I have the sound quality up to a decent level, and I'm using the on-board sound of my Asus P4PE/L:-P
Also, networking and performance has been VASTLY improved from the original release.
Not at all. First of all, both addresses could be pointing to different interfaces on the same machine. Second, I can almost guarantee that one of the IP addresses/hostnames is tied to an SSL certificate (for online registration/payment, perhaps?) Or possibly firewall rules based on the destination class C.
I don't use no-cd patches, since technically they're modifying the binary which wouldn't be covered by "fair use" laws. I use daemon tools to mount an image of the disc (ripped from my store-bought copy) and play the game. I started doing this with Battlefield 1942, since it checks for the disc every map change, and the wait for the CDR drive to spin up took too long for my taste.
The jokes are actually on How to catch a Lion in the Sahara. Reposted here for educational purposes:-)
MATHEMATICIANS hunt elephants by going to Africa, throwing out everything that is not an elephant, and catching one of whatever is left.
EXPERIENCED MATHEMATICIANS will attempt to prove the existence of at least one unique elephant before proceeding to step 1 as a subordinate exercise.
PROFESSORS OF MATHEMATICS will prove the existence of at least one unique elephant and then leave the detection and capture of an actual elephant as an exercise for their graduate students.
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS hunt elephants by exercising Algorithm A:
1. Go to Africa.
2. Start at the Cape of Good Hope.
3. Work northward in an orderly manner, traversing the continent alternately east and west.
4. During each traverse pass,
a. Catch each animal seen.
b. Compare each animal caught to a known elephant.
c. Stop when a match is detected.
EXPERIENCED COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS modify Algorithm A by placing a known elephant in Cairo to ensure that the algorithm will terminate.
ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMMERS prefer to execute Algorithm A on their hands and knees.
HARDWARE ENGINEERS hunt elephants by going to Africa, catching gray animals at random, and stopping when any one of them weighs within plus or minus 15 percent of any previously observed elephant.
ECONOMISTS don't hunt elephants, but they believe that if elephants are paid enough, they will hunt themselves.
STATISTICIANS hunt the first animal they see N times and call it an elephant.
CONSULTANTS don't hunt elephants, and many have never hunted anything at all, but they can be hired by the hour to advise those people who do.
OPERATIONS RESEARCH CONSULTANTS can also measure the correlation of hat size and bullet color to the efficiency of elephant-hunting strategies, if someone else will only identify the elephants.
POLITICIANS don't hunt elephants, but they will share the elephants you catch with the people who voted for them.
LAWYERS don't hunt elephants, but they do follow the herds around arguing about who owns the droppings.
SOFTWARE LAWYERS will claim that they own an entire herd based on the look and feel of one dropping.
VICE PRESIDENTS OF ENGINEERING, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT try hard to hunt elephants, but their staffs are designed to prevent it. When the vice president does get to hunt elephants, the staff will try to ensure that all possible elephants are completely prehunted before the vice president sees them. If the vice president does happen to see a elephant, the staff will:
(1) compliment the vice president's keen eyesight and
(2) enlarge itself to prevent any recurrence.
SENIOR MANAGERS set broad elephant-hunting policy based on the assumption that elephants are just like field mice, but with deeper voices.
QUALITY ASSURANCE INSPECTORS ignore the elephants and look for mistakes the other hunters made when they were packing the jeep.
SALES PEOPLE don't hunt elephants but spend their time selling elephants they haven't caught, for delivery two days before the season opens.
SOFTWARE SALES PEOPLE ship the first thing they catch and write up an invoice for an elephant.
HARDWARE SALES PEOPLE catch rabbits, paint them gray, and sell them as desktop elephants.
Reminds me of a joke I heard a while ago...
An egg and a sausage are sitting in a frying pan.
The sausage says to the egg, "Is it just me, or is it hot in here?" The egg says "Ahhhh! Talking sausage!"
Now, I don't like advert breaks and I don't like the rampant commercialism they imply, but seriously: isn't this going to make a lot of TV unprofitable?
