Its natural selection,either you learn Linux or format the drive.Its not worth for me,and i don't need to install every new distro to find out if its usable.Its always less usable then windows.I'll believe it when i see it. By it i mean normal users using the said distro en masse,without any tech support.
I educated everyone in the family how to Install windows and how to FDisk+format the drives.They didn't remember it for long and i have to do it again everytime. It very simple,but some people don't understand it well.They have a limited view of computers as advanced TVs with input devices(yes,i'm not joking).
C alone is very complex. Basic at least can be programmed right off the bat.e.g. Print "anything". But when i tried to program in C. I couldn't get a simple hello world working without spending several hours on syntax errors,include files,and other little things that drive you mad. I wouldn't approach any language that is more complex then Qbasic.
I wrote several screensavers in BASIC. just a page of code and creates lots of $rnd lines/shapes,the only problem is BASIC intolerant of any syntax errors.
got bored fast with it after. Too much effort for very little result.
Fritz is relatively weak.Latest Rybka,ZapChessZ,And Hiarcs have top ratings spots. Here is fritz vs rybka stats Deep Fritz 10 4CPU(2925) Rybka 2.2 64-bit 4CPU(3105) 5.5 24.5 (+0-19=11).
"Wind Power" Alarmed by increases in recent hurricane activity,American government forms a secret project to curtail the threat. The "Black Eye Airborne Laser" initially shows unprecedented efficiency at breaking up hurricane eyes and the researchers are celebrating their victory over nature.However as time passes weather systems continue to produce more hurricanes,in an intensifying pace. One day a super storm forms over the Atlantic with eye larger then any hurricane in recorded history, which even lasers working at maximum power will be unable to breakup.America is headed for a major disaster And only Bruce Willis can save the day.Selflessly piloting his old worn Cessna,he flies towards the eye which is now hundred miles east of Florida, armed with several bags of silver iodide.His plane breaks up into pieces just in the moment when he releases silver iodide
into the center . For a moment scientists are puzzled for the hurricane behavior as the eye shatters into small pockets. The storm reduces into heavy rains on reaching land but no casualties are reported.Except for Bruce. After a three day long search,hes nowhere to be found.At night on lonely florida beach,a figure emerges from the water just as the sunrise lights up the sea.Its Bruce Willis.
"The danger is, of course, when cheap, highly replaceable robotics replace enough of the work of war, that the perceived cost of war itself becomes less and less" What if both sides "win"?
Its not so clear. 1.It depends on how much matter is dispersed between us and the supernova(plasma,dust,stars,etc) 2.The estimate of mass and star composition are correct. 3.The mechanism of supernova production is well understood.(not really:the electron-positron pair supernova is new) 4.GRB angle.
Eta Carinae ( Carinae or Car) is a highly luminous hypergiant star located approximately 7,500 light years from Earth in the Milky Way galaxy. It is estimated to be similar in size to the star which became SN2006gy. Dave Pooley, one of the discoverers of SN2006gy, says that if Eta Carinae exploded in a similar fashion, it would be bright enough that one could read by its light. However, Pooley estimates the likelihood of the star exploding in the near future as small, with a minimal risk to life on Earth.[4]
And what you get for playing this crap? Any skills besides resistance to carpal tunell syndrome? Do you have fun clicking mindlessly for weeks to add another digit to your level/score?
Linux needs a killer app(game) which works exclusively on it. Some game which is better then anything windows can offer in that genre. Remember that OSes exist to run applications,not to be run by themself. If your OS does not have cool games/quality apps its all wasted. The amount of good apps is what drives demand. And if such apps exist in greater number in another OS,people would use it instead. Ex:OS A has 20 cool games,and 100 Useful apps, OS B has 100 Cool games,and 2000 Useful apps. Which one you choose? Suppose that both properly configured and run smoothly.
Information sharing is natural. Intellectual property is artificial construct. It need to be enforced to work,expensive to implement,and makes everyone a bit poorer for paying for it.
