When I was half my current age I used to spend quite a lot of time playing on MUDs over a dial-up connection, and after some time of playing a lot of that, I started dreaming in text. That was quite a surreal experience, because it was like I was there inside the world, except somehow it was all text, the conversation, the location, everything was there at the same time the text was being parsed in that dream state. Seems like my mind was processing it as if it was some kind of reality and certainly with that I think it really does fulfil the virtual reality description.
Unlike typical Japanese media enterprises that exert their draconian copyright laws to squash usage of IP (including what Americans consider to be "fair use"), the creative forces that started Hatsune Miku put her design as part of the Creative Commons, thus freeing her design to amateur and professional artists alike for reuse. As a result, the original rights holder receive even greater recognition for their voice synthesizer software line from the artists creating all the derivative visual works involving her likeness.
Not only that, this is not even Cross Site Scripting (XSS), but a straight up Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) even though XSS might be involved for this issue. XSS is where client-side scripts are injected directly into the response body of an affected website, typically through unescaped html input that gets rendered by web browsers belonged to victims who then make that subsequent client request. CSRF is where the victim's browser is told to do an action (via Javascript doing an asynchronous javascript/xml (AJAX) request) on the target's website by an unrelated website that the victim somehow visited, and sometimes this attack script is injected via XSS by attackers on a completely unrelated site. While XSS can be related, it is completely distinct to the CSRF issue which is what is being not properly mitigated against by these top websites (In fact, as parent said, they purposefully disabled this protection).
Yup, exactly this. Having talked with some of my friends who do various things in the industry dealing with corporate clients, they basically had to say don't use Google Chrome, use the browser that is shipped with your system as it will continue to support those legacy plugins they need. Google forgot to slowly escalate the size of the stick being used, i.e. they at least could have do a soft-deprecation and warn its users that the plugin will cause security flaws and use them to pressure their vendors to fix the issue at hand.
Really? Having a pile of needless verbosity makes it more difficult to read in the long run simply because one needs to figure out what exactly is being done even for the most trivial client application. To do even just simple fetch of some resource over HTTP requires rather laborious conversion routine from a stream to a string type before most common JSON libraries would be able to use it. In any more modern language it can simply be used right away rather than having to figure out which JSON libraries to use or why toString() doesn't seem to work on InputStream (I mean intuitively shouldn't toString() on a stream get back a string?).
Granted the Apache commons can make this a bit easier, I find it extremely annoying to have to cast things into the right object type just to access some simple JSON object, instead of just doing something like result['collections']['links'][0] which is much easier to understand. Dumbing things down does not necessary make better programmers.
The client had a separate network off the Internet hence physical presence was required to access the contents needed to build/deploy that particular internal site. Machines were loud, even behind the closed door. Naturally the place was completely filled with coffee beans of all kinds in all stages of processing, and just after an afternoon there both my boss and I smelled like coffee - the scent was transferred to his car so it still smelled like coffee the next day I stepped into that car.
What's more unusual is that it was running a rather old Red Hat distro (for its time even; Fedora was already out for nearly two years at that point) and they only gave me the root account. No XFree86, so a 80x25 terminal on a 13" CRT screen, and of course no way to install anything else aside from what's there (Apache/PHP and vi (not vim) for editing). I can't even remember how I got the skeleton project files onto that machine, might have been a 3.5" floppy, I really forgot about that part.
At that time I felt like I was thrown back a few years back, but thinking about this now it would have been a stranger experience today.
Anyway, if i'm right, optimus support under linux is not on par with windows. Are you nvidia going to fix optimus on linux, or "for feature parity" are you going to make the optimus support worse on windows too?
Directly quoting someone from that thread because this was exactly what I was thinking of.
Think of it as an open sandbox. There isn't any purpose to any single pile of sand, except to individuals who are creative and persistent enough to sculpt something out of it, and changes made inside the sandbox has long lasting legacy (if not impact) for future users of that sandbox.
If you think of EVE Online as a means to an end, not the end in itself, it makes much more sense. Consider that in other games, the achievements within often are the end in themselves. While being the first group to beat a raid boss in WoW might get you talked about for a week, pulling off a legendary heist or being a double agent to take down an empire results in the party responsible still being referred to many years later. This is the kind of thing that EVE Online provide that no other games out there have.
