...the louder the people will get Only in the lawless "wild-west". If the game is suitably controlled (i.e. there is actually an admin team), jerks will be handled without problem.
Take a look at wikipedia - some people only do things once and learn from their mistakes. Others continue or perform retalitory vandalism - in these cases, a simple post to WP:ANI will result in a quick block. The same thing will work for an online game - as soon as you see someone jerking off, right click on that user, and select "warn". If the user collects enough warnings, admins come and take a look at what's going on (including related chat history.) If warnings don't stop bad users, right-click and select report user.
Ducktape is like the force, it envelops, binds and holds the universe together. That's Duct tape you're referring to, which is a general-purpose tape used for many tasks. (Of course, adhesive tape is must more suited or duct work.)
With all the wildly diverging hardware possible in PC's, Where did you get the information that indicates this would be a problem under modern PCs?
Sure, it was a problem in the MS-DOS era where there needed to be a large quantity of video card drivers before VESA was standardized, and it was also a problem trying to get every single sound card driver for the games that required them. However, Microsoft resolved these issues in ~1995 with a technology known as DirectX. (Earlier if you feel that the stock 16-bit Windows API was good enough for graphics and/or sound.)
PC sales for such simple arcade games aren't really that high anymore so combine that and it might just be sufficient justification./quote.
- On modern hardware Aero will make your system much more responsive.** If you have a citation for that, you can add it to Wikipedia. Otherwise, you may have confused "responsive" with "efficient".
- ReadyBoost = Faster. I'm assuming "kill every process I could kill" means you disabled this. ReadyBoost requires an external USB Flash drive. If you don't have such a compatible device, you can't use it to begin with.
Also, there is a distinction between "processes" and "services". Windows is able to operate with the bare minimum of processes (which can be viewed in Safe Mode, or alternativly disabled through MSConfig). The only real issues is your 3rd-party AV/FW software not starting up automatically, and special notebook buttons not working. However, disabling services arbitrarly will impact system performance negativly.
This will get buried under the imminent ~400 comments, but why would anyone use battery power run a known CPU/GPU intensive component that only gives eye candy?
If you want battery life, try selecting the less complex themes in Vista (e.g. look for Windows classic), and turn off many of the enhancements that run in the background, even if they would make long-term usage easier for you.
As soon as you start measuring ticket resolution time, you won't believe how fast your call center people will find creative ways to close tickets without actually resolving problems. They'll close a ticket when it gets bumped from functionary to functionary, for example. That's only the case if you look at the raw data (hence, why things such as 90% service level within 30 seconds for inbound calls is considered bull.)
The solution is to use adjusted data - anomalies are corrected or prevented before being reported. For example, you can force agents to use a "case closure queue" where another agent verifies that the issue is resolved (or if that's not possible, check if the ticket was legitimately closed.) Other tactics to prevent Georges from disrupting statistics (since they are havening trouble showing or knowing how to troubleshoot the issue) will also give a more accurate report.
This results in only a single (relatively) thin strip at the equator being habitable, because all the air is down there. Then you wonder why you're building the rest of the sphere. Energy collection. With ring worlds, you only get a small chunk of the sphere.
If a dyson sphere turns out to be an extra-wide ringworld, you can simply equip the uninhabitable terrain with solar panels to collect power. This clears up some space on the ringworld which can be used for other things. In addition, assuming that no energy is lost in transmission from the poles to the equator, you'd have much more power collected than simply using the ring itself.
In the study they mention [http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/abs tracts/2000-2004/00AD.pdf], *random* college students are asked to play a video game. Half play Myst, the other half play Wolf 3D. Guess which group exhibited more violent behavior afterwards? [...] But, when people claim that violent video games breed violence, they *are* in fact supported by experimental evidence. To be supported by experimental evidence, the results must be repeatable even when you change variables. For example, replacing Wolf 3D with BattleChess or replacing Myst with Juiced.
