EVE needs a new server all right. But not like that.
Node crashes with 'only' 400 people (or less) in system. Happened in M-O several times during a fleet battle before CCP decided to reinforce the node. It was so bad they even did rollbacks. People who had lost ships got them back, insurance payout and all. Of course, you can request through petition that CCP reinforces the node, providing you do so 24 hours ahead of time, and give them the system where the fight will take place (Yeah, right..) They're touting StacklessIO as the be-all-end-all-death-to-the-lag-monster, yet the same problems still crop up. Instead of things like Tech 3 ships (I'm barely into Tech 2 ships and I've been playing since April.. ), make it so I don't have to wait 30-60 seconds for a module to activate, or fixing the varied and numerous bugs.. overview not displaying targets properly, resulting in friendly fire (Always fun to explain to your CEO), or Traffic Control popping up when you're on the move (waiting 1-2 minutes for the gate to fire in hostile territory can get the adrenaline going nicely), or the address book not properly displaying who is and is not online (for keeping an eye on that Titan pilot trying to ruin your day.)
EVE has so much going for it IMO, but there is so much more the devs could be devoting their time to fixing, rather than just throwing new features at us. EVE is still fun for me, and will most likely continue to be for some time, but some of the problems it has are frustrating.
Quantum Rise will be interesting to see how it pans, especially with the speed changes (I haven't been on SiSi to try anything). To me, in my limited experience with the game, it seems like that even those speed is being dialed downwards, ships intended to go fast will stay fast, like interceptors. Afterburners will be more desirable, and assault frigates may become viable again. Ultimately, there will probably be smaller, more specialized gangs, which may (or not) help with the lag.
Comfort zones and insecurity. Speaking as the "computer guy" for about 15-20 friends and family members, the idea of registering a domain name and then paying a very small monthly fee (less than $5, sometimes $0) to permanently own your own domain name and e-mail is uncomfortable when they can just keep their free 5-10 year old AOL/LocalISP address. Only my Mom owns her own domain name (which she really likes).
My DSL provider is having problems with the SMTP server today, so my parents are unable to send e-mail on their main account. After explaining to them that the address was on their old (dialup) ISP, they were forced to use the DSL SMTP server to send e-mail(because of port 25 blocking).
They weren't happy when they realized they've been paying $10 a month for an e-mail address for the past 18 months.
Cheese-a-thon or not, the man had some cool toys to work with on this movie. I happened to catch the HBO First Look on the movie last night, and he's got three really neat camera rigs.
One was a souped up go-cart that goes like 100-mph. Mount a robotic camera on the back with tight shock absorbers. They used it for chases and the vibrations give a really 'tense' feel they said.
Another was a car with a roll-cage on the front, with an expanded grill, and a reinforced camera on the inside. So when they're driving doing the highway tossing cars off the back of a truck, the cameraman said he'd run right into them, and just keep on going.
The last in my opinion was the coolest. I forget what model car they used (newer model car I think), 6 people on the inside to control the camera, and a robotic camera mounted on the roof with a 360-degree axis.
You might want to check out the kdissert program. It runs in KDE, but if you have the proper libraries and dependencies, you should be able to run it on any WM.
The description follows (taken from Ubuntu 7.04, I'm sure the description is the same for other distros as well)
kdissert is a mindmapping tool for supporting the creation of complex
documents: dissertations, theses, presentations, and reports. It
supports pictures and features several document generators: LaTeX
reports, LaTeX slides (based on Prosper and Beamer), OpenOffice.org
documents, HTML, and plain text.
A mindmap is a multicolored and image centered radial diagram that
represents semantic or other connections between portions of learned
material. For example, it can graphically illustrate the structure
of a thesis outline, a project plan, or the government institutions
in a state. Mindmaps have many applications in personal, family,
educational, and business situations. Possibilities include
note-taking, brainstorming, summarizing, revising and general
clarifying of thoughts.
Though this application shares some similarities with general-purpose
mindmapping tools like FreeMind or Vym, the very first goal of kdissert
is to create general-purpose documents, not mindmaps.
The kdissert website is located here. The program was designed to manage and organize disserations, which from what you described, is probably very similar to the work you're doing.
