I can't believe how many slashdot readers are offensed easily!!
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WTF is this? Random crap!! I hate slashdot! You've gone so low! You've lost a reader!!
The guy is using a metaphor! He uses a quite common situation, the human pleasure cycle, which is the same (so they say) for every ppl of the same sex, to explain the problem there is with game that gets to difficult after some time, or that finish too rapidly!
When I was an Intern as a sysadmin a couple of years ago in a quite big company, i had access to all the Domain servers and could see all the accounts.
I asked my supervisor if all those accounts were in use. He didn't know. I did a bit of research, and found out that between 5% and 10% of the accounts were belonging to old Interns, Employees that left, or ppl that changed group. In a company with 15000 Employes, that makes a really big bunch of wandering accounts. No wonder why people can find 1 or 2 accounts in this bunch whose password is "Love" and gain access to undisclosed information, without anybody noticing.
In the time of woodstock, when all the youth were smoking marijuana everywhere, they accepted it.
Is it more accepted now?
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Yeah, i used to have mods points every 5 days i think, and i didn't change my habits (i metamod everyday, post every few days), but didn't get any mods points for close to a month now
If you want to write perfectly unmaintainable code, you should follow these guidlines
They explain how to write perfectly unmaintainable code. Suggestions range from naming variable (re-using variables outside of scopes, using single lettre names, using people name), camouflage (using #defines, etc), and many other perfectly normal (albeit evil) strategies
I'm sorry, but i've looked all over the internet, even in the original
Reuters article and it IS a 80% drop.
Quote from Reuters' article:
Nintendo's consolidated operating profit for the April-June first quarter fell to 3.75 billion yen ($33.35 million) from 17.47 billion yen a year earlier.
I've played Wind waker, and let me say that the "dull" part is only a small part of the game. It doesn't take more than 1 or 2 hour to do (of sailing), and during those 2 hours, there are a lot of small dungeons, the way Zelda uses to be. But just after that, when you get to the last castle, it was really great, and the last fight (Gannondorf), is, IMHO, the best "last boss fight" in all the zeldas!
First, did anybody ever said that building chemical batteries consumed less energy than it produced? I don't think so! But they are still the second most used portable energy source (if you consider petroleum fuel the first)
Whats interesting about ethanol, is that you can bring it with you, use it in your car, lawn mower, or wathever. Can you use corn in your car directly? Nope.
Its sure that wind and sun are more efficent. I mean, we don't have to spend energy to use them. But is it reallly cost-effective? I don't think we could use cars with Biiig Wind Turbine on top of them to work. Or 20 feets wide solar-sails either.
Why couldn't you use a nuclear power plant (or solar/sun!!) to transform corn into ethanol? Isn't it the whole point?
In fact, i think the therory of a zombie is that the brain can continue to function basically without the heart pumping blood. The only way a physical living (or undead) creature can move its arms/legs is by the brain sending impulses to the muscles to do their job. But since the brain dies when its out of oxygen, the rest of the body becomes useless. When a beeing becomes "undead" (or zombie), the brain keeps functionning basically, so it can still send impulses to the limbs. Theorically, the body would not be able to stay in functionnal state for too long, since the muscles would decay without their share of oxygen.
But thats only the theory;) I don't think the muscles could move without their share of oxygen anyway...
So, to answer what you said, why shoot the head? Because if you blow up the brain, there's no way the body can still continu to work, or to be coordinated, so it should fall to the ground after that.
What I think is the most important question that we must ask is : Is this technology "hit resistent"? I mean, is it like a CD/DVD (a scratch, data is lost)? If they could write the data deeper into the nail, maybe it could withstand a couple of stratch and hits, wich is daily life. If it can't I cannot see the utility of this.
I've bought my computer on TigerDirect (well almost all the parts) recently (4 months ago), and didn't have much trouble except for this:
First, I entered my Billing Address and my Shipping Address. They are not the same.
Second, I buy it. I find out 7 days later that my computer has arrived at my BILLING address... I drive there in bus (i don't have a car), take it, bring it back home, to find out that it THERE WERE SOME PARTS MISSING. I receive an email 1 day later telling me that some parts have gone back-order, and that they'll ship the rest when it'll be available for no more fees. I call them to tell them to ship them to the correct addres, they say ok. What do I hear? They shipped it at the billing address AGAIN!! Had to go there in bus again, take it and bring it back... It costed me close to 75$ in Bus to bring my stuff home...
But if it ain't about this, the comp is going really well, and even if I hadd the 75$ more, it was still pretty lower than everywhere else.
In other news, our recent survey have demonstrated that 75% of slashdot users are blonde female with blue eyes. More than 50% of them could be described as stunning (regarding their incredible bodies). 78.9% of them are currently searching for Male specimens who share their interests for computers, Linux and videogames. More than 40% of them are desperate to meet true geeks from the tiny slashdot male crowd (The margin of error for the survey is +/- 100 percent.)
