Plenty take up 2 or more as I am now discovering to my chagrin. Only the thinnest of books take up less than one. I think it's proportional to the books RRP.
Well, you couldn't just film the Silmarillion. It's a recounting of the main points of a long legend, not a story per se. But certain parts of it could be fleshed out into narratives of their own; there's quite a lot of cool source matierial there.
He must have an ISP providing connectivity to his house. He can't control his hijacked Chinese servers by telepathy. Either get him cut off, or go in there and cut the cables.
Good question, but I know enough Esperanto to tell that he (and the others) were faking it. It gave the movie a great, eerie quality, though. And the goat-demon sex scene was a nice touch.
Mi parolas (aux lernadas) Esperanton, kaj mi scias, ke lian Esperanto estas ne tre bona. Sed gxi estas bona filmo.
Banning VOIP ports is silly, not just because controlling the internet this way is a bad idea, it's because the quality of internet service over there is so bad that VOIP is almost unworkable anyway. Or at least, that's what I've discovered, being called by my father-in-law from Panama using net2phone. "Hello? Hello? Hey, it must be your dad calling, I can't hear anything."
I think that's a brilliant idea actually. GameArena could set themselves up as a kind of Certificate Authority and issue a key to every gamer. The procedure to get a certificate in the first place should be just onerous enough to make people reluctant to get banned - a good one would be to require a credit card number. As far as I can see this would be hard for cheaters to get around, randomizing their private key won't help... Nor should the private keys of others be easy to steal or generate.
My intuition says that there is years of work in this project. And, you ask, how does a professional programmer approach such a task? This kind of project is difficult and expensive even for teams of professionals with a lot of money behind them. They start with whiteboards, and use cases, and specs, etc.
If I were you, the first thing I would do is identify a very small subset of the functionality - say, the ability to parse and view a.mdl file - and try that first. Perhaps there's a need out there for a model viewer. A project of the scope has a chance of completion, and if you're still enthusiastic at that point you can expand the scope of your app, building on the code you already have.
Again, I'm sure you're smart and understand coding and the right physics, but the one thing the experience of a professional programmer would give you is a sense of the scope of this task.
Interestingly, I had the same idea a while ago - embed the ID of the creator or legitimate owner in the file. That way, if it gets out the original creator can at least in theory be held accountable under existing copyright laws.
I couldn't get very far with the scheme since as I was trying it, anyone who could get a hold of several copies of a song could figure out which bits were the id and change some of them. I didn't have the energy to pursue it after that, especially since I'm not sure it would prove a satisfactory disincentive to piracy anyway. Maybe something with a secret checksum but that would easily be hacked.
If they solved these problems, it would be nice, except that it seems too late to stop the RIAA Nazis.
That was an excllent article. It's rare that one reads something that's so balanced. Those interviewed really summed up my feelings; it's a gamble, but the cost is so small compared to the payoff. I doubt it will work, but I'm yet to be convinced it's impossible.
I had no idea the Bay Area was such a hotbed of Cryonics. Any other Alcor members out there?
The folks who say it's useful for booting are acting as if someone's trying to ban floppy drives. The point isn't that they're not useful in older machines, but I think it's true to say they're not needed in new machines any longer. Any new machine should be able to boot from its CD-ROM. Besides, there are enough floppy drives in circulation to recycle without making more of them.
I want to see a photo of one of those guys wearing the sandwich board that says "Jesus is coming - repent whores of Babylon" playing a game on one of these walking nintendo stooges.
No matter what anyone else says, walking with heavy batteries on your back dealing with the public all day is nasty-ass work for $100.
> Incidentally, child labor and inhumane, dangerous working conditions are the big, dirty secret of tech: you can bet that your own computer computer contains its own share of human misery.
For Christ's sake, that removes "playing Morrowind" from the list of things I can do without feeling guilty. All that's left is "selfless toil" and "modding up funny slashdot posts".
Yes, we all know that DVD and 5.1 channel surround-sound have only been adopted because of the infinite possibilities of the massive porn DVD industry, nothing to do with the inherent quality and convenience of the format itself.
