Culterally, these people are really, really scared of Fascists and white supremicists. Kinda hard to blame them, isn't it? So they have all kinds of laws to make sure that Nazis never again get anything resembling power in Germany. For example, giving the "Heil Hitler" salute is illegal in Germany.
Frankly, I think this is commendable in this specific case. Here's a country that bends over backwards, any way it can, to avoid making the same mistake twice. How many other governments would do the same?
I'm listening to some Oggs I encoded at quality 10, and do they sound sweet? They sound very sweet! I never bother with CD after I buy them and rip them - now, I won't bother with MP3s either. Not needed.
I just read the Xiph letter, and while I have to applaud, I'm a little concerned that the MP3 people might decide to try and claim some sort of "Music compression" patent, then go after Xiph. Being snide about the fact the MP3 people are such jerks won't help Xiph.
I was just thinking, the betips.net site used to use the BeOS filesystem as a spiffy database - read about it at the site - and beos was designed from the word go to work with large multimedia projects, huge video files, that sort of thing. Might BeOS be a good platform for the sort of on-the-fly image recognition software a kick-ass autonomous battlebot would need?
I seem to recall the Battlebox is made of really thick Lexan sheets. The problem is that the more destructive you let the robots be, the harder it is to even predict what measures you need to take to protect the audience. Say your bot has a flamethrower - what happens if a pulverizer makes the gas tank go boom? Now you have an explosion, fire, and a very heavy hammer flying through the air. For that matter, how do you know a wire hasn't lost some insulation and is just waiting to spark while the judge is standing next to it after the fight? How about gas leaks?
That's another problem. With the current design, it's easy for people working in the Battlebox to know when they could, conceivably, be in danger. If they're in reach of a blade or arm, they might be in harm's way. If they aren't, they're probably safe. But as soon as you talk about ranged weapons, or even super-powerful obstacles, you increase the risk to the people, and the expense required to run the contest.
One of the things this fixes is "a buffer overrun vulnerability affecting the Gopher protocol handler." Good lord, gopher's been dead for a decade! Why the hell does IE still bother supporting it at all?
Why is it that whenever I read about OSX, I get such a powerful urge to dust off my copy of Beos PE and play with it? Am I some sort of recidivist, counter-revolutionary x86 using pervert?
...and then explained it had been a mistake, but that the engine delivered "nearly v8 performance", the government and Consumer's Union would have their asses in court. Why is Palm held to a lower standard? They said the display was 16-bit, people bought it, but it's only 12-bit. That, my friends and fellow slashdoters, is fraud. And it's only only legal if you're a big corporation - oh wait, never mind then.
Send in Playboy Playmates via chopper/seaplane/whatever. The guys in Antarctica deserve better than a flat JPEG, no matter how fast it can be downloaded.
For a couple years in high school, I really thought I might want to go into programming for a profession. I wasn't the best, but I did well in the intro-level class and part of the advanced class, but I hit a wall in the second semester, and as pink floyd would put it "The wall was too high/he could not break free". No worms ate into my brain, but I did decide that programming was not for me, and so I've decided on a major I've always known I'd be good at. (I'm a political science major, and I've always been a politics geek.)
My point is, might most truly bad programmers be like me, and realize they shouldn't even be programmers? And if that's true, might not the "bad" programmers in college benefit from some extra help? If you're a senior and you can't code, that's one thing, but to automatically dismiss a freshman/sophomore with problems seems not entirely justified. Programming is hard, sometimes it takes a while for something to click. And sometimes *sigh* it never does click.
While listening to the Total Annihilation soundtrack. Yeah, that's offtopic, but I hope for the Great War of Fair Use, and this constitutes such a glorious escalation of the existing fair use/drm conflict. Will we see ISPs and the RIAA/MPAA devoting more and more time to circumventing each other? Daily salvos of DDOS attacks by ISPS on the RIAA, and vice versa? Would be cool, albeit a bandwidth drain.
