While your heart is in the right place...you understimate and insult through your ignorance a very capable sector of our society.
I chose to respond rather than mod you down:
Quit your P.C. whining. Nobody is insulted unless they choose to be insulted, in which case the problem lies with them. As you yourself said, his heart is in the right place, so your response is unnecessary.
You really can have this one of two ways:
1. You can accept that people are ignorant about a disability and choose to appreciate their help, however unnecessary it may be.
2. You can choose to be insulted and become a P.C. weenie, bitching and moaning and berating people who have nothing but good intentions. End result, that person will never again offer their assistance to a person with a disability because you've made them feel ashamed of themselves for doing the right thing.
I suggest number one. It makes you look like less of an ass and doesn't discourage people. Maybe the blind people you know are very capable who don't want any help, but there are others who aren't as capable and actually appreciate the assistance. Don't leave them out in the cold by turning away those who would seek to help them through your P.C. nonsense.
No DVDs were officially released of the original Star Wars. However, Laserdiscs were, with 5.1 audio and I hear they look really great. You can download rips via Bittorrent, check suprnova.org. All three episodes are up there in a single torrent right now.
Article asks, "Does anyone in IT even use these boards to look for a job?"
I don't know, but I'm using it right now to find a seasoned Linux Sysadmin with HPC experience. Great salary, great benefits, and you'd get to play with the fastest Linux based supercomputer in the world (5th fastest overall). Still, we've found no qualified people. Go figure.
That is completely ridiculous. I've slept in a car with the engine running to keep warm. I wasn't drunk, but if I was the most this demonstrates is responsibility: The person knows he is too drunk to drive and decides to sleep it off in the car. What should someone who can't afford a cab do in the middle of winter? Freeze?
These laws actually force more people to drive while drunk. I mean, think about it: If I sleep here for 8 hours, surely some cop is going to come along and give me a DUI. My house is only 15 minutes away, so I'll see if I can make it.
I'm sorry, this is a totally off-topic post, but I love your attitude. You remind me of, well, me. I'm adding you to my friends list. It's not a great feat or anything, but there you have it.
It is simply not possible to design a game that has all sensitive computation being done on the server.
What does a game need to send to the server?
- Character data (who you are, what you're saying) - Positioning data (where you're at) - Action data (spells you're casting, etc) - Item data
The latter is where problem start: People can hack an item to give them whatever power they want. Then the client says "I'm doing 1,000 points of damage with my bare hands" and the server just eats it right up. There's no reason why this data cannot be checked! When I attack, the conversation should be:
Client: Attacking Hog Troll 125421 for 850 points of damage. Server: OK, you're holding no weapons and wearing no armor. I know this because the last time you modified the items on your character, the client sent the data to me. The max damage you can do with your current outfit is 5, so I don't know what you're smoking. Request denied.
There is this thing called NAT... and there are entire apartment and homeowner communities that use it...;) I know. Although, I would submit that most people use NAT for a single family home.
(Personally, I don't have a problem with Tivo monitoring these things. I'm with the others who believe it may eventually help shows that I like stay on the air.)
The perpetual issue with a HTPC is that while, yes, you can migrate a bunch of stuff into a single box, you trade off usability.
Nope. Mine is controlled with an AMX touchpanel tossing info via RS232 to the PC, which is decoded with uICE and send to the appropriate application.
In other words, you just tap "DVD" on the touchpanel, hit "Play", and the DVD app loads and starts playing. uICE can be trained to work with any remote control, so you could even use your existing DVD player's remote to fully operate the software DVD player.
Same goes for any other app on the PC. If you can control it with a keyboard, you can control it with any handheld remote and uICE.
Most Americans are unaware that 10 million of their population live in utter poverty.
BWAHAHAHAahahahaha! "Utter poverty", my ass. Do you know what poverty/really/ looks like in the United States of America? They have a roof over their heads, heat, all the food they need, color television, telephones, private personal transportation and many also have entertainment devices: DVD players, VCRs, video games, etc.
