I should write an article that asks if Tennis is like P2P file sharing, and the in the article explain that they aren't.
After that, I'll write an article that asks if Apple's new strategy is similair to Abortion Rights. Of course, the answer is no.
The only part of the article that hints that golf may be good for tech discussions is in the first paragraph. He says there that many water-cooler discussions revolve around WoW. The rest of the article says that the opposite situation does not happen.
My guild is all friends from work. It spawned from water cooler conversations. But, we rarely discuss work during "the game". It just doesn't go well. Instead, our meetings at work (de-)generate into discussions about WoW. I'm not sure why it's different than golf, but it just is.
golf is good because you can cheat... or, more importantly, let your boss cheat. it's easy to turn the other way when the vp of sales kicks his titelist back onto the fairway.
in wow, however, such "curtousies" are hard to pull off.
ummm, you haven't done much raiding then. Either that or you've never raided with a foreign guild.
Let's say you're a warrior. A Hammer designed for warriors drops, but the group gives it to Gary, who is a hunter instead of you. The reason? Because.... he's Gary!
You mention that management enjoys having their egos stroked. Once you get to 60, new armor pieces are all about stroking egos. The complex social structure in the game doesn't even start until you reach 60, and people start building their armor sets.
How many of you have played? How many of you know what Barrens chat is? Do you understand the level of inmaturity in the game?
Last night, I observed this in Barrens chat: "What does it mean to be well hung?" Now imagine the same question being repeated every 5 minutes, regardless of where conversation had drifted.
An hour later, the same sex-crazed bimbo was shouting that "Christ wants to save you!" The idiot kept "witnessing" and "evangalizing" just to provoke other players to ranting. Mature players (a scant minority) realized the guy wasn't serious, but most of the 12 year were taking the troll comments hook, line, and sinker.
Face it. The GLBT guild may have been started with good intentions. But the net result of such a guild in an immature world like WoW means more trash talking, filthy language, and sexually explicit behavior.
They are constantly banning particular guild names for different reasons. One guild had a leader with a German name, and the guildname was "SS". Blizzard banned that name because people might think it meant Secret Service. The rule-of-thumb they use better be safe then sorry. They are admittantly over-zealous in banning guild names, and all the regular players understand this.
So, we have a guild name that directly references a type of sexual practice. What do you expect Blizzard to do? You may not think that it's as explicit as a guild named "Orgy mania", or a guild who advertised they were tolerant of beastiality, but where do you draw the line?
Clearly, Blizzard shot themselves in the foot with this. HGBT groups tend to be very militant, even though the would "tolerant" is in their name. Clearly, they made this move to prevent bickering, and promote more monster killing. But, the result has been in the opposite direction. I think it's clear that Blizzard doesn't have a Christian bias (summoning deamons, and stealing souls are among the duties of warlocks), they were just trying to do what was most PC. And, it was taken the wrong way.
For the poker, it turns your IP into a binary, with the most significicant digit first. It throws away the last two bits. Then it takes the 30 bits, and separates them into 5 sets of 6 bits. For each card, the first 2 bits determine suit, and the other for bits determine rank. Ace is 0000. 2 is 0001. 3 is 0010. 4 is 0011. etc.
So, the original IP separated this way looks like:
xx.oo.oo.xx oo.oo.xx.oo oo.xx.oo.oo xx.oo.oo.--
The xx is for suit, oooo is for rank, and -- is thrown out.
why ask questions like this that are answered in the first 2 pages of the about page?
Click a book title and you'll see the page of the book that has your search terms, along with other information about the book and "Buy this Book" links to online bookstores (you can view the entirety of public domain books or, for books under copyright, just a few pages or in some cases, only the title's bibliographic data and brief snippets).
While technical issues were a problem for the first few months of retail service, prompt patching and additional world servers have left the game in excellent shape. -original/. story
One week ago, I created a brand new character (on alliance side, even though I normally play Horde), and picked up mining. I went up to a copper vein, successfully mined it, but then got stuck trying to loot the copper ore. My body was stuck in the crouching position, and I never received what was rightfully mine. So, I logged out, and back in, as I'm so accustumed to doing.
