In Halo 1, they explain why you are able to understand the Covenant. Rather than them speaking English, they speak normally, but the AI you are carrying around with you understands the Convenant language and translates it to English for you. Very convenient.
I do enjoy hearing what the Covenant grunts have to say. "Uh oh! Bad guy somewhere!", "Run, grenade!", or when they have a plasma grenade stuck to them, a very panicked "Aaaiiieeeeee!".
I don't yet have Steam on my machine, but from what I hear, you can play offline after you've registered. I think you have to click on the Steam icon in the icon tray and set it to offline mode or something like that.
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It will indeed be an impossible task. There is a lot of music that cannot be obtained via the Internet.
There are the garage bands, as you pointed out, and there is a huge amount of non-English music that tends not to make it outside of the native country. Not only may foreign music be difficult to obtain when it's popular music in a country, say for example, Latvia, but imagine how difficult it would be to obtain recordings that relatively unknown local Latvian musicians have made.
I think this guy just enjoys collecting. Its the Pokemon phenomenon, "Gotta catch 'em all!".
Ever since that article was linked to on Slashdot, there have been numerous vandalisms by Slashdot trolls and revisions to the previous version.
The link actually goes to a page that redirects you to the real article. When I went there, someone had vandalised the redirection page to be just blank. I was initially confused, realized that it was a vandalism, and when I went to revert it, I found that in those few seconds someone else had already done it.
So although the increased traffic is resulting in more vandalism, it's also resulting in more oversight, so it all evens out in the end.
It's amusing to look at the history and see what various vandalisms were done. There's a lot of typical Slashdot trolls, so it's obvious a lot of vandals are Slashdot users.
I notice that people who make these type of statements tend to be in dominant positions of power.
I'm willing to bet U.S. citizens will be singing a different tune in 300 years when the United States has lost its position as a superpower, and they're getting pushed around by a stronger country (China, maybe?).
We also have very little traffic, nice neighborhoods, good schools, cheap houses, and low property taxes.
...for the white people that is. From what I hear, if you're not white and Protestant in Alabama, you get to live in the crappy neighborhoods in the crappy houses, are regarded with disdain and disgust by the locals, and are generally blamed for everything that goes wrong.
At least that's how the stereotype goes here in California. Sometimes I'm skeptical about that, but occasionally someone who lived in the southern states tells me that racism is still fairly overt there. That could be a *huge* disadvantage living in a rural area or anywhere in the South, especially if you don't fit in.
...they are breathing something, but I doubt it's just air
Sometimes I wonder if all the legislators aren't just having a giant marijuana smokeout in the Capitol.
"Hey man, wouldn't it be cool to pass this crazy law?"
"Yeah man! That would be totally awesome! Now pass the bong."
"This stuff is really good, almost as good as the stuff we were smoking at time Bush got us all baked before we voted to go to war with Iraq. That Texas "sagebrush" that he's always harvesting is some quality stuff. Good times."
Oops. Looks like you posted under the wrong story by mistake. I think you meant to post under the Winamp story, and not the Windows Source code story.:)
I find that in a few years there will scarcely be any price difference between what is mid-range and high-end now.
So generally, I buy computer hardware that is upper-mid-range: it runs the latest and greatest games just fine and costs a lot less than the high-end stuff. Sure I'll have to upgrade a little bit sooner, but not by much, because a few years down the road, mid-end and high-end will be nearly the same.
There used to be a big difference between a 1Ghz and 1.5 Ghz machine back when 1.5Ghz was the high-end, but now there's not a huge difference. They're both considered "old" and won't run the latest fancy-schmancy games. They're both capable of running less demanding games and most apps just fine.
The person with the 1Ghz machine may have to upgrade a bit earlier, but the small amount of time difference is not worth the price difference back when the machines were purchased.
Does anyone else feel like DaVinci is becoming the Nostradamus of technology?
For every event that occurs, people point to something Nostradamus said and claimed that he predicted it. Sure, what Nostradamus actually said was very vague and can be made to fit a huge number of events, as no astrologer worth his salt would be too specific for fear of losing his job.
It also seems that for virtually every technology that comes out, DaVinci managed to invent it a long time ago. Sometimes it's obvious, but it sometimes it seems it's all about interpretation. Sure the device in his drawings could possibly do this or could possibly do that, but is it really so or are people just wanting it to be that way? It seems to be a lot of interpretation, and I've heard so much of it, I'm starting to become rather sceptical.
Similar to this, Christian fundamentalists love to quote Bible verses to "prove" their point. Not only do Bible verses not hold any water with me, but it seems like anyone can find Bible quotes to support virtually *any* view they have. It would surprise me if there were verses from the Bible, which interpreted in the right way, would support baby sacrifice or atheism.
