The advantage of single-processor apps in a less-than-perfect OS, is that when the app decides to chomp up all the CPU that it can grab, it doesn't cripple your machine. Moving from one to two cores for me has meant that browsers can't suck down 100% of my CPU and prevent me from even closing them for minutes at a time.
This had better not let Firefox use up 100% of my machine again.
Where would we be, in today's world, without science? There's all sorts of potential catastrophes just waiting to happen. Our high population isn't helping, but hey, what can you do.
Just saying. Without hordes of well-paid scientists, we would be so hosed right now. We might still be hosed! But at least we're figuring SOME things out before it's too late, mostly.
I moved from Seattle to Portland. One of my reasons was the better weather. People in Oregon laugh, but the weather really IS better than in Seattle; as a result, winters down here are a lot more tolerable than they ever were back home. Still waiting to see if that's going to last, but so far it's made a huge impact on my life.
FTA: "After removing the organic material from the shells, leaving behind the diatom's nanoscale skeletons composed of titanium dioxide, the researchers mixed the material in a dye."
It is an organic production method, but the final product is not organic. Still valid questions perhaps, but not because it's organic.
No, they didn't remove the DRM. They just eased ridiculous restrictions saying that if you install on a system, then get a new machine, and repeat that three times, you can't install on a new machine any more. Now you can reverse that countdown a little bit, if you actively uninstall the game. You're still hosed if your drive dies, because then you can't get credit back.
Many of EA's games can only be installed three times on different computers (based on hardware ID codes)--and then, even if you never gave away your CD key or anything else, you don't get to install them ANYWHERE. Serious problem if you get three new computers!
This tool lets you de-authorize a computer, saying "I don't want to play the game on THIS computer any more. Credit me with the ability to install it on a new place again." Of course that doesn't help if your hard drive dies; that one ability to install it dies with your drive, and you can't take it back.
The DRM is still very present.
What do you mean nobody is screaming for their heads? I sure think they should be executed, and I'm a democrat! String them up! Make it painful! I sure don't want to tolerate this in my party, and I'm pissed.
"Treason" is very narrowly defined. I think it's okay that way. But if we don't change the definition of "treason", we need to add a new crime on the same level of capital murder that's specifically for this kind of fraud. It's clearly conspiracy of the very worst sort.
Think back to when you were ten, you put a random term into Google, and clicked the first link.
Or, "I wonder what this ad is about, I think I'll click it".
It doesn't happen to people who are more experienced internet users, but it does happen. If you didn't use the internet at that age, it probably didn't happen to you.
As a kid I know I used to spend hours in front of encyclopedias for that...I guess that's one sign of a true nerd. And of course some kids learned a lot from National Geographic. I'd suggest setting her up with a list of links to places that are 'known good'--Wikipedia for the most part, and other similar places that are good starting points for honest research. There's quite a few sites out there that would be more useful to a curious kid (and much, much less traumatizing!) than undirected search on Google. So, give her places she can choose to use to start her search, without there being any real coercion or technological barriers involved.
Once she has some good starting points you can trust, the only real harm in my mind is getting barraged by ads and clicking links that don't quite look like ads to an X-year-old. Can't recommend any tech for that, but the other replies sure can.
-1, totally missing the point. The OP specifically wants to let his kid explore. However, exploring kids are quite likely to wind up places THEY don't want to be, once they start looking around. I'm sure you can think of a few search terms that might give you relevant, useful information on Wikipedia...but that you might not ever want to type into GIS.
Heck, my reading of the question was more like "How can I let her wander the internet ON HER OWN, going wherever she wants, without having to call me in to close a barrage of pop-up windows".
My non-legal, everyday-speech understanding of the term 'libel' is that it means 'a lie that harms someone's reputation'. Can someone with more legal sense give a more accurate definition?
Yeah, that game needs better re-balancing, and way upgraded AI. A single unit of flying spearmen can hold off a ton of AI ground troops forever, and they won't even try to sack the city--while the AI can't use the same tactic at all? Enemy sprites that engage in melee when out of ranged shots? Crack's Call as an absurdly powerful one shot kill? And sure, some cheap tricks are good, but if you're going to let the player cast that 'no unhappiness' spell on all his cities and raise taxes to insane levels, you gotta teach the AI to do that, too. I don't know how to teach the AI to exploit all that stuff without tons of scripting by an energized player base, but there you go.
