Ugh, I have to point this out every time someone makes this assertion.
The fact of the matter is every Tom, Dick and Jane moron drives. If the vehicle accidents only showed people with actual driving skill then you could compare to flying in a plane but throwing in the general population against trained maintenance staff and pilots is rediculous. Now I know there are times when even the best driver may not be able to avoid a bad situation but the statistics don't make any distinction between driving skill and death rate.
Maybe compare truck driving deaths per mile travelled versus plane deaths per mile or something. Even that might not be accurate but would probably be at least a little more close to accurate.
Are there XML-RPC equivalents for YAML and/or JSON? Although I'm sure it would be easy to create something I am just wondering if there is any sort of standard.
How do you process YAML or JSON in Javascript (eg. in a browser)? Most browsers have built-in support for processing XML.
By seriously I mean the graphics mostly. I mean yes it matches with rock culture but it's all dark and serious looking versus the pop candy Japanese look these types of games normally have.
Well I finally got the game (actually Guitar Hero 2) and... Meh. It's not as fun as I would have thought from all the people on the Internet.
I mean I love these type of games. I built a DDR machine in fact. But Guitar Hero doesn't get the formula quite right. It takes itself too seriously and that damn 3D scrolling fretboard sucks ass. Not only is it hard to read because everything starts tiny and gets larger but after playing a few minutes it seriously screws up your vision. Look at a wood grain pattern after playing for a while, it's like you're on LSD.
The "too serious" and the fretboard design (is it trying to make it easier because they think you need more time to see what's coming?) feel very American and that's not the formula that made DDR so popular.
But it is backed by something physical. It's backed by real money paid by the subscribers and anything else the company makes real money with. That money then funds the virtual funds and sets the exchange rate.
It's not an unlimited resource. Consider this, if everyone extracted all their in-game funds the company needs to pay those out in real money therefore those funds must be available like at any other bank.
Depends on the kind of pasta. No intelligent healthy eater uses regular white pasta. It's not good for you. Like you said, you might as well be eating sugar.
100% whole wheat durum pasta is the only way to go. Lots of fiber and protein in there. Look for pasta where the ingredients are: "Whole wheat durum" and nothing else. Good stuff.
Now I know people will correct me and say it's not a war show but is instead a drama. But still, compared to the miniseries and most of the earlier seasons the action has been lacking (for example "33" was awesome). I think the drama/action balance was better in previous seasons. Currently it's almost all drama save for a few sequences here and there and there's all that crap left from the "New Caprica" arc with main characters getting married and all sorts of touchy feely junk.
The whole "new Caprica" arc was what really killed the show for me. They skipped something like 10 years which just left a bad taste in my mouth and ruined the storyline. The lead up to it just didn't make any sense (Commander Lee Adama anyone?).
Don't get me wrong, I still love the show. It's actually one of the few things worth watching on TV and the last episode wasn't too bad but I hope they pull the show back in the direction of the original arc.
Even better is to physically store it on something like a smartcard. Even with a simple 4 digit PIN it offers substantial security over plaintext. Then the card can authenticate the user using extremely complex methods if desired (PKI or very long/complex passwords). Plus it can store authentication for multiple systems easily.
Then you have decent physical security as well. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect but it is still very effective.
The main problem I see with this is that the ground is not static. It's always moving around (earthquakes or just normal movement). A slight shift in one of these tunnels would shut the whole thing down. How would you fix that? Make new tunnels? Air vehicles don't have to deal with this.
No, there was an official (non-free) version with SDK. This was based on one of the later AmigaOS versions, not version 3. It was part of the "AmigaAnywhere" thing (see amiga.com).
Actually I thought there was an x86 version of AmigaOS 4 floating around. This was the demo/SDK you could boot up in Linux or Windows. Was this a different AmigaOS?
I have in fact been trying to get hold of the SDK for years but no luck (actually just the documentation would be nice). The whole VP code system seemed interesting even if not all that useful.
