> Not so with FFXI, which crashes if another window opens > while it's running. (You get a weird DirectX error.)
It doesn't crash, it just drops you back to PlayOnline; you get an PlayOnline error message saying it lost fullscreen mode (FFXI will only run in fullscreen mode as a security measure).
And, interestingly, turn-based strategy. My little DS can run the three incarnations of Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, FF:T Advance and Age of Empires (which is turn-based in the DS incarnation).
> The owner can eject somebody for cause (making a scene, acting inappropriately, etc), > but he cannot eject random people for no reason at all.
Of course he can. It's called "freedom of association". You have to right to refuse to do business or even allow on to your property anybody you damn well please as long as you don't break anti-discrimination laws. Being a business that normally serves the general public or a mall that normally admits the general public does not abrogate this right. The mall owner or his agents can go up to anybody and say, "You're not welcome here. Leave," and if they don't leave, they're trespassing, unless the person can show they were asked to leave because of their race, or some such.
Some readers may wonder how you can convict people of discrimination then, since the owner can always say it wasn't because a person was black, and is not normally under any requirement to provide a reason why he *did* eject him. The answer is that the courts tend to be particularly expansive in what evidence you can bring as a plaintiff in such a case--a popular method, and one generally approved the courts, is to show that a large number of people expelled by the mall owner happen to be black. If you can show that, then the owner will likely be convicted if he can't show a convincing non-discriminatory reason those people were thrown out.
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> Guild Wars handles this without problems.
Guild Wars instances almost all its content. Your "server" is simply which glorified chat room you use to start parties. That means load balancing servers is not necessary.
> Er...except its not. As you leave the atmosphere the gravitational force > decreases, air resistance decreases. Additionally since the center of mass of > the cable is in geosynchronous orbit or higher, the most strain on the cable > will be at the point where the earth is "tied down" to the cable.
Of course it will be; I never said differently. But that strain increases tremendously as you extend out the elevator. Making a base strong enough to hold the elevator when it's out to geosync orbit is the real problem. As far as I know, it's still pretty much an unsolved one, too.
> Temperature and radiation extremes are problematic, but solutions for these > problems already exist in current space technology. The only unsolved > problem that requires the full length is power for the lifter, and that can > be added to the design later.
I believe the general idea is to use counterweights. That's the whole point of having an elevator structure in the first place, after all.
> Perhaps the point is that the first mile is > significantly more difficult than the next 61,999?
Er...except it's not. As you leave the atmosphere there's temperature extremes...radiation...vacuum. Not to mention every mile you extend the elevator increases the strain the structure must support. The first mile is the *easiest*.
> I'd go so far as to say that self-signed SSL is essentially useless.
It's not useless if the sender and receiver know each other and the sender can give the receiver the certificate over a trusted channel. Self-signed SSL works reasonably well for, say, a corporation commnicating with its employees. For random people bouncing off a website, though, yeah, it's not worth a whole lot.
My absolute first computer was an IBM mainframe about which I can give you no details. I never saw it. I would submit my FORTRAN programs punched on cards to the college professor, and a day or two later, I'd get back the printout (and the program deck). Made for a slow debugging cycle, I can tell you.
The first computer I sat down and used interactively was an IBM 4341 at another college. It ran VM/370 as the base OS. We used an academic time-sharing program called MUSIC. I can remember playing Adventure on it. I actually got to interact directly with CMS a little later on.
The first PC I got to use was an Osborne 1 at that same college. Ran CP/M. 64K floppies were so *tiny* (and so was the screen)...
The first computer I *owned* was an IBM PC/XT, which I got beefed up with a 20 meg hard disk (instead of the standard 10) and two floppy drives. Ran PC-DOS 3.21.
> So by your logic all auto's should be banned in new york since they > can cause lung cancer via air pollution
Autos are an essential transportation facility without which the city would not function. Smoking...er, exactly what essential function does smoking provide, again?
...the trade does leave NBC without a first-string cartoon character, but he went on to state, "We're hopeful we can pick one up in next year's draft."
Er, no. Ford owns Volvo. GM owns Saab. GM owns Daewoo. Arguably, GM has control of Isuzu (and Isuzu's damn near dead anyways). Call it 10 1/2, not all that much more than "7 or 8".
> By your logic, Sam Walton must not know anything about the retail > industry because he hasn't worked in a store recently, or because > his stores are full of cheap crap.
