Umm, the Scientific American isn't preaching
anything. They're not out to make a political statement, they're just trying to provide
articles that their readers want to read, so
that people buy them. That's what they want. So
if people want to be told what they already
know, that's what scientific american will tell
them.
Did anyone else have firefox crash trying to first post in this story? 3 times in a row I loaded it and clicked reply only to have FF disappear and the quality feedback agent come up.
I'd suggest whoever owns the router. Route stuff according to your morals. Band together with people you agree with. That way you get more of what you want and less of what you don't.
On the pidgeon subject though, I can't help thinking there's room for optimisation. OCRing the packets is too unreliabile and inefficient. I think there should be some form of specialised SD-card-like thing - bubble memory maybe? - that can carry exactly one packet, and is the right size to be carried by a pidgeon.
Unfortunately, that would probably use up the entire 30k right there. So maybe I'd go for a quad opteron, really beefy graphics card, and doom 3. Then for when I'm out and about I want a zaurus or A370 with the expansion sleeve, senseboard (clips onto your hands, virtual keyboard) and an over-eye display, so I can walk around and use my comp. With an enormous usb hard drive (both the pdas I mention have usb host capability which is why I chose them) and all the usual stuff like gps. And maybe an AV140 for video playback, that could also work as the hard drive. Finally, maybe I could chip in on a satellite so that I get permanent free internet via it. That would rule.
I agree with you on that, but there's a sibling saying that that gave a much better feel of actually commanding something, because you had a fleet that was actually yours. Personal taste I guess.
The reference plane is just a co-ordinates thing though, and necessary if you want to use a 2D mouse to control 3D movement. I suppose you could make it relative to the ship's current heading...would be harder to program though, and make it harder to control where to put it when moving multiple ships together. I'm not sure it would give any real advantages. I'm pretty sure ships stay pointed the last way they were going, and I remember rotating the camera right over, although I also remember it getting stuck at the top and bottom...hmm. Anyway, the source is available from RDN and the SDL port is at http://www.thereisnospork.com/projects/homeworld/
Yeah, but it's funny how people who were using photoshop back then now absolutely insist that they couldn't possibly do without the features from new photoshops. Photoshop 5 hasn't suddenly become less useful. If you could do what you need to do 5 years ago with Photoshop, why can't you do it now with the Gimp?
Yes, the gimp isn't for everyone. But I firmly believe that 90% of people could use it, because 90% of people were able to work with their images perfectly well 5 years ago.
Like your typical RTS, to be honest. The controls are good, the missions are surprisingly (but pleasantly, IMO, it's nice to be challenged) difficult, the formation setup is good and the evasive/neutral/agressive options add a bit more strategic depth. But aside from the 3d aspect there's nothing in the gameplay itself that really sets it apart from *craft, age of empires and the C&C series.
Huh? It was just Joey in a spaceship. There wasn't one element of his character that was clearly different from Joey, maybe slightly more intelligent, but other than that...
Homeworld. True 3d, really really 3d. I cannot express how 3d it is. Let's just say it makes reality seem flat. The UI is so good I think sun should just straight copy it for looking glass, because it makes 3d useable. And aside from that, it's beautiful. Really really gorgeous. When I have nothing better I'll put a screenshot from homeworld on my desktop, it's that good looking. And best of all, they released the source. So you can play it on linux (aside from the movies, but I'm working on that). If you don't have it, buy it. Buy it now. It's only a fiver on sold out or xplosiv or similar.
My IT class can beat that - once we had one out of 20. And one guy managed to leave high school without having completed a task which was supposed to be done by the christmas of the fourth year.
Is it me or does including a firewall make no sense on a server? If there are vulnerable services running by default, surely turning them off would acomplish the same thing with less effort for MS. If users are turning them on, they can just as easily disable the firewall, and deserve all they get. If there are flaws in the TCP stack itself it can't be too hard to fix them, and they can probably be exploited using the ports that are open because they are running services - that's why it's called server, right?
The only legitimate reason to do this I can see is if they have network services they can't turn off, which require such an incredibly bad design I can't believe even MS would have that. Other than that, is it just the feelgood factor they get from clueless users by saying "firewall"? Or can anyone think of a legit reason?
Only if it's clearly the only response you're likely to want. Searching for something where it could mean something else, like, say "penthouse", won't trigger it. Searching for "Bianca's smut shack" probably would.
If IE added support it would work with them on google too. But given the speed at which IE gets new features, I doubt they'll be supporting prefetching any time soon.
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't notice the iCopulate was a joke, because it sounds like exactly the sort of thing iPod users would go for.
