As often as not, the only hits you get are posts in forums where someone is asking the exact same question you need answered... and getting no replies. Since 2005. And that person is me.
New age idiot: What is your sign? Me; My sign is (X, a random sign expect my real) New age idiot: Yeah, I though you were X, you really are (characterization of X that fits me). Me: Actually, i am (Y, another random sign) New age idiot: Oh, that is not suprising, Y would say that, they really are (characterization that fits this deception) Me: Maybe you should look up my birth date...
Usenet is filesharing Usenet is free movies Usenet is porn Usenet is new p2p to go Usenet is torrent replacement Usenet is rapidshare in steroids. Usenet rocks for music, mp3 Usenet manga anime naruto. Usenet mininova Usenet thepiratebay.
I hope you do not mind mentioning Usenet along with few unimportant keywords and phrases. Its not like this will show on google. You are quite safe:)
actually, 2^32 might have range of 2,147,483,648, but in reality, last 3 digits need to be abused for currency fraction. And 2 million is not a lot money in some currencies. In Italian Lira, that is about ~ 2k dollars. Amount that is very reasonable to withdraw from ATM.
Int-like dataypes have hard limit of 2^32 or 64 or even more.
Eventually you simply want something bigger. And you also want to use somethign that can work well with XML schemans and several other systems. You simply have to use string as your other option is 32 bit int.
Also, String unlike Float does not loose precission. A lot slower, but precise.
Bitter blender experience (Cinema 4D spoiled me) and constant trouble with Gimp (so many bad concepts, usability nightmare that unlike Blender can not be overcome by learning interface) have bittered me against pretty much any graphic tool that comes from opensource, it certainly caused me to dismiss Inkspace the very instead i heard about it. But this is insteresting, OS graphics tool that actually works well?
Computers of smokers are well, filthy, and hard to repair. Dust and tar everywhere, blocking ventilation and making mechanical parts fail sooner of later.
Yes, linux malware will be blue blooded fine cuban cigars smoking fine scotch drinking gentleman, much unlike windows malware which drinks cheap beer, smoke lucky strikes, lives in trailer park and has five kids with four men.
I am in Czechia. I have set my browser to specifically take preference in English language version. I am getting czech version. I am furious.
Google insists on using czech version of interface (seriously, I Want English Interface.) and returning localized local results. (I Want Global Results).
I want google.com, not redirected to google.cz. I specifically typed.com url, how hard it is NOT to redirect?
I want top result for ubuntu search to be 'original' www.ubuntu.com not sucky www.ubuntu.cz
I want top results to point to *most* relevant (home) pages which are almost always in english, not some crappy half assed blog posts who got only to first result page because they are on.cz domain.
Mostly because while they had no personal info leaks in past, it does not necessarily have to be so in future. You can trust google and appreciate that they use your personal info to make your web experience less painful, but you can not trust anyone who gets their dirty hands of their database...
So yeah, real concern is in there. Especially that google becomes juicier and juicier target each day.
People tend to actually take these things as fairly accurate depictions of what it really was like. Its just another one for nation of dum'.
Hell, even evening news are made with 'It does not have to be real, just entertaining' motto.
(And I shudder what future archaeologists with do with our pop culture as source material... any history geek will tell you how average Joes understanding of history nowadays was pretty fucked up Shakespeare & co.).
I'd consider entertainment value quite awesome, but then you end up with people who have no idea about past, or are comfortable about fact that 'history' can be 'adjusted' to fit better whatever you agenda is. And that is worrying, even if it is just for entertainment.
Most likely, they made this decision so that they can use server-side copy protection (aka, Show me valid cd-key, bitch!), not unlike Starcraft2 removal of LAN gameplay in favor of battlenet, so expect centralized system. Otherwise, there is no point.
So, you will be out of luck with piratey thing unless piratey people take time to write their own servers.
Don't those books just give you extra rules and powers? What happened to simply making up house rules to fill whatever gaps you percieve there are? Is it so important to have publisher certified material say that you get extra turn undead roll on level 12?
Making those rules and sharing them with community? Or is there some comandment that you mus only ever use whatever is in handbooks, no more, no less?
Have players and DMs grown so pitifull that they can not use their own fantasy and creativity to have fantasy adventure? Have you all turned to munchkins in few years since I last played RPG?
