Plus, if you actually want decent open-source charts for documents, use gnuplot, they've done the hard work for you. Or any one of loads of plotting libraries for perl/php/whatever.
It's utterly meaningless to compare the questions without knowing the courses. This could be pure mathematics for the Chinese one vs. biology for the UK one. In which case the Chinese question is ridiculous.
Not to mention that UK students get some of the best teaching in the last year of school, doing much of what is usually taught in the first year of university in North America.
Fully securing a game is very hard without DRM built in to the hardware or moving all the computation to the server side (expensive). It's unfair to compare client security (impossible) with server security (possible)
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.p hp?t=554840
"There has been no security breach of Steam." However, he does confirm our expert's findings by adding, "The alleged hacker gained access to a third-party site that Valve uses to manage the commercial partners in its Cyber Café program. This Cyber Café billing system is not connected to Steam. We are working with law enforcement agencies on this matter, and encourage anyone with more information to e-mail us at Catch_A_Thief@valvesoftware.com."
Maybe you should check the history of each of those groups before making grossly oversimplified generic patriotic statements? No-one should be a blind patriot.
I was under the impression that the DMCA only prevents circumvention for the purpose of breaking copyright, hence the contention that accessing their memory space is violation of copyright, which is bollocks. Reading the content of a book isn't copyright violation.
Slashdot, Facebook and the Something Awful forums. Everything else will just branch from there. Maybe BBC news or some other sites (like XKCD or perry bible fellowship) if there's absolutely nothing of interest on those.
It's admittedly true that WoW is now more popular, but at maximum popularity (which lasted a fair time), CS was the most popular/played multiplayer game.
You are aware there was a significant campaign to get it into the Oscars and general recognition, including fan-made trailers? (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-lfs1UIKALQ)
I'm sure old versions of msn used to have a toaster pop up when someone was writing a message to you for a conversation that hadn't started. Was definitely fun.
As well as new products, this means that some combined DVD/PVR devices could now potentially be patched in new firmware releases to allow ripping of CSS'd DVDs. I know my PVR can rip DVDs so long as they aren't encrypted, it'd just be a small thing to turn that check off.
It'd be useful to have a sample of the filter applied to video for denoising/scaling down, would be much easier to spot how good it actually is compared to other methods. It seems to introduce its own artifacts in the form of those swirly-patterns, would they look natural from frame-to-frame?
Surely this is ultimately just a half-arsed implimentation of what they really need : systems that can modify their electricity consumption based on current real-time electricity pricing. The warehouses would use more to cool down when prices are low. Prices would reduce when there's a surge of power from wind farms or any other source. That'd be more efficient "storage" - displacing demands to better times of the day. Of course designing such a system (and making it market-stable) would take more effort than changing a few time-based thermostats...
Surely constructing logic-destructive gates out of these non-destructive gates would have the same entropy effect... unless you somehow manage to program entirely in non-destructive functions (probably very wasteful in terms of storage/area)
I'd say that the HL mod Natural Selection was the first (and in some ways currently the only) properly implemented multiplayer team game. Everything that BF1942 and Tribes tried to do, NS did and did better (ok, except large landscapes, they were just the gimmick of the time)
It's very easy to set up behind NAT and through firewalls. This is apparently because if both ends of a connection are behind NAT/firewall, then it reflects off a 3rd party Skype user. It selects these 3rd parties based on their detected bandwidth. Thus, most universities ban Skype since it gobbles up as much bandwidth as it physically can.
This guy has it right, the issue isn't so much about integrating the graphics card, it's more about allowing the CPU to do all the calculations that the graphics card has to do, and do them at the same speed or faster (due to less bus throttling and closer cache) in a more flexible fashion.
What this would allow is to create pixels that have colours closer to the optimal recieving wavelength of the receptors on our retina. This would allow a screen to recreate the full human gamut (assuming you could also take photos in that system too...) There is no point in transmitting the entire spectrum shape using this, since the eye can only percieve at 3 bases.
How about stratergy games like Total Annihilation or Rise of Nations that take a lot of investment in learning the game mechanics and thought that goes into tactics? Or RPGs? Frankly, there are lots of high-brow games but they're just less popular (duh) due to the amount of time you have to put in to them.
Gabe Newell: Rather than having hundreds of playtesters, there are eight million Steam accounts right now, so we'll have eight million playtesters. It tells us which weapons they're using, so we can say "they're not using this weapon, why not?", here's where people are getting stuck "huh, ok, they're not supposed to be stuck here". Here's the stuff they like, here's the stuff they don't like.
Eurogamer: So Steam effectively creates a report every time you log in and play Episode One?
