"'Oh, is the new Zelda because you made a mistake with Wind Waker?' You don't make a mistake when you sell something in the millions and millions"
That's kind of a Micro$oftistic remark; every Zelda title gets sold a lot 'cuz it's Zelda. Even if they make something bad (not implying that Wind Waker is bad!) they still sell 'millions and millions'. It's always easy to fall back on sales numbers when quality is questioned.
Windows is the #1 used OS out there. That can't be a mistake, can it?
It's wavelet based, so presumably it doesn't suffer from the block artifacts of MPEG-2 & MPRG-4.
Then what other artifacts can occur?
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"We're designing the system in such a way that the barrels are very stupid - so that they are very reliable and inexpensive."
The article mentions nothing about obstacles and how the bollards avoid them (obstacle detection? options for planning a path, manually or automatically?).
Road construction sites (and even roads in normal condition) usually have holes 'n dents 'n stuff, so there's a chance of having one of those "stupid" cones run into a ditch or hole, fall, and roll on to a busy road. Besides the obvious dangers of that happening, a human has to go and pick up the bollard, at a location it wasn't supposed to end up (brining along more risk for that person, too).
In fact, some magazines and other printed media contain text rasterized at way, way higher resolution, in the ranges of 1200-2400 dpi even. Graphics are usually rasterized at 150 - 300 dpi, 600 - 1200 for high quality (high dollar) prints. On the other hand, most colour-printed media use colour separations to obtain (seemingly) higher resolution.
Windows for home usage (95,98,me,2k,xp) does not come with a pre-enabled HTTP/FTP server, and most people don't even know it's there. Windows Server appearantly does (have no experience with it whatsoever), but i'd like to assume that installed Windows' for desktop outnumber the installs of the Windows Server family. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
To say that "...while Linux servers were the most vulnerable,,," only means that they may have been the most targeted.
We all know the average Linux user is more likely to tamper with his setup and run non-model-user applications, like their very own webserver. They are likely to know few things about proper server security, and therefore their servers are more vulnerable.
Windows users are less likely to run a webserver, simply because they're not as eager to play with their system as Linux users. Therefore there will be less insecure Windows servers. The same goes for Mac-OS users.
What I want to know is the percentage of professionally installed and maintained servers that was actually vulnerable.
Here's some utilities that might help:
http://store.yahoo.com/earplugstore/whitnoismac.ht ml
I have no experience with white noise generators myself, but one of my friends swears by it - white noise masks out the noises his cats (and sometimes infant) make.
The rocket you can see from the freeway is small compared to the Saturn V, which itself is inside a giant hall. The hall is a few miles towards the center of Kennedy Space Center (which is a huge patch of land all by itself), so it's impossible to see it from the road. If you think the rocket outside is big, buy a ticket and go see the real thing. That's worth the $29 alone. And I know, I went there yesterday:) (for the 2nd time)
"Software should be as easy to edit as a PowerPoint presentation," Simonyi asserts.
In that case, software should ship with its own slow, monotone narrator that reads ALL the words on the screen so it's hard not to doze off after five seconds. Great.
Oh wait... my OS already has that. Microsoft Narrator.
(P.S. Can't wait for my dialog boxes to slide in from left to right -- or better yet... rotation!!! oh boy oh boy.)
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That's kind of a Micro$oftistic remark; every Zelda title gets sold a lot 'cuz it's Zelda. Even if they make something bad (not implying that Wind Waker is bad!) they still sell 'millions and millions'. It's always easy to fall back on sales numbers when quality is questioned.
Windows is the #1 used OS out there. That can't be a mistake, can it?
Then what other artifacts can occur?
The article mentions nothing about obstacles and how the bollards avoid them (obstacle detection? options for planning a path, manually or automatically?).
Road construction sites (and even roads in normal condition) usually have holes 'n dents 'n stuff, so there's a chance of having one of those "stupid" cones run into a ditch or hole, fall, and roll on to a busy road. Besides the obvious dangers of that happening, a human has to go and pick up the bollard, at a location it wasn't supposed to end up (brining along more risk for that person, too).
Poly == more! Weee!
In fact, some magazines and other printed media contain text rasterized at way, way higher resolution, in the ranges of 1200-2400 dpi even. Graphics are usually rasterized at 150 - 300 dpi, 600 - 1200 for high quality (high dollar) prints. On the other hand, most colour-printed media use colour separations to obtain (seemingly) higher resolution.
maybe the moon is *behind* sedna, playing hide 'n seek
People would be much better off with hardware versions of Internet Explorer and Outlook (Express) in that respect. Yikes.
Of course, it's about nothing!
Is there no karma whore willing to sacrifice a bit of their soul for a link to a friggin mirror!?
Windows for home usage (95,98,me,2k,xp) does not come with a pre-enabled HTTP/FTP server, and most people don't even know it's there. Windows Server appearantly does (have no experience with it whatsoever), but i'd like to assume that installed Windows' for desktop outnumber the installs of the Windows Server family. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
We all know the average Linux user is more likely to tamper with his setup and run non-model-user applications, like their very own webserver. They are likely to know few things about proper server security, and therefore their servers are more vulnerable.
Windows users are less likely to run a webserver, simply because they're not as eager to play with their system as Linux users. Therefore there will be less insecure Windows servers. The same goes for Mac-OS users.
What I want to know is the percentage of professionally installed and maintained servers that was actually vulnerable.
Here is a page that lists a bunch of features. Handy dandy.
Here's some utilities that might help: http://store.yahoo.com/earplugstore/whitnoismac.ht ml
I have no experience with white noise generators myself, but one of my friends swears by it - white noise masks out the noises his cats (and sometimes infant) make.
And it works, too :/
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Here are some pics. (Not mine, brought a non-digital cam.)
Actually, it translates to me-steal-car@from.your. Which is even worse.
Oh yes. I'm sure the SlashDot effect will help them out :)
I use my Wacom Intuos2 tablet as a plate for extreme breakfast making while sittingin front of the pc, does that count?
the Resident Evil series (shooter/puzzler)
Fatal Frame (ditto)
Ico (puzzler, very well done)
(etc...)
Also, if you have a gamecube, Metroid Prime is a _very_ nice 1st person shooter / puzzler. Definately a must-see.
*lightbulb*
I'd like to see a pluche PC, with keyboard and monitor. Or better yet... a G4 (cube) or G5... hmm... way cheaper, just as useful. *hides*
I went to an ATM from the Rabobank, a Dutch bank, and on the display I saw WinNT4.0 had crashed. Not a safe thought.
I don't know. How responsible are you for a drive-by shooting, done with your stolen car?
In that case, software should ship with its own slow, monotone narrator that reads ALL the words on the screen so it's hard not to doze off after five seconds. Great.
Oh wait... my OS already has that. Microsoft Narrator.
(P.S. Can't wait for my dialog boxes to slide in from left to right -- or better yet... rotation!!! oh boy oh boy.)