Sure, it was fun to break. But I'd like a legitimate challenge too. Not to mention *REAL* pbem, not the current hacked-up hotseat thing. (Who knows how tactical combat would work, but.)
At the very least I want the enemy to make sure it takes cheap/powerful race/spell combinations on harder skill levels. I never see the enemy with Warlord + Crusade. That's sad. I want to defend AGAINST those badass combinations, too!
Wow. Didn't realize their MoM sequel was officially announced yet. My respect for Stardock just got kicked up about five notches. Official: They are now my favorite company.
I'd better schedule some time off for when that gets released.
See http://www.masterofmagic2.com/ for links on the subject.
When they couldn't get the license, they started working on a spiritual successor, without the license. And hate to say it, but I'd much rather see a new MoM sequel than a new MoO sequel.
I thought Toys for Bob was still trying to re-gain the rights for their own true SC2 sequel?
Damn it!
I just went to visit their forums, and there's arguments about this exact same thing...and, guess what, it's "one player per ship". That really blows. I guess that shows me what I get for saying "the one way they could ruin this game".
Well now I'm pissed because that looked like the most awesome game, the one MMO I would buy (and I'd force all my friends to!). I've got a not-small group of people here who I know would get into that. Please stop ignoring the socializer market, we're tired of playing Second Life.:(
See, people who like playing support classes DO EXIST. We're the Medic in Team Fortress 2 that never really puts down the Medigun to shoot something, we just run around healing. We're the sad and lonely Heavy Weapons Guy who sits alone in the flagroom, because hey, someone has to. We play UO and become awesome crafters...and we really love to explore strange new planets. We're NOT a small market. But this game is not for us.
I was really hopeful, there.:(
If serving on ships works a little bit like Puzzle Pirates, I'll be very happy. In Puzzle Pirates, anyone (well, not total newbies, it takes like a week) can buy their own ship and take it out on the open waters. You can also, however, take jobs on other vessels...manning the guns, helping with the sailing, repairs, etc.
The most fun part of Puzzle Pirates isn't just having a boat, it's having a TEAM (whether they're your crew that you hang out with constantly, or just some random people that signed up on the docks). I've been thinking it would be fun to do that in space for a while... I think that being able to fill up all the stations on your ship with friends would be the best part of this game, if it's in there. (Exploring a presumably limitless array of fractally generated worlds, also vital.)
The only way that I could NOT like this game, is if it takes a hard stance of "one ship, one player", and my only interaction with other people is to fly alongside them against the enemy of the week. If I can't repel the boarding party shoulder-to-shoulder with my friends...then there's no point.
Anyone know which way it's going to be? I can't get at the podcast, and the first link isn't that informative.
At least Bethesda games are in a magical setting. Why not introduce some vague and unexplained god or wizard who magicks children away if they get hurt? Then just turn the wizard off in a country where that's more acceptable...
I got that same sudden "bean burrito" craving out of the blue, while I was in college. I'd been vegetarian for about four years, was coping with some heavy depression during my first year of school...I guess it must have been chemical, because as soon as I ate what my cravings told me to, the depression vanished. Like, in a day.
Not vegetarian any more, but I still pay close attention to my cravings.
Seems like there should be a more robust standard for this type of service--something that allows the spam-checking service to return some metadata that the mail server is supposed to embed in the checked message, for example. If all your company's messages started getting "Tell your admin to stop using spamchecking service 123.234.56.78!" tacked onto the bottom, well, that would stop things real quick (and give a much better excuse when you turn it off later).
I used to use the email address 'none@yo.biz' a long time ago, when forced to provide an email address that I knew would only bring me pain (ie marketing emails).
It's not my fault that, a few years later,.biz became a REAL TLD.
Hypothetically, let's say Jeb Bush gets in after Hillary's two hypothetical terms. By the time he's out, Chelsea Clinton will be old enough to run...
I think it's vital to oppose dynasty politics. Regardless of Hillary's ability to serve as POTUS, and regardless of how awesome it might be to have a First Man...Going Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton is killing the principles this country was founded on.
I always vote Democratic or Green, but I'd vote Republican before I'd vote for another Clinton.
