From the summary it looks like it says: "If Amazon is selling it for $6 + free shipping, and someone else is selling it for $4 + $3 shipping, then prefer Amazon for the buy box". Damn right I'd rather pay $6 than $4+3, I don't care which dollars go to which part of it.
Almost like they were spending extra to test out their capabilities before committing to Prime-level SLAs for more people. It's load testing. Hell, it's what I'd do.
That's not malware. That's basically any webserver ever made. There's even URL shorteners that can redirect somewhere while grabbing the IP address of someone who passes through. It's sneaky but not even remotely illegal for anyone.
What's hilarious is that, with a remote code execution bug, you probably could tell a system to overcharge the battery. I mean if the short term fix for the Note 7 is "cap battery charge at 60%", then I wonder what shenanigans you could do to other batteries?
What's the going rate for getting a legal payoff and having a lot less to worry about? If I found an exploit like that, I'd sooner trade it to Google for a Starbucks gift card than I would try and negotiate with, like, Russia. How would you even start something like that? It sounds like suicide for your criminal record, surely every government has agents posing as agents of other governments to try and poach stuff like that.
I'm pretty sure it was never a technical limitation, just a social one. If the same person replies to literally everyone else's comments on a story, it's really offputting (especially if it's the kind of comments that inevitably show up as first posts--you know the ones).
After looking I was surprised that yes, they are smaller! Fascinating! Even, I presume, if you allow extra "colors" for stippling. But I have to disagree on the scaling thing. All the SCI games I've seen that were upscaled with third party tools look kinda... not good. Mainly when artists scribble with lines that produce good effects in the native resolution, but look like crayons scrawls if you scale them up to be rounded and smooth.
Oh well. I guess some games probably look better than others (yes Space Quest, no Quest for Glory) and it's all a matter of taste anyway.
That's a huge mindtrip. Why on earth did they store it like that I wonder? I would have assumed that RLE was been more efficient in space and render speed! I could see that being a format that the artists used for work in progress, but why use that in the final version? I'm incredibly curious now.
Well, it's a pretty good replacement for IRC, which was designed more like 30 years ago, so I'll take it. Having worked at places that coordinated using IRC this is much much better.
I'd argue there's an art in designing the algorithm. At least I'd hope so, since I've got a hobby project involving algorithmic writing. I might be biased.
I'd say there's art in telling (some) stories, even if the listener has heard it before. YMMV which ones are interesting. Helps if you have emotional investment in one of the teams, whether there's any point to it or not.
I'm ashamed at how many hours I wasted on the 2012 version of that. It was pretty good at algorithmic descriptions most of the time, but its stockpile of phrases during matches left a lot to be decided. I shouldn't see "He puts the ball in row Z!!" several times a match, especially when someone just barely gets a ball into the stands. Oh well.
I keep thinking "This year's version will be better", then remembering the life I got back when I stopped playing.
Well, we've rarely had to optimize our missions for speed instead of efficiency. I'm not saying it'll be easy, but just because we haven't gone a lot faster yet doesn't mean we can't do it.
Same here pretty much. My internet presence started with MUSHes and MUCKs back in the early-mid 90s, and they're still the most reliable way to get in touch with some people.
(Kinda curious what counts as 'ancient' these days, though, since a lot of the originals that are still around continue to have pretty big populations today. SpinDizzy, SPR? God, I'm way too big a fan of MU* anthropology. It's a bad habit.)
Alt-left-arrow has issues with keyboard configurations and with accessibility for some users. I can't use it as anything resembling a shortcut, I need a one-key solution. Very glad to see it's configuratble (though why not allow remapping to some other button--like, I dunno, pause/break?)
If you read the article, they were stolen from forums where users commonly traded them (eg I have a key for this game that I bought on sale but haven't used, I want a copy of that game, who wants to trade)
I have doubts. Would autonomous ride-hailing remove people who are more or who are less valuable to insurance companies? If it removes people they don't want to cover anyway, premiums wouldn't necessarily go up.
Autopilot is a very disruptive technology that it's worth keeping an eye on, same as drones (which I guess are technically the same thing?). Slashdot ran stories about autopilot-related crashes, too.
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From the summary it looks like it says: "If Amazon is selling it for $6 + free shipping, and someone else is selling it for $4 + $3 shipping, then prefer Amazon for the buy box". Damn right I'd rather pay $6 than $4+3, I don't care which dollars go to which part of it.