Nah... from what I remember, there was alot of talk not too long ago about media companies running the ads *during* the show... either in an inset box (think picture-in-picture) or with little scrolling banners or product placement.
Everything in Everquest has an innate regeneration level. For players this is only a few hitpoints every 6 seconds (a game 'tick') whereas NPC's generally regenerate much quicker, and moreso the higher level the NPC is. This is basically there to stop low-level players from killing high-level monsters by doing a series of kamikaze attacks on the NPC. Also, it should probably be noted that once this particular NPC spawns, it goes on a scripted rampage across several game 'zones', killing everything in its path until it reaches another high-level dragon NPC, and they duke it out.
What I want to know is this... as far as I know, SCO hasn't established (legally) that it has any of its IP in the Linux kernel. How can they even attempt to charge license fees for this software, let alone sue people for using it? Wouldn't this just get laughed out of court?
They certainly did a cost analysis on the decision. Given what they know now, I am sure they picked the most profitable solution, all things considered.
Obviously their cost analysis was far from thorough enough though, given that the move back is most likely prompted by either real or threatened loss of business/revenue due to the decreased quality in technical support... especially when this service and support is supposedly one of the big selling points of your company.
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So the RIAA says we can't share music amongst ourselves, but they can hire attractive females to go out and offer it?
That's how it works with these IP rackets... first, they lure you in with the boobies... then, before you know it... lawsuit!
Why do I get the feeling that this would make a great Apple commercial? I could see them playing this out and it still fitting into the clean and slick Apple marketing image.
I can see it now...
Cut to a darkened nightclub... dark-broody iPod guy is approached by sultry sex-goddess... girl eyes up the guy, and offers her "input port" for him to "plug" himself into... roll cheesy porno music, zoom on his minijack plug sliding into the iPod.. bow wow chicka woooooow!
Not really. In the strictest sense, you're not conveying the information, but rather, the recipient is making informed guesses as to the content, based on the fragmentary decoding of the message, context within the message, most-likely substiutions, etc...
My point was that language does not inherently code in redundancy. We might phrase things in a certain way at times to increase redundancy, but it's not inherent in language structure itself. When the recipient draws on knowledge conveyed to him at some time in the past, it's not a redundant feature of language that's giving you the correct context, but rather, a previously established "knowledge base" that you can draw on to fill in the gaps.
From the number of posts here, I'd say they have the support of the slashdot community just for bringing back Family Guy... and I'd tend to agree, it's a damned funny show. It's not like the shows are mutually exclusive.
A small quibble, but according to cognitive science, I believe that it's not actually redundancy built into language that allows us to pick out someone talking over static, but rather the sophisticated pattern-recognition mechanisms in the brain that compensate for this. This is also the reason that spotting typos can be tricky without careful reading... the brain tends to autocorrect for defects, so in effect you're "seeing" the correct word, in spite of the typo (a similar mechanism allows us to see a "complete" visual field in spite of the blind spots created on the retina where the optical nerve connects) However, IANAL(inguist) so I could be off on this. Interesting idea, though.
... and people still try and claim that Linux is ready for the desktop? Don't get me wrong, linux is great at the office and I couldn't live without it, but I'm a software developer and system administrator. Joe Average doesn't want to convert his movie files to ogm files or have to hack hooks into the game to get movies to work in-game, he just wants to put the CD in the tray and have the software work. Yeah, so I'm a little offtopic.
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I have the sound quality up to a decent level, and I'm using the on-board sound of my Asus P4PE/L :-P
Also, networking and performance has been VASTLY improved from the original release.
Not at all. First of all, both addresses could be pointing to different interfaces on the same machine. Second, I can almost guarantee that one of the IP addresses/hostnames is tied to an SSL certificate (for online registration/payment, perhaps?) Or possibly firewall rules based on the destination class C.
Says you, Johnny Fartpants! :-P
Actually, there are lists of software hacks that you can find on the internet to help with that.
:-)
Yeah, too bad most of them don't work.
