joke-boy writes "CNN reports that a driver in Alaska is being charged with second-degree murder for allegedly causing a fatality accident by driving while watching the movie 'Road Trip' in an in-dash DVD player. The driver contends he was just listening to music. Alaska has no laws prohibiting drivers from watching DVDs, although many other states do."
Look at that! Now people who have no idea what "Road Trip" is can just click that hyperlink and know. Astounding:-O!
If I could get some games that'd give me 8-10 hours of gaming time, which is all I usually have time for a month, for a price less than 20$ CDN, I'd probably go for it. I don't really like spending 70$ on a game, playing 10 hours of it, and giving up because I have other commitments.
The only games I ever get to finish are short ones.
Here's a better design. Incoming email. Whitelisted? Y/N Y - deliver. N - check monetary amount attached. Greater than monetary amount for anon email? Y/N. Y - deliver, keep money. N - bounce mail, money.
No need to pay anyone back. If you want to send me email, and you're not on my list, send me 15 cents with your email. For normal people, that's too cheap and too easy. For a spammer, that suddenly makes their 2 million email address spam run cost 300,000$ if they actually want people to see it.
It adds a cost to email that normal people won't care about, but will destroy spammers because their margins won't exist anymore.
I've played DDR since 2000/2001, but only started to play it seriously since fal 2003. I'm into heavy mode, and can do a lot of songs people won't even attempt. I don't find freeze arrows lame. They require specific strategies and movements because you must switch your feet up in certain ways to satisfy them. It's not just the catch-all of "faster, more" that a lot of songs use at the heavy difficulty level.
I think what needs to happen is Konami putting in some more features, like an arcade performance/freestyle mode (since most of the videos you mention happened to be on standard mode, which isn't especially suited to freestyling), and things like speed modifiers (there's a hacked DDR Exteme plus near me that has normal, 110%, and 120% song speed options).
DDR's not dead, it's just the same game it was 4 years ago. It needs more new features to keep things interesting, because there are (as you acknowledge) physical limits to everything. I can do Max 300, though;)
I paid 20$ USD for the pleasure of keeping the item I'd owned anyways, and was trying to sell because a bidder stalled and stalled, sent an incorrect money order (I can't cash non-international ones since 9/11 due to US stupidity), and then finally changed their phone # and disapeared. I still have the bonus item I bought and said I'd throw in if the bidding went over a certain amount, another side cost.
There is no obvious way to report this to the US authorities for investigation.
Does this mean they'll be more open to support more modern RTSes as well? I'd love to be able to play Starcraft on Linux without fighting with WINE (which doesn't exactly work with Xinerama correctly).
So which is more serious? Death of body or death of personality because of stolen information? What is more serious for a company, which has no body, but likely has much important information?
This is very serious, just not to meat bags like you or me. This should be a wakeup call to the corporations that using proprietary software is as dangerous to them as eating 3-day-old soft cheese is to a human baby.
Besides, it's also very serious to home users who are increasingly going paperless for their filing of data. Data which most people have no backups for, and data which viruses freely delete!
In any commons, co-operation is key. I doubt most people will update their clients to work with HEAD or some sort of checksumming without reason, so the first obvious step is to block clients for a period. If a client retrieves information from a host, place a bam on all requests from said client until either the information changes, or there is a timeout value.
On the client side, the software needs to be written to check for updates to the data before pulling the data. This will lessen the burder.
The other side of the problem is the fact that the clients default to asking for data at the top of the hour. As this scales up, even with checks to see if data has changed, you'll be seeing a synchronized rise in traffic which leads to a DDoS effect on systems. To fix this is the same way we fixed message ids: the interval that clients check the data on should be seeded semi-random intervals such that no more than subset n of the total i clients are checking for new data or transfering new data at any given time. This is something else that can be mitigated by having smarter server-side data blocks until users update to smarter clients. Otherwise the servers risk being DDoSed by these legions of stupid clients;)
You don't know the difference between the homonyms "should've" and "should of" even though "should of" is not sensical, and recognized as a common mistake of English speakers.
Nintendo is now up to 3 online games for the GameCube! You have a stunning array of choices, as long as you choose Phantasy Star Online Eps 1 and 2, Phantasy Star Online 3, or Phantasy Star Online Eps 1 and 2 plus!
This is why I have both a GameCube and an Xbox. Nintendo may make great games, but they sure as hell don't know how to establish a presence in a market that's fairly large and enjoyable.
