You would actually have to have quite a bit of intelligence to represent that "date". It can't be done directly Sure it can. It's before the epoch, so you can't have a file time stamp with that date but cal(1) can print a calendar for the month of August, 1945.
The number of the year is highly cultural. 1945 is also Showa 20 and more importantly Koki year 2605. The Koki year is the most important as that calendar system not coincidentally died at the same time the bombs were dropped.
The most "portable" representation would be the Julian day number as that is independent of what calendar system is being used. In that case, the correct answer is 2431674.
Have any of you lost the power supply in a PC? I've lost three, but only one was in a PC class machine. First was an m68k box on a hot August day in a house with no air conditioning, a Sun 3/260 in an area where the air conditioning had been turned off over the weekend to "save money" and the third was on a Lenovo notebook computer.
I've had two monitors lose their power supplies as well.
It is 2008. Why don't they wait for the free market to solve this one now? As far as I can see, they're solving it now. Dead tree books don't stand a chance in the jungle.
I've seen a (private elementary) school "library" that consisted of a huge college intro to Shakespeare and a couple of high school level science books (in English). If this project can bring reading material to kids who would otherwise have no access whatsoever to written material, I'm all for it.
It's more like they are very common hot-keys for any GUI app. C-SPC, C-w/M-w, C-y work just fine for me and we were using those keys before there was a Microsoft Windows, Linux or even modern Unix.
Sheesh, I'm glad I quit playing at level 40. Everybody kept saying "wait until the endgame, then it gets fun." That's too bad. Level 40ish was probably the hardest, most boring part of the game. That's been fixed, of course. In large part it was due to running into a wall where you had to find groups for every quest sequence.
Now, you can play solo if you want or group up. The tedium of leveling between 20 and 60 has been considerably reduced. Repair costs have been adjusted by adding additional vendor bonuses for Revered and Exalted reputation. The variety of quests has been increased - one quest sequence in Shattrath has you going around collecting unpaid bills for an Ogre in the local bar, another quest sequence in Nagrand has you running around picking up monster droppings. Advanced endgame daily quests has you using your flying mount to drop bombs on things on the ground.
Wait, "kill 10 bears" then "kill 10 scorpions" then "find 10 doodads" ad nauseum in order to get from level 23 to level 24 is not the "annoying repetitive grind"? To each his own and WoW is not the game for you. May I ask what you do consider fun in an MMORPG?
Hopefully you're right and with the demise of WoW we'll see more interesting MMORPGs that have the same draw of the number of people that made WoW worth playing. Hopefully, you both are wrong.
If you fail to understand why WoW is the sucessful game that it is, you won't be able to come up with a replacement.
I'm not much into PvP and have ignored all the Arena stuff, but I've had no problem finding content beyond the level 70 cap that I enjoy.
Add to that the growing number of expansion packs that are needed for the entire experience and you could have already bought one or two games that don't require a monthly fee. Furthermore, everyone I know that plays an MMO pays for two accounts so that they can play with their wife or husband. That's still not a big deal. Movies tend to bore me. I've got said 2 family accounts. I'll be in line to purchase WotLK when it is released.
In no particular order:
1. I like grinding games. What makes or breaks a game for me is how long it takes to get bored. I've been bored with WoW at times, I didn't play at all between Christmas and April, for example. The boredom has never lasted and I'm back to leveling my second level 70.
2. Blizzard is unusually responsive to real criticism of game mechanics. I started playing about a month before the BC expansion. In that time, there has been a steady improvement on all the issues of the game that have irritated me the most. I'm sorely displeased with what they did to boar pets in the last patch, but I guess that just means I'll have to change specs on my hunter. The other changes they made, the new island, etc. were all positive, welcome additions.
3. It's a computer game that works on systems I use. I play on a Mac Powerbook Pro. WoW is also a platinum Wine application. Will Age of Conan or Warhammer support Mac OS X?
Basically, the cost is negligable compared to the amount of enjoyment I've gotten out of playing it. That's me and apparently to many others as well because the subscription base keeps growing.
