"We're flattered Google thinks Campfire is a great product," said Jason Fried, 37signals CEO and co-founder. "We're just disappointed that they stooped so low to basically copy it feature for feature, layout for layout. We thought that would be beneath Google, but maybe its time to reevaluate what they stand for."
From http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080408-123318
from: http://www.netflixprize.com//community/viewtopic.php?id=799
We have also updated the Prize leaderboard to reflect the award of the 2007
Progress Prize and have established the new accuracy requirement to qualify for
the 2008 Progress Prize. Again, in accord with the Rules, the new Prize level
reflects a 1% improvement over team KorBell's verified submission, requiring a
9.34% improvement over the original Cinematch accuracy level.
Most noteworthy aspect of the winning entry is that their winning method works by combining 107 different types of prediction strategies.
They state that you can get pretty far by blending the 3-4 best strategies, but of course doing so would not have netted them the progress prize
It is kind of sad realization that there actually is no better method. Your best bet is to use brute force and attempt to find some weighting methodology that combines known methods. By the way this is a well known issue in protein structure prediction competitions, for many years now so called meta-servers (predictions work by merely combining other predictions) win all the time. The joke is that we now need meta-meta-servers, combine the results of combiners
Also a clarification on the progress prize: to get it you need to have at least 1% improvement over the previous result. Considering that there is only 1.57% to go there is room for only one more progress prize until it hits the Grand Prize (10% improvement over the original results).
I too have been told in no uncertain terms that I must BELIEVE in global warming and that man has caused it. Many of the Brethren have warned the unbelievers that they face arrest, scorn and treatment as if they were traitors, holocaust deniers and altogether evil less than human creatures that must be silenced at all costs. By presenting the other side of the argument, (which by the way, according to the Brethren there is no other side of the argument) these people are giving comfort to the enemy. If there are facts which cause doubt about the truth of global warming then those facts must be suppressed. It is for the good of all. Oh, and it's all George Bush's fault I've been told. And America's fault.
Compared to the above the laser trick sounds safe. Blind in one eye is not nearly so bad as being covered with burning gasoline or a bullet through the head,
one main difference being that you can easily blind someone else by pointing this device in random directions... imagine going blind because an idiot down the street decided to put this together and now wants to see how far it tracks
this stupid device has the potential to blind someone a mile away... far more damaging to others than other jackass style stunts that are only dangerous to the pursuer himself. I too hate the disclaimers of the form Suit does not actually flybut when you easily damage others the issue is far more serious
TV shouldn't be all that expensive, but it ends up like that so someone needs to pay up
Someone needs to pay for the exorbitant salaries sportstars and popular actors make.
And that person is the one watching it
If you could subscribe to channels at the actual cost it took to make a show we would pay pennies per month we could all afford it. But if when you need to cover Katie Couric's million dollar salary we're in trouble.
What if someone designed a game that made use of sophisticated psyscological tricks to slowly "brain wash" you, to convince you that you must play? Would that be acceptable?
Not saying that Blizzard did this intentionally, they're simply "too good" at what they do. What you call good game design is leveraging the power of small, gradual and ever slower positive reinforcments in such a way to make people play longer. Turns out some people are very susceptible to this, very small percentage but it does indeed affect their lives.
Everyone is responsible for their actions, on the other hand companies also need to be understand the deeper implcations and put proper safety protocols in place.
In all fairness Blizz made some efforts in trying to fix this, there is a time-limit that can be set to kick you out of the game, honor decay (aka running in place) is also removed.
What is a typical combat resolution time in your game?
WoW for example is aiming to resolve PvP combat very quickly, most 1v1 PvP encounters end within 20 seconds (often far less, rarely more). This makes for very intense battles on the other hand any inital disadvantage will be hard to overcome. It also leads to button smashing, bunnyhopping etc. Sometimes I feel the combat is a over little too quickly, would be fun to have it go on for longer.
Combat in Guild Wars for example seems to be a lot more tempered (I only played GW for a short period but this is the impression I got) with every class having access to some sort of self healing.
When some people are confonted with a programming problem, they say to themselves, "I know, I'll use regular expressions"... Now they have two problems.
I cringe every time I hear people using regular expressions to parse HTML or CSV or whatever... why don't you just use an already made parser to do that job? You'll get it done sooner it will work faster and it will more maintainable, extensible than some crazy-ass-convoluted-line-noise that "seems" to do the job for now...
I gots no love for Sun... after all Jython been out for half a decade, and Sun has shown little to no interest in it... just imagine how much better it would be if they had the foresight to support it and improve its performance
As far as I'm concenrned Sun is playing catch-up with Microsoft, and this is no more than a half assed response to MS releasing IronPython
If the goal is to grind for gold on a sustainable fashion, that is repeteadly killing the same mobs for a long period of time (while they respawn), I'm guessing one could get 5-10 gold per hour.
