Imho it's much better to count stalemate for 0.25-0.75 to mark that player who trick other monster with all figures that easily could have make a mate to stalemate
Well, yes that's what the other camp argues. Of course, their arguments average out to 0.5-0.5 so...
Come on, the fractional scores make sense. You have to count the draws or the matches would never end.
It's 1 point for a win
0.5 points for a draw
0 points for a loss.
Some people think that a stalemate should count for something other than 0.5-0.5 (say, 0.75-0.25 favoring the player with the advantage when the stalemate happens), but I won't go into that.
is that they put SecuROM on Warcraft III, even though it sold 4.5 MILLION copies in preorder. At $60 a pop, that's nearly US$300 M.
So I don't see any worries about Blizzard losing revenue from casual copying...
CD-Key's mean you have to buy the game to play online. Side note: that's not quite true. A friend at work ran into someone else online using his CD-Key. He hadn't even taken his copy of the game home (our boss bought each of the engineers a copy of the game when it came out). Someone must have used a key-generator and tried several times until he manage to randomly get my friend's key. Blizzard of course didn't help at all. Finally, he returned it to Best Buy to exchange for another copy. Interesting how the legit customer gets screwed in all these schemes.
When I contacted Blizzard about not being able to backup War3, I was told that they weren't responsible for my defective hardware.
MY HARDWARE?!?!
Yes, War3 has SecuROM. And after some effort, I downloaded daemon-tools, ripped my CD, and now I can play at home or at work (hey, my boss bought me the copy, along with all the other engineers) without moving my CD around, or having it spin all the time in the tray.
If you superimpose the floor plan of the first building that was hit and the profile of the plane that hit it, you'll immediately notice that the wings likely completely severed the core tube, which contained all the stairs, etc. Wider stairs don't help if they have a few floors missing.
That's a pretty lousey reason. Activation takes thirty seconds and doesn't require personal information.
Yes, but I add hardware to my computer. I sometimes install old copies of OS'es on old machines. Where is it written that MS will support product activation for all their OS'es in perpetuity?
I will not install a program that requires a 3rd party to permit me to use said program. Case in point: DivX is now dead. What happened to all those people who purchased DivX disks (and upgraded them). Can they watch them now?
MS has end-of-lifed Win95. Win98 will end-of-life in 2003. If they had product activation, would I still be able to install them after their end-of-life? I doubt it.
You violated the EULA when you did that. You broke the contract you agreed to bu opening teh software by applyinga pacth to windows xp
Bull. EULA's don't mean anything. First sale is first sale. I bought the software, and I'm using it on one computer. You cannot agree to a contract the way MS presents them.
I wonder if this will affect my legal copy of XP? I activated it with a hack I found, because MS has no right to sell me something and then force me to ask permission to use it. The hack works not by avoiding activation (that is, some hacks work by eliding the code that queries to see if the system is activated), but by performing whatever is necessary to tell the system that it's activated (if I try to activate, it says "already activated").
Activation is just DivX warmed over. I have no intention of submitting to it.
The real test of this is whether the courts are lapdogs of corporations. The court might grant the request of Adobe because they're a Big Giant Corporation (tm), while still ignoring the little guy.
Another problem is that Adobe might have a good case for their request. The DMCA is overly broad to be sure, but it does have limits. It's unclear how ITC and Monotype font protection schemes are being circumvented.
So, are we completely giving up on flywheels? They may not be too mainstream, but they hold the promise of incredibly light devices (at least they can be) with the ability to hold incredible ammounts of energy, and store it with practically no loss, for a very long period.
Of course, using a flywheel on a laptop might make it hard to tilt or rotate the laptop.
Read the book, and share it with your manager. You cannot develop efficiently with the "code like hell" mentality.
Just reading the section on "Classic Mistakes" is enlightening enough (to develop efficiently, you have to avoid all the classic mistakes).
The author also points out that when workers do more than 40 hrs/wk, they do more personal stuff at work, and tend to decrease their productivity. You can't dispense with life just by wishing it away.
This guy is actually someone I know from my San Jose days. Really good person, very smart, and I'm enjoying reading his paper.
But anyway, his name is pronounced like "Ace-ee". If it were spelled "Acey" you might not need help. But there it is.
Because my last company had the same problem--selling a completed product. We sold software for radiation oncology, and it was clear that the hospitals believed that a more expensive product was better.
