I see it coming. Chinese spammmers keep flooding our inboxes with offers for C|AL1S and VI@GRA and we spam theirs with offers for D3M0CR@CY and HUM@N R16HTS. Maybe we should hire a few 419 scammers, too...
Writing of the damaged Engrish is inducement of Great Firewall failure! China is go for many information of the "freedom" by using spelling of the internet Engrish! 31i73 breaking of the language, for great justice!!
If you speak PHP "!==" is even better, as it denotes that the things compared are either not of the same value or not of the same type.
e.g.
3 != "3"// false, as PHP automatically converts types
3 !== "3"// true, as strings are not integers
2 !== 3// false, as 2 is not 3
Well, if the BIOS controls the flashing procedure then a FOSS BIOS could be designed to request the password before allowing writes. A vendor-supplied BIOS might do it or it might not.
Or you skip the Playstation and the game and just buy the pads and two PSX/USB adapters (but first check which ones are good for dancing pads) or just two USB pads and install Stepmania on your PC. The total price is somewhere between 40 and 70 bucks and you don't need to buy another game to play different songs.
Jumping to nowhere while listening to music designed to make you want to move. Also, there's the challenge of improving your ratings or passing a level above what you usually dance.
In the end it's a game with immediate, fine-grained feedback. It's just as addictive as Tetris, DooM, Civilization or <insert classic here> - if you like it, of course.
However, a guy who's not too cool to hop around to candy-sweet j-pop like the SMILE.DK stuff might also not be too cool for other stuff the girls find interesting... Also, there's the "is not a lazy bum who doesn't want to move at all" appeal.
That said, I don't know if it's a great idea. In gym class you should be getting people exposed to team sports and outside on the field running around. It's once they get home or out of school that DDR becomes a better option.
Step one: Introduce students to DDR, using peer pressure to get them to play it
Step two: Watch as some of them get to like it, buy a dance pad, install StepMania and move quite a lot because they really want to AA that B4U remix on 9C (once there is a DDR clique you'll see people trying to improve their skill for bragging rights)
Step three: There is no step three, you have successfully interested lazy students in moving instead of sitting on their butts (sports > DDR, but DDR > nothing). Rinse and repeat if effects are satisfactory
I encountered StepMania, a DDR clone for Win/Linux/Mac, on a real-life event from an internet community (essentially a LAN party without the LAN) and I've come to like it quite a lot (and you don't even need to listen to the hyperactive j-pop in the DDR as there are lots of different simfiles online). If I wouldn't happen to live on the first floor I'd own a dance pad by now, drastically increasing the amount of movement I get...
0+1 is a mistake, but 1+0 isn't. 0+1 loses the data set if any one arbitrary drive fails in both sides of the mirror; 1+0 only if you lose both disks in a single mirror pair.
Shouldn't that be "01" and "10"? Wasn't the "m+n" notation used for generic RAIDs á la "m drives total, n can fail before the array dies"? In that case a 1+0 setup can even run without a RAID controller - and a 0+1 one is kind of hard to implement...
Come on, be fair. Mac users have Breakout. And Super Breakout. And World of Warcraft, but we don't want to talk about that one; it doesn't veel very Breakout-ish.
(If any Marathoner reads this: Enjoy the fact that most people who have never touched a Mac have also never met Durandal. Aleph One nonwithstanding.)
I agree with you on that. It seems, however, that your definition of "beer" is narrower than ours - interestingly, since we're the one with the Great Almighty Purity Law.
After checking with Wikipedia I have learnt that sake only is beer in Germany; the German word of beer is more equivalent to the English "malt liquor", which is the superclass of beer and all other beverages derived from fermented grain.
Rice is grain. Stuff brewed from grain is beer. Just because the stuff is brewed from unusual grains doesn't mean it's not a kind of beer, just as there can be wines made from fruits other than wine grapes.
Let the Chinese have their fusion. I say we just skip directly to a ZPM. That will show them.
We would if the damn team we sent to Atlantis would care to report back. From what I've heard Gen. O'Neill is quite pissed.
BTW, concerning your sig, Slashdot can't receive an injunction in Germany yet, someone first has to register the domain slashdot.de and have it point at slashdot.org.
4) Never connect a Windows box directly to the internet. If your scanners are just slightly out of date you get slammed with a worm smart enough to kill off your virus scanner (apart from the fact that virus scanners can negatively affect your system all by themselves). The best protection against worms is a port forwarding-capable NAT router placed between you and the 'net. That way you can choose which ports to expose to the outside world and worms have a hard time reaching you.
Even worse, on dial-up you are susceptible to things like dialers (programs that install themselves on your computer and replace your default internet connection with one charging $5.99 per minute. They used to be the most common malware in Germany until some extremely restrictive legislation). DSL and cable don't actually dial any number so a dialer can't do any harm.
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I see it coming. Chinese spammmers keep flooding our inboxes with offers for C|AL1S and VI@GRA and we spam theirs with offers for D3M0CR@CY and HUM@N R16HTS. Maybe we should hire a few 419 scammers, too...
