What if the sight of their television screen suddenly turning black makes them think about death, nothingness and the futility of human pursuits, and they take out the family pets with a homemade potato cannon?
Modern games... pshaw... I'm going to come over there with a Vectrex, a 2600, and a six-pack of Hooch, and force you to play "Robotank" until you curl up in the fetal position humming the 5-second loop of background music from "Journey Escape"!
This is insane. DirectX games currently run by the hair of their chinny-chin-chin, can you imagine the horror when yet *another* abstraction layer is added? And can you imagine the dark clouds over the game companies' tech support when they read "Yeah I'm running under Win 98.. i mean.. well, Linux, really..."
Actually, crappy, complicated installation is one of the reasons I don't buy so many PC games anymore. I just don't have time to futz with video drivers, patches, etc. People used to rag DOS games for being incompatible with hardware... have you checked out the README for a Windows game lately?
There's a language called Moto that compiles directly into Apache C modules. If you cache your database calls properly, you can get supposedly get 1000's of hits per second. Probably not for everybody, but if you need extreme speed... you need it!
The thing I liked best about MUDs and OOPs are that you could code objects in the environment, say, a HTTP server, and print "You hear a whirring noise" or something when it is accessed. Programming -- that's more interesting than slogging through giant rats!
I agree. Reminds me of the time that one of our e-clients at my last company e-mailed us a list of ALL their clients' credit card numbers, home addresses, and SSN's... in PLAIN TEXT. I now shudder whenever I buy something online...
I also shudder when I think of how Slashdot stores passwords in plain text:>
Picture people jumping out of windows of call centers. "What kind of graphics card do you have?" "Uh.. well, it's a Voodoo 5 base design, but my friend added another texture unit, and then we kinda played with the blending mode logic..."
Yippee. Extortion via the legal system and the kid has $10,000 in beer money. Lawyer gets a new Lexus. Teacher now has page extolling his alleged homosexuality on the web.
I like Slashdot's layout. I *don't* like sites which say and print their content in tiny little text in a 600-pixel wide table.
To me, content is king, NOT stylized content. There's room for folks who want glossy mags and folks who want text/plain. However, I have a theory that most folks don't give a rats about layout, as long as it's not un-attractive and as long as they get the information they want.
My God... this crap is still around? I remember dragging my maladjusted internal clock into homeroom at 7 AM, and having zit cream and Cheetos commercials blasted in my face. How demeaning.
The only thing you can do as a student is try to behave like more of an adult than you are treated. If you can do that, you win.
A stable orbit is impossible around a body like Eros -- its irregular shape perturbs the circular orbit so that the spacecraft would eventually crash into the surface. Lunar orbits decay over a manner of weeks for the same reason.
Awesome job! I wonder -- even though the satellite is officially "not designed to land", the engineers involved kept it in the back of their minds while designing and made tiny adjustments to make it at least possible. The guys at JPL did this for the Voyager missions, making the "grand tour" possible even though Congress initially only gave the go-ahead for a Jupiter/Saturn tour.
This is a neat idea. But I would bet that one could come up with a statistical model to detect such an encoded message. A human can easily detect that this is not "typical" spam, so with a little work an algorithm could too.
But the trouble with such a system is that you have to build a brand new set of rules to have any sort of security. You can't just generate a new set of keys, you have to build a new grammar and phrasebook for the spam text.
Slashdot Mirror
What if the sight of their television screen suddenly turning black makes them think about death, nothingness and the futility of human pursuits, and they take out the family pets with a homemade potato cannon?
Modern games ... pshaw... I'm going to come over there with a Vectrex, a 2600, and a six-pack of Hooch, and force you to play "Robotank" until you curl up in the fetal position humming the 5-second loop of background music from "Journey Escape"!
And you use Linux? LOL.