Actually, I think Sam Walton doesn't know anything about the retail industry because he's been dead for about 14 years now.
> Really? look more carefully. All the ones you can buy now have a > green cross on them - at least in the UK/Europe.
Doesn't carry over to the US. The Johnson & Johnson bandages in my bathroom cabinet have a red cross on them...and a check of their website (http://www.bandaid.com/kits.shtml) indicates they still use it. It even has an (R) mark on it. They do include a disclaimer on the side of the package (and on the website) stating that "The RED CROSS design" is their registered trademark, and disclaiming any connection with the American Red Cross.
> And the only things Google's good for are serving ads, > aggregating your personal information to serve you more ads, > and rewriting otherwise-passable native applications in > JavaScript.
Actually, I heard they've introduced a search engine. It's supposed to be pretty good, you should try it.
> The kind of boss that is open to negative opinions -- > a rare, but very powerful beast.
A boss that will listen to your negative opinions when you bring them to him is indeed a powerful (and, alas, rarer than they should be) beast. A boss that will put up with you *publicly trashing your own project to the world*, is, uh, no. They don't do that. Especially when it's a consumer product that will survive or fail on how it is perceived by the public.
> Never use a CPU-intensive screensaver on a server. > Your ideal screensaver for that...
Windows folks are so cute sometimes. None of our servers have a screensaver...or a screen. Hell, almost none of them have framebuffers (graphics cards). What the hell does a server need with a graphics display that can't be more than few feet from the box?
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> Assuming that the CEO Admin Dragon doesn't smoke you out first.
Bah. I'll kill him with my bare hands!
Chris Mattern
Why have a Leela costume when you could have a Leela costume? Rowr.
Chris Mattern
You soooo need to go see _Shaun of the Dead_.
Chris Mattern
> Apparently the website linked in TFA heard from SOE's lawyers, and
> pulled the comments based on the NDA.
OMG, NFW.
Chris Mattern
> Not so with FFXI, which crashes if another window opens
> while it's running. (You get a weird DirectX error.)
It doesn't crash, it just drops you back to PlayOnline; you get an PlayOnline error message saying it lost fullscreen mode (FFXI will only run in fullscreen mode as a security measure).
Chris Mattern
> Handheld: Puzzle, sidescroller
And, interestingly, turn-based strategy. My little DS can run the three incarnations of Advance Wars, Fire Emblem, FF:T Advance and Age of Empires (which is turn-based in the DS incarnation).
Chris Mattern
> The owner can eject somebody for cause (making a scene, acting inappropriately, etc),
> but he cannot eject random people for no reason at all.
Of course he can. It's called "freedom of association". You have to right to refuse to do business or even allow on to your property anybody you damn well please as long as you don't break anti-discrimination laws. Being a business that normally serves the general public or a mall that normally admits the general public does not abrogate this right. The mall owner or his agents can go up to anybody and say, "You're not welcome here. Leave," and if they don't leave, they're trespassing, unless the person can show they were asked to leave because of their race, or some such.
Some readers may wonder how you can convict people of discrimination then, since the owner can always say it wasn't because a person was black, and is not normally under any requirement to provide a reason why he *did* eject him. The answer is that the courts tend to be particularly expansive in what evidence you can bring as a plaintiff in such a case--a popular method, and one generally approved the courts, is to show that a large number of people expelled by the mall owner happen to be black. If you can show that, then the owner will likely be convicted if he can't show a convincing non-discriminatory reason those people were thrown out.
Chirs Mattern
> Guild Wars handles this without problems.
Guild Wars instances almost all its content. Your "server" is simply which glorified chat room you use to start parties. That means load balancing servers is not necessary.
Chris Mattern
>> That example is far less disturbing than the allegorical Uncle
>> Jack and his horse...
> What?
"Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse."
Chris Mattern
> Er...except its not. As you leave the atmosphere the gravitational force
> decreases, air resistance decreases. Additionally since the center of mass of
> the cable is in geosynchronous orbit or higher, the most strain on the cable
> will be at the point where the earth is "tied down" to the cable.
Of course it will be; I never said differently. But that strain increases tremendously as you extend out the elevator. Making a base strong enough to hold the elevator when it's out to geosync orbit is the real problem. As far as I know, it's still pretty much an unsolved one, too.
> Temperature and radiation extremes are problematic, but solutions for these
> problems already exist in current space technology. The only unsolved
> problem that requires the full length is power for the lifter, and that can
> be added to the design later.