If you're looking for a tool more oriented towards 'mindmapping', there is Vym (website), which seems very interesting, and FreeMind (website), written in Java, though I have no experience with it.
It sounds like from what you described, and the solutions others are offering, you are more interested in a 'general-purpose' document where you can list your sources, and if needed, map links, connections, and references to the various sources you're using. Vym might be more to your taste, since the layout is provides a great deal of information in very (imho) visually appealing format, with the ability to link objects together in complex ways (such as doumenting various reference sources in a paper, where they appear and/or referenced in other works, etc.) Such tools like Vym and KDissert are really only limited by your own mind, though the differences between the programs are sufficient enough that each one should be evaluated individually, since all three accomplish similar goals in very different ways.
It's like canceling your cable because of bad reruns of the Rosanne show or something that "offended" you on the Colbert Report
Well, if you want to talk cable, I think it'd be more akin to HBO handing Bill Mahr his walking papers for something he (or a guest even) said on Real Time, and you canceling HBO. Which, if it were to happen, I'm sure a lot of people would be just as apt to do.
Bill Mahr already got in trouble once for something he said on air (on ABC), and he was handed his walking papers. But the rules are a little different on ABC then on HBO. Just as they are on terrestrial and satellite radio.
While Op:Eagle Claw was a failure, I found this rescue mission much more interesting and enjoyable (to read; I'm sure they didn't find their time enjoyable at all) personally.
At least with a PDA, a teenager can feign productivity (look officer! contacts AND calendar!), but if you have a PSP, then you're just up to no good.:)
3/5 of my family are female. We use Linux (Ubuntu 6.10 for them, 7.04 for me).
3/5 of the computers in my family are running Linux. One is a Mac Mini (G4) running OSX and the other is a G4 Powerbook dual-booting OSX (clean install solely for music production) and Ubuntu 6.10 (for everything else, chat, e-mail, web, games). I've been running Ubuntu since Breezy Badger (2004 or so, soon Feisty). I had been running XP up until then (it was installed on the HP I purchased from my job) and was debating dual-booting XP and Ubuntu, but figured I would spend more time in XP since that's where all my music production was being done. I moved all my music production to my Powerbook and took the plunge. I figured that would be the easiest way to learn everything (I've been using Linux (Debian,and more recently Gentoo) on servers (both play and work since 1997) so while I was comfortable with Linux, though I had never used it on the desktop. Luckily I have my Mac Mini and (soon-to-be) Ubuntu desktop on a KVM switch, and the xorg.conf problems I ran into with my Nvidia TNT2 M64 and later Radeon 7500 (RV200) were resolved easily.
The other two computers in my household are also running Ubuntu. My fathers Dell laptop is running Dapper, because for some reason, Suspend-to-RAM and Sleep-on-lid only work with the 2.6.15 kernel in Dapper. The 2.6.17 kernel in Edgy does not work for some reason at all. He is incredibly pleased with it. Both he and my mother use it for IM, e-mail, web, and my mom uses it for games. They're also running Quickbooks (in wine) for their business as well as Photoshop 7. It also goes on the road to trade shows twice a year and their friends (craftspeople) are all quite impressed with it. He has a Linksys WPC11v4 PCMCIA wifi card (using the Windows XP RTL8189 driver in NDISwrapper, which wasn't difficult at all to setup with the GUI) which he connects to the home wifi network as well as on trips.
My fathers desktop is also running Edgy. Both he and my mother were sick of how long XP was taking to boot up, the constant running of av and spyware scans, and the fact that it simply took forever to do anything on it. Their bookmarks were exported out of Firefox to Edgy as well as their e-mail copied over to Edgy from Thunderbird. They used a really, really, really, crappy desktop publishing program (Serif Publisher if you've ever been graced with its presence), which we migrated out as EPS files (the program has almost no export function, and writes broken Adobe Illustrator files) into Inkscape. They're also using Quickbooks and Photoshop in wine.
