I was in a coffee shop about 3 am one Saturday when this kid tried to pay for his coffee with a fake ten (This is in Canada, the land where Moose rule).
The fake was easy to spot, printed on smooth paper on a colour ink jet printer - what made me laugh was some of it had got wet and the ink had run...
When NS is on a roll, he's in the same league with Mark Twain, and that's saying something.
Example - his chapter in Crypto regarding the Vickers gun and the huge buzz saw.
HOWEVER - his endings blow, and some plot threads don't stand up.
Example - Diamond Age where the engineer writes/creates the computer book to train little girls. Where'd HE get the writing power to do that? Also, political correctness is evident, where's the book to train little boys?
that he makes his $ on the games not the box. He loses money on the box, and he's not going to lose $ so some hacker can build a Beowolf cluster of cheap Linux boxes.
BUT he's going about it the wrong way. The RIGHT way to do this is make it a physical bitch to modify the box, not to get lawyers involved.
How long is it going to be before Jobs buys THIS company up and closes it like he did the LAST one that made cheap macs, thereby assuring I'll always be a PC guy. Thanks Steve.
I believe that there is a parameter called the 'contempt factor' that takes this into account.
It is used to increase the computer's score and decrease the opponent's to make the computer take aggressive chances with a novice that it wouldn't with a pro.
Is someone to design a nice new safe protocol for email and release good, working open source GPL programs for it that plug right into your existing system, implementing compatibility with whats there now AND transparent compatibility with the New Way for the future!
The trick is to give sys admins as few excuses as possible not to implement the New Way.
How many great concerts have disappeared into the ether because no one recorded them?
A LOT!
And artists - if you are concerned that pir8's will swipe all your material remember that piracy makes the pie bigger and the bigger the pie the bigger your slice, and that the Grateful dead encouraged this sort of thing and they had the second most lucrative tour after U2 and that the pir8s are in fact working for you for free - all you have to do is grab their best stuff and publish it yourself ala Zappa in Beat the Boots.
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In that sewer with the zombies, everytime I went around the corner it crapped out.
I was running on 2 megs and buddy groaned and THREW another 2 Simms at me - at four megs it ran fine!
I wasn't WORKING there - I was getting WIRED there in true geek fashion!
I was in a coffee shop about 3 am one Saturday when this kid tried to pay for his coffee with a fake ten (This is in Canada, the land where Moose rule).
The fake was easy to spot, printed on smooth paper on a colour ink jet printer - what made me laugh was some of it had got wet and the ink had run...
We called the cops and the kid disappeared.
I'm looking forward to this one.
When NS is on a roll, he's in the same league with Mark Twain, and that's saying something.
Example - his chapter in Crypto regarding the Vickers gun and the huge buzz saw.
HOWEVER - his endings blow, and some plot threads don't stand up.
Example - Diamond Age where the engineer writes/creates the computer book to train little girls. Where'd HE get the writing power to do that? Also, political correctness is evident, where's the book to train little boys?
that he makes his $ on the games not the box. He loses money on the box, and he's not going to lose $ so some hacker can build a Beowolf cluster of cheap Linux boxes.
BUT he's going about it the wrong way. The RIGHT way to do this is make it a physical bitch to modify the box, not to get lawyers involved.
is that the capacity of the disk is inversly proportional to the 12th power of the distance of the head to the disk.
That means that everytime you halve the gap, your capacity goes up 2 to the 12th or 4096 times.
Your old 20 MB disk would hold a little over 80 GB if that happened. And it DID, don't you see....
Just tell them you're a Geek.
You're not going to laid laid, anyway.
How long is it going to be before Jobs buys THIS company up and closes it like he did the LAST one that made cheap macs, thereby assuring I'll always be a PC guy. Thanks Steve.
I believe that there is a parameter called the 'contempt factor' that takes this into account.
It is used to increase the computer's score and decrease the opponent's to make the computer take aggressive chances with a novice that it wouldn't with a pro.
I remember spending several hours playing Doom at a friends then driving home and seeing imps jump out from behind cars on the highway 401...
I've learned to WATCH for ads on Google where I ignored them in the begining!
You can find all kinds of neat stuff by following Google ads! That's how I met Mistress Whiplash, and why I'm typing this standing up!
Is make a self booting CD with Linux and WINE starting automatically and call it 'Gates'
Now, where's Pr0n.slashdot.org ?
A lot of OSS is superior because the writer knows it will be perused by his peers and betters. There's no way he wants to look bad in front of them.
Also - think how good it would be to be able say on your resume - 'contributed source code to the current version of LINUX.'
And thats's what Carmack thinks of it.
If he writes Quake 4 in Cg - it's in.
Step into the light of day, where we can get a bead on you....
Is someone to design a nice new safe protocol for email and release good, working open source GPL programs for it that plug right into your existing system, implementing compatibility with whats there now AND transparent compatibility with the New Way for the future!
The trick is to give sys admins as few excuses as possible not to implement the New Way.
It'd be a lot of work, but it could be done.
Listen - with a cheap pentium, two NICs and OpenBSD you can do stuff no $50,000 Cisco machine can do.
PLUS you can encrypt it out the wazoo.
ONCE WE GET A GRIP they can intercept all they want, for all the good it will do them.
a robust and reliable Linux out there - its called OpenBSD.
No need to spend any $ at al....
This is the very sort of Satan-whispering-in-your-ear thing that people like Gates specialize in, and are good at.
That Gates will co-opt Camack....
This is the sort of money oriented bad stuff that happens...
Computers have been turned against thier owners for quite some time now.
Why do you think all the latest M$ software from Bill says 'My Computer' ?
Except everyone wears cowboy hats...
How many great concerts have disappeared into the ether because no one recorded them?
A LOT!
And artists - if you are concerned that pir8's will swipe all your material remember that piracy makes the pie bigger and the bigger the pie the bigger your slice, and that the Grateful dead encouraged this sort of thing and they had the second most lucrative tour after U2 and that the pir8s are in fact working for you for free - all you have to do is grab their best stuff and publish it yourself ala Zappa in Beat the Boots.
The thing to watch is the source code to D3 - if it is released down the road as all the others have been then Carmack has resisted Satan.
If not, then he has yielded to the siren call of increased performance and a LOT of money...
We will see.....