It's all about taking already existing facts or words and making them say what you want them to say.
If you have U.S. citizenship, you have to pay taxes to the government of United States, no matter where you live. If you live in another country, you don't have to pay taxes for the first 80K dollars of income, but you do have to pay taxes for anything over that amount.
Of course, if you're working in another country, there's no way the IRS is going to be able to know how much you actually earn. So you can tell them you earn very little, and they wouldn't know the difference unless you were someone wealthy and prominent.
I doubt any of the founding fathers would be at all surprised by today's politics. They were themselves experienced politicians, and 18th-century politics (especially in a frontier country) could get pretty rough.
Then, as now, politicians of all parties would try to be appealing to the voters as possible, even it it meant vague and broken promises.
The founding fathers were surprisingly cynical at times because they knew the nature of man and politics.
I wonder how long it would take to knock out all the satellites. I assume that if all the satelites are orbiting in the same direction, ball bearings going the opposite direction could destroy them in a matter of hours.
But do all military satellites orbit in the same direction? If not, then I guess you would have to launch two sets of ball bearings, heading in opposite directions for a particular altitude.
It's certainly an interesting idea. It sure would make Earth orbit a complete mess for years to come.
I heard that kids usually vote for the incubant in a presidential race because they like familiarity. They are already familiar with Bush as president, so they want to vote for him. It wouldn't surprise me if children mostly wanted Clinton to win in 1996.
I'm curious about which candidates children supported during the 2000 election. Gore was well-known as the Vice-President, but Bush was a fairly well-known name, due to the previous president Bush.
Truly society has is doomed when we are under assault from millions of infant hackers! I say we arrest all infants and charge them with the violation of the DMCA!
Loose morals are to blame for this horrible sequence of events. Vote religious wackos...err, I mean "good, moral people" into power so that we can end the threat of infact hackers by keeping them from the awful corruptors of youth, "knowledge" and "education".
Scratch insurance? Oh great. They're trying to do anything these days to increase their profit margin.
Let's see. You can't do anything you want with the software because it's just licensed to you, so the companies can dictate what you do with it.
Bud suddenly when you break it, the company won't let you replace the CD without buying another copy despite the fact you still own a license! Then they try to keep you from copying it? I would like to have a backup I play off so I can go back to the original if it get scratched!
Sherman tanks did indeed have an advantage in numbers, but they were so lightly armored that they were known by the soldiers as rolling coffins.
Being put in a Sherman was pretty much a death sentence. Few Sherman crews managed to survive a long time in those things. Back in WW2, lots of losses were the norm and conscription provided replacement manpower.
Now with a volunteer army, the U.S. military invests a lot of money in training its soldiers, and doesn't have large amounts of replacements.
Even if human life is cheap, it's much cheaper to build expensive things that protect personnel than to constantly be training lots of replacements for those that were lost. Not only do you have to spend all the money to replace them, the soldiers' experience gained on the battlefield is also lost. An experienced soldier is a lot more effective than a new recruit.
The cheap, lightly-armored, swarming approach would probably be very effective for Chinese army, where they have manpower out the ears (due to population and conscription), and don't place much value on human life.
It seems to me that it will eventually make it easier to forge Passports.
People are lazy and cheap.
The government doesn't want to have to pay a bunch of agents to look at passports and agents don't want to have to look at passports all day long. I predict that with RFID chips embedded in passports, there will just be devices that you wave your passport near and they will check to see its validity. There will be a security guard nearby to jump on anyone that fails the scan, but nobody will be actually looking at the passports.
Along come Mr. Forger. He no longer needs to concentrate on making special paper, holigrams, and the like: all he needs to do is make it look decent and put a good RFID chip inside.
The only problem: where to get some valid RFID numbers. That's easy! Just hang out at the airport for a few hours with an RFID scanning device, brushing against people and scanning their passports. Then take home the numbers and create some RFID tags with them.
This wouldn't work as well if a picture popped up on a security guard's screen so that they can verify the holder of the passport looked like what they had on file, but...people are lazy.
The original Kalashnikov model was designed, amazingly enough, by a Russian engineer by the name of Mikhail Kalashnikov.
It was called "Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947", meaning something like "Kalashnikov's Gun 1947". It was shortened to AK-47. Kalashnikov models since then have different numbers, but they are all still known in the U.S. as AK-47.
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In Halo 1, they explain why you are able to understand the Covenant. Rather than them speaking English, they speak normally, but the AI you are carrying around with you understands the Convenant language and translates it to English for you. Very convenient.
I do enjoy hearing what the Covenant grunts have to say. "Uh oh! Bad guy somewhere!", "Run, grenade!", or when they have a plasma grenade stuck to them, a very panicked "Aaaiiieeeeee!".
