What I really want to know is if the Ctrl key and Caps Lock are in their "correct" positions, i.e. reversed from your typical desktop computer. It makes sense that they should be switched, since you use the Ctrl key a lot more often than the Caps Lock key, and putting it to the left middle, rather than the left bottom, makes it more accessible.
I had to use Java back in school and I won't touch it unless my superiors threaten the branding iron (again). Java loads too much overhead and it doesn't have the same responsiveness as C based apps, IMHO. I don't think Java is optimized enough, and it shows. All the cross-platform support comes at a price and that price is speed.
Java is optimized... for security. Java has all sorts of neat features built in like automatic bounds checking on arrays that simply don't exist in languages like C. This means that it may run slower, but in a computing environment where processor speed doubles every 18 months, would you rather have a little bit slow execution for now or a fundamentally flawed security paradigm? Programming in C leaves you wide open to buffer overflows and other attacks, and it takes a security-oriented programmer to overcome those problems. And guess what, once you get all of the code in there necessary to make it secure, it runs at about the same speed as Java. Java just puts all of the security stuff in by default, which I don't think is a bad decision in this age of computer worms and viruses.
Amen to that! VB6 versus Java is no contest. Hell, the next generation of computer science majors is being taught Java (that's what the AP test uses), so it's the wave of the future, whether you like it or not.
Java is slower because it's safer: automatic bounds checking on arrays, which helps to prevent buffer overflow attacks, etc. A program made in Java without an eye to security is going to be more secure than a program made in C without an eye to security. Also, for simple things, like programming web game applets, the speed difference doesn't matter much. I'm proud to say that my language of choice is Java.
Ah, but liberals are also in favor of: bigger government and higher taxes.
That is a mischaracterization of liberals produced by people on the right so they have something to knock down. The truth is, Bush, a "conservative", has created a larger government than Al Gore, a "liberal", would have if he had been inaugurated.
Then yes, we are in agreement. Back then they were radical liberals, but over time there is a "liberalism creep"... 200-some years is sufficient to make those men seem conservative by today's standards (I think Washington would have a heart attack if he saw the current attempts at getting gay marriage legalized).
Summary: Bush scored a 1206 on his SAT, which scores to a modern era equivalent of 1280, which puts him in the 88 percentile, or about 10 times as smart as the average Slashdot smartass.
Guess what? The SAT isn't a true measure of intelligence. Also, there's a high correlation between wealth and high SAT scores, because rich people are simply better able to pay for the classes and training necessary to score better on the SAT. It doesn't measure intelligence - if it did, it wouldn't be possible to study for it.
And by the way, I got a 1580, so I still feel qualified to judge Bush as stupid. Anyway, why should we have someone who leads the U.S. be only in the 88th percentile (assuming that it measures intelligence anyway)? That means that there are roughly.12*290 million Americans more qualified for the job! (Okay, so that's an over-simplification). I think the President should be at least in the 99th percentile when it comes to intelligence. The job is too important to leave up to someone who is only moderately intelligent.
"The liberals who founded this country"? Hmm... That is a very interesting statement... If I had to pick one or the other, (and I am neither Republican or Democrat), I would think the founding fathers would be Republicans... In all seriousness are you so delusional that you can actually believe that the founding fathers would support the Liberals?
In essence, it comes down to this... liberals are in favor of change. Conservatives are conservative and want to keep things they way they are. Had the founding fathers been conservative, we never would have tried for independence from Britain.
Is anything anyone's fault or decision anymore? Damn I remember when people were fat, drunk, gay, disruptive and Communist of their own volition.
I'll agree with you on most of those, but "gay" certainly isn't a choice. It just used to be that people repressed it more, which led to interesting situations like the one we currently see with the Governor of New Jersey.
You've got no idea what a difference it is when you can pray to god!
Ohh yeah, it was praying that made the difference, not centuries of scientific development that led to modern medicine. Please. What do you say to this millions of parents whose babies did die? That they "didn't pray hard enough?" Isn't your God supposed to be benevolent? And doubtless, some of those parents whose babies have died were more religious than you and prayed more often.
