It seems to have escaped your notice, but there are about a million different versions of Monopoly, including localised ones for lots of countries. The BBC are obviously using the (main) UK one.
Not sure why you think the UK one is the "main" version of the board. The original version was the US version.
100. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".
This is not an "Insightful" comment. If anything it's a fairly subtle "Troll", but I'll give the benefit of the doubt.
Just because someone else may have a greater need doesn't mean people shouldn't help out those that have a lesser need. If you follow this logic, people would only donate to, say, earthquake relief in Pakistan, or hurricane relief in Lousiana. Just because there are people out there who have a greater need doesn't negate the fact that there are others with a need as well.
The tiny P-A team is doing far, far more than most people ever do, and the theme they picked reflects their interests - ie, showing the world that gamers aren't the rabid church tower snipers people like Jack Thompson make them out to be. If that's not right for you, don't donate to them.. but don't criticise them because you think there are people who are more deserving.
Too bad the show is one of the worst pieces of dreck I've seen on TV since "Enterprise". Unimaginitive writing, cliched lines, terrible acting, massive plot holes (why don't they just fly their 4 dimensional infecting thing over the superbowl or something?).. I took it off my Tivo after 3 or 4 episodes. I only hope it gets canned soon or there really will be no justice.. Crap like this should not survive in a universe where awesome TV like "Firefly" gets canned.
BF2 sucks mightily if you're an independant clan running your own server. EA have decided to add their global ranking shit, which isn't open to people like us. Consequently, non-ranked servers are a wasteland (apparently, people are very excited about their name appearing in a list of random internet people on a web page).
So, for those of us who want to run our own server, the game is basically DOA. Our server is co-located at an ISP in Seattle with excellent peering, which means it has the lowest ping for probably half the players in the US and Canada (look for "CSM - Seattle - BF2" in your game browser, BF2 fans). Sadly, it's hardly ever filling up because it's not ranked.
Coupled with the major screwups (like a server which leaks 14K/s of ram which took a week to fix, laggy netcode, poor in-game balance, etc.), it has not taken off anything like the original BF1942 did.
It's not a question of offending anyone. Read about it here
The BBC's guidelines state that its credibility is undermined by the "careless use of words which carry emotional or value judgments".
I agree with this point of view. "Bombers" is an accurate way to describe them. They may also be "terrorists", but this does carry an emotional implication as well. It's a little quirky, but I can see the point of simply reporting events rather than making judgements. It's something the media in general seriously lacks.
Amazon outsources its investor site to CCBN/Thomson. This is a very common practice. It saves having to host your own SEC feeds, handle sending out of documents on request (10K, for example) and many other things.
Some sites embed it in their own pages (like this) and others just point to the remote URL, (like this). Obviously, Amazon has done the latter.
The quote you're thinking of was in Bart the Daredevil (the one where Bart attempts to jump Springfield Gorge on his skateboard), but I don't recall them using the "only need the edge" line. Google seems to back me up on this..
Here's the full quote, according to Google:
TV Announcer 1: Plus the amazing...
TV Announcer 2: The outstanding...
TV Announcer 3: The unbelievable...
All 3: Truckasaurus!!
TV Announcer 2: Twenty tons and four stories of car-crunching, fire-breathing prehistoric insanity!
TV Announcer 1: One night only!
TV Announcer 2: One night only!
TV Announcer 3: One night only at the Springfield Speedway this Saturday
TV Announcer 1: If you miss this, you better be dead or in jail.
TV Announcer 2: And if you're in jail, break out!
TV Announcer 3: Be there!
If you buy your own hardware, it's much harder to convince management to upgrade it 3 or 4 years later when it's ancient technology. Where I work, we used to lease equipment, and it was always upgraded on a fairly regular basis. One day they decided it would be more cost effective to buy our own, which we did. That was 6 years ago. We still have people using P2-400 machines with 128MB of ram. This is horribly inadequate for our needs, but once management has realised how much money they can save by having sub-standard equipment (and it's a lot of money), you'd have an easier time getting blood from a stone than convincing them to upgrade.
This is almost certainly a false economy, btw - the amount of productivity lost by having crappy hardware must be massive, but it's hard to quantify compared to, say, the cost of 500 brand new, top of the line machines.
So, I would say, buying your own will be cheaper in the short term.. but it could end up biting you later on in a way which is very hard to measure.
Wow 200 lines? I bet it has tons of includes though
"The Glyphsaw Puzzle solver is implemented in less than 200 lines of Python code by making good use of the PARC DataGlyph Toolkit, the Python Imaging Library (PIL), and Numerical Python."
Computers can't generate true random numbers (ok, at least I don't know of any current methods) but only pseudo random numbers
Intel has been including hardware RNGs in their chipsets for a while now. Apparently, this is a truly quantum random number generator, although that could be so much marketing material. A quick Google doesn't turn up any obvious pages disputing this, although I didn't look too hard. Wikipedia has more info.
