So how do private servers get made? Are they based on leaked code, running something that ships with the game in a different way, or are they written from scratch?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1103/p02s02-ussc.html "We found dozens of breaches throughout the levee system," says Peter Nicholson, who leads the American Society of Civil Engineers' levee-assessment team."
ASCE senate testimony: http://www.ewrinstitute.org/files/pdf/katrinalevees.pdf "Rather than a few breaches through the floodwalls in the city caused largely by overtopping, we found literally dozens of breaches throughout the many miles of levee system. A number of different failure mechanisms were observed, including scour erosion caused by overtopping, seepage, soil failure, and piping."
"Where the storm surge was most severe, causing massive overtopping, the levees experienced a range of damage from complete obliteration to intact with no signs of distress."
Two specific breaches were investigated and failed in the way you describe: "Finally, three major breaches, and at least one significantly distressed levee-floodwall section, were investigated at sites along the 17th Street and London Avenue canals which, as explained before, were clearly not overtopped. Obvious soil failures within the embankment or foundation soils at or below the bases of the earthen levees had occurred at two of the breaches. At the distressed section, seepage and piping were evident. These types of soil instabilities appear likely to have been responsible for failure of these wall systems."
Because two breaches failed in the way you described doesn't mean there were only two breaches, or that the sewer company ruined everything for everyone. It's possible the root cause was the panels weren't sunk low enough in the first place. It's definitely the case that there were other failures with other failure reasons.
Can somebody explain to me why 3-prong sockets can result in ground loop hum, and why the third prong is necessary? Shouldn't the ground part of a polarized connection be the same as the third prong, except without the potential ground loop problem due to having 2 grounds? I've read the 3rd prong is to ground a metal chassis to force a breaker trip in case of a problem, but couldn't you do that with the ground off a polarized connection instead of adding a new different ground? (Didn't learn anything about this until my PS3 started my sound system humming, have fixed the hum but still don't understand the principles involved.)
Also, why the polarized/unpolarized distinction? Why not just always polarize, even if it isn't required, since it is easy and doesn't hurt anything?
What is this unique licensing model, how is it different from standard chip licensing models, and why is Arm's success due to it? Don't manufacturers just pay some fee for every chip? Where does this license come into play?
Shouldn't the idea of "move these bits representing music from here to there" be a separate application from the idea of "turn these bits into sound coming out the computer's speakers"? Especially since in most cases the "move these bits" step won't be desired?
No, the idea behind this argument is that inflation is measured against goods which can keep their costs down through productivity improvements, while college is not such a good, so it should see prices rise faster than inflation. I'm not sure I buy the argument, but it is indeed an argument that tuition prices should rise higher than the inflation rate.
We currently have good evidence that the inflation rate doesn't apply broadly to all types of goods - houses and cars are keeping it down while milk and bread are definitely going up more than the official inflation rate. No clue if college is more or less like milk and eggs, though, but it's pretty clear that you can't simply argue that everything should go up by the same inflation rate.
Wasn't there a study that 80 to 95% of all traffic was bittorrent? And now 30% of all traffic is big sites like Google? This math doesn't add up. I think they're just making stuff up.
No need for robots. You have just described "Football" and "soccer". They permit greater population densities without the village warfare we had in the past. Problem is we can't scale it up quite well enough.
I've always thought it would be a nice-to-have feature for my home system to have ECC - perhaps it might degrade over time and misbehave less if it could detect and fix some errors. But my normal sources don't seem to stock many choices. E.g. Newegg appears to have 2 motherboards to choose from, both for AMD CPUs, nothing for Intel. Frys appears to have one, same, AMD only. Is this just the way things are, or do I need to be looking somewhere else? Would picking one of these motherboards end up in not working out well for my gaming rig?
You know, SQL is declarative, and definitely one of the most powerful and useful programming languages available today. I suggest refining your opinion to hate languages that try to make entire problems declarative rather than limiting themselves to appropriate pieces, such as data querying.
