No, it's serious. I'm very sensitive to slowness in games for some reason. (So things like underwater levels tend to piss me off, just not to the extent EVERY MOTION in Ocarina does)
I've played most of the other zeldas, and I've bought Link to the Past at least four times. I'm a huge Zelda fan, and I was playing Twilight Princess within 3 hours of its release...
But I can't get past the first area in Ocarina of Time. I've tried, many times. I've seen the game played through (My brother loves it + Speedruns), so I know how good it is and how great a game it is, but I cannot get over the framerate in the first scene.
I don't know how Nintendo dropped the ball on this one. A little slowdown is acceptable during a large boss battle where there's hundreds of explosions and enemies going every which way, but in THE FIRST ZONE? A zone with, let's count them, ZERO enemies? (One if you use the starfox cheat, but that's it) It just tells me it's only going to get worse from there.
But all this "Best Game Ever!" publicity is great, really. Maybe it'll inspire Nintendo to remake the game, on the Wii...
It's a last-ditch measure because if this law doesn't get changed they're going to go silent again on July 15th. And July 16th. And July 17th... And July 18th and so on until the law is changed, simply because it will no longer be possible to run an internet radio station without losing massive amounts of money. (And this is an industry that has enough money problems as it is, it's just going to kill off net radio)
Windows has a URL handler system for a reason. The idea being that a browser sees a url like foobar://blah, knows it can't handle foobar:// links, so it asks windows if it can. Windows has a list of scheme to program mappings, and if the browser see another program can handle that URL it'll pass it off to that program. This is useful for programs like windows media player (with those mms:// links) or aim, or setting up a web-based lobby for a game (the game can register gamename:// and you can use your browser to launch the game)
The problem is that this makes the browser a way to exploit security holes in those other programs. And for some of them it's not even really a hole, it's just a complete lack of security. (Windows exports the shell:// handler, which open programs)
So you either have to turn off URL handlers ("why doesn't windows media player work in your crappy browser? I'm going back to IE") or try to figure out which handlers are secure and whitelist/blacklist handlers. (which is what IE and firefox do)
Exactly. Lab mice have been inbred to near-clone status. Which means once you've done an experiment on your mice, you can call up another lab five states over and tell them what you did, and they'll be able to reproduce it. Humans are a bit more variable.
Don't be so sure that avoiding "shady" sites will protect you. I run a few perfectly un-shady sites (an imageboard, a specialized search engine, and a funny images repository), but recently some users started complaining about the popups that were trying to install spyware. I don't have any popups on my sites! (I don't even use target="_new"!) but still users were getting spyware popups. The popups were so evil that the only way to avoid getting redirected to the spyware site was to disable javascript (Even in firefox. in IE it just installed the spyware automatically, but firefox at least you had to click "download". Still, it made my site unusable)
I went into my advertisers control panel, checked for anything remotely shady. Nothing. I tried turning off all third party advertisers (like doubleclick), figuring maybe one of them was redirecting users. Nope, some users still got popups. Worst of all, I NEVER got the popup, no matter what browser I was using.
It turns out it's cause I'm an American. The advertiser had specified that the advert with the embedded redirect only show up in every country except America. That stopped me from seeing it on the site, but what about the control panel? I could see all the ads there, even the ones not targeted at my location. Here's what they did in actionscript: (pseudocode)
if getTimeZone() in EUROPE_TIMEZONES:
redirectToSpyware() else:
displayHarmlessAdvert()
So even when I checked the ads in the control panel they looked fine.
My point is, don't think there's a scary corner of the internet where all the spyware/exploits hang out. The bastards making this crap know that most people don't go to those kinds of places, so they'll do anything they can to sneak their crap onto legitimate sites. (MySpace got hit with one of these a few months back, I think)
This question gets brought up in every single "We found water on X!" discussion. The reason we're looking so hard to find earthlike planets is NOT that we think they're necessary for life. It's that WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO FIND OTHER KINDS OF LIFE. If there is life that lives outside our oxygen+water environment, we haven't seen it. So we can't look at planet X and planet Y and say "Ahh, planet X is a lifeless rock, but planet Y is just right for methane/silicon life!". We've never seen any methane/silicon life. Until we do, we're probably never going to know if that kind of life is possible.
