Sorry, no. Wifi's wavelength is much longer than any lightbulb. Something like 12cm for the most commonly-used band, as compared to 400 to 700 nm for visible light. That's a few hundred thousand times longer.
MPG would be 25% higher if it wasn't for the emissions controls that have been introduced between the 70s and today. We make our engines less efficient at converting energy in order to control what comes out of the tailpipe, and then we try to make them more efficient again -- be glad we've managed to go nowhere.:)
1) Yeah, it's fairly linear, but FF7 actually had a respectable number of sidequests and easter eggs. Did you get Vincent? Did you know that you don't get a certain scene with Lucrezia unless you take the submarine through a hidden passage and have Vincent in your party? Did you do the Godo quest? Beat the WEAPONs? Beat the snot out of Battle Square? No?
2) You can make bad decisions all you want -- the game just won't let you continue, because the characters won't make those decisions. This is a matter of the game designer's vision (and a contentious one), and I support Square on it.
3) There are only a few really long animations. The average attack took under two seconds. The average limit break took under ten. Only the Really Big Guns were annoyingly long.
4) Only the graphics were better? Heh. The graphics in VII were worse than any of IV-VI. Chunky to the max. Only in VIII did they even start to get the hang of the 3D thing. That wasn't what made it worthwhile. Must have been something else. Like, say, characters, or gameplay.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. My personal feelings are something like:
Great: VI, VII, X. Good: I, III, XII Not so good: VIII, IX.* Didn't play (yet): II, IV, V. Don't count: XI, FF:T(A), FF:CC, FFMQ, etc.
And I wouldn't really be opposed to VI or VII getting the III-DS treatment (keeping essentially the same game, but updating the technology and the production values to modern standards). Why? Because they had strong storylines and wonderful casts of characters, and updated scripts, updated translations, voice-acting and expressive graphics would only let those things shine through all the better.
* IX had loads of charm, but the gameplay really frustrated me. VIII, on the other hand, fell so flat on the storyline, but I liked the strategerie of drawing and junctioning magic, Mag-RF and Item-RF abilities, and the like, and it kept me playing.
It doesn't say that because it doesn't mean that. What a surprise. Polygons have a perimeter, but circles have circumference. Closely related, but different. Integers are composite or prime, but polynomials are reducible or irreducible. To say that a polynomial is prime is as accurate as saying that golfers carry baseball bats -- they're sticks that you swing to hit balls, right?
Because it lets you say "always source-route via this machine in my office, which knows how to find my laptop whether it's in Estonia or Elbonia, and will make sure that the packets get where they need to". The alternatives include tunnelling/VPNs (unnecessarily complicated, relatively speaking, and against the spirit of v6), and making every laptop in the world a BGP peer (impractical to say the least).
Most people... you have no clue. Most people could get to work on a bike in about two hours... assuming they're fit enough to bike for two hours, anyway. And public transport? What public transport?:)
Not half as useful as one using IAX would be, because it doesn't pull all of the stupid useless shenanigans that SIP does, and is therefore firewall-friendly.:)
For example, there were a number of bugs that required the attacker to be able to supply their own code. If the attacker can supply their own code, they can just call popen() or system() and dispense with all the hoopla required to compermise the worker and inject shellcode. Well actually... no.
PHP enjoys overwhelming popularity in shared-hosting environments, where you put a lot of users on one server, and the users supply the code, but you don't really trust the users. You don't want them to compromise other users' reliability, or break your server, or do anything very interesting... but you still have to let them run their code because that's what the service is. So PHP comes with all sorts of features to facilitate this... "safe mode" and the like. But if there are security issues all through PHP that poke holes in this security model, then you find yourself in a microsoft-esque situation where the security isn't real at all, and you're screwed. Not so pleasant.
