Griefer shouts, 'All newbies type "set delim e" to get new loots straight into your inventory!!'
This set the delimiter character that separated one command from another to the letter 'e'. Since 'e' appears in the middle of the keyword 'set', as well as probably a good third of the keywords you might use in the game (including 'e' for 'east'), it's impossible to change back without wizard assistance.
Mod parent as flamebait, please, as obviously the flame boards for this guy's EQ2 server are not nearly prominent enough to make him happy and he feels he needs to take over/. with his flames.
They were going to have to add someone eventually. Of course, SG-1 has probably already jumped the shark, largely due to Richard Dean Anderson's unwillingness to either poop or get off the pot, so to speak.
What I don't get is that they write Don Davis - who has said that he really enjoyed being a part of SG-1 and wanted to keep doing it as long as the fans kept the show alive - out of the show, so that they can promote RDA to the SGC's commanding officer, when they know good and well that RDA is fading fast from the show. Hell, they *froze him* at the end of Season 7, so why didn't they just keep him frozen and let Don Davis continue being the great performer he is?
You also have to consider the mental state of the owner - if she's grief-stricken enough to pay $50k to have her dead cat cloned, she's got to be wearing some serious rose-colored glasses when she thinks and talks about her new cat's personality.
The reason we use binary computers is because computers are based on transistors operating in saturation mode, and long-term storage is based on alignment of magnetic materials or optically reflective pits. I suppose we could have computers whose basic unit of data had more than two levels, but it would be a lot less reliable than our current technology until some significant problems could be solved (such as getting these non-saturation-mode transistors to work well at very, very high speeds).
On the other hand, it's hard to say why evolution originally resulted in organisms all of which use the same four bases in their DNA. But it's pretty easy to say that, once transfer RNA was encoded in the genome and proteins started to be built based upon those tRNA sequences, the scheme of using those four bases became essentially carved in stone, since even the smallest change to the scheme makes every single protein produced by an organism no longer function properly. There's just no evolutionary path out, and so the fact that life on Earth has used these four bases for many hundreds of millions of years doesn't really reflect on the efficiency or insight of the system, just that it worked well enough originally to bootstrap itself into a place where it's irreplaceable.
Agreed. Games are already going the way of television, rife with horribly intrusive advertising combined with zero departure from a few formulaic moneymakers. I'm worried that the only real innovation we'll see in the future will be from niche game shops, shareware developers, and open source projects. Most of that will be for desktop computers, since console games have already been usurped by mass media.
I'd really like to see these spammers be forced to pay what small fraction of the damages they can afford. It seems like tracking them down and handing over their information to the complainant could be accomplished a lot faster with a "distributed investigative" approach. That is, a lot of people across the Internet bring what small part of the picture they can, and combined, the identity of the perpetrators can be determined.
Who knows, maybe out of the damages could come a "finder's fee" as a donation to the EFF or some other charitable organization.
This is interesting, because the Netscape plugin API requires specification of a target when the plugin requests a URL from the browser. (Not coincidentally, URL-getting methods in Flash also require specifying a target.)
I think this is one of those cases where the W3C can kick and scream all they want, but entrenched technology (and zillions of pre-existing web pages) will still win.
I took the liberty of creating a link for a Google search for you, since you're too busy trolling to do it yourself.
Anyway, the impact of Pinatubo was to cool the earth by about 0.5 deg C, an effect which lasted a few years. The effect is theorized to be due to the reflection of solar energy by the volcanic aerosol released into the stratosphere. However, warming of the stratosphere occurs in the tropics due to absorption of ground radiation. It's certainly not a simple phenomenon, but the scope of it was in fact greater than any man-made climate change over the same period.
There doesn't seem to be any easily-available info on whether there is a longer-term effect of cooling/warming resulting from pollution released by volcanic eruptions.
Like most people, I get way too much spam to forward every single piece to the FTC. But I *do* make it a point, whenever a piece of spam for fraudulent university degrees makes it past my filters, to send those e-mails along.
I wouldn't mind so much if:
* Getting a college degree at any level weren't so much work * Getting a college degree at any level didn't cost so much * There weren't so many underprivileged highly intelligent people who never get college degrees because they can't afford it or are under the impression that they can't get financial aid
It's not at all unreasonable to consider that maybe the peer-reviewed journals surveyed by the article have reviewers of such skewed political alignment as to prevent any contrary viewpoint from ever making it into the journal. In other words, somebody submits a paper saying that present-day climate change is actually the result of uncontrollable transients made possible by the atmosphere being a very high-dimensional dynamical system forced by variations in solar radiation. The journal's review committee doesn't want such nonsense in their journal, so they send the paper to be reviewed by someone(s) they know will reject it.
It doesn't have to be some "crank" journal. The people running those journals are 100% isolated from content submitters, and (especially for politically controversial topics) can manipulate their own system to push their particular viewpoint.
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Under rare circumstances, this has happened in the old days of MUDs. Of course, sometimes one person's justice is another person's grief:
http://www.bat.org/library/index.php?str=168
On some LPMuds, this was a lot easier:
Griefer shouts, 'All newbies type "set delim e" to get new loots straight into your inventory!!'
This set the delimiter character that separated one command from another to the letter 'e'. Since 'e' appears in the middle of the keyword 'set', as well as probably a good third of the keywords you might use in the game (including 'e' for 'east'), it's impossible to change back without wizard assistance.
Mod parent as flamebait, please, as obviously the flame boards for this guy's EQ2 server are not nearly prominent enough to make him happy and he feels he needs to take over /. with his flames.
