Previous methods worked until people learned to game the system. Now people have learned to game the pageranking system.
People will learn to game any system. You can't have a system based on ranking content without being able to willfully affect the ranking by manipulating the content. To follow your logic, a search engine should completely change its ranking system every year in an effort to try to stay ahead of the system-gamers. It's just not worth the effort. A better idea is to tweak your system so that the effect of gaming is reduced, which is exactly what this proposal is doing.
The big feature would be the facial animations, which are insurmountably better than any game we've seen before.
Please explain how facial animations would be a "big feature" in a fast-paced multiplayer game like Natural Selection. Use winks to command your marines to group at certain spot, or kissy-lips to scramble and hide?
When saying that the Source engine is "amazingly innovative," you might want to give an example that is actually relevant to the current topic. Facial animation seems like something more suited for single-player or machinima, not multiplayer. (Maybe the next Sims could use Source so we can get a better gauge for people's feelings?)
Are you feigning ignorance here, or did you really not understand that GTK was an example for any library on your system? Shared libraries exist for a reason: so that multiple applications can use the same library without taking up extra memory. They can't do that if each application is loading its own version inside its own "application directory". Perhaps in your world, windowing systems are the only shared library, but in the real world, Linux standardizing on a particular windowing system will not solve the problem for every other library.
They became really successful overnight because an already-successful air delivery service (Airborne Express) decided to create a ground delivery service as well.
If you want to get technical, yes I misworded that sentence. I meant that the bullets had trapped UV inside them, which would be released when they struck. In the movie, they clearly make the bullets look like small containers holding the UV, rather than just a piece of metal that gives off radiation.
so a UV bullet isn't really in the realm of magical.
Which is why my last sentence was: "The bullets wouldn't even have to be magic."
In other words, it ain't funny if you don't get it right.
I feel I can safely say there just aren't any magic bullets to this problem.
But did you see Underworld? They had bullets that trapped UV radiation. I think if we could develop those, we could kill off all the vampires and solve the world's energy problems. The bullets wouldn't even have to be magic.
While this is a good point, I don't think it will be particularly crucial, if this stuff turns out to work well. Places near the equator generally get much more heat from the sun than they reasonably need to keep warm. Right now most of that heat is wasted, but with this stuff it could be converted to energy. In colder climates, no doubt some people will try it and see how it works out. If they end up spending more in the end because of higher heating bills, or if it's a wash, those areas just wouldn't put it to use. The warmer areas will still reap the benefits. Plus, it could be used in places that don't need heat but get sunlight anyway (like roads and parking lots, as mentioned above).
If you don't register, how do you expect to attach a name to your comment other than Anonymous? Would you like the system to read your mind and fill in user info for you magically? That sounds like a good trick. Let me know when you have it implemented.
Ok, let's assume your stance: there should only be one way to do something. Fine: anything that can be done, only one way to do it.
In that case, there are only two positions you can be in: 1) Anything you could possibly do has already been done once, so there's no use for you. You're out of a job. 2) There are still some things left, but once you do them (or anyone else does), that's it, there's no use for you. You're out of a job.
Don't be so obtuse. Programming languages are tools, not soapboxes.
I'm not sure where you came up with that theory, but computers (even Windows) generally store time as fractions of seconds since the Epoch. The epoch is usually 0:00UTC January 1, 1970, and has more to do with the hardware than the OS. More information here.
As a side note, 0.041666, with the 6 repeating forever, is not an irrational number. Irrational numbers have no pattern and the sequences to do not repeat. Most importantly, they cannot be written as the fraction of two integers, as 1/24 can. Perhaps you meant "irrational" as in "lacking reason", which I suppose would apply to your post.
This isn't particular to you, because you didn't come across as crazy, but what is the deal with XFCe anyway? Why does everyone love it so much? I would even compare many of its proponents to Gentoo users in terms of zealotry.
