People who have been addicted to video games and that kind of thing can tell you that it's not like there's an "addiction hole" that has to be filled with some addiction. It's just something that consumes your attention and your schedule, but once you're off it for awhile you're OK and have no other addictions..
Well, the end goal is profit for facebook. So it probably won't go all the way to total non-privacy, just until releasing more info ceases to be more profitable.
I think those japanese mario world hacks are just so cool. They're a triumph of hacker ingenuity.
In case you didn't know, the tools for making custom mario world levels were created by disassembling the data from the game ROM (ex this) and documenting exactly what offsets corresponded to which parts of the levels, and exactly which values correspond to which enemies, exactly how sprites are stored and animated, etc. People have contributed tools for encoding custom music into the machine code, making custom graphics palettes, and custom overworlds. A lot of this stuff is far from just documenting the data formats; from what I know about it, the overworld was particularly tricky since there are multiple sprite layers, lots of animation, lots of panning around to separately-stored areas, custom movement code, and different views depending on your progress (like butter bridge appearing), all in a completely opaque binary format!
It's a shame that this kind of thing would be totally impossible with current games. Lots of games do have excellent mod support (particularly Valve's games and the Unreal Tournament series), but some don't, and today's 50MB game executables would be impenetrable.:(
Would you propose that the bill passing is determined by a sample from a probability distribution built from the voting results? Then you'd have lots of cases where more people voted no, but it passed anyway, which makes even less sense.
Her heart sank down and down, there was no bottom to death, she couldn’t come to the end of it. The blue light from Cornelia’s lampshade drew into a tiny point in the center of her brain, it flickered and winked like an eye, quietly it fluttered and dwindled. Granny laid curled down within herself, amazed and watchful, staring at the point of light that was herself; her body was now only a deeper mass of shadow in an endless darkness and this darkness would curl around the light and swallow it up. God, give a sign!
For a second time there was no sign. Again no bridegroom and the priest in the house. She could not remember any other sorrow because this grief wiped them all away. Oh, no, there’s nothing more cruel than this – I’ll never forgive it. She stretched herself with a deep breath, took out her cell phone, and fired off a quick tweet.
monopoly on the smartphone market like Microsoft had (and has) on the desktop operating system market
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You mean you couldn't care less. Sorry, grammar nazi mode from all those Xbox's.
People like you rally behind that grade-school definition because they've heard it before and want to look smart and elitist. But you're wrong.
People who have been addicted to video games and that kind of thing can tell you that it's not like there's an "addiction hole" that has to be filled with some addiction. It's just something that consumes your attention and your schedule, but once you're off it for awhile you're OK and have no other addictions..
Well, the end goal is profit for facebook. So it probably won't go all the way to total non-privacy, just until releasing more info ceases to be more profitable.
If the device violates their wireless standards then why the hell should they allow it to operate in their country?
Therein lies the problem. "Best Alternatives To the Big Name Social Media?" but Buzz is discarded because it's not Big Name!
Hehe, this one is what I think of.
I think those japanese mario world hacks are just so cool. They're a triumph of hacker ingenuity.
In case you didn't know, the tools for making custom mario world levels were created by disassembling the data from the game ROM (ex this) and documenting exactly what offsets corresponded to which parts of the levels, and exactly which values correspond to which enemies, exactly how sprites are stored and animated, etc. People have contributed tools for encoding custom music into the machine code, making custom graphics palettes, and custom overworlds. A lot of this stuff is far from just documenting the data formats; from what I know about it, the overworld was particularly tricky since there are multiple sprite layers, lots of animation, lots of panning around to separately-stored areas, custom movement code, and different views depending on your progress (like butter bridge appearing), all in a completely opaque binary format!
It's a shame that this kind of thing would be totally impossible with current games. Lots of games do have excellent mod support (particularly Valve's games and the Unreal Tournament series), but some don't, and today's 50MB game executables would be impenetrable. :(
Moving spots of high contrast (reflections off light skin against the dark makeup) would be even easier to detect though.
This just breaks one algorithm currently in use. If it actually became "geek chic" then they'd change the algorithm.
Free desktops are moving to all-SVG icons and graphics.
wha.. Huh?? That.. what?
*Stares in horror*
Would you propose that the bill passing is determined by a sample from a probability distribution built from the voting results? Then you'd have lots of cases where more people voted no, but it passed anyway, which makes even less sense.
They did make fun of Lao Tzu (Taoism) in Super Best Friends.
Consumer protection regulation is a lot stronger in the EU though. In the good ol USA, we're still being screwed by the free market.
A hundred Slashdot readers flooding them with bug reports at the last minute probably won't help either.
"Nattlie" Portman covered in grits? The meme went that I would pour hot grits down my pants to see Natalie Portman naked and petrified.
The word is only 30 years old; it doesn't make any sense to pedantically insist on an exact definition.
So why would you play an FPS on the Wii instead of on the PC?
Google obviously employs/employed Chinese citizens. They can't just fly everyone to another country and give them a new life.
Wut?
How many times did you reboot it?
All that extra power would bring hull integrity down approximately 7.6 percent
Her heart sank down and down, there was no bottom to death, she couldn’t come to the end of it. The blue light from Cornelia’s lampshade drew into a tiny point in the center of her brain, it flickered and winked like an eye, quietly it fluttered and dwindled. Granny laid curled down within herself, amazed and watchful, staring at the point of light that was herself; her body was now only a deeper mass of shadow in an endless darkness and this darkness would curl around the light and swallow it up. God, give a sign!
For a second time there was no sign. Again no bridegroom and the priest in the house. She could not remember any other sorrow because this grief wiped them all away. Oh, no, there’s nothing more cruel than this – I’ll never forgive it. She stretched herself with a deep breath, took out her cell phone, and fired off a quick tweet.
Further proof that geeky time-travel-inventors exploring the future first jump on slashdot to see what's going on, and then don't hesitate to post comments.
You're an idiot. The joke "layer 8 error" refers to human error, since there are only 7 layers in the 7-layer model.