okay settle down and watch your mouth, you are not a child and not expected to act as such...if you are looking as to why simulation is important in finding the stability the idea is to determine when current stocks would loose their effectiveness through the inherent decay in the bomb (not so much as the half life of the material but more the more traditional interconnects), if you have a problem with this you may need to step back and examine the success of MAD throughout the second half of the century. It potentially reduced WWIII to a series of proxy fights much less damaging than a full out war....grow up
In other news, slashdot's new "ad stories" have begun today featuring an ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 7500 Video Card produced by ATI. As always, no actual fact checking was done to insure that this payed advertisement was actually factual and not missleading.
I know this is completely off topic but seriously, how many of you that run a properly configured 2k box ever have a BSOD or a crash that takes the system down. I loose apps , even explorer once or twice as i remember but have never not been able to hit ctrl-alt-del and run explorer agian. I think I have only got a reset (2k's version of a BSOD) once and that was when i was testing early beta drivers for a dvd card, something that could take down any machine.
Anyone else miss the classic cartoons that just aren't on tv very much anymore. I personally thought Garfield was the coolest show along with the Loony Toons and all those. Now all the cartoons are crazy half anime techno thrillers. Just doesn't appeal to me like Willey Coyote and RoadRunner.
I am really curious as to know peoples opinions on Ada. It is highly verbose and slightly annoying but overall the system seems well thought out. Class-wide programming seems straightforward enough and the compiler seems to catch just about everything that would cause cryptic C++ bugs. It takes a little longer because quick and dirty hacks aren't allowed, but overall it seems very good.
That sounds like a good idea the concept of "education" over a actually disiplinary action always sounds good. I think the big problem is not a lack of education, more a lack of care. Simply many of the asian ISP's don't find it in their interests to block the spammers or close the relays for one reason or another. As evident by the previous/. thread, when most are sent emails with instructions in their native language they simply do not comply or even formulate a reply in any language of any sort. Furthermore, the language barrier is not an excuse for poor admin. The internet, like air traffic and the postal service has adopted a psuedo official language. Its not cutural imperialism just common sense. We must be able to communicate and english happens to be the largest force, so we use that. Air traffic is the same way and i belive french is the offical international language for mail. I really think the only way to make it economically in their interests to behave like good net citizens is to pull the plug until they unscrew themselves, a little collective punishment can go a long way in forcing self regulation.
Why is Blizzard trying to shut down servers that emulate Battle.net? Servers that emulate Battle.net facilitate software piracy of Blizzard products by circumventing Blizzard's authentication code. Blizzard products are intellectual property, and we are well within our legal rights to protect our products from software piracy.
How do CD keys help reduce piracy? Blizzard uses two main methods to combat piracy: disc-based copy protection and CD keys. As part of the login process, Battle.net authenticates the user's CD key and prevents people from logging in with the same key or an invalid key.
Why doesn't Blizzard provide facilities that enable these emulators to authenticate CD keys through Battle.net? In order for us to keep our proprietary CD-key algorithms secure, we cannot allow outside servers to query for the validity of CD keys.
What about software that hasn't been released yet? Wouldn't it be better to have as many people testing the beta version of Warcraft III as possible, even if they are playing on non-Battle.net servers? The primary purposes of the Warcraft III Beta are to get play-balance feedback and to test our Battle.net servers. Our servers aren't tested if people are playing the Beta on rogue servers. Additionally, the Warcraft III Beta is not intended to be a product demo; when testing ends, we need the ability to terminate the Beta's functionality. Rogue servers eliminate our ability to expire beta versions of our products.
What about the hobbyists who are not pirating your software but just want to use these servers as an alternative to Battle.net? Unfortunately, software pirates have spoiled this situation for hobbyists. We are constantly working to improve Battle.net, and we sincerely hope that one day, no one will see any reason to seek alternatives to Battle.net for playing Blizzard games.
