I've always thought the tornado in a junkyard analogy was a stronger argument against ID than it was evolution, since it actually describes (albeit with a "smart" tornado) what ID claims is the truth, not what evolution theorizes is the most likely scenario.
Yeah, I'm curious how they came up with that number. Is that number of water bearing radioactive clay infused comets with enough mass to get early life down to an ocean they think are in our general area or something? I have to admit, both my Junk Science and Junk Reporting needles are hovering on the redzone right now.
Are you sure that 38% was "relaxed" enough, or were they just blowing off the writer?
A bigger question is: Who polls their email client at work anymore? All of the modern clients have some sort of pop-up that will notify you when you have new mail, often with a tiny excerpt from the mail right in the window so you know if you need to read it or not. The only time I actually check the client is when I've been away from the desk for awhile and want to see what I've missed. There is no reason to keep opening up the client and manually pressing refresh.
Also, in my experiance if someone who is in the office doesn't reply to your email within a few hours they probably never will.
It seems a little early to be counting your chickens given that they are all still eggs. It's not like there have never been highly anticipated games that were a complete letdown before.
Yeah, this seems like a more likely explanation than the battery issue. It's better than my thought that maybe the wireless driver needs a lot of CPU so when it's actually in use the clock is silently boosted in the background to compensate.
A few months ago I decided to try out EA's online game buying system for C&C3. It was a total nightmare of webpages not working correctly and stuff timing out all over the place. At one point I had a packet sniffer running to find the right URL to load in my browser to start the download. It also left some crap in my tray that wants to update itself every so often. The advantage though: no CD means they can't force you to dig the thing up just to play the stupid game.
I swear the biggest reason to pirate games is to avoid having to deal with the stupid "I need the CD to play, even though I installed the entire contents of the disc on your HDD already" crap you get with the official release. Besides, does it do anything to stop piracy? Is it hard to find a pirated copy of just about any game online? That stuff is pure punishment to people who are trying to support these companies. This is especially annoying on my laptop, since it is capable of some gaming (mostly somewhat older games though) but it means I have to think ahead and pull out any CD for a game I might want to play on it before I leave and stuff it in my laptop bag.
Well, you didn't actually expect Monster cable to stop bullshitting now did you? Their whole business model is build on this bullshit, they couldn't stop even if they wanted to.
Well, according to one of the earlier posters: You can create a leaner hello world.
Well, that's not entirely fair, since he's just using a leaner library that you could use in C++, but the point remains that once the STL gets sucked in (since he apparently can't use shared libraries for some reason) your code is going to bloat up a lot faster than if you just grabbed the crusty old stdio stuff from libc.
Seriously though, if your platform only has 256k of main memory it would be a good idea to set up some sort of shared library mechanism, especially if you're sticking with the unix philosophy of lots of small tools to get the job done. At the very least consider something like Crunchgen to avoid loading duplicate code into memory.
Yeah, but read between the lines there. The music industry isn't interested in tiered pricing, they just want a wedge that they can use to increase the prices now that online music sales have taken off. Tiered pricing that tops out at less than what iTunes currently charges is of no interest at all to them.
In the various BSD flavors you can mount volumes "noatime", which is generally safe and does a pretty good job of keeping things moving. If you really need atime updates you can always remount the volume, but frankly not many people use it from what I've seen (maybe tail -f?).
The only problem with it is: will the Music industry buy into it? I mean iTunes has a decent selection, but it's far from complete. How many major record labels are going to be investing in a market where they'll be giving stuff away?
Why would you sit on your Lindon Dollars at all? Once I get more than a few real dollars worth of Lindon Dollars I always send them straight out to the market. There is really no reason to sit on Lindon Dollars.
I was thinking it was more like "Jails" on the BSD platforms. You're not really virtualized, you just have your access to everything cut off unless it is explicitly enabled. Virtualization would work, but the performance penalty discourages people from using it.
No SL "bank" issues loans. There is no way to secure it--and frankly it's not needed, a few real dollars gets you enough SL dollars to buy just about anything for sale in the game short of some massive chunks of land (up to an entire server).
Also, how is the bank's creator supposed to grab the money and run if he's managing loans? That defeats the whole purpose of these banks.
The article is lighter on details than it should be for an article that spans two pages, but it looks to me like someone set up yet another "bank", promising high returns (and actually delivering for awhile), that was actually just a pyramid scheme. Once the pyramid gets big enough the creator always grabs the money and runs, and people cry and write articles about it.
