Funny, only a few minutes ago I read elsewhere about someone in New Zealand who got stung by this a few days ago when Paramount contacted their backwater ISP and had his account temporarily disabled. He got away with a 'warning'.
Although they emit light immediately, there is a warm-up period of several minutes during which time the light output steadily increases. The just-on output is close to the final output however, so it's not very noticeable.
I actually had the honour of proof-reading this paper before it was published. One of the authors is my wife's uncle.
This system is already in place and working today. It is based around a network of buried sensors that allow the accurate location of the epicenter within just a few seconds. The system is used to shut down high-speed trains, etc, before the damage-causing vibrations arrive.
You could use ext2 or cramfs, mounted read-only. Forget all those comments about JFFS etc - CF is not the same as a 'flash' device, it basically behaves like a hard disk with limited write lifetime.
I agree totally. 'root' doesn't mean unrestricted access to the machine's resources. If it did, you wouldn't want to run *anything* as root without risking total disaster.
(Formatting/dev/hda is not the same as overwriting part of a process's address space and causing it to spew random garbage all over the disk sectors).
What would this actually do? Would it save the value of 'foo' as 42, run the FINALLY block, and then return the saved value? Or would it actually modify the value to return, hence return 13? Or would it just crash?
Yes, I'd liken Oblivion to games like Nethack and Angband - lots of random and procedurally created content that gives you lots of things to do and try out, but lacks immersion. That's the problem. It lacks soul. It lacks the artist's touch. It's a fantastic tech demo though.
Fair enough. I can understand that some people do enjoy it.
I'm more of a story+character+dialogue sort of person. I have played a lot of the more traditional CRPG games like Fallout, Planescape, and NWN. Unfortunately I found the dialogue in Oblivion absolutely excruciating! And don't get me started on that stupid persuasion mini-game. I solved that in 2 minutes and never wanted to see it again. I guess it got modded out? Anyway, it's dialogue and characters that build a cohesive game (for me), and I just couldn't see how the interaction model in Oblivion was ever going to deliver anything of value (for me).
I concertedly tried to play this on two separate occasions. I agree with the sentiment - under all that gloss, Oblivion is just boring. "Shiny Onion Boring" - the deceptive type that lulls you into a feeling you've *got something here*, but still ultimately boring and unsatisfying once you peel back the layers.
Does anyone know why North Americans use the format month/day/year? It seems completely illogical and counter-intuitive to me. I'm also not a great fan of the European format either (day/month/year) although it is slightly more understandable.
I use YYYY-MM-DD format almost everywhere. Has a nice advantage that you can sort by chronological order easily.
There is no question any more?
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Well, when I visit the site, it freely admits it's a hoax:
"Recently, on this site a fake anouncement of Caldera Open Linux X was found.
We thought it was obvious enough that it was fake. We had to learn it was not for all people reading it. So we took it down now. Apparently, also the DNS records are changed/deleted, so soon enough you won't get to this site using openlinux.org anyways.
We thought, it would not spread from Slashdot before we stop it (ie, this weekend). It was funny to follow people speculating and finding out about this site. Some people pointed out good reasons why this is hoax/parody, some bad or wrong reasons. Overall, we hope most people concluded it indeed was a parody.
Our submit to Slashdot concluded with "Is this real?" - sadly enough, Slashdot's editor wrote up a new text without any hints about this. We can't blame him, he maby was just in a hurry..
Nothing got hacked, it's just we got a previously used IP for this machine, so why not having some fun content on it? We apologize for any inconviences arised though! We didn't suspect it would be taken so serious. Some hints in the text proving this weren't read (talking about XML on a Server OS?), others were found but still taken serious. Please stop spreading this fake news, and if you know some sites who published it, please inform them to update their content. Thanks."
You can make some useful call graphs with codeviz + graphviz. I sometimes find this useful for tracing the heirarchy of abstraction through a set of C source files.
I'm curious - how would the original phrase be rewritten to use "the subjunctive". I've read the wikipedia article and I'm not sure I learned anything...
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I believe "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl" is meant to incorporate gameplay such as this, where the radiation in the environment gradually makes you sicker the longer you play. I'm not sure this game will ever be published, however...
Neverwinter Nights immediately springs to mind - how long has it been since release, now? Five years? Granted, Atari *just* announced EndOfLife but up until then the support from Bioware has been fantastic.
The community-constructed modules ("adventures") have definitely made NWN worth coming back to.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ - every question you ever had about board games is answered here, and then some. Many forum threads on questions like "what games would my wife/girlfriend enjoy if she likes _____?". Lots of resources - it really is the #1 board game resource on Earth.
Actually, it makes no difference if NZers decide to visit the USA or not. The passport upgrade is (eventually) mandatory for all NZ citizens who want to carry one, because there's no such thing as a separate NZ passport for US entry. So the original poster is correct - we're all paying far, far more for our new passports. Let's hope these new passports operate smoothly and speed up international transitions.
Google didn't write Google Earth, they acquired it. Give them time and there will be a Linux version (according to a statement they made some months back).
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Funny, only a few minutes ago I read elsewhere about someone in New Zealand who got stung by this a few days ago when Paramount contacted their backwater ISP and had his account temporarily disabled. He got away with a 'warning'.
http://nzdsl.co.nz/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-479.phtml
Although they emit light immediately, there is a warm-up period of several minutes during which time the light output steadily increases. The just-on output is close to the final output however, so it's not very noticeable.
Only as examples of the bottom of the barrel.
http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstra ct/95/2/708
I actually had the honour of proof-reading this paper before it was published. One of the authors is my wife's uncle.
