Yes. Muslim Extremists declaring holy war on the USA. The fact you don't have any of -your- unresolved declarations of war doesn't mean there's no war.
That point being given to the XBox? To put it bluntly, this is biased crap.
Yes. It's biased. The sad part is it's true though. Put enough money in marketing crap and people will buy it. Halo may not live up to expectations of customers, but it will live up to expectations of sales dept.
Google has most usernames free and open to use. [a-z]{1-7}@yahoo.com address is impossible to get. Yahoo claims all of these: sharp, shrp, shrpy, sharpy, sharpfang, shrpfng, sharpfng, shrpfang, sfg, sfng, shfng, shfg, sfang, sharpf are "busy". Imagine this, all of them. My answer: BULLSHIT YOU FUCKING LIARS! fuck you Yahoo, whoever wants a name like Mike674 or cutegirl_969696 go, use Yahoo. If you want to save digits, semigraphics etc for password and keep your nickname strictly alpha, gmail all the way.
Sorry, but that was GEOcentric theory. Generally, the idea that Earth is round (and planets circle it). Revolutionary for its times, when people believed Earth is flat. He even managed to calculate the radius of Earth.
...with near-null energy food. Vegetables. Fruits. Mushrooms. Stuff that is immune to processing in your FIFO and leaves in state nearly suitable for eating it again. There are quite a few such foods. When you're hungry you're tempted to eat something high on calories, but when you're full, you don't want to eat, no matter what kind of useless junk fills your bowels.
It's okay to release a "quick and dirty fix" immediately. Like Firefox, disabling whole feature that is vulnerable. But they shouldn't need to be told the fix isn't good. They should start working on a full, proper patch as soon as the hotfix is ready, and be aware WHAT the vulnerablity is. Put a band-aid on the bleeding wound right after the accident, okay, but then let the surgeon remove splinters and sew the skin together properly once the patient arrives at the hospital. Don't leave as-is because it's not bleeding at the moment.
Better? Defining "better" is one of the hardest tasks in science, no matter what domain. If you take speed as measure of quality, then yes. OOo is worse. Notepad is better. If you take amount of features, then Emacs is better. If you take functionality to price ratio as quality, then OOo is infinitely better than MS Office. (anything non-zero divided by zero...) Many talk about freedom, okay, I don't give a shit about the product's freedom. I'm still going to keep using OOo because I can get it legally for free. I don't want to risk getting caught with illegal MSO, and a legal copy is more than half of my salary, and besides I never work with documents so big that the performance impact of OOo would mean any obstacle to me. The functionality is fine too. The worst thing I find is poor portablity of documents - sometimes layout of the presentation changes between computers - one uses slightly bigger fonts, a sentence gets pushed to the next page and layout of whole document changes and collapses. I need to be cautious about these and I find MSO superior to OOo in this respect. But not superior enough to justify the price difference.
As long as we're limited to few characters that are overloadable, this leads only a short way. What about this: Leave the operators as they are because they are useful (or let people overload them if they don't work as desired) but allow for defining new operators. This is just matter of syntax. You write "x=y+z" instead of "x=add(y,z)". So why not content >>>> home @ host, *) proto=UDP, *) markas=BULK; Allow for defining completely arbitrary syntax that way. Sometimes constructs imposed by the language are heavy and uncomfortable. The way around is overloading operators, but if you do, you mostly lose the original, and you have only a few of them. So where are custom operators?
No. The tries to install bigger systems were painful. But once I decided for NetBSD, it was going smoothly. Sure there was lots and lots of work to do, and huge amounts of documentation to read to have things done. You need some 5 or 6 different servers configured to have the dickless running, almost all were new to me, recompiling the kernel is totally different than in Linux, new package system, new/dev entries, doing some really weird stuff with NFS, and since the box lacked a floppy or CDROM, I had to set up bootstraping it from the net on yet another SUN, running Solaris. But it all was going surprisingly smoothly. It was some 3 days of work, but it was plain getting things done, not stumbling blindly around and clicking buttons in hope it would start and troubleshooting new problems. Simply, bilding it, from blank harddrive to complete system with all the extras, taking a hour or two to learn the new step, another hour or two to install and configure the piece, half a hour to add given content (/etc copy, boot image etc), then moving to the next step. Real pleasure. And having the ancient machine to run faster than some way more modern machines around was really rewarding! NetBSD is very "rough", but also clean in this roughness. No fancy GUIs (even like ncurses), almost all in plaitext docs and config files. Very few "autoconfig" scripts, most stuff has to be configured by hand, but the system is small enough that it's not overwhelming. You never get lost because the number of components is well within your capacblity of remembering. The docs are very clear and accurate, and you don't have to browse pages and pages of useless junk to reach a single line you want, instead you just get 2-3 screenfuls of the file and need to read it whole from the beginning to end, because it contains everything you need to know in the subject and not a word more.
