I don't have an issue with this since the chips are the property of the casino.
It's the same thing if they decided to put RFID tags in the towels.
The only thing I would be interested in, is full disclosure. Even if it's something I have to ask the manager about, the the manager would tell me, "Yes, the chips contain RFID tags, we use them when you cash in the chips to make sure they're legit."
What surprises me is that hotels haven't put RFID tags in their towels and charged you when you steal them!
Actually All I can think of is Stallman walking up to your machine, seeing some piece of software that's not freeware and pouring holy water in every vent home he can find, thus exercizing the demons...
I could grumble about how all the legitimate stories I've submitted have all been rejected, but I won't.
I've got a solution for you!
Call your travel agent before it's too late and cancel your plane ticket.
You've offically had your right to travel abroad revoked because YOUR A JACKASS.
Unless your entering a country with the direct agenda of working towards overthrowing their government, I don't see how your question is even remotely legit.
Otherwise, I would expect that you'd just obey any local laws and ordances. If you issues with the laws, the best solution is not to go.
The problem with your formula is that it prevents you from taking your implimentation and creating a shared library out of it.
Seriously. Let's just say your tasked with creating a graphical toolkit. You go off and in 3 months you've created a masterpiece. You've got everything! Sliders, icons, buttons, rulers, progress bars, menus, text windows, labels, etc.
Now, lets say you take your graphical toolkit and create your own "copy" program. So, you'll need a couple text boxes and/or some open/save dialogs, some labels, maybe a button or two and a progress bar.
What makes more sense. Use header files and have the compiler link against a graphical toolkit shared library OR have the compiler compile thousands of lines worth of your code you'll never use and statically link it into your executable?
If your going todo that, you might as well go full monte and create an activeX control that would format the harddrive and install linux... then it would be something useful...
Why didn't they just use an RTG on Huygens instead of Batteries. Considering that Cassini has three of them if memory serves me right.
a) You'd have enough power to actually send data straight back to earth and/or allow for mulitple passes of Cassini.
b) You could use the heat to keep the components warm.
The only con I can think of is that I'm sure people would holler about introducing nuclear materials to another planet. Though both the rovers on mars have plutonium pellets in the wheel bearings to keep them from ceasing...
I don't see your anology at all. The problem the drug dealer tells the person it's crack, but it's actually rock candy... Which they go off and smoke and get sick and never do again.
Inherently addictions are to things that are enjoyable... I don't see how using a terribly stripped down version of windows is going to foster their "microsoft habit". If anything, I think it's going to drive them away from MS into the arms of something else. (most probably pirated copies of windows).
It's always easier to make a "robotic" machine to manufacture something then it would be to make a humanoid robot to run a machine designed to be run by a human... to a point.
If at some point in the distant future you have NS-5's walking around then the opposite is true. It would be easier to teach an NS-5 to drive then it would be to go out and build a fully autonymous car (since once you taught the NS-5 to drive one car, it could drive any car).
No vacuum cleaner company is ever going to build a vacuum cleaner robot that is any smarter than the minimum it needs to complete it's job. I don't need a vacuum cleaner that's capable of indepenent thought. I need a vacuum cleaner that's just smart enough to go move a chair out of the way so it can vacuum under it and then move the chair back.
Your working 2.68 microseconds less each day, but getting paid the same, so technically you got a raise! (provided you distribute thos 2.68 microseconds evenly among the hours your working and not playing WoW)
Oh, they can skin the bunny. The problem is the best a lvl 1 bunny will produce is "light leather". However for the type of goods that person at level 31 is creating, light leather can't be used. Instead they need to kill much more challenging creatures to get the type of leather they'll need.
Although I haven't played EQ2, I have played DAOC and (while I'm waiting for a new HD, f*ing Fedex!!!) I'm watching my wife play (and helping when she leaves the room!!!) WoW.
Here's what I really like about WoW.
1. Just like the previous poster wrote, Dying doesn't ruin your life. In other MMORPG's the death penalties are such that people don't take risks. They won't explore an area until they are reasonably sure they can drop everything in that given realm with ease because if they die, they know they'll have to pay 100 silver and lose a pile of experience. When I played DAOC, all that did was frustrate the hell out of me. It was a game of shoots and ladders... two steps forward, 1 step back, etc. I like that in WoW, live or die, I'm progressing.
