"I can't use something else because I don't know how to switch".
Yes, I can already see the ads. 'I was on AOL and it was like beep-beep-beep-beep and all my smut-hungry chat buddies were gone, and I couldn't log back in.'
The second amendment is often quoted as 'The right to bear arm...' and the quoter leaves out the rest of the line '... to form a militia.'
That seems to get glossed over a bit. My own take is that the second amendment was probably not intended to fill every household with handguns and rifles.
The punishment is out of proportion to the crime. My first guess is this was intentional, possibly to make other warez organizations toss in the towel.
Maybe the feds can't shut them down individually, so they're going for intimidation.
Because it is measuring probabilities, the Bayesian approach considers all the evidence in the email, both good and bad. Words that occur disproportionately rarely in spam (like "though" or "tonight" or "apparently") contribute as much to decreasing the probability as bad words like "unsubscribe" and "opt-in" do to increasing it. So an otherwise innocent email that happens to include the word "sex" is not going to get tagged as spam.
So what's to keep spammers from reading this article, and tailoring their spam to stop using 'hos' and 'ladies' and start include words like 'tonight' and 'apparently'"?
'This week only! All the hiz'oes and liz'adies you could want on our website. Sign up tonight and receive a free two month membership! Apparently we'd uh... like your business!'
Mod the parent up. Nobody is going to tell me that there's no difference between Castlevania, Tetris, Warcraft, Street Fighter 2, Doom and Age of Empires. The level of participation, reaction time and downright 'type of thinking' is completely different. What about a test group of people playing a game of chess? Would we see similar alpha waves in them? What about a game of monopoly? What about the brainwaves of someone meditating?
As an aside, I was reading recently that gamers who specialize in first person shooters (Doom, Quake) can develop roughly double the reaction time of non-gamers.
I should get a deduction on my auto insurance due to 'inhuman reaction time.'
The triple-headed desktop is probably the most understated feature of this card. Talk to anyone that deals with graphics day-to-day - 3d animators, video editors, graphic designers, and the extra screen real-estate is a big boost in productivity.
This isn't hype, it's a natural progression in computer graphics.
What you've been able to do in 3d animation software for ten years now (bump mapping, specular mapping, displacement, self-illumination, glossiness maps etc), you're finally able to do in real-time using the lastest video cards.
In another few years, cards will probably be able to do real-time shadow effects (Doom 3), normal mapping, and eventually raytracing in real-time, for those nice reflection and refraction effects.
In the future, the 'top of the line' rendering effects that 3d Studio Max Softimage and Maya are just getting into (global illumination, caustics, hair, deep shadows) will eventually be able to be processed in real time as well... when processing power and video cards catch up.
The animators were right all along, and I had a small piece of my childhood die watching Yoda leap around like a gymnist on crack. Yoda was my favorite character growing up, and that fight scene made no sense.
I remember a video I saw of the guy who invented Aikido in the 1900s - I forget his name now. He was a wizened old man in the video, probably pushing ninety years old, his diciples had long-since taken over teaching their own varieties of aikido, and he still showed up in his dojo to train his students and give little demonstrations. What he lacked in mobility and strength he made up for in grace and economy of movement, and I watched as he would toss aside the students with little hand movements or slow sweeping gestures. The students could attack in piles, and still they would be tossed aside like leaves. It was really magical to watch such an old man possessed of such power.
Anyway - that's how Yoda should have fought. He should have been slow, graceful and easily dispatched his enemies using only the force. He had no business using a lightsaber, and had no reason to spring about like a ping pong ball.
Lastly, the reason Yoda and Boba Fett were awesome characters in the original trilogy was because they were mysterious - unknown pasts, unknown barely hinted-at abilities under the surface.
Lucas destroyed their mystique by making them full fleshed-out characters in AOTC.
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"I can't use something else because I don't know how to switch".
Yes, I can already see the ads. 'I was on AOL and it was like beep-beep-beep-beep and all my smut-hungry chat buddies were gone, and I couldn't log back in.'