:)
FreeBSD actually -- I paid for my futzing only once
This is insane. DirectX games currently run by the hair of their chinny-chin-chin, can you imagine the horror when yet *another* abstraction layer is added? And can you imagine the dark clouds over the game companies' tech support when they read "Yeah I'm running under Win 98.. i mean.. well, Linux, really..."
Actually, crappy, complicated installation is one of the reasons I don't buy so many PC games anymore. I just don't have time to futz with video drivers, patches, etc. People used to rag DOS games for being incompatible with hardware... have you checked out the README for a Windows game lately?
The winning robot gets an all-expenses paid trip to Valles Marineris, Mars to beat the crap out of Elvis.
There's a language called Moto that compiles directly into Apache C modules. If you cache your database calls properly, you can get supposedly get 1000's of hits per second. Probably not for everybody, but if you need extreme speed... you need it!
That's two independent thought alarms in one day! Remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms!!
If it wasn't for us software guys, you scientific types would still be writing programs in Fortran.
Oh that's right, you ARE still writing in Fortran. My bad.
The thing I liked best about MUDs and OOPs are that you could code objects in the environment, say, a HTTP server, and print "You hear a whirring noise" or something when it is accessed. Programming -- that's more interesting than slogging through giant rats!
I agree. Reminds me of the time that one of our e-clients at my last company e-mailed us a list of ALL their clients' credit card numbers, home addresses, and SSN's ... in PLAIN TEXT. I now shudder whenever I buy something online...
:>
I also shudder when I think of how Slashdot stores passwords in plain text
Picture people jumping out of windows of call centers. "What kind of graphics card do you have?" "Uh.. well, it's a Voodoo 5 base design, but my friend added another texture unit, and then we kinda played with the blending mode logic..."
It's easy to recover -- just reinstall Win98, MS PowerPlant Controller 2000, MS NORAD 68, and MS Refinery. Instant civilization!
The first U. S. satellite was launched from a converted ICBM -- the Redstone booster.
Yippee. Extortion via the legal system and the kid has $10,000 in beer money. Lawyer gets a new Lexus. Teacher now has page extolling his alleged homosexuality on the web.
Libel? What's that?
Yes, Star Control had a board game mixed with action sequence, but so did ... ARCHON way back in 1984! Sorry, had to invoke the '80's :)
Ha -- you thought you could instruct him in the ways of the Jedi, and he turned to the Dark Side. Shame shame :)
I like Slashdot's layout. I *don't* like sites which say and print their content in tiny little text in a 600-pixel wide table.
To me, content is king, NOT stylized content. There's room for folks who want glossy mags and folks who want text/plain. However, I have a theory that most folks don't give a rats about layout, as long as it's not un-attractive and as long as they get the information they want.
My God... this crap is still around? I remember dragging my maladjusted internal clock into homeroom at 7 AM, and having zit cream and Cheetos commercials blasted in my face. How demeaning.
The only thing you can do as a student is try to behave like more of an adult than you are treated. If you can do that, you win.
Perhaps we need a "+1 Simpsons" moderation type... :)
Just think what would have happened if Linus decided to go for a walk instead of hack!!! Flood. Famine.
A stable orbit is impossible around a body like Eros -- its irregular shape perturbs the circular orbit so that the spacecraft would eventually crash into the surface. Lunar orbits decay over a manner of weeks for the same reason.
Wasn't that a Robert Duvall movie?
Awesome job! I wonder -- even though the satellite is officially "not designed to land", the engineers involved kept it in the back of their minds while designing and made tiny adjustments to make it at least possible. The guys at JPL did this for the Voyager missions, making the "grand tour" possible even though Congress initially only gave the go-ahead for a Jupiter/Saturn tour.
This is a neat idea. But I would bet that one could come up with a statistical model to detect such an encoded message. A human can easily detect that this is not "typical" spam, so with a little work an algorithm could too.
But the trouble with such a system is that you have to build a brand new set of rules to have any sort of security. You can't just generate a new set of keys, you have to build a new grammar and phrasebook for the spam text.
Ahh, if only you could mirror CGIs more easily :)