See, now this is a good reason why Slash4.0 should allow posters to add dynamic content to their posts. Instead of saying "your post is moderated to a 3"- the author could have said "you post is moderated to a " and his post would be printed out with the current and actual modeation score whenever it was referenced. Whoo hoo!
Just a note, but from what I understand, the email client doesn't actually do anything to system files. The virus is a VBscript attachment- when you run it, it runs just like any other program run on your computer- the email client itself doesn't "do" anything. The virus then does _use_ the email client to spread the virus, but again- it's the VBscript attachment running that doing it, not the email client itself.
I think this might have a lot to do with MySQL- many people reading isn't anywhere near as big a deal as everyone posting, since the way MySQL does table locks significantly slows things down.
IF I understand the question: yes PHP can do persistent connections. Only when running as a ISAPI module though, not when it's used as a CGI/external call (i.e. only when you aren't using a *NIX with Apache or other server with proper ISAPI support)
This only true for really poorly thought out format in the first place. It's like database design- you have to think about how additions and deletions will affect the overall structure, and make it efficient enough so that changes wont cause anomolies in the future. Word formats are so poorly done be they take so much for granted- they are written with a certain set of features in mind with little correct room for exapansion. Good format programing, on the other hand, tries to think of features in the abstract- builds functions that are reuseable and easily combinable- in short making everything modular. This is one fo the ways you can tell a good programer from a lousy one- do they get the job done exactly compentantly (microsoft word) or do they get the job done RIGHT (something like XML, which is very easily extendable).
Unfortunately, your "humans are dark matter" theory has several serious problems. First, humans give off lots of infared radition (making them at least slightly luminous), and can easily be detected by telescopes (albiet only very crappy ones). Of course, if you mean human beings are floating around in space, then they'd probably be dead, meaning they wouldn't give off any radiation at all..... my god maybe you're right after all. The soylent universe! It's full of... people!
Actually, some new theories suggest that at least one of those "Extra" dimensions might not be as curled up as previously thought- and hence CAN be detected by us. Of course, this is just a new theory about a theory, not anything tangible. But if this is true, it means we could actually start testing some of the predictions of superstring theory, which would be quite neat.
Frankly, this whole argument boils down to: if we can't prove the Big Bang theory completely, then we should arbitrarily except this other model here ENTIRELY ON FAITH. Oh, and I'm going to argue something random about sentiency which violates the anthropomorphic principle over and over and over.... There are many plausible theories, each with at least some evidence backing them up, about what this 99% matter is. Probably the neatest is the macroverse theory that's part of superstrings- that most of this mass is actually "leaked" from other dimensions. That may sound wacky, but believe it or not- it's a testable theory (unlike this guys version of steady state). In fact they're going to test it pretty soon...
It's worse than that. As noted at AICN, the DVD versions of the first trilogy (4-6) will be released with MORE "new special footage" as well. So if you didn't already buy the first four releases of the movie- here! pay the entire price of the movie over again for some new footage! But it isn't just that- Lucas is talking about litterally CHANGING the movie itself AGAIN. Sigh. It's not like this isn't a great bussiness idea, but it hardly makes him worthy of anyone's respect as a human being or a filmaker. As far as TPM, the more suspiscious of us believe that they _deliberately_ claimed that the DVD wouldn't be out anywhere in the near future so that everyone (especially video chains) would be more likely to buy more of the VHS version. Now that the initial rush is over, why not release the DVD version as soon as possible and grab some repeat buyers as well as those that boycotted the VHS? It's an important lesson about intellectual property- you don't just get the "movie" in raw and abstract form. You get the movie in whatever decaying format it's stuck in. I hope that someday I'll be able to purchase viewing rights to movie, and when "extras" are released, I'll only have pay for those instead of the whole shebang again. Course, I never bought ANY lucas movies. I just taped em off Tv. So what am I complaining about?
Course, most "naked girl" webcams don't go to the extent that JenniCam did when it had full on sex on camera. THAT's vouyerism, but it's not legally porn unless its shown explicitly sexual purpose- in this case it was just something that happened on camera, along with the rest of jenni's life.
What's important is not what caused this plumment, but that people will think that the MS ruling caused a stock plummet. On the longer run though I think you're right- people are finally waking up to the fact that what is basically a bet that EVERY company now existant will survive and thrive is a very very stupid bet. Especially when so much of the tech industry relies upon things of dubious and efemeral nature- especially the software market (which, among other things, can be made worthless by open source efforts that release equatable programs for "free") and things like.com DNS names, which look like they'll be ubiquitos and rule in the future, but probably wont. What people are really betting on when they bet tech (to the extent that they bet rationally) isn't the company's products or brand itself but the company's ability to retain some of the limited pool of skilled tech employees- the guys and gals producing great ideas that give their companies temporary monopolies.
oh gimme a break- do you see real corporate entities playing April Fools Jokes today? No. This may be sort of stupid, but it implies the exact opposite of corporate control.