I've always thought there should be a RPG that has aging and perm death. All these kiddies walk around saying how lame PvP is on different games yet they curl up in a ball and piss themselves when I tell them my thoughts on PvP and MMORPGs
You should start out very young, age through the game and at some point in the future die of old age if the environment doesn't kill you. Also, if you die, you're dead....you lose everything and can never come back. Your account AND credit card that you used to set up the account are locked and can never be used again! If you want to join the game again you have to buy a whole new version with a different credit card.
Wow, that sounds like an online version of Nethack, except that it can only be executed as root, and if you die it executes a "rm -rf/*" system call.
I consider myself up-to-date on gaming news, but I've never even heard of Horizons. Is it good? I'm interested in trying it out. Has anyone on here played it, and if so, what do you think of it?
look at which party fought for slavery and even ran a candidate against President Lincoln that promised to end the civil war and let the south keep the slaves
You're kidding, right? That happened a century and a half ago. The party has changed a lot since then. None of the grandchildren of the people in that party are still alive, for chrissakes. Please, grow up and stop using the "Democrats are pro-slavery" argument.
This movie wouldn't have been so bad if it actually went somewhere. It was like a porno with no money shot. One of those slow motion soft-core Showtime specials that start out as being mediocre detective melodrama, but you keep watching any way because it's starring Shannon Tweed and you know there's going to be a shower scene but you know it's going to suck because some dude inevitably comes in and starts man handling her and the camera man does nothing but zoom up on his ass. That's exactly what "Signs" is like: the camera man zooming up on some guy's ass for two hours.
Face it, strong-armed tactics like these don't work against kids. You don't give them enough credit. The DARE program utterly failed, and the same will happen with the BSA's tactics. Kids don't necessarily mind learning facts from schools, but there'll be a lot of resistance when you try to teach them worldviews.
So I am thinking you need to not just mine but just destroy and completely use all of the mass in several thousand planets just to have enough raw material to produce the sphere.
Not necessarily. Or you could just use some of the material from the Sun to construct a Dyson Sphere. The physics of it are briefly examined in the science fiction novel The Time-Ships by Stephen Baxter.
As highly as it would like to think its own influence is, I don't think Disney is capable of forcing the entire tech sector to follow their restrictive standards. I've personally written some of my own content to DVD; would I be mandated to include DRM because of Disney's bought-and-paid-for laws? Worse yet, I bet there would be either an explicit or hidden licensing cost to Disney or whoever for the DRM technology. Whatever happened to free speech? If I want to put something of my own creation, isn't that protected free speech? What can Disney possibly have to do with me, my content, my DVD burner, and the friends I give my content to?
And one more thing. DRM is a joke. With the state of current DRM anyone can crack DRM by downloading a simple program such as DVD Decrypter. You don't have to know anything at all about encryption. Assuming DRM gets better in the future, which is debatable, it may be harder for the individual to crack the protection, but there will always be the hardcore hackers who hack the video and upload it to a P2P network for all to share. Assuming DRM gets so restrictive that it cannot be cracked, what can you possibly do to stop people from pointing video cameras at a monitor or TV screen in their own home?
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You've got to be kidding!!!!!!!!! how is this funny? The idiot did not even take the time to click on the article before articulating a kharma whoring response. What are the mods doing here, rewarding laziness? I smell abuse, someone meta-moderate this.
To my knowledge, there is no law anywhere that makes it illegal to point an antenna at someone. So, they do not require any defense to prosecution...
Yeah, but if it's an antenna mounted on a rifle stock that looks a lot like a rifle, you could be shot (justifiably) by the cops in their self-defense. Hell, the cops have killed people holding toy guns or cell phones and gotten off. Something that is mounted on a rifle stock and looks a lot like a rifle is not something you'd want to be pointing at people or vehicles.
Is the sniper rifle really necessary?! Unless you're planning on eliminating the cell phone user so they never discover the hack. Otherwise, wouldn't a stand-alone scope do just as well, and get you into a lot less trouble from law enforcement?
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What I really want to know is if the Ctrl key and Caps Lock are in their "correct" positions, i.e. reversed from your typical desktop computer. It makes sense that they should be switched, since you use the Ctrl key a lot more often than the Caps Lock key, and putting it to the left middle, rather than the left bottom, makes it more accessible.