With Yoda strapped to his back, Luke climbs up one of the
many thick vines that grow in the swamp until he reaches the
Dagobah statistics lab. Panting heavily, he continues his
exercises--grepping, installing new packages, logging in as
root, and writing replacements for two-year-old shell scripts
in Python.
YODA: Code! Yes. A programmer's strength flows from code maintainability.
But beware of Perl. Terse syntax... more than one way to do it...
default variables. The dark side of code maintainability are they.
Easily they flow, quick to join you when code you write. If once you
start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny,
consume you it will.
LUKE: Is Perl better than Python?
YODA: No... no... no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
LUKE: But how will I know why Python is better than Perl?
YODA: You will know. When your code you try to read six months from now.
"The way the eavesdropper gets discovered is that both the sender and the receiver are continuously measuring the current and comparing the data,"
cited from the paper.
Question: How do they make sure that the data comparison is secure?
And if they had a secure way to communicate the values for the current, why did they need another secure method to begin with?
This paper is utter nonsense. The fact that it got accepted should not surprise anyone. "Science" also conforms to Strugeon's law: "90% of everything is bullshit"
The irony here is that had you been named CmdrTaco this would have not happened.
So expectant mothers and fathers out there, please do your kids a favor, give them a name that no one else has... especially if your last name is Smith.
This is how the post starts, reading it I tought they banned this name Azgalor because it can be pronounced as AssGalore... reminds me of Pussy Galore from the Bond movie...
Turns out Azgalore is the server name that Blizzard uses.
Now that I brought this to their attention they might ban their own server!
aka the cursed mines... one is even in a newbie zone in IronForge... anyways mine something else and you'll get unstuck. You'll look funny a little while but no does not affect the gameplay. (Same if you get stuck in other looting/collection cases)
The real problem with WoW is that the game is too good. Too many people stick around for extended periods and too many come back playing.
I experienced only minor issues, but after creating five different characters, now each around lvl 20 I'm continuously surprised and amazed at how different each race, profession and class plays
So quit whining, you don't like it cancel your subscription, I personally fully trust Blizzard to fix thes issue in a few weeks. If the server is off line I'll watch TV, read a book or shovel some snow... no big deal...
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I already played WARHAMMER it was called World of Warcraft
"We're flattered Google thinks Campfire is a great product," said Jason Fried, 37signals CEO and co-founder. "We're just disappointed that they stooped so low to basically copy it feature for feature, layout for layout. We thought that would be beneath Google, but maybe its time to reevaluate what they stand for." From http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080408-123318
from: http://www.netflixprize.com//community/viewtopic.php?id=799 We have also updated the Prize leaderboard to reflect the award of the 2007 Progress Prize and have established the new accuracy requirement to qualify for the 2008 Progress Prize. Again, in accord with the Rules, the new Prize level reflects a 1% improvement over team KorBell's verified submission, requiring a 9.34% improvement over the original Cinematch accuracy level.
Most noteworthy aspect of the winning entry is that their winning method works by combining 107 different types of prediction strategies.
They state that you can get pretty far by blending the 3-4 best strategies, but of course doing so would not have netted them the progress prize
It is kind of sad realization that there actually is no better method. Your best bet is to use brute force and attempt to find some weighting methodology that combines known methods. By the way this is a well known issue in protein structure prediction competitions, for many years now so called meta-servers (predictions work by merely combining other predictions) win all the time. The joke is that we now need meta-meta-servers, combine the results of combiners
Also a clarification on the progress prize: to get it you need to have at least 1% improvement over the previous result. Considering that there is only 1.57% to go there is room for only one more progress prize until it hits the Grand Prize (10% improvement over the original results).
I too have been told in no uncertain terms that I must BELIEVE in global warming and that man has caused it. Many of the Brethren have warned the unbelievers that they face arrest, scorn and treatment as if they were traitors, holocaust deniers and altogether evil less than human creatures that must be silenced at all costs. By presenting the other side of the argument, (which by the way, according to the Brethren there is no other side of the argument) these people are giving comfort to the enemy. If there are facts which cause doubt about the truth of global warming then those facts must be suppressed. It is for the good of all. Oh, and it's all George Bush's fault I've been told. And America's fault.
one main difference being that you can easily blind someone else by pointing this device in random directions ... imagine going blind because an idiot down the street decided to put this together and now wants to see how far it tracks
this stupid device has the potential to blind someone a mile away ... far more damaging to others than other jackass style stunts that are only dangerous to the pursuer himself. I too hate the disclaimers of the form Suit does not actually flybut when you easily damage others the issue is far more serious
tried it didn't work for me, what's all the fuss about? I'm using lynx version 2.8.5
Tired of reading? Our new web 2.0 application "vocalizes" Slashdot for you, so that you don't have to.
TV shouldn't be all that expensive, but it ends up like that so someone needs to pay up Someone needs to pay for the exorbitant salaries sportstars and popular actors make. And that person is the one watching it
If you could subscribe to channels at the actual cost it took to make a show we would pay pennies per month we could all afford it. But if when you need to cover Katie Couric's million dollar salary we're in trouble.
