Yeah, they are being harsh, and rightly so. This clearly did not put any thought into this, and should not be a tech and is probably an IT Manager.
#1. He assumed only (1) varible changed - mail uptime. In reality, exchange was *upgraded*. A native new version of exchange contains many effective UCE controls. A custom version could have had baysian filtering added. #2. His perception of time is severely distored. He said 48 hours, yet he also says it's closer to 24 hours. #3. His text implies that he got 97.5% less spam when his mail server was *off*,/.ers are flaming him for his poor choice of words.
This guy has no clue what's going on. His knee jerk reaction is that it must have been because they shut the system off.
Never, not once, did he consider the fact that his admins *upgraded* the exchange server. The probably went from 5.5/2000 to 2003. By no means am I an M$ guru, but I know for a fact that 2003 comes with a large amount of internal things to help control and minimize spam. In fact, anyone upgrading to 2003 sees drammatically better spam controls.
Someone revoke this guys geek license, as he just failed the critical thinking test.
It's/.'d, so I can't RTFA. However, submitter says: In my case, a two-day shutdown resulted in 97.5% decrease in spam traffic! Is it just me, or does it seem like one should see a 100% spam reduction after shutting down your mail server. Additionally, if your mailserver is your laptop, you can actually preserve fertility by using this method as well.
However, you are the first person I have ever come across who would not immediately fire at the enemy
Forgive me, I guess I should have elaborated. We are firing when we do this, and I'd venture to say that only 20% of the bullets hit. That's why we can circle for 20 seconds. I get sick of wasting my time (and bullets). The plasma rifle is especially bad for this, as it seems the plasma blasts are more affected by your velocity(Does that sound right? I don't know how to explain it. I don't think it's centripetal force, unless bungie coded that in along with plasma blasts having mass.).
Perhaps you've noticed that they are dumb cunts and that is why you've chosen to take this course of action? I'm sure you are aware of this, but most people who post on/. with a registered account are highly intelligent, even extremely intelligent. We're on the right side of the bell curve, you might say. Most people who play halo2 would be oblivious to the concepts of game theory. Once you get above level 10 or so, you get to the right side of the bell curve...the smarter ones. It's not as easy to circle and donkey punch, but you can still get away with it every so often(and it's still funny as all hell).
Strafe right 2 seconds, left 1, right 4.I find this much easier on halo2, but first experimented with it in ut2k3. There are very few people who can keep an accurate aim on that, and once you have your aim down while strafing you can be deadly.
Say you and your opponent have equal weapons with an equal amount of ammo, you meet head-to-head. You vary your strafe, but since you've practiced you are achieving 39% landed. He's good at hitting strafing people, but not the ones he can't predict, so all you need to hope for is he has a 38% shot accuracy.
BTW, please experiment. And don't blame me if it doesn't work, I am far from a master at any fps except maybe q3 excessive (5 years of playing). I may just be getting extraordinarily lucky (I wish I could transfer that luck to the lottery:)).
Try it in halo2...circle with them, they'll circle with you for 20 seconds. They're thinking about killing with the guns, I cut the the circle and *bam* they're dead. It's outwitting because: A. I decided I didn't want to circle with them. B. I thought about cutting the circle first. C. I wacked them in the back, and they should have known that was a possibility.
Your method is a great example for outwitting, a simple outwit is still an outwit.
Yeah, it's true for q3 excessive, because in excessive: A. You don't get hurt from your own bfg. B. I have knowledge of a large amount of jumps and angles on every map. C. I know *exactly* where I'll land, 99% of the time, and they will have no clue. Thus, by using my resources, and controlling the battle, I successfully outwit my opponent.
Yeah, strafing. No, not strafe right. Strafe right 2 seconds, left 1, right 4. They can't hit you, you win because you controlled the battle. Their gun may be more deadly, but if I kill them, I've successfully outwitted them, before they could out spam me.