The kicker was my sister. She kept coming home with a Thinkpad constantly messed up with spyware and trojans and broken internet (switching from ethernet to dial-up in Win98 seemed to be the most convoluted process ever). She finally got the "Let me install Linux (and teach you how to use it), or start taking your laptop to a shop and pay for the repairs" speech, and caved. We found a better laptop and I installed Edgy. As I was demoing software (OpenOffice (she needed Word and Powerpoint capability for her job at a preschool), KMyMoney, Digikam/Picasa, Inkscape, GIMP, the slick (IMHO) Add/Remove Programs applet in Kubuntu) the very first words out of her mouth were "Wait, how much does all this software cost?" It took a bit of convincing that it was all free. She and her husband started playing with it and fell in love. I ended up getting a card from them a while later thanking me for installing Ubuntu and how much easier it made their life.
I also helped a friend from MO. install Linux. She too got sick of windows, and ended up wiping her HD. The installer for her was very simple. Automatic partitioning, (click next), and she was done. I had her create a user account for me to SSH so I could add some more repositories, install NX Server, Automatix (for codecs), and help her get her 2G iPod nano working in Amarok. She IM'd me a few days later and said she was in love.
I, like you, signed up for XBL with a free 2-month subscription card (an expired one at that, but that's a different story). Played SW:Battlefront 2 on it maybe twice in the first three weeks and never went back too it. Two months later, when it came time to cancel, I found the e-mail reminding of me when I had to cancel in my inbox while I was cleaning. It was the day prior.
I promptly called the XBL hotline and spoke to a CSR. Explained my situation, that it was a 2-month trial, I didn't use it, really had no interest in using it, and was on SSDI so I really couldn't afford the $54/yr fee. I asked if it was possible to get a refund, since I really wasn't going to use it. He canceled the account and placed me on hold, presumably to get authorization for the refund. Came back less than 5 minutes later and said a refund was no problem.
That was November 25th (the account was renewed on the 24th), and I have yet to receive that refund.
At least the two of you were given actual recovery CDs (on physical media)! The HP desktop I purchased only came with a recovery *partition* that I could optionally boot too if I needed to use it. Thankfully I was given the option of burning my own recovery CDs (6 of them) or DVD (once I installed a DVD burner, purchased seperately).
Yes it does make me wonder..... Running virtualized Linux on virtualized Linux hosted by Linux.... Now that seems to be just a bit overkill does it not....
When I was at Clark University, an individual slit the screen on a first floor, ground-level, window, gaining access to an all-girl suite, walked into one of the rooms and proceded to climb onto one of the beds and grope one of the girls. Now, why (a) a normal screen, and not a metal mesh security screen, was used and (b) RLH (residental life and housing) placed an all-girl group (not mixed) in a first floor, ground-level suite is beyond me, since doing so is against policy according to the workstudies I knew working in RLH at the time. The dorm was the only one without the metal mesh security screens on ground level screens too. My best friend, and her suitemates had their space invaded and violated because of policy. Both written policy was disregarded (because of space considerations) and security was disregarded because, well, I don't know why, but I'm sure we all have a few guesses.
So yes, dorm security is a joke, but very necessary, and sometimes it's completely out of the hands of the students.
Yoky Matsuoka, a roboticist from Carnegie Mellon University agrees with you (the network part at least), as stated in May 2006 'Ping' in Wired Magazine: 'I am not ready to undergo a serious remote procedure. The best surgeons are known for their superb dexterity and their ability to handle unusual complications. These abilities are significantly affected by network delay and the lack of realistic tactile feedback that soft tissue provides. As a robotics expert, I've seen too many half-working prototypes to be anything but cautious.'
However, James 'Butch' Rosser, Chief of minimally invasive surgery, Advanced Medical Technology Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center says: "If I'm in the middle of New York or Houston, it makes no sense to have a guy across town operate on me with a robot. If my life is on the line with acute appendicitis in an isolated place, like the Serengeti or a space station, I would elt an expert in the field operate from afar. Especially if he's good at Halo 2 (emphasis mine).
Seriously the ESRB should stop rating games by their usermods.
I think a disclaimer similar to the ESRB notice seen on online-capable games should suffice on the game packaging. Something like "Warning: some or all content within this game is user-modifiable, and game experience may change upon doing so."
Clearly displayed on the outside of the box, like the online warning. The ESRB knows that they can't control what people do with a game after they take it online, why are they trying to control what people do with a game after you purchase it and (legally?) modify it.
The previous question may or may not be rhetorical, I can't decide.
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EVE needs a new server all right. But not like that.
