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How about measuring that in actual computer usage? X MHz on Y cores per Z nodes over A hours? Or at least say it would have taken one X MHz processor 35 years to compute it.
A simple visit to the web page followed by a modicum of reading would have led you to the following (emphasis added):
Lots of Computers
Finally, we were able to distribute the 55,882,296 cosets of H among a large number of computers at Google and complete the computation in just a few weeks. Google does not release information on their computer systems, but it would take a good desktop PC (Intel Nehalem, four-core, 2.8GHz) 1.1 billion seconds, or about 35 CPU years, to perform this calculation..
Since the New York Times is just the aggregator here, would it not be more more pertinent to begin with "Considering that Slashdot didn't even bother to report on this ReadWriteWeb blog post about Slashdot..."?
After all, you want to link to the original story for maximal relevance, right? If Slashdot accepted summary contributions that linked to third party aggregate sites reposting other site' original articles, or accepted summary contributions with no citations whatsoever beyond virtual hearsay, imagine the degradation of relevance!
You search for some keywords over SSL and click on a non-https link in the result page. BAM, the Referer now points to the result page, which contains the keywords you just used in its URL.
Considering one subscriber in the linked discussion thread got charged 13 times for his ~$77.94 6-month subscription (which wasn't even up for renewal for another five months), for a total of $1,013.22 in charges—yeah, this sort of thing will fly under everybody's radar.
Many players probably use debit cards tied to their personal checking accounts; I'm sure they'd notice multiple charges. Even more so if they live paycheck to paycheck.
Even though EA/Mythic are allegedly working with their payment processing vendor(s) to reverse all the extraneous charges, they're still putting the onus on the customer to check with their respective financial institutions to ensure that any fees incurred are voided or reversed. I'm sure that is going to give said customers the warm fuzzies about continuing their patronage.
Total clusterfuck on the part of EA/Mythic. Heads should roll, and liberally.
Unfortunately, you are giving chess a little too much credit here. An unbeatable chess strategy really is to have an internal catalog of board states and optimal moves from those states.
Feel free to create such an internal catalog and share it with the world.
At some point I imagine you will concede that you need to give chess a little more credit.
But do you read the source for all the open source software you use? File-by-file, line-by-line? Or do you just trust others to do it for you? What if no one trustworthy ever reads the code?
Even under the most liberal rules of English construction, I think it's fair to say that a colon following a question mark serves no point, is lazy, and its use will jar the reader.
Take it up with the individual who posted the blog entry that the summary was excerpting: http://www.gamespot.com/users/thorsen-ink/. The '?:' construct originated there.
If you must have a reason to attack the summary, attack it for poorly structuring the excerpt of the blog entry such that the "Bogus or not bogus?" item seems to be part of the preceding quote from Pete Hines.
I can't check IE7 since I'm a shunned Win2K user, but I do know in IE6 the menu bar was one of the toolbars you could move around--so perhaps the reviewer that took the screenshot had chosen to move the menu bar below the tabs?
But on at least two dates in July 2003, the suit states, Web logs at Healthcare Advocates indicated that someone at Harding Earley, using the Wayback Machine, made hundreds of rapid-fire requests for the old versions of the Web site. In most cases, the robot.txt blocked the request. But in 92 instances, the suit states, it appears to have failed, allowing access to the archived pages.
I'm fairly certain that the Internet Archive has no control over access to Healthcare Advocates own webserver(s). I'm also fairly certain that the Internet Archive would not log access to archived web content back to the "Web logs at Healthcare Advocates". So someone at Healthcare Advocates or its legal firm is really, really grasping at nonexistent straws here, or just plain stupid/ignorant. Suing the Internet Archive because Healthcare Advocates' own webserver(s) served up outdated content that they themselves left accessible? (robots.txt is no substitute for simply removing the old files from the webserver(s)' document tree or otherwise restricting access at the server side.)
Hopefully sanity prevails and this lawsuit is dropped. Either that or Healthcare Advocates and/or its legal representation is made a laughingstock in the courtroom.
I don't have the POP3 option on my gmail account yet, but the ability to have it automatically archive email when it is pulled via POP3, coupled with the ability to put mail from the archive (found via a search, or a specific label, or what have you) back in your Inbox, ready to be (re)downloaded via POP3--now that would be useful.
I'd really prefer some sort of IMAP mapping, but IMAP demands a more careful, elegant implementation. I'd definitely support one or both even if they become fee-based, so long as they aren't too costly ($2-5/month perhaps).
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I wouldn't consider it cheating, especially since Halo on the Xbox is optimized for the Xbox controller with its dual analog sticks, shoulder triggers, and the other buttons, and it'd take a bit of configuring I'd imagine to bring the adapter/keyboard/mouse combo up to the control comfort that a PC-homed keyboard/mouse FPSer would expect...
