Nah, too contrived. I know it's only a movie, but real people don't work like that. Maybe you should stop watching fantasy movies and start focussing on things like politics, or something.
You're missing the point. Yes, we know how to cancel noise. As you say, a noisy crowd will still be noisy.
The point is using the knowledge that we gained 30 years ago to finally *make something useful*.
Vaporware condensed, as it were.
We have a clue about genetically altering pigs to create human compatible hearts, too. Does that mean that since we thought of it 5 years ago, we shouldn't explore the possibilities of such treatment?
Lovely folks, there. I've only ever contacted them by E-mail, once. This was shortly after the US main page got the 'web/images/groups/directory' buttons, allowing you to quickly switch from a websearch to an image search, and vice versa.
The.nl version of the page didn't have those buttons, yet my MSIE automatically gets sent to.nl.
A few weeks later, I actually got some form of answer. It wasn't extremely polite; it was to the point. I like that. It didn't say "We'll look into it, thank you". It didn't say "I've passed this on". It said something like "Hope you enjoy the new.nl page"
It's little details like this that tell you whether someone is doing a merely adequate job, or a great job.
Officer: "Sorry, chief, I didn't mean to kill him..." Chief: "You shot him in a vital organ!" Officer: "How was I supposed to know his brain was in his armpit?"
Space Precinct was a fun show. A lot of people don't know it, but of the people I've met, most of those liked it.
Why would I want to remove advertising on Slashdot?! This site contains the only banner ads which are occasionally interesting.
I don't mind advertising if it is actually on-topic somewhat. Like Google's advertisements: if I'm looking for info on Sony TVs, I don't mind seeing links to shops selling Sony TVs, or to Sony's website.
Anybody want to start a pro-banner rally?
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· Score: 2, Informative
Two nominees for groundbreaking RTS games:
- Homeworld (and the half-sequel, Homeworld: Cataclysm).
Strategy in Space, with full 3d navigation. Huge battleships to form the core of your army (includes Carriers, which can be deployed remotely, and can be used to create strike craft and frigates), and smaller crafts like bombers and fighters to move quickly for recon and attack.
The capital ships need to be defended, yet they are also your biggest weapons. The 3D factor is more important than it might seem, since it's quite hard to avoid attacking in a flat plane.
Remember, the enemy's gate is down!
- Shogun: Total War
Cavalry, archers, pikemen (either peasants, who are cheap, and professional pikemen, who are hardier). Not in a one-on-one capacity, as done by Warcraft. Units have a maximum of 120 individual soldiers, and each army has a maximum of 16 units, including the unit which carries the army's general.
Having 1920 soldiers on the field in medieval-oid configurations and formations is fun enough by itself. Each unit has morale. If this is too low, they give up and run for the hills.
Morale of a unit is determined by the units around it. If you have a wavering line of pikemen, and allied cavalry is fleeing through their ranks, the pikemen are more likely to panic. Taking losses to the unit hurts morale. Having the general of an army killed hurts morale.
Units also have stamina. Quickmarching soldiers and horses up hills exhausts them, and they really do fight worse if they are exhausted. Also, they become slower. It also affects morale. Horses don't go well through trees. That sort of thing.
Okay, that turned in a (poor) mini-review. Anyway, Shogun takes the cake when it comes to scale and detail. It's on a level no other RTS has done, IMHO.
These two had better be in the second part of that review. Anyone else have recommendations?
I am amazed at how you completely and utterly missed his original point, which said nothing about the value of the dollar.
Basically, these people were given a choice that they (a small group) would either get $2, or $3. That would be a no-brainer, everyone would pick the $3, obviously. Now, if you pick the $2, 10 other random people also get $2. If you pick the higher amount of $3, those 10 people would get $4.
People are willing to screw themselves to avoid a perceived, non-real unfairness between them and another equal group of people.
This is nothing new, though. Hell, it was in the bible, even (one of the few parabels I actually remember from school). Farmer Joe hired 10 men to work for 10 coins in the morning. Near the end of the day, he hires 10 more men also for 10 coins to work the one hour remaining in the day. Those who had been working all day for 10 coins get pissed.
The moral of this story is to pick $3 over $2.
(and if you think the average schmoe is going to worry about devaluation of the currency, you'd be wrong)
This is completely different from the BBC adaptation. I can find the BBC files on Morpheus, sure enough, using the following as a guide for the names and file order, though:
Usenet files are often distributed with a collection of 'par files'. These files consist of any number of files with an index-like file (*.PAR), and datafiles (*.P01,.P02, etc).
I'm not nearly savvy enough in this area to comment on internals.
Anyway, basically you can replace any number of files smaller than or equal to the number of PAR files. So if you get PAR files P01 through P04, you can replace up to 4 files that have been damaged.
