It's not IR. It's RF, same as the Gamecube's wireless controllers. (They work flawlessly and from a great distance, by the way.) Nintendo knows what they're doing.
Yep. I was playing Animal Crossing the other day (don't laugh - it's much better stress relief than Metroid) and had to leave the room for a minute. I left my WaveBird on the couch. I heard my three-year-old pick it up and start digging randomly, but then I heard him go in his bedroom and close the door...and the game sounds still continued. He was sitting on his bed (a good 20 feet away and through the wall with his closet) mashing on buttons, and my little character was still dutifully digging holes.
Or in other quirks, why does MS still put the Sort option under the Tables menu? That one makes *no* sense.
But, one area where MS Office still kicks OO.o's ass is the search-and-replace. I use it a lot in both products, and MS's just plain works. In OO, you can't just hit the keyboard shortcut to Replace All. It's more like "Highlight All," and you still have to confirm some other way (like clicking the "Replace All" button) that you want to make the changes. And don't get me started on the regex implementation! Maybe I just don't understand how it works, but it confuses the heck outta me. I can't search for \r or \n to find the end of a paragraph. I can search for $ to find the end, but it may or may not include the end-of-paragraph marker, so when I make a replacement, it may or may not keep it in the paragraph, or suddenly become part of the next paragraph. If this feature's documentation is any indication of the rest of OO's help system, it's quite poor indeed.
I think the bargain was that if the show was to return, it would have to be produced/aired by Fox, and Joss Whedon refuses to ever work with them again (don't know if he meant the Fox network, or 20th Century Fox).
Not really. Figure that the typical serving of pasta is 4oz. That's only about 60-some servings a day, and these are geeks we're talking about, so it's probably only enough to feed 40-50 people.
Pregenerated characters. Simple scenarios. Introduce one concept at a time.
Least, that's how my four-year-old is learning.
Can you go into a few more details? I have a three-year-old who I want to get into RPGs (my conservative parents would have never gone for that, hence I want him to get an early start). I actually asked this question as an "Ask Slashdot" question once, but it was rejected. How do you get around the child not being able to read? How do you explain playing a character who can and can't do certain things, and that you need to roll dice to find out if you were successful? Have you tried other game systems, or just D&D? I was actually thinking of Star Wars, since he loves the movies (in fact, is bugging me right now to switch from Elmo to Star Wars).
Let's see, after setting up a new 5.1 speaker system, I've tested it with The Two Towers, The Incredibles, The Matrix Reloaded, The Fifth Element, and Star Wars (Episode IV, if you want to be pedantic). Every single one had rich, atmospheric sounds, not just the occasional piddly effect you describe. I always test a new setup with The Fifth Element - gives me an excuse to watch it again, and there's a couple scenes (Leeloo diving off the building, Zorg demonstrating the Swiss Army Gun) that have incredible directional effects.
Amazon actually pays about 5%-7.5%, depending on which commission program you select (the "classic" flat-rate or the tiered model), plus 2.5% bonuses for sales via direct links. My site will pull in nearly $5K this quarter, so I'm pretty happy with their program.
It's rare to find someone - even a professional film critic - with whom you'll agree 100% on every single film. What's more important, I think, is that you can watch the same film and see how the other person formulated their opinion, regardless if you agree with it. Roger Ebert is one of the few critics where I can successfully apply that test, even if there's a few films where you wonder what he was thinking (like his positive review of "Anaconda").
CABIN BOY rocks!
...not because of the exploding part, but because I'm concerned about their durability. My Rio has gone through the washer (and dryer!), fallen off the 5-foot high shelf where I keep it onto the kitchen floor (and least once, probably more), and survived my two-year-old playing floor hockey with it (though that's the only thing that caused it any sort of external damage). I'd like to see a HD-based MP3 take that sort of punishment and still work!