Node crashes with 'only' 400 people (or less) in system. Happened in M-O several times during a fleet battle before CCP decided to reinforce the node. It was so bad they even did rollbacks. People who had lost ships got them back, insurance payout and all. Of course, you can request through petition that CCP reinforces the node, providing you do so 24 hours ahead of time, and give them the system where the fight will take place (Yeah, right..) They're touting StacklessIO as the be-all-end-all-death-to-the-lag-monster, yet the same problems still crop up. Instead of things like Tech 3 ships (I'm barely into Tech 2 ships and I've been playing since April.. ), make it so I don't have to wait 30-60 seconds for a module to activate, or fixing the varied and numerous bugs.. overview not displaying targets properly, resulting in friendly fire (Always fun to explain to your CEO), or Traffic Control popping up when you're on the move (waiting 1-2 minutes for the gate to fire in hostile territory can get the adrenaline going nicely), or the address book not properly displaying who is and is not online (for keeping an eye on that Titan pilot trying to ruin your day.)
EVE has so much going for it IMO, but there is so much more the devs could be devoting their time to fixing, rather than just throwing new features at us. EVE is still fun for me, and will most likely continue to be for some time, but some of the problems it has are frustrating.
Quantum Rise will be interesting to see how it pans, especially with the speed changes (I haven't been on SiSi to try anything). To me, in my limited experience with the game, it seems like that even those speed is being dialed downwards, ships intended to go fast will stay fast, like interceptors. Afterburners will be more desirable, and assault frigates may become viable again. Ultimately, there will probably be smaller, more specialized gangs, which may (or not) help with the lag.
My DSL provider is having problems with the SMTP server today, so my parents are unable to send e-mail on their main account. After explaining to them that the address was on their old (dialup) ISP, they were forced to use the DSL SMTP server to send e-mail(because of port 25 blocking).
They weren't happy when they realized they've been paying $10 a month for an e-mail address for the past 18 months.
MS is operating along the same lines. The assumption is that you owe Microsoft something for using Linux, ...
Using MS Windows for so many years is *why* I switched to Linux.
I guess I owe them for that. But now they want to charge you for it?
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Cheese-a-thon or not, the man had some cool toys to work with on this movie. I happened to catch the HBO First Look on the movie last night, and he's got three really neat camera rigs.
One was a souped up go-cart that goes like 100-mph. Mount a robotic camera on the back with tight shock absorbers. They used it for chases and the vibrations give a really 'tense' feel they said.
Another was a car with a roll-cage on the front, with an expanded grill, and a reinforced camera on the inside. So when they're driving doing the highway tossing cars off the back of a truck, the cameraman said he'd run right into them, and just keep on going.
The last in my opinion was the coolest. I forget what model car they used (newer model car I think), 6 people on the inside to control the camera, and a robotic camera mounted on the roof with a 360-degree axis.
Found it! Start it at 3:30
Even though I don't like many of his movies, I still like the toys he gets to use when he makes them.
You might want to check out the kdissert program. It runs in KDE, but if you have the proper libraries and dependencies, you should be able to run it on any WM.
The description follows (taken from Ubuntu 7.04, I'm sure the description is the same for other distros as well)
kdissert is a mindmapping tool for supporting the creation of complex documents: dissertations, theses, presentations, and reports. It supports pictures and features several document generators: LaTeX reports, LaTeX slides (based on Prosper and Beamer), OpenOffice.org documents, HTML, and plain text.
A mindmap is a multicolored and image centered radial diagram that represents semantic or other connections between portions of learned material. For example, it can graphically illustrate the structure of a thesis outline, a project plan, or the government institutions in a state. Mindmaps have many applications in personal, family, educational, and business situations. Possibilities include note-taking, brainstorming, summarizing, revising and general clarifying of thoughts.
Though this application shares some similarities with general-purpose mindmapping tools like FreeMind or Vym, the very first goal of kdissert is to create general-purpose documents, not mindmaps.
The kdissert website is located here. The program was designed to manage and organize disserations, which from what you described, is probably very similar to the work you're doing.
If you're looking for a tool more oriented towards 'mindmapping', there is Vym (website), which seems very interesting, and FreeMind (website), written in Java, though I have no experience with it.