Yabbut, it's a tipping point kind of thing. Nobody uses something else because nobody else uses something else. It's like a logistic curve. We've been in the left tail for almost a decade. Now we see modest growth -- just a few percent. But if MS really is slipping, if they don't do something new to improve their situation (and Vista clearly doesn't count) then that's the sign that we're about to be in for the "accelerating growth" phase. Are we ready for that? Well, no. Who ever is?;)
Unix has no "insert in the beginning" or "insert in the middle" operations on files. Nor "remove from the beginning" or "remove from the middle". You can write to the end, you can overwrite any data that's in the middle, or you can truncate. That's about it. Anything else requires you to read-modify-write, either through memory or through a temporary file.
Well, only since Core. Before that you had Socket 3 (486), Socket 4 (Pentium), Socket 5 (Pentium), Socket 7 (Pentium), Slot 1 (Pentium II/III), Socket 370 (Pentium III), Socket 423, 478, and 479 (Pentium 4 and M and Core), and now LGA775 (Pentium 4 and D and Core 2).
In a comparable timespan, AMD used Socket 3, 4, 5, 7 (along with Intel), Socket A, Socket 754, Socket 939, AM2, and AM3. Pretty comparable overall. So the real question is, does the recent lack of change on Intel's part show a specific intent to stick with a socket, or is it just "we're improving our internals and we don't need to play with the interface right now" ?
I think the answer is a lot simpler than that anyway. Don't forget, black holes create a huge gravitational potential gradient. If you have a big enough one, it will heat up an awful lot of stuff that's trying to spiral in and cause it to give off all sorts of interesting radiation. And if it's been around for billions of years in a (relatively) dense piece of space, I don't think it's unreasonable that that energy could have bled off and affected a huge area.
It's more "usually works" than "works well". They still have issues with audio sync and audio-related hangs, they still only support the obsolescent i386 platform, and they still don't act like the providers of a supposedly "universal" app/content format. I don't have much love for Java, but at least Sun knows what they're doing when it comes to releasing the thing, for a reasonable cross-section of platforms, and without leaving some of them without releases for 3 years.
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Sorry, no. Wifi's wavelength is much longer than any lightbulb. Something like 12cm for the most commonly-used band, as compared to 400 to 700 nm for visible light. That's a few hundred thousand times longer.
Or the entire Opera browser, which has a preference (enabled by default) that disallows scripts from handling right-click events.
MPG would be 25% higher if it wasn't for the emissions controls that have been introduced between the 70s and today. We make our engines less efficient at converting energy in order to control what comes out of the tailpipe, and then we try to make them more efficient again -- be glad we've managed to go nowhere. :)
1) Yeah, it's fairly linear, but FF7 actually had a respectable number of sidequests and easter eggs. Did you get Vincent? Did you know that you don't get a certain scene with Lucrezia unless you take the submarine through a hidden passage and have Vincent in your party? Did you do the Godo quest? Beat the WEAPONs? Beat the snot out of Battle Square? No?
2) You can make bad decisions all you want -- the game just won't let you continue, because the characters won't make those decisions. This is a matter of the game designer's vision (and a contentious one), and I support Square on it.
3) There are only a few really long animations. The average attack took under two seconds. The average limit break took under ten. Only the Really Big Guns were annoyingly long.
4) Only the graphics were better? Heh. The graphics in VII were worse than any of IV-VI. Chunky to the max. Only in VIII did they even start to get the hang of the 3D thing. That wasn't what made it worthwhile. Must have been something else. Like, say, characters, or gameplay.
Actually I suspect that most people who care about RPGs not only have heard of Baldur's Gate, but can actually spell it.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. My personal feelings are something like:
Great: VI, VII, X.
Good: I, III, XII
Not so good: VIII, IX.*
Didn't play (yet): II, IV, V.
Don't count: XI, FF:T(A), FF:CC, FFMQ, etc.
And I wouldn't really be opposed to VI or VII getting the III-DS treatment (keeping essentially the same game, but updating the technology and the production values to modern standards). Why? Because they had strong storylines and wonderful casts of characters, and updated scripts, updated translations, voice-acting and expressive graphics would only let those things shine through all the better.
* IX had loads of charm, but the gameplay really frustrated me. VIII, on the other hand, fell so flat on the storyline, but I liked the strategerie of drawing and junctioning magic, Mag-RF and Item-RF abilities, and the like, and it kept me playing.