You have a point, learning would be more difficult. Right now, we use 3 senses to input information: #1. Touch #2. Sight #3. Sound
By taking touch and sound away, it may be more difficult to get the initial grasp. It seems to me, however, that touch and sound are the bottlenecks in this information transfer. Perhaps for the well trained mind, this will show a dramatic improvement in our brain to computer transfer.
Indeed, I didn't do a good enough job explaining, I'm sorry. Basically the point is this: When you start out on live, everyone is a newbie, everything is just a just live or die situation. As you move up in levels, you'll find that the people you are playing against have evolved, they realize they can't just run up to someone anymore and spam the shit out of them, because teams generally stick together and you will get owned every time. You have to start playing *smarter* to get in the lowers 10s. Most People who are at the 10 level realize that they have a 50/50 chance of living or dieing in a 1-to-1 confrontation and it's more important that they live, because if they don't, the team will evaporate. If (dumb) people decide to jump in a room with 3 other guys, and constantly die, their team will be weaker. This level 10 goes to level 9, then 8. In a short amount of time, he will no longer be in the overlap I play in, unless he adapts.
This system alone makes halo2 online superior to every other team game I've ever played. When I hop on live now, I *know* I'm playing with good teammates.
My other box is modded (yeah, I own 2:)), and I'd say that modded is the 2nd best use for the hardware, outside of halo2 live. Of course, KOTORII came out a couple days ago, and I have yet to try it.
No way man. Granted, there is a lot of dual weapon spam, and it's easy to get instantly killed with dual plasmas, but they have to have to be really good.
If it's the spam that makes you dislike it, I'd recommend 2 things: #1. Do team skirmish/team battle, it's not focusing on super killing skills. #2. Get above level 10, and the newbs are no more. From there on out, you won't get spammed anymore. That same thing happened when q3 got its excessive mod, 4/5 rooms had little bastards just spamming rockets. Halo2s ranking system (I am not a halo2/bungie zealot:)) got rid of that. You have to be *good* to get past level 10, and halo2 only lets you play people that rank close to you (+/-5 levels). I'm level 13 (I bounce up and down quite a bit), and very rarely get spammed, and on average I think I donkey punch 2-3 times a game.
Liar! I didn't find any tinfoil hats on that link. I found one that is a regular baseball cap, and it says "Tinfoil hat" on it. Reminds me of that simpsons episode where they're driving the survelliance van around, and "Ordinary Van" is painted on the side of the van.
I disagree, I've heard people say the same thing for type writers. People saying "Well, I don't hear a loud-ass click, how am I supposed to know it typed", or "Word doesn't increment the paper up every time I enter a newline, how am I supposed to know it's working?".
This is a pavlov's dog kind of thing, well..maybe..that's what my "kneejerk" reaction is. People have learned to live with this feedback, and use it effectively, but that doesn't mean we can't work well without it. (Call bs on that if you feel it's appropriate, it was my first thought)
It's pretty easy for us (read: people) to adapt, and learning the nuances of h.e.c. are easy, but can take 6mos-1year for any given FPS, I'm going to venture out on a limb and say that h.e.c. is not the bottleneck in fps games.
I have my vote for intelligence being the bottleneck. I more often outwit my opponents as opposed to out-battle (for lack of better term).
For instance, halo2. Run around them in a circle, get behind their back and melee them (donkey punch). Even in Q3 excessive, in a battle use your bfg to jump on a ledge and kill 'em while they're still trying to find you. UT2003, just strafe a lot.
The PIII has MMX2, which is one of the only significant differences between the 450Mhz PIII(Katmai) and the 450Mhz PII(Deschutes). Of course, there are other differences, but none significant enough to touch on. Use wcpuid if you have windows, or 'cat/proc/cpuinfo' in linux.
I'll save my mod points for someone who's actually worth it. You are not. For someone who's trying to argue compassion into a peer, you need a bit more practice.
To the rest of your comments, let me summarize with this:
I do not lend my emotions to random text on the internet posted by anonymous cowards. I do not ever forsee me doing this, and would strongly advise my peers not to as well. This is/., where the trolls troll the trolls, and karma comes as fast as it goes. You can generalize my posts if it makes you feel better, but I *did not* say I do not feel empathy for the people in this situation. I merely trolled someone who I felt was harvesting emotions. If you want to help someone, help the AC above who feels violence is the way to correct this situation. After ridding the world of this common irrational violence, perhaps we can get somewhere.
