We do have separate words for 'libre' (wolne) and 'gratis'(darmowe). Unfortunately the word for 'libre' means also 'slow'. Slow software? Not a catchy phrase:P
I can easily imagine this: A lazy dialogue/cutscene that takes a while for realtime, without loading the CPU much, while the game engine renders frames of the high-action cutscene is to be shown in a moment. Frames rendered at 5-20FPS, but stored in memory and then replayed from RAM at 60FPS, with hyper effects impossible to achieve on this CPU at this speed. Old demosceners know all that tricks. I don't know if Nintendo actually used it, but I see no reason why they couldn't.
Receive the files okay, ask for more, and save them as JPG on your harddrive. And in case you need a hardcopy, print. In case of spam, just rm. It's them who pay for overseas connection anyway.
And the same thing set me quite a bit ahead when I started programming assembly language for microcontrollers. No if(){...}. No else(). No for(). Just GOTO (jmp), GOSUB (call), and conditional jumps IF A0 GOTO 2 (jnz). Yeah, Atari Basic allowed no "THEN" if the instruction was GOTO.
1) Logic. If you read if(a && b & (!c)!=d) you should be able to understand it and also be able to reduce statements, finding i.e. least number of operations necessary to unambigiously distinguish discrete states. 2) Learn that friggin' hex, bin, oct at least! 3) Calculus. And above all, understand the basic principles of lim[h->0](f(x+h)-f(x)/h and learn to apply that in your programs. It's pretty much essential. 4) Planar geometry, if you plan on any gfx. 3D if you plan any 3D. Understanding basic concepts is important. Also matrices if you plan on any image processing. 5) Numerical methods. Come in handy now and then. Especially optimisation. 6) Basic transformations and other useful equations. No pow() but you have ln and exp? well, how much is x^17? 7) Fourier and family for compression/decompression (lossy) of multimedia. 8) Probability for lossless compression. 9) basic algebra, eh, you won't move far without y=ax^2+bx+c...:) 10) All the rest, just cuz every nerd should.
They take 1s from life of, say, 2 billion people. Let's take 2 billion seconds from their life. Sometimes it's more than 1s. Imagine this: I receive an email from a really critical account, say, set aside for emergency messages of my system. I have a setup that notifies me by SMS that an email arrived. So, I get an SMS, somewhere in the country. A hourly drive to the town. Half a hour of search for an internet cafe. Fifteen minutes to get to login into my account (convincing the cafe owner that PuTTY is not a trojan). 1 second to see the spam sent through "dictionary attack". 2 months to find the spammer and kill him. I spend some time on Slashdot, because it's my conscious choice. I know I have certain amount of time and when there's something else to do, I just don't visit slashdot. But I never know what my emails contain and if immediate response isn't essential, so I check my email whenever my biff displays there's new mail. Spammers just abuse it.
Go, call 911 and ask them if they are interested in purchasing Viagra. Do this 200 times a day. See how long they will put up with you.
Sorry to debunk the myth of cross-platform architecture of Mozilla. I take a minor part in development of one of extensions, and pretty often we hit a block: It works on Windows, but not on Linux. Works on Windows and Linux, but not OS/2. A variable points to one element on one platform, different on another. There are quite a few chunks of platform-specific if(platform==...) code in the extension already, and there's more to come with recent bugfixes. Maybe some day XPToolkit will be trully cross-platform. For now it isn't.
Gentoo is not for enterprise users. It's not for desktop users. It's a godsend distro for Linux zealots. (and I'm typing that from my own Gentoo box, my free and conscious choice). First off, it's a "bleeding edge" distribution. The packages enter the tree sometimes within hours after release, and they are often from the the beta or even alfa releases. Production environments don't want "more new exciting features, NOW!. They want stability. Desktop users want reasonably well matched and decently stable software, which additionally doesn't takes days to upgrade. It's the zealots (like me) who like to have to squeeze the last MIPS from their CPU, who are ready to risk consistence of their systems, to test new features and enthusiastically greet newly found bugs, cheerfully reporting them to the developers (Yay! I found a bug!). Gentoo is just Slackware on steroids, more powerful, easier to use the power tools, all the gory details at hands of the user properly equipped to mess with them. Want a distro for production environment? Try RedHat Enterprise or Debian. Want a desktop? Get Mandrake or Linspire. Gentoo is a really bad choice for both.
