I sure wish there were more information. If this is true; it's somewhat interesting. But with so little to go on, it could just as easily not be true.
As the most obvious example to spring to mind; they tried ants with legs (we're left to assume) 50% longer that went 50% further than home and legs 50% shorter that only got halfway home. They then say this is because he counts steps -- obviously each step takes the one ant 50% further and the other 50% shorter.
So what if the ant goes by the amount of time it's been traveling; nothing to do with counting steps at all --?
You'd expect exactly the same results.
I hope it's just the awful article -- if the study is so poor they've really learned nothing.
Robots ARE exciting. People love robots, now more than ever. Witness RoboSapien, the return of the Transformers, BattleBots or whatever on the TV, you know?
I feel most people are just as excited about sending out a robot as a person.
I think the problem is this -- people are apathetic and jaded. I almost didn't care enough to respond to your post.
I'm no network engineer -- which is OK... I'm good at other things.
I was at our colo the other day, and it occurred to me to wonder about some technical question, something about broadcast addresses, I think. Well, a fellow at the colo had just finished explaining to me that he knew a lot more than I did, because he was a "CERTIFIED CISCO ENGINEER."
So I thought I'd ask him. I can't even remember what the question actually was. I just remember that as he answered, the stream of bullplop was growing wider and wider. Finally, I was wanting to run from the room screaming as he explained to me that when you change the network settings in your computer, those changes take a while to have an effect. That, he says, is called "TIME TO LIVE."
Well, I'm a wimpy geek, so rather than laugh in his face, I said, "Thank you very much for the information," turned around, and departed quick, fast, and in a hurry.
I think of this now whenever anyone tells me they are a certified engineer.
I haven't been in school in a decade, so I don't know how much worse it may have gotten, but things have been on the way downhill since before I was in school myself.
I've recently become a fan of Richard Feynman, and he has some scathing things to say about the teaching of Algebra when *he* went to school. I'll relate one of his stories as best I can from memory, but I do highly recommend reading his "memoirs" such as "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" even if the lectures he gave on physics do not interest you.
He talk about when he was learning mathematics himself, as a kid -- I believe he was about 10-12 and he'd taught himself algebra from a book called "Algebra for the Practical Man" or some such -- at any rate, his cousin (I think) was learning Algebra in school at the same time. And he told Richard he was having a hard time with some problem, say 2x + 4 = 8, solve for x and Richard said, "Oh, you mean '2'?" and his cousin said, "Yes, but you did it by arithmetic; we have to do it by Algebra."
Feynman then makes the claim that this is evidence of how the school system is in decline; he knows the important thing isn't how you get the answer, it's understanding how these things relate and (he explains all this much better than I do) that schools had invented this "process" called "Algebra" where you could follow some rote steps and arrive at the right answer with no understanding whatsoever of what you were doing.
Tell me if that last part doesn't ring true for the education YOU received in Algebra. It certainly does for me.
When blockbuster initially tried to compete with Nflix, the Nflix folks were a bit scared, including my buddy who was worried about the future of the company he helped develop - however, after Nflix's somewhat recent resurgence & increased user subscription, which in turn boosted the stock prices from all time lows, blockbuster has become a non-issue to Nflix (well at least to my buddy and most of the staff)
You got something against E.T.?
Eeeeeliiiiooooot...
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That was honestly completely illuminating. I've been running ubuntu for ages now and usually the first thing I do is sudo passwd root and forgetaboutit.
Now I'm excited to look into some of the much, much cooler possibilities. Thank you. I don't have any mod points, and you're already +5 informative. Posts like this should go to six.
Current game protections would be like having a DVD that forces you to watch a 10 second segment warning you not to pirate the movie that ofcourse no ripper includes so only the persons who do not pirate see it. You would have to be completly insane to do that to your paying customers.
Wow, things must be different in Amsterdam. They *DO* that here in the US. Your non-hacked DVD player won't let you skip the warning reminding you that pirating the film is illegal. They really don't over there?
