Afterall, according to him, those versions are "incomplete" and substandard.
LOL! Unlike the prequel trilogy then?:-P
However, I have found some excellent copies on DVD from an overseas "distributor."
I guess these are from a laserdisc source? I've seen the warez copies floating around are either from digital broadcasts or laserdisc copies. All pretty good quality in the end, but of course not like a true DVD.
You make a good point -- in the end, regardless how advanced the AI is, it might all boil down to number crunching, just like it all boils down to chemical reactions in a brain.
Hehe... You gotta love geeks who starts thinking of problems with extraterrestrial FTP's when defining upper limits... and seriously suggesting solutions to them.:-)
A trojan that auto-downloads stuff? I thought trojans usually opened your computer to the internet to let a hacker use parts of your hard drive? That's hardly auto-downloading since it's not really the virus that's doing it.
100% of all Simpsons geeks don't read story taglines.:-)
Disclaimer: This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
There is not even any potential reward such as with distributed.net.
How about improving existing search engines with more accurate databases? Commercial organizations like Google might be involved and that's another matter. There might still be a reward to the public.
Sorry, I didn't mean it to come out as fonts being a piece of cake to create. Just saying that not *only* are they expensive for the time required to create all the letters, but I think for other reasons as well. Of course I understand they might need to scale perfectly from huge sizes down to 8 points. Of course I understand that readable fonts millions of people need to feel comfortable with are harder to create than barely readable (i.e. "flashy") fonts. Anything else would clearly be illogical.
The best part with monospaced fonts is that you can use the shorthand form like ":)" without having it look bad! Since I'm currently using Vera Mono in this edit box I'm typing in, I can see everything is fine here. But it's still a hassle since Slashdot posts defaults to your standard serif typeface, so you have to enclose it in TT tags. Unless you want to have it look like a frog, of course. You can't get everything I guess.;-)
But why are fonts so valuable? I keep seeing fonts which are expensive to buy. Buy fonts???? but their just pictures of letters...
I think it's because fonts often tend to become associated with a trademark. The font developers probably know this and set the licensing costs accordingly.
For example... The Lucida Grande font has become associated with the Aqua interface and is further tied into the new Apple "style" since it's used all over www.apple.com.
Another example... The Exocet font went well-known to all Blizzard fans since it was used in Diablo I and of course also used in Diablo II since it had become closely connected to the Diablo games by then.
I don't think fonts are often expensive just because it took a long time to create all the letters. It's probably more to it than that.
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One Hacker to find them
One Exploit to bring them all
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I think Zerg is more commonly known today as one of the alien races in Blizzard's Starcraft.
And of course, we all know tha Microsoft release dates never slip...
1. It has already slipped from late 2004 which was a previous ETA.
2. If it slips, it slips. That's better than thinking the release date matters more than the quality.
Afterall, according to him, those versions are "incomplete" and substandard.
:-P
LOL! Unlike the prequel trilogy then?
However, I have found some excellent copies on DVD from an overseas "distributor."
I guess these are from a laserdisc source? I've seen the warez copies floating around are either from digital broadcasts or laserdisc copies. All pretty good quality in the end, but of course not like a true DVD.
The game of Chess is not a measure of intelligence. It's a measure of mathematics and memory.
But will intelligence for a computer EVER be anything else than mathemetics and memory?
Will our brain EVER work in another fashion than sending chemical signals to our synapses?
You make a good point -- in the end, regardless how advanced the AI is, it might all boil down to number crunching, just like it all boils down to chemical reactions in a brain.
Hehe... You gotta love geeks who starts thinking of problems with extraterrestrial FTP's when defining upper limits... and seriously suggesting solutions to them. :-)
The shortest line should be:
<input type>
OK, so that's another thing IE for Mac excels at then. Yes, it's more standard compliant as well, although IE 6.0 for Windows caught up a bit.
Or just asciipr0n.com
The mathematics of marriage:
:-)
f(x) = sin (s * x) + b - c
Hmm... Perhaps something like that?
Where f is fun, x is time, s is sex frequency, b is amount of beer and c number of compromises in the marriage to your disadvantage.
I suggest searching for and wolf_et_test.exe at FileMirrors. There were 9 mirrors that avoided FilePlanet hell when I looked.
Not even here?
He said he was getting much higher fps in 800x600 for example. That resolution is good enough for me at least, for fast paced games like that one is.
Over 120? What exactly do you need 150 fps for? As long as they don't use to drop below 30-40, that's fine with me.
A trojan that auto-downloads stuff? I thought trojans usually opened your computer to the internet to let a hacker use parts of your hard drive? That's hardly auto-downloading since it's not really the virus that's doing it.
Ok, so Windows might not be that great, but I still think you abuse it more than necessary... Forcing it to download Britney? Ouch.
I suggested Firefly since the browser is supposed to be light weight. :-) But I guess then they would have to put up with the fury of Firefly fans...
They should just call it BS for "Beer Software" to attract attention. :-)
But then people would say stuff like "Red Hat is BS" which might be slightly confusing.
So it's official then..
:-)
100% of all Simpsons geeks don't read story taglines.
Disclaimer: This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
There is not even any potential reward such as with distributed.net.
How about improving existing search engines with more accurate databases? Commercial organizations like Google might be involved and that's another matter. There might still be a reward to the public.
Sorry, I didn't mean it to come out as fonts being a piece of cake to create. Just saying that not *only* are they expensive for the time required to create all the letters, but I think for other reasons as well. Of course I understand they might need to scale perfectly from huge sizes down to 8 points. Of course I understand that readable fonts millions of people need to feel comfortable with are harder to create than barely readable (i.e. "flashy") fonts. Anything else would clearly be illogical.
looking fine here, both in Vera Serif and Mono. :-/ But I'm using Windows XP although it shouldn't matter since it's the same font. Hmm.
Hmm... I can type û and õ in this edit box and it looks fine with Vera Mono? Is it something with the serif typeface?
The best part with monospaced fonts is that you can use the shorthand form like ":)" without having it look bad! Since I'm currently using Vera Mono in this edit box I'm typing in, I can see everything is fine here. But it's still a hassle since Slashdot posts defaults to your standard serif typeface, so you have to enclose it in TT tags. Unless you want to have it look like a frog, of course. You can't get everything I guess. ;-)
But why are fonts so valuable?
I keep seeing fonts which are expensive to buy.
Buy fonts???? but their just pictures of letters...
I think it's because fonts often tend to become associated with a trademark. The font developers probably know this and set the licensing costs accordingly.
For example... The Lucida Grande font has become associated with the Aqua interface and is further tied into the new Apple "style" since it's used all over www.apple.com.
Another example... The Exocet font went well-known to all Blizzard fans since it was used in Diablo I and of course also used in Diablo II since it had become closely connected to the Diablo games by then.
I don't think fonts are often expensive just because it took a long time to create all the letters. It's probably more to it than that.