"So a newer Doctor is marrying an older Doctor's daughter, who is a clone of the newer doctor, but only has half the DNA of the older Doctor."
Dear god, someone please think of the 12 toed children! Actually, we've already seen the doctor's granddaughter, Susan. They forgot to mention the plot point about the Doctor being her father and her grandfather;-) OMG Susan has 12 toes!
Must have played through HL2 about six times, got 90% of the achievements. Also played through the episodes a few times. LOVE it.
What makes HL so much more replayable than other games? I think it comes down to: (a) story (b) environment (c) decent AI, in that order. I was bored instantly with the L4D series because it had no plot. Environment plays a big factor but missing a good story (Fallout 3 I'm looking at you) is crucial too. And even if you have both of those things and it's no fun to play the single player game because the enemies are stupid, that's a quick game killer too.
It also probably helps that I identify with the nerdy protagonist:)
BTW, Valve, you listening? Thanks alot for leaving me with the biggest cliffhanger ever and then not finishing it. It's like the end of Red Dwarf. Exciting at the time but turning into more and more of a letdown. I'm getting the feeling that I'll never know what happens after the forest strider buster battle. GAH =)
I hear this idiocy all the time on IRC. When it happens, I ask if the person if they actually know how to use autotools. The answer is *always* no. Usually with a justification like "why would I want to learn a system that sucks?"
You gave zero reasons for bashing autotools, so I put you in this same camp. Back up your assertions or GTFO.
It is actually a handy piece of software. When used properly, most projects need just one or two macros - AC_CHECK_LIB and AC_CHECK_HEADERS and then just list out your sources and flags in a Makefile.am.
There's really very little to complain about. It does it's job, does it fairly well. The only catch is that you have to RTFM.
AHA! No wonder I couldn't find that last Quantum Cola to complete the collection. Have to go to Japan for it. The machine knows what you need.
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Oh heh I missed the part about the future-forward chapter 15. Heh good luck explaining the changes in one chapter though, the UI is very different in many respects.
I was hoping more for 3d entertainment and interaction than ads. Games. Wow the pessimism here makes my eyes water. It's no wonder I haven't been reading it much lately.
SVG: This is the only one in your list that resembles what I mean. I've tried messing with SVG. It's only very recently that it's acceptably fast to do animation type things with it. Canvas 2d is much more lightweight and just feels simpler / easier to use. With SVG you have to stomach the XML too:-)
The rest all require plugins or server side work, so that's technically not really "drawing in a browser", it's drawing in a plugin supplied context.
WebGL doesn't support video on a texture. It's based on GL ES (embedded) and has a limited set of functionality, even in GL terms.
Well, I suppose you could fake it with a texture atlas, but that would require exploit in PNG or JPEG, which probably would be noticed elsewhere too:-P
If it's exploits you're looking for, I doubt WebGL is a good vector for attack. It's a relatively small finite API. Where are you going to attack? Vertex and fragment data is only handled at all inside a shader - which you must supply. Good luck breaking out of that box. Any obvious attacks like resource over-allocation will likely be squashed quickly.
Compare this with the video spec, which has a huge abstraction right in the middle of it. This opens up any attack vectors that are already in the supported codecs.
I've wanted a way to draw in a browser - I mean really draw, not just use divs as pixels - for a long time now. Finally it's here! WebGL is really smooth now, I've been watching it in the latest minefield builds. Some guy in IRC posted a demo city drawing that had 24k faces and still rendered smooth as silk. 2d drawing on a canvas is also very nice - very easy to use.
This is the dawn of a new era of killer web content. My guess - within two years, WebGL will be the highest paying job in web dev.
A few more months is nothing, I've been waiting years for this;-)
Moderators and metamods I ask you: is this *really* offtopic? To have shown someone else who has achieved what the article claims who did it first is "offtopic"? Really? Or is this partisanship?
Slashdot has gone off the conservative deep end recently. It's sad, but I'm less and less likely to come here after 10 years of reading the site.
The thing about seeing everything in black and white is that it polarizes us. It creates a situation where you have 2 sides, absolutely convinced that they are right and the other is absolutely wrong.
Republicans (well Rovian NeoCons) tend to take this polarity and use it as an attack machine, polarizing people further, which bugs me.
This all leads to a lovely situation where half the internet hates the other half and both devolve into club-wielding trolls at the drop of a hat. See HuffPost comments for example;-)
Having said that, McCain is 100% wrong. Vote for Barack Obama:-P
Isn't a switch-down triangle a pretty standard UI feature? Or, I'm just so blinded by building sites/software for so long that these things just seem natural to me?
I admit the word "never" was an exaggeration on my part. I was trying to make my point fast and loud, since slashdot works better when you're quick and inflammatory (sad but true).
