D&D taught a generation of kids that they could make the games they play, and that nothing was more fun than getting together with friends for an evening of games.
Utter bollocks - an evening of games pales in comparison with a day-long pizza-fuelled session at the weekend.
I genuinely wish they would just give it all away.
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IPv4 Will Not Die In 2010
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We'll never be able to justify the cost of implementing IPv6 properly until it becomes something customers are demanding, and that won't happen until there is stuff on the Internet people want that to reach couldn't get hold of an IPv4 address.
IPv6 will not take off until there is stuff out there that people want to access that hasn't been able to get an IPv4 address.
Believe me, once that moment hits, IPv6 will become a differentiator and ISPs will race for it. Until then, they'll largely ignore it, because they can't justify the cost of setting it all up if no-one cares about it.
Why wouldn't you want to make those details handily available to those friends you trust with them? Especially if it means that if you need to change your phone number, many friends will have the new number synched to their phone automatically before you even get around to telling them that the old one is dead.
I'd have thought that the real promise of this Surfacescapes concept is that it could speed things up a lot and remove most of the minis into the bargain.
Lose the stupid virtual dice and either use an RNG or read in real dice rolls. Have the system handle all the status effects and crap for you automatically, and display them as little icons. The D&M would just need to enter any custom creatures and create (or download and customise) the maps.
All in all, it should mean more time to focus on story and still keep the combat rich enough to satisfy those hungry for a little skirmish strategy.
I'll be satisfied when local authorities routinely push data as they build/alter roads, add obstacles that change the maximum height/weight for a road, make junctions right-turn-only, and police and users mostly provide real-time info on temporary info on closed roads/accidents/etc.
Naturally my GPS device (both the one on my phone and whatever I use in the car) should receive this shit wirelessly.
Vista/Win7 DRM makes me wish I could make the jump, but I like to play PC games, and I'm not willing to restrict myself to what I can get working under WINE.
Don't let the quad-core bit fool you; that'll be low-end in a couple of years, no doubt.
Still, the chip in question is definitely at the upper reaches of "mid-range" in my book. I've just picked up the X3 720 model for my home machine, and that was stretching the wallet as far as I was inclined to.
Speaking as someone who has been in the process of trying to do this for years, it's not as easy as it might sound.
Every exercise program, no matter how carefully I take it and how much I stretch, seems to trip up on some kind of injury (ankle, knee, shoulder, knee again, back - what next?).
Eating less (and eschewing carbs for a zone-like diet) is doable when you're well motivated, but at other times can lead to misery - and frankly, I'm not yet at the point where misery is preferable to obesity.
Every time it seems to be going well, something throws a spanner in the works.
I still hope I'll make it someday. Preferably soon.
I played through BP on one-player a while back and loved it. I sold it, but re-bought it recently as a party game (now I have a console-friendly housemate) and we discovered it doesn't do f***ing split-screen multiplayer - even if you buy the add-on party pack, it's pass-the-controller action.
So if I want to race my friends, they have to be in another house. How sociable!
I've got an android phone, and I've tried out the hacked multitouch. I've never even wanted an iPhone, but I've played with the multitouch and it responds perfectly, fluidly, intruitively. The android multitouch hack feels very clumsy by comparison.
And this is often the curse of object-oriented programming. Objects carries more data than necessary for many of the uses of the object. Only a few cases exists where all the object data is used. A lot of object-oriented programming is somewhat like using 18-wheelers for grocery shopping.
Surely this is a problem begging a solution in the form of smarter compilers?
Speaking as a volunteer (although I live in the UK so won't be included in the current phase), I expect my data to be (somewhat) misused. I just think the good this project will acheive is well worth the sacrifice.
By the by, the process of "consenting" to be a member of this project involves getting a 100% pass mark on a pretty involved exam about DNA, the project and the risks involved. Apparently this is because they "take informed consent very seriously".
Not when you're talking to the customer it isn't - CPE is mostly a networking term to differentiate it from the PE (provider edge) routers and other related kit.
"ADSL router" (or, yes, "ADSL modem" if it's one of those USB adapters rather than a stand-alone router) is a better bet.
I opt out of spam regularly, in order to punish just the behaviour that this article talks about. I run my own mail server for myself and friends, and any spam I get is fed into the spam-filters (SpamAssassin and Bogofilter) that feed the entire server. The filters are ham-friendly enough that I can feed most of it straight through without even checking it.
What I could really do with, in fact, is a method for following all the links and loading the images in emails sent to my honeypot account, which gets fed directly into the spamfilters without me needing to look at it.
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D&D taught a generation of kids that they could make the games they play, and that nothing was more fun than getting together with friends for an evening of games.
Utter bollocks - an evening of games pales in comparison with a day-long pizza-fuelled session at the weekend.
We'll never be able to justify the cost of implementing IPv6 properly until it becomes something customers are demanding, and that won't happen until there is stuff on the Internet people want that to reach couldn't get hold of an IPv4 address.
Still, I suppose I just have to be patient.
IPv6 will not take off until there is stuff out there that people want to access that hasn't been able to get an IPv4 address.
Believe me, once that moment hits, IPv6 will become a differentiator and ISPs will race for it. Until then, they'll largely ignore it, because they can't justify the cost of setting it all up if no-one cares about it.