Really people, there is no reason to invest in these "banks" in SecondLife (or any other game). Your money is safe in your own account. It's not like it's any safer in one of these "banks", in fact the opposite is true since you're forced to trust a random guy on the internet who has absolutely no laws or regulations backing him up.
The ban on gambling shouldn't have made too much difference. Everybody knows that every form of gambling in SL was fixed anyway. I don't know anybody who actually used them.
1.5% of the total electricity used in the US per year is a huge number. It's like when politicians talk about something really expensive and they say "oh, it's only 1% of our GDP" to make it sound not so bad, except to people who know just how enormous the GDP of this country is.
More importantly, this could probably be reduced considerably without major disruptions or reduction in quality of service by just embracing higher efficiency components in our datacenter equipment (especially servers).
Some of that is technological. If you are on a cable modem then any upstream bandwidth has to be basically carved out of the downstream bandwidth. Providers tweak their upstream caps as low as possible to free up as many timeslices as possible for download content. You may argue with this (I know I do), but it's the way the technology works. If you wanted more upstream bandwidth, you'd have to take a hit to your downstream bandwidth (which is the number the cable company actually advertises when trying to get you to buy their service).
I'm pretty sure my FiOS connection is the same (more lambda for downstream than upstream), but I don't know exactly how it is set up. Either way, with 5mb up, I don't have much room to complain, at least not like the local cablemodem users who are still stuck at 128k/256k up.
Really, a big issue is that ISPs simply aren't ready for IPv6. You can set up tunnels, but at that point you're just complicating things for no real gain. I say the IPv6 switchover is dead in the water until you can ask your ISP for an address and hook up your dual stack machine to their interface and go.
It seems like being able to spend real money on a game is a big draw for Koreans. While people in the US don't seem very eager to warm up to paying more for in-game content Koreans seem to be all over it. I wonder if it's a cultural thing or just the fact that all of the good games happen to have micropayment stuff tossed in.
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How about reinforced carbon carbon? Sure it would be heavier than the Aerogel, but it should be a fair bit sturdier.
I've always thought the tornado in a junkyard analogy was a stronger argument against ID than it was evolution, since it actually describes (albeit with a "smart" tornado) what ID claims is the truth, not what evolution theorizes is the most likely scenario.
Yeah, I'm curious how they came up with that number. Is that number of water bearing radioactive clay infused comets with enough mass to get early life down to an ocean they think are in our general area or something? I have to admit, both my Junk Science and Junk Reporting needles are hovering on the redzone right now.
Are you sure that 38% was "relaxed" enough, or were they just blowing off the writer?
A bigger question is: Who polls their email client at work anymore? All of the modern clients have some sort of pop-up that will notify you when you have new mail, often with a tiny excerpt from the mail right in the window so you know if you need to read it or not. The only time I actually check the client is when I've been away from the desk for awhile and want to see what I've missed. There is no reason to keep opening up the client and manually pressing refresh.
Also, in my experiance if someone who is in the office doesn't reply to your email within a few hours they probably never will.
It seems a little early to be counting your chickens given that they are all still eggs. It's not like there have never been highly anticipated games that were a complete letdown before.
Yeah, this seems like a more likely explanation than the battery issue. It's better than my thought that maybe the wireless driver needs a lot of CPU so when it's actually in use the clock is silently boosted in the background to compensate.
A few months ago I decided to try out EA's online game buying system for C&C3. It was a total nightmare of webpages not working correctly and stuff timing out all over the place. At one point I had a packet sniffer running to find the right URL to load in my browser to start the download. It also left some crap in my tray that wants to update itself every so often. The advantage though: no CD means they can't force you to dig the thing up just to play the stupid game.
I swear the biggest reason to pirate games is to avoid having to deal with the stupid "I need the CD to play, even though I installed the entire contents of the disc on your HDD already" crap you get with the official release. Besides, does it do anything to stop piracy? Is it hard to find a pirated copy of just about any game online? That stuff is pure punishment to people who are trying to support these companies. This is especially annoying on my laptop, since it is capable of some gaming (mostly somewhat older games though) but it means I have to think ahead and pull out any CD for a game I might want to play on it before I leave and stuff it in my laptop bag.
Well, you didn't actually expect Monster cable to stop bullshitting now did you? Their whole business model is build on this bullshit, they couldn't stop even if they wanted to.
I used to know a big OS/2 fan that I could always annoy by referring to it as "half os".