I believe the general idea is to use counterweights. That's the whole point of having an elevator structure in the first place, after all.
Chris Mattern
> Perhaps the point is that the first mile is
> significantly more difficult than the next 61,999?
Er...except it's not. As you leave the atmosphere there's temperature extremes...radiation...vacuum. Not to mention every mile you extend the elevator increases the strain the structure must support. The first mile is the *easiest*.
Chris Mattern
And I don't think a better comment on the process can be found than right here.
Chris Mattern
> I'd go so far as to say that self-signed SSL is essentially useless.
It's not useless if the sender and receiver know each other and the sender can give the receiver the certificate over a trusted channel. Self-signed SSL works reasonably well for, say, a corporation commnicating with its employees. For random people bouncing off a website, though, yeah, it's not worth a whole lot.
Chris Mattern
My absolute first computer was an IBM mainframe about which I can give you no details. I never saw it. I would submit my FORTRAN programs punched on cards to the college professor, and a day or two later, I'd get back the printout (and the program deck). Made for a slow debugging cycle, I can tell you.
The first computer I sat down and used interactively was an IBM 4341 at another college. It ran VM/370 as the base OS. We used an academic time-sharing program called MUSIC. I can remember playing Adventure on it. I actually got to interact directly with CMS a little later on.
The first PC I got to use was an Osborne 1 at that same college. Ran CP/M. 64K floppies were so *tiny* (and so was the screen)...
The first computer I *owned* was an IBM PC/XT, which I got beefed up with a 20 meg hard disk (instead of the standard 10) and two floppy drives. Ran PC-DOS 3.21.
Chris Mattern
> So by your logic all auto's should be banned in new york since they
> can cause lung cancer via air pollution
Autos are an essential transportation facility without which the city would not function. Smoking...er, exactly what essential function does smoking provide, again?
Chris Mattern.
...the trade does leave NBC without a first-string cartoon character, but he went on to state, "We're hopeful we can pick one up in next year's draft."
Chris Mattern
> Damn near twice that :)
Er, no. Ford owns Volvo. GM owns Saab. GM owns Daewoo. Arguably, GM has control of Isuzu (and Isuzu's damn near dead anyways). Call it 10 1/2, not all that much more than "7 or 8".
Chris Mattern
> By your logic, Sam Walton must not know anything about the retail
> industry because he hasn't worked in a store recently, or because
> his stores are full of cheap crap.
Actually, I think Sam Walton doesn't know anything about the retail industry because he's been dead for about 14 years now.
Chris Mattern
It was pretty good, but he hasn't updated in eight months.
Chris Mattern
> The Video Game just needs its Pollack, Beatles or Kubrick.
No, the Video Game needs its Cecil B. deMille; it needs the man who can define the medium in its own terms, not the terms of another medium.
Chris Mattern
> Really? look more carefully. All the ones you can buy now have a
> green cross on them - at least in the UK/Europe.
Doesn't carry over to the US. The Johnson & Johnson bandages in my bathroom cabinet have a red cross on them...and a check of their website (http://www.bandaid.com/kits.shtml) indicates they still use it. It even has an (R) mark on it. They do include a disclaimer on the side of the package (and on the website) stating that "The RED CROSS design" is their registered trademark, and disclaiming any connection with the American Red Cross.
Chris Mattern
> And the only things Google's good for are serving ads,
> aggregating your personal information to serve you more ads,
> and rewriting otherwise-passable native applications in
> JavaScript.
Actually, I heard they've introduced a search engine. It's supposed to be pretty good, you should try it.
Chris Mattern
As a wise man once said, "It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot, than to open it and remove all doubt."
Chris Mattern
> The kind of boss that is open to negative opinions --
> a rare, but very powerful beast.
A boss that will listen to your negative opinions when you bring them to him is indeed a powerful (and, alas, rarer than they should be) beast. A boss that will put up with you *publicly trashing your own project to the world*, is, uh, no. They don't do that. Especially when it's a consumer product that will survive or fail on how it is perceived by the public.
Chris Mattern
> Never use a CPU-intensive screensaver on a server.
> Your ideal screensaver for that...
Windows folks are so cute sometimes. None of our servers have a screensaver...or a screen. Hell, almost none of them have framebuffers (graphics cards). What the hell does a server need with a graphics display that can't be more than few feet from the box?