Yes, there is nothing special about RTS... except that is is good lore source. I guess there is really nothing special about having settings already described in quite fine detail with maps and whatnot which is also familiar to players which will get familiar feeling when they enter zone which they can actually navigate because they saw it from birds eye view is useless. Yes, totally pointless.
And yes, 3D models in MMO being exactly same as 2D version sprites is special. It is called visual identity. And WoW actually kept it. And actually, it *did* use exactly same models in MMO as in RTS. And that kind of asseting is big deal. You build in RTS, you then explore in in MMO. Big deal.
Deal with it, blizzard did good job there and having games bo build upon was reason why they were able to do so.
Warcraft managed to get RTS -> MMO RPG transition just fine, and it is not surprising.
RTS tradition creates rich lore (past conflicts and battles, locations and settings - each map can equal to explorable area, iconic bad and good guys, enough rectcons to give lorephile hardon) and identifiable image (there is reason why wow town building designs are pretty much directly takes from its RTS roots.). MMO gameplay already has standardized features, so that is nobrainer too.
Funny, I work at company where everyone is on first name basis, junior input) and whatnot, etc... too. And no-one ever had do enforce dress code (much less to write document describing it) or any similar policies. Because everyone understands that they need to be dressed for job appropriately, and anything more than 7 hours is frowned down too.
But, thing is, it works like this nearly everywhere.
Untill, of course, someone goes out of their way and makes trouble. I guarantee you, should anyone step out of line, he will get trouble in my company, and in your company alike. Come to meeting with customer in shorts, cowboy hat and wifebeater shirt and you will soon discover that you really are expected to follow some guidelines. If you refuse, you will get in trouble and be trouble. At that point company will be happy if you resign over that issue and be replaced with someone who can behave.
So, step down from your high horse. And do not believe 'propaganda', you are likely just being scared off leaving your job for 'code monkey slavers' competition that are going to 'piss on your humanity'. There are companies like that, yes, but frankly, company that is open about their rules is not going to be like that, if only because they are serious about what they do.
I would be much more wary of 'fluffy' type company because they can be more damaging as they can get really, really under your skin and you can soon discover that you are their slave too, usually too late.
(You know there is this awesome company i would not name that works like this:
If new hire comes to company, he gets rockstart treatment (sugar). Company also frequntly changes female assistants/receptionists, qualification to get job for them is being single and without boyfriend (no kidding). Official strategy is that each programmer will eventually get interested in one, start dating, get married and then wage slave part begins... you are now married with children, paying mortage. Your car is company car. Your house is co-owned by company (they were very nice and helped you out). If you quit, you are in deep shit. Rockstar treatment ends. You were in super-friendly company all the time. first name basis and whatnot.)
... that kind of control is normally just the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah, I heard they even dare to dictate you what you are going to do eight hours a day, five days a week. The horror!
Really, if dress code is what makes you quit, it is win/win for both sides. Company lost troublemaker and "pointless issues" guy and did not have to fire him and pay severance. "Epic win":-)
Encryption without authentication is stupid and wrong too.
The scary warnings are there to make sure that you are not luled to false safety because man in middle attacks can work just fine with encryption as long as you trust their certificate.
Talking securely to someone is implied by fact that you really know who you are talking to.
You do not need to be carless for 8 hours even if it takes that long.
You will not charge at stations, instead you will get replacement battery instantly in return for some cash and old battery. Instant 'recharge' for you even if your old battery end up sitting for 8 hours in charger. That is one of points of collaboration: create standard.
It, of course, needs developed infrastructure, but you can always take extra battery with you.
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I can top that:
As often as not, the only hits you get are posts in forums where someone is asking the exact same question you need answered... and getting no replies. Since 2005. And that person is me.
I do this:
New age idiot: What is your sign?
Me; My sign is (X, a random sign expect my real)
New age idiot: Yeah, I though you were X, you really are (characterization of X that fits me).
Me: Actually, i am (Y, another random sign)
New age idiot: Oh, that is not suprising, Y would say that, they really are (characterization that fits this deception)
Me: Maybe you should look up my birth date...
It works with blood types and weekdays too :)
Usenet is filesharing Usenet is free movies Usenet is porn Usenet is new p2p to go Usenet is torrent replacement Usenet is rapidshare in steroids. Usenet rocks for music, mp3 Usenet manga anime naruto. Usenet mininova Usenet thepiratebay.