I use its taskbar (better than gnome's, imo) but its window manager leaves something to be desired. That something is configurability, particularly in terms of key bindings. Sawfish has almost 200 WM actions that can be bound to key or mouse shortcuts. Things like toggling maximization or shading on a window, running a command/program, popping up a menu to edit window features (titlebar style, stickyness, appears on window cycle, etc), deleting a window group, etc. Pretty much anything the WM can do can be bound to a key or mouse shortcut.
XFCe, on the other hand, says "use xbindkeys". Well xbindkeys can't do most of that WM stuff, but thanks anyway. When I was trying out XFCe and trying to find docs on setting shortcuts to whatever I wanted, I ran across an email on the dev list saying something to the effect of "We will never give built-in shortcut support for many WM actions because of such-and-such standard." Sounds like a project very concerned with its users:|
Anyway, that's my XFCe rant. I guess it's pretty looking, but Sawfish let's me configure hundreds of things I couldn't in XFCe. I'll stick with what let's me use it rather than feel like I'm being (ab)used.
...fired up Safari and went to my bookmark bar's comix folder and selected "open in tabs"... That opens all my bookmarked webcomics in tabs, simulteniously, with one click: Very cool.
But what if you're not at home?
I setup a cgi page on my webhost which runs dailystrips with all my favorite comics, bookmarked it, and gave the bookmark a short keyword. Now I just go to the address bar, type two letters, and hit enter. The better part, though, is that I can get my comic page from anywhere using any browser, I don't have to be at home with my particular setup.
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Previous methods worked until people learned to game the system. Now people have learned to game the pageranking system.
People will learn to game any system. You can't have a system based on ranking content without being able to willfully affect the ranking by manipulating the content. To follow your logic, a search engine should completely change its ranking system every year in an effort to try to stay ahead of the system-gamers. It's just not worth the effort. A better idea is to tweak your system so that the effect of gaming is reduced, which is exactly what this proposal is doing.
The big feature would be the facial animations, which are insurmountably better than any game we've seen before.
Please explain how facial animations would be a "big feature" in a fast-paced multiplayer game like Natural Selection. Use winks to command your marines to group at certain spot, or kissy-lips to scramble and hide?
When saying that the Source engine is "amazingly innovative," you might want to give an example that is actually relevant to the current topic. Facial animation seems like something more suited for single-player or machinima, not multiplayer. (Maybe the next Sims could use Source so we can get a better gauge for people's feelings?)
Are you feigning ignorance here, or did you really not understand that GTK was an example for any library on your system? Shared libraries exist for a reason: so that multiple applications can use the same library without taking up extra memory. They can't do that if each application is loading its own version inside its own "application directory". Perhaps in your world, windowing systems are the only shared library, but in the real world, Linux standardizing on a particular windowing system will not solve the problem for every other library.
They became really successful overnight because an already-successful air delivery service (Airborne Express) decided to create a ground delivery service as well.
Maybe he's considerate and doesn't want to contribute to a potentially similar situation in his own neighborhood.
Even disregarding that, the question could be easily turned back to you: why transmit at 100% when 12.5% does the job just fine?
But how could it ski? It would melt all the snow:(
What about fumes from the melting/burning rubber?
The bullets RELEASED UV radiation.
If you want to get technical, yes I misworded that sentence. I meant that the bullets had trapped UV inside them, which would be released when they struck. In the movie, they clearly make the bullets look like small containers holding the UV, rather than just a piece of metal that gives off radiation.
so a UV bullet isn't really in the realm of magical.
Which is why my last sentence was: "The bullets wouldn't even have to be magic."
In other words, it ain't funny if you don't get it right.
In other words, pedantics have no sense of humor.
What about a really big pan and some butter? Maybe not as sure-fire, but definitely much tastier.
I feel I can safely say there just aren't any magic bullets to this problem.
But did you see Underworld? They had bullets that trapped UV radiation. I think if we could develop those, we could kill off all the vampires and solve the world's energy problems. The bullets wouldn't even have to be magic.