If the "violence theory" is true, then such a change shouldn't affect the results. As you know, the game of chess is violent - you have to destroy the enemy's army (Battlechess in particular also uses violent animations whenever a piece is captured). Likewise, Juiced isn't violent (and attempts at violence impedes game progression), as it's merely a racing game.
Will money flowing into open source destroy its roots? If there is no money flowing into open source, the programmers will be limited to those who have time on their hands. This forces the exclusion of students undertaking exams, programmers with girlfriends, professional programmers bound by contracts, and so on. In addition, hosting resources will be limited to "free" services or be on the dime of the maintainer(s) - which will result in some problems if the project gets Slashdotted.
For open source to become more popular, money must flow in. The result is that some projects request donations to keep the project alive.
Now, I'll play devil's advocate for a second - would you prefer a version of Firefox that isn't up to modern standards (i.e. bloated, memory leaks, CPU hog, and won't render properly), or would you spend money to make it the best browser (i.e. lightning fast, lightweight, and perfect rendering)? I've considered allowing you to spend time to help the browser, but a project the size of Firefox isn't something that most programmers can jump into.
The only way you can get away with pettifogging is if you have moles within the USA judicial system, as it is with one religiously fanatical organization. Since Jack Thompson does not have contacts on this level, he probably should cut losses by flipping burgers.
That, and I think he's gone insane actually... Even if it shares the same characteristics, Arsehole isn't a form of insanity. Likewise, it isn't an excuse for being a massacre chaser.
Can you lose rights to a patent for not protecting it? IANAL, but no.
However, if you don't go after infringements in a timely fashion (e.g. wait for the patent to become an industry standard, or wait for the target company to become successful), then you risk losing rights.
Disconnect those pesky cooling fans. They just make a lot noise and suck up power. Truth is, your PC will run fine without them. "You've got a hole in your mainboard."
On a more serious note, cooling fans are recommended as they help keep the CPU cool. PC case fans are considered optional, but can be used if your CPU is reporting temperatures that are considered higher than what they should be (which may actually be ambient heat from the power supply.)
When referring to laptops or notebooks, it depends on the model. While my notebook is at a normal temperature most of the time, I have been running a few 100% CPU tasks which does heat up the notebook. As a result, I had to purchase an external cooling fan so that I wouldn't burn my fingers on the keyboard/touchpad as much.
We now live in a day and age where a woman can spill coffee on herself and successfully sue for millions of dollars. Bad example. The woman only sued for medical expenses. However, McDonalds was previously warned by the courts that the coffee was dangerously hot and the judge and/or jury decided to award punitive damages.
Think of the huge class-action lawsuit that would most likely follow. It would be the same as the class action lawsuit that appeared in response to the Colombine. It was dismissed rather quickly.
In addition, the "GTA" defence didn't hold water with judges. In one case, it was a technicality (e.g. the defendant denied it), in another case, it was countered with evidence that the defendant was a nutcase (but legally sane.)
With people like Dr. Phil and Jack Thompson blaming video games, and getting as much media time as they do, how likely in the future will it be for video game makers to get a fair civil trial? s/fair civil trial/fair public treatement/
Most judges are smart enough to see through smoke and mirrors (and those that aren't will be corrected through appeals court). The real issue is with the media sensations being as kneejerk as Airport Security.
I wonder at what point the Credit Card industry will switch to one-time use authorization codes, instead of giving retailers your account number? Placing an order online is a 3-step process. Select the items you want, enter your billing information, and place the order - and one of these can be skipped by "remembering" the billing information.
The proposed system will make it a 4-step process: Select the items, obtain your billing information, enter your billing information, and place the order - and none of these can really by skipped. It's a matter of personal taste on what you prefer, but most people go for convenience rather than security.
The implementation could easily handle this by having credit card numbers "linked" to a primary account, as there's at least 10 trillion possible combinations for credit cards from a single institution. No information on if it will work in practise, but given that most people aren't good with numbers, it would probably boost CS calls....
What's the last great shmup you played since R-Type ruled the scene?
Haven't played R-type, but I just downloaded a large quantity of shumps just recently. Out of all of these games, it's hard to select one as the one great shump... As a result, I decided to like them all.