Well, according to one of the earlier posters: You can create a leaner hello world.
Well, that's not entirely fair, since he's just using a leaner library that you could use in C++, but the point remains that once the STL gets sucked in (since he apparently can't use shared libraries for some reason) your code is going to bloat up a lot faster than if you just grabbed the crusty old stdio stuff from libc.
Seriously though, if your platform only has 256k of main memory it would be a good idea to set up some sort of shared library mechanism, especially if you're sticking with the unix philosophy of lots of small tools to get the job done. At the very least consider something like Crunchgen to avoid loading duplicate code into memory.
Yeah, but read between the lines there. The music industry isn't interested in tiered pricing, they just want a wedge that they can use to increase the prices now that online music sales have taken off. Tiered pricing that tops out at less than what iTunes currently charges is of no interest at all to them.
In the various BSD flavors you can mount volumes "noatime", which is generally safe and does a pretty good job of keeping things moving. If you really need atime updates you can always remount the volume, but frankly not many people use it from what I've seen (maybe tail -f?).
The only problem with it is: will the Music industry buy into it? I mean iTunes has a decent selection, but it's far from complete. How many major record labels are going to be investing in a market where they'll be giving stuff away?
XML turned out to be a pain in the butt and people ended up preferring HTML instead.
Why would you sit on your Lindon Dollars at all? Once I get more than a few real dollars worth of Lindon Dollars I always send them straight out to the market. There is really no reason to sit on Lindon Dollars.
I was thinking it was more like "Jails" on the BSD platforms. You're not really virtualized, you just have your access to everything cut off unless it is explicitly enabled. Virtualization would work, but the performance penalty discourages people from using it.
No SL "bank" issues loans. There is no way to secure it--and frankly it's not needed, a few real dollars gets you enough SL dollars to buy just about anything for sale in the game short of some massive chunks of land (up to an entire server).
Also, how is the bank's creator supposed to grab the money and run if he's managing loans? That defeats the whole purpose of these banks.
The article is lighter on details than it should be for an article that spans two pages, but it looks to me like someone set up yet another "bank", promising high returns (and actually delivering for awhile), that was actually just a pyramid scheme. Once the pyramid gets big enough the creator always grabs the money and runs, and people cry and write articles about it.
Really people, there is no reason to invest in these "banks" in SecondLife (or any other game). Your money is safe in your own account. It's not like it's any safer in one of these "banks", in fact the opposite is true since you're forced to trust a random guy on the internet who has absolutely no laws or regulations backing him up.
The ban on gambling shouldn't have made too much difference. Everybody knows that every form of gambling in SL was fixed anyway. I don't know anybody who actually used them.
1.5% of the total electricity used in the US per year is a huge number. It's like when politicians talk about something really expensive and they say "oh, it's only 1% of our GDP" to make it sound not so bad, except to people who know just how enormous the GDP of this country is.
More importantly, this could probably be reduced considerably without major disruptions or reduction in quality of service by just embracing higher efficiency components in our datacenter equipment (especially servers).
The worst part is that the Hubble lenses were some of the most perfect lenses ever created, even with the flaw.
Scun is no bad word that I've ever heard of, but if you move your observation one letter to the right I think you'll find the problem.
Some of that is technological. If you are on a cable modem then any upstream bandwidth has to be basically carved out of the downstream bandwidth. Providers tweak their upstream caps as low as possible to free up as many timeslices as possible for download content. You may argue with this (I know I do), but it's the way the technology works. If you wanted more upstream bandwidth, you'd have to take a hit to your downstream bandwidth (which is the number the cable company actually advertises when trying to get you to buy their service).
I'm pretty sure my FiOS connection is the same (more lambda for downstream than upstream), but I don't know exactly how it is set up. Either way, with 5mb up, I don't have much room to complain, at least not like the local cablemodem users who are still stuck at 128k/256k up.
No, Slashdotters just want it now, bug free, cheap, and feature rich. What's so wrong with that?
Really, a big issue is that ISPs simply aren't ready for IPv6. You can set up tunnels, but at that point you're just complicating things for no real gain. I say the IPv6 switchover is dead in the water until you can ask your ISP for an address and hook up your dual stack machine to their interface and go.
It seems like being able to spend real money on a game is a big draw for Koreans. While people in the US don't seem very eager to warm up to paying more for in-game content Koreans seem to be all over it. I wonder if it's a cultural thing or just the fact that all of the good games happen to have micropayment stuff tossed in.