Try three years. Nobody is really competent in this game. If you are looking for fun in the game play you won't really find it, I've had more fun chatting with the people I met there, maybe while doing things which may or may not be tangentially related to the actual game play. It is an MMO after all.
I don't get why Western countries seem to have problems with providing affordable yet ubiquitous electronic currency. Limiting these uses to transit just serve to annoy users. The approach Hong Kong took with the Octopus card should be the example to follow. Not only can they be used for nearly all types of mass transit (except for taxi), they can be used at nearly all fast-food joints (e.g. McDonalds), all major convenient stores (i.e. 7-11, and typically people top up there card over there), even major restaurants now support this contact-less payment system.
If this is adopted by other parties, users should feel less apprehensive about storing value onto these cards.
... and people bought that sparklie flying horse for $25 in droves. Blizzard wanted to make that mount "exclusive", and one way to do that is to have it priced very high. Well, so much for that plan. If they can sell it to 10% of the player base at $25 and results in near maximum total profit, I don't see why they should not do this. Not like this mount is a requirement to enjoy the game, nor the auction house in D3 be required for maximum amount of fun for you.
Simple economics, my friend.
Oh, you always have the option to vote with your wallet, too.
One way to find out is to do a promiscuous tcpdump of your local network traffic while using that app - if you can read personally identifiable items in plain text, you are simply not safe.
All someone interested in breaking this system at a basic level needs to do is to gain access to some popular server to put some code (plain HTML img tags, or javascript if site is vulnerable) that will automatically do searches based on those "monitored" search terms when a user-agent accesses it. This will incriminate all innocent parties that browse those "infected" pages (as if something like is bad), which naturally flood the monitoring tools with garbage.
Why would you need to place cameras some specific distance apart to record what is essentially two constant stream of frames?
It's relatively trivial to replay the capture, all that is required are two projectors with a polarizing filter over each lenses turned in a way that so that it would work with the users' polarized glasses. Then synchronize the two streams temporally and spatially onto the screen (and play it out of the correct projector), and enjoy your 3D movie.
Just call yourself a programmer with a fluent understanding of proper programming methodologies (which is knowing how to separate out business/presentation logic, writing unit tests, etc.) The language you work with should be secondary to that.
Not that fast. Circumference of Earth (~40 000 km) / Speed of Light in vacuum. (~300 000 km/s) = 0.133s.
Also, speed of light in glass fiber is about 2/3 that, so it will take light 0.2 seconds to travel around the globe in a glass fiber. Don't forget most routers take the light signals they receive, convert it into electric signals so the circuits can route the packets, before converting them back to light again. At least this is the case until full optical packet switching becomes prevalent.
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I just did it again with variations of the above, and they all got registered.
For a VPS. It's a crude/expensive workaround, but it works. It sure sucks to pay an extra $15/mo for a server that I can use to do bittorrent without being throttled, and I ssh to it to establish a proxy connection for my web browsing.
Too bad my area doesn't have non-sucky ISP like Speakeasy.
Not according to official definitions for binary systems, because the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system is less than the radius of the major body, in this case Earth. On the other hand, Pluto-Charon system has a barycenter above the surface of Pluto, hence it is a binary planet (well, dwarf planet) system.
Which is why I normally cp -a to the destination if it's on a different partition within the computer or over the network, then validate the content on the other side (if I need to) before removing files from origin. If a move was used, and then later found the data on the other end isn't exact, there's nothing to do but either attempt to recover original file or restore from backups. This applies to any OS, as a power failures happening to both machines could compromise data integrity.
Granted, this is not what current generation of typical user would do, but I believe they should be educated on this anyway.
Nope. Windows 2000 is NT 5.0, and Windows NT 4.0 was an earlier release made in 1996, and it actually replaced (not merged) with the legacy Windows 95/98/ME that really wasn't all that good.
Running a web server can help with identifying these version numbers. Or check out wikipedia:
If the wireless feature of the NDS is turned on, the power light will go from solid green (or red if low battery) to blink, which I feel is a good indicator.
Granted, it will also blink when the lid is closed on standby, but I think the blink pattern is different.
