when you download your gmail to a pop3 reader, do you get the other stuff in the column that comes with the ads? Like the auto-parsing of any addresses in your email with a link to thier site on maps.google.com, auto-parsing what it sees as DHL, FedEx or UPS tracking numbers with a link to those web tracking services, or parses any dates and descriptions and links directly to adding them to your google calendar, or even better yet linking news site articles that have content that actually is relevant to the discussion?
Thats what gmail does for me, and why I use the web interface.
Also something to note is that the original iPhone for which the trademark was granted was for a POTS phone complete with 2 phone jacks (see cnn archive, but its sloooow: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/10/iphone.i dg/index.html). The Infogear trademark was for a telephone that is also a modem. I wonder how the affect of Apple's iPhone being a Mobile phone with a wifi connection will matter.
Another question would be *when* apple entered into talks with cisco to use the name. was this before or after cisco had already released thier own mobile phone with the iPhone name? hrrm.
It seems that the Cisco people working with Apple on the trademark resolution upheld thier secret pact of the deal whence other Cisco employees and trademark librarians didn't even know that they were in talks with apple when filing the lawsuit!
I'm pretty sure that Intel already "standardized" the computer vision domain (aka what I know about robotics software) with thier OpenCV library. Not to say that it is really any good or particularly noteworthy, just that the two schools that I attended that offered Computer Vision courses, they both used that library.
Intel seems to be doing the most industrial work along side the academics, and reigning them in.
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There are no such things as astroturfers. Hell, *you* are probably paid by anti-marketing firms to spew nonsense about marketing firms! [Made tounge in cheek!]
I think that when people distrust everyone on the internet as much as they do "people from London on Craigslist" or "Russian girls on Myspace" or "GNAA on Slashdot" or "Brazilians on Orkut", and realize that you can't really trust who edited that Wikipedia article on self STD diagnosis or posted that blog about using 'sudo \rm -Rf/' to fix your Nvidia drivers, then the internet will become a better place. There are going to be people eeking out an existence by modifying the information and posting on message boards to market consumer products and post Amazon referral links. Its a shady business and some people just don't get why.
As soon as we show as much trust to random people on the internet (even our friends on the internet aren't to be trusted!) as we do to people walking down the street in a major metropolitan area, is when we trust them enough.
I wonder about the analogies of the original Napster used to download music compared to BitTorrent used to download movies and tv shows. If the bittorrent clients in 2010 are all like Napster turned out to be 5 years later... *shudder*
Did you try to "--purge remove" the packages and then re-"install" them? if you are doingn it from the command line, somehow I've picked up somewhere that you should use 'aptitide' and not 'apt-get' (although at this point I am fuzzy on the difference between them) because "it handles dependencies better". Else, from the Synaptic UI, it should have been easy to uninstall the package in question and reinstall it.
And since I went from HPUX directly to GNU/Linux, I can't say that I have any idea what sort of documentation that FreeBSD has (although I am sure it is pretty good).
Egads, you're right. I didn't even look at the actual distance numbers, but the fact that people actually use distance numbers in thier calculations. =(
However, I thought if that I am behind you trying to watch your DVD too, then I need to be at the *very most* 10 ft from you?
I always thought it was a flat '2 second' distance. However, most people can't translate seconds (a time unit) into a feet (a distance unit) using the most basic of physics so they come up with the 1ft per 10mph of speed. This flat time rule is the same as your fluctuating distance rule: the slower you are going, the closer you are (in that two seconds you cover less distance) and the faster you are going the further back you are.
I like to look at a car's rear bumper, see it cross one of the dotted lines or reflectors in the road as a reference point and count in my head 'one one-thousand', 'two one-thousand' and if I pass that same reference point in the road before I complete that second 'one-thousand', then I know that I am too close. Much easier to actually calculate than the 1ft per 10mph.;)
I thought to myself when reading your reply that it would be alot worse if the US banned N. Korean World of Warcraft accounts. There would be HELL TO PAY for middle class and upper class gamers (I am not sure if the majority of lower class citizens can afford WoW as it is priced in N.Kor). I know that there are Lineage and Lineage 2 as well as a plethora of other Korean based MMO's, but aren't those South Korean?
