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Spy v. Spy
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This sort of protection has been supported by Intel since the 286
386. Ask anyone who tried to play a dos4gw game on their 286.
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Here is a link that lets you actually know what the exploit is. Note that you need a lot of people and a lot of time to this.
You can't simply go to www.google.com/bomb and drag a slider to move a URL up the listings. You have to actually have a concentrated effort. They talk about getting a webpage such as Geocities and getting your friends to do the same. It seems to me mass posting to bulletin boards would do the trick, unfortunately. There is even marketing software out there which posts your 'press releases' to hundreds of bulletin
boards automatically.
Please remove the Paypal requirement. I owe slashdot at least the price of a fat computer book every year. Slashdot has come so far towards making me donate (yes, a service that was cost-free to me that now wants my money in exchange for an additional service is donation as far as I'm concerened), but has this silly block at the end of it all.
Once I can get to https://secure.slashdot.org, pay with a CC, and have my account immediately upgraded, I'll pay most generously.
As a sidenote, page views?? I assume more people are going to be viewing comments flat or nested to reduce the number of clicks, unless the staff decide to make it clear viewing low level comments does not penalize the user one view. Hell, throw metamoderation on the free list. Helping the site out shouldn't subtract a paid view for the user.
Embedded devices aside, The Next Big Thing has to be lossless codecs. Consider the scenario that made MP3 flourish (at least for me): 33.6 dialup, P133 with 40 megs of ram and a 2 gig hard drive.
Yes, all my stuff is now at a higher bitrate, but my machine is twenty times as efficient in every category mentioned above. Forget more efficient lossy algorithms. I'm going to be interested in lossless compression Real Soon Now.
For us Gamecube owners who read all the reviews and previews, it's become very passe to hear the "Never thought I'd see the day" comments regarding Sega's contributions to Nintendo's newest system. I already own one Sega game for my Gamecube (Super Monkey Ball) and Sonic Adventure Battle was just released last week.
Probably not. The only justification I can think of is whether or not there are enough people out there who want what wxWindows provides, if they knew it existed.
Currently, there is only online documentation for wxWindows. In an attempt to learn the library, I read the documentation, subscribed to the mailing lists, grepped the archives and read the code. But, I was definately missing a clearly written book.
Most people probably don't even know what the plusses of wxWindows are. It might be interesting to title the book "Writing cross platform GUI apps with WxWindows". Have it be very obvious to the user that the apps look native in their environments, and that it's a very sane way of writing C++ GUI code.
That sounds like hype. In the real world, selecting the aspects of software we want to compile from on remote sites would have serious implications. The first being security. The second being quality. Linus may not scale, but he has good judgement. That's the fundamental problem.
I use Linux on the desktop at work and at home. It's my primary OS. I spent a ton of time learning and configuring Slackware when I was in highschool, but now I don't want to use anything else but a nicely configured WindowMaker desktop. Using Windows feels very much like I'm missing the most efficient tools I've ever used.
At work, I wouldn't have access to Excel or Photoshop without hassling management for licenses, either. As a programmer who deals with the web, minor needs for software that fulfills these tasks come up.
Bob Young wasn't talking about me. Let's not confuse having the best software possible with market dominance.
Dasunt, take the book out from the library, or purchase "After the Gold Rush" (ISBN 0-7356-0877-6) authored by Steve McConnell. I think it may offer you a changed perspective on software development and education.
"The final fantasy world". Final Fantasy is one of the most commercially successful separations of franchise from content. Other than Cid the Airship mechanic, only the concept stays relatively the same between games. (Note: Japanese FFs that never made it over here seem to recycle engines with no more than minor tweaks)
I've played all three systems (as well as many other consoles), and I think that the Gamecube is the best bet for the type of game I want to play.
When I want single player FPS action, I'll play games on my PC, where I have a mouse, keyboard, cable modem and an excellent 21" Sony Trinitron monitor. So far, the dark and gritty games are still done best on the PC, and this seems to be the major targets of the XBox and PS2.
Enter Gamecube, a system with games that are commonly colourful and very party oriented. If I'm going to be playing console games, I want to play them with my friends around a big TV. When I pick up my Gamecube, I'm definately grabbing Super Monkey Ball and Super Smash Bros. along with three additional controllers.
As a PC Gamer, I see the XBox and PS2 for people who don't have near top of the line PC hardware. I see the Gamecube's function as being something a bit different, and it's very attractive. I can't get that over here.
Besides, it looks like we're going to see some impressive first party titles. Is it possible not to be interested in a Zelda game on mass storage media for the first time?
