wait, are you saying Vin Diesel is 'expensive'.. or rather the 'real thing'????
Cmon, they are all shallow imitations of the Real action heros.. the honarable Jess "The Body" Ventura and Arnold, not to mention Sly, or even Bruce Willis in a constantly getting up after being beaten senseless way.
pppbhbpbhbbbhbhbpht... you children should review the Real Action heroes. imho, the Doom Guy should be Charles Bronson or Chuck Norris.
There are legions of security holes that can be present in any system, unix, windows,whatever. To think that just because something is a Sun its safe is ludicrous. For example, at the RIT cs department a couple years back when i was a student, they had a series of break ins, to the point where for one hour, the password file had been deleted and everyone could have logged in as root. And we were running Solaris!
Computer security only starts with a well designed OS. Every OS is vulnerable, at the very minimum, to a co-opted high level user.
I believe he is referring to the "US vs Them" irrational idealist division between the United States and the Islamic world; an extraordinarily narrow point of view in this modern age of communications and global economy only matched by such idealogy fueled groups like the Taliban.
Frankly, issues that dance on the grey areas of domestic law like abortion, anti-sodomy laws, and public religious symbols are quickly dwarfed when set against the sweeping foreign policy changes enacted by this administration; decisions (and aggressive actions) which have driven a sharp divide between many alliances founded over 50 years of mutual partnership towards global democracy and understanding.
When the Bush campaign finds it a fault that Kerry announced a need to verify International support from long held Allies, it must be apparent that a nation that once offered a bright future of cooperation in a modern global economy has now clearly seperated from this globalist orientation and moved toward an arrogant and elitist attitude. And this arrogance and stubborn refusal to debate, discuss, and work democratically is why the Bush administration is Fundamentalist (labeling it as christian, muslim, whatever just seems a disservice to the many other interpretations of the faiths).
They charge you 50 dollars for Half Life 2. Thats a normal price for a pre-release great game. In addition, you get CS:Source.
Wallhacks are not a defect of the engine (its a tweaked video card driver, something impossible to stop), and Fullbright skins can only be prevented if you verify all the resources on the person's computer prior to connecting, something that the hordes of impatient CS players would not tolerate.
Find me a single game in all of computer game history that has had a cheatless (hah!), flawless (hah!^2), "Final" Final Release. Don't kid yourself, Valve did a superb job here.
btw,thx for the console cmd, will try thatand see if i get a better framerate.
Except that it has been stated over and over again that originally they were just doing the CS port to Source to prove how easy it was to port, and then they realized how much the community wanted the same old CS but with bodies that tumbled down stairs and pretty water, and thus they gave it marginally more polish and presto, you have the Pre-release CS:Source.
Its a nice little token of appreciation to their audience and customers, why can you not be happy with that?
The fact that they realized most were not interested in a HL2 multiplayer, but rather a great mod scene and a bangin singleplayer just shows how responsive to the community they are, and in todays far more corporate big studio electronic entertainment industry, this is a major show of good faith.
Everyone seems to love drawing this giant gap between government, and us. Governments are inhernetly us.
The real question is, what level of free will is the general populace willing to cede to the minority in exchange for that minority taking on the responsiblity of governance. Sure, the educated and independant (such as a decent chunk of/.) are unwilling to exchange a large portion of their free will for not having to worry about things, but the vast majority of people everywhere will gladly release a segment of free will for the comfort and safety of regulation. The nuanced balance that every government must tread in order to be long-lived, is that of imposing enough rules to maintain order while leaving sufficient free will to keep the majority happy. Too much rules, and there is revolution; too few and there is chaos.
The division of government and us lies more in the difference between those who will take on responsibility for governance in exchange for the many benefits, and those who would prefer to dispel with that responsibility and go about their day to day business, following the rules laid down to preserve this lifestyle.
Could it be that this wonderful headline has alerted google that they are probably breaking agreements with whoever they licensed the books from, and caused them to take down this feature??