Thanks buddy. You'd think that someone that has had a terminal disease for 12 years could be a bit more understanding that some people have no idea what's going on. Instead, he answers with threats of violence. I'm not here to help you find your way, but I'm pretty sure violence is not it.
It may have been different if he didn't post AC. I know I'd have the balls to post under my login name regardless of what information I was disclosing. In this case, it's not a terrible thing to say, because it's not only probable, but highly likely, that this person was lying. If you did tell me to my face, I'd probably have some different emotions kick in. Remember guys, we're on the internet, where guys are guys, girls are guys, and honest people lie. I'm not saying it's hard to have empathy without a face, it's not. Empathy comes everytime I think about how cruel this world can be. It's just that I don't lend credence to posts like this, and I probably never will.
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Guess you picked the wrong wife. So did mr. bobbit.
You're area may be. But every station in the areas I've been to recently(Kansas City, Denver, Minneapolis) plays 2 crappy songs, then 4 minutes of commercials, followed by a good song, then 1 crappy song. In fact, most stations "brag" that they have 30 minute "rock blocks". Great, 30 minutes of junk followed by an equally long commercial break. As far as I'm concerned, I'll pay $10 a month to not listen to BS. On my trips across South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska and Minnesota, I usually give AM a shot, but not with one of these:)
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I suppose you would have protested the Sons of Liberty in 1773, when they dumped 45 tons of tea into the Boston Harbor.
Yeah, they are being harsh, and rightly so. This clearly did not put any thought into this, and should not be a tech and is probably an IT Manager.
/.ers are flaming him for his poor choice of words.
#1. He assumed only (1) varible changed - mail uptime. In reality, exchange was *upgraded*. A native new version of exchange contains many effective UCE controls. A custom version could have had baysian filtering added.
#2. His perception of time is severely distored. He said 48 hours, yet he also says it's closer to 24 hours.
#3. His text implies that he got 97.5% less spam when his mail server was *off*,
This guy has no clue what's going on. His knee jerk reaction is that it must have been because they shut the system off.
Never, not once, did he consider the fact that his admins *upgraded* the exchange server. The probably went from 5.5/2000 to 2003.
By no means am I an M$ guru, but I know for a fact that 2003 comes with a large amount of internal things to help control and minimize spam.
In fact, anyone upgrading to 2003 sees drammatically better spam controls.
Someone revoke this guys geek license, as he just failed the critical thinking test.
It's /.'d, so I can't RTFA. However, submitter says:
In my case, a two-day shutdown resulted in 97.5% decrease in spam traffic!
Is it just me, or does it seem like one should see a 100% spam reduction after shutting down your mail server.
Additionally, if your mailserver is your laptop, you can actually preserve fertility by using this method as well.
However, you are the first person I have ever come across who would not immediately fire at the enemy
/. with a registered account are highly intelligent, even extremely intelligent. We're on the right side of the bell curve, you might say. Most people who play halo2 would be oblivious to the concepts of game theory. Once you get above level 10 or so, you get to the right side of the bell curve...the smarter ones. It's not as easy to circle and donkey punch, but you can still get away with it every so often(and it's still funny as all hell).
Forgive me, I guess I should have elaborated. We are firing when we do this, and I'd venture to say that only 20% of the bullets hit. That's why we can circle for 20 seconds. I get sick of wasting my time (and bullets). The plasma rifle is especially bad for this, as it seems the plasma blasts are more affected by your velocity(Does that sound right? I don't know how to explain it. I don't think it's centripetal force, unless bungie coded that in along with plasma blasts having mass.).
Perhaps you've noticed that they are dumb cunts and that is why you've chosen to take this course of action?