The same could be said of Blender. Its interface sucked and the market rejected it. However, enough people collected enough money to open-source it and it's still around and last time I looked had a decent following dispite its flaws so there ya go.
I feel it has more to do with a (possibly false) feeling on security when you're behind corporate doors. You're on the corporate network which probably has a firewall, virus protection, official administrators, security experts and similar. However misplaced, I think workers are generally more likely to trust other employees rather the whole Internet.
Being on the corporate net they assume they don't need to protect themselves from the Internet attacks. Which is generally true, typically their computers are not accessible from outside the corporate network. Combined that with trusting their fellow worker peers and you get weaker passwords than someone protecting their site from every person on the planet.
My favorite episodes are the Fry-heavy episodes. Especially Parasites Lost and The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings. The top 2 on my favorite list.
My least favorite are Leela and especially Dr. Zoidberg-heavy episodes. A Taste of Freedom, That's Lobstertainment!, Why Must I Be A Crustacean in Love?, all on my worst-of-the-worst stinkers list.
Oh I'm not debating the faults of closed-source drivers. I know the pains. However, the simple fact remains that there will always be closed source drivers. Forcing the Linux kernel not to accept closed drivers will just drive everyone somewhere else.
All I was commenting on was that the Linux developers probably wouldn't feel as much like they do if there was more commercial support. Or they might feel the same but just accept it (like on Windows where an open-source kernel is not even an option).
The thing is, they wouldn't have to put up with so much if Linux was as popular as Windows. Then you would have much more commercial support for your broken closed-source driver. The company that made it would be more likely to fix it. Even on Windows sysadmins/coders have to put up with people asking to get things fixed that can't be fixed because it's from some other company. It's like that everywhere if you're in system support. Deal with it... This isn't changing. There would be less of a burden if Linux was more commercially supported like Windows though.
I don't know about the Diamondback but I felt the same way about the Boomslang (this was a long time ago; ball mouse). The feel was just all wrong. The ball was under your palm instead of in the middle or under your fingers which was completely opposite of what I wanted in a game mouse. And I play the fast-twitch games that thing was suppose to be designed for. In the end I thought it was a waste of money and went back to my trusty Intellimouse.
Back then optical mice were too slow to be used for serious gaming. It was only a couple years ago that I found a suitable replacement in the MX518. This mouse is actually rated near the top in this review and I have to agree. It may be somewhat older and it may not be laser/wireless but it works damn good. The only logical step up from my old Intellimouse.
Yeah, there is Parallels which runs on Windows, Linux, and OSX.
I feel VMware is still king of the hill for most anything (especially Windows on Linux). I have yet to use any other system that can match it in terms of features, performance and compatibility. I know that sounds like an advertisement but it is one of the few pieces of software I have consistently bought the latest version of since it was first released like 7 or 8 years ago. It tends to be much less buggy than anything else also.
You can only do better if you're talking about running Linux on Linux. In those cases something like Xen or UML give maximum performance.
This is true of all programming languages I have used. They all try to do a good job but in the end they only protect you from certain things and they all can bite you in the ass if you don't know what you are doing. They all require memorization of odd quirks. That's why programmers are always seeking the one perfect language even though you hear people chant about using the right tool for the right job. It's hard enough to write proper code but then you add the pain in the ass of remembering all the specific behaviours of each tool and it's just too much.
As they say: I have yet to see a language can "do what I mean" rather than do what I wrote.
I doubt we will ever see such a language until I can have a discussion with my computer about what I want to accomplish.
Man I hate that stupid database. A couple of hours just to change a 16 million item table. Pffft, what a bunch of crap. 16 million rows is nothing in database terms.
I hate that MythTV uses it, the damn thing chugs along grinding away with only a couple thousand rows. It makes MythTV suck because the performance is so crappy when you have only a couple hundred programs recorded.
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Ugh, I have to point this out every time someone makes this assertion.
The fact of the matter is every Tom, Dick and Jane moron drives. If the vehicle accidents only showed people with actual driving skill then you could compare to flying in a plane but throwing in the general population against trained maintenance staff and pilots is rediculous. Now I know there are times when even the best driver may not be able to avoid a bad situation but the statistics don't make any distinction between driving skill and death rate.
