For a really addictive game, that's like Tribes gone global, check out Planetside. You can easily pop in for a few kills with the instant action feature. It also lends itself easily to huge weekend campaigns.
Actually it isn't that surprising. QCast refuses to support non-Sony NICs. Everyone, like myself, who was an early adopter and used a USB NIC is screwed. Most net-play enabled PS2 games support USB NICs, but QCast blames problems supporting the wide range of USB NICs. Let's see... Sony agrees to sign the QCast CD, and then QCast says they can only support the Sony NIC.
Carbonated drinks would still require the standard restaurant setup with the separate water, syrup, and CO2.
Of course it wouldn't be impossible to make something that could vampire-suck an aluminum soda can. Any left overs in the can could be discarded if not used by X time, then on to the next can.
It would be difficult to accurately measure the flow rate unless you new the level of the fluid in the container. Remeber, height determines pressure in this case.
A better solution might be to use a sealed container and an air pump. The air pressure would push the fluid through the exit tube. Fish tank air pumps shouldn't pollute the air. Since the system could always be pressurized, they could still use their predetermined timing setup.
While working on a corporate intranet web app, I stumbled across an 'interesting feature' of Tomcat. For apparently no reason, my code would throw an exception from within the tomcat java libraries while processing GET/POST input.
I spent a few days reviewing my code before finally jumping into the Tomcat code itself. I checked it over and everything looked fine. After a little over a week of getting to know the Tomcat codebase better than I would have liked to, I found the bug in the HTML!
In Tomcat (or at least that older version), the code would crash when trying to parse the response from a malformed HTML form element. In this case the trouble was in the form "INPUT name=something value somevalue". You'll notice I accidentally left out a '='. I can't remember exactly what was happening, but the data the browser sent was only mildly awkward. Tomcat still shouldn't have died such a horrible death!
On another note, my second biggest bug was encountered while trying to write a spider. It's amazing how different web servers don't always follow the RFC!
If you read the docs for the more recent PHP engine, you'll find it only makes a copy upon a change to the variable. So, when you call a function without pass-by-reference, the passed variable is pointing to the origional (though it can never change the origional).
I'm a contractor working on a rural area community site. After going through various phases before I joined the project we are now partially under a state grant and trying to go for-profit. We've been relativly successful considering that we are located in northern california. Access to the area is limited by a few hundred miles of highway in any direction and a small airport. With the lumber and fishing industries going down hill we are struggling to get other indutries into the area, including IT. This community site is part of the effort to get local residents more involved with IT.
The 'portal' in question is HumGuide (http://www.humguide.com/).
I love GPL and Open Source as much as the next geek, but a sad truth must be told. What Open Source based company can even compare to MS? We are all being very idealistic on this topic. Making everything Open Source is a dream that will never be realized due to our capitalistic society. Keeping technological secrets gives a company an edge in their market if not at least for a little bit. If the company I worked for open sourced, we would be stomped by larger competitors stealing our ideas. Also, as the OS/2 maintainer pointed out, most of these things involve "deals" and "contracts" with other parties that hinder a truly open source/data corporate environment. We can continue to dream, but reality will always be there to slap us around like we're dirty little mac users.
I wonder why people such as this poster submit anonymously. However, he/she has a point.
Last I checked, slashdot as an organization is not a government agency that must follow all of the PC crap. It was started by americans and thus thats the way it is socially aligned. Nothing prevents others of different social groups to start their own site. If you don't like the fact they cover american holidays and such then stop coming to the damn URL. The real beauty of the Net is the ability to create your own site that is socially/politically aligned in whatever fashion you like.
The problem with today's world is that people complain about things that they go to see on there own accord. If you don't like something, than ignore it. If it is shoved into your face, then that appears to welcome a complaint. Otherwise, mind your own damn business and let the people who like it a certain way have there freedom to see it that way.
Microsoft is a large and bloated corporation that has many different arms. Not every industry is the same, and considering MS as whole in this case may be short sighted.
Personnaly, I worked for one of the first ASPs where almost half of the employees were from India. Granted that as time went by the ratio evened out more and more, but the fact was very noticable. I was rather happy to see a company take stock in a minority group as they did. I had co-workers/managers of almost every color I could think of and I never remember one instance of race being an issue. If there is racism in the software industry, than I must have been at one of the few software companies that appeared to be without it.
As we all must agree, the browser war ended with IE on top. Acquisition of Netscape by AOL was another nail in the coffin. I remember the days of the real Netscape when it was actually worth something. For the linux platform I use netscape, but for Windoze I can't help but use IE. It seems an opportune time for another player to enter the market. Even if this new player faulters and is lost along the way, at least it would stir things up and create competition in the market. Am I the only one that feels this way? Maybe the Mozilla team should move away from anything even slightly tied to Netscape and start from scratch.
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For a really addictive game, that's like Tribes gone global, check out Planetside. You can easily pop in for a few kills with the instant action feature. It also lends itself easily to huge weekend campaigns.
