So who do you think can do a better job of DoS? The RIAA or a bunch of 31337 5kr1p7 k1dd135? Not that I condone DoS attacks (*ahem*slashdoteffect*ahem*), but it seems like a terribly stupid battle front for the RIAA to choose.
If you want the best marksmen in the world dead, why would you challenge him to a pistol duel of all things?
Just use the windows character generator. When you need to enter a password, click it into the windows character generator and copy the resulting string and paste it later. No keyboard interface is ever required.
Of course, then you're vulnerable to those things which remotely view monitors (Van-eckman scanners?). But I suppose if you're really paranoid about something like this, you would actually search for a keyboard logger first and put 3 other monitors nearby to create interference. So I guess it's all academic.
This is why the possibility of a draft wouldn't worry me too much. If I was ever actually drafted to fight in a war, I know the DOD would rather have a talented computer programmer than another warm body in the front lines. Besides, it takes 3 years to train a soldier to do his (or her) job well. Why waste training on combat situations when I'm better used for hacking?
That said, I'm still not in favor of a draft. It's a huge drain on public support.
I'm pretty sure BSD and Linux use different "copyleft" variants-- what impact will this have on the source code? Is Linux even allowed to use the BSD code without changing their License to match BSD's? I seem to remember the BSD license being slightly fascist...
At least I think they got played. There was an old deck called "Fruity Pebbles" based around Ornithopter (0/2 for 0 mana), Goblin Bombardment (Enchantment: Sacrifice a creature to deal 1 damage to something), and Enduring Renewal (If one of your creatures dies, it returns to your hand). Of course, the smarter players used Shield Wall and Phyrexian Walker as more efficient 0cc creatures, but the deck could and did indeed win tournaments.
I haven't been able to access the http://www.redcross.com [redcross.com] website.
However, the Ammerican Association of Blood Banks, http://www.aabb.org is up, though slow. It has some listings of blood donations sites. You can also call 1-866-FROMYOU (1-800-376-6968)
I must concur that this is an excellent book. I had read Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion before, but a lot of stuff never really "clicked" until I saw the atlas. The atlas stresses stuff that you can easily miss when reading the books. You can actually see how far Aragon, Gimli, and Legolas ran when following orcs in what, 3 days? I think it's almost far as France is wide! The architecture maps give you a much strong feel for what it must really have been like to be in Cirith Ungol, or standing in front of the Black Gate. There are just so many tiny things this atlas illuminates. It was recently out of print I think, but I'm glad they brought it back. It's definitly one of my favorite non-fiction books.
By the way, if you're looking for more information on the upcoming Lord of the Rings movies, the best site is The One Ring dot Net (TORn).
Or is it moslow? Anyway, there is a program you can use to run games slower. Like... "moslow 10 ultima4" runs ultima 4 at 10% speed. One test of how well a game is programmed, though, is whether or not it needs moslow after 10 years. Games like Doom, Commander Keen, and Prince of Persia all run fine without moslow. Ultima 7 is a different story...
Just take a normal processor and put an inverter ring off to the side, running at 100mhz, and connected to nothing but power and ground.
Back in the 60s, the power of a radio was measured by the number of transistors. That is, until one radio company put hundreds of useless transistors on their board and didn't even wire them up. After that, radios started getting measured on real abilities like quality of sound. Maybe computer marketting will catch up some day, marketting meaningful numbers: minimum FPS in Quake 3!
It's written than "The spirit of the Prohpet is subject to the Prophet." In particular, how do we know that C code runs so much faster than Bash code isn't because he's just a better C coder? Well, maybe that's a bad example, but what about Forth versus Lisp? Clearly programming skill for these languages provides a huge boost in code efficiency. It's great that he knows so many languages, but is he really a master of all of them? Is *anyone* a master of all of them?
A history of the eternal battle of red versus blue, in different contexts.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
"Red! No, blue! Aaaaahhhh!"
Red: 1, Blue: 0
The Matrix:
"Take the Blue pill and you wake up and believe whatever you want to believe. Take the Red pill and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
Red: 2, Blue: 0
Pokemon:
Charizard, a fire pokemon, is weak to Blastoise, a water pokemon
Red: 2, Blue: 1
Google:
Searches for "red": 23.6 million
Searches for "blue": 17.3 million
Red: 3, Blue: 1
Cold War:
Red = Commie Bastards!
Blue = Good Americans!
Red: 3, Blue: 2
It seems that Red has still eaked out a narrow win over blue... For this time!
In related news, the moon landing was a hoax, the holocaust never happened, and the American Indians are actually the long lost 12 tribes of Israel.
