Thank god we have Japan, Europe and a few scant studios in the US (mainly Bioware) continuing to produce long, decent single-player RPGs. Personally I don't enjoy online gaming much -- need a bit of plot and character development in my games. So far, MMOs haven't really progressed in that area.
Actually YouTube has country-specific blocking for the more 'official' videos (that some company or sponsor is involved in, e.g. "legal" music videos and TV). If all YouTube's videos were backed by a company, like Hulu's, then I'm sure you'd see the exact same thing.
This happens to me all the time, although the session is fully recovered when Firefox restarts so it's more of a minor inconvenience than anything else.
It never happened in beta 4, only beta 5, so here's hoping RC1 solves the issue. And yes, I have been filing crash reports.
The tracker is completely closed (no invites) and not related to the scene, so we don't get anything first. I'm sure 2,000 users is too minor for any legal entities to bother chasing after, either.
I'd hardly call this elitist. I use private trackers for security reasons - they're not visible to the outside world, small (2-10 thousand users) and there's very little chance of getting sued for downloading the latest film from them. Many of these trackers have a very low minimum ratio (0.3 or 0.2) or simply just don't care. I'll agree that some require ratios of 0.9 or 1.0, which is patently ridiculous.
According to the developers they were only allowed Perl 5.6 and a select group of BBC-approved modules on the live server. So Catalyst, CGI::Application, etc are right out.
IMHO another example of management red-tape costing developers time and resources.
As a long time keyboard Stepmania (and piano) player, I have yet to notice any unusual wrist or joint pains. Slashdot consensus seems to be CTS is something you're genetically predisposed to getting, so I'm sure you'd find out whether that's the case as soon as you play your first 10-foot.
(I play spread and confidently hit streams of about 14-16 notes a second. I think I'm lucky I haven't gotten tendonitis already)
Or you could save the money and just use Daemon Tools and crack your games (assuming they even need cracks - plenty of games, especially in their later patch cycles, forego this arcane restriction). Once you crack the game you can freely delete the CD/DVD image and shut off D-Tools, oh, and I have never had to mess with the registry.
You can turn Aero off, and Vista will automatically disable the flashy effects if your PC's automatically-computed 'experience index' is too low.
I think they did a good job of including subtle visual effects (semi-transparency, shadows, blur, 3d windows in task switch) without going over the top like the earlier builds of Beryl/Compiz. Plus Beryl causes all sorts of system instabilities on my copy of Ubuntu 7.04.
If it was brute force, the host is still at fault - virtually every provider out there has a login attempt limit for FTP connections, and you'd think thousands upon thousands of failed logins would show up on their logs.
I eat about 1,500-2,000 calories a day. I should be losing weight at a steady but slow pace, but instead I often find myself gaining weight? What gives?
Simple. My body gets used to the 1,500-ish calories a day. I don't lose any weight, but I start feeling tired and stiff. On weekends or drinking nights perhaps I go up to 2,500. I still feel like shit, but I just gained 1,000 in excess calories.
Exercise may not be particularly useful for buring calories, but it is vital in keeping your metabolism up and ensuring that your excess calories are burned away rather than stored away. Plus it keeps you fit and makes you live longer. I recall a section of "The Hacker's Diet" explaining that a scant 15 minutes of moderate exercise a day extended your life by about 150% of the time you spent exercising.
You're contradicting yoursaelf. Blaming genetics is not 'helpless victim mentality' because as you say, there are a variety of genetic factors that make losing weight very difficult. Slow metabolisms make it impossible to lose weight simply by eating less, because the body will simply retain the calories and you'll feel like shit instead. Efficient calorie extraction means you eat less food and gain more weight. There's also the genetic factor in feeling hunger - many obese people don't get the "I'm full up" signal fast enough, and this results in larger meals and between-meal snacks.
So while the solution is still diet and exercise regardless of your genetic background, some unlucky subsets of the population find it a lot harder to eat less than others.
Or the asshole complaining about the asshole complaining about the boring post? Well done for proprogating the spiral of retardation, you over-sensitive fucktard.
This is particularly shoddy because Feisty Fawn makes plenty of effort to automate the installation of Flash, Java, audio and video codecs, closed-source nVidia drivers etc. Most of the time it's one click (just like Automatix) and it doesn't corrupt your install either.
It seems this author simply copied his old Edgy Eft guide and shoved on a few new points, because anyone remotely familiar with Feisty Fawn (such as those writing articles about it) would know that Automatix is both dangerous and now, obsolete.
Search The Pirate Bay for 'Dungeon Magazine' (134 issues) and 'Dragon Magazine' (335 issues, 5 best ofs, 6 annuals and 7 strategic reviews). Speed isn't too hot right now, but if you're patient you'll soon have a full set of both publications.