Kevin was held in prison for about 5 years the second time around on bogus charges. It never went to trial, he was merely incarcerated. The white equivalent of Brown Equals Terrorist.
Tragically, he finally gave up and pleaded no contest to the charges so he could be allowed to leave the prison and return to society. Go watch Freedom Downtime if you want to understand what Kevin was truly up against.
So why would these companies ask for id? Don't ascribe to corporations the motivations of morality. These are the same companies paying kids 6 cents an hour to make Nike shoes. Why would they turn away a sale? A sale is, after all, a sale. Ferengi have more business morals than corporate America!
There is no law requiring that people buying games be IDed, to fines for failing to ask for ID, etc. Unless there is such a law, no corporation will do such a thing unless there is actual consumer backlash. Due to the amazing level of parental overwork because of the lack of socialized child raising in North America, that is not going to happen because the parents are two busy working 2-4 jobs to keep being able to give money for their kids to spend.
It's a very large and viscious cycle. If you want it to change, you're going to have to enforce penalties on corporations or allow parents the time to actually parent their children.
I'd wager a simple technical solution would be to ROT13 the body of a message. Keep the headers in the plain (ala the outside of an envelope), but require effort to actually inspect the contents. It's trivial effort, but effort that can be protected by law.
Not hard. I've had my own business internet connection for my home. I've moved on average once a year for the past 4 years, yet my static business connection is always there for me, and my email follows me easily because it's all IMAP.
Now that I have DSPAM integrated, I don't even need to use a good IMAP client like Thunderbird. I can use anything and know that my email is already filtered and in tip-top shape!
Although technically you should be stating you weight in newtons, as kg is a unit of mass. Weight is variant dependant on the gravity field you're in, mass is not.
Do you really think that our mind is naturally suited to 3s and 4s? Are you closed to the idea that it could be a much more complex source of interactions in your life that trained your mind to work that way?
Did you ever think that if you grew up in a metric environment, you'd have as much of a troubled time thinking in imperial? The website you linked to didn't think that. After all, naturally you'd be more adept at doing 3 and 3 times stuff in your head if you'd been doing it for all your unit conversion in your life! I've been doing metric in my head, as Canada is not silly like the brits (a brit whose site you link to) who don't sell things by the litre, or measure by the kilometre, or use kilograms as their unit of mass. British people are metric in name only: underneath, the sickening heart of ugly imperial units beats away.
Converting non-metric units in my head is hard, and I usually end up likening it to the ratio out of 10 because that's how I grew up. 5/16ths? Thas' really close to 4/16ths, which is 1/4th which is a weensy bit more than 0.25, so this must be smaller than the 1/2th one which is really 0.50. I don't convert the 16ths and 2ths to a base denominator, I convert them in terms of a 0 to 1.
The kooky site you link to is all about how counting in base-12 is the way to go. I mean, you can take a step back to the way Germanic tribes did it, but I think base-10 is the way to go. Metric's just an outgrowth of it. Imperial units were an outgrowth of kooky base-12 that was used by Germanic tribes -- it's why English uses eleven and twelve instead of oneteen and twoteen. Japanese people don't have this problem -- the go ju-ich, ju-ni, ju-san. Their problem is about 4s and 7s and 9s. Yon or shi? Shi means death! Shichi or nana? Nana is usually used for numbers only. Ku or kyu?.. etc. It's all socially constructed. Those numbers aren't inherently evil or more useful for one purpose or another, it's totally social pressure. Ditto for your ability to work with 3s and 4s in your head. Good on you, but it's hardly a firm basis for such a wide-ranging generalization.
There's no way in hell I'd get a Nokia 6800 non-provider locked and non-subsidized for about 250$ CDN, or any other phone with a comparable feature set! The original N-Gage is a very attractive phone for this very reason.
The fact that it didn't do so well is an outgrowth of one simple fact: Nokia pissed off their target audience with their bullshit ads. Everyone was under the impression in was a shitty Gameboy with a cellphone involved (which is a more accurate description of the N-Gage QD).
If they had any sense, they'd realize there's a market for a featureful phone that's not 600$ CDN. I doubt we'll see that any time soon. My local cellphone place is still selling the Nokia 6100 (a monochrome phone with IrDA and Bluetooth, and nothing else) for more than the N-Gage costs -- you pay 240$ + tax + sign another 2 year contract. Horrible.
"Third, backwards compatibility was a huge advantage for the PS2 when it came to the market. It meant that people could buy their console and go home and play some excellent games from the PS1 instead of being forced to suffer through some of those horrendous launch titles. Having the backwards compatibility simply adds more value to the purchase."