If you go to the website now, you'll see that the user's account has been suspended. Ahh, the power of slashdot ... messing up everything it links to.
+1 for the effort of trying.
Why would you prefer Netscape over Mozilla anyway?
Netscape is Mozilla, only with a different icon and name.
I had to use Java back in school and I won't touch it unless my superiors threaten the branding iron (again). Java loads too much overhead and it doesn't have the same responsiveness as C based apps, IMHO. I don't think Java is optimized enough, and it shows. All the cross-platform support comes at a price and that price is speed.
... for security. Java has all sorts of neat features built in like automatic bounds checking on arrays that simply don't exist in languages like C. This means that it may run slower, but in a computing environment where processor speed doubles every 18 months, would you rather have a little bit slow execution for now or a fundamentally flawed security paradigm? Programming in C leaves you wide open to buffer overflows and other attacks, and it takes a security-oriented programmer to overcome those problems. And guess what, once you get all of the code in there necessary to make it secure, it runs at about the same speed as Java. Java just puts all of the security stuff in by default, which I don't think is a bad decision in this age of computer worms and viruses.
Java is optimized
Amen to that! VB6 versus Java is no contest. Hell, the next generation of computer science majors is being taught Java (that's what the AP test uses), so it's the wave of the future, whether you like it or not.
Java is slower because it's safer: automatic bounds checking on arrays, which helps to prevent buffer overflow attacks, etc. A program made in Java without an eye to security is going to be more secure than a program made in C without an eye to security. Also, for simple things, like programming web game applets, the speed difference doesn't matter much. I'm proud to say that my language of choice is Java.
"Tax and Spend" was invented to apply to 20th-century liberals.
That's still much preferable to Bush's style of "Don't tax and spend, racking up huge deficits in the process."
Ah, but liberals are also in favor of: bigger government and higher taxes.
That is a mischaracterization of liberals produced by people on the right so they have something to knock down. The truth is, Bush, a "conservative", has created a larger government than Al Gore, a "liberal", would have if he had been inaugurated.
Then yes, we are in agreement. Back then they were radical liberals, but over time there is a "liberalism creep" ... 200-some years is sufficient to make those men seem conservative by today's standards (I think Washington would have a heart attack if he saw the current attempts at getting gay marriage legalized).
>>What next, suggesting people use the silicon in their computers as a breast implant?
>You mean like Seven of Nine?
Hey, Jeri Ryan does not have breast implants!
Summary: Bush scored a 1206 on his SAT, which scores to a modern era equivalent of 1280, which puts him in the 88 percentile, or about 10 times as smart as the average Slashdot smartass.
.12*290 million Americans more qualified for the job! (Okay, so that's an over-simplification). I think the President should be at least in the 99th percentile when it comes to intelligence. The job is too important to leave up to someone who is only moderately intelligent.
Guess what? The SAT isn't a true measure of intelligence. Also, there's a high correlation between wealth and high SAT scores, because rich people are simply better able to pay for the classes and training necessary to score better on the SAT. It doesn't measure intelligence - if it did, it wouldn't be possible to study for it.
And by the way, I got a 1580, so I still feel qualified to judge Bush as stupid. Anyway, why should we have someone who leads the U.S. be only in the 88th percentile (assuming that it measures intelligence anyway)? That means that there are roughly
"The liberals who founded this country"? Hmm... That is a very interesting statement... If I had to pick one or the other, (and I am neither Republican or Democrat), I would think the founding fathers would be Republicans... In all seriousness are you so delusional that you can actually believe that the founding fathers would support the Liberals?
... liberals are in favor of change. Conservatives are conservative and want to keep things they way they are. Had the founding fathers been conservative, we never would have tried for independence from Britain.
In essence, it comes down to this
Is anything anyone's fault or decision anymore? Damn I remember when people were fat, drunk, gay, disruptive and Communist of their own volition.
I'll agree with you on most of those, but "gay" certainly isn't a choice. It just used to be that people repressed it more, which led to interesting situations like the one we currently see with the Governor of New Jersey.
You've got no idea what a difference it is when you can pray to god!
Ohh yeah, it was praying that made the difference, not centuries of scientific development that led to modern medicine. Please. What do you say to this millions of parents whose babies did die? That they "didn't pray hard enough?" Isn't your God supposed to be benevolent? And doubtless, some of those parents whose babies have died were more religious than you and prayed more often.