If we extended the embargo to *all* entertainment that the US can control (I won't say to ban DVD's and the like, they could just get those from China) then the N. Korean would be a lot more up in arms about this.
Could you imagine if your WoW account was taken away due to the politics of your nation? I know that is something that I would act upon (calling representatives or what have you).
1/ Consumables based on collected items exist in every game. This is not new, and WoW does this quite well. [OT: I thought AC motes were used for the weapons? Its been awhile...]
2/ See Shadowbane. See 5am raids, see 'zerg'. See server wide alliances. L2 also had something like this castle thing, I haven't heard much about it, so there is no comment on it. DAoC was the first to implement something like this with thier Artifacts: 3 static world objects that grant 1 of 3 realms various bonuses.
3/ Uhh, lag. Also, see "dialup users". Positioning doesnt work when the server and client have to sync up for positioning and time sensitive distance checks.
if you've ever looked at the WoW LUA interface, you can in face script bots or decision makers or whatever you want to call them to the point of maximizing your character's loot/experience. things can be done directly through the Interface Plugins that allow scripters to write automation tools which is what your "brilliant" idea is. if you start to analyze your playing, it turns out to not be very complicated and can be fully automated. the hard part is randomly spawning monsters, but there are plenty of static mob spawn points available in the game that can be used to grind 24/7 on.
I didn't seem to find anything new in the column, its like the author took every witty comment that people have made here in the last few Zune articles and combined them all together into a NYT column. To the person above said about the bias of the article; obviously Pogue represents the/. apple loving crowd (for which I am a pod carrying member) and his attitide is readily apparant.
It would have been better if he made a shit-brown joke instead of closing with the question of if 'brown is the new white'.
I have 2 blogs set up on Blogger, one with a customized stylesheet and another using one of the standard CSS templates. I am not sure how good Blogger 1.0 does to prevent bot spam on blogs that allow anonymous posting, but there seems to be a lot of it around.
However, the one with the customized style sheet receives no bot spam! The 'Comment' link is actually called 'Talk about this', and the whole section of the Blogger posting is set up differently (i.e. left to right rather than top to bottom). The one that uses a standard CSS template has lots and lots of botspam. I think that the bots are programmed to see which template the page has (its right there in the source) and then they know which links will be the links to the comment area.
So the person that suggested even moving the form field around, well I know this is not dynamic movement, but it sure seemed to have worked. Now if my customized blog was popular enough... that would be a different story.
but then again, you will have all C# code running on a new VM within a year... when Parrot and Java share a GPL'ed VM, developers can write platform agnostic code in Perl, Java or C#; who will need.NET or Mono?
I think that what you meant to say "If they're making products using Windows...", then they better god damn well police thier Chinese subcontractors every day of every year to make sure that thier test technichans do not have administrator accounts on the production line machines with email access.
A storyline with no world interaction and the inability for players to affect it is just as bad as a generic world with nothing happening. You might as well watch TV.
How is Warhammer going to implement Player versus World? Can players physically affect the environment of other players, or will the world (npcs/cities/houses/resources) all be static? Truely 'next generation' needs to have some way to dynamically alter the environment.
I think that selecting any of the 'Straight', 'Gay', 'Bi' selections for sexual preference from a pulldown box on an otherwise known 'fake' profile is slightly different than saying 'I like to have sex with animals'.
It really is like selecting 'Single' on myspace, when you are really 'Married'. No real harm done, right?
How many 5'4" girls have an 'athletic' profile, rather than 'healthy' or 'More to Love'? Again, you are using pulldown options to classify something... they aren't personal statements.
This student calling the principal a lesbian was as easy as selecting funny answers for personal questions. Did she get offended that he called her fat as well?
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when you download your gmail to a pop3 reader, do you get the other stuff in the column that comes with the ads? Like the auto-parsing of any addresses in your email with a link to thier site on maps.google.com, auto-parsing what it sees as DHL, FedEx or UPS tracking numbers with a link to those web tracking services, or parses any dates and descriptions and links directly to adding them to your google calendar, or even better yet linking news site articles that have content that actually is relevant to the discussion?
