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There are several people who added comments about how they had to do some very complicated interactions to overcome others - http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98732&ci d=8424235 about Planetside. The one I liked the most was this one http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98732&ci d=8426037 about an early UO player's play-by-play of conquering some ambushers.
So at some point the dexterity/skill-players can find a decent game or two... IIRC, a recent ad for MS's Mythica says it will have real-time combat.
No affiliation with any of the above, I just enjoyed the post and comments.
Some billed BeOS as a real-time multimedia OS. Using its strategies would help if Palm wanted to be available for any sort of media - audio (phone or otherwise), pictures(phone or otherwise), video(phone or... you get the idea...) - and it could prioritize threads or drop appropriate frames/ms of audio so it works as a continuous feed. Back on a BeBox (2x 133PPC) you could run/loop several video files simultaneously while doing other stuff. If you started enough apps it would drop a few frames to keep everything moving in real-time rather than buffering every screen and making things choppy or otherwise run time-unevenly.
It seems like a great thing for people wanting to do too much with too little CPU (or RAM) - and hey, isn't everything that way?
Probably many others more in-the-know who can give better explanations.
Not that I watched it, but isn't that what "The Apprentice", the show that so vilely preempted Will and Grace last night, proposed to do? It's a Survivor Show for 16 people wanting to get chosen by Donald Trump to run one of his businesses for $250k annual salary.
Hmmm, if I think half-a-step deeper I come up with the following:
as people polarize (eg. some "lose" their self-control while others exaggerate their self-control), could it be that the people with more self-control elect officials to control everyone even more severely? Perhaps it's a coincidence that those with the 'super-self-control' are the only ones going to the polls anymore...?
Um... Maxis owns the land. Owns the bodies. Owns the building blocks. Or did they just give them all life and not even own them as such (href->nature of digital/reality philosophy)?
Does a god own all of creation? 2 sticks grew on a tree and a human broke them off and made fire from them - which of those things/ideas/actions/results does god own? If you're not creationist, then replace "god" with the first single-celled organism - does it own nigh-everything on this Earth?
The players created and should own their buildings designs - or should they if someone builds exactly the same building without ever having seen the first? Does a player own the building?
The U.S. gov't owns dollars, the physical form though debit/credit seems to be a shared hallucination between all companies and gov't. But a person "owns" their money and debts. A human can literally burn the physical form of their cash and thereby destroy the associated value.
Maxis owns simoleons like the govt/business conglomerate owns dollars. Do the player's characters then also own the simoleons associated with them?
On the other hand, a nightclub owner literally (in a legal sense) owns the building and paid for/rents everything in it including their employees. They may or may not take the responsibility of allowing/disallowing every person at the door, and they do decide on a certain amount of the ambient look, feel, smell, and tastes available. But in no sense do they have total control even though they are very much responsible.
If you can only come to one absolute conclusion in this...
And, just for the record, if a huge armada of homicidal robots showed up and started razing my world, I really wouldn't give a crap where they came from until *AFTER* I'd managed to stop 'em.
That is so un-Picard-esque I can't believe you dared utter it!;)
Regardless of whether or not the parent has copied someone else's blog entry, my answer is a qualified "Yes, I've found myself speaking in a British accent when I had only meant to use my normal speaking voice." It's a queer experience and only happened on a couple occasions, though it is the same accent I've heard from a character or two in some dreams I've had.
As with all things scientific, I think this is simply another made-up explanation to somehow account for occurrances which have a deeper relationship - and perhaps no meaning whatsoever.
Teach your kids that people think and feel the same way they do.
That's perhaps the first-order or introduction thought, but later I would modify it to be "some people", and add in that each person has at least a slightly different thought(s) and feeling(s) about the very same picture, and others have very opposing views.
So far I can't find info on rights to the code - it says that you can propose components and that solutions completed are added to their component catalog which can be licensed, but I'm not finding whether or not the programmer (or proposer or anyone involved in it) either keeps the rights to the code or gets free/discounted access to the component catalog.
Hey, thenostromo.com link doesn't work right now, and I'm very interested in other bounty programs - do you have any other links to share or is Google my only answer?
I don't understand the whole "latest tax refund" thing - the U.S. Government sent me a check for US$0.01 (and I'm in the $30k-60k/yr range). I don't understand how spending a penny is supposed to help the economy. It doesn't even pay for my trip to the bank, so I'm just saving it. In a thousand years it might grow to 2 pennies, but after that the sky's the limit!
8-PP
P.S. And no, I'm not kidding! $0.01! More in postage than value to me.
In the extreme, of course a single document can be created by a single person - as long as that person knows everything necessary to create said document. You need the perfect document? Then you only need the perfectly knowledgeable person to create it.
