I mean, they can talk about how not to do portables, media formats, and high-end consoles. I just wonder if they'll be able to fit it all inside their allotted time period.
No odd numbers can be the base of a twin prime because adding or subtracting one leaves an even number which cannot be prime (except 2), so that knocks out 6n+1, 6n+3, 6n+5.
6n+2 and 6n+4.. why are those no good?
6n+2 doesn't work because 6n is always a multiple of 3, adding 2 and then 1 (for the higher of the potential of the 2 twin primes) is also divisible by three, so it can never be a prime.
6n+4 has the same problem, just on its lower possible twin prime.
That took me longer to figure out that I'm happy with, but I think I got it:)
: he didn't have the authority to GPL the code that was already in the public domain
He absolutely has the right to GPL the code in the public domain. You and I have the right to GPL code in the public domain. ANYONE has that right. However, the original unmodified code still exists in the public domain, as well.
If you take your GPL'd version of the public domain code and modify it, however, now the modified version is only GPL'd, not public domain.
They're saying that the companies supporting Linux have enough of a patent library that should MS try to go after Linux, Microsoft will find itself in hot water.
Well, if that was my criteria I'd be believing. Almost 100% on both for me. Google didn't become a verb for no reason. I haven't had any problems with the mail for well over a year.
I actually got all the sporting metaphors and wish to correct.. or at least clarify on them.
Many more basketball triple-doubles occur during the course of a basketball season and hat-tricks in a hockey/soccer/"football" season than do triple plays in baseball.
Tripls plays aren't about skill, they're about a very specificly hit ball under a fairly rare circumstance.
The real risk and reward comes from SINGLE-platform ventures. This way you get to make the absolute best game for the platform you've chosen. You use its performance hardware, user interface, network connections, etc to the best of your ability.
With all this multiplatform crap going around, we're stuck with the lowest common denominator in all our games.
Basically this was an anti-console rant by a PC gamer who's sick of shallow PC ports of console games that suck because they were made assuming you didn't have a mouse and keyboard.
I'd never kept a job longer than a year and half until i got a prescription for Adderall. Adult ADD is a bitch and seriously hinders one's performance at work.
I just signed up for an aol account to see how hard it would be to cancel it.
I signed up online, gave my credit card info and such. I didn't download their software or anything and just called the customer service number that was on the post-signup screen and selected the "cancellation" option. They made me wade through a relatively obnoxious "privacy" screening in order to sit on hold for 7-8 minutes.
Finally a guy picked up and asked me for all the information all over again. He asked how he could help me and I said, "I'd like to cancel my account, please." He started going into a bit about asking me why and such and I repeated, "I'd like to cancel my account, please." He noted that I'd signed up that day and started to ask again why I wanted to cancel and I, again, repeated, "I'd like to cancel my account, please." He then said he would process my account cancellation and informed me that all the services would continue to be available to me through the aol.com homepage (as this article stated).
He said there would be an account cancellation confirmation email in the next 24 hours. Hopefully that actually happens.
I just hurt this guy's save rate.. if he loses his job, maybe it's for the best. Fight Club-esque, ya know.
Solid as a rock, and about the same size as a nice, interesting one. Not at all like the ones in my bag now, which, come to think of it isn't my bag at all. It's very similar, but it's not mine. Gah! What's with this towel? Pink?!?
I don't see anything. These battery issues must be SEP.
Unless you can predict the future, you can't "optimize queries" to only get the data the user is going to want.
It's very often that a website doesn't present all the data to the user that the user could request. Fetching the data on demand can result in database improvements that "optimized queries" can't touch because you don't even have to get the data often times.
And yes, I do know what it means, I do it for a living.
If you're resorting to using AJAX only ameliorate your DB load, you may wish to try more conservative methods that will work on all client machines, such as optimizing your queries, first.
Unless you can predict the future, you can't "optimize queries" to only get the data the user is going to want. Random crap advice of "optimize your queries" is worthless and unhelpful.
Getting data on demand is how the web is going to work. I'd suggest you stick to the standards and the users will complain to the anti-virus makers. It's their job, too, to work in the user's environment. That includes sites that load content on demand.
First of all, I was disappointed that for the first day I tried to buy/download episode 1, I kept getting "server is too busy, try again in a few hours" errors.
When I was finally able to purchase the game, I downloaded at about 400KB/s, which is pretty respectable for my connection (though it can do ~1MB/s to the right server).
The production value of the game is very good. The character interactions are very good and the constant interaction with Alyx is very good. She does neat little things like covering her face when there's an explosion hear her.