Your games sell millions of copies. Why do you care if a few people pirate your software? The sales success of a product should not exclude it from laws intended to protect intellectual property. Software piracy needs to be combated at all levels, and at Blizzard we intend to do our part to fight illegal distribution of copyrighted media.
the same could be said for any user with a win2k box. you must remember that the intellegence of the user base is the primary reason for linuxs higher apparent security. virus writters dont want to target thier "elite" os but are just happy screwing with families who run their windows machines and are unaware of patches and the need to apply them. on the matter of msft not releasing the exploits until they are fixed (like UPnP) would you have prefered they release the bug and ask for exploits or hurry to fix it before it is exploited. although i do understand that an annoucement without the bug fix would be much more fun for the usual slashdot bashing
the rangers do how a tradition of never leaving a man on the battlefield. I heard the story in Vietnam where an LT of a ranger platoon orders a PVT not to go after his buddy who was mortally shot. He went anyways and in the process was shot himself. His LT asks him why he went since now they are both dead and when he replies he responds with "because when i got there he told me that he knew i would come".
The genericness of the characters was on purpose. In combat it really doesn't matter who you are or what your rank is. One person may be making the calls but you all are risking your lives and fighting for the person next to you. The idea of this movie was to show the people what combat is really like, randomness and all. This was done in attempt to help inrease the Armed Forces image to the American public, a public who often feels that it could spit on soldiers for fighting a war that they were forced to fight. The American populace has a general apathy toward soldiers and their sacrifices and only truely care when their buts are in the fire. Maybe this movie will actually succeed in alerting the public to the great sacrifices our men and women in the Armed Forces make for pay that would make yall sick.
All of those argueing that since you have given your hard earned dollars to the university system and thus are entitled to your fare share of the results. Well that sounds all well and good but in reality your tax dollars really don't do much besides keep tution low. The collective funds that the tax payer contribute are just a drop in the bucket in terms of what it takes to run a major university system. Unless you want higher taxes I think the Universities should continue to profit from their independent research, its a neccessary evil
using hex PI is not random and there is a forumla which can generate the nth number of PI without knowing the previous numbers, check out wolframs mathworld
actually the simulators will let you roll over trees, when you where in training you were there for the training portion and thus they turned on the options so that if you hit anything you die. this is very good for inital training because you can't very well be rolling over the trees on the "drivers ed" course and when you are deployed for peacekepping, the local populace isn't to forgiving of friendly when you accidentally run over their barn, you can turn the realisim on the simulators up and you can roll over all the 3 foot thick trees you want
i hate to break this news to you but they have not canceled the land warrior system, it is fully functional and in use in some of the ranger units. having worked with this system on a limited ammount i can say that the millions have paid off. the tactical advantage it provides will undoubtably save countless american lives
Actually you just spoke of the gamblers falicy. Since the impact of an asteriod is an entirely binomial event, it either happens or it does not happen. Since the random variable (impact of asteriod) is independent (the fact that an asteriod hit yesterday has no bering on the fact that it will hit today) and mutually exclusive (an asteriod cannot hit and not hit), the fact that a asteriod hit years ago has no bearing on the probability that one will hit tommorow, the probability is always the same. If you are confused about this pick up a first year undergrad stats book.
Is the computing world really that boring today. I mean another flame war on kde vs. gnome or how microsoft sucks even microsoft office seems to run a whole lot better than staroffice, and not to mention the wonderful state of the latest browser. Seriously, does it really matter that a continent full of starving people can know sit and contemplate open source software and how it benifits them. The money used to provide the internet or the free cdroms could be much more beneficial, ummmm FEEDING THEM! How in the world did this story get posted. I understand that it does involve linux and that means that for some reason it is always important, but this isn't even funny. Can anyone please give a logical reason how this got posted?? anyone?
You are a truely stupid person! Hmmmm, as i recall the nukes were used well after the Japaneese (sp?) had been pushed back to the mainland islands. The nukes where used to avoid a costly land invasion of the mainlands (remember they tended to never surrender). At the time they figured that our lives where more impt. than theirs and this would save american lives, which as i recall were only in danger b/c they shot first. But then agian i may be wrong about Pearl Harbor . I really don't recall us having to many "embarassing military defeats" after Midway.