Before blizzard patched it,there was a exploit to change memory values by creating death counters which are out of bounds.Google: EUD triggers starcraft the tank was probably with patched weapons.txt range in memory.normal is 7,and 12 siege. it could modify any map data which is variable.
I'd just like to point a few things out. 1. Though the ladder is closed on most gateways, it's still available on the European one and in a few weeks players on all gateways will be able to form their own ladders/leagues. Its not Blizzard ladder,Its WGtour ladder. 1.15 leagues are private clan ladders.
2. Friendslists aren't limited to 20. I have 22 on mine right now. The limit is about 25.and its server side.Its should be client-side and have at least 65535.
3. The reason that not all the channels are listed is because there are literally thousands of them. Many players use bots so they can reserve certain channel names that they want or where their account has
These channels are not know too noobs/average players. Thats why bots spam clan channels.ALl of them are hidden.there is no option to make them public.
4. AI is modifiable via map editors. Most 3rd party editors allow AI modifications and the vanilla version of Staredit allows custom AI scripts to a limited extent.
AI is very limited (mainly melle and few actions). only 3-4 spells,and the system is non-customizable. You can't run a real AI script without modifiyng the game and distributing it to players.
5. It is very simple for a mapmaker to make maphacks not work. If the mapmaker places certain unused buildings (such as an independant starport IIRC) that are normally unplacable in map editors in an area that isnt able to be viewed without a maphack, when a cheating player sees it Starcraft will crash.
There already maphacks with anti-crash protection.IIRC they were available in public for three years.
Starcraft could be the perfect strategy game if it was more editable and several fixes were applied. (applies to Battle.net itself too) The map editor sucks(by capabilities,everyone uses Starforge). Games start with delay of 5 seconds. Ladder was so prone to abuse blizzard closed it on all gateways. When someone's client doesn't respond,game DOES NOT drop him,but instead freezees the game, shows a non-modal timeout screen,for 40 seconds and then at 0:00 it could just stop if the player uses the very popular lag hack. Maphack and other exploits are not fixed.Maphack gives an enormous advantage in Starcraft. Dragoon(and several other units) AI dances around when used with obstacles. Pairs of units start dancing when they can't decide the right of way(heading towards each other). All channels on battle.net with exception of 20-30 are not shown in channel list(it probably a crude anti-spam measure blizzard "invented"). The ability to save games is limited to host(unlike replays). The random element of 70% chance firing to higher ground does not belong in this game. When connecting to battle.net client opens 7-10 extra connections to the same server,and closes them only after several minutes pass. Friendlists are limited to 20. ignore lists are stored server side and reset each time you login. Ums Map preview is disabled for some reason. Maps in singleplayer list are limited to 1024 IIRC,beyond that it just doesn't displays them (batlle.net list works fine). Spam bots which spam each 60 seconds are never banned and players who speak too fast are kicked out from the server. Replays must be passworded games only. The observer glitch:when observer is exactly on center of missile turret, missile turret stops firing and just freezes. You need to place map revealers and disable fog of war,but cannot make the map be visible 100% in UMS without this. Unit range,cooldown,AI etc are not modifiable by editor. lack of math operations and variables in editor. Spells/abilities are not modifiable and cannot be cast by triggers with exception of few. Direct coordinates and locations are not supported.
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Why can't you live with them? Do they bother you that much?
Borland C,with built-in documentation(help).The old dos version.
You're daughter is very smart to figure out it on your own.
Its way less interesting then rule 34.
Are they easier then Batch files? Qbasic? C?
Its natural selection,either you learn Linux or format the drive.Its not worth for me,and i don't need to install every new distro to find out if its usable.Its always less usable then windows.I'll believe it when i see it.
By it i mean normal users using the said distro en masse,without any tech support.
I educated everyone in the family how to Install windows and how to FDisk+format the drives.They didn't remember it for long and i have to do it again everytime.