I would argue this: Third, backwards compatibility was a huge dsadvantage for the PS2 when it came to the market. It meant that people could buy some excellent PS1 games instead of being forced to suffer through some of the most horrendous launch titles. Lauch titles which, I should say, the developers weren't encouraged to improve at all because of how Sony could rely on the PS1 titles to sell the system. There weren't any really good PS2 titles out for many years because of this, far longer than most consoles at the start of their life!
Red Faction for the NG was a big pile of suck. It was like RoTT, but with far worse graphics, no handling, and impossibly shitty graphics.
The N-Gage has no business running 3D games.
Sadly, the best parts of the N-Gage were removed from the QD. I listen to the radio a lot on mine, and use it for a lot of MP3s and other media (especially since I can't sync my iPod what with the sbp2 layer being broken in Linux 2.6). My friend bought a Motorola V600. My N-Gage has 1mb more device RAM, the MMC slot, and the movie/mp3/radio playback over top of his -- and it cost 400$ less. Although my N-Gage is only tri-band GSM (vs. his quad-band GSM), so my reception in North America isn't as hot as it could be in some places.
They did jam a lot into it, but there is absolutely no IR support on the N-Gage. There is also no 3D GPU -- it's all software rendering based around its main CPU, which is why it takes 144Mhz to do anything close to a PS1 level of graphics.
However, there is a disturbing trend in a lot of places to not focus on the how-stuff-works or the how-to-cope -- these people focus only on the using current technology with no understanding at all.
If something goes wrong, and you know how it works, you can always figure out what to do. However, if you've trained at a technical college and all you know is how to be a Windows 2000 MCSE, you're out of luck when Windows XP comes along and you have to way of applying your earlier knowledge because you have no understanding.
All too unfortunately, a lot of people assume that what comp sci is in university is a really big version of how-to-program that they did in high school or on their own time, when really it covers so much more.
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joke-boy writes "CNN reports that a driver in Alaska is being charged with second-degree murder for allegedly causing a fatality accident by driving while watching the movie 'Road Trip' in an in-dash DVD player. The driver contends he was just listening to music. Alaska has no laws prohibiting drivers from watching DVDs, although many other states do."
Look at that! Now people who have no idea what "Road Trip" is can just click that hyperlink and know. Astounding
If I could get some games that'd give me 8-10 hours of gaming time, which is all I usually have time for a month, for a price less than 20$ CDN, I'd probably go for it. I don't really like spending 70$ on a game, playing 10 hours of it, and giving up because I have other commitments.
The only games I ever get to finish are short ones.
Here's a better design. Incoming email. Whitelisted? Y/N Y - deliver. N - check monetary amount attached. Greater than monetary amount for anon email? Y/N. Y - deliver, keep money. N - bounce mail, money.
No need to pay anyone back. If you want to send me email, and you're not on my list, send me 15 cents with your email. For normal people, that's too cheap and too easy. For a spammer, that suddenly makes their 2 million email address spam run cost 300,000$ if they actually want people to see it.
It adds a cost to email that normal people won't care about, but will destroy spammers because their margins won't exist anymore.
I've played DDR since 2000/2001, but only started to play it seriously since fal 2003. I'm into heavy mode, and can do a lot of songs people won't even attempt. I don't find freeze arrows lame. They require specific strategies and movements because you must switch your feet up in certain ways to satisfy them. It's not just the catch-all of "faster, more" that a lot of songs use at the heavy difficulty level.
;)
I think what needs to happen is Konami putting in some more features, like an arcade performance/freestyle mode (since most of the videos you mention happened to be on standard mode, which isn't especially suited to freestyling), and things like speed modifiers (there's a hacked DDR Exteme plus near me that has normal, 110%, and 120% song speed options).
DDR's not dead, it's just the same game it was 4 years ago. It needs more new features to keep things interesting, because there are (as you acknowledge) physical limits to everything. I can do Max 300, though
I paid 20$ USD for the pleasure of keeping the item I'd owned anyways, and was trying to sell because a bidder stalled and stalled, sent an incorrect money order (I can't cash non-international ones since 9/11 due to US stupidity), and then finally changed their phone # and disapeared. I still have the bonus item I bought and said I'd throw in if the bidding went over a certain amount, another side cost.
There is no obvious way to report this to the US authorities for investigation.
Does this mean they'll be more open to support more modern RTSes as well? I'd love to be able to play Starcraft on Linux without fighting with WINE (which doesn't exactly work with Xinerama correctly).
