doesn't the outgoing packet from a masq'd connection have to have the mac address of the nic it is supposed to return to? If so, they could easily look for that.
Also, your example of passing a null pointer by reference.. isn't that really passing a pointer? It is not really passing by reference then!
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Has anyone ever browsed an FTP site in IE? Notice how it looked *exactly* like any other folder in Windows Explorer? That is the *point*! It is called usability, people. It is called ease of use, people. The best interface is when everything looks the same! It is also called power.
Have you ever tried dragging files in IE's ftp? (Version 4, not 5+). You can't drag them to the desktop. An interface sucks if it is not consistant.
GNOME's new html viewer is not based on khtml, the html part of konqueror. It is based on kde 1.x's html widget, which was dropped in favor of khtml. (I guess it had design flaws which would make it nearly impossible to implement dom/css.)
You talk a lot about choice. Not everyone was born in a city. Where I live, and where I was born, there is no mass transit. There are no busses or trains.
Also, people in the country live in houses, not apartments.
You talk a lot about moving. Some of us have never moved. We do not accept membership into a community; we are the community.
I'm wondering if they set up a machine on a high-bandwidth connection and put a bunch of metallica songs on it, and other artists. Then, they watch how many people download from them.
If this is how they did it, it would be quite biased! I can't see how they could get this sort of information without actually getting the information from the people who run the napster servers.
I was only talking about the quake series. I've played many many hours of doom.:) (In my prime, I could finish episode 1 in a half hour, 100% kills, items and secrets.)
Actually, the maps for quake did have a theme. All shared the basic stone textures.. but the first episode was mostly stone/midevial.. the second episode was more futuristic, etc...
And, all of the quake2 levels had themes. (Each unit that is.) All of the jail levels, etc..
If you want to get technical, I think the pentagram dates back to Catacombs Abyss. I'm exactly sure how id was related to that game, but I know they had something to do with it.
As for the illegal in germany comment... I believe it was illegal to have any game which had blood. I think Syndicate was modified to make the blood black so they could say it was oil.
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whoops about the star of david thing. I don't know what I was thinking!!
Actually, there were no pentagrams (or pentacles) in quake 2. They were in quake, and are back in quake 3.
The pentagram was actually at one time a good symbol, which witches (er.. wiccans) respected. The catholic church (obviously) did not like wiccans. During the spanish inquisition, this guy (i forget his name) Wrote this big long story about the wiccans, and how they were devil worshipers, and had sex and stuff with the men of the underworld. The pope believed it, and he set out with his troops to pillage them.
Ever since that day, people think that witches are evil, and the pentagram (one of their symbols) is evil too. Thanks, catholic church.
It is also called the Star of David, and is a Jewish symbol.
All in all, they are just symbols. I don't particularily care if there is a goat head with a candle in it, or a pentacle in the game. It's just imagry. Concepts which may add an element of fear to the common man. It's not like playing the game will drive you to devil worship or anything.:)
I might be one of the few people who think that the bomb actually saved lives. The allied powers were preparing a MASSIVE attack force. The Japanese were prepared to fight to the finish. Men, women and children were willing to fight for the cause.
Even AFTER the two atomic bombs were dropped, the Japanese were not willing to surrender. Only after the emperor said "enough of this" did they back down. From what I hear, the emperor never actually said the word "surrender" (translated, of course) to the Japanese people.
If those two bombs had not been dropped, fighting would have gone on for many more months, even years. The Japanese people would have been completely decimated. (Assuming they would never agree to an unconditional surrender.)
I am willing to bet that it even saved Japanese lives compared to what would have happened if the war waged on. It obviously saved Allied lives. All those men who were ready to attack mainland Japan were not on the line anymore.
They did not have the technical weapons the germans had because they wasted their money on an immobile defensive line. (Which did not go all the way to belgium, because belgium is perpetually neutral)
I think it was called the maginot line or something like that. After the germans walked right around it, the french surrendered.
Have you looked at any of the non-microsoft UI's lately?
It is scary how almost NONE of them use the standard widgets. Look at any recent version of McAffe virus scan. It looks crazy. (I am not talking about high-end products here... just products for the general consumer.)
It is kind of funny. On the unix side, we strive to have a uniform look and feel. On the windows side, everyone wants to be different.
Hey.. that was not trolling. A few weeks ago, the cached links were not showing up in searches. They appear to have been added since the semester ended. -- Thrakkerzog
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doesn't the outgoing packet from a masq'd connection have to have the mac address of the nic it is supposed to return to? If so, they could easily look for that.
-- Thrakkerzog
int i = 42; a( i ); cout
That is what const is for.
Also, your example of passing a null pointer by reference.. isn't that really passing a pointer? It is not really passing by reference then!
-- Thrakkerzog
no, just looked at the sample code. ;-)
-- Thrakkerzog
from the looks of inti, signals are still c style callbacks with no type checking?
-- Thrakkerzog
do you trust the task manager?
-- Thrakkerzog
Easy there, tiger.
I wasn't trashing anything. I'm just saying that using the same interface is pointless if the functionality is not the same.
-- Thrakkerzog
Have you ever tried dragging files in IE's ftp? (Version 4, not 5+). You can't drag them to the desktop. An interface sucks if it is not consistant.
