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Appearently Mike had the same thought at the same moment I did... only he voice his "... hey, if you can write an operating system, what are you doing here ?"... and that salesman's name was Linus Torvalds!
And now you know... the rest of the story.
most Fernandes guitars are cheap rip offs of Fender Strat's... and I mean really cheap, almost as bad the ultra-lame Squeers these kids are buying today. Anyway, if you play guitar, or want to learn to play guitar, get a real Fender Strat and your playing will scream of tone and authenticity. Get one of these and you will sound like a nerd. Not to mention look like one for buying a Star Wars geetar.
Wally: Hey Dilbert, do you want to join my TTP project?
Dilbert: What does TTP stand for?
Wally: The TTP Project
Dilbert: I'd rather be your worst enemy.
The lame Slashdot filter says I have too few characters per line, so this is just a buffer to add more characters to the line. Please ignore unless you want to flame the lameness filter.
this is the first i've heard of this and this is the dumbest thing Slashdot can do. No one will pay. I don't care about the banner ads at the top. I ignore them anyway. Have you done any market research to back this up? Is there an official announcement that I missed?
along the same lines, has anyone else heard about certain artists creating extra "noise" on their music (something in a range that is so high that humans can neither hear it nor will it affect sound quality). When converted to a lossy format, usually for pirating (like MP3 format), it garbles extremely easily.
I heard an interview with a man that worked for a valley (Phoenix) radio station, and he was talking about public feedback. The most surprisingly thing he said was that, in general, stations tend to ignore mass-petitions like the one in the article. The logic behind this was that the people who set forth the petition are making a significant effort to save a show, and this may sway people's opinions. On the other hand, viewers or listeners who take it upon themselves to write into a station are given a significant weight. The amount of weight depends on the number of overall listeners and probably some deep statistical reasoning, but I do know from the anecdote he gave that for 910 KFYI (now 550 KFYI) one individual writing a letter is considered to represent 8,800 people.
Remember, an unsolicited opinion is always better than a solicited opinion. This is the same principle.
So instead of signing the petition, WRITE A LETTER (not e-mail, the old kind of letter where you put a stamp on). If everyone who had signed the petition had written a letter, I can almost guarantee you Fox would put FR back on TV.
I've NEVER seen a "underrated" before in the total moderation. Its always been funny, insightful, interesting, etc. etc. Is this a bug or is it just hard to get an "underrated"/"overrated" for the total moderation?
I'm using Windows XP with a new computer (1.4 ghz dell) and my clock loses substantial time. Right now, I have an uptime of about 2 weeks but my clock is 5 hours off. I keep fixing it but it keeps losing more and more time.
Any help would be appreciated. This is particularly annoying because I use time-sensitive applications.
Hit your head when you fell off the shortbus today, sir?
The "stealing from the community" comment was tongue-in-cheek. He is poking fun at all the Open Source zealots who think Closed Source is morally wrong.
Until you have achieved the minimum IQ to post here at Slashdot, please refrain from doing so, or Timothy may be forced to IP ban you. Ok thanks.
A while back I saw something on PBS where some guy from NASA showed a computer depiction of a space station which "created" gravity through centripetal motion. It seemed like a good idea because I know a lot of problems with space travel is the time limit due to atrophy of muscles from a zero gravity environment. The PBS guy dismissed this though by saying, "In fact, the US government knows little to nothing about making a station like this one."
Personally, I think this should be the top priority. This would solve many of our problems and would allow a manned mission to Mars be possible. Why isn't NASA working towards this? What is prohibiting them from doing it? Or are they making progress that I am not aware?
No that would be pointless, because the total energy of that universe would be 0 too. So you would create a universe with a total energy of 0, and suck what energy out from it?
>The universe came from nothing right? All that energy came from nothing right?
Yes and no. The total energy of the universe is 0, because when calculating the total energy gravity is considered "negative." As Michio Kaku points out in his Hyperspace book (a decent book if you are starting out on theoretical physics) it is possible that universes can "pop into existence" at any time within the bubble of hyperspace.
1) Most knowledgeably computer users aren't typing in "http://www.tires.com" to find a place to buy tires
2) Most new Internet users aren't typing in "http://www.google.com" to find what they are looking for
Until the Internet population becomes more educated, there will always be a benefit to domain name speculation.
I doubt anyone that uses Slashdot types in words as a domain name to find what they are looking for (unless they are bored or desparate). On the other hand, Mr. Billy-Bob Joe from the midwest who is using the Internet for the first time doesn't quite know what he is doing, so he will try to do just that, likely.
In other words, Tom's Hardware would have absolutely no benefit to domain spculation, but another company more oriented to older, less experienced Internet users would continue to have success.