Thats what gmail does for me, and why I use the web interface.
Also something to note is that the original iPhone for which the trademark was granted was for a POTS phone complete with 2 phone jacks (see cnn archive, but its sloooow: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/10/iphone.i dg/index.html). The Infogear trademark was for a telephone that is also a modem. I wonder how the affect of Apple's iPhone being a Mobile phone with a wifi connection will matter.
Another question would be *when* apple entered into talks with cisco to use the name. was this before or after cisco had already released thier own mobile phone with the iPhone name? hrrm.
It seems that the Cisco people working with Apple on the trademark resolution upheld thier secret pact of the deal whence other Cisco employees and trademark librarians didn't even know that they were in talks with apple when filing the lawsuit!
I'm pretty sure that Intel already "standardized" the computer vision domain (aka what I know about robotics software) with thier OpenCV library. Not to say that it is really any good or particularly noteworthy, just that the two schools that I attended that offered Computer Vision courses, they both used that library.
Intel seems to be doing the most industrial work along side the academics, and reigning them in.
^ah"Who's there?"fhalksdafafhau7777"Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself."fann21na1naathoughtaaa;;,c"Long live the King!".ahjiohuibzb23oygaact1jjjh"Barnardo!"hhhhhhh hhhamlet
they have girls in their classes.
thier rss feed was only set to poll every 4 years.
There are no such things as astroturfers. Hell, *you* are probably paid by anti-marketing firms to spew nonsense about marketing firms! [Made tounge in cheek!]
/' to fix your Nvidia drivers, then the internet will become a better place. There are going to be people eeking out an existence by modifying the information and posting on message boards to market consumer products and post Amazon referral links. Its a shady business and some people just don't get why.
I think that when people distrust everyone on the internet as much as they do "people from London on Craigslist" or "Russian girls on Myspace" or "GNAA on Slashdot" or "Brazilians on Orkut", and realize that you can't really trust who edited that Wikipedia article on self STD diagnosis or posted that blog about using 'sudo \rm -Rf
As soon as we show as much trust to random people on the internet (even our friends on the internet aren't to be trusted!) as we do to people walking down the street in a major metropolitan area, is when we trust them enough.
I wonder about the analogies of the original Napster used to download music compared to BitTorrent used to download movies and tv shows. If the bittorrent clients in 2010 are all like Napster turned out to be 5 years later... *shudder*
Yeah, this is analagous to ClearCast using some of its own billboards to broadcast how to advertise with them.
The services and what not are (bad analogy forthwith) just the roads on which to get people to travel to look at the billboard type advertisements.
Did you try to "--purge remove" the packages and then re-"install" them? if you are doingn it from the command line, somehow I've picked up somewhere that you should use 'aptitide' and not 'apt-get' (although at this point I am fuzzy on the difference between them) because "it handles dependencies better". Else, from the Synaptic UI, it should have been easy to uninstall the package in question and reinstall it.
And since I went from HPUX directly to GNU/Linux, I can't say that I have any idea what sort of documentation that FreeBSD has (although I am sure it is pretty good).
Egads, you're right. I didn't even look at the actual distance numbers, but the fact that people actually use distance numbers in thier calculations. =(
However, I thought if that I am behind you trying to watch your DVD too, then I need to be at the *very most* 10 ft from you?
I always thought it was a flat '2 second' distance. However, most people can't translate seconds (a time unit) into a feet (a distance unit) using the most basic of physics so they come up with the 1ft per 10mph of speed. This flat time rule is the same as your fluctuating distance rule: the slower you are going, the closer you are (in that two seconds you cover less distance) and the faster you are going the further back you are.
;)
I like to look at a car's rear bumper, see it cross one of the dotted lines or reflectors in the road as a reference point and count in my head 'one one-thousand', 'two one-thousand' and if I pass that same reference point in the road before I complete that second 'one-thousand', then I know that I am too close. Much easier to actually calculate than the 1ft per 10mph.