It's been a few years since I read it, but I seem to recall counting 40 pages? Are we talking about the same monologue? I'm thinking about the radio broadcast.
Good grief, how could anyone recommend inflicting that tome on another human being? It's nothing but boring plot used to tie together Objectivist monologues on the evils of supporting the non-productive members of a society! Not that I disagree, in principle, but there's a 40'page monologue in that thing! 40 damn pages of objectivism! That's too much to be healthy.
"What kind of idiot puts their most powerful processor at the end of a one way street?"
Maybe they're the kind of idiots who know most people just want the best possible OUTPUT for gaming possible, and so don't want to add any overhead in card performance - or even additional design time - that isn't related to gaming performance. You know, the idiots who make cards that get award after award from gaming companies, then write near-perfect drivers, port those drivers to linux, and let you overclock the card to your heart's content. Those sort of idiots. My, they're idiotic.
Nobody says, "buy a geforce 4 ti, make the next toy story." No, it's advertised as a gaming card, and that's what its designed to do. If you want to do high-end video rendering things, perhaps a gaming card isn't the best choice.
They always claim IE and other applications are tightly integrated into the OS. Heck, you could argue any OS which ships as anything more than a kernal is a "combination of operating system and applications all-in-one".
That said, someone please tell me if I'm wrong, and how.
Why, exactly, does this matter? Personally, I care not a whit what font I read or write in, so long as it is legible. Is there a large group of people who care about this stuff? Should I be choosing my own fonts for school papers with more care, or is this just some sort of pro/semi-pro publishing thing, that Joe Term Paper need not bother with?
The game content is still NOT free, and you'll have to buy a windows NWN cd to get it. This client only lets you play the content you've already bought in Linux.
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Thanks for the clarification.
Culterally, these people are really, really scared of Fascists and white supremicists. Kinda hard to blame them, isn't it? So they have all kinds of laws to make sure that Nazis never again get anything resembling power in Germany. For example, giving the "Heil Hitler" salute is illegal in Germany.
Frankly, I think this is commendable in this specific case. Here's a country that bends over backwards, any way it can, to avoid making the same mistake twice. How many other governments would do the same?
This reads so much like an advertisement, it isn't even funny. Since when are product plugs - blatant ones! - news for nerds or stuff that matters?
I'm listening to some Oggs I encoded at quality 10, and do they sound sweet? They sound very sweet! I never bother with CD after I buy them and rip them - now, I won't bother with MP3s either. Not needed.
I just read the Xiph letter, and while I have to applaud, I'm a little concerned that the MP3 people might decide to try and claim some sort of "Music compression" patent, then go after Xiph. Being snide about the fact the MP3 people are such jerks won't help Xiph.
Thanks for pointing that out - guess it kinda pokes a gaping hole in my "Safety" theory.
I was just thinking, the betips.net site used to use the BeOS filesystem as a spiffy database - read about it at the site - and beos was designed from the word go to work with large multimedia projects, huge video files, that sort of thing. Might BeOS be a good platform for the sort of on-the-fly image recognition software a kick-ass autonomous battlebot would need?
I seem to recall the Battlebox is made of really thick Lexan sheets. The problem is that the more destructive you let the robots be, the harder it is to even predict what measures you need to take to protect the audience. Say your bot has a flamethrower - what happens if a pulverizer makes the gas tank go boom? Now you have an explosion, fire, and a very heavy hammer flying through the air. For that matter, how do you know a wire hasn't lost some insulation and is just waiting to spark while the judge is standing next to it after the fight? How about gas leaks?
That's another problem. With the current design, it's easy for people working in the Battlebox to know when they could, conceivably, be in danger. If they're in reach of a blade or arm, they might be in harm's way. If they aren't, they're probably safe. But as soon as you talk about ranged weapons, or even super-powerful obstacles, you increase the risk to the people, and the expense required to run the contest.
It burns!
One of the things this fixes is "a buffer overrun vulnerability affecting the Gopher protocol handler." Good lord, gopher's been dead for a decade! Why the hell does IE still bother supporting it at all?