Gabe Newell: Yeah. We started this process with the hardware survey and that turned out to be incredibly valuable - it just helps you make really good decision.
Was there an option for this anywhere that I missed? I'm not exactly up in arms about it, since it is useful information for making their games better, not junk they're going to be selling for advertising money, but it's still slightly disturbing.
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Better solution: Paintball markers. It might be temporary, but frustrating.
Plus, if you actually want decent open-source charts for documents, use gnuplot, they've done the hard work for you. Or any one of loads of plotting libraries for perl/php/whatever.
It's utterly meaningless to compare the questions without knowing the courses. This could be pure mathematics for the Chinese one vs. biology for the UK one. In which case the Chinese question is ridiculous.
Not to mention that UK students get some of the best teaching in the last year of school, doing much of what is usually taught in the first year of university in North America.
The old material was stiffer, not harder, than diamond. It could still be scratched by diamond.
Fully securing a game is very hard without DRM built in to the hardware or moving all the computation to the server side (expensive). It's unfair to compare client security (impossible) with server security (possible)
Maybe you should check the history of each of those groups before making grossly oversimplified generic patriotic statements? No-one should be a blind patriot.
Only a few billion keys? That could be brute forced easily :p
Will all political websites eventually have to be hosted in another country? Maybe mutual swaps? US and neo-USSR, France and Britain, China and India.
I was under the impression that the DMCA only prevents circumvention for the purpose of breaking copyright, hence the contention that accessing their memory space is violation of copyright, which is bollocks. Reading the content of a book isn't copyright violation.
Slashdot, Facebook and the Something Awful forums. Everything else will just branch from there. Maybe BBC news or some other sites (like XKCD or perry bible fellowship) if there's absolutely nothing of interest on those.
It's admittedly true that WoW is now more popular, but at maximum popularity (which lasted a fair time), CS was the most popular/played multiplayer game.
You are aware there was a significant campaign to get it into the Oscars and general recognition, including fan-made trailers? (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-lfs1UIKALQ)
I'm sure old versions of msn used to have a toaster pop up when someone was writing a message to you for a conversation that hadn't started. Was definitely fun.
As well as new products, this means that some combined DVD/PVR devices could now potentially be patched in new firmware releases to allow ripping of CSS'd DVDs. I know my PVR can rip DVDs so long as they aren't encrypted, it'd just be a small thing to turn that check off.
That'd be easily done using any standard fractal noise method (eg. Perlin noise)
It'd be useful to have a sample of the filter applied to video for denoising/scaling down, would be much easier to spot how good it actually is compared to other methods. It seems to introduce its own artifacts in the form of those swirly-patterns, would they look natural from frame-to-frame?
Surely this is ultimately just a half-arsed implimentation of what they really need : systems that can modify their electricity consumption based on current real-time electricity pricing. The warehouses would use more to cool down when prices are low. Prices would reduce when there's a surge of power from wind farms or any other source. That'd be more efficient "storage" - displacing demands to better times of the day. Of course designing such a system (and making it market-stable) would take more effort than changing a few time-based thermostats...
Surely constructing logic-destructive gates out of these non-destructive gates would have the same entropy effect... unless you somehow manage to program entirely in non-destructive functions (probably very wasteful in terms of storage/area)
I'd say that the HL mod Natural Selection was the first (and in some ways currently the only) properly implemented multiplayer team game. Everything that BF1942 and Tribes tried to do, NS did and did better (ok, except large landscapes, they were just the gimmick of the time)
It's very easy to set up behind NAT and through firewalls. This is apparently because if both ends of a connection are behind NAT/firewall, then it reflects off a 3rd party Skype user. It selects these 3rd parties based on their detected bandwidth. Thus, most universities ban Skype since it gobbles up as much bandwidth as it physically can.
This guy has it right, the issue isn't so much about integrating the graphics card, it's more about allowing the CPU to do all the calculations that the graphics card has to do, and do them at the same speed or faster (due to less bus throttling and closer cache) in a more flexible fashion.
What this would allow is to create pixels that have colours closer to the optimal recieving wavelength of the receptors on our retina. This would allow a screen to recreate the full human gamut (assuming you could also take photos in that system too...) There is no point in transmitting the entire spectrum shape using this, since the eye can only percieve at 3 bases.
How about stratergy games like Total Annihilation or Rise of Nations that take a lot of investment in learning the game mechanics and thought that goes into tactics? Or RPGs? Frankly, there are lots of high-brow games but they're just less popular (duh) due to the amount of time you have to put in to them.
Was there an option for this anywhere that I missed? I'm not exactly up in arms about it, since it is useful information for making their games better, not junk they're going to be selling for advertising money, but it's still slightly disturbing.