I prefer just being able to get a game, slap it in my console and know it'll run at a decent rate.
Let's hope that the increasing sophistication/availability/popularity of console games doesn't decrease what's available for the PC. I don't use my machine for gaming very often, but when I do, it's fun to install, run and modify some of the mods that are out there (TA, C&C, for example). With console gaming, that wouldn't be possible anymore.
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PS: Know of any good sites for newbies to Slashcode?
Re:What about ads you can only see here?
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The "Friends of Canadian Broadcasting" has a current TV ad campaign
promoting home-grown drama television production.
The spots are pretty funny and feed off the cliched ignorant-aboot-Canada
American stereotype (in all four, a US director is in the great white north
working on set on TV productions about Canada).
Once they go overseas, e-mail providers can just put country blocks in place (see blackholes.us) and the problem is solved. If those countries want to join in our reindeer games, then they can crack down on the spammers and the blocks will go away.
Well said. Don't play by our rules? Fu** off, we're not listening. Let's see what happens then.
It seems to me that the problem is a social one, not a technological one
The use of the term "social engineering" to mean tricking people into giving you protected data dilutes the real meaning of the term. "Social engineering" refers to the mass conditioning of people to do what you want them to do. While "social engineering" is a term adopted by the tech crowd, it ignores the global ramifications.
Keep using it, though, sociologists will keep fixing your mistakes.
AVRO Canada had a working flying saucer back in the height of the cold war.
The hosers also developed a great interceptor, but it got shitcanned due to the emerging threat of ballistic missiles. Or something like that. Some say the program was killed by the Marecans.
Taunt not the dragon, for he...no, wait. That's not it. FEAR ME as I control all your effo...CRAP! That's not it either. Be very, very afraid of stuff! Yes, *that's* it!
Paul
I think many stations are running "Christmas Vacation" about now. Don't we all secretly want a crude, but well-meaning cousin Eddie to bitchslap the boss and have Beverly D'Angelo cup our balls? And have squirrel attacks from Christmas trees? The squirrel attack was the best part.
Do you know the principals? Do you trust what they are doing? Have you seen previous examples of their work? Are they doing good stuff, *in your opinion*?
If you don't know these things, you are contributing to the vast wasteland of stock speculation where people (not you, likely) shortchange investors in favour of their own pockets. This is not a fault of the "capitalist system", it is rather the ME generation (as opposed to those old farts that fought and won) that got used to having everything they wanted.
Decriminalising is exactly what they did not do! Holland is famous for our "gedoogbeleid", which means "the policy of turning a blind eye". most of the stuff we are famous for is still illegal; these law are simply not enforced. While I think taking small-time dealing and usage of soft drugs out of the arena of criminals is a good thing, I do not think that not enforcing the laws is the way to do it. Either something is illegal or it isn't. Make the laws accordingly.
Many laws are/were created to discourage certain behaviour, with full knowledge that said behaviour cannot be fully controlled. Every now and then, someone becomes "an example for the rest". With new technology being able to target the evildoers more readily, will law enforcement seek out the *real* bad guys or go for the easy pickings?
I note that the "New York Sues Gun Makers" BBC link features the notorious photo, with the description, "Gun campaigner Charlton Heston has defended current gun law".
Is that a truthful depiction of Heston's stance or spin on BBC's part?
Re:The way you shouldn't run your business
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None of this would happen if leaders would learn contentment. Once you have a working business model, a strong staff, and a steady stream of customers, it is time to sit back and let your investors profit.
Support privately-owned companies with your investment dollars instead. I'd rather trust a rigidly-held private company than a wishy-washy one that panders to flighty market whims based on percieved shareholder demands.
As someone said, the current malaise is due to boomer investors wanting NOW NOW NOW.
Ironically, this is the generation that "had it all" as a result of the post WW2 boom, but now they want more.
If you feel you're being spied-on by individuals poking through your garbage, toss into the bag a few carefully selected, ummm, "leavings" as a bonus for the sifters.
This should point the searchers in a different direction, causing them to move on to a more attractive find, much as car alarms doo.
I'm a piping geek, so when I think of nand/nor stuff (I don't pretend to understand computer gate logic terminology), I think gate valve, check valve, manifolds and the like. Would toxic spills be equivalent to a buffer overflow?
What is "piping"? At first I thought this guy wanted some CAD software to design plumbing or something...
Good question. In this case, piping design/engineering refers to the discipline that designs the piping for refineries, chem plants, cryo facilities, etc. Think lines etched in a circuit board, only a bit larger and not containing electrical current. Pasted from the main page of Piping Design Central:
Piping is used to convey fluids (anything that can flow: liquids, gases and/or solids) from one location to another. It has been used to do so in one form or another for over two thousand years.