In any case, derailing a game such as R-Type is a matter of chance and time. I don't know whether or not Starfox 64 is better than R-type, but it has it's own merits and traits that attract it's own crowd.
Has anyone considered the fact that IP addresses can be spoofed?
Only on UDP packets and TCP connection requests. If you want to spoof an IP address in order to download something, don't expect to get anything. At best, only 4K is transmitted as soon as the destination IP address either times out or resets the connection.
How can you tell the first one apart from any of the other levels of Donkey Kong?
The "first" level means that it uses the first possible layout - it doesn't mean that it's the sixth one you encounter in the game (although incidently, the first board does appear as the sixth in the rotation.)
The boards are as follows (although I think the order is a bit different): - Ladders - a series of bent floors. - Conveyors - some floors push you left and right - Elevators - has to elevators on the left hand side. - Roof - where you remove rivots to cause Donkey Kong to fall.
However, it almost looks like the colecovision version (with scruntched levels) as long as you don't look at the first floor.
When I say create safe versions. I'm talking about figuring out something simple like writing a wrapper around snprint where no matter what the last character becomes '/0'.
That is the exact thing you want to avoid in programming - you do not want to reimplement what should be standard in each individual program. I've performed this procedure with itoa() since it wasn't implemented on Linux, with almost no concern of finding the best algorithm to do so. The direct result of this is that I'm using an unoptimized library function many times - which will impact performance on Programming contests.
quickly switch every call from snprintf to snprintf_safe where now at least it won't buffer overflow.
Refactoring isn't that simple, unless both functions have the same parameter list (in which case, you aren't likely going to get benefit from your wrapper.)
These safe functions should do all the error checking you need in it. Hell there's about a million otherways to solve these problems but the fact is someone has to do it and Microsoft needs to learn that they should take time to do it. It's a reason I don't use Microsoft products because they have these buffer overflow problems that should be easier to fix then "we can't" implies.
Safe functions will not protect against this kind of error. As you can check from the vulnerability information on wwlib.dll and Microsoft KB926955, it is not a buffer overflow. It is a boundry violation, which means the program attempts to access memory resources that it does not have access to - where there is no standard procedure in C or C++ to prevent such crashes. This is substandard compared to Basic's "ON ERROR RESUME NEXT" ability to handle things (i.e. handle errors inline or proceed as if nothing happened, whichever is better.)
When dealing with pointers, you only know one thing - whether or not it is NULL. If it isn't null, the best you can do without a major performance loss is to step into the minefield.
Buffer overflows? Create and use a SAFE version of functions... Like.. I don't know? Try snprintf with only the output buffer's size?
Writing your own version will simply cause duplication of existing functions. However, you can't really use the existing functions unless they are known to be ratified in at least one known standard.
In particular, I am referring to "safe" versions of sprintf, strcpy, strlen, strcat, sscanf, and other string manipulation functions. There's also a secondary issue with fopen(), which uses a dual-purpose return value (with more detailes in a global variable not guarenteed to be thread-safe) instead of splitting the error from the actual pointer.
Unless security issues are addressed in a known standard (and I'm having difficulty confirming which variant functions are ratified), I'm writing Windows-only code without even knowing.
You mean pegging the CPU to 100% and forcing the system to be rebooted IS NOT a Denial of Service attack? These are definitely DoS attacks.
You can press CTRL-ALT-DEL. You can then kill any application(s) pegging the CPU at 100%.
There's also preventative measures you can take to prevent this issue - keeping task manager open at all times (although disable "Always on top"), having a multi-core processor, setting certain "critical" processes such as Explorer to a higher than normal priority, etc.
The claim that something similar to the system depicted in swordfish is ridiculous, is on itself ridiculous.
If it is ridiculous, it does not have to do with the number of monitors.
I haven't seen it myself, but if it's anything like what I saw on that page, the configuration is silly since the monitors are haphazardly strewn about, and are currently running an animation calibrated to the physical position of the monitors. A more traditional (and generally workable one) is to arrange them in either a line or a grid.
