Most of them only a two or three years old, with more technology and features than any affordable phone in the USA.... what can be done with all these old phones?
... And we wonder why it takes 2-3 years before technology gets from Japan to North America.:P
I don't know, I never have trouble figuring out what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Being at school, there's always an assignment, problem set, quiz, test or exam creeping up the next week. I can barely find a whole day to dedicate to something vaguely resembling a "social life". And of course, if school and real life people fail, there's always Slashdot.
Well, as I said, if you have a safe algorithm which reliably cracks a hash string, then it's O(n) (since O(n) + O(n) = O(n) ). If you brute force it, then yes, for every hash string of brute forcing, you'd have to do just as much brute forcing, which is O(n^2).
I'm sure they'll append additional playtime to all those who suffer from downtime. They did that for the US server users.
But yes, they should have learned from their mistake... But I can imagine their thought process.
"Wow, we did amazingly well in North American, it blew our servers out!" "Yeah... let's hope we do half as well in Europe"... "Holy crap, we did even BETTER in Europe... That was unexpected *servers go boom*"
I've cut off my ties with Windows permanently now that it'll run every game I could ever want to play (with the exception of Gunbound >.). Every Blizzard game works perfectly (including WoW, for me). Most FPS games work (Valve's games, and Id's games for sure). I don't know what the status of Sims 2 is, but otherwise I think that "I don't like linux because it doesn't run my games" is a very poor excuse at this point.
I have. I've programmed in C, Java and Python, that is why I was wondering what the big deal was. They're all very different languages, I never bothered to compare them.
I can see the inconsistancies that you're referring to but I guess I just don't question the tool... I use it.:-)
It does take a few extra lines to convert things occasionally, but I never saw it as such a huge deal, I figured they had a good reason for making things the way they did.
Sorry if people thought I was trolling, it was a genuine question. I've been using Java for several years now and it clearly has its uses. I never heard of this "type system that was supposed to be one of Java's original selling points", but that could be my own shortcoming.
My impression was that Java is supposed to be a fully object-oriented programming language. If that's not what the project calls for, you should be using a different language instead of "necessitating hacks involving wrapper types and/or artificial concepts like boxing".
I could be wrong, but I find that people descriminate against Java because they misuse it, not because there's some fundamental flaw with it.
I've been a windows-less user for almost a year now, sitting atop the warm, well-trimmed Gentoo hilltop.
Albeit it took me a lot of this year of useage to get my systeme exactly the way I want it, I did not have to deal with many other factors that I did when I had a Windows OS for several years before that.
I don't have to worry about installing some program which will magically root itself into the very core of my computer and will be forever irremovable, short of a format. I don't have to worry about anything just ceasing from working if one day Windows decided to freeze during an installation. I don't have to worry about keeping my software up to date. (Thanks to emerge) I don't have to worry about finding cracks for all the updates for my software. (Thanks to open source and free software) I don't have to worry about finding "work arounds" for any problems I have. If I have a problem, I fix it, because I can.
Now, I know that Gentoo's market is not the same as Windows', but I'm perfectly happy with that. I have my own little paradise on my computer, if everyone else wants to deal with the stresses of Windows, then they can.
The main thing that keeps me with linux is the whole "got a problem? fix it yourself (of course there is a huge community which will gladly help you do that)" mantra, instead of "got a problem? you can't do anything about it until the next service pack 2 years from now, and even then it's questionable."
Ah, all those times that my friends have sent me chain letters warning of a vicious virus pillaging and raping their bits and bytes (respectively), I broke out in tears beacuse my linux wont support said viruses. Woe is me.
Stupid linux... First it doesn't support Windows Media Player, then viruses too? If there wasn't a minesweeper clone, I'd have to go back to Windows!
I think "sparter" is an excellent way to describe the current state of NPC AI in MMORPGs.
AI or not, seemingly-intelligent pre-scripted events thhat many games have put a lot of effort in (ie. Halflife, World of Warcraft, and presumably Half-life 2...) are more than worth it in terms of forming atmosphere.