Thank you, social programs. Anyone can get free handouts from the government. Hell, we even provide food, shelter, and free money to illegals who sneak over our borders. Nobody in the United States is in "utter poverty" unless by choice. The "homeless" can walk into a social services center and get hooked up with a better life if they want to.
You want to talk "utter poverty"? Go to The Middle Of Nowhere, Africa. Talk to people who own nothing, who are damn lucky to live in straw huts and barely get enough food to survive. Even the poorest American is filthy stinking rich compared to people living in real, honest to God poverty.
Agreed. The proper answer here is to just walk around the exit line with a smile on your face. When they say, "Sir, I need to check your bag!", smile while you say "No thank you!" and just keep walking.
I talked to guy who pulled this at a Best Buy. The employee actually chased him out into the parking lot and said, "Well, you're not welcome at our store anymore!!" Soon as he got home he called the manager who was quick to clarify that yes, he was indeed welcome in the store.
After saying this, I do admit that I submit to the Costco door nazis. Reason being: I spend a large amount of my paycheck there and many of the employees know me by name. I don't want to screw with nice people who recognize and are friendly with me.
I think the whole idea is that mice can exercise for the better part of a day, and as anyone who has ever owned a rodent would know, the little bastards will run on that stupid wheel all night long without breaking a sweat. This is in contrast to even very fit humans, who just can't be spending 12 hours a day on a treadmill.
Thus, the data really wouldn't be useful, unless we could automatically kick the mice off the wheel after x revolutions and lock it out until the next day. That would simulate the amount of exercise one human could be reasonably expected to accomplish in a day.
I would hope that if we do this, anyone with a spouse and/or children would be denied any chance of participation. I don't mind a single person without a family of his own signing up, but we don't need to be breaking up marriages and leaving children without parents here.
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They now don't allow us to bring our phone-enables cell phones into the plant at all!
They make phone-enabled phones now?! Where can I get one of these high tech gadgets?;)
What the hell? Destroy the entire earth? Are you just trolling, or do you actually believe this?
If the RTG completely exploded, the absolute worst that would happen is a few pieces of slightly radioactive material would fall back to earth. And if a human or another animal came along and picked up this material, the worst that would happen is... nothing. Absol-fucking-lutely nothing. They could take the material home and put it on their mantle as a souvenir and it wouldn't hurt anyone.
Again, this is just ridiculous. So what if he promotes his product? Does that immediately make him a bad person? He's got a company to run, and he's not blatently spamming Slashdot.
To you call for caution with any company where the CEO isn't an active Slashdot contributor?
Not to run down a CEO who reads slashdot... that alone certainly puts him in a tiny minority... but he's far from a regular slashdot contributer...
Right, because as CEO of his own company, he has nothing better to do than contribute to Slashdot on a daily basis.
Hey, he reads, and he answers questions. That's 100 times more effort than most CEOs put in. I give him a big thumbs up. Next jacket I need, this company gets serious consideration.
That's ridiculous. You're telling me they never deducted the amount they paid him from the books? If I pay an employee $1,000 a month for 12 months, my books will show that I have $12k less in my account. If that employee waits the whole year to cash those checks, so what? The money sits in my account but it's "unusable" because it's been deducted in my records.
If this is true, the the company fucked up big time. Someone probably got to the end of the year, went "Oh, look: We have an extra $x in our account that the books don't account for. Let's just take it and use it and not bother to find out where it came from." Completely their fault and their screw-up.
Worked out an installment plan? They're lucky the employee was so accommodating.
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While your heart is in the right place...you understimate and insult through your ignorance a very capable sector of our society.
I chose to respond rather than mod you down:
Quit your P.C. whining. Nobody is insulted unless they choose to be insulted, in which case the problem lies with them. As you yourself said, his heart is in the right place, so your response is unnecessary.
You really can have this one of two ways:
1. You can accept that people are ignorant about a disability and choose to appreciate their help, however unnecessary it may be.
2. You can choose to be insulted and become a P.C. weenie, bitching and moaning and berating people who have nothing but good intentions. End result, that person will never again offer their assistance to a person with a disability because you've made them feel ashamed of themselves for doing the right thing.
