1) GTA-VC. Sucks. Things out of view appear and disappear at random. You look behind for a second and a car you were chasing disappears in thin air, or you are in a locked room, watch the door, and suddenly a cop starts shooting at you from behind. Consistency badly broken, I'd say the worst thing about the game. Not to say the game itself is not enjoyable, but certainly it's less than it could be.
2) Summoner. Rocks. For the first half of the game you proceed towards some obscure end, collect summoning rings, fulfill orders of a wise, trusted friend, who begs you for help, because "otherwise we might be doomed", such standard stuff. And then, when you think "Cool, I did it!", it appears good guys are bad guys, that all the time you worked towards destruction of the world, that all you've believed in is false, all precisely built consistency gets crushed, you aren't sure of anything anymore, you get paranoid, afraid of your former friends, of getting backstabbed by someone... Suddenly the game catches a second breath and what was getting quite boring suddenly becomes an amazing story! And yes, the game sucks at several points seriously, but in general, inconsistent the storyline is great.
Really, if such huge increase was possible, there must have been a lot of room for it. If you face a really well written program, you have a hard time to speed it up by 5%. If you can speed it up by 50% without loss in other domains, it must have been seriously flawed.
Yeah, mod me flamebait. But first think if I'm really wrong.
The bug is not allowing URLs style: http://fake.host.as.username@the.real.evil .host/ This is perfectly legal and most people will spot it! (well, at least I do.) The bug is: http://fake.host.as.username[somespecialchar] @the. real.evil.host/ where the special character prevents IE from displaying anything after it. This is NOT the case in other browsers, this is a serious vulnerablity (because no matter how hard you look at the URL bar in IE, you won't see the URL is fake) and this is THE way crackers and spammers exploit the bug!
Yeah, that "fast rendering engine" nearly drove me mad when I had to create a webpage with some drop-down menus, before terrible deadline.
You want to have a DIV visible or not. Nothing easier, display: none, sure. On Opera it results in getting the DIV displayed or not, as desired. But its contents - sorry. I get an empty menu box. Other DOM elements don't get realigned on element size change. Child elements of an element don't inherit newly changed properties. The hacks applied to Opera engine to make it faster are horrible.
If sniper rifles were so great, most armies would be 50% snipers, or more. The truth is, a sniper is very rare soldier, because besides superb sight, just incredibly firm hand is required. I remember some games from times of Amiga (The Lost Patrol and Hostages come in mind) where sniping was something extremely difficult - because of shaky aiming cross, that was moving all over the target. From recent titles, Hitman and Hitman 2 had some of that - waving the gun vertically, though horizontal aim was firmly set. When I play Unreal Tournament or HalfLife, I can aim at guy's ear, remain in the same position for a hour, and if the guy doesn't move in the meantime, the aim will remain on the ear. This is ridiculous - even best sniper couldn't hold his weapon aimed, without support, for so long. If game authors took into account the minor fact that aiming with a 5+kg gun is not the same thing as aiming with a mouse, and changed aiming procedure to "more shaky", sniper guns would be far less of an uber weapon. BTW, a great way to include an extra "parameter" for all games with RPG-like player stats. Better hand, less shaky.
but his "interactive shell" is tcsh. (some day he posted some example of some bug or something, I don't recall completely, on LKML, where he c&p'd the tcsh command prompt together with commands)
Richard Stallman, as I heard, uses Emacs to mostly everything, instead of a desktop. File management, websurfing, emails, hacking, all that kinds of stuff Emacs is able to do...
End all your activities 3 hours before sunset, fill up your batteries and doze through the night, keeping the RAM on battery backup. Reformat the flash with high redundancy, store your data in 3-4 copies, mark bad bytes and exclude them from further usage. Set up bootstrap to aim the antenna at Earth in the morning, to download complete OS as the first daily procedure.
Most probably the first thing though. Just run on battery backup overnight.
You can tailor your iso by selecting modules, thereby reducing the dowload to as little as 150 mb which could be done on a modem (if you have all day)....or which leaves you 550MB+ for your own custom applications and data you need running on that system. (think presentations (possibly as movies), thesis, custom hardware drivers development environment for that custom hardware (crosscompilers etc), thorough documentation, etc, etc.)
