Tabula rasa did something similar. Each combat area would be split into 2 or 3 identical instances, and you could teleport between them. Due to it's dynamic arenas, if you wanted something in a town that had been taken over by the enemy, you could teleport to another instance and hope that it's player-controlled.
As a reference for the masses, Wikipedia works. It's accessible, if inaccurate. As a reference for Scholars, Britannica works. It's accurate, if inacessable.
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I thought it was "Do Not Fold" - which is normally stamped on packages containing CDs or other fragile media, and indeed, it seems that DNF are folding:)
Estimate to me implies some data goes into a process, and comes out the other side, now, either the Process used to process the data was incomplete (for example, it was a Taylor series) or if the data itself was only a sample of a larger population (Like a TV ratings list)
A Guesstimate, that shudderingly horrible portmanteu, would say to me that you had no data, or no process, and really, just imagined what the numbers were.
the XSS affects all browsers, that's the point. It can be easilly used as part of a phishing scam, where the only defence is a clued-up user. And Linux users *may* end up at Mcafee's site, if they're running this or this
I remember in first year Uni we learned C++, basic logic, bubble sort and Bit Blitting, in second year we did multithreading (among other things), and that was only 5 years ago. Granted, it *was* Computer Games Technology, and I honestly don't have much use for *any* of those things any more (except the basic logic ofc) as I'm mainly doing Flash games now. (Although, Bit Blitting did give me a head-start on my collegues over the use of Flash's Bitmap object)
Some of these things may no longer be relevent in languages like C# any more, what with and whatnot doing most of the legwork for dynamic arrays/linked lists and web-languages like PHP having associative arrays built in to the language (Essentially giving you an easy way to do linked lists) and Garbage collection handled invisibly in many environments (Java, Flash, C# etc) but it's good to know WHAT they do, even if you can't programme one off the bat (I've seen a fair few diagrams of how Flash's GC works, but I doubt I could sit down and write one, not without difficulty)
I could *potentially* do many of these things, if I sat down and tried, it would take me a while, but I believe that I can still learn. You don't come out of Education knowing everything about your subject, and if you're not going to make use of something there's no real reason to learn when your time could be taken up learning something you CAN use
If I were using this on a desktop, I wouldn't mind wearing a small button on my hand to allow me to click easier (squeezing your thumb and index finger is less effort than moving your whole arm forward) and maybe have a small brace to rest my wrist on, one that gimbals around, to save my arm from being tired.
If it could be made simpler and integrated with mobile devices I could see it begin a winner though. Tiny mice and track pads are horrible, Touch screens have always been my prefered mobile input device and one that lets me use the computer with my fingers without smudging the screen would make me happy:D Do I sense a Theramin app for the iPhone 5G?
and also, if healthy people start congregating around hospitals they're more likely to catch the thing - you know, cause hospitals are the places where all the sick people are
Indeed, it'll most likely aid immesurably for the residents of the next country we all go and liberate.
Joking aside, While I never agreed with going to war, I do agree that we should clean up what we've done, and this does go some way to ensure that can happen consistently and easilly.
The population is stable, but only if everyone's spread out all over the place. When the Ulduar Dungeon was released on wednesday, the server I was on, the instance servers basically died, everyone inside Ulduar (and any other instance) was kicked, and unable to log back in on those characters that were inside for about an hour. Meanwhile people who were still outside Ulduar couldn't get in, (and i'm talking hundreds of people) swarming around outside, reducing frame rates to nearly nothing. Their scaling & Redundancy systems work 99% of the time, but little seems to have changed since the end of open beta (when they started spawning raid bosses in the major cities and *everyone* gathered at the gates of stormwind/Orgrimarr) when exactly the same thing happened there too.
The technology may have been different, Chernobyls technology may have been inferior to modern nuclear power, but considering both the Chernobyl accident and three mile island were caused by human error, it doesn't bode well for any kind. In the case of Three Mile Island, "The mechanical failures were compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss of coolant accident due to inadequate training and ambiguous control room indicators." (here ) and in the case of Chernobyl, they set up a reactor test which ran overdue and it was left to the undertrained and underskilled night-shift to handle the plant at the time (here)
In both cases, better training and adhering to safety protocols would have saved lives and possibly the reactor. So don't go dismissing Chernobyl as an argument against Nuclear power. It's an argument against cutting corners and the lowest-bidder mentality that still exists today in the building of new nuclear plants.
"How cheap is safe enough?" is something few people want to ask, and even fewer people want to answer.
What goes through my mind is 'Chernobyl' - you know, the one that actually suffered a FULL meltdown? The one that caused the permenant evacuation of an entire city and the creation of an exclusion zone? The one that spewed a cloud of radioactive material over most of Europe?
if Three Mile Island was a fender bender, Chernobyl was an at-speed Head-on collision between a bus and a fuel tanker.