I'm sure you are aware of this, but most people who post on
Strafe right 2 seconds, left 1, right 4.I find this much easier on halo2, but first experimented with it in ut2k3. There are very few people who can keep an accurate aim on that, and once you have your aim down while strafing you can be deadly.
Say you and your opponent have equal weapons with an equal amount of ammo, you meet head-to-head. You vary your strafe, but since you've practiced you are achieving 39% landed. He's good at hitting strafing people, but not the ones he can't predict, so all you need to hope for is he has a 38% shot accuracy.
BTW, please experiment. And don't blame me if it doesn't work, I am far from a master at any fps except maybe q3 excessive (5 years of playing). I may just be getting extraordinarily lucky (I wish I could transfer that luck to the lottery:)).
Try it in halo2...circle with them, they'll circle with you for 20 seconds. They're thinking about killing with the guns, I cut the the circle and *bam* they're dead. It's outwitting because:
A. I decided I didn't want to circle with them.
B. I thought about cutting the circle first.
C. I wacked them in the back, and they should have known that was a possibility.
Your method is a great example for outwitting, a simple outwit is still an outwit.
Yeah, it's true for q3 excessive, because in excessive:
A. You don't get hurt from your own bfg.
B. I have knowledge of a large amount of jumps and angles on every map.
C. I know *exactly* where I'll land, 99% of the time, and they will have no clue.
Thus, by using my resources, and controlling the battle, I successfully outwit my opponent.
Yeah, strafing. No, not strafe right. Strafe right 2 seconds, left 1, right 4. They can't hit you, you win because you controlled the battle. Their gun may be more deadly, but if I kill them, I've successfully outwitted them, before they could out spam me.
Well, they did say stuff that matters, and I'm sure I speak on behalf of many /.s when I say: "This doesn't matter".
Using the "To be of importance;" definition, anyway.
and your father smells of elderberries!
You have a point, learning would be more difficult.
Right now, we use 3 senses to input information:
#1. Touch
#2. Sight
#3. Sound
By taking touch and sound away, it may be more difficult to get the initial grasp. It seems to me, however, that touch and sound are the bottlenecks in this information transfer. Perhaps for the well trained mind, this will show a dramatic improvement in our brain to computer transfer.
but it seems rather outlandish.
Indeed, I didn't do a good enough job explaining, I'm sorry. Basically the point is this:
When you start out on live, everyone is a newbie, everything is just a just live or die situation. As you move up in levels, you'll find that the people you are playing against have evolved, they realize they can't just run up to someone anymore and spam the shit out of them, because teams generally stick together and you will get owned every time.
You have to start playing *smarter* to get in the lowers 10s. Most People who are at the 10 level realize that they have a 50/50 chance of living or dieing in a 1-to-1 confrontation and it's more important that they live, because if they don't, the team will evaporate. If (dumb) people decide to jump in a room with 3 other guys, and constantly die, their team will be weaker. This level 10 goes to level 9, then 8. In a short amount of time, he will no longer be in the overlap I play in, unless he adapts.
This system alone makes halo2 online superior to every other team game I've ever played. When I hop on live now, I *know* I'm playing with good teammates.
My other box is modded (yeah, I own 2:)), and I'd say that modded is the 2nd best use for the hardware, outside of halo2 live. Of course, KOTORII came out a couple days ago, and I have yet to try it.
No way man. Granted, there is a lot of dual weapon spam, and it's easy to get instantly killed with dual plasmas, but they have to have to be really good.
If it's the spam that makes you dislike it, I'd recommend 2 things:
#1. Do team skirmish/team battle, it's not focusing on super killing skills.
#2. Get above level 10, and the newbs are no more. From there on out, you won't get spammed anymore. That same thing happened when q3 got its excessive mod, 4/5 rooms had little bastards just spamming rockets. Halo2s ranking system (I am not a halo2/bungie zealot:)) got rid of that. You have to be *good* to get past level 10, and halo2 only lets you play people that rank close to you (+/-5 levels). I'm level 13 (I bounce up and down quite a bit), and very rarely get spammed, and on average I think I donkey punch 2-3 times a game.
Liar!