Yes. Lots is known about his "collectors" however, even though he refused to tell anyone exactly how they worked (that, at least, can't be blamed on the FDA). What we do know is pretty darn silly. Cloud seeding may have been tied to orgone in his mind, but the reason it works has nothing at all to do with anything other than the chemical properties of clouds and silver idodide (I THINK that's the chemical- i forget- someone help me on this one?)
Sorry, bt Orgone energy DOES deserve to be in that lineup. Wilhelm Reich should never have been attacked by the FDA, who accused him of claiming his orgone machines could cure cancer (he never claimed that), and that they burnt all his books was draconian. But Reich's major claim with orgone was that you could see "orgone" (and a bunch of other weird thingies) energy (actually he described them almost as being little particles, not just energy) everywhere, and no one has ever found it, even with better microscopes than Reich had. He was almost certianly, without any doubt, insane. That doesn't mean he was a total crackpot- his rain making cloud seeding machines DID work, but unlike orgone, everyone today knows how and why (seeding clouds to make them rain is actually really easy).
Yeah, and what kind of game only has 2 levels? Talk about lazy.... From the look of the tech they were playing with (i.e., extremely simple wireframe geometry) I could have written hundreds of levels in the years it took them.
I have a hard time thinking that the equation simply is that I've built up tons of stress, and I release it thru virtual violence. It ain't like that all. I build up tons of stress, but stress isn't like a tea kettle (this is pretty much psychological fact, though almost no one seems to want to believe it)- it doesn't have to be "released" to go away. It can just go away. When I play a FPS game, I can just sort of zone out into another world- it's exciting and fun- i FORGET my stress because I'm doing something better. It may be violent, but I don't get off on the violence. One could almost saw that it's _relaxing_ to play a FPS with pounding music- it's comfortable and reasurring. If it really WAS to take out virtual violence, study after study shows that acting out violence only make you more likely to be violent- it doesn't release anything. Physical Tension DOES work that way (which is why punching a pillow can help)- mental tension DOESN'T. So I do think this whole "we're too civilized and stressed out- we need some outlet for our primal KILL instinct" is crap.
Programers of FPS games must have HATED this episode. There were just SO MANY things totally out of whack to anyone who programs games for a living. The company only had ONE copy of ONE build of the game? Every game company I've ever known keeps hundreds of builds and code caches on several computers. And what was up with the "we've never explored this area before"- as if rooms can simply create themselves in a BSP structure? (not that this was a BSP, but...) I mean the wireframe showed that the "level" was far less geometrically detailed than even most Q3 levels are (with the exception of the models). Are they telling me that they worked this long on building only TWO maps (warehouse/ghost town)? Full of repetitious geometry? Worse, the whole idea that the "code is so complicated we can't figure out what's going on" conciet just doesn't make any sense. Anything like "afterglow" would have to take up lots and lots of code in itself, and it would be obvious that it was there. The actual code that runs quake-like isn't THAT hard to understand, especially the enemy AI. The really complex stuff is in the renderer- game logic is something simple enough that almost anyone can at least get a good grasp of what's what. I admit at the begginging I was VERY confused as to what the game was- i think someone said that they were "going to be selling this in malls"- I spent lots of time figuring out how they could get a gynasium laced with 3d hologram projectors into a tiny cardboard box... The episode sucked. SUCKED.
Man- forget even that criticism- this show wasn't anywhere near sensible enough for it. The show never bothered to explain how: people can walk thru walls (when Mulder dissapeared in the game room)- or how a hologram could cut someone's head off with a broadsword. Worst of all, the action sequences were just awful- boring and repetative. Who the hell would ever play a FPS game where you just stand in one place and shoot a tank that blows up when hit with a machine gun? You're right though- the "body cannot live without the mind" stuff in the Matrix is CRAP. Even a full body simulation of death would NOT cause you to die. Worst of all, the Matrix seems to pretend that you can't jsut unplug someone from the simualtion, as if their "mind" were out there in the computer. Whatever. whatever. whatever.
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See, now this is a good reason why Slash4.0 should allow posters to add dynamic content to their posts. Instead of saying "your post is moderated to a 3"- the author could have said "you post is moderated to a " and his post would be printed out with the current and actual modeation score whenever it was referenced. Whoo hoo!