I'm getting married in 2 month, and the professional Photographer I've hired uses a digital camera and photoshop to accentuate colors and things like that.
The only difference is that a professionnal photographer, unlike me, knows how to take good poses, good angles, and knows what to do in photoshop to make the picture a lifetime souvenir
In the old ones, it was a story of Good versus Evil. We were following Young Skywalker is his understanding that the world that surrounds him will be consumed by evil if he doesn't do something to sop it. There's even great punches (ex: Leia and Luke ARE BROTHERS AND SISTERS!) It was a great story.
The new ones, well.. they change the focus. Its about power. Its about corruption. Its about the difference in democracy (the republic) and the empire. How can good visions become evil. And also, it spoils any punch that could exist in the old movies. How could you watch the 6 movies from beginning to start? There would be no "I'm your father" punch? How could there be a "You have a sister" punch? What about the focus? I think anybody not knowing about star wars and watching the whole thing from start to the end would be utterly confused and think its just badly made.
Step one, install Mozilla and turn on the background prefetching.
Step two, go to Google and search on something
Step three, Mozilla will immediately start fetching the pages in the background and storing them on your machine.
Step four, get arrested for having every link on the results page cached on your machine. Even the crazy pornographic (and illegal) pages that you didn't click
Fortunatly, this "magical formula" only applies to British sitcoms. I think only them think that the "total is multiplied by the amount someone falls over or suffers a physical injury " is the most important factor in rating good sitcoms
I think this argument has been on for quite some time now.
There has always been two parallel gaming world. Those with PCs, and those with console. I don't think that with the new generation it will change. In fact, other console were less expensive in the previous generations compared to computers, but the computer gaming world didn't die, did it?
I think the fact that more and more people are getting a computer at home (for internet, word processing and other things) and that they get sold some high line PC, they are potential game customers (or their kids), and that reduces the potential to buy a console.
And its not as if the price was the only restriction in the gaming world
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I can't believe how many slashdot readers are offensed easily!! random quote : WTF is this? Random crap!! I hate slashdot! You've gone so low! You've lost a reader!! The guy is using a metaphor! He uses a quite common situation, the human pleasure cycle, which is the same (so they say) for every ppl of the same sex, to explain the problem there is with game that gets to difficult after some time, or that finish too rapidly!
When I was an Intern as a sysadmin a couple of years ago in a quite big company, i had access to all the Domain servers and could see all the accounts.
I asked my supervisor if all those accounts were in use. He didn't know. I did a bit of research, and found out that between 5% and 10% of the accounts were belonging to old Interns, Employees that left, or ppl that changed group. In a company with 15000 Employes, that makes a really big bunch of wandering accounts. No wonder why people can find 1 or 2 accounts in this bunch whose password is "Love" and gain access to undisclosed information, without anybody noticing.
In the time of woodstock, when all the youth were smoking marijuana everywhere, they accepted it. Is it more accepted now?
Yeah, i used to have mods points every 5 days i think, and i didn't change my habits (i metamod everyday, post every few days), but didn't get any mods points for close to a month now
If you want to write perfectly unmaintainable code, you should follow these guidlines
They explain how to write perfectly unmaintainable code. Suggestions range from naming variable (re-using variables outside of scopes, using single lettre names, using people name), camouflage (using #defines, etc), and many other perfectly normal (albeit evil) strategies
I'm sorry, but i've looked all over the internet, even in the original Reuters article and it IS a 80% drop.
Quote from Reuters' article: Nintendo's consolidated operating profit for the April-June first quarter fell to 3.75 billion yen ($33.35 million) from 17.47 billion yen a year earlier.
I've played Wind waker, and let me say that the "dull" part is only a small part of the game. It doesn't take more than 1 or 2 hour to do (of sailing), and during those 2 hours, there are a lot of small dungeons, the way Zelda uses to be. But just after that, when you get to the last castle, it was really great, and the last fight (Gannondorf), is, IMHO, the best "last boss fight" in all the zeldas!
By the way, the article is not limited to what you see up front. There is a NEXT button so you can flip pages!
First, did anybody ever said that building chemical batteries consumed less energy than it produced? I don't think so! But they are still the second most used portable energy source (if you consider petroleum fuel the first)
Whats interesting about ethanol, is that you can bring it with you, use it in your car, lawn mower, or wathever. Can you use corn in your car directly? Nope.
Its sure that wind and sun are more efficent. I mean, we don't have to spend energy to use them. But is it reallly cost-effective? I don't think we could use cars with Biiig Wind Turbine on top of them to work. Or 20 feets wide solar-sails either.
Why couldn't you use a nuclear power plant (or solar/sun!!) to transform corn into ethanol? Isn't it the whole point?
