Once I was _not_ a casual gamer. Now with one child and another on the way I have minimal time for gaming. This has scared me off "traditional" MMOG options. Guild Wars has no monthly fee so I felt I had nothing to lose by trying it. I've found it to be a lot of fun. If you want to adventure with others, you can do so, or you can take along NPC henchmen if you don't want to wait to build a complete party of real people. The game looks beautiful and has a good story line. They have worked hard to create a PvP system that rewards skill more than those who enjoy grinding. That said, I have focussed on the non-PvP aspect of the game and have little else to say about PvP.
I have gotten more value for money out of it than any game I've previously purchased.
People are shocked at how uninformed many americans are despite living in a society that is very open. Suppose China is able to bring it's average citizens up to european/us living standards and still maintain the great firewall. Then you will have a country as powerful and influential as the us and yet even more ignorant of the implications of its own policies than americans currently are.
I just would like to point out that the U.S. economy was heading for a correction about that time. It has proven convenient for people to blame terrorism for problems with the U.S. economy rather than address root causes. Then again, perhaps the poster was not implying cause and effect here?
It isn't a really user friendly solution, but couldn't PerlDAV work? Although that depends on what you specifically want to do. Provided you can get a perl distribution for your platform of choice...
Not quite on topic, but the game Wyvern cabochon.com is well worth checking out. It is a massively multiplayer online game similar to Gauntlet in some respects. It runs under java, so it tends to be pretty platform friendly.
Not quite on topic, but the game
Wyvern
is well worth checking out. It is a massively multiplayer online game similar to Gauntlet in
some respects. It runs under java, so it tends
to be pretty platform friendly.
It seems in every Good Eats show you make a point
of discouraging people from buying specialized gadgets which have only one application. My favorite cheap suggestions of yours being a butter knife for opening oysters or using a carboard box and electic coil for smoking fish - all using items that have multiple applications.
Most kitchen shows these days are obviously supported
by corporate sponsors - whose business apparently depends on pressuring people into buying needlessly specialized gadgets for the kitchen. I'd like you to comment on the possible tension between presenting reliable, affordable advice to people and getting enough advertising dollars to keep afloat.
Ideally there would be no tension: You promote "Good Eats" and that will surely increase the number of home cooks out there and keep the wheels of the industry turning!
Just to put things in perspective. Pacific Blue is an antique and dog slow and is now two generations/iterations behind the current facilities at the national labs.
Did you notice that the quote was attributed to slashdot user "Jean-Luc"? Do you think the slashdot editors should truncate the submission? Reject it outright?
It is true that the first nukes were developed without "a Beowulf or a Cray"- BUT, to develop good nukes without doing lots of tests (and the U.S. led the world in sheer number of tests) you need fast computers. To develop small nukes you definitely need fast computers... Hence the paranoia over supercomputers in the Wrong Hands(TM).
Most of us are getting carried away with
techniques for preventing copying of pages
from magazines etc... Small time stuff where
you wish to dissuade a casual end user.
HOWEVER, all the examples given in the article
involve companies (and the FBI) being concerned
with espionage of some sort, where the stakes are high and
you expect highly motivated individuals to come
after your information. Simply preventing
someone from printing the document directly
is not providing any real security.
Either the article is poorly written (and this
tech is intended to prevent lusers from sharing
protected content) or the product is screwed.
Slashdot Mirror
One more target to add to my list!
Mwuhahahah!
Once I was _not_ a casual gamer. Now with one child and another on the way I have minimal time for gaming. This has scared me off "traditional" MMOG options. Guild Wars has no monthly fee so I felt I had nothing to lose by trying it. I've found it to be a lot of fun. If you want to adventure with others, you can do so, or you can take along NPC henchmen if you don't want to wait to build a complete party of real people. The game looks beautiful and has a good story line. They have worked hard to create a PvP system that rewards skill more than those who enjoy grinding. That said, I have focussed on the non-PvP aspect of the game and have little else to say about PvP.
I have gotten more value for money out of it than any game I've previously purchased.
Following this thinking a little further:
People are shocked at how uninformed many americans are despite living in a society that is very open. Suppose China is able to bring it's average citizens up to european/us living standards and still maintain the great firewall. Then you will have a country as powerful and influential as the us and yet even more ignorant of the implications of its own policies than americans currently are.
That scares me.
> After 9/11 the economy tanked
I just would like to point out that the U.S. economy was heading for a correction about that time. It has proven convenient for people to blame terrorism for problems with the U.S. economy rather than address root causes. Then again, perhaps the poster was not implying cause and effect here?
Musicmatch works on my win98 box.
The original "Wells", H.G.Wells published his account of the martian invasion in 1898. I think the later Welles was a little late with the news.
webDAV site
Joe.
Not quite on topic, but the game Wyvern is well worth checking out. It is a massively multiplayer online game similar to Gauntlet in some respects. It runs under java, so it tends to be pretty platform friendly.
The Davy Crockett
If you work out, you might be able to carry one on each shoulder!
Looks like we spanked that monkey
My favorite line from the description:
"1 - chasis mount female N connector, preferably the type that mounts with a single large nut."
I know I should just grow up and get over it, but that kind of talk just excites me!
That is mentioned in the article...
My favorite bit is the quote from the
"The head of the Emacs Flame War Re-enactment Society"
Dude! Do you want a visit from
the FBI or what?
Because it was harder to tap than string between cans.
Most kitchen shows these days are obviously supported by corporate sponsors - whose business apparently depends on pressuring people into buying needlessly specialized gadgets for the kitchen. I'd like you to comment on the possible tension between presenting reliable, affordable advice to people and getting enough advertising dollars to keep afloat.
Ideally there would be no tension: You promote "Good Eats" and that will surely increase the number of home cooks out there and keep the wheels of the industry turning!
Thanks for giving us such a great show,
Joe and Allison.
Just to put things in perspective. Pacific Blue
is an antique and dog slow and is now two generations/iterations behind the current facilities at the national labs.
So when every device in my kitchen is online,
will Safeway pay Kelvinator to force my fridge
to order their milk?
Will my net aware Ford drive itself to Shell?
Although he can't be held legally
to the contract, surely his parents
or legal guardians can be?
Did you notice that the quote was attributed to
slashdot user "Jean-Luc"? Do you think the
slashdot editors should truncate the submission?
Reject it outright?
It did take a number of years for LLNL to become open to linux as an option. Mostly out of security concerns and support issues.
To find out more about computing at LLNL, check out:
LLNL SCCD
It is true that the first nukes were developed without "a Beowulf or a Cray"- BUT, to develop good nukes without doing lots of tests (and the U.S. led the world in sheer number of tests) you need fast computers. To develop small nukes you definitely need fast computers... Hence the paranoia over supercomputers in the Wrong Hands(TM).
HOWEVER, all the examples given in the article involve companies (and the FBI) being concerned with espionage of some sort, where the stakes are high and you expect highly motivated individuals to come after your information. Simply preventing someone from printing the document directly is not providing any real security.
Either the article is poorly written (and this tech is intended to prevent lusers from sharing protected content) or the product is screwed.