure the minimum framerate in many games, we assume that a card or system that has a higher average FPS will have a higher minimum FPS in gameplay conditions. This point is debatable, but not illogical.
Why are "timedemo" tests usually lightweight compared to actual gameplay?
We can't compare actual gamplay FPS taken from different sources, so a standard demo is used to consistent basis for comparison. As above, it isn't likely to truly represent gameplay, but the contrast between two cards or systems is likely to be the same.
In a busy situation, both will likely take the same performance hit, and the one with the higher average FPS will probably still be on the top.
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Ok, my bad, I assumed that the Dreamcast only works with Sony's ISP.
Like I said, you already have a computer. You already have a video card, so its cost isn't calculated into the cost of upgrading unless it's a POS (and for $450 it'd better not be). You have $500 to blow. You can either blow it on making your computer fast enough to play the latest games, or you can blow it on the latest system and the latest games. Either way you're blowing it and either way you no longer have the option of blowing it on the other.
So, it boils down to personal preference. My point is that the consoles offer little other than the games "everybody" plays. This isn't enough for me, but it seems to be for you. I like Tony Hawk and I may very well like SSX, but I'll be much happier with Tony Hawk on a used PSX with money to spare on upgrades for my computer.
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Well I'll be. Doc Hollywood, which is indeed PG-13 in the US, had a topless skinny dipping scene with Julie Warner's exposed breasts. Link: Celebrity Nudity Database (kinda porn)
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Seeing as how you're posting on Slashdot, there's a very high probability that you own your own computer. Also, given that you have money to spend on not only a computer but a PS2 and games, it's likely that you have a lot of disposable income.
:D
With that disposable income and a semi-decent computer you can:
Upgrade your computer to a monster, play all of the latest games (even many console games) with a better online experience and still use the same hardware for other things.
or
Buy a brand new console every year that isn't compatible with other systems and does nothing but play games. If you're lucky, it'll include a sub-standard DVD player or online play through a crappy dialup gaming ISP even though you already have a better ISP. And your computer is too slow to play PC games and in general pretty much sucks for everything but word processing and IRC.
for about the same price. Wow, that's pretty biased.
Now, which one you choose (or maybe you don't have to choose and have enough money for both) depends largely on how much you value your computer experience and how much you value the games everyone else is playing.
Myself, I find playing Q3 or UT on my PC is much more fun than any of the Final Fantasy or Street Fighter games, though there are a few PSX games I do like. (Driver, Chrono Cross and Tony Hawk come to mind.) Bleem! sucks donkey balls, but I'm looking to buy a used PSX.. the PS2 needs to come down a LOT and the PS2 games need to get better before I'll spend money on it.
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Titty shots make it into PG-13
I'm not trying to nitpick, but I've honestly never seen a "titty shot" in a PG-13 movie. It would have to be VERY brief or otherwise imperceptible.
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The trojan just collected passwords and emailed them back to the attackers. The attackers then used those passwords to access Microsoft's external network for employees working offsite. They didn't "get around" the firewall, though it would be trival to do, by having the client initiate the connection.
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I believe what happened was that the trojan was pre-programmed to scamper about looking for passwords, then emailed them to an account somewhere. Then the attackers could have used the passwords to log in in the same manner as regular employees for whom there was a hole in the firewall.
Frankly, I'll be surprised if they got anything more sensitive than a newer build of Whistler.
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There exists a PC game controller that looks and acts exactly like the PSX (non-analog) controller. It's quite popular with the Bleem! crowd, or so I hear.
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I've used an HP48 in the past, and now use a TI calculator (I'm taking a class where TIs are required). I have to say that I really miss my RPN, and truth be told, I occaisionally get mixed up and try to use RPN on my TI. I dunno, I have less problems in Qwerty than in Dvorak. Qwerty is kinda ingrained in my brain and I rarely forget the layout, but switching to Dvorak from Qwerty is initially a little confusing.
;)
Also, it's worth noting that there are keyboards out there that can switch back and forth between Dvorak and Qwerty on the hardware level with a switch. Whether or not you want to carry a keyboard around wherever you go is up to you.
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True, but you don't need a calculator and a conversion table to go type in Dvorak. An email (hah! both non-hyphenated and used as a singular noun!) typed in Dvorak is still legible to a person who doesn't know it. You don't have to convert the whole world if you want to type effficiently.
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"A lot" can't become "alot" simply because having the division serves a useful purpose. "A lot" isn't a word but two; connecting them would remove the article "a" and render any sentence gibberish.
"You have a (noun)," makes sense; "you have (noun)," does not. It would take quite a bit of grammar work to accept "alot," not mention a new form of noun that doesn't require an article. (Don't try to suggest that it become an adjective, unless you want to say "damn you've got alot RAM.")
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For me, I have all my computers set up to switch between Dvorak and Qwerty at the press of a hot key. Granted, you can't do that on every system you use, but I use my own computers the most and for others I don't mind typing in Qwerty.
And anyway, if we were to abandon Qwerty, then that's it. It'd be gone; games would have to be compatible with its replacement; and every system you used would support that replacement.
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That's exactly what I was thinking when I wrote this:
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If the wrapper works the way I think it does (and it probably doesn't)
Dunno though; from what I've gleaned from the emails, it seems like the Crystal Space and the wrapper would do just that (allow non-licensed games), and that Sony doesn't have a problem with permitting at least the initial development.
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