I suggest number one. It makes you look like less of an ass and doesn't discourage people. Maybe the blind people you know are very capable who don't want any help, but there are others who aren't as capable and actually appreciate the assistance. Don't leave them out in the cold by turning away those who would seek to help them through your P.C. nonsense.
No DVDs were officially released of the original Star Wars. However, Laserdiscs were, with 5.1 audio and I hear they look really great. You can download rips via Bittorrent, check suprnova.org. All three episodes are up there in a single torrent right now.
Article asks, "Does anyone in IT even use these boards to look for a job?"
I don't know, but I'm using it right now to find a seasoned Linux Sysadmin with HPC experience. Great salary, great benefits, and you'd get to play with the fastest Linux based supercomputer in the world (5th fastest overall). Still, we've found no qualified people. Go figure.
If you want more info...
That is completely ridiculous. I've slept in a car with the engine running to keep warm. I wasn't drunk, but if I was the most this demonstrates is responsibility: The person knows he is too drunk to drive and decides to sleep it off in the car. What should someone who can't afford a cab do in the middle of winter? Freeze?
These laws actually force more people to drive while drunk. I mean, think about it: If I sleep here for 8 hours, surely some cop is going to come along and give me a DUI. My house is only 15 minutes away, so I'll see if I can make it.
Stupid politicians.
If I get pulled over...and am tanked...
Wouldn't it be easier to just, oh, I don't know, not drive when you're drunk?!!
I'm sorry, this is a totally off-topic post, but I love your attitude. You remind me of, well, me. I'm adding you to my friends list. It's not a great feat or anything, but there you have it.
no weapons pylons
Dude, RTFA (auction.. hah!):
Complete with extras including bomb racks, drop tanks and pylons.
Sweet!
It is simply not possible to design a game that has all sensitive computation being done on the server.
What does a game need to send to the server?
- Character data (who you are, what you're saying)
- Positioning data (where you're at)
- Action data (spells you're casting, etc)
- Item data
The latter is where problem start: People can hack an item to give them whatever power they want. Then the client says "I'm doing 1,000 points of damage with my bare hands" and the server just eats it right up. There's no reason why this data cannot be checked! When I attack, the conversation should be:
Client: Attacking Hog Troll 125421 for 850 points of damage.
Server: OK, you're holding no weapons and wearing no armor. I know this because the last time you modified the items on your character, the client sent the data to me. The max damage you can do with your current outfit is 5, so I don't know what you're smoking. Request denied.
There is this thing called NAT... and there are entire apartment and homeowner communities that use it... ;) I know. Although, I would submit that most people use NAT for a single family home.
(Personally, I don't have a problem with Tivo monitoring these things. I'm with the others who believe it may eventually help shows that I like stay on the air.)
Not to mention that a rather large number of people don't use dial-up for updates anyway, but get it over broadband. No ANI there.
There are these things called IP addresses... networked computers have them... they can be easily logged... oh, never mind.
The perpetual issue with a HTPC is that while, yes, you can migrate a bunch of stuff into a single box, you trade off usability.
Nope. Mine is controlled with an AMX touchpanel tossing info via RS232 to the PC, which is decoded with uICE and send to the appropriate application.
In other words, you just tap "DVD" on the touchpanel, hit "Play", and the DVD app loads and starts playing. uICE can be trained to work with any remote control, so you could even use your existing DVD player's remote to fully operate the software DVD player.
Same goes for any other app on the PC. If you can control it with a keyboard, you can control it with any handheld remote and uICE.
Uh, yeah... You do know that you can buy plenty of cases that look very nice and fit in the same space as any other component, right?
Here is the case mentioned in the article, for example.
Most Americans are unaware that 10 million of their population live in utter poverty.
/really/ looks like in the United States of America? They have a roof over their heads, heat, all the food they need, color television, telephones, private personal transportation and many also have entertainment devices: DVD players, VCRs, video games, etc.