But a collaboration system is meant to be used by more than one person, hence collaborate, correct? You can push back the keeper/owner responsibility so only a single person changes a document/website, but then it's no longer being used as a collaboration tool.
In my limited experience, Wikis have been left alone by spammers and their lot. Several prominent orgs have public info wikis which don't seem to have ever been disturbed. Not that I trust that, but I suppose like the old netnews they're surviving peaceably in their own little slice of reality for the moment.
A couple days ago someone pointed out that Wikis fall apart if left to their own devices - that they require organizers to flourish, which I also believe from my experience. Someone needs to straighten out the lists or reformat another person's scribbled notes, etc.
As for other collaboration/groupware systems, I couldn't say because I haven't experienced many.
The hugs are a good idea, but that would appeal only to a few people. Most of us want something which spanks the poster when we mod/meta-mod them down.
Now available: the tele-slashdot-spanker!
Then again I'm sure some would want to set it to 'self-spanking' as well... And *then* slashdot it:)
Ah, such fantasies harken back to the days of yore when things made sense... Or maybe there were just fewer things to get confused about - and fewer corporations to get screwed over by...
I'll back you in your idealistic searches if you back me in mine:)
If it is supposed to be cell-phoneable, it should have a retractable earpiece/mic line. Gods, why hasn't anyone done that yet? It leads to so many fools driving while holding a phone to their ears...
I don't think I could take this one, though, unless purely as a game machine. Does the screen act as the keypad too? Ugh, there goes battery life as you hit the backlight display to figure out what to dial...
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http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/02/29/1642223.s html
i d=8424235 about Planetside. The one I liked the most was this one http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98732&ci d=8426037 about an early UO player's play-by-play of conquering some ambushers.
There are several people who added comments about how they had to do some very complicated interactions to overcome others - http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98732&c
So at some point the dexterity/skill-players can find a decent game or two... IIRC, a recent ad for MS's Mythica says it will have real-time combat.
No affiliation with any of the above, I just enjoyed the post and comments.
8-PP
Some billed BeOS as a real-time multimedia OS. Using its strategies would help if Palm wanted to be available for any sort of media - audio (phone or otherwise), pictures(phone or otherwise), video(phone or... you get the idea...) - and it could prioritize threads or drop appropriate frames/ms of audio so it works as a continuous feed. Back on a BeBox (2x 133PPC) you could run/loop several video files simultaneously while doing other stuff. If you started enough apps it would drop a few frames to keep everything moving in real-time rather than buffering every screen and making things choppy or otherwise run time-unevenly.
It seems like a great thing for people wanting to do too much with too little CPU (or RAM) - and hey, isn't everything that way?
Probably many others more in-the-know who can give better explanations.
8-PP
Sounds like MIT's 6.004 class - at least 1 of the problem sets was that way. Are they still including that?
8-PP
Isn't this more analagous?:
Anyone who doesn't know every protein in their DNA doesn't deserve to reproduce?
8-PP
If millions of lines of SCO IP fit onto 60 pages, that IP's worth about CA$6.99 (with apologies to Canada).
8-PP
The people responsible for the subtitles have been sacked.
(thanks Monty Python!)
Not that I watched it, but isn't that what "The Apprentice", the show that so vilely preempted Will and Grace last night, proposed to do? It's a Survivor Show for 16 people wanting to get chosen by Donald Trump to run one of his businesses for $250k annual salary.
I only know what the ads tell me.
Hmmm, if I think half-a-step deeper I come up with the following:
as people polarize (eg. some "lose" their self-control while others exaggerate their self-control), could it be that the people with more self-control elect officials to control everyone even more severely? Perhaps it's a coincidence that those with the 'super-self-control' are the only ones going to the polls anymore...?
8-PP
I think you're making an incorrect comparison.
Um... Maxis owns the land. Owns the bodies. Owns the building blocks. Or did they just give them all life and not even own them as such (href->nature of digital/reality philosophy)?
Does a god own all of creation? 2 sticks grew on a tree and a human broke them off and made fire from them - which of those things/ideas/actions/results does god own? If you're not creationist, then replace "god" with the first single-celled organism - does it own nigh-everything on this Earth?
The players created and should own their buildings designs - or should they if someone builds exactly the same building without ever having seen the first? Does a player own the building?
The U.S. gov't owns dollars, the physical form though debit/credit seems to be a shared hallucination between all companies and gov't. But a person "owns" their money and debts. A human can literally burn the physical form of their cash and thereby destroy the associated value.
Maxis owns simoleons like the govt/business conglomerate owns dollars. Do the player's characters then also own the simoleons associated with them?
