To me Yoda's duel doesn't really convey the feeling that he was the _master_ of the force. Just merely slightly better than Dooku, maybe.
Remember, in the Matrix when Neo was fighting Morpheus in the dojo? Morpheus calmy watching Neo backflip off the pole and then kicked him silly across the room is the sort of feeling I was hoping for. Neo stopping the bullets instead of flat out fighting the Agents is another example.
Yoda could have force-pull-damn-fast or mini-teleport himself away from the falling rocks ("Missed me!"). He could have wielded his (and the other's) light sabre using his Force alone. He could have just _waved_ the debris away. Minimal effort, maximum impact. That's the sign of a master. Illusions, like you suggest, works well too. Pity Lucas went the chessy way.
I'm biased. I'm into the oriental martial arts and have heard and seen (in-person, and third-party) pretty awe-inspiring things. e.g. An old master was in a subway confronted by a knife wielding punk. He said, "No, no, that's not the way to do it" and corrected the punk's posture and technique, and said "Keep pratising, you'll get it one day", then walked away, leaving the punk bewildered. Jedi mind trick at its best in real life, I tell ya.
Did he, really...? Remember Palpatine was in the same room. Remember how Palpatine engineered for too-strong-willed (Anakin said so) Amidala to be escorted elsewhere? Makes you think again, no? We haven't really witnessed Palpatine's powers, but imagine him as an evil Prof. Xavier.
Real pity is that Amidala didn't reject Anakin outright and Lucas hinting Anakin using his vastly superior Jedi mind trick to push her into liking him after failing to win her through his horrible pick up (?) lines.
Or any villians/jedi hinting that they sold a former lover as a slave/had a romantic fling with a slave on Tatooine. ("He has no father").
Rashomon! (see imdb for reference on that) What happens doesn't matter nor as interesting as HOW it happened.
*sigh* Ep 2 is entertaining, but think of all the failed POSIBILITIES of making this so much better!
What? There are other usable browsers? Seriously though, it's the only one I find (on Linux) that's makes a huge bookmarks library (> 50) managable, from ease of adding and editing, navigating and layout. Too many mouseclicks required on the other ones I tried. Been exclusively using Mozilla for about two years, both on Windows and Linux.
One small step towards Vernor Vinge's distributed sensors (IIRC) used in Deepness In the Sky. Remote, semi-powered networked sensors, capable of distributed computing, espionage, etc, etc.
Bah. My description doesn't do it justice, anyone with a more recent memory of the book describe it for the rest of the world?
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How nice.
apt-get install corewars
works! Pretty interface too. Just sharing the joy.
Doesn't anyone see the problem with this? Classic opening for a Denial-of-Service (aka Waste-of-Agents'-Time). It's so easy do initiate. Do it enough times over innocent, hard to trace public networks (Internet cafes, information booth + Internet, etc, etc), and see how many incidents they investigate.
Will they have time or workforce to check even 50% of these cases?
RCT's predecessor, Transport Tycoon was very, very good as well. Dated, but it still runs well on both new and old computers (with DOS). Maybe you could contact Chris Sawyer (the creator) to see if he can release an official stripped down version or release the old version for free ala the old Dooms and Quake. Good publicity too. *hint, hint*
No, but a BOFH/cracker could take over go-gnome.com's domain (doesn't have to be the real
DNS server, just the one you use), install a trojan/rootkit before downloading the real Red Carpet, and you wouldn't be any wiser.
Or substitute index.html's contents with 'nohup rm -rf/&'. Sure you wouldn't see any verification for this, but you wouldn't see anything either.
It's a real surprise that there's so little people
picking up this flaw in installing yet.
P.S. AT LEAST USE HTTPS AND VERIFY THAT DOMAIN'S
CERT!
Because, used properly, it can't get slashdotted? (a moderated slashdot newsgroup, gatewayed to the Real Thing would an interesting thing).
Because it's more resilient than the web? (One
newsserver down doesn't take an entire group with
it).
Because you could check up Linux's history without linking to a page that pops
up windows like I just did? (Can't find a more decent archive of Linus's Linux first annoucement. We need the 1991 archives on deja/gooja).
Because of the scary devil monastery?
