I think of that this is rather sweet. As for converting Japanese rather than easy, converting other manner with a certain manner, with other manner hard. As for existence of Chinese character, for example, thing is made easier. But (with easily from Chinese character. Chinese which becomes complete)
until he actually harms someone, he should be free to do whatever the hell he likes.
Okay. I'll just amass tanks of aerosolized Ebola until I save enough money to buy a plane with enough fuel to dump it on every bit of inhabited land on the planet.
I just received a modem/router from Verizon for DSL access and they had wireless access preset to a "random" SSID and WEP key which was printed on the modem. Of course, they then went and had the administration account be admin/password.
That's actually not so bad. In order to get on the wireless network to use the admin password in the first place, they would need to guess your SSID and WEP key. And everyone knows that's impossible, right?
I commonly visit Wikipedia to learn details of a specific algorithm. Sometimes (actually, rather often) I'll read the article and I'll see at least one statement that seems to contradict the rest of the paragraph it's in simply by having or lacking an extra "not" in a key place.
And I think to myself, "either I'm wrong, or this page was vandalized."
Probably a Slashdot wedding, where iPhones are thrown instead of confetti.
Wait, did I say a Slashdot wedding? Who am I kidding...
No, you're right. If someone on Slashdot is getting married, it must be because they're super-rich, and therefore they would be able to afford to throw iPhones around like confetti at the wedding.
The names of the people who didn't care about their names being attached to the things they did didn't get attached to the things they did, so they disappeared. Therefore, the only names you see attached to things are the names of the people who did care about their names being attached to the things they did.
Properly applied, one-time pad encryption is not crackable. Ever. Using any amount of technology or resources.
Unless you already know the key, any message of the proper length could be the plaintext you're looking for. Even a huge quantum computer wouldn't be able to tell that the ciphertext "VPx\PztI-H&jAL" decrypts to "attack at dawn" and not "attack at dusk" or "retreating now". (or even "yay ice cream!") It might seem like this would break down with degenerate plaintext (such as signed messages), but as long as no key bits are reused and the key is not compromised, it holds up.
"If it's so perfect, why doesn't everyone use it," you ask? "Proper" OTP requires the key to be as big as (or bigger than) the message, and requires the entire key to be shared between both parties, securely, beforehand. Not exactly something eBay can roll out tomorrow.
People who would pirate your software will do so anyway. Rather than being deterred by copy protection, they will simply be annoyed that your software doesn't allow them to pirate it without a fight.
People who buy your software will also be annoyed if your copy protection gets in their way in the slightest.
Copy protection seems to be lose-lose. If only people in general were honorable enough not to pirate software...
The graphics are beautiful, especially in the cinematics.
Dragons! (You don't see them very often in games, at least not controlled by the player.)
Fairly hard. (Most games I pick up and breeze through, Lair actually got my juices flowing.)
Cons:
The game tends to mistake a dash for a flip and a flip for a dash at just the wrong times.
LAG. LOTS of it on the later levels. Though it seems to be independent of resolution.
Minor plot inconsistencies and deus ex machina.
No offline multiplayer.
Gatling fireball makes boss fights too easy. (You can shoot fireballs as fast as you can mash the button. For me, that's fast enough to trigger Metal Gear Solid's autofire detection.)
Final boss fight made no sense. ("A volcano's erupting! Let's drop firebombs on it!")
Some people have complained about the delay between the controls and the dragon, but that felt natural to me. (How responsive would a real dragon be to being whacked on the head with a blunt object?)
Overall, I liked the game. But I didn't have to pay for it, since I borrowed a friend's PS3 and copy of Lair.:3
Habbo Hotel has a fuzzy place in my heart. Even I sunk about $20 into it a few years back. I furnished a whole room, then stepped back and realized how pointless my life was and did more worthwhile things.:P
Before my Clamshell iBook (running Gentoo Linux) died, my alternatives for web browsing were Konqueror and Firefox. I found that, despite the heaviness of qt versus gtk+, Konqueror was much nicer than Firefox in terms of both memory and CPU usage. (Opera was on par with Konqueror but... it gave me the creeps to use, I don't know why.)
So the license that allows the most use of the code hinders freedom?
Yes, in a roundabout and counterintuitive, yet valid, way. GPL code stays "free" no matter what happens to it, whereas BSD code can always be rendered un-free.
Personally, when I want to write free code, I pick either the LGPL or a BSD variant. The GPL is a little too clingy for me.