Blacksnow are not very ethical people and are on the record as exploiters of various MMORPGs. They've tried to bribe engineers at the game companies to turn a blind eye to their profiteering from bugs, exploits, and general destruction of the game balance.
When faced with this evidence, how could a judge be sympathetic to them?
Absolutely. Sneaking into a guy's house to poison his supper was fun.
The thing about MW is the lack of linearity - it's not a "railroad" as we used to say. I've played many hours of MW and still haven't touched the main plotline. That's pretty unusual (for games that do have a main plotline).
No, no, why assume that a game like NWN is suppose to supplant F2F RPGs somehow? As others have said, this could be a fun activity on its own without being compared to tabletop gaming. One's a computer activity, one's a social activity, each have their place.
In my day, we had 8-bit computers with less than a meg of RAM and we loved the games that were on there - 'we liked it that way'. Does that mean I'm against NVidia, ATI, AMD, Intel, etc. for creating the awesome hardware that games run on now? No way!
Yes, like most nights, the earth will eclipse the the sun tonight. The earth's shadow will sweep across the surface of the planet, covering an area of about half the earth's surface at a time.
This eclipse is visible from all parts of the earth starting around nightfall. Depending on your lattitude the eclipse will last up to 17 hours.
By the way, it's safe to look at this eclipse all you like, with no filters at all.
People do write articles about how ridiculous that is, it's just that the public "can't handle the truth", and moreoever don't want to.
Look at the most egregious example of this - the healing power of prayer. Any two-bit dodgy study that comes down in favor of intercessionary prayer is reported on and sells papers. When John Hopkins do a proper double-blind study that shows no effect, you'd be hard pressed to see that reported in the news!
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Plenty take up 2 or more as I am now discovering to my chagrin. Only the thinnest of books take up less than one. I think it's proportional to the books RRP.
Well, you couldn't just film the Silmarillion. It's a recounting of the main points of a long legend, not a story per se. But certain parts of it could be fleshed out into narratives of their own; there's quite a lot of cool source matierial there.
He must have an ISP providing connectivity to his house. He can't control his hijacked Chinese servers by telepathy. Either get him cut off, or go in there and cut the cables.
Good question, but I know enough Esperanto to tell that he (and the others) were faking it. It gave the movie a great, eerie quality, though. And the goat-demon sex scene was a nice touch.
Mi parolas (aux lernadas) Esperanton, kaj mi scias, ke lian Esperanto estas ne tre bona. Sed gxi estas bona filmo.
-Coljac
Banning VOIP ports is silly, not just because controlling the internet this way is a bad idea, it's because the quality of internet service over there is so bad that VOIP is almost unworkable anyway. Or at least, that's what I've discovered, being called by my father-in-law from Panama using net2phone. "Hello? Hello? Hey, it must be your dad calling, I can't hear anything."
I think that's a brilliant idea actually. GameArena could set themselves up as a kind of Certificate Authority and issue a key to every gamer. The procedure to get a certificate in the first place should be just onerous enough to make people reluctant to get banned - a good one would be to require a credit card number. As far as I can see this would be hard for cheaters to get around, randomizing their private key won't help... Nor should the private keys of others be easy to steal or generate.
That's a javascript error in IE. Real helpful.
My intuition says that there is years of work in this project. And, you ask, how does a professional programmer approach such a task? This kind of project is difficult and expensive even for teams of professionals with a lot of money behind them. They start with whiteboards, and use cases, and specs, etc.
.mdl file - and try that first. Perhaps there's a need out there for a model viewer. A project of the scope has a chance of completion, and if you're still enthusiastic at that point you can expand the scope of your app, building on the code you already have.
If I were you, the first thing I would do is identify a very small subset of the functionality - say, the ability to parse and view a
Again, I'm sure you're smart and understand coding and the right physics, but the one thing the experience of a professional programmer would give you is a sense of the scope of this task.
Interestingly, I had the same idea a while ago - embed the ID of the creator or legitimate owner in the file. That way, if it gets out the original creator can at least in theory be held accountable under existing copyright laws.