So which is more serious? Death of body or death of personality because of stolen information? What is more serious for a company, which has no body, but likely has much important information?
This is very serious, just not to meat bags like you or me. This should be a wakeup call to the corporations that using proprietary software is as dangerous to them as eating 3-day-old soft cheese is to a human baby.
Besides, it's also very serious to home users who are increasingly going paperless for their filing of data. Data which most people have no backups for, and data which viruses freely delete!
In any commons, co-operation is key. I doubt most people will update their clients to work with HEAD or some sort of checksumming without reason, so the first obvious step is to block clients for a period. If a client retrieves information from a host, place a bam on all requests from said client until either the information changes, or there is a timeout value.
;)
On the client side, the software needs to be written to check for updates to the data before pulling the data. This will lessen the burder.
The other side of the problem is the fact that the clients default to asking for data at the top of the hour. As this scales up, even with checks to see if data has changed, you'll be seeing a synchronized rise in traffic which leads to a DDoS effect on systems. To fix this is the same way we fixed message ids: the interval that clients check the data on should be seeded semi-random intervals such that no more than subset n of the total i clients are checking for new data or transfering new data at any given time. This is something else that can be mitigated by having smarter server-side data blocks until users update to smarter clients. Otherwise the servers risk being DDoSed by these legions of stupid clients
You don't know the difference between the homonyms "should've" and "should of" even though "should of" is not sensical, and recognized as a common mistake of English speakers.
Nintendo is now up to 3 online games for the GameCube! You have a stunning array of choices, as long as you choose Phantasy Star Online Eps 1 and 2, Phantasy Star Online 3, or Phantasy Star Online Eps 1 and 2 plus!
This is why I have both a GameCube and an Xbox. Nintendo may make great games, but they sure as hell don't know how to establish a presence in a market that's fairly large and enjoyable.
You keep using that word. I don't think you know what it means.
mettle
n : the courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk";
"you haven't got the heart for baseball" [syn: heart, nerve,
spunk]
The damage he caused was looking at the source code to Solaris, which was later open sourced by Sun anyways.
The charges were bullshit charges.
Kevin was held in prison for about 5 years the second time around on bogus charges. It never went to trial, he was merely incarcerated. The white equivalent of Brown Equals Terrorist.
Tragically, he finally gave up and pleaded no contest to the charges so he could be allowed to leave the prison and return to society. Go watch Freedom Downtime if you want to understand what Kevin was truly up against.
IANA Reserved domains are the only ones that should be used for that stuff.
;)
IANA Whois Service
Domain: example.net
Name: IANA_RESERVED
Registrant:
Name: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
Organization: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
Address1: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
They work fine. No one apparently is familiar with the RFCs for the minimal email sanity testing that is required
So why would these companies ask for id? Don't ascribe to corporations the motivations of morality. These are the same companies paying kids 6 cents an hour to make Nike shoes. Why would they turn away a sale? A sale is, after all, a sale. Ferengi have more business morals than corporate America!
There is no law requiring that people buying games be IDed, to fines for failing to ask for ID, etc. Unless there is such a law, no corporation will do such a thing unless there is actual consumer backlash. Due to the amazing level of parental overwork because of the lack of socialized child raising in North America, that is not going to happen because the parents are two busy working 2-4 jobs to keep being able to give money for their kids to spend.
It's a very large and viscious cycle. If you want it to change, you're going to have to enforce penalties on corporations or allow parents the time to actually parent their children.
I'd wager a simple technical solution would be to ROT13 the body of a message. Keep the headers in the plain (ala the outside of an envelope), but require effort to actually inspect the contents. It's trivial effort, but effort that can be protected by law.
Not hard. I've had my own business internet connection for my home. I've moved on average once a year for the past 4 years, yet my static business connection is always there for me, and my email follows me easily because it's all IMAP.
Now that I have DSPAM integrated, I don't even need to use a good IMAP client like Thunderbird. I can use anything and know that my email is already filtered and in tip-top shape!
Although technically you should be stating you weight in newtons, as kg is a unit of mass. Weight is variant dependant on the gravity field you're in, mass is not.
;)
I know I mass about 55kg, and I'm Canadian
Do you really think that our mind is naturally suited to 3s and 4s? Are you closed to the idea that it could be a much more complex source of interactions in your life that trained your mind to work that way?
.. etc. It's all socially constructed. Those numbers aren't inherently evil or more useful for one purpose or another, it's totally social pressure. Ditto for your ability to work with 3s and 4s in your head. Good on you, but it's hardly a firm basis for such a wide-ranging generalization.
