I'd recommend things like this to anyone.
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Chase the Rabbits
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This reminds me a lot of my time on our schools crew team.. We haven't gone through what this guy did, but we go through hell and go through it together. When I started, I joined because I wanted to get in shape. However, what I have gotten out of it is the ability and willingness to push myself to new levels, and the chance to be able to be part of a true team. Yes, it sucks, but it is extremely rewarding. To anyone out there who has never really done something like crew or PT training, I would highly recommend it. The first few weeks will be hell (so will the rest of it, but you'll be used to it by then), but it will end up being one of the most rewarding things you have ever done for yourself.
Probably the largest advantage the CBDTPA gives corporations over the SSSCA is that it is extremely hard to pronounce or remember, and is sufficiently long enough to keep it from coming up in day-to-day conversation.
Some time after, the DOE discovers the machine is being abused by employees for personal use, with it running 42 Quake servers, hosting the worlds biggest pr0n archive, having the top ranking on distributed.net, and taking on Kasparov all at the same time. One official was quoted as saying vague stuff and not really making any sense.
To be honest, I don't remember the difference between Kb, KB.. etc, I know I get about half a megabyte a second transfer from sites with the capacity to serve it (I've gotten up to 9/10 megabyte/second). I am on a college LAN, our connection to the outside world is an OC3 feed, I think. I believe you about CD transfer speeds, but for whatever reason I have had games (read: Tribes 2.. it took about an hour on both me and my friends computer) that install much slower than it takes to download and install similar sized demos.
Ouch.. no, no no.. I can already see it happening. Then you'll have the radio communications contain ads ("Our PlayStation 2 Command Center is under attack!").. then next thing you know, you'll be wielding the McHamburger Blaster 2000, and using it to feed hungry McDonalds customers in a non-violent, family-friendly game...
I get up to and past 500kb/sec on my broadband connection.. With 4:1 compression, a 650 mb cd becomes a 162mb download. That's about a 324 second download, or roughly 5 1/2 minutes. Faster than a lot of CD installs I've done.
That's not really empty buzzwords.. if they were saying stuff like "The new digital deployment paradigm", that would be different. All the things they mentioned are important. Low CPU usage is good, since most games expect to be given most of the CPU's power. 92% wire utilization means that the network code is written well enough so it can be using 92% of your network capacity.. granted that one is a little vague. 4:1 compression.. well, the more compression, the less downloading. 50% cache hits means that servers supplying this data don't have to undergo as much burden packaging together stuff to send out, because half the time there is already a cached copy to send out. Not as important for the user, but for those who serve the data it is.
What does Sierra think of this, considering Sierra publishes Valve's stuff, last I checked? It seems like this is the kind of service that could be offered up easier by a larger company than a smaller one. Is Sierra going to be a part of Steam, or is Valve going to cut the middleman?
Clever. Excellent way for Google to demonstrate a point about the DMCA without in the end actually delisting the site. Kudos to them.
Origami and airbags, who knew?
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Origami Science
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"They thought we might be able to adapt (origami-based) algorithms to solve their problem," Lang recalled. "Sure enough, it worked; now it's used to simulate airbags."
What wasn't mentioned was all the failed attempts to bring origami to airbags, including the infamous "1000-paper-cranes-exploding-in-your-face" airbag.
if it reduces the spam coming out of Yahoo!, that'd be one less domain I have to filter into "Spam," which would be nice.
Most of the domains you see in your spam mail.. e.g. yahoo.com, msn.com.. don't actually come from those hosts. It is extremely easy to forge the sending address.. you can pretend to be billgates@microsoft.com if you want. You can always examine the headers to try to get an idea where the message came from, but the point is you can't trust the sender's address to be from the host they say it's from.
The jump from KDE 1.0 to 2.0 was a fairly major one. This release feels like it should maybe be KDE 2.5 or something- I don't see much in the way of fundamental architecture changes or major enhancements. This is not to slight the work of the KDE team in any way, I am a huge fan and current user of KDE. I just don't understand why this is a point release.