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When I was half my current age I used to spend quite a lot of time playing on MUDs over a dial-up connection, and after some time of playing a lot of that, I started dreaming in text. That was quite a surreal experience, because it was like I was there inside the world, except somehow it was all text, the conversation, the location, everything was there at the same time the text was being parsed in that dream state. Seems like my mind was processing it as if it was some kind of reality and certainly with that I think it really does fulfil the virtual reality description.
Unlike typical Japanese media enterprises that exert their draconian copyright laws to squash usage of IP (including what Americans consider to be "fair use"), the creative forces that started Hatsune Miku put her design as part of the Creative Commons, thus freeing her design to amateur and professional artists alike for reuse. As a result, the original rights holder receive even greater recognition for their voice synthesizer software line from the artists creating all the derivative visual works involving her likeness.
At least we can all agree on how it is part of an enormous land mass called Earth.
Not only that, this is not even Cross Site Scripting (XSS), but a straight up Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) even though XSS might be involved for this issue. XSS is where client-side scripts are injected directly into the response body of an affected website, typically through unescaped html input that gets rendered by web browsers belonged to victims who then make that subsequent client request. CSRF is where the victim's browser is told to do an action (via Javascript doing an asynchronous javascript/xml (AJAX) request) on the target's website by an unrelated website that the victim somehow visited, and sometimes this attack script is injected via XSS by attackers on a completely unrelated site. While XSS can be related, it is completely distinct to the CSRF issue which is what is being not properly mitigated against by these top websites (In fact, as parent said, they purposefully disabled this protection).
Yup, exactly this. Having talked with some of my friends who do various things in the industry dealing with corporate clients, they basically had to say don't use Google Chrome, use the browser that is shipped with your system as it will continue to support those legacy plugins they need. Google forgot to slowly escalate the size of the stick being used, i.e. they at least could have do a soft-deprecation and warn its users that the plugin will cause security flaws and use them to pressure their vendors to fix the issue at hand.
Really? Having a pile of needless verbosity makes it more difficult to read in the long run simply because one needs to figure out what exactly is being done even for the most trivial client application. To do even just simple fetch of some resource over HTTP requires rather laborious conversion routine from a stream to a string type before most common JSON libraries would be able to use it. In any more modern language it can simply be used right away rather than having to figure out which JSON libraries to use or why toString() doesn't seem to work on InputStream (I mean intuitively shouldn't toString() on a stream get back a string?).
Granted the Apache commons can make this a bit easier, I find it extremely annoying to have to cast things into the right object type just to access some simple JSON object, instead of just doing something like result['collections']['links'][0] which is much easier to understand. Dumbing things down does not necessary make better programmers.
The client had a separate network off the Internet hence physical presence was required to access the contents needed to build/deploy that particular internal site. Machines were loud, even behind the closed door. Naturally the place was completely filled with coffee beans of all kinds in all stages of processing, and just after an afternoon there both my boss and I smelled like coffee - the scent was transferred to his car so it still smelled like coffee the next day I stepped into that car.
What's more unusual is that it was running a rather old Red Hat distro (for its time even; Fedora was already out for nearly two years at that point) and they only gave me the root account. No XFree86, so a 80x25 terminal on a 13" CRT screen, and of course no way to install anything else aside from what's there (Apache/PHP and vi (not vim) for editing). I can't even remember how I got the skeleton project files onto that machine, might have been a 3.5" floppy, I really forgot about that part.
At that time I felt like I was thrown back a few years back, but thinking about this now it would have been a stranger experience today.
Directly quoting someone from that thread because this was exactly what I was thinking of.
Think of it as an open sandbox. There isn't any purpose to any single pile of sand, except to individuals who are creative and persistent enough to sculpt something out of it, and changes made inside the sandbox has long lasting legacy (if not impact) for future users of that sandbox.
If you think of EVE Online as a means to an end, not the end in itself, it makes much more sense. Consider that in other games, the achievements within often are the end in themselves. While being the first group to beat a raid boss in WoW might get you talked about for a week, pulling off a legendary heist or being a double agent to take down an empire results in the party responsible still being referred to many years later. This is the kind of thing that EVE Online provide that no other games out there have.
> I felt barely competent after 4 months of play.
