This explains why we get a lot of laptops broadcasting our AP names on campus. What makes it annoying is that XP defaults to connect to the first available network it finds with the name you have given it. You can check off a box that says something to the effect of "ignore ad-hoc networks" but how many users do you know that would have any idea that is the reason their wireless card "isn't working"?
It won't be one group, as in guild, taking over the world. You will be able to align yourself with two factions that are at war with each other and do missions to further that factions goal -- eliminating the other faction. I imagine it will take a coordinated effort among many, many, guilds to conquer the world. Even if they do, ArenaNet will reset the "world" after a specific amount of time.
For example, in the current chapter, guilds, or even pick up groups, can fight in a certain arena against other groups from around the world. If a region (America, Asia, and Europe) wins 5 battles in a row it unlocks extra missions and such for that nation until another nation wrests the title from the current winning nation. It is constantly going back and forth. I imagine the new factions thing will be similar.
As for the mention of FPS style game play in the article, I would like to know where. I read this article earlier in the week and didn't see any mention of it. The supply lines control mentioned sounds more like Domination from UT2k4 but played like a regular game of Guild Wars -- 3rd person oblique.
I look forward to the next chapter even though I still haven't completed the story line with my main character. Only one mission left to beat and classes started back before I could do so. Hopefully I will find time during the semester to beat it.
This is a legitimate question I have. Why not support a system like Apple introduced with their kernel in OS 10.4? When it comes to operating systems, I am just a user. I don't hack on them. So, I could be missing something in the whole "the drivers must be open source so that they can be included in the kernel and updated along with it" thing. I would like a clear explanation why doing things the current way is better than implementing a new system that supports binary drivers in a clean way.
"With Tiger, Apple is finally ready to put some kernel interface stakes in the ground. For the first time, there are stable, officially supported kernel programming interfaces (KPIs). Even better, there's an interface versioning mechanism and migration policy in place that will ensure that the pre-Tiger situation never happens again.
From Tiger forward, kernel extensions will link against KPIs, rather than directly against the kernel. The KPIs have been broken down into smaller modules, so kexts can link against only the interfaces that they actually need to use.
Each KPI has a well-defined life cycle made up of the following stages.
* Supported - The KPI is source and binary compatible from release to release.
* Deprecated - The interface may be removed in the following major release. Compiler warnings are generated on use.
* Obsolete - It's no longer possible to build new kernel extensions using this KPI, but binary compatibility for existing kexts that use this KPI is still assured.
* Unsupported - Kexts using this KPI will no longer work, period.
The most significant part of this new system is that the kernel itself can and will change behind the scenes. KPIs will descend towards the "unsupported" end of the life cycle only as kernel changes absolutely demand.
Best of all, multiple versions of a KPI can coexist on the same system. This allows a KPI to move forward with new abilities and a changed interface without breaking kernel extensions that link to the older version of the KPI. The expectation is that the kernel can undergo a heck of a lot of changes while still supporting all of the KPIs."
Yes. I can't believe no one mentioned this game. Playing AvP as a marine, with the lights off at night, is the scariest experience I have ever had playing a video game.
Why do students accept it? Because their teachers have forced them to use it. If they don't use it they don't get grades.
Personally, I loathe the product. I have had to do tech support for WebCT, the old POS and the new Vista POS, and use it in classes at CSU. Every semester, the majority of our tech support calls are about WebCT. In fact, I recently ran a report on our ticketing system for WebCT problems and the report came out to be around 20 printed page. That was for the time period between the start of classes on August 22 and mid September. No, most of that space was not taken up by troubleshooting logs. I did include the initial trouble request but those generally take up a quarter of a line at the most; the rest of the information was date, time, and names.
Why the hell would you want to view ads? Especially when you are trying to read something. Do you not find it distracting to have some big flashing rectangle in the middle of the text you are actually interested in reading?
If a popup blocker is preventing you from using a site then the site is broken. Yes, that is right, the web site has broken a fundamental aspect of web site navigation and should therefore be shunned.
This post gets +5,000,000 points to flame (either the "story" or this actual post. You pick).
It seems that the shoulder buttons on the micro act as X and Y; at least in SMW. I am disappointed in that as well, but I really never used the shoulder buttons on the SNES pad much any way.
