I've just sent the Discussion2 slider all the way to the top and marvelled at the quality of what I read. (I normally leave it at -1, but wondered how you would view it)
I think its a really good way to view discussions, you should be proud of it.
Are there any more improvements in the pipeline?
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I assume that through the ether you have met Kevin Rose, but do you two get along or is it pistols at dawn?
Electronic tagging is already well integrated into the stores and they have a sustainable way to handle it.
In supermarkets here an RF tag added on expensive (spirits, large coffee, razors) items. I doubt its a full tag and it usually gets removed (for reuse), or destroyed at checkout, but if you walk out of the store without it being deactivated it will beep at you.
This prevents the losses and doesn't cost as much as a full RFID tag. The store is happy that they don't lose as much to shoplifters and the management is happy because its cheap and effective.
The fog looks bad because it was not designed around dx9. I've can't remember seeing visuals look as bad as those did, and even where glitches occur the action happens so fast its not noticeable.
(one exception, in Half life 2, the frosted glass doors had a glitch near the edges of the screen, nothing major but ruined the effect)
The biggest issues I have seen with the transition to.net are in the richtextbox, the printing model and the IDE itself.
Try adding an RTF box onto a form and messing with a selection (for instance setting it to bold), the old method would allow the other font attributes to remain, now you change the font styling for the entire selection: bold italic font size etc. Without calling back to the COM interop or recursing each character on a hidden control you are screwed.
Printing is geared towards the developer being given a piece of paper to print on and informing.net you need more, there is no flow control and you have to manage your code backwards (try a deeply nested set of for loops with conditions and pagination) which would be simple in procedural code is a nightmare here.
It is too easy for the IDE to trip itself up and get in your way, from freezing for minutes on end to just getting things wrong (errors when reopening a form you know the code is valid for).
The actual core language is wonderful, but there are lots still wrong with the interface and libraries.
1: Does this violate Starbuck, the first mate? (Score:1) by stuntpope (19736) on 12:30 18th March, 1999 (#1974348) Didn't read any classics in high school, eh? Starbuck is the first mate in the novel "Moby Dick", written long before the coffee chain popped up everywhere. I think Starbucks the coffee company might have a hard time if they wanted to get annoyed at RH over this.
2 Best gag of the show (Score:1) by stuntpope (19736) on 18:08 29th March, 1999 (#1957783) Yeah, that was funny and easy to miss. My fave was when all 3 main characters were together, and Bender says, "this calls for a drink", procedes to pull 3 bottles out of his chest, and instead of handing out bottles, drinks them all himself!
hmmm, most of the stuff I have seen comes from a better source than yours then. Starting with the Concerned comic I found a load of decent stuff around in the forums and links.
Machinima is the art of using someone else's rendering engine to portray a story different from the original intent. For instance using the half-life engine to create a love story or something just as crap (Garrys mod is actually great for setting that kind of crap up).
That about covers my knowledge of machinima, whether my comment is crap or not is relative (though I think it was a bit rushed myself).
Unfortunately I cannot find it on google (since slash technically started before google (at least to the archive) The earliest mention I can find came in 2000 and was from an AC and I just looked back at your posting history from 99 to 2002 and not found it I think you might need to re-evaluate.
How can you have security issues with quantum tech?
Anyone would think this whole industry was smoke and mirrors.
Additionally, isn't it possible to multiplex the connections and gain parallel speedups? My current understanding of quantum tech is the data still goes by traditional means but they use a quantum *handwaving* thing to ensure the bits sent traditionally haven't been messed with.
Hitachi are saying that they have solved the overwrite problem (at least mitigated it by a factor of 100)
They appear to want to use normal DRAM memory for the running of the drive but then write it permanently to the NAND flash at shutdown/memory full time. I would assume this involves charging of a small battery and dumping the data later on.
It could be people are moving their business from SCO to Novell;) I don't know how much novell charges for their Linux but its got to be less than $650 per seat.
Its ok, since mod points are a limited supply (like toilet paper) we can only hope they are left somewhere with their pants round their ankles wishing they hadn't wasted it.
Alternatively it could have been Taco or CowboyNeal whom each carry an infinite sized roll which poses its own set of problems.
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I've just sent the Discussion2 slider all the way to the top and marvelled at the quality of what I read.
(I normally leave it at -1, but wondered how you would view it)
I think its a really good way to view discussions, you should be proud of it.
Are there any more improvements in the pipeline?
I assume that through the ether you have met Kevin Rose, but do you two get along or is it pistols at dawn?
Is it the jury who decides on the amount of the fine or whether the defendant is guilty of the crimes they have been charged with?
I somehow doubt they will get all the money now owed...
Electronic tagging is already well integrated into the stores and they have a sustainable way to handle it.
In supermarkets here an RF tag added on expensive (spirits, large coffee, razors) items.
I doubt its a full tag and it usually gets removed (for reuse), or destroyed at checkout, but if you walk out of the store without it being deactivated it will beep at you.