Sharp Systems of America, a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, today introduced the Sharp LL-151-3D display, Sharp's first stand-alone display that features Sharp's 3D LCD Technology.
I've read that in an article previously. However, the laughs about 3D pertain to using what amounts to prerendered AVI files or video games for developmental/penetration work.
That's not entirely true... keep in mind that Access Software (Links golf, Countdown, and various other both visually and sound-wise impressive titles) offered an option called RealSound for sound playback. This sound would go through the PC Speaker (in the era of 386 and 486, this was an actual cone speaker) and produce reasonable sound output.
I remember something like this used for other games. There's a few problems, though:
- It has one physical channel. - It's volume is fixed - you can't adjust it without turning it off. - It does not work with Windows - attempts to do so will cause the game to hang at best. - It's slightly more CPU intensive than the earliest of soundcards, especially when mixing MIDI and digitized sound.
An example of sound played through the speaker going wrong would by Silpheed (the original Dos game.) There was an attempt to play digitized speech, but it's hard to make out on modern systems due to the speakers not being sufficient.
This one wouldn't surprise me if it turned out to be true, because sometimes I certainly feel like my processor is degrading...
It is true. Processors don't live forever, and will eventually die from entropy - hence some retailers and manufacturer's selling extended warranties to cover the period between 1-3 years where it's not likely to have noticable problems.
The rate at which Mhzs are lost does vary - if you run DOS, you can be sure that MHzs would be working at optimum capacity as there's isn't more than 1 task wearing away the ability of the processor.
When the processor malfunctions or finally dies, that means it's lost too many MHzs to contine operating. It may simply stop working, develop the Pentium division bug (or some other interesting event), or some other symptom. Some people compensated by overclocking the chip to recover these MHz - but removing the heat sink caused these MHz to spew out so rapidly that it blew a hole in the mainboard.
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...the louder the people will get Only in the lawless "wild-west". If the game is suitably controlled (i.e. there is actually an admin team), jerks will be handled without problem.Take a look at wikipedia - some people only do things once and learn from their mistakes. Others continue or perform retalitory vandalism - in these cases, a simple post to WP:ANI will result in a quick block. The same thing will work for an online game - as soon as you see someone jerking off, right click on that user, and select "warn". If the user collects enough warnings, admins come and take a look at what's going on (including related chat history.) If warnings don't stop bad users, right-click and select report user.
Duck tape is meant for taping ducks.
Sure, it was a problem in the MS-DOS era where there needed to be a large quantity of video card drivers before VESA was standardized, and it was also a problem trying to get every single sound card driver for the games that required them. However, Microsoft resolved these issues in ~1995 with a technology known as DirectX. (Earlier if you feel that the stock 16-bit Windows API was good enough for graphics and/or sound.) PC sales for such simple arcade games aren't really that high anymore so combine that and it might just be sufficient justification./quote.
Popcap is still in business last time I checked.
Also, there is a distinction between "processes" and "services". Windows is able to operate with the bare minimum of processes (which can be viewed in Safe Mode, or alternativly disabled through MSConfig). The only real issues is your 3rd-party AV/FW software not starting up automatically, and special notebook buttons not working. However, disabling services arbitrarly will impact system performance negativly.
This will get buried under the imminent ~400 comments, but why would anyone use battery power run a known CPU/GPU intensive component that only gives eye candy?
If you want battery life, try selecting the less complex themes in Vista (e.g. look for Windows classic), and turn off many of the enhancements that run in the background, even if they would make long-term usage easier for you.
The solution is to use adjusted data - anomalies are corrected or prevented before being reported. For example, you can force agents to use a "case closure queue" where another agent verifies that the issue is resolved (or if that's not possible, check if the ticket was legitimately closed.) Other tactics to prevent Georges from disrupting statistics (since they are havening trouble showing or knowing how to troubleshoot the issue) will also give a more accurate report.