But we have seen plenty of oxygen/water/reasonable temperature/reasonable pressure life. So we know the chances of life being able to exist in such an environment are... exactly 100%! (There's precedent)
So we're happy about finding similar planets. We know Earthlike planets can support life. We don't know if non-Earthlike planets can. Logically we should pay more attention to the worlds which we know can support life than the ones that may (but we just don't know (and besides, we could never tell from this distance, short of them beaming radio transmissions at us))
I wasn't defending Apple, I was just correcting the poster about what Apple was upset about. I think it's silly that Apply can sue for that, especially since I run a site containing a few hundred iPod parody ads:)
Apple is upset because of the ADS, not because of the name or the product. She's using the colored background + black silhouettes style of their iPod ads.
Read the parent post, this is sarcasm. (Kinda hard to tell since the parent post got hidden by moderating it to 0) I personally would never buy a DVD player WITHOUT subtitles, as I can't watch movies without them.:)
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this [twiddles fingers]. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, SCO?
But what if the simple bloodtest comes out and all those people claiming to have autism/aspergers actually DO?
Do you go and cure your entire technology sector? Get a country with a whole lot more social people, but suddenly no one can hook up a modem?
Again, not saying this is what I think will happen, but it's an interesting idea. Could there be a crisis of no ubergeeks, due to cheap medication to fix them?
Garak: I've given you all the answers I'm capable of. Bashir: You've given me answers all right, but they were all different. Garak: My dear doctor, they're all true. Bashir: Even the lies? Garak: Especially the lies.
Valve can't TURN OFF my physical copy, either. Because they think I was cheating, because they went out of business, or because they've written Half-Life 3 and all those damn copies of HL2 still out there are really eating into their business...
I will never buy a product* where the author gets to decide if I can use it. This is DRM times infinity, it's the most retarded idea the software industry has ever come up with.
*Within reason. Some products actually do require remote servers, and access to those remote servers is part of the fee you are paying. As opposed to HL2, which requires remote servers cause you're all a bunch of lousy pirates who can't be trusted to pay for a damn game. I bought four different products based on Half Life 1 (The original game, HL:Opposing Force, HL:Blue Shift, and Gunman Chronicles), but there's no way they'll get any money from me for HL2.
No, if I ever get HL2 it will be off BitTorrent. Hey, if you're going to treat me like a pirate... Plus I'll be getting a better product! No internet connection required, no stupid remote deactivation.
(I do expect to be downmodded into oblivion for this, but for fucks sake... It's a great game, but the DRM on it is the strongest of any product I know of.)
Yes... Did you read the page you linked to? Zombie Processes are not a bad thing. They're not memory leaks. If you have a lot of zombie processes hanging around it's because of a bug in a program. It's pretty unlikely that it's a kernel bug.
1. Who's to say it will ever come to light? 2. Who's to say that by the time it comes to light, the advertising campaign will still be going? "Hey, it turns out that zune blog from three years back was fake!" "What's a zune?" 3. Who's to say that if it does get out, anyone will know? A dozen blogs decrying your astroturfing means nothing if the people you're advertising to are reading YOUR blog, not THEIRS.
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A Cartesian join gives you every possible combination of two (or more) tables of information you give it. It's very easy to do in SQL (the primary database query language) because of how the syntax works, and it's very rarely what you actually want.
An example would be if you have an address book, listing about 50 people you know, with names and addresses (But no phone numbers) You also have a phone book, with names and phone numbers of everyone in your city. Let's say 1 million people.
Let's say you've got an address ("12 Pear Tree"), and you want a phone number. To find this information you've got to use the address book to locate the name of the person living at that address, then look up that name in the phone book. In SQL, you'd do that search like this:
select phone_number from phone_book,address_book where address_book.address="12 Pear Tree" and phone_book.name=address_book.name
It's saying "Find every address entry where the address is "12 pear tree", and out of all the possible combinations of address book entry and phone book entry, just give me the ones where the names match." That'll give you the result you want. However, it's that last bit of SQL that's easy to forget, the "phone_book.name=address_book.name" bit. Without it, you're doing a Cartesian join. The database says "Ahh, they must want every combination of these two tables". So instead of getting one result, you'll get one million results. The address has to be "12 pear tree", but the database is free to match that up with EVERY entry in the phone book, and it will.
That's what the grandparent post was referring to. SQL just makes that mistake very easy to make, and you'll end up with a GIANT pile of results flying at you if you make it.
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No, it's serious. I'm very sensitive to slowness in games for some reason.