Java memory leak is easy. Make a singly linked list (object, with data member 'next' of same type), fill it up, attach the last to the first, and release all of your known references to it! Rinse, run Garbage Collector and repeat!
Presto, each object in the list references the next, therefore none have a 0 ref count and will be ignored by the garbage collector. Meanwhile, you tossed your only refence to the ring, so you are fux0r3d as well. Keep doing it and you will be screaming for memory in no time!
However, managed environments like the JVM and.NET make it safe (usually) for coders to not release programs the nuke somebody's system (even good coders make BIG mistakes), and thats why they are good. I mean, I laugh when i hear home taught DOS hackers lament the days they could access the hardware directly (and shudder when i imagine them getting their grubby paws into asynchronous windows systems)
shush, TF is a thing of the past. Put away your concussion grenades, hang up your pipe-bomb launcher, and start grumbling about how every decent map these days is a ripoff of 2fort5.
If they really want to be ahead of the game, they should pack it with a zigbee receiver.. so the park ranger can stay in communication over a wireless mesh sensor network..
Wait a second, since when is running a jock sport?? I was on the XC (cross country for all you couch potatoes) team in High School, and by nature it is a geeky, oddball sport. This is most likely because you end up being thin and wiry, not bulky and 'jock like'. Not that any of these stereotypes hold water for more than a couple trite/. threads or stupid late Spring Hollywood high school graduation teen movies, but still... although I suppose if you were talking about sprinting..
Running is a discipline game, something about battling the overwhelming urge to stop, and instead go faster, farther, and sprint up hills to boot! When i go running (every evening after work), I don't seek to 'win'; my goal is to hit that spot, the one where my mind blanks as my automatic reflexes kick in, and pain fades, and everything is clear. Thats what lets me code my way through the next day (until around 2pm when i hit up slashdot.. heh, and write a comment like this).
Note that this is coming from the Online Journalism Review. Sounds to me, rather, that the linked Article is a bit biased against a perceived competitor with that big pie-in-the-sky editor position. Of course Journalists will be against something that aggregates and treats their articles as chunks of impermanent data; nothing is more destructive to the ego than being shown you your true insignificance, especially in a cold, scientific way.
like me, eh? I was in the streets of Washington in 2003 protesting the invasion of the Iraq back when everyone referred to us dissenters as 'traitors', as well as organizing on my college (at that time, since graduated) informational lectures and events to raise awareness of the shaky footing for the war, not to mention the wholesale disregard of International opinion etc. And yet I am still a supporter of gun rights... maybe it has something to do with loving liberty and this country and feeling outraged when it IS usurped.
Eh, so it was wrong to accuse the results of the 2000 election of impropriety? That would be where Bush won leadership of the USA after winning by (as stated in earlier reply) far below a margin of error???
my grandparent comment was 'in jest'.. but to set the record straight, the number of disenfranchised voters in Florida far exceeded 537 people. Not to mention that no scientist worth their salt would ever rely on a measurement where the determining factor was so far below the margin of error (given, oh, 250 million qualified voters or so, you are saying a valid result can be determined by a margin of 0.0002%) And I think the selection of the leader of the most powerful country in the world should have a little more confidence than two ten-thousandths of a percent.
a couple months ago i was wondering how the hell Bush was going to get more than 20% of the vote. All the conservatives i know are infuriated with a pres that has increased spending, started a purposeless war, and generally increased power of the Federal gov't without limit. And of course every even remotely liberal person is dedicated to vote for the lesser evil this time. I was thinking.. theres no way he is gonna even remotely be elected, despite all the polls. And then i read the blackboxvoting stuff, and I thought "Aha! Of Course! Its the perfect coup!". So, when California votes for Bush.. don't say it wasn't obvious!