If a dyson sphere turns out to be an extra-wide ringworld, you can simply equip the uninhabitable terrain with solar panels to collect power. This clears up some space on the ringworld which can be used for other things. In addition, assuming that no energy is lost in transmission from the poles to the equator, you'd have much more power collected than simply using the ring itself.
If the "violence theory" is true, then such a change shouldn't affect the results. As you know, the game of chess is violent - you have to destroy the enemy's army (Battlechess in particular also uses violent animations whenever a piece is captured). Likewise, Juiced isn't violent (and attempts at violence impedes game progression), as it's merely a racing game.
For open source to become more popular, money must flow in. The result is that some projects request donations to keep the project alive.
Now, I'll play devil's advocate for a second - would you prefer a version of Firefox that isn't up to modern standards (i.e. bloated, memory leaks, CPU hog, and won't render properly), or would you spend money to make it the best browser (i.e. lightning fast, lightweight, and perfect rendering)? I've considered allowing you to spend time to help the browser, but a project the size of Firefox isn't something that most programmers can jump into.
http://www.vgcats.com/jack.php - Jack Thompson makes threats to press criminal charges for harassment - even though he initiated the conversation
http://kotaku.com/gaming/jack-thompson/penny-arca
http://kotaku.com/gaming/legal/another-jackass-th
http://kotaku.com/gaming/jack-thompson/jack-bitch
The only way you can get away with pettifogging is if you have moles within the USA judicial system, as it is with one religiously fanatical organization. Since Jack Thompson does not have contacts on this level, he probably should cut losses by flipping burgers. That, and I think he's gone insane actually... Even if it shares the same characteristics, Arsehole isn't a form of insanity. Likewise, it isn't an excuse for being a massacre chaser.
However, if you don't go after infringements in a timely fashion (e.g. wait for the patent to become an industry standard, or wait for the target company to become successful), then you risk losing rights.
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NOAA Antarctic Station"
Foolboy, get the joke, would you? My laptop still feels warm even when the ambient temperature is cold.
And also, the fans are required to spread the heeat from the computer(s) in order to make the building warm enough to be in.
On a more serious note, cooling fans are recommended as they help keep the CPU cool. PC case fans are considered optional, but can be used if your CPU is reporting temperatures that are considered higher than what they should be (which may actually be ambient heat from the power supply.)
When referring to laptops or notebooks, it depends on the model. While my notebook is at a normal temperature most of the time, I have been running a few 100% CPU tasks which does heat up the notebook. As a result, I had to purchase an external cooling fan so that I wouldn't burn my fingers on the keyboard/touchpad as much.
In addition, the "GTA" defence didn't hold water with judges. In one case, it was a technicality (e.g. the defendant denied it), in another case, it was countered with evidence that the defendant was a nutcase (but legally sane.) With people like Dr. Phil and Jack Thompson blaming video games, and getting as much media time as they do, how likely in the future will it be for video game makers to get a fair civil trial? s/fair civil trial/fair public treatement/
Most judges are smart enough to see through smoke and mirrors (and those that aren't will be corrected through appeals court). The real issue is with the media sensations being as kneejerk as Airport Security.
The proposed system will make it a 4-step process: Select the items, obtain your billing information, enter your billing information, and place the order - and none of these can really by skipped. It's a matter of personal taste on what you prefer, but most people go for convenience rather than security.
The implementation could easily handle this by having credit card numbers "linked" to a primary account, as there's at least 10 trillion possible combinations for credit cards from a single institution. No information on if it will work in practise, but given that most people aren't good with numbers, it would probably boost CS calls.
It sounds like the one from 12:01, which moves and insults the user at the same time.
Haven't played R-type, but I just downloaded a large quantity of shumps just recently. Out of all of these games, it's hard to select one as the one great shump... As a result, I decided to like them all.
In any case, derailing a game such as R-Type is a matter of chance and time. I don't know whether or not Starfox 64 is better than R-type, but it has it's own merits and traits that attract it's own crowd.
Only on UDP packets and TCP connection requests. If you want to spoof an IP address in order to download something, don't expect to get anything. At best, only 4K is transmitted as soon as the destination IP address either times out or resets the connection.
