He gets the tech mostly right, but he also adds some extravagant sci-fi-esque stuff to make it more interesting. What I primarily liked about this book is that it doesn't read like something written by a computer scientist turned author, but rather like something written by a professional. The author has true skill, and I appreciate that. Too many books have an interesting story concept, only to turn out to be garbage because the author isn't very good.
What the hell is this? people complain about the low quality of education today, and people who come out of the school system are dumber than they were10 years ago, and yet they make it easier and easier to pass. If you want to produce high quality students, then raise the bar to make sure that a passing grade actually conveys that they have some knowledge.
One reason that he does not want to use Gmail might be the same reason that I've found out, namely that IMAP folder names have a length and/or depth limit. I realized this when I tried to replicate the folder structure from my university when I left. While their tagging and threading interface is nice, using it as an IMAP-only service is sub-optimal. That, and the fact that google basically reads your mail. Not in the sense that Sarah Palin's mail was read, but still.
Both possible too. Or there might be a room before the boss with the aforementioned henchmen, and you could have a charging system that would let you keep 3-5 orbs stacked, ready to drop when you lost enough health. in a sense, you would buffer up your health, so that you would go in to battle with more than you already have. This could even be a special boss-only feature. Perhaps triggered by using some kind of shrine. The possibilities are endless, and I hope they will be addressed.
That is a valid point, and if they do it like that, it can solve some problems. However, currently, they have only stated that monsters drops these orbs when they die, and not all monsters drop orbs. It is completely possible, however, just like you say, that bosses behave that way, but I don't know. I'm sure they can solve the problem I described in many creative ways. I just hope that they actually address it.
So, if there's an extended fight like, say, DIABLO... A fight which you might not survive with just the health and mana you have in your orbs, what do you do? If you can't chug potions, you have to, in effect, execute the monster perfectly to even survive. I think that the orb system is better when you're hacking and slashing your way through several monsters that actually die, but when you encounter monsters that are not easy to get down, then you might need a heal or two. I certainly prefer chugging potions to relying on support classes (like priests, druids, paladins and shamans in wow) to heal you.
Like the man said, vertical desktop real-estate is king!
At home I run 2048x1536 (gotta love CRTs), and at work I'm stuck with 1280x1024.
While 1280x1024 isn't a wide-screen resolution, it does lack in vertical space.
Having a desktop space that is 1280 pixels wide is much less of a problem than having something that is only 1024 pixels tall.
Unfortunately this screen isn't rotatable either, otherwise my problems would have been at least partially solved.
Wide-screen is fine, as long as you don't skimp on vertical desktop real-estate. If I can keep my 1536 pixels vertically, I care less about how much you give me horizontally (to a limit, of course)
The question was what would YOU do if you were president. I would do two things. I would give my citizens back their civil liberties, and I would tone down the whole world police agenda. Granted, there are a lot of things wrong with that country, but fixing those two things would probably go a long way towards a more peaceful planet, AND could possibly save the american economy, since fewer countries would hate america.
Ok, so we are allowed to complain about thiss, but when someone riles about full-disclosure (which this is), everybody gets up in arms. It's a case of all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others...
Wow, this is yesterdays news. People in the tuning industry have been controlling "knock" in various ways for a long time. Either by raising the octane number on your ful (add ethanol or booster), so that you can had move advanced ignition timing, or simply retarding your timing and using the same octane rating fuel as you normally use
Exactly. Even if there is an overflow of good developers at some point, they all retire (and eventually die), so then someone else is going to have to pick up the torch.
The biggest reason is the number of syllables in the equivalent measurements:
yard (1) = meter (2) foot (2) = well, meter I guess. inch (1) = centimeter (4) mile (1) = kilometer (4) pound (1) = kilo (2) or kilogram (3)
It's pure LAZYNESS that is preventing the large mass of the population of converting.
For that matter, why the hell is HTML-formatting the default when posting comments on slashdot? is it more common to have to make a bold or italicized statement, than plain-text with line breaks?
The biggest reason is the number of syllables in the equivalent measurements:
yard (1) = meter (2)
foot (2) = well, meter I guess.
inch (1) = centimeter (4)
mile (1) = kilometer (4)
pound (1) = kilo (2) or kilogram (3)
It's pure LAZYNESS that is preventing the large mass of the population of converting.