I hope you do not mind mentioning Usenet along with few unimportant keywords and phrases. Its not like this will show on google. You are quite safe :)
Wow, what don't you learn ... India having 'disappearing' citizens, 1984 style.
But I guess It was only to be expected, after all Oceania is not alone on world ... Eurasia and Eastasia need to catch up.
Most of those files were work of BBS users and can range anywhere from complete bullshit all the way to actually working stuff.
I guess you know this, but rest of slashdot could take a peek at those manuals here: http://textfiles.com/
Check out how they are implemented inside. Pretty much all of them are byte arrays (no other way), which is, you know, fancy word for strings.
You still want actual decimal string in communication in any case.
actually, 2^32 might have range of 2,147,483,648, but in reality, last 3 digits need to be abused for currency fraction. And 2 million is not a lot money in some currencies. In Italian Lira, that is about ~ 2k dollars. Amount that is very reasonable to withdraw from ATM.
Int-like dataypes have hard limit of 2^32 or 64 or even more.
Eventually you simply want something bigger. And you also want to use somethign that can work well with XML schemans and several other systems. You simply have to use string as your other option is 32 bit int.
Also, String unlike Float does not loose precission. A lot slower, but precise.
Interesting you mention theese two programs.
Bitter blender experience (Cinema 4D spoiled me) and constant trouble with Gimp (so many bad concepts, usability nightmare that unlike Blender can not be overcome by learning interface) have bittered me against pretty much any graphic tool that comes from opensource, it certainly caused me to dismiss Inkspace the very instead i heard about it. But this is insteresting, OS graphics tool that actually works well?
Well, what you mentioned are more of fantasy authors (or, 'new weird'), not really SF there.
You could, however, mention John Scalzi. True new blood, Old Man's War for example shows it.
Computers of smokers are well, filthy, and hard to repair. Dust and tar everywhere, blocking ventilation and making mechanical parts fail sooner of later.
Eww, I'd agree with waranty void there.
Yes, linux malware will be blue blooded fine cuban cigars smoking fine scotch drinking gentleman, much unlike windows malware which drinks cheap beer, smoke lucky strikes, lives in trailer park and has five kids with four men.
I feel your pain.
I am in Czechia. I have set my browser to specifically take preference in English language version. I am getting czech version. I am furious.
Google insists on using czech version of interface (seriously, I Want English Interface.) and returning localized local results. (I Want Global Results).
I want google.com, not redirected to google.cz. I specifically typed .com url, how hard it is NOT to redirect?
I want top result for ubuntu search to be 'original' www.ubuntu.com not sucky www.ubuntu.cz
I want top results to point to *most* relevant (home) pages which are almost always in english, not some crappy half assed blog posts who got only to first result page because they are on .cz domain.
sigh ...
You can love google and still be worried.
Mostly because while they had no personal info leaks in past, it does not necessarily have to be so in future. You can trust google and appreciate that they use your personal info to make your web experience less painful, but you can not trust anyone who gets their dirty hands of their database...
So yeah, real concern is in there. Especially that google becomes juicier and juicier target each day.
Thats what i though when i saw this.
Prisons serve as place to corret behavior and redeem criminals where it makes no sense to keep someone ucorrectable longer.
But at same time they also serve as means of preventing further offenses and insulating society from criminals.
Basically, it makes more sense to jail person with innate violent tendencies for longer period, not shorter.
Even better, just make no difference at all and it will be fine.
Also, WTB, personal responsibility.
People tend to actually take these things as fairly accurate depictions of what it really was like. Its just another one for nation of dum'.
Hell, even evening news are made with 'It does not have to be real, just entertaining' motto.
(And I shudder what future archaeologists with do with our pop culture as source material ... any history geek will tell you how average Joes understanding of history nowadays was pretty fucked up Shakespeare & co.).
I'd consider entertainment value quite awesome, but then you end up with people who have no idea about past, or are comfortable about fact that 'history' can be 'adjusted' to fit better whatever you agenda is. And that is worrying, even if it is just for entertainment.
Most likely, they made this decision so that they can use server-side copy protection (aka, Show me valid cd-key, bitch!), not unlike Starcraft2 removal of LAN gameplay in favor of battlenet, so expect centralized system. Otherwise, there is no point.
So, you will be out of luck with piratey thing unless piratey people take time to write their own servers.
I never understood this..