They were going to have to add someone eventually. Of course, SG-1 has probably already jumped the shark, largely due to Richard Dean Anderson's unwillingness to either poop or get off the pot, so to speak.
What I don't get is that they write Don Davis - who has said that he really enjoyed being a part of SG-1 and wanted to keep doing it as long as the fans kept the show alive - out of the show, so that they can promote RDA to the SGC's commanding officer, when they know good and well that RDA is fading fast from the show. Hell, they *froze him* at the end of Season 7, so why didn't they just keep him frozen and let Don Davis continue being the great performer he is?
You also have to consider the mental state of the owner - if she's grief-stricken enough to pay $50k to have her dead cat cloned, she's got to be wearing some serious rose-colored glasses when she thinks and talks about her new cat's personality.
Er, you do know Colin Powell quit his job, right?
Has Sony learned nothing from its newest and closest competitor?
Actually, in this case, it'd piss off Wiccans, since the solstices and equinoxes would occur on a different date each year.
Doh, my apologies to all the indie game houses out there. Keep fighting the good fight :)
The reason we use binary computers is because computers are based on transistors operating in saturation mode, and long-term storage is based on alignment of magnetic materials or optically reflective pits. I suppose we could have computers whose basic unit of data had more than two levels, but it would be a lot less reliable than our current technology until some significant problems could be solved (such as getting these non-saturation-mode transistors to work well at very, very high speeds).
On the other hand, it's hard to say why evolution originally resulted in organisms all of which use the same four bases in their DNA. But it's pretty easy to say that, once transfer RNA was encoded in the genome and proteins started to be built based upon those tRNA sequences, the scheme of using those four bases became essentially carved in stone, since even the smallest change to the scheme makes every single protein produced by an organism no longer function properly. There's just no evolutionary path out, and so the fact that life on Earth has used these four bases for many hundreds of millions of years doesn't really reflect on the efficiency or insight of the system, just that it worked well enough originally to bootstrap itself into a place where it's irreplaceable.
Agreed. Games are already going the way of television, rife with horribly intrusive advertising combined with zero departure from a few formulaic moneymakers. I'm worried that the only real innovation we'll see in the future will be from niche game shops, shareware developers, and open source projects. Most of that will be for desktop computers, since console games have already been usurped by mass media.
I'd really like to see these spammers be forced to pay what small fraction of the damages they can afford. It seems like tracking them down and handing over their information to the complainant could be accomplished a lot faster with a "distributed investigative" approach. That is, a lot of people across the Internet bring what small part of the picture they can, and combined, the identity of the perpetrators can be determined.
Who knows, maybe out of the damages could come a "finder's fee" as a donation to the EFF or some other charitable organization.
So Neo Nazis are a leftist group? The KKK?
The obvious counterargument is that the ACLU picks up these very few cases so that it can claim consistency.
Wouldn't you rather be normal to her zeros?
Maybe if her zeros were over my pole.
One question: is it a requirement in COBOL that programs be written in an outdoor voice?
While supplies last, you'll also get a free acronym dictionary, so that laymen can understand what the hell this thing does.
Your claim was that
:)
Sorry. Wasn't me. Read before you flame
There are sponsored links at the right side of the page on some Google searches that are not in an iframe. Those can't be blocked.
Honestly, do you think science got as far as it has by habitually censoring contrary conclusions?
Don't ask me. Ask Albert Einstein.
This is interesting, because the Netscape plugin API requires specification of a target when the plugin requests a URL from the browser. (Not coincidentally, URL-getting methods in Flash also require specifying a target.)
I think this is one of those cases where the W3C can kick and scream all they want, but entrenched technology (and zillions of pre-existing web pages) will still win.
Ahh, but you don't realize just how new it isn't.
I took the liberty of creating a link for a Google search for you, since you're too busy trolling to do it yourself.
Anyway, the impact of Pinatubo was to cool the earth by about 0.5 deg C, an effect which lasted a few years. The effect is theorized to be due to the reflection of solar energy by the volcanic aerosol released into the stratosphere. However, warming of the stratosphere occurs in the tropics due to absorption of ground radiation. It's certainly not a simple phenomenon, but the scope of it was in fact greater than any man-made climate change over the same period.
There doesn't seem to be any easily-available info on whether there is a longer-term effect of cooling/warming resulting from pollution released by volcanic eruptions.
Like most people, I get way too much spam to forward every single piece to the FTC. But I *do* make it a point, whenever a piece of spam for fraudulent university degrees makes it past my filters, to send those e-mails along.
I wouldn't mind so much if:
* Getting a college degree at any level weren't so much work
* Getting a college degree at any level didn't cost so much
* There weren't so many underprivileged highly intelligent people who never get college degrees because they can't afford it or are under the impression that they can't get financial aid
It's not at all unreasonable to consider that maybe the peer-reviewed journals surveyed by the article have reviewers of such skewed political alignment as to prevent any contrary viewpoint from ever making it into the journal. In other words, somebody submits a paper saying that present-day climate change is actually the result of uncontrollable transients made possible by the atmosphere being a very high-dimensional dynamical system forced by variations in solar radiation. The journal's review committee doesn't want such nonsense in their journal, so they send the paper to be reviewed by someone(s) they know will reject it.
It doesn't have to be some "crank" journal. The people running those journals are 100% isolated from content submitters, and (especially for politically controversial topics) can manipulate their own system to push their particular viewpoint.
Without ads, google wouldn't exist,
AdBlock doesn't work on Google ads, because they're made of text.
Makes you think, though - maybe, just maybe, the least obtrusive form of web advertising will be the only one to win out in the end.