"In my opinion it's *now* a case of the consumers (the ones sharing the books on the web) screwing the authors. Remember, JK Rowling was a starving single mother when she wrote HP:ATSS...Think about *that* when HP #6 comes out"
She was a starving single mother BUT NOT AN AUTHOR. It's wrong to assume that she starved as a result of writing books - she didn't write then.
It's actually quite easy to realize why Achilles 'never' catches up to the tortoise: the paradox draws our attention away from the passing of time.
In any given instant, Achilles makes up a certain amount of distance, and the tortoise moves further off by a little bit.
But the trick in the paradox is that at each 'iteration' of the paradox, a shorter amount of time is passing.
Why a shorter amount of time? Because both Achilles and the tortoise are traveling at a constant (but different) speed, and each 'iteration' has Achilles less ground than the iteration before.
If you do the math, the increments of time between each iteration sums up to equal exactly the time when you would expect Achilles to pass the tortoise.
In other words, the paradox is just a trick - break up the time leading up to the fast Achilles passing a slow tortoise into infinite slivers of time, each sliver slightly shorter than the previous one.
The paradox occurs when we assume each sliver of time is the same amount, and that an infinite amount of them results in an infinite amount of time.
This is the exact same footage of one 30 second segment from the E3 demo.
And a stupid, boring segment of the demo at that. There were so many other parts that were much more interesting.
Gordon controlling alien spiders against soldiers for one.
The Godzilla-like battle between human resistance and alien behemoths.
Why anyone would waste time watching a crowbar swing a few times is beyond me. And even if someone would, the physics of crowbar impact don't even look right.
What a waste of time.
Valve, E3 was great. Now please continue to surprise me.
"Kerry has a several plans to create more jobs, lower the deficit, and improve education and lower the cost of college education. Dean's only economic package is lowering the defecit. Thats it! Go to his website and prove me wrong?"
Well, I have a job, and a college education. And I paid for that shit myself.
So fuck that, no way in hell I'll pay for someone else. Go Dean!
Oh, by the way, defecit is like defecate. Dean wants to reduce the DEFICIT.
The interesting bit should be how the dude discovered the overflow...not how it works.
Discovering an overflow in a controlled environment such as a console is no easy task. Console games don't usually crash - what indicated an overflow was present for exploiting?
After that, exploiting an overflow is really just a menial task. There really are only a few issues to differentiate each case - how long can the exploit string be before it overwrites something critical? Are certain characters not allowed in the string?
Beyond that, exploiting it is simple...
So, anybody know how that particular overflow was discovered?
I think the P3-733 for 180 comparison is not completely valid.
The XBox is not really extensible like a regular PC. How many PCI slots do you have? How many USB/FireWire ports? As a console, many 'regular' features unnecessary for a console that we take for granted are not included.
This kinda limits the usefulness of the XBox.
It's kinda like those deals on the Dell server machines you can get with some creative configuration and coupon applications.
Sure, you get for $300 a full powered server machine...but it has no AGP slot. So much for gaming...
Are there updated drivers for the XBox video card available at all?
[hh:mm:ss] mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm has walked into room. > kill mnmnmnnnmnmnmnm [hh:mm:ss] player is not in room! > kill mnmnmmmnnmnmnmm [hh:mm:ss] player is not in room! > kill mnmmnm [hh:mm:ss] mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm D - E - S - T - R - O - Y - S you with his backstab. you are dead!
Spare me "all the stakeholders matters" bullshit - the only important stakeholders are the shareholders. In this day and age of fraud and accounting mishaps, we're lucky if even the shareholder interests are properly protected, nevermind consumers and society and whatnot.
So I say let the profit motive be. If they can wring money out of IBM, so be it. If IBM beats the fuck out of SCO, kick back and enjoy the show.
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"In my opinion it's *now* a case of the consumers (the ones sharing the books on the web) screwing the authors. Remember, JK Rowling was a starving single mother when she wrote HP:ATSS...Think about *that* when HP #6 comes out"
She was a starving single mother BUT NOT AN AUTHOR. It's wrong to assume that she starved as a result of writing books - she didn't write then.
It's just not popular, coz...as a society we don't read nearly as much as we watch movies or play games.
But believe me, any book you'd want is available in text format and pdf.
I mean, seriously, a insane number of classics are already available legally from Project Gutenberg - how many people use that regularly?
There's just not as much prestige in releasing a pirated book, when the most highly anticipated movies can make a group famous.
That's just my 2 cents.
"Does this show companies are concentrating more on full-price wannabe blockbusters, as opposed to cut-price shovelware?"
Heh. In my experience, it's more likely concentration on full-price shovelware.
Enter My Ass The Matrix. Psh.
IBM Scrollpoint II did this at least 3 years ago. I got one with my Aptiva in my freshmen year of college.
Didn't really like it, but it did scroll in four directions.
And this is with just the middle scroller, no modifier key required, no second scroller, etc.
So really, as others have said, THIS IS STILL NOTHING SPECIAL.
I got one with my Aptiva freshmen year.
Didn't really like it, but it did scroll in four directions.
This is nothing special...
.1% a year. Heh...
At this rate, AMD only needs another 668 years to get to where Intel is right now.
Not bad, at least we're making progress...'gaining ground', as they call it.
Too bad the snails in my backyard even gain ground faster.
I think paradox is a misnomer in these cases.
It's actually quite easy to realize why Achilles 'never' catches up to the tortoise: the paradox draws our attention away from the passing of time.
In any given instant, Achilles makes up a certain amount of distance, and the tortoise moves further off by a little bit.
But the trick in the paradox is that at each 'iteration' of the paradox, a shorter amount of time is passing.