I don't yet have Steam on my machine, but from what I hear, you can play offline after you've registered. I think you have to click on the Steam icon in the icon tray and set it to offline mode or something like that.
It will indeed be an impossible task. There is a lot of music that cannot be obtained via the Internet.
There are the garage bands, as you pointed out, and there is a huge amount of non-English music that tends not to make it outside of the native country. Not only may foreign music be difficult to obtain when it's popular music in a country, say for example, Latvia, but imagine how difficult it would be to obtain recordings that relatively unknown local Latvian musicians have made.
I think this guy just enjoys collecting. Its the Pokemon phenomenon, "Gotta catch 'em all!".
Ever since that article was linked to on Slashdot, there have been numerous vandalisms by Slashdot trolls and revisions to the previous version.
The link actually goes to a page that redirects you to the real article. When I went there, someone had vandalised the redirection page to be just blank. I was initially confused, realized that it was a vandalism, and when I went to revert it, I found that in those few seconds someone else had already done it.
So although the increased traffic is resulting in more vandalism, it's also resulting in more oversight, so it all evens out in the end.
It's amusing to look at the history and see what various vandalisms were done. There's a lot of typical Slashdot trolls, so it's obvious a lot of vandals are Slashdot users.
I notice that people who make these type of statements tend to be in dominant positions of power.
I'm willing to bet U.S. citizens will be singing a different tune in 300 years when the United States has lost its position as a superpower, and they're getting pushed around by a stronger country (China, maybe?).
We also have very little traffic, nice neighborhoods, good schools, cheap houses, and low property taxes.
...for the white people that is. From what I hear, if you're not white and Protestant in Alabama, you get to live in the crappy neighborhoods in the crappy houses, are regarded with disdain and disgust by the locals, and are generally blamed for everything that goes wrong.
At least that's how the stereotype goes here in California. Sometimes I'm skeptical about that, but occasionally someone who lived in the southern states tells me that racism is still fairly overt there. That could be a *huge* disadvantage living in a rural area or anywhere in the South, especially if you don't fit in.
Is there any truth to that?
I knew computers and technological devices became obsolete at an insane rate, but this is ridiculous!
Equipment is now obsolete before it's invented! So obsolete, in fact, that it's in a museum!
Sometimes I wonder if all the legislators aren't just having a giant marijuana smokeout in the Capitol.
"Hey man, wouldn't it be cool to pass this crazy law?"
"Yeah man! That would be totally awesome! Now pass the bong."
"This stuff is really good, almost as good as the stuff we were smoking at time Bush got us all baked before we voted to go to war with Iraq. That Texas "sagebrush" that he's always harvesting is some quality stuff. Good times."
Oops. Looks like you posted under the wrong story by mistake. I think you meant to post under the Winamp story, and not the Windows Source code story. :)
I find that in a few years there will scarcely be any price difference between what is mid-range and high-end now.
So generally, I buy computer hardware that is upper-mid-range: it runs the latest and greatest games just fine and costs a lot less than the high-end stuff. Sure I'll have to upgrade a little bit sooner, but not by much, because a few years down the road, mid-end and high-end will be nearly the same.
There used to be a big difference between a 1Ghz and 1.5 Ghz machine back when 1.5Ghz was the high-end, but now there's not a huge difference. They're both considered "old" and won't run the latest fancy-schmancy games. They're both capable of running less demanding games and most apps just fine.
The person with the 1Ghz machine may have to upgrade a bit earlier, but the small amount of time difference is not worth the price difference back when the machines were purchased.
Does anyone else feel like DaVinci is becoming the Nostradamus of technology?
For every event that occurs, people point to something Nostradamus said and claimed that he predicted it. Sure, what Nostradamus actually said was very vague and can be made to fit a huge number of events, as no astrologer worth his salt would be too specific for fear of losing his job.
It also seems that for virtually every technology that comes out, DaVinci managed to invent it a long time ago. Sometimes it's obvious, but it sometimes it seems it's all about interpretation. Sure the device in his drawings could possibly do this or could possibly do that, but is it really so or are people just wanting it to be that way? It seems to be a lot of interpretation, and I've heard so much of it, I'm starting to become rather sceptical.
Similar to this, Christian fundamentalists love to quote Bible verses to "prove" their point. Not only do Bible verses not hold any water with me, but it seems like anyone can find Bible quotes to support virtually *any* view they have. It would surprise me if there were verses from the Bible, which interpreted in the right way, would support baby sacrifice or atheism.
It's all about taking already existing facts or words and making them say what you want them to say.
I hope they're not thinking of bundling Slashcode with Firefox. I had to reload about 3 times to get this page to display correctly.
If you have U.S. citizenship, you have to pay taxes to the government of United States, no matter where you live. If you live in another country, you don't have to pay taxes for the first 80K dollars of income, but you do have to pay taxes for anything over that amount.