Absolutely unbelievable!! I think there is more here than what meets the eye. 1 flamebait but 34 offtopic? 25 interesting but 8 informative? come on, something is wrong here.
I actually knew someone who worked at EA (not anymore, unfortunately) who helped develop the AI for the game. Needless to say, EA created a unique AI scripting language from scratch, which is pretty much a requirement for a game of this scale and a goal this ambitious.
I was talking to him on AIM once when he was scripting, telling me that he was working on an AIMbot that would give information. I was already familar with some AIMbots (add "SmarterChild" to your AOL list and say "hello" to him -- he is hellacool!) so I enquired as to how they were implementing the system at a time. I was a little disappointed when he told me it was keyword based (the bot would scan for certain words) - this is archaic technology that has been around since the late 70s and early 80s.
Even though it did make *some* attempt to parse the language, such as searching for negative words and helping verbs ("not the gun" would invoke a different response than "that gun") and it did take into account misspellings, the bots were too "mechanical" for the average non-programmer to use.
And that's the problem with trying to develop a game like this - our AI technology is not advanced yet. Not until we make significant gains on a Turing machine (on home computers, no less) will games like this become successful.
On the other hand, I was surprised to see how little attention this game received compared to other "ground breaking" games such as UO and EverQuest. We've all seen sci-fi movies where games become reality, and I thought it was an interesting twist for reality to become the game. I thought it was a really good idea, and when I explained the concept to friends they thought it was a good idea too. I don't know what went wrong with the project, but I suppose this can be blamed on marketing or something.
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Does this mean he's going to have to pay for the "stories" that go on the front page, or will he still be given a free ride by Malda & gang?
i amj so drunk and listening to the eagles' s peac4eful easy feeling!
its such a good song
especailly the first chorus
dude i spejt the night with a good friend and his twin brother listening to music in my car and hsit and drinkking brews
now i am really fucked up
and driunk!!!
lol!!!!
well
this isn't on topic
nor off topic
in fact
it isn't here nor there
whatever
i'l ltake the karma punishemnt dished to me
peace pPEACE!
PEACE
Probably because the moderator is unaware of the acronym "SMB". SMB = Super Mario Bros. Duh!
Appearently Mike had the same thought at the same moment I did ... only he voice his "... hey, if you can write an operating system, what are you doing here ?" ... and that salesman's name was Linus Torvalds!
And now you know... the rest of the story.
most Fernandes guitars are cheap rip offs of Fender Strat's ... and I mean really cheap, almost as bad the ultra-lame Squeers these kids are buying today. Anyway, if you play guitar, or want to learn to play guitar, get a real Fender Strat and your playing will scream of tone and authenticity. Get one of these and you will sound like a nerd. Not to mention look like one for buying a Star Wars geetar.
Wally: Hey Dilbert, do you want to join my TTP project?
Dilbert: What does TTP stand for?
Wally: The TTP Project
Dilbert: I'd rather be your worst enemy.
The lame Slashdot filter says I have too few characters per line, so this is just a buffer to add more characters to the line. Please ignore unless you want to flame the lameness filter.this is the first i've heard of this and this is the dumbest thing Slashdot can do. No one will pay. I don't care about the banner ads at the top. I ignore them anyway. Have you done any market research to back this up? Is there an official announcement that I missed?
Get in touch with reality. Jesus.
ever in slashdot history?
could it be !
and i'm logged in!
and i'm not a karma whore or troll!
a normal person getting FP --- unprecedented!
what about a SIP per misspelling or grammatical error? I wouldn't be able to stand up after one viewing of the front page.
oh oh oh, you mean counterFEIT
dumbass
along the same lines, has anyone else heard about certain artists creating extra "noise" on their music (something in a range that is so high that humans can neither hear it nor will it affect sound quality). When converted to a lossy format, usually for pirating (like MP3 format), it garbles extremely easily.
I heard an interview with a man that worked for a valley (Phoenix) radio station, and he was talking about public feedback. The most surprisingly thing he said was that, in general, stations tend to ignore mass-petitions like the one in the article. The logic behind this was that the people who set forth the petition are making a significant effort to save a show, and this may sway people's opinions. On the other hand, viewers or listeners who take it upon themselves to write into a station are given a significant weight. The amount of weight depends on the number of overall listeners and probably some deep statistical reasoning, but I do know from the anecdote he gave that for 910 KFYI (now 550 KFYI) one individual writing a letter is considered to represent 8,800 people.
Remember, an unsolicited opinion is always better than a solicited opinion. This is the same principle.