Almost like they were spending extra to test out their capabilities before committing to Prime-level SLAs for more people. It's load testing. Hell, it's what I'd do.
which means...yum, delicious baby kale chips.
That's not malware. That's basically any webserver ever made. There's even URL shorteners that can redirect somewhere while grabbing the IP address of someone who passes through. It's sneaky but not even remotely illegal for anyone.
I'm sure nobody will complain if you test it against your own phone.
What's hilarious is that, with a remote code execution bug, you probably could tell a system to overcharge the battery. I mean if the short term fix for the Note 7 is "cap battery charge at 60%", then I wonder what shenanigans you could do to other batteries?
What's the going rate for getting a legal payoff and having a lot less to worry about? If I found an exploit like that, I'd sooner trade it to Google for a Starbucks gift card than I would try and negotiate with, like, Russia. How would you even start something like that? It sounds like suicide for your criminal record, surely every government has agents posing as agents of other governments to try and poach stuff like that.
I'm pretty sure it was never a technical limitation, just a social one. If the same person replies to literally everyone else's comments on a story, it's really offputting (especially if it's the kind of comments that inevitably show up as first posts--you know the ones).
After looking I was surprised that yes, they are smaller! Fascinating! Even, I presume, if you allow extra "colors" for stippling. But I have to disagree on the scaling thing. All the SCI games I've seen that were upscaled with third party tools look kinda... not good. Mainly when artists scribble with lines that produce good effects in the native resolution, but look like crayons scrawls if you scale them up to be rounded and smooth.
Oh well. I guess some games probably look better than others (yes Space Quest, no Quest for Glory) and it's all a matter of taste anyway.
That's a huge mindtrip. Why on earth did they store it like that I wonder? I would have assumed that RLE was been more efficient in space and render speed! I could see that being a format that the artists used for work in progress, but why use that in the final version? I'm incredibly curious now.
Well, it's a pretty good replacement for IRC, which was designed more like 30 years ago, so I'll take it. Having worked at places that coordinated using IRC this is much much better.
I'd argue there's an art in designing the algorithm. At least I'd hope so, since I've got a hobby project involving algorithmic writing. I might be biased.
I'd say there's art in telling (some) stories, even if the listener has heard it before. YMMV which ones are interesting. Helps if you have emotional investment in one of the teams, whether there's any point to it or not.
...left a lot to be desired. Sure does take a long time to wake up after a three day weekend.
I'm ashamed at how many hours I wasted on the 2012 version of that. It was pretty good at algorithmic descriptions most of the time, but its stockpile of phrases during matches left a lot to be decided. I shouldn't see "He puts the ball in row Z!!" several times a match, especially when someone just barely gets a ball into the stands. Oh well.
I keep thinking "This year's version will be better", then remembering the life I got back when I stopped playing.
That's entirely grammatical where I come from.
Well, we've rarely had to optimize our missions for speed instead of efficiency. I'm not saying it'll be easy, but just because we haven't gone a lot faster yet doesn't mean we can't do it.
Same here pretty much. My internet presence started with MUSHes and MUCKs back in the early-mid 90s, and they're still the most reliable way to get in touch with some people.
(Kinda curious what counts as 'ancient' these days, though, since a lot of the originals that are still around continue to have pretty big populations today. SpinDizzy, SPR? God, I'm way too big a fan of MU* anthropology. It's a bad habit.)
Two-button chords for a very frequently used shortcut is problematic for people with physical impairments, or with no right alt key.
Alt-left-arrow has issues with keyboard configurations and with accessibility for some users. I can't use it as anything resembling a shortcut, I need a one-key solution. Very glad to see it's configuratble (though why not allow remapping to some other button--like, I dunno, pause/break?)
They're pretty darn close, if you use Amazon for cheap household necessities like a lot of people do.
If you read the article, they were stolen from forums where users commonly traded them (eg I have a key for this game that I bought on sale but haven't used, I want a copy of that game, who wants to trade)
I have doubts. Would autonomous ride-hailing remove people who are more or who are less valuable to insurance companies? If it removes people they don't want to cover anyway, premiums wouldn't necessarily go up.
Thank you for choosing Johnny Cab
Autopilot is a very disruptive technology that it's worth keeping an eye on, same as drones (which I guess are technically the same thing?). Slashdot ran stories about autopilot-related crashes, too.