I wish the extra features weren't so frustrating. Built-in wireless disconnects a lot, and the streaming video player doesn't always resume where the disconnection was, so if you want to actually watch videos you basically have to go wired or copy them to the local the drive first, but good luck getting the copy to complete it will error out half way through and isn't smart enough to resume the partially complete copy. Web browser alternates between being incredibly slow and painful to load flash videos or just getting stuck and hanging and you have to power cycle the system. It's so frustratingly close to perfect, that it's frustrating. But to do something like watch a flash video on your tv when your friends are over, you basically still need to hook up a laptop to do it quickly and reliably.
It's not specifically pro-MS or anti-Apple. It's just that whatever their ranking algorithm is rates yahoo answers as a better source than other sites. Search engines have to weight sites somehow; if all sources of pages were equally good authorities, we'd all still be using altavista.
You only have the luxury of thinking that because you can afford it. If you were close enough to starving, you wouldn't think it a fair trade off anymore.
Google "AccurateRip". Exact Audio Copy plugin that compares checksums of your rips against other rip checksums so that you can re-rip if you have an error. CD audio is digital, different rips *should* be bit for bit identical, if not there was an error.
Plenty of people have ended up with great careers in computers because of a desire to learn how to make videogames. Very few people end up with fantastic careers because of a desire to become a rap star. I would avoid discouraging the programmers.
I'm actually glad it doesn't have infinite ram and processor power, it means you see less FPS shooters on the platform and developers have to come up with other types of games that I happen to like to play.
Slashdot Mirror
So how do private servers get made? Are they based on leaked code, running something that ships with the game in a different way, or are they written from scratch?
Nope.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1103/p02s02-ussc.html
"We found dozens of breaches throughout the levee system," says Peter Nicholson, who leads the American Society of Civil Engineers' levee-assessment team."
ASCE senate testimony: http://www.ewrinstitute.org/files/pdf/katrinalevees.pdf
"Rather than a few breaches through the floodwalls in
the city caused largely by overtopping, we found literally dozens of breaches throughout
the many miles of levee system. A number of different failure mechanisms were
observed, including scour erosion caused by overtopping, seepage, soil failure, and
piping."
"Where the storm surge was most severe, causing massive overtopping, the levees
experienced a range of damage from complete obliteration to intact with no signs of
distress."
Two specific breaches were investigated and failed in the way you describe:
"Finally, three major breaches, and at least one significantly distressed levee-floodwall
section, were investigated at sites along the 17th Street and London Avenue canals
which, as explained before, were clearly not overtopped.
Obvious soil failures within the embankment or foundation soils at or below the bases of
the earthen levees had occurred at two of the breaches. At the distressed section,
seepage and piping were evident. These types of soil instabilities appear likely to have
been responsible for failure of these wall systems."
Because two breaches failed in the way you described doesn't mean there were only two breaches, or that the sewer company ruined everything for everyone. It's possible the root cause was the panels weren't sunk low enough in the first place. It's definitely the case that there were other failures with other failure reasons.
Wikipedia looks like a decent place to start for an overview, but as always you'll need to check their sources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_levee_failures_in_Greater_New_Orleans
That earth loop link is fantastic, thank you! Failed to find it with previous googling, and hadn't seen the solution they recommend before.
Can somebody explain to me why 3-prong sockets can result in ground loop hum, and why the third prong is necessary? Shouldn't the ground part of a polarized connection be the same as the third prong, except without the potential ground loop problem due to having 2 grounds? I've read the 3rd prong is to ground a metal chassis to force a breaker trip in case of a problem, but couldn't you do that with the ground off a polarized connection instead of adding a new different ground? (Didn't learn anything about this until my PS3 started my sound system humming, have fixed the hum but still don't understand the principles involved.)
Also, why the polarized/unpolarized distinction? Why not just always polarize, even if it isn't required, since it is easy and doesn't hurt anything?
What is this unique licensing model, how is it different from standard chip licensing models, and why is Arm's success due to it?