People can call anything a hoax and drag up enough circumstancial "evidence" to "prove" their point. More often than not, it's a case of people not wanting to believe the truth, or creating controversy.
Isn't it significantly harder to catch issues like crosstalk between wires when you can run in 4 different directions? In my experience, the biggest issues in semiconductor design are finding tools that detect and solve the design problems, not actually using the new fabrication technologies.
The thing is... A game with robustly coded prediction (such as Q3) can do reasonably well with times up to 300ms. The problem is that as your ping gets above 150ms, you get a lot more packet loss as well. And when your packet loss spikes, prediction is MUCH harder. If I were paying for a gaming oriented ISP, I would put guaranteed throughput above low ping on my priority list.
Of course, games whose prediction engines are notably worse (*ahem*UnrealTournament*ahem*) will suffer both from packet loss and high ping.
At least it's a company like SloMedia, not Sony or Microsoft. I doubt SloMedia has the same legal resources as Cisco, for example. IANAL;TINLA (I am not a lawyer; This is not legal advice), but it seems like a common legal technique is testing your suits in easy cases to set a tentative precident, which gives you more power in later cases. So in the grand scheme of things, this is probably good for the GPL.
Well, Perhaps "easy" was overstating it, because drawing the appropriate line is hard. But describing *what* to do is easy. The advice was actually given to me by my father-in-law, who is the only parent I know who successfully raised an extremely mature woman whom I later married. So this advice was from a man who had seen a child from birth to marriage.
Come on folks, it's the perfect combination! Lets see, we have an extremely grizzly new game like Soldier of Fortune 2. How should we market it...
I know! Sex! Sex and Violence are the two great advertisers that send right wingers running for senate sub-committies! I'm sure it's all some plot to piss off congress-critters. And journalists I might add...
This is an excellent way to spoil your kids. Want to know the best way to raise responsible kids? It's easy! Treat them like they're 2 years older than they really are. This doesn't mean they get ultimate freedom, but if you treat a 13 year old like they're 15, they'll act that way. If you treat a 13 year old like they're 11, they'll act that way too.
The more you trust your kids to make their own decisions, the more responsible they'll become. Things just go wrong when a 17 year old is treated like they're 13, and when they become 18, they don't know how to act responsibly with their freedom.
Cameras in schools just encourage parents to treat kids like they're younger than they are. This might be good for 13 year olds who act 9 (ie. spoiled), but perhaps some better parenting would have a bigger impact.
Now I'm not going to get all SlashDottish now and go overboard on "rights" and stuff.:) But the best way to teach kids to act responsibly with a lot of freedom is to slowly give them more and more freedom, and trust their choices. (Of course, you're allowed to comment on your preferences as long as you're clear that you'll respect any of their decisions on the matter at hand.)
Those of you on windows machines, try this now. If you hold the Left and right mouse buttons while pressing Escape, the time freezes. If you type in "xyzzy Enter Shift-Enter", this turns on see-through mode. In see through mode, a tiny pixel in the upper left corner turns on or off depending on whether or not your mouse is over a cell with a mine in it. Using this, you can win hard in 0 seconds. Looks suspicious though.:)
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We have maybe 3 Art of War servers up, which is enough for our current fan base. Putting up another server is fine with us, but I'd much rather just have a lot more people enjoy the mod. Tell your friends about Art of War.:)
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A Little known DOOM feature let you start up games with -left and -right. Doing so would give you three different doom views, so you could view front, left side, and right side. This gave you 270 degrees of visuals with *zero* fisheye problems. Of course, it also required 3 computers and network synchronization between them. I think it was more John Carmack showing off than anything else. I think the game was somewhat less scary without 90 degrees of tunnel vision. Much cooler looking, however.
I agree that in a real document environment such as Word, it makes sense to use Tab to format tab stops. But when sending email, spaces with a fixed width font is greatly prefered. The rendering of fonts and the width of tabs is fairly non-standard between different email display programs. Courier font with zero tabs is the only email message "standard" there is, really.
Unless you know that everyone uses the same email program. But even then it's a bad habit to get in. How many times have you gotten an email with an extra "html version" of the email included, with special font formatting information?
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So who do you think can do a better job of DoS? The RIAA or a bunch of 31337 5kr1p7 k1dd135? Not that I condone DoS attacks (*ahem*slashdoteffect*ahem*), but it seems like a terribly stupid battle front for the RIAA to choose.
If you want the best marksmen in the world dead, why would you challenge him to a pistol duel of all things?
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I think this is shorter in perl. Compare:
,olleH">:#,_@
55+".dlrow
print"Hello, world.\n"
Note that the space after print and final semicolon are optional in perl.
