It's also worth noting that even the crappy dumb AI coming out of university labs these days would wipe most humans off any map in any real-time game - simply by being faster and making reasonably sound decisions all the time- not optimal, mind you, just non-idiotic. The reason such AI isn't implemented in games is that - guess what? - they'd suck big time. Also, pathing was solved a long time ago - what you're seeing are map bugs and insufficienty general "AI" scripting. For instance, objects that hover instead of being stuck to the floor because of a lazy level designer, combined with a dumb AI script that only checks for obstacles at ground level, will trigger that kind of bug.
The broadband situation is mostly crap and gets crappier the further to the south of Europe you go, as a general rule. Not only are most cable providers heavily oversold, they are so technically inept that they can't even do shaping right, leaving even light users with unstable, laggy connections. I'd envy you, but you're in Germany and have bigger worries - like the Bundespolizei installing keylogger trojans in your computer if you don't behave.
(Nearly) wiped out in the subsequent global warming phase? This is a long time we're talking about and the life that may have arisen then may not have conformed too closely to the modern definition. Even if everything from that first flourishing got killed, the accumulations of organic compounds left behind may have made the (re-)appearance of life on Earth that much more probable.
I hate appending to my own posts like this but... 80% of Universal, the mighty wikipedia tells us, is owned by GE, with the remainder owned by Vivendi so that makes three out of four - with EMI in the hands of Terra Firma which in turn fronts for "private investors". On a wholly different note, there is considerable interest from the US government to push for the export of american IP laws and practice, in their current broken state, because much higher stakes than the recording industry's measly tens of billions are on the table. The RIAA are just along for the ride.
Erm. The RIAA - which is the legal shell of this cartel - is wholly american. The Swedish prosecutor isn't stupid, he's pandering to the strong and you can bet your bottom dollar that the boys in RIAA talked to the boys on Capitol Hill who in turn put some pressure on the Swedish government to stop allowing Piratebay to exist - just like there's a good deal of side-channel pressure in those extradition cases you're angry about...
A zeppelin-shaped cross-section, you mean:). If you want subsonic flight for your ring, yes, you need a traditional wing cross-section for your torus (just like the nacelle on a jet aircraft's engine). It won't produce lift, but should stabilize it quite nicely, even reducing drag a bit (as compared to a rectangular cross-section).
Why do you feel ring-shaped projectiles are a problem? The mighty Wikipedia teaches us that one can easily build toroidal projectiles that are stable in supersonic flight.
You haven't gone very far in your thinking - or else you're just advertising KeePass. Trusting Windows (a huge gob of unaudited, closed source code from a producer that is known for openly cooperating with No Such Agency) is the very worst idea if you really care about security. Start by using an OS with source code you can inspect and that you can compile in your own home, using your own trusted (and tested) compiler and only then start thinking about what encryption tools you should use. What use is your encryption software if it uses the buggy Windows PRNG?
One catch: memorizing poems will not make your short- or medium-term memory hold more data - it will just make you more adept at learning poems and other similarly-structured data and maintaining them in long-term memory. All well and good, of course, but not helpful for the task at hand. You'd be better served if you exercised by playing chess, or go, or programming - all tasks that require you to maintain a lot of state.
Planning ahead also helps enormously with tasks that can be broken down easily - you set interrupts, plan your moves for each of them, visualize the whole, adjust for contingencies and then start executing, so when the spaghetti sauce starts simmering you'll REMEMBER it's time to chop the parsley and add a little water, instead of having to (omg omg it's boiling over what now maybe I need some water where's the damn glass oh snap farovertherebythesink maybe move the pan out of the fire while I get water?) THINK about what you should do next.
Must be something about those Kurdish womean&children that positively screams out "gas me! gas me!" (it was a kurdish uprising that he was talking about; later on, Saddam did exactly what Churchill's minions hadn't).