Don't manufacturers just pay some fee for every chip? Where does this license come into play?
My favorite game education is I learned "obsequious" from Starflight II.
The newest coke machines, "Coke Freestyle", are networked with cell phones to report usage.
Shouldn't the idea of "move these bits representing music from here to there" be a separate application from the idea of "turn these bits into sound coming out the computer's speakers"? Especially since in most cases the "move these bits" step won't be desired?
No, the idea behind this argument is that inflation is measured against goods which can keep their costs down through productivity improvements, while college is not such a good, so it should see prices rise faster than inflation. I'm not sure I buy the argument, but it is indeed an argument that tuition prices should rise higher than the inflation rate.
We currently have good evidence that the inflation rate doesn't apply broadly to all types of goods - houses and cars are keeping it down while milk and bread are definitely going up more than the official inflation rate. No clue if college is more or less like milk and eggs, though, but it's pretty clear that you can't simply argue that everything should go up by the same inflation rate.
Wasn't there a study that 80 to 95% of all traffic was bittorrent?
And now 30% of all traffic is big sites like Google?
This math doesn't add up. I think they're just making stuff up.
No need for robots. You have just described "Football" and "soccer". They permit greater population densities without the village warfare we had in the past. Problem is we can't scale it up quite well enough.
Have you seen http://www.lolcatbible.com/ ? I'd be scared if they added video cameras to the mix.
I've always thought it would be a nice-to-have feature for my home system to have ECC - perhaps it might degrade over time and misbehave less if it could detect and fix some errors. But my normal sources don't seem to stock many choices. E.g. Newegg appears to have 2 motherboards to choose from, both for AMD CPUs, nothing for Intel. Frys appears to have one, same, AMD only. Is this just the way things are, or do I need to be looking somewhere else? Would picking one of these motherboards end up in not working out well for my gaming rig?
You know, SQL is declarative, and definitely one of the most powerful and useful programming languages available today. I suggest refining your opinion to hate languages that try to make entire problems declarative rather than limiting themselves to appropriate pieces, such as data querying.
What wireless router do you use?
I wish the extra features weren't so frustrating. Built-in wireless disconnects a lot, and the streaming video player doesn't always resume where the disconnection was, so if you want to actually watch videos you basically have to go wired or copy them to the local the drive first, but good luck getting the copy to complete it will error out half way through and isn't smart enough to resume the partially complete copy. Web browser alternates between being incredibly slow and painful to load flash videos or just getting stuck and hanging and you have to power cycle the system.
It's so frustratingly close to perfect, that it's frustrating. But to do something like watch a flash video on your tv when your friends are over, you basically still need to hook up a laptop to do it quickly and reliably.
No, that's not the key.
Even if Verizon said they were sending a tech out, you still have every right to have your guard up.
It's not specifically pro-MS or anti-Apple. It's just that whatever their ranking algorithm is rates yahoo answers as a better source than other sites. Search engines have to weight sites somehow; if all sources of pages were equally good authorities, we'd all still be using altavista.
Does this mean I should wait more on a large-screen television, or do better OLEDs not have anything to do with TV in the forseeable future?
You only have the luxury of thinking that because you can afford it. If you were close enough to starving, you wouldn't think it a fair trade off anymore.
Google "AccurateRip". Exact Audio Copy plugin that compares checksums of your rips against other rip checksums so that you can re-rip if you have an error.
CD audio is digital, different rips *should* be bit for bit identical, if not there was an error.
Where I'm at, Coca-cola sells for more than a 100% markup between a store and a vending machine.
30% sounds pretty low. Why not just sell cokes?
Plenty of people have ended up with great careers in computers because of a desire to learn how to make videogames.
Very few people end up with fantastic careers because of a desire to become a rap star.
I would avoid discouraging the programmers.
I'm actually glad it doesn't have infinite ram and processor power, it means you see less FPS shooters on the platform and developers have to come up with other types of games that I happen to like to play.
What makes you think it's different anywhere else?