unless of course you count miracles in. Or you take the story as retold by people who don't understand basic concepts of modern science. Consider the flood a big cataclysm, like an asteroid, "the evil people" as dinosaurs, the arc as an ecological niche and Noah with his family as mammals in general. Now tell the story of extinction of dinosaurs to a man who was born and lived some 4000 years ago, and see what he makes out of it, retelling it to others of his kin.
You are what you write in!
on
JOE Hits 3.0
·
· Score: 0, Flamebait
Jargon file::joe code:/joh' kohd`/ n. 1. Code that is overly {tense} and unmaintainable. "{Perl} may be a handy program, but if you look at the source, it's complete joe code." 2. Badly written, possibly buggy code.
...and then their "microsoft-sponsored" boxes get compromised and some real criminals lay their hands on your keys. I don't quite believe the government can keep my keys as safe as I keep them.
Maybe... but recent steps of Microsoft seem to prove it tries to head in the right direction. Giving up remaining a monopoly at all costs, cost of customer comfort being not the least, and finding a decent, wide niche in the OS market, as one of many, competing with others, but often cooperating too, accepting better solutions than their own without trying to cripple them (see Java VM, crippled Quicktime, forced integration of seriously inferior MSIE 3.x). It seems Microsoft noticed their destruction may be a completely unintended side effect of Linux growth if they don't stop being so evil, and just like IBM who was seen an evil empire, but nowadays is quite liked, Microsoft may try to do the Good Things because even if they don't pay in short term, as direct marketing profit, they will pay in long term, improving their reputation?
Several more kicks in the ass, just like the WMP case definitely help getting there. You might want to see Microsoft destroyed, sure. But would you really mind seeing Microsoft just becoming true Good Guys?
With window of 2^10 packets (1024, not too much on a big router) it gives 2^10/2^32 that's 1/2^22. Say entropy source isn't perfect, leaves some 1/2^18 chances out of that. Now send 2^10 such packets (poor 1024, what's that for a big router). 1/2^8 left. Say a connection is composed of 2^6 packets. one in four connections gets interrupted. Use 2^4 zombie boxes and perform it as a DDoS. BYE!
Insightful M2'ed unfair. WinXP. 15 users, admin login hardly ever used. I log in and see about 8 different programs launching in the taskbar, some adware, some spyware, some junk. It installed itself on other users' accounts and spread onto all accounts immediately. in Without admin privledges. But I can't install some important program I need: "Instalation requires administrative privledges". Sorry. It's windows. Whether you have admin rights or not, it doesn't matter.
Except the fact that it's rather poisonous and conducts electricity so it won't do any good to submerged electronics, it doesn't make things wet and has several other interesting properties as a liquid.
That's what some think. The bonus is there, though it's not big and with many weapons (especially daggers) it pays more to jab thrice quickly than to hold the button and hit once. The bonus is most visible with bows. You can spit an arrow with a short click, hardly damaging the enemy or hold the button till the bow is readied and you deliver pretty strong damage. The amount of time is same for all weapons - about 1s, so holding the button till your finger hurts achieves nothing, 1s or slightly more is the max. You can watch your character in 3pp, as it takes a swing to find the right timing.
D20 was thought as simplification to limit amount of calculations performed by players at cost of adequacy of simulating the world. So, you lose part of the reality by using very simplified system, then lose a lot more by limiting the player to what the authors had thought of and disabling all what the player could think of, but authors didn't implement. (classic problem of "you can't do that!. Why? Because you can't." In paper RPG you can try to climb a wall, dig through it with a pickaxe, throw a rope over it, stack items to climb them etc. In computer RPG you can only curse because it's the wall of the map and there's nothing beyond.).
