If I don't know what the hell you are talking about (you lost me at "chroot"), am I going to be able to play Diablo on my Fedora Core I Riva TNT2 P4 machine?
If the computer considers the library of Emmanuel Lasker, then it could be "more interesting". He was (in)famous for making -ahem- startlingmoves for someone of his caliber. Traditional chess theory would call them blunders, but they would serve to complicate the board to a degree that his opponents could not as easily determine the best moves before he could. He would thus confuse, recover, and gain advantage before they could adequately respond. A chess program designed to confuse more rigid chess programs could serve to benefit in the same way Lasker did.
I susbcribe to Games. That's the only puzzle magazine worth looking at. I can't believe the number of inane Word Search magazines I find next to it. How does Dell (the publisher) do it?
I also subscribe to MacAddict. It's lost some allure over the last year or so, but that's likely more because I haven't upgraded to Panther and they have.
I used to subscribe to Scientific American, but this is such a frigging rag now it's amazing. It's the barest squeek above Discover [shudder]. I'll pick up an American Scientist every now and then, but the last few issues have looked dull. I also try out Skeptic from time to time. Despite the heavy marketing, I'm not into the "lad" magazines--the good stuff is all on Fark anyway.
You can't file a suit unless you really go for th gusto. Here's what Midway wants:
It requested that the court award it damages and reimbursement of its legal fees and require Sony Ericsson to turn over all mobile phones, software, and other materials in its possession related to the alleged copyright violation.
Hell yeah!
"You have a shitty Defender clone on your phones. OMFGWTFLOL GIVE ME ALL YOUR PHONES!!!111!onehundredandeleven!"
Why sue for an apology or some licensing ducats, when you can sue for the whole frigging world and settle for and apology and some licensing ducats.
I talked about my doing this in an earlier thread. In the practice test, they changed to problem to identify differences in the mirror image--which would screw this method. Did they change it back for the real test? That's not too smart.
Classic Gamer magazine also moved to PDF. You can get the first PDF issue here with the second to follow shortly. I, for one, really appreciate this publishing method. They can still turn out nice product and the distribution is far less complicated. A lot of niche magazines will head this route, I'm thinking. Well, the tech-savvy ones at least.
They had a puzzle similar to the mirror image one, except it asked which was exactly the same. You could easily identify mismatches by placing the images side-by-side and "Magic Eye"'ing them, as you would for a stereogram. Images that are exactly the same will be fine, but images that differ even slightly will have blurry smudges when observed this way. It's like a quick 2-D diff. I told them this was a flaw and I'm glad to see them change the puzzle.
I thought "omega" was already taken in number theoretical circles--the surreal number consisting of up-up-up-up-... ("up-hat")? Hell, Cantor broke out the Hebrew numbers to express his weird idea. That link uses omega in its own way. This guy really should have tried a little harder.
I don't really know how to do things in Windows very well. I've used Mac OS since 7.1 and Linux since Red Hat 7. I've had to use Microsoft at work off and on over the last 5 years. I do have to troubleshoot my parents Windows machines and it's a huge pain in the ass: Ad-aware, Spybot, Windows Messaging, etc. I've had to wrangle all of those. Nevermind the virus software that pops up and irritates my mother-in-law for more money every 15 days. I'm sure there's some savvy way of clamping down all the ports that are default open for no reason, but why would I want to bother to learn?
I have a Powerbook that kicked ass out of the box; both in terms of security and UI. I don't have the urge to play games on my PC's beyond MAME. (I have a PS2 for that). I got the OS for my Linux box from the library. It also installed without a hitch, and is loaded with help and man pages that are actually helpful and serve as manuals. Also, that book mentioned above is great.
I don't see the point in using Windows beyond the access to games--which doesn't interest me enough to risk trojans, zombification, worms, an obnoxious and backwards default browser that requires an act of Congress to remove, etc.
You may want to use a "controlled" browser. Ie, one with "parental" protections built in so the teens don't go porning up the church atmosphere too much. You can even whitelist, which makes you work more, but you know they can't dodge it as easily as CyberSitter or that kind of thing. They can probably still get around it, but they'll have to work a little.
This is more +1 Insightful than +1 Funny. I'm new to the Linux way of things, so I'd never heard of this site before. This article points me to the guys rant, which then talks about all the ads I'll see when I go visit the site. Given that it's published on/., I'm going to guess a lot of folks that would not normally read the site, or perhaps not today are going to stroll over there to see these "offensive" ads. Sending pageviews through the roof. A great way to send that "boycott message"--those ads will be the most viewed this month I'm sure. People will frigging reload the page to get them all.
Cheapass Games has some real gems. Kill Doctor Lucky is great for a small group though. Some people figure it out quickly, and others kind of stare off not understanding why everyone else likes it.
I can second the Settlers and Carcassonne nominations. Those both reward skill, though Settlers takes some bargaining craft to really excel.
I didn't like Iron Mountain very much, but Eurorails had the best map for the rail series of games I played. The US (Empire Builder) is too large, and Australia has the same problems of overly wide spaces with no cities. Never played India Rails.