What I meant was that the claims made by this administration were demonstrably false. Though there might have been a grain of truth to the WMD argument or the terrorist connections in the past, Blix was very close to showing that the weapons programs were shut down. Hussein was using bluster to make himself look bigger - Iran was his fear, not the US. Before Blix & the UN could complete the work, Bush invaded. Had he been allowed to finish the work, the case for war would have been impossible for Bush to make. Therefore he invaded.
The items you list are simply not a justification for invading anything and the "surge" was a band-aid turned into a justification. Lets say you break something, like a pair of eye glasses. You put a piece of tape around the bridge and then proceed to show everyone how smart and clever you were and how great your glasses work now. This is what you are saying when you assert that the surge worked. We had a less than flattering name for this when I was growing up in Chicago - a "n----r rig". Being proud and saying it's working is ridiculous.
Ok fine, well ancient history notwithstanding, I'll take a page from Bugliosi's book here:
If Hussein had an atomic bomb and was somehow forced to choose to bomb Baghdad or New York, which would he choose?
If you say "New York", you're dead wrong. Think of the retaliation he would have encountered had Saddam dropped a nuke on the US. It's clear that the guy wanted to live. He would not have attacked the United States. It would have been suicide.
It was a mistake to attack him when our resources were far better focused elsewhere.
Finding all those justifications doesn't change the fact that "Bush lied, thousands died" as us protesters ("hippies") like to say.
So, you keep telling yourself that all the deaths were necessary. My point is, no they were not. Not one single troop or Iraqi citizen's death was justified. Bush is a liar and a murderer.
Oil companies and war profiteers make billions off this war. Our economy is dead in the water. Oil is ridiculously expensive.
So, when gasoline hits $10 a gallon and food is 4 times more expensive than it is right now, who will you blame? At that point, you ONLY HAVE YOURSELF.
Vote. Understand what is happening. It's important.
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"So a newer Doctor is marrying an older Doctor's daughter, who is a clone of the newer doctor, but only has half the DNA of the older Doctor."
Dear god, someone please think of the 12 toed children! Actually, we've already seen the doctor's granddaughter, Susan. They forgot to mention the plot point about the Doctor being her father and her grandfather ;-) OMG Susan has 12 toes!
Right heh, if OP has bothered to read, this is all about his friend who works with Wikileaks and the US government. Nothing to do with the TSA.
Must have played through HL2 about six times, got 90% of the achievements. Also played through the episodes a few times. LOVE it.
What makes HL so much more replayable than other games? I think it comes down to: (a) story (b) environment (c) decent AI, in that order. I was bored instantly with the L4D series because it had no plot. Environment plays a big factor but missing a good story (Fallout 3 I'm looking at you) is crucial too. And even if you have both of those things and it's no fun to play the single player game because the enemies are stupid, that's a quick game killer too.
It also probably helps that I identify with the nerdy protagonist :)
BTW, Valve, you listening? Thanks alot for leaving me with the biggest cliffhanger ever and then not finishing it. It's like the end of Red Dwarf. Exciting at the time but turning into more and more of a letdown. I'm getting the feeling that I'll never know what happens after the forest strider buster battle. GAH =)
I hear this idiocy all the time on IRC. When it happens, I ask if the person if they actually know how to use autotools. The answer is *always* no. Usually with a justification like "why would I want to learn a system that sucks?"
You gave zero reasons for bashing autotools, so I put you in this same camp. Back up your assertions or GTFO.
It is actually a handy piece of software. When used properly, most projects need just one or two macros - AC_CHECK_LIB and AC_CHECK_HEADERS and then just list out your sources and flags in a Makefile.am.
There's really very little to complain about. It does it's job, does it fairly well. The only catch is that you have to RTFM.
AHA! No wonder I couldn't find that last Quantum Cola to complete the collection. Have to go to Japan for it. The machine knows what you need.
Oh heh I missed the part about the future-forward chapter 15. Heh good luck explaining the changes in one chapter though, the UI is very different in many respects.
Just when the Blender 2.5x series is nearly ready for prime time with a whole new UI.
-.-
I was hoping more for 3d entertainment and interaction than ads. Games. Wow the pessimism here makes my eyes water. It's no wonder I haven't been reading it much lately.
You're wrong, my sig works as intended! It's a trap for pedants :-P
SVG: This is the only one in your list that resembles what I mean. I've tried messing with SVG. It's only very recently that it's acceptably fast to do animation type things with it. Canvas 2d is much more lightweight and just feels simpler / easier to use. With SVG you have to stomach the XML too :-)
The rest all require plugins or server side work, so that's technically not really "drawing in a browser", it's drawing in a plugin supplied context.
Not at all acting "high and mighty". It's just - this is not related to WebGL. At all.
WebGL doesn't support video on a texture. It's based on GL ES (embedded) and has a limited set of functionality, even in GL terms.