Freeze an organism containing water and you'll rip cellular stuctures apart.
Actually, there is a species of frog that freezes solid during the winter, and thaws out (and lives!) in the summer. More info here
I don't use no-cd patches, since technically they're modifying the binary which wouldn't be covered by "fair use" laws. I use daemon tools to mount an image of the disc (ripped from my store-bought copy) and play the game. I started doing this with Battlefield 1942, since it checks for the disc every map change, and the wait for the CDR drive to spin up took too long for my taste.
I don't know what you're talking about, I subscrubed to slashdot and I have plenty of sex with your girlfriend.
:-)
The jokes are actually on How to catch a Lion in the Sahara. Reposted here for educational purposes :-)
MATHEMATICIANS hunt elephants by going to Africa, throwing out everything that is not an elephant, and catching one of whatever is left.
EXPERIENCED MATHEMATICIANS will attempt to prove the existence of at least one unique elephant before proceeding to step 1 as a subordinate exercise.
PROFESSORS OF MATHEMATICS will prove the existence of at least one unique elephant and then leave the detection and capture of an actual elephant as an exercise for their graduate students.
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS hunt elephants by exercising Algorithm A:
1. Go to Africa.
2. Start at the Cape of Good Hope.
3. Work northward in an orderly manner, traversing the continent alternately east and west.
4. During each traverse pass,
a. Catch each animal seen.
b. Compare each animal caught to a known elephant.
c. Stop when a match is detected.
EXPERIENCED COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS modify Algorithm A by placing a known
elephant in Cairo to ensure that the algorithm will terminate.
ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMMERS prefer to execute Algorithm A on their hands and knees.
HARDWARE ENGINEERS hunt elephants by going to Africa, catching gray animals at random, and stopping when any one of them weighs within plus or minus 15 percent of any previously observed elephant.
ECONOMISTS don't hunt elephants, but they believe that if elephants are paid enough, they will hunt themselves.
STATISTICIANS hunt the first animal they see N times and call it an elephant.
CONSULTANTS don't hunt elephants, and many have never hunted anything at all, but they can be hired by the hour to advise those people who do.
OPERATIONS RESEARCH CONSULTANTS can also measure the correlation of hat size and bullet color to the efficiency of elephant-hunting strategies, if someone else will only identify the elephants.
POLITICIANS don't hunt elephants, but they will share the elephants you catch with the people who voted for them.
LAWYERS don't hunt elephants, but they do follow the herds around arguing about who owns the droppings.
SOFTWARE LAWYERS will claim that they own an entire herd based on the look and feel of one dropping.
VICE PRESIDENTS OF ENGINEERING, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT try hard to hunt elephants, but their staffs are designed to prevent it. When the vice president does get to hunt elephants, the staff will try to ensure that all possible elephants are completely prehunted before the vice president sees them. If the vice president does happen to see a elephant, the staff will:
(1) compliment the vice president's keen eyesight and
(2) enlarge itself to prevent any recurrence.
SENIOR MANAGERS set broad elephant-hunting policy based on the assumption that elephants are just like field mice, but with deeper voices.
QUALITY ASSURANCE INSPECTORS ignore the elephants and look for mistakes the other hunters made when they were packing the jeep.
SALES PEOPLE don't hunt elephants but spend their time selling elephants they haven't caught, for delivery two days before the season opens.
SOFTWARE SALES PEOPLE ship the first thing they catch and write up an invoice for an elephant.
HARDWARE SALES PEOPLE catch rabbits, paint them gray, and sell them as desktop elephants.
Q: What's brown and sticky?
A: A stick.
Reminds me of a joke I heard a while ago...
An egg and a sausage are sitting in a frying pan. The sausage says to the egg, "Is it just me, or is it hot in here?" The egg says "Ahhhh! Talking sausage!"
Now, I don't like advert breaks and I don't like the rampant commercialism they imply, but seriously: isn't this going to make a lot of TV unprofitable?
