Keep in mind that the model of an enemy you see on your screen may be nothing like what the other person is actually doing. The clients snaps, packetloss and fps all affect how well the server is able to predict a players position and direction, and if the server isn't getting correct data, then it won't give you correct data. The other player might be turned around but your computer hasn't received that information before he shoots and kills you.
As for railing you after you fall of the edge, it's not that hard, your trajectory is very consistent and predictable. If I went back in time and played myself 2 years ago the 2001 me would definitely think I was cheating somehow. Now I can make those instinctual shots I thought were impossible then. Hundreds or thousands of hours of gametime does wonders for ones aim and movement.
As my (american) wife said when she overheard me listening to Blairs speech: "Wow, he sounds much more intelligent than Bush". Not a flambait, but compare their recent pre-invasion speeches and you'll find Blair using numbers and facts where Bush resorts to patriotism and ideals.
Yeah, dumbasses wanting to freely share information with the American public and the rest of the world! We showed them alright, suckers!
Really, what's the fun in intentionally Slashdotting a server? Would it be as humorous if we all had a couple bots and did a real DDOS? Really, tell me, cause I don't get it. Does it make you guys feel powerful or special?
This isn't one of those "all our freedom and rights are being removed by the evil government" type posts. But yet...
In this case DHS seem to have done a good thing, coordinated the patching and disclosure between different vendors. Now, for me it isn't a stretch to ask the question, what if someone had announced while DHS were still working on it? What if it is a truly critical bug or hole. Say wide open root-enabling flaw in SSH, Samba or some other service that's very common (for the geeks that can't take that as an example without saying that they should never be used as root bla bla bla, please just move on, I'm trying to make a point here, and it's not about best security practices).
Say such a security hole of a great magnitude is discovered, and someone announces it publically on a mailinglist. Or say vendor A wants to release the patch immediately, but vendor B wants to test for another week. Vendor A goes ahead and releases it without DHS approval.
In either case, will DHS see it as a risk to homeland security and a prosecutable offense? Is software security now suddenly a matter that the government should oversee? How far does their involvement stretch? Will security discussions require a DHS representative or approval to avoid premature disclosures that could be a threat to homeland security?
I really don't wanna sound alarmist here, but I'm not sure the goverment getting involved in things like this is a great idea. Software bugs or flaws can be a real threat to a nation, and so DHS should perhaps be involved. But again, I can't help but wonder, where will that take us and where will that involvement stop.
No you can take pictures just fine in most cases, but, an airport is classified as a object that's crucial to the nations security. So yes, over airports and the surrounding airspace (or other objects of military interest) it is usually illegal to take pictures. Not that the law is enforced much, skydivers and hobbyist pilots take pictures of their doings constantly.
Waaaa waaaa, the people who I ignore as much as I can and who pay my salary refuse to do my job for me, waaa, waaa
If I had a breif spell of insanity and thought that Slashdot editors gave a crap about what anyone thought, or even for a moment believed that the editors listen to input, yeah, I might've written a mail. But it seems that everything else that people write Slashdot about, suggestions and complaints alike, is ignored as soon as possible. So why should anyone bother to write you Taco?
I like Slashdot, I like the people on Slashdot, I'm a Slashdot addict, I'll refresh the front page after I'm done writing this. But man, the staff running this place is unbelievable. No spell checking, ever. Dupes, trolls, fakes, bad URLs etc etc all find their way through to the frontpage way too often indicating that half the time the staff don't even read the article, much less check links or such. There is no staging or testing lab, it's quick hacks and patches on the live boxes which every now and then brings the site down or creates some other, ahem, interesting results.
In short, the Slashdot staff isn't even trying anymore. Complete stagnation.
Aaaah it feels good to burn some karma, of course, I'll never get to moderate anything after this rant though.
As a Swede I have to agree, throughout modern history we Swedes have suffered terribly. This Swedish chef thing is just the latest in the anti-vikingism seen around the world. We gave the world quality music like Abba and Ace of Base, not to mention we brought you quality furniture through Ikea, and crappy cellphones from Ericsson. And what do you do, you laugh at us and mock us and create obviously evil things like this... It's to the point now that I can't hear someone mention Swedish meatballs without crying... My wife offered me Swedish massage and I shrieked and I immediately went fetal. No more I say! We Swedes have suffered enough.