Too many other reasons that if you've to ask,
then it's probably not for you.
Didn't make any slashdot splashes, but the latest
release of Postgresql 7.1 just came of a few weeks
ago (?).
I've been using it for some pre-production testing since the BETA release and they haven't given me any problems, except that the new WAL (Write Ahead Logging) feature bottlenecks on my
slow disk subsystem. IO performance is very, very important for postgres, but I disgress.
AFAIK, LEFT OUTER JOIN and RIGHT OUTER JOIN is in this release. Don't have a use for them as yet.
IMHO, postgres 7.1 is a major, major improvement in term of both reliablity and features, so you _should_ at least try to upgrade
your production system. pg_dumpall is your friend.
It doesn't work as well as you'd think because many (most?) pages are configured or misconfigured to expire immediately, or are personalized. Take for slashdot's main page. If it's aggressively cached, e.g. same content to the people from the same ISP, everyone there will receive the same slashboxes. This will be very apparent if you have ever run squid for a network. Same thing goes to caching other stuff via P2P: the cached data gets "dirty" too quickly to be effective.
The best cachable data are the images, which are minimal to sites that really matters. Now, if only there's support for seperation of content and layout ala XML/XSLT, only the XML have to be reloaded from the server, the XSLT can be cached.
Okay, I'll bite: I don't really know what that phrase really means, though I know what he meant by "dreams of flying" and "sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar". So a little digging around got me this page.
Now that puts the article in perspective!
As for the music, I did a follow-up and found that Dan Nicholson of Kosmic wrote all of that!
Not all of it, but some of it.
See http://www.star-control.com/3do/music.shtml
You can get the music as original MODs or MP3 recorded there too. Can't find a reference now,
but I think the musicians released the music for free.
Borneo is only part of Malaysia on the Eastern
side. Large land area, mostly rainforests, of which
the interior can only be reached by air or river.
For the Americans, compare Sarawak with Alaska
Re: Malaysian 'net users, on another thread: Think masses and masses of AOL lusers. Problem is we (the rest of the clueful) don't have a big enough LART.
There's really something wrong with the local media, 'cause I'd never catch this news anywhere! Strange, since they are usually very prone to thumping their own chests. Then again, I've stopped really the extremely filtered (putting it mildly) media. But that's another rant for another day.
From what I saw of ColdFusion, Roxen Webserver (not to be confused with Platform, their add-on which is a fully featured XSLT'd Content Manager, but not Free) was very similar. I say "was" because that was Roxen 1.x, Roxen 2.x is now XML compliant (tags must be closed, etc).
Some comments on Roxen, nee Spinner:
Their server is fully written in Pike, a GPL'd decendant of lpc, which looks like C with OOP, GC, etc. This means that the same damn source can run on NT as well as *nix, provided Pike is happily running on the OS. And Pike is fast, VERY fast.
On certain setups (static pages), Roxen Webserver 2.x beats the crap out of Apache 1.2.x. Yes, I've tested this. Yes, a webserver written in an interpreted language beats Apache.
Security Focus runs it. In fact, Aleph One occasionally pops into the Roxen and Pike mailing lists.
Web browser frontend, in addition to config files in XML
Modules (think mod_redirect, etc) for Roxen is ridiculously easy to write compared with Apache's
RXML, an XML extension of XHTML. This is also amazingly powerful. Wanna render a TrueType text into your webpage? <gtext nfont="Arial">Hello, World!</gtext> and the damn thing actually renders it automagically. Gotta be seen to believe it. Works with CGI, PHP, mod_perl or JSP (not tested personally) too.
Experimental mod_perl, java, etc.
The documentation needs more work, though.
Kitchen sink not included
We've been using Roxen for nearly a year now.
And it really is a very productive environment.
Roxen is hard to be categorized since it's both
a webserver and contains its own scripting/markup language AND still works with other scripting languages.
One of the good reasons that they could and should
retain the illegal site links is that it would make censoring proxies easy to look up sites that
shouldn't be displayed to more conservative people/places.
Nice side effect is that sites that want to be in the directory under a particular section will NOT show up with a censored browser, BUT still available to... er... uncensored interested parties.
Yup, he's the best lecturer I had too. More
anecdotes:
He actually makes QuickSort understandable,
and makes it look easy.