Actually it isn't that surprising. QCast refuses to support non-Sony NICs. Everyone, like myself, who was an early adopter and used a USB NIC is screwed. Most net-play enabled PS2 games support USB NICs, but QCast blames problems supporting the wide range of USB NICs. Let's see... Sony agrees to sign the QCast CD, and then QCast says they can only support the Sony NIC.
Damn, I hate to be the paranoid guy!
Carbonated drinks would still require the standard restaurant setup with the separate water, syrup, and CO2.
Of course it wouldn't be impossible to make something that could vampire-suck an aluminum soda can. Any left overs in the can could be discarded if not used by X time, then on to the next can.
It would be difficult to accurately measure the flow rate unless you new the level of the fluid in the container. Remeber, height determines pressure in this case.
A better solution might be to use a sealed container and an air pump. The air pressure would push the fluid through the exit tube. Fish tank air pumps shouldn't pollute the air. Since the system could always be pressurized, they could still use their predetermined timing setup.
While working on a corporate intranet web app, I stumbled across an 'interesting feature' of Tomcat. For apparently no reason, my code would throw an exception from within the tomcat java libraries while processing GET/POST input.
I spent a few days reviewing my code before finally jumping into the Tomcat code itself. I checked it over and everything looked fine. After a little over a week of getting to know the Tomcat codebase better than I would have liked to, I found the bug in the HTML!
In Tomcat (or at least that older version), the code would crash when trying to parse the response from a malformed HTML form element. In this case the trouble was in the form "INPUT name=something value somevalue". You'll notice I accidentally left out a '='. I can't remember exactly what was happening, but the data the browser sent was only mildly awkward. Tomcat still shouldn't have died such a horrible death!
On another note, my second biggest bug was encountered while trying to write a spider. It's amazing how different web servers don't always follow the RFC!
~Rob
If you read the docs for the more recent PHP engine, you'll find it only makes a copy upon a change to the variable. So, when you call a function without pass-by-reference, the passed variable is pointing to the origional (though it can never change the origional).
~Rob
I'm a contractor working on a rural area community site. After going through various phases before I joined the project we are now partially under a state grant and trying to go for-profit. We've been relativly successful considering that we are located in northern california. Access to the area is limited by a few hundred miles of highway in any direction and a small airport. With the lumber and fishing industries going down hill we are struggling to get other indutries into the area, including IT. This community site is part of the effort to get local residents more involved with IT.
The 'portal' in question is HumGuide (http://www.humguide.com/).
It aint just another rave drug. You too can be a coder...
It has a few things going for it.
** Faster than a turtle
** Anyone can code it
** Doesn't show up during random drug testing
They call the VGA port on the back of HDTVs a 'Progressive Scan' port.
I love GPL and Open Source as much as the next geek, but a sad truth must be told. What Open Source based company can even compare to MS? We are all being very idealistic on this topic. Making everything Open Source is a dream that will never be realized due to our capitalistic society. Keeping technological secrets gives a company an edge in their market if not at least for a little bit. If the company I worked for open sourced, we would be stomped by larger competitors stealing our ideas. Also, as the OS/2 maintainer pointed out, most of these things involve "deals" and "contracts" with other parties that hinder a truly open source/data corporate environment. We can continue to dream, but reality will always be there to slap us around like we're dirty little mac users.
I wonder why people such as this poster submit anonymously. However, he/she has a point.
Last I checked, slashdot as an organization is not a government agency that must follow all of the PC crap. It was started by americans and thus thats the way it is socially aligned. Nothing prevents others of different social groups to start their own site. If you don't like the fact they cover american holidays and such then stop coming to the damn URL. The real beauty of the Net is the ability to create your own site that is socially/politically aligned in whatever fashion you like.
The problem with today's world is that people complain about things that they go to see on there own accord. If you don't like something, than ignore it. If it is shoved into your face, then that appears to welcome a complaint. Otherwise, mind your own damn business and let the people who like it a certain way have there freedom to see it that way.
Microsoft is a large and bloated corporation that has many different arms. Not every industry is the same, and considering MS as whole in this case may be short sighted.
Personnaly, I worked for one of the first ASPs where almost half of the employees were from India. Granted that as time went by the ratio evened out more and more, but the fact was very noticable. I was rather happy to see a company take stock in a minority group as they did. I had co-workers/managers of almost every color I could think of and I never remember one instance of race being an issue. If there is racism in the software industry, than I must have been at one of the few software companies that appeared to be without it.
As we all must agree, the browser war ended with IE on top. Acquisition of Netscape by AOL was another nail in the coffin. I remember the days of the real Netscape when it was actually worth something. For the linux platform I use netscape, but for Windoze I can't help but use IE. It seems an opportune time for another player to enter the market. Even if this new player faulters and is lost along the way, at least it would stir things up and create competition in the market. Am I the only one that feels this way? Maybe the Mozilla team should move away from anything even slightly tied to Netscape and start from scratch.