Check your firewall settings. You'll get much better rates if you allow ports 6881:6889 through to your machine.
For what it's worth, I've finished downloading both torrents and I'm now seeding them at a total of about 20Mbit/s right now (1.3MB/s on one, 700KB/s on the other).. so there's definitely nothing wrong with the torrent.
Computers are made up of meltable parts. By melting the computers down, would it not be possible to skim off various useful elements and compounds at certain depths? This is how they separate kerosene jet fuel from high octane gasoline. It's all together in a vat, but sucked out from different depths.
Close, but no cigar. Oil is seperated into different parts by Fractional distillation, which evaporates the oil and then condenses it at different temperature levels. In the case of metal, you can't just melt it down and skim off at different levels. It would never settle, due to the heat convection. You'd need to evaporate the metal and condense it, which would take a not insignificant amount of energy.. Nice idea though.
For what it's worth, the graph of spams seems to mirror quite nicely the spam stats I've been tracking for a couple of years.
I have to wonder if you can really say that CAN-SPAM made it get worse. To me it looks like there was a brief drop off, and then it resumed the normal climb. Do we seriously believe that a significant amount of spam wasn't sent before CAN-SPAM, because the originators were worried about it being illegal? Seriously?
Or.. not. What has the whois data for the domain got to do with their hosting? If you look up the website IP address, and then check the RIPE data, look what we find:
inetnum: 213.95.11.0 - 213.95.11.15 netname: YEALD-FRONTEND-NET descr: YEALD AG descr: Fuerther Strasse 212 descr: 90429 Nuernberg country: DE
when Valve came out with steam and started offering their product in a mode that totally bypassed Vivendi. While it is not illegal, it is certainly a dirtbag thing to do
This is analagous to musicians telling the RIAA to get lost and releasing their music over the internet instead. I can't for a second see how this could be considered a "dirtbag thing to do".
What I mean is, if I had a deal with Valve that I would produce and distribute hard copies of HL2, then i would not want to be shafted at the last minute. Vivendi invested a lot of money in the raw materials to produce the copies of HL2 that are being sold.
Oh please, producing the copies to sell is a trivial cost. Who put the money in to the development of HL2 for 4 years? Valve did.. Gabe Newell personally put his money into it.. and Vivendi knew about Steam in enough time to launch a lawsuit about it 2 years ago. It can hardly be considered "shafted at the last minute".
Personally, I hope we see more of this sort of thing; Game studios telling publishers where to go and finding their own distribution methods. As I said before, it's the same as musicians releasing music over the net - the publisher model is outdated and while I'm not naive enough to think it will die any time soon, I think it will need to adapt to survive.
Really? We tried DSPAM for a few months and found the performance to be unacceptably bad. The worst part was the false negatives. If you have to go and trawl through the lists of mails marked as spam every day to find the genuine ones, then it's no better than not having an anti-spam solution in the first place. Especially considering the web interface which becomes unusably slow once you have more than 500 or so spams listed, which can happen easily within a couple of days. Even after significant training, it didn't seem to get any better.
I think the problem for us was that it works best when your mail to spam ratio fits a certain profile. However, if 98% of the mails you receive are spam (as was the case for my account), it just can't handle it.
We've just recently gone back to Spam Assassin and false negatives are no longer a problem. In fact, spam capture rates for me have gone up to probably 99% with SA. I see a spam every day or so, and most of them are picked up by the bayesian filter in Thunderbird anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Not sure why you think the UK one is the "main" version of the board. The original version was the US version.
No Stairway? Denied!
Just because someone else may have a greater need doesn't mean people shouldn't help out those that have a lesser need. If you follow this logic, people would only donate to, say, earthquake relief in Pakistan, or hurricane relief in Lousiana. Just because there are people out there who have a greater need doesn't negate the fact that there are others with a need as well.
The tiny P-A team is doing far, far more than most people ever do, and the theme they picked reflects their interests - ie, showing the world that gamers aren't the rabid church tower snipers people like Jack Thompson make them out to be. If that's not right for you, don't donate to them.. but don't criticise them because you think there are people who are more deserving.
Too bad the show is one of the worst pieces of dreck I've seen on TV since "Enterprise". Unimaginitive writing, cliched lines, terrible acting, massive plot holes (why don't they just fly their 4 dimensional infecting thing over the superbowl or something?).. I took it off my Tivo after 3 or 4 episodes. I only hope it gets canned soon or there really will be no justice.. Crap like this should not survive in a universe where awesome TV like "Firefly" gets canned.
So, for those of us who want to run our own server, the game is basically DOA. Our server is co-located at an ISP in Seattle with excellent peering, which means it has the lowest ping for probably half the players in the US and Canada (look for "CSM - Seattle - BF2" in your game browser, BF2 fans). Sadly, it's hardly ever filling up because it's not ranked.