I have recently got The Art of Computer Programming volumes one through three. Knuth states that the material is still digestable if the math in the book isn't entirely understood. To me, this seems like a copout: it's entirely impossible to achieve a profound understanding of the contents without the cut-and-dry formal math background.
I see the significance of understanding that which I don't already, and I want to take some night courses. Can anyone who has read through the three volumes point me in the direction of relevant math courses to take? I'm not interested in an entire computer science degree, or any degree for that matter. I'm interested in enlightenment.
I concur and want to throw Chrono Trigger into the comparison as well. There's something about every FF including 7 (which was still pretty good) that seems like a thinly veiled new age storyline. Nobuo Uematsu's music is definately best when he's futher left of Japanese pop culture aspects.
I've been thinking about this for a long time, and it's time I asked my peers at slashdot- Does anyone else feel immoral browsing the web with an Internet Explorer USER_AGENT? I'm going to state what seems obvious to me:
Company designs nice website with features that are only supported with IE.
Company realises that Netscape market share is too high to do these cool things, so they downgrade their website. Animosity is felt towards the browser not developed for (in my experience this goes both ways)
Company waits a year and a half, and ends up re-evaluating their Netscape support position based on their current USER_AGENT stats showing 95% IE clients.
Company switches webpage to use proprietary and non standard technologies, locking us alternative software people out of another website.
By this logic, which I feel is a common path for businesses to take, using Internet Explorer and letting webmasters know that you do will harm our freedom to choose our client software in the future.
I don't understand why no one else has come forward and stated that they feel this way. For this reason, I refuse to use the software except in situations where it's seriously inconvenient to do otherwise.
I don't mean to be alarmist. If the web is only accessible from IE, a project will be started to supply a proxy for other browsers which interprets the data from the web server and converts it to nice, standardized HTML. This could get kludgy, and is the worst case scenario I see.
If they charged an equal amount, (let's say $14, the average of the two costs) for both the tapes and CDs, I speculate that the cheap/thrifty people who would buy cassetes would not buy the music at all. This would cause the burden of cost to be placed solely on the CD, and there's a good chance they would have to jack it higher... or face losing some of their income.
Your entire comment, flaming conclusion and daft point can be responded to by pointing out that a movie also has a larger audience to offset the production costs.
Last time I priced CDs in quantity, they were $0.35 each. Perhaps if the record companies charged a fair price for the disks?
Attaining high production quality of a CD with something on it is much more time consuming and expensive than doing the same to the contents of a blank CD. The only way this argument could stand is if you entertain the idea that intellectual property is monetarily worthless even with regards to the assumption that people were paid to produce the contents of the CD.
This sort of snide remark is starting to really annoy me, and I consider myself progressive on the subject of intellectual property and freedoms.
I second this. Crystalis is one of the reasons I aspired to be a game programmer. I bought it on Ebay last year during one of my original Nintendo collecting binges, and it's the only 3+ hour game that I've played through so far.
I must have been in grade three when that game was new and I played it for the first time.
The programming team at Threewave idly debated doing a Crystalis type game for the gameboy advance for a while.:)
If this was bound to a key that was togglable on my keyboard, it would be nice. I could hit the key, and see where each window lies. Perhaps making the windows transparent and alt-tabbing through them while putting a red border on each one instead of having them pop up would be nice.
Whatever the case, it looks kind of hokey. I would like to see something like this where the widget graphics have alpha channels. Right now everything is one level of transparency. One step at a time, right?
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386. Ask anyone who tried to play a dos4gw game on their 286.
You can't simply go to www.google.com/bomb and drag a slider to move a URL up the listings. You have to actually have a concentrated effort. They talk about getting a webpage such as Geocities and getting your friends to do the same. It seems to me mass posting to bulletin boards would do the trick, unfortunately. There is even marketing software out there which posts your 'press releases' to hundreds of bulletin boards automatically.
Yes, and you have a slashdot account. Waiter, reality check, please.
I'm happy with my gamecube purchase (I own seven games) and I suspect that the best is yet to come.
Once I can get to https://secure.slashdot.org, pay with a CC, and have my account immediately upgraded, I'll pay most generously.
As a sidenote, page views?? I assume more people are going to be viewing comments flat or nested to reduce the number of clicks, unless the staff decide to make it clear viewing low level comments does not penalize the user one view. Hell, throw metamoderation on the free list. Helping the site out shouldn't subtract a paid view for the user.
