Was this one of those deals where 20 boards are set up, student versus Kasparov, and he goes to each board in turn to make his move? I always found that really impressive, mainly because it takes about all of my concentration to look ahead to my next move when playing against one mediocre opponent.
You take a narrow view of MMOGs. Perhaps other people who play MMOGs manage to find goals in-game other than "make X bigger". Maybe they *do* want to see more of the game world that's been set out before them. Maybe success for them involves becoming one of their server's most well-reputed craftsmen. Maybe they want to be the leader of the largest guild on their server or in the game. Maybe they want to be the most feared PvP combatant in the game. Maybe they just want to see what happens if they do X in the game.
MMOGs do have more complex goals. Making X bigger might be the most simplistic view of the mechanics of the game, but it's not necessarily the goal in itself. It's a means to a different goal, one that the player's motivations create for him.
The OP says "Mike writes, 'blah blah'", which doesn't provide proper attribution. The "blah blah" part then goes on to be a verbatim copy of the second through fifth sentences of the linked article.
Makes me wonder of the/. eds slept through the part of high school where they teach you about plagiarism (this "Mike" guy evidently did).
Hauppauge sort of has its hands tied, because one of the Conexant chips used on the PVR-x50 boards has no open documentation (you have to order a development kit from Conexant for an exorbitant fee, and you're still bound by copyright not to share that documentation).
an increase in damaged DNA in the brain cells of rats after a single two-hour exposure to microwave radiation at levels considered "safe" by government standards
So, just how much radiation *does* the government consider to be safe for rats?
I agree completely. I know David X. agrees as well. And I tend to wonder if Groening put in some very nerdy jokes into the Simpsons post-Super Bowl episode because he doesn't have Futurama around as an outlet for that anymore. So, there's always hope.
On the other hand, if Futurama had to end, I'm glad it ended the way it did. I watched the finale with some friends, and at the end, one of them asked, "So do Fry and Leela ever actually hook up?" and I had to explain that, well, it was the last episode. But the way it ended, I think, reassures the viewer that Leela finally did realize there was a spark with Fry from the very first episode, and it didn't take worms or star graffiti or the Robot Devil's hands to make her love him.
I think part of the problem with Enterprise is that it is a step backwards, not forwards for the Trek universe.
Actually, the problem isn't that it's taking a look backward in the ST timeline (compared to the other series). It's that the writers started a series ostensibly looking backward in the ST timeline, but then wrote every episode like the series was looking forward in time instead. And what's the logical extreme of doing that?
Okay, thanks. I was wondering if there were "features" of.NET that made it more worthwhile for the sorts of things that malware authors try to do, like hiding their processes from outside applications, bypassing security features, making special API calls that aren't possible with vanilla Win32, etc., but frighteningly enough, your explanation about the pointy-haired boss sounds just as reasonable.
What is it that.NET gives the malware authors in terms of abilities that they can't have without it? In other words, why do they need to bother with.NET?
Good example of emergent behavior
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This is a good example of emergent behavior - in fact, perhaps an even better example than that of ants, because the fact that ants release a chemical trail to help other ants find sources of food could be considered a form of communication. (It depends how strict you are with your definition of emergence.)
I didn't see any popups, but I did notice two things: the webpage finished loading with the status bar still indicating that it was "transferring from intellitxt.com", and there were several stupid-links in the text of the article where a mouse-over causes a box to appear there like a tooltip.
It's really refreshing to see an environmentalist without an irrational fear of nuclear power.
By the way, if it really takes an individual three months to research the purchase of photovoltaics, you'd be doing everyone a service if you shared that research concisely so that the rest of us can spend 5 minutes getting caught up.
Why should DNS be burdened with this service? Seems to me like the host offering a set of services should be able to enumerate those services to a client who asks.
Besides, as a solution for getting around the port-blocking issue, your idea wouldn't work. All an ISP has to do is make the same query (or snoop the query) made by the customer, and if the response indicates a VoIP service on a particular port, they block traffic to it.
Make sure you pick up some Senators on the other side of the aisle before the bill goes to the floor. Always better to have a bipartisan group on board from the start, rather than letting the bill get stuck in a political quagmire.
Fossett managed to touch down at 2:48 p.m. EST, to the delight of mission control staff, a small crowd and a marching band that had gathered at the airstrip to welcome him...leaving 47 injured.
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Was this one of those deals where 20 boards are set up, student versus Kasparov, and he goes to each board in turn to make his move? I always found that really impressive, mainly because it takes about all of my concentration to look ahead to my next move when playing against one mediocre opponent.
You take a narrow view of MMOGs. Perhaps other people who play MMOGs manage to find goals in-game other than "make X bigger". Maybe they *do* want to see more of the game world that's been set out before them. Maybe success for them involves becoming one of their server's most well-reputed craftsmen. Maybe they want to be the leader of the largest guild on their server or in the game. Maybe they want to be the most feared PvP combatant in the game. Maybe they just want to see what happens if they do X in the game.
