Blizzard should implement the possiblity to unlock/lock items for disenchanting and selling.
Locking an item would be instant. Unlocking would take two or three days. They could also add a notice that one or more items have been marked to be unlocked when you login. This will alert you of anyone trying to get to your gear.
This would not solve the problem but it will make sure you dont lose your gear when your account is hacked.
To a standard DNA analysis, they would be indistinguishable. Yet the parents of twins can usually tell them apart by subtle visual cues, and, while their fingerprints are generally similar, they are not identical.
Well if the site gets/.'ed and no one can load it, no one will even see the banners.
I would suggest caching the site befor posting the story. If the site get/.'ed a link could be added to the story where the cached pages is stored. After 8 hours the cache automatically shutdowns.
This way the cached pages are use only if the site goes down. No revenue from banners anyway. And the local cache are only used for 8 hours. Should cover the worst traffic load.
You don't think thats the reason why it takes one and a half year to port the xbox version to PC. If they wanted I am sure they could have released a PC version this summer.
Who do you think buys an XBOX next summer just to play Halo. There will be lots of other better games by then. Isn't Enclave to arrive soon?
Well.. it will never happen but it would be interesting. Think about this headline:
"iD Software has decided that their new game Doom3 will only be release under the Linux operatingsystem. A Linux distibution and instructions on how to uninstall windows will be included in the box"
I think it was an armada of alien pirates that made a stop at our beautifull planetary island.
They filled up their hold with food and water and for the fun of it they kill of 80% of the planets population.
When leaving out solar system they made a stop at the 5th planet which they used for target practice. That one piece of the former planet happend to crash on earth and kill of the rest of the dinosaures were just bad luck.
By the way if you really what to know what happened to the 5th planet you should read a book called
The Gigants Novel. A fantastic piece of scifi and i think superb material for a film!
What about elevators with out cables.
Anyone thought about just using airpreasure.
Think of the elevator shaft as a sealed tube and the elevator as ping pong ball. At the bottom of the shaft you have a device that can fill and empty the elevator shaft of air keeping the ball(elevator) going up and down. I am sure this could be built to fill all safety measures.
The elevator and shaft could be fitted with some kind of magnetic devices on each floor to help stopping the elevator.
When i read the puzzle another problem which give the same answer under a certain condition visualized in my mind.
This is the case:
You have got three diskdrives. You store the same data on each drive. You know that correct sequence always should be 000 or 111.
Given that the possibility of error on every single drive is 50% there is no way to know if 000 or 111 is the correct sequence. Since a drive cannot trust its own data it can only look on the other two drives to decide if its data should be o 0 or a 1. If the other drives have conflicting data e.g 01 or 10 no choice can be made. And conflicting data should turn up in 50% of the cases.
This tells me those 2 cases(000,111) you are not able to get a better ration than 50%.
An intressting thing to do is to extend this problem is letting every disk know its own error ratio( eg. A person knows that he has a 60% chance of getting a blue hat and 40% chance of getting a red hat). How does this effect the equation. Then we can add the parameter time.
Lets repete the problem over and over again and each time lets each disc recalculate it's own error ratio. After some time the system should reach some kind of optimal error correction state for this hardware. Well in the real world we should have a controller that have all this input:
Total checks = 1000
Disk1: data=0, error_ratio =0.05 (errors 50)
Disk2: data=1, error_ratio =0.1 (errors 100)
Disk3: data=0, error_ratio =0.01 (errors 10)
The controller fixes the error on disk 2 and recalculate the error ratio. Well it gets more interesting with more disks.
Sorry this is becoming really of topic, it might even be stupid for what i know:). I have no clue how real error correction work i just keep getting all these wierd ideés. Sorry.
But posting this might give someone else some wierd ideés:).
I have also migrated from Redhat to OpenBSD. All the DNS, Mail, Database servers are now OpenBSD. I still use Redhat for my Servlet, JSP (Tomcat) servers. My biggest wish is that Sun and IBM starts porting JDK for BSD so i can run the latest version on an OpenBSD server.
OpenBSD is the most structured and cleanest of all Linux/BSD distributions i have ever tried. I love it!! It's almost plug and play;)
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some more info here
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fossett2-2008oct02,0,1608495.story
http://www.multimap.com/s/P1FMT19P
I really like this alternative to black holes
Searching some more and Peru's main source of wealth is actually mining and there are lots of polution related to these activities documented.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35846
Isn't arsenic a pretty common biproduct of mining? Don't know if this location have or is a place for mining activities but could be.
Blizzard should implement the possiblity to unlock/lock items for disenchanting and selling.
Locking an item would be instant. Unlocking would take two or three days. They could also add a notice that one or more items have been marked to be unlocked when you login. This will alert you of anyone trying to get to your gear.
