I remember when I first saw Last Cruisade at the cinema. I was only 12 at the time and I got really confused by the bit at the beginning. I thought they had done exactly what you said and replaced Harrison Ford with a new actor.
Isn't that a problem with education and not technology? Distionaries have been around for centuries, is that what is causing the spelling problems?
It seems to me that this is something that teachers have been complaining about for a long time as well. The last generation always seems to have had it better. I wonder how true that really is.
Hans Geiger was a Nazi and betrayed his Jewish Collegues.
Heisenberg also worked for the Nazi's and attempted to build a Nuclear bomb. That one however is debatable. He later claimed he was secretly sabotaging the project.
I think what will have to happen is ReiserFS will need to change its name. Once they do that then ithey will be able to move the project forward.
The problem is I don't think Clinton would do anything in power except maintain the status quo. Her history, and the way she has behaved through this campaign has shown that.
You may be right that Obama can't win, but in times like this I think sometimes you have to just roll the dice and go for it otherwise nothing changes.
I'm not sure that this is a problem. You can safely assume that people wanted to install Firefox, so there is nothing wrong with it making itself default at the same time. If they don't like it they can change it back again.
The difference between this and what Apple did is Apple made it look like it was a required security update and then installed an unwanted piece of software. This however is just a setting change that can be easily reverted. I certainly don't find it a problem when IE makes itself default because I press the wrong button by mistake.
This how I think things should have gone down in the prequels. I haven't really thought things through properly but anyway here goes.
There needed to be two Sith lords in this, Palpatine and another (Palpatine's master?)
These two Sith lords need to go to war against each other with Palpatine tricking the Senate and the Jedis into fighting for him. Obviously this is the clone wars.
Somehow Obi Wan needs to be going somewhere escorted by some other pilots. One of these is Anakin a young teenager who possibly lied about his age to get in. The two of them need to be stranded on a planet together where Obi Wan discoveres his talent and starts training him. This combined with the Jedi being slaughtered in the Clone Wars means Anakin is not properly trained and eventually turns to the dark side lusting after more power.
There needs to be some artifact thingy which contains long lost knowledge about how to become a ghost after you die. The other Sith Lord needs to find it and attempt to master it. Yoda and the Sith Lord have it out on that swampy planet with Yoda winning but being stranded. The other Sith, not having properly mastered it, maybe he can't because he is too angry blah blah, becomes that area that is strong in the dark side that Yoda tests Luke with.
There needed to be a greater focus on the non-Jedi characters. Lets face it, the Jedis are cool with all the powers etc, but quite boring otherwise and have a rod up their arse.
If you try to outsmart an FPS game, you're not going to enjoy it. Next time when you play a shooter, don't conserve ammo, don't use fail-safe tricks to kill enemies, don't tip-toe around the game. Why shouldn't I do that? Why should I dumb muyself down to make the game fun? A game is supposed to be challenging for the player. It isn't my fault Doom 3 was easy to fool. It's not like waiting and hiding is an unusual tactic.
I tried to use the same trick in FEAR (a game that I thought really was scary). I shot one of the bad guys hid on the other side of the door and waited. And waited some more. And nothing happened. Just as I was about to give up and walk through the door myself I got shot in the back of the head by a sneaky bastard who had flanked behind me.
That game had decent challenging AI. In reality it still used a lot of tricks to keep things simple for the developers, but it gave the appearance of being intelligent and made the game fun and interesting.
To me it felt the same as Doom 1 with better graphics.
The story that they hyped up claiming to be written by a professional writer etc was kind of shallow and stupid.
Even the AI was crap. I found the tactics for the first game worked equally well in Doom 3. Imps for example could move across the ceiling, but they never took advantage of that ability. They would crawl across a wall, then jump down and start slowly shuffling towards you throwing fireballs. The easiest way to dispatch enemies was the get their attention with a pistol, then sit on the other side of a closed door with a shotgun waiting for them to open it so you could unload both barrels into their face at point blank.