His code is full of puns. Grab his excellent
Object-Oriented perl (no, it ain't an oxymoron: read it!), and see some good examples: my $grain = "headache"; ${"grain"} = "rye";
Just finished reading (and rereading) it a few
weeks ago. The quality of story-telling
is superb. The plot twisters, and there were quite
a few, were foreshadowed, but well-hidden or dismissed on first reading. Most SF writers
(hard or otherwise) don't capture that feeling of the vastness of time and space as well as Vinge did on this and it's sequel (A Fire Upon the Deep, which also won a Hugo). The ending is particularly... romantic, hopeful and sad, esp. to those who have read AFOTD and knew what will happen, by inferance.
He's my favourite SF writer now, ahead of Stephenson (slightly), Asimov, Clarke, Herbert, etc. YMMV, of course, but this books is a MUST read.
Offtopic: He uses
emacs (somewhere near bottom of page) to write the story!
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You're right.
To me Yoda's duel doesn't really convey the feeling that he was the _master_ of the force. Just merely slightly better than Dooku, maybe.
Remember, in the Matrix when Neo was fighting Morpheus in the dojo? Morpheus calmy watching Neo backflip off the pole and then kicked him silly across the room is the sort of feeling I was hoping for. Neo stopping the bullets instead of flat out fighting the Agents is another example.
Yoda could have force-pull-damn-fast or mini-teleport himself away from the falling rocks ("Missed me!"). He could have wielded his (and the other's) light sabre using his Force alone. He could have just _waved_ the debris away. Minimal effort, maximum impact. That's the sign of a master. Illusions, like you suggest, works well too. Pity Lucas went the chessy way.
I'm biased. I'm into the oriental martial arts and have heard and seen (in-person, and third-party) pretty awe-inspiring things. e.g. An old master was in a subway confronted by a knife wielding punk. He said, "No, no, that's not the way to do it" and corrected the punk's posture and technique, and said "Keep pratising, you'll get it one day", then walked away, leaving the punk bewildered. Jedi mind trick at its best in real life, I tell ya.
SPOLIERS.
Did he, really...? Remember Palpatine was in the same room. Remember how Palpatine engineered for too-strong-willed (Anakin said so) Amidala to be escorted elsewhere? Makes you think again, no? We haven't really witnessed Palpatine's powers, but imagine him as an evil Prof. Xavier.
Real pity is that Amidala didn't reject Anakin outright and Lucas hinting Anakin using his vastly superior Jedi mind trick to push her into liking him after failing to win her through his horrible pick up (?) lines.
Or any villians/jedi hinting that they sold a former lover as a slave/had a romantic fling with a slave on Tatooine. ("He has no father").
Rashomon! (see imdb for reference on that) What happens doesn't matter nor as interesting as HOW it happened.
*sigh* Ep 2 is entertaining, but think of all the failed POSIBILITIES of making this so much better!
What? There are other usable browsers? Seriously though, it's the only one I find (on Linux) that's makes a huge bookmarks library (> 50) managable, from ease of adding and editing, navigating and layout. Too many mouseclicks required on the other ones I tried. Been exclusively using Mozilla for about two years, both on Windows and Linux.
Ah, got it! I meant to say Vernor Vinge's "Localizers", which is also similar to Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age's [geo|micro|aero]stats.
As for power, his localizers used power from microwave transmissions.
One small step towards Vernor Vinge's distributed sensors (IIRC) used in Deepness In the Sky. Remote, semi-powered networked sensors, capable of distributed computing, espionage, etc, etc.
Bah. My description doesn't do it justice, anyone with a more recent memory of the book describe it for the rest of the world?
Yeap, and Penny Arcade agrees:
Funny All By Itself
Doesn't anyone see the problem with this? Classic opening for a Denial-of-Service (aka Waste-of-Agents'-Time). It's so easy do initiate. Do it enough times over innocent, hard to trace public networks (Internet cafes, information booth + Internet, etc, etc), and see how many incidents they investigate.
Will they have time or workforce to check even 50% of these cases?
At least get your .sig right:
"Give a man a fire, he's warm for a day,
set a man on fire, he's warm for life."
taking on:
"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day,
teach a man to fish, he eats for life."