Why is it that whenever I read about OSX, I get such a powerful urge to dust off my copy of Beos PE and play with it? Am I some sort of recidivist, counter-revolutionary x86 using pervert?
Just them in at the start of the transportation window, and bring them out before the window closes.
...and then explained it had been a mistake, but that the engine delivered "nearly v8 performance", the government and Consumer's Union would have their asses in court. Why is Palm held to a lower standard? They said the display was 16-bit, people bought it, but it's only 12-bit. That, my friends and fellow slashdoters, is fraud. And it's only only legal if you're a big corporation - oh wait, never mind then.
Send in Playboy Playmates via chopper/seaplane/whatever. The guys in Antarctica deserve better than a flat JPEG, no matter how fast it can be downloaded.
If the format works in Set-tops, that raises the scarey specter of piracy.
For a couple years in high school, I really thought I might want to go into programming for a profession. I wasn't the best, but I did well in the intro-level class and part of the advanced class, but I hit a wall in the second semester, and as pink floyd would put it "The wall was too high/he could not break free". No worms ate into my brain, but I did decide that programming was not for me, and so I've decided on a major I've always known I'd be good at. (I'm a political science major, and I've always been a politics geek.)
My point is, might most truly bad programmers be like me, and realize they shouldn't even be programmers? And if that's true, might not the "bad" programmers in college benefit from some extra help? If you're a senior and you can't code, that's one thing, but to automatically dismiss a freshman/sophomore with problems seems not entirely justified. Programming is hard, sometimes it takes a while for something to click. And sometimes *sigh* it never does click.
While listening to the Total Annihilation soundtrack. Yeah, that's offtopic, but I hope for the Great War of Fair Use, and this constitutes such a glorious escalation of the existing fair use/drm conflict. Will we see ISPs and the RIAA/MPAA devoting more and more time to circumventing each other? Daily salvos of DDOS attacks by ISPS on the RIAA, and vice versa? Would be cool, albeit a bandwidth drain.
All glory to fair use, and damn the RIAA!
It's been a few years since I read it, but I seem to recall counting 40 pages? Are we talking about the same monologue? I'm thinking about the radio broadcast.
Good grief, how could anyone recommend inflicting that tome on another human being? It's nothing but boring plot used to tie together Objectivist monologues on the evils of supporting the non-productive members of a society! Not that I disagree, in principle, but there's a 40'page monologue in that thing! 40 damn pages of objectivism! That's too much to be healthy.
"What kind of idiot puts their most powerful processor at the end of a one way street?"
Maybe they're the kind of idiots who know most people just want the best possible OUTPUT for gaming possible, and so don't want to add any overhead in card performance - or even additional design time - that isn't related to gaming performance. You know, the idiots who make cards that get award after award from gaming companies, then write near-perfect drivers, port those drivers to linux, and let you overclock the card to your heart's content. Those sort of idiots. My, they're idiotic.
Nobody says, "buy a geforce 4 ti, make the next toy story." No, it's advertised as a gaming card, and that's what its designed to do. If you want to do high-end video rendering things, perhaps a gaming card isn't the best choice.
They always claim IE and other applications are tightly integrated into the OS. Heck, you could argue any OS which ships as anything more than a kernal is a "combination of operating system and applications all-in-one".
That said, someone please tell me if I'm wrong, and how.
Why, exactly, does this matter? Personally, I care not a whit what font I read or write in, so long as it is legible. Is there a large group of people who care about this stuff? Should I be choosing my own fonts for school papers with more care, or is this just some sort of pro/semi-pro publishing thing, that Joe Term Paper need not bother with?
The game content is still NOT free, and you'll have to buy a windows NWN cd to get it. This client only lets you play the content you've already bought in Linux.
My birthday is the 12th - I really love this. There's just something really special about celebrating your birthday by watching a meteor shower.
My guess is, he wants to be able to increase the number of people he can claim are getting his spam. Marketing tactic.