Try three years. Nobody is really competent in this game. If you are looking for fun in the game play you won't really find it, I've had more fun chatting with the people I met there, maybe while doing things which may or may not be tangentially related to the actual game play. It is an MMO after all.
I don't get why Western countries seem to have problems with providing affordable yet ubiquitous electronic currency. Limiting these uses to transit just serve to annoy users. The approach Hong Kong took with the Octopus card should be the example to follow. Not only can they be used for nearly all types of mass transit (except for taxi), they can be used at nearly all fast-food joints (e.g. McDonalds), all major convenient stores (i.e. 7-11, and typically people top up there card over there), even major restaurants now support this contact-less payment system.
If this is adopted by other parties, users should feel less apprehensive about storing value onto these cards.
Or just get bigger pockets.
... and people bought that sparklie flying horse for $25 in droves. Blizzard wanted to make that mount "exclusive", and one way to do that is to have it priced very high. Well, so much for that plan. If they can sell it to 10% of the player base at $25 and results in near maximum total profit, I don't see why they should not do this. Not like this mount is a requirement to enjoy the game, nor the auction house in D3 be required for maximum amount of fun for you.
Simple economics, my friend.
Oh, you always have the option to vote with your wallet, too.
One way to find out is to do a promiscuous tcpdump of your local network traffic while using that app - if you can read personally identifiable items in plain text, you are simply not safe.
All someone interested in breaking this system at a basic level needs to do is to gain access to some popular server to put some code (plain HTML img tags, or javascript if site is vulnerable) that will automatically do searches based on those "monitored" search terms when a user-agent accesses it. This will incriminate all innocent parties that browse those "infected" pages (as if something like is bad), which naturally flood the monitoring tools with garbage.
I think a number of slashdotters skip the summary also and go straight into the comments.
Why would you need to place cameras some specific distance apart to record what is essentially two constant stream of frames?
It's relatively trivial to replay the capture, all that is required are two projectors with a polarizing filter over each lenses turned in a way that so that it would work with the users' polarized glasses. Then synchronize the two streams temporally and spatially onto the screen (and play it out of the correct projector), and enjoy your 3D movie.
Just call yourself a programmer with a fluent understanding of proper programming methodologies (which is knowing how to separate out business/presentation logic, writing unit tests, etc.) The language you work with should be secondary to that.
Not that fast. Circumference of Earth (~40 000 km) / Speed of Light in vacuum. (~300 000 km/s) = 0.133s.
Also, speed of light in glass fiber is about 2/3 that, so it will take light 0.2 seconds to travel around the globe in a glass fiber. Don't forget most routers take the light signals they receive, convert it into electric signals so the circuits can route the packets, before converting them back to light again. At least this is the case until full optical packet switching becomes prevalent.
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I just did it again with variations of the above, and they all got registered.
Check the timestamp.
For a VPS. It's a crude/expensive workaround, but it works. It sure sucks to pay an extra $15/mo for a server that I can use to do bittorrent without being throttled, and I ssh to it to establish a proxy connection for my web browsing.
Too bad my area doesn't have non-sucky ISP like Speakeasy.
Not according to official definitions for binary systems, because the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system is less than the radius of the major body, in this case Earth. On the other hand, Pluto-Charon system has a barycenter above the surface of Pluto, hence it is a binary planet (well, dwarf planet) system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_planet
Which is why I normally cp -a to the destination if it's on a different partition within the computer or over the network, then validate the content on the other side (if I need to) before removing files from origin. If a move was used, and then later found the data on the other end isn't exact, there's nothing to do but either attempt to recover original file or restore from backups. This applies to any OS, as a power failures happening to both machines could compromise data integrity.
Granted, this is not what current generation of typical user would do, but I believe they should be educated on this anyway.
Nope. Windows 2000 is NT 5.0, and Windows NT 4.0 was an earlier release made in 1996, and it actually replaced (not merged) with the legacy Windows 95/98/ME that really wasn't all that good.
Running a web server can help with identifying these version numbers. Or check out wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
If the wireless feature of the NDS is turned on, the power light will go from solid green (or red if low battery) to blink, which I feel is a good indicator.
Granted, it will also blink when the lid is closed on standby, but I think the blink pattern is different.