MMOGs do have more complex goals. Making X bigger might be the most simplistic view of the mechanics of the game, but it's not necessarily the goal in itself. It's a means to a different goal, one that the player's motivations create for him.
The OP says "Mike writes, 'blah blah'", which doesn't provide proper attribution. The "blah blah" part then goes on to be a verbatim copy of the second through fifth sentences of the linked article.
/. eds slept through the part of high school where they teach you about plagiarism (this "Mike" guy evidently did).
Makes me wonder of the
Hauppauge sort of has its hands tied, because one of the Conexant chips used on the PVR-x50 boards has no open documentation (you have to order a development kit from Conexant for an exorbitant fee, and you're still bound by copyright not to share that documentation).
Fry: I'm never gonna get used to the 31st century. Caffeinated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? Admiral Crunch?
Leela: Well if you don't like that, try some Archduke Chocula.
an increase in damaged DNA in the brain cells of rats after a single two-hour exposure to microwave radiation at levels considered "safe" by government standards
So, just how much radiation *does* the government consider to be safe for rats?
I agree completely. I know David X. agrees as well. And I tend to wonder if Groening put in some very nerdy jokes into the Simpsons post-Super Bowl episode because he doesn't have Futurama around as an outlet for that anymore. So, there's always hope.
On the other hand, if Futurama had to end, I'm glad it ended the way it did. I watched the finale with some friends, and at the end, one of them asked, "So do Fry and Leela ever actually hook up?" and I had to explain that, well, it was the last episode. But the way it ended, I think, reassures the viewer that Leela finally did realize there was a spark with Fry from the very first episode, and it didn't take worms or star graffiti or the Robot Devil's hands to make her love him.
To the fans, perhaps a startling admission from the woman they have come to know as the ostensibly emotionless Vulcan, T'Pol.
Either the reporters don't actually watch the show, or "ostensibly" was a very subtle jab.
I think part of the problem with Enterprise is that it is a step backwards, not forwards for the Trek universe.
Actually, the problem isn't that it's taking a look backward in the ST timeline (compared to the other series). It's that the writers started a series ostensibly looking backward in the ST timeline, but then wrote every episode like the series was looking forward in time instead. And what's the logical extreme of doing that?
Space Nazis.
Okay, thanks. I was wondering if there were "features" of .NET that made it more worthwhile for the sorts of things that malware authors try to do, like hiding their processes from outside applications, bypassing security features, making special API calls that aren't possible with vanilla Win32, etc., but frighteningly enough, your explanation about the pointy-haired boss sounds just as reasonable.
What is it that .NET gives the malware authors in terms of abilities that they can't have without it? In other words, why do they need to bother with .NET?
This is a good example of emergent behavior - in fact, perhaps an even better example than that of ants, because the fact that ants release a chemical trail to help other ants find sources of food could be considered a form of communication. (It depends how strict you are with your definition of emergence.)
I didn't see any popups, but I did notice two things: the webpage finished loading with the status bar still indicating that it was "transferring from intellitxt.com", and there were several stupid-links in the text of the article where a mouse-over causes a box to appear there like a tooltip.
"Often-Wrong's got a broken heart, can't even tell his boys apart!"
By "social retardation" do you mean "emotional abuse at the hands of their peers"?
make them compensate the artists
Bahahahahahahaha hahahaha hahahahaha hahaha haha whew.
Sorry about that.
It's really refreshing to see an environmentalist without an irrational fear of nuclear power.
By the way, if it really takes an individual three months to research the purchase of photovoltaics, you'd be doing everyone a service if you shared that research concisely so that the rest of us can spend 5 minutes getting caught up.
I guess you could call that a rimm job.
Er.... hyperbole much?
Why should DNS be burdened with this service? Seems to me like the host offering a set of services should be able to enumerate those services to a client who asks.
Besides, as a solution for getting around the port-blocking issue, your idea wouldn't work. All an ISP has to do is make the same query (or snoop the query) made by the customer, and if the response indicates a VoIP service on a particular port, they block traffic to it.
Make sure you pick up some Senators on the other side of the aisle before the bill goes to the floor. Always better to have a bipartisan group on board from the start, rather than letting the bill get stuck in a political quagmire.
Fossett managed to touch down at 2:48 p.m. EST, to the delight of mission control staff, a small crowd and a marching band that had gathered at the airstrip to welcome him ...leaving 47 injured.
Speaking of the Michelson-Morley Experiment, there is a fountain on my campus near the site of the experiment commemorating their achievement:
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http://www.cwru.edu/menu/sciencecenter/mmfountain
A common occurrence during winter is the sight of two large snowballs rolled up right next to each other at the base of the fountain.
There is also a boulder with a plaque nearby commemmorating the same experiment, but it is much less prone to desecration.
Leave it to a mathematician to have a Slashdot login equal to his Slashdot number. ;)
Of course, according to Oracle, the number is actually 150%.