This is cool stuff, since it drastically reduces terminally incomplete large binaries on Usenet servers. Which, of course, I.. uhm... have no part of, and stuff.
Check out an open source client of this thing: http://parchive.sourceforge.net/
Exactly what I'm moderately worried about. Why should the US FBI be able to check my computer, just because I use a (likely) American (otherwise British) version of Windows on my PC?
Can I sue the US Government for privacy infractions and computer crimes if I find this program on my PC? Can my government sue the US Government for the same?
all I have to be thankful for is that my sychophantic Prime Minister has been licking Dubwya's scrotum so much lately that Australians are probably far down the list of suitable intelligence targets.
Don't worry, noone will ever accuse Australians of having any intelligence to target.
This is not about the FBI using this to catch the bad guys. This is about the FBI having a means of breaching privacy and security in a way that's just sick.
Say McAfee was purposefully flawed and let this thing through. We use McAfee at work, too. Bang, any encrypted data stored on a networked computer there is instantly vulnerable, and can be traded off. They've done it before, haven't they?
The goal of copyright is to encourage authors and other artists to create more works. Encouragement is done by giving them exclusive copyrights to the work they create, protected by law, for a limited time.
Distributing a work over the internet without the author's permission or even knowledge isn't just illegal, it's immoral.
And as for that last line, libraries do not republish material, they lend a specific copy. And they *do* pay for the copies they lend out, unless they're donations.
Publishing a file on the Internet is republishing, and *that* is prohibited by law for a specific reason.
If the law said that any author who wrote a work would not be allowed to profit from it, how many good authors do you think there'd be left?
(of course, having the 'limited time' being shorter than a human lifespan would be nice)
So these people can win 7 million pounds as long as they aren't doing it for the benefit of earning money, yet they started work once the prize was offered?
That kindof strikes me as saying "I'll offer $10,000 to anyone who'll say no to $10,000!", and then having several people coming up to give it a shot.
There are very good reasons why TIs are more popular.
Yes, they allow math tutors to rest assured that their false superiority will not be threatened.
I was under the impression that HP calculators did the same type of math as TIs. If you can handle math on one, but not the other, where does the problem lie? I doubt it's with the calculator.
Slashdot Mirror
Nah, too contrived. I know it's only a movie, but real people don't work like that. Maybe you should stop watching fantasy movies and start focussing on things like politics, or something.
He paid 77 pence for it. Please send me a 1GHz CPU for 77 pence.
You're missing the point. Yes, we know how to cancel noise. As you say, a noisy crowd will still be noisy.
The point is using the knowledge that we gained 30 years ago to finally *make something useful*.
Vaporware condensed, as it were.
We have a clue about genetically altering pigs to create human compatible hearts, too. Does that mean that since we thought of it 5 years ago, we shouldn't explore the possibilities of such treatment?
Section 14
1)
The boss' firstborn daughter, on her 18th birthday, shall be delivered to me while in a cake and wearing a teddy.
2)
[more of the same]
Lovely folks, there. I've only ever contacted them by E-mail, once. This was shortly after the US main page got the 'web/images/groups/directory' buttons, allowing you to quickly switch from a websearch to an image search, and vice versa.
.nl version of the page didn't have those buttons, yet my MSIE automatically gets sent to .nl.
.nl page"
The
A few weeks later, I actually got some form of answer. It wasn't extremely polite; it was to the point. I like that. It didn't say "We'll look into it, thank you". It didn't say "I've passed this on". It said something like "Hope you enjoy the new
It's little details like this that tell you whether someone is doing a merely adequate job, or a great job.
I disagree. Software schedule estimates are generally extremely precise.
This doesn't negate the fact that they are invariably dead wrong, of course.
Officer: "Sorry, chief, I didn't mean to kill him..."
Chief: "You shot him in a vital organ!"
Officer: "How was I supposed to know his brain was in his armpit?"
Space Precinct was a fun show. A lot of people don't know it, but of the people I've met, most of those liked it.
Why would I want to remove advertising on Slashdot?! This site contains the only banner ads which are occasionally interesting.
I don't mind advertising if it is actually on-topic somewhat. Like Google's advertisements: if I'm looking for info on Sony TVs, I don't mind seeing links to shops selling Sony TVs, or to Sony's website.
Anybody want to start a pro-banner rally?
Two nominees for groundbreaking RTS games:
- Homeworld (and the half-sequel, Homeworld: Cataclysm).
Strategy in Space, with full 3d navigation. Huge battleships to form the core of your army (includes Carriers, which can be deployed remotely, and can be used to create strike craft and frigates), and smaller crafts like bombers and fighters to move quickly for recon and attack.
The capital ships need to be defended, yet they are also your biggest weapons. The 3D factor is more important than it might seem, since it's quite hard to avoid attacking in a flat plane.
Remember, the enemy's gate is down!
