Shouldn't be that hard, especially for manufacturere like Maxtor, considering I myself managed to format a 1.44" floppy to 16 terabytes of storage. I'm afraid no disk drive of our times is able to read that much though.
How will Intel products fare compared to AMD, benchmark point per dollar now? The main problem with Intel was that it offered worse bang for the buck, you'd have a faster AMD for the same money or same AMD for less. This will certainly make Intel more competetive, but HOW competetive?...now I expect AMD to slightly cut on their overall profit margins and drop the price too. Just to remain a step ahead. Let the price war begin, likely there will be no casualities, but the winners will be us, customers.
Gypsies used a similar trick to get free lunch, they called it "nail soup". Tell the host that you can cook a "nail soup", a soup based on a nail. Ingredients: - One big nail - Water - Groats - Bacon - Salt, Spices, Herbs - (...some more foodstuffs, I don't remember).
The idea was to cook a basic groats-based soup with nail in it. The nail didn't provide anything to the soup except of curiosity factor that made the host to provide the rest of the ingredients. The gypsy would eat one bowl, the host another, the nail would be saved for another cooking of the soup...
Been there. Creating accounts for students, in Back Office Small Business (educational license, school) edition. "This feature is available in Enterprise Edition". I'm not sure what was the exact case here, but I doubt the guy was happy to spend 3 days clicking icons if he could have written a script and he did have official Microsoft training.
Still about the hardest to download would be NES Doom port:) The cartridge contained a GPU that produced the 3D gfx the poor NES CPU was not capable of producing. Download THAT!
And the ability to play PS One games will be the major selling point of a $800 console. You can buy a PS One for $15.
Nintendo offers several different consoles in one. Not sure how many but 6 or more I think. Sony can bundle three, well, four if you count PSP in (but most PSP games are just ports/remakes of PS2 titles anyway).
a pro, trained guy came to set up win2003 server for our firm. Not my decision, not my branch. That was for Accounting, I'm in Production. But I just watched him creating user accounts. Click "New." Type username from the sheet of paper. Type default password. Click groups. Click 4-5 groups on the list, each time changing the privledges. And of course earlier hour of creating such groups. And so on. Change some defaults in settings for the 50th time for 50th account created. Assign the same home directory path other than suggested by system, pasting it from clipboard. Creating one account was like 15 minutes.
I just remembered: vi/etc/group vi/etc/passwd
No shill is gonna convince me windows is easier to administer.
So called "analog hole". RIAA and MPAA are sooo sweating to have it killed. Your speakers must send "authorised hardware" DRM signal and if you strip the wire from the actual magnet in your own speakers you have bought, and plug it into a recording device, they will have you sued for supporting terrorism.
Stripping DRM and retaining data would suffice. There are lossless JPG operations like rotating, flipping, adjusting colors etc. There are some proprietary formats closely derived from mp3, which can be converted to mp3 losslessly. I highly doubt these guys invented some new algorithm of compression - most likely they went with plain old multi-looped, weighted self-correlation with low-value stripping and lossless compression of value-stripped data, because that's most common, just stuffing the compression with additional encryption scheme. Now if you can decrypt the data and decompress to autocorrelation multipliers phase, you can losslessly (without additional loss) compress it back to mp3. If they derived it from some other common format - no biggie, you can get it to that format just the same. Decompress raw data, don't recode from frequency to value spectrum, fix headers, recompress with algorithm native to the base format.
Of course if they hired some highly-trained informaticians (not just programmers), and devised their own unique format, sucks. Use the analog hole, recode plain audio, with the full associated loss. But that's not such an easy deal.
I like the idea. I will likely subscribe. As soon as I put my hands on.mpq to.mp3 converter.
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Yep. Agreed. Just leave 40 zombies and make you knife them, because you have 5 bullets. Or drop a few enemies who are so hard to kill that you run from them, not fight them. Make the player oppressed, no more "fight the enemy", you're overwhelmed, you must flee!
And nothing worse than ammo limits. So in HL2 I'm saving up the magnum ammo for stronger enemies, using plain pistol instead. And then instead of the boss, I find 3 boxes of magnum ammo, which I can't pick. I know if I start using the gun, I'll use up my ammo supply in 3 minutes, but I can't pick the 3 additional boxes. Instead I carry 150 bullets for the weaker pistol. ick.
> Driving games and multiplayer games that won't let you drive car X or use multiplayer map Y are annoying.
Unless car X is a tank which you use to blow up all the opponents before the green light is lit. Easter eggs are meant as extension of normal gameplay, not to replace it. As for multiplayer, I bet it would be reasonable if the game would pit two armies (of real players) against each other, where the front line progresses.