Of course, if you're working in another country, there's no way the IRS is going to be able to know how much you actually earn. So you can tell them you earn very little, and they wouldn't know the difference unless you were someone wealthy and prominent.
I doubt any of the founding fathers would be at all surprised by today's politics. They were themselves experienced politicians, and 18th-century politics (especially in a frontier country) could get pretty rough.
Then, as now, politicians of all parties would try to be appealing to the voters as possible, even it it meant vague and broken promises.
The founding fathers were surprisingly cynical at times because they knew the nature of man and politics.
I wonder how long it would take to knock out all the satellites. I assume that if all the satelites are orbiting in the same direction, ball bearings going the opposite direction could destroy them in a matter of hours.
But do all military satellites orbit in the same direction? If not, then I guess you would have to launch two sets of ball bearings, heading in opposite directions for a particular altitude.
It's certainly an interesting idea. It sure would make Earth orbit a complete mess for years to come.
I heard that kids usually vote for the incubant in a presidential race because they like familiarity. They are already familiar with Bush as president, so they want to vote for him. It wouldn't surprise me if children mostly wanted Clinton to win in 1996.
I'm curious about which candidates children supported during the 2000 election. Gore was well-known as the Vice-President, but Bush was a fairly well-known name, due to the previous president Bush.
Even infants are busy at work cracking code?
Truly society has is doomed when we are under assault from millions of infant hackers! I say we arrest all infants and charge them with the violation of the DMCA!
Loose morals are to blame for this horrible sequence of events. Vote religious wackos...err, I mean "good, moral people" into power so that we can end the threat of infact hackers by keeping them from the awful corruptors of youth, "knowledge" and "education".
Won't you please think of the children!
Bah! Back in my day there was no documentation!
We would figure out what to do by tracing through the assembly code on paper!
You youngins have it good these days.
What's with all the PHP book reviews recently? I seem to recall seeing three reviews within the last several months for various PHP books.
They must be publishing these things like mad.
Scratch insurance? Oh great. They're trying to do anything these days to increase their profit margin.
Let's see. You can't do anything you want with the software because it's just licensed to you, so the companies can dictate what you do with it.
Bud suddenly when you break it, the company won't let you replace the CD without buying another copy despite the fact you still own a license! Then they try to keep you from copying it? I would like to have a backup I play off so I can go back to the original if it get scratched!
Scratch insurance. Ridiculous!
This movie sounds absolutely terrible to me. A movie based on an almost plotless action game appears to be...doomed.
Sherman tanks did indeed have an advantage in numbers, but they were so lightly armored that they were known by the soldiers as rolling coffins.
Being put in a Sherman was pretty much a death sentence. Few Sherman crews managed to survive a long time in those things. Back in WW2, lots of losses were the norm and conscription provided replacement manpower.
Now with a volunteer army, the U.S. military invests a lot of money in training its soldiers, and doesn't have large amounts of replacements.
Even if human life is cheap, it's much cheaper to build expensive things that protect personnel than to constantly be training lots of replacements for those that were lost. Not only do you have to spend all the money to replace them, the soldiers' experience gained on the battlefield is also lost. An experienced soldier is a lot more effective than a new recruit.
The cheap, lightly-armored, swarming approach would probably be very effective for Chinese army, where they have manpower out the ears (due to population and conscription), and don't place much value on human life.
It seems to me that it will eventually make it easier to forge Passports.
People are lazy and cheap.
The government doesn't want to have to pay a bunch of agents to look at passports and agents don't want to have to look at passports all day long. I predict that with RFID chips embedded in passports, there will just be devices that you wave your passport near and they will check to see its validity. There will be a security guard nearby to jump on anyone that fails the scan, but nobody will be actually looking at the passports.
Along come Mr. Forger. He no longer needs to concentrate on making special paper, holigrams, and the like: all he needs to do is make it look decent and put a good RFID chip inside.
The only problem: where to get some valid RFID numbers. That's easy! Just hang out at the airport for a few hours with an RFID scanning device, brushing against people and scanning their passports. Then take home the numbers and create some RFID tags with them.
This wouldn't work as well if a picture popped up on a security guard's screen so that they can verify the holder of the passport looked like what they had on file, but...people are lazy.
The original Kalashnikov model was designed, amazingly enough, by a Russian engineer by the name of Mikhail Kalashnikov.
It was called "Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947", meaning something like "Kalashnikov's Gun 1947". It was shortened to AK-47. Kalashnikov models since then have different numbers, but they are all still known in the U.S. as AK-47.
Is anyone else seriously frightened by the thought of this?
I hope the auto manufacturers do some very extensive testing if they should choose that option.