Just because some intrusive technology was used for good at one occasion, doesn't mean that it completely turnes the tides on the discussion. it's still an intrusive technology.
If you look at GSM and UTRAN (The radio network part of UMTS), you will see that tranceivers are still very much divided into cells. It's the best way to give coverage to an area. The word "cell phone", is therefore in that sense very much usable. However, nobody I know of from anywhere other than the US has ever called a mobile phone a "cell" phone. Over here, it's just "mobile" or "mobile phone".
People have good and bad reasons for renaming things, but renaming the concept of a "cell phone", just because we do more things than talk on it is down right retarded. It's still cellular, and I have reason to believe that it will stay that way for a very long time.
I usually have 10-15 windows open, including IMs and such. Normally about 3-4 browser windows with anything from 3 tabs to about 40. When i've been using my computer for an hour, and I have my IDE open, I use up about 1gb of ram, give or take...
What the hell do they want to control? It's not like they are going to start a war for control of seaways to the north pole. In fact, what do they even want with that place, and why can't they just get along like good girls and SHARE the seaways.
So, let me get this straight, you're building a GLOBAL frame relay system, with nodes in 20+ states, with massive redundancy, and you're looking for a CHEAP system?
Get yourself together and look for a GOOD system. If you're already spending TONS of money, you might aswell spend some more to get exactly what you want, instead of settling for something. It might turn out that a free system is the best system for you, but please, good HAS GOT TO come before cheap!
I have 2GB of ram now, and I don't use a swapfile on windows.
I even play wow with this setup, and blizzard games are notorious for eating up every available resource (diablo2 even created it's own pagefile when it felt like it)
swapfiles are the devil. they are a remnant of times when ram was expensive.
they are a solution to a problem we don't really have anymore.
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...and it's awesome!
He gets the tech mostly right, but he also adds some extravagant sci-fi-esque stuff to make it more interesting. What I primarily liked about this book is that it doesn't read like something written by a computer scientist turned author, but rather like something written by a professional. The author has true skill, and I appreciate that. Too many books have an interesting story concept, only to turn out to be garbage because the author isn't very good.
What the hell is this? people complain about the low quality of education today, and people who come out of the school system are dumber than they were10 years ago, and yet they make it easier and easier to pass. If you want to produce high quality students, then raise the bar to make sure that a passing grade actually conveys that they have some knowledge.
One reason that he does not want to use Gmail might be the same reason that I've found out, namely that IMAP folder names have a length and/or depth limit. I realized this when I tried to replicate the folder structure from my university when I left. While their tagging and threading interface is nice, using it as an IMAP-only service is sub-optimal. That, and the fact that google basically reads your mail. Not in the sense that Sarah Palin's mail was read, but still.
Her suggestion only applies to US citizens, though. What about the rest of us?
Both possible too. Or there might be a room before the boss with the aforementioned henchmen, and you could have a charging system that would let you keep 3-5 orbs stacked, ready to drop when you lost enough health. in a sense, you would buffer up your health, so that you would go in to battle with more than you already have. This could even be a special boss-only feature. Perhaps triggered by using some kind of shrine. The possibilities are endless, and I hope they will be addressed.
That is a valid point, and if they do it like that, it can solve some problems. However, currently, they have only stated that monsters drops these orbs when they die, and not all monsters drop orbs. It is completely possible, however, just like you say, that bosses behave that way, but I don't know.
I'm sure they can solve the problem I described in many creative ways. I just hope that they actually address it.
So, if there's an extended fight like, say, DIABLO...
A fight which you might not survive with just the health and mana you have in your orbs, what do you do? If you can't chug potions, you have to, in effect, execute the monster perfectly to even survive. I think that the orb system is better when you're hacking and slashing your way through several monsters that actually die, but when you encounter monsters that are not easy to get down, then you might need a heal or two. I certainly prefer chugging potions to relying on support classes (like priests, druids, paladins and shamans in wow) to heal you.
It took this many posts for someone to react....