Actually, that's interesting, but not relevant to the GP who mentioned GAIM. I can confirm that - at least for me - GAIM doesn't have any evidence of these things.
or we'll have a live example of what ife without the Internet is like.
Way to remind the rest of us we're old, young whipper-snapper!
Why in my day, we didn't have the Internet! You'd have to carry your packets to your neighbor's house so he could copy them to his computer, and that was networking. Of course without the Internet, we didn't have IP, we only had P. Thus the phrase, "I'm going to go take a P" -- as in "I'm going to take this data to my friend's house."
See, I bet they didn't teach you that in school. We old people know things!
I have a Tivo series 2 and a MythTV box. I will agree that the Tivo interface is sexyier in some areas, but not in the two that you mentioned:
You don't say what you like about the program guide, so let me contrast the two:
The Tivo program guide obscures the image of the channel you are watching, but in MythTV, the program you are watching is shrunk to fit. Also, in MythTV, there is a highlight in the columns of programs to tell you where in the grid the current time is. For the Tivo, you've got to keep track of that yourself. Other than that, they're functionally equivalent, and the ability to fine-tune the MythTV display to contain more rows and columns of info thant he Tivo makes it a sure winner.
Secondly, you mention the feature that the TiVo automatically rewinds a bit for you when you finish fast-fowarding. I suggest you try MythTV before you knock it -- it does exactly the same. It's a configurable option, so if you did try the MythTV, you didn't take a good look at all the options. I believe if you do, you'll find it just as useable as a Tivo, but with far, far, far more functionality.
Oh, forgot to respond to your question. Nethack has a few NPCs, such as the shopkeepers. There's not much dialogue to speak of, unless you count the shopkeepers talking to themselves, or getting seduced by a succubus or something... and there ARE quests, plural, though not as many as in a game of Diablo.
Rogue, aside from the overall quest to get the Amulet of Yendor, didn't have any of the above as far as I can recall. It's been a long time.
As a long time fan of Nethack, Angband and even Rogue, I'd like to point out the most critical difference. Rogue, Nethack, and all it's ilk are turn-based. Diablo is real time. It makes a huge difference. In Nethack you can spend a long time sitting in one spot debating whether you're going to try an unknown potion or scroll and possibly die. In Diablo if you spend a long time thinking, you *will* die.
Not to mention the multiplayer... I have yet to see a Roguelike with decent multiplayer.
Also, it' snot really fair to call Diablo a "ripoff" as the grandparent does. The designers of Diablo give a LOT of credit to Nethack for their inspiration. I think they did a great job.
19 And that's most likely why I was never notified by AOL 20 or any of my -- the companies that I have online service with 21 that my children had downloaded anything.
(c) controlling game play according to the sanity level of the game character, game play being controlled at least by varying game effects according to the game charater sanity level
You claim that this... er, claim makes Nethack ineligible for consideration as Prior Art.
But that's untrue. Nethack actually uses 1 and 0 to represent the level of insanity. There are two levels -- not insane = 0 and insane = 1... and when you vary the level, the gameplay varies along with it. Greatly.
I'm no lawyer, but to me, it still fits just fine.
Maybe it's necessary to analyze the rest before you can disqualify Nethack.
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I just want to say kudos to you for using "figuratively" instead of "literally."
I disagree with your apparent support of this policy, however.
Get a WRT54 - GL or whatever they're calling it. It's a great router.
e k_wiretappi.html
Put openwrt on it. http://openwrt.org/
Don't wait. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/gre
cash-ectomy! I love it.
I'm unaware of a class action settlement that was a serious financial burden to a major company. Can you name one?
JB - have a sense of humor.
"Intelligent Time Keeping?"
He's obviously making fun of those intelligent design idiots.
You know what? My legitimate downloads or VoIP should get priority over your illegal download of the latest movies or fake pictures of Britney's tits
Why?
I sure wish there were more information. If this is true; it's somewhat interesting. But with so little to go on, it could just as easily not be true.