Well, I suppose you could fake it with a texture atlas, but that would require exploit in PNG or JPEG, which probably would be noticed elsewhere too :-P
If it's exploits you're looking for, I doubt WebGL is a good vector for attack. It's a relatively small finite API. Where are you going to attack? Vertex and fragment data is only handled at all inside a shader - which you must supply. Good luck breaking out of that box. Any obvious attacks like resource over-allocation will likely be squashed quickly.
Compare this with the video spec, which has a huge abstraction right in the middle of it. This opens up any attack vectors that are already in the supported codecs.
I've wanted a way to draw in a browser - I mean really draw, not just use divs as pixels - for a long time now. Finally it's here! WebGL is really smooth now, I've been watching it in the latest minefield builds. Some guy in IRC posted a demo city drawing that had 24k faces and still rendered smooth as silk. 2d drawing on a canvas is also very nice - very easy to use.
This is the dawn of a new era of killer web content. My guess - within two years, WebGL will be the highest paying job in web dev.
A few more months is nothing, I've been waiting years for this ;-)
Moderators and metamods I ask you: is this *really* offtopic? To have shown someone else who has achieved what the article claims who did it first is "offtopic"? Really? Or is this partisanship?
Slashdot has gone off the conservative deep end recently. It's sad, but I'm less and less likely to come here after 10 years of reading the site.
Wow how *interesting* and *original*.
Or not. Where do you guys think Barack Obama's money is coming from? People like me, who are donating tiny amounts.
Can pudge please refrain from spewing his partisanship so blatantly around slashdot?
Isn't the readership biased enough without slashdot staff egging us on?
The last political article on slashdot stopped me reading it for two weeks, and this did not help.
cduffy++
The thing about seeing everything in black and white is that it polarizes us. It creates a situation where you have 2 sides, absolutely convinced that they are right and the other is absolutely wrong.
Republicans (well Rovian NeoCons) tend to take this polarity and use it as an attack machine, polarizing people further, which bugs me.
This all leads to a lovely situation where half the internet hates the other half and both devolve into club-wielding trolls at the drop of a hat. See HuffPost comments for example ;-)
Having said that, McCain is 100% wrong. Vote for Barack Obama :-P
Isn't a switch-down triangle a pretty standard UI feature? Or, I'm just so blinded by building sites/software for so long that these things just seem natural to me?
Yes yes! And then they will have a massive database full of hate and idiocy. Oh wait, maybe they already have that ;-)
HAHA!
This kid you moderators are modding up is:
Snocone
http://www.alexcurylo.com/
A Canadian kid who makes iPhone apps.
So nice that he's willing to throw the US under the fire, huh?
Those people you're protecting from chemical weapons from 1980. What did they do to deserve this:
http://www.slideshare.net/Peety/baghdad-before-after
Suggesting that we toss Israel into the mix is irresponsible and typical war hawk doublethink.
I'm sad for humanity and slashdot right now.
Maybe someday we'll find our way again :-(
I admit the word "never" was an exaggeration on my part. I was trying to make my point fast and loud, since slashdot works better when you're quick and inflammatory (sad but true).
What I meant was that the claims made by this administration were demonstrably false. Though there might have been a grain of truth to the WMD argument or the terrorist connections in the past, Blix was very close to showing that the weapons programs were shut down. Hussein was using bluster to make himself look bigger - Iran was his fear, not the US. Before Blix & the UN could complete the work, Bush invaded. Had he been allowed to finish the work, the case for war would have been impossible for Bush to make. Therefore he invaded.
The items you list are simply not a justification for invading anything and the "surge" was a band-aid turned into a justification. Lets say you break something, like a pair of eye glasses. You put a piece of tape around the bridge and then proceed to show everyone how smart and clever you were and how great your glasses work now. This is what you are saying when you assert that the surge worked. We had a less than flattering name for this when I was growing up in Chicago - a "n----r rig". Being proud and saying it's working is ridiculous.
Ok fine, well ancient history notwithstanding, I'll take a page from Bugliosi's book here:
If Hussein had an atomic bomb and was somehow forced to choose to bomb Baghdad or New York, which would he choose?
If you say "New York", you're dead wrong. Think of the retaliation he would have encountered had Saddam dropped a nuke on the US. It's clear that the guy wanted to live. He would not have attacked the United States. It would have been suicide.
It was a mistake to attack him when our resources were far better focused elsewhere.
Finding all those justifications doesn't change the fact that "Bush lied, thousands died" as us protesters ("hippies") like to say.
So, you keep telling yourself that all the deaths were necessary. My point is, no they were not. Not one single troop or Iraqi citizen's death was justified. Bush is a liar and a murderer.
Oil companies and war profiteers make billions off this war. Our economy is dead in the water. Oil is ridiculously expensive.
Remind me again, what were we fighting for there?
Life wasting?
So, when gasoline hits $10 a gallon and food is 4 times more expensive than it is right now, who will you blame? At that point, you ONLY HAVE YOURSELF.
Vote. Understand what is happening. It's important.