At least Comcast is willing to provide you service. They won't even run a cable 20 feet to my house, so I have to use dial-up (too far from the CO for DSL).
The big thing about having less ram (aside from the obvious paging issues) is the game uses less sounds. Anything less than 512mb, and it uses (for example) 1 foot step sound rather than 10 different foot step sounds.
I find rubbing alcohol works great for every computer cleaning problem I've run across. Best part is it evaporates pretty quickly without leaving an ugly or conductive residue.
This would have been a great product if it was released first, but I have to wonder if anyone will care now -- You only get one chance to make a first impression.
It's actually 652,000 songs traded, which means he may have only had 2000 individual songs, which he then sent to 326 people. That's a pretty scary prospect because having 2000 songs is not unreasonable (I've got 2100 songs - 10GB), and 326 people is not a lot considering MTU has well over 6,000 students.
Apparently there's about 50,000 of them, though that really doesn't make it any less silly. Personally I love the.movie and.music TLDs. That's got to be the best idea I've ever heard. I really like.sex, but that one's too controversial to ever happen.
I thought the same thing at first, but then I tried POPFile (http://popfile.sourceforge.net/) and have been more than impressed. When I first installed it, it obviously had an error rate of like 50%, but it's been down to 0% consistently for the past 3 weeks or so. It's a lot smarter than most filters in that it doesn't just say, "oh, this message has html, it's spam" In fact, it actually ignores HTML, preferring to look at the content of the message. I was also worried about things like receipts from ordering things online, but supprisingly none of those has been marked as spam. For reference, I get about 30 emails a day.
You can also see exactly what words are in the lists and modify accordingly. You can also set a black-list of words to never be picked up, and you can set up magnets that always classify a message as a certain type (I don't use magnets, it works so well that I don't have to).
This is similar to the way patents work. You come up with a great idea, you have 2 choices:
1) Register a patent. You have to explain exactly what it is and how it works. In exchange, you get full legal rights to it for X years, after which it's fair game.
2) Claim it as a trade secret. You are responsible for keeping it a secret. You don't have to tell anyone how it works, but you don't get any legal background. There is the potential to keep control over for many decades (assuming nobody figures it out) or mere days (asssuming it's really easy to do).
I did not post the original comment, that was xtheunknown.
Still, I think you missed my point, and his. It's not that you should believe what I do, or what he does; but rather that there are no schools of thought that say man is the one that should makes decisions such as "who deserves to die?". They *all* leave it up to a higher power, be it God, Karma, the Tao, etc. I think the confusion was that I called all higher powers "God", where a lot of people prefer to make a distinction, leaving the word "God" to the christians.
I tend to call myself a Taoist, but I still say I believe in God for the very reason I stated above.
Perhaps I should have been more clear with my use of the word 'God'. I tend to use the word to mean more than most people think. I am a Taoist, and I do believe in God, just not God in the normal sense. Buddhists tend to be the same way, correct? I admit my knowlege of Buddhism is fairly limited. Most of it I have gathered from the writings of the Dalai Lama. If I remember correctly, doesn't Buddmism teach that God is kindness, and we should all strive to be more Godly? If that is the case, then I believe my original statement is still true.
*every* religion believes in a god, some in multiple gods (even very non-christian "pagan" religions), and in every religion, it states that man does not determine who lives and dies, god does.
If you can find me a religion that states man decides who lives and who dies, than I will eat my words.
(btw, I don't consider atheism a religon. That's like calling anarchy a form of government)
In "good programs," you have a UI thread that updates the UI and a worker thread that works. That smalltalk compiler obviously wasn't a very good program.
> And before all you anti-state libertarians jump in, remind me - how many millions of Americans have no health insurance because you won't pay for one?
you mean, how many millions of Americans have no health insurance because they refuse to get some?
good luck getting some decent rails in with such a high sensitivity. ever notice how all the top quake players (the ones making thousands of dollars in tourneyments) always have really low sensitivty?
I would just like to say thank you for posting the most useful url I have ever seen on Slashdot. Me and my dad both have Chrysler cars. One more reason to love Chrysler.
then it should probably say, "i read illegal books" since saying "stolen" makes it look like you broke in to barnes & nobles at 3am, grabbed a few books, and ran out with them.
Yeah, people don't have to use Office to do business...
</sarcasm>
We were happily using Star Office/Word Perfect (user's choice since they were compatible), but then we had to switch over to MS Office because everyone we do business uses Word, and for some reason, it doesn't save documents in any format other than those readable by the same version of Word (or higher versions of course).
Most users, especially those of AOL, don't know and/or don't care what browser they're using. All they know is they click the little AOL icon and can start looking at webpages.
> The kid was obviously smart enough to know that he was breaking the rules.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Schools often have an odd perspective as to what hacking is. I once got in trouble for using dos on a windows machine ("everything you need to do you can do in windows, the only reason you have to open dos is to cause trouble"), another time I got in trouble for using telnet (they ran fortress so you couldn't directly get to telnet, but they had IE, so I typed telnet:server.com). I wouldn't call running Dos or Telnet hacking, and never thought I'd get in trouble for doing so. The administration probably refuses to say what the kid did because it was something stupid like that.
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At least Comcast is willing to provide you service. They won't even run a cable 20 feet to my house, so I have to use dial-up (too far from the CO for DSL).
- It's Doom 3 not Doom III or Doom ]I[
- It's id not iD or ID
The big thing about having less ram (aside from the obvious paging issues) is the game uses less sounds. Anything less than 512mb, and it uses (for example) 1 foot step sound rather than 10 different foot step sounds.