The story is "ok". I'm pretty picky about plot in general, so "ok" from me probably means "pretty good" for most other people.
My beef with the game has to be Alyx's health/ammo levels. She has infinite ammo, so there's bits where in order to conserve ammo, you have to pretty much just wait around for her to kill baddies (and point them out with the flashlight.. which while being cool at first gets old). The second bit is that she can die, but there's absolutely no indication of how much health she has. There's no number anywhere and it's not depicted on her character, either. She's fine, she's fine, she's dead. If she starts saying "Oww!" a lot, then you probably need to get her away.
anyone who changes their mind based on this stupid marketing campaign really is a sheep.
While this may be true, it's important to note that this particular changing of ones mind does not cause one to become a sheep, only reinforces that they are.
They may have purchased the iPod because they were a "sheep" already or may have become a "sheep" at this point, as well.
Much of that unauthorized software is being used to make firms much more productive than they would be otherwise -- probably benefiting the overall economy quite a bit.
This is the WRONG counter to their claims. The correct counter is that an unauthorized copy of a piece of software is NOT the same as a lost software sale.
In fact, if companies are using unauthorized copies of software to increase their business, that's when it's morally wrong to not pay for your software in my mind.
To me, it's like watching a illegally downloaded movie for personal (potential) entertainment vs. selling it on the street. The latter is the one I have a moral issue with and represents a more realistic loss of sale for the copyright holder.
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No, no, no, no, no!
Cross the streams and you get "Total Protonic Reversal."
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
And it's Egon.
If you're playing WoW (and SWG for whatever reason), then we all know you have no time for sleeping.
Level 70 yet?
"What Not To Do"
I mean, they can talk about how not to do portables, media formats, and high-end consoles. I just wonder if they'll be able to fit it all inside their allotted time period.
Yep. Should be a good one.
Let's see if it really is fairly easy :)
:)
That gives us 5 other things to try:
No odd numbers can be the base of a twin prime because adding or subtracting one leaves an even number which cannot be prime (except 2), so that knocks out
6n+1, 6n+3, 6n+5.
6n+2 and 6n+4.. why are those no good?
6n+2 doesn't work because 6n is always a multiple of 3, adding 2 and then 1 (for the higher of the potential of the 2 twin primes) is also divisible by three, so it can never be a prime.
6n+4 has the same problem, just on its lower possible twin prime.
That took me longer to figure out that I'm happy with, but I think I got it
: he didn't have the authority to GPL the code that was already in the public domain
He absolutely has the right to GPL the code in the public domain. You and I have the right to GPL code in the public domain. ANYONE has that right. However, the original unmodified code still exists in the public domain, as well.
If you take your GPL'd version of the public domain code and modify it, however, now the modified version is only GPL'd, not public domain.
No, it is correctly stated as "obviated" as in
To anticipate and dispose of effectively; render unnecessary.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/obviated
They're saying that the companies supporting Linux have enough of a patent library that should MS try to go after Linux, Microsoft will find itself in hot water.
Who, exactly, is the high school dropout?
That IS an equation. Just.. for the record.
Fuck that.
Well, if that was my criteria I'd be believing. Almost 100% on both for me. Google didn't become a verb for no reason. I haven't had any problems with the mail for well over a year.
There can be only one
I need to turn in mine, too.
I actually got all the sporting metaphors and wish to correct.. or at least clarify on them.
Many more basketball triple-doubles occur during the course of a basketball season and hat-tricks in a hockey/soccer/"football" season than do triple plays in baseball.
Tripls plays aren't about skill, they're about a very specificly hit ball under a fairly rare circumstance.
multiplatform original IP
The real risk and reward comes from SINGLE-platform ventures. This way you get to make the absolute best game for the platform you've chosen. You use its performance hardware, user interface, network connections, etc to the best of your ability.
With all this multiplatform crap going around, we're stuck with the lowest common denominator in all our games.
Basically this was an anti-console rant by a PC gamer who's sick of shallow PC ports of console games that suck because they were made assuming you didn't have a mouse and keyboard.
Seriously.
I'd never kept a job longer than a year and half until i got a prescription for Adderall. Adult ADD is a bitch and seriously hinders one's performance at work.
I just signed up for an aol account to see how hard it would be to cancel it.
I signed up online, gave my credit card info and such. I didn't download their software or anything and just called the customer service number that was on the post-signup screen and selected the "cancellation" option. They made me wade through a relatively obnoxious "privacy" screening in order to sit on hold for 7-8 minutes.