The next vein gave me the same problem. In fact, I had gotten stuck, and had to re-log on 4 of the first 5 veins that I mined with this toon. If I had been a new subscriber, I would have returned the game later that same day, and demanded a refund.
This problem is obviously not just with mining. Sometimes, it can take 7-15 minutes to get an item out of a mail sent to me from another player. Sometimes, it can take 45 minutes to list all one-handed maces on the auction house, even though there's only 23 to list.
What data structuring technique did you use to hash items in the game? (I need to know, so that I stay away from it.) Also, is it too late to fix such a fundamental problem as this?
Lastly, what makes you think that the servers are in "Excellent shape"? Have you forgotten about posts such as this one? I count 397 people who disagree with the developers response (that's 100% of the players who have replied to the initial blue post). Why can you just respond with "ok, we're looking into it" ??
It is in everyone's best interests that IE 7 (or IE 7a) is fully standards compliant. My car can drive on any public road, my CD player plays all CDs, and my television plays all of the channels. The web is the first popular computer standard that is designed to be accessible by all architectures; and it is important that both content and viewer developers prioritize interoperability.
The reason I read the review was to find out if I can use IE7 on my current OS.
He brought up interoperability (by way of example), and then stresses the importance of accessibility by all architectures, yet the article doesn't mention the fact that the last IE made for UNIX still remains to be IE 5.0 for Unix
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VLC is probably the best movie viewer for windows that I've ever seen, just because of the fact that it plays practically everything you can imagine without having to download random codecs here and there (most of the time anyway). Can DivX 6.0 do the same?
Well, I will agree that videolan is probably the best movie viewer for Windows, and I'd add linux in there too:).
But, DivX 6.0 is entirely different then VideoLan. DivX 6.0 is a codec, not a viewer. The company called DivX does make a player also, but that is not what the article is about.
When traditional games need artwork, the illustrators draw it (with curves), and then use fancy software to make sharp polygons out of the curves (process called tesselation). When the add this information to the game database, it's a large list of verticies, which is unweildy to handle.
With the xbox 2*pi, the tesselation will be delayed until runtime. The data will be stored as curves[*], and will not be converted to polygons until it needs to be displayed. This won't affect the GPU, since the tesselation will happen earlier in the pipeline.
[*]Specifically, humans will be stored in separate poses, where a bone structure (and other solids) is saved for each pose. The skin, of course, is a deformable covering that will be added during the tesselation process. An intelligent algorithm will be used to fill in the segments of time between 2 given poses.
Lastly, Microsoft has received a patent for this idea of runtime-tesselation.
My opinion
1) Is this really better? They emphasize the reduction in hours creating the vertex database, because the quantity of information is reduced. Is it really easy for a graphic designer to fit a mathametically curve to a particular line in his drawing? Is it really less information?
2) How did they get a patent for this idea? I'm sure there are lots of 3d games, probably even back to the 90's era, that used a similar princicple of representing objects with curves, and then displaying them at runtime with polygons. The patent is probably not really for that idea, but just for the architectual design (hardware) to handle such software.
Equally motivating would be a crontab that "rm -rf ~/*". Put it on your powerbook, and leave your powerbook at work. That will provide motivation to arrive on time!!!
And, I know what you are thinking. "It's a great plan, and all, but I better at least back everything up, because I can't afford to lose everything". I say that you're weak....(mutters something about 3rd rule of fight club)... If you back it up, then the motivation will be gone.
It's about time for this to be available. I set up my aunt and uncle's machine as dual boot, and although the kids liked linux more, the parents run it now entirely in Windows, partially because they have filtering programs in Windows.
It actually says that about 8% of non-identical twins are chimera twins. That's actually pretty high.
Not Quite right. This linkhas a lot more information (yes, I just copied the link from another post here). Here's the relevant text:
Twin embryos often share a blood supply in the placenta, allowing blood stem cells to pass from one embryo and settle in the bone marrow of the other, seeding a lasting source of blood. As a result, as many as 8% of non-identical twin pairs have chimaeric blood.