Time to start stockpiling (newly legal!) assault rifles for the war with the usurpers!
eh? trains have been completly safe on all your ridiculous assertions in Europe and all around the world for generations. Sabotage? uhh, 3000 people died in one fell swoop due to sabotage of an airplane (ok, perhaps hijacking is the right term). starts and stops.. for an "American in Kiev" you should know better, being in such close proximity to the European train system. I just came back from all summer in Berlin, and trains are amazingly effective and unbelievably safe in Germany.
The only thing i will agree with you on is the problem with American suburbia. But then again, i think suburbia is (hopefully) one of the worst experiments in the history of mankind; I could imagine nothing better than people returning to a more village-centric urban setting, where they can walk to the grocery store and movie theater, rather than race along a culdesac.
I would wager trains are more fuel efficient per person/kg, far easier to automate an autopilot for (speed up, slow down), and don't have the tendency to fall 30,000+ feet when the autopilot for whatever reason, decides to commit suicide. Plus with more dedication on infrastructure, they can go pretty quick too.
They do, they hire tons of Literature and Language students from Ivy league universities. In addition they hire lots of guys good with numbers, and intensive calculation. As a result they can combine the task of parsing the web, a numerically complex task, based upon parsing human languages. The silicon valley ad is just one aspect of their recruitment.
That being said, the company that [probably] has the world's most powerful distributed computer is doing an excellent job of vacuuming up all the brains. Hopefully this won't detract from the other 99.99% of industry, you know, the people who get gas into your car (or hopefully design a new energy source), food into your house, orchaestrate foreign policy and trade decisions, and generally create infrastructure that enables this planet to support an ever expanding population of hairless apes. Sure, google is pretty, and is doing an admirable job of providing access to the bulk of the world's information, but i hope at the end there are still some brilliant people to create that information.
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wait, are you saying Vin Diesel is 'expensive'.. or rather the 'real thing'????
Cmon, they are all shallow imitations of the Real action heros.. the honarable Jess "The Body" Ventura and Arnold, not to mention Sly, or even Bruce Willis in a constantly getting up after being beaten senseless way.
pppbhbpbhbbbhbhbpht... you children should review the Real Action heroes. imho, the Doom Guy should be Charles Bronson or Chuck Norris.
There are legions of security holes that can be present in any system, unix, windows,whatever. To think that just because something is a Sun its safe is ludicrous. For example, at the RIT cs department a couple years back when i was a student, they had a series of break ins, to the point where for one hour, the password file had been deleted and everyone could have logged in as root. And we were running Solaris!
Computer security only starts with a well designed OS. Every OS is vulnerable, at the very minimum, to a co-opted high level user.
That being said, my school was 12th, and unlike RPI, we have well over 10,000 students.
I believe he is referring to the "US vs Them" irrational idealist division between the United States and the Islamic world; an extraordinarily narrow point of view in this modern age of communications and global economy only matched by such idealogy fueled groups like the Taliban.
Frankly, issues that dance on the grey areas of domestic law like abortion, anti-sodomy laws, and public religious symbols are quickly dwarfed when set against the sweeping foreign policy changes enacted by this administration; decisions (and aggressive actions) which have driven a sharp divide between many alliances founded over 50 years of mutual partnership towards global democracy and understanding.
When the Bush campaign finds it a fault that Kerry announced a need to verify International support from long held Allies, it must be apparent that a nation that once offered a bright future of cooperation in a modern global economy has now clearly seperated from this globalist orientation and moved toward an arrogant and elitist attitude. And this arrogance and stubborn refusal to debate, discuss, and work democratically is why the Bush administration is Fundamentalist (labeling it as christian, muslim, whatever just seems a disservice to the many other interpretations of the faiths).
They charge you 50 dollars for Half Life 2. Thats a normal price for a pre-release great game. In addition, you get CS:Source.
Wallhacks are not a defect of the engine (its a tweaked video card driver, something impossible to stop), and Fullbright skins can only be prevented if you verify all the resources on the person's computer prior to connecting, something that the hordes of impatient CS players would not tolerate.