This would not solve the problem but it will make sure you dont lose your gear when your account is hacked.
Filip Wolski in the winning team, won the gold medal at the World Computer Science Contest in Mexico last year.
:)
p osts/
Seems like a pretty smart guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687592/
Identical twins
To a standard DNA analysis, they would be indistinguishable. Yet the parents of twins can usually tell them apart by subtle visual cues, and, while their fingerprints are generally similar, they are not identical.
Yes, It's amazes me how many of my earliest memories are formed around pictures in our family picture book.
I got that error when mixing PC100 and PC133 memory. Maby that's your problem to?
DOUBLE PANIC is nothing compared to
;)
MEGA PANIC
ULTRA PANIC
MONSTER PANIC
sorry to much ut2k3
Well if the site gets /.'ed and no one can load it, no one will even see the banners.
/.'ed a link could be added to the story where the cached pages is stored. After 8 hours the cache automatically shutdowns.
I would suggest caching the site befor posting the story. If the site get
This way the cached pages are use only if the site goes down. No revenue from banners anyway. And the local cache are only used for 8 hours.
Should cover the worst traffic load.
You don't think thats the reason why it takes one and a half year to port the xbox version to PC. If they wanted I am sure they could have released a PC version this summer.
Who do you think buys an XBOX next summer just to play Halo. There will be lots of other better games by then. Isn't Enclave to arrive soon?
Well.. it will never happen but it would be interesting. Think about this headline:
"iD Software has decided that their new game Doom3 will only be release under the Linux operatingsystem. A Linux distibution and instructions on how to uninstall windows will be included in the box"
I think it was an armada of alien pirates that made a stop at our beautifull planetary island. They filled up their hold with food and water and for the fun of it they kill of 80% of the planets population.
;)
When leaving out solar system they made a stop at the 5th planet which they used for target practice. That one piece of the former planet happend to crash on earth and kill of the rest of the dinosaures were just bad luck.
By the way if you really what to know what happened to the 5th planet you should read a book called The Gigants Novel. A fantastic piece of scifi and i think superb material for a film!
A must read for any respectable computer nerd
Here you can find more pictures;
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/images/
What about elevators with out cables.
Anyone thought about just using airpreasure.
Think of the elevator shaft as a sealed tube and the elevator as ping pong ball. At the bottom of the shaft you have a device that can fill and empty the elevator shaft of air keeping the ball(elevator) going up and down. I am sure this could be built to fill all safety measures.
The elevator and shaft could be fitted with some kind of magnetic devices on each floor to help stopping the elevator.
When i read the puzzle another problem which give the same answer under a certain condition visualized in my mind.
:). I have no clue how real error correction work i just keep getting all these wierd ideés. Sorry.
:).
This is the case:
You have got three diskdrives. You store the same data on each drive. You know that correct sequence always should be 000 or 111.
Given that the possibility of error on every single drive is 50% there is no way to know if 000 or 111 is the correct sequence. Since a drive cannot trust its own data it can only look on the other two drives to decide if its data should be o 0 or a 1. If the other drives have conflicting data e.g 01 or 10 no choice can be made. And conflicting data should turn up in 50% of the cases.
This tells me those 2 cases(000,111) you are not able to get a better ration than 50%.
An intressting thing to do is to extend this problem is letting every disk know its own error ratio( eg. A person knows that he has a 60% chance of getting a blue hat and 40% chance of getting a red hat). How does this effect the equation. Then we can add the parameter time.
Lets repete the problem over and over again and each time lets each disc recalculate it's own error ratio. After some time the system should reach some kind of optimal error correction state for this hardware. Well in the real world we should have a controller that have all this input:
Total checks = 1000
Disk1: data=0, error_ratio =0.05 (errors 50)
Disk2: data=1, error_ratio =0.1 (errors 100)
Disk3: data=0, error_ratio =0.01 (errors 10)
The controller fixes the error on disk 2 and recalculate the error ratio. Well it gets more interesting with more disks.
Sorry this is becoming really of topic, it might even be stupid for what i know
But posting this might give someone else some wierd ideés
I could not have said it better!!
;)
I have also migrated from Redhat to OpenBSD. All the DNS, Mail, Database servers are now OpenBSD. I still use Redhat for my Servlet, JSP (Tomcat) servers. My biggest wish is that Sun and IBM starts porting JDK for BSD so i can run the latest version on an OpenBSD server.
OpenBSD is the most structured and cleanest of all Linux/BSD distributions i have ever tried. I love it!! It's almost plug and play
Charge a rubidium gastube with photons for some hours and you got yourself a homemade photon bomb!! How much light can the rubidium gas absorb?