Very good humor! But on a more serious note, this is actually part of the problem with some comments. They duplicate the code. Comments like
i++;// increment i by one
really slow down the comprehesion level of most competent programers, because they have to filter out a lot of redundacy. Comment on purpose, on the more general function of things, etc. An automated program, could only really comment on the code that was there, and likely in an obvious way.
Not to detract from the marvelous humor of the 'article' but it was a good demonstration of the problem.
Well looking breifly at the javscript in the page, its set to run all of april 1st (like the origional Gmail announcement!) and end with the text 'Over 2000 MB' on the home page, and presumeably all the users are going to get that as well, as thier box sizes are rising as we speak. The infinity plus one bit may be a gag, but thier marketing is genious! So in my opinon, they are, infact doubleing the size of thier service on the one year aniversary. Awsome.
Wouldn't it still be quite possible to scan the system from a non infected source, such as the UBCD4Win? Its a bootable cd, like knoppix and others, but with a light version of windows XP and a ton of cleaning tools. I use it regularly for cleaning spyware and viruses off thoroughly infected systems.
It's be able to cope with systems having hundreds of virii and such. If you trust it to remove simpler malware, then ingrained rootkits should be a similar problem, for an 'external' system. Not to mention it has all the critical XP system files handy for replacements. A bit easier than the 'nuke it all' aproach, which is beginning to sound like 'reboot and see if the problem goes away'.
Its true this may not be the best wifi security solution (ethernet anyone?) but it would be *great* for say, theaters. No more annoying cell phones going off durring the movies! There are other issues to deal with, such as liability (doctors on call etc) but as long as you posted a sign that explained as such, things should be alright. It would be a great solution, and much easier to apply than expensive pannels and such that have been tried before.
I'd just like to note
"- E-mail required to download the single 500-page PDF file." Isn't quite true. If you uncheck 'Subscribe to Apress Newsletter' then hit download, it will let you by, without an email address.
And I *love* your site by the way. I've used several of those resources already and forwarded it to my academic advisor, who forwarded it to the entire CSET program. (small program though). Keep up the great work!
Glad I could help, and thanks for the corrections, I've posted a fixed version. I figured at 1 am there were bound to be a few, but luckily the R would mean taking it off the board, so the change was obvious.
It surprised me that the full solution wasn't documented in a post sooner, unless I missed something, and again, I'm glad my time spent geeking out over the puzzle instead of getting some much needed sleep wasn't wasted!
I've worked through that solution, and writen up a much more aproachable version. Slashdots lameness filter prevents me from posting it in full, so I will link to it on my website here: http://www.abysmalstudios.com/files/quzzlesolution.txt
although that will most certainly disapear in a while, as I clean up my server from time to time. In the interests of preserving history, I'll give you the excessively condensed version:
The goal is to move the A block in the far upper left corner, to the far upper right corner.
---- AA11 AA23 **23 - starting puzzle condition (* is a space) 4556 4778 ----
The code below gives a block (1-8 or 'A') and an u/d/l/r direction. AD1LL2U3U6UL3DD2R6UUAR4UU5L7L8LU7RR5D8 LLAD6DL2L3UU AR8RU5U7LLAD8RR2D1R4U6DL2L8LU3D1R2U6RR2D4D1LL8U3U6 UAU7RR5D2D6L8D1R4U2LAL3DD1R8R6R4R2UUAL6DD8L3U6RAR2 DD4L8LUAU6LL7U5RR6DR7L5L3DDAR8DD4R2UU8LD4D2D1LAU You will have to break it up manually, because slashdots lameness filter wont even let me put line breaks in. Grab a copy of the text from my site while you can!
Because, theory goes, finding one person with that file finds everyone with that file, and furthermore you get the organized anti-leeching distribution advantage of bit torrent.
You can think of it this way. Bit torrent works well, right? This is just a different way of finding torrents.
(don't give me extended versions unless you actually filmed extra footage to include later on special DVDs ala "Lord of the Rings"...seeing footage that was cut because it SHOULD have been cut is not my cup-of-tea.)
The new footage was filmed specially for the 'Enter the Matrix' video game, which takes place in parallel to the film, following the story of Niobe and Ghost. You see/help them do things such as playing catchup on the freeway chase, and going to the power plant to destroy it. The parallel game idea was nice, but it didn't work out so well. I'm glad they are releasing a version that includes the footage because it helps with the subplot quite a bit.
I have had this problem as well. It seems to be a bug in the engine, because increasing and then decreasing the text size fixes the problem. Its a pretty simple work around, but I hope they fix the bug for 1.0
It is pretty amazing. More and more engines are becoming that way, and more and more developers are trying to sell licences as a source of income. The unreal engine is very flexible, and generic. The games they make on it now, (ut2003, ut2004 etc) are made entirely of scripts. There is nothing hard coded into the engine that is 'unreal'.