...unless they were to try to do complex macroing with their keyboard setup (i.e. going beyond a 1-to-1 mapping of key to action). That'd be in the same vein as using macros or "turbo" on any other controller.
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If the players have the skills, does it matter if they use mice and keyboards, Logitech Cybermen 2, Atari paddle controllers, light pens, Koala pads, dance mats, virtual gloves, Xbox controllers?
There are plenty of fine FPS options available to PC gamers with mice and keyboards--why hide behind an anonymous controller rant to whine about an FPS that is released to the Xbox population first?
Star Wars Galaxies was doomed the day SOE admitted that their ambitious plans for gambling (not to mention their equally ambitious plans for PS2 and Xbox clients) were to be scrapped.
Does gambling exist in any sort of game-supported form now, a year-plus into the game's release?
Anyway, no MMORPG is ever truly released before it's finished. Some happen to be playable on release, while others happen to be textbook examples of getting development funding from a potential customer base.:)
Anyone who built their hopes up on the marketing hype for Fable deserves the agony of having said hopes dashed. Welcome to the game industry.
Since I've been around the industry for a day or three, I knew better. Consequently, I've been able to enjoy Fable on its own merits, and not felt obligated to stand it to some lofty goals that were more the realm of marketing fantasy than implementation reality.
That said, I hope someone out there takes the elements that were good in Fable and Morrowind [and... insert list of your favourite CRPGs here] and blend them together into an open-ended RPG that is every bit fresh and vivid 100 hours into the gameplay as it is when you first start out. Fable has some really good bits but even for a slow player like me will prove too short, while Morrowind has a lot of open-endedness that just gets lonely, redundant, and otherwise boring after a short time at it.
Yep, Warner's makes for a good villain's voice, and Bioware used that to good effect in Shadows of Amn.
"I cannot be caged. I cannot be controlled."
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I refuse to accept "enterprise-grade web-applications" period. As for real applications, code 'em with whatever gets the job done and meets the customer's expectations.
RTFA a little more closely--Case Western's Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab is covered in the section "Bugs and Whegs" (and one of their "crickets" is the photo-subject of Figure 4).
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The documentation referenced is available from Intel Linux Graphics: Documentation.
From Microsoft's KB2450831 support article:
How about measuring that in actual computer usage? X MHz on Y cores per Z nodes over A hours? Or at least say it would have taken one X MHz processor 35 years to compute it.
A simple visit to the web page followed by a modicum of reading would have led you to the following (emphasis added):
Since the New York Times is just the aggregator here, would it not be more more pertinent to begin with "Considering that Slashdot didn't even bother to report on this ReadWriteWeb blog post about Slashdot..."?
After all, you want to link to the original story for maximal relevance, right? If Slashdot accepted summary contributions that linked to third party aggregate sites reposting other site' original articles, or accepted summary contributions with no citations whatsoever beyond virtual hearsay, imagine the degradation of relevance!
What is obvious to you (the social nature of games), however, isn't particularly obvious to most people.
Do you really think "most people" are that dimwitted?
You search for some keywords over SSL and click on a non-https link in the result page. BAM, the Referer now points to the result page, which contains the keywords you just used in its URL.
According to RFC2616 (HTTP/1.1) section 15.1.3 "Encoding Sensitive Information in URI's", "Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure) HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure protocol."
Considering one subscriber in the linked discussion thread got charged 13 times for his ~$77.94 6-month subscription (which wasn't even up for renewal for another five months), for a total of $1,013.22 in charges—yeah, this sort of thing will fly under everybody's radar.
Many players probably use debit cards tied to their personal checking accounts; I'm sure they'd notice multiple charges. Even more so if they live paycheck to paycheck.
Even though EA/Mythic are allegedly working with their payment processing vendor(s) to reverse all the extraneous charges, they're still putting the onus on the customer to check with their respective financial institutions to ensure that any fees incurred are voided or reversed. I'm sure that is going to give said customers the warm fuzzies about continuing their patronage.
Total clusterfuck on the part of EA/Mythic. Heads should roll, and liberally.
So they've ripped off the Always Innovating Tablet and are calling it their idea?
No. Read the article or just look at the pretty pictures.
Unfortunately, you are giving chess a little too much credit here. An unbeatable chess strategy really is to have an internal catalog of board states and optimal moves from those states.
Feel free to create such an internal catalog and share it with the world.
At some point I imagine you will concede that you need to give chess a little more credit.
You choose to support one OS; the developers of EQII choose to support another. I don't think anyone is shedding any tears over this.
But do you read the source for all the open source software you use? File-by-file, line-by-line? Or do you just trust others to do it for you? What if no one trustworthy ever reads the code?