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okay settle down and watch your mouth, you are not a child and not expected to act as such...if you are looking as to why simulation is important in finding the stability the idea is to determine when current stocks would loose their effectiveness through the inherent decay in the bomb (not so much as the half life of the material but more the more traditional interconnects), if you have a problem with this you may need to step back and examine the success of MAD throughout the second half of the century. It potentially reduced WWIII to a series of proxy fights much less damaging than a full out war....grow up
In other news, slashdot's new "ad stories" have begun today featuring an ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 7500 Video Card produced by ATI. As always, no actual fact checking was done to insure that this payed advertisement was actually factual and not missleading.
I know this is completely off topic but seriously, how many of you that run a properly configured 2k box ever have a BSOD or a crash that takes the system down. I loose apps , even explorer once or twice as i remember but have never not been able to hit ctrl-alt-del and run explorer agian. I think I have only got a reset (2k's version of a BSOD) once and that was when i was testing early beta drivers for a dvd card, something that could take down any machine.
Anyone else miss the classic cartoons that just aren't on tv very much anymore. I personally thought Garfield was the coolest show along with the Loony Toons and all those. Now all the cartoons are crazy half anime techno thrillers. Just doesn't appeal to me like Willey Coyote and RoadRunner.
I am really curious as to know peoples opinions on Ada. It is highly verbose and slightly annoying but overall the system seems well thought out. Class-wide programming seems straightforward enough and the compiler seems to catch just about everything that would cause cryptic C++ bugs. It takes a little longer because quick and dirty hacks aren't allowed, but overall it seems very good.
That sounds like a good idea the concept of "education" over a actually disiplinary action always sounds good. I think the big problem is not a lack of education, more a lack of care. Simply many of the asian ISP's don't find it in their interests to block the spammers or close the relays for one reason or another. As evident by the previous /. thread, when most are sent emails with instructions in their native language they simply do not comply or even formulate a reply in any language of any sort. Furthermore, the language barrier is not an excuse for poor admin. The internet, like air traffic and the postal service has adopted a psuedo official language. Its not cutural imperialism just common sense. We must be able to communicate and english happens to be the largest force, so we use that. Air traffic is the same way and i belive french is the offical international language for mail. I really think the only way to make it economically in their interests to behave like good net citizens is to pull the plug until they unscrew themselves, a little collective punishment can go a long way in forcing self regulation.
Why is Blizzard trying to shut down servers that emulate Battle.net?
Servers that emulate Battle.net facilitate software piracy of Blizzard products by circumventing Blizzard's authentication code. Blizzard products are intellectual property, and we are well within our legal rights to protect our products from software piracy.
How do CD keys help reduce piracy?
Blizzard uses two main methods to combat piracy: disc-based copy protection and CD keys. As part of the login process, Battle.net authenticates the user's CD key and prevents people from logging in with the same key or an invalid key.
Why doesn't Blizzard provide facilities that enable these emulators to authenticate CD keys through Battle.net?
In order for us to keep our proprietary CD-key algorithms secure, we cannot allow outside servers to query for the validity of CD keys.
What about software that hasn't been released yet? Wouldn't it be better to have as many people testing the beta version of Warcraft III as possible, even if they are playing on non-Battle.net servers?
The primary purposes of the Warcraft III Beta are to get play-balance feedback and to test our Battle.net servers. Our servers aren't tested if people are playing the Beta on rogue servers. Additionally, the Warcraft III Beta is not intended to be a product demo; when testing ends, we need the ability to terminate the Beta's functionality. Rogue servers eliminate our ability to expire beta versions of our products.
What about the hobbyists who are not pirating your software but just want to use these servers as an alternative to Battle.net?
Unfortunately, software pirates have spoiled this situation for hobbyists. We are constantly working to improve Battle.net, and we sincerely hope that one day, no one will see any reason to seek alternatives to Battle.net for playing Blizzard games.
Your games sell millions of copies. Why do you care if a few people pirate your software?