Maybe compare truck driving deaths per mile travelled versus plane deaths per mile or something. Even that might not be accurate but would probably be at least a little more close to accurate.
Are there XML-RPC equivalents for YAML and/or JSON? Although I'm sure it would be easy to create something I am just wondering if there is any sort of standard.
How do you process YAML or JSON in Javascript (eg. in a browser)? Most browsers have built-in support for processing XML.
Since when is expressing an opinion a Troll?
Surely you jest. Party on dudes.
Yeah well, whichever way it goes. :)
By seriously I mean the graphics mostly. I mean yes it matches with rock culture but it's all dark and serious looking versus the pop candy Japanese look these types of games normally have.
Well I finally got the game (actually Guitar Hero 2) and... Meh. It's not as fun as I would have thought from all the people on the Internet.
I mean I love these type of games. I built a DDR machine in fact. But Guitar Hero doesn't get the formula quite right. It takes itself too seriously and that damn 3D scrolling fretboard sucks ass. Not only is it hard to read because everything starts tiny and gets larger but after playing a few minutes it seriously screws up your vision. Look at a wood grain pattern after playing for a while, it's like you're on LSD.
The "too serious" and the fretboard design (is it trying to make it easier because they think you need more time to see what's coming?) feel very American and that's not the formula that made DDR so popular.
But it is backed by something physical. It's backed by real money paid by the subscribers and anything else the company makes real money with. That money then funds the virtual funds and sets the exchange rate.
It's not an unlimited resource. Consider this, if everyone extracted all their in-game funds the company needs to pay those out in real money therefore those funds must be available like at any other bank.
Isn't this the country with all the spy cameras all over the place watching people?
Are they complaining because it wasn't an "official" camera that captured the act? I don't get what the Internet has to do with it.
You mean "more evidence suggesting liquid"?
Hardly proof.
You know, the old guy that Jones goes to for information/help.
Definitely not a main character in an action movie. What was that awful "computer" movie he was just in?
Depends on the kind of pasta. No intelligent healthy eater uses regular white pasta. It's not good for you. Like you said, you might as well be eating sugar.
100% whole wheat durum pasta is the only way to go. Lots of fiber and protein in there. Look for pasta where the ingredients are: "Whole wheat durum" and nothing else. Good stuff.
Yeah sorry, I just remembered it seemed like a huge gap in the story.
Now I know people will correct me and say it's not a war show but is instead a drama. But still, compared to the miniseries and most of the earlier seasons the action has been lacking (for example "33" was awesome). I think the drama/action balance was better in previous seasons. Currently it's almost all drama save for a few sequences here and there and there's all that crap left from the "New Caprica" arc with main characters getting married and all sorts of touchy feely junk.
The whole "new Caprica" arc was what really killed the show for me. They skipped something like 10 years which just left a bad taste in my mouth and ruined the storyline. The lead up to it just didn't make any sense (Commander Lee Adama anyone?).
Don't get me wrong, I still love the show. It's actually one of the few things worth watching on TV and the last episode wasn't too bad but I hope they pull the show back in the direction of the original arc.
Even better is to physically store it on something like a smartcard. Even with a simple 4 digit PIN it offers substantial security over plaintext. Then the card can authenticate the user using extremely complex methods if desired (PKI or very long/complex passwords). Plus it can store authentication for multiple systems easily.
Then you have decent physical security as well. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect but it is still very effective.
The main problem I see with this is that the ground is not static. It's always moving around (earthquakes or just normal movement). A slight shift in one of these tunnels would shut the whole thing down. How would you fix that? Make new tunnels? Air vehicles don't have to deal with this.
No, there was an official (non-free) version with SDK. This was based on one of the later AmigaOS versions, not version 3. It was part of the "AmigaAnywhere" thing (see amiga.com).
Actually I thought there was an x86 version of AmigaOS 4 floating around. This was the demo/SDK you could boot up in Linux or Windows. Was this a different AmigaOS?
