I'd be interested to hear about the cases where you can't use a destructor, or where the compiler won't call a struct's destructor, if you care to provide a bit more detail.
I just watched the video, and it seems they're talking about having a car just hit the gas and brakes for you to simulate YOU driving in stop-and-go traffic. But, uh, isn't the point to do it better than a human?
Wouldn't the software be able to calculate the average rate of speed and just putter ahead at a constant rate instead of accelerating and braking like people do in rush hour traffic?
I can't tell if the video example is bad, or if they're actually suggesting making software that drives your car as poorly as you do.
... and it was just earlier this year that the governor of Texas appointed a creationist to lead the Texas Board of Education. Things are going downhill here in Texas lately.:(
The reason that "In God we trust" and "One nation under God" should be removed is because they further the "Christian Nation" myth. Christians enact laws to put their symbols and slogans on things, then point to those things and say "See? Look! Christian nation! It's on our *money*."
And the longer they're left in, the more people think you're just an "uppity atheist" for trying to get them removed (i.e.: restored to their previous, neutral state). Even in the Newdow case to get "under God" removed from the pledge, the court pointed to "in God we Trust" and said "nobody really cares about [that] anymore". (Implying: "So why are YOU making such a big deal out of THIS?")
If leaving these religious mottoes littering our government means that people think that they have the right to go even further, I'm all for ripping them out.
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Umm... does that mean I've violated the YouTube TOS by just *viewing* a movie clip without asking the author's written permission first?
I had this same thought too, at first. But, having played an undead warlock who summons demons and shoots shadow bolts, I always found it odd that alliance had warlocks who would fight alongside paladins. If the alliance can bend shadowy forces to do their bidding, then why can't horde use holy magic? (They have holy priests, after all, no?)
Playing FFXI unlike WoW everyone is on the same server.
Unless they have condensed all of their declining population onto one server (which I doubt), you are mistaken. FFXI just doesn't give you the option to choose which server you want to start on. You are randomly assigned a server when you create a character. If you want a friend to join you on a particular server, you have to go buy a "world pass" code and send it to them. They type it in when they create a character, and that character goes to your server.
On the one hand, it's nice because it lets FFXI automatically balance servers. New players can be set to automatically join new or low population servers. And, IIRC, buying a world pass for a high population server cost more, to encourage maybe moving to a lower population server.
On the other hand, it was a big pain in the ass. With every MMO I've played, I've wanted to play it with friends. If you're all creating new characters together, it's hard to get them all in the same place on FFXI.
Anyway, I agree that's probably the reason for the lack of battle mode over the internet. I've raced some people on laggy connections, and they jump all over the place. I'd hate having to try to run them down in battle mode.
The only question is, will everyone be willing to relearn how to type?
The answer is, no.:p
So, I'd RTFA if the site wasn't slashdotted, but my initial reaction is this: Why would you design a keyboard that caters to the hunt-and-peck crowd? I mean, even with bicycle training wheels, you can remove them and then you've got a real bike. But if you ever want to type on the majority of computers, you'd have to learn to type with qwerty (or dvorak, or another common input method) eventually anyway.
I've played several other MMOs (FFXI, EQ2, AC2), and WoW is the first one in which creating a new character is very enjoyable.
I've got characters of different races and classes, and things are so well balanced, they're all quite fun to play.
I've got half a dozen characters that I rotate through when I'm tired of leveling my main, and since they all accrue rest, leveling them is speedy. Aah, instant gratification.
Heh, yeah. My personal favorite is when you run BEGIN TRANSACTION; on a table that doesn't support transactions. It fails silently. Sortof makes that ROLLBACK you call several commands later a bit useless.
A month or two ago I was feeling nostalgic and loaded up my (legal, paid-for) copy of HalfLife. I wanted to play online (Natural Selection, in particular) so I had to download Steam and register my product, which I was happy to do. The benefit of automatic updates seemed well worth creating an account and giving them my serial number.
But... it took a couple DAYS for my registration to go through. And crawling their bulletin boards showed that this had been a common problem for months.
The disregard for paying customers is the main reason I won't be buying HalfLife 2 or any of their other products any time soon.
That, and the fact that I'm now playing EverCrack II.:)
Also worth noting is that Guild Wars will be having their second "World Preview Event", with an early version of their game available for free download and play Oct. 29 - 31.
Not that I'm an advocate of the single-button mouse, but when I'm using my PowerBook and don't have an external mouse plugged in it's not difficult at all to use tabbed browsing in Safari or Mozilla. (You just Command-Click.)