I have never really liked handheld gaming. The only reason I own a Gameboy is because my brother wanted one of the original Gameboy's for Christmas when they first came out and my father didn't want to get him one and not me. I think I played Tetris and one Raiden like game on the thing; I just never really liked it. To this day, the only portable game system I have owned is that original Gameboy. However, I now find myself wanting a Gameboy Micro. I want one to play all of the classic SNES games (e.g. Super Mario World, A Link to the Past, etc.) whenever I get bored somewhere away from home. But, I don't want to have to carry some huge, and I include the GBA SP in that statement, gaming machine around with me. The Micro is small enough that it won't get in the way and the screen has a decent enough resolution that I would be able to use it for while without straining my eyes.
So there is one reason for all the "whys" being posted. Classic gaming on a platform that is easy to carry around.
By "toned down" I meant not really long and only interesting to those interested in the topic. The scienceNOW series entertaining _and_ informative. Watch it before being a smart ass.
I would assume it is because this site has no need of XML buried in the HTML. The only reason to use XHTML over HTML 4 is the ability to embed XML technologies like MathML into the document. A really good explanation can be found at http://xrl.us/ba4c as to why not to use XHTML. It really doesn't make any sense to use XHTML, if you want to be completely strict, because it won't work right with a majority of browsers; not just the nameless one.
It all boils down to the fact that/. publishes content where HTML is the maximum requirement. There is no need to get complicated by throwing XML into the mix.
Did they ever get one of those? I stopped using it about a year ago because the tracks would never get submitted due to 1) the DB server being crap and 2) the plugins were always out-of-date in relation to the ever changing protocol.
"A kilobyte (derived from the SI prefix kilo-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to either 1024 or 1000 bytes. It is commonly abbreviated KB, or informally K."
I believe it can be written either way. However, let's take a look at some numbers.
1024kb: Do you agree that would be "1024 kilobits"? 1024kB: Do you agree that would be "1024 kilobytes"?
Okay, so we agree that the capitalization of the 'b' is significant. So wouldn't it make since to capitalize the 'k' when the 'b' is capitalized so that it doesn't look re-god-damn-tarded?
Woody is starting to really lag in the server market as well. Here are a couple of examples:
1) I have to use several backports on my router at home to get wireless working properly.
2) I assume that if you are running a web server with extra functionality like PHP, and are trying to use the Debian packages, then you might not be too happy with Woody either. I can't really speak to this case because I build Apache and PHP myself.
3) Woody is a constant problem with newer applications such as the recent builds of Unreal Tournament 2004. There are always threads popping up on http://www.unrealadmin.org/forums/ due to people not being able to run the binary on a stock Woody machine. The latest builds rely on a newer version of libc6 than Woody ships with. Recommending that they upgrade to Sarge is just plain bad advice.
Woody is old. It _needs_ to be replaced and not just because it can't be viably used for a modern desktop operating system.
Debian is awesome. I love Debian. However, I am getting tired of the truly long release cycle. The release cycle needs to be fixed if Debian is going to remain worthwhile.
That is a quote from the Ubuntu page which I linked to.
The reason it has to be "in sync" for all of those architectures is because that is a fundamental element of Debian. Debian is supposed to work the same on all advertised supported architectures. This is a Good Thing in the server market where you might not have the luxury of picking the hardware yourself. However, it is also a Bad Thing because it slows down the release cycle which in turn makes the distribution unsuitable for the average desktop user. If you have a clue, and don't mind fixing things when they break, then Sid is quite fine for a desktop operating system.
Personally, I have been using Debian since Slink and using Sid for a majority of the time. I am currently moving files around so that I can reload my desktop with Ubuntu. The release cycle has really started getting on my nerves; the Sarge freeze has held up major packages in Sid because new packages in Sid will still affect the Sarge release. I am to the point where I want a system that "just works," doesn't require me to do arcane things from time to time, and has a reliable release schedule.
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This explains why we get a lot of laptops broadcasting our AP names on campus. What makes it annoying is that XP defaults to connect to the first available network it finds with the name you have given it. You can check off a box that says something to the effect of "ignore ad-hoc networks" but how many users do you know that would have any idea that is the reason their wireless card "isn't working"?
It won't be one group, as in guild, taking over the world. You will be able to align yourself with two factions that are at war with each other and do missions to further that factions goal -- eliminating the other faction. I imagine it will take a coordinated effort among many, many, guilds to conquer the world. Even if they do, ArenaNet will reset the "world" after a specific amount of time.