You're not very good at Clue. Haven't you ever asked, "Was it Professor Plum, in the Conservatory, with the Revolver," when YOU ARE HOLDING Plum and the Conservatory? If no one disproves it, then you know it's the Revolver. If it is disproven, then your Dad's going to be wrong because he's assuming YOU don't have Plum and Conservatory--why would you ask about them? At worst, he would think that the person who showed you Revolver must -also- have Plum or the Conservatory or both.
The book walks you through some trouble spots you might encounter and nudges you towards some options that may not be obvious from the Fedora literature, like having yum look at freshrpms.net instead of Red Hat (for packages that Red Hat might regard with disdain.) It even walks through installs of the UT2004 Demo and Enemy Territory.
Seriously. I was at my local library the other day (picking up Fedora Core UNLEASHED--who dl's ISO's?) and saw his books over in the SF section. This is an -ahem- colorful area populated by Jedi School books and assorted crapola that the library doesn't want to taint their Fiction stacks.
Snow Crash, OK. Diamond Age, yes yes. But Cryptonomicon is not very science fiction-y. It's more Tom Clancy than SF--I mean these are computer scientists and all, but they aren't neutronic worms living on the surface of a star. And I just know the librarians are going to toss Quicksilver over there once it's off the "New" shelf. This book is historical fiction-- albeit about nerds, but it's "HF" none the less. (I can't wait for the next Con! Ye Olde Renaissance Faire!).
When's this guy going to get some credit for moving on?
If you haven't yet tried out Puzzle Pirates, then you should. That's about the best use of Java for a game that I've seen or really expect to see. Works like a charm cross-platform and takes advantage of the -ahem- chunky graphics to deliver a great gaming experience.
Actually, if you have the ability to boot to Classic--I'm not sure when they killed that off, so YMMV, but you could use the OS 9 Control Panel to switch it over and it would "stick" in OS X. I had to do it to get Diablo 2 playable.
Bootsy, are you unwilling to consider that the SM has some flaws? Like the magnitude of observed CP-Violation? Like the fact that there's gravity (not accounted for by SM)? The SM as orginally conceived didn't produce a number of the results you quote as incredibly accurate. Only after it had some extra "refinements" bolted on did it turn out the results we now say show its excellence. There's a small but growing minority that the next Kuhnian paradigm shift is coming soon and the Standard Model will fall before it.
Strictly this is off-topic, but that's about as nice a Slashdot post as this reader has ever seen. A nice expert opinion well-rendered and in a timely fashion. Consider me a fan.
That's the real key. GTA:Vice City locked up a lot of the decent 80's tunes. Is this one going for a Starsky & Hutch 70's groove, or a 90's grungy/glam sound?
Flu vaccines--for the last several decades--are cultured in chicken eggs. The little eggs gets injected with flu virus, the virus replicates and the little liquid chicken produces antibodies, which are then sucked out and jabbed in Gramma's arm at the clinic. This works great. For swine flu.
Avian flu, however, would likely kill the egg--Dead Eggs Produce No Antibodies, i.e. no vaccine. Luckily, it's more difficult for avian flu to make the species jump to humans in a virulent form, but the WHO, CDC, and other groups are scared to death some bird flu is going to figure this out soon and we'll be helpless in front of it. It's 1918 all over again.
Don't get to cranky about these folks looking at ways to culture flu virii in something other than chickens--they're looking for answers.
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Yeah, I have to agree with radish here. We had to maintain pages for NS4.x--that is a true hell. I even bitched about it in my journal.
If I don't know what the hell you are talking about (you lost me at "chroot"), am I going to be able to play Diablo on my Fedora Core I Riva TNT2 P4 machine?
If the computer considers the library of Emmanuel Lasker, then it could be "more interesting". He was (in)famous for making -ahem- startling moves for someone of his caliber. Traditional chess theory would call them blunders, but they would serve to complicate the board to a degree that his opponents could not as easily determine the best moves before he could. He would thus confuse, recover, and gain advantage before they could adequately respond. A chess program designed to confuse more rigid chess programs could serve to benefit in the same way Lasker did.
I also subscribe to MacAddict. It's lost some allure over the last year or so, but that's likely more because I haven't upgraded to Panther and they have.
Also, Vanity Fair. They've got some pretty decent articles. Nice left-wing bent.
I used to subscribe to Scientific American, but this is such a frigging rag now it's amazing. It's the barest squeek above Discover [shudder]. I'll pick up an American Scientist every now and then, but the last few issues have looked dull. I also try out Skeptic from time to time. Despite the heavy marketing, I'm not into the "lad" magazines--the good stuff is all on Fark anyway.
"You have a shitty Defender clone on your phones. OMFGWTFLOL GIVE ME ALL YOUR PHONES!!!111!onehundredandeleven!"
Why sue for an apology or some licensing ducats, when you can sue for the whole frigging world and settle for and apology and some licensing ducats.
I talked about my doing this in an earlier thread. In the practice test, they changed to problem to identify differences in the mirror image--which would screw this method. Did they change it back for the real test? That's not too smart.