-- Thrakkerzog
GNOME's new html viewer is not based on khtml, the html part of konqueror. It is based on kde 1.x's html widget, which was dropped in favor of khtml. (I guess it had design flaws which would make it nearly impossible to implement dom/css.)
-- Thrakkerzog
You talk a lot about choice. Not everyone was born in a city. Where I live, and where I was born, there is no mass transit. There are no busses or trains.
Also, people in the country live in houses, not apartments.
You talk a lot about moving. Some of us have never moved. We do not accept membership into a community; we are the community.
-- Thrakkerzog
Teach them the ZZT OOP language! (From the old text-based game of ZZT.)
Anyone else remember coding in that?
It was great!
-- Thrakkerzog
I'm wondering if they set up a machine on a high-bandwidth connection and put a bunch of metallica songs on it, and other artists. Then, they watch how many people download from them.
If this is how they did it, it would be quite biased! I can't see how they could get this sort of information without actually getting the information from the people who run the napster servers.
-- Thrakkerzog
I was only talking about the quake series. I've played many many hours of doom. :) (In my prime, I could finish episode 1 in a half hour, 100% kills, items and secrets.)
Actually, the maps for quake did have a theme. All shared the basic stone textures.. but the first episode was mostly stone/midevial.. the second episode was more futuristic, etc...
And, all of the quake2 levels had themes. (Each unit that is.) All of the jail levels, etc..
If you want to get technical, I think the pentagram dates back to Catacombs Abyss. I'm exactly sure how id was related to that game, but I know they had something to do with it.
As for the illegal in germany comment... I believe it was illegal to have any game which had blood. I think Syndicate was modified to make the blood black so they could say it was oil.
-- Thrakkerzog
whoops about the star of david thing. I don't know what I was thinking!!
-- Thrakkerzog
I had heard that icons can not be copyrighted or trademarked.
-- Thrakkerzog
Actually, there were no pentagrams (or pentacles) in quake 2. They were in quake, and are back in quake 3.
:)
The pentagram was actually at one time a good symbol, which witches (er.. wiccans) respected. The catholic church (obviously) did not like wiccans. During the spanish inquisition, this guy (i forget his name) Wrote this big long story about the wiccans, and how they were devil worshipers, and had sex and stuff with the men of the underworld. The pope believed it, and he set out with his troops to pillage them.
Ever since that day, people think that witches are evil, and the pentagram (one of their symbols) is evil too. Thanks, catholic church.
It is also called the Star of David, and is a Jewish symbol.
All in all, they are just symbols. I don't particularily care if there is a goat head with a candle in it, or a pentacle in the game. It's just imagry. Concepts which may add an element of fear to the common man. It's not like playing the game will drive you to devil worship or anything.
-- Thrakkerzog
I might be one of the few people who think that the bomb actually saved lives. The allied powers were preparing a MASSIVE attack force. The Japanese were prepared to fight to the finish. Men, women and children were willing to fight for the cause.
Even AFTER the two atomic bombs were dropped, the Japanese were not willing to surrender. Only after the emperor said "enough of this" did they back down. From what I hear, the emperor never actually said the word "surrender" (translated, of course) to the Japanese people.
If those two bombs had not been dropped, fighting would have gone on for many more months, even years. The Japanese people would have been completely decimated. (Assuming they would never agree to an unconditional surrender.)
I am willing to bet that it even saved Japanese lives compared to what would have happened if the war waged on. It obviously saved Allied lives. All those men who were ready to attack mainland Japan were not on the line anymore.
-- Thrakkerzog
His name was Voltaire.
-- Thrakkerzog
They did not have the technical weapons the germans had because they wasted their money on an immobile defensive line. (Which did not go all the way to belgium, because belgium is perpetually neutral)
I think it was called the maginot line or something like that. After the germans walked right around it, the french surrendered.
-- Thrakkerzog
Have you looked at any of the non-microsoft UI's lately?
It is scary how almost NONE of them use the standard widgets. Look at any recent version of McAffe virus scan. It looks crazy. (I am not talking about high-end products here... just products for the general consumer.)
It is kind of funny. On the unix side, we strive to have a uniform look and feel. On the windows side, everyone wants to be different.
-- Thrakkerzog
Supposedly, that is not true AA in win9x. (They didn't even have the gall to call it AA.) That is why they called it "Smooth Edges" instead of AA.
You can tell it is not AA by looking at fonts which have been scaled very small.
-- Thrakkerzog
While multiple duron may be used (and this greatly increases reliability) I would not recommend it. It greatly reduces the experience of the end user.
(g)
-- Thrakkerzog
PostgreSQL has been around since 1995.
-- Thrakkerzog
Are you sure? I was under the impression that PostgreSQL has been around for quite a while.
-- Thrakkerzog
Well, if a site linked in a story gets slashdotted, you could assume that slashdot is always under that sort of stress.
Of course, slashdot hits are probably not as bad as other sites. (Because slashdot gets an unusually large amount of text-based browser hits.)
-- Thrakkerzog
Hey.. that was not trolling. A few weeks ago, the cached links were not showing up in searches. They appear to have been added since the semester ended.
-- Thrakkerzog