It sounds like from what you described, and the solutions others are offering, you are more interested in a 'general-purpose' document where you can list your sources, and if needed, map links, connections, and references to the various sources you're using. Vym might be more to your taste, since the layout is provides a great deal of information in very (imho) visually appealing format, with the ability to link objects together in complex ways (such as doumenting various reference sources in a paper, where they appear and/or referenced in other works, etc.) Such tools like Vym and KDissert are really only limited by your own mind, though the differences between the programs are sufficient enough that each one should be evaluated individually, since all three accomplish similar goals in very different ways.
~ow3n
It's like canceling your cable because of bad reruns of the Rosanne show or something that "offended" you on the Colbert Report
Well, if you want to talk cable, I think it'd be more akin to HBO handing Bill Mahr his walking papers for something he (or a guest even) said on Real Time, and you canceling HBO. Which, if it were to happen, I'm sure a lot of people would be just as apt to do.
Bill Mahr already got in trouble once for something he said on air (on ABC), and he was handed his walking papers. But the rules are a little different on ABC then on HBO. Just as they are on terrestrial and satellite radio.
Or so we were lead to believe it seems...
There are only a few products this will not work for, specifically jetpacks. The iSoar did not test very will with focus groups.
I'm sure if you can fix the 'hot-jet-exhaust-down-the-backside' problem inherent with jetpacks, your focus groups will sit much better.
Exactly. As an independent software vendor, I have a serious problem with someone pirating my software. Shooting people who do it could be kinda fun!
Mod parent informative.
Note for rolodex: remember to purchase licenses; vendor shoots software pirates.
Because the solution's still searching for a problem.
While it may be a solution searching for a problem, I think there was a definite itch that needed scratching. :-)
I think he is referring to this.
While Op:Eagle Claw was a failure, I found this rescue mission much more interesting and enjoyable (to read; I'm sure they didn't find their time enjoyable at all) personally.
So if I have a unsecured wireless access point in my home, and some 16 year old drives by with his little pda ...
Better the PDA, than the PSP.
At least with a PDA, a teenager can feign productivity (look officer! contacts AND calendar!), but if you have a PSP, then you're just up to no good. :)
My version of Evolution seems to be missing that.
Are your Homo Sapiens pre-compiled or are you building from source before you release them into your production environment.
3/5 of my family are female. We use Linux (Ubuntu 6.10 for them, 7.04 for me).
3/5 of the computers in my family are running Linux. One is a Mac Mini (G4) running OSX and the other is a G4 Powerbook dual-booting OSX (clean install solely for music production) and Ubuntu 6.10 (for everything else, chat, e-mail, web, games). I've been running Ubuntu since Breezy Badger (2004 or so, soon Feisty). I had been running XP up until then (it was installed on the HP I purchased from my job) and was debating dual-booting XP and Ubuntu, but figured I would spend more time in XP since that's where all my music production was being done. I moved all my music production to my Powerbook and took the plunge. I figured that would be the easiest way to learn everything (I've been using Linux (Debian,and more recently Gentoo) on servers (both play and work since 1997) so while I was comfortable with Linux, though I had never used it on the desktop. Luckily I have my Mac Mini and (soon-to-be) Ubuntu desktop on a KVM switch, and the xorg.conf problems I ran into with my Nvidia TNT2 M64 and later Radeon 7500 (RV200) were resolved easily.
The other two computers in my household are also running Ubuntu. My fathers Dell laptop is running Dapper, because for some reason, Suspend-to-RAM and Sleep-on-lid only work with the 2.6.15 kernel in Dapper. The 2.6.17 kernel in Edgy does not work for some reason at all. He is incredibly pleased with it. Both he and my mother use it for IM, e-mail, web, and my mom uses it for games. They're also running Quickbooks (in wine) for their business as well as Photoshop 7. It also goes on the road to trade shows twice a year and their friends (craftspeople) are all quite impressed with it. He has a Linksys WPC11v4 PCMCIA wifi card (using the Windows XP RTL8189 driver in NDISwrapper, which wasn't difficult at all to setup with the GUI) which he connects to the home wifi network as well as on trips.