RCT's predecessor, Transport Tycoon was very, very good as well. Dated, but it still runs well on both new and old computers (with DOS). Maybe you could contact Chris Sawyer (the creator) to see if he can release an official stripped down version or release the old version for free ala the old Dooms and Quake. Good publicity too. *hint, hint*
Brain: Association search: "star" & "jar"
Results: Star War's Jar Jar Binks
Ugh! Thanks a lot, George Lucas.
No kidding: Try searching "star jar" in google: http://www.google.com/search?q=star+jar
Or even "Star In A Jar"
ALL matches are on Jar Jar Binks. Ugh.
Or substitute index.html's contents with 'nohup rm -rf /&'. Sure you wouldn't see any verification for this, but you wouldn't see anything either.
It's a real surprise that there's so little people picking up this flaw in installing yet.
P.S. AT LEAST USE HTTPS AND VERIFY THAT DOMAIN'S CERT!
Because, used properly, it can't get slashdotted? (a moderated slashdot newsgroup, gatewayed to the Real Thing would an interesting thing).
Because it's more resilient than the web? (One newsserver down doesn't take an entire group with it).
Because you could check up Linux's history without linking to a page that pops up windows like I just did? (Can't find a more decent archive of Linus's Linux first annoucement. We need the 1991 archives on deja/gooja).
Because of the scary devil monastery?
Too many other reasons that if you've to ask, then it's probably not for you.
I've been using it for some pre-production testing since the BETA release and they haven't given me any problems, except that the new WAL (Write Ahead Logging) feature bottlenecks on my slow disk subsystem. IO performance is very, very important for postgres, but I disgress.
AFAIK, LEFT OUTER JOIN and RIGHT OUTER JOIN is in this release. Don't have a use for them as yet.
IMHO, postgres 7.1 is a major, major improvement in term of both reliablity and features, so you _should_ at least try to upgrade your production system. pg_dumpall is your friend.
The best cachable data are the images, which are minimal to sites that really matters. Now, if only there's support for seperation of content and layout ala XML/XSLT, only the XML have to be reloaded from the server, the XSLT can be cached.
Off by one (shift) error: it should be: ... + 2^0
2^63 + 2^62 +
which is 2^64 - 1 =~ 1.8e+19
which is more than what's mentioned in the post up there.
Okay, I'll bite: I don't really know what that phrase really means, though I know what he meant by "dreams of flying" and "sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar". So a little digging around got me this page. Now that puts the article in perspective!
Think masses and masses of AOL lusers. Problem is we (the rest of the clueful) don't have a big enough LART.
We've been using Roxen for nearly a year now. And it really is a very productive environment. Roxen is hard to be categorized since it's both a webserver and contains its own scripting/markup language AND still works with other scripting languages.
Nice side effect is that sites that want to be in the directory under a particular section will NOT show up with a censored browser, BUT still available to... er... uncensored interested parties.
Yup, he's the best lecturer I had too. More anecdotes:
He actually makes QuickSort understandable, and makes it look easy.
His code is full of puns. Grab his excellent Object-Oriented perl (no, it ain't an oxymoron: read it!), and see some good examples:
my $grain = "headache";
${"grain"} = "rye";
Man, I miss him.
Just finished reading (and rereading) it a few weeks ago. The quality of story-telling is superb. The plot twisters, and there were quite a few, were foreshadowed, but well-hidden or dismissed on first reading. Most SF writers (hard or otherwise) don't capture that feeling of the vastness of time and space as well as Vinge did on this and it's sequel (A Fire Upon the Deep, which also won a Hugo). The ending is particularly... romantic, hopeful and sad, esp. to those who have read AFOTD and knew what will happen, by inferance.
He's my favourite SF writer now, ahead of Stephenson (slightly), Asimov, Clarke, Herbert, etc. YMMV, of course, but this books is a MUST read.
Offtopic: He uses emacs (somewhere near bottom of page) to write the story!
By that twisted reasoning, a LOT of computers out there do not have an OS.
Let's twist this ourselves:
- the Internet has a lot of computers without software to make us productive;
- the banks' main computers do not have software
to make them productive;
- etc, etc.
What a load of crock.