ShunTV required registration (to keep track of share ratios, etc.). Like many other of the TorrentBits-based trackers, it kept track of current and last IP address of all its registered users.
As you say, it would be futile for BTEfnet to try to do any such thing, but it's much easier for a tracker like ShunTV to do it.
I'm only going to see their ads if I watch it live.
I watch my favorite shows live whenever I can because I don't want to wait 3-4 hours to download it. But if I miss the show, I want to be able to download it and watch what I missed. If I can't do that, I lose interest, especially with shows like 24, where continuity is extremely important.
If the choices are picked randomly from the full set of possible answers, the right answer will appear only rarely. In order to make none of the above be the correct answer with the same probability as the others, the right answer would have to appear fairly frequently.
Instead it would be better to have the same wrong answers always appear with the right answer.
You're assuming that a time-traveler stays at a certain absolute position while time-traveling. That requires that you assume a fixed universal frame of reference. Such a thing doesn't exist.
This came in handy in January during the MIT Mystery Hunt, for this puzzle. Nobody knew what to do with the 12-digit number, but Googling it revealed it as a FedEx tracking number.
Unfortuantely, one of the teams stole the package from the room it was in.
MIT responds by building a dance floor for a fad which hasn't been popular in 25 years.
That wasn't a "response." The disco dance floor was built in January (for IAP) and has been used twice since then, once for the St. Patrick's Day party (because, as the flyers said, John Travolta might be part Irish, or something). It's a wonder it took over two months for it to show up on Slashdot.
It's pretty excellent, but you have to take your shoes off when dancing on it to keep it clean and non-broken.
This already exists in some sense with the daily featured article by e-mail. I get an article every night around midnight GMT. If it looks interesting, I read it, and if it only kind of looks interesting, I kind of read it (exactly the same way I read magazines).
A big advantage to having an electronic version is that, unlike printed encyclopedias, cross-references are very easy to follow. I open tabs upon tabs, creating queues of related articles to read, spawned by [[links]]. A print format can't do this.
Cincinnati is planning the same thing, and having a neighbor that already has it running will probably push this city into finishing up
It's just too bad nobody goes downtown. Even with the $1 all day parking at Fountain Square, downtown isn't a very popular destination. Covering Mt. Adams and Newport on the Levee would be pretty nice, though. Free wireless at the airport would be amazing, as I'm sure millions of Delta travellers would agree.
I suppose it's completely impractical to get coverage out to the suburbs, especially the Sycamore area. And Indian Hill? Forget about it. (Actually, you can just leech off Cincinnati Country Day's network if you're in the area. Just don't tell them I told you that.)
Wish they had it today, cause its beautiful outside!
Knowing Cincinnati weather, that'll change in a few minutes.
Particularly noteworthy, I have not heard the same complaints about Gameboys having dead pixels that people are making about the PSP.
You didn't hear the complaints because Nintendo handled them appropriately, thus avoiding general outrage. I remember very few complaints about the GBA, but there have several cases of dead pixels on the DS. Nintendo acknowledged the problem immediately, and took the same stance that Sony appears to be taking now: if it bothers you, we'll replace it. But Nintendo never tried to pretend that it wasn't a problem.
Even better, when I had my DS-with-dead-pixel replaced, Nintendo shipped me a replacement unit and a UPS return label in a reusable box. No hassle, no cost, and no "downtime." That's the way to win customer loyalty.
Yeah, sure. So why update the Gameboy at all? Why bother upping the graphics to 'Gamecube' possibilities?
The point is that better graphics and more power is good, and even necessary, but that's only one tool to attract gamers. Iwata wants to avoid relying solely on technological advances. He is afraid of falling into the trap that so many game designers have fallen into: failing completely to use imagination to create a fun experience rather than just a really nice-looking one.
I already have a SP and DS. If Nintendo expects me to buy their next system, too, they're going to have to give it some really nice features, and a really promising game lineup.
Yeah, Mr. Driller's not bad - it's at least entertaining for a while (just try not to listen to the voice acting). It would have been much better if you could play multi-player with a single card.
At this point you might as well just wait a couple more weeks for the next wave of software to hit.
My school has done this as well, beginning in 1996. The circumvention of firewalls was unnecessary, as we were told things like "don't violate copyright, we won't cover your ass"... and then they didn't do anything about it.
A good number of teachers just decided that laptops in class were a bad idea. There was no legitimate need for them in most classes, anyway. Some teachers took the policy "This is an honors class; if you don't pay attention it's your problem." (This in combination with "You should study. If you don't study, you'll fail.")
Most people learned that using a computer during class was a bad idea (except for me, I'm doing it during a lecture right now... *cough*). Most people were also honest enough not to try to be l33t h4x0rs.
Slashdot Mirror
No, that's the molecular formula for caffeine. That formula may have many structures associated with it, including the correct structure of caffeine.
Oh, it's more than $986K/yr.
Don't forget the bonuses.
You know, the huge bonuses that can total several times the officer's salary and not actually count as part of his salary?
Now if only we could VfD lame Slashdot stories.
Yeah, I kind of felt the same way. Between butchering of technology, and butchering of the Constitution, ... well, that's typical FOX style, isn't it?
This must be why Dave Barry calls 24 his favorite show "only when I'm not watching it."
ShunTV required registration (to keep track of share ratios, etc.). Like many other of the TorrentBits-based trackers, it kept track of current and last IP address of all its registered users.
As you say, it would be futile for BTEfnet to try to do any such thing, but it's much easier for a tracker like ShunTV to do it.