It very simple,but some people don't understand it well.They have a limited view of computers as advanced TVs with input devices(yes,i'm not joking).
C alone is very complex.
Basic at least can be programmed right off the bat.e.g. Print "anything".
But when i tried to program in C.
I couldn't get a simple hello world working without spending several hours on syntax errors,include files,and other little things that drive you mad.
I wouldn't approach any language that is more complex then Qbasic.
I wrote several screensavers in BASIC.
just a page of code and creates lots of
$rnd lines/shapes,the only problem is BASIC intolerant of any syntax errors.
got bored fast with it after.
Too much effort for very little result.
Fritz is relatively weak.Latest Rybka,ZapChessZ,And Hiarcs have top ratings spots.
Here is fritz vs rybka stats
Deep Fritz 10 4CPU(2925)
Rybka 2.2 64-bit 4CPU(3105)
5.5 24.5
(+0-19=11).
A bright(3x5cm) LCD panel with buttons like on monitor , would be better.And the lights on back are really stupid i agree.
"Wind Power"
Alarmed by increases in recent hurricane activity,American government forms a secret project to curtail the threat.
The "Black Eye Airborne Laser" initially shows unprecedented efficiency at breaking up hurricane eyes
and the researchers are celebrating their victory over nature.However as time passes
weather systems continue to produce more hurricanes,in an intensifying pace.
One day a super storm forms over the Atlantic with eye larger then any hurricane in recorded history,
which even lasers working at maximum power will be unable to breakup.America is headed for a major disaster
And only Bruce Willis can save the day.Selflessly piloting his old worn Cessna,he flies towards the eye which is
now hundred miles east of Florida,
armed with several bags of silver iodide.His plane breaks up into pieces just in the moment when he releases silver iodide
into the center . For a moment scientists are puzzled for the hurricane behavior as the eye shatters into small pockets.
The storm reduces into heavy rains on reaching land but no casualties are reported.Except for Bruce.
After a three day long search,hes nowhere to be found.At night on lonely florida beach,a figure emerges from the water
just as the sunrise lights up the sea.Its Bruce Willis.
Especially advanced monkeys would also sue the typewriter manufacturer for assisting the infringement.
Robots are just mechanisms.Artificial constructs.They are not alive.
Animals are biological entities.They are alive.
"The danger is, of course, when cheap, highly replaceable robotics replace enough of the work of war, that the perceived cost of war itself becomes less and less"
What if both sides "win"?
Its not so clear.
1.It depends on how much matter is dispersed between us and the supernova(plasma,dust,stars,etc)
2.The estimate of mass and star composition are correct.
3.The mechanism of supernova production is well understood.(not really:the electron-positron pair supernova is new)
4.GRB angle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_2006gy
Similarity to Eta Carinae
Eta Carinae ( Carinae or Car) is a highly luminous hypergiant star located approximately 7,500 light years from Earth in the Milky Way galaxy. It is estimated to be similar in size to the star which became SN2006gy. Dave Pooley, one of the discoverers of SN2006gy, says that if Eta Carinae exploded in a similar fashion, it would be bright enough that one could read by its light. However, Pooley estimates the likelihood of the star exploding in the near future as small, with a minimal risk to life on Earth.[4]
And what you get for playing this crap?
Any skills besides resistance to carpal tunell syndrome?
Do you have fun clicking mindlessly for weeks to add another digit to your level/score?
Linux needs a killer app(game) which works exclusively on it.
Some game which is better then anything windows can offer in that genre.
Remember that OSes exist to run applications,not to be run by themself.
If your OS does not have cool games/quality apps its all wasted.
The amount of good apps is what drives demand.
And if such apps exist in greater number in another OS,people would use it instead.
Ex:OS A has 20 cool games,and 100 Useful apps,
OS B has 100 Cool games,and 2000 Useful apps.