(So things like underwater levels tend to piss me off, just not to the extent EVERY MOTION in Ocarina does)
I've played most of the other zeldas, and I've bought Link to the Past at least four times. I'm a huge Zelda fan, and I was playing Twilight Princess within 3 hours of its release...
But I can't get past the first area in Ocarina of Time. I've tried, many times. I've seen the game played through (My brother loves it + Speedruns), so I know how good it is and how great a game it is, but I cannot get over the framerate in the first scene.
I don't know how Nintendo dropped the ball on this one. A little slowdown is acceptable during a large boss battle where there's hundreds of explosions and enemies going every which way, but in THE FIRST ZONE? A zone with, let's count them, ZERO enemies? (One if you use the starfox cheat, but that's it)
It just tells me it's only going to get worse from there.
But all this "Best Game Ever!" publicity is great, really. Maybe it'll inspire Nintendo to remake the game, on the Wii...
It's a last-ditch measure because if this law doesn't get changed they're going to go silent again on July 15th.
And July 16th.
And July 17th...
And July 18th and so on until the law is changed, simply because it will no longer be possible to run an internet radio station without losing massive amounts of money.
(And this is an industry that has enough money problems as it is, it's just going to kill off net radio)
Do those same people have a similar problem with their network being saturated by music, movies, and game downloads?
No, because they're actually complaining that all the botnets are slowing down their music, movies, and game downloads.
Windows has a URL handler system for a reason. The idea being that a browser sees a url like foobar://blah, knows it can't handle foobar:// links, so it asks windows if it can. Windows has a list of scheme to program mappings, and if the browser see another program can handle that URL it'll pass it off to that program.
This is useful for programs like windows media player (with those mms:// links) or aim, or setting up a web-based lobby for a game (the game can register gamename:// and you can use your browser to launch the game)
The problem is that this makes the browser a way to exploit security holes in those other programs. And for some of them it's not even really a hole, it's just a complete lack of security.
(Windows exports the shell:// handler, which open programs)
So you either have to turn off URL handlers ("why doesn't windows media player work in your crappy browser? I'm going back to IE") or try to figure out which handlers are secure and whitelist/blacklist handlers. (which is what IE and firefox do)
Their admin costs are ONE BILLION DOLLARS. Didn't you read the headline? :)
Exactly. Lab mice have been inbred to near-clone status.
Which means once you've done an experiment on your mice, you can call up another lab five states over and tell them what you did, and they'll be able to reproduce it.
Humans are a bit more variable.
Don't be silly. I'm an anime geek.
World = America + Europe + Japan.
I run a few perfectly un-shady sites (an imageboard, a specialized search engine, and a funny images repository), but recently some users started complaining about the popups that were trying to install spyware.
I don't have any popups on my sites! (I don't even use target="_new"!) but still users were getting spyware popups. The popups were so evil that the only way to avoid getting redirected to the spyware site was to disable javascript (Even in firefox. in IE it just installed the spyware automatically, but firefox at least you had to click "download". Still, it made my site unusable)
I went into my advertisers control panel, checked for anything remotely shady. Nothing. I tried turning off all third party advertisers (like doubleclick), figuring maybe one of them was redirecting users. Nope, some users still got popups. Worst of all, I NEVER got the popup, no matter what browser I was using.
It turns out it's cause I'm an American. The advertiser had specified that the advert with the embedded redirect only show up in every country except America. That stopped me from seeing it on the site, but what about the control panel? I could see all the ads there, even the ones not targeted at my location. Here's what they did in actionscript: (pseudocode)
So even when I checked the ads in the control panel they looked fine.
My point is, don't think there's a scary corner of the internet where all the spyware/exploits hang out. The bastards making this crap know that most people don't go to those kinds of places, so they'll do anything they can to sneak their crap onto legitimate sites. (MySpace got hit with one of these a few months back, I think)
This question gets brought up in every single "We found water on X!" discussion.
The reason we're looking so hard to find earthlike planets is NOT that we think they're necessary for life.
It's that WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO FIND OTHER KINDS OF LIFE. If there is life that lives outside our oxygen+water environment, we haven't seen it. So we can't look at planet X and planet Y and say "Ahh, planet X is a lifeless rock, but planet Y is just right for methane/silicon life!". We've never seen any methane/silicon life. Until we do, we're probably never going to know if that kind of life is possible.