This is quite different than the chimeras formed from two different egg/sperm pairs combining into one.
The other interesting thing is frequently a mother will never know that she had twins. One will be naturally aborted, but not before some of the blood from it starts circulating through the placenta. The other child will have those blood cells settle in the bone marrow, and will, for the rest of his life, carry blood from the unknown twin who died.
By making it so easy to copy the files, you would certainly be in danger of contributory infringement. That means, even though it's others that are doing the copying, you're still liable because you knowingly put them online. Contributory infringement is what got Napster.
I think AOL should be sued. Their push to give broadband access to clueless users greatly facilitates copyright infringement.
Who else could be sued?
3Com: they produced the network card needed
Microsoft: They provided the OS needed for running Kazaa. And, they invented the Windows file sharing protocol!
Maxtor: Dwonloading files would be harmless if it wasn't for the availability of cheap disks to store them on.
Apache: what idiots to put the power of web serving in the hands of the masses! Making such great software available for free attracks the wrong types of customers.
How do we determine which of these products are necessary enough for other tasks that the manufacturer is not to blame for the way they are used? If Napster was commonly used for legitimate purposes, would it still be around today?
Nah, odds are you're just going to take your FLAC and then transcode it to[...] Ogg if your one of those wierdos who uses it (I think Ogg is a cool idea but honestly MP3 and AAC now are good enough for me and what I do)
Like dude, FLAC is, like, ogg.
Let me rephrase: FLAC is an ogg format. I don't mind that much if people say ogg instead of vorbis if it's obvious what they mean, but it's aufully confusing when non-weirdos like you try to contrast the FLAC codec to it's own format.
Some quick calculations here (all calculations assume the acceleration was constant).
6400 mph = 33,792,000 ft/hr = 9386.66 ft/sec.
9386.66 ft/sec divided by 6 seconds gives 1564.44 ft/sec/sec.
1G = 32 ft/sec/sec.
The acceleration felt by any passenger would have been 49G. No human could come close to surviving this.
If the "UK has been experimenting with trains using this technology", then I think such trains are unsafe. Maybe they are working on trains based upon rocket technology, or even working on trains based upon ideas from a similair experiment, but saying that they are working on "trains using this technology" makes no sense at all.
This is part of Klipper. Its icon is probably in your system tray as a clipboard with a K on it. Right click on that icon, choose Configure, and uncheck "Popup menu at mouse-cursor position".
Thank you very much. Reading your comment was probably the most productive thing I've done today!
that dumb dialogue box that pops up every time I select a URL.
Is there a way to turn it off? I use phoenix (not a pre-installed browser), and every time I select the address in the "Location" bar, it opens up a dialogue box asking if I want to start up Opera or Konqueror with the URL. And, since there's no way to disable it, it's just as bad as Clippy was!
Does anyone know if KDE3.1 allows this to be turned off? If so, I'll struggle through the dependancy hell to install tonight.
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After that, I'll write an article that asks if Apple's new strategy is similair to Abortion Rights. Of course, the answer is no.
The only part of the article that hints that golf may be good for tech discussions is in the first paragraph. He says there that many water-cooler discussions revolve around WoW. The rest of the article says that the opposite situation does not happen.
My guild is all friends from work. It spawned from water cooler conversations. But, we rarely discuss work during "the game". It just doesn't go well. Instead, our meetings at work (de-)generate into discussions about WoW. I'm not sure why it's different than golf, but it just is.
Let's say you're a warrior. A Hammer designed for warriors drops, but the group gives it to Gary, who is a hunter instead of you. The reason? Because.... he's Gary!
You mention that management enjoys having their egos stroked. Once you get to 60, new armor pieces are all about stroking egos. The complex social structure in the game doesn't even start until you reach 60, and people start building their armor sets.
Last night, I observed this in Barrens chat: "What does it mean to be well hung?" Now imagine the same question being repeated every 5 minutes, regardless of where conversation had drifted.