Nah... from what I remember, there was alot of talk not too long ago about media companies running the ads *during* the show... either in an inset box (think picture-in-picture) or with little scrolling banners or product placement.
Everything in Everquest has an innate regeneration level. For players this is only a few hitpoints every 6 seconds (a game 'tick') whereas NPC's generally regenerate much quicker, and moreso the higher level the NPC is. This is basically there to stop low-level players from killing high-level monsters by doing a series of kamikaze attacks on the NPC. Also, it should probably be noted that once this particular NPC spawns, it goes on a scripted rampage across several game 'zones', killing everything in its path until it reaches another high-level dragon NPC, and they duke it out.
What I want to know is this... as far as I know, SCO hasn't established (legally) that it has any of its IP in the Linux kernel. How can they even attempt to charge license fees for this software, let alone sue people for using it? Wouldn't this just get laughed out of court?
They certainly did a cost analysis on the decision. Given what they know now, I am sure they picked the most profitable solution, all things considered.
Obviously their cost analysis was far from thorough enough though, given that the move back is most likely prompted by either real or threatened loss of business/revenue due to the decreased quality in technical support... especially when this service and support is supposedly one of the big selling points of your company.
So the RIAA says we can't share music amongst ourselves, but they can hire attractive females to go out and offer it?
That's how it works with these IP rackets... first, they lure you in with the boobies... then, before you know it... lawsuit!
Why do I get the feeling that this would make a great Apple commercial? I could see them playing this out and it still fitting into the clean and slick Apple marketing image.
I can see it now...
Cut to a darkened nightclub... dark-broody iPod guy is approached by sultry sex-goddess... girl eyes up the guy, and offers her "input port" for him to "plug" himself into... roll cheesy porno music, zoom on his minijack plug sliding into the iPod.. bow wow chicka woooooow!
Nah, it's pretty sucky on Xbox too.
Not really. In the strictest sense, you're not conveying the information, but rather, the recipient is making informed guesses as to the content, based on the fragmentary decoding of the message, context within the message, most-likely substiutions, etc...
My point was that language does not inherently code in redundancy. We might phrase things in a certain way at times to increase redundancy, but it's not inherent in language structure itself. When the recipient draws on knowledge conveyed to him at some time in the past, it's not a redundant feature of language that's giving you the correct context, but rather, a previously established "knowledge base" that you can draw on to fill in the gaps.
From the number of posts here, I'd say they have the support of the slashdot community just for bringing back Family Guy... and I'd tend to agree, it's a damned funny show. It's not like the shows are mutually exclusive.
Let alone the best Family Guy line _ever_: Chris (to twinkie) "I'm gonna turn you into poo!"
Chris: Hey Meg, guess what word I'm thinking of now, and it's definitely NOT "kitties".
Meg: It's kitties.
Chris: GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
Crap, I wish I hadn't used up all my mod points already :-( +1 TEH FUNNEY!
Why doesn't he just use a voicebox? :-P
A small quibble, but according to cognitive science, I believe that it's not actually redundancy built into language that allows us to pick out someone talking over static, but rather the sophisticated pattern-recognition mechanisms in the brain that compensate for this. This is also the reason that spotting typos can be tricky without careful reading... the brain tends to autocorrect for defects, so in effect you're "seeing" the correct word, in spite of the typo (a similar mechanism allows us to see a "complete" visual field in spite of the blind spots created on the retina where the optical nerve connects) However, IANAL(inguist) so I could be off on this. Interesting idea, though.
My friend, if you can be heard up to 3 miles away whistling from *that* end, you probably need some medical attention. :-)
... and people still try and claim that Linux is ready for the desktop? Don't get me wrong, linux is great at the office and I couldn't live without it, but I'm a software developer and system administrator. Joe Average doesn't want to convert his movie files to ogm files or have to hack hooks into the game to get movies to work in-game, he just wants to put the CD in the tray and have the software work. Yeah, so I'm a little offtopic.
Minicons bah... everyone knows it's all about the energon cubes :-P