If this is true, it's sad. Fuck them for using Microsoft, though. Not that they need me to say it: using Windows means getting fucked on a daily basis.
"Currently Uru is only planned to be available on the PC. But we are exploring options to expand to other platforms. Check back with the Uru website for updates regarding additional skus that may become available."
Dear UbiSoft: fuck you.
"Let's screw the platform that made the Myst franchise what it is today!"
No, MD5 is much faster. Yes, it is true that comparing file A to file B is faster with diff. But you are not doing that. You are comparing file A to thousands of other files, then file B to thousands of other files, and so on. So you compute the MD5 of each file exactly once, and then compare those against a known list. Much faster.
Both publishers are in the business of selling their inside scoop on evaluating colleges. Both publishers give you some information for free, in order to tease you into buying their publication for the full story. The finer details aren't really relevant to their obvious goals of selling more publications.
Dude, you are just completely missing the point. I wanted to put up a URL explaining why USN&WR college rankings suck. So I put up one I knew about.
Peterson's motives for that URL are beside the point, but if you DO want to make them the point, you have it backward: Peterson's was not using college rankings BECAUSE they are bad, they didn't say they were bad because they didn't do them. But again, that is entirely beside the point I was making, so if you wish to continue this discussion, do it with someone else.
Bah. I used to work there, so I was aware of the URL. It's not even on the site anymore, I dug it up from the Wayback Machine. And note that the method of ranking the schools was actually given away for free on the web site there... the DATA for ranking the schools on your own is in the books, but was also (at the time, dunno about now) mostly available for free online (programs, SATs, populations, affiliations, etc.).
Troy Brown was the top offensive player on the Patriots, who won the Super Bowl in 2002. He should have been on the cover instead of Marshall Faulk. He set records for receiving, and had some plays on punt return that propelled them into the Super Bowl. He allowed Brady to open up his passing game.
And then, in 2002-2003 season, he got injured, and missed a bunch of games, all without being on the cover of Madden! The curse extends even to players who SHOULD have been on the cover! IT IS THAT POWERFUL.
Troy Brown was the top offensive player on the Patriots, who won the Super Bowl in 2002. He should have been on the cover instead of Marshall Faulk. He set records for receiving, and had some plays on punt return that propelled them into the Super Bowl. He allowed Brady to open up his passing game.
And then, in 2002-2003 season, he got injured, and missed a bunch of games, all without being on the cover of Madden! The curse extends even to players who SHOULD have been on the cover! IT IS THAT POWERFUL.
No, you made it sound like it's going to be thousands of dollars per-person.
No, I used your figure of $300 per person. Please learn to read and do math.
The fact is that it doesn't need to be powered until it is needed.
Right, because when the power goes out, it will power itself through cold fusion! You don't need to keep it powered beforehand! What was I thinking?
If it's just sitting around, not operating, about the only thing that would go wrong is that some belts might break, and it only takes a few minutes to fix that when you need the generator.
Wrong answer. It needs to be checked out regularly to make sure nothing is wrong with it. That is necessarily the case.
At a price tag of hundreds of thousands of dollars for a moderately sized building, millions for a large one.
You are managing to be vague enough that I really can't even rebut. How many people are in a "moderately-sized" or "large" building? For building generators, you can find units that cost as little as a few hundred dollars per person.
Why would you need to rebut anything? You've just conceded the point. A building for 333 - 3333 people (assuming your minimum of $300 per person) would cost "hundreds of thousands of dollars." Above that is "millions." Thanks.
And to just round this out, let's note that there's about 8 million people in New York City. Just to cover HOUSING, that would be a cost of $2.4 billion. That doesn't even include office space.
Over the corse of a few months, you could pay that off without even noticing, and that price will pay for a unit that will be around for a long long time.
Again, are you going to pay for it?
You do not need to check it, have it cleaned, or keep it powered.
