Heh, I remember, back in the day, playing Duke Nukem 3d on my P100 at an average of about 17fps (640x480) and not seeing anything wrong. How spoiled we've gotten...
Haven't there been a lot of controllers designed specifically for FPS games? I remember that at least one or two of them were reviewed as being at least as good as the mouse+keyboard combo, though they took a while to get used to.
I mean I agree that the playing field *should* be level but frankly I'd rather just not have xbox360 players connected to my PC game than put up with that kind of crap!
I wonder if that's why Microsoft decided to not allow "coed" PC + 360 matches for Halo 2....
I recently got a nasty surprise while googling myself. Seems someone uploaded my undergrad research paper to an online repository of technical papers. Now I don't remember whether or not I signed a release for the paper, but this is one aspect of my past that I do NOT want my future prospective employers finding while researching me. I'm really not proud of that paper....
You can argue morale issues until you are blue in the face, network security should trump that in 99% of those cases.
Easier said than done. When you consider that even the formidable Los Angeles CTU security defenses were breached by a simple remote-execution browser exploit planted on a web-page, what chances do normal businesses have?
If McCain is a good politician and decent human being
Now there's an oxymoron if I've ever seen one. McCain used to be a decent human being before deciding to become a good politician (i.e. hypocrite - see his anti-torture "victory").
The thing I personally have a problem with in vista is folder browsing, I have not spent money on a good raid array (and made sure it had vista drivers) and lots of HDD just to have a half second pause when I double click ANY folder.
I remember having this problem in Win2k. Turned out to be a network issue (even though the folders I was browsing were on a local drive!)
Sorry, the Zeroth Law that Asimov came up with is the one I mentioned. And if you'd paid attention to the movie you'd know that there are no evil robots there either. The AI villain in question did not act out of anger, lust for power, or any sort of malevolence. It really thought that what it was doing was for the good of humanity, that it was protecting humans from themselves. That's completely within the Zeroth Law. The problem is that the AI's opinion of what would be good for humanity did not coincide with that of the humans themselves.
I, Robot was nothing like the book of the same name, though in spirit it shares some familiarities with the Robot Detective series (Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire.) I'm talking about whole thing about the Three Laws having a loophole and robots evolving a 0th law:
Zeroth Law (New): A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
First Law (Modified):
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, unless this would violate the Zeroth Law of Robotics.
Therefore robots could kill humans as long as they believed it to be for the good of humanity.
One of the arguments the RIAA is using to say they don't need to pay Foster's legal fees is that the cost of their legal team would have exceeded the amount Foster would have needed to pay them if the RIAA won. ( http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename=capi tol_foster_070221MotReconsider [ilrweb.com] , page 4)
Even if RIAA is telling the truth their legal fees, how could that possibly be a valid reason not to pay Foster's legal fees? If its a law, it seems rather silly and easy to abuse.
The court has ordered the RIAA to pay the defendant's attourney fees in this case. They want the RIAA's documents so that they can determine what "reasonable attourney fees" are.
What difference does it make how much RIAA pays its own lawyers? Shouldn't the attourney fees be whatever the defense lawyers charged? Does that mean that as long as I can find a lawyer who works for free (or only gets paid a percentage of the settlement, etc) then I can file all the frivilous lawsuits I want without fear of being forced to pay for the defense attourney fees?
Not that I agree that that's the right place where the law should say life begins, but it far more defensible than some arbitrary time such as second trimester.
Personally, I think science should determine when the fetus starts to feel (emotion, pain, hunger, anything really), and that should be defined as when human life begins. Until that happens, my opinion is that the first trimester should be used as the line between "no questions asked" and "only if mother's health is in serious danger."
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Heh, I remember, back in the day, playing Duke Nukem 3d on my P100 at an average of about 17fps (640x480) and not seeing anything wrong. How spoiled we've gotten...
Next gen? Even Bard's Tale let you enter any properties in the game world!
touch "*"
... now the waiting game
Haven't there been a lot of controllers designed specifically for FPS games? I remember that at least one or two of them were reviewed as being at least as good as the mouse+keyboard combo, though they took a while to get used to.