Classic Gamer magazine also moved to PDF. You can get the first PDF issue here with the second to follow shortly. I, for one, really appreciate this publishing method. They can still turn out nice product and the distribution is far less complicated. A lot of niche magazines will head this route, I'm thinking. Well, the tech-savvy ones at least.
They had a puzzle similar to the mirror image one, except it asked which was exactly the same. You could easily identify mismatches by placing the images side-by-side and "Magic Eye"'ing them, as you would for a stereogram. Images that are exactly the same will be fine, but images that differ even slightly will have blurry smudges when observed this way. It's like a quick 2-D diff. I told them this was a flaw and I'm glad to see them change the puzzle.
I thought "omega" was already taken in number theoretical circles--the surreal number consisting of up-up-up-up-... ("up-hat")? Hell, Cantor broke out the Hebrew numbers to express his weird idea. That link uses omega in its own way. This guy really should have tried a little harder.
I have a Powerbook that kicked ass out of the box; both in terms of security and UI. I don't have the urge to play games on my PC's beyond MAME. (I have a PS2 for that). I got the OS for my Linux box from the library. It also installed without a hitch, and is loaded with help and man pages that are actually helpful and serve as manuals. Also, that book mentioned above is great.
I don't see the point in using Windows beyond the access to games--which doesn't interest me enough to risk trojans, zombification, worms, an obnoxious and backwards default browser that requires an act of Congress to remove, etc.
Check it out here.
This is more +1 Insightful than +1 Funny. I'm new to the Linux way of things, so I'd never heard of this site before. This article points me to the guys rant, which then talks about all the ads I'll see when I go visit the site. Given that it's published on /., I'm going to guess a lot of folks that would not normally read the site, or perhaps not today are going to stroll over there to see these "offensive" ads. Sending pageviews through the roof. A great way to send that "boycott message"--those ads will be the most viewed this month I'm sure. People will frigging reload the page to get them all.
I can second the Settlers and Carcassonne nominations. Those both reward skill, though Settlers takes some bargaining craft to really excel.
I didn't like Iron Mountain very much, but Eurorails had the best map for the rail series of games I played. The US (Empire Builder) is too large, and Australia has the same problems of overly wide spaces with no cities. Never played India Rails.
You're not very good at Clue. Haven't you ever asked, "Was it Professor Plum, in the Conservatory, with the Revolver," when YOU ARE HOLDING Plum and the Conservatory? If no one disproves it, then you know it's the Revolver. If it is disproven, then your Dad's going to be wrong because he's assuming YOU don't have Plum and Conservatory--why would you ask about them? At worst, he would think that the person who showed you Revolver must -also- have Plum or the Conservatory or both.
Personally I went with Fedora Core 1 and installed from the CD in Red Hat and Fedora Core Unleashed. (Amazon. ) I got mine at the library.
The book walks you through some trouble spots you might encounter and nudges you towards some options that may not be obvious from the Fedora literature, like having yum look at freshrpms.net instead of Red Hat (for packages that Red Hat might regard with disdain.) It even walks through installs of the UT2004 Demo and Enemy Territory.
Snow Crash, OK. Diamond Age, yes yes. But Cryptonomicon is not very science fiction-y. It's more Tom Clancy than SF--I mean these are computer scientists and all, but they aren't neutronic worms living on the surface of a star. And I just know the librarians are going to toss Quicksilver over there once it's off the "New" shelf. This book is historical fiction-- albeit about nerds, but it's "HF" none the less. (I can't wait for the next Con! Ye Olde Renaissance Faire!).
When's this guy going to get some credit for moving on?
If you haven't yet tried out Puzzle Pirates, then you should. That's about the best use of Java for a game that I've seen or really expect to see. Works like a charm cross-platform and takes advantage of the -ahem- chunky graphics to deliver a great gaming experience.
They mean "iPod Killer" in that if you took one of these and whacked an iPod with it, the iPod would die.
Actually, if you have the ability to boot to Classic--I'm not sure when they killed that off, so YMMV, but you could use the OS 9 Control Panel to switch it over and it would "stick" in OS X. I had to do it to get Diablo 2 playable.
Bootsy, are you unwilling to consider that the SM has some flaws? Like the magnitude of observed CP-Violation? Like the fact that there's gravity (not accounted for by SM)? The SM as orginally conceived didn't produce a number of the results you quote as incredibly accurate. Only after it had some extra "refinements" bolted on did it turn out the results we now say show its excellence. There's a small but growing minority that the next Kuhnian paradigm shift is coming soon and the Standard Model will fall before it.
Strictly this is off-topic, but that's about as nice a Slashdot post as this reader has ever seen. A nice expert opinion well-rendered and in a timely fashion. Consider me a fan.
Oh yeah, I hope the game is fun too.
Avian flu, however, would likely kill the egg--Dead Eggs Produce No Antibodies, i.e. no vaccine. Luckily, it's more difficult for avian flu to make the species jump to humans in a virulent form, but the WHO, CDC, and other groups are scared to death some bird flu is going to figure this out soon and we'll be helpless in front of it. It's 1918 all over again.
Don't get to cranky about these folks looking at ways to culture flu virii in something other than chickens--they're looking for answers.
You shouldn't wear deodorant during MRI's because it looks like calcification.