MS did lots of bad stuff but I don't blame MS for Netscape's fate.
Netscape sucked. Navigator 3 was better than IE3 and maybe IE4 (and still crappy - rendering a large Slashdot page took ages). Netscape lost more ground from Nav 4 onwards. It took years before Mozilla was usable. Navigator 6 and its followups were bad jokes.
Netscape tried to get money from selling servers. Apache and other FOSS stuff killed them there.
I'd rather they create a tag to help ensure that stuff is off between the enclosing tags. This will help a lot for security.
The way HTML is currently is like a car with hundreds of "Go" buttons, but not a single "Stop" button. To stop, you have to make sure all the "Go" buttons are not pressed. Worse, once you figured out how to disable/escape all the "Go" buttons, the W3C or some browser maker creates a new bunch of "Go" tags...
Example of how the tag could work:
<guard sig="randomhardtoguessstringhere" allowonly="safehtml"> all active stuff disabled here, only "safehtml" - a subset of HTML allowed. </guard sig="hacker's failed attempt to break out"> active stuff still disabled here </guard sig="randomhardtoguessstringhere"> active stuff re-enabled.
This sort of thing is helpful for sites that need to display 3rd party content (for example webmail). While they still should disable all the "Go" tags, this allows them to add a second layer of protection in case something slips through.
It also helps if in the future there is HTML7 and there's a new unsafe tag or feature introduced that they and their escaping libs are unaware of.
Dude. You miss the point totally. Please try to read and understand first.
Just buying all campaigns doesn't mean you get all the skills _unlocked_. YOU CANNOT UNLOCKED SKILLS!
You would still need to _grind_ to get the skills and items unlocked.
Yes, you don't mind an HOUR of grinding using a less desirable skill bar in less desirable battle (you might not want to play Jade Quarry) to unlock some skills. You are clearly NOT the sort of player I'm talking about.
Go try telling a counterstrike player that he has to waste 1 hour in a cybercafe with an MP5 doing "escort the VIP" just to unlock the weapons he needs before he can get down to serious playing against other players in dust2.
You don't get it. They want to fight other players. Not fight the frigging game.
Worse - a PvP player might want to switch to different skill bars or classes too. So that means extra hours grinding. What works for Aspenwood can be rather different from Jade Quarry, and very different from Team Arena, HA.
Don't forget you might also need to heroes for a particular team build. Whoopee more hours of "enjoyable Jade Quarry Play", when you actually wanted to play Hero Battles.
While that is perfectly fine for the PvE player mentality (hours = insignificant - they grind months for stuff all the time). It just doesn't work for someone like the OP, who plays left4dead etc.
"In addition, that 85% efficiency unit may only reach that percentage when it is at a 50% power load. When the unit is at 25 or 75% power loads, it may only have a 70% or lower level of efficiency. "
Yes the newer power supplies can be 80% efficient for a wider load range, but if you know how much wattage you need, just go about double and that's good enough - then you can buy the cheaper and still efficient (for that load) power supplies.
I play Guild Wars. In Guild Wars (GW), human skill (and ping) does make a big difference, not so much how long you've played.
The trouble is with GW, if you want access to all the game skills and items unlocked for PvP _immediately_, you have to pay:
USD10 for PvP item unlock pack (this unlocks all item mods so you can make any item you want for your PvP characters that you can create and delete on demand). USD10 for Core Skill unlock pack - this unlocks all the skills common to all campaigns. USD10 for Prophecies campaign skill unlock pack - this unlocks the prophecies specific skills - some which can be rather useful... USD10 for Factions campaign skill unlock pack - same as above but for Factions USD10 for Nightfall campaign skills USD10 for Eye of the North skills.
So that's a total of USD60, on top of the USD20 for just a PVP only account.
Now of course you could pay USD20, get a limited bunch of skills and then grind your way by winning battles and thus get faction to gradually unlock the stuff you want), but I think most PvP-only players won't like that sort of bullshit (would you?).
As it is, while GW could have been a more "player skill counts" game, it won't really attract the sort of players who play counterstrike, left4dead, starcraft, etc. Those sort people don't mind "grinding" _5_ minutes to unlock all stuff, but anything much more, they play a different game.
A non-technical user wouldn't even read (or see?) "Install Applications" much less understand what it means, unless someone or something told them to click on the necessary stuff.
In my experience most of them want to write down step by step what they are to do, so that they can mindlessly do the same thing again. They don't want to take the trouble/effort of _understanding_ what they are doing.
A: "That's cool, I'll give him his ticket. What's he look like?" B: Sends photo/video of Ken. B: That's Ken.
In the future you might only have to "think" to send the message. Almost like telepathy. You might even have artificial "photographic memory", so you can recall and send.
Of course the folks in the RIAA, MPAA and Big Media would probably want DRM installed, and that would not be so good.
The tech will be here soon. I hope the laws get better.
The next time the terrorists want a plane, they'll just charter one.
