Maybe he doesn't want the page to get slashdotted, and thinks he can try to "evenly distribute" the slashdot effect on his different pages, thus leading to a lower likelihood of getting/.ed.:)
What's so surprising? After all, A New Hope was the best one in the original trilogy, IMHO. Lucas is a great director. Just because he did something different the last two times from what you were expecting doesn't mean you'll always hate his work. So why get surprised?
It's a dupe.
Still, FWIW, let me put in my thoughts:
He isn't asking anyone to do anything. He is only commenting that the effect is similar. Meaning that having a smoking section in a restaurant is pointless, as others will anyway get affected. (Presumably, his sig only refers to most restaurants where there is air circulating between the two sections, and not to the few restaurants where the smoking section is a separate room with its own ventilation system). This is perfectly true. The analogy is quite accurate. If someone smokes in another corner of the same room, it's comparable to someone peeing in another corner of the same pool. (Of course having different pools is a different thing altogether).
In other words, having separate smoking/non-smoking sections does not serve any purpose. Those of us who do not like the smoke, or desire to be healthy, will be affected anyway. So either ask people not to smoke, or do away with the pretence and allow people to light up anywhere.
I don't know what you mean. I've only played Counterstrike Condition Zero.
It allows you play with other bots as a team, against the terrorists as a team. Meaning that you are commander of a bunch of bots.
You can also start or connect to a server, and play with zero or more humans on either team.
Is this what you wanted?
and when the kinks get worked out, step back!
You mean it's still buggy?
Yes it is, but it's already a lot better MS Office, and doesn't have annoying clips, dogs and cats either.
'I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know...'
Many Orkut users had this problem in the early days of Orkut. Not only could they log in as someone else, they could also change others' profiles, view others' data, etc. This bug was soon fixed (although Orkut still plays truant quite often. "Bad, bad server. No donut for you" is already so cliched).
I don't get it. I was very serious when I wrote that, still this comment has 60%Funny, and even 20%Troll.
In case you were wondering why anyone would want to use a=min(a,b), you really haven't programmed enough. To take a simplistic example, how would you find the largest integer in an array? (Sure, you can just #include , then say *max_element(a,a+N) and be done with it, but let's suppose you don't want to do that...)
Well, the way to do it would be to write a loop like this:
int largest = 0; for(int i=0;i<N;++i) largest=max(largest,a[i]);
I really think it's faster and better to code the last line as largest>?=a[i]. There is less unnecessary clutter.
Oh well. I guess this comment will now lose all its Funny mod points, but what the heck.
operators are deprecated, and will be removed. Damn, I liked them so much. Sure, they weren't part of the standard, and only a GCC extension, but it's just so much more fun to say
I am amazed that a Slashdot article has only seven comments as I write this, a week after the article was posted.
The typical/. article has several hundred comments, sometimes even thousands. Why is this poor article ignored?:)
Amazing.
Pi is a transcendental number
Yes, that's right... and therefore cannot be exactly determined
Er, that depends on what you mean by "exactly determined". Do we need to know the digits in decimal expansion (base 10) to "determine" pi? How about saying that pi is exactly "1.000" in "base pi"? IMHO, whether or not a number can be exactly determined is independent of whether its decimal expansion is known. By your logic, sqrt(2) cannot be exactly determined, as it is an irrational number and has infinitely many digits (and they aren't periodic, unlike 1/3=0.33333333333... which also has infinitely many digits). But I am not entirely comfortable with saying that sqrt(2) cannot be exactly determined. After all, we know exactly what it is -- the positive number whose square is two.
I expect e and the square root of 2 to be better choices
WTF? How is e a better choice? It is also a transcendental number, just like pi. And sqrt(2) isn't even transcendental!
Hehe, you my friend, made the same mistake I did. Sure the RSS is already there, but right now, it's only for personal use. Starting May, they plan to let other websites take a dip of their news.
Oops, never mind. What's new is that BBC will now allow external websites to feed on them. But why would they want to do that? Considering AFP's suit against Google and all, it seems rather strange they would allow other websites to have BBC's news on their pages.
Yes, but from what I see of it, quantum cryptography only makes it impossible for the data (transmission) to be intercepted without the recepient knowing. Which means that in principle, the data might be intercepted anyway, it's just that the recepient gets to know of it.
From the summary: Although, x64 users will get one free support call to Microsoft.
What on earth does that mean? Does a call to MS support cost so much that one free call is worth mentioning in the summary?
Or do they know that anyone using W64 will need to call MS support, or what?