I could go on, but that was the worst of it for me. In summary, it was generic and kind of boring.
Half Life however had pretty good AI. An interesting plot and varied enemy encounters moving you through different environments, not allowing it to become just the same old crap.
I hope they are moderating it then. Otherwise I'll probably load up the game and the first creature I meet will look like a mouse with a penis grafted onto its back.
That really isn't the point. She failed the test due to a problem in the system. Whether other systems have the same problem or not is irrelevant and should never be used as an excuse.
Of course not, that is stupid. But you would still say Linux can run on these devices despite the fact it also has to be recompiled and tweaked etc.
I think what they are arguing is that Apple uses the same code base for the iPhone as it does for their desktops.
Microsoft however has two completely seperate products for Windows and Windows Mobile which increases the development costs and complexity.
I don't think it would be as easy as you think. The image library can be constantly grown. The images only have to be modified slightly (cropped slightly differently, rotated by a few degrees) to make them different enough to force complex image matching. Then on top of that the questions can be changed for each necessary authentication (Select all the kittens, Select the non-kittens, Select the white kittens etc etc)
With standard text CAPTCHA you have only one question, only way way to answer the question.
They are an awful abomination on all website usability and is becoming increasingly common they just don't do what they are supposed to do any more.
So it seems that these companies have two options, either make the letters and numbers more unreadable and more frustrating to users, or scrap them completely and come up with a new anti-bot scheme.
My favorite so far is KittenAuth (http://www.thepcspy.com/kittenauth). It's easy to use, and would be a hell of a lot harder to crack then letters and numbers. Most importantly it's cute! So adorable
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I remember when I first saw Last Cruisade at the cinema. I was only 12 at the time and I got really confused by the bit at the beginning. I thought they had done exactly what you said and replaced Harrison Ford with a new actor.
Touché
Does it need to be anything more? Do you want a cake?
How about we just accept it for the victory it is and move on to the next battle.
I'm pretty sceptical of any slashdot article that doesn't link to another article :/
There is a big difference between someone expressing an idea, and someone actually saying "We have found evidence to suggest this is true."
Just because you read about the idea 10 years ago doesn't make this any less significant.
Ironically I can't even spell dictionary.
Isn't that a problem with education and not technology? Distionaries have been around for centuries, is that what is causing the spelling problems?
It seems to me that this is something that teachers have been complaining about for a long time as well. The last generation always seems to have had it better. I wonder how true that really is.
I think that's a great idea. Unfortunately I can't mod you up as I already posted.
It seems that every piece of technology gets accused of this.
Television, Calculators, Computers. All these things have been accused of making our children stupid. Now it seems it's Google's turn.
I'm sure there are more examples, but I can't think of them, and not sure what search terms to put into Google.
Hans Geiger was a Nazi and betrayed his Jewish Collegues.
Heisenberg also worked for the Nazi's and attempted to build a Nuclear bomb. That one however is debatable. He later claimed he was secretly sabotaging the project.
I think what will have to happen is ReiserFS will need to change its name. Once they do that then ithey will be able to move the project forward.
I complained about the same thing. But mainly because they didn't have a decent mid-range machine that could play games.
That changed with the latest iMac update. The more expensive model is now a pretty good mid-range machine with a reasonable video card.
Do you really need a tower machine?
You may be right that Obama can't win, but in times like this I think sometimes you have to just roll the dice and go for it otherwise nothing changes.
The difference between this and what Apple did is Apple made it look like it was a required security update and then installed an unwanted piece of software. This however is just a setting change that can be easily reverted. I certainly don't find it a problem when IE makes itself default because I press the wrong button by mistake.
This how I think things should have gone down in the prequels. I haven't really thought things through properly but anyway here goes.
There needed to be two Sith lords in this, Palpatine and another (Palpatine's master?)
These two Sith lords need to go to war against each other with Palpatine tricking the Senate and the Jedis into fighting for him. Obviously this is the clone wars.
