I find it an interesting thought that the statement from the article quoted, "while imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, improvement can often be a slap in the face" is true for two competing hardware companies, the same could never really be said of contributions to open source software. You don't generally see too much complaint about open source developers using and building upon existing projects, or even outright borrowing the best features of competing projects (e.g. Gnome/KDE, Linux/BSDs).
Why not create an XML schema for documentation, then use something like XSLT or XQuery (implemented in Qexo, part of GNU Kawa) to create valid XHTML (or plain HTML, plain text and others...)? This future proofs against any new web paradigm and gives complete separation of design from content.
Okay, so it's late and I was tired... but the first thing I tried when I reached for a calculator was reversing 196 (=691) and adding the sum of the digits (1+9+6). Adding them both together gives 707 (a palindrome).
Spooky or what?
But seriously, could this have anything to do with why it may have this odd property?
That's funny, I only have the one account. And I only say something when I have anything mildly interesting to mention. So.. well, I think it's a case of karma evny doctor...
The largest part of the campaign actually seems to not be so much that they want your help, but that they want to politely ask you to not go an muck stuff up that you shouldn't...
Funny how among all this talk of a war against terrorism nobody makes mention of anyone other than "islamic fundamentalists"...
Interesting how the US doesn't include the IRA in this... I'm not against the goals of the IRA, but they are terrorists, and the US has done little over the years to reduce American support of them.
Also from this example... the British Army went to war against the Republicans (shoot to kill policy and all that...), and look exactly how far it got them...
Many people in America seem to be out for revenge, but how can you attack people who have already given up their lives in suicide attacks?
They are doing console hames, witness the porting of Deus Ex to PS2, and the fact that both Thief 3 and Deus Ex 2 are being concurrently developed on PC/Console.
Actually, most of those banner ads use Javascript, which is pretty far removed from pure Java, and it is not going to be removed from WindowsXP, it simply has far too great market penetration.
Actually it won't support DVD out of the box anymore, you'll need to buy an add-on pack. Supposedly this is because all the people who bought PS2 and were forced to use their controlers and got pissed with it. The add-on pack will contain Microsoft's DVD software and Remote Control. Probably just another way to make sure you buy the Microsoft Remote. Although how long before you get a regionless third-party DVD player on X-Box? Roll on!
The funniest thing was that using gerbals worked, in that they sensed the "smell of fear". The online problem was that the were too sensitive, I mean wouldn't most people be a little scared getting interogated, nevermind what they're actually asking?
Another use that was put around would be to detect bomb carrying passagers in planes, although this too couldn't work, for far too many people are nervous about flying....
Banning companies from pursing debts from Australians seems a much better way of "banning" online gambling as any other way I can think. At least it puts the onus on the websites rather than the government being forced to go after each person.
Of course the way round it is for for the website operator to require a downpayment before gambling occurs, up to the maximum loss possible.
Most of what you mention can be modelled. Equipment failure, certainly. As for people going mad/deserting... that's not too hard to put in the AI as a random occurance/possible behavior.
They don't always die... I mean if you go forward a bit, and *back up* your team mates they don't die. I only had five people in my squad at the end of the demo level.
The last thing advertising companies actually want to do with their adverts is annoy you. Suprisingly isn't it, considering how badly they do...
Pester power might work for kids, but adverts that plain annoy aren't likely to get me buying the product, time they learn that.
They can do it now, just not in real time.
And I'll sell you a video card can render pitch-black rooms photorealistically.
Seriously, the time is coming. Extremely high end workstations still need hours to render single frames of CGI for film, but it's decreasing.
Every hear of those people in maufacturing services.. where are they now with the introduction of technology into manufacture...
Technolgy WILL make monitoring easier and easier as time goes on (as well as making it harder through encyription)...
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I find it an interesting thought that the statement from the article quoted, "while imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, improvement can often be a slap in the face" is true for two competing hardware companies, the same could never really be said of contributions to open source software. You don't generally see too much complaint about open source developers using and building upon existing projects, or even outright borrowing the best features of competing projects (e.g. Gnome/KDE, Linux/BSDs).
Why not create an XML schema for documentation, then use something like XSLT or XQuery (implemented in Qexo, part of GNU Kawa) to create valid XHTML (or plain HTML, plain text and others...)? This future proofs against any new web paradigm and gives complete separation of design from content.
