because the universe always goes from state A to state B and never from state B to state A
On a Macro scale over a short period of time this may be true, but over the life of the universe scientists still don't know if were going to end up in a 'big crunch' or not and we could always have another 'big bang' like the reset switch being flipped. It's almost stupid to even try to guess what 'created' the universe but from all the available evidence is reasonable to ASSUME that the universe created itself (just like the Universe created you, and the thoughts you have).
The rest you say don't make any sense. The rest of the comment was to try and keep my post on topic.
I have code on a modern HDD that I typed into a BBC computer 15+ years ago fro ma magazine.
I took it off of tape, via the BBC and a serial lead, I have all my chickens and all my eggs. So long as you move to a newer form of media before the old one perishes then your going to be OK.
I think it's a Chinese whisper problem not a chicken and egg problem, what happens when inaccuracies are introduces
e.g. Someone writes a file in a odd charset, nobody notices that the charset is different from ASCI when they convert the file into unicode. In 20 years time will someone notice that the file has been converted badly or will they think it's corruption? What happens when there are lots of tiny conversion errors like this.
I agree, infact I think we should completely remove schools from the system and burn all the books in case people get a clue....
What's wrong with people giving other people a clue when it clearly appears to be missing? Child care isn't some mysterious thing like 'God' and people defiantly need to be educated instead of letting them fuck up.
I think one reason why parents don't care what their kids buy is because they used to watch R rated films when they were younger and they didn't all turn into mass murders, and that's fair enough (they'll probably talk to their children more too) but the people who just use those things as baby sitters defiantly need to get a clue, enforcing age controle doesn't prevent 'children' from seeing 'adult' material, it does make sure the parents have some kind of clue.
What a load of crap, if your talking thermodynamics then it's reasonable to ASSUME that everything has always existed, the Universe may have had a start and some people believe that things like time didn't exist before the Universe but the only creator required is the Universe it's self, you could say that Universe was 'God' but that's a mu argument.
Anyhow, the papers report all kinds of shit it doesn't matter if it's science, religion or that a maniac rampaged down the streets raping young babies, journolists never have enough time to bother with the facts and if people wanted to read facts they would buy books of mathematical tables, it's just like Mc Donalds doesn't sell 'health food', sure many people may wish it did, but it doesn't.
To date, there are no known viruses that specifically target Mac OS X.
I don't think that they have to 'specifically' target Mac OS X, I know jobs likes lockin just as much as gates but a freebsd virus that can run on Mac OS X is just as good as one that targets Mac OS X.
From where I'm standing it looks like stupid people are reproducing far more than intelligent people (e.g. the stupid people who listen to the pope about contraception!), so if anything were devolving.
Just look at some of the other things the people are selling and ask yourself, where the hell did that lot come from? Ebay is perfect for selling stolen goods.
Well, howcome someone sends me an email saying that the good are stolen, I report it to eBay and nothing happens.
And while you at it, go buy a laptop, and remove anything that turns up in the search that isn't a laptop.
You may also like to search for hardware being sole that has software installed where the seller says "it's the buyers responsibility to provide a license, but I've installed it anyway", that's also illegal.
Not to mention the number of probably stolen goods listed (I know their stolen, I know people who do the steeling!!)
It depends, here in the UK it's counted as personal income (unless your registered as self employed), that's taxed at between 25 and 40% with the possibility of national insurance on top.
How are they going to make money with it? I though all Ebay/paypal were good for was supporting criminals and tax dodgers. (I stopped buying anything on EBay when it became apparent that more than 50% of the advertised products were scams, stole, or pirated, and I don't know anyone who declares money received through paypal to the tax man)
I've seen the game on sale in most, if not all, games shops and in some it makes it into the #10 (though maybe this is the review chart and not the sales chart?)
I think it needs to be broken up into smaller chunks... I've got a tonne of DirectX related work to do at the moment, I'll get the DIB patch committed after that (unless someone else already has)
'Which would be exactly the opposite that the original complainants were attempting to achieve, no?'