This prevents the losses and doesn't cost as much as a full RFID tag.
The store is happy that they don't lose as much to shoplifters and the management is happy because its cheap and effective.
The fog looks bad because it was not designed around dx9.
I've can't remember seeing visuals look as bad as those did, and even where glitches occur the action happens so fast its not noticeable.
(one exception, in Half life 2, the frosted glass doors had a glitch near the edges of the screen, nothing major but ruined the effect)
The biggest issues I have seen with the transition to .net are in the richtextbox, the printing model and the IDE itself.
.net you need more, there is no flow control and you have to manage your code backwards (try a deeply nested set of for loops with conditions and pagination) which would be simple in procedural code is a nightmare here.
Try adding an RTF box onto a form and messing with a selection (for instance setting it to bold), the old method would allow the other font attributes to remain, now you change the font styling for the entire selection: bold italic font size etc.
Without calling back to the COM interop or recursing each character on a hidden control you are screwed.
Printing is geared towards the developer being given a piece of paper to print on and informing
It is too easy for the IDE to trip itself up and get in your way, from freezing for minutes on end to just getting things wrong (errors when reopening a form you know the code is valid for).
The actual core language is wonderful, but there are lots still wrong with the interface and libraries.
How about a couple of your early posts?
1:
Does this violate Starbuck, the first mate?
(Score:1)
by stuntpope (19736) on 12:30 18th March, 1999 (#1974348)
Didn't read any classics in high school, eh? Starbuck is the first mate in the novel "Moby Dick", written long before the coffee chain popped up everywhere. I think Starbucks the coffee company might have a hard time if they wanted to get annoyed at RH over this.
2
Best gag of the show
(Score:1)
by stuntpope (19736) on 18:08 29th March, 1999 (#1957783)
Yeah, that was funny and easy to miss. My fave was when all 3 main characters were together, and Bender says, "this calls for a drink", procedes to pull 3 bottles out of his chest, and instead of handing out bottles, drinks them all himself!
hmmm, most of the stuff I have seen comes from a better source than yours then.
Starting with the Concerned comic I found a load of decent stuff around in the forums and links.
Machinima is the art of using someone else's rendering engine to portray a story different from the original intent.
For instance using the half-life engine to create a love story or something just as crap (Garrys mod is actually great for setting that kind of crap up).
That about covers my knowledge of machinima, whether my comment is crap or not is relative (though I think it was a bit rushed myself).
Does this license cover me making a machinima movie of a perfect operating system experience using the Windows OS to render the visuals?
Thats the biggest security ummm model around.
Unfortunately I cannot find it on google (since slash technically started before google (at least to the archive)
:)
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The earliest mention I can find came in 2000 and was from an AC and I just looked back at your posting history from 99 to 2002 and not found it I think you might need to re-evaluate.
First google result for you must be new here I could find:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4977&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=1131682
Your first post
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16762&cid=1951318
Your first moderated post
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26347&cid=2855228
Incidentally, You took 3 years to ramp up to a funny mod!
That would be mfh (56)
I see nothing wrong with this and would consider it myself if something came along at the right time.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=118075&cid=9980688
How can you have security issues with quantum tech?
Anyone would think this whole industry was smoke and mirrors.
Additionally, isn't it possible to multiplex the connections and gain parallel speedups?
My current understanding of quantum tech is the data still goes by traditional means but they use a quantum *handwaving* thing to ensure the bits sent traditionally haven't been messed with.
Given half a chance the OSS world would probably have neded up patching Office with:
' remove MS cruft:
' AssistantLoad "clippy.acs"
AssistantLoad "Tux.acs"
We tried this in the UK, but for some reason the votes were still being counted 3 hours after the results were announced.
Hitachi are saying that they have solved the overwrite problem (at least mitigated it by a factor of 100)
They appear to want to use normal DRAM memory for the running of the drive but then write it permanently to the NAND flash at shutdown/memory full time.
I would assume this involves charging of a small battery and dumping the data later on.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/09/26/hitachi-reckons-solid-state
Neither is VBA ;)
It could be people are moving their business from SCO to Novell ;)
I don't know how much novell charges for their Linux but its got to be less than $650 per seat.
Its ok, since mod points are a limited supply (like toilet paper) we can only hope they are left somewhere with their pants round their ankles wishing they hadn't wasted it.
Alternatively it could have been Taco or CowboyNeal whom each carry an infinite sized roll which poses its own set of problems.
I'm sure some people have already been using CD drives with biological samples smeared across the disks.
Mental note: never rent porn dvds.
Cool, however examining that list has left me more curious.
The movie with the highest views has over 1.2 million views since may this year (nothing else is over a million)
National Lampoon's Van Wilder 2
Wasn't that a crap movie?
What am I missing?
Where can I get the list of videos? (with links please)
I will review and confirm if they are indeed infringing.