Writing of the damaged Engrish is inducement of Great Firewall failure! China is go for many information of the "freedom" by using spelling of the internet Engrish! 31i73 breaking of the language, for great justice!!
Someone should tell Google that they don't need NTSC/PAL conversion to show videos on German computers...
(2 !== 3) obviously returns true.
If you speak PHP "!==" is even better, as it denotes that the things compared are either not of the same value or not of the same type. // false, as PHP automatically converts types // true, as strings are not integers // false, as 2 is not 3
e.g.
3 != "3"
3 !== "3"
2 !== 3
Which in turn frees up resources for overall improvement of the client.
Xylophone.
Well, if the BIOS controls the flashing procedure then a FOSS BIOS could be designed to request the password before allowing writes. A vendor-supplied BIOS might do it or it might not.
Or you skip the Playstation and the game and just buy the pads and two PSX/USB adapters (but first check which ones are good for dancing pads) or just two USB pads and install Stepmania on your PC. The total price is somewhere between 40 and 70 bucks and you don't need to buy another game to play different songs.
Exactly. Just try to find a commercial game that lets you rape your keyboard to Rob Hubbard or Press Play On Tape.
Jumping to nowhere while listening to music designed to make you want to move. Also, there's the challenge of improving your ratings or passing a level above what you usually dance.
In the end it's a game with immediate, fine-grained feedback. It's just as addictive as Tetris, DooM, Civilization or <insert classic here> - if you like it, of course.
However, a guy who's not too cool to hop around to candy-sweet j-pop like the SMILE.DK stuff might also not be too cool for other stuff the girls find interesting... Also, there's the "is not a lazy bum who doesn't want to move at all" appeal.
That said, I don't know if it's a great idea. In gym class you should be getting people exposed to team sports and outside on the field running around. It's once they get home or out of school that DDR becomes a better option.
Step one: Introduce students to DDR, using peer pressure to get them to play it
Step two: Watch as some of them get to like it, buy a dance pad, install StepMania and move quite a lot because they really want to AA that B4U remix on 9C (once there is a DDR clique you'll see people trying to improve their skill for bragging rights)
Step three: There is no step three, you have successfully interested lazy students in moving instead of sitting on their butts (sports > DDR, but DDR > nothing). Rinse and repeat if effects are satisfactory
I encountered StepMania, a DDR clone for Win/Linux/Mac, on a real-life event from an internet community (essentially a LAN party without the LAN) and I've come to like it quite a lot (and you don't even need to listen to the hyperactive j-pop in the DDR as there are lots of different simfiles online). If I wouldn't happen to live on the first floor I'd own a dance pad by now, drastically increasing the amount of movement I get...
0+1 is a mistake, but 1+0 isn't. 0+1 loses the data set if any one arbitrary drive fails in both sides of the mirror; 1+0 only if you lose both disks in a single mirror pair.
Shouldn't that be "01" and "10"? Wasn't the "m+n" notation used for generic RAIDs á la "m drives total, n can fail before the array dies"? In that case a 1+0 setup can even run without a RAID controller - and a 0+1 one is kind of hard to implement...
Come on, be fair. Mac users have Breakout. And Super Breakout. And World of Warcraft, but we don't want to talk about that one; it doesn't veel very Breakout-ish.
(If any Marathoner reads this: Enjoy the fact that most people who have never touched a Mac have also never met Durandal. Aleph One nonwithstanding.)
I agree with you on that. It seems, however, that your definition of "beer" is narrower than ours - interestingly, since we're the one with the Great Almighty Purity Law.
After checking with Wikipedia I have learnt that sake only is beer in Germany; the German word of beer is more equivalent to the English "malt liquor", which is the superclass of beer and all other beverages derived from fermented grain.
Rice is grain. Stuff brewed from grain is beer. Just because the stuff is brewed from unusual grains doesn't mean it's not a kind of beer, just as there can be wines made from fruits other than wine grapes.
No, the pissing thing is an old hoax. In reality Budweiser is created by mixing one part regular beer with nine parts distilled water.
I thought that the people behind the FastTrack network were having a legal dispute with the Wine team...
Well, at least the thing about "bla.bla" being the same as "blabla" is true, I just confirmed it with my account.
Let the Chinese have their fusion. I say we just skip directly to a ZPM. That will show them.
We would if the damn team we sent to Atlantis would care to report back. From what I've heard Gen. O'Neill is quite pissed.
BTW, concerning your sig, Slashdot can't receive an injunction in Germany yet, someone first has to register the domain slashdot.de and have it point at slashdot.org.
Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come
4) Never connect a Windows box directly to the internet. If your scanners are just slightly out of date you get slammed with a worm smart enough to kill off your virus scanner (apart from the fact that virus scanners can negatively affect your system all by themselves). The best protection against worms is a port forwarding-capable NAT router placed between you and the 'net. That way you can choose which ports to expose to the outside world and worms have a hard time reaching you.
Even worse, on dial-up you are susceptible to things like dialers (programs that install themselves on your computer and replace your default internet connection with one charging $5.99 per minute. They used to be the most common malware in Germany until some extremely restrictive legislation). DSL and cable don't actually dial any number so a dialer can't do any harm.