Finally a guy picked up and asked me for all the information all over again. He asked how he could help me and I said, "I'd like to cancel my account, please." He started going into a bit about asking me why and such and I repeated, "I'd like to cancel my account, please." He noted that I'd signed up that day and started to ask again why I wanted to cancel and I, again, repeated, "I'd like to cancel my account, please." He then said he would process my account cancellation and informed me that all the services would continue to be available to me through the aol.com homepage (as this article stated).
He said there would be an account cancellation confirmation email in the next 24 hours. Hopefully that actually happens.
I just hurt this guy's save rate.. if he loses his job, maybe it's for the best. Fight Club-esque, ya know.
I suppose this makes me a UNIX dweeb, but you can't, of course, catch sigkill. Or sigstop. But whatever.
That's not necessarily fair.
The batteries have a certain operating envelope. If the Mac's heat put the battery outside of that range, then it's not the battery's fault.
Either way, as a system integrator, Apple is responsible for making sure the products they ship are quality.
If it was a third party battery that the consumer bought for themselves, then you blame the battery manufacturer.
The way this works is that the consumer blames Apple and then Apple potentially blames the battery manufacturer (or fixes the heat issues).
I've had the same experience my my mini core duo.
Solid as a rock, and about the same size as a nice, interesting one. Not at all like the ones in my bag now, which, come to think of it isn't my bag at all. It's very similar, but it's not mine. Gah! What's with this towel? Pink?!?
I don't see anything. These battery issues must be SEP.
Take what this person said and do the exact opposite.
If you only have a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail.
That's the sign of a bad programmer.
Who moderated the parent insightful?!?
Well, at that point, why not wire the house with fiber?
Please don't quote me out of context.
What I said was:
Unless you can predict the future, you can't "optimize queries" to only get the data the user is going to want.
It's very often that a website doesn't present all the data to the user that the user could request. Fetching the data on demand can result in database improvements that "optimized queries" can't touch because you don't even have to get the data often times.
And yes, I do know what it means, I do it for a living.
If you're resorting to using AJAX only ameliorate your DB load, you may wish to try more conservative methods that will work on all client machines, such as optimizing your queries, first.
Unless you can predict the future, you can't "optimize queries" to only get the data the user is going to want. Random crap advice of "optimize your queries" is worthless and unhelpful.
Getting data on demand is how the web is going to work. I'd suggest you stick to the standards and the users will complain to the anti-virus makers. It's their job, too, to work in the user's environment. That includes sites that load content on demand.
First of all, I was disappointed that for the first day I tried to buy/download episode 1, I kept getting "server is too busy, try again in a few hours" errors.
When I was finally able to purchase the game, I downloaded at about 400KB/s, which is pretty respectable for my connection (though it can do ~1MB/s to the right server).
The production value of the game is very good. The character interactions are very good and the constant interaction with Alyx is very good. She does neat little things like covering her face when there's an explosion hear her.
The story is "ok". I'm pretty picky about plot in general, so "ok" from me probably means "pretty good" for most other people.
My beef with the game has to be Alyx's health/ammo levels. She has infinite ammo, so there's bits where in order to conserve ammo, you have to pretty much just wait around for her to kill baddies (and point them out with the flashlight.. which while being cool at first gets old). The second bit is that she can die, but there's absolutely no indication of how much health she has. There's no number anywhere and it's not depicted on her character, either. She's fine, she's fine, she's dead. If she starts saying "Oww!" a lot, then you probably need to get her away.
Anyways, they've got my $20 for episode 2.
anyone who changes their mind based on this stupid marketing campaign really is a sheep.
While this may be true, it's important to note that this particular changing of ones mind does not cause one to become a sheep, only reinforces that they are.
They may have purchased the iPod because they were a "sheep" already or may have become a "sheep" at this point, as well.
No, what you describe is called "theft". There are laws against that.
Think before posting.
Much of that unauthorized software is being used to make firms much more productive than they would be otherwise -- probably benefiting the overall economy quite a bit.
This is the WRONG counter to their claims. The correct counter is that an unauthorized copy of a piece of software is NOT the same as a lost software sale.
In fact, if companies are using unauthorized copies of software to increase their business, that's when it's morally wrong to not pay for your software in my mind.
To me, it's like watching a illegally downloaded movie for personal (potential) entertainment vs. selling it on the street. The latter is the one I have a moral issue with and represents a more realistic loss of sale for the copyright holder.