But we have seen plenty of oxygen/water/reasonable temperature/reasonable pressure life. So we know the chances of life being able to exist in such an environment are... exactly 100%! (There's precedent)
So we're happy about finding similar planets. We know Earthlike planets can support life. We don't know if non-Earthlike planets can. Logically we should pay more attention to the worlds which we know can support life than the ones that may (but we just don't know (and besides, we could never tell from this distance, short of them beaming radio transmissions at us))
I wasn't defending Apple, I was just correcting the poster about what Apple was upset about. :)
I think it's silly that Apply can sue for that, especially since I run a site containing a few hundred iPod parody ads
Apple is upset because of the ADS, not because of the name or the product.
She's using the colored background + black silhouettes style of their iPod ads.
Read the parent post, this is sarcasm. (Kinda hard to tell since the parent post got hidden by moderating it to 0) :)
I personally would never buy a DVD player WITHOUT subtitles, as I can't watch movies without them.
Apparently moderating Insightful instead of Funny is common, since Funny doesn't give a karma bonus anymore.
It's horribly horribly silly.
Me too. I hate it when I buy hardware with too many features.
I still haven't bought a DVD player, because all the models I've seen include subtitles. WTF? I'm not deaf, why should I pay extra for subtitles!
I actually found out about that through wikipedia (checking on one of my edits) :(
But what if the simple bloodtest comes out and all those people claiming to have autism/aspergers actually DO?
Do you go and cure your entire technology sector?
Get a country with a whole lot more social people, but suddenly no one can hook up a modem?
Again, not saying this is what I think will happen, but it's an interesting idea. Could there be a crisis of no ubergeeks, due to cheap medication to fix them?
Valve can't TURN OFF my physical copy, either.
Because they think I was cheating, because they went out of business, or because they've written Half-Life 3 and all those damn copies of HL2 still out there are really eating into their business...
I will never buy a product* where the author gets to decide if I can use it. This is DRM times infinity, it's the most retarded idea the software industry has ever come up with.
*Within reason. Some products actually do require remote servers, and access to those remote servers is part of the fee you are paying. As opposed to HL2, which requires remote servers cause you're all a bunch of lousy pirates who can't be trusted to pay for a damn game. I bought four different products based on Half Life 1 (The original game, HL:Opposing Force, HL:Blue Shift, and Gunman Chronicles), but there's no way they'll get any money from me for HL2.
No, if I ever get HL2 it will be off BitTorrent. Hey, if you're going to treat me like a pirate... Plus I'll be getting a better product! No internet connection required, no stupid remote deactivation.
(I do expect to be downmodded into oblivion for this, but for fucks sake... It's a great game, but the DRM on it is the strongest of any product I know of.)
My experience* is that on campus you don't even need the white headphones, students get stoned no matter what :)
*From observing other students, of course
Yes... Did you read the page you linked to?
Zombie Processes are not a bad thing. They're not memory leaks.
If you have a lot of zombie processes hanging around it's because of a bug in a program. It's pretty unlikely that it's a kernel bug.
1. Who's to say it will ever come to light?
2. Who's to say that by the time it comes to light, the advertising campaign will still be going? "Hey, it turns out that zune blog from three years back was fake!" "What's a zune?"
3. Who's to say that if it does get out, anyone will know? A dozen blogs decrying your astroturfing means nothing if the people you're advertising to are reading YOUR blog, not THEIRS.
Close. It's actually Dragonforce
An example would be if you have an address book, listing about 50 people you know, with names and addresses (But no phone numbers)
You also have a phone book, with names and phone numbers of everyone in your city. Let's say 1 million people.
Let's say you've got an address ("12 Pear Tree"), and you want a phone number. To find this information you've got to use the address book to locate the name of the person living at that address, then look up that name in the phone book.
In SQL, you'd do that search like this: It's saying "Find every address entry where the address is "12 pear tree", and out of all the possible combinations of address book entry and phone book entry, just give me the ones where the names match."
That'll give you the result you want. However, it's that last bit of SQL that's easy to forget, the "phone_book.name=address_book.name" bit. Without it, you're doing a Cartesian join. The database says "Ahh, they must want every combination of these two tables".
So instead of getting one result, you'll get one million results. The address has to be "12 pear tree", but the database is free to match that up with EVERY entry in the phone book, and it will.
That's what the grandparent post was referring to. SQL just makes that mistake very easy to make, and you'll end up with a GIANT pile of results flying at you if you make it.