The spike room is a breeze. Zonk's just getting old and arthritic. Battling the clones on god mode or challenge of the gods #8, that's something that caught my attention in between writing an email and talking on the phone.
* There is no such thing as "all the requirements." The only thing you can count on in software development is that the requirements will change
Which is why you should design for change, like Parnas always said. Any design methodology that doesn't take change into account is intrinsically flawed.
I'm tired of companies charging me yet again for games that I already own; I mean I already have two copies of Super Mario World, two copies of Super Mario 64, and three fricking copies of The Legend of Zelda and for only 23 more dollars, I can play them all on one console. Hooray for shovelware.
I don't get this argument. If you already own them, why don't you play them on the original console?
Obviously, this service is targetted at people who have broken or lost legacy hardware and/or games and want to play the game again. Or to people who never owned it and always wanted to play it because of [insert reason here].
Don't go ruin the fun for everyone else. Do us a favour: stop bitching and go back to your old (S)NES/N64. That way you don't spend $23 bucks and we don't have to listen to your whining.
To me this just seems like a win-win situation: that is letting third-party by-pass their security measures to install their own.
At best, the third-party solution is better than Microsoft's, people's confidence in running Windows Vista has increased, which may prompt more people to switch from XP.
At worst, the third-party solution is worse than Microsoft's, in which case they can point fingers and re-affirm to the public that Vista has great security. The increased confidence in Microsoft's capability of delivering security solutions may help with sales of Vista as well.
Is the nagging process going to hog as much resources as the wedding and life_after_marriage processes? I think not. Until girlfriend 6.0 comes along it might be a good idea to stick with girlfriend 5.0, if only for the weekly fsck and other cron jobs.
Wonderboy, Rampage, Shinobi III, Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles
Used to be a Sega fan, can you tell? Only problem is they're not really comfort games proper since I haven't played any of them in over 8 years. I don't have a Master System or a Genesis anymore. I'm really hoping some of these titles are going to be offered on the Wii for download.
I'm pretty sure OO programming in Javascript can't be worse than Perl 5's. If thousands of CPAN developers can manage it, why can't people figure out AJAX?
There's no encryption government agencies can't crack given enough time, which in their case is usually significantly less than one would think. It's a false sense of absolute privacy. Probably not worthless effort though; it'll probably prevent your neighbour (and your friendly neighbourhood cracker) from tapping your line.
Overall this is a nice review, and I agree with most of it.
The new worlds are very fun but Atlantica is my worse nightmare of boredom coming true. I really thought they would take advantage of the new right-analogue-stick floating movement and make us use it in a "real" world... but no. Instead we get "finny fun". Thanks for nothing.
Combat for me is hit and miss. I like the drive forms and the limits. The summons are awkward compared to KH1 though. As for fighting, just mashing the X button usually does the trick: I feel like you have less control over battles. In KH1 dodge-roll and glide were tactics I often used to get around enemies and avoid hits. In KH2 there's not much you can do to avoid hits. On the other hand you can bring up some amazing combos if you hit SQUARE at the right time instead of keeping to X. It somewhat compensate for the lack of control over the character.
I'm really sick of hearing opinions about how sci-fi shows should explain everything that happens with rational real-world physics.
It's called science fiction for a reason. The show is good without them explaining how their FDL jump drives works, or what a jump is, why they have gravity inside ships, or why there's sound in space. The show focuses on the story, and not on nitty gritty details of reality. That's what makes it good.
If you're going to correct the poster please read your own sources. It's 3 months in UK, 6 months if in the military or civilian military employee in certain european countries and 5 years almost everywhere in Europe. Here are the *actual* rules:
In-Depth Discussion of Variant Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease and Blood Donation
In some parts of the world, cattle can get an infectious, fatal brain disease called Mad Cow Disease. In these same locations, humans have started to get a new disease called variant Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (vCJD) which is also a fatal brain disease. Scientists believe that vCJD is Mad Cow Disease that has somehow transferred to humans, possibly through the food chain.
There is now evidence from a small number of case reports involving patients and laboratory animal studies that vCJD can be transmitted through transfusion. There is no test for vCJD in humans that could be used to screen blood donors and to protect the blood supply. This means that blood programs must take special precautions to keep vCJD out of the blood supply by avoiding collections from those who have been where this disease is found.
At this time, the American Red Cross donor eligibility rules related to vCJD are as follows:
You are not eligible to donate if:
From January 1, 1980, through December 31, 1996, you spent (visited or lived) a cumulative time of 3 months or more, in the United Kingdom (UK), or
From January 1, 1980, to present, you had a blood transfusion in any country(ies) in the (UK). The UK includes any of the countries listed below.