Just remount the drive RW and it works, though not really reliably. But if I use the CD with a USB drive (Nokia 5510 phone, MP3 storage area;) I get pretty decent system I can have up and running anywhere - with stuff I want. I'm slowly running short on the USB diskspace though, so... I think I'll just switch to morphix and burn whatever I need to the CD.
Practical application: Development and control system for a custom-built device model.
US central bank sent back to the producer a batch of professional heavy-duty printing machines they had bought in order to print dollar bills. The built-in money detection prevents them from printing the bills. They plan outsourcing production of US Dollars to India.
In other news: US Inflation lowest since last 3 months.
this is the tradeoff between interpretation languages (python) and compiled languages (c, java)
Oh well, don't drag Java into that. Especially concerning speed.
BTW, I'm not sure about python, someone please straighten this out - I bet it's similar, but Perl isn't "interpreted language" as such. It is some kind of hybrid: From user point of view it's interpreted, the program is its own source code etc. But from the system's point of view, it's compiled, only compilation takes place right before launching the program - when you type "./hello_world.pl" first it gets compiled to memory, and then the freshly compiled code is executed (as opposed to interpreted language where each command is evaluated before execution), so it's almost as fast as similar compiled languages, with maybe a bit more "startup time" but just as much "runtime efficiency".
Then people pissed off by waiting for several MB of commercial downloading, will just go to other site that doesn't spam. No page views, no people watching commercials, no customers to their own services - competition is more user-friendly. Magic hand of free market.
How long till Moore's law concerning Internet stops working just because Internet usage reaches 100% humanity and further growth will be held by number of humans able to use the net - living on this planet?...unless we count that once 100% is reached, enough people will buy "second computer", install "second internet service", keeping the "double size in 10 months" rate?
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"It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
Well, let me use 2 examples.
1) GTA-VC. Sucks. Things out of view appear and disappear at random. You look behind for a second and a car you were chasing disappears in thin air, or you are in a locked room, watch the door, and suddenly a cop starts shooting at you from behind. Consistency badly broken, I'd say the worst thing about the game. Not to say the game itself is not enjoyable, but certainly it's less than it could be.
2) Summoner. Rocks. For the first half of the game you proceed towards some obscure end, collect summoning rings, fulfill orders of a wise, trusted friend, who begs you for help, because "otherwise we might be doomed", such standard stuff. And then, when you think "Cool, I did it!", it appears good guys are bad guys, that all the time you worked towards destruction of the world, that all you've believed in is false, all precisely built consistency gets crushed, you aren't sure of anything anymore, you get paranoid, afraid of your former friends, of getting backstabbed by someone... Suddenly the game catches a second breath and what was getting quite boring suddenly becomes an amazing story! And yes, the game sucks at several points seriously, but in general, inconsistent the storyline is great.
110 is 270 microseconds.
112 is 240 microseconds.
116 is 47 milliseconds
Can we say they really exist, or should we call it rather a random aglomeration of electrons, protons and neutrons?
Saying they were created is just like saying jumping is flying.
Maybe one of them, maybe both...
1) The new kernel is really very good.
2) The old kernel is really very bad.
Really, if such huge increase was possible, there must have been a lot of room for it. If you face a really well written program, you have a hard time to speed it up by 5%. If you can speed it up by 50% without loss in other domains, it must have been seriously flawed.
Yeah, mod me flamebait. But first think if I'm really wrong.
The bug is not allowing URLs style:
http://fake.host.as.username@the.real.evi
This is perfectly legal and most people will spot it! (well, at least I do.)
The bug is:
http://fake.host.as.username[somespecialchar
where the special character prevents IE from displaying anything after it.
This is NOT the case in other browsers, this is a serious vulnerablity (because no matter how hard you look at the URL bar in IE, you won't see the URL is fake) and this is THE way crackers and spammers exploit the bug!
Yeah, that "fast rendering engine" nearly drove me mad when I had to create a webpage with some drop-down menus, before terrible deadline.
You want to have a DIV visible or not. Nothing easier, display: none, sure. On Opera it results in getting the DIV displayed or not, as desired. But its contents - sorry. I get an empty menu box. Other DOM elements don't get realigned on element size change. Child elements of an element don't inherit newly changed properties. The hacks applied to Opera engine to make it faster are horrible.
http://preferential.mozdev.org/
Well, people aren't always evil. :)
You know, Putty, the free SSH client...
www.putty.org
See bottom-right corner
If sniper rifles were so great, most armies would be 50% snipers, or more.
