Yes, and this supposedly takes "5 to 7 business days", when all they really have to update is a database table./conspiracy hat on/ But what I really think happens when you click the link is "ah ha! this email really is valid and not a fluke!!". THe next thing it does execute the "EnterUserIntoValidEmailList()" procedure.
There's also Daniel Brandt, the Google-watch guy, who thinks that Google ought to be regulated
Google should be regulated because so many people use it? Well, before you regulate this why doesn't anyone regulate the OS landspace?
I hear there is an OS maker who owns 95% of the market, yet laughs at 'regulatory bodies' & stuffs their pockets with money. Fuck google, if there is anything that needs regulation, it's OS Makers and their monopolizing tactics.
"I seem to remember the 9700 getting very similar scores whether the card was set to no AA, 2xAA or 4xAA, i.e. the AA processing was almost (but not quite) 'free'."
You also have to make sure games are fillrate-limited. I.e. if they're waiting for triangles to draw.
Professors need to earn their salaries, at my school the students actually EVALUATE the teachers, teachers who cannot give good lectures recieve poor ratings.
We have this too at our univ, but it only kinda affects new professors(5 years). There are a lot of old geezers teaching CS when they shouldn't be(i.e. they are engineers, physicists, etc) and you really can't do anything about them because of their sinourity(sp?).
That, right there, is the game in a nutshell...Yes, that's the game. What people get addicted to is the in-game chat, the shared experiences and what people share when they've got little else to do.
I wish I could shake your hand, not many can describe how stupid the game really is. In my case, I've played both Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot and found them to be utterly boring. I mean, I would never get past the 9th level before getting bored and deleting my characters. Since I'm not really social person, I was looking more for epic, grand quests with some story or purpose of being in this 12.95-per-month-world.
But I found none. People only get addicted because they join clans or guilds who are binded together for a purpose--chatting, fighting together, and having a virtual beer.
Well if the military keeps a record of imunizations of its soldiers, then any country wishing to use bio weapons upon the US could use their medical record to determine which viruses/bacteria/pathogens they are weakest against.
And I can sharpen my pencil and stab you in the eye -- instantly blinding you. But will I do it? Heck no.
The US goverment loves to use words like "could", "possibly","should have", "probably", "might", "may" to sway public opinions to their favour by instilling fear.
Yes, there were some crazy nut heads who did 9/11, but does not mean accusation without concrete evidence is justified.
I found the game to be pretty boring...it costs too much time to build your character and nothing exciting occurs until you get to the 35th level(or so I'm told).
I think the appealing part of this game is that you get to do things together with other people and accomplish gaols--but I'm not a social person(by habit is more anti-social) and playing solo is pretty boring.
You can do it on your own, but classroom can provide a clear direction and help filter the stupid stuff from the essential stuff.
IMO it's not really the classroom that provides a clear direction or the course; but rather a teacher and his or her invaluable experience.
Case in point: we have a lot of stupid computer science professors at our university, where they majored in nuclear physics, pure mathematics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, etc(desclaimer: I'm not trying to knock down other engineering professions...just read on). Hardly any of them are CS grads or hold any MSc or Phd in Computer science.
Now if you're a Phd EE for 30 years, but can't teach/show why we want to minimize modules with high Fan-Out, then don't teach software engineering. Similarily, if you think modern operating systems should be written in Java and C++ without a) giving really good reasons and b) don't explain how VFS in Linux is actually an OO object in C, then you really shouldn't be teaching programming languages. Finally, if you think Microsoft's COM or Java Beans is "distributed computing", then you really shouldn't be teaching distributed operating systems(and OS design in general). And really finally: if you think the first part of any software project is "UI Design", then get the fuck out of teaching CS and go back to the subject you're specialized in:)/rant off.
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And they missed the information age, microchips, the sexual revolution, the civil rights movement, the air bag in cars, AIDS, velcro and genetic engineering.
You forgot Linux;)
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Don't know why the fuck this guy modded up(are you guys drinking a lot? Don't drink and mod:))
Here's their quote you fucking idiot parent:
Notably, during this process we tended to give deference to games that were developed to take advantage of a given gaming platform's unique properties--all other things being equal, we preferred to honor those games that were released exclusively for a particular platform, rather than those that were ported to most or every gaming system[emphasis mine]. However, in many cases we did not rule out multiplatform ports, and for one award, we honor the game that made the best showing on the most platforms.
You didn't even read the fucking article, and just took the big block quotes and attempted to form a stupid opinion.
Why does everyone justify their actions by saying, "because of the terrorists"? They want to study you like rats for market research(just go look at how they research your habits for TV advertisements).
The US has 30 fucking million "1 metre" satellites(scary detail) to track people, and they still need to do this?
I've always thought that audio/video is one huge information bank that has never been easily accessed.
I consider audio/video data "fuzzy" -- there is no clear cut method of intrepreting such data. Here's a real world example: tell a computer to determine if a movie is pornographic or better still find out if a picture is showing a vagina, penis, etc.
