I think we may both be right, but may be looking for different things. I tend to learn more about coding from looking at examples - even wrong ones. To each his/her own. I'm off to go look at Eric Weisstein's MathWorld now. Thanks for the reference to it. It sounds interesting.
Lame. That would actually be funny if it weren't posted everywhere. Time to come up with something new, unless of course you didn't write this in the first place. Then it's time to steal something new. Good luck!
The best example of user annotated documentation I have ever seen. In fact, the user comments are more valuable than the (rather sparse on each item) regular documentation.
Go explore it a while. Especially look at the functions individually. I even think it's overall the best documentation site I've seen yet.
My idea? Bring in a 300-600MHZ laptop with 128MB RAM, running Linux. Show them an office suite, some 3D and some screensavers. If you can, show them the same types of things under Windows. Let them see that it's not a big deal.
How exactly does this take away from the child's freedom again?
How would you like this implemented at your workplace? You're there on time and doing what you should be doing every day, right? And your job is posting on slashdot?...
Monitoring and punishing bad behaviour is very different than teaching someone to avoid bad behaviour and think with good judgement. Oh, and it's cheeper and can be spun better too.
they'll also determine if the average distance between any two tags remains two low (ie, within two inches of each other because they're both around the same student's neck)
Or if two students are necking... Not that teenagers ever do that, of course.
I would like to see the entire idea of experience re-worked. This "you need 50 million XP" for the next level stuff has got to stop. How about a sliding scale for each creature and the gap between levels remain the same? Kill 50 kobolds for let's say 35XP each and the 51st only gets you 15XP. This would drive players around the maps better in search of new experiences/creatures. I usually only play a game until I have to make that HUGE jump to the next level. Then I get bored as the rewards of advancement disappear. Sure that dragon may get you tons of XP in the current scheme, but you need to coordinate 25 people just to attack it. I would much rather fight in small friendly groups and search the map for fresh things to kill/interact with.
Further, I would like to see more XP awarded for non-killing actions. I'm not quite sure how to approach that, but every time I see some friends play EQ, I get bored to tears as they wait to group up and go smack something just so JoBob the Elf can get his class armor. What ever happened to puzzles or "tricks and traps". This is the main reason that I stay away from MMORPGs. I would rather play something that requires me to stop and think the situation through every so often. Bashing isn't everything.
I realize that my two desires may seem a bit contradictory, but a well rounded and fun game should have plenty of both. Given the size and complexity of these worlds, I think they could fit a bit more random mystery in.
The problem I have is that when AOL does it, it's business and when someone else does, it's hacking. Remember the anti-msblast worm? People high up in the industry called for that guy to be found a prosecuted (And I think he might have been, but I couldn't find the article). Those same people will probably praise AOL for this. Just imagine the precedent this will set. You know, that new version of Gator or Bonsai Buddy (no - I won't link them) should be helping you configure your machine too! Oh, and Real Audio would also like to help you configure your machine properly....Sounds like a bloody nightmare future to me.
God, I cringe every time I hear that. I didn't think their ideas to sanitize the internet would come down to hacking their users machines. If only AOL would tell their customers exactly how invasive they can be. Oh well, I'll go back to herding the user cattle now.
Git along hapless users. Cck! Chk! Git! C'mon users, git!
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Nah, he got a pretty fat favor from me. If I were still at that job (more than a few years ago) I would have definitely been fired for what I did for him, had I been cought (it wasn't illegal though and technically within my scope of work). He and I kept a pretty good friendship after that and helped each other out a lot. Personal is personal and business is business - but an obligation is an obligation in either. I do have ethics... of a sort;)
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That's where the social engineering comes in. Just demanding something will never get true compliance. Let their voicemail sit there a couple of days and when they ask if you got it, tell them you didn't. Then tell them that, if they want any kind of reaction, they should e-mail it to you. The response from SuiteSisterMary about summing up and sending an e-mail yourself will also work. Don't be afraid to be shifty with shifty people. They may even respect you more for it. The shiftiest I've done voicemail wise was to get on of our telco staff to disconnect my extension for a couple of days. I would just plead technical difficulties and the telco guy got a big favor out of it from me (that will not be further elaborated on, thank you). Office politics can be fun, as long as you don't let your feelings get hurt or let the stress get you. Hence the phrase: "Nothing personal, this is business".
What if the geeks you are forced to work with don't take notes, don't read e-mail, and reply to e-mail they do read using a telephone?
Then rely on caller ID or your office phone system. If you see them call, let it go to voicemail and save the voicemail. Alternately, tell them that you communicate mostly via e-mail and that they should try to get ahold of you that way. In addition to this, you may be able to talk your manager into making them reply via e-mail. Explain that conducting a conversation in various formats (e-mail then phone then post-it note, etc.) limits your productivity. Tell the manager that you add things to your task list in MS Outlook by saving the e-mail as a task. Use some social engineering man!
I wonder if Bill Gates reads Slash.
I mean, think about it for a second, whould he not? Maybe ge eaven posts on/. under some bogus name like Clitylicker69 or somthing...
He could be any one of these folks for a start. Sadly, the only licker is an Orc-Licker though.
It just struck me. A document viewing service hosted on the MS servers. Pay some cash, upload your message/document and be able to read it. Then again, this could be as much of a hole in the DRM as the Print Screen key is.
I wonder what happens to the message/document if I send it to someone using a Mac or Linux? This would seem to be how the Macs are being shut out. While it's more secure to default to unreadability, this will further lock companies into MS software... to their own expen$e.
"Each user's version of Word will access the central server to determine how that person is allowed to use the document."