In regard to this question of quality vs. quantity, where is the line between "censored" and "moderated"? In my opinion, the line is drawn when one can have posts and posting privileges removed for expressing an opinion. The official WoW forums are moderated but not censored.
The WoW forums get many, many, many times as many posts...yet most of it is total crap. You are too kind. It's difficult to find any signal at all. It's an interesting idea, posting as your in-game characters, but horribly executed. Breaking up discussion by class is an open invitation for endless whining and flaming. By comparison, thottbot, which breaks discussion up by quest, item, recipe/spell, etc. and has up/down soft moderation similar to slashdot is a lot easier to find content you are interested in and the most worthless stuff ("this quest is easy as pie, I don't know what all the fuss is") disappears as quickly as a goatse link.
I will check out the EJ forums later as I *am* interested in real discussion.
That being said, 20% in the USA surprises me. I *have* lived in the 3rd world (Mindanano) and 20% would seem about right there. If you equate SMS text messaging with email, 20% would be high there too.
He was fired from his job and died a few months later. I don't think that was murder any more than I think this suicide case is murder.
And on a related note: http://www.voyager.cz/tos/epizody/43troubletribblestrans.htm
Mr. Scott: Well, Captain, uh... the Klingons called you, uh... a tin-plated, overbearing, swaggering dictator with delusions of godhood. Kirk: Is that all? Mr. Scott: No, sir. They also compared you with a Denibian slime devil. Kirk: I get the picture. Mr. Scott: Yes, sir. Kirk: After they said all this, that's when you hit the Klingons? Mr. Scott: No, sir. Kirk: No? Mr. Scott: No, uh... I didn't. You told us to avoid trouble.
See, it would be one thing if they just flat out stated what they were doing, "It's in our corporate best interests to make sure that everyone learns to use our software, so we're going to make this cheap laptop and put Windows on it and sell it to third world kids." I would actually have a little grudging respect for that. US$3 is *not* a trivial amount in the 3rd world, but I expect the Microsoft Fanboys to mod me down as usual. I live in the 3rd world and you don't. so have at me.
I think this is a *huge* sellout and I don't have any respect for it. None, whatever the explanation.
The situation in China is obviously far worse, but instead of patting ourselves on the back and going on about evil Chinese and how much better we are, it would be wise to draw some parallels. I would disagree China being obviously far worse. I think it's about the same. As to a percentage, I would be most surprised if you could come up with even 1% of americans who do not believe that the Internet should be controlled and managed by the government. Whether it be the pursuit of child pornographers, terrorists, spammers, copyright violators, etc. So actually, 85% versus 99+% sounds kind of low.
When I was in Beijing, I tried visiting various alternative news sites and guess what, none of them were blocked.
This is baseless speculation, but one wonders if the Chinese government took any measures to predict the recent Earthquake. If they did, one is forced to wonder if they made any attempt to evacuate their citizens. If they didn't, well, why the fuck not? You spoiled an otherwise insightful post with that last bit. In the third world, which nearly all of China by area is, weather kills people. Building codes don't mean anything when people are not living in "permanent" housing.
I should have mentioned that if the guy wants to require harsher registration for comments at his own site, well that's his right and has nothing to do with free speech, since speech on a private site has no guarantee of freedom to begin with. Absolutely correct. I probably should have mentioned that too, though it should go without saying.
Slashdot allows anonymous posting, we suffer through the occasional trolls (measured by volumes of posts), but it has been around *forever* on Internet terms and will be around pretty much as long as the folks running it want it to stay around.
Dead tree newspapers are a dying industry. And let's face it. Is it more important to kill a tree to get crappy news when you can read articles edited by kdawson to get crappy news without killing any trees? Does *any* newspaper/website have as vibrant a discussion as Slashdot? (Politico.com is close, though I suggest folks read through "on-topic" stuff there before deciding that slashdot trolls are the worst of all evil).
I was once being driven by someone who turned her head directly at me and asked me "Why do you always criticize my driving?" *Boom* - she rearended the guy in front of her. Thank god it was low speed in a parking lot.