In an unprecedented move, RAMBUS, Inc. announced a planned merger with the Scientologist movement. "We invest a lot of money in protecting our ideas, and noticed a similar trend with the Scientologists. It only made sense to pool our resources." noted Tom Quinn, VP of Marketing at RAMBUS. As part of the merger, RAMBUS will drop its chip-making division, leaving them only to focus on their legal persuits. The Scientologists will continue their legal efforts to use the DMCA to erase all traces of their existance. Analysts were uncertain what to think of the merger. "What are they going to do? Make holy chips?" was one response heard.
Why the added vCard support to the iPod? It's kind of like mounting a railgun to a toaster.
Re:(it actually does happen..)
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Yeah... You also see it now a lot with books.. point in case, LoTR books are now plastered with pictures from the movie on the cover (one could argue the books aren't really changed, but its still kind of valid). Disney takes their movie ideas from old stories, and turns around and writes novels about the movie (at least they did with Aladdin). It's kind of funny when the spinoff of something becomes more popular than the original, and then they use the spinoff to market the original...
(it actually does happen..)
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Resident Evil
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Now, in the spirit of modern-day marketing and product tie-ins, we will soon see a crappy game based off of this movie..
Maybe you should e-mail the author and let him know what you thought about the book- who knows, maybe it will inspire him to do a second edition that will address your concerns.
Did IBM market these as drives for server?
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IBM 120GXP Revisited
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Why is there a fuss over these drives being unsuitable for servers? Were these drives marketed to the server market? I think I'm out of the loop on this one.. can anyone fill me in on the full story? I was a little confused after reading the article.
Does anyone know the breakdown for the $5m figure? Where did most of the cost of cracking the cards come from (e.g. manpower, the equipment they had to buy, etc..)?
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This reminds me a lot of my time on our schools crew team.. We haven't gone through what this guy did, but we go through hell and go through it together. When I started, I joined because I wanted to get in shape. However, what I have gotten out of it is the ability and willingness to push myself to new levels, and the chance to be able to be part of a true team. Yes, it sucks, but it is extremely rewarding. To anyone out there who has never really done something like crew or PT training, I would highly recommend it. The first few weeks will be hell (so will the rest of it, but you'll be used to it by then), but it will end up being one of the most rewarding things you have ever done for yourself.
Probably the largest advantage the CBDTPA gives corporations over the SSSCA is that it is extremely hard to pronounce or remember, and is sufficiently long enough to keep it from coming up in day-to-day conversation.
I can see many potential uses for this, including shaving foam and marshmallows that make your cocoa cold.
Some time after, the DOE discovers the machine is being abused by employees for personal use, with it running 42 Quake servers, hosting the worlds biggest pr0n archive, having the top ranking on distributed.net, and taking on Kasparov all at the same time. One official was quoted as saying vague stuff and not really making any sense.
To be honest, I don't remember the difference between Kb, KB.. etc, I know I get about half a megabyte a second transfer from sites with the capacity to serve it (I've gotten up to 9/10 megabyte/second). I am on a college LAN, our connection to the outside world is an OC3 feed, I think. I believe you about CD transfer speeds, but for whatever reason I have had games (read: Tribes 2.. it took about an hour on both me and my friends computer) that install much slower than it takes to download and install similar sized demos.
(does a google search on Global Gladiators..) Now THAT boggles the mind.. ow.
Ouch.. no, no no.. I can already see it happening. Then you'll have the radio communications contain ads ("Our PlayStation 2 Command Center is under attack!").. then next thing you know, you'll be wielding the McHamburger Blaster 2000, and using it to feed hungry McDonalds customers in a non-violent, family-friendly game...
Maybe I shouldn't post at 5 in the morning..
Article said 4:1 compression, so I'm just running with that.
I get up to and past 500kb/sec on my broadband connection.. With 4:1 compression, a 650 mb cd becomes a 162mb download. That's about a 324 second download, or roughly 5 1/2 minutes. Faster than a lot of CD installs I've done.