So if I'm sending an e-mail publicly, like to say Bill Gates who's server is doing this authentication? Is it MS Passport... er,.Net? Any beta testers here?
Make sure that you have a good offsite backup system. I would suggest on a professional outfit like Iron Mountain (formerly Arcus). Be sure to run through some sort of disaster recovery simulation at least annually. The worst thing is having to re-build a datacenter from nothing after a disaster. You may be able to re-build the center, but the data is the really hard part.
For some fun, set your "BSOD Crash Now" keys! This article lists how to set a registry key that will BSOD Win2K on a keystroke. It's for development really, but there's your crash Windows registry key:)
From the article:
Q: I've heard rumors of a Windows 2000 Registry setting that lets you use a special keystroke to intentionally crash your system. As a developer, I would find such a capability extremely useful for evaluating the effects of a system crash. Does this capability exist?
A: The rumors are true. To enable this modification, run a Registry editor and navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Services \i8042prt \Parameters Registry key. You'll need to create a Registry value called CrashOnCtrlScroll (of type REG_DWORD) and set the data to 1. (Figure 1 shows this value and Registry location.) After you make the modification, you must reboot your system.
That's an interesting little bit. Thanks for the research. I especially like this:
"When you're writing applications that are going to be simple to use, it's important to have some boundaries that prevent you from throwing in an unlimited number of features; the memory size provides that limit."
I guess Office is no longer supposed to be simple to use by this definition. Interesting how times change. Thanks again.
"and I'm willing to bet he never said the 4GB one, either."
There seems to be some clamor that Bill didn't say the 640k quote. I'm cool with that. I stand corrected. He did say the 4GB one though. It's in the article. You did RTFA, didn't you... Oh wait.../. -Never mind.:)
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I think we may both be right, but may be looking for different things. I tend to learn more about coding from looking at examples - even wrong ones. To each his/her own. I'm off to go look at Eric Weisstein's MathWorld now. Thanks for the reference to it. It sounds interesting.
Lame. That would actually be funny if it weren't posted everywhere. Time to come up with something new, unless of course you didn't write this in the first place. Then it's time to steal something new. Good luck!
There seems to be a general consensus here ;)
Go explore it a while. Especially look at the functions individually. I even think it's overall the best documentation site I've seen yet.
My idea? Bring in a 300-600MHZ laptop with 128MB RAM, running Linux. Show them an office suite, some 3D and some screensavers. If you can, show them the same types of things under Windows. Let them see that it's not a big deal.
Monitoring and punishing bad behaviour is very different than teaching someone to avoid bad behaviour and think with good judgement. Oh, and it's cheeper and can be spun better too.
Further, I would like to see more XP awarded for non-killing actions. I'm not quite sure how to approach that, but every time I see some friends play EQ, I get bored to tears as they wait to group up and go smack something just so JoBob the Elf can get his class armor. What ever happened to puzzles or "tricks and traps". This is the main reason that I stay away from MMORPGs. I would rather play something that requires me to stop and think the situation through every so often. Bashing isn't everything.
I realize that my two desires may seem a bit contradictory, but a well rounded and fun game should have plenty of both. Given the size and complexity of these worlds, I think they could fit a bit more random mystery in.
The problem I have is that when AOL does it, it's business and when someone else does, it's hacking. Remember the anti-msblast worm? People high up in the industry called for that guy to be found a prosecuted (And I think he might have been, but I couldn't find the article). Those same people will probably praise AOL for this. Just imagine the precedent this will set. You know, that new version of Gator or Bonsai Buddy (no - I won't link them) should be helping you configure your machine too! Oh, and Real Audio would also like to help you configure your machine properly. ...Sounds like a bloody nightmare future to me.
Git along hapless users. Cck! Chk! Git! C'mon users, git!
Nah, he got a pretty fat favor from me. If I were still at that job (more than a few years ago) I would have definitely been fired for what I did for him, had I been cought (it wasn't illegal though and technically within my scope of work). He and I kept a pretty good friendship after that and helped each other out a lot. Personal is personal and business is business - but an obligation is an obligation in either. I do have ethics... of a sort ;)
That's where the social engineering comes in. Just demanding something will never get true compliance. Let their voicemail sit there a couple of days and when they ask if you got it, tell them you didn't. Then tell them that, if they want any kind of reaction, they should e-mail it to you. The response from SuiteSisterMary about summing up and sending an e-mail yourself will also work. Don't be afraid to be shifty with shifty people. They may even respect you more for it. The shiftiest I've done voicemail wise was to get on of our telco staff to disconnect my extension for a couple of days. I would just plead technical difficulties and the telco guy got a big favor out of it from me (that will not be further elaborated on, thank you). Office politics can be fun, as long as you don't let your feelings get hurt or let the stress get you. Hence the phrase: "Nothing personal, this is business".
It just struck me. A document viewing service hosted on the MS servers. Pay some cash, upload your message/document and be able to read it. Then again, this could be as much of a hole in the DRM as the Print Screen key is.
I wonder what happens to the message/document if I send it to someone using a Mac or Linux? This would seem to be how the Macs are being shut out. While it's more secure to default to unreadability, this will further lock companies into MS software... to their own expen$e.
Make sure that you have a good offsite backup system. I would suggest on a professional outfit like Iron Mountain (formerly Arcus). Be sure to run through some sort of disaster recovery simulation at least annually. The worst thing is having to re-build a datacenter from nothing after a disaster. You may be able to re-build the center, but the data is the really hard part.
From the article:
So every 20 years or so, we get a useless memory quote from Bill that will be irrelevant in the next couple of years. A new tradition.
Mine loves letuce and broccoli too. Any greens (or carrots) to chew on are fine by my dalmation mix.