The truth is, a sniper is very rare soldier, because besides superb sight, just incredibly firm hand is required.
I remember some games from times of Amiga (The Lost Patrol and Hostages come in mind) where sniping was something extremely difficult - because of shaky aiming cross, that was moving all over the target. From recent titles, Hitman and Hitman 2 had some of that - waving the gun vertically, though horizontal aim was firmly set. When I play Unreal Tournament or HalfLife, I can aim at guy's ear, remain in the same position for a hour, and if the guy doesn't move in the meantime, the aim will remain on the ear. This is ridiculous - even best sniper couldn't hold his weapon aimed, without support, for so long. If game authors took into account the minor fact that aiming with a 5+kg gun is not the same thing as aiming with a mouse, and changed aiming procedure to "more shaky", sniper guns would be far less of an uber weapon.
BTW, a great way to include an extra "parameter" for all games with RPG-like player stats. Better hand, less shaky.
but his "interactive shell" is tcsh.
(some day he posted some example of some bug or something, I don't recall completely, on LKML, where he c&p'd the tcsh command prompt together with commands)
Richard Stallman, as I heard, uses Emacs to mostly everything, instead of a desktop. File management, websurfing, emails, hacking, all that kinds of stuff Emacs is able to do...
and given the extreme smoothness of the landscape (indicative of erosion of some sort, possibly water-related)
Don't forget Mars storms. Sand blown by dry wind at 200+km/h, can polish any surface smooth much better than water - and it's common there!.
End all your activities 3 hours before sunset, fill up your batteries and doze through the night, keeping the RAM on battery backup.
Reformat the flash with high redundancy, store your data in 3-4 copies, mark bad bytes and exclude them from further usage.
Set up bootstrap to aim the antenna at Earth in the morning, to download complete OS as the first daily procedure.
Most probably the first thing though. Just run on battery backup overnight.
You can tailor your iso by selecting modules, thereby reducing the dowload to as little as 150 mb which could be done on a modem (if you have all day).
Just remount the drive RW and it works, though not really reliably. ;) I get pretty decent system I can have up and running anywhere - with stuff I want.
But if I use the CD with a USB drive (Nokia 5510 phone, MP3 storage area
I'm slowly running short on the USB diskspace though, so... I think I'll just switch to morphix and burn whatever I need to the CD.
Practical application: Development and control system for a custom-built device model.
Sig test - do not mod.
but besides Infrared, it emits visible light, noise and smell.
Electrolytic transistors work well as Boom generators, just reverse the polarisation.
US central bank sent back to the producer a batch of professional heavy-duty printing machines they had bought in order to print dollar bills. The built-in money detection prevents them from printing the bills. They plan outsourcing production of US Dollars to India.
In other news:
US Inflation lowest since last 3 months.
this is the tradeoff between interpretation languages (python) and compiled languages (c, java)
Oh well, don't drag Java into that. Especially concerning speed.
BTW, I'm not sure about python, someone please straighten this out - I bet it's similar, but Perl isn't "interpreted language" as such. It is some kind of hybrid: From user point of view it's interpreted, the program is its own source code etc. But from the system's point of view, it's compiled, only compilation takes place right before launching the program - when you type "./hello_world.pl" first it gets compiled to memory, and then the freshly compiled code is executed (as opposed to interpreted language where each command is evaluated before execution), so it's almost as fast as similar compiled languages, with maybe a bit more "startup time" but just as much "runtime efficiency".
Then people pissed off by waiting for several MB of commercial downloading, will just go to other site that doesn't spam.
No page views, no people watching commercials, no customers to their own services - competition is more user-friendly. Magic hand of free market.
WEBRING is a copyrighted name of the Microsoft Corporation.
Sorry.
For everyone complaining about quality of the net dropping...
Just see this - Beautiful in its ugliness, isn't it?
How long till Moore's law concerning Internet stops working just because Internet usage reaches 100% humanity and further growth will be held by number of humans able to use the net - living on this planet? ...unless we count that once 100% is reached, enough people will buy "second computer", install "second internet service", keeping the "double size in 10 months" rate?
...they couldn't find sponsors?
will see what porn you are watching :)