That's not really empty buzzwords.. if they were saying stuff like "The new digital deployment paradigm", that would be different. All the things they mentioned are important. Low CPU usage is good, since most games expect to be given most of the CPU's power. 92% wire utilization means that the network code is written well enough so it can be using 92% of your network capacity.. granted that one is a little vague. 4:1 compression.. well, the more compression, the less downloading. 50% cache hits means that servers supplying this data don't have to undergo as much burden packaging together stuff to send out, because half the time there is already a cached copy to send out. Not as important for the user, but for those who serve the data it is.
What does Sierra think of this, considering Sierra publishes Valve's stuff, last I checked? It seems like this is the kind of service that could be offered up easier by a larger company than a smaller one. Is Sierra going to be a part of Steam, or is Valve going to cut the middleman?
Non-deathmatch, eh? I think I smell a Preempt vs. Low-Latency Quake 3 mod in the works..
So why are we paying millions of dollars for F-14s made of titanium?
;)
Where exactly were you planning on finding 500ft square pieces of paper to make these from?
Clever. Excellent way for Google to demonstrate a point about the DMCA without in the end actually delisting the site. Kudos to them.
"They thought we might be able to adapt (origami-based) algorithms to solve their problem," Lang recalled. "Sure enough, it worked; now it's used to simulate airbags."
What wasn't mentioned was all the failed attempts to bring origami to airbags, including the infamous "1000-paper-cranes-exploding-in-your-face" airbag.
Two words for ya. ROX-Filer
if it reduces the spam coming out of Yahoo!, that'd be one less domain I have to filter into "Spam," which would be nice.
Most of the domains you see in your spam mail.. e.g. yahoo.com, msn.com.. don't actually come from those hosts. It is extremely easy to forge the sending address.. you can pretend to be billgates@microsoft.com if you want. You can always examine the headers to try to get an idea where the message came from, but the point is you can't trust the sender's address to be from the host they say it's from.
The jump from KDE 1.0 to 2.0 was a fairly major one. This release feels like it should maybe be KDE 2.5 or something- I don't see much in the way of fundamental architecture changes or major enhancements. This is not to slight the work of the KDE team in any way, I am a huge fan and current user of KDE. I just don't understand why this is a point release.
Finally, no more sitting on cold porcelan when nature calls. Now all they need is a built in massager and they'll be all set.
In an unprecedented move, RAMBUS, Inc. announced a planned merger with the Scientologist movement. "We invest a lot of money in protecting our ideas, and noticed a similar trend with the Scientologists. It only made sense to pool our resources." noted Tom Quinn, VP of Marketing at RAMBUS. As part of the merger, RAMBUS will drop its chip-making division, leaving them only to focus on their legal persuits. The Scientologists will continue their legal efforts to use the DMCA to erase all traces of their existance. Analysts were uncertain what to think of the merger. "What are they going to do? Make holy chips?" was one response heard.
Why the added vCard support to the iPod? It's kind of like mounting a railgun to a toaster.
Yeah... You also see it now a lot with books.. point in case, LoTR books are now plastered with pictures from the movie on the cover (one could argue the books aren't really changed, but its still kind of valid). Disney takes their movie ideas from old stories, and turns around and writes novels about the movie (at least they did with Aladdin). It's kind of funny when the spinoff of something becomes more popular than the original, and then they use the spinoff to market the original...
Now, in the spirit of modern-day marketing and product tie-ins, we will soon see a crappy game based off of this movie..
Maybe you should e-mail the author and let him know what you thought about the book- who knows, maybe it will inspire him to do a second edition that will address your concerns.
Why is there a fuss over these drives being unsuitable for servers? Were these drives marketed to the server market? I think I'm out of the loop on this one.. can anyone fill me in on the full story? I was a little confused after reading the article.
Does anyone know the breakdown for the $5m figure? Where did most of the cost of cracking the cards come from (e.g. manpower, the equipment they had to buy, etc..)?