- Shogun: Total War
Cavalry, archers, pikemen (either peasants, who are cheap, and professional pikemen, who are hardier). Not in a one-on-one capacity, as done by Warcraft. Units have a maximum of 120 individual soldiers, and each army has a maximum of 16 units, including the unit which carries the army's general.
Having 1920 soldiers on the field in medieval-oid configurations and formations is fun enough by itself. Each unit has morale. If this is too low, they give up and run for the hills.
Morale of a unit is determined by the units around it. If you have a wavering line of pikemen, and allied cavalry is fleeing through their ranks, the pikemen are more likely to panic. Taking losses to the unit hurts morale. Having the general of an army killed hurts morale.
Units also have stamina. Quickmarching soldiers and horses up hills exhausts them, and they really do fight worse if they are exhausted. Also, they become slower. It also affects morale. Horses don't go well through trees. That sort of thing.
Okay, that turned in a (poor) mini-review. Anyway, Shogun takes the cake when it comes to scale and detail. It's on a level no other RTS has done, IMHO.
These two had better be in the second part of that review. Anyone else have recommendations?
Wow.
I am amazed at how you completely and utterly missed his original point, which said nothing about the value of the dollar.
Basically, these people were given a choice that they (a small group) would either get $2, or $3. That would be a no-brainer, everyone would pick the $3, obviously. Now, if you pick the $2, 10 other random people also get $2. If you pick the higher amount of $3, those 10 people would get $4.
People are willing to screw themselves to avoid a perceived, non-real unfairness between them and another equal group of people.
This is nothing new, though. Hell, it was in the bible, even (one of the few parabels I actually remember from school). Farmer Joe hired 10 men to work for 10 coins in the morning. Near the end of the day, he hires 10 more men also for 10 coins to work the one hour remaining in the day. Those who had been working all day for 10 coins get pissed.
The moral of this story is to pick $3 over $2.
(and if you think the average schmoe is going to worry about devaluation of the currency, you'd be wrong)
I can find the BBC files on Morpheus, sure enough, using the following as a guide for the names and file order, though:
Unofficial BBC LotR page
Usenet files are often distributed with a collection of 'par files'. These files consist of any number of files with an index-like file (*.PAR), and datafiles (*.P01, .P02, etc).
I'm not nearly savvy enough in this area to comment on internals.
Anyway, basically you can replace any number of files smaller than or equal to the number of PAR files. So if you get PAR files P01 through P04, you can replace up to 4 files that have been damaged.
This is cool stuff, since it drastically reduces terminally incomplete large binaries on Usenet servers. Which, of course, I.. uhm... have no part of, and stuff.
Check out an open source client of this thing: http://parchive.sourceforge.net/
--
(does the term Reed-Solomon ring a bell?)
Can I sue the US Government for privacy infractions and computer crimes if I find this program on my PC? Can my government sue the US Government for the same?
Don't worry, noone will ever accuse Australians of having any intelligence to target.
*rimshot*
This is not about the FBI using this to catch the bad guys. This is about the FBI having a means of breaching privacy and security in a way that's just sick.
Say McAfee was purposefully flawed and let this thing through. We use McAfee at work, too. Bang, any encrypted data stored on a networked computer there is instantly vulnerable, and can be traded off. They've done it before, haven't they?
And then there's privacy at stake.
Let's try this while logged in:
The goal of copyright is to encourage authors and other artists to create more works. Encouragement is done by giving them exclusive copyrights to the work they create, protected by law, for a limited time.
Distributing a work over the internet without the author's permission or even knowledge isn't just illegal, it's immoral.
And as for that last line, libraries do not republish material, they lend a specific copy. And they *do* pay for the copies they lend out, unless they're donations.
Publishing a file on the Internet is republishing, and *that* is prohibited by law for a specific reason.
If the law said that any author who wrote a work would not be allowed to profit from it, how many good authors do you think there'd be left?
(of course, having the 'limited time' being shorter than a human lifespan would be nice)
So these people can win 7 million pounds as long as they aren't doing it for the benefit of earning money, yet they started work once the prize was offered?
That kindof strikes me as saying "I'll offer $10,000 to anyone who'll say no to $10,000!", and then having several people coming up to give it a shot.
Slovenia was attacked by a phenomenon called the Slashdot Effect. The government was left paralyzed and devastated by this formidable weapon.
It's about time Slashdot started bringing down governments!
Quake 3 took the first person shooter as far as it can go?
Are you crazy?
Quake 3, IMHO, sucks. It offers nothing new compared to earlier offerings from ID.
Say this of a game like Tribes 2, and I may believe you. You'd still be wrong, but closer.
I was under the impression that HP calculators did the same type of math as TIs. If you can handle math on one, but not the other, where does the problem lie? I doubt it's with the calculator.