Okay, so it's late and I was tired... but the first thing I tried when I reached for a calculator was reversing 196 (=691) and adding the sum of the digits (1+9+6). Adding them both together gives 707 (a palindrome).
Spooky or what?
But seriously, could this have anything to do with why it may have this odd property?
That's funny, I only have the one account. And I only say something when I have anything mildly interesting to mention. So.. well, I think it's a case of karma evny doctor...
Lets see exactly how long their lovely new webserver stands up to a slashdoting... :)
(Maybe they just sent this so they could test it? Plan.)
The largest part of the campaign actually seems to not be so much that they want your help, but that they want to politely ask you to not go an muck stuff up that you shouldn't...
Just a guess, but something along the lines of land or home?
Funny how among all this talk of a war against terrorism nobody makes mention of anyone other than "islamic fundamentalists"...
Interesting how the US doesn't include the IRA in this... I'm not against the goals of the IRA, but they are terrorists, and the US has done little over the years to reduce American support of them.
Also from this example... the British Army went to war against the Republicans (shoot to kill policy and all that...), and look exactly how far it got them...
Many people in America seem to be out for revenge, but how can you attack people who have already given up their lives in suicide attacks?
They are doing console hames, witness the porting of Deus Ex to PS2, and the fact that both Thief 3 and Deus Ex 2 are being concurrently developed on PC/Console.
Actually, most of those banner ads use Javascript, which is pretty far removed from pure Java, and it is not going to be removed from WindowsXP, it simply has far too great market penetration.
The main patent you refer to was filed in 1983, not 1973. But your math is still right...
Actually it won't support DVD out of the box anymore, you'll need to buy an add-on pack. Supposedly this is because all the people who bought PS2 and were forced to use their controlers and got pissed with it. The add-on pack will contain Microsoft's DVD software and Remote Control. Probably just another way to make sure you buy the Microsoft Remote. Although how long before you get a regionless third-party DVD player on X-Box? Roll on!
Blame it on the europeans... oh yeah, nice one. It was probably just that this particular solution they've choosen was developed someone in Europe.
The funniest thing was that using gerbals worked, in that they sensed the "smell of fear". The online problem was that the were too sensitive, I mean wouldn't most people be a little scared getting interogated, nevermind what they're actually asking? Another use that was put around would be to detect bomb carrying passagers in planes, although this too couldn't work, for far too many people are nervous about flying....
Banning companies from pursing debts from Australians seems a much better way of "banning" online gambling as any other way I can think. At least it puts the onus on the websites rather than the government being forced to go after each person. Of course the way round it is for for the website operator to require a downpayment before gambling occurs, up to the maximum loss possible.
Most of what you mention can be modelled. Equipment failure, certainly. As for people going mad/deserting... that's not too hard to put in the AI as a random occurance/possible behavior.
They don't always die... I mean if you go forward a bit, and *back up* your team mates they don't die. I only had five people in my squad at the end of the demo level.
It's the equivilent of sales tax, so in some places that knocks it down to 12.5%. So it's still 10%+ more.
It's not competing platforms. Sadly Dreamcast died a quick death, and Sega are keen to move on.
The last thing advertising companies actually want to do with their adverts is annoy you. Suprisingly isn't it, considering how badly they do... Pester power might work for kids, but adverts that plain annoy aren't likely to get me buying the product, time they learn that.
They can do it now, just not in real time. And I'll sell you a video card can render pitch-black rooms photorealistically. Seriously, the time is coming. Extremely high end workstations still need hours to render single frames of CGI for film, but it's decreasing.
I just pray we don't get a Gaussian Blur plug-in, I like my data as it is.
Every hear of those people in maufacturing services.. where are they now with the introduction of technology into manufacture... Technolgy WILL make monitoring easier and easier as time goes on (as well as making it harder through encyription)...
Nope, 'cause they're based in the US, and as of right now, don't need to recognise that law...
Anyway, anything that you put on the web is basically free for anyone, not legally, or morally, but becuase it's just so damn simple to copy...
Modern games have automatic downloading for maps, models and skins (and decals (HL))... Skins ain't that big anyways, too low resoulution...