Like the man said, vertical desktop real-estate is king! At home I run 2048x1536 (gotta love CRTs), and at work I'm stuck with 1280x1024. While 1280x1024 isn't a wide-screen resolution, it does lack in vertical space. Having a desktop space that is 1280 pixels wide is much less of a problem than having something that is only 1024 pixels tall. Unfortunately this screen isn't rotatable either, otherwise my problems would have been at least partially solved. Wide-screen is fine, as long as you don't skimp on vertical desktop real-estate. If I can keep my 1536 pixels vertically, I care less about how much you give me horizontally (to a limit, of course)
this is...
The question was what would YOU do if you were president.
I would do two things. I would give my citizens back their civil liberties, and I would tone down the whole world police agenda.
Granted, there are a lot of things wrong with that country, but fixing those two things would probably go a long way towards a more peaceful planet, AND could possibly save the american economy, since fewer countries would hate america.
... to just travel outside the country, presumably on vacation, and buy what you need in a brick-and-mortar store in a non embargo country?
someone has to work at the companies that give these things away, too...
Ok, so we are allowed to complain about thiss, but when someone riles about full-disclosure (which this is), everybody gets up in arms.
It's a case of all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others...
Wow, this is yesterdays news. People in the tuning industry have been controlling "knock" in various ways for a long time. Either by raising the octane number on your ful (add ethanol or booster), so that you can had move advanced ignition timing, or simply retarding your timing and using the same octane rating fuel as you normally use
Exactly. Even if there is an overflow of good developers at some point, they all retire (and eventually die), so then someone else is going to have to pick up the torch.
Ok, what that was supposed to say was:
The biggest reason is the number of syllables in the equivalent measurements:
yard (1) = meter (2)
foot (2) = well, meter I guess.
inch (1) = centimeter (4)
mile (1) = kilometer (4)
pound (1) = kilo (2) or kilogram (3)
It's pure LAZYNESS that is preventing the large mass of the population of converting.
For that matter, why the hell is HTML-formatting the default when posting comments on slashdot?
is it more common to have to make a bold or italicized statement, than plain-text with line breaks?
The biggest reason is the number of syllables in the equivalent measurements: yard (1) = meter (2) foot (2) = well, meter I guess. inch (1) = centimeter (4) mile (1) = kilometer (4) pound (1) = kilo (2) or kilogram (3) It's pure LAZYNESS that is preventing the large mass of the population of converting.
Just because some intrusive technology was used for good at one occasion, doesn't mean that it completely turnes the tides on the discussion. it's still an intrusive technology.
If you look at GSM and UTRAN (The radio network part of UMTS), you will see that tranceivers are still very much divided into cells. It's the best way to give coverage to an area. The word "cell phone", is therefore in that sense very much usable. However, nobody I know of from anywhere other than the US has ever called a mobile phone a "cell" phone. Over here, it's just "mobile" or "mobile phone".
People have good and bad reasons for renaming things, but renaming the concept of a "cell phone", just because we do more things than talk on it is down right retarded.
It's still cellular, and I have reason to believe that it will stay that way for a very long time.
I usually have 10-15 windows open, including IMs and such. Normally about 3-4 browser windows with anything from 3 tabs to about 40.
When i've been using my computer for an hour, and I have my IDE open, I use up about 1gb of ram, give or take...
Wow, that has GOT the be the LAMEST excuse ever for choosing sip over skype.
He gets crybaby points from me...
What the hell do they want to control?
It's not like they are going to start a war for control of seaways to the north pole.
In fact, what do they even want with that place, and why can't they just get along like good girls and SHARE the seaways.
So, let me get this straight, you're building a GLOBAL frame relay system, with nodes in 20+ states, with massive redundancy, and you're looking for a CHEAP system?
Get yourself together and look for a GOOD system. If you're already spending TONS of money, you might aswell spend some more to get exactly what you want, instead of settling for something. It might turn out that a free system is the best system for you, but please, good HAS GOT TO come before cheap!
I have 2GB of ram now, and I don't use a swapfile on windows. I even play wow with this setup, and blizzard games are notorious for eating up every available resource (diablo2 even created it's own pagefile when it felt like it) swapfiles are the devil. they are a remnant of times when ram was expensive. they are a solution to a problem we don't really have anymore.