Right, because if it has no power, it will work just fine! Oh, you mean you forgot that keeping it powered costs money? Huh. And yeah, if you are going to spend millions on a backup system, you wouldn't want to regularly check it out; that would be just nutty! Because things NEVER go wrong with backup systems! What was I thinking?
Yes, I suppose I could have stated the obvious truth it is not possible to have the sort of backup systems you are talking about, because of the huge costs involved. But you said ANYONE could tell me that is how it should be, so who am I to argue with anyone? I don't live in the fantasy world you live in, where cost is irrelevant and only benefit matters, so I am unqualified to add much to such a conversation as that.
I realize that it's impressive that such a wide area recieved a blackout, but really, is this such a big deal?
Thousands of people trapped in elevators and trains, potential for large-scale looting, economic impact well into the millions? Um, yeah, it's a big deal.
Perhaps they could have worded it "It appears to be an unplanned outage..." but they had to use the "T" word for dramatic effect.
Don't be ridiculous. EVERYONE was wondering if there was a terrorist link, including you. Why tap dance around a question on everyone's mind, when you can address it directly?
No, I mean into Canada. However, if the power grid in question is in Canada, and not in the U.S., then I am mistaken. And it is just one more reason to invade Canada!
Slashdot Mirror
If this is true, it's sad. Fuck them for using Microsoft, though. Not that they need me to say it: using Windows means getting fucked on a daily basis.
From what i've seen, mac's are primarily used by a few types of users..
You haven't seen much. No, really.
Wow, that attitude 'll get you more support.
So I would get zero support instead of zero. What do I lose?
I imagine Ubisoft would say the same thing to you.
And I should care?
And it never would have had the chance for such popularity had it not broken all the records on the Mac, first. No offense, but, um, duh.
A SKU is a product. Really, a SKU is a product number (Stock Keeping Unit), but some people use it as shorthand for the product itself.
"Currently Uru is only planned to be available on the PC. But we are exploring options to expand to other platforms. Check back with the Uru website for updates regarding additional skus that may become available."
Dear UbiSoft: fuck you.
"Let's screw the platform that made the Myst franchise what it is today!"
And NHL 2004 is coming out with online play in 17 days, 19 hours!
No, MD5 is much faster. Yes, it is true that comparing file A to file B is faster with diff. But you are not doing that. You are comparing file A to thousands of other files, then file B to thousands of other files, and so on. So you compute the MD5 of each file exactly once, and then compare those against a known list. Much faster.
Both publishers are in the business of selling their inside scoop on evaluating colleges. Both publishers give you some information for free, in order to tease you into buying their publication for the full story. The finer details aren't really relevant to their obvious goals of selling more publications.
Dude, you are just completely missing the point. I wanted to put up a URL explaining why USN&WR college rankings suck. So I put up one I knew about.
Peterson's motives for that URL are beside the point, but if you DO want to make them the point, you have it backward: Peterson's was not using college rankings BECAUSE they are bad, they didn't say they were bad because they didn't do them. But again, that is entirely beside the point I was making, so if you wish to continue this discussion, do it with someone else.
Bah. I used to work there, so I was aware of the URL. It's not even on the site anymore, I dug it up from the Wayback Machine. And note that the method of ranking the schools was actually given away for free on the web site there ... the DATA for ranking the schools on your own is in the books, but was also (at the time, dunno about now) mostly available for free online (programs, SATs, populations, affiliations, etc.).
They have absolutely no validity. Ignore them. Please.
Yeah, let me know how it goes. :)
Troy Brown was the top offensive player on the Patriots, who won the Super Bowl in 2002. He should have been on the cover instead of Marshall Faulk. He set records for receiving, and had some plays on punt return that propelled them into the Super Bowl. He allowed Brady to open up his passing game.
And then, in 2002-2003 season, he got injured, and missed a bunch of games, all without being on the cover of Madden! The curse extends even to players who SHOULD have been on the cover! IT IS THAT POWERFUL.
