This is the solution. And it isn't as hard as you think at least it isn't in Unreal Tournament. If you create a demo of yourself playing using a cheat, only people who also have that cheat installed are able to run it.
I help run a forum for gamers at www.ozforces.com and we recently did a test. We created a demo using a game that had a cheat installed. We then posted the demo on the forum and asked people to comment on the demo. Most people came back and said they couldn't run it, but there were a few people who could. When we informed people that you would only be able to run it if you had the cheat installed we got flamed badly, but it was an interesting experiment.
This experiment didn't actually prove that they were cheaters. It only proved that they had the cheat installed. Unfortunatly it is starting to get to the point where if you find people who have it installed you have to assume they are cheats and disallow them from the server.
Some of the modules have been completely rewritten from scratch and the crash landing is where the rewrite has been merged with the development tree.
Before the 0.9 release there was a complete rewrite of the image library that Mozilla uses, the new library is called lib pr0n, and a rewrite of the level 1 caching.
The crashlanding here should mean more improvements in the image library, cache, and the mail client. I actually tried one of the nightlies recently and the mail client has improved A LOT!
It used to be that the internet was nothing more than email, newsgroups and webpages. That is no longer the case. We now have P2P applications like Napster and Hotbot. So all of these people who are saying that Mozilla is crap because it is bloated and they should be making just a browser and they should just give up, I say to them, you are living in the 90's. That sort of argument might of been true 3 years ago, but now if you want to connect to the internet you need a browser, mail client, newsgroups reader, and a 1,000,001 P2P application.
This is where mozilla will really shine through. Is IE P2P capable? Mozilla certainly is. Go to http://www.mozdev.org to have a look at all the applications currently under development for Mozilla
It seems to me that whenever a new version of GNOME comes out all the GNOME fanatics start cheering and shouting "Take that KDE" and the same with all the KDE fanatics when a new version of KDE comes out. There is this perception that there is a Huge open source war going on, but I don't think it is a war.
It's competition, and competition is what makes people strive for excelence. One person, I can never remember his name, once said that the reason why open source is advancing so quickly is because we are chacing tail lights, ie trying to catch the big players that have got a head start on us. So what do we do when we over take? Do we just stagnate and plod along? No we compete with ourselves, so all of these parallel open source projects are a good thing, and will hopefully keep us advancing at the same pace. No one can deny that these are not good products. It doesn't matter if you like GNOME more of KDE more, they are both very good.
Here is one for you. But there will be a new skin with the next release (beginning of next month). I don't have a shot of that.
http://www.everythingparty.net/mozilla/snapshot1.p ng
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Mozilla is to slow for you? Maybe you should stop trying to run it on your 486. It's a modern browser ment to be run on modern machines.
I'm running 0.9 on a celeron 400 right now. Not exactly a speed demon, but still mozilla still works fine. I think I'll make it my default browser.
I've found that it's support for CSS isn't very good. I recently created a page that does All of it's layout using CSS (so I can skin the site) Works fine in IE5 and Mozilla, but not Konqueror. Same thing with Javascript.
Yes Konq is a good browser, but it's rendering engine still has a long way to go. Maybe they should think about using Gecko.
Mandrake is an excelent desktop distribution. I wouldn't use it as a server, but that doesn't mean they should remove all the server stuff.
I'm a web developer and put all my sites on Linux servers. So for convenience I don't want to have to keep uploading everything I do before I can test it, that means I need a desktop distro that has all the server tools.
I'll say this for everyone's benefit. Netscape 6 is not Mozilla.
Netscape 6 is based on M18 of the mozilla code. Mozilla has gone through 4 releases since then and the next one is due out in a week or two.Yes, Netscape 6 was unstable, buggy, and crashed. But Mozilla has improved a lot. I'm using 0.8.1 to post this message. It has become my standard browser and I have very few problems with it.
I'll say one more thing. Mozilla isn't even up to Version 1 yet. Accourding to the mozilla team it is still beta software.So people should stop bashing it until the final version is released.