While this is a good point, I don't think it will be particularly crucial, if this stuff turns out to work well. Places near the equator generally get much more heat from the sun than they reasonably need to keep warm. Right now most of that heat is wasted, but with this stuff it could be converted to energy. In colder climates, no doubt some people will try it and see how it works out. If they end up spending more in the end because of higher heating bills, or if it's a wash, those areas just wouldn't put it to use. The warmer areas will still reap the benefits. Plus, it could be used in places that don't need heat but get sunlight anyway (like roads and parking lots, as mentioned above).
You misspelled bell. Bell Lab's Plan9
If you don't register, how do you expect to attach a name to your comment other than Anonymous? Would you like the system to read your mind and fill in user info for you magically? That sounds like a good trick. Let me know when you have it implemented.
I read the fucking article.
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You are correct; I was wrong.
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I could have sworn I was still reading Slashdot. What site is this?
Ok, let's assume your stance: there should only be one way to do something. Fine: anything that can be done, only one way to do it.
In that case, there are only two positions you can be in:
1) Anything you could possibly do has already been done once, so there's no use for you. You're out of a job.
2) There are still some things left, but once you do them (or anyone else does), that's it, there's no use for you. You're out of a job.
Don't be so obtuse. Programming languages are tools, not soapboxes.
I'm not sure where you came up with that theory, but computers (even Windows) generally store time as fractions of seconds since the Epoch. The epoch is usually 0:00UTC January 1, 1970, and has more to do with the hardware than the OS. More information here.
As a side note, 0.041666, with the 6 repeating forever, is not an irrational number. Irrational numbers have no pattern and the sequences to do not repeat. Most importantly, they cannot be written as the fraction of two integers, as 1/24 can. Perhaps you meant "irrational" as in "lacking reason", which I suppose would apply to your post.
An inch is also about the length of the first section of the index finger: from the tip to the first joint.
ThinkGeek has the same idea.
I suppose you're either too young to pay taxes, or too stupid to know what they're used for. Public education ain't free, kid.
Sandwich making has become such a chore.
You need the skills.
This isn't particular to you, because you didn't come across as crazy, but what is the deal with XFCe anyway? Why does everyone love it so much? I would even compare many of its proponents to Gentoo users in terms of zealotry.
:|
I use its taskbar (better than gnome's, imo) but its window manager leaves something to be desired. That something is configurability, particularly in terms of key bindings. Sawfish has almost 200 WM actions that can be bound to key or mouse shortcuts. Things like toggling maximization or shading on a window, running a command/program, popping up a menu to edit window features (titlebar style, stickyness, appears on window cycle, etc), deleting a window group, etc. Pretty much anything the WM can do can be bound to a key or mouse shortcut.
XFCe, on the other hand, says "use xbindkeys". Well xbindkeys can't do most of that WM stuff, but thanks anyway. When I was trying out XFCe and trying to find docs on setting shortcuts to whatever I wanted, I ran across an email on the dev list saying something to the effect of "We will never give built-in shortcut support for many WM actions because of such-and-such standard." Sounds like a project very concerned with its users
Anyway, that's my XFCe rant. I guess it's pretty looking, but Sawfish let's me configure hundreds of things I couldn't in XFCe. I'll stick with what let's me use it rather than feel like I'm being (ab)used.
...fired up Safari and went to my bookmark bar's comix folder and selected "open in tabs"... That opens all my bookmarked webcomics in tabs, simulteniously, with one click: Very cool.
But what if you're not at home?
I setup a cgi page on my webhost which runs dailystrips with all my favorite comics, bookmarked it, and gave the bookmark a short keyword. Now I just go to the address bar, type two letters, and hit enter. The better part, though, is that I can get my comic page from anywhere using any browser, I don't have to be at home with my particular setup.
I'd be surprised if it was a kernel or bootloader option. Usually it's just another init'd process to load your graphical login screen.
Just curious, why not ascii-armor the signature and inline it?