Don't be silly. Running the virus still could have wreaked havoc on the machine- it just wouldn't have been able to replicate itself.
Just a note, but from what I understand, the email client doesn't actually do anything to system files. The virus is a VBscript attachment- when you run it, it runs just like any other program run on your computer- the email client itself doesn't "do" anything. The virus then does _use_ the email client to spread the virus, but again- it's the VBscript attachment running that doing it, not the email client itself.
Hold on everyone- he's done tests!
I think this might have a lot to do with MySQL- many people reading isn't anywhere near as big a deal as everyone posting, since the way MySQL does table locks significantly slows things down.
IF I understand the question: yes PHP can do persistent connections. Only when running as a ISAPI module though, not when it's used as a CGI/external call (i.e. only when you aren't using a *NIX with Apache or other server with proper ISAPI support)
If you're using MySQL, you're not really quite learning SQL, at least not properly.
This only true for really poorly thought out format in the first place. It's like database design- you have to think about how additions and deletions will affect the overall structure, and make it efficient enough so that changes wont cause anomolies in the future. Word formats are so poorly done be they take so much for granted- they are written with a certain set of features in mind with little correct room for exapansion. Good format programing, on the other hand, tries to think of features in the abstract- builds functions that are reuseable and easily combinable- in short making everything modular. This is one fo the ways you can tell a good programer from a lousy one- do they get the job done exactly compentantly (microsoft word) or do they get the job done RIGHT (something like XML, which is very easily extendable).
Unfortunately, your "humans are dark matter" theory has several serious problems. First, humans give off lots of infared radition (making them at least slightly luminous), and can easily be detected by telescopes (albiet only very crappy ones). Of course, if you mean human beings are floating around in space, then they'd probably be dead, meaning they wouldn't give off any radiation at all..... my god maybe you're right after all. The soylent universe! It's full of... people!
Actually, some new theories suggest that at least one of those "Extra" dimensions might not be as curled up as previously thought- and hence CAN be detected by us. Of course, this is just a new theory about a theory, not anything tangible. But if this is true, it means we could actually start testing some of the predictions of superstring theory, which would be quite neat.
Frankly, this whole argument boils down to: if we can't prove the Big Bang theory completely, then we should arbitrarily except this other model here ENTIRELY ON FAITH. Oh, and I'm going to argue something random about sentiency which violates the anthropomorphic principle over and over and over.... There are many plausible theories, each with at least some evidence backing them up, about what this 99% matter is. Probably the neatest is the macroverse theory that's part of superstrings- that most of this mass is actually "leaked" from other dimensions. That may sound wacky, but believe it or not- it's a testable theory (unlike this guys version of steady state). In fact they're going to test it pretty soon...
XHTML? Some combo of XML and HTML?
It's worse than that. As noted at AICN, the DVD versions of the first trilogy (4-6) will be released with MORE "new special footage" as well. So if you didn't already buy the first four releases of the movie- here! pay the entire price of the movie over again for some new footage! But it isn't just that- Lucas is talking about litterally CHANGING the movie itself AGAIN. Sigh. It's not like this isn't a great bussiness idea, but it hardly makes him worthy of anyone's respect as a human being or a filmaker. As far as TPM, the more suspiscious of us believe that they _deliberately_ claimed that the DVD wouldn't be out anywhere in the near future so that everyone (especially video chains) would be more likely to buy more of the VHS version. Now that the initial rush is over, why not release the DVD version as soon as possible and grab some repeat buyers as well as those that boycotted the VHS? It's an important lesson about intellectual property- you don't just get the "movie" in raw and abstract form. You get the movie in whatever decaying format it's stuck in. I hope that someday I'll be able to purchase viewing rights to movie, and when "extras" are released, I'll only have pay for those instead of the whole shebang again. Course, I never bought ANY lucas movies. I just taped em off Tv. So what am I complaining about?
Course, most "naked girl" webcams don't go to the extent that JenniCam did when it had full on sex on camera. THAT's vouyerism, but it's not legally porn unless its shown explicitly sexual purpose- in this case it was just something that happened on camera, along with the rest of jenni's life.
But they came for your whiny cowardly ass at the end right? Then it's all good baby.
What's important is not what caused this plumment, but that people will think that the MS ruling caused a stock plummet. On the longer run though I think you're right- people are finally waking up to the fact that what is basically a bet that EVERY company now existant will survive and thrive is a very very stupid bet. Especially when so much of the tech industry relies upon things of dubious and efemeral nature- especially the software market (which, among other things, can be made worthless by open source efforts that release equatable programs for "free") and things like .com DNS names, which look like they'll be ubiquitos and rule in the future, but probably wont. What people are really betting on when they bet tech (to the extent that they bet rationally) isn't the company's products or brand itself but the company's ability to retain some of the limited pool of skilled tech employees- the guys and gals producing great ideas that give their companies temporary monopolies.
oh gimme a break- do you see real corporate entities playing April Fools Jokes today? No. This may be sort of stupid, but it implies the exact opposite of corporate control.