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Just use the windows character generator. When you need to enter a password, click it into the windows character generator and copy the resulting string and paste it later. No keyboard interface is ever required.
Of course, then you're vulnerable to those things which remotely view monitors (Van-eckman scanners?). But I suppose if you're really paranoid about something like this, you would actually search for a keyboard logger first and put 3 other monitors nearby to create interference. So I guess it's all academic.
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This is why the possibility of a draft wouldn't worry me too much. If I was ever actually drafted to fight in a war, I know the DOD would rather have a talented computer programmer than another warm body in the front lines. Besides, it takes 3 years to train a soldier to do his (or her) job well. Why waste training on combat situations when I'm better used for hacking?
That said, I'm still not in favor of a draft. It's a huge drain on public support.
-Ted
I'm pretty sure BSD and Linux use different "copyleft" variants-- what impact will this have on the source code? Is Linux even allowed to use the BSD code without changing their License to match BSD's? I seem to remember the BSD license being slightly fascist...
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At least I think they got played. There was an old deck called "Fruity Pebbles" based around Ornithopter (0/2 for 0 mana), Goblin Bombardment (Enchantment: Sacrifice a creature to deal 1 damage to something), and Enduring Renewal (If one of your creatures dies, it returns to your hand). Of course, the smarter players used Shield Wall and Phyrexian Walker as more efficient 0cc creatures, but the deck could and did indeed win tournaments.
-Ted
I haven't been able to access the http://www.redcross.com [redcross.com] website.
However, the Ammerican Association of Blood Banks, http://www.aabb.org is up, though slow. It has some listings of blood donations sites. You can also call 1-866-FROMYOU (1-800-376-6968)
Hasn't Vitesse been doing Galium Arsenide semiconductors for the past 10 years?
-Ted
I must concur that this is an excellent book. I had read Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion before, but a lot of stuff never really "clicked" until I saw the atlas. The atlas stresses stuff that you can easily miss when reading the books. You can actually see how far Aragon, Gimli, and Legolas ran when following orcs in what, 3 days? I think it's almost far as France is wide! The architecture maps give you a much strong feel for what it must really have been like to be in Cirith Ungol, or standing in front of the Black Gate. There are just so many tiny things this atlas illuminates. It was recently out of print I think, but I'm glad they brought it back. It's definitly one of my favorite non-fiction books.
By the way, if you're looking for more information on the upcoming Lord of the Rings movies, the best site is The One Ring dot Net (TORn).
-Ted
Or is it moslow? Anyway, there is a program you can use to run games slower. Like... "moslow 10 ultima4" runs ultima 4 at 10% speed. One test of how well a game is programmed, though, is whether or not it needs moslow after 10 years. Games like Doom, Commander Keen, and Prince of Persia all run fine without moslow. Ultima 7 is a different story...
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Just take a normal processor and put an inverter ring off to the side, running at 100mhz, and connected to nothing but power and ground.
Back in the 60s, the power of a radio was measured by the number of transistors. That is, until one radio company put hundreds of useless transistors on their board and didn't even wire them up. After that, radios started getting measured on real abilities like quality of sound. Maybe computer marketting will catch up some day, marketting meaningful numbers: minimum FPS in Quake 3!
-Ted
It's written than "The spirit of the Prohpet is subject to the Prophet." In particular, how do we know that C code runs so much faster than Bash code isn't because he's just a better C coder? Well, maybe that's a bad example, but what about Forth versus Lisp? Clearly programming skill for these languages provides a huge boost in code efficiency. It's great that he knows so many languages, but is he really a master of all of them? Is *anyone* a master of all of them?
-Ted
A history of the eternal battle of red versus blue, in different contexts.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
"Red! No, blue! Aaaaahhhh!"
Red: 1, Blue: 0
The Matrix:
"Take the Blue pill and you wake up and believe whatever you want to believe. Take the Red pill and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
Red: 2, Blue: 0
Pokemon:
Charizard, a fire pokemon, is weak to Blastoise, a water pokemon
Red: 2, Blue: 1
Google:
Searches for "red": 23.6 million
Searches for "blue": 17.3 million
Red: 3, Blue: 1
Cold War:
Red = Commie Bastards!
Blue = Good Americans!
Red: 3, Blue: 2
It seems that Red has still eaked out a narrow win over blue... For this time!
-Ted
In related news, the moon landing was a hoax, the holocaust never happened, and the American Indians are actually the long lost 12 tribes of Israel.
People can call anything a hoax and drag up enough circumstancial "evidence" to "prove" their point. More often than not, it's a case of people not wanting to believe the truth, or creating controversy.
