If my GBA is powering some sort of transmitter which lets me game with someone across the country, I think the MMORPG will have to have a discussion with the Energizer Bunny about whose soul, exactly, it belongs to.
People come to North America to escape what they felt as the repressive nature of Europe. Their hard-line religous stance was being booed. So what happens in North America? The Religous Right becomes the new standard of oppresive regimes.
Any time a despot is replaced or removed, a new one takes its place. Look at the French Revolution.
No, I'm saying when you're submitting a story, you're voting for it (in a way). In order to keep up with the rest of the noise, you have to keep voting for it. It's still one of the better systems available, although I do like K5's voting queue a little more:)
As for voting for people in office, maybe you shouldn't be trying to always read the negative into statements.
No, but I do remember loading GIF files fine in The Gimp not 5 minutes ago. Libungif provides plenty or reading power. You just can't resave it as a gif, which is fine by me since PNGs compress better than GIF files do with the same amount of data.
"The Net (another Sandra Bullock film) has a woman who's whole identity can be erased (especially when the FBI, Pentagon, and everybody else use the same anti-hacking software, which incredibly is used by evil hacker types)."
See, that's the best part of the movie. The fact that a monoculture lends itself to insecurity. Look at farms of IIS servers. Are they secure? Why not? Would we be better off with every HTTPD having equal market share? 100% Apache?
Don't knock the only reasonably accurate part of the movie!
Especially on the/. backend (obligitory shot of Timothy working on it), there's just a whole ton of shit flying through it a lot. People who have crackpot schemes or stuff which was posted before will litterally spam and spam and spam for days to get something posted. In the noise good stuff is lost, it happens.
I just use AMPHERSAND#64; for the @ sign. No other "encryption" is required, because they don't do expansion of any HTML entities. If they ever do start doing it, I'll just resort to what you said (using an entire set of enities), but I doubt it'll come to that ever.
They did this to personally slight you. Ignore that there are several different people working on a backend where (litterally) thousands of stories are entered by hopeful posters every day. The major first step in this is the quick scan of titles, where they just tick off any titles which seem like confused or bad posts. Then they have to sivv through all the remaining ones, edit (which they don't really do well here at/.), and post. They do this all day, most days. But ignore that and assume they did it just because they don't like you.
Now come back to reality. They do not have a personal "out to get warpedrive" cabal meeting every week, nor did they reject your story because of any reason other than they just rejected it. Things which are bad in the world happen because they do, not because someone or something is out to get you. HTH. HAND.
Because the hardware supports new features. You can use it in "dumb" mode, like you can run a 180gb Maxtor in PIO4 mode, but you're not getting your best use out of it (in this case, better speeds, cable detection, hotplug, etc).
I missed a zero, and you missed that the point for my reply wasn't even correct in the first place because there's a 1.54 if you scroll down on the link.
No, that's not 51% faster. If the GF4 is normalized to 1, and the ATI card is at 1.38, that means it's running at 138% of the GF4 capabilities, or 38% faster.
Honestly, if they'd used an fps base and you'd had to do this with Gnome's calc, I could see you screwing up. But screwing up (1.38 - 1) * 10? Ouch. You should be able to do that in your head.
"since a GeForce4 MX is a stripped down, cheaper version of the real powerhouse GeForce4 TI, "
As posted many times by many people, the GeForce MX 4 is a GeForce 2 core with a higher clock speed. The only reason it has GeForce and 4 together at all is because the marketters at nVidia knew they could sell more parts.
If you're a computer criminal, wether a little kid playing at being like Dade Murphy, or a true criminal who wants to get a few thousand, you go to jail for the rest of your life.
If you're a big CEO of a company, and you do things like give yourself low-interest (or no-interest) loans out of company coffers (which you repay or not, depending on if you resign or the company goes out of business), or you do wonderful accounting methods which mark things like your garbage as income, you get (wait for it): 5 years in jail. I recall reading about a bill which would toughen it to 10 whole years in jail.
Now, stop me if I'm wrong, but quite a few 3 and 4 billion dollar accounting errors seem a little more serious (especially considering how businesses are all connected and eating each other all the time) than some kid unleashing another Nimda variant. Why not have tough sentences for fraud and corruption? Why not start with crimes that are occuring right now, crimes which (if unchecked) could ruin any good financial news for at least a decade? Do we want a repeat of the 1930s?