I've always thought there should be a RPG that has aging and perm death. All these kiddies walk around saying how lame PvP is on different games yet they curl up in a ball and piss themselves when I tell them my thoughts on PvP and MMORPGs
/*" system call.
You should start out very young, age through the game and at some point in the future die of old age if the environment doesn't kill you. Also, if you die, you're dead....you lose everything and can never come back. Your account AND credit card that you used to set up the account are locked and can never be used again! If you want to join the game again you have to buy a whole new version with a different credit card.
Wow, that sounds like an online version of Nethack, except that it can only be executed as root, and if you die it executes a "rm -rf
I consider myself up-to-date on gaming news, but I've never even heard of Horizons. Is it good? I'm interested in trying it out. Has anyone on here played it, and if so, what do you think of it?
look at which party fought for slavery and even ran a candidate against President Lincoln that promised to end the civil war and let the south keep the slaves
You're kidding, right? That happened a century and a half ago. The party has changed a lot since then. None of the grandchildren of the people in that party are still alive, for chrissakes. Please, grow up and stop using the "Democrats are pro-slavery" argument.
Nice link! This part is hilarious ...
This movie wouldn't have been so bad if it actually went somewhere. It was like a porno with no money shot. One of those slow motion soft-core Showtime specials that start out as being mediocre detective melodrama, but you keep watching any way because it's starring Shannon Tweed and you know there's going to be a shower scene but you know it's going to suck because some dude inevitably comes in and starts man handling her and the camera man does nothing but zoom up on his ass. That's exactly what "Signs" is like: the camera man zooming up on some guy's ass for two hours.
Face it, strong-armed tactics like these don't work against kids. You don't give them enough credit. The DARE program utterly failed, and the same will happen with the BSA's tactics. Kids don't necessarily mind learning facts from schools, but there'll be a lot of resistance when you try to teach them worldviews.
So I am thinking you need to not just mine but just destroy and completely use all of the mass in several thousand planets just to have enough raw material to produce the sphere.
Not necessarily. Or you could just use some of the material from the Sun to construct a Dyson Sphere. The physics of it are briefly examined in the science fiction novel The Time-Ships by Stephen Baxter.
As highly as it would like to think its own influence is, I don't think Disney is capable of forcing the entire tech sector to follow their restrictive standards. I've personally written some of my own content to DVD; would I be mandated to include DRM because of Disney's bought-and-paid-for laws? Worse yet, I bet there would be either an explicit or hidden licensing cost to Disney or whoever for the DRM technology. Whatever happened to free speech? If I want to put something of my own creation, isn't that protected free speech? What can Disney possibly have to do with me, my content, my DVD burner, and the friends I give my content to?
And one more thing. DRM is a joke. With the state of current DRM anyone can crack DRM by downloading a simple program such as DVD Decrypter. You don't have to know anything at all about encryption. Assuming DRM gets better in the future, which is debatable, it may be harder for the individual to crack the protection, but there will always be the hardcore hackers who hack the video and upload it to a P2P network for all to share. Assuming DRM gets so restrictive that it cannot be cracked, what can you possibly do to stop people from pointing video cameras at a monitor or TV screen in their own home?
You've got to be kidding!!!!!!!!! how is this funny? The idiot did not even take the time to click on the article before articulating a kharma whoring response. What are the mods doing here, rewarding laziness? I smell abuse, someone meta-moderate this.
You don't gain karma for a Funny mod.
To my knowledge, there is no law anywhere that makes it illegal to point an antenna at someone. So, they do not require any defense to prosecution...
Yeah, but if it's an antenna mounted on a rifle stock that looks a lot like a rifle, you could be shot (justifiably) by the cops in their self-defense. Hell, the cops have killed people holding toy guns or cell phones and gotten off. Something that is mounted on a rifle stock and looks a lot like a rifle is not something you'd want to be pointing at people or vehicles.
Is the sniper rifle really necessary?! Unless you're planning on eliminating the cell phone user so they never discover the hack. Otherwise, wouldn't a stand-alone scope do just as well, and get you into a lot less trouble from law enforcement?