Industrial process piping (and accompanying in-line components) can be manufactured from wood, glass, steel, aluminum, plastic and concrete. The in-line components typically sense and control pressure, flowrate and temperature of the transmitted fluid, and usually are included when one discusses the concept of piping design. Process piping is not what you see under your sink.
"Plumbing" is the form of piping that most non-technical people are familiar with, as it constitutes the form of transportation that is used to provide liquids (water) and gases (natural gas used for heating and cooking, for example) to their homes. Piping also removes waste from the household in the form of drainage.
Piping also has innumerable other industrial applications, which are crucial for moving raw and semi-processed fluids for refining into more useful products. Some of the more exotic materials of construction are titanium, chrome-moly and various other steel alloys. Typical process piping sizes range from 1/2" to 30" in diameter. The engineering discipline of piping design is that which gets the fluid to where you need it, whether it is water, gasoline, hydrogen, fuel oil, or any other fluid you can think of.
In the end, we'll all need to start thinking about post-capitalism: there is a point when labor will cost nothing, and management will cost nothing. The only part left will be innovation - and there's someone thinking about the automated system for that as well.
(oh - and I know one of you is saying "well who will take care of the robots, or make the robots or whatever. And the answer is: duh, the robots. If a robot can build a car, there's no reason it can't build another robot. We already have computerized maintenance, just replace the intermediary.)
Interesting; too bad I don't have mod points. Some people keep applying the buggy whip maker analogy when it is no longer appropriate.
since i just did a large project project on image compression techniques, i'm really curious to know what they did to get the 28:1 odd compression ratios
That's easy; they just compressed the parts of Canada that have nothing in it.
Slashdot Mirror
If it's NIH it'll be NIMBY!
I prefer just being able to get a game, slap it in my console and know it'll run at a decent rate.
Let's hope that the increasing sophistication/availability/popularity of console games doesn't decrease what's available for the PC. I don't use my machine for gaming very often, but when I do, it's fun to install, run and modify some of the mods that are out there (TA, C&C, for example). With console gaming, that wouldn't be possible anymore.
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PS: Know of any good sites for newbies to Slashcode?
The "Friends of Canadian Broadcasting" has a current TV ad campaign promoting home-grown drama television production. The spots are pretty funny and feed off the cliched ignorant-aboot-Canada American stereotype (in all four, a US director is in the great white north working on set on TV productions about Canada).
Sir John A. Macdonald (QuickTime 4.4MB):
Richard the Rocket(QuickTime 4.2MB):
Snow Gangsta (QuickTime 4.2MB):
Bobby Orr (QuickTime 2.8MB):
Wow! Sounds like the way to run a space program.
The lesson here kids, is, "never try"
- Homer Simpson
Isn't "urban downtown" redundant? Or did you mean something else.
Once they go overseas, e-mail providers can just put country blocks in place (see blackholes.us) and the problem is solved. If those countries want to join in our reindeer games, then they can crack down on the spammers and the blocks will go away.
Well said. Don't play by our rules? Fu** off, we're not listening. Let's see what happens then.
OptinRealBig.com, LLC ("Optin") has been informed that the New York Attorney General and Microsoft have announced a press conference...
Weasel words.
It seems to me that the problem is a social one, not a technological one
The use of the term "social engineering" to mean tricking people into giving you protected data dilutes the real meaning of the term. "Social engineering" refers to the mass conditioning of people to do what you want them to do. While "social engineering" is a term adopted by the tech crowd, it ignores the global ramifications.
Keep using it, though, sociologists will keep fixing your mistakes.
largest modern urban construction project ever!
I am always amused with these recurring nonsense PR blurbs designed for the American market. "We're the biggest!" "We're the best!"
Rah-rah!
AVRO Canada had a working flying saucer back in the height of the cold war.
The hosers also developed a great interceptor, but it got shitcanned due to the emerging threat of ballistic missiles. Or something like that. Some say the program was killed by the Marecans.
Taunt not the dragon, for he...no, wait. That's not it. FEAR ME as I control all your effo...CRAP! That's not it either. Be very, very afraid of stuff! Yes, *that's* it!
Paul
Sure, fling my way. Offline (decipher from website) or do it here.
I think many stations are running "Christmas Vacation" about now. Don't we all secretly want a crude, but well-meaning cousin Eddie to bitchslap the boss and have Beverly D'Angelo cup our balls? And have squirrel attacks from Christmas trees? The squirrel attack was the best part.