"Its subjectively faster to right mouse on something and get a popup than go to the menu and select what you wanted. but having to remember which button to use (which you're certain you don't but you actually do) slows you down *all* the time."
See, this flies in the face of any decent, red-blodded video game playing individual. Or any car driver. Or anything else where you learn the location and usage of a common control which you do not directly observe. Yea, I've seen older people who grew up with pickup sticks staring at a controller trying to determine the Y button, but this learnabality curve is a part of using a complex interface.
There is simplification for the purpose of usability, and simplification for the purpose of increasing perceived usability (by making it "easier" to learn). However, when you increase learnability, you reduce the complexity possible by the interface.
A richer interface allows for more efficient meta-data transmission, resulting in richer communitions between human and computers. I'd say that the Apple study was flawed based on the grounds that it didn't consider this.
A long time ago, I found a cassette at a library in Calgary (where I was living at the time) which contained classical scores in synth format. Several tracks were named after planets/Greek gods, and many were famous from movies. I can't remember anything else beyond that, being 13 at the time and relying on the fact that I knew where it was in the rack of cassettes in the library at the time:)
If anyone can point my towards this music, I'd be very happy.
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If my GBA is powering some sort of transmitter which lets me game with someone across the country, I think the MMORPG will have to have a discussion with the Energizer Bunny about whose soul, exactly, it belongs to.
If you're whacking it to Slashdot, you have larger problems than people watching you flog the dolphin ;)
People come to North America to escape what they felt as the repressive nature of Europe. Their hard-line religous stance was being booed. So what happens in North America? The Religous Right becomes the new standard of oppresive regimes.
Any time a despot is replaced or removed, a new one takes its place. Look at the French Revolution.
No, I'm saying when you're submitting a story, you're voting for it (in a way). In order to keep up with the rest of the noise, you have to keep voting for it. It's still one of the better systems available, although I do like K5's voting queue a little more :)
As for voting for people in office, maybe you shouldn't be trying to always read the negative into statements.
Wouldn't it just be better to murder someone in front of all these witnesses? Less jail time, less of a fine.
Or he could embezzle a few billion from HP, and only have to spend 5 years in a white-collar resort prison.
Choose using computers.
Choose hanging out on Slashdot.
Choose knowing enough about the patent system to make a lawyer blush.
Choose not having a girlfriend.
Choose your hand every night.
Choose Linux, and its politics.
Choose videogames, LAN parties, XL shirts, and big screen TVs.
Choose a career in the IT field.
Choose bitterness.
"(remember how fast GIMP dropped GIF support?)"
No, but I do remember loading GIF files fine in The Gimp not 5 minutes ago. Libungif provides plenty or reading power. You just can't resave it as a gif, which is fine by me since PNGs compress better than GIF files do with the same amount of data.
"The Net (another Sandra Bullock film) has a woman who's whole identity can be erased (especially when the FBI, Pentagon, and everybody else use the same anti-hacking software, which incredibly is used by evil hacker types)."
See, that's the best part of the movie. The fact that a monoculture lends itself to insecurity. Look at farms of IIS servers. Are they secure? Why not? Would we be better off with every HTTPD having equal market share? 100% Apache?
Don't knock the only reasonably accurate part of the movie!
The problem with democracy is that people have to go out and vote again and again ;)
Some class of problems.
Especially on the /. backend (obligitory shot of Timothy working on it), there's just a whole ton of shit flying through it a lot. People who have crackpot schemes or stuff which was posted before will litterally spam and spam and spam for days to get something posted. In the noise good stuff is lost, it happens.
What you need to do is just try again.
I just use AMPHERSAND#64; for the @ sign. No other "encryption" is required, because they don't do expansion of any HTML entities. If they ever do start doing it, I'll just resort to what you said (using an entire set of enities), but I doubt it'll come to that ever.
They did this to personally slight you. Ignore that there are several different people working on a backend where (litterally) thousands of stories are entered by hopeful posters every day. The major first step in this is the quick scan of titles, where they just tick off any titles which seem like confused or bad posts. Then they have to sivv through all the remaining ones, edit (which they don't really do well here at /.), and post. They do this all day, most days. But ignore that and assume they did it just because they don't like you.