-Ted
Isn't it significantly harder to catch issues like crosstalk between wires when you can run in 4 different directions? In my experience, the biggest issues in semiconductor design are finding tools that detect and solve the design problems, not actually using the new fabrication technologies.
The thing is... A game with robustly coded prediction (such as Q3) can do reasonably well with times up to 300ms. The problem is that as your ping gets above 150ms, you get a lot more packet loss as well. And when your packet loss spikes, prediction is MUCH harder. If I were paying for a gaming oriented ISP, I would put guaranteed throughput above low ping on my priority list.
Of course, games whose prediction engines are notably worse (*ahem*UnrealTournament*ahem*) will suffer both from packet loss and high ping.
-Ted
At least it's a company like SloMedia, not Sony or Microsoft. I doubt SloMedia has the same legal resources as Cisco, for example. IANAL;TINLA (I am not a lawyer; This is not legal advice), but it seems like a common legal technique is testing your suits in easy cases to set a tentative precident, which gives you more power in later cases. So in the grand scheme of things, this is probably good for the GPL.
-Ted
Well, Perhaps "easy" was overstating it, because drawing the appropriate line is hard. But describing *what* to do is easy. The advice was actually given to me by my father-in-law, who is the only parent I know who successfully raised an extremely mature woman whom I later married. So this advice was from a man who had seen a child from birth to marriage.
Come on folks, it's the perfect combination! Lets see, we have an extremely grizzly new game like Soldier of Fortune 2. How should we market it...
I know! Sex! Sex and Violence are the two great advertisers that send right wingers running for senate sub-committies! I'm sure it's all some plot to piss off congress-critters. And journalists I might add...
-Ted
This is an excellent way to spoil your kids. Want to know the best way to raise responsible kids? It's easy! Treat them like they're 2 years older than they really are. This doesn't mean they get ultimate freedom, but if you treat a 13 year old like they're 15, they'll act that way. If you treat a 13 year old like they're 11, they'll act that way too.
:) But the best way to teach kids to act responsibly with a lot of freedom is to slowly give them more and more freedom, and trust their choices. (Of course, you're allowed to comment on your preferences as long as you're clear that you'll respect any of their decisions on the matter at hand.)
The more you trust your kids to make their own decisions, the more responsible they'll become. Things just go wrong when a 17 year old is treated like they're 13, and when they become 18, they don't know how to act responsibly with their freedom.
Cameras in schools just encourage parents to treat kids like they're younger than they are. This might be good for 13 year olds who act 9 (ie. spoiled), but perhaps some better parenting would have a bigger impact.
Now I'm not going to get all SlashDottish now and go overboard on "rights" and stuff.
-Ted
Those of you on windows machines, try this now. If you hold the Left and right mouse buttons while pressing Escape, the time freezes. If you type in "xyzzy Enter Shift-Enter", this turns on see-through mode. In see through mode, a tiny pixel in the upper left corner turns on or off depending on whether or not your mouse is over a cell with a mine in it. Using this, you can win hard in 0 seconds. Looks suspicious though. :)
-Ted
We have maybe 3 Art of War servers up, which is enough for our current fan base. Putting up another server is fine with us, but I'd much rather just have a lot more people enjoy the mod. Tell your friends about Art of War. :)
-Ted
A Little known DOOM feature let you start up games with -left and -right. Doing so would give you three different doom views, so you could view front, left side, and right side. This gave you 270 degrees of visuals with *zero* fisheye problems. Of course, it also required 3 computers and network synchronization between them. I think it was more John Carmack showing off than anything else. I think the game was somewhat less scary without 90 degrees of tunnel vision. Much cooler looking, however.
-Ted
I agree that in a real document environment such as Word, it makes sense to use Tab to format tab stops. But when sending email, spaces with a fixed width font is greatly prefered. The rendering of fonts and the width of tabs is fairly non-standard between different email display programs. Courier font with zero tabs is the only email message "standard" there is, really.
Unless you know that everyone uses the same email program. But even then it's a bad habit to get in. How many times have you gotten an email with an extra "html version" of the email included, with special font formatting information?
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One of my friends worked in tech support for a while.
..."
This woman once called him up for help finding a file. My friend was telling her to change directories in a dos prompt:
"Type this in at the prompt: C - D
*click* *click*
"Space"
*click* *click* *click* *click* *click*
"Did you just type in S-P-A-C-E?"
"Space, just like you told me"
"No, you're supposed to hit the spacebar"
*click*
"But you have to delete the old letters first. Hit backspace" *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click*
I believe things went downhill from there. She never found her file, needless to say.
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