Could use a little work in adapting to different situations though... Like, pre-scripted semi-flexible events. Mmmm.
What about non-video games? Like Chess, for one. I'm very glad I learned to play chess at an early age, it has definately had a positive effect on my outlook at life.
I, for one, didn't start reading for pleasure until I turned about 16 or 17 (when I discovered Douglas Adams, to be exact). Although I enjoyed some of the manditory reading in highschool, it was more of something I "had to do" instead of "wanted to do". At that time, I stuck to about 2-3 books a year. Now I'm up to 2-3 books a month.
As for videogames, there have been several that inspired me in similar ways that books, movies and porn has. (Err, don't know how that last one got there.) But I can't think of any game, book, or movie that literally taught me "how to think" in a particular fashion the way chess did.
Ah, right you are, I suppose. It is more of a news site than many others. But it's not like Slashdot is dedicated to journalism or anything. It's... a news digester, I guess.
But on the other hand, it is actual news a lot of the time. Many times I hear things on Slashdot LONG before my friends hear of it elsewhere or it comes on the radio or something.
When you say false information, I think you mean "biased" information. But most news sources are biased in some way... Politically, for example.
Slashdot Mirror
That works, since saturday night was yesterday.
Everyone is still asleep from their late-saturday-night D&D sessions.
:-)
Give it time...
I second that...
Everyone whines how software companies neglect linux, and now that one actually pays some attention to linux, we scoff and reject them?
Sigh.
- shazow
- shazow
I don't know, I never have trouble figuring out what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
:-(
Being at school, there's always an assignment, problem set, quiz, test or exam creeping up the next week. I can barely find a whole day to dedicate to something vaguely resembling a "social life". And of course, if school and real life people fail, there's always Slashdot.
Ah, eternity reading Slashdot... Heaven.
Heh... Heh...
- shazow
*Few weeks later*
:D
"Oooo, IE7 is out and Windows is automatically updating, so exciting!"
*2 hours and 4 reboots later*
"Hmm, strange, it wont connect to anything Google-related."
- shazow
Well, as I said, if you have a safe algorithm which reliably cracks a hash string, then it's O(n) (since O(n) + O(n) = O(n) ). If you brute force it, then yes, for every hash string of brute forcing, you'd have to do just as much brute forcing, which is O(n^2).
There is no way to make an encryption algorithm without it being utterly uncrackable, if even by trial and error.
There's always "problems", the game is making them as insignificant as possible.
Technically, that would simply double the number of operations required to perform the decryption, which does not effectively raise its complexity..
ie. say it takes n time to crack a hash, then cracking a hash of a hash would take 2n...
O(2n) is still O(n)
Of course that's assuming they aren't doing it by "eye" and they have some sort of solid algorithm to do it.
- shazow
Heh I second that. I wrote a couple of Star Trek parody plays for Highschool english, it was really fun.
:D
But... Sci fi comedy... That's like... Douglas Adams
I could go for that.
- shazow
I don't have any mod points but...
hahaha!
I'm sure they'll append additional playtime to all those who suffer from downtime. They did that for the US server users.
...
But yes, they should have learned from their mistake... But I can imagine their thought process.
"Wow, we did amazingly well in North American, it blew our servers out!"
"Yeah... let's hope we do half as well in Europe"
"Holy crap, we did even BETTER in Europe... That was unexpected *servers go boom*"
I've cut off my ties with Windows permanently now that it'll run every game I could ever want to play (with the exception of Gunbound >.). Every Blizzard game works perfectly (including WoW, for me). Most FPS games work (Valve's games, and Id's games for sure). I don't know what the status of Sims 2 is, but otherwise I think that "I don't like linux because it doesn't run my games" is a very poor excuse at this point.
- shazow
I have. I've programmed in C, Java and Python, that is why I was wondering what the big deal was. They're all very different languages, I never bothered to compare them.
:-)
I can see the inconsistancies that you're referring to but I guess I just don't question the tool... I use it.