Did you ever think that if you grew up in a metric environment, you'd have as much of a troubled time thinking in imperial? The website you linked to didn't think that. After all, naturally you'd be more adept at doing 3 and 3 times stuff in your head if you'd been doing it for all your unit conversion in your life! I've been doing metric in my head, as Canada is not silly like the brits (a brit whose site you link to) who don't sell things by the litre, or measure by the kilometre, or use kilograms as their unit of mass. British people are metric in name only: underneath, the sickening heart of ugly imperial units beats away.
Converting non-metric units in my head is hard, and I usually end up likening it to the ratio out of 10 because that's how I grew up. 5/16ths? Thas' really close to 4/16ths, which is 1/4th which is a weensy bit more than 0.25, so this must be smaller than the 1/2th one which is really 0.50. I don't convert the 16ths and 2ths to a base denominator, I convert them in terms of a 0 to 1.
The kooky site you link to is all about how counting in base-12 is the way to go. I mean, you can take a step back to the way Germanic tribes did it, but I think base-10 is the way to go. Metric's just an outgrowth of it. Imperial units were an outgrowth of kooky base-12 that was used by Germanic tribes -- it's why English uses eleven and twelve instead of oneteen and twoteen. Japanese people don't have this problem -- the go ju-ich, ju-ni, ju-san. Their problem is about 4s and 7s and 9s. Yon or shi? Shi means death! Shichi or nana? Nana is usually used for numbers only. Ku or kyu?
There's no way in hell I'd get a Nokia 6800 non-provider locked and non-subsidized for about 250$ CDN, or any other phone with a comparable feature set! The original N-Gage is a very attractive phone for this very reason.
The fact that it didn't do so well is an outgrowth of one simple fact: Nokia pissed off their target audience with their bullshit ads. Everyone was under the impression in was a shitty Gameboy with a cellphone involved (which is a more accurate description of the N-Gage QD).
If they had any sense, they'd realize there's a market for a featureful phone that's not 600$ CDN. I doubt we'll see that any time soon. My local cellphone place is still selling the Nokia 6100 (a monochrome phone with IrDA and Bluetooth, and nothing else) for more than the N-Gage costs -- you pay 240$ + tax + sign another 2 year contract. Horrible.
"Third, backwards compatibility was a huge advantage for the PS2 when it came to the market. It meant that people could buy their console and go home and play some excellent games from the PS1 instead of being forced to suffer through some of those horrendous launch titles. Having the backwards compatibility simply adds more value to the purchase."
I would argue this:
Third, backwards compatibility was a huge dsadvantage for the PS2 when it came to the market. It meant that people could buy some excellent PS1 games instead of being forced to suffer through some of the most horrendous launch titles. Lauch titles which, I should say, the developers weren't encouraged to improve at all because of how Sony could rely on the PS1 titles to sell the system. There weren't any really good PS2 titles out for many years because of this, far longer than most consoles at the start of their life!
Red Faction for the NG was a big pile of suck. It was like RoTT, but with far worse graphics, no handling, and impossibly shitty graphics.
The N-Gage has no business running 3D games.
Sadly, the best parts of the N-Gage were removed from the QD. I listen to the radio a lot on mine, and use it for a lot of MP3s and other media (especially since I can't sync my iPod what with the sbp2 layer being broken in Linux 2.6). My friend bought a Motorola V600. My N-Gage has 1mb more device RAM, the MMC slot, and the movie/mp3/radio playback over top of his -- and it cost 400$ less. Although my N-Gage is only tri-band GSM (vs. his quad-band GSM), so my reception in North America isn't as hot as it could be in some places.
They did jam a lot into it, but there is absolutely no IR support on the N-Gage. There is also no 3D GPU -- it's all software rendering based around its main CPU, which is why it takes 144Mhz to do anything close to a PS1 level of graphics.
However, there is a disturbing trend in a lot of places to not focus on the how-stuff-works or the how-to-cope -- these people focus only on the using current technology with no understanding at all.
If something goes wrong, and you know how it works, you can always figure out what to do. However, if you've trained at a technical college and all you know is how to be a Windows 2000 MCSE, you're out of luck when Windows XP comes along and you have to way of applying your earlier knowledge because you have no understanding.
All too unfortunately, a lot of people assume that what comp sci is in university is a really big version of how-to-program that they did in high school or on their own time, when really it covers so much more.
you mean this story?