I have a phone that was marketed as an MP3 player on the same level as it was a phone. It works. It works fine, I listen on the bus on the way in to work in the morning.
It cost me £70, wheras classic iPods are still around £140. It holds whatever my microSD card holds (atm, 2Gb) which is far off the iPods 100-odd Gig (and even the iPod touch) but it does me well enough It makes phone calls, it's also availible on any network (unlike the iphone) It's smaller than most iPods (About the size of a shuffle)
There's no clever software you have to install, no special 'dock' to put it in. It just connects via USB and pretends to be a USB flash stick.
and re: 'i look look with my iPod at the gym' - I keep my phone in my pocket when i'm listening to music... and I don't go to the gym:)
I don't hate Apple, or Macs, or iPods. It's the pretentious twits who act like they're special just because they buy the brand. Particularly the women... whom I like to call "Apple Tarts"
Is it Cologne with it's great cathedral? Milan with it's glamour and it's pace? London with it's river and it's bridges? Lisbon with it's beauty and it's grace?
Do you know where I'm gonna go? None of you have guessed, so none of you can know If you've been, that's not where I mean It's got class and it's got excellence like you've never seen
Your town is dragging me down Dragging me down, down, down Your town is dragging me down Dragging me down, down, down
Block all Search Robots (and effectivly remove yourself from Google/Yahoo etc) or e-mail them and hope they put you on their no-go list (and as with many hidden services, there will be no easy way of telling if they have)
We will obey the "*" from the robots.txt but we will disregard everything else.
Just keep a look out on http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/ and if you really want to block them do a user-agent Server-side script test and send them "FUCK YOU" Pages
From that page: "robots.txt: The Webwise system will observe the rules that a website sets for major search engines using the robots.txt method. If the website's robots.txt file is set such that "*" (any robot) is not permitted to crawl it, then Webwise will not profile its pages."
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Tabula rasa did something similar.
Each combat area would be split into 2 or 3 identical instances, and you could teleport between them. Due to it's dynamic arenas, if you wanted something in a town that had been taken over by the enemy, you could teleport to another instance and hope that it's player-controlled.
it's all about the pretty sparkle isnt it?
If I don't get new desktops by June I will NOT be happy...
Bottom video :D
I'll get to work on a Google Maps Mash-up right away :D
As a reference for the masses, Wikipedia works. It's accessible, if inaccurate.
As a reference for Scholars, Britannica works. It's accurate, if inacessable.
I thought it was "Do Not Fold" - which is normally stamped on packages containing CDs or other fragile media, and indeed, it seems that DNF are folding :)
"Did not Finish" makes much more sense though.
Estimate to me implies some data goes into a process, and comes out the other side, now, either the Process used to process the data was incomplete (for example, it was a Taylor series) or if the data itself was only a sample of a larger population (Like a TV ratings list)
A Guesstimate, that shudderingly horrible portmanteu, would say to me that you had no data, or no process, and really, just imagined what the numbers were.
the XSS affects all browsers, that's the point. It can be easilly used as part of a phishing scam, where the only defence is a clued-up user. And Linux users *may* end up at Mcafee's site, if they're running this or this
I don't know why, but i read "PACS" as "Particle Accelerator Cannons" - god forbid anything at CERN gets Conficker.
I always thought the universe was a hyperbolic paraboloid... hence it's actually a Pringle
I remember in first year Uni we learned C++, basic logic, bubble sort and Bit Blitting, in second year we did multithreading (among other things), and that was only 5 years ago. Granted, it *was* Computer Games Technology, and I honestly don't have much use for *any* of those things any more (except the basic logic ofc) as I'm mainly doing Flash games now. (Although, Bit Blitting did give me a head-start on my collegues over the use of Flash's Bitmap object)
Some of these things may no longer be relevent in languages like C# any more, what with and whatnot doing most of the legwork for dynamic arrays/linked lists and web-languages like PHP having associative arrays built in to the language (Essentially giving you an easy way to do linked lists) and Garbage collection handled invisibly in many environments (Java, Flash, C# etc) but it's good to know WHAT they do, even if you can't programme one off the bat (I've seen a fair few diagrams of how Flash's GC works, but I doubt I could sit down and write one, not without difficulty)
I could *potentially* do many of these things, if I sat down and tried, it would take me a while, but I believe that I can still learn. You don't come out of Education knowing everything about your subject, and if you're not going to make use of something there's no real reason to learn when your time could be taken up learning something you CAN use
If I were using this on a desktop, I wouldn't mind wearing a small button on my hand to allow me to click easier (squeezing your thumb and index finger is less effort than moving your whole arm forward) and maybe have a small brace to rest my wrist on, one that gimbals around, to save my arm from being tired.
