You don't go to Wikipedia to learn things about actively controversial subjects. You go to Wikipedia to learn things that nobody cares to dispute. Like science, math and biology. Or even history.
If there's significant controversey, it'll usually get its own section on a page.
Find what they want? Maybe. Get what they didn't want? Definitely.
I ordered a DVD of an Anime I hadn't seen since I was a little tyke. When I got it in the mail, it turned out to be a DVD burn of a rip of a VHS tape from some piracy center in asia. Yech.
What sucks is I was pressured to leave feedback before I was able to pick up the package from the address I had had it shipped to. (Granted, the address was an oversight on my part.) So I ended up leaving positive feedback.
I wondered what was causing that. I get that on my desktop system.
Xorg 7.0.22, kernel 2.6.16.20, on Debian etch. But that machine uses integrated Intel video, not a Radeon system. Sounds like an Xorg problem, to me. I wonder if I can downgrade Xorg.
OTOH, my laptop has the same Xorg, kernel and Debian dist, but uses the open source Radeon driver with no problems.
90% Not really. Most of them would have to be hippocrites, or surfing from work.
I've been running a website for the past month, and most of my hits have been from Slashdot readers (339 referrals from slashdot vs 80 from elsewhere). Most of my hits have been from Windows XP machines (1591 WinXP vs 276 other Windows vs 401 *nix vs 632 others). Most of my hits have been Firefox users (1654 Firefox vs 538 IE vs 628 others.)
So, except for standing behind alternative Browsers, it seems most Slashdot readers use Windows XP. Granted, there's just barely enough UNIX hits for all of the Slashdot referrals to be UNIX users. But that would mean virtually none of them continued past the first page they saw. You get a little more room if you add in the other versions of Windows (276 total, 112 W2K plus 48 Win98 plus 16 WinME plus 12 Win2003 plus 5 unknowns plus 2 NT4 plus 1 Win95), but not much.
CD Burners come with decent buffer-underrun technology. DVD burners don't yet; there's just too much data to cache. Blue-ray drives will be even worse.
We liked the fact that we could burn CDs. We didn't like the fact that we couldn't so much as move the mouse during that 74-minute period without causing a buffer underrun. (Oh, and we didn't like the fact that we couldn't use our parallel ports for printing, but that's a different gripe.)
42 minutes is a long time to try to keep the write buffer full, especially at the transfer rates we're talking about here.
There's a difference between someone stealing a laptop that has your personal information on it, and someone stealing your identity. Sure, the person who stole that laptop may go on to steal your identity, but then again, he may not. It's probably just some punk looking for something expensive to sell to a pawn shop. Or some jerk student who figures on getting a laptop the cheap and illegal way.
Now, someone accessing a database with that kind information hints at a different kind of intent. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't have a 90 day fraud alert put out in your name, either way.
Pop a KNOPPIX CD into your system, load up a shell, and run "sudo smartctl -a/dev/hda". You'll see several lines with information about your hard drive, but look for a couple lines that look like this:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-Fail Always - 2
See that number under RAW_VALUE? That's how many sectors have been moved. In most hard drives, that number will read 0. Mine is greater, because it's an old hard drive, and in a heavily-used laptop to boot.
Also, a hard drive sector is only 512 bytes. So that a total of 1K that 'shred' can't clean for me.
I don't trust CDs. Undetected bad burns, sunlight decay, simple misplacement, there's several ways to lose your data. Granted, having a faulty backup means you're more likely to keep your data than if you have no backup, but I don't like unpredictable fallbacks. I'd rather have no backup at all than one I can't depend on.
Once I can get a $50 250GB+ drive, I'll write a cron-and-sh-based compressed RCS+backup system. It'll be strictly on-site (or at-home, in my case), but it'll work.
No, make a Counter-Strike version, so you can bomb the school! de_Myschool, and get yourself arrested! Or a hostage rescue with custom hostage skins, for a cs_Myschool map. Either would be awesome.
OK...you're creepy. My only interest was playing an FPS in an physical environment I knew intimately. What you're describing sounds like your own fantasy social circumstance.
So when is this going to be used to turn real environments into virtual environemts?
Taking reconnaisance photos and turning them into training simulations, for example. Or, closer to my level, taking photos of public places and turning them into deathmatch levels.:)
(Always wanted to make a Quake level of my high school, but then became worried people would thing I'd be the source of the next Columbine. Then I wanted to do one of my college, but then 9/11 came along, and I was worried of being investigated as a terrorist. There's freedom of speech, for you.)
Won't start until 10 minutes before game.
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I tried it. It says, "eam starts 10min before game."
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Where'd you get a modern processor for $50?
You don't go to Wikipedia to learn things about actively controversial subjects. You go to Wikipedia to learn things that nobody cares to dispute. Like science, math and biology. Or even history.
If there's significant controversey, it'll usually get its own section on a page.
I know a guy who's going to buy a PS3 just because the next Ace Combat game will require it.