Linux is growing at scary pace. 5 years ago there were maybe 10% files in/etc I didn't know the meaning of. Today, I understand less than 30% of the/etc files. NetBSD is pleasantly "primitive" comparing to that.
Ok, so what if I get heavily drunk while installing Windows? I'm not in my full mental powers and any legal contracts commited with a person incapable of understanding what they are doing are null and void (and additionally, illegal exploitation of the state of the person).
One day I had a blank harddrive. The next day I had this weird bunch of software on my disk and a heavy headache. I don't remember what happened inbetween. I don't remember agreeing to any licenses. I just shrugged and went about using my computer.
Past topics: Thompson threatens PA with lawsuit. Thompson complains to Police against PA. Now: Thompson Calls The Feds On PA Next on Slashdot: Thompson sends in the Navy against PA. Thompson demands ONZ to take steps against PA. Thompson wants the Pope to excomunicate PA.
...but shoudln't something be done about the fonts? I read the title as "..,chronically 3". I reread it three times before I got it, I=l and they look totally identical. People in computer security business should treat this seriously, there are already viruses using names like RundII.exe
Ink, either based on oil or alcohol, is lighter than water. But once it reaches certain velocity, floating up, it introduces more whirls and water starts slowing it down. Actually, it's hardly different from cigarette smoke...
The Garriotts nonetheless decided to make me out to be the villain and the scapegoat for their troubles, while clinging to various false beliefs about what had happened. In the first place, they should have been able to keep things in perspective as a contract dispute in a business setting, and just played the game.
But that's the game! If you screwed your partner, you know you're guilty and that they are bound to win if the case gets all the way through the court, the move in the game is to yell "I'M BEING PERSECUTED! THIS VILLAIN IS DOING THEIR PERSONAL VENDETTA!!!" in order to intimidate the PR dept of the partner so they drop charges and make it look to everyone else that you're not guilty - even if the jury decides you are, and you have to pay, you don't lose face in front of other partners you'd like to screw, because they may believe "you poor thing".
On the other hand, the letter FTA is the opponent's move in the same game.
allegro.pl In Poland, 128, 256, 512M SDRAMs run at prices high enough to exchange them for DDR400 equivalents with lifetime warranty. These chips are what allows older computers - P2, P3 - to run smoothly and be usable in modern world. Used computer salesmen battle for them - because P3 600MHZ with 512M RAM will run faster than P4 2GHZ with 128M - which still is a common config available from retailers. Giving more RAM to the old boxes gives them a new lease of life and allows them to serve poorer people for many years. You can have such a computer, complete set, for $30, $50 - and it's more than enough for websurfing and home office, accounting etc. Only games require more.
Installed AdBlock on the last of my machines. For one, single reason. Slashdot ads. No, I don't mind the ads themselves. I remember often clicking on the banners on Slashdot. Not once I pondered purchasing stuff from ThinkGeek. I got interested in the "airzooka" toy so much that I built one myself. I understand, source of revenue, subscriptions aren't enough etc. But I'd at least expect keeping the ads servers working. Slashdot pages load for me in 2-5s on hosts with Adblock. But on this one, it was taking a minute or longer. Because the page would stop loading and wait for the ads server. I'd see "looking up a.as-us.falkag.net" indefinitely, while the black screen wouldn't contain any content. The more intrusive the ads, the more probable the users will disable them. If the ads make the content proper completely unavailable, they will be disabled for sure. And screw you, Slashdot. Somehow I don't believe I'd re-enable Slashdot ads once you fix the ads server...
Thing is, quite often the choice is not between "realistic" and "unrealistic" but "nice" and "ugly". Pixellated textures break the immersion. Squarish hair make girls unattractive. Plain Phong shading makes fake plastic effect instead of nice metal. The problem is that what could be solved with better concept art and design, is often solved by push towards more polygons per model or normal maps on the walls. Authors look at the screen and say "Ick, that's ugly!" and go about fixing that - not by scrapping the ugly design but by adding details, trying to make it less ugly. Good games are art. Bad games are showbusiness.
Yes. Then why teach failed methods of methodical analysis? Maybe one day we will be advanced enough to analytically examine the process of game development, but for now it's of no use, purely academic problem completely useless for game developers. I wonder who's the target audience of the article - I suppose there are maybe 2-3 people in the world genuinely interested in pushing this kind of analysis ahead, who might profit from it...
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Yes. Muslim Extremists declaring holy war on the USA.
The fact you don't have any of -your- unresolved declarations of war doesn't mean there's no war.
That point being given to the XBox? To put it bluntly, this is biased crap.
Yes. It's biased. The sad part is it's true though.