Oops, ignore that. I see no ads, but that could be because I'm not in the US, and Google has been known for delivering results based on geographic location.
I don't know about you, but when I search for Negroes, no ads appear on Google. This might be intentional on Google's part, or maybe there is no company that wants to be associated with the word. Either way, I don't recall seeing an offensive ad by Google, ever.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe he doesn't want the page to get slashdotted, and thinks he can try to "evenly distribute" the slashdot effect on his different pages, thus leading to a lower likelihood of getting /.ed. :)
BUT THE JEDI RELIGION IS A HOAX! Read The Force Skeptics Page! :)
Man, I love the way that guy writes, so seriously
Thanks for the wonderful piece, but it is a dupe!
What's so surprising? After all, A New Hope was the best one in the original trilogy, IMHO. Lucas is a great director. Just because he did something different the last two times from what you were expecting doesn't mean you'll always hate his work. So why get surprised?
It's a dupe.
Still, FWIW, let me put in my thoughts:
He isn't asking anyone to do anything. He is only commenting that the effect is similar. Meaning that having a smoking section in a restaurant is pointless, as others will anyway get affected. (Presumably, his sig only refers to most restaurants where there is air circulating between the two sections, and not to the few restaurants where the smoking section is a separate room with its own ventilation system). This is perfectly true. The analogy is quite accurate. If someone smokes in another corner of the same room, it's comparable to someone peeing in another corner of the same pool. (Of course having different pools is a different thing altogether).
In other words, having separate smoking/non-smoking sections does not serve any purpose. Those of us who do not like the smoke, or desire to be healthy, will be affected anyway. So either ask people not to smoke, or do away with the pretence and allow people to light up anywhere.
I don't know what you mean. I've only played Counterstrike Condition Zero.
It allows you play with other bots as a team, against the terrorists as a team. Meaning that you are commander of a bunch of bots.
You can also start or connect to a server, and play with zero or more humans on either team.
Is this what you wanted?
To be more specific, Counter-Strike Condition Zero.
You should try Counterstrike.
and when the kinks get worked out, step back!
You mean it's still buggy?
Yes it is, but it's already a lot better MS Office, and doesn't have annoying clips, dogs and cats either.
'I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I'm logged in as someone I don't know...'
Many Orkut users had this problem in the early days of Orkut. Not only could they log in as someone else, they could also change others' profiles, view others' data, etc. This bug was soon fixed (although Orkut still plays truant quite often. "Bad, bad server. No donut for you" is already so cliched).
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"
--Winston Churchill
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears"
The only thing that springs to my mind is Mike Tyson.
In case you were wondering why anyone would want to use a=min(a,b), you really haven't programmed enough. To take a simplistic example, how would you find the largest integer in an array? (Sure, you can just #include , then say *max_element(a,a+N) and be done with it, but let's suppose you don't want to do that...)
Well, the way to do it would be to write a loop like this:I really think it's faster and better to code the last line as largest>?=a[i]. There is less unnecessary clutter.
Oh well. I guess this comment will now lose all its Funny mod points, but what the heck.
I am amazed that a Slashdot article has only seven comments as I write this, a week after the article was posted. /. article has several hundred comments, sometimes even thousands. Why is this poor article ignored? :)
The typical
Amazing.
Pi is a transcendental number
Yes, that's right...
and therefore cannot be exactly determined
Er, that depends on what you mean by "exactly determined". Do we need to know the digits in decimal expansion (base 10) to "determine" pi? How about saying that pi is exactly "1.000" in "base pi"? IMHO, whether or not a number can be exactly determined is independent of whether its decimal expansion is known. By your logic, sqrt(2) cannot be exactly determined, as it is an irrational number and has infinitely many digits (and they aren't periodic, unlike 1/3=0.33333333333... which also has infinitely many digits). But I am not entirely comfortable with saying that sqrt(2) cannot be exactly determined. After all, we know exactly what it is -- the positive number whose square is two.
I expect e and the square root of 2 to be better choices
WTF? How is e a better choice? It is also a transcendental number, just like pi. And sqrt(2) isn't even transcendental!
Hehe, you my friend, made the same mistake I did. Sure the RSS is already there, but right now, it's only for personal use. Starting May, they plan to let other websites take a dip of their news.
Oops, never mind. What's new is that BBC will now allow external websites to feed on them. But why would they want to do that? Considering AFP's suit against Google and all, it seems rather strange they would allow other websites to have BBC's news on their pages.
When you install Firefox, there is a BBC RSS feed installed by default (