Music artists, movie stars etc don't seem to have any trouble getting all sorts of stuff into their hired planes.
Once you have a plane (with or without a "payload"), it isn't that difficult to take out multiple other planes in an airport.
All of this security theater is for show. To make people feel safer. Not to make them safer.
Nowadays if you try a 9/11 hijack, the odds of the passengers and flight crew taking out the terrorists are higher. Previously nobody bothered to risk their lives to do that since the unwritten rule was if everyone stays in their seats, nobody gets hurt. By breaking that rule, the 9/11 terrorists have "ruined the market" for other hijackers.
Making people feel safer (they're already fairly safe on planes anyway) can have positive economic benefits. However I'm not sure if the current methods are worth it.
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Big mountain? But Nauru's only 21 square km (less than the area of a 5 km x 5 km square).
http://www.sprol.com/2005/08/nauru/
"There were pensioners who invested in Netscape."
MS did lots of bad stuff but I don't blame MS for Netscape's fate.
Netscape sucked. Navigator 3 was better than IE3 and maybe IE4 (and still crappy - rendering a large Slashdot page took ages). Netscape lost more ground from Nav 4 onwards. It took years before Mozilla was usable. Navigator 6 and its followups were bad jokes.
Netscape tried to get money from selling servers. Apache and other FOSS stuff killed them there.
"If there weren't elite skills that are difficult to capture then there would be nothing beyond PvP"
Nothing beyond PvP? PvP is what the PvP players care about.
"Elite Skills that are difficult to capture" is for the PvE people.
As for extra few bucks. It's not a few bucks.
Stop exposing yourself to so much meth and you might read better :).
I'd rather they create a tag to help ensure that stuff is off between the enclosing tags. This will help a lot for security.
The way HTML is currently is like a car with hundreds of "Go" buttons, but not a single "Stop" button. To stop, you have to make sure all the "Go" buttons are not pressed. Worse, once you figured out how to disable/escape all the "Go" buttons, the W3C or some browser maker creates a new bunch of "Go" tags...
Example of how the tag could work:
<guard sig="randomhardtoguessstringhere" allowonly="safehtml">
all active stuff disabled here, only "safehtml" - a subset of HTML allowed.
</guard sig="hacker's failed attempt to break out">
active stuff still disabled here
</guard sig="randomhardtoguessstringhere">
active stuff re-enabled.
This sort of thing is helpful for sites that need to display 3rd party content (for example webmail). While they still should disable all the "Go" tags, this allows them to add a second layer of protection in case something slips through.
It also helps if in the future there is HTML7 and there's a new unsafe tag or feature introduced that they and their escaping libs are unaware of.
> minimum capitol investment
So who do you have to bribe to make a minimum Capitol investment and how much?
Casting Harrison Ford in Indy is fine.
Having Indy's son swing from tree to tree like "Tarzan boy" in what's supposed to be an Indiana Jone's chase scene is NOT fine.
I had already set my expectations low and my suspension of disbelief high, but when that scene happened, that was a major FAIL in so many ways.
There are numerous Indy-style chase scenes possible, just a little imagination and CGI will do wonders. But they threw in a Gratuitous Tarzan.
Maybe they should have had Gratuitous Tarzan jumping the shark as part of the chase.
Probably more like the lounge. Where the couch is.
Where in the "classical western scenario" the male ends up, after offending the female.
But he's allegedly a slashdotter.
:) ).
Why doesn't he want another computer too?
Especially when he thinks there's a high chance she won't want it soon (which makes it easier for him to take it off her hands
Or retask the computer (and optionally sell the video card).
Most slashdotters are just looking for enough excuses to get another computer...
If it's really a passing phase he can end up with:
one laptop, one desktop, one "swiss army knife" computer/server. What's the problem then?
So seriously, just get her another PC. It's cheaper and more useful to a geek than a diamond ring.
There'll probably be far more expensive stuff to deal with later on in marriage. So it's not a good sign to me.
Yeah, I prefer the higher precision way. The "classical" way is silly.
Agh... I meant you cannot _use_ unlocked skills. Even though you have bought all the campaigns, the skills are there, but you need to unlock them.
Doh.
Dude. You miss the point totally. Please try to read and understand first.
Just buying all campaigns doesn't mean you get all the skills _unlocked_. YOU CANNOT UNLOCKED SKILLS!
You would still need to _grind_ to get the skills and items unlocked.
Yes, you don't mind an HOUR of grinding using a less desirable skill bar in less desirable battle (you might not want to play Jade Quarry) to unlock some skills. You are clearly NOT the sort of player I'm talking about.
Go try telling a counterstrike player that he has to waste 1 hour in a cybercafe with an MP5 doing "escort the VIP" just to unlock the weapons he needs before he can get down to serious playing against other players in dust2.
You don't get it. They want to fight other players. Not fight the frigging game.
Worse - a PvP player might want to switch to different skill bars or classes too. So that means extra hours grinding. What works for Aspenwood can be rather different from Jade Quarry, and very different from Team Arena, HA.
Don't forget you might also need to heroes for a particular team build. Whoopee more hours of "enjoyable Jade Quarry Play", when you actually wanted to play Hero Battles.
While that is perfectly fine for the PvE player mentality (hours = insignificant - they grind months for stuff all the time). It just doesn't work for someone like the OP, who plays left4dead etc.
How about the graphics card though?
Can and do both game instances use the same textures? Does everything fit fine on the card?
If no, and the card runs out of resources the FPS will drop badly.
In general a 1000W power supply running at 10-15% load won't be very efficient.
They're only efficient at a certain operating load range[1].
So yes buy quality, but that does NOT mean buy higher rating.
My Gaming PC only uses about 150-200W. I got a 500W supply and that's probably overkill already.
[1] http://compreviews.about.com/od/cases/a/PSUEfficiency.htm
"In addition, that 85% efficiency unit may only reach that percentage when it is at a 50% power load. When the unit is at 25 or 75% power loads, it may only have a 70% or lower level of efficiency. "
Yes the newer power supplies can be 80% efficient for a wider load range, but if you know how much wattage you need, just go about double and that's good enough - then you can buy the cheaper and still efficient (for that load) power supplies.
Normal people do actually notice Vista vs XP vs OSX vs "Linux".
They hardly ever notice or care about Award vs AMI vs Phoenix vs IBM etc.
And that's what I mean.
I play Guild Wars. In Guild Wars (GW), human skill (and ping) does make a big difference, not so much how long you've played.
The trouble is with GW, if you want access to all the game skills and items unlocked for PvP _immediately_, you have to pay:
USD10 for PvP item unlock pack (this unlocks all item mods so you can make any item you want for your PvP characters that you can create and delete on demand).
USD10 for Core Skill unlock pack - this unlocks all the skills common to all campaigns.
USD10 for Prophecies campaign skill unlock pack - this unlocks the prophecies specific skills - some which can be rather useful...
USD10 for Factions campaign skill unlock pack - same as above but for Factions
USD10 for Nightfall campaign skills
USD10 for Eye of the North skills.
So that's a total of USD60, on top of the USD20 for just a PVP only account.
Now of course you could pay USD20, get a limited bunch of skills and then grind your way by winning battles and thus get faction to gradually unlock the stuff you want), but I think most PvP-only players won't like that sort of bullshit (would you?).
As it is, while GW could have been a more "player skill counts" game, it won't really attract the sort of players who play counterstrike, left4dead, starcraft, etc. Those sort people don't mind "grinding" _5_ minutes to unlock all stuff, but anything much more, they play a different game.
A non-technical user wouldn't even read (or see?) "Install Applications" much less understand what it means, unless someone or something told them to click on the necessary stuff.
In my experience most of them want to write down step by step what they are to do, so that they can mindlessly do the same thing again. They don't want to take the trouble/effort of _understanding_ what they are doing.
If someone produces a practical Windows XP compatible O/S, then Microsoft might end up like a BIOS vendor.
Just like Phoenix BIOS vs IBM PC BIOS.
Then Microsoft will lose it's hold over the market, and people might just concentrate more on what runs on top.
Most of us here would already have a PC. That's a sunk cost.
So the options are:
a) Buy a game console for game console games
b) add a video card for 0.5 to 1x the price to be able to play PC games.
As you can see, it boils down to whether you prefer console games or PC games.
Maybe he's got Duke Nukem Forever and its sequel as well!
Ah, but is it possible to run java without javascript enabled?
A: "That's cool, I'll give him his ticket. What's he look like?"
B: Sends photo/video of Ken.
B: That's Ken.
In the future you might only have to "think" to send the message. Almost like telepathy. You might even have artificial "photographic memory", so you can recall and send.
Of course the folks in the RIAA, MPAA and Big Media would probably want DRM installed, and that would not be so good.
The tech will be here soon. I hope the laws get better.
The next time the terrorists want a plane, they'll just charter one.
Music artists, movie stars etc don't seem to have any trouble getting all sorts of stuff into their hired planes.
Once you have a plane (with or without a "payload"), it isn't that difficult to take out multiple other planes in an airport.
All of this security theater is for show. To make people feel safer. Not to make them safer.
Nowadays if you try a 9/11 hijack, the odds of the passengers and flight crew taking out the terrorists are higher. Previously nobody bothered to risk their lives to do that since the unwritten rule was if everyone stays in their seats, nobody gets hurt. By breaking that rule, the 9/11 terrorists have "ruined the market" for other hijackers.
Making people feel safer (they're already fairly safe on planes anyway) can have positive economic benefits. However I'm not sure if the current methods are worth it.
But in many countries, if they catch you recording you'll still get in trouble.
So for the same reason they might not allow you to use your aux brain to record stuff.