I mean I agree that the playing field *should* be level but frankly I'd rather just not have xbox360 players connected to my PC game than put up with that kind of crap!
I wonder if that's why Microsoft decided to not allow "coed" PC + 360 matches for Halo 2....
I recently got a nasty surprise while googling myself. Seems someone uploaded my undergrad research paper to an online repository of technical papers. Now I don't remember whether or not I signed a release for the paper, but this is one aspect of my past that I do NOT want my future prospective employers finding while researching me. I'm really not proud of that paper....
So that makes you pro-RIAA, right? Bastard.
You can argue morale issues until you are blue in the face, network security should trump that in 99% of those cases.
Easier said than done. When you consider that even the formidable Los Angeles CTU security defenses were breached by a simple remote-execution browser exploit planted on a web-page, what chances do normal businesses have?
Are they hoping "Rock The Net" will be as successful as "Rock The Vote"?
Oh yeah, well I plan to see a big check from you in the near future, seeing as how I'm gonna patent the patent!
Unless their speed is nerfed, the Hedgehogs will run circles around the Plumbers.
Just wait till the invention of the Shizuma Drive....
If McCain is a good politician and decent human being
Now there's an oxymoron if I've ever seen one. McCain used to be a decent human being before deciding to become a good politician (i.e. hypocrite - see his anti-torture "victory").
Diebold machines were used to tally the results of the vote, so obviously Diebold suspects hackers.
The thing I personally have a problem with in vista is folder browsing, I have not spent money on a good raid array (and made sure it had vista drivers) and lots of HDD just to have a half second pause when I double click ANY folder.
I remember having this problem in Win2k. Turned out to be a network issue (even though the folders I was browsing were on a local drive!)
Sorry, the Zeroth Law that Asimov came up with is the one I mentioned. And if you'd paid attention to the movie you'd know that there are no evil robots there either. The AI villain in question did not act out of anger, lust for power, or any sort of malevolence. It really thought that what it was doing was for the good of humanity, that it was protecting humans from themselves. That's completely within the Zeroth Law. The problem is that the AI's opinion of what would be good for humanity did not coincide with that of the humans themselves.
I, Robot was nothing like the book of the same name, though in spirit it shares some familiarities with the Robot Detective series (Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire.) I'm talking about whole thing about the Three Laws having a loophole and robots evolving a 0th law:
Zeroth Law (New):
A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
First Law (Modified):
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, unless this would violate the Zeroth Law of Robotics.
Therefore robots could kill humans as long as they believed it to be for the good of humanity.
How appropriate, you fight like a cow!
Exactly. It's like saying that an online newspaper is a slashdot killer.
Gamers whose accounts have been hijacked will be glad to know that it's not a bug, it's a feature.
One of the arguments the RIAA is using to say they don't need to pay Foster's legal fees is that the cost of their legal team would have exceeded the amount Foster would have needed to pay them if the RIAA won. ( http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDF.asp?filename=capi tol_foster_070221MotReconsider [ilrweb.com] , page 4)
Even if RIAA is telling the truth their legal fees, how could that possibly be a valid reason not to pay Foster's legal fees? If its a law, it seems rather silly and easy to abuse.
The court has ordered the RIAA to pay the defendant's attourney fees in this case. They want the RIAA's documents so that they can determine what "reasonable attourney fees" are.
What difference does it make how much RIAA pays its own lawyers? Shouldn't the attourney fees be whatever the defense lawyers charged? Does that mean that as long as I can find a lawyer who works for free (or only gets paid a percentage of the settlement, etc) then I can file all the frivilous lawsuits I want without fear of being forced to pay for the defense attourney fees?
Not that I agree that that's the right place where the law should say life begins, but it far more defensible than some arbitrary time such as second trimester.
Personally, I think science should determine when the fetus starts to feel (emotion, pain, hunger, anything really), and that should be defined as when human life begins. Until that happens, my opinion is that the first trimester should be used as the line between "no questions asked" and "only if mother's health is in serious danger."
I'm pretty sure Bush got the majority popular vote in the last presidential election. Officially at least.
Just where in the article did it say the students couldn't do their work in the library?
Research in the library? What is this, the 20th century?