There are many different types of quantum computing being developed by different scientists, but from what I understand, there are no wires. The processor and memory for the quantum computer is made up of a group of molecules. Each molecule is called a qubit. So a 10 qubit quantum computer is made of 10 molecules.
Each bit is always a 1 or a 0. In a quantum computer they are represented by an elections spin, so if it is spinning clockwise it is a one, counter-clockwise is a zero. Because of all sorts of wierd arsed quantum stuff an electon can have multiple states, so it can represent a 1 and a 0 at once which is why in the article it says the quantum computer can perform multiple instructions at once. The electrons state is then manipulated using lasers, or radio waves.
The main problem which this article is saying they are closer to solving is that the state of an electron is very unstable and can be easily corrupted by all sorts of things, another passing electron for example.
I may be wrong about all of this, so if I am wrong please tell me, but this is how I think they are working.
... Fractals were theorised before computers were invented. Of course they were only able to draw basic abstract diagrams, nothing like the one drawn in the monk's picture.
I came across this while researching some maths assignment. Can't remember where though.
I had this problem as well. It turned out it wasn't a problem with U9 it was my motherboard drivers as none of my 3D games worked properly.
Once I got that sorted out it worked fine. Installed the latest patch and it ran with almost no problems. A few crashes, and some funny moving corpses but that was it.
I have programmed in Perl and PHP. When programming in Perl I always used templates, they are good, no disagreement. But you can program php in the same way. Look at the following example:
Perl Template
<html>
<head><title>blah</title>
<body>
Date = $Date
</body>
</html>
Hang on. That script is just like the template. The only difference is you don't have to load the template file, parse every line of the text and replace the approprate strings with their value. Now with the php, just like a template remember, if you want to add new functionality you just need to add a new function to the included file. Perl you have add the new function, then add the new string to the parsing function etc. Which is easier?
I only just downloaded test12 of 2.4 this morning. Thought I would test out that LPP thingy. Now 2 hours later the final version has been released and I have to download it again???
we had erect a huge piramid at each point so that future civilisations can marvel at how accuratly we managed to spread these structures out, and wonder why we did it. Only we will know that we did it to waste time because we had nothing better to do.
How many of these points are there? How long would it take to get all of them?
Offtopic: What is with these sad bastards who have nothing better to do than reload slashdot every 10 sec just so they can post an inane message about how they were first to post. To those people, Get a Life!
I was not talking about these government atrosities. I was talking about 1st world countries where an everyday person just walks into a school and starts blowing people away. I'm talking about employees suddenly snapping and stalking from cubicle to cubicle pumping round after round into everybody. And it seems to be commonplace in America.
Out of all the 1st world countries, America is the most 3rd world.
How can you believe the US to be the ONLY place that I can actually say is stable, inexpensive. Have you even bothered looking past your own border. What about the UK, Canada, Australia and all the other countries in the world, or did you forget that the rest of the world exists? It is people like you that make everybody hate Americans. Yes that is right, outside your country there is a lot of Anti-American sentiment. Why? Because you are arogant, short-sighted, and believe that if it isn't American it doesn't concern you. You have no interest in looking past your own narrow minded world
And what about the rest of you? How can this be moderated as informative? It's hilarious!
"Had" being the operative word in that sentence. I have nothing against Americans in general, but out of all the 1st world countries I can't think of a more depressing place to live. I'm sorry but a country where it is your constitutional Right to carry a machine gun for the purposes of self defence, and believing everything is OK with this is a country with problems. As a result America has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world. Not a month seems to go by where we don't hear about another school massacre. Have you noticed how you never hear about incidents like this in other countries? I wonder why that is?
Also your love for sueing people. Just last month someone signed my guestbook threatening to sue me. Sure I think it was a joke but you really do take it to far.
I could go on, but I think enough people are already bashing America, and the worst thing is you don't seem to realise.
