I think if people play on university servers or some other network that at least has some sort of real-life connection it stays way more honest. There are some people that cheat occaisionally at Purdue and they don't do it when you show up at their doorstep...All you need to do is get the guy's IP with a four-stoke command (in CS) then, at least with directory services here, find his real address and poof, make an honest man out of him.
Cheating-allowed servers are all over the place. It just doesn't affect the ones that like pounding others into submission without hours of (hmm obsessive?) work or practice. Normal servers are possibly be a challenge, even if they are cheating.
There was a guy who dominated the entire Purdue CS scene until he came to a PUGG (shameless plug, there ya go andy) party and everyone saw his secret: a touch screen. I don't think that's cheating, just lame.
Yes, but only if you pursue a real relationship! If it's an internet relationship you can just both pretend you're horny 18 year old lesbians and everyone's ok.
I hope you're joking about having 99 different-shaped objects in your pocket. Honestly, there would be no way for you to reach into your pocket and tell the 64 sided regular polygon from the 71 sided regular polygon. Besides, what would they be made out of? Metal? That'd be an awful lot of weight to pull around with ball bearings in your pockets. Plastic would be easily faked, glass would shatter, any weird material like carbon would be expensive so...
When I engage in a transaction with some form of plastic, I end up getting no change! We should all just get rid of these pieces of legal tender and do things electronically. If you charge me $22.54 for stuff, when I hand you my Visa I am in effect giving you a $22.54 piece of money. Same with checks and whatnot. And don't reply to this saying it will be mayhem if something happened to the data that's not my concern while writing this.
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There's no way you're going to teach entire countries to just op thinking in terms of 1, 5, 10, 25 and start thinking about 83 cent coins, or 1.37 dollar bills... The effiency achieved would most likely take years to just balance the inconvenience and trouble caused by shifting the way money has worked in the past.
It wasn't too many years ago that I worked at a grocery store, and I can still tell you all the finer points of a change drawer (i.e. one of each coin makes 41 cents). Too many people rely on the situation not changing.
Have you noticed some of the comments made when Safari was unvieled? things like "Safari is way faster than IE" were just blatantly called out by Jobs himself.
If they don't switch over to their own product then they might as well load XP onto the harddrives when they ship from cali.
All DVDs operate like this:
The movie is stored in a 4:3 aspect ratio on the disc. This is called anamorphic widescreen, but let's not get into that. Just know that it has to do with the way the video is stored.
You have a DVD that contains a movie withaspect ratio 16:9. Upon you hitting play the DVD checks to see what it's outputting to. if it is a 4:3 TV then before sending the signal to the TV it compresses the picture vertically and adds the black bars, hence the letterbox.
If it's a 16:9 TV then it just sends the signal to the TV. Since widescreen come in a number of aspect ratios (1.77:1, 1.85:1, 2.35:1, 2.7:1) you'll see different sizes of black bars on different TVs. Incedentally you will see black bars on the right and left if you view a normal TV signal on a widescreen television.
I drew some great ascii art for this post but the lameness filter kicked in...sorry!
We've had intermittent, private networks in selected buildings for a few years, but they really kicked off this summer and started doing the whole campus. The estimated time to completion is june of '03. The only problem is that the client they have chosen to prevent leeches has poor support for OS X. It seems that Cisco has a beta that works well, but it ain't public. The areas that don't require the client are great though.
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I tip my hat: 1989 - Berners-Lee invented http and came up with the name "world wide web"
Well he did say we won't need an "Intel/AMD" processor, not we won't need a CPU
Uhh, she got caught all right =) I don't think I'd be able to ward off those "Security guards"
No she was hacking a power grid systrem to shut down power in the matrix time of 2000 or so
Neo is the sixth One
Nah dude he failed out. His handle was ONE
I think if people play on university servers or some other network that at least has some sort of real-life connection it stays way more honest. There are some people that cheat occaisionally at Purdue and they don't do it when you show up at their doorstep...All you need to do is get the guy's IP with a four-stoke command (in CS) then, at least with directory services here, find his real address and poof, make an honest man out of him.
Cheating-allowed servers are all over the place. It just doesn't affect the ones that like pounding others into submission without hours of (hmm obsessive?) work or practice. Normal servers are possibly be a challenge, even if they are cheating.
There was a guy who dominated the entire Purdue CS scene until he came to a PUGG (shameless plug, there ya go andy) party and everyone saw his secret: a touch screen. I don't think that's cheating, just lame.
Yes, but only if you pursue a real relationship! If it's an internet relationship you can just both pretend you're horny 18 year old lesbians and everyone's ok.
This "list of activites" doen't include anything in my tri-country area.
dang someone beat me to it!
I think maybe this will spur Apple into motion. Perhaps we'll see ogg being worked into the iTunes Music store.
One of each penny, nickel, dime and quarter; the chief coins that have been in discussion for the last 400 posts.
I hope you're joking about having 99 different-shaped objects in your pocket. Honestly, there would be no way for you to reach into your pocket and tell the 64 sided regular polygon from the 71 sided regular polygon. Besides, what would they be made out of? Metal? That'd be an awful lot of weight to pull around with ball bearings in your pockets. Plastic would be easily faked, glass would shatter, any weird material like carbon would be expensive so...
When I engage in a transaction with some form of plastic, I end up getting no change! We should all just get rid of these pieces of legal tender and do things electronically. If you charge me $22.54 for stuff, when I hand you my Visa I am in effect giving you a $22.54 piece of money. Same with checks and whatnot. And don't reply to this saying it will be mayhem if something happened to the data that's not my concern while writing this.
There's no way you're going to teach entire countries to just op thinking in terms of 1, 5, 10, 25 and start thinking about 83 cent coins, or 1.37 dollar bills... The effiency achieved would most likely take years to just balance the inconvenience and trouble caused by shifting the way money has worked in the past. It wasn't too many years ago that I worked at a grocery store, and I can still tell you all the finer points of a change drawer (i.e. one of each coin makes 41 cents). Too many people rely on the situation not changing.
Now how are they gonna enforce that? Go after every single person hosting such scripts?
Have you noticed some of the comments made when Safari was unvieled? things like "Safari is way faster than IE" were just blatantly called out by Jobs himself. If they don't switch over to their own product then they might as well load XP onto the harddrives when they ship from cali.
I prefer
- You have a DVD that contains a movie withaspect ratio 16:9. Upon you hitting play the DVD checks to see what it's outputting to. if it is a 4:3 TV then before sending the signal to the TV it compresses the picture vertically and adds the black bars, hence the letterbox.
- If it's a 16:9 TV then it just sends the signal to the TV. Since widescreen come in a number of aspect ratios (1.77:1, 1.85:1, 2.35:1, 2.7:1) you'll see different sizes of black bars on different TVs. Incedentally you will see black bars on the right and left if you view a normal TV signal on a widescreen television.
I drew some great ascii art for this post but the lameness filter kicked in...sorry!I do it daily.
only if they stomp on themselves
We've had intermittent, private networks in selected buildings for a few years, but they really kicked off this summer and started doing the whole campus. The estimated time to completion is june of '03. The only problem is that the client they have chosen to prevent leeches has poor support for OS X. It seems that Cisco has a beta that works well, but it ain't public. The areas that don't require the client are great though.