Do you know the principals? Do you trust what they are doing? Have you seen previous examples of their work? Are they doing good stuff, *in your opinion*?
If you don't know these things, you are contributing to the vast wasteland of stock speculation where people (not you, likely) shortchange investors in favour of their own pockets. This is not a fault of the "capitalist system", it is rather the ME generation (as opposed to those old farts that fought and won) that got used to having everything they wanted.
Decriminalising is exactly what they did not do! Holland is famous for our "gedoogbeleid", which means "the policy of turning a blind eye". most of the stuff we are famous for is still illegal; these law are simply not enforced. While I think taking small-time dealing and usage of soft drugs out of the arena of criminals is a good thing, I do not think that not enforcing the laws is the way to do it. Either something is illegal or it isn't. Make the laws accordingly.
Many laws are/were created to discourage certain behaviour, with full knowledge that said behaviour cannot be fully controlled. Every now and then, someone becomes "an example for the rest". With new technology being able to target the evildoers more readily, will law enforcement seek out the *real* bad guys or go for the easy pickings?
I note that the "New York Sues Gun Makers" BBC link features the notorious photo, with the description, "Gun campaigner Charlton Heston has defended current gun law".
Is that a truthful depiction of Heston's stance or spin on BBC's part?
In the spirit of the season, Reindeer Rendering.
Sorry.
None of this would happen if leaders would learn contentment. Once you have a working business model, a strong staff, and a steady stream of customers, it is time to sit back and let your investors profit.
Support privately-owned companies with your investment dollars instead. I'd rather trust a rigidly-held private company than a wishy-washy one that panders to flighty market whims based on percieved shareholder demands.
As someone said, the current malaise is due to boomer investors wanting NOW NOW NOW.
Ironically, this is the generation that "had it all" as a result of the post WW2 boom, but now they want more.
If you feel you're being spied-on by individuals poking through your garbage, toss into the bag a few carefully selected, ummm, "leavings" as a bonus for the sifters.
This should point the searchers in a different direction, causing them to move on to a more attractive find, much as car alarms doo.
I'm a piping geek, so when I think of nand/nor stuff (I don't pretend to understand computer gate logic terminology), I think gate valve, check valve, manifolds and the like. Would toxic spills be equivalent to a buffer overflow?
What is "piping"? At first I thought this guy wanted some CAD software to design plumbing or something...
Good question. In this case, piping design/engineering refers to the discipline that designs the piping for refineries, chem plants, cryo facilities, etc. Think lines etched in a circuit board, only a bit larger and not containing electrical current. Pasted from the main page of Piping Design Central:
Piping is used to convey fluids (anything that can flow: liquids, gases and/or solids) from one location to another. It has been used to do so in one form or another for over two thousand years.
Industrial process piping (and accompanying in-line components) can be manufactured from wood, glass, steel, aluminum, plastic and concrete. The in-line components typically sense and control pressure, flowrate and temperature of the transmitted fluid, and usually are included when one discusses the concept of piping design. Process piping is not what you see under your sink.
"Plumbing" is the form of piping that most non-technical people are familiar with, as it constitutes the form of transportation that is used to provide liquids (water) and gases (natural gas used for heating and cooking, for example) to their homes. Piping also removes waste from the household in the form of drainage.
Piping also has innumerable other industrial applications, which are crucial for moving raw and semi-processed fluids for refining into more useful products. Some of the more exotic materials of construction are titanium, chrome-moly and various other steel alloys. Typical process piping sizes range from 1/2" to 30" in diameter. The engineering discipline of piping design is that which gets the fluid to where you need it, whether it is water, gasoline, hydrogen, fuel oil, or any other fluid you can think of.
In the end, we'll all need to start thinking about post-capitalism: there is a point when labor will cost nothing, and management will cost nothing. The only part left will be innovation - and there's someone thinking about the automated system for that as well. (oh - and I know one of you is saying "well who will take care of the robots, or make the robots or whatever. And the answer is: duh, the robots. If a robot can build a car, there's no reason it can't build another robot. We already have computerized maintenance, just replace the intermediary.)
Interesting; too bad I don't have mod points. Some people keep applying the buggy whip maker analogy when it is no longer appropriate.
couldn't we just build a giant Clapper to turn the lights back on?
since i just did a large project project on image compression techniques, i'm really curious to know what they did to get the 28:1 odd compression ratios
That's easy; they just compressed the parts of Canada that have nothing in it.
putting a 10 lane highway that passes underneath the city
Montreal did that 20 years ago, and is an older city than Boston.