I disagree with you. Jackson is the super-villian. He has the name, Mr Glass, He is intelligent and insane, all good qualities in a super-villian. The reason why he goes out of his way to find Willis' character is because he to is trying to find his place in the world, he suspects that he may be a super-villian, but until he discovers the super-hero he is just another person. You can't have one without the other.
That is not true. What platform do you think all the Unreal Tournament and Counter Strike servers run on? Not windows. I am part owner of a gaming company and we would not even dream about running them on a windows server.
Life can be really durable. They have discovered some forms of bacteria that is able to survive in boiling water where it was previously believed it would be impossible. It seems that everytime someone says that life can't survive here it comes along and disporoves them.
Australia is a world leader in toilet technology. OK maybe some other countries have these as well but when they were first put in we weren't sure whether it was a joke or not. In Canberra we have these automated toilets that do everything. You walk into the little cubical and the automated door closes behind you and some really relaxing elevator music starts up to make the experience all the more plesant. When you are finished you press a button and it dispenses your three squares of toilet paper. You then stick your hands into a hole in the wall and it squirts soap and then water finally blowing hot air to dry them. Then when you open the door it automatically flushes the toilet for you.
I think this new innovation is a great addition. Now the next time I am drunk and out on the town and I Really need to go, all I need to do is whip out my Palm and mobile phone and it can tell me exactly where the nearest automated toilet is. So much easier than asking someone and trying to make them understand my drunken slur.
Now the only thing it needs to do is undo my fly and...
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This is the solution. And it isn't as hard as you think at least it isn't in Unreal Tournament. If you create a demo of yourself playing using a cheat, only people who also have that cheat installed are able to run it.
I help run a forum for gamers at www.ozforces.com and we recently did a test. We created a demo using a game that had a cheat installed. We then posted the demo on the forum and asked people to comment on the demo. Most people came back and said they couldn't run it, but there were a few people who could. When we informed people that you would only be able to run it if you had the cheat installed we got flamed badly, but it was an interesting experiment.
This experiment didn't actually prove that they were cheaters. It only proved that they had the cheat installed. Unfortunatly it is starting to get to the point where if you find people who have it installed you have to assume they are cheats and disallow them from the server.
Before the 0.9 release there was a complete rewrite of the image library that Mozilla uses, the new library is called lib pr0n, and a rewrite of the level 1 caching.
The crashlanding here should mean more improvements in the image library, cache, and the mail client. I actually tried one of the nightlies recently and the mail client has improved A LOT!
This is where mozilla will really shine through. Is IE P2P capable? Mozilla certainly is. Go to http://www.mozdev.org to have a look at all the applications currently under development for Mozilla
It's competition, and competition is what makes people strive for excelence. One person, I can never remember his name, once said that the reason why open source is advancing so quickly is because we are chacing tail lights, ie trying to catch the big players that have got a head start on us. So what do we do when we over take? Do we just stagnate and plod along? No we compete with ourselves, so all of these parallel open source projects are a good thing, and will hopefully keep us advancing at the same pace. No one can deny that these are not good products. It doesn't matter if you like GNOME more of KDE more, they are both very good.
PS, Go GNOME. :)
Here is one for you. But there will be a new skin with the next release (beginning of next month). I don't have a shot of that. http://www.everythingparty.net/mozilla/snapshot1.p ng
I'm running 0.9 on a celeron 400 right now. Not exactly a speed demon, but still mozilla still works fine. I think I'll make it my default browser.
Yes Konq is a good browser, but it's rendering engine still has a long way to go. Maybe they should think about using Gecko.
I'm a web developer and put all my sites on Linux servers. So for convenience I don't want to have to keep uploading everything I do before I can test it, that means I need a desktop distro that has all the server tools.
Netscape 6 is based on M18 of the mozilla code. Mozilla has gone through 4 releases since then and the next one is due out in a week or two.Yes, Netscape 6 was unstable, buggy, and crashed. But Mozilla has improved a lot. I'm using 0.8.1 to post this message. It has become my standard browser and I have very few problems with it.