I couldn't get very far with the scheme since as I was trying it, anyone who could get a hold of several copies of a song could figure out which bits were the id and change some of them. I didn't have the energy to pursue it after that, especially since I'm not sure it would prove a satisfactory disincentive to piracy anyway. Maybe something with a secret checksum but that would easily be hacked.
If they solved these problems, it would be nice, except that it seems too late to stop the RIAA Nazis.
Heil!
Here's a photograph at the Massey Uni. site.
That was an excllent article. It's rare that one reads something that's so balanced. Those interviewed really summed up my feelings; it's a gamble, but the cost is so small compared to the payoff. I doubt it will work, but I'm yet to be convinced it's impossible.
I had no idea the Bay Area was such a hotbed of Cryonics. Any other Alcor members out there?
coljac, "A-1868"
The folks who say it's useful for booting are acting as if someone's trying to ban floppy drives. The point isn't that they're not useful in older machines, but I think it's true to say they're not needed in new machines any longer. Any new machine should be able to boot from its CD-ROM. Besides, there are enough floppy drives in circulation to recycle without making more of them.
I want to see a photo of one of those guys wearing the sandwich board that says "Jesus is coming - repent whores of Babylon" playing a game on one of these walking nintendo stooges.
No matter what anyone else says, walking with heavy batteries on your back dealing with the public all day is nasty-ass work for $100.
> Incidentally, child labor and inhumane, dangerous working conditions are the big, dirty secret of tech: you can bet that your own computer computer contains its own share of human misery.
For Christ's sake, that removes "playing Morrowind" from the list of things I can do without feeling guilty. All that's left is "selfless toil" and "modding up funny slashdot posts".
Yes, we all know that DVD and 5.1 channel surround-sound have only been adopted because of the infinite possibilities of the massive porn DVD industry, nothing to do with the inherent quality and convenience of the format itself.
Maybe they can take the opportunity to remove the ridiculous and unconstitutional "In God We Trust" motto that has plagued the notes since 1957.
Why does other currency look like Monopoly money? Because you grew up in a country where real cash was monochrome, perhaps?
I really like Aussie money with the little transparent plastic window!
In any case, I don't have a lot to say in praise of cash as a concept, surely we have the technology to do away with it by now.
Blacksnow are not very ethical people and are on the record as exploiters of various MMORPGs. They've tried to bribe engineers at the game companies to turn a blind eye to their profiteering from bugs, exploits, and general destruction of the game balance.
When faced with this evidence, how could a judge be sympathetic to them?
Absolutely. Sneaking into a guy's house to poison his supper was fun.
The thing about MW is the lack of linearity - it's not a "railroad" as we used to say. I've played many hours of MW and still haven't touched the main plotline. That's pretty unusual (for games that do have a main plotline).
No, no, why assume that a game like NWN is suppose to supplant F2F RPGs somehow? As others have said, this could be a fun activity on its own without being compared to tabletop gaming. One's a computer activity, one's a social activity, each have their place.
In my day, we had 8-bit computers with less than a meg of RAM and we loved the games that were on there - 'we liked it that way'. Does that mean I'm against NVidia, ATI, AMD, Intel, etc. for creating the awesome hardware that games run on now? No way!
Nighttime - when you pass into into the earth's shadow that is caused by the sun.
Yes, like most nights, the earth will eclipse the the sun tonight. The earth's shadow will sweep across the surface of the planet, covering an area of about half the earth's surface at a time.
This eclipse is visible from all parts of the earth starting around nightfall. Depending on your lattitude the eclipse will last up to 17 hours.
By the way, it's safe to look at this eclipse all you like, with no filters at all.
I use info@real.com. Anyone who ever had RealPlayer spawn all over their computer knows, those guys deserve all the spam they get.
"I'm honestly a logical man, but..."
I'm sure a lot of us have heard that phrase before, and the rest of the sentence usually contradicts it.
People do write articles about how ridiculous that is, it's just that the public "can't handle the truth", and moreoever don't want to.
Look at the most egregious example of this - the healing power of prayer. Any two-bit dodgy study that comes down in favor of intercessionary prayer is reported on and sells papers. When John Hopkins do a proper double-blind study that shows no effect, you'd be hard pressed to see that reported in the news!