Actually, they have mentioned specifically (like at the bottom of this Mark Rein post), that the demo has NO cheat protection at all, because it would give that crowed a head start on the final version. They also mention that they will update the demo once the full game has been released for a little while, to include cheat protection. Its good to see that they are not only serious this issue, but they have put some thought in thier strategy.
The line is not drawn at a number of people affected. Terrorists have a specific belief or cause they are trying to bring attention to, and change. If al-Qaeda had done this, it would have been terrorism, because of the motive. But it depends on the motive. The Mydoom worm infected hundreds of thousands of machines, why isn't that terrorism? Motive (as far as we know). Suddenly lableing something terrorism because it might affect our emergency services is a gross misrepresentation. Sure it was illegal, possibly dangerous, but unless the intent was to further an ideoligical agenga through terror, then its hard to qualify it as terrorism.
Google seems to do this by default (bottom of page). Notice the search for slide rules has several instances of 'rules' highlighted?
Aditionally, in the 'one up the competition' category, google can search synonyms of words like this: Google: ~slide ~rule. I learned that one in the 'favorite google features' thread. More info on thier advanced help page (3rd down, "~" searches). I also really love (and use heavily) thier other search operators.
Ofcourse, if there was a mix to choose from, an online sales based buisness would move to a delivery tax state (or preferably a no-tax state) about as fast as they could. It will probably mean, sooner or later the system will be forced to standardize.
As long as they can do a proper raw dump of the formats, Daemon tools is a very nice piece of software to emulate the copy protection schemes. I am not sure how the linux side of things are, but lots of games require windows to run well at this point..
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Very good humor! But on a more serious note, this is actually part of the problem with some comments. They duplicate the code. Comments like
// increment i by one
i++;
really slow down the comprehesion level of most competent programers, because they have to filter out a lot of redundacy. Comment on purpose, on the more general function of things, etc. An automated program, could only really comment on the code that was there, and likely in an obvious way.
Not to detract from the marvelous humor of the 'article' but it was a good demonstration of the problem.
Well looking breifly at the javscript in the page, its set to run all of april 1st (like the origional Gmail announcement!) and end with the text 'Over 2000 MB' on the home page, and presumeably all the users are going to get that as well, as thier box sizes are rising as we speak. The infinity plus one bit may be a gag, but thier marketing is genious! So in my opinon, they are, infact doubleing the size of thier service on the one year aniversary. Awsome.
Do you realize what this means? We simply have to patent ALL bad programing constructs! Then there will be nothing left but quality code!
That and we can sue anyone writing sloppy code.
Wouldn't it still be quite possible to scan the system from a non infected source, such as the UBCD4Win? Its a bootable cd, like knoppix and others, but with a light version of windows XP and a ton of cleaning tools. I use it regularly for cleaning spyware and viruses off thoroughly infected systems.
It's be able to cope with systems having hundreds of virii and such. If you trust it to remove simpler malware, then ingrained rootkits should be a similar problem, for an 'external' system. Not to mention it has all the critical XP system files handy for replacements. A bit easier than the 'nuke it all' aproach, which is beginning to sound like 'reboot and see if the problem goes away'.
Its true this may not be the best wifi security solution (ethernet anyone?) but it would be *great* for say, theaters. No more annoying cell phones going off durring the movies! There are other issues to deal with, such as liability (doctors on call etc) but as long as you posted a sign that explained as such, things should be alright. It would be a great solution, and much easier to apply than expensive pannels and such that have been tried before.
Some people just can't leave a puzzle alone. Kudos! :)
I'd just like to note
"- E-mail required to download the single 500-page PDF file."
Isn't quite true. If you uncheck 'Subscribe to Apress Newsletter' then hit download, it will let you by, without an email address.
And I *love* your site by the way. I've used several of those resources already and forwarded it to my academic advisor, who forwarded it to the entire CSET program. (small program though). Keep up the great work!
Glad I could help, and thanks for the corrections, I've posted a fixed version. I figured at 1 am there were bound to be a few, but luckily the R would mean taking it off the board, so the change was obvious.
It surprised me that the full solution wasn't documented in a post sooner, unless I missed something, and again, I'm glad my time spent geeking out over the puzzle instead of getting some much needed sleep wasn't wasted!
I've worked through that solution, and writen up a much more aproachable version. Slashdots lameness filter prevents me from posting it in full, so I will link to it on my website here:n .txt
8 LLAD6DL2L3UU AR8RU5U7LLAD8RR2D1R4U6DL2L8LU3D1R2U6RR2D4D1LL8U3U6 UAU7RR5D2D6L8D1R4U2LAL3DD1R8R6R4R2UUAL6DD8L3U6RAR2 DD4L8LUAU6LL7U5RR6DR7L5L3DDAR8DD4R2UU8LD4D2D1LAU
http://www.abysmalstudios.com/files/quzzlesolutio
although that will most certainly disapear in a while, as I clean up my server from time to time. In the interests of preserving history, I'll give you the excessively condensed version:
The goal is to move the A block in the far upper left corner, to the far upper right corner.