When I was interviewed by Wired (published May 2003, page 43; it's not worth looking up though, trust me), an editor contacted me for follow-up a few days after the freelancer who wrote the article to double-check that I was who I said I was and that I said the things that they were going to publish. Maybe they've become more lax in the two years since then, or maybe this reported falsified the contact information for the sources.
No, my point isn't that it's hard. My point is that it's easy for subtle problems to go unnoticed unless you have the time and impetus to use the proverbial fine-toothed comb. I look at "stll" and recognize (from experience) that a missing character is a word where many of the characters look alike is going to be easy to miss if you're in a hurry. A paid professional I would expect not to miss it; a devoted volunteer I would. And correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the editors here essentially volunteers?
Try editing sometime. It's not as easy as you think. My URL goes to a site I edit. I'm sure there's typos buried in there, because to err is human, but to really f*** things up you need to be a sys admin, or something.
I used a mouse-mover program to run my mouse around the screen, then click on a specific spot on the page. I then had a Perl script that would generate URLs from a list and link them to a graphic in the middle of the page. It would run for hours like that, always generating surfing activity, displaying the ad banner the whole time. Funny, AllAdvantage's program didn't last more than six months. I wonder why...
This decision won't affect Google and Fark at all, since they simply link to other sites that post the AP's content. It will affect Yahoo! News, since they do post original AP content.
BTW, it's a PITA to use the AP's content. I used their feed to add headlines to the site for a TV station. They can't just have an XML feed; noooo, they have to post XML-formatted articles to a usenet server, adding an extra layer of complexity. You have to fetch the most recent post from the headline group, parse it for the links to the articles, then fetch the articles, then parse them for links to the image content, then fetch those articles, then parse them for the image content, which has to then be watermarked with the AP logo (or labeled directly underneath the picture; running it through ImageMagick to add the watermark was easier). (And to make matters worse, I had to write the stuff to do this in Perl running on Windows.)
First off, I wouldn't run SSH from inetd because of things like this.
I use swatch to look for these SSH probes. Two rules seems to catch most of these: 1) looking for illegal users (such as test, which occurs most frequently) and 2) looking for root login password failures. If you need to allow root logins, I'd recommend requiring that auth be key-based with the poorly-worded without-password option for PermitRootLogin. Then, there would be no situation in which a legit SSH root login would trigger the rule.
I've worked in ISP support/sys admin/management, and I'm cautiously intrigued by this idea. The last ISP I worked at would disconnect customers for virus/trojan/spamming activities and would go to great lengths to contact the customers. Providing a mechanism to the customer to let the ISP help them out would be nice...but...
Wouldn't user education be a better route? You can provide them with information about how malware hurts them and others, and how to stop it. You can provide them with information about running Windows Update and links to download no-cost antivirus (AVG), malware removal (Ad-Aware, *shiver* Microsoft Antispyware), and firewall (ZoneAlarm) software. Plus, you don't have to develop the software that reinvents all those wheels, and you don't have to shoulder the liability if it farks up their system (or they get infected anyway).
My TWO-year-old boy sat through all two hours of "The Incredibles," except for one trip to the bathroom. He sat in his seat, and talked less than his mother. Having red vines for bribery helped, though.
Any automated tool that parses something as complicated and subject to variation as English grammar is going to have issues. A serious writer isn't going to rely on the MS Word grammar checker to be their sole indicator if something is written poorly. I think of it more as a tool to catch the blitheringly obvious, not the subtle details.
But then again, his examples do seem pretty blitheringly obvious...
It was used for the sniping sequences to give you an idea of your heartbeat, and the shaking would subside when you took the diazapan. There was also something with the vibration when you faced the invisible boss in the library.
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It's not IR. It's RF, same as the Gamecube's wireless controllers. (They work flawlessly and from a great distance, by the way.) Nintendo knows what they're doing.