Troy Brown was the top offensive player on the Patriots, who won the Super Bowl in 2002. He should have been on the cover instead of Marshall Faulk. He set records for receiving, and had some plays on punt return that propelled them into the Super Bowl. He allowed Brady to open up his passing game.
And then, in 2002-2003 season, he got injured, and missed a bunch of games, all without being on the cover of Madden! The curse extends even to players who SHOULD have been on the cover! IT IS THAT POWERFUL.
No, you made it sound like it's going to be thousands of dollars per-person.
No, I used your figure of $300 per person. Please learn to read and do math.
The fact is that it doesn't need to be powered until it is needed.
Right, because when the power goes out, it will power itself through cold fusion! You don't need to keep it powered beforehand! What was I thinking?
If it's just sitting around, not operating, about the only thing that would go wrong is that some belts might break, and it only takes a few minutes to fix that when you need the generator.
Wrong answer. It needs to be checked out regularly to make sure nothing is wrong with it. That is necessarily the case.
At a price tag of hundreds of thousands of dollars for a moderately sized building, millions for a large one.
You are managing to be vague enough that I really can't even rebut. How many people are in a "moderately-sized" or "large" building? For building generators, you can find units that cost as little as a few hundred dollars per person.
Why would you need to rebut anything? You've just conceded the point. A building for 333 - 3333 people (assuming your minimum of $300 per person) would cost "hundreds of thousands of dollars." Above that is "millions." Thanks.
And to just round this out, let's note that there's about 8 million people in New York City. Just to cover HOUSING, that would be a cost of $2.4 billion. That doesn't even include office space.
Over the corse of a few months, you could pay that off without even noticing, and that price will pay for a unit that will be around for a long long time.
Again, are you going to pay for it?
You do not need to check it, have it cleaned, or keep it powered.
Right, because if it has no power, it will work just fine! Oh, you mean you forgot that keeping it powered costs money? Huh. And yeah, if you are going to spend millions on a backup system, you wouldn't want to regularly check it out; that would be just nutty! Because things NEVER go wrong with backup systems! What was I thinking?
Huge costs?
Yes.
It would be far cheaper (per-person) to buy a single large generator for a building
At a price tag of hundreds of thousands of dollars for a moderately sized building, millions for a large one. Are you going to pay for it?
There is no maintenance cost involved, until the point that you first need to use it
Ridiculous. Of course there are maintenance costs involved. You need to check it regularly, have it cleaned, keep it powered.
If you think this involves incredible ammounts of money, you aren't getting that idea from anything I said.
Then you have no idea what you are talking about, which isn't surprising.
Yes, I suppose I could have stated the obvious truth it is not possible to have the sort of backup systems you are talking about, because of the huge costs involved. But you said ANYONE could tell me that is how it should be, so who am I to argue with anyone? I don't live in the fantasy world you live in, where cost is irrelevant and only benefit matters, so I am unqualified to add much to such a conversation as that.
That's the way things are supposed to be, and just about anyone can tell you that.
Yes, but just about anyone who actually knows what they are talking about will tell you something different.
I realize that it's impressive that such a wide area recieved a blackout, but really, is this such a big deal?
Thousands of people trapped in elevators and trains, potential for large-scale looting, economic impact well into the millions? Um, yeah, it's a big deal.
There are two kinds of people, people who masturbate^Wthink disasters might be caused by terrorism, and liars.
Don't make me question your anonymity!
Perhaps they could have worded it "It appears to be an unplanned outage..." but they had to use the "T" word for dramatic effect.
Don't be ridiculous. EVERYONE was wondering if there was a terrorist link, including you. Why tap dance around a question on everyone's mind, when you can address it directly?
No, I mean into Canada. However, if the power grid in question is in Canada, and not in the U.S., then I am mistaken. And it is just one more reason to invade Canada!
Hey clueless, I never mentioned MSNBC.