The "first" level means that it uses the first possible layout - it doesn't mean that it's the sixth one you encounter in the game (although incidently, the first board does appear as the sixth in the rotation.)
The boards are as follows (although I think the order is a bit different):
- Ladders - a series of bent floors.
- Conveyors - some floors push you left and right
- Elevators - has to elevators on the left hand side.
- Roof - where you remove rivots to cause Donkey Kong to fall.
However, it almost looks like the colecovision version (with scruntched levels) as long as you don't look at the first floor.
That is the exact thing you want to avoid in programming - you do not want to reimplement what should be standard in each individual program. I've performed this procedure with itoa() since it wasn't implemented on Linux, with almost no concern of finding the best algorithm to do so. The direct result of this is that I'm using an unoptimized library function many times - which will impact performance on Programming contests.
Refactoring isn't that simple, unless both functions have the same parameter list (in which case, you aren't likely going to get benefit from your wrapper.)
Safe functions will not protect against this kind of error. As you can check from the vulnerability information on wwlib.dll and Microsoft KB926955, it is not a buffer overflow. It is a boundry violation, which means the program attempts to access memory resources that it does not have access to - where there is no standard procedure in C or C++ to prevent such crashes. This is substandard compared to Basic's "ON ERROR RESUME NEXT" ability to handle things (i.e. handle errors inline or proceed as if nothing happened, whichever is better.)
When dealing with pointers, you only know one thing - whether or not it is NULL. If it isn't null, the best you can do without a major performance loss is to step into the minefield.
Writing your own version will simply cause duplication of existing functions. However, you can't really use the existing functions unless they are known to be ratified in at least one known standard.
In particular, I am referring to "safe" versions of sprintf, strcpy, strlen, strcat, sscanf, and other string manipulation functions. There's also a secondary issue with fopen(), which uses a dual-purpose return value (with more detailes in a global variable not guarenteed to be thread-safe) instead of splitting the error from the actual pointer.
Unless security issues are addressed in a known standard (and I'm having difficulty confirming which variant functions are ratified), I'm writing Windows-only code without even knowing.
You can press CTRL-ALT-DEL. You can then kill any application(s) pegging the CPU at 100%.
There's also preventative measures you can take to prevent this issue - keeping task manager open at all times (although disable "Always on top"), having a multi-core processor, setting certain "critical" processes such as Explorer to a higher than normal priority, etc.
If it is ridiculous, it does not have to do with the number of monitors.
I haven't seen it myself, but if it's anything like what I saw on that page, the configuration is silly since the monitors are haphazardly strewn about, and are currently running an animation calibrated to the physical position of the monitors. A more traditional (and generally workable one) is to arrange them in either a line or a grid.
I've read that in an article previously. However, the laughs about 3D pertain to using what amounts to prerendered AVI files or video games for developmental/penetration work.
I remember something like this used for other games. There's a few problems, though:
- It has one physical channel.
- It's volume is fixed - you can't adjust it without turning it off.
- It does not work with Windows - attempts to do so will cause the game to hang at best.
- It's slightly more CPU intensive than the earliest of soundcards, especially when mixing MIDI and digitized sound.
An example of sound played through the speaker going wrong would by Silpheed (the original Dos game.) There was an attempt to play digitized speech, but it's hard to make out on modern systems due to the speakers not being sufficient.
It is true. Processors don't live forever, and will eventually die from entropy - hence some retailers and manufacturer's selling extended warranties to cover the period between 1-3 years where it's not likely to have noticable problems.
The rate at which Mhzs are lost does vary - if you run DOS, you can be sure that MHzs would be working at optimum capacity as there's isn't more than 1 task wearing away the ability of the processor.
When the processor malfunctions or finally dies, that means it's lost too many MHzs to contine operating. It may simply stop working, develop the Pentium division bug (or some other interesting event), or some other symptom. Some people compensated by overclocking the chip to recover these MHz - but removing the heat sink caused these MHz to spew out so rapidly that it blew a hole in the mainboard.