Now come back to reality. They do not have a personal "out to get warpedrive" cabal meeting every week, nor did they reject your story because of any reason other than they just rejected it. Things which are bad in the world happen because they do, not because someone or something is out to get you. HTH. HAND.
Because the hardware supports new features. You can use it in "dumb" mode, like you can run a 180gb Maxtor in PIO4 mode, but you're not getting your best use out of it (in this case, better speeds, cable detection, hotplug, etc).
I missed a zero, and you missed that the point for my reply wasn't even correct in the first place because there's a 1.54 if you scroll down on the link.
My fault for that.
No, that's not 51% faster. If the GF4 is normalized to 1, and the ATI card is at 1.38, that means it's running at 138% of the GF4 capabilities, or 38% faster.
Honestly, if they'd used an fps base and you'd had to do this with Gnome's calc, I could see you screwing up. But screwing up (1.38 - 1) * 10? Ouch. You should be able to do that in your head.
I'd like to see a story where the government serves people, rather than failing to serve as a proper mediator and regulator of business.
However, like man bites dog, I doubt I'll see it often or at all.
They're running Mailmain 2.0.9. Many XSS vulnerabilities exist in that version.
If you don't feel right killing someone, you don't do it, do you?
"since a GeForce4 MX is a stripped down, cheaper version of the real powerhouse GeForce4 TI, "
.plan about it: http://webdog.org/plans/1/.
As posted many times by many people, the GeForce MX 4 is a GeForce 2 core with a higher clock speed. The only reason it has GeForce and 4 together at all is because the marketters at nVidia knew they could sell more parts.
Read Carmack's
If you're a computer criminal, wether a little kid playing at being like Dade Murphy, or a true criminal who wants to get a few thousand, you go to jail for the rest of your life.
If you're a big CEO of a company, and you do things like give yourself low-interest (or no-interest) loans out of company coffers (which you repay or not, depending on if you resign or the company goes out of business), or you do wonderful accounting methods which mark things like your garbage as income, you get (wait for it): 5 years in jail. I recall reading about a bill which would toughen it to 10 whole years in jail.
Now, stop me if I'm wrong, but quite a few 3 and 4 billion dollar accounting errors seem a little more serious (especially considering how businesses are all connected and eating each other all the time) than some kid unleashing another Nimda variant. Why not have tough sentences for fraud and corruption? Why not start with crimes that are occuring right now, crimes which (if unchecked) could ruin any good financial news for at least a decade? Do we want a repeat of the 1930s?
"Its subjectively faster to right mouse on something and get a popup than go to the menu and select what you wanted. but having to remember which button to use (which you're certain you don't but you actually do) slows you down *all* the time."
See, this flies in the face of any decent, red-blodded video game playing individual. Or any car driver. Or anything else where you learn the location and usage of a common control which you do not directly observe. Yea, I've seen older people who grew up with pickup sticks staring at a controller trying to determine the Y button, but this learnabality curve is a part of using a complex interface.
There is simplification for the purpose of usability, and simplification for the purpose of increasing perceived usability (by making it "easier" to learn). However, when you increase learnability, you reduce the complexity possible by the interface.
A richer interface allows for more efficient meta-data transmission, resulting in richer communitions between human and computers. I'd say that the Apple study was flawed based on the grounds that it didn't consider this.
Anyone who can put a trojan on the site can also put a bumb SHA1 on it. Why doesn't Apple use PKI?
A long time ago, I found a cassette at a library in Calgary (where I was living at the time) which contained classical scores in synth format. Several tracks were named after planets/Greek gods, and many were famous from movies. I can't remember anything else beyond that, being 13 at the time and relying on the fact that I knew where it was in the rack of cassettes in the library at the time :)
If anyone can point my towards this music, I'd be very happy.
Here, I had my hopes up that something like CoolEdit had come to Linux. There are no professional wave editors for Linux.
KRipAudio would've been a nicer name.
".. and it's now defined by the length light travels in a vacuum in a very short time.
But really, why are we basing measurements on all these arbitrary values anyway?"
A metre is how far light moves in 1/299,792,458th of a second. This is because light travels at the speed of 299,792,458 metres a second. See?