I have in fact been trying to get hold of the SDK for years but no luck (actually just the documentation would be nice). The whole VP code system seemed interesting even if not all that useful.
The same could be said of Blender. Its interface sucked and the market rejected it. However, enough people collected enough money to open-source it and it's still around and last time I looked had a decent following dispite its flaws so there ya go.
I feel it has more to do with a (possibly false) feeling on security when you're behind corporate doors. You're on the corporate network which probably has a firewall, virus protection, official administrators, security experts and similar. However misplaced, I think workers are generally more likely to trust other employees rather the whole Internet.
Being on the corporate net they assume they don't need to protect themselves from the Internet attacks. Which is generally true, typically their computers are not accessible from outside the corporate network. Combined that with trusting their fellow worker peers and you get weaker passwords than someone protecting their site from every person on the planet.
My favorite episodes are the Fry-heavy episodes. Especially Parasites Lost and The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings. The top 2 on my favorite list.
My least favorite are Leela and especially Dr. Zoidberg-heavy episodes. A Taste of Freedom, That's Lobstertainment!, Why Must I Be A Crustacean in Love?, all on my worst-of-the-worst stinkers list.
Oh I'm not debating the faults of closed-source drivers. I know the pains. However, the simple fact remains that there will always be closed source drivers. Forcing the Linux kernel not to accept closed drivers will just drive everyone somewhere else.
All I was commenting on was that the Linux developers probably wouldn't feel as much like they do if there was more commercial support. Or they might feel the same but just accept it (like on Windows where an open-source kernel is not even an option).
The thing is, they wouldn't have to put up with so much if Linux was as popular as Windows. Then you would have much more commercial support for your broken closed-source driver. The company that made it would be more likely to fix it. Even on Windows sysadmins/coders have to put up with people asking to get things fixed that can't be fixed because it's from some other company. It's like that everywhere if you're in system support. Deal with it... This isn't changing. There would be less of a burden if Linux was more commercially supported like Windows though.
I don't know about the Diamondback but I felt the same way about the Boomslang (this was a long time ago; ball mouse). The feel was just all wrong. The ball was under your palm instead of in the middle or under your fingers which was completely opposite of what I wanted in a game mouse. And I play the fast-twitch games that thing was suppose to be designed for. In the end I thought it was a waste of money and went back to my trusty Intellimouse.
Back then optical mice were too slow to be used for serious gaming. It was only a couple years ago that I found a suitable replacement in the MX518. This mouse is actually rated near the top in this review and I have to agree. It may be somewhat older and it may not be laser/wireless but it works damn good. The only logical step up from my old Intellimouse.
Yeah, there is Parallels which runs on Windows, Linux, and OSX.
I feel VMware is still king of the hill for most anything (especially Windows on Linux). I have yet to use any other system that can match it in terms of features, performance and compatibility. I know that sounds like an advertisement but it is one of the few pieces of software I have consistently bought the latest version of since it was first released like 7 or 8 years ago. It tends to be much less buggy than anything else also.
You can only do better if you're talking about running Linux on Linux. In those cases something like Xen or UML give maximum performance.
This is true of all programming languages I have used. They all try to do a good job but in the end they only protect you from certain things and they all can bite you in the ass if you don't know what you are doing. They all require memorization of odd quirks. That's why programmers are always seeking the one perfect language even though you hear people chant about using the right tool for the right job. It's hard enough to write proper code but then you add the pain in the ass of remembering all the specific behaviours of each tool and it's just too much.
As they say: I have yet to see a language can "do what I mean" rather than do what I wrote.
I doubt we will ever see such a language until I can have a discussion with my computer about what I want to accomplish.
Man I hate that stupid database. A couple of hours just to change a 16 million item table. Pffft, what a bunch of crap. 16 million rows is nothing in database terms.
I hate that MythTV uses it, the damn thing chugs along grinding away with only a couple thousand rows. It makes MythTV suck because the performance is so crappy when you have only a couple hundred programs recorded.