No, it's a cat fight between DRM assholes! I say, let 'em fight! In the best case, no pallidium! In the worst case, delay of DRM!
Kashif
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but the advertisers are idiots, so they don't know how to do the hard stuff, don't have the brains to figure it out, and aren't interested in doing the hard stuff in any case.
I agree, though I think you are referring to internet advertisers who are in the biz for a fast buck(before people realize that its not working and hence lack of revenue from ads).
Television advertisers do their homework, and I have to admit the ads are enjoyable in many respects and they sometimes work on me depending on what I'm looking for(I.e. food). TV advertisers do massive amounts of research on human behaviour so much so they can track where you'll most likely look.
Going back to internet ads, all I think they do is increase the awareness of a product and nothing more. So if you were looking to buy a such a product, you have an idea of whats out there. The key point here is every site you visit, there are a million different things that are being advertised at any given time, making it hard for you to create 'mental record' of the product.
I'm actually interested in porting this too Gameboy Advance. From my early inspection with gbadv, it has planar video memory layout, similar to the PCs vga planer memory modes(mode2? can't remember now...)
Get off the high horse guys, whether its binary or XML is irrelevant, making something XML doesn't make it open.
I believe people -- and this is my opinion -- think XML is more "open" because its a tangible format. i.e. you can open it in notepad.exe and see some logical structure(but you can't intrepret it). Where as all you see from a doc file is bunch of binary gibberish.
Government standards are why you can fill fly in an airplane and know it won't crash....and have the wonderful assurance that hundreds of seagulls and other birds were literally used to test the wing propellors.
I should know, since my father worked for GE back in the days when they were in Aviation building bird-resistant propellors and missile shells. Though, I don't know if they still do that stuff. But my father found the bird-testing sickening as do I.
Slashdot Mirror
"Please remove my name from your mailing list"
/conspiracy hat on/
Yes, and this supposedly takes "5 to 7 business days", when all they really have to update is a database table.
But what I really think happens when you click the link is "ah ha! this email really is valid and not a fluke!!". THe next thing it does execute the "EnterUserIntoValidEmailList()" procedure.
Now you know you're fucked.
There's also Daniel Brandt, the Google-watch guy, who thinks that Google ought to be regulated
Google should be regulated because so many people use it? Well, before you regulate this why doesn't anyone regulate the OS landspace?
I hear there is an OS maker who owns 95% of the market, yet laughs at 'regulatory bodies' & stuffs their pockets with money. Fuck google, if there is anything that needs regulation, it's OS Makers and their monopolizing tactics.
"I seem to remember the 9700 getting very similar scores whether the card was set to no AA, 2xAA or 4xAA, i.e. the AA processing was almost (but not quite) 'free'."
You also have to make sure games are fillrate-limited. I.e. if they're waiting for triangles to draw.
Professors need to earn their salaries, at my school the students actually EVALUATE the teachers, teachers who cannot give good lectures recieve poor ratings.
We have this too at our univ, but it only kinda affects new professors(5 years). There are a lot of old geezers teaching CS when they shouldn't be(i.e. they are engineers, physicists, etc) and you really can't do anything about them because of their sinourity(sp?).
LOL...
and he forgot about beans and Taco Bell...
That, right there, is the game in a nutshell...Yes, that's the game. What people get addicted to is the in-game chat, the shared experiences and what people share when they've got little else to do.
I wish I could shake your hand, not many can describe how stupid the game really is. In my case, I've played both Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot and found them to be utterly boring. I mean, I would never get past the 9th level before getting bored and deleting my characters. Since I'm not really social person, I was looking more for epic, grand quests with some story or purpose of being in this 12.95-per-month-world.
But I found none. People only get addicted because they join clans or guilds who are binded together for a purpose--chatting, fighting together, and having a virtual beer.
Yeah, but I don't have enough money to pay the politician to pass some law.
Well if the military keeps a record of imunizations of its soldiers, then any country wishing to use bio weapons upon the US could use their medical record to determine which viruses/bacteria/pathogens they are weakest against.
And I can sharpen my pencil and stab you in the eye -- instantly blinding you. But will I do it? Heck no.
The US goverment loves to use words like "could", "possibly","should have", "probably", "might", "may" to sway public opinions to their favour by instilling fear.
Yes, there were some crazy nut heads who did 9/11, but does not mean accusation without concrete evidence is justified.
I found the game to be pretty boring...it costs too much time to build your character and nothing exciting occurs until you get to the 35th level(or so I'm told).
I think the appealing part of this game is that you get to do things together with other people and accomplish gaols--but I'm not a social person(by habit is more anti-social) and playing solo is pretty boring.
And once you pass through the scanner, you just lick your fingertip and the evidence is gone.