2. As for the original posters bitch about leveling too easily, that's just bunk. I think the other games have it the wrong way around. The experience ramp in WoW is right where it should be. Starts off easy and gets progressively harder. Nobody wants to spend 3 hours getting from first level to second. However, people do expect it to take them three hours to get from 8 to 9th. Likewise, when your 20th level, The expectation is that getting to 21 is going to twice as hard as it was to getting to 20. Putting this in the context of the dying aspect, when you combine excessively step experience curves with terrible death penalites, it makes the game only accessible to those people who are willing to spend 10 hours a day pointlessly grinding...
3. WoW is actually quest based. I HATE GRINDING and wandering around without purpose. Even when I'm off going to get some dudes claw so I can make some malajusted Troll feel better about his lack of wear withall as a warrior, I'm doing something. I'm not off in the woods killing bunnies for the sake of killing bunnies. Also the quests force you to actually go out and explore and tackle creatures that will challenge you. Which is exciting since, if you end up dying, you just go back, try a different tactic, etc.
4. Their GUI is great. I'm suspecting that Blizzard put out an email to all their employees that read "If you play an MMORPG, please come to the starcraft conference room at 1pm..." sat them all down and said "What do you HATE about the games your playing and if you had the chance would design better in an MMORPG. They then took all these ideas wrote them down and worked them into the spec for the game. Just stuff like you goto a vendor and if you hover over a weapon in their inventory it'll pop up a little window next to it containing your currently equipped weapon so you can easily compare them.
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Now that I've got that working quantum computer I've proven the theory so it's now a fact...
There are an infinite number of numbers hence an infinite number of infinite primes from that set of infinite numbers.
The nice thing was that it only took a billionth of second to figure it all out.
I don't have an issue with this since the chips are the property of the casino.
It's the same thing if they decided to put RFID tags in the towels.
The only thing I would be interested in, is full disclosure. Even if it's something I have to ask the manager about, the the manager would tell me, "Yes, the chips contain RFID tags, we use them when you cash in the chips to make sure they're legit."
What surprises me is that hotels haven't put RFID tags in their towels and charged you when you steal them!
It's not like the word "fuck" doesn't show up all over the place in the linux kernel...
Running the command:
find . -exec grep "fuck" {} \; | wc -l
yeilds a result of 34.
Looking for the word "Fuck" yields 7...
I think they're talking about OS queue stack for transaction process (i.e Stratus VOS queues).
If a company was going to contribute that type of technology to the kernel, that would be awesome.
This is basically the the cochlear implant for the eye.
The brain is dynamic enough to remap the signals into something coherent.
My linux box running xfce flies.
Though Open office taking up a 114MB of ram is a bit annoying...
Simple.
These guys have already proven that their moral character is lacking... would you want them touching government systems???
For every bright criminal, the government can higher someone who is equally bright, but who isn't a criminal.
Hmm, I would have thought it would have gotten a funny modifier, but Troll is a bit harsh.
Actually All I can think of is Stallman walking up to your machine, seeing some piece of software that's not freeware and pouring holy water in every vent home he can find, thus exercizing the demons...
It would appear that people can write articles entirely on heresay now!
I'm glad I'm not the only one guilty of this.
As much as the super markets want your personal info, they'd rather just get the demographic info...
Hence I always them that I've forgotten my card and they swipe their store card.
Though I live near a Victory Super Market (who just got bought by Hannafords) and they don't use cards at all.
Though I have to imagine that all of us who bitch about about the cards, turn around and use our Debit card to complete the transaction...
I could grumble about how all the legitimate stories I've submitted have all been rejected, but I won't.
I've got a solution for you!
Call your travel agent before it's too late and cancel your plane ticket.
You've offically had your right to travel abroad revoked because YOUR A JACKASS.
Unless your entering a country with the direct agenda of working towards overthrowing their government, I don't see how your question is even remotely legit.
Otherwise, I would expect that you'd just obey any local laws and ordances. If you issues with the laws, the best solution is not to go.
Heh.
My spacecraft gets 20 parsecs to the hogshead and that's the way I like it...
Wait till fark puts out a photoshop challenge on this pictures... if they haven't already...
The problem with your formula is that it prevents you from taking your implimentation and creating a shared library out of it.
Seriously. Let's just say your tasked with creating a graphical toolkit. You go off and in 3 months you've created a masterpiece. You've got everything! Sliders, icons, buttons, rulers, progress bars, menus, text windows, labels, etc.
Now, lets say you take your graphical toolkit and create your own "copy" program. So, you'll need a couple text boxes and/or some open/save dialogs, some labels, maybe a button or two and a progress bar.