NaturalMotion essentially does what you're describing - it uses robotics and AI to have characters generate procedural animation in reaction to whatever is around them. They might fall over or trip realistically, catch their fall on a nearby wall and push themselves back up, etc. Lots of films are already using the technology, in addition to LucasArt's new Indiana Jones game.
It's worth noting that Netcraft's Toolbar correctly converts all IP obfusications (including decimal, octal, hex, binary? and mixes of those) before checking a URL for phishing attacks,
While I do Linux development at work, I like to have an enjoyable experience at home. As I recent migrant from Windows to Ubuntu - I found Linux to be far more enjoyable than my iBook (or Windows) ever was. And this is not a grab for karma, I have more than enough already. Just look at the stuff modern Linux has:
XGL/Compiz - more impressive than OS X, although admittedly in alpha.
Screensavers - (don't laugh, apparently new computer users spend a lot of time messing with these) xscreensaver comes with dozens of impressive, customisable screensavers.
Installation - on Ubuntu, almost everything installs with one click of the mouse, with browsable game/app libraries.
Game support is a little lower than OS X but neither are worth mentioning compared to Windows.
Takes the better parts of OS X (Expose, Spotlight/Beagle) and drops the ones I personally dislike (Dock, Finder)
Unique apps like Amarok, which is more enjoyable to use than iTunes; Tomboy, etc.
Plus if you're into development and compiling stuff yourself, you get the rewards that come with that as well. I was a long-time Windows user, and I've tried a whole bunch of distros that were completely horrible to use, or bug-ridden, or bad at detecting my hardware. But I really believe that desktop Linux is beginning to emerge now, and it's actually becoming that can be used by your average consumer (if it weren't for MP3/etc. licensing restrictions). Apple will always have the lead in music/video/graphic production, but for desktop use, Linux is rapidly catching up to OS X, and considering the price difference, I don't see the scenario in TFA happening.
On the other hand, how many times as Firefox updated? The 1.0.4, then 1.0.5, rapidly followed up by the 1.0.6 has vastly inflated the number of downloads such that it's a horribly misleading measure of actual users.
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Thank god we have Japan, Europe and a few scant studios in the US (mainly Bioware) continuing to produce long, decent single-player RPGs. Personally I don't enjoy online gaming much -- need a bit of plot and character development in my games. So far, MMOs haven't really progressed in that area.
Actually YouTube has country-specific blocking for the more 'official' videos (that some company or sponsor is involved in, e.g. "legal" music videos and TV). If all YouTube's videos were backed by a company, like Hulu's, then I'm sure you'd see the exact same thing.
This happens to me all the time, although the session is fully recovered when Firefox restarts so it's more of a minor inconvenience than anything else.
It never happened in beta 4, only beta 5, so here's hoping RC1 solves the issue. And yes, I have been filing crash reports.
The tracker is completely closed (no invites) and not related to the scene, so we don't get anything first. I'm sure 2,000 users is too minor for any legal entities to bother chasing after, either.
I'd hardly call this elitist. I use private trackers for security reasons - they're not visible to the outside world, small (2-10 thousand users) and there's very little chance of getting sued for downloading the latest film from them. Many of these trackers have a very low minimum ratio (0.3 or 0.2) or simply just don't care. I'll agree that some require ratios of 0.9 or 1.0, which is patently ridiculous.
According to the developers they were only allowed Perl 5.6 and a select group of BBC-approved modules on the live server. So Catalyst, CGI::Application, etc are right out.
IMHO another example of management red-tape costing developers time and resources.
As a long time keyboard Stepmania (and piano) player, I have yet to notice any unusual wrist or joint pains. Slashdot consensus seems to be CTS is something you're genetically predisposed to getting, so I'm sure you'd find out whether that's the case as soon as you play your first 10-foot.
(I play spread and confidently hit streams of about 14-16 notes a second. I think I'm lucky I haven't gotten tendonitis already)
Or you could save the money and just use Daemon Tools and crack your games (assuming they even need cracks - plenty of games, especially in their later patch cycles, forego this arcane restriction). Once you crack the game you can freely delete the CD/DVD image and shut off D-Tools, oh, and I have never had to mess with the registry.
You can turn Aero off, and Vista will automatically disable the flashy effects if your PC's automatically-computed 'experience index' is too low.
I think they did a good job of including subtle visual effects (semi-transparency, shadows, blur, 3d windows in task switch) without going over the top like the earlier builds of Beryl/Compiz. Plus Beryl causes all sorts of system instabilities on my copy of Ubuntu 7.04.
If it was brute force, the host is still at fault - virtually every provider out there has a login attempt limit for FTP connections, and you'd think thousands upon thousands of failed logins would show up on their logs.