Signed: The Swedish Non-Confrontational Front for the Invasion of Norway, Or The Invading By Norway, Either One.
Simple answer: Because the business doesn't want to, and they have that right. Is it greed? Perhaps. but if you think their business practice is bad: don't give them your green. Encourage others not to either. Write them and complain. Write an OSS version of a case database. When you make copies of documents make a couple extra sets and distribute them for free to those that need them, that's what you want them to do afterall.
Each search of their database costs them money, and I don't imagine the DB was cheap to build to begin with. They want to get their investment back and make a profit. So I don't see an issue at all here.
That's why you pay them: To locate and retreive it for you.
Allow me to make a comparison: Is it a threat to democracy that I have to pay for the morning paper? How am I to stay informed about events if that information isn't free! It belongs to the public!
In both cases the information is still there, I'd just have to find it myself. Sure, I could spend my mornings calling the local police office to hear what's happened since yesterday. I could call various government branches and ask for their latest press releases. I could call all my friends and ask if something interesting happened in their neighborhood. I could call the sports teams I follow and ask how they did yesterday. Or, I can pay the paper 50 cents a day to find these things our for me, my choice.
Bart: Uh, say, are you guys crooks?
Tony: Bart, um, is it wrong to steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family?
Bart: No.
Tony: Well, suppose you got a large starving family. Is it wrong to steal a truckload of bread to feed them?
Bart: Uh uh.
Tony: And, what if your family don't like bread? They like... cigarettes?
Bart: I guess that's okay.
Tony: Now, what if instead of giving them away, you sold them at a price that was practically giving them away. Would that be a crime, Bart?
Bart: Hell, no!
Tony: Enjoy your gift.
Point is, there's always a way to justify a crime. A lot of people are probably better off thanks to the donations from people, but it can't mean we should look the other way and allow it. A law is much like a trademark, if it is not defended it will eventually be worthless. Some people feel that the good of their cause outweighs their personal suffering so they do it anyway, it's called civil disobedience. They willingly violate the law and willingly accept the consequences of their actions. But the law must still be upheld.
Yeah it was with that chick from that other movie about a bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over fifty, and if it's speed dropped, it would explode!
I think it was called The bus that couldn't slow down.
Leverage, ugh, it's most often found instead of "use", and it tends to sound horribly wrong each and every time. Perhaps correct grammar and usage, but it doesn't help the lanugage flow, it is overly cumbersome and totally unecessary. Just leverage use instead.
ugh, I don't get why people compare.Net to java, why don't we compare C to J2EE while were at it?
.Net can be compared to J2EE, Java can be compared to C#. Architecture or framework is very seperate from a language utilizing that architecture or framework.
Kasparov claimed that the code for Deep Blue was written specifically for him, noone else, just to beat him. Which would mean that DB wouldn't have to analyze as many moves, it looks up what Kasparov has done in the past in the same situation and counters that.
That doesn't mean that Amazon's DB servers have public IPs you know. There is no reason to have a DB connected to the internet, unless you just wanna see what happens...
I believe the worlds oldest company would be Stora (From Falun, Sweden), which was founded about 1000 years ago, I also believe you'll find very few people that have reached 1000 years.
Point is, Companies/Corporations don't have a limited lifespan, they can live for nearly forever and keep trying to change legislation for a very very long time, that's one reason I think that businesses should not be considered to be individuals/humans/persons.
What we geeks need is for those long coding sessions is: better chairs, better screens, workplace ergonomy in general, decent food, short breaks a couple times an hour and a short walk around the block or something now and then aswell as 8 hours of sleep. We do not need anything to keep us glued to our monitors.
I know it's incredibly cool to keep up the pizza/coffee/dew image, I like all three of them too, but considering how bad a lof of geeks handle their eating and sleeping, combined with a bad workplace and little excercise... they're a burnedout zombie with bad back and wrist problems waiting to happen.
Contrary to popular geek belief, our bodies are not made for such abuse, and no, you are not different, you too need nutrition and sleep.
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Keep in mind that the model of an enemy you see on your screen may be nothing like what the other person is actually doing. The clients snaps, packetloss and fps all affect how well the server is able to predict a players position and direction, and if the server isn't getting correct data, then it won't give you correct data. The other player might be turned around but your computer hasn't received that information before he shoots and kills you.