The precedent has been set. Nearly all people drive OK when they've been drinking, some don't with catastrophic consequences and now it's illegal for everyone. If you can justify criminal penalties when driving while drunk (which is reasonable, in my opinion, though not the way it's being enforced now), then similar distractions ought to bear the same penalties. Be consistent!
I lived near a women's college when I lived in Tokyo. The only time my health was in danger on the sidewalks was from students riding bicycles while talking on cell phones and smoking at the same time.
The only time I've ever been responsible for an accident was when I was driving with a Big Gulp between my legs and I squeezed the cup a bit too hard and soda spurted out over my lap. Dang. If it had been McDonald's coffee, I'd have been a millionaire.
While I'm happy that you think books on tape might have helped your driving, it's really the same confidence people have when driving drunk.
Sure i hate the GNAA & the rest of the trolls as much as anybody else, Nope, sorry. I don't hate them. I just don't care and skip over them.
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech even when you don't care for what you are hearing.
If you think GNAA, goatse, etc. are the worst of slashdot, you haven't brought a brain to the table.
if it there were no consequences id require that you have to give you name & address to post just so I could go round and shut those stupid little twats up, but what hes talking about would stop 90% of posts and its just not worth it. The point is that there *are* consequences to full identification. Lines being drawn now on what constitutes "hate" speech are frightening.
To name a silly but sad example, I was participating in a discussion on a games board regarding `Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness' and this particular discussion related to the pronunciation of `Disgaea'. I tried to post something which contained the phonetic spelling `Dis-gay-uh', and got a warning message that my text contained something probably offensive and probably violating the TOS and would probably get me banned and would definitely be forwarded to someone for review. (The same idiotic software bans the word `wakarimashita' - Japanese for `understand', presumably for the bolded section). I chose the only reasonable alternative and self-censored my would-be comment.
Fuck censorship. I read slashdot at -1. If that means I have to occasionally skip past the really offensive trolls, whatever. I've been reading netnews, etc. for over two decades. The ratio of noise is roughly constant (once advertising SPAM is removed), so it's not like it's a growing problem. I don't consider it a "problem" at all.
Free speech is still free speech even^H^H^H^Hespecially when you don't agree with it. Asshats are entitled to their opinion even when they do not choose to sign their name. The unique feature of the internet is that with anonymity, we can rise beyond distinctions of race, gender, physical appearance, etc. That's much too important to throw away.
It's good to be worried about identity theft, but trusting one of the nation's major newspapers with your credit card number isn't asking a lot, unless you consider buying anything online from anyone (including amazon) as too risky. Considering the recent high profile stories of equipment being stolen out of data centers, I would suggest that casting your credit card number to the wind is probably not the wisest thing to do.
Actually, I trust Amazon a lot more than I trust a newspaper. Newspapers are obsolete technology grabbing at anything to retain relevancy and I can usually count on them to be clueless whereever technology is involved. I guess your mileage varies.
I think the reason why so many open source projects have odd comments or funny comments is that its being made by people who aren't being paid and don't have a manager breathing down their necks so they'll use whatever they'd like at the time. That isn't true, at least in my own case. I like to put in colorful comments on occasion because I view source code as something to be read by other programmers. Example (which works around a very wierd Stallmanism):
;; We must destroy this buffer in order to save it!
(kill-buffer (current-buffer)) My favorite example that I've run across in other people's code was in the System V days in, I think,/usr/include/sys/vm.h. It contained some swapping constants where the defaults were explained economically by using then-current prices for VAX 11 memory cards. I think this originally came in via BSD because I saw the same comment in SunOS as well as the M68K System V/R2 desktop box I had at home.
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you should have gone with listening to your subscriber base, rather than listening to your shithead lawyers. The thing is, they are listening to us and most of us don't like cheaters.
They're going about this the wrong way, but they are definitely acting in the interests of a majority of players.
I know it's popular to bash WoW players here. Whatever. I like to play WoW. The people with the serious issues are those who would go to all this effort to cheat at a game.
Microsoft has set back innovation in computer software by decades, How do you figure/calculate that? Take a look through the evolution of different GUIs based on Microsoft Windows.