An hour later, the same sex-crazed bimbo was shouting that "Christ wants to save you!" The idiot kept "witnessing" and "evangalizing" just to provoke other players to ranting. Mature players (a scant minority) realized the guy wasn't serious, but most of the 12 year were taking the troll comments hook, line, and sinker.
Face it. The GLBT guild may have been started with good intentions. But the net result of such a guild in an immature world like WoW means more trash talking, filthy language, and sexually explicit behavior.
They are constantly banning particular guild names for different reasons. One guild had a leader with a German name, and the guildname was "SS". Blizzard banned that name because people might think it meant Secret Service. The rule-of-thumb they use better be safe then sorry. They are admittantly over-zealous in banning guild names, and all the regular players understand this.
So, we have a guild name that directly references a type of sexual practice. What do you expect Blizzard to do? You may not think that it's as explicit as a guild named "Orgy mania", or a guild who advertised they were tolerant of beastiality, but where do you draw the line?
Clearly, Blizzard shot themselves in the foot with this. HGBT groups tend to be very militant, even though the would "tolerant" is in their name. Clearly, they made this move to prevent bickering, and promote more monster killing. But, the result has been in the opposite direction. I think it's clear that Blizzard doesn't have a Christian bias (summoning deamons, and stealing souls are among the duties of warlocks), they were just trying to do what was most PC. And, it was taken the wrong way.
I'm sure that more is possible. Anyone care to try?
72:
http://www.ipspotting.com/?IP=252.251.251.127
http://www.ipspotting.com/?IP=248.97.134.31
For the poker, it turns your IP into a binary, with the most significicant digit first. It throws away the last two bits. Then it takes the 30 bits, and separates them into 5 sets of 6 bits. For each card, the first 2 bits determine suit, and the other for bits determine rank.
Ace is 0000.
2 is 0001.
3 is 0010.
4 is 0011.
etc.
So, the original IP separated this way looks like:
The xx is for suit, oooo is for rank, and -- is thrown out.Royal flush:
http://www.ipspotting.com/?IP=48.176.10.36
The next vein gave me the same problem. In fact, I had gotten stuck, and had to re-log on 4 of the first 5 veins that I mined with this toon. If I had been a new subscriber, I would have returned the game later that same day, and demanded a refund.
This problem is obviously not just with mining. Sometimes, it can take 7-15 minutes to get an item out of a mail sent to me from another player. Sometimes, it can take 45 minutes to list all one-handed maces on the auction house, even though there's only 23 to list.
What data structuring technique did you use to hash items in the game? (I need to know, so that I stay away from it.) Also, is it too late to fix such a fundamental problem as this?
Lastly, what makes you think that the servers are in "Excellent shape"? Have you forgotten about posts such as this one? I count 397 people who disagree with the developers response (that's 100% of the players who have replied to the initial blue post). Why can you just respond with "ok, we're looking into it" ??
I wonder if it was modbombedhref=http://slashdot.org/comments.pl
The reason I read the review was to find out if I can use IE7 on my current OS.
He brought up interoperability (by way of example), and then stresses the importance of accessibility by all architectures, yet the article doesn't mention the fact that the last IE made for UNIX still remains to be IE 5.0 for Unix
But, DivX 6.0 is entirely different then VideoLan. DivX 6.0 is a codec, not a viewer. The company called DivX does make a player also, but that is not what the article is about.
Mike Nelson and one of the bots (Kevin Murphy) have recently set up their new website, where they present:
They announce such new movies as "Batman, the pregnency", and "King KoRn". It's definately worth a look.When traditional games need artwork, the illustrators draw it (with curves), and then use fancy software to make sharp polygons out of the curves (process called tesselation). When the add this information to the game database, it's a large list of verticies, which is unweildy to handle.
With the xbox 2*pi, the tesselation will be delayed until runtime. The data will be stored as curves[*], and will not be converted to polygons until it needs to be displayed. This won't affect the GPU, since the tesselation will happen earlier in the pipeline.
[*]Specifically, humans will be stored in separate poses, where a bone structure (and other solids) is saved for each pose. The skin, of course, is a deformable covering that will be added during the tesselation process. An intelligent algorithm will be used to fill in the segments of time between 2 given poses.