WoW : World of Warcraft
I thought to myself when reading your reply that it would be alot worse if the US banned N. Korean World of Warcraft accounts. There would be HELL TO PAY for middle class and upper class gamers (I am not sure if the majority of lower class citizens can afford WoW as it is priced in N.Kor). I know that there are Lineage and Lineage 2 as well as a plethora of other Korean based MMO's, but aren't those South Korean?
If we extended the embargo to *all* entertainment that the US can control (I won't say to ban DVD's and the like, they could just get those from China) then the N. Korean would be a lot more up in arms about this.
Could you imagine if your WoW account was taken away due to the politics of your nation? I know that is something that I would act upon (calling representatives or what have you).
seriously, unless you log in, you are just a paid sony astroturfer.
Speaking of rocks, I have this rock here that keeps tigers away. Its working, since there are no tigers nearby!
Some counterpoints:
1/ Consumables based on collected items exist in every game. This is not new, and WoW does this quite well. [OT: I thought AC motes were used for the weapons? Its been awhile...]
2/ See Shadowbane. See 5am raids, see 'zerg'. See server wide alliances. L2 also had something like this castle thing, I haven't heard much about it, so there is no comment on it. DAoC was the first to implement something like this with thier Artifacts: 3 static world objects that grant 1 of 3 realms various bonuses.
3/ Uhh, lag. Also, see "dialup users". Positioning doesnt work when the server and client have to sync up for positioning and time sensitive distance checks.
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if you've ever looked at the WoW LUA interface, you can in face script bots or decision makers or whatever you want to call them to the point of maximizing your character's loot/experience. things can be done directly through the Interface Plugins that allow scripters to write automation tools which is what your "brilliant" idea is. if you start to analyze your playing, it turns out to not be very complicated and can be fully automated. the hard part is randomly spawning monsters, but there are plenty of static mob spawn points available in the game that can be used to grind 24/7 on.
this is what WoW is banning for.
I didn't seem to find anything new in the column, its like the author took every witty comment that people have made here in the last few Zune articles and combined them all together into a NYT column. To the person above said about the bias of the article; obviously Pogue represents the /. apple loving crowd (for which I am a pod carrying member) and his attitide is readily apparant.
It would have been better if he made a shit-brown joke instead of closing with the question of if 'brown is the new white'.
I have 2 blogs set up on Blogger, one with a customized stylesheet and another using one of the standard CSS templates. I am not sure how good Blogger 1.0 does to prevent bot spam on blogs that allow anonymous posting, but there seems to be a lot of it around.
However, the one with the customized style sheet receives no bot spam! The 'Comment' link is actually called 'Talk about this', and the whole section of the Blogger posting is set up differently (i.e. left to right rather than top to bottom). The one that uses a standard CSS template has lots and lots of botspam. I think that the bots are programmed to see which template the page has (its right there in the source) and then they know which links will be the links to the comment area.
So the person that suggested even moving the form field around, well I know this is not dynamic movement, but it sure seemed to have worked. Now if my customized blog was popular enough... that would be a different story.
but then again, you will have all C# code running on a new VM within a year... when Parrot and Java share a GPL'ed VM, developers can write platform agnostic code in Perl, Java or C#; who will need .NET or Mono?
I think that what you meant to say "If they're making products using Windows...", then they better god damn well police thier Chinese subcontractors every day of every year to make sure that thier test technichans do not have administrator accounts on the production line machines with email access.
A storyline with no world interaction and the inability for players to affect it is just as bad as a generic world with nothing happening. You might as well watch TV.
How is Warhammer going to implement Player versus World? Can players physically affect the environment of other players, or will the world (npcs/cities/houses/resources) all be static? Truely 'next generation' needs to have some way to dynamically alter the environment.
I think that selecting any of the 'Straight', 'Gay', 'Bi' selections for sexual preference from a pulldown box on an otherwise known 'fake' profile is slightly different than saying 'I like to have sex with animals'.
It really is like selecting 'Single' on myspace, when you are really 'Married'. No real harm done, right?
How many 5'4" girls have an 'athletic' profile, rather than 'healthy' or 'More to Love'? Again, you are using pulldown options to classify something... they aren't personal statements.
This student calling the principal a lesbian was as easy as selecting funny answers for personal questions. Did she get offended that he called her fat as well?