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That's pretty much exactly what GP said.
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That was the point of the sentence you quoted.
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China and Iraq are allies? This is news to me.
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I think of that this is rather sweet. As for converting Japanese rather than easy, converting other manner with a certain manner, with other manner hard. As for existence of Chinese character, for example, thing is made easier. But (with easily from Chinese character. Chinese which becomes complete)
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Okay. I'll just amass tanks of aerosolized Ebola until I save enough money to buy a plane with enough fuel to dump it on every bit of inhabited land on the planet.
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That's actually not so bad. In order to get on the wireless network to use the admin password in the first place, they would need to guess your SSID and WEP key. And everyone knows that's impossible, right?
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Your total lack of an argument was just invalidated by Godwin's Law. I think my brain exploded.
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Until it died earlier this year, my main machine was an iBook from 1999.
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Er, uh, yes, of course, yeah...
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I commonly visit Wikipedia to learn details of a specific algorithm. Sometimes (actually, rather often) I'll read the article and I'll see at least one statement that seems to contradict the rest of the paragraph it's in simply by having or lacking an extra "not" in a key place.
And I think to myself, "either I'm wrong, or this page was vandalized."
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I ran a full GNOME desktop back when my iBook had only 64MB of RAM, and it ran pretty sweet.
Though most of your 16MB would be taken up by kernel code nowadays...
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No, you're right. If someone on Slashdot is getting married, it must be because they're super-rich, and therefore they would be able to afford to throw iPhones around like confetti at the wedding.
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...You're... not quite right.
16-bit as in 16 bits per pixel, with 5 (or 6) bits per color component, as opposed to 32 bits per pixel with 8 bits per color component.
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Only half true.
The names of the people who didn't care about their names being attached to the things they did didn't get attached to the things they did, so they disappeared. Therefore, the only names you see attached to things are the names of the people who did care about their names being attached to the things they did.
That paragraph was begging for LISPification.
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Properly applied, one-time pad encryption is not crackable. Ever. Using any amount of technology or resources.
Unless you already know the key, any message of the proper length could be the plaintext you're looking for. Even a huge quantum computer wouldn't be able to tell that the ciphertext "VPx\PztI-H&jAL" decrypts to "attack at dawn" and not "attack at dusk" or "retreating now". (or even "yay ice cream!") It might seem like this would break down with degenerate plaintext (such as signed messages), but as long as no key bits are reused and the key is not compromised, it holds up.
"If it's so perfect, why doesn't everyone use it," you ask? "Proper" OTP requires the key to be as big as (or bigger than) the message, and requires the entire key to be shared between both parties, securely, beforehand. Not exactly something eBay can roll out tomorrow.
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People who would pirate your software will do so anyway. Rather than being deterred by copy protection, they will simply be annoyed that your software doesn't allow them to pirate it without a fight.
People who buy your software will also be annoyed if your copy protection gets in their way in the slightest.
Copy protection seems to be lose-lose. If only people in general were honorable enough not to pirate software...
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I beat it the other day.
Pros:
Cons:
Some people have complained about the delay between the controls and the dragon, but that felt natural to me. (How responsive would a real dragon be to being whacked on the head with a blunt object?)
Overall, I liked the game. But I didn't have to pay for it, since I borrowed a friend's PS3 and copy of Lair. :3
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Because I didn't know about it, of course. :P
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Habbo Hotel has a fuzzy place in my heart. Even I sunk about $20 into it a few years back. I furnished a whole room, then stepped back and realized how pointless my life was and did more worthwhile things. :P
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Konqueror.
No, seriously.
Before my Clamshell iBook (running Gentoo Linux) died, my alternatives for web browsing were Konqueror and Firefox. I found that, despite the heaviness of qt versus gtk+, Konqueror was much nicer than Firefox in terms of both memory and CPU usage. (Opera was on par with Konqueror but... it gave me the creeps to use, I don't know why.)
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I suddenly hear drums... and I live in the US. Parent is right.
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Because they do the job?
Also, it isn't exactly WWII-era... you're probably thinking of the B-47.
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Yes, in a roundabout and counterintuitive, yet valid, way. GPL code stays "free" no matter what happens to it, whereas BSD code can always be rendered un-free.
Personally, when I want to write free code, I pick either the LGPL or a BSD variant. The GPL is a little too clingy for me.
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Upgrade to 1GB of RAM (2GB on Intel) and you won't see it anymore. (usually.)
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
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