BWAHAHAHAahahahaha! "Utter poverty", my ass. Do you know what poverty
Thank you, social programs. Anyone can get free handouts from the government. Hell, we even provide food, shelter, and free money to illegals who sneak over our borders. Nobody in the United States is in "utter poverty" unless by choice. The "homeless" can walk into a social services center and get hooked up with a better life if they want to.
You want to talk "utter poverty"? Go to The Middle Of Nowhere, Africa. Talk to people who own nothing, who are damn lucky to live in straw huts and barely get enough food to survive. Even the poorest American is filthy stinking rich compared to people living in real, honest to God poverty.
Agreed. The proper answer here is to just walk around the exit line with a smile on your face. When they say, "Sir, I need to check your bag!", smile while you say "No thank you!" and just keep walking.
I talked to guy who pulled this at a Best Buy. The employee actually chased him out into the parking lot and said, "Well, you're not welcome at our store anymore!!" Soon as he got home he called the manager who was quick to clarify that yes, he was indeed welcome in the store.
After saying this, I do admit that I submit to the Costco door nazis. Reason being: I spend a large amount of my paycheck there and many of the employees know me by name. I don't want to screw with nice people who recognize and are friendly with me.
I think the whole idea is that mice can exercise for the better part of a day, and as anyone who has ever owned a rodent would know, the little bastards will run on that stupid wheel all night long without breaking a sweat. This is in contrast to even very fit humans, who just can't be spending 12 hours a day on a treadmill.
Thus, the data really wouldn't be useful, unless we could automatically kick the mice off the wheel after x revolutions and lock it out until the next day. That would simulate the amount of exercise one human could be reasonably expected to accomplish in a day.
All told, I do my shuttles.
Gaaahhh! Too much information!!!!
DDR builds only the lower body.
Not if you hang on to a couple of heavy weights and try to keep your balance while playing on heavy...
I thought Lance Bass was our "One way ticket to space" whipping boy?
They and their families
I would hope that if we do this, anyone with a spouse and/or children would be denied any chance of participation. I don't mind a single person without a family of his own signing up, but we don't need to be breaking up marriages and leaving children without parents here.
They now don't allow us to bring our phone-enables cell phones into the plant at all!
;)
They make phone-enabled phones now?! Where can I get one of these high tech gadgets?
In fact, all members of Alpha Complex's society are mutants who belong to secret societies.
The hallmark of every great computer game: Mutants and secret societies. Where do I sign up?
What the hell? Destroy the entire earth? Are you just trolling, or do you actually believe this?
If the RTG completely exploded, the absolute worst that would happen is a few pieces of slightly radioactive material would fall back to earth. And if a human or another animal came along and picked up this material, the worst that would happen is... nothing. Absol-fucking-lutely nothing. They could take the material home and put it on their mantle as a souvenir and it wouldn't hurt anyone.
Again, this is just ridiculous. So what if he promotes his product? Does that immediately make him a bad person? He's got a company to run, and he's not blatently spamming Slashdot.
To you call for caution with any company where the CEO isn't an active Slashdot contributor?
Not to run down a CEO who reads slashdot... that alone certainly puts him in a tiny minority... but he's far from a regular slashdot contributer...
Right, because as CEO of his own company, he has nothing better to do than contribute to Slashdot on a daily basis.
Hey, he reads, and he answers questions. That's 100 times more effort than most CEOs put in. I give him a big thumbs up. Next jacket I need, this company gets serious consideration.
That's ridiculous. You're telling me they never deducted the amount they paid him from the books? If I pay an employee $1,000 a month for 12 months, my books will show that I have $12k less in my account. If that employee waits the whole year to cash those checks, so what? The money sits in my account but it's "unusable" because it's been deducted in my records.
If this is true, the the company fucked up big time. Someone probably got to the end of the year, went "Oh, look: We have an extra $x in our account that the books don't account for. Let's just take it and use it and not bother to find out where it came from." Completely their fault and their screw-up.
Worked out an installment plan? They're lucky the employee was so accommodating.