not all FPS games switch to third person when the player dies. Many just move the first person camera to the ground, sometimes tracking the person who killed you, which helps to nullify campers...
Broadband adoption in the US will really take off only when Hollywood celebrities begin adopting a lot of broadband from Africa. Then it will be all the rage.
And precisely how did the DMCA prevent you from talking about them just then?
I didn't. The DMCA prohibits publishing DRM exploits, even for legitimate reasons like research. And I suppose I should say that it prevents people from _legally_ talking about DRM hacks...
They could try to outlaw talking about what you've found once you've looked up. Sure, it's against the 1st amendment, but that hasn't stopped the DCMA from preventing people from talking about DRM hacks.
This is awesome. I'd love to be able to get free WiFi access at Starbucks. Just to check my email on my iTouch. A lot of McDonalds and Paneras already have it. And I don't know what the summary is talking about because a lot of indie coffee shops around me have free WiFi. I've always kind of wondered why Starbucks and B&N charge for WiFi. Maybe just to discourage campers. Not that it isn't their right to do so, and they're certainly not hurting for business, but it's not like offering free WiFi is especially expensive. A couple hundred a month for a decent business connection. It's a drop in the bucket for Starbucks.
agreed. That Reznor soundtrack was awesome, especially the first track on the CD. I can still hear it now. And you could put the quake1 disc in a regular cd player too;-)
Exactly! You would think there would be some 'legacy plugin support' for people to enable if they so desire.
There is. Install the Nightly Tester Tools plugin. It adds a "Make All Compatible" button in your Add-ons dialog that does pretty much just what it says.
Or worse. Your camera gets stolen and is used to photograph illegal activities. The images are then posted on the net with your watermark on them. Cops arrive at your door and your life is history.
Is there some massive and unlikely database of people's irises that I'm not aware of?
So an effort to fix global warming made things worse? How surprising.
Scientists have been saying all along that food-product based bio-fuels--corn-ethanol in particular--are a bad idea. It's the politicians and auto manufacturers that are too stupid to listen.
Making it trim on minimize (something it should do by default) helped somewhat
What you're describing has nothing to do with Firefox. Even if Firefox frees it's memory, that freed memory doesn't get reflected in the Task Manager until the program is minimized or you wait long enough...
"The Windows OS employs something like a memory cache for each actively running program. This cache may grow as the needs of a particular program require using magical algorithms Microsoft developers have produced for determining the optimal size for that program. For instance a program over the course of it's life time may require 20 megs of memory but occasionally needs to load data requiring allocations of up to 10 additional megs which is released seconds after it is loaded and processed. The Windows OS may determine then, that the memory cache for this program must increase from the base 20 megs to 25 megs instead. Looking at the Windows Task Manager then, you may see that this program is now using 25 megs of memory, even though currently, it may only be using 20 megs.
That is, the Windows Task Manager is reporting the memory cache allotment and not the memory allocated and used by the program. This is not the same as a memory leak. The program has little to no control over the memory cache allotment the OS has given it."
Shrug, Bill Gates himself could stand up and say "XP is technically incapable of running DX10" (or any of the lead engineers who worked on DX10, or any Windows XP engineer, or Jesus), and people would still say its all a plot to get you to upgrade.
Of course they would, because it is a plot to get you to upgrade. They wrote DX10, so they could have made it work with XP, but they chose not to.
GHWB ignored the War Powers Act in 1991 on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. And it is. Only congress has the power to declare war. (He ignored the constitutional provisions too, FYI.)
If you think that's going to stop George W. Bush, you haven't been paying attention.
Although I can't pretend to explain what happened with the cables, I think it's safe to say that we aren't going to war with Iran in the immediate future. It would be political suicide for any politician who supported it
Technically speaking, I'm pretty sure Bush can *start* a war without having to get approval from Congress. Continuing it requires congressional approval, but we've all seen how hard it is to stop a war once it's going...
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Not really. After a couple of (thousand) runs through, the attacker would have a reasonably accurate database of the questions. They can then analyze the text to find the nearest match to one of the questions in its database.
That's true. I've found, however, that introducing custom spam blocking methods, such as this, no matter how easy to break, often does a better job at stopping spam bots than more robust publicly available methods. For a target as big as Yahoo, this probably won't work, but I've found on PHPbb for instance, instead of using any of the publicly available captchas, which are easily defeated by bots, creating a simple question of this sort does wonders for bot-blocking. Even if it's just one question. If your site isn't big enough to be specifically targeted by bot farmers, sometimes a simple solution is better than a more complex one that everybody else is using.
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not all FPS games switch to third person when the player dies. Many just move the first person camera to the ground, sometimes tracking the person who killed you, which helps to nullify campers...
Alcohol is a diuretic--That'll just compound the problem of long bathroom waits.
That's okay as long as the beer is free.
Netscape has been dead for years. It's just been Firefox with a different name since 2005 or so.
Broadband adoption in the US will really take off only when Hollywood celebrities begin adopting a lot of broadband from Africa. Then it will be all the rage.
And precisely how did the DMCA prevent you from talking about them just then?
I didn't. The DMCA prohibits publishing DRM exploits, even for legitimate reasons like research. And I suppose I should say that it prevents people from _legally_ talking about DRM hacks...
Or are you going to outlaw looking up?