As for railing you after you fall of the edge, it's not that hard, your trajectory is very consistent and predictable. If I went back in time and played myself 2 years ago the 2001 me would definitely think I was cheating somehow. Now I can make those instinctual shots I thought were impossible then. Hundreds or thousands of hours of gametime does wonders for ones aim and movement.
As my (american) wife said when she overheard me listening to Blairs speech: "Wow, he sounds much more intelligent than Bush".
Not a flambait, but compare their recent pre-invasion speeches and you'll find Blair using numbers and facts where Bush resorts to patriotism and ideals.
Well duh, "patch my IIS", it's monday isn't it?
Yeah, dumbasses wanting to freely share information with the American public and the rest of the world! We showed them alright, suckers!
Really, what's the fun in intentionally Slashdotting a server? Would it be as humorous if we all had a couple bots and did a real DDOS? Really, tell me, cause I don't get it. Does it make you guys feel powerful or special?
This isn't one of those "all our freedom and rights are being removed by the evil government" type posts. But yet...
In this case DHS seem to have done a good thing, coordinated the patching and disclosure between different vendors. Now, for me it isn't a stretch to ask the question, what if someone had announced while DHS were still working on it? What if it is a truly critical bug or hole. Say wide open root-enabling flaw in SSH, Samba or some other service that's very common (for the geeks that can't take that as an example without saying that they should never be used as root bla bla bla, please just move on, I'm trying to make a point here, and it's not about best security practices).
Say such a security hole of a great magnitude is discovered, and someone announces it publically on a mailinglist. Or say vendor A wants to release the patch immediately, but vendor B wants to test for another week. Vendor A goes ahead and releases it without DHS approval.
In either case, will DHS see it as a risk to homeland security and a prosecutable offense? Is software security now suddenly a matter that the government should oversee? How far does their involvement stretch? Will security discussions require a DHS representative or approval to avoid premature disclosures that could be a threat to homeland security?
I really don't wanna sound alarmist here, but I'm not sure the goverment getting involved in things like this is a great idea. Software bugs or flaws can be a real threat to a nation, and so DHS should perhaps be involved. But again, I can't help but wonder, where will that take us and where will that involvement stop.
Here you go:
Taco or Timothy will post the same empty article again later this week...
No you can take pictures just fine in most cases, but, an airport is classified as a object that's crucial to the nations security. So yes, over airports and the surrounding airspace (or other objects of military interest) it is usually illegal to take pictures. Not that the law is enforced much, skydivers and hobbyist pilots take pictures of their doings constantly.
Waaaa waaaa, the people who I ignore as much as I can and who pay my salary refuse to do my job for me, waaa, waaa
If I had a breif spell of insanity and thought that Slashdot editors gave a crap about what anyone thought, or even for a moment believed that the editors listen to input, yeah, I might've written a mail. But it seems that everything else that people write Slashdot about, suggestions and complaints alike, is ignored as soon as possible. So why should anyone bother to write you Taco?
I like Slashdot, I like the people on Slashdot, I'm a Slashdot addict, I'll refresh the front page after I'm done writing this. But man, the staff running this place is unbelievable. No spell checking, ever. Dupes, trolls, fakes, bad URLs etc etc all find their way through to the frontpage way too often indicating that half the time the staff don't even read the article, much less check links or such. There is no staging or testing lab, it's quick hacks and patches on the live boxes which every now and then brings the site down or creates some other, ahem, interesting results.
In short, the Slashdot staff isn't even trying anymore. Complete stagnation.
Aaaah it feels good to burn some karma, of course, I'll never get to moderate anything after this rant though.
As a Swede I have to agree, throughout modern history we Swedes have suffered terribly. This Swedish chef thing is just the latest in the anti-vikingism seen around the world. We gave the world quality music like Abba and Ace of Base, not to mention we brought you quality furniture through Ikea, and crappy cellphones from Ericsson. And what do you do, you laugh at us and mock us and create obviously evil things like this... It's to the point now that I can't hear someone mention Swedish meatballs without crying... My wife offered me Swedish massage and I shrieked and I immediately went fetal. No more I say! We Swedes have suffered enough.
Signed:
The Swedish Non-Confrontational Front for the Invasion of Norway, Or The Invading By Norway, Either One.
PS, Norweigans smell.
Simple answer: Because the business doesn't want to, and they have that right.