I don't see anything about Corporate America that doesn't want people to make as much money as possible (and the be separated from it just as quickly!)
You know that you should also make it work server side, client side validation should be a 'bells and whistles' feature not a requirement for operation.
Last time I tried to write anything that wasn't w3c I searched on the web and found a script that made all browsers look the same, that was 5 years ago if it's not easy nowadays then you should be looking for another job.
Or you could help to fix or identify the parts of Wine that still need some work (Like Corel did for their port) or you could use winelib like Borland have done.
Currently, support for games under Wine is a little bit mixed but there's a lot of heavy development going into Gaming at the moment so expect things to improve at a rapid rate.
Using Wine to port the game would, in theory, be the fastest way and performance and stability should be very close to a native Linux application. It's also very good for the comunity because it will help Wine come up-to scratch for gaming support allowing more native Windows games to be played on Linux which can only be good for everyone (well unless you want to port to Linux because of lack of competition!)
The guys at codeweavers provide commercial support for applications under Wine, so it may be worth dropping them an Email
Some people appear make a living out of it. Top Coder run competitions on a monthly basis (e.g. who can write the best version of a s/foo/bar).. It's not open to people outside the US though.
I was trying to measure some very basic matrix, so that things like familiarity could be measured against them, at the very basic pointer level every UI element is a box that needs to be clicked (or have focus drawn to)
Personally I find keyboard shoutcuts far faster than anything I can do with a mouse, but I didn't have any stats to back my assumptions up nore could I find any, the idea was to produce those basic stats and then extend the experent to more complex UIs.
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How very religious of you, you missed out the first law.
The first law of thermodynamics is the application of the conservation of energy principle to heat and thermodynamic processes
because the universe always goes from state A to state B and never from state B to state A
On a Macro scale over a short period of time this may be true, but over the life of the universe scientists still don't know if were going to end up in a 'big crunch' or not and we could always have another 'big bang' like the reset switch being flipped. It's almost stupid to even try to guess what 'created' the universe but from all the available evidence is reasonable to ASSUME that the universe created itself (just like the Universe created you, and the thoughts you have).
The rest you say don't make any sense.
The rest of the comment was to try and keep my post on topic.
I have code on a modern HDD that I typed into a BBC computer 15+ years ago fro ma magazine.
I took it off of tape, via the BBC and a serial lead, I have all my chickens and all my eggs. So long as you move to a newer form of media before the old one perishes then your going to be OK.
I think it's a Chinese whisper problem not a chicken and egg problem, what happens when inaccuracies are introduces
e.g. Someone writes a file in a odd charset, nobody notices that the charset is different from ASCI when they convert the file into unicode. In 20 years time will someone notice that the file has been converted badly or will they think it's corruption? What happens when there are lots of tiny conversion errors like this.
Keeping food fresh is pretty important, though.
and that's easy enough to do without a fridge, the fridge is only a hundred of so years old and people have been about a bit longer that that (even if you only think it's 3000 years)
Bananas contain serotonin precursors, they would have made you GF more happy and she may not have left.
I agree, infact I think we should completely remove schools from the system and burn all the books in case people get a clue....
What's wrong with people giving other people a clue when it clearly appears to be missing? Child care isn't some mysterious thing like 'God' and people defiantly need to be educated instead of letting them fuck up.
I think one reason why parents don't care what their kids buy is because they used to watch R rated films when they were younger and they didn't all turn into mass murders, and that's fair enough (they'll probably talk to their children more too) but the people who just use those things as baby sitters defiantly need to get a clue, enforcing age controle doesn't prevent 'children' from seeing 'adult' material, it does make sure the parents have some kind of clue.
What a load of crap, if your talking thermodynamics then it's reasonable to ASSUME that everything has always existed, the Universe may have had a start and some people believe that things like time didn't exist before the Universe but the only creator required is the Universe it's self, you could say that Universe was 'God' but that's a mu argument.