Find me a single game in all of computer game history that has had a cheatless (hah!), flawless (hah!^2), "Final" Final Release. Don't kid yourself, Valve did a superb job here.
btw,thx for the console cmd, will try thatand see if i get a better framerate.
Except that it has been stated over and over again that originally they were just doing the CS port to Source to prove how easy it was to port, and then they realized how much the community wanted the same old CS but with bodies that tumbled down stairs and pretty water, and thus they gave it marginally more polish and presto, you have the Pre-release CS:Source.
Its a nice little token of appreciation to their audience and customers, why can you not be happy with that?
The fact that they realized most were not interested in a HL2 multiplayer, but rather a great mod scene and a bangin singleplayer just shows how responsive to the community they are, and in todays far more corporate big studio electronic entertainment industry, this is a major show of good faith.
Everyone seems to love drawing this giant gap between government, and us. Governments are inhernetly us.
The real question is, what level of free will is the general populace willing to cede to the minority in exchange for that minority taking on the responsiblity of governance. Sure, the educated and independant (such as a decent chunk of /.) are unwilling to exchange a large portion of their free will for not having to worry about things, but the vast majority of people everywhere will gladly release a segment of free will for the comfort and safety of regulation. The nuanced balance that every government must tread in order to be long-lived, is that of imposing enough rules to maintain order while leaving sufficient free will to keep the majority happy. Too much rules, and there is revolution; too few and there is chaos.
The division of government and us lies more in the difference between those who will take on responsibility for governance in exchange for the many benefits, and those who would prefer to dispel with that responsibility and go about their day to day business, following the rules laid down to preserve this lifestyle.
Could it be that this wonderful headline has alerted google that they are probably breaking agreements with whoever they licensed the books from, and caused them to take down this feature??
am I the only one who thought 'now they can finally build the liquid metal terminator!'
probably, but still.. that would be neato
In Soviet Russia, Canine Cosmonaut is on a one way trip.
but seriously, RIP Laika, goooo space tourism.. as soon as it is affordable, i will be booking!
Except when its a monopolized commodity, like at any ClearChannel hot and dusty concert.. where dirty municipal water x is at least 5 bucks a bottle
Java memory leak is easy. Make a singly linked list (object, with data member 'next' of same type), fill it up, attach the last to the first, and release all of your known references to it! Rinse, run Garbage Collector and repeat!
.NET make it safe (usually) for coders to not release programs the nuke somebody's system (even good coders make BIG mistakes), and thats why they are good. I mean, I laugh when i hear home taught DOS hackers lament the days they could access the hardware directly (and shudder when i imagine them getting their grubby paws into asynchronous windows systems)
Presto, each object in the list references the next, therefore none have a 0 ref count and will be ignored by the garbage collector. Meanwhile, you tossed your only refence to the ring, so you are fux0r3d as well. Keep doing it and you will be screaming for memory in no time!
However, managed environments like the JVM and
shush, TF is a thing of the past. Put away your concussion grenades, hang up your pipe-bomb launcher, and start grumbling about how every decent map these days is a ripoff of 2fort5.
If they really want to be ahead of the game, they should pack it with a zigbee receiver.. so the park ranger can stay in communication over a wireless mesh sensor network..
I was gonna say, it looks like he washed his keyboard.. but that was probably due to drinking in the morning, so you are right anyway
Wait a second, since when is running a jock sport?? I was on the XC (cross country for all you couch potatoes) team in High School, and by nature it is a geeky, oddball sport. This is most likely because you end up being thin and wiry, not bulky and 'jock like'. Not that any of these stereotypes hold water for more than a couple trite /. threads or stupid late Spring Hollywood high school graduation teen movies, but still... although I suppose if you were talking about sprinting..
Running is a discipline game, something about battling the overwhelming urge to stop, and instead go faster, farther, and sprint up hills to boot! When i go running (every evening after work), I don't seek to 'win'; my goal is to hit that spot, the one where my mind blanks as my automatic reflexes kick in, and pain fades, and everything is clear. Thats what lets me code my way through the next day (until around 2pm when i hit up slashdot.. heh, and write a comment like this).