Is it greed? Perhaps. but if you think their business practice is bad: don't give them your green. Encourage others not to either. Write them and complain. Write an OSS version of a case database. When you make copies of documents make a couple extra sets and distribute them for free to those that need them, that's what you want them to do afterall.
Each search of their database costs them money, and I don't imagine the DB was cheap to build to begin with. They want to get their investment back and make a profit. So I don't see an issue at all here.
That's why you pay them: To locate and retreive it for you.
Allow me to make a comparison: Is it a threat to democracy that I have to pay for the morning paper? How am I to stay informed about events if that information isn't free! It belongs to the public!
In both cases the information is still there, I'd just have to find it myself. Sure, I could spend my mornings calling the local police office to hear what's happened since yesterday. I could call various government branches and ask for their latest press releases. I could call all my friends and ask if something interesting happened in their neighborhood. I could call the sports teams I follow and ask how they did yesterday. Or, I can pay the paper 50 cents a day to find these things our for me, my choice.
Bart: Uh, say, are you guys crooks?
Tony: Bart, um, is it wrong to steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family?
Bart: No.
Tony: Well, suppose you got a large starving family. Is it wrong to steal a truckload of bread to feed them?
Bart: Uh uh.
Tony: And, what if your family don't like bread? They like... cigarettes?
Bart: I guess that's okay.
Tony: Now, what if instead of giving them away, you sold them at a price that was practically giving them away. Would that be a crime, Bart?
Bart: Hell, no!
Tony: Enjoy your gift.
Point is, there's always a way to justify a crime.
A lot of people are probably better off thanks to the donations from people, but it can't mean we should look the other way and allow it. A law is much like a trademark, if it is not defended it will eventually be worthless. Some people feel that the good of their cause outweighs their personal suffering so they do it anyway, it's called civil disobedience. They willingly violate the law and willingly accept the consequences of their actions. But the law must still be upheld.
It does look as a dig at ya, sorry, but it was just the perfect place for that Simpsons reference :)
http://grouchu.8m.com/simpsons.html
Yeah it was with that chick from that other movie about a bus that had to speed around
a city, keeping its speed over fifty, and if it's speed dropped, it would explode!
I think it was called The bus that couldn't slow down.
Surely you mean my incorrect leveraging of leverage?
Leverage, ugh, it's most often found instead of "use", and it tends to sound horribly wrong each and every time. Perhaps correct grammar and usage, but it doesn't help the lanugage flow, it is overly cumbersome and totally unecessary.
Just leverage use instead.
ugh, I don't get why people compare .Net to java, why don't we compare C to J2EE while were at it?
.Net can be compared to J2EE, Java can be compared to C#. Architecture or framework is very seperate from a language utilizing that architecture or framework.
Kasparov claimed that the code for Deep Blue was written specifically for him, noone else, just to beat him. Which would mean that DB wouldn't have to analyze as many moves, it looks up what Kasparov has done in the past in the same situation and counters that.
That doesn't mean that Amazon's DB servers have public IPs you know. There is no reason to have a DB connected to the internet, unless you just wanna see what happens...
I also hope the Congress/courts acts quickly and decisively to protect the rights of the consumer and citizen over greedy corporations.
If Explorer didn't predate it yes.
I believe the worlds oldest company would be Stora (From Falun, Sweden), which was founded about 1000 years ago, I also believe you'll find very few people that have reached 1000 years.
Point is, Companies/Corporations don't have a limited lifespan, they can live for nearly forever and keep trying to change legislation for a very very long time, that's one reason I think that businesses should not be considered to be individuals/humans/persons.
What we geeks need is for those long coding sessions is: better chairs, better screens, workplace ergonomy in general, decent food, short breaks a couple times an hour and a short walk around the block or something now and then aswell as 8 hours of sleep. We do not need anything to keep us glued to our monitors.
I know it's incredibly cool to keep up the pizza/coffee/dew image, I like all three of them too, but considering how bad a lof of geeks handle their eating and sleeping, combined with a bad workplace and little excercise... they're a burnedout zombie with bad back and wrist problems waiting to happen.
Contrary to popular geek belief, our bodies are not made for such abuse, and no, you are not different, you too need nutrition and sleep.
I believe the CLR already runs under BSD, Mono will bring .Net compatibility to Linux, and I'd be surprised if it's not also found on MacOS X soon.