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The advantage of single-processor apps in a less-than-perfect OS, is that when the app decides to chomp up all the CPU that it can grab, it doesn't cripple your machine. Moving from one to two cores for me has meant that browsers can't suck down 100% of my CPU and prevent me from even closing them for minutes at a time. This had better not let Firefox use up 100% of my machine again.
Why does this story have a red header? I've never seen this before. What's going on?
Where would we be, in today's world, without science? There's all sorts of potential catastrophes just waiting to happen. Our high population isn't helping, but hey, what can you do. Just saying. Without hordes of well-paid scientists, we would be so hosed right now. We might still be hosed! But at least we're figuring SOME things out before it's too late, mostly.
I moved from Seattle to Portland. One of my reasons was the better weather. People in Oregon laugh, but the weather really IS better than in Seattle; as a result, winters down here are a lot more tolerable than they ever were back home. Still waiting to see if that's going to last, but so far it's made a huge impact on my life.
FTA: "After removing the organic material from the shells, leaving behind the diatom's nanoscale skeletons composed of titanium dioxide, the researchers mixed the material in a dye."
It is an organic production method, but the final product is not organic. Still valid questions perhaps, but not because it's organic.
No, they didn't remove the DRM. They just eased ridiculous restrictions saying that if you install on a system, then get a new machine, and repeat that three times, you can't install on a new machine any more. Now you can reverse that countdown a little bit, if you actively uninstall the game. You're still hosed if your drive dies, because then you can't get credit back.
Many of EA's games can only be installed three times on different computers (based on hardware ID codes)--and then, even if you never gave away your CD key or anything else, you don't get to install them ANYWHERE. Serious problem if you get three new computers! This tool lets you de-authorize a computer, saying "I don't want to play the game on THIS computer any more. Credit me with the ability to install it on a new place again." Of course that doesn't help if your hard drive dies; that one ability to install it dies with your drive, and you can't take it back. The DRM is still very present.
What do you mean nobody is screaming for their heads? I sure think they should be executed, and I'm a democrat! String them up! Make it painful! I sure don't want to tolerate this in my party, and I'm pissed.
"Treason" is very narrowly defined. I think it's okay that way. But if we don't change the definition of "treason", we need to add a new crime on the same level of capital murder that's specifically for this kind of fraud. It's clearly conspiracy of the very worst sort.
Actually, I'm pretty sure I'm trying desperately to repress my memories of Metacrawler, and Altavista (half-decent) and Webcrawler before that...
Think back to when you were ten, you put a random term into Google, and clicked the first link.
Or, "I wonder what this ad is about, I think I'll click it".
It doesn't happen to people who are more experienced internet users, but it does happen. If you didn't use the internet at that age, it probably didn't happen to you.
As a kid I know I used to spend hours in front of encyclopedias for that...I guess that's one sign of a true nerd. And of course some kids learned a lot from National Geographic. I'd suggest setting her up with a list of links to places that are 'known good'--Wikipedia for the most part, and other similar places that are good starting points for honest research. There's quite a few sites out there that would be more useful to a curious kid (and much, much less traumatizing!) than undirected search on Google. So, give her places she can choose to use to start her search, without there being any real coercion or technological barriers involved.
Once she has some good starting points you can trust, the only real harm in my mind is getting barraged by ads and clicking links that don't quite look like ads to an X-year-old. Can't recommend any tech for that, but the other replies sure can.
-1, totally missing the point. The OP specifically wants to let his kid explore. However, exploring kids are quite likely to wind up places THEY don't want to be, once they start looking around. I'm sure you can think of a few search terms that might give you relevant, useful information on Wikipedia...but that you might not ever want to type into GIS. Heck, my reading of the question was more like "How can I let her wander the internet ON HER OWN, going wherever she wants, without having to call me in to close a barrage of pop-up windows".
My non-legal, everyday-speech understanding of the term 'libel' is that it means 'a lie that harms someone's reputation'. Can someone with more legal sense give a more accurate definition?
Yeah, that game needs better re-balancing, and way upgraded AI. A single unit of flying spearmen can hold off a ton of AI ground troops forever, and they won't even try to sack the city--while the AI can't use the same tactic at all? Enemy sprites that engage in melee when out of ranged shots? Crack's Call as an absurdly powerful one shot kill? And sure, some cheap tricks are good, but if you're going to let the player cast that 'no unhappiness' spell on all his cities and raise taxes to insane levels, you gotta teach the AI to do that, too. I don't know how to teach the AI to exploit all that stuff without tons of scripting by an energized player base, but there you go.