Geez- way to miss the obvious sarcasm and accuse someone of not knowing EXACTLY what they are referring to. Try reading a little closer next time.
Yes. Lots is known about his "collectors" however, even though he refused to tell anyone exactly how they worked (that, at least, can't be blamed on the FDA). What we do know is pretty darn silly. Cloud seeding may have been tied to orgone in his mind, but the reason it works has nothing at all to do with anything other than the chemical properties of clouds and silver idodide (I THINK that's the chemical- i forget- someone help me on this one?)
Sorry, bt Orgone energy DOES deserve to be in that lineup. Wilhelm Reich should never have been attacked by the FDA, who accused him of claiming his orgone machines could cure cancer (he never claimed that), and that they burnt all his books was draconian. But Reich's major claim with orgone was that you could see "orgone" (and a bunch of other weird thingies) energy (actually he described them almost as being little particles, not just energy) everywhere, and no one has ever found it, even with better microscopes than Reich had. He was almost certianly, without any doubt, insane. That doesn't mean he was a total crackpot- his rain making cloud seeding machines DID work, but unlike orgone, everyone today knows how and why (seeding clouds to make them rain is actually really easy).
Yeah, and what kind of game only has 2 levels? Talk about lazy.... From the look of the tech they were playing with (i.e., extremely simple wireframe geometry) I could have written hundreds of levels in the years it took them.
so... you're agreeing with me or what? TELL MEEEEEE. I'M GOING TO KILLLL YOU!!!!!
I have a hard time thinking that the equation simply is that I've built up tons of stress, and I release it thru virtual violence. It ain't like that all. I build up tons of stress, but stress isn't like a tea kettle (this is pretty much psychological fact, though almost no one seems to want to believe it)- it doesn't have to be "released" to go away. It can just go away. When I play a FPS game, I can just sort of zone out into another world- it's exciting and fun- i FORGET my stress because I'm doing something better. It may be violent, but I don't get off on the violence. One could almost saw that it's _relaxing_ to play a FPS with pounding music- it's comfortable and reasurring. If it really WAS to take out virtual violence, study after study shows that acting out violence only make you more likely to be violent- it doesn't release anything. Physical Tension DOES work that way (which is why punching a pillow can help)- mental tension DOESN'T. So I do think this whole "we're too civilized and stressed out- we need some outlet for our primal KILL instinct" is crap.
Programers of FPS games must have HATED this episode. There were just SO MANY things totally out of whack to anyone who programs games for a living. The company only had ONE copy of ONE build of the game? Every game company I've ever known keeps hundreds of builds and code caches on several computers. And what was up with the "we've never explored this area before"- as if rooms can simply create themselves in a BSP structure? (not that this was a BSP, but...) I mean the wireframe showed that the "level" was far less geometrically detailed than even most Q3 levels are (with the exception of the models). Are they telling me that they worked this long on building only TWO maps (warehouse/ghost town)? Full of repetitious geometry? Worse, the whole idea that the "code is so complicated we can't figure out what's going on" conciet just doesn't make any sense. Anything like "afterglow" would have to take up lots and lots of code in itself, and it would be obvious that it was there. The actual code that runs quake-like isn't THAT hard to understand, especially the enemy AI. The really complex stuff is in the renderer- game logic is something simple enough that almost anyone can at least get a good grasp of what's what. I admit at the begginging I was VERY confused as to what the game was- i think someone said that they were "going to be selling this in malls"- I spent lots of time figuring out how they could get a gynasium laced with 3d hologram projectors into a tiny cardboard box... The episode sucked. SUCKED.
Man- forget even that criticism- this show wasn't anywhere near sensible enough for it. The show never bothered to explain how: people can walk thru walls (when Mulder dissapeared in the game room)- or how a hologram could cut someone's head off with a broadsword. Worst of all, the action sequences were just awful- boring and repetative. Who the hell would ever play a FPS game where you just stand in one place and shoot a tank that blows up when hit with a machine gun? You're right though- the "body cannot live without the mind" stuff in the Matrix is CRAP. Even a full body simulation of death would NOT cause you to die. Worst of all, the Matrix seems to pretend that you can't jsut unplug someone from the simualtion, as if their "mind" were out there in the computer. Whatever. whatever. whatever.