The sales success of a product should not exclude it from laws intended to protect intellectual property. Software piracy needs to be combated at all levels, and at Blizzard we intend to do our part to fight illegal distribution of copyrighted media.
the same could be said for any user with a win2k box. you must remember that the intellegence of the user base is the primary reason for linuxs higher apparent security. virus writters dont want to target thier "elite" os but are just happy screwing with families who run their windows machines and are unaware of patches and the need to apply them. on the matter of msft not releasing the exploits until they are fixed (like UPnP) would you have prefered they release the bug and ask for exploits or hurry to fix it before it is exploited. although i do understand that an annoucement without the bug fix would be much more fun for the usual slashdot bashing
the rangers do how a tradition of never leaving a man on the battlefield. I heard the story in Vietnam where an LT of a ranger platoon orders a PVT not to go after his buddy who was mortally shot. He went anyways and in the process was shot himself. His LT asks him why he went since now they are both dead and when he replies he responds with "because when i got there he told me that he knew i would come".
The genericness of the characters was on purpose. In combat it really doesn't matter who you are or what your rank is. One person may be making the calls but you all are risking your lives and fighting for the person next to you. The idea of this movie was to show the people what combat is really like, randomness and all. This was done in attempt to help inrease the Armed Forces image to the American public, a public who often feels that it could spit on soldiers for fighting a war that they were forced to fight. The American populace has a general apathy toward soldiers and their sacrifices and only truely care when their buts are in the fire. Maybe this movie will actually succeed in alerting the public to the great sacrifices our men and women in the Armed Forces make for pay that would make yall sick.
All of those argueing that since you have given your hard earned dollars to the university system and thus are entitled to your fare share of the results. Well that sounds all well and good but in reality your tax dollars really don't do much besides keep tution low. The collective funds that the tax payer contribute are just a drop in the bucket in terms of what it takes to run a major university system. Unless you want higher taxes I think the Universities should continue to profit from their independent research, its a neccessary evil
using hex PI is not random and there is a forumla which can generate the nth number of PI without knowing the previous numbers, check out wolframs mathworld
actually the simulators will let you roll over trees, when you where in training you were there for the training portion and thus they turned on the options so that if you hit anything you die. this is very good for inital training because you can't very well be rolling over the trees on the "drivers ed" course and when you are deployed for peacekepping, the local populace isn't to forgiving of friendly when you accidentally run over their barn, you can turn the realisim on the simulators up and you can roll over all the 3 foot thick trees you want
i hate to break this news to you but they have not canceled the land warrior system, it is fully functional and in use in some of the ranger units. having worked with this system on a limited ammount i can say that the millions have paid off. the tactical advantage it provides will undoubtably save countless american lives
Actually you just spoke of the gamblers falicy. Since the impact of an asteriod is an entirely binomial event, it either happens or it does not happen. Since the random variable (impact of asteriod) is independent (the fact that an asteriod hit yesterday has no bering on the fact that it will hit today) and mutually exclusive (an asteriod cannot hit and not hit), the fact that a asteriod hit years ago has no bearing on the probability that one will hit tommorow, the probability is always the same. If you are confused about this pick up a first year undergrad stats book.
Is the computing world really that boring today. I mean another flame war on kde vs. gnome or how microsoft sucks even microsoft office seems to run a whole lot better than staroffice, and not to mention the wonderful state of the latest browser. Seriously, does it really matter that a continent full of starving people can know sit and contemplate open source software and how it benifits them. The money used to provide the internet or the free cdroms could be much more beneficial, ummmm FEEDING THEM! How in the world did this story get posted. I understand that it does involve linux and that means that for some reason it is always important, but this isn't even funny. Can anyone please give a logical reason how this got posted?? anyone?
You are a truely stupid person! Hmmmm, as i recall the nukes were used well after the Japaneese (sp?) had been pushed back to the mainland islands. The nukes where used to avoid a costly land invasion of the mainlands (remember they tended to never surrender). At the time they figured that our lives where more impt. than theirs and this would save american lives, which as i recall were only in danger b/c they shot first. But then agian i may be wrong about Pearl Harbor . I really don't recall us having to many "embarassing military defeats" after Midway.