Why a shorter amount of time? Because both Achilles and the tortoise are traveling at a constant (but different) speed, and each 'iteration' has Achilles less ground than the iteration before.
If you do the math, the increments of time between each iteration sums up to equal exactly the time when you would expect Achilles to pass the tortoise.
In other words, the paradox is just a trick - break up the time leading up to the fast Achilles passing a slow tortoise into infinite slivers of time, each sliver slightly shorter than the previous one.
The paradox occurs when we assume each sliver of time is the same amount, and that an infinite amount of them results in an infinite amount of time.
Just a trick, nothing more.
This is the exact same footage of one 30 second segment from the E3 demo.
And a stupid, boring segment of the demo at that. There were so many other parts that were much more interesting.
Gordon controlling alien spiders against soldiers for one.
The Godzilla-like battle between human resistance and alien behemoths.
Why anyone would waste time watching a crowbar swing a few times is beyond me. And even if someone would, the physics of crowbar impact don't even look right.
What a waste of time.
Valve, E3 was great. Now please continue to surprise me.
What does "no exploits" mean?
No script kiddy tool for it yet?
Nobody's used it yet to take down routers?
Because the security advisory sure sounds like it's discovered an "exploit" on Cisco IOS routers to me.
Any self respecting coder can whip up something homemade to take advantage of the issue.
Is "no exploits" yet supposed to make us feel safer?
If a security hole is there, it's vulnerable. Calling it "unexploited for now" is just misleading and confusing.
"In short, the treasured Dragon Quest gameplay elements of ...picking up barrels and peeking into all random places for items will not be changed."
Does that statement bother anyone else?
Sounds...like...uhm...fun.
Yeah, DragonFly was a horrible movie.
And it was Kevin Costner, not Matt Dillon.
This is a ridiculously stupid statement, unless if he meant 20%.
Or maybe he meant up until now, 20 low-cost ISPs closed down within a year.
But otherwise, this statement makes no sense.
It's not like after 20 ISPs close down within a year, there will be no 21st ISP that closes down within a year of startup.
"Kerry has a several plans to create more jobs, lower the deficit, and improve education and lower the cost of college education. Dean's only economic package is lowering the defecit. Thats it! Go to his website and prove me wrong?"
Well, I have a job, and a college education. And I paid for that shit myself.
So fuck that, no way in hell I'll pay for someone else. Go Dean!
Oh, by the way, defecit is like defecate. Dean wants to reduce the DEFICIT.
The interesting bit should be how the dude discovered the overflow...not how it works.
Discovering an overflow in a controlled environment such as a console is no easy task. Console games don't usually crash - what indicated an overflow was present for exploiting?
After that, exploiting an overflow is really just a menial task. There really are only a few issues to differentiate each case - how long can the exploit string be before it overwrites something critical? Are certain characters not allowed in the string?
Beyond that, exploiting it is simple...
So, anybody know how that particular overflow was discovered?
It's the #1 way to whack anysystem...
Heh. And is the solar sail sitting on the surface of this planet?
It's not 9.8m/s2 elsewhere, you know...
I think the P3-733 for 180 comparison is not completely valid.
The XBox is not really extensible like a regular PC. How many PCI slots do you have? How many USB/FireWire ports? As a console, many 'regular' features unnecessary for a console that we take for granted are not included.
This kinda limits the usefulness of the XBox.
It's kinda like those deals on the Dell server machines you can get with some creative configuration and coupon applications.
Sure, you get for $300 a full powered server machine...but it has no AGP slot. So much for gaming...
Are there updated drivers for the XBox video card available at all?
$5billion is the price tag for the technologically most advanced aircraft carrier (read: floating city) on the planet.
$2billion is the price of a B2.
Weird eh?
Your mastery of English is astounding. Now please use it to read the article.
Don't string together two separate phrases from different contexts.
There are two points here:
1) games are being implicated in reduced brain wave activity.
2) research wants to investigate whether shunning social activity is a result of gaming.
These are two separate claims that will be investigated. There is no cause/effect being claimed.
You're spoiled.
This was back in the days when Gopher and Usenet dominated and Mosaic was only some crappy app with a nasty color scheme.
I played using a dialup that drops directly into telnet (not even a shell).
Those were the days...
qpqpqqqppqpqp was another favorite.
of PKilling MUDS...
my favorite has got to be mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm.
[hh:mm:ss] mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm has walked into room.
> kill mnmnmnnnmnmnmnm
[hh:mm:ss] player is not in room!
> kill mnmnmmmnnmnmnmm
[hh:mm:ss] player is not in room!
> kill mnmmnm
[hh:mm:ss] mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm D - E - S - T - R - O - Y - S you with his backstab.
you are dead!
>FUCK!!!!!!!!
incorporating is not the way to go.
Spare me "all the stakeholders matters" bullshit - the only important stakeholders are the shareholders. In this day and age of fraud and accounting mishaps, we're lucky if even the shareholder interests are properly protected, nevermind consumers and society and whatnot.
So I say let the profit motive be. If they can wring money out of IBM, so be it. If IBM beats the fuck out of SCO, kick back and enjoy the show.
I'm surprised that this issue only afflicts 18k laptops.
In this era of mass production, how come the glitch only affects a few? Since the Reuters link is down, I can't read the article, but...
How can a hardware glitch be confined to such few laptops? It can't be cost effective to design something replicated only 18k times...
Nobody's died from the electric shock when the phone rings.
But it sure isn't pleasant.
I got hit with it last time I was mucking around with the wiring in my house. I called myself with the cell to see if it worked.
You know you're stupid when you zap yourself like that...
Doesn't this argument apply to PCs as well?
You're not required to buy a PC. There's a whole world of tae-bo and yoga and other types of entertainment out there!