You have a point that such scanners are pointless to use in seclusion, but what if the cashier at the grocery store says:
"Please lick your thumb or submerge your thumb into this safe, bio-degradable green liquid before using the ThumbSafe Scanner Technology"
Not much you can do at this point, and before you know it they'll try running a scanner on your hand for any "sensitive" material...
You can do it on your own, but classroom can provide a clear direction and help filter the stupid stuff from the essential stuff.
/rant off.
IMO it's not really the classroom that provides a clear direction or the course; but rather a teacher and his or her invaluable experience.
Case in point: we have a lot of stupid computer science professors at our university, where they majored in nuclear physics, pure mathematics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, etc(desclaimer: I'm not trying to knock down other engineering professions...just read on). Hardly any of them are CS grads or hold any MSc or Phd in Computer science.
Now if you're a Phd EE for 30 years, but can't teach/show why we want to minimize modules with high Fan-Out, then don't teach software engineering. Similarily, if you think modern operating systems should be written in Java and C++ without a) giving really good reasons and b) don't explain how VFS in Linux is actually an OO object in C, then you really shouldn't be teaching programming languages. Finally, if you think Microsoft's COM or Java Beans is "distributed computing", then you really shouldn't be teaching distributed operating systems(and OS design in general). And really finally: if you think the first part of any software project is "UI Design", then get the fuck out of teaching CS and go back to the subject you're specialized in:)
And they missed the information age, microchips, the sexual revolution, the civil rights movement, the air bag in cars, AIDS, velcro and genetic engineering.
;)
You forgot Linux
Don't know why the fuck this guy modded up(are you guys drinking a lot? Don't drink and mod:))
Here's their quote you fucking idiot parent:
Notably, during this process we tended to give deference to games that were developed to take advantage of a given gaming platform's unique properties--all other things being equal, we preferred to honor those games that were released exclusively for a particular platform, rather than those that were ported to most or every gaming system[emphasis mine]. However, in many cases we did not rule out multiplatform ports, and for one award, we honor the game that made the best showing on the most platforms.
You didn't even read the fucking article, and just took the big block quotes and attempted to form a stupid opinion.
Jerk.
Bullshit.
Why does everyone justify their actions by saying, "because of the terrorists"? They want to study you like rats for market research(just go look at how they research your habits for TV advertisements).
The US has 30 fucking million "1 metre" satellites(scary detail) to track people, and they still need to do this?
I've always thought that audio/video is one huge information bank that has never been easily accessed.
I consider audio/video data "fuzzy" -- there is no clear cut method of intrepreting such data. Here's a real world example: tell a computer to determine if a movie is pornographic or better still find out if a picture is showing a vagina, penis, etc.
Al Bundy tried this with a record-store jockey and failed. You think a computer is going to be better?
What's up there in the sky??
It's a bird? no...
It's a plane? no...
It's a WIFI FROM THE SKY!!!
No, it's a cat fight between DRM assholes! I say, let 'em fight! In the best case, no pallidium! In the worst case, delay of DRM! Kashif
but the advertisers are idiots, so they don't know how to do the hard stuff, don't have the brains to figure it out, and aren't interested in doing the hard stuff in any case.
I agree, though I think you are referring to internet advertisers who are in the biz for a fast buck(before people realize that its not working and hence lack of revenue from ads).
Television advertisers do their homework, and I have to admit the ads are enjoyable in many respects and they sometimes work on me depending on what I'm looking for(I.e. food). TV advertisers do massive amounts of research on human behaviour so much so they can track where you'll most likely look.
Going back to internet ads, all I think they do is increase the awareness of a product and nothing more. So if you were looking to buy a such a product, you have an idea of whats out there. The key point here is every site you visit, there are a million different things that are being advertised at any given time, making it hard for you to create 'mental record' of the product.
I think you get what I'm saying. 'nuff said.
Kashif
Yes, but IE will go to offline mode, and pull all the pop-ups from the cache...
It's called "Telepathic Shopping Ver 1.0"
I'm actually interested in porting this too Gameboy Advance. From my early inspection with gbadv, it has planar video memory layout, similar to the PCs vga planer memory modes(mode2? can't remember now...)
Get off the high horse guys, whether its binary or XML is irrelevant, making something XML doesn't make it open.
I believe people -- and this is my opinion -- think XML is more "open" because its a tangible format. i.e. you can open it in notepad.exe and see some logical structure(but you can't intrepret it). Where as all you see from a doc file is bunch of binary gibberish.
Microsoft would be unable to write an application than can quickly save and open text files that, on average, run well under 50 kilobytes.
You haven't ever stored pictures in word files, have you? Just having a couple of big pictures makes the size of doc file grow around 5 to 10 megs.
Government standards are why you can fill fly in an airplane and know it won't crash. ...and have the wonderful assurance that hundreds of seagulls and other birds were literally used to test the wing propellors.
I should know, since my father worked for GE back in the days when they were in Aviation building bird-resistant propellors and missile shells. Though, I don't know if they still do that stuff. But my father found the bird-testing sickening as do I.