I am referring *only* to the Microsoft Windows sections.
The pattern to notice is that where there was once diversity, competition and innovation has all been strangled away. It's hardly an unfair URL either, the author is clearly someone I would label as a Microsoft fan boy.
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The number of the year is highly cultural. 1945 is also Showa 20 and more importantly Koki year 2605. The Koki year is the most important as that calendar system not coincidentally died at the same time the bombs were dropped.
The most "portable" representation would be the Julian day number as that is independent of what calendar system is being used. In that case, the correct answer is 2431674.
I've had two monitors lose their power supplies as well.
What URL for the search engine are they talking about? Just asking.
I've seen a (private elementary) school "library" that consisted of a huge college intro to Shakespeare and a couple of high school level science books (in English). If this project can bring reading material to kids who would otherwise have no access whatsoever to written material, I'm all for it.
Now get off my lawn!
Now, you can play solo if you want or group up. The tedium of leveling between 20 and 60 has been considerably reduced. Repair costs have been adjusted by adding additional vendor bonuses for Revered and Exalted reputation. The variety of quests has been increased - one quest sequence in Shattrath has you going around collecting unpaid bills for an Ogre in the local bar, another quest sequence in Nagrand has you running around picking up monster droppings. Advanced endgame daily quests has you using your flying mount to drop bombs on things on the ground. Wait, "kill 10 bears" then "kill 10 scorpions" then "find 10 doodads" ad nauseum in order to get from level 23 to level 24 is not the "annoying repetitive grind"? To each his own and WoW is not the game for you. May I ask what you do consider fun in an MMORPG?
If you fail to understand why WoW is the sucessful game that it is, you won't be able to come up with a replacement.
I'm not much into PvP and have ignored all the Arena stuff, but I've had no problem finding content beyond the level 70 cap that I enjoy.
In no particular order:
1. I like grinding games. What makes or breaks a game for me is how long it takes to get bored. I've been bored with WoW at times, I didn't play at all between Christmas and April, for example. The boredom has never lasted and I'm back to leveling my second level 70.
2. Blizzard is unusually responsive to real criticism of game mechanics. I started playing about a month before the BC expansion. In that time, there has been a steady improvement on all the issues of the game that have irritated me the most. I'm sorely displeased with what they did to boar pets in the last patch, but I guess that just means I'll have to change specs on my hunter. The other changes they made, the new island, etc. were all positive, welcome additions.
3. It's a computer game that works on systems I use. I play on a Mac Powerbook Pro. WoW is also a platinum Wine application. Will Age of Conan or Warhammer support Mac OS X?
Basically, the cost is negligable compared to the amount of enjoyment I've gotten out of playing it. That's me and apparently to many others as well because the subscription base keeps growing.
I will check out the EJ forums later as I *am* interested in real discussion.
An email address is *required* for iJobHunting.
That being said, 20% in the USA surprises me. I *have* lived in the 3rd world (Mindanano) and 20% would seem about right there. If you equate SMS text messaging with email, 20% would be high there too.
An unfair advantage at dire cost. Where do you think Flo-jo's http://womenshistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=womenshistory&cdn=education&tm=4&f=00&tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/features/joyner/gallery/ muscles came from? And why she died of a heart attack at age 38?
He was fired from his job and died a few months later. I don't think that was murder any more than I think this suicide case is murder.
And on a related note: http://www.voyager.cz/tos/epizody/43troubletribblestrans.htm Mr. Scott: Well, Captain, uh
Kirk: Is that all?
Mr. Scott: No, sir. They also compared you with a Denibian slime devil.
Kirk: I get the picture.
Mr. Scott: Yes, sir.
Kirk: After they said all this, that's when you hit the Klingons?
Mr. Scott: No, sir.
Kirk: No?
Mr. Scott: No, uh
How do I get archived email off of yahoo?
I think this is a *huge* sellout and I don't have any respect for it. None, whatever the explanation.
Um, US$3 is more than most people in the world make in a day. Hmm, I guess this proves your point.