Yep. I was playing Animal Crossing the other day (don't laugh - it's much better stress relief than Metroid) and had to leave the room for a minute. I left my WaveBird on the couch. I heard my three-year-old pick it up and start digging randomly, but then I heard him go in his bedroom and close the door...and the game sounds still continued. He was sitting on his bed (a good 20 feet away and through the wall with his closet) mashing on buttons, and my little character was still dutifully digging holes.
I live on the East Coast so please forgive my ignorance of the area. Is this buldge close to Redmond, WA? If so, I would be rooting for the volcano.
Nope, nowhere near.
Or in other quirks, why does MS still put the Sort option under the Tables menu? That one makes *no* sense.
But, one area where MS Office still kicks OO.o's ass is the search-and-replace. I use it a lot in both products, and MS's just plain works. In OO, you can't just hit the keyboard shortcut to Replace All. It's more like "Highlight All," and you still have to confirm some other way (like clicking the "Replace All" button) that you want to make the changes. And don't get me started on the regex implementation! Maybe I just don't understand how it works, but it confuses the heck outta me. I can't search for \r or \n to find the end of a paragraph. I can search for $ to find the end, but it may or may not include the end-of-paragraph marker, so when I make a replacement, it may or may not keep it in the paragraph, or suddenly become part of the next paragraph. If this feature's documentation is any indication of the rest of OO's help system, it's quite poor indeed.
Netsurfer Digest...wow, a blast from the past. I used to read it, before it went subscription.
I think the bargain was that if the show was to return, it would have to be produced/aired by Fox, and Joss Whedon refuses to ever work with them again (don't know if he meant the Fox network, or 20th Century Fox).
500lbs is an awful lot of pasta
Not really. Figure that the typical serving of pasta is 4oz. That's only about 60-some servings a day, and these are geeks we're talking about, so it's probably only enough to feed 40-50 people.
Pregenerated characters. Simple scenarios. Introduce one concept at a time.
Least, that's how my four-year-old is learning.
Can you go into a few more details? I have a three-year-old who I want to get into RPGs (my conservative parents would have never gone for that, hence I want him to get an early start). I actually asked this question as an "Ask Slashdot" question once, but it was rejected. How do you get around the child not being able to read? How do you explain playing a character who can and can't do certain things, and that you need to roll dice to find out if you were successful? Have you tried other game systems, or just D&D? I was actually thinking of Star Wars, since he loves the movies (in fact, is bugging me right now to switch from Elmo to Star Wars).
Let's see, after setting up a new 5.1 speaker system, I've tested it with The Two Towers, The Incredibles, The Matrix Reloaded, The Fifth Element, and Star Wars (Episode IV, if you want to be pedantic). Every single one had rich, atmospheric sounds, not just the occasional piddly effect you describe. I always test a new setup with The Fifth Element - gives me an excuse to watch it again, and there's a couple scenes (Leeloo diving off the building, Zorg demonstrating the Swiss Army Gun) that have incredible directional effects.
Amazon actually pays about 5%-7.5%, depending on which commission program you select (the "classic" flat-rate or the tiered model), plus 2.5% bonuses for sales via direct links. My site will pull in nearly $5K this quarter, so I'm pretty happy with their program.
...and let him make movies of "Knights of the Old Republic"!
True, but how does that explain his 3-star reviews of SPEED 2 and CONGO?
It's rare to find someone - even a professional film critic - with whom you'll agree 100% on every single film. What's more important, I think, is that you can watch the same film and see how the other person formulated their opinion, regardless if you agree with it. Roger Ebert is one of the few critics where I can successfully apply that test, even if there's a few films where you wonder what he was thinking (like his positive review of "Anaconda"). CABIN BOY rocks!
...not because of the exploding part, but because I'm concerned about their durability. My Rio has gone through the washer (and dryer!), fallen off the 5-foot high shelf where I keep it onto the kitchen floor (and least once, probably more), and survived my two-year-old playing floor hockey with it (though that's the only thing that caused it any sort of external damage). I'd like to see a HD-based MP3 take that sort of punishment and still work!