If it could be made simpler and integrated with mobile devices I could see it begin a winner though. Tiny mice and track pads are horrible, Touch screens have always been my prefered mobile input device and one that lets me use the computer with my fingers without smudging the screen would make me happy :D
Do I sense a Theramin app for the iPhone 5G?
and also, if healthy people start congregating around hospitals they're more likely to catch the thing - you know, cause hospitals are the places where all the sick people are
Indeed, it'll most likely aid immesurably for the residents of the next country we all go and liberate.
Joking aside, While I never agreed with going to war, I do agree that we should clean up what we've done, and this does go some way to ensure that can happen consistently and easilly.
it also interacts with the big metal pin holding my leg together
The population is stable, but only if everyone's spread out all over the place. When the Ulduar Dungeon was released on wednesday, the server I was on, the instance servers basically died, everyone inside Ulduar (and any other instance) was kicked, and unable to log back in on those characters that were inside for about an hour. Meanwhile people who were still outside Ulduar couldn't get in, (and i'm talking hundreds of people) swarming around outside, reducing frame rates to nearly nothing.
Their scaling & Redundancy systems work 99% of the time, but little seems to have changed since the end of open beta (when they started spawning raid bosses in the major cities and *everyone* gathered at the gates of stormwind/Orgrimarr) when exactly the same thing happened there too.
The technology may have been different, Chernobyls technology may have been inferior to modern nuclear power, but considering both the Chernobyl accident and three mile island were caused by human error, it doesn't bode well for any kind.
In the case of Three Mile Island, "The mechanical failures were compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss of coolant accident due to inadequate training and ambiguous control room indicators." (here ) and in the case of Chernobyl, they set up a reactor test which ran overdue and it was left to the undertrained and underskilled night-shift to handle the plant at the time (here)
In both cases, better training and adhering to safety protocols would have saved lives and possibly the reactor. So don't go dismissing Chernobyl as an argument against Nuclear power. It's an argument against cutting corners and the lowest-bidder mentality that still exists today in the building of new nuclear plants.
"How cheap is safe enough?" is something few people want to ask, and even fewer people want to answer.
why three mile island?
What goes through my mind is 'Chernobyl' - you know, the one that actually suffered a FULL meltdown? The one that caused the permenant evacuation of an entire city and the creation of an exclusion zone? The one that spewed a cloud of radioactive material over most of Europe?
if Three Mile Island was a fender bender, Chernobyl was an at-speed Head-on collision between a bus and a fuel tanker.
Just go to View > Page Style > No Style
the table is still a bit screwed, but atleast you can see the images
Noo... I need more mod points to feed my addiction!
*grinds the meta moderate page for kudos*
I have a phone that was marketed as an MP3 player on the same level as it was a phone.
It works. It works fine, I listen on the bus on the way in to work in the morning.
It cost me £70, wheras classic iPods are still around £140.
It holds whatever my microSD card holds (atm, 2Gb) which is far off the iPods 100-odd Gig (and even the iPod touch) but it does me well enough
It makes phone calls, it's also availible on any network (unlike the iphone)
It's smaller than most iPods (About the size of a shuffle)
There's no clever software you have to install, no special 'dock' to put it in. It just connects via USB and pretends to be a USB flash stick.
and re: 'i look look with my iPod at the gym' - I keep my phone in my pocket when i'm listening to music... and I don't go to the gym :)
I don't hate Apple, or Macs, or iPods. It's the pretentious twits who act like they're special just because they buy the brand. Particularly the women... whom I like to call "Apple Tarts"
#2: Sir, 64 million bytes is nothing nowadays, most home computers have around 3 Billion bytes of RAM
Is it Cologne with it's great cathedral?
Milan with it's glamour and it's pace?
London with it's river and it's bridges?
Lisbon with it's beauty and it's grace?
Do you know where I'm gonna go?
None of you have guessed, so none of you can know
If you've been, that's not where I mean
It's got class and it's got excellence like you've never seen
Your town is dragging me down
Dragging me down, down, down
Your town is dragging me down
Dragging me down, down, down
They've given us an 'all or nothing' ultimatum
Block all Search Robots (and effectivly remove yourself from Google/Yahoo etc) or e-mail them and hope they put you on their no-go list (and as with many hidden services, there will be no easy way of telling if they have)
We will obey the "*" from the robots.txt but we will disregard everything else.
Just keep a look out on http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/ and if you really want to block them do a user-agent Server-side script test and send them "FUCK YOU" Pages
From that page: "robots.txt: The Webwise system will observe the rules that a website sets for major search engines using the robots.txt method. If the website's robots.txt file is set such that "*" (any robot) is not permitted to crawl it, then Webwise will not profile its pages."
First person to capture the User-agent ID gets a cookie!