Lastly, Microsoft has received a patent for this idea of runtime-tesselation. My opinion
1) Is this really better? They emphasize the reduction in hours creating the vertex database, because the quantity of information is reduced. Is it really easy for a graphic designer to fit a mathametically curve to a particular line in his drawing? Is it really less information?
2) How did they get a patent for this idea? I'm sure there are lots of 3d games, probably even back to the 90's era, that used a similar princicple of representing objects with curves, and then displaying them at runtime with polygons. The patent is probably not really for that idea, but just for the architectual design (hardware) to handle such software.
- Mind Control
1. Create a sloppy piece of software with bugs and security holes ...
2. Wait until a 19-year kid figures out how to do damage with it
3.
4. Profit!
Equally motivating would be a crontab that "rm -rf ~/*". Put it on your powerbook, and leave your powerbook at work. That will provide motivation to arrive on time!!!
And, I know what you are thinking. "It's a great plan, and all, but I better at least back everything up, because I can't afford to lose everything". I say that you're weak....(mutters something about 3rd rule of fight club)... If you back it up, then the motivation will be gone.
News for turds, stuff that splatters!
It's about time for this to be available. I set up my aunt and uncle's machine as dual boot, and although the kids liked linux more, the parents run it now entirely in Windows, partially because they have filtering programs in Windows.
Oh, wait. Just move on...
Not Quite right. This linkhas a lot more information (yes, I just copied the link from another post here). Here's the relevant text:
Twin embryos often share a blood supply in the placenta, allowing blood stem cells to pass from one embryo and settle in the bone marrow of the other, seeding a lasting source of blood. As a result, as many as 8% of non-identical twin pairs have chimaeric blood.
This is quite different than the chimeras formed from two different egg/sperm pairs combining into one.
The other interesting thing is frequently a mother will never know that she had twins. One will be naturally aborted, but not before some of the blood from it starts circulating through the placenta. The other child will have those blood cells settle in the bone marrow, and will, for the rest of his life, carry blood from the unknown twin who died.
I think AOL should be sued. Their push to give broadband access to clueless users greatly facilitates copyright infringement.
Who else could be sued?
- 3Com: they produced the network card needed
- Microsoft: They provided the OS needed for running Kazaa. And, they invented the Windows file sharing protocol!
- Maxtor: Dwonloading files would be harmless if it wasn't for the availability of cheap disks to store them on.
- Apache: what idiots to put the power of web serving in the hands of the masses! Making such great software available for free attracks the wrong types of customers.
How do we determine which of these products are necessary enough for other tasks that the manufacturer is not to blame for the way they are used? If Napster was commonly used for legitimate purposes, would it still be around today?Like dude, FLAC is, like, ogg.
Let me rephrase:
FLAC is an ogg format. I don't mind that much if people say ogg instead of vorbis if it's obvious what they mean, but it's aufully confusing when non-weirdos like you try to contrast the FLAC codec to it's own format.
You haven't seen SPAM lords until you've been to Vega.
Some quick calculations here (all calculations assume the acceleration was constant).
6400 mph = 33,792,000 ft/hr = 9386.66 ft/sec.
9386.66 ft/sec divided by 6 seconds gives 1564.44 ft/sec/sec.
1G = 32 ft/sec/sec.
The acceleration felt by any passenger would have been 49G. No human could come close to surviving this.
If the "UK has been experimenting with trains using this technology", then I think such trains are unsafe. Maybe they are working on trains based upon rocket technology, or even working on trains based upon ideas from a similair experiment, but saying that they are working on "trains using this technology" makes no sense at all.
Thank you very much. Reading your comment was probably the most productive thing I've done today!
Is there a way to turn it off? I use phoenix (not a pre-installed browser), and every time I select the address in the "Location" bar, it opens up a dialogue box asking if I want to start up Opera or Konqueror with the URL. And, since there's no way to disable it, it's just as bad as Clippy was!
Does anyone know if KDE3.1 allows this to be turned off? If so, I'll struggle through the dependancy hell to install tonight.