I'll say one more thing. Mozilla isn't even up to Version 1 yet. Accourding to the mozilla team it is still beta software.So people should stop bashing it until the final version is released.
Each bit is always a 1 or a 0. In a quantum computer they are represented by an elections spin, so if it is spinning clockwise it is a one, counter-clockwise is a zero. Because of all sorts of wierd arsed quantum stuff an electon can have multiple states, so it can represent a 1 and a 0 at once which is why in the article it says the quantum computer can perform multiple instructions at once. The electrons state is then manipulated using lasers, or radio waves.
The main problem which this article is saying they are closer to solving is that the state of an electron is very unstable and can be easily corrupted by all sorts of things, another passing electron for example.
I may be wrong about all of this, so if I am wrong please tell me, but this is how I think they are working.
I came across this while researching some maths assignment. Can't remember where though.
Once I got that sorted out it worked fine. Installed the latest patch and it ran with almost no problems. A few crashes, and some funny moving corpses but that was it.
It's a project to remake Ultima 9 with the original story and it also does their best to explain all the plot holes etc.
So it looks like it isn't as dead as you think.
Because the script becomes your template.
I have programmed in Perl and PHP. When programming in Perl I always used templates, they are good, no disagreement. But you can program php in the same way. Look at the following example:
Perl Template
<html>
<head><title>blah</title>
<body>
Date = $Date
</body>
</html>
PHP script:
<html>
<head><title>blah</title>
<?php require 'dateFunctions.php'; ?>
</head>
<body>
Date = <?php printDate() ?>
</body>
</html>
Hang on. That script is just like the template. The only difference is you don't have to load the template file, parse every line of the text and replace the approprate strings with their value. Now with the php, just like a template remember, if you want to add new functionality you just need to add a new function to the included file. Perl you have add the new function, then add the new string to the parsing function etc. Which is easier?
Thus ends Web Programming101.
I think I'll wait a bit
How many of these points are there? How long would it take to get all of them?
Offtopic: What is with these sad bastards who have nothing better to do than reload slashdot every 10 sec just so they can post an inane message about how they were first to post. To those people, Get a Life!
The Australian National University Considered using the G4 in the Beowulf cluster, but decided against it. Can't remember why.
Out of all the 1st world countries, America is the most 3rd world.
And what about the rest of you? How can this be moderated as informative? It's hilarious!
"Had" being the operative word in that sentence. I have nothing against Americans in general, but out of all the 1st world countries I can't think of a more depressing place to live. I'm sorry but a country where it is your constitutional Right to carry a machine gun for the purposes of self defence, and believing everything is OK with this is a country with problems. As a result America has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world. Not a month seems to go by where we don't hear about another school massacre. Have you noticed how you never hear about incidents like this in other countries? I wonder why that is?
Also your love for sueing people. Just last month someone signed my guestbook threatening to sue me. Sure I think it was a joke but you really do take it to far.
I could go on, but I think enough people are already bashing America, and the worst thing is you don't seem to realise.
Quantum computers. The ability to get millions of transistors using a few atoms.
I disagree with you. Jackson is the super-villian. He has the name, Mr Glass, He is intelligent and insane, all good qualities in a super-villian. The reason why he goes out of his way to find Willis' character is because he to is trying to find his place in the world, he suspects that he may be a super-villian, but until he discovers the super-hero he is just another person. You can't have one without the other.
Jackson even says that at the end
Linux will always rule the server / gamer market
Life can be really durable. They have discovered some forms of bacteria that is able to survive in boiling water where it was previously believed it would be impossible. It seems that everytime someone says that life can't survive here it comes along and disporoves them.
I think this new innovation is a great addition. Now the next time I am drunk and out on the town and I Really need to go, all I need to do is whip out my Palm and mobile phone and it can tell me exactly where the nearest automated toilet is. So much easier than asking someone and trying to make them understand my drunken slur.
Now the only thing it needs to do is undo my fly and ...