My fathers desktop is also running Edgy. Both he and my mother were sick of how long XP was taking to boot up, the constant running of av and spyware scans, and the fact that it simply took forever to do anything on it. Their bookmarks were exported out of Firefox to Edgy as well as their e-mail copied over to Edgy from Thunderbird. They used a really, really, really, crappy desktop publishing program (Serif Publisher if you've ever been graced with its presence), which we migrated out as EPS files (the program has almost no export function, and writes broken Adobe Illustrator files) into Inkscape. They're also using Quickbooks and Photoshop in wine.
The kicker was my sister. She kept coming home with a Thinkpad constantly messed up with spyware and trojans and broken internet (switching from ethernet to dial-up in Win98 seemed to be the most convoluted process ever). She finally got the "Let me install Linux (and teach you how to use it), or start taking your laptop to a shop and pay for the repairs" speech, and caved. We found a better laptop and I installed Edgy. As I was demoing software (OpenOffice (she needed Word and Powerpoint capability for her job at a preschool), KMyMoney, Digikam/Picasa, Inkscape, GIMP, the slick (IMHO) Add/Remove Programs applet in Kubuntu) the very first words out of her mouth were "Wait, how much does all this software cost?" It took a bit of convincing that it was all free. She and her husband started playing with it and fell in love. I ended up getting a card from them a while later thanking me for installing Ubuntu and how much easier it made their life.
I also helped a friend from MO. install Linux. She too got sick of windows, and ended up wiping her HD. The installer for her was very simple. Automatic partitioning, (click next), and she was done. I had her create a user account for me to SSH so I could add some more repositories, install NX Server, Automatix (for codecs), and help her get her 2G iPod nano working in Amarok. She IM'd me a few days later and said she was in love.
Linux isn't that
You could get your hair done while you're there too!
~owen
It's my love box, and her name is Sony!
"Wouldn't America be a better place if Disney were running it."
Well personally, I'm going to say no.
I had a slightly different problem.
I, like you, signed up for XBL with a free 2-month subscription card (an expired one at that, but that's a different story). Played SW:Battlefront 2 on it maybe twice in the first three weeks and never went back too it. Two months later, when it came time to cancel, I found the e-mail reminding of me when I had to cancel in my inbox while I was cleaning. It was the day prior.
I promptly called the XBL hotline and spoke to a CSR. Explained my situation, that it was a 2-month trial, I didn't use it, really had no interest in using it, and was on SSDI so I really couldn't afford the $54/yr fee. I asked if it was possible to get a refund, since I really wasn't going to use it. He canceled the account and placed me on hold, presumably to get authorization for the refund. Came back less than 5 minutes later and said a refund was no problem.
That was November 25th (the account was renewed on the 24th), and I have yet to receive that refund.
At least the two of you were given actual recovery CDs (on physical media)! The HP desktop I purchased only came with a recovery *partition* that I could optionally boot too if I needed to use it. Thankfully I was given the option of burning my own recovery CDs (6 of them) or DVD (once I installed a DVD burner, purchased seperately).
How cheap.
- You slay the Orc
- You pick up 400 gold
- You see a Tax Fairy teleport in front of you
- The Tax Fairy steals 4 gold
- The Tax Fairy disappears
Adjust for your game accordingly, but the Tax Fairy remains.
Yeah but...imagine a Beowulf cluster of them!
I'd fight Steve Jobs. For no good reason too.
So yes, dorm security is a joke, but very necessary, and sometimes it's completely out of the hands of the students.
However, James 'Butch' Rosser, Chief of minimally invasive surgery, Advanced Medical Technology Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center says: "If I'm in the middle of New York or Houston, it makes no sense to have a guy across town operate on me with a robot. If my life is on the line with acute appendicitis in an isolated place, like the Serengeti or a space station, I would elt an expert in the field operate from afar. Especially if he's good at Halo 2 (emphasis mine).
I think a disclaimer similar to the ESRB notice seen on online-capable games should suffice on the game packaging. Something like "Warning: some or all content within this game is user-modifiable, and game experience may change upon doing so."
Clearly displayed on the outside of the box, like the online warning. The ESRB knows that they can't control what people do with a game after they take it online, why are they trying to control what people do with a game after you purchase it and (legally?) modify it.
The previous question may or may not be rhetorical, I can't decide.