I'd take Morrowind as the best example of modern system for computers. Take a fight. You press mouse button, by holding it longer you increase strength of hit a bit. But then there's calculation of fact of hit: Agility, speed, unarmoured, distance, fatigue, load and luck of the enemy vs your attack, weapon skill, agility, height comparing to enemy, fatigue, load, damage of weapon and luck. Then point of hit: Where you aimed your aiming cross, your skill, fatigue, luck. Then HP taken: Point of attack, armour on that point, corresponding armour skill of the enemy, damage of the armour, endurance, fatigue, HP, luck, your strength, weapon hit ratio, damage of weapon, your fatigue, your luck. And possibly quite a few I forgot. 3 hits with a dagger in one second, not a problem for a computer to calculate that. Think of a player performing such calculation "manually" at each attack. Porting paper systems straight to computers is plain dumb.
I'm "outdated" it seems because I don't suffer from the "too many blue LEDs" syndrome, but how hard would it be to i.e. apply a drop of white paint (or even whiteout) or at least rubbing it with sandpaper, as result simultaneously decreasing brightness and solving the "low visible angle" problem by scattering the light? And if you think that's not ellegant solution, just solder a resistor in the device in line with the LED, decreasing the brightness to pleasant level. Yeah, the only blue LED I have on my desk (in mouse) is lined with a potentiometer so only pleasant dim blue glow is visible in darkness.
One of characteristic properties of hackers seems to be that while they solve hard problems at once, they tend to complain about the simple ones indefinitely.
Hmm, Human body is almost 90% water. Dehydrate him, will be less than 10kg, and if you don't want his water to remain on earth, split it up into hydrogen and oxygen and donate as fuel to the rocket so it will be taken for free.
Slashdot Mirror
We do have separate words for 'libre' (wolne) and 'gratis'(darmowe). Unfortunately the word for 'libre' means also 'slow'. :P
Slow software? Not a catchy phrase
...without any compression...
I can easily imagine this: A lazy dialogue/cutscene that takes a while for realtime, without loading the CPU much, while the game engine renders frames of the high-action cutscene is to be shown in a moment. Frames rendered at 5-20FPS, but stored in memory and then replayed from RAM at 60FPS, with hyper effects impossible to achieve on this CPU at this speed. Old demosceners know all that tricks. I don't know if Nintendo actually used it, but I see no reason why they couldn't.
Receive the files okay, ask for more, and save them as JPG on your harddrive. And in case you need a hardcopy, print. In case of spam, just rm.
It's them who pay for overseas connection anyway.
This was a very newbie shot.
Intermediate user would poke rnd(9999),rnd(256).
Advanced did poke rnd(65536),rnd(256)
warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
And the same thing set me quite a bit ahead when I started programming assembly language for microcontrollers. No if(){...}. No else(). No for(). Just GOTO (jmp), GOSUB (call), and conditional jumps IF A0 GOTO 2 (jnz). Yeah, Atari Basic allowed no "THEN" if the instruction was GOTO.
What did the ?SN error come from? I remember it on Meritum...
1) Logic. If you read if(a && b & (!c)!=d) you should be able to understand it and also be able to reduce statements, finding i.e. least number of operations necessary to unambigiously distinguish discrete states. :)
2) Learn that friggin' hex, bin, oct at least!
3) Calculus. And above all, understand the basic principles of
lim[h->0](f(x+h)-f(x)/h
and learn to apply that in your programs. It's pretty much essential.
4) Planar geometry, if you plan on any gfx. 3D if you plan any 3D. Understanding basic concepts is important. Also matrices if you plan on any image processing.
5) Numerical methods. Come in handy now and then. Especially optimisation.
6) Basic transformations and other useful equations. No pow() but you have ln and exp? well, how much is x^17?
7) Fourier and family for compression/decompression (lossy) of multimedia.
8) Probability for lossless compression.
9) basic algebra, eh, you won't move far without y=ax^2+bx+c...