I hate games that artificially lock out areas. Areas should be locked by gameplay difficulty. I hated Oblivion's "This door requires a key" but when I installed Oscuro's mod and in Leyawinn Recommendation was forced to retreat and do some easier quests to beef up my skillz, because I received a bad beating, it was one of the greatest parts of the game.
When the game tells you "Do X" and you go, try, and find out it's simply way too hard, and then nobody tells you what to do, but you're left with more than enough opportunities to do various "Y" to boost your strength, that's great. Not like you finish the main quest before reaching level 4, because enemies are matched to your level.
MMORPGs bore me. Too much nerfing, not enough real content. And "Instances" make them into "minimal multiplayer games" with massive centralized content distribution areas.
Set "-1" for Funny in prefs. From now on, +1 Funny (barely funny) doesn't get any bonus, +5 Funny is +4.
Extra profit, no investment. Borrow 100 shares for $100 each, sell them for $100, get $10k. Sue, buy 100 shares for $50, spending $5k, return them, keep the other $5k - or invest them in another 100 shares which you'll sell for $200/piece after the court battle, resulting in $25k profit with zero up-front investment instead of $15k profit from $5k investment needed if you skip step one. Plus additional panic on the market resulting from mass sale of the shares will result in the shares reaching even lower price in step 3.
Of course acquiring IP addresses from a database is standard DNS, so the idea can't be patented, and isn't. But specific methods to achieve the above are patentable and, say, some sophisticated p2p connection creation method would be.
The patent in question is about using one (arbitrary) protocol to obtain access to a database server which holds online status and IP of the target. That's pretty much what ICQ and followers do, and with some stretch, IRC too. Patentable - probably not. Then still, if patented, Skype would infringe. But then we come to the fun, second part:
A second point-to-point Internet protocol includes the steps of (a) transmitting an E-mail signal, including a first IP address, from a first processing unit; (b) processing the E-mail signal through the Internet to deliver the E-mail signal to a second processing unit;
Does Skype use SMTP to transfer data? Does it send e-mail messages? AFAIK it estabilishes streams. Plonk.
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I have yet to see one spewing Apache out of memory error on static HTML webpages though.
Shouldn't be that hard, especially for manufacturere like Maxtor, considering I myself managed to format a 1.44" floppy to 16 terabytes of storage. I'm afraid no disk drive of our times is able to read that much though.
How will Intel products fare compared to AMD, benchmark point per dollar now? The main problem with Intel was that it offered worse bang for the buck, you'd have a faster AMD for the same money or same AMD for less. This will certainly make Intel more competetive, but HOW competetive? ...now I expect AMD to slightly cut on their overall profit margins and drop the price too. Just to remain a step ahead. Let the price war begin, likely there will be no casualities, but the winners will be us, customers.
Gypsies used a similar trick to get free lunch, they called it "nail soup". Tell the host that you can cook a "nail soup", a soup based on a nail.
Ingredients:
- One big nail
- Water
- Groats
- Bacon
- Salt, Spices, Herbs
- (...some more foodstuffs, I don't remember).
The idea was to cook a basic groats-based soup with nail in it. The nail didn't provide anything to the soup except of curiosity factor that made the host to provide the rest of the ingredients. The gypsy would eat one bowl, the host another, the nail would be saved for another cooking of the soup...
Here they use band-aid instead of the nail.
And now it will be FPS/RPG genre, though more FPS than RPG.
Been there. Creating accounts for students, in Back Office Small Business (educational license, school) edition. "This feature is available in Enterprise Edition".
I'm not sure what was the exact case here, but I doubt the guy was happy to spend 3 days clicking icons if he could have written a script and he did have official Microsoft training.
Still about the hardest to download would be NES Doom port :)
The cartridge contained a GPU that produced the 3D gfx the poor NES CPU was not capable of producing. Download THAT!
And the ability to play PS One games will be the major selling point of a $800 console. You can buy a PS One for $15.
Nintendo offers several different consoles in one. Not sure how many but 6 or more I think. Sony can bundle three, well, four if you count PSP in (but most PSP games are just ports/remakes of PS2 titles anyway).
a pro, trained guy came to set up win2003 server for our firm. Not my decision, not my branch. That was for Accounting, I'm in Production. But I just watched him creating user accounts.
/etc/group /etc/passwd
Click "New." Type username from the sheet of paper. Type default password. Click groups. Click 4-5 groups on the list, each time changing the privledges. And of course earlier hour of creating such groups. And so on. Change some defaults in settings for the 50th time for 50th account created. Assign the same home directory path other than suggested by system, pasting it from clipboard. Creating one account was like 15 minutes.