Note that this is coming from the Online Journalism Review. Sounds to me, rather, that the linked Article is a bit biased against a perceived competitor with that big pie-in-the-sky editor position. Of course Journalists will be against something that aggregates and treats their articles as chunks of impermanent data; nothing is more destructive to the ego than being shown you your true insignificance, especially in a cold, scientific way.
btw if you read my other response to one of the child comments, my earlier comment was very tongue-in-cheek (i thought that was obvious)
like me, eh? I was in the streets of Washington in 2003 protesting the invasion of the Iraq back when everyone referred to us dissenters as 'traitors', as well as organizing on my college (at that time, since graduated) informational lectures and events to raise awareness of the shaky footing for the war, not to mention the wholesale disregard of International opinion etc. And yet I am still a supporter of gun rights... maybe it has something to do with loving liberty and this country and feeling outraged when it IS usurped.
Eh, so it was wrong to accuse the results of the 2000 election of impropriety? That would be where Bush won leadership of the USA after winning by (as stated in earlier reply) far below a margin of error???
my grandparent comment was 'in jest'.. but to set the record straight, the number of disenfranchised voters in Florida far exceeded 537 people. Not to mention that no scientist worth their salt would ever rely on a measurement where the determining factor was so far below the margin of error (given, oh, 250 million qualified voters or so, you are saying a valid result can be determined by a margin of 0.0002%) And I think the selection of the leader of the most powerful country in the world should have a little more confidence than two ten-thousandths of a percent.
a couple months ago i was wondering how the hell Bush was going to get more than 20% of the vote. All the conservatives i know are infuriated with a pres that has increased spending, started a purposeless war, and generally increased power of the Federal gov't without limit. And of course every even remotely liberal person is dedicated to vote for the lesser evil this time. I was thinking.. theres no way he is gonna even remotely be elected, despite all the polls. And then i read the blackboxvoting stuff, and I thought "Aha! Of Course! Its the perfect coup!". So, when California votes for Bush.. don't say it wasn't obvious!
Time to start stockpiling (newly legal!) assault rifles for the war with the usurpers!
eh? trains have been completly safe on all your ridiculous assertions in Europe and all around the world for generations. Sabotage? uhh, 3000 people died in one fell swoop due to sabotage of an airplane (ok, perhaps hijacking is the right term). starts and stops.. for an "American in Kiev" you should know better, being in such close proximity to the European train system. I just came back from all summer in Berlin, and trains are amazingly effective and unbelievably safe in Germany.
The only thing i will agree with you on is the problem with American suburbia. But then again, i think suburbia is (hopefully) one of the worst experiments in the history of mankind; I could imagine nothing better than people returning to a more village-centric urban setting, where they can walk to the grocery store and movie theater, rather than race along a culdesac.
I would wager trains are more fuel efficient per person/kg, far easier to automate an autopilot for (speed up, slow down), and don't have the tendency to fall 30,000+ feet when the autopilot for whatever reason, decides to commit suicide. Plus with more dedication on infrastructure, they can go pretty quick too.
They do, they hire tons of Literature and Language students from Ivy league universities. In addition they hire lots of guys good with numbers, and intensive calculation. As a result they can combine the task of parsing the web, a numerically complex task, based upon parsing human languages. The silicon valley ad is just one aspect of their recruitment.
That being said, the company that [probably] has the world's most powerful distributed computer is doing an excellent job of vacuuming up all the brains. Hopefully this won't detract from the other 99.99% of industry, you know, the people who get gas into your car (or hopefully design a new energy source), food into your house, orchaestrate foreign policy and trade decisions, and generally create infrastructure that enables this planet to support an ever expanding population of hairless apes. Sure, google is pretty, and is doing an admirable job of providing access to the bulk of the world's information, but i hope at the end there are still some brilliant people to create that information.
Ok, enough unwarranted doomsday blabbing..