Congratulations, I've never seen the word 'asshole' captured into a single post so succinctly!
I eat about 1,500-2,000 calories a day. I should be losing weight at a steady but slow pace, but instead I often find myself gaining weight? What gives?
Simple. My body gets used to the 1,500-ish calories a day. I don't lose any weight, but I start feeling tired and stiff. On weekends or drinking nights perhaps I go up to 2,500. I still feel like shit, but I just gained 1,000 in excess calories.
Exercise may not be particularly useful for buring calories, but it is vital in keeping your metabolism up and ensuring that your excess calories are burned away rather than stored away. Plus it keeps you fit and makes you live longer. I recall a section of "The Hacker's Diet" explaining that a scant 15 minutes of moderate exercise a day extended your life by about 150% of the time you spent exercising.
You're contradicting yoursaelf. Blaming genetics is not 'helpless victim mentality' because as you say, there are a variety of genetic factors that make losing weight very difficult. Slow metabolisms make it impossible to lose weight simply by eating less, because the body will simply retain the calories and you'll feel like shit instead. Efficient calorie extraction means you eat less food and gain more weight. There's also the genetic factor in feeling hunger - many obese people don't get the "I'm full up" signal fast enough, and this results in larger meals and between-meal snacks.
So while the solution is still diet and exercise regardless of your genetic background, some unlucky subsets of the population find it a lot harder to eat less than others.
Or the asshole complaining about the asshole complaining about the boring post? Well done for proprogating the spiral of retardation, you over-sensitive fucktard.
Indeed. GP should be rated -1 Who Gives a Shit.
This is particularly shoddy because Feisty Fawn makes plenty of effort to automate the installation of Flash, Java, audio and video codecs, closed-source nVidia drivers etc. Most of the time it's one click (just like Automatix) and it doesn't corrupt your install either.
It seems this author simply copied his old Edgy Eft guide and shoved on a few new points, because anyone remotely familiar with Feisty Fawn (such as those writing articles about it) would know that Automatix is both dangerous and now, obsolete.
Search The Pirate Bay for 'Dungeon Magazine' (134 issues) and 'Dragon Magazine' (335 issues, 5 best ofs, 6 annuals and 7 strategic reviews). Speed isn't too hot right now, but if you're patient you'll soon have a full set of both publications.
NaturalMotion essentially does what you're describing - it uses robotics and AI to have characters generate procedural animation in reaction to whatever is around them. They might fall over or trip realistically, catch their fall on a nearby wall and push themselves back up, etc. Lots of films are already using the technology, in addition to LucasArt's new Indiana Jones game.
Nope, bit-shifting is also done with boolean logic. Or to put it another way, logic gates on the CPU.
It's worth noting that Netcraft's Toolbar correctly converts all IP obfusications (including decimal, octal, hex, binary? and mixes of those) before checking a URL for phishing attacks,
As I recent migrant from Windows to Ubuntu - I found Linux to be far more enjoyable than my iBook (or Windows) ever was. And this is not a grab for karma, I have more than enough already. Just look at the stuff modern Linux has:
- XGL/Compiz - more impressive than OS X, although admittedly in alpha.
- Screensavers - (don't laugh, apparently new computer users spend a lot of time messing with these) xscreensaver comes with dozens of impressive, customisable screensavers.
- Installation - on Ubuntu, almost everything installs with one click of the mouse, with browsable game/app libraries.
- Game support is a little lower than OS X but neither are worth mentioning compared to Windows.
- Takes the better parts of OS X (Expose, Spotlight/Beagle) and drops the ones I personally dislike (Dock, Finder)
- Unique apps like Amarok, which is more enjoyable to use than iTunes; Tomboy, etc.
Plus if you're into development and compiling stuff yourself, you get the rewards that come with that as well. I was a long-time Windows user, and I've tried a whole bunch of distros that were completely horrible to use, or bug-ridden, or bad at detecting my hardware. But I really believe that desktop Linux is beginning to emerge now, and it's actually becoming that can be used by your average consumer (if it weren't for MP3/etc. licensing restrictions). Apple will always have the lead in music/video/graphic production, but for desktop use, Linux is rapidly catching up to OS X, and considering the price difference, I don't see the scenario in TFA happening.Nagios has been doing Open Source security since 1996 and looks much the same.
On the other hand, how many times as Firefox updated? The 1.0.4, then 1.0.5, rapidly followed up by the 1.0.6 has vastly inflated the number of downloads such that it's a horribly misleading measure of actual users.
Add the Linux/BSD distribution values and we're probably still talking 75M.
Joke's on you, they are patenting the idea. So nobody can build the same thing (at least for free) if they don't go through with it.
If they do end up producing "the iPod of keyboards", though, more power to them!