Bethesda does not (currently) have the MMOG rights to the Fallout property--when they acquired the Fallout IP they licensed back MMOG rights to Interplay: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1057232/000117091807000324/0001170918-07-000324.txt.
Even under the most liberal rules of English construction, I think it's fair to say that a colon following a question mark serves no point, is lazy, and its use will jar the reader.Take it up with the individual who posted the blog entry that the summary was excerpting: http://www.gamespot.com/users/thorsen-ink/. The '?:' construct originated there. If you must have a reason to attack the summary, attack it for poorly structuring the excerpt of the blog entry such that the "Bogus or not bogus?" item seems to be part of the preceding quote from Pete Hines.
I can't check IE7 since I'm a shunned Win2K user, but I do know in IE6 the menu bar was one of the toolbars you could move around--so perhaps the reviewer that took the screenshot had chosen to move the menu bar below the tabs?
From the FA (emphasis mine):
I'm fairly certain that the Internet Archive has no control over access to Healthcare Advocates own webserver(s). I'm also fairly certain that the Internet Archive would not log access to archived web content back to the "Web logs at Healthcare Advocates". So someone at Healthcare Advocates or its legal firm is really, really grasping at nonexistent straws here, or just plain stupid/ignorant. Suing the Internet Archive because Healthcare Advocates' own webserver(s) served up outdated content that they themselves left accessible? (robots.txt is no substitute for simply removing the old files from the webserver(s)' document tree or otherwise restricting access at the server side.)
Hopefully sanity prevails and this lawsuit is dropped. Either that or Healthcare Advocates and/or its legal representation is made a laughingstock in the courtroom.
I don't have the POP3 option on my gmail account yet, but the ability to have it automatically archive email when it is pulled via POP3, coupled with the ability to put mail from the archive (found via a search, or a specific label, or what have you) back in your Inbox, ready to be (re)downloaded via POP3--now that would be useful.
I'd really prefer some sort of IMAP mapping, but IMAP demands a more careful, elegant implementation. I'd definitely support one or both even if they become fee-based, so long as they aren't too costly ($2-5/month perhaps).
I wouldn't consider it cheating, especially since Halo on the Xbox is optimized for the Xbox controller with its dual analog sticks, shoulder triggers, and the other buttons, and it'd take a bit of configuring I'd imagine to bring the adapter/keyboard/mouse combo up to the control comfort that a PC-homed keyboard/mouse FPSer would expect...
...unless they were to try to do complex macroing with their keyboard setup (i.e. going beyond a 1-to-1 mapping of key to action). That'd be in the same vein as using macros or "turbo" on any other controller.
If the players have the skills, does it matter if they use mice and keyboards, Logitech Cybermen 2, Atari paddle controllers, light pens, Koala pads, dance mats, virtual gloves, Xbox controllers?
There are plenty of fine FPS options available to PC gamers with mice and keyboards--why hide behind an anonymous controller rant to whine about an FPS that is released to the Xbox population first?
Star Wars Galaxies was doomed the day SOE admitted that their ambitious plans for gambling (not to mention their equally ambitious plans for PS2 and Xbox clients) were to be scrapped.
:)
Does gambling exist in any sort of game-supported form now, a year-plus into the game's release?
Anyway, no MMORPG is ever truly released before it's finished. Some happen to be playable on release, while others happen to be textbook examples of getting development funding from a potential customer base.
Anyone who built their hopes up on the marketing hype for Fable deserves the agony of having said hopes dashed. Welcome to the game industry.
Since I've been around the industry for a day or three, I knew better. Consequently, I've been able to enjoy Fable on its own merits, and not felt obligated to stand it to some lofty goals that were more the realm of marketing fantasy than implementation reality.
That said, I hope someone out there takes the elements that were good in Fable and Morrowind [and... insert list of your favourite CRPGs here] and blend them together into an open-ended RPG that is every bit fresh and vivid 100 hours into the gameplay as it is when you first start out. Fable has some really good bits but even for a slow player like me will prove too short, while Morrowind has a lot of open-endedness that just gets lonely, redundant, and otherwise boring after a short time at it.
And clean your browser cache and history afterward. Where do you think it finds the info it returns?
Why, in GDS' own cache, where it's stored--independently of the browser's cache and history.
One of Google Desktop's configurable preferences: "Include secure pages (HTTPS) in web history"
Yep, Warner's makes for a good villain's voice, and Bioware used that to good effect in Shadows of Amn.
"I cannot be caged. I cannot be controlled."
I refuse to accept "enterprise-grade web-applications" period. As for real applications, code 'em with whatever gets the job done and meets the customer's expectations.
Read the IEEE article, it's not really that long, and boasts a valid picture of the "cricket" robot to boot.
RTFA a little more closely--Case Western's Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab is covered in the section "Bugs and Whegs" (and one of their "crickets" is the photo-subject of Figure 4).