Put enough money in marketing crap and people will buy it. Halo may not live up to expectations of customers, but it will live up to expectations of sales dept.
Google has most usernames free and open to use.
[a-z]{1-7}@yahoo.com address is impossible to get. Yahoo claims all of these: sharp, shrp, shrpy, sharpy, sharpfang, shrpfng, sharpfng, shrpfang, sfg, sfng, shfng, shfg, sfang, sharpf are "busy". Imagine this, all of them. My answer: BULLSHIT YOU FUCKING LIARS! fuck you Yahoo, whoever wants a name like Mike674 or cutegirl_969696 go, use Yahoo. If you want to save digits, semigraphics etc for password and keep your nickname strictly alpha, gmail all the way.
Sorry, but that was GEOcentric theory. Generally, the idea that Earth is round (and planets circle it). Revolutionary for its times, when people believed Earth is flat. He even managed to calculate the radius of Earth.
...with near-null energy food. Vegetables. Fruits. Mushrooms. Stuff that is immune to processing in your FIFO and leaves in state nearly suitable for eating it again. There are quite a few such foods. When you're hungry you're tempted to eat something high on calories, but when you're full, you don't want to eat, no matter what kind of useless junk fills your bowels.
But dropped packets are rather costly.
It seems finally the cables are capable of more bandwidth than a wagon of harddrives...
It's okay to release a "quick and dirty fix" immediately. Like Firefox, disabling whole feature that is vulnerable. But they shouldn't need to be told the fix isn't good. They should start working on a full, proper patch as soon as the hotfix is ready, and be aware WHAT the vulnerablity is. Put a band-aid on the bleeding wound right after the accident, okay, but then let the surgeon remove splinters and sew the skin together properly once the patient arrives at the hospital. Don't leave as-is because it's not bleeding at the moment.
Better? Defining "better" is one of the hardest tasks in science, no matter what domain. If you take speed as measure of quality, then yes. OOo is worse. Notepad is better. If you take amount of features, then Emacs is better. If you take functionality to price ratio as quality, then OOo is infinitely better than MS Office. (anything non-zero divided by zero...)
Many talk about freedom, okay, I don't give a shit about the product's freedom. I'm still going to keep using OOo because I can get it legally for free. I don't want to risk getting caught with illegal MSO, and a legal copy is more than half of my salary, and besides I never work with documents so big that the performance impact of OOo would mean any obstacle to me. The functionality is fine too. The worst thing I find is poor portablity of documents - sometimes layout of the presentation changes between computers - one uses slightly bigger fonts, a sentence gets pushed to the next page and layout of whole document changes and collapses. I need to be cautious about these and I find MSO superior to OOo in this respect. But not superior enough to justify the price difference.
Dreamweaver. Free on http://thepiratebay.org/
As long as we're limited to few characters that are overloadable, this leads only a short way. What about this: Leave the operators as they are because they are useful (or let people overload them if they don't work as desired) but allow for defining new operators. This is just matter of syntax. You write "x=y+z" instead of "x=add(y,z)". So why not
content >>>> home @ host, *) proto=UDP, *) markas=BULK;
Allow for defining completely arbitrary syntax that way. Sometimes constructs imposed by the language are heavy and uncomfortable. The way around is overloading operators, but if you do, you mostly lose the original, and you have only a few of them. So where are custom operators?
No. /dev entries, doing some really weird stuff with NFS, and since the box lacked a floppy or CDROM, I had to set up bootstraping it from the net on yet another SUN, running Solaris. But it all was going surprisingly smoothly. It was some 3 days of work, but it was plain getting things done, not stumbling blindly around and clicking buttons in hope it would start and troubleshooting new problems. Simply, bilding it, from blank harddrive to complete system with all the extras, taking a hour or two to learn the new step, another hour or two to install and configure the piece, half a hour to add given content (/etc copy, boot image etc), then moving to the next step. Real pleasure. And having the ancient machine to run faster than some way more modern machines around was really rewarding!
/etc I didn't know the meaning of. Today, I understand less than 30% of the /etc files. NetBSD is pleasantly "primitive" comparing to that.
The tries to install bigger systems were painful. But once I decided for NetBSD, it was going smoothly. Sure there was lots and lots of work to do, and huge amounts of documentation to read to have things done. You need some 5 or 6 different servers configured to have the dickless running, almost all were new to me, recompiling the kernel is totally different than in Linux, new package system, new
NetBSD is very "rough", but also clean in this roughness. No fancy GUIs (even like ncurses), almost all in plaitext docs and config files. Very few "autoconfig" scripts, most stuff has to be configured by hand, but the system is small enough that it's not overwhelming. You never get lost because the number of components is well within your capacblity of remembering. The docs are very clear and accurate, and you don't have to browse pages and pages of useless junk to reach a single line you want, instead you just get 2-3 screenfuls of the file and need to read it whole from the beginning to end, because it contains everything you need to know in the subject and not a word more.