Umm, the Scientific American isn't preaching anything. They're not out to make a political statement, they're just trying to provide articles that their readers want to read, so that people buy them. That's what they want. So if people want to be told what they already know, that's what scientific american will tell them.
Yeah, but this way when a real story gets posted people laugh at it. Which is kinda funny.
(Typing this in Opera, which seems to be fine)
I'd suggest whoever owns the router. Route stuff according to your morals. Band together with people you agree with. That way you get more of what you want and less of what you don't.
No, it's working, everyone thinks the story about Tiger going gold is true.
On the pidgeon subject though, I can't help thinking there's room for optimisation. OCRing the packets is too unreliabile and inefficient. I think there should be some form of specialised SD-card-like thing - bubble memory maybe? - that can carry exactly one packet, and is the right size to be carried by a pidgeon.
Unfortunately, that would probably use up the entire 30k right there. So maybe I'd go for a quad opteron, really beefy graphics card, and doom 3. Then for when I'm out and about I want a zaurus or A370 with the expansion sleeve, senseboard (clips onto your hands, virtual keyboard) and an over-eye display, so I can walk around and use my comp. With an enormous usb hard drive (both the pdas I mention have usb host capability which is why I chose them) and all the usual stuff like gps. And maybe an AV140 for video playback, that could also work as the hard drive. Finally, maybe I could chip in on a satellite so that I get permanent free internet via it. That would rule.
No, it's not "that" expensive...but it's a helluva lot more than what you have to pay to make a propriety app with GTK.
RedHat only dominates in the US. Novell is poised to become the redhat of Europe.
I agree with you on that, but there's a sibling saying that that gave a much better feel of actually commanding something, because you had a fleet that was actually yours. Personal taste I guess.
The reference plane is just a co-ordinates thing though, and necessary if you want to use a 2D mouse to control 3D movement. I suppose you could make it relative to the ship's current heading...would be harder to program though, and make it harder to control where to put it when moving multiple ships together. I'm not sure it would give any real advantages. I'm pretty sure ships stay pointed the last way they were going, and I remember rotating the camera right over, although I also remember it getting stuck at the top and bottom...hmm. Anyway, the source is available from RDN and the SDL port is at http://www.thereisnospork.com/projects/homeworld/
And if developers switch to support him, then the old branch will wither and die, and his will become the official gimp. Yay open source!
Yes, the gimp isn't for everyone. But I firmly believe that 90% of people could use it, because 90% of people were able to work with their images perfectly well 5 years ago.
It's there as a preference if you want it, isn't it? If not, just another sign of how the kde way is superior :)
Could you clarify that for those of us who are unfamiliar with them? Wikipedia doesn't show anything for it.
Like your typical RTS, to be honest. The controls are good, the missions are surprisingly (but pleasantly, IMO, it's nice to be challenged) difficult, the formation setup is good and the evasive/neutral/agressive options add a bit more strategic depth. But aside from the 3d aspect there's nothing in the gameplay itself that really sets it apart from *craft, age of empires and the C&C series.
Huh? It was just Joey in a spaceship. There wasn't one element of his character that was clearly different from Joey, maybe slightly more intelligent, but other than that...
Homeworld. True 3d, really really 3d. I cannot express how 3d it is. Let's just say it makes reality seem flat. The UI is so good I think sun should just straight copy it for looking glass, because it makes 3d useable. And aside from that, it's beautiful. Really really gorgeous. When I have nothing better I'll put a screenshot from homeworld on my desktop, it's that good looking. And best of all, they released the source. So you can play it on linux (aside from the movies, but I'm working on that). If you don't have it, buy it. Buy it now. It's only a fiver on sold out or xplosiv or similar.
My IT class can beat that - once we had one out of 20. And one guy managed to leave high school without having completed a task which was supposed to be done by the christmas of the fourth year.
It's a standardised feature though. The way it works is published, and there's no reason IE couldn't support it.
The only legitimate reason to do this I can see is if they have network services they can't turn off, which require such an incredibly bad design I can't believe even MS would have that. Other than that, is it just the feelgood factor they get from clueless users by saying "firewall"? Or can anyone think of a legit reason?
Only if it's clearly the only response you're likely to want. Searching for something where it could mean something else, like, say "penthouse", won't trigger it. Searching for "Bianca's smut shack" probably would.
If IE added support it would work with them on google too. But given the speed at which IE gets new features, I doubt they'll be supporting prefetching any time soon.
Have you ever seen that film where Joey from friends tries to show he's not Joey, he's an actor?