Slashdot coverage of the "lasts final issues"
may 30th : Phrack Final, #63
January 22nd : Phrack E-zine comes to an end #63
In fact, i think the therory of a zombie is that the brain can continue to function basically without the heart pumping blood. The only way a physical living (or undead) creature can move its arms/legs is by the brain sending impulses to the muscles to do their job. But since the brain dies when its out of oxygen, the rest of the body becomes useless. When a beeing becomes "undead" (or zombie), the brain keeps functionning basically, so it can still send impulses to the limbs. Theorically, the body would not be able to stay in functionnal state for too long, since the muscles would decay without their share of oxygen.
;) I don't think the muscles could move without their share of oxygen anyway...
But thats only the theory
So, to answer what you said, why shoot the head? Because if you blow up the brain, there's no way the body can still continu to work, or to be coordinated, so it should fall to the ground after that.
What I think is the most important question that we must ask is : Is this technology "hit resistent"? I mean, is it like a CD/DVD (a scratch, data is lost)? If they could write the data deeper into the nail, maybe it could withstand a couple of stratch and hits, wich is daily life. If it can't I cannot see the utility of this.
The name of the game is "Façade", which is a french word that means "frontage" or "facing"
I've bought my computer on TigerDirect (well almost all the parts) recently (4 months ago), and didn't have much trouble except for this:
First, I entered my Billing Address and my Shipping Address. They are not the same.
Second, I buy it. I find out 7 days later that my computer has arrived at my BILLING address... I drive there in bus (i don't have a car), take it, bring it back home, to find out that it THERE WERE SOME PARTS MISSING. I receive an email 1 day later telling me that some parts have gone back-order, and that they'll ship the rest when it'll be available for no more fees. I call them to tell them to ship them to the correct addres, they say ok. What do I hear? They shipped it at the billing address AGAIN!! Had to go there in bus again, take it and bring it back... It costed me close to 75$ in Bus to bring my stuff home...
But if it ain't about this, the comp is going really well, and even if I hadd the 75$ more, it was still pretty lower than everywhere else.
In other news, our recent survey have demonstrated that 75% of slashdot users are blonde female with blue eyes. More than 50% of them could be described as stunning (regarding their incredible bodies). 78.9% of them are currently searching for Male specimens who share their interests for computers, Linux and videogames. More than 40% of them are desperate to meet true geeks from the tiny slashdot male crowd (The margin of error for the survey is +/- 100 percent.)
University of Sherbrooke got the 1st and the 3rd most powerfull computers in Canada. A lot of research in there :) (AI, neural nets, etc)
Thaths so untrue!! University of Sherbrooke is in 40th position. I've seen the system (named Mamooth) and its quite cool :) 1152 Xeon 3.6ghz
I'm getting married in 2 month, and the professional Photographer I've hired uses a digital camera and photoshop to accentuate colors and things like that.
The only difference is that a professionnal photographer, unlike me, knows how to take good poses, good angles, and knows what to do in photoshop to make the picture a lifetime souvenir
In the old ones, it was a story of Good versus Evil. We were following Young Skywalker is his understanding that the world that surrounds him will be consumed by evil if he doesn't do something to sop it. There's even great punches (ex: Leia and Luke ARE BROTHERS AND SISTERS!) It was a great story.
The new ones, well.. they change the focus. Its about power. Its about corruption. Its about the difference in democracy (the republic) and the empire. How can good visions become evil. And also, it spoils any punch that could exist in the old movies. How could you watch the 6 movies from beginning to start? There would be no "I'm your father" punch? How could there be a "You have a sister" punch? What about the focus? I think anybody not knowing about star wars and watching the whole thing from start to the end would be utterly confused and think its just badly made.
Step one, install Mozilla and turn on the background prefetching.
Step two, go to Google and search on something
Step three, Mozilla will immediately start fetching the pages in the background and storing them on your machine.
Step four, get arrested for having every link on the results page cached on your machine. Even the crazy pornographic (and illegal) pages that you didn't click
Step five , ...?
Step six, PROFIT!
Fortunatly, this "magical formula" only applies to British sitcoms. I think only them think that the "total is multiplied by the amount someone falls over or suffers a physical injury " is the most important factor in rating good sitcoms
They didn't modify anything except the case!!
They put a P4 inside a G3 case. Nothing so extreme in there
Finally!
Since the only hacker god has been captured, I can remove the tinfoil around my computer. I can now live free!!!
By chance there is only 1 hacker in the Internet!.... Right?
I think this argument has been on for quite some time now.
There has always been two parallel gaming world. Those with PCs, and those with console. I don't think that with the new generation it will change. In fact, other console were less expensive in the previous generations compared to computers, but the computer gaming world didn't die, did it?
I think the fact that more and more people are getting a computer at home (for internet, word processing and other things) and that they get sold some high line PC, they are potential game customers (or their kids), and that reduces the potential to buy a console.
And its not as if the price was the only restriction in the gaming world
Wasn't supposed to be issue #63 their last issue?