Find what they want? Maybe. Get what they didn't want? Definitely.
I ordered a DVD of an Anime I hadn't seen since I was a little tyke. When I got it in the mail, it turned out to be a DVD burn of a rip of a VHS tape from some piracy center in asia. Yech.
What sucks is I was pressured to leave feedback before I was able to pick up the package from the address I had had it shipped to. (Granted, the address was an oversight on my part.) So I ended up leaving positive feedback.
I'm sure. I'd post the lspci, but I'm about forty miles away from that box. (And it's not connected to the net.)
I wondered what was causing that. I get that on my desktop system.
Xorg 7.0.22, kernel 2.6.16.20, on Debian etch. But that machine uses integrated Intel video, not a Radeon system. Sounds like an Xorg problem, to me. I wonder if I can downgrade Xorg.
OTOH, my laptop has the same Xorg, kernel and Debian dist, but uses the open source Radeon driver with no problems.
You can bet the perfume industry would be the next RIAA.
Must be one of those non-denominational songs.
90% Not really. Most of them would have to be hippocrites, or surfing from work.
I've been running a website for the past month, and most of my hits have been from Slashdot readers (339 referrals from slashdot vs 80 from elsewhere). Most of my hits have been from Windows XP machines (1591 WinXP vs 276 other Windows vs 401 *nix vs 632 others). Most of my hits have been Firefox users (1654 Firefox vs 538 IE vs 628 others.)
So, except for standing behind alternative Browsers, it seems most Slashdot readers use Windows XP. Granted, there's just barely enough UNIX hits for all of the Slashdot referrals to be UNIX users. But that would mean virtually none of them continued past the first page they saw. You get a little more room if you add in the other versions of Windows (276 total, 112 W2K plus 48 Win98 plus 16 WinME plus 12 Win2003 plus 5 unknowns plus 2 NT4 plus 1 Win95), but not much.
It was a major rat hole of unparalleled magnitude.
How much did they spend on Itanium, again?
Read the story. Dictatorship != imperialism.
CD Burners come with decent buffer-underrun technology. DVD burners don't yet; there's just too much data to cache. Blue-ray drives will be even worse.
We liked the fact that we could burn CDs. We didn't like the fact that we couldn't so much as move the mouse during that 74-minute period without causing a buffer underrun. (Oh, and we didn't like the fact that we couldn't use our parallel ports for printing, but that's a different gripe.)
42 minutes is a long time to try to keep the write buffer full, especially at the transfer rates we're talking about here.
No..you check for loose electrons.
So my "Desktop" can be infinitely large, but my computer is still limited to a 4' by 3' rectangle?
There's a difference between someone stealing a laptop that has your personal information on it, and someone stealing your identity. Sure, the person who stole that laptop may go on to steal your identity, but then again, he may not. It's probably just some punk looking for something expensive to sell to a pawn shop. Or some jerk student who figures on getting a laptop the cheap and illegal way.
Now, someone accessing a database with that kind information hints at a different kind of intent. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't have a 90 day fraud alert put out in your name, either way.
I loved SEGA Channel. It exposed me to lots of different games I never would have played otherwise, such as the "Road Rash" series.
Also, a hard drive sector is only 512 bytes. So that a total of 1K that 'shred' can't clean for me.
Never. If it's important, you can go to PayPal's website manually, through a different tab or browser window, and check for yourself.
I don't trust CDs. Undetected bad burns, sunlight decay, simple misplacement, there's several ways to lose your data. Granted, having a faulty backup means you're more likely to keep your data than if you have no backup, but I don't like unpredictable fallbacks. I'd rather have no backup at all than one I can't depend on.
Once I can get a $50 250GB+ drive, I'll write a cron-and-sh-based compressed RCS+backup system. It'll be strictly on-site (or at-home, in my case), but it'll work.
Sadly, my data isn't valuable enough to justify the cost of an additional hard drive.
My home directory fills 200GB of a 250GB drive. And you want me to make a backup?!
Almost three hundred CD-Rs. Or a little over forty DVD+Rs.
No cracks about pr0n, please.
No, make a Counter-Strike version, so you can bomb the school! de_Myschool, and get yourself arrested!
Or a hostage rescue with custom hostage skins, for a cs_Myschool map. Either would be awesome.
OK...you're creepy. My only interest was playing an FPS in an physical environment I knew intimately. What you're describing sounds like your own fantasy social circumstance.
So when is this going to be used to turn real environments into virtual environemts?
:)
Taking reconnaisance photos and turning them into training simulations, for example. Or, closer to my level, taking photos of public places and turning them into deathmatch levels.
(Always wanted to make a Quake level of my high school, but then became worried people would thing I'd be the source of the next Columbine. Then I wanted to do one of my college, but then 9/11 came along, and I was worried of being investigated as a terrorist. There's freedom of speech, for you.)
I tried it. It says, "eam starts 10min before game."
So when's the next game?