It's the system that is broken...
1. go to an unusual place,
2. sign an agreement form,
3. follow instructions that say: "Log into your account"
4. you're aware that people are watching you and will analyze what you did
whatever results they get do not prove anything other than:
People placed in a unfamiliar, controlled environment with Harvard scientists ogling at them will not check the security image.
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What if someone designed a game that made use of sophisticated psyscological tricks to slowly "brain wash" you, to convince you that you must play? Would that be acceptable?
Not saying that Blizzard did this intentionally, they're simply "too good" at what they do. What you call good game design is leveraging the power of small, gradual and ever slower positive reinforcments in such a way to make people play longer. Turns out some people are very susceptible to this, very small percentage but it does indeed affect their lives.
Everyone is responsible for their actions, on the other hand companies also need to be understand the deeper implcations and put proper safety protocols in place.
In all fairness Blizz made some efforts in trying to fix this, there is a time-limit that can be set to kick you out of the game, honor decay (aka running in place) is also removed.
What is a typical combat resolution time in your game?
WoW for example is aiming to resolve PvP combat very quickly, most 1v1 PvP encounters end within 20 seconds (often far less, rarely more). This makes for very intense battles on the other hand any inital disadvantage will be hard to overcome. It also leads to button smashing, bunnyhopping etc. Sometimes I feel the combat is a over little too quickly, would be fun to have it go on for longer.
Combat in Guild Wars for example seems to be a lot more tempered (I only played GW for a short period but this is the impression I got) with every class having access to some sort of self healing.
I cringe every time I hear people using regular expressions to parse HTML or CSV or whatever ... why don't you just use an already made parser to do that job? You'll get it done sooner it will work faster and it will more maintainable, extensible than some crazy-ass-convoluted-line-noise that "seems" to do the job for now ...
I gots no love for Sun ... after all Jython been out for half a decade, and Sun has shown little to no interest in it ... just imagine how much better it would be if they had the foresight to support it and improve its performance
As far as I'm concenrned Sun is playing catch-up with Microsoft, and this is no more than a half assed response to MS releasing IronPython
If the goal is to grind for gold on a sustainable fashion, that is repeteadly killing the same mobs for a long period of time (while they respawn), I'm guessing one could get 5-10 gold per hour.
EXTERIOR: DAGOBAH--DAY
With Yoda strapped to his back, Luke climbs up one of the many thick vines that grow in the swamp until he reaches the Dagobah statistics lab. Panting heavily, he continues his exercises--grepping, installing new packages, logging in as root, and writing replacements for two-year-old shell scripts in Python.
YODA: Code! Yes. A programmer's strength flows from code maintainability. But beware of Perl. Terse syntax... more than one way to do it... default variables. The dark side of code maintainability are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you when code you write. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
LUKE: Is Perl better than Python?
YODA: No... no... no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
LUKE: But how will I know why Python is better than Perl?
YODA: You will know. When your code you try to read six months from now.
Python uses the indentation of statements under a header to group the statements in a nested block.
haha, never mind that this is exactly how your code should be indented in the first place....
Question: How do they make sure that the data comparison is secure?
And if they had a secure way to communicate the values for the current, why did they need another secure method to begin with?
This paper is utter nonsense. The fact that it got accepted should not surprise anyone. "Science" also conforms to Strugeon's law: "90% of everything is bullshit"
H.The irony here is that had you been named CmdrTaco this would have not happened. So expectant mothers and fathers out there, please do your kids a favor, give them a name that no one else has ... especially if your last name is Smith.
As part of the agreement, Sun will include the Google Toolbar as an option in downloads of the Java Runtime Environment from Java.com,
mkay great, but why is this newsworthy?What if I set up my robots.txt to forbid MSN to crawl my site?
What if a maybe a hundred, then a thousand people did that?
Is it fair to interfere with the quality of a search engine?
Just musing, but I seriously consider bannig MSN from my site, just to keep them at bay...
aka the cursed mines ... one is even in a newbie zone in IronForge ... anyways mine something else and you'll get unstuck. You'll look funny a little while but no does not affect the gameplay. (Same if you get stuck in other looting/collection cases)
fill up that quest log and do things on the way. If you are trying to do one at a time the legwork can get tedious.
I've never had to travel to a distant area that had a single goal, go around explore, next thing you know you have a lot of things to do.
The real problem with WoW is that the game is too good. Too many people stick around for extended periods and too many come back playing.
I experienced only minor issues, but after creating five different characters, now each around lvl 20 I'm continuously surprised and amazed at how different each race, profession and class plays
So quit whining, you don't like it cancel your subscription, I personally fully trust Blizzard to fix thes issue in a few weeks. If the server is off line I'll watch TV, read a book or shovel some snow ... no big deal ...