Which one you choose? Suppose that both properly configured and run smoothly.
this analogy isn't working if all people were implanted with ThoughtControl brain chips.
Yeah,thats like equivalent of having the security built-in.
Information sharing is natural.
Intellectual property is artificial construct.
It need to be enforced to work,expensive to implement,and makes everyone a bit poorer for paying for it.
/. has Slashvertisements.
I would suggest he move somewhere safer like Switzerland or Sweden.
This should be done BEFORE making his site.
Before blizzard patched it ,there was a exploit to change memory values by creating death counters which are out of bounds.Google: EUD triggers starcraft
the tank was probably with patched weapons.txt range in memory.normal is 7,and 12 siege.
it could modify any map data which is variable.
I'd just like to point a few things out.
1. Though the ladder is closed on most gateways, it's still available on the European one and in a few weeks players on all gateways will be able to form their own ladders/leagues.
Its not Blizzard ladder,Its WGtour ladder.
1.15 leagues are private clan ladders.
2. Friendslists aren't limited to 20. I have 22 on mine right now.
The limit is about 25.and its server side.Its should be client-side and have at least 65535.
3. The reason that not all the channels are listed is because there are literally thousands of them. Many players use bots so they can reserve certain channel names that they want or where their account has
These channels are not know too noobs/average players.
Thats why bots spam clan channels.ALl of them are hidden.there is no option to make them public.
4. AI is modifiable via map editors. Most 3rd party editors allow AI modifications and the vanilla version of Staredit allows custom AI scripts to a limited extent.
AI is very limited (mainly melle and few actions). only 3-4 spells,and the system is non-customizable.
You can't run a real AI script without modifiyng the game and distributing it to players.
5. It is very simple for a mapmaker to make maphacks not work. If the mapmaker places certain unused buildings (such as an independant starport IIRC) that are normally unplacable in map editors in an area that isnt able to be viewed without a maphack, when a cheating player sees it Starcraft will crash.
There already maphacks with anti-crash protection.IIRC they were available in public for three years.
Starcraft could be the perfect strategy game if it was more editable and several fixes were applied.
(applies to Battle.net itself too)
The map editor sucks(by capabilities,everyone uses Starforge).
Games start with delay of 5 seconds.
Ladder was so prone to abuse blizzard closed it on all gateways.
When someone's client doesn't respond,game DOES NOT drop him,but instead freezees the game,
shows a non-modal timeout screen,for 40 seconds and then at 0:00 it could just stop if the player uses
the very popular lag hack.
Maphack and other exploits are not fixed.Maphack gives an enormous advantage in Starcraft.
Dragoon(and several other units) AI dances around when used with obstacles.
Pairs of units start dancing when they can't decide the right of way(heading towards each other).
All channels on battle.net with exception of 20-30 are not shown in channel list(it probably a crude anti-spam measure blizzard "invented").
The ability to save games is limited to host(unlike replays).
The random element of 70% chance firing to higher ground does not belong in this game.
When connecting to battle.net client opens 7-10 extra connections to the same server,and closes them only after several minutes pass.
Friendlists are limited to 20.
ignore lists are stored server side and reset each time you login.
Ums Map preview is disabled for some reason.
Maps in singleplayer list are limited to 1024 IIRC,beyond that it just doesn't displays them (batlle.net list works fine).
Spam bots which spam each 60 seconds are never banned and players who speak too fast are kicked out from the server.
Replays must be passworded games only.
The observer glitch:when observer is exactly on center of missile turret, missile turret stops firing and just freezes.
You need to place map revealers and disable fog of war,but cannot make the map be visible 100% in UMS without this.
Unit range,cooldown,AI etc are not modifiable by editor.
lack of math operations and variables in editor.
Spells/abilities are not modifiable and cannot be cast by triggers with exception of few.
Direct coordinates and locations are not supported.
the list goes on and on.
They got their priorities right.They think farther ahead.
The free internets are not for starving people.