10) All the rest, just cuz every nerd should.
They take 1s from life of, say, 2 billion people. Let's take 2 billion seconds from their life. Sometimes it's more than 1s. Imagine this: I receive an email from a really critical account, say, set aside for emergency messages of my system. I have a setup that notifies me by SMS that an email arrived. So, I get an SMS, somewhere in the country. A hourly drive to the town. Half a hour of search for an internet cafe. Fifteen minutes to get to login into my account (convincing the cafe owner that PuTTY is not a trojan). 1 second to see the spam sent through "dictionary attack".
2 months to find the spammer and kill him.
I spend some time on Slashdot, because it's my conscious choice. I know I have certain amount of time and when there's something else to do, I just don't visit slashdot. But I never know what my emails contain and if immediate response isn't essential, so I check my email whenever my biff displays there's new mail. Spammers just abuse it.
Go, call 911 and ask them if they are interested in purchasing Viagra. Do this 200 times a day. See how long they will put up with you.
Sorry to debunk the myth of cross-platform architecture of Mozilla. I take a minor part in development of one of extensions, and pretty often we hit a block: It works on Windows, but not on Linux. Works on Windows and Linux, but not OS/2. A variable points to one element on one platform, different on another. There are quite a few chunks of platform-specific if(platform==...) code in the extension already, and there's more to come with recent bugfixes. Maybe some day XPToolkit will be trully cross-platform. For now it isn't.
Gentoo is not for enterprise users. It's not for desktop users. It's a godsend distro for Linux zealots. (and I'm typing that from my own Gentoo box, my free and conscious choice). First off, it's a "bleeding edge" distribution. The packages enter the tree sometimes within hours after release, and they are often from the the beta or even alfa releases. Production environments don't want "more new exciting features, NOW!. They want stability. Desktop users want reasonably well matched and decently stable software, which additionally doesn't takes days to upgrade. It's the zealots (like me) who like to have to squeeze the last MIPS from their CPU, who are ready to risk consistence of their systems, to test new features and enthusiastically greet newly found bugs, cheerfully reporting them to the developers (Yay! I found a bug!). Gentoo is just Slackware on steroids, more powerful, easier to use the power tools, all the gory details at hands of the user properly equipped to mess with them.
Want a distro for production environment? Try RedHat Enterprise or Debian.
Want a desktop? Get Mandrake or Linspire.
Gentoo is a really bad choice for both.
unless of course you count miracles in.
Or you take the story as retold by people who don't understand basic concepts of modern science.
Consider the flood a big cataclysm, like an asteroid, "the evil people" as dinosaurs, the arc as an ecological niche and Noah with his family as mammals in general. Now tell the story of extinction of dinosaurs to a man who was born and lived some 4000 years ago, and see what he makes out of it, retelling it to others of his kin.
Jargon file: :joe code: /joh' kohd`/ n. 1. Code that is overly {tense} and
unmaintainable. "{Perl} may be a handy program, but if you look at the
source, it's complete joe code." 2. Badly written, possibly buggy code.
...and then their "microsoft-sponsored" boxes get compromised and some real criminals lay their hands on your keys.
I don't quite believe the government can keep my keys as safe as I keep them.
Maybe there are two teams in Microsoft, each pulling in opposite direction? Internal battle? The lure of the Dark Side is still strong...
Maybe... but recent steps of Microsoft seem to prove it tries to head in the right direction. Giving up remaining a monopoly at all costs, cost of customer comfort being not the least, and finding a decent, wide niche in the OS market, as one of many, competing with others, but often cooperating too, accepting better solutions than their own without trying to cripple them (see Java VM, crippled Quicktime, forced integration of seriously inferior MSIE 3.x). It seems Microsoft noticed their destruction may be a completely unintended side effect of Linux growth if they don't stop being so evil, and just like IBM who was seen an evil empire, but nowadays is quite liked, Microsoft may try to do the Good Things because even if they don't pay in short term, as direct marketing profit, they will pay in long term, improving their reputation?