For example, in the current chapter, guilds, or even pick up groups, can fight in a certain arena against other groups from around the world. If a region (America, Asia, and Europe) wins 5 battles in a row it unlocks extra missions and such for that nation until another nation wrests the title from the current winning nation. It is constantly going back and forth. I imagine the new factions thing will be similar.
As for the mention of FPS style game play in the article, I would like to know where. I read this article earlier in the week and didn't see any mention of it. The supply lines control mentioned sounds more like Domination from UT2k4 but played like a regular game of Guild Wars -- 3rd person oblique.
I look forward to the next chapter even though I still haven't completed the story line with my main character. Only one mission left to beat and classes started back before I could do so. Hopefully I will find time during the semester to beat it.
This is a legitimate question I have. Why not support a system like Apple introduced with their kernel in OS 10.4? When it comes to operating systems, I am just a user. I don't hack on them. So, I could be missing something in the whole "the drivers must be open source so that they can be included in the kernel and updated along with it" thing. I would like a clear explanation why doing things the current way is better than implementing a new system that supports binary drivers in a clean way.
/ 4. I think it is a rather neat solution:
If you are not familiar with the "KPI" thing, here is a short summary from http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars
"With Tiger, Apple is finally ready to put some kernel interface stakes in the ground. For the first time, there are stable, officially supported kernel programming interfaces (KPIs). Even better, there's an interface versioning mechanism and migration policy in place that will ensure that the pre-Tiger situation never happens again.
From Tiger forward, kernel extensions will link against KPIs, rather than directly against the kernel. The KPIs have been broken down into smaller modules, so kexts can link against only the interfaces that they actually need to use.
Each KPI has a well-defined life cycle made up of the following stages.
* Supported - The KPI is source and binary compatible from release to release.
* Deprecated - The interface may be removed in the following major release. Compiler warnings are generated on use.
* Obsolete - It's no longer possible to build new kernel extensions using this KPI, but binary compatibility for existing kexts that use this KPI is still assured.
* Unsupported - Kexts using this KPI will no longer work, period.
The most significant part of this new system is that the kernel itself can and will change behind the scenes. KPIs will descend towards the "unsupported" end of the life cycle only as kernel changes absolutely demand.
Best of all, multiple versions of a KPI can coexist on the same system. This allows a KPI to move forward with new abilities and a changed interface without breaking kernel extensions that link to the older version of the KPI. The expectation is that the kernel can undergo a heck of a lot of changes while still supporting all of the KPIs."
Yes. I can't believe no one mentioned this game. Playing AvP as a marine, with the lights off at night, is the scariest experience I have ever had playing a video game.
Why do students accept it? Because their teachers have forced them to use it. If they don't use it they don't get grades.
Personally, I loathe the product. I have had to do tech support for WebCT, the old POS and the new Vista POS, and use it in classes at CSU. Every semester, the majority of our tech support calls are about WebCT. In fact, I recently ran a report on our ticketing system for WebCT problems and the report came out to be around 20 printed page. That was for the time period between the start of classes on August 22 and mid September. No, most of that space was not taken up by troubleshooting logs. I did include the initial trouble request but those generally take up a quarter of a line at the most; the rest of the information was date, time, and names.
It isn't. WebCT is steaming pile of dog shit.
Why the hell would you want to view ads? Especially when you are trying to read something. Do you not find it distracting to have some big flashing rectangle in the middle of the text you are actually interested in reading?
If a popup blocker is preventing you from using a site then the site is broken. Yes, that is right, the web site has broken a fundamental aspect of web site navigation and should therefore be shunned.
This post gets +5,000,000 points to flame (either the "story" or this actual post. You pick).
It seems that the shoulder buttons on the micro act as X and Y; at least in SMW. I am disappointed in that as well, but I really never used the shoulder buttons on the SNES pad much any way.
I have never really liked handheld gaming. The only reason I own a Gameboy is because my brother wanted one of the original Gameboy's for Christmas when they first came out and my father didn't want to get him one and not me. I think I played Tetris and one Raiden like game on the thing; I just never really liked it. To this day, the only portable game system I have owned is that original Gameboy. However, I now find myself wanting a Gameboy Micro. I want one to play all of the classic SNES games (e.g. Super Mario World, A Link to the Past, etc.) whenever I get bored somewhere away from home. But, I don't want to have to carry some huge, and I include the GBA SP in that statement, gaming machine around with me. The Micro is small enough that it won't get in the way and the screen has a decent enough resolution that I would be able to use it for while without straining my eyes.