They could try to outlaw talking about what you've found once you've looked up. Sure, it's against the 1st amendment, but that hasn't stopped the DCMA from preventing people from talking about DRM hacks.
But when you think about it, there's a lot of times when a triple core will be "faster" than a quad core.
Like modeling the behavior of triple-core computers, for instance...
If anything the competing horse is repeatedly sent back to the starting gate.
Ooh, we could name the horse Sisyphus!
I wonder if anybody will get that...
This is awesome. I'd love to be able to get free WiFi access at Starbucks. Just to check my email on my iTouch. A lot of McDonalds and Paneras already have it. And I don't know what the summary is talking about because a lot of indie coffee shops around me have free WiFi. I've always kind of wondered why Starbucks and B&N charge for WiFi. Maybe just to discourage campers. Not that it isn't their right to do so, and they're certainly not hurting for business, but it's not like offering free WiFi is especially expensive. A couple hundred a month for a decent business connection. It's a drop in the bucket for Starbucks.
agreed. That Reznor soundtrack was awesome, especially the first track on the CD. I can still hear it now. And you could put the quake1 disc in a regular cd player too ;-)
Exactly! You would think there would be some 'legacy plugin support' for people to enable if they so desire.
There is. Install the Nightly Tester Tools plugin. It adds a "Make All Compatible" button in your Add-ons dialog that does pretty much just what it says.
Or worse. Your camera gets stolen and is used to photograph illegal activities. The images are then posted on the net with your watermark on them. Cops arrive at your door and your life is history.
Is there some massive and unlikely database of people's irises that I'm not aware of?
I don't know why that would be so surprising.
Well, the emulator is a tad on the slow side. I for one, was hoping the actual devices were going to be faster, so it's nice to hear that they are.
I'd go to Ubuntu, but I can't get it up and running either.
Really? Ubuntu is usually a breeze to install. What doesn't work?
So an effort to fix global warming made things worse? How surprising.
Scientists have been saying all along that food-product based bio-fuels--corn-ethanol in particular--are a bad idea. It's the politicians and auto manufacturers that are too stupid to listen.
Making it trim on minimize (something it should do by default) helped somewhat
What you're describing has nothing to do with Firefox. Even if Firefox frees it's memory, that freed memory doesn't get reflected in the Task Manager until the program is minimized or you wait long enough...
More info: http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/4517/11311
"The Windows OS employs something like a memory cache for each actively running program. This cache may grow as the needs of a particular program require using magical algorithms Microsoft developers have produced for determining the optimal size for that program. For instance a program over the course of it's life time may require 20 megs of memory but occasionally needs to load data requiring allocations of up to 10 additional megs which is released seconds after it is loaded and processed. The Windows OS may determine then, that the memory cache for this program must increase from the base 20 megs to 25 megs instead. Looking at the Windows Task Manager then, you may see that this program is now using 25 megs of memory, even though currently, it may only be using 20 megs.
That is, the Windows Task Manager is reporting the memory cache allotment and not the memory allocated and used by the program. This is not the same as a memory leak. The program has little to no control over the memory cache allotment the OS has given it."
What puzzling questions? I guess that's why I should read the article? O_o
;-)
Here's one, how did British Petroleum manage to buy a star and name it BP Piscium? Are oil profits really that good?
Shrug, Bill Gates himself could stand up and say "XP is technically incapable of running DX10" (or any of the lead engineers who worked on DX10, or any Windows XP engineer, or Jesus), and people would still say its all a plot to get you to upgrade.
Of course they would, because it is a plot to get you to upgrade. They wrote DX10, so they could have made it work with XP, but they chose not to.
I'd like to see how you look with a fluorescent tumour inserted into your abdominal cavity.
It would be ironic if they cured cancer, but they had to make you transparent first...
They all want the job, which should be enough in itself to disqualify them.
Not a bad idea. The electorate should just choose some random person to be president every 4 years, and surprise them with the news at work one day.
GHWB ignored the War Powers Act in 1991 on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. And it is. Only congress has the power to declare war. (He ignored the constitutional provisions too, FYI.)
If you think that's going to stop George W. Bush, you haven't been paying attention.
Although I can't pretend to explain what happened with the cables, I think it's safe to say that we aren't going to war with Iran in the immediate future. It would be political suicide for any politician who supported it
Technically speaking, I'm pretty sure Bush can *start* a war without having to get approval from Congress. Continuing it requires congressional approval, but we've all seen how hard it is to stop a war once it's going...
Not really. After a couple of (thousand) runs through, the attacker would have a reasonably accurate database of the questions. They can then analyze the text to find the nearest match to one of the questions in its database.
That's true. I've found, however, that introducing custom spam blocking methods, such as this, no matter how easy to break, often does a better job at stopping spam bots than more robust publicly available methods. For a target as big as Yahoo, this probably won't work, but I've found on PHPbb for instance, instead of using any of the publicly available captchas, which are easily defeated by bots, creating a simple question of this sort does wonders for bot-blocking. Even if it's just one question. If your site isn't big enough to be specifically targeted by bot farmers, sometimes a simple solution is better than a more complex one that everybody else is using.
Maybe they should issue free speech permits to make sure only competent professionals will be heard.
Give them time...they're working on it, I'm sure.
kind of a boring codename...