Sure, it was fun to break. But I'd like a legitimate challenge too. Not to mention *REAL* pbem, not the current hacked-up hotseat thing. (Who knows how tactical combat would work, but.)
At the very least I want the enemy to make sure it takes cheap/powerful race/spell combinations on harder skill levels. I never see the enemy with Warlord + Crusade. That's sad. I want to defend AGAINST those badass combinations, too!
Wow. Didn't realize their MoM sequel was officially announced yet. My respect for Stardock just got kicked up about five notches. Official: They are now my favorite company.
I'd better schedule some time off for when that gets released.
See http://www.masterofmagic2.com/ for links on the subject. When they couldn't get the license, they started working on a spiritual successor, without the license. And hate to say it, but I'd much rather see a new MoM sequel than a new MoO sequel. I thought Toys for Bob was still trying to re-gain the rights for their own true SC2 sequel?
Damn it! I just went to visit their forums, and there's arguments about this exact same thing...and, guess what, it's "one player per ship". That really blows. I guess that shows me what I get for saying "the one way they could ruin this game". Well now I'm pissed because that looked like the most awesome game, the one MMO I would buy (and I'd force all my friends to!). I've got a not-small group of people here who I know would get into that. Please stop ignoring the socializer market, we're tired of playing Second Life. :(
See, people who like playing support classes DO EXIST. We're the Medic in Team Fortress 2 that never really puts down the Medigun to shoot something, we just run around healing. We're the sad and lonely Heavy Weapons Guy who sits alone in the flagroom, because hey, someone has to. We play UO and become awesome crafters...and we really love to explore strange new planets. We're NOT a small market. But this game is not for us.
I was really hopeful, there. :(
If serving on ships works a little bit like Puzzle Pirates, I'll be very happy. In Puzzle Pirates, anyone (well, not total newbies, it takes like a week) can buy their own ship and take it out on the open waters. You can also, however, take jobs on other vessels...manning the guns, helping with the sailing, repairs, etc.
The most fun part of Puzzle Pirates isn't just having a boat, it's having a TEAM (whether they're your crew that you hang out with constantly, or just some random people that signed up on the docks). I've been thinking it would be fun to do that in space for a while... I think that being able to fill up all the stations on your ship with friends would be the best part of this game, if it's in there. (Exploring a presumably limitless array of fractally generated worlds, also vital.)
The only way that I could NOT like this game, is if it takes a hard stance of "one ship, one player", and my only interaction with other people is to fly alongside them against the enemy of the week. If I can't repel the boarding party shoulder-to-shoulder with my friends...then there's no point.
Anyone know which way it's going to be? I can't get at the podcast, and the first link isn't that informative.
At least Bethesda games are in a magical setting. Why not introduce some vague and unexplained god or wizard who magicks children away if they get hurt? Then just turn the wizard off in a country where that's more acceptable...
I got that same sudden "bean burrito" craving out of the blue, while I was in college. I'd been vegetarian for about four years, was coping with some heavy depression during my first year of school...I guess it must have been chemical, because as soon as I ate what my cravings told me to, the depression vanished. Like, in a day. Not vegetarian any more, but I still pay close attention to my cravings.
Fraternities have large piles of money to throw around, in this case. Sounds like the whole house got in on it.
Seems like there should be a more robust standard for this type of service--something that allows the spam-checking service to return some metadata that the mail server is supposed to embed in the checked message, for example. If all your company's messages started getting "Tell your admin to stop using spamchecking service 123.234.56.78!" tacked onto the bottom, well, that would stop things real quick (and give a much better excuse when you turn it off later).
I used to use the email address 'none@yo.biz' a long time ago, when forced to provide an email address that I knew would only bring me pain (ie marketing emails). It's not my fault that, a few years later, .biz became a REAL TLD.
Hypothetically, let's say Jeb Bush gets in after Hillary's two hypothetical terms. By the time he's out, Chelsea Clinton will be old enough to run... I think it's vital to oppose dynasty politics. Regardless of Hillary's ability to serve as POTUS, and regardless of how awesome it might be to have a First Man...Going Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton is killing the principles this country was founded on. I always vote Democratic or Green, but I'd vote Republican before I'd vote for another Clinton.