I find rubbing alcohol works great for every computer cleaning problem I've run across. Best part is it evaporates pretty quickly without leaving an ugly or conductive residue.
This would have been a great product if it was released first, but I have to wonder if anyone will care now -- You only get one chance to make a first impression.
You only play games 0.2% of your time? You realize that's only like 20 minutes a week right?
From the Article:
"In the Matos case, a judge issued a search warrant allowing the prosecution to harvest the information."
It's actually 652,000 songs traded, which means he may have only had 2000 individual songs, which he then sent to 326 people. That's a pretty scary prospect because having 2000 songs is not unreasonable (I've got 2100 songs - 10GB), and 326 people is not a lot considering MTU has well over 6,000 students.
Apparently there's about 50,000 of them, though that really doesn't make it any less silly. Personally I love the .movie and .music TLDs. That's got to be the best idea I've ever heard. I really like .sex, but that one's too controversial to ever happen.
I thought the same thing at first, but then I tried POPFile (http://popfile.sourceforge.net/) and have been more than impressed. When I first installed it, it obviously had an error rate of like 50%, but it's been down to 0% consistently for the past 3 weeks or so. It's a lot smarter than most filters in that it doesn't just say, "oh, this message has html, it's spam" In fact, it actually ignores HTML, preferring to look at the content of the message. I was also worried about things like receipts from ordering things online, but supprisingly none of those has been marked as spam. For reference, I get about 30 emails a day.
You can also see exactly what words are in the lists and modify accordingly. You can also set a black-list of words to never be picked up, and you can set up magnets that always classify a message as a certain type (I don't use magnets, it works so well that I don't have to).
This is similar to the way patents work. You come up with a great idea, you have 2 choices:
1) Register a patent. You have to explain exactly what it is and how it works. In exchange, you get full legal rights to it for X years, after which it's fair game.
2) Claim it as a trade secret. You are responsible for keeping it a secret. You don't have to tell anyone how it works, but you don't get any legal background. There is the potential to keep control over for many decades (assuming nobody figures it out) or mere days (asssuming it's really easy to do).
I did not post the original comment, that was xtheunknown.
Still, I think you missed my point, and his. It's not that you should believe what I do, or what he does; but rather that there are no schools of thought that say man is the one that should makes decisions such as "who deserves to die?". They *all* leave it up to a higher power, be it God, Karma, the Tao, etc. I think the confusion was that I called all higher powers "God", where a lot of people prefer to make a distinction, leaving the word "God" to the christians.
I tend to call myself a Taoist, but I still say I believe in God for the very reason I stated above.
Perhaps I should have been more clear with my use of the word 'God'. I tend to use the word to mean more than most people think. I am a Taoist, and I do believe in God, just not God in the normal sense. Buddhists tend to be the same way, correct? I admit my knowlege of Buddhism is fairly limited. Most of it I have gathered from the writings of the Dalai Lama. If I remember correctly, doesn't Buddmism teach that God is kindness, and we should all strive to be more Godly? If that is the case, then I believe my original statement is still true.
*every* religion believes in a god, some in multiple gods (even very non-christian "pagan" religions), and in every religion, it states that man does not determine who lives and dies, god does.
If you can find me a religion that states man decides who lives and who dies, than I will eat my words.
(btw, I don't consider atheism a religon. That's like calling anarchy a form of government)
and that's why god invented threads.
In "good programs," you have a UI thread that updates the UI and a worker thread that works. That smalltalk compiler obviously wasn't a very good program.
> And before all you anti-state libertarians jump in, remind me - how many millions of Americans have no health insurance because you won't pay for one?
you mean, how many millions of Americans have no health insurance because they refuse to get some?
> Hmmm... Diamond Rio anyone?
To make it more ironic, Sonic Blue bought Diamond Multimedia a while back. It's now the Sonic Blue Rio.
"With mouse tracking speed up high enough..."
good luck getting some decent rails in with such a high sensitivity. ever notice how all the top quake players (the ones making thousands of dollars in tourneyments) always have really low sensitivty?
I would just like to say thank you for posting the most useful url I have ever seen on Slashdot. Me and my dad both have Chrysler cars. One more reason to love Chrysler.
Actually driving is a privelege, not a right. That's why they can suspend your liscence for just about any reason.
then it should probably say, "i read illegal books" since saying "stolen" makes it look like you broke in to barnes & nobles at 3am, grabbed a few books, and ran out with them.
Yeah, people don't have to use Office to do business...
</sarcasm>
We were happily using Star Office/Word Perfect (user's choice since they were compatible), but then we had to switch over to MS Office because everyone we do business uses Word, and for some reason, it doesn't save documents in any format other than those readable by the same version of Word (or higher versions of course).
Most users, especially those of AOL, don't know and/or don't care what browser they're using. All they know is they click the little AOL icon and can start looking at webpages.
> The kid was obviously smart enough to know that he was breaking the rules.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Schools often have an odd perspective as to what hacking is. I once got in trouble for using dos on a windows machine ("everything you need to do you can do in windows, the only reason you have to open dos is to cause trouble"), another time I got in trouble for using telnet (they ran fortress so you couldn't directly get to telnet, but they had IE, so I typed telnet:server.com). I wouldn't call running Dos or Telnet hacking, and never thought I'd get in trouble for doing so. The administration probably refuses to say what the kid did because it was something stupid like that.
I've always wanted to do this:
(int, int) foo (){
return (1, 2);
}
void bar(){
(a, b) = foo();
}
You could return both a string, and the length of the string at the same time (without having to do the sheisty bar = foo(&returnValue))