In fact, I think I prefer Safari's tabs to Mozilla's. Safari's are smaller, more minimalist, and leave more room for actual web page.
Unfortunately I've run into a few bumps when importing music.
I've got one MP3 that sortof works on the OSX iTunes. (It can be added to the library, but iTunes can't figure out how long the song is.) Trying to add it to the Win-iTunes crashed the program.
At work, I tried adding our shared music directory, and iTunes froze on a strangely formatted.m3u file. I renamed it to.m3u.borked and tried again. iTunes rightly ignored it this time (though I did see it flash by in the list of files iTunes was scanning) but then froze on a.jpg file. Both times it froze, the CPU was at a steady 100%, and iTunes had to be killed.
Hopefully the 4.1.1 release will fix these parsing fatalities so that directories can more easily be added.
I hope you're not talking about the constitution, because the word "god" doesn't appear in it at all.
If you mean the Declaration of Independence, then yes, "God" was mentioned once. But that is not a founding document of our nation, it has no power of law.
Mi parolas iom da esperanto, sed mi ne bladaux gxin lernas cxar lerneje mi nun studas la japanan.
Angle: I speak some esperanto, but I'm not still learning it because at school I'm now studying Japanese.
I took up Esperanto as a hobby. I didn't understand why I was so interested in it until almost a year later, when I realized that esperanto was like a programming language. Both are man-made... the range of Esperanto just happens to be a bit larger than, say, C.
Unfortunately esperanto has kludges and ambiguities that I'd prefer not to have in a designed language. Still, as a hobby, it can be fun. And you'd be hard-pressed to find a language that is as easy to learn (to speak) from books and online resources.
BTW, did you know that Radio Polonia gives daily internet radio broadcasts in Esperanto? (For those that want to hear what it sounds like.)
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I'd be interested to hear about the cases where you can't use a destructor, or where the compiler won't call a struct's destructor, if you care to provide a bit more detail.
I just watched the video, and it seems they're talking about having a car just hit the gas and brakes for you to simulate YOU driving in stop-and-go traffic. But, uh, isn't the point to do it better than a human?
Wouldn't the software be able to calculate the average rate of speed and just putter ahead at a constant rate instead of accelerating and braking like people do in rush hour traffic?
I can't tell if the video example is bad, or if they're actually suggesting making software that drives your car as poorly as you do.
I couldn't get past "They are all to happy". YOU. HAPPY! Now! DO IIIIIITTTTT! Everybody!
Also too difficult for you.
Correct: La angla estas tro malfacila. Parolu Esperanton!
... and it was just earlier this year that the governor of Texas appointed a creationist to lead the Texas Board of Education. Things are going downhill here in Texas lately. :(
The reason that "In God we trust" and "One nation under God" should be removed is because they further the "Christian Nation" myth. Christians enact laws to put their symbols and slogans on things, then point to those things and say "See? Look! Christian nation! It's on our *money*."
And the longer they're left in, the more people think you're just an "uppity atheist" for trying to get them removed (i.e.: restored to their previous, neutral state). Even in the Newdow case to get "under God" removed from the pledge, the court pointed to "in God we Trust" and said "nobody really cares about [that] anymore". (Implying: "So why are YOU making such a big deal out of THIS?")
If leaving these religious mottoes littering our government means that people think that they have the right to go even further, I'm all for ripping them out.
Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only and may not be downloaded, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without the prior written consent of the respective owners.
Umm... does that mean I've violated the YouTube TOS by just *viewing* a movie clip without asking the author's written permission first?
I'll buy a Tivo Series 3 just as soon as it supports Tivo To Go.
Turner != Fox
I had this same thought too, at first. But, having played an undead warlock who summons demons and shoots shadow bolts, I always found it odd that alliance had warlocks who would fight alongside paladins. If the alliance can bend shadowy forces to do their bidding, then why can't horde use holy magic? (They have holy priests, after all, no?)
Wow. I completely misinterpreted your comment. Sorry.
:(
Yeah, having JP and EN on the same server was... interesting. It's hard to role play with people who speak a different language though.
Playing FFXI unlike WoW everyone is on the same server.
Unless they have condensed all of their declining population onto one server (which I doubt), you are mistaken. FFXI just doesn't give you the option to choose which server you want to start on. You are randomly assigned a server when you create a character. If you want a friend to join you on a particular server, you have to go buy a "world pass" code and send it to them. They type it in when they create a character, and that character goes to your server.