----
AA11
AA23
**23 - starting puzzle condition (* is a space)
4556
4778
----
The code below gives a block (1-8 or 'A') and an u/d/l/r direction.
AD1LL2U3U6UL3DD2R6UUAR4UU5L7L8LU7RR5D
You will have to break it up manually, because slashdots lameness filter wont even let me put line breaks in. Grab a copy of the text from my site while you can!
Because, theory goes, finding one person with that file finds everyone with that file, and furthermore you get the organized anti-leeching distribution advantage of bit torrent. You can think of it this way. Bit torrent works well, right? This is just a different way of finding torrents.
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
(don't give me extended versions unless you actually filmed extra footage to include later on special DVDs ala "Lord of the Rings"...seeing footage that was cut because it SHOULD have been cut is not my cup-of-tea.)
The new footage was filmed specially for the 'Enter the Matrix' video game, which takes place in parallel to the film, following the story of Niobe and Ghost. You see/help them do things such as playing catchup on the freeway chase, and going to the power plant to destroy it. The parallel game idea was nice, but it didn't work out so well. I'm glad they are releasing a version that includes the footage because it helps with the subplot quite a bit.
I have had this problem as well. It seems to be a bug in the engine, because increasing and then decreasing the text size fixes the problem. Its a pretty simple work around, but I hope they fix the bug for 1.0
Its been around for a while. It is the Quake 3 Rocket Launcher, although people also seem to think it looks like a fire extinguisher.
I've been drooling over EL keyboards ever since i saw the EluminX
You know, thats probably not very good for them.
(Humor Disclaimer : This post was intended to be funny. If you don't think so, take your mod points elsewhere.)
According to one of my Psych professors, under ideal conditions the human eye can detect a single photon.
For example, when looking at a photon detector.
It is pretty amazing. More and more engines are becoming that way, and more and more developers are trying to sell licences as a source of income. The unreal engine is very flexible, and generic. The games they make on it now, (ut2003, ut2004 etc) are made entirely of scripts. There is nothing hard coded into the engine that is 'unreal'.
Plus I just asked for 1000 (the most allowed) numbers between 1 - 100. I was scared by what I got back.
50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 (repeated quite a bit - cut to pass the poster comment compression filter)
Wow, I'd be scared to, I mean.. what are the chances?!?
Actually, they have mentioned specifically (like at the bottom of this Mark Rein post), that the demo has NO cheat protection at all, because it would give that crowed a head start on the final version. They also mention that they will update the demo once the full game has been released for a little while, to include cheat protection. Its good to see that they are not only serious this issue, but they have put some thought in thier strategy.
The line is not drawn at a number of people affected. Terrorists have a specific belief or cause they are trying to bring attention to, and change. If al-Qaeda had done this, it would have been terrorism, because of the motive. But it depends on the motive. The Mydoom worm infected hundreds of thousands of machines, why isn't that terrorism? Motive (as far as we know). Suddenly lableing something terrorism because it might affect our emergency services is a gross misrepresentation. Sure it was illegal, possibly dangerous, but unless the intent was to further an ideoligical agenga through terror, then its hard to qualify it as terrorism.
Why guess when you can RTFA? Oh, right...
one of my domain names [...] was disabled by my unnamed registrar
Notice that "unnamed registrar" links to godaddy.com? I think the submiter was trying to be subtle.
Google seems to do this by default (bottom of page). Notice the search for slide rules has several instances of 'rules' highlighted?
Aditionally, in the 'one up the competition' category, google can search synonyms of words like this:
Google: ~slide ~rule. I learned that one in the 'favorite google features' thread. More info on thier advanced help page (3rd down, "~" searches). I also really love (and use heavily) thier other search operators.
For those than don't speak 1337:
/\/\ /\/\ 4 7 1 ( 4 |_
/\/\ '/
counterstrike grammatical academy
class of 2001
C 0 |_| |\| 7 3 |2 5 7 |2 1 | 3
c o u n t e r s t r i k e
6 |2 4
g r a m m a t i c a l
4 ( 4 |)3
a c a d e m y
( |_ 4 5 5 0' 2 | 1
c l a s s of (o') 2 00 1
Note the K in counterstrike is only a | . I would guess it was intented to be a |
It took me around 10 seconds to read that. I'm not sure if I should be proud or hang myself.
This lesson in leet speak brought to you by the letter 3.
Ofcourse, if there was a mix to choose from, an online sales based buisness would move to a delivery tax state (or preferably a no-tax state) about as fast as they could. It will probably mean, sooner or later the system will be forced to standardize.
As long as they can do a proper raw dump of the formats, Daemon tools is a very nice piece of software to emulate the copy protection schemes. I am not sure how the linux side of things are, but lots of games require windows to run well at this point..