What makes more sense. Use header files and have the compiler link against a graphical toolkit shared library OR have the compiler compile thousands of lines worth of your code you'll never use and statically link it into your executable?
If your going todo that, you might as well go full monte and create an activeX control that would format the harddrive and install linux... then it would be something useful...
Why didn't they just use an RTG on Huygens instead of Batteries. Considering that Cassini has three of them if memory serves me right.
a) You'd have enough power to actually send data straight back to earth and/or allow for mulitple passes of Cassini.
b) You could use the heat to keep the components warm.
The only con I can think of is that I'm sure people would holler about introducing nuclear materials to another planet. Though both the rovers on mars have plutonium pellets in the wheel bearings to keep them from ceasing...
It should be "Mitch Kapor has a new product he wants to pitch that's going to compete against Firefox, so lets bring on the Firefox poopooing..."
You mean is *was* relevant at one time?
Could have fooled me!
I don't see your anology at all. The problem the drug dealer tells the person it's crack, but it's actually rock candy... Which they go off and smoke and get sick and never do again.
Inherently addictions are to things that are enjoyable... I don't see how using a terribly stripped down version of windows is going to foster their "microsoft habit". If anything, I think it's going to drive them away from MS into the arms of something else. (most probably pirated copies of windows).
Who knows.
I agree.
It's always easier to make a "robotic" machine to manufacture something then it would be to make a humanoid robot to run a machine designed to be run by a human... to a point.
If at some point in the distant future you have NS-5's walking around then the opposite is true. It would be easier to teach an NS-5 to drive then it would be to go out and build a fully autonymous car (since once you taught the NS-5 to drive one car, it could drive any car).
I agree.
No vacuum cleaner company is ever going to build a vacuum cleaner robot that is any smarter than the minimum it needs to complete it's job. I don't need a vacuum cleaner that's capable of indepenent thought. I need a vacuum cleaner that's just smart enough to go move a chair out of the way so it can vacuum under it and then move the chair back.
Your working 2.68 microseconds less each day, but getting paid the same, so technically you got a raise! (provided you distribute thos 2.68 microseconds evenly among the hours your working and not playing WoW)
Oh, they can skin the bunny. The problem is the best a lvl 1 bunny will produce is "light leather". However for the type of goods that person at level 31 is creating, light leather can't be used. Instead they need to kill much more challenging creatures to get the type of leather they'll need.
Although I haven't played EQ2, I have played DAOC and (while I'm waiting for a new HD, f*ing Fedex!!!) I'm watching my wife play (and helping when she leaves the room!!!) WoW.
Here's what I really like about WoW.
1. Just like the previous poster wrote, Dying doesn't ruin your life. In other MMORPG's the death penalties are such that people don't take risks. They won't explore an area until they are reasonably sure they can drop everything in that given realm with ease because if they die, they know they'll have to pay 100 silver and lose a pile of experience. When I played DAOC, all that did was frustrate the hell out of me. It was a game of shoots and ladders... two steps forward, 1 step back, etc. I like that in WoW, live or die, I'm progressing.
2. As for the original posters bitch about leveling too easily, that's just bunk. I think the other games have it the wrong way around. The experience ramp in WoW is right where it should be. Starts off easy and gets progressively harder. Nobody wants to spend 3 hours getting from first level to second. However, people do expect it to take them three hours to get from 8 to 9th. Likewise, when your 20th level, The expectation is that getting to 21 is going to twice as hard as it was to getting to 20. Putting this in the context of the dying aspect, when you combine excessively step experience curves with terrible death penalites, it makes the game only accessible to those people who are willing to spend 10 hours a day pointlessly grinding...
3. WoW is actually quest based. I HATE GRINDING and wandering around without purpose. Even when I'm off going to get some dudes claw so I can make some malajusted Troll feel better about his lack of wear withall as a warrior, I'm doing something. I'm not off in the woods killing bunnies for the sake of killing bunnies. Also the quests force you to actually go out and explore and tackle creatures that will challenge you. Which is exciting since, if you end up dying, you just go back, try a different tactic, etc.
4. Their GUI is great. I'm suspecting that Blizzard put out an email to all their employees that read "If you play an MMORPG, please come to the starcraft conference room at 1pm..." sat them all down and said "What do you HATE about the games your playing and if you had the chance would design better in an MMORPG. They then took all these ideas wrote them down and worked them into the spec for the game. Just stuff like you goto a vendor and if you hover over a weapon in their inventory it'll pop up a little window next to it containing your currently equipped weapon so you can easily compare them.