Then how would you explain the discrepancy between the distance of male-male and male-female pairs? Why would pepople take such pains, either consciously or unconsciously, in such a grainy environment?
've got to say that if your friends have to spend $500+ (I'm assuming CAD) per year just to stay competitive in multiplayer games they are either doing something wrong or aren't very good at them. I spent $1500 a year ago and I can still compete in all the latest games, and will still be able to (as I ramp details down) compete probably for the next 2 years atleast.
Let's see. $1500, and you're set for 3 years. $1500 / 3 = $500, which is what the GP claimed.
no, current chips are 2.5D. basically they're just a series of circut "maps" laid on top of each other.
Which of course introduces limitations such as:
1. You can't put one ledge on top of another, which limits specific types of gameplay
2. Non-map opjects are sprites, which don't look so great, and dead bodies tend to rotate on the floor when you're not looking (which is a little unsettling)
On the plus side, you can generate maps using only a single 2D or stacks of 2D blueprints.
Well, a pox or a cancer could seriously damage or kill its host, which is the Internet in this case. I don't think that's going to happen. I'm going to downgrade it to heinously bad gas. It'll pass.
My favorite so far is Pyrex, which lets you write C extension modules in a Python-like language. (It adds things like C data types and support for importing header files. I wish it would do generators, though.) A lot of times you can move a hefty inner loop into a Pyrex module and see tremendous gains.
My guess is that they are doing this in the hope the open source community will build on and improve OCR technology.
More likely the computer vision research community, actually. "Many eyes" help a lot with bugs and bugfixes, but, ironically, not so well on nontrivial vision tasks.
In work environments Debian rocks. Ubuntu is... not for work, it is a windows replacement. What else can I say?
It really depends on what you mean by work, doesn't it? I mean, what does "work" mean to you, and why would it describe any work that could possibly be done?
My work is computer science research, and Ubuntu is perfect for that. It just sets itself up (on both my laptop and lab desktop) and gets out of my way. The development libraries are all there when I need them. This is as opposed to Windows, where I'd have to hunt for and/or pay for libraries or IDEs I want (been there, done that, never again), or Debian, where I'd have to spend a lot longer getting the software to talk to the hardware.
Hear, hear. ("Yes, sir, we're upgrading all of our computers to Edgy Eft next month.") They should just use year.month after it's released, and use the names for the future products and places like/etc/apt/sources.list.
Hoary Hedgehog was the worst by far. I actually kind of liked Breezy Badger, and Dapper Drake exudes coolness.
Yeah. Edgy Eft. That's a step backward. You could call it 6.10 instead if you like, and that would tell you the year and the month it was (or is going to be) released. But really, what does "Vista" tell you about what you're downloading? Even 2.6.17 doesn't help much - just that it's somehow better than 2.6.16, and that's if you're familiar with the version numbers. You'd really need to read the changelog to find out, so it's still not much better than "Vista."
The point isn't to make it impossible, it's to make it more difficult than just going out and buying it.
As such, it doesn't actually take as much copy protection as content creators generally think. A single bit flag that commercial CD burning software respects would be enough.
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The "Z" is silent.
Can someone explain this to me so I don't have to run it to find out what it does? :D
I imagine it forks processes like crazy, but, not knowing much Bash, I can't see how.
Then how would you explain the discrepancy between the distance of male-male and male-female pairs? Why would pepople take such pains, either consciously or unconsciously, in such a grainy environment?
Wouldn't it be fun if it's the game doing it?
. . .at which point I spend another $200-$300 and extend it for another 2 or 3 years. If you had chosen to read the rest of my response...
You must be new here.
've got to say that if your friends have to spend $500+ (I'm assuming CAD) per year just to stay competitive in multiplayer games they are either doing something wrong or aren't very good at them. I spent $1500 a year ago and I can still compete in all the latest games, and will still be able to (as I ramp details down) compete probably for the next 2 years atleast.
Let's see. $1500, and you're set for 3 years. $1500 / 3 = $500, which is what the GP claimed.
Fascinating.
no, current chips are 2.5D. basically they're just a series of circut "maps" laid on top of each other.
Which of course introduces limitations such as:
1. You can't put one ledge on top of another, which limits specific types of gameplay
2. Non-map opjects are sprites, which don't look so great, and dead bodies tend to rotate on the floor when you're not looking (which is a little unsettling)
On the plus side, you can generate maps using only a single 2D or stacks of 2D blueprints.
If it falls apart because of unresolvable conflicts at the top, it won't keep working so well for the end user.
Better for computing masochism, if you're into that sort of kinky behavior. By analogy, Windows XP is a whip, and Windows 98 is a spiked whip.
Hello to you, sir! I think you ought to read this:
Slippery Slope
Well, a pox or a cancer could seriously damage or kill its host, which is the Internet in this case. I don't think that's going to happen. I'm going to downgrade it to heinously bad gas. It'll pass.
*rimshot*
My favorite so far is Pyrex, which lets you write C extension modules in a Python-like language. (It adds things like C data types and support for importing header files. I wish it would do generators, though.) A lot of times you can move a hefty inner loop into a Pyrex module and see tremendous gains.
At least they're showing them in order.
They're like chalk and cheese and you can't *really* compare the two.
Chalk tastes better.
My guess is that they are doing this in the hope the open source community will build on and improve OCR technology.
More likely the computer vision research community, actually. "Many eyes" help a lot with bugs and bugfixes, but, ironically, not so well on nontrivial vision tasks.
My toolbox has a little white pill that I take every time I get a hankering to work with HTML. It fixes me up right quick.
Because we're all a bunch of intellectually narcissistic gits?
That's a serious answer.
In work environments Debian rocks. Ubuntu is... not for work, it is a windows replacement. What else can I say?
It really depends on what you mean by work, doesn't it? I mean, what does "work" mean to you, and why would it describe any work that could possibly be done?
My work is computer science research, and Ubuntu is perfect for that. It just sets itself up (on both my laptop and lab desktop) and gets out of my way. The development libraries are all there when I need them. This is as opposed to Windows, where I'd have to hunt for and/or pay for libraries or IDEs I want (been there, done that, never again), or Debian, where I'd have to spend a lot longer getting the software to talk to the hardware.
AMD Says Power Efficiency Still Key
I'll be happy with these new processors as long as I can still efficiently heat my apartment with them.
Hear, hear. ("Yes, sir, we're upgrading all of our computers to Edgy Eft next month.") They should just use year.month after it's released, and use the names for the future products and places like /etc/apt/sources.list.
":s/downloading/buying" please. I wouldn't want to be seen as advocating piracy or anything, especially not on Slashdot. :D
Hoary Hedgehog was the worst by far. I actually kind of liked Breezy Badger, and Dapper Drake exudes coolness.
Yeah. Edgy Eft. That's a step backward. You could call it 6.10 instead if you like, and that would tell you the year and the month it was (or is going to be) released. But really, what does "Vista" tell you about what you're downloading? Even 2.6.17 doesn't help much - just that it's somehow better than 2.6.16, and that's if you're familiar with the version numbers. You'd really need to read the changelog to find out, so it's still not much better than "Vista."
Time to enable encryption on your wireless network. It's not foolproof, but it'll make you a smaller target.
The point isn't to make it impossible, it's to make it more difficult than just going out and buying it.
As such, it doesn't actually take as much copy protection as content creators generally think. A single bit flag that commercial CD burning software respects would be enough.
Actually, I was afraid the moderators would mod my post down as a troll.
The problem is that I can't trust Slashdotters in general to have a sense of humor.
Well, that's the point, isn't it? Nobody does.
(If you think there's the slightest chance this was meant to be funny, it was.)