It does take a few extra lines to convert things occasionally, but I never saw it as such a huge deal, I figured they had a good reason for making things the way they did.
Thanks for the simplified explination, though.
- shazow
I think I see what you mean. Thanks for clarifying. Guess I never encountered this.
- shazow
Sorry if people thought I was trolling, it was a genuine question. I've been using Java for several years now and it clearly has its uses. I never heard of this "type system that was supposed to be one of Java's original selling points", but that could be my own shortcoming.
My impression was that Java is supposed to be a fully object-oriented programming language. If that's not what the project calls for, you should be using a different language instead of "necessitating hacks involving wrapper types and/or artificial concepts like boxing".
I could be wrong, but I find that people descriminate against Java because they misuse it, not because there's some fundamental flaw with it.
- shazow
- shazow
I've been a windows-less user for almost a year now, sitting atop the warm, well-trimmed Gentoo hilltop.
Albeit it took me a lot of this year of useage to get my systeme exactly the way I want it, I did not have to deal with many other factors that I did when I had a Windows OS for several years before that.
I don't have to worry about installing some program which will magically root itself into the very core of my computer and will be forever irremovable, short of a format.
I don't have to worry about anything just ceasing from working if one day Windows decided to freeze during an installation.
I don't have to worry about keeping my software up to date. (Thanks to emerge)
I don't have to worry about finding cracks for all the updates for my software. (Thanks to open source and free software)
I don't have to worry about finding "work arounds" for any problems I have. If I have a problem, I fix it, because I can.
Now, I know that Gentoo's market is not the same as Windows', but I'm perfectly happy with that. I have my own little paradise on my computer, if everyone else wants to deal with the stresses of Windows, then they can.
The main thing that keeps me with linux is the whole "got a problem? fix it yourself (of course there is a huge community which will gladly help you do that)" mantra, instead of "got a problem? you can't do anything about it until the next service pack 2 years from now, and even then it's questionable."
- shazow
The 3 is trivial. The proof is left as an exercise for the reader.
- shazow
Ah, all those times that my friends have sent me chain letters warning of a vicious virus pillaging and raping their bits and bytes (respectively), I broke out in tears beacuse my linux wont support said viruses. Woe is me.
Stupid linux... First it doesn't support Windows Media Player, then viruses too? If there wasn't a minesweeper clone, I'd have to go back to Windows!
- shazow
I think "sparter" is an excellent way to describe the current state of NPC AI in MMORPGs.
AI or not, seemingly-intelligent pre-scripted events thhat many games have put a lot of effort in (ie. Halflife, World of Warcraft, and presumably Half-life 2...) are more than worth it in terms of forming atmosphere.
Could use a little work in adapting to different situations though... Like, pre-scripted semi-flexible events. Mmmm.
- shazow
What about non-video games? Like Chess, for one. I'm very glad I learned to play chess at an early age, it has definately had a positive effect on my outlook at life.
I, for one, didn't start reading for pleasure until I turned about 16 or 17 (when I discovered Douglas Adams, to be exact). Although I enjoyed some of the manditory reading in highschool, it was more of something I "had to do" instead of "wanted to do". At that time, I stuck to about 2-3 books a year. Now I'm up to 2-3 books a month.
As for videogames, there have been several that inspired me in similar ways that books, movies and porn has. (Err, don't know how that last one got there.) But I can't think of any game, book, or movie that literally taught me "how to think" in a particular fashion the way chess did.
- shazow
I am quite male, but I would not deny attention to my ass.
Knock yourselves out.
Your friendly Canadian slashdotter,
- shazow
Ah, right you are, I suppose. It is more of a news site than many others. But it's not like Slashdot is dedicated to journalism or anything. It's... a news digester, I guess.
But on the other hand, it is actual news a lot of the time. Many times I hear things on Slashdot LONG before my friends hear of it elsewhere or it comes on the radio or something.
When you say false information, I think you mean "biased" information. But most news sources are biased in some way... Politically, for example.
- shazow