Having used vista for more than a month now, I feel qualified to comment:
People will be trained to always click yes with UAC, but not sudo right? UAC != sudo and anyway no half-decent Linux OS gives sudo rights to new users out of the box (indeed, some don't even come with sudo installed by default). Sudo is not a security tool, neither is UAC, don't treat them as if they were.
MS is now in charge of writing drivers too? The driver signing means Microsoft is taking responsibility for those drivers (albeit in a limited way); deal with it. Perhaps they really should be writing drivers, instead of laying the groundwork for charging hardware manufacturers for the privilege of having devices that work with Windows.
Why would anyone scroll the start menu when they can just start typing... Because they just used the mouse to get to the damn start menu, you useless twat.
Still unsure if you're a troll, but... the statistical corellation between the frequency of ejaculations and prostate cancer likelyhood is well-documented. Sex is good for you, even if you do it one-handed!
I believe RPG's would be... not much of a problem. Thost things are designed to kill tanks, not big bags of rare gasses - the fuses would probably not be activated.
Had you bothered to read the whole wikipedia entry, you would have learned that there were (are?) plans to build the TU-161 (aka TU-160P), what you would call an air-superiority fighter - think "Concorde meets F-14".
You can bet it makes one heck of a noise... Had you read the fine article, you'd have learned that the energy is derived from supersonic combustion - i.e. from a channelled explosion.
Ahem. May I disagree? Generally, corps know about each other in great detail. The bigger the corp, the likelier it is it has a whole cornucopia of old boys networks, double-dealing partners and yes, even bona-fide industrial spies on top of the usual market research type resources to let the execs learn about this stuff. Securing a big undertaking of any kind is next to impossible - see the spectacular failure (in this respect) of Project Manhattan.
Speaking of which, what in Dog's gracious name is a freaking Barrista? Is it a technical term for untrained 20-year-old losers who can't produce a cup of coffee unless they work in squads?
Maybe he meant practical uses? Like, say, crypto? Say there's a universally accessible source of noise (such as background microwave radiation) which both Bob and Alice sample and digitize at a given rate starting from an "offset" in time known only to the both of them. They now have an arbitrarily long one-time pad at their disposal!
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It's also worth noting that even the crappy dumb AI coming out of university labs these days would wipe most humans off any map in any real-time game - simply by being faster and making reasonably sound decisions all the time- not optimal, mind you, just non-idiotic. The reason such AI isn't implemented in games is that - guess what? - they'd suck big time. Also, pathing was solved a long time ago - what you're seeing are map bugs and insufficienty general "AI" scripting. For instance, objects that hover instead of being stuck to the floor because of a lazy level designer, combined with a dumb AI script that only checks for obstacles at ground level, will trigger that kind of bug.
The broadband situation is mostly crap and gets crappier the further to the south of Europe you go, as a general rule. Not only are most cable providers heavily oversold, they are so technically inept that they can't even do shaping right, leaving even light users with unstable, laggy connections. I'd envy you, but you're in Germany and have bigger worries - like the Bundespolizei installing keylogger trojans in your computer if you don't behave.
More to the point, how many boards are there that support this?
(Nearly) wiped out in the subsequent global warming phase? This is a long time we're talking about and the life that may have arisen then may not have conformed too closely to the modern definition. Even if everything from that first flourishing got killed, the accumulations of organic compounds left behind may have made the (re-)appearance of life on Earth that much more probable.
I hate appending to my own posts like this but...
80% of Universal, the mighty wikipedia tells us, is owned by GE, with the remainder owned by Vivendi so that makes three out of four - with EMI in the hands of Terra Firma which in turn fronts for "private investors".
On a wholly different note, there is considerable interest from the US government to push for the export of american IP laws and practice, in their current broken state, because much higher stakes than the recording industry's measly tens of billions are on the table. The RIAA are just along for the ride.
Erm.