Channel Islands
England
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar
Isle of Man
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
You were a member of the of the U.S. military, a civilian military employee, or a dependent of a member of the U.S. military who spent a total time of 6 months on or associated with a military base in any of the following areas during the specified time frames
From 1980 through 1990 - Belgium, the Netherlands (Holland), or Germany
From 1980 through 1996 - Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Italy or Greece.
You spent (visited or lived) a cumulative time of 5 years or more from January 1, 1980, to present, in any combination of country(ies) in Europe, including
in the UK from 1980 through 1996 as listed in above
on or associated with military bases as described above, and
in other countries in Europe as listed below:
Albania
Austria
Montenegro (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
Belgium
Bosnia/Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Norway
Poland
Czech Republic
Denmark
Romania
Finland
France
Slova k Republic (Slovakia)
Germany
Greece
Spain
Hungary
Irela nd (Republic of)
Italy
Kosovo (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Netherlands (Holland)
Portugal
Serbia (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
Slovenia
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Yugoslavia (Federal Republic includes Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia)
Could it be "the sad reality" because Windows up until XP (ignoring 2000 and NT) there was no user-priviledges differences?
Maybe MS should start educating the population and force them to create passworded least-priviledged accounts and choose a password for the administrator account when installing or booting an OEM for the first time. Maybe also the administrator should be blocked out of surfing the web and playing games so that people just don't use the admin account for everything.
From the way I understand the question it seems nobody understood what the poster meant.
It seems to me like the guys is looking at some kind of guide to writing drivers for the different *nix flavours. Telling him to write open drivers with open documentation and specs isn't helping him.
As far as Linux is concerned, a good place to start is here. *BSDs probably have a similar way of working: almost all the communication between the kernel/driver developers is done by email on mailing lists. IRC channels are also used.
Many of the free unix flavours (linux/bsd/etc.) share open source drivers; ethernet card drivers is a good example of that. The interface with the kernel may be slightly different across platform but the low-level hardware access remains fairly similar.
My best advice would be to look at existing drivers. They are all open source so you can look at the source code all you want.
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There are no girls on Slashdot. Nice try Johnny.
The spike room is a breeze. Zonk's just getting old and arthritic. Battling the clones on god mode or challenge of the gods #8, that's something that caught my attention in between writing an email and talking on the phone.
Which is why you should design for change, like Parnas always said. Any design methodology that doesn't take change into account is intrinsically flawed.
End of 2009, in terms of number of consoles sold:
Like the article, smells like weeners. But there is significantly more $ spent on PS3's anyways...
You're right,
I can't believe it's not bacon!
I don't get this argument. If you already own them, why don't you play them on the original console?
Obviously, this service is targetted at people who have broken or lost legacy hardware and/or games and want to play the game again. Or to people who never owned it and always wanted to play it because of [insert reason here].
Don't go ruin the fun for everyone else. Do us a favour: stop bitching and go back to your old (S)NES/N64. That way you don't spend $23 bucks and we don't have to listen to your whining.
To me this just seems like a win-win situation: that is letting third-party by-pass their security measures to install their own.
At best, the third-party solution is better than Microsoft's, people's confidence in running Windows Vista has increased, which may prompt more people to switch from XP.
At worst, the third-party solution is worse than Microsoft's, in which case they can point fingers and re-affirm to the public that Vista has great security. The increased confidence in Microsoft's capability of delivering security solutions may help with sales of Vista as well.
Is the nagging process going to hog as much resources as the wedding and life_after_marriage processes? I think not. Until girlfriend 6.0 comes along it might be a good idea to stick with girlfriend 5.0, if only for the weekly fsck and other cron jobs.
Wonderboy, Rampage, Shinobi III, Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles
Used to be a Sega fan, can you tell? Only problem is they're not really comfort games proper since I haven't played any of them in over 8 years. I don't have a Master System or a Genesis anymore. I'm really hoping some of these titles are going to be offered on the Wii for download.
I'm pretty sure OO programming in Javascript can't be worse than Perl 5's. If thousands of CPAN developers can manage it, why can't people figure out AJAX?
There's no encryption government agencies can't crack given enough time, which in their case is usually significantly less than one would think. It's a false sense of absolute privacy. Probably not worthless effort though; it'll probably prevent your neighbour (and your friendly neighbourhood cracker) from tapping your line.