Why ... The ... Hell ... Did ... You ... 'Need' ... Those ... Books
(sorry)
Don't those books just give you extra rules and powers? What happened to simply making up house rules to fill whatever gaps you percieve there are? Is it so important to have publisher certified material say that you get extra turn undead roll on level 12?
Making those rules and sharing them with community? Or is there some comandment that you mus only ever use whatever is in handbooks, no more, no less?
Have players and DMs grown so pitifull that they can not use their own fantasy and creativity to have fantasy adventure? Have you all turned to munchkins in few years since I last played RPG?
Reply in true *seeing red* spirit of AC I guess.
Yes, there is nothing special about RTS ... except that is is good lore source. I guess there is really nothing special about having settings already described in quite fine detail with maps and whatnot which is also familiar to players which will get familiar feeling when they enter zone which they can actually navigate because they saw it from birds eye view is useless. Yes, totally pointless.
And yes, 3D models in MMO being exactly same as 2D version sprites is special. It is called visual identity. And WoW actually kept it. And actually, it *did* use exactly same models in MMO as in RTS. And that kind of asseting is big deal. You build in RTS, you then explore in in MMO. Big deal.
Deal with it, blizzard did good job there and having games bo build upon was reason why they were able to do so.
Warcraft managed to get RTS -> MMO RPG transition just fine, and it is not surprising.
RTS tradition creates rich lore (past conflicts and battles, locations and settings - each map can equal to explorable area, iconic bad and good guys, enough rectcons to give lorephile hardon) and identifiable image (there is reason why wow town building designs are pretty much directly takes from its RTS roots.). MMO gameplay already has standardized features, so that is nobrainer too.
Funny, I work at company where everyone is on first name basis, junior input) and whatnot, etc ... too. And no-one ever had do enforce dress code (much less to write document describing it) or any similar policies. Because everyone understands that they need to be dressed for job appropriately, and anything more than 7 hours is frowned down too.
But, thing is, it works like this nearly everywhere.
Untill, of course, someone goes out of their way and makes trouble. I guarantee you, should anyone step out of line, he will get trouble in my company, and in your company alike. Come to meeting with customer in shorts, cowboy hat and wifebeater shirt and you will soon discover that you really are expected to follow some guidelines. If you refuse, you will get in trouble and be trouble. At that point company will be happy if you resign over that issue and be replaced with someone who can behave.
So, step down from your high horse. And do not believe 'propaganda', you are likely just being scared off leaving your job for 'code monkey slavers' competition that are going to 'piss on your humanity'. There are companies like that, yes, but frankly, company that is open about their rules is not going to be like that, if only because they are serious about what they do.
I would be much more wary of 'fluffy' type company because they can be more damaging as they can get really, really under your skin and you can soon discover that you are their slave too, usually too late.
(You know there is this awesome company i would not name that works like this:
If new hire comes to company, he gets rockstart treatment (sugar). Company also frequntly changes female assistants/receptionists, qualification to get job for them is being single and without boyfriend (no kidding). Official strategy is that each programmer will eventually get interested in one, start dating, get married and then wage slave part begins ... you are now married with children, paying mortage. Your car is company car. Your house is co-owned by company (they were very nice and helped you out). If you quit, you are in deep shit. Rockstar treatment ends. You were in super-friendly company all the time. first name basis and whatnot.)
... that kind of control is normally just the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah, I heard they even dare to dictate you what you are going to do eight hours a day, five days a week. The horror!
Really, if dress code is what makes you quit, it is win/win for both sides. Company lost troublemaker and "pointless issues" guy and did not have to fire him and pay severance. "Epic win" :-)
Encryption without authentication is stupid and wrong too.
The scary warnings are there to make sure that you are not luled to false safety because man in middle attacks can work just fine with encryption as long as you trust their certificate.
Talking securely to someone is implied by fact that you really know who you are talking to.
... and people who use them to wage legal wars.
Easy to understand laws are bane of them. Future without precedent digging nightmare.
So many high paying jobs lost, so many ordinary people being able to sleep well ... not good.
You do not need to be carless for 8 hours even if it takes that long.
You will not charge at stations, instead you will get replacement battery instantly in return for some cash and old battery. Instant 'recharge' for you even if your old battery end up sitting for 8 hours in charger. That is one of points of collaboration: create standard.
It, of course, needs developed infrastructure, but you can always take extra battery with you.