On the other hand, a nightclub owner literally (in a legal sense) owns the building and paid for/rents everything in it including their employees. They may or may not take the responsibility of allowing/disallowing every person at the door, and they do decide on a certain amount of the ambient look, feel, smell, and tastes available. But in no sense do they have total control even though they are very much responsible.
If you can only come to one absolute conclusion in this...
8-PP
That is so un-Picard-esque I can't believe you dared utter it!
8-PP
Regardless of whether or not the parent has copied someone else's blog entry, my answer is a qualified "Yes, I've found myself speaking in a British accent when I had only meant to use my normal speaking voice." It's a queer experience and only happened on a couple occasions, though it is the same accent I've heard from a character or two in some dreams I've had.
As with all things scientific, I think this is simply another made-up explanation to somehow account for occurrances which have a deeper relationship - and perhaps no meaning whatsoever.
8-PP
I'd be curious if anyone can tell me when causing/instilling embarassment in someone (which I consider an abuse of power) is needed.
Thanks,
8-PP
One thing stood out, though:
That's perhaps the first-order or introduction thought, but later I would modify it to be "some people", and add in that each person has at least a slightly different thought(s) and feeling(s) about the very same picture, and others have very opposing views.
8-PP
That's only if you've got 5.1 - with newer systems you'll need seven or eight kids. The quiet one can be the center channel.
8-PP
So far I can't find info on rights to the code - it says that you can propose components and that solutions completed are added to their component catalog which can be licensed, but I'm not finding whether or not the programmer (or proposer or anyone involved in it) either keeps the rights to the code or gets free/discounted access to the component catalog.
Interesting...
8-PP
Hey, thenostromo.com link doesn't work right now, and I'm very interested in other bounty programs - do you have any other links to share or is Google my only answer?
Thanks,
8-PP
If that's the case, I think you deserve an award both for being so eloquent and also for only having a single typo!
Very sweet post! Thanks for the KAMAS history and insight... So, again, how do we make this happen?!
8-PP
I don't understand the whole "latest tax refund" thing - the U.S. Government sent me a check for US$0.01 (and I'm in the $30k-60k/yr range). I don't understand how spending a penny is supposed to help the economy. It doesn't even pay for my trip to the bank, so I'm just saving it. In a thousand years it might grow to 2 pennies, but after that the sky's the limit!
8-PP
P.S. And no, I'm not kidding! $0.01! More in postage than value to me.
"A single knowledgeable person"
In the extreme, of course a single document can be created by a single person - as long as that person knows everything necessary to create said document. You need the perfect document? Then you only need the perfectly knowledgeable person to create it.
But a collaboration system is meant to be used by more than one person, hence collaborate, correct? You can push back the keeper/owner responsibility so only a single person changes a document/website, but then it's no longer being used as a collaboration tool.
In my limited experience, Wikis have been left alone by spammers and their lot. Several prominent orgs have public info wikis which don't seem to have ever been disturbed. Not that I trust that, but I suppose like the old netnews they're surviving peaceably in their own little slice of reality for the moment.
A couple days ago someone pointed out that Wikis fall apart if left to their own devices - that they require organizers to flourish, which I also believe from my experience. Someone needs to straighten out the lists or reformat another person's scribbled notes, etc.
As for other collaboration/groupware systems, I couldn't say because I haven't experienced many.
8-PP
Does the committee get to correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar?
[correction] mediocre text.[/correction]
Uh oh, am I part of your committee now? Or are you a part of mine? Er, or were you just shortcutting to an example of their possible output?
8-PP
Would bio-luminescent displays be any better for this?
8-PP
The hugs are a good idea, but that would appeal only to a few people. Most of us want something which spanks the poster when we mod/meta-mod them down.
:)
Now available: the tele-slashdot-spanker!
Then again I'm sure some would want to set it to 'self-spanking' as well... And *then* slashdot it
I call for a new mod'ing policy!
8-PP
(just teasing, but thanks for the answer anyways)
:)
Ah, such fantasies harken back to the days of yore when things made sense... Or maybe there were just fewer things to get confused about - and fewer corporations to get screwed over by...
I'll back you in your idealistic searches if you back me in mine
8-PP
Wait, so you're saying you want really expensive piece-of-crap printers??
8-PP
Where's the GBA.. er, Nokia SDK?
If it is supposed to be cell-phoneable, it should have a retractable earpiece/mic line. Gods, why hasn't anyone done that yet? It leads to so many fools driving while holding a phone to their ears...
I don't think I could take this one, though, unless purely as a game machine. Does the screen act as the keypad too? Ugh, there goes battery life as you hit the backlight display to figure out what to dial...
8-PP