So instead of signing the petition, WRITE A LETTER (not e-mail, the old kind of letter where you put a stamp on). If everyone who had signed the petition had written a letter, I can almost guarantee you Fox would put FR back on TV.
I've NEVER seen a "underrated" before in the total moderation. Its always been funny, insightful, interesting, etc. etc. Is this a bug or is it just hard to get an "underrated"/"overrated" for the total moderation?
I'm using Windows XP with a new computer (1.4 ghz dell) and my clock loses substantial time. Right now, I have an uptime of about 2 weeks but my clock is 5 hours off. I keep fixing it but it keeps losing more and more time.
Any help would be appreciated. This is particularly annoying because I use time-sensitive applications.
Hit your head when you fell off the shortbus today, sir?
The "stealing from the community" comment was tongue-in-cheek. He is poking fun at all the Open Source zealots who think Closed Source is morally wrong.
Until you have achieved the minimum IQ to post here at Slashdot, please refrain from doing so, or Timothy may be forced to IP ban you. Ok thanks.
doesn't the coriolis effect have something to do with the way the water rotates in your toilet when you flush, too?
A while back I saw something on PBS where some guy from NASA showed a computer depiction of a space station which "created" gravity through centripetal motion. It seemed like a good idea because I know a lot of problems with space travel is the time limit due to atrophy of muscles from a zero gravity environment. The PBS guy dismissed this though by saying, "In fact, the US government knows little to nothing about making a station like this one."
Personally, I think this should be the top priority. This would solve many of our problems and would allow a manned mission to Mars be possible. Why isn't NASA working towards this? What is prohibiting them from doing it? Or are they making progress that I am not aware?
No that would be pointless, because the total energy of that universe would be 0 too. So you would create a universe with a total energy of 0, and suck what energy out from it?
>The universe came from nothing right? All that energy came from nothing right?
Yes and no. The total energy of the universe is 0, because when calculating the total energy gravity is considered "negative." As Michio Kaku points out in his Hyperspace book (a decent book if you are starting out on theoretical physics) it is possible that universes can "pop into existence" at any time within the bubble of hyperspace.
Hey did you read that from Michio Kaku's superstring or is that from another (original) source?
Can anyone say "discontinuity"?? :-)
Two things seem apparent to me:
1) Most knowledgeably computer users aren't typing in "http://www.tires.com" to find a place to buy tires
2) Most new Internet users aren't typing in "http://www.google.com" to find what they are looking for
Until the Internet population becomes more educated, there will always be a benefit to domain name speculation.
I doubt anyone that uses Slashdot types in words as a domain name to find what they are looking for (unless they are bored or desparate). On the other hand, Mr. Billy-Bob Joe from the midwest who is using the Internet for the first time doesn't quite know what he is doing, so he will try to do just that, likely.
In other words, Tom's Hardware would have absolutely no benefit to domain spculation, but another company more oriented to older, less experienced Internet users would continue to have success.
Look at this:
Moderation Totals: Offtopic=34, Flamebait=1, Troll=2, Redundant=2, Insightful=8, Interesting=25, Informative=8, Overrated=2, Underrated=1, Total=83.
Absolutely unbelievable!! I think there is more here than what meets the eye. 1 flamebait but 34 offtopic? 25 interesting but 8 informative? come on, something is wrong here.
I actually knew someone who worked at EA (not anymore, unfortunately) who helped develop the AI for the game. Needless to say, EA created a unique AI scripting language from scratch, which is pretty much a requirement for a game of this scale and a goal this ambitious.
I was talking to him on AIM once when he was scripting, telling me that he was working on an AIMbot that would give information. I was already familar with some AIMbots (add "SmarterChild" to your AOL list and say "hello" to him -- he is hellacool!) so I enquired as to how they were implementing the system at a time. I was a little disappointed when he told me it was keyword based (the bot would scan for certain words) - this is archaic technology that has been around since the late 70s and early 80s.
Even though it did make *some* attempt to parse the language, such as searching for negative words and helping verbs ("not the gun" would invoke a different response than "that gun") and it did take into account misspellings, the bots were too "mechanical" for the average non-programmer to use.
And that's the problem with trying to develop a game like this - our AI technology is not advanced yet. Not until we make significant gains on a Turing machine (on home computers, no less) will games like this become successful.
On the other hand, I was surprised to see how little attention this game received compared to other "ground breaking" games such as UO and EverQuest. We've all seen sci-fi movies where games become reality, and I thought it was an interesting twist for reality to become the game. I thought it was a really good idea, and when I explained the concept to friends they thought it was a good idea too. I don't know what went wrong with the project, but I suppose this can be blamed on marketing or something.