I didn't find any tinfoil hats on that link. I found one that is a regular baseball cap, and it says "Tinfoil hat" on it.
Reminds me of that simpsons episode where they're driving the survelliance van around, and "Ordinary Van" is painted on the side of the van.
I disagree, I've heard people say the same thing for type writers.
People saying "Well, I don't hear a loud-ass click, how am I supposed to know it typed", or "Word doesn't increment the paper up every time I enter a newline, how am I supposed to know it's working?".
This is a pavlov's dog kind of thing, well..maybe..that's what my "kneejerk" reaction is. People have learned to live with this feedback, and use it effectively, but that doesn't mean we can't work well without it. (Call bs on that if you feel it's appropriate, it was my first thought)
It's pretty easy for us (read: people) to adapt, and learning the nuances of h.e.c. are easy, but can take 6mos-1year for any given FPS, I'm going to venture out on a limb and say that h.e.c. is not the bottleneck in fps games.
I have my vote for intelligence being the bottleneck. I more often outwit my opponents as opposed to out-battle (for lack of better term).
For instance, halo2. Run around them in a circle, get behind their back and melee them (donkey punch). Even in Q3 excessive, in a battle use your bfg to jump on a ledge and kill 'em while they're still trying to find you. UT2003, just strafe a lot.
There's a textafied version underneath. This guy was kind enough to consider us people who dislike adobe/acrobat.
*yeah, yeah, we know we don't have to use acrobat, there are billions of readers out there, blah blah blah*
You must be new to our planet, everything causes suicide in japan.
The PIII has MMX2, which is one of the only significant differences between the 450Mhz PIII(Katmai) and the 450Mhz PII(Deschutes). /proc/cpuinfo' in linux.
Of course, there are other differences, but none significant enough to touch on.
Use wcpuid if you have windows, or 'cat
Oh crap...that makes three!
Except, I have a quad, does that count x4?
I'll save my mod points for someone who's actually worth it. You are not.
/., where the trolls troll the trolls, and karma comes as fast as it goes. You can generalize my posts if it makes you feel better, but I *did not* say I do not feel empathy for the people in this situation. I merely trolled someone who I felt was harvesting emotions. If you want to help someone, help the AC above who feels violence is the way to correct this situation. After ridding the world of this common irrational violence, perhaps we can get somewhere.
For someone who's trying to argue compassion into a peer, you need a bit more practice.
To the rest of your comments, let me summarize with this:
I do not lend my emotions to random text on the internet posted by anonymous cowards. I do not ever forsee me doing this, and would strongly advise my peers not to as well. This is
Thanks buddy.
You'd think that someone that has had a terminal disease for 12 years could be a bit more understanding that some people have no idea what's going on. Instead, he answers with threats of violence. I'm not here to help you find your way, but I'm pretty sure violence is not it.
It may have been different if he didn't post AC. I know I'd have the balls to post under my login name regardless of what information I was disclosing.
In this case, it's not a terrible thing to say, because it's not only probable, but highly likely, that this person was lying.
If you did tell me to my face, I'd probably have some different emotions kick in.
Remember guys, we're on the internet, where guys are guys, girls are guys, and honest people lie.
I'm not saying it's hard to have empathy without a face, it's not. Empathy comes everytime I think about how cruel this world can be. It's just that I don't lend credence to posts like this, and I probably never will.
Guess you picked the wrong wife. So did mr. bobbit.
You're area may be. But every station in the areas I've been to recently(Kansas City, Denver, Minneapolis) plays 2 crappy songs, then 4 minutes of commercials, followed by a good song, then 1 crappy song. In fact, most stations "brag" that they have 30 minute "rock blocks". Great, 30 minutes of junk followed by an equally long commercial break.
As far as I'm concerned, I'll pay $10 a month to not listen to BS.
On my trips across South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska and Minnesota, I usually give AM a shot, but not with one of these:)
I think he was just suggesting standards. Mac users need not apply.
If you're replying to my post: I'm sorry, I don't get it. In fact, I don't get your first sentence whichever way I look at it.