Several more kicks in the ass, just like the WMP case definitely help getting there. You might want to see Microsoft destroyed, sure. But would you really mind seeing Microsoft just becoming true Good Guys?
With window of 2^10 packets (1024, not too much on a big router) it gives 2^10/2^32 that's 1/2^22. Say entropy source isn't perfect, leaves some 1/2^18 chances out of that. Now send 2^10 such packets (poor 1024, what's that for a big router). 1/2^8 left. Say a connection is composed of 2^6 packets. one in four connections gets interrupted. Use 2^4 zombie boxes and perform it as a DDoS. BYE!
But is it Free or just gratis?
Insightful M2'ed unfair.
WinXP. 15 users, admin login hardly ever used. I log in and see about 8 different programs launching in the taskbar, some adware, some spyware, some junk. It installed itself on other users' accounts and spread onto all accounts immediately. in Without admin privledges. But I can't install some important program I need: "Instalation requires administrative privledges". Sorry.
It's windows. Whether you have admin rights or not, it doesn't matter.
Except the fact that it's rather poisonous and conducts electricity so it won't do any good to submerged electronics, it doesn't make things wet and has several other interesting properties as a liquid.
That's what some think. The bonus is there, though it's not big and with many weapons (especially daggers) it pays more to jab thrice quickly than to hold the button and hit once. The bonus is most visible with bows. You can spit an arrow with a short click, hardly damaging the enemy or hold the button till the bow is readied and you deliver pretty strong damage. The amount of time is same for all weapons - about 1s, so holding the button till your finger hurts achieves nothing, 1s or slightly more is the max. You can watch your character in 3pp, as it takes a swing to find the right timing.
D20 was thought as simplification to limit amount of calculations performed by players at cost of adequacy of simulating the world. So, you lose part of the reality by using very simplified system, then lose a lot more by limiting the player to what the authors had thought of and disabling all what the player could think of, but authors didn't implement. (classic problem of "you can't do that!. Why? Because you can't." In paper RPG you can try to climb a wall, dig through it with a pickaxe, throw a rope over it, stack items to climb them etc. In computer RPG you can only curse because it's the wall of the map and there's nothing beyond.).
I'd take Morrowind as the best example of modern system for computers.
Take a fight. You press mouse button, by holding it longer you increase strength of hit a bit. But then there's calculation of fact of hit: Agility, speed, unarmoured, distance, fatigue, load and luck of the enemy vs your attack, weapon skill, agility, height comparing to enemy, fatigue, load, damage of weapon and luck.
Then point of hit: Where you aimed your aiming cross, your skill, fatigue, luck.
Then HP taken: Point of attack, armour on that point, corresponding armour skill of the enemy, damage of the armour, endurance, fatigue, HP, luck, your strength, weapon hit ratio, damage of weapon, your fatigue, your luck.
And possibly quite a few I forgot.
3 hits with a dagger in one second, not a problem for a computer to calculate that. Think of a player performing such calculation "manually" at each attack.
Porting paper systems straight to computers is plain dumb.
I'm "outdated" it seems because I don't suffer from the "too many blue LEDs" syndrome, but how hard would it be to i.e. apply a drop of white paint (or even whiteout) or at least rubbing it with sandpaper, as result simultaneously decreasing brightness and solving the "low visible angle" problem by scattering the light? And if you think that's not ellegant solution, just solder a resistor in the device in line with the LED, decreasing the brightness to pleasant level.
Yeah, the only blue LED I have on my desk (in mouse) is lined with a potentiometer so only pleasant dim blue glow is visible in darkness.
One of characteristic properties of hackers seems to be that while they solve hard problems at once, they tend to complain about the simple ones indefinitely.
Hmm, Human body is almost 90% water. Dehydrate him, will be less than 10kg, and if you don't want his water to remain on earth, split it up into hydrogen and oxygen and donate as fuel to the rocket so it will be taken for free.
Damn it, I just realised.
HUMAN body.