Coupled with the major screwups (like a server which leaks 14K/s of ram which took a week to fix, laggy netcode, poor in-game balance, etc.), it has not taken off anything like the original BF1942 did.
Migrating birds are unlikely to be seriously affected by offshore wind farms, according to a study. Scientists found that birds simply fly around the farm, or between the turbines; less than 1% are in danger of colliding with the giant structures.
The BBC's guidelines state that its credibility is undermined by the "careless use of words which carry emotional or value judgments".
I agree with this point of view. "Bombers" is an accurate way to describe them. They may also be "terrorists", but this does carry an emotional implication as well. It's a little quirky, but I can see the point of simply reporting events rather than making judgements. It's something the media in general seriously lacks.
5. Wash - Rinse - Repeat.
And that's just your underwear!
Some sites embed it in their own pages (like this) and others just point to the remote URL, (like this). Obviously, Amazon has done the latter.
Get linked from Slashdot.
You're right.. it wasn't concrete, was it? Must be tired. Oh well.. the quote struck me when reading the summary, so I figured, what the hell..
How quaint!
Here's the full quote, according to Google:
TV Announcer 1: Plus the amazing...
TV Announcer 2: The outstanding...
TV Announcer 3: The unbelievable...
All 3: Truckasaurus!!
TV Announcer 2: Twenty tons and four stories of car-crunching, fire-breathing prehistoric insanity!
TV Announcer 1: One night only!
TV Announcer 2: One night only!
TV Announcer 3: One night only at the Springfield Speedway this Saturday
TV Announcer 1: If you miss this, you better be dead or in jail.
TV Announcer 2: And if you're in jail, break out!
TV Announcer 3: Be there!
</Completely OT>
This is almost certainly a false economy, btw - the amount of productivity lost by having crappy hardware must be massive, but it's hard to quantify compared to, say, the cost of 500 brand new, top of the line machines.
So, I would say, buying your own will be cheaper in the short term.. but it could end up biting you later on in a way which is very hard to measure.
Armadillos!
"The Glyphsaw Puzzle solver is implemented in less than 200 lines of Python code by making good use of the PARC DataGlyph Toolkit, the Python Imaging Library (PIL), and Numerical Python."
^ I bet you'd win that bet.
Intel has been including hardware RNGs in their chipsets for a while now. Apparently, this is a truly quantum random number generator, although that could be so much marketing material. A quick Google doesn't turn up any obvious pages disputing this, although I didn't look too hard. Wikipedia has more info.
Mirror here.
For what it's worth, I've finished downloading both torrents and I'm now seeding them at a total of about 20Mbit/s right now (1.3MB/s on one, 700KB/s on the other).. so there's definitely nothing wrong with the torrent.
Close, but no cigar. Oil is seperated into different parts by Fractional distillation, which evaporates the oil and then condenses it at different temperature levels. In the case of metal, you can't just melt it down and skim off at different levels. It would never settle, due to the heat convection. You'd need to evaporate the metal and condense it, which would take a not insignificant amount of energy.. Nice idea though.
I have to wonder if you can really say that CAN-SPAM made it get worse. To me it looks like there was a brief drop off, and then it resumed the normal climb. Do we seriously believe that a significant amount of spam wasn't sent before CAN-SPAM, because the originators were worried about it being illegal? Seriously?
Seems to me the name is a bit too close to "Eunuchcycle", which might be more appropriate if you were to sit down on it too hard..
Or.. not. What has the whois data for the domain got to do with their hosting? If you look up the website IP address, and then check the RIPE data, look what we find:
So.. no, probably not shared hosting.
This is analagous to musicians telling the RIAA to get lost and releasing their music over the internet instead. I can't for a second see how this could be considered a "dirtbag thing to do".
What I mean is, if I had a deal with Valve that I would produce and distribute hard copies of HL2, then i would not want to be shafted at the last minute. Vivendi invested a lot of money in the raw materials to produce the copies of HL2 that are being sold.
Oh please, producing the copies to sell is a trivial cost. Who put the money in to the development of HL2 for 4 years? Valve did.. Gabe Newell personally put his money into it.. and Vivendi knew about Steam in enough time to launch a lawsuit about it 2 years ago. It can hardly be considered "shafted at the last minute".
Personally, I hope we see more of this sort of thing; Game studios telling publishers where to go and finding their own distribution methods. As I said before, it's the same as musicians releasing music over the net - the publisher model is outdated and while I'm not naive enough to think it will die any time soon, I think it will need to adapt to survive.
I think the problem for us was that it works best when your mail to spam ratio fits a certain profile. However, if 98% of the mails you receive are spam (as was the case for my account), it just can't handle it.
We've just recently gone back to Spam Assassin and false negatives are no longer a problem. In fact, spam capture rates for me have gone up to probably 99% with SA. I see a spam every day or so, and most of them are picked up by the bayesian filter in Thunderbird anyway.