Additionally, many of our customers complained that the simulation code was too fast! We had to insert spin-wait code so that they would stop complaining (after verifying and re-verifying the simulation code).
Yeah, when I was at Intel, the Intranet was great, especially for benefits questions etc. There was just one problem--there was no record of previous versions of the site.
It was essential to have a paper copy of your benefits so you could know what they were when they were given to you, instead of what they are now.
One step closer to realtime ratings and the world of Max Headroom. I've been watching the episodes on Tech TV and it's scary how prescient that show was.
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And that's probably a good thing.
Well, yes that's what the other camp argues. Of course, their arguments average out to 0.5-0.5 so...
It's 1 point for a win
0.5 points for a draw
0 points for a loss.
Some people think that a stalemate should count for something other than 0.5-0.5 (say, 0.75-0.25 favoring the player with the advantage when the stalemate happens), but I won't go into that.
So I don't see any worries about Blizzard losing revenue from casual copying...
CD-Key's mean you have to buy the game to play online. Side note: that's not quite true. A friend at work ran into someone else online using his CD-Key. He hadn't even taken his copy of the game home (our boss bought each of the engineers a copy of the game when it came out). Someone must have used a key-generator and tried several times until he manage to randomly get my friend's key. Blizzard of course didn't help at all. Finally, he returned it to Best Buy to exchange for another copy. Interesting how the legit customer gets screwed in all these schemes.
MY HARDWARE?!?!
Yes, War3 has SecuROM. And after some effort, I downloaded daemon-tools, ripped my CD, and now I can play at home or at work (hey, my boss bought me the copy, along with all the other engineers) without moving my CD around, or having it spin all the time in the tray.
If you superimpose the floor plan of the first building that was hit and the profile of the plane that hit it, you'll immediately notice that the wings likely completely severed the core tube, which contained all the stairs, etc. Wider stairs don't help if they have a few floors missing.
Oh well..
Of course, if I have to see another "pilot the starship with a joystick scene" I may walk out of the theater.
+ 9 megapixel monitor
+ 320 GB drive
Wow. [Insert pr0n joke here]
I will not install a program that requires a 3rd party to permit me to use said program. Case in point: DivX is now dead. What happened to all those people who purchased DivX disks (and upgraded them). Can they watch them now?
MS has end-of-lifed Win95. Win98 will end-of-life in 2003. If they had product activation, would I still be able to install them after their end-of-life? I doubt it.
Activation is just DivX warmed over. I have no intention of submitting to it.
We should all be relieved.
Another problem is that Adobe might have a good case for their request. The DMCA is overly broad to be sure, but it does have limits. It's unclear how ITC and Monotype font protection schemes are being circumvented.
Now, with the right harddrive....
Just reading the section on "Classic Mistakes" is enlightening enough (to develop efficiently, you have to avoid all the classic mistakes).
The author also points out that when workers do more than 40 hrs/wk, they do more personal stuff at work, and tend to decrease their productivity. You can't dispense with life just by wishing it away.
Are you sure? Page 15, footnote 37 speaks to the proposed change to the GPL, but the essay seems to deal with the GPL in its current revision.
This guy is actually someone I know from my San Jose days. Really good person, very smart, and I'm enjoying reading his paper. But anyway, his name is pronounced like "Ace-ee". If it were spelled "Acey" you might not need help. But there it is.
Because my last company had the same problem--selling a completed product. We sold software for radiation oncology, and it was clear that the hospitals believed that a more expensive product was better. Additionally, many of our customers complained that the simulation code was too fast! We had to insert spin-wait code so that they would stop complaining (after verifying and re-verifying the simulation code).
That part of the book convinced me that reading it was the closest I'd want to come to riding an Orion drive.
The local facility that takes old batteries, used oil, etc. should also take old computers.
Here's a link that explains sniping very clearly.
Won't anyone think of the children?!?!
That's the only thing that seems to work these days.
Yeah, when I was at Intel, the Intranet was great, especially for benefits questions etc. There was just one problem--there was no record of previous versions of the site.
It was essential to have a paper copy of your benefits so you could know what they were when they were given to you, instead of what they are now.
One step closer to realtime ratings and the world of Max Headroom. I've been watching the episodes on Tech TV and it's scary how prescient that show was.