As the most obvious example to spring to mind; they tried ants with legs (we're left to assume) 50% longer that went 50% further than home and legs 50% shorter that only got halfway home. They then say this is because he counts steps -- obviously each step takes the one ant 50% further and the other 50% shorter.
So what if the ant goes by the amount of time it's been traveling; nothing to do with counting steps at all --?
You'd expect exactly the same results.
I hope it's just the awful article -- if the study is so poor they've really learned nothing.
This is moderated insightful?
Shame on you. We all know you can change your mac address trivially.
ifconfig [INSERT DESIRED INTERFACE] hw ether [INSERT DESIRED MAC]
Done.
I had one of them wooden computers once. Wooden keyboard, wooden monitor, wooden CPU... only one problem: it wooden work. :(
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (ME)
Okay, I don't really pay much attention to Microsoft product releases... but... isn't that more like 6?
Robots ARE exciting. People love robots, now more than ever. Witness RoboSapien, the return of the Transformers, BattleBots or whatever on the TV, you know?
I feel most people are just as excited about sending out a robot as a person.
I think the problem is this -- people are apathetic and jaded. I almost didn't care enough to respond to your post.
I'm no network engineer -- which is OK... I'm good at other things.
I was at our colo the other day, and it occurred to me to wonder about some technical question, something about broadcast addresses, I think. Well, a fellow at the colo had just finished explaining to me that he knew a lot more than I did, because he was a "CERTIFIED CISCO ENGINEER."
So I thought I'd ask him. I can't even remember what the question actually was. I just remember that as he answered, the stream of bullplop was growing wider and wider. Finally, I was wanting to run from the room screaming as he explained to me that when you change the network settings in your computer, those changes take a while to have an effect. That, he says, is called "TIME TO LIVE."
Well, I'm a wimpy geek, so rather than laugh in his face, I said, "Thank you very much for the information," turned around, and departed quick, fast, and in a hurry.
I think of this now whenever anyone tells me they are a certified engineer.
It didn't start recently, that's the shame.
I haven't been in school in a decade, so I don't know how much worse it may have gotten, but things have been on the way downhill since before I was in school myself.
I've recently become a fan of Richard Feynman, and he has some scathing things to say about the teaching of Algebra when *he* went to school. I'll relate one of his stories as best I can from memory, but I do highly recommend reading his "memoirs" such as "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" even if the lectures he gave on physics do not interest you.
He talk about when he was learning mathematics himself, as a kid -- I believe he was about 10-12 and he'd taught himself algebra from a book called "Algebra for the Practical Man" or some such -- at any rate, his cousin (I think) was learning Algebra in school at the same time. And he told Richard he was having a hard time with some problem, say 2x + 4 = 8, solve for x and Richard said, "Oh, you mean '2'?" and his cousin said, "Yes, but you did it by arithmetic; we have to do it by Algebra."
Feynman then makes the claim that this is evidence of how the school system is in decline; he knows the important thing isn't how you get the answer, it's understanding how these things relate and (he explains all this much better than I do) that schools had invented this "process" called "Algebra" where you could follow some rote steps and arrive at the right answer with no understanding whatsoever of what you were doing.
Tell me if that last part doesn't ring true for the education YOU received in Algebra. It certainly does for me.
-Chris
When blockbuster initially tried to compete with Nflix, the Nflix folks were a bit scared, including my buddy who was worried about the future of the company he helped develop - however, after Nflix's somewhat recent resurgence & increased user subscription, which in turn boosted the stock prices from all time lows, blockbuster has become a non-issue to Nflix (well at least to my buddy and most of the staff)
You got something against E.T.?
Eeeeeliiiiooooot...
That was honestly completely illuminating. I've been running ubuntu for ages now and usually the first thing I do is sudo passwd root and forgetaboutit.
Now I'm excited to look into some of the much, much cooler possibilities. Thank you. I don't have any mod points, and you're already +5 informative. Posts like this should go to six.