Anyhow, the papers report all kinds of shit it doesn't matter if it's science, religion or that a maniac rampaged down the streets raping young babies, journolists never have enough time to bother with the facts and if people wanted to read facts they would buy books of mathematical tables, it's just like Mc Donalds doesn't sell 'health food', sure many people may wish it did, but it doesn't.
To date, there are no known viruses that specifically target Mac OS X.
I don't think that they have to 'specifically' target Mac OS X, I know jobs likes lockin just as much as gates but a freebsd virus that can run on Mac OS X is just as good as one that targets Mac OS X.
From where I'm standing it looks like stupid people are reproducing far more than intelligent people (e.g. the stupid people who listen to the pope about contraception!), so if anything were devolving.
Just look at some of the other things the people are selling and ask yourself, where the hell did that lot come from? Ebay is perfect for selling stolen goods.
Well, howcome someone sends me an email saying that the good are stolen, I report it to eBay and nothing happens.
And while you at it, go buy a laptop, and remove anything that turns up in the search that isn't a laptop.
You may also like to search for hardware being sole that has software installed where the seller says "it's the buyers responsibility to provide a license, but I've installed it anyway", that's also illegal.
Not to mention the number of probably stolen goods listed (I know their stolen, I know people who do the steeling!!)
I know, it's more like 60% of people who're running scams and selling stolen goods.
It depends, here in the UK it's counted as personal income (unless your registered as self employed), that's taxed at between 25 and 40% with the possibility of national insurance on top.
maybe they should try France and Germany etc.. first. Europe is a much larger trading block than the US anyway.
How are they going to make money with it? I though all Ebay/paypal were good for was supporting criminals and tax dodgers. (I stopped buying anything on EBay when it became apparent that more than 50% of the advertised products were scams, stole, or pirated, and I don't know anyone who declares money received through paypal to the tax man)
it says they self published in the UK,
It's still odd that they seem to be doing OK here but can't get a US publisher.
maybe he forgot to take the ear plugs out?
I've seen the game on sale in most, if not all, games shops and in some it makes it into the #10 (though maybe this is the review chart and not the sales chart?)
I think it needs to be broken up into smaller chunks... I've got a tonne of DirectX related work to do at the moment, I'll get the DIB patch committed after that (unless someone else already has)
'Which would be exactly the opposite that the original complainants were attempting to achieve, no?'
I don't see anything about Corporate America that doesn't want people to make as much money as possible (and the be separated from it just as quickly!)
There's a DIB engine kicking around that should speed the game up, I'm not sure why it's not in wine-cvs yet though!
You know that you should also make it work server side, client side validation should be a 'bells and whistles' feature not a requirement for operation.
Last time I tried to write anything that wasn't w3c I searched on the web and found a script that made all browsers look the same, that was 5 years ago if it's not easy nowadays then you should be looking for another job.
Or you could help to fix or identify the parts of Wine that still need some work (Like Corel did for their port) or you could use winelib like Borland have done.
Currently, support for games under Wine is a little bit mixed but there's a lot of heavy development going into Gaming at the moment so expect things to improve at a rapid rate.
Using Wine to port the game would, in theory, be the fastest way and performance and stability should be very close to a native Linux application. It's also very good for the comunity because it will help Wine come up-to scratch for gaming support allowing more native Windows games to be played on Linux which can only be good for everyone (well unless you want to port to Linux because of lack of competition!)
The guys at codeweavers provide commercial support for applications under Wine, so it may be worth dropping them an Email
Well, the email I received said that I wouldn't received any money if I lived outside the US, not that I couldn't take part.
Some people appear make a living out of it.
Top Coder run competitions on a monthly basis (e.g. who can write the best version of a s/foo/bar).. It's not open to people outside the US though.
I was trying to measure some very basic matrix, so that things like familiarity could be measured against them, at the very basic pointer level every UI element is a box that needs to be clicked (or have focus drawn to)
Personally I find keyboard shoutcuts far faster than anything I can do with a mouse, but I didn't have any stats to back my assumptions up nore could I find any, the idea was to produce those basic stats and then extend the experent to more complex UIs.