I'm only going to see their ads if I watch it live.
I watch my favorite shows live whenever I can because I don't want to wait 3-4 hours to download it. But if I miss the show, I want to be able to download it and watch what I missed. If I can't do that, I lose interest, especially with shows like 24, where continuity is extremely important.
ShunTV and BTEfnet both held their own .torrent files.
I hope for the sake of their users they "lost" all their logs.
If the choices are picked randomly from the full set of possible answers, the right answer will appear only rarely. In order to make none of the above be the correct answer with the same probability as the others, the right answer would have to appear fairly frequently.
Instead it would be better to have the same wrong answers always appear with the right answer.
You're assuming that a time-traveler stays at a certain absolute position while time-traveling. That requires that you assume a fixed universal frame of reference. Such a thing doesn't exist.
If you come from the future, please bring food.
:(
Many of us are almost out of cash for the term.
Oh, and bring alcohol too.
So I could take, for example, every 14th digit in Pi and that would make a good random string of numbers between 0 and 9.
But if you did it again it wouldn't be as random as a random number generator.
Well, the universe is still here, so that's clearly not the right question.
This came in handy in January during the MIT Mystery Hunt, for this puzzle. Nobody knew what to do with the 12-digit number, but Googling it revealed it as a FedEx tracking number.
Unfortuantely, one of the teams stole the package from the room it was in.
MIT responds by building a dance floor for a fad which hasn't been popular in 25 years.
That wasn't a "response." The disco dance floor was built in January (for IAP) and has been used twice since then, once for the St. Patrick's Day party (because, as the flyers said, John Travolta might be part Irish, or something). It's a wonder it took over two months for it to show up on Slashdot.
It's pretty excellent, but you have to take your shoes off when dancing on it to keep it clean and non-broken.
Who really knows what that big round thing on top of the Green Building is anyway, considering it's illegal to go there.
As if illegality stops people from doing things!
That big round thing is a Doppler radar. It seemed to make sense to put it on top of the tallest building in Cambridge.
"Jack" is not a term for hackers in general. I have no idea what you're talking about when you say there is a "club" for such things.
It's clear our schools do not understand each other at all.
-Some Tech undergrad
PS The ONLY Tech.
operation cwal
Now they'll have the robots by next year!
This already exists in some sense with the daily featured article by e-mail. I get an article every night around midnight GMT. If it looks interesting, I read it, and if it only kind of looks interesting, I kind of read it (exactly the same way I read magazines).
A big advantage to having an electronic version is that, unlike printed encyclopedias, cross-references are very easy to follow. I open tabs upon tabs, creating queues of related articles to read, spawned by [[links]]. A print format can't do this.
Cincinnati is planning the same thing, and having a neighbor that already has it running will probably push this city into finishing up
It's just too bad nobody goes downtown. Even with the $1 all day parking at Fountain Square, downtown isn't a very popular destination. Covering Mt. Adams and Newport on the Levee would be pretty nice, though. Free wireless at the airport would be amazing, as I'm sure millions of Delta travellers would agree.
I suppose it's completely impractical to get coverage out to the suburbs, especially the Sycamore area. And Indian Hill? Forget about it. (Actually, you can just leech off Cincinnati Country Day's network if you're in the area. Just don't tell them I told you that.)
Wish they had it today, cause its beautiful outside!
Knowing Cincinnati weather, that'll change in a few minutes.
Particularly noteworthy, I have not heard the same complaints about Gameboys having dead pixels that people are making about the PSP.
You didn't hear the complaints because Nintendo handled them appropriately, thus avoiding general outrage. I remember very few complaints about the GBA, but there have several cases of dead pixels on the DS. Nintendo acknowledged the problem immediately, and took the same stance that Sony appears to be taking now: if it bothers you, we'll replace it. But Nintendo never tried to pretend that it wasn't a problem.
Even better, when I had my DS-with-dead-pixel replaced, Nintendo shipped me a replacement unit and a UPS return label in a reusable box. No hassle, no cost, and no "downtime." That's the way to win customer loyalty.
Yeah, sure. So why update the Gameboy at all? Why bother upping the graphics to 'Gamecube' possibilities?
The point is that better graphics and more power is good, and even necessary, but that's only one tool to attract gamers. Iwata wants to avoid relying solely on technological advances. He is afraid of falling into the trap that so many game designers have fallen into: failing completely to use imagination to create a fun experience rather than just a really nice-looking one.
I already have a SP and DS. If Nintendo expects me to buy their next system, too, they're going to have to give it some really nice features, and a really promising game lineup.
Or make it shiny.
Yeah, Mr. Driller's not bad - it's at least entertaining for a while (just try not to listen to the voice acting). It would have been much better if you could play multi-player with a single card.
At this point you might as well just wait a couple more weeks for the next wave of software to hit.
My school has done this as well, beginning in 1996. The circumvention of firewalls was unnecessary, as we were told things like "don't violate copyright, we won't cover your ass" ... and then they didn't do anything about it.
A good number of teachers just decided that laptops in class were a bad idea. There was no legitimate need for them in most classes, anyway. Some teachers took the policy "This is an honors class; if you don't pay attention it's your problem." (This in combination with "You should study. If you don't study, you'll fail.")
Most people learned that using a computer during class was a bad idea (except for me, I'm doing it during a lecture right now... *cough*). Most people were also honest enough not to try to be l33t h4x0rs.
I found the book offered a better explaination of why Hal when mad.
I found the book offered better explanations of a lot of things.
Well, it's more like I found that the book actually offered explanations.