Current game protections would be like having a DVD that forces you to watch a 10 second segment warning you not to pirate the movie that ofcourse no ripper includes so only the persons who do not pirate see it. You would have to be completly insane to do that to your paying customers.
Wow, things must be different in Amsterdam. They *DO* that here in the US. Your non-hacked DVD player won't let you skip the warning reminding you that pirating the film is illegal. They really don't over there?
Give the kid ten years, then he'll get it.
Actually, that's interesting, but not relevant to the GP who mentioned GAIM. I can confirm that - at least for me - GAIM doesn't have any evidence of these things.
or we'll have a live example of what ife without the Internet is like.
Way to remind the rest of us we're old, young whipper-snapper!
Why in my day, we didn't have the Internet! You'd have to carry your packets to your neighbor's house so he could copy them to his computer, and that was networking. Of course without the Internet, we didn't have IP, we only had P. Thus the phrase, "I'm going to go take a P" -- as in "I'm going to take this data to my friend's house."
See, I bet they didn't teach you that in school. We old people know things!
I have a Tivo series 2 and a MythTV box. I will agree that the Tivo interface is sexyier in some areas, but not in the two that you mentioned:
You don't say what you like about the program guide, so let me contrast the two:
The Tivo program guide obscures the image of the channel you are watching, but in MythTV, the program you are watching is shrunk to fit. Also, in MythTV, there is a highlight in the columns of programs to tell you where in the grid the current time is. For the Tivo, you've got to keep track of that yourself. Other than that, they're functionally equivalent, and the ability to fine-tune the MythTV display to contain more rows and columns of info thant he Tivo makes it a sure winner.
Secondly, you mention the feature that the TiVo automatically rewinds a bit for you when you finish fast-fowarding. I suggest you try MythTV before you knock it -- it does exactly the same. It's a configurable option, so if you did try the MythTV, you didn't take a good look at all the options. I believe if you do, you'll find it just as useable as a Tivo, but with far, far, far more functionality.
-Chris
Q: What do you call a black man who flies an airplane?
A: A pilot, you stupid racist!
In the process Clinton would have lost good faith with the legislators, making everything else that much harder to push through.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Oh, forgot to respond to your question. Nethack has a few NPCs, such as the shopkeepers. There's not much dialogue to speak of, unless you count the shopkeepers talking to themselves, or getting seduced by a succubus or something... and there ARE quests, plural, though not as many as in a game of Diablo.
Rogue, aside from the overall quest to get the Amulet of Yendor, didn't have any of the above as far as I can recall. It's been a long time.
Haaa... yes, way too much clicking in Diablo.
As a long time fan of Nethack, Angband and even Rogue, I'd like to point out the most critical difference. Rogue, Nethack, and all it's ilk are turn-based. Diablo is real time. It makes a huge difference. In Nethack you can spend a long time sitting in one spot debating whether you're going to try an unknown potion or scroll and possibly die. In Diablo if you spend a long time thinking, you *will* die.
Not to mention the multiplayer... I have yet to see a Roguelike with decent multiplayer.
Also, it' snot really fair to call Diablo a "ripoff" as the grandparent does. The designers of Diablo give a LOT of credit to Nethack for their inspiration. I think they did a great job.
I still play Nethack more though.
19 And that's most likely why I was never notified by AOL
20 or any of my -- the companies that I have online service with
21 that my children had downloaded anything.
Yeah.... that'll happen.
(c) controlling game play according to the sanity level of the game character, game play being controlled at least by varying game effects according to the game charater sanity level
... er, claim makes Nethack ineligible for consideration as Prior Art.
You claim that this
But that's untrue. Nethack actually uses 1 and 0 to represent the level of insanity. There are two levels -- not insane = 0 and insane = 1... and when you vary the level, the gameplay varies along with it. Greatly.
I'm no lawyer, but to me, it still fits just fine.
Maybe it's necessary to analyze the rest before you can disqualify Nethack.