Overall this is a nice review, and I agree with most of it.
The new worlds are very fun but Atlantica is my worse nightmare of boredom coming true. I really thought they would take advantage of the new right-analogue-stick floating movement and make us use it in a "real" world... but no. Instead we get "finny fun". Thanks for nothing.
Combat for me is hit and miss. I like the drive forms and the limits. The summons are awkward compared to KH1 though. As for fighting, just mashing the X button usually does the trick: I feel like you have less control over battles. In KH1 dodge-roll and glide were tactics I often used to get around enemies and avoid hits. In KH2 there's not much you can do to avoid hits. On the other hand you can bring up some amazing combos if you hit SQUARE at the right time instead of keeping to X. It somewhat compensate for the lack of control over the character.
Overall I would say it's a great game.
I'm really sick of hearing opinions about how sci-fi shows should explain everything that happens with rational real-world physics.
It's called science fiction for a reason. The show is good without them explaining how their FDL jump drives works, or what a jump is, why they have gravity inside ships, or why there's sound in space. The show focuses on the story, and not on nitty gritty details of reality. That's what makes it good.
I think they're going to have to use one of their gaming rig as a replacement server because whatever they had before must be fried by now.
Dude... you don't get ./ do you. Let me explain it for you:
...
1 - Load gun
2 - Point gun at foot
3 -
4 - Profit!
In-Depth Discussion of Variant Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease and Blood Donation
In some parts of the world, cattle can get an infectious, fatal brain disease called Mad Cow Disease. In these same locations, humans have started to get a new disease called variant Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (vCJD) which is also a fatal brain disease. Scientists believe that vCJD is Mad Cow Disease that has somehow transferred to humans, possibly through the food chain.
There is now evidence from a small number of case reports involving patients and laboratory animal studies that vCJD can be transmitted through transfusion. There is no test for vCJD in humans that could be used to screen blood donors and to protect the blood supply. This means that blood programs must take special precautions to keep vCJD out of the blood supply by avoiding collections from those who have been where this disease is found.
At this time, the American Red Cross donor eligibility rules related to vCJD are as follows:
You are not eligible to donate if:
From January 1, 1980, through December 31, 1996, you spent (visited or lived) a cumulative time of 3 months or more, in the United Kingdom (UK), or
From January 1, 1980, to present, you had a blood transfusion in any country(ies) in the (UK). The UK includes any of the countries listed below.
- Channel Islands
- England
- Falkland Islands
- Gibraltar
- Isle of Man
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
You were a member of the of the U.S. military, a civilian military employee, or a dependent of a member of the U.S. military who spent a total time of 6 months on or associated with a military base in any of the following areas during the specified time frames- From 1980 through 1990 - Belgium, the Netherlands (Holland), or Germany
- From 1980 through 1996 - Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Italy or Greece.
You spent (visited or lived) a cumulative time of 5 years or more from January 1, 1980, to present, in any combination of country(ies) in Europe, including"Floppy nothing. In my day we etched our data into pottery."
Poor Taco. He must feel so overwhelmed by the technology of slash. Maybe that's why there are so many dups.
Could it be "the sad reality" because Windows up until XP (ignoring 2000 and NT) there was no user-priviledges differences?
Maybe MS should start educating the population and force them to create passworded least-priviledged accounts and choose a password for the administrator account when installing or booting an OEM for the first time. Maybe also the administrator should be blocked out of surfing the web and playing games so that people just don't use the admin account for everything.
emacs lags on my 486. I use ed, the standard editor.
Has someone with a clue about DBMS's actually tried the beta? Is it slower than 3.x or 4.x? Are these features good? Well implemented? Practical?
I would really like to see these questions answered.
I have no clue about anything.
There are several posts talking about how using GCJ and GIJ is still not a good enough option.
What about jikes and kaffe then? Are they incomplete too?
they want their employees back.
From the way I understand the question it seems nobody understood what the poster meant.
It seems to me like the guys is looking at some kind of guide to writing drivers for the different *nix flavours. Telling him to write open drivers with open documentation and specs isn't helping him.
As far as Linux is concerned, a good place to start is here. *BSDs probably have a similar way of working: almost all the communication between the kernel/driver developers is done by email on mailing lists. IRC channels are also used.
Many of the free unix flavours (linux/bsd/etc.) share open source drivers; ethernet card drivers is a good example of that. The interface with the kernel may be slightly different across platform but the low-level hardware access remains fairly similar.
My best advice would be to look at existing drivers. They are all open source so you can look at the source code all you want.