This system is already in place and working today. It is based around a network of buried sensors that allow the accurate location of the epicenter within just a few seconds. The system is used to shut down high-speed trains, etc, before the damage-causing vibrations arrive.
You could use ext2 or cramfs, mounted read-only. Forget all those comments about JFFS etc - CF is not the same as a 'flash' device, it basically behaves like a hard disk with limited write lifetime.
I agree totally. 'root' doesn't mean unrestricted access to the machine's resources. If it did, you wouldn't want to run *anything* as root without risking total disaster.
/dev/hda is not the same as overwriting part of a process's address space and causing it to spew random garbage all over the disk sectors).
(Formatting
I'm interested to know what would happen if you 'return' from the ELSE block, but have code in the FINALLY block.
foo = 42
try:
print "a"
except:
print "b"
else:
print "c"
return foo
finally:
foo = 13
print "d"
What would this actually do? Would it save the value of 'foo' as 42, run the FINALLY block, and then return the saved value? Or would it actually modify the value to return, hence return 13? Or would it just crash?
Yes, I'd liken Oblivion to games like Nethack and Angband - lots of random and procedurally created content that gives you lots of things to do and try out, but lacks immersion. That's the problem. It lacks soul. It lacks the artist's touch. It's a fantastic tech demo though.
Fair enough. I can understand that some people do enjoy it.
I'm more of a story+character+dialogue sort of person. I have played a lot of the more traditional CRPG games like Fallout, Planescape, and NWN. Unfortunately I found the dialogue in Oblivion absolutely excruciating! And don't get me started on that stupid persuasion mini-game. I solved that in 2 minutes and never wanted to see it again. I guess it got modded out? Anyway, it's dialogue and characters that build a cohesive game (for me), and I just couldn't see how the interaction model in Oblivion was ever going to deliver anything of value (for me).
I concertedly tried to play this on two separate occasions. I agree with the sentiment - under all that gloss, Oblivion is just boring. "Shiny Onion Boring" - the deceptive type that lulls you into a feeling you've *got something here*, but still ultimately boring and unsatisfying once you peel back the layers.
I see this every day. As of right now, with Python 2.4.3:
.01 + .01
>>> 8 +
8.0199999999999996
>>> 1.0 - 0.1
0.90000000000000002
I believe this is to do with the fact that you cannot represent 0.01 exactly in base two so Python stores 0.1 as 0.10000000000000001.
(try 1/128)
>>> 1.0 - 0.0078125
0.9921875
(change it slightly)
>>> 1.0 - 0.0078124
0.99218759999999995
Does anyone know why North Americans use the format month/day/year? It seems completely illogical and counter-intuitive to me. I'm also not a great fan of the European format either (day/month/year) although it is slightly more understandable.
I use YYYY-MM-DD format almost everywhere. Has a nice advantage that you can sort by chronological order easily.
Well, when I visit the site, it freely admits it's a hoax:
"Recently, on this site a fake anouncement of Caldera Open Linux X was found.
We thought it was obvious enough that it was fake. We had to learn it was not for all people reading it. So we took it down now. Apparently, also the DNS records are changed/deleted, so soon enough you won't get to this site using openlinux.org anyways.
We thought, it would not spread from Slashdot before we stop it (ie, this weekend). It was funny to follow people speculating and finding out about this site. Some people pointed out good reasons why this is hoax/parody, some bad or wrong reasons. Overall, we hope most people concluded it indeed was a parody.
Our submit to Slashdot concluded with "Is this real?" - sadly enough, Slashdot's editor wrote up a new text without any hints about this. We can't blame him, he maby was just in a hurry..
Nothing got hacked, it's just we got a previously used IP for this machine, so why not having some fun content on it? We apologize for any inconviences arised though! We didn't suspect it would be taken so serious. Some hints in the text proving this weren't read (talking about XML on a Server OS?), others were found but still taken serious. Please stop spreading this fake news, and if you know some sites who published it, please inform them to update their content. Thanks."
"Python doesn't do OO" ??? What do you consider is missing?
What's the point of a hitman if he doesn't kill anyone? Or is he just a really inept hitman?
You can make some useful call graphs with codeviz + graphviz. I sometimes find this useful for tracing the heirarchy of abstraction through a set of C source files.
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/codeviz/
I'm curious - how would the original phrase be rewritten to use "the subjunctive". I've read the wikipedia article and I'm not sure I learned anything...
I believe "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl" is meant to incorporate gameplay such as this, where the radiation in the environment gradually makes you sicker the longer you play. I'm not sure this game will ever be published, however...
Neverwinter Nights immediately springs to mind - how long has it been since release, now? Five years? Granted, Atari *just* announced EndOfLife but up until then the support from Bioware has been fantastic.
The community-constructed modules ("adventures") have definitely made NWN worth coming back to.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ - every question you ever had about board games is answered here, and then some. Many forum threads on questions like "what games would my wife/girlfriend enjoy if she likes _____?". Lots of resources - it really is the #1 board game resource on Earth.
Where does this come from?
Well, now you've commented, you can't do either, so you can stop worrying about it :)
Yeah, same in NZ, which is why I said 'eventually' :)
Actually, it makes no difference if NZers decide to visit the USA or not. The passport upgrade is (eventually) mandatory for all NZ citizens who want to carry one, because there's no such thing as a separate NZ passport for US entry. So the original poster is correct - we're all paying far, far more for our new passports. Let's hope these new passports operate smoothly and speed up international transitions.
Google didn't write Google Earth, they acquired it. Give them time and there will be a Linux version (according to a statement they made some months back).