(I am an ISP Network Engineer)
Why wouldn't you want to make those details handily available to those friends you trust with them? Especially if it means that if you need to change your phone number, many friends will have the new number synched to their phone automatically before you even get around to telling them that the old one is dead.
Mod parent up - Funny or insightful, pick one.
I'd have thought that the real promise of this Surfacescapes concept is that it could speed things up a lot and remove most of the minis into the bargain.
Lose the stupid virtual dice and either use an RNG or read in real dice rolls. Have the system handle all the status effects and crap for you automatically, and display them as little icons. The D&M would just need to enter any custom creatures and create (or download and customise) the maps.
All in all, it should mean more time to focus on story and still keep the combat rich enough to satisfy those hungry for a little skirmish strategy.
After reading the summary and all the comments, I still had to check Wikipedia to find out which part of Europe this dude is actually from (Belgium).
You guys know Europe is a continent and not a country, right?
50 Win points (TM) to whoever tagged this "half-duplex"
I'll be satisfied when local authorities routinely push data as they build/alter roads, add obstacles that change the maximum height/weight for a road, make junctions right-turn-only, and police and users mostly provide real-time info on temporary info on closed roads/accidents/etc.
Naturally my GPS device (both the one on my phone and whatever I use in the car) should receive this shit wirelessly.
Plenty of schools already teach touch-typing, mine did a little 20 years ago.
In any case, speech recognition is improving, and the keyboard won't last forever - why teach kids to type at 100wpm when they can speak at 160+?
... I'm not much interested in 3D until the glasses ARE the display, to be honest. Should be great if you're doing 3D design though.
Vista/Win7 DRM makes me wish I could make the jump, but I like to play PC games, and I'm not willing to restrict myself to what I can get working under WINE.
Yep - and my Vista Upgrade is going on eBay. Don't worry, I'll be sure to mention in the description that no free copy of Windows 7 is included.
Therefore cost of Windows 7 = cost of Vista upgrade - what I get for it on eBay. Hopefully under 20 quid.
Nobody writes here for credit - I suspect they'd rather vent and go elsewhere than take elaborate data-protection measures just to comment on /.
Talk to Intel - if you're doing something that might help them sell multi-core chips, they might bung you a pre-release chip for free/cheap.
Failing that, is using more cores per die very different to using multiple processors?
Don't let the quad-core bit fool you; that'll be low-end in a couple of years, no doubt.
Still, the chip in question is definitely at the upper reaches of "mid-range" in my book. I've just picked up the X3 720 model for my home machine, and that was stretching the wallet as far as I was inclined to.
Speaking as someone who has been in the process of trying to do this for years, it's not as easy as it might sound.
Every exercise program, no matter how carefully I take it and how much I stretch, seems to trip up on some kind of injury (ankle, knee, shoulder, knee again, back - what next?).
Eating less (and eschewing carbs for a zone-like diet) is doable when you're well motivated, but at other times can lead to misery - and frankly, I'm not yet at the point where misery is preferable to obesity.
Every time it seems to be going well, something throws a spanner in the works.
I still hope I'll make it someday. Preferably soon.
I played through BP on one-player a while back and loved it. I sold it, but re-bought it recently as a party game (now I have a console-friendly housemate) and we discovered it doesn't do f***ing split-screen multiplayer - even if you buy the add-on party pack, it's pass-the-controller action.
So if I want to race my friends, they have to be in another house. How sociable!
A**holes.
I've got an android phone, and I've tried out the hacked multitouch. I've never even wanted an iPhone, but I've played with the multitouch and it responds perfectly, fluidly, intruitively. The android multitouch hack feels very clumsy by comparison.
Goddamit! Now I'm going to have to buy a fucking 360...
(I have a PS3 that I rarely play on, and decided to wait on the Wii until there was a game out I REALLY had to have - hasn't happened yet.)
Speaking as an ISP senior network engineer for over a decade:
Yes. BT can get stuffed, and any other provider who violates net neutrality will see me vote with my feet.
And this is often the curse of object-oriented programming. Objects carries more data than necessary for many of the uses of the object. Only a few cases exists where all the object data is used. A lot of object-oriented programming is somewhat like using 18-wheelers for grocery shopping.
Surely this is a problem begging a solution in the form of smarter compilers?
Speaking as a volunteer (although I live in the UK so won't be included in the current phase), I expect my data to be (somewhat) misused. I just think the good this project will acheive is well worth the sacrifice.
By the by, the process of "consenting" to be a member of this project involves getting a 100% pass mark on a pretty involved exam about DNA, the project and the risks involved. Apparently this is because they "take informed consent very seriously".
Not when you're talking to the customer it isn't - CPE is mostly a networking term to differentiate it from the PE (provider edge) routers and other related kit.
"ADSL router" (or, yes, "ADSL modem" if it's one of those USB adapters rather than a stand-alone router) is a better bet.
I opt out of spam regularly, in order to punish just the behaviour that this article talks about. I run my own mail server for myself and friends, and any spam I get is fed into the spam-filters (SpamAssassin and Bogofilter) that feed the entire server. The filters are ham-friendly enough that I can feed most of it straight through without even checking it.
What I could really do with, in fact, is a method for following all the links and loading the images in emails sent to my honeypot account, which gets fed directly into the spamfilters without me needing to look at it.