Yes, all my stuff is now at a higher bitrate, but my machine is twenty times as efficient in every category mentioned above. Forget more efficient lossy algorithms. I'm going to be interested in lossless compression Real Soon Now.
When mario grabs a mushroom and turns into sonic, then I'll drop my jaw once more.
Hell's been frozen for months.
Probably not. The only justification I can think of is whether or not there are enough people out there who want what wxWindows provides, if they knew it existed.
Most people probably don't even know what the plusses of wxWindows are. It might be interesting to title the book "Writing cross platform GUI apps with WxWindows". Have it be very obvious to the user that the apps look native in their environments, and that it's a very sane way of writing C++ GUI code.
Oh yeah, the URL is here
That sounds like hype. In the real world, selecting the aspects of software we want to compile from on remote sites would have serious implications. The first being security. The second being quality. Linus may not scale, but he has good judgement. That's the fundamental problem.
At work, I wouldn't have access to Excel or Photoshop without hassling management for licenses, either. As a programmer who deals with the web, minor needs for software that fulfills these tasks come up.
Bob Young wasn't talking about me. Let's not confuse having the best software possible with market dominance.
Dasunt, take the book out from the library, or purchase "After the Gold Rush" (ISBN 0-7356-0877-6) authored by Steve McConnell. I think it may offer you a changed perspective on software development and education.
Is it just me, or should they work on rectifying the oval gear problem next?
"The final fantasy world". Final Fantasy is one of the most commercially successful separations of franchise from content. Other than Cid the Airship mechanic, only the concept stays relatively the same between games. (Note: Japanese FFs that never made it over here seem to recycle engines with no more than minor tweaks)
When I want single player FPS action, I'll play games on my PC, where I have a mouse, keyboard, cable modem and an excellent 21" Sony Trinitron monitor. So far, the dark and gritty games are still done best on the PC, and this seems to be the major targets of the XBox and PS2.
Enter Gamecube, a system with games that are commonly colourful and very party oriented. If I'm going to be playing console games, I want to play them with my friends around a big TV. When I pick up my Gamecube, I'm definately grabbing Super Monkey Ball and Super Smash Bros. along with three additional controllers.
As a PC Gamer, I see the XBox and PS2 for people who don't have near top of the line PC hardware. I see the Gamecube's function as being something a bit different, and it's very attractive. I can't get that over here.
Besides, it looks like we're going to see some impressive first party titles. Is it possible not to be interested in a Zelda game on mass storage media for the first time?
I see the significance of understanding that which I don't already, and I want to take some night courses. Can anyone who has read through the three volumes point me in the direction of relevant math courses to take? I'm not interested in an entire computer science degree, or any degree for that matter. I'm interested in enlightenment.
Final Fantasy 2 is my favourite to date.
By this logic, which I feel is a common path for businesses to take, using Internet Explorer and letting webmasters know that you do will harm our freedom to choose our client software in the future.
I don't understand why no one else has come forward and stated that they feel this way. For this reason, I refuse to use the software except in situations where it's seriously inconvenient to do otherwise.
I don't mean to be alarmist. If the web is only accessible from IE, a project will be started to supply a proxy for other browsers which interprets the data from the web server and converts it to nice, standardized HTML. This could get kludgy, and is the worst case scenario I see.
Like mine? :)
If they charged an equal amount, (let's say $14, the average of the two costs) for both the tapes and CDs, I speculate that the cheap/thrifty people who would buy cassetes would not buy the music at all. This would cause the burden of cost to be placed solely on the CD, and there's a good chance they would have to jack it higher... or face losing some of their income.
Your entire comment, flaming conclusion and daft point can be responded to by pointing out that a movie also has a larger audience to offset the production costs.
Attaining high production quality of a CD with something on it is much more time consuming and expensive than doing the same to the contents of a blank CD. The only way this argument could stand is if you entertain the idea that intellectual property is monetarily worthless even with regards to the assumption that people were paid to produce the contents of the CD.
This sort of snide remark is starting to really annoy me, and I consider myself progressive on the subject of intellectual property and freedoms.
I must have been in grade three when that game was new and I played it for the first time.
The programming team at Threewave idly debated doing a Crystalis type game for the gameboy advance for a while. :)
If this was bound to a key that was togglable on my keyboard, it would be nice. I could hit the key, and see where each window lies. Perhaps making the windows transparent and alt-tabbing through them while putting a red border on each one instead of having them pop up would be nice.
Whatever the case, it looks kind of hokey. I would like to see something like this where the widget graphics have alpha channels. Right now everything is one level of transparency. One step at a time, right?