The RIAA - which is the legal shell of this cartel - is wholly american. The Swedish prosecutor isn't stupid, he's pandering to the strong and you can bet your bottom dollar that the boys in RIAA talked to the boys on Capitol Hill who in turn put some pressure on the Swedish government to stop allowing Piratebay to exist - just like there's a good deal of side-channel pressure in those extradition cases you're angry about...
Oh, look what the cat dragged in. You have some nerve pretending not to understand that the RIAA instigated this bullshit.
Two seconds ping probably means "millions in the middle east hogging bandwidth on a couple satellite channels", actually.
A zeppelin-shaped cross-section, you mean :). If you want subsonic flight for your ring, yes, you need a traditional wing cross-section for your torus (just like the nacelle on a jet aircraft's engine). It won't produce lift, but should stabilize it quite nicely, even reducing drag a bit (as compared to a rectangular cross-section).
Why do you feel ring-shaped projectiles are a problem? The mighty Wikipedia teaches us that one can easily build toroidal projectiles that are stable in supersonic flight.
You haven't gone very far in your thinking - or else you're just advertising KeePass. Trusting Windows (a huge gob of unaudited, closed source code from a producer that is known for openly cooperating with No Such Agency) is the very worst idea if you really care about security.
Start by using an OS with source code you can inspect and that you can compile in your own home, using your own trusted (and tested) compiler and only then start thinking about what encryption tools you should use.
What use is your encryption software if it uses the buggy Windows PRNG?
One catch: memorizing poems will not make your short- or medium-term memory hold more data - it will just make you more adept at learning poems and other similarly-structured data and maintaining them in long-term memory. All well and good, of course, but not helpful for the task at hand. You'd be better served if you exercised by playing chess, or go, or programming - all tasks that require you to maintain a lot of state.
Planning ahead also helps enormously with tasks that can be broken down easily - you set interrupts, plan your moves for each of them, visualize the whole, adjust for contingencies and then start executing, so when the spaghetti sauce starts simmering you'll REMEMBER it's time to chop the parsley and add a little water, instead of having to (omg omg it's boiling over what now maybe I need some water where's the damn glass oh snap farovertherebythesink maybe move the pan out of the fire while I get water?) THINK about what you should do next.
They've even managed to annoy the friendly Turks (yet again)!
Must be something about those Kurdish womean&children that positively screams out "gas me! gas me!" (it was a kurdish uprising that he was talking about; later on, Saddam did exactly what Churchill's minions hadn't).
You, sir, make me wish I had mod points.
Oh yea, and who's the fuckwit who modded parent "Troll"?
Still unsure if you're a troll, but... the statistical corellation between the frequency of ejaculations and prostate cancer likelyhood is well-documented. Sex is good for you, even if you do it one-handed!
I believe RPG's would be... not much of a problem. Thost things are designed to kill tanks, not big bags of rare gasses - the fuses would probably not be activated.
Had you bothered to read the whole wikipedia entry, you would have learned that there were (are?) plans to build the TU-161 (aka TU-160P), what you would call an air-superiority fighter - think "Concorde meets F-14".
Quite so.
You can bet it makes one heck of a noise... Had you read the fine article, you'd have learned that the energy is derived from supersonic combustion - i.e. from a channelled explosion.
Ahem. May I disagree? Generally, corps know about each other in great detail. The bigger the corp, the likelier it is it has a whole cornucopia of old boys networks, double-dealing partners and yes, even bona-fide industrial spies on top of the usual market research type resources to let the execs learn about this stuff. Securing a big undertaking of any kind is next to impossible - see the spectacular failure (in this respect) of Project Manhattan.
Speaking of which, what in Dog's gracious name is a freaking Barrista? Is it a technical term for untrained 20-year-old losers who can't produce a cup of coffee unless they work in squads?
Maybe he meant practical uses? Like, say, crypto? Say there's a universally accessible source of noise (such as background microwave radiation) which both Bob and Alice sample and digitize at a given rate starting from an "offset" in time known only to the both of them. They now have an arbitrarily long one-time pad at their disposal!