-sb (Someone who has lived for a long time amidst folk who make less than US$3 a day)
When I was in Beijing, I tried visiting various alternative news sites and guess what, none of them were blocked.
Slashdot allows anonymous posting, we suffer through the occasional trolls (measured by volumes of posts), but it has been around *forever* on Internet terms and will be around pretty much as long as the folks running it want it to stay around.
Dead tree newspapers are a dying industry. And let's face it. Is it more important to kill a tree to get crappy news when you can read articles edited by kdawson to get crappy news without killing any trees? Does *any* newspaper/website have as vibrant a discussion as Slashdot? (Politico.com is close, though I suggest folks read through "on-topic" stuff there before deciding that slashdot trolls are the worst of all evil).
Anecdotal evidence. Here's my counterexample:
I was once being driven by someone who turned her head directly at me and asked me "Why do you always criticize my driving?" *Boom* - she rearended the guy in front of her. Thank god it was low speed in a parking lot.
The precedent has been set. Nearly all people drive OK when they've been drinking, some don't with catastrophic consequences and now it's illegal for everyone. If you can justify criminal penalties when driving while drunk (which is reasonable, in my opinion, though not the way it's being enforced now), then similar distractions ought to bear the same penalties. Be consistent!
I lived near a women's college when I lived in Tokyo. The only time my health was in danger on the sidewalks was from students riding bicycles while talking on cell phones and smoking at the same time.
The only time I've ever been responsible for an accident was when I was driving with a Big Gulp between my legs and I squeezed the cup a bit too hard and soda spurted out over my lap. Dang. If it had been McDonald's coffee, I'd have been a millionaire.
While I'm happy that you think books on tape might have helped your driving, it's really the same confidence people have when driving drunk.
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech even when you don't care for what you are hearing.
If you think GNAA, goatse, etc. are the worst of slashdot, you haven't brought a brain to the table. if it there were no consequences id require that you have to give you name & address to post just so I could go round and shut those stupid little twats up, but what hes talking about would stop 90% of posts and its just not worth it. The point is that there *are* consequences to full identification. Lines being drawn now on what constitutes "hate" speech are frightening.
To name a silly but sad example, I was participating in a discussion on a games board regarding `Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness' and this particular discussion related to the pronunciation of `Disgaea'. I tried to post something which contained the phonetic spelling `Dis-gay-uh', and got a warning message that my text contained something probably offensive and probably violating the TOS and would probably get me banned and would definitely be forwarded to someone for review. (The same idiotic software bans the word `wakarimashita' - Japanese for `understand', presumably for the bolded section). I chose the only reasonable alternative and self-censored my would-be comment.
Fuck censorship. I read slashdot at -1. If that means I have to occasionally skip past the really offensive trolls, whatever. I've been reading netnews, etc. for over two decades. The ratio of noise is roughly constant (once advertising SPAM is removed), so it's not like it's a growing problem. I don't consider it a "problem" at all.
Free speech is still free speech even^H^H^H^Hespecially when you don't agree with it. Asshats are entitled to their opinion even when they do not choose to sign their name. The unique feature of the internet is that with anonymity, we can rise beyond distinctions of race, gender, physical appearance, etc. That's much too important to throw away.
On the Internet noone knows you're a dog. Woof Woof. http://www.xemacs.org/People/steve.baur/
Actually, I trust Amazon a lot more than I trust a newspaper. Newspapers are obsolete technology grabbing at anything to retain relevancy and I can usually count on them to be clueless whereever technology is involved. I guess your mileage varies.
(kill-buffer (current-buffer)) My favorite example that I've run across in other people's code was in the System V days in, I think,
They're going about this the wrong way, but they are definitely acting in the interests of a majority of players.
I know it's popular to bash WoW players here. Whatever. I like to play WoW. The people with the serious issues are those who would go to all this effort to cheat at a game.
http://toastytech.com/guis/
I am referring *only* to the Microsoft Windows sections.
The pattern to notice is that where there was once diversity, competition and innovation has all been strangled away. It's hardly an unfair URL either, the author is clearly someone I would label as a Microsoft fan boy.