'It was, like, a really good chat room.'
I frequently hear this reference.
The second amendment is often quoted as 'The right to bear arm...' and the quoter leaves out the rest of the line '... to form a militia.'
That seems to get glossed over a bit. My own take is that the second amendment was probably not intended to fill every household with handguns and rifles.
D
Besides, what moron goes out and gets a new computer when their current one works just fine?
Two words.
Doom three.
D
The punishment is out of proportion to the crime. My first guess is this was intentional, possibly to make other warez organizations toss in the towel.
Maybe the feds can't shut them down individually, so they're going for intimidation.
Because it is measuring probabilities, the Bayesian approach considers all the evidence in the email, both good and bad. Words that occur disproportionately rarely in spam (like "though" or "tonight" or "apparently") contribute as much to decreasing the probability as bad words like "unsubscribe" and "opt-in" do to increasing it. So an otherwise innocent email that happens to include the word "sex" is not going to get tagged as spam.
So what's to keep spammers from reading this article, and tailoring their spam to stop using 'hos' and 'ladies' and start include words like 'tonight' and 'apparently'"?
'This week only! All the hiz'oes and liz'adies you could want on our website. Sign up tonight and receive a free two month membership! Apparently we'd uh... like your business!'
D
Mod the parent up. Nobody is going to tell me that there's no difference between Castlevania, Tetris, Warcraft, Street Fighter 2, Doom and Age of Empires. The level of participation, reaction time and downright 'type of thinking' is completely different.
What about a test group of people playing a game of chess? Would we see similar alpha waves in them? What about a game of monopoly? What about the brainwaves of someone meditating?
As an aside, I was reading recently that gamers who specialize in first person shooters (Doom, Quake) can develop roughly double the reaction time of non-gamers.
I should get a deduction on my auto insurance due to 'inhuman reaction time.'
D
The triple-headed desktop is probably the most understated feature of this card. Talk to anyone that deals with graphics day-to-day - 3d animators, video editors, graphic designers, and the extra screen real-estate is a big boost in productivity.
Here's a few triple screenshots from Matrox's site. and I believe that odd three-panel monitor is from Panoram Tech.
D
This isn't hype, it's a natural progression in computer graphics.
What you've been able to do in 3d animation software for ten years now (bump mapping, specular mapping, displacement, self-illumination, glossiness maps etc), you're finally able to do in real-time using the lastest video cards.
In another few years, cards will probably be able to do real-time shadow effects (Doom 3), normal mapping, and eventually raytracing in real-time, for those nice reflection and refraction effects.
In the future, the 'top of the line' rendering effects that 3d Studio Max Softimage and Maya are just getting into (global illumination, caustics, hair, deep shadows) will eventually be able to be processed in real time as well... when processing power and video cards catch up.
D
The animators were right all along, and I had a small piece of my childhood die watching Yoda leap around like a gymnist on crack. Yoda was my favorite character growing up, and that fight scene made no sense. I remember a video I saw of the guy who invented Aikido in the 1900s - I forget his name now. He was a wizened old man in the video, probably pushing ninety years old, his diciples had long-since taken over teaching their own varieties of aikido, and he still showed up in his dojo to train his students and give little demonstrations. What he lacked in mobility and strength he made up for in grace and economy of movement, and I watched as he would toss aside the students with little hand movements or slow sweeping gestures. The students could attack in piles, and still they would be tossed aside like leaves. It was really magical to watch such an old man possessed of such power. Anyway - that's how Yoda should have fought. He should have been slow, graceful and easily dispatched his enemies using only the force. He had no business using a lightsaber, and had no reason to spring about like a ping pong ball. Lastly, the reason Yoda and Boba Fett were awesome characters in the original trilogy was because they were mysterious - unknown pasts, unknown barely hinted-at abilities under the surface. Lucas destroyed their mystique by making them full fleshed-out characters in AOTC.