When I was interviewed by Wired (published May 2003, page 43; it's not worth looking up though, trust me), an editor contacted me for follow-up a few days after the freelancer who wrote the article to double-check that I was who I said I was and that I said the things that they were going to publish. Maybe they've become more lax in the two years since then, or maybe this reported falsified the contact information for the sources.
No, my point isn't that it's hard. My point is that it's easy for subtle problems to go unnoticed unless you have the time and impetus to use the proverbial fine-toothed comb. I look at "stll" and recognize (from experience) that a missing character is a word where many of the characters look alike is going to be easy to miss if you're in a hurry. A paid professional I would expect not to miss it; a devoted volunteer I would. And correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the editors here essentially volunteers?
Try editing sometime. It's not as easy as you think. My URL goes to a site I edit. I'm sure there's typos buried in there, because to err is human, but to really f*** things up you need to be a sys admin, or something.
I used a mouse-mover program to run my mouse around the screen, then click on a specific spot on the page. I then had a Perl script that would generate URLs from a list and link them to a graphic in the middle of the page. It would run for hours like that, always generating surfing activity, displaying the ad banner the whole time. Funny, AllAdvantage's program didn't last more than six months. I wonder why...
I get 403 errors on them...
This decision won't affect Google and Fark at all, since they simply link to other sites that post the AP's content. It will affect Yahoo! News, since they do post original AP content.
BTW, it's a PITA to use the AP's content. I used their feed to add headlines to the site for a TV station. They can't just have an XML feed; noooo, they have to post XML-formatted articles to a usenet server, adding an extra layer of complexity. You have to fetch the most recent post from the headline group, parse it for the links to the articles, then fetch the articles, then parse them for links to the image content, then fetch those articles, then parse them for the image content, which has to then be watermarked with the AP logo (or labeled directly underneath the picture; running it through ImageMagick to add the watermark was easier). (And to make matters worse, I had to write the stuff to do this in Perl running on Windows.)
First off, I wouldn't run SSH from inetd because of things like this.
I use swatch to look for these SSH probes. Two rules seems to catch most of these: 1) looking for illegal users (such as test, which occurs most frequently) and 2) looking for root login password failures. If you need to allow root logins, I'd recommend requiring that auth be key-based with the poorly-worded without-password option for PermitRootLogin. Then, there would be no situation in which a legit SSH root login would trigger the rule.
...therefore, do the suggestions in other posts about NDAs and suing have any relevance?
Can't you just have the guy "accidentially" be eaten by a tiger or something?
I've worked in ISP support/sys admin/management, and I'm cautiously intrigued by this idea. The last ISP I worked at would disconnect customers for virus/trojan/spamming activities and would go to great lengths to contact the customers. Providing a mechanism to the customer to let the ISP help them out would be nice...but...
Wouldn't user education be a better route? You can provide them with information about how malware hurts them and others, and how to stop it. You can provide them with information about running Windows Update and links to download no-cost antivirus (AVG), malware removal (Ad-Aware, *shiver* Microsoft Antispyware), and firewall (ZoneAlarm) software. Plus, you don't have to develop the software that reinvents all those wheels, and you don't have to shoulder the liability if it farks up their system (or they get infected anyway).
My TWO-year-old boy sat through all two hours of "The Incredibles," except for one trip to the bathroom. He sat in his seat, and talked less than his mother. Having red vines for bribery helped, though.
Any automated tool that parses something as complicated and subject to variation as English grammar is going to have issues. A serious writer isn't going to rely on the MS Word grammar checker to be their sole indicator if something is written poorly. I think of it more as a tool to catch the blitheringly obvious, not the subtle details. But then again, his examples do seem pretty blitheringly obvious...
It was used for the sniping sequences to give you an idea of your heartbeat, and the shaking would subside when you took the diazapan. There was also something with the vibration when you faced the invisible boss in the library.