Linux is growing at scary pace. 5 years ago there were maybe 10% files in
Ok, so what if I get heavily drunk while installing Windows? I'm not in my full mental powers and any legal contracts commited with a person incapable of understanding what they are doing are null and void (and additionally, illegal exploitation of the state of the person).
One day I had a blank harddrive. The next day I had this weird bunch of software on my disk and a heavy headache. I don't remember what happened inbetween. I don't remember agreeing to any licenses. I just shrugged and went about using my computer.
Past topics:
Thompson threatens PA with lawsuit.
Thompson complains to Police against PA.
Now:
Thompson Calls The Feds On PA
Next on Slashdot:
Thompson sends in the Navy against PA.
Thompson demands ONZ to take steps against PA.
Thompson wants the Pope to excomunicate PA.
I wonder when he decides to use the nukes.
...but shoudln't something be done about the fonts? I read the title as "..,chronically 3". I reread it three times before I got it, I=l and they look totally identical. People in computer security business should treat this seriously, there are already viruses using names like RundII.exe
Ink, either based on oil or alcohol, is lighter than water. But once it reaches certain velocity, floating up, it introduces more whirls and water starts slowing it down. Actually, it's hardly different from cigarette smoke...
The Garriotts nonetheless decided to make me out to be the villain and the scapegoat for their troubles, while clinging to various false beliefs about what had happened. In the first place, they should have been able to keep things in perspective as a contract dispute in a business setting, and just played the game.
But that's the game! If you screwed your partner, you know you're guilty and that they are bound to win if the case gets all the way through the court, the move in the game is to yell "I'M BEING PERSECUTED! THIS VILLAIN IS DOING THEIR PERSONAL VENDETTA!!!" in order to intimidate the PR dept of the partner so they drop charges and make it look to everyone else that you're not guilty - even if the jury decides you are, and you have to pay, you don't lose face in front of other partners you'd like to screw, because they may believe "you poor thing".
On the other hand, the letter FTA is the opponent's move in the same game.
I for one welcome our gaming granny overlords.
allegro.pl
In Poland, 128, 256, 512M SDRAMs run at prices high enough to exchange them for DDR400 equivalents with lifetime warranty.
These chips are what allows older computers - P2, P3 - to run smoothly and be usable in modern world. Used computer salesmen battle for them - because P3 600MHZ with 512M RAM will run faster than P4 2GHZ with 128M - which still is a common config available from retailers. Giving more RAM to the old boxes gives them a new lease of life and allows them to serve poorer people for many years. You can have such a computer, complete set, for $30, $50 - and it's more than enough for websurfing and home office, accounting etc. Only games require more.
That's it.
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Installed AdBlock on the last of my machines. For one, single reason. Slashdot ads.
No, I don't mind the ads themselves. I remember often clicking on the banners on Slashdot. Not once I pondered purchasing stuff from ThinkGeek. I got interested in the "airzooka" toy so much that I built one myself. I understand, source of revenue, subscriptions aren't enough etc.
But I'd at least expect keeping the ads servers working. Slashdot pages load for me in 2-5s on hosts with Adblock. But on this one, it was taking a minute or longer. Because the page would stop loading and wait for the ads server. I'd see "looking up a.as-us.falkag.net" indefinitely, while the black screen wouldn't contain any content.
The more intrusive the ads, the more probable the users will disable them. If the ads make the content proper completely unavailable, they will be disabled for sure. And screw you, Slashdot. Somehow I don't believe I'd re-enable Slashdot ads once you fix the ads server...
Thing is, quite often the choice is not between "realistic" and "unrealistic" but "nice" and "ugly". Pixellated textures break the immersion. Squarish hair make girls unattractive. Plain Phong shading makes fake plastic effect instead of nice metal. The problem is that what could be solved with better concept art and design, is often solved by push towards more polygons per model or normal maps on the walls. Authors look at the screen and say "Ick, that's ugly!" and go about fixing that - not by scrapping the ugly design but by adding details, trying to make it less ugly.
Good games are art. Bad games are showbusiness.
Connect them into a string longer than an inch or so, of durablity comparable with cotton.
At least nobody succeeded so far.
many of those have no functionality under Linux (or any other non-Windows OS) whatsoever.
:)
Oh, but they do!
Just not quite the functionality the manufacturers intended
You guys are likely to get IgNobel in Anatomy next year.
Yes. Then why teach failed methods of methodical analysis? Maybe one day we will be advanced enough to analytically examine the process of game development, but for now it's of no use, purely academic problem completely useless for game developers. I wonder who's the target audience of the article - I suppose there are maybe 2-3 people in the world genuinely interested in pushing this kind of analysis ahead, who might profit from it...