You are required to accept the nomination, you know. You can't blame adminship solely on all the jerks who voted you in ;)
It doesn't say that because it doesn't mean that. What a surprise. Polygons have a perimeter, but circles have circumference. Closely related, but different. Integers are composite or prime, but polynomials are reducible or irreducible. To say that a polynomial is prime is as accurate as saying that golfers carry baseball bats -- they're sticks that you swing to hit balls, right?
Forget Kazaa/FastTrack. Those guys created SkyRoads. Way more important. And fun.
s/source-route/route/; -- similar sort of concept but it's not really the appropriate term.
Because it lets you say "always source-route via this machine in my office, which knows how to find my laptop whether it's in Estonia or Elbonia, and will make sure that the packets get where they need to". The alternatives include tunnelling/VPNs (unnecessarily complicated, relatively speaking, and against the spirit of v6), and making every laptop in the world a BGP peer (impractical to say the least).
Beautiful graphics and addictive gameplay are usually considered sufficient.
Most people... you have no clue. Most people could get to work on a bike in about two hours... assuming they're fit enough to bike for two hours, anyway. And public transport? What public transport? :)
But Inner and Outer Qwghlm are there.
Not half as useful as one using IAX would be, because it doesn't pull all of the stupid useless shenanigans that SIP does, and is therefore firewall-friendly. :)
PHP enjoys overwhelming popularity in shared-hosting environments, where you put a lot of users on one server, and the users supply the code, but you don't really trust the users. You don't want them to compromise other users' reliability, or break your server, or do anything very interesting... but you still have to let them run their code because that's what the service is. So PHP comes with all sorts of features to facilitate this... "safe mode" and the like. But if there are security issues all through PHP that poke holes in this security model, then you find yourself in a microsoft-esque situation where the security isn't real at all, and you're screwed. Not so pleasant.
Yabbut, it's a tipping point kind of thing. Nobody uses something else because nobody else uses something else. It's like a logistic curve. We've been in the left tail for almost a decade. Now we see modest growth -- just a few percent. But if MS really is slipping, if they don't do something new to improve their situation (and Vista clearly doesn't count) then that's the sign that we're about to be in for the "accelerating growth" phase. Are we ready for that? Well, no. Who ever is? ;)
no, 2^32 is 34. Didn't they teach you math? :)
Unix has no "insert in the beginning" or "insert in the middle" operations on files. Nor "remove from the beginning" or "remove from the middle". You can write to the end, you can overwrite any data that's in the middle, or you can truncate. That's about it. Anything else requires you to read-modify-write, either through memory or through a temporary file.
It doesn't make it appear that way if you stop insisting that it does. See? Problem solved. :)
Well, only since Core. Before that you had Socket 3 (486), Socket 4 (Pentium), Socket 5 (Pentium), Socket 7 (Pentium), Slot 1 (Pentium II/III), Socket 370 (Pentium III), Socket 423, 478, and 479 (Pentium 4 and M and Core), and now LGA775 (Pentium 4 and D and Core 2).
In a comparable timespan, AMD used Socket 3, 4, 5, 7 (along with Intel), Socket A, Socket 754, Socket 939, AM2, and AM3. Pretty comparable overall. So the real question is, does the recent lack of change on Intel's part show a specific intent to stick with a socket, or is it just "we're improving our internals and we don't need to play with the interface right now" ?
You've managed to misspell the name of your own laptop.
I think the answer is a lot simpler than that anyway. Don't forget, black holes create a huge gravitational potential gradient. If you have a big enough one, it will heat up an awful lot of stuff that's trying to spiral in and cause it to give off all sorts of interesting radiation. And if it's been around for billions of years in a (relatively) dense piece of space, I don't think it's unreasonable that that energy could have bled off and affected a huge area.
It's more "usually works" than "works well". They still have issues with audio sync and audio-related hangs, they still only support the obsolescent i386 platform, and they still don't act like the providers of a supposedly "universal" app/content format. I don't have much love for Java, but at least Sun knows what they're doing when it comes to releasing the thing, for a reasonable cross-section of platforms, and without leaving some of them without releases for 3 years.