Somehow Obi Wan needs to be going somewhere escorted by some other pilots. One of these is Anakin a young teenager who possibly lied about his age to get in. The two of them need to be stranded on a planet together where Obi Wan discoveres his talent and starts training him. This combined with the Jedi being slaughtered in the Clone Wars means Anakin is not properly trained and eventually turns to the dark side lusting after more power.
There needs to be some artifact thingy which contains long lost knowledge about how to become a ghost after you die. The other Sith Lord needs to find it and attempt to master it. Yoda and the Sith Lord have it out on that swampy planet with Yoda winning but being stranded. The other Sith, not having properly mastered it, maybe he can't because he is too angry blah blah, becomes that area that is strong in the dark side that Yoda tests Luke with.
There needed to be a greater focus on the non-Jedi characters. Lets face it, the Jedis are cool with all the powers etc, but quite boring otherwise and have a rod up their arse.
Oh well, can always dream.
Yes yes I know a lot of people will say the Japanese version was better, but the American one was still a good movie.
I tried to use the same trick in FEAR (a game that I thought really was scary). I shot one of the bad guys hid on the other side of the door and waited. And waited some more. And nothing happened. Just as I was about to give up and walk through the door myself I got shot in the back of the head by a sneaky bastard who had flanked behind me.
That game had decent challenging AI. In reality it still used a lot of tricks to keep things simple for the developers, but it gave the appearance of being intelligent and made the game fun and interesting.
The story that they hyped up claiming to be written by a professional writer etc was kind of shallow and stupid.
Even the AI was crap. I found the tactics for the first game worked equally well in Doom 3. Imps for example could move across the ceiling, but they never took advantage of that ability. They would crawl across a wall, then jump down and start slowly shuffling towards you throwing fireballs. The easiest way to dispatch enemies was the get their attention with a pistol, then sit on the other side of a closed door with a shotgun waiting for them to open it so you could unload both barrels into their face at point blank.
I could go on, but that was the worst of it for me. In summary, it was generic and kind of boring.
Half Life however had pretty good AI. An interesting plot and varied enemy encounters moving you through different environments, not allowing it to become just the same old crap.
I hope they are moderating it then. Otherwise I'll probably load up the game and the first creature I meet will look like a mouse with a penis grafted onto its back.
That really isn't the point. She failed the test due to a problem in the system. Whether other systems have the same problem or not is irrelevant and should never be used as an excuse.
I love it! This is moderated Insightful, the Slashdot equivalent of "Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter"
Of course not, that is stupid. But you would still say Linux can run on these devices despite the fact it also has to be recompiled and tweaked etc. I think what they are arguing is that Apple uses the same code base for the iPhone as it does for their desktops. Microsoft however has two completely seperate products for Windows and Windows Mobile which increases the development costs and complexity.
I don't think it would be as easy as you think. The image library can be constantly grown. The images only have to be modified slightly (cropped slightly differently, rotated by a few degrees) to make them different enough to force complex image matching. Then on top of that the questions can be changed for each necessary authentication (Select all the kittens, Select the non-kittens, Select the white kittens etc etc)
With standard text CAPTCHA you have only one question, only way way to answer the question.
You call forcing the user to enter html to convert a basic url pattern into an actual hyperlink user friendly?
:)
Wow.
But then we aren't critising Slashdot's user interface in this article right now are we?
They are an awful abomination on all website usability and is becoming increasingly common they just don't do what they are supposed to do any more.
So it seems that these companies have two options, either make the letters and numbers more unreadable and more frustrating to users, or scrap them completely and come up with a new anti-bot scheme.
My favorite so far is KittenAuth (http://www.thepcspy.com/kittenauth). It's easy to use, and would be a hell of a lot harder to crack then letters and numbers. Most importantly it's cute! So adorable
The first service pack fixed a lot of these issues. Pretty much everything can now be done via the GUI.
Why they didn't do this from the start I don't know. Some of the omissions just felt like lazyness.