On the one hand, it's nice because it lets FFXI automatically balance servers. New players can be set to automatically join new or low population servers. And, IIRC, buying a world pass for a high population server cost more, to encourage maybe moving to a lower population server.
On the other hand, it was a big pain in the ass. With every MMO I've played, I've wanted to play it with friends. If you're all creating new characters together, it's hard to get them all in the same place on FFXI.
I never have mod points when I want them. :~(
Anyway, I agree that's probably the reason for the lack of battle mode over the internet. I've raced some people on laggy connections, and they jump all over the place. I'd hate having to try to run them down in battle mode.
The only question is, will everyone be willing to relearn how to type?
:p
The answer is, no.
So, I'd RTFA if the site wasn't slashdotted, but my initial reaction is this: Why would you design a keyboard that caters to the hunt-and-peck crowd? I mean, even with bicycle training wheels, you can remove them and then you've got a real bike. But if you ever want to type on the majority of computers, you'd have to learn to type with qwerty (or dvorak, or another common input method) eventually anyway.
Did you ever consider starting a new character?
I've played several other MMOs (FFXI, EQ2, AC2), and WoW is the first one in which creating a new character is very enjoyable.
I've got characters of different races and classes, and things are so well balanced, they're all quite fun to play.
I've got half a dozen characters that I rotate through when I'm tired of leveling my main, and since they all accrue rest, leveling them is speedy. Aah, instant gratification.
That was the most incomprehensible body of text I've ever attempted to read.
You are obviously not familiar with Time Cube
Heh, yeah. My personal favorite is when you run BEGIN TRANSACTION; on a table that doesn't support transactions. It fails silently. Sortof makes that ROLLBACK you call several commands later a bit useless.
A month or two ago I was feeling nostalgic and loaded up my (legal, paid-for) copy of HalfLife. I wanted to play online (Natural Selection, in particular) so I had to download Steam and register my product, which I was happy to do. The benefit of automatic updates seemed well worth creating an account and giving them my serial number.
:)
But... it took a couple DAYS for my registration to go through. And crawling their bulletin boards showed that this had been a common problem for months.
The disregard for paying customers is the main reason I won't be buying HalfLife 2 or any of their other products any time soon.
That, and the fact that I'm now playing EverCrack II.
Dammit. No sleep for me tonight!
:)
Thanks for the heads-up, though.
Also worth noting is that Guild Wars will be having their second "World Preview Event", with an early version of their game available for free download and play Oct. 29 - 31.
See this page. They used to have this sign on their front page that said something like "Productivity is a place, we'll take you there." *eyeroll*
Not that I'm an advocate of the single-button mouse, but when I'm using my PowerBook and don't have an external mouse plugged in it's not difficult at all to use tabbed browsing in Safari or Mozilla. (You just Command-Click.)
In fact, I think I prefer Safari's tabs to Mozilla's. Safari's are smaller, more minimalist, and leave more room for actual web page.
Unfortunately I've run into a few bumps when importing music.
.m3u file. I renamed it to .m3u.borked and tried again. iTunes rightly ignored it this time (though I did see it flash by in the list of files iTunes was scanning) but then froze on a .jpg file. Both times it froze, the CPU was at a steady 100%, and iTunes had to be killed.
I've got one MP3 that sortof works on the OSX iTunes. (It can be added to the library, but iTunes can't figure out how long the song is.) Trying to add it to the Win-iTunes crashed the program.
At work, I tried adding our shared music directory, and iTunes froze on a strangely formatted
Hopefully the 4.1.1 release will fix these parsing fatalities so that directories can more easily be added.
Which "founding documents"?
I hope you're not talking about the constitution, because the word "god" doesn't appear in it at all.
If you mean the Declaration of Independence, then yes, "God" was mentioned once. But that is not a founding document of our nation, it has no power of law.
Mi parolas iom da esperanto, sed mi ne bladaux gxin lernas cxar lerneje mi nun studas la japanan.
Angle: I speak some esperanto, but I'm not still learning it because at school I'm now studying Japanese.
I took up Esperanto as a hobby. I didn't understand why I was so interested in it until almost a year later, when I realized that esperanto was like a programming language. Both are man-made... the range of Esperanto just happens to be a bit larger than, say, C.
Unfortunately esperanto has kludges and ambiguities that I'd prefer not to have in a designed language. Still, as a hobby, it can be fun. And you'd be hard-pressed to find a language that is as easy to learn (to speak) from books and online resources.
BTW, did you know that Radio Polonia gives daily internet radio broadcasts in Esperanto? (For those that want to hear what it sounds like.)
Gxis!