I just remembered:
vi
vi
No shill is gonna convince me windows is easier to administer.
Bad taste and no brains. If the real estate was in Mexico, he'd be free, happy and rich now.
So called "analog hole". RIAA and MPAA are sooo sweating to have it killed. Your speakers must send "authorised hardware" DRM signal and if you strip the wire from the actual magnet in your own speakers you have bought, and plug it into a recording device, they will have you sued for supporting terrorism.
Stripping DRM and retaining data would suffice. There are lossless JPG operations like rotating, flipping, adjusting colors etc. There are some proprietary formats closely derived from mp3, which can be converted to mp3 losslessly. I highly doubt these guys invented some new algorithm of compression - most likely they went with plain old multi-looped, weighted self-correlation with low-value stripping and lossless compression of value-stripped data, because that's most common, just stuffing the compression with additional encryption scheme. Now if you can decrypt the data and decompress to autocorrelation multipliers phase, you can losslessly (without additional loss) compress it back to mp3. If they derived it from some other common format - no biggie, you can get it to that format just the same. Decompress raw data, don't recode from frequency to value spectrum, fix headers, recompress with algorithm native to the base format.
Of course if they hired some highly-trained informaticians (not just programmers), and devised their own unique format, sucks. Use the analog hole, recode plain audio, with the full associated loss. But that's not such an easy deal.
I like the idea. I will likely subscribe. As soon as I put my hands on .mpq to .mp3 converter.
Yep. Agreed.
Just leave 40 zombies and make you knife them, because you have 5 bullets. Or drop a few enemies who are so hard to kill that you run from them, not fight them. Make the player oppressed, no more "fight the enemy", you're overwhelmed, you must flee!
And nothing worse than ammo limits. So in HL2 I'm saving up the magnum ammo for stronger enemies, using plain pistol instead. And then instead of the boss, I find 3 boxes of magnum ammo, which I can't pick. I know if I start using the gun, I'll use up my ammo supply in 3 minutes, but I can't pick the 3 additional boxes. Instead I carry 150 bullets for the weaker pistol. ick.
> Driving games and multiplayer games that won't let you drive car X or use multiplayer map Y are annoying.
Unless car X is a tank which you use to blow up all the opponents before the green light is lit. Easter eggs are meant as extension of normal gameplay, not to replace it. As for multiplayer, I bet it would be reasonable if the game would pit two armies (of real players) against each other, where the front line progresses.
I hate games that artificially lock out areas. Areas should be locked by gameplay difficulty. I hated Oblivion's "This door requires a key" but when I installed Oscuro's mod and in Leyawinn Recommendation was forced to retreat and do some easier quests to beef up my skillz, because I received a bad beating, it was one of the greatest parts of the game.
When the game tells you "Do X" and you go, try, and find out it's simply way too hard, and then nobody tells you what to do, but you're left with more than enough opportunities to do various "Y" to boost your strength, that's great. Not like you finish the main quest before reaching level 4, because enemies are matched to your level.
MMORPGs bore me. Too much nerfing, not enough real content. And "Instances" make them into "minimal multiplayer games" with massive centralized content distribution areas.
Set "-1" for Funny in prefs. From now on, +1 Funny (barely funny) doesn't get any bonus, +5 Funny is +4.
My secret? Only one occupation grants knowledge in so many various domains: Slashdot karma whore.
He would be if he knew!!!
Can't be worse than mr. Gates.
Torvalds would be rolling in the grave if he knew what they do with the technology he helped to develop.
It is, but the patent has already expired! Yay!
Extra profit, no investment. Borrow 100 shares for $100 each, sell them for $100, get $10k. Sue, buy 100 shares for $50, spending $5k, return them, keep the other $5k - or invest them in another 100 shares which you'll sell for $200/piece after the court battle, resulting in $25k profit with zero up-front investment instead of $15k profit from $5k investment needed if you skip step one. Plus additional panic on the market resulting from mass sale of the shares will result in the shares reaching even lower price in step 3.
Yep. It's insightful.
No. DNS doesn't hold your online status.
The patent in question is about using one (arbitrary) protocol to obtain access to a database server which holds online status and IP of the target. That's pretty much what ICQ and followers do, and with some stretch, IRC too. Patentable - probably not. Then still, if patented, Skype would infringe. But then we come to the fun, second part:
Does Skype use SMTP to transfer data? Does it send e-mail messages? AFAIK it estabilishes streams. Plonk.
Add matters of efficient silencing. Such cannons show you have a small weiner, not that you're a pro.
Of course one of the first two bullets may be in the head. For these overzealous.