So there is one reason for all the "whys" being posted. Classic gaming on a platform that is easy to carry around.
By "toned down" I meant not really long and only interesting to those interested in the topic. The scienceNOW series entertaining _and_ informative. Watch it before being a smart ass.
NOVA's new, toned down, show recently did a piece on this. You can view it at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3210/02.ht ml
That would be "trendy" not "nerdy."
I would assume it is because this site has no need of XML buried in the HTML. The only reason to use XHTML over HTML 4 is the ability to embed XML technologies like MathML into the document. A really good explanation can be found at http://xrl.us/ba4c as to why not to use XHTML. It really doesn't make any sense to use XHTML, if you want to be completely strict, because it won't work right with a majority of browsers; not just the nameless one.
It all boils down to the fact that /. publishes content where HTML is the maximum requirement. There is no need to get complicated by throwing XML into the mix.
At least, that is how I see it.
I agree with the relation, but that has to be the worst written article I have ever read on wikipedia.
Did they ever get one of those? I stopped using it about a year ago because the tracks would never get submitted due to 1) the DB server being crap and 2) the plugins were always out-of-date in relation to the ever changing protocol.
The comedy is in the irony.
That one tripped me up. A communist nazi would be a very conflicted person indeed.
Let me help you out with some terms:
Communism -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
Fascism -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Nazism -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism
Stalinism -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism
All very similar but not all the same thing.
This was at the bottom of the article when I read it:
/CBRincludes/related_news.asp, line 137
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte
"A kilobyte (derived from the SI prefix kilo-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to either 1024 or 1000 bytes. It is commonly abbreviated KB, or informally K."
I believe it can be written either way. However, let's take a look at some numbers.
1024kb: Do you agree that would be "1024 kilobits"?
1024kB: Do you agree that would be "1024 kilobytes"?
Okay, so we agree that the capitalization of the 'b' is significant. So wouldn't it make since to capitalize the 'k' when the 'b' is capitalized so that it doesn't look re-god-damn-tarded?
At least I don't think they are equal... Gah! confusing notations be damned!
For a definition of MiB see this wikipedia article -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
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And here is a random review that includes the actual cache numbers -- http://www.gdhardware.com/hardware/cpus/amd/athlo
Seems that I can't read very well. It was released this past May.
He released the source to one of his applications a while back I just can't find it now... oh well.
Since July of 2003 -- http://www.nullsoft.com/free/milkdrop/. The author of the plugin is Ryan Geiss. His plugins are the best I have ever seen.
Woody is starting to really lag in the server market as well. Here are a couple of examples:
1) I have to use several backports on my router at home to get wireless working properly.
2) I assume that if you are running a web server with extra functionality like PHP, and are trying to use the Debian packages, then you might not be too happy with Woody either. I can't really speak to this case because I build Apache and PHP myself.
3) Woody is a constant problem with newer applications such as the recent builds of Unreal Tournament 2004. There are always threads popping up on http://www.unrealadmin.org/forums/ due to people not being able to run the binary on a stock Woody machine. The latest builds rely on a newer version of libc6 than Woody ships with. Recommending that they upgrade to Sarge is just plain bad advice.
Woody is old. It _needs_ to be replaced and not just because it can't be viably used for a modern desktop operating system.
Debian is awesome. I love Debian. However, I am getting tired of the truly long release cycle. The release cycle needs to be fixed if Debian is going to remain worthwhile.
That is a quote from the Ubuntu page which I linked to.
The reason it has to be "in sync" for all of those architectures is because that is a fundamental element of Debian. Debian is supposed to work the same on all advertised supported architectures. This is a Good Thing in the server market where you might not have the luxury of picking the hardware yourself. However, it is also a Bad Thing because it slows down the release cycle which in turn makes the distribution unsuitable for the average desktop user. If you have a clue, and don't mind fixing things when they break, then Sid is quite fine for a desktop operating system.
Personally, I have been using Debian since Slink and using Sid for a majority of the time. I am currently moving files around so that I can reload my desktop with Ubuntu. The release cycle has really started getting on my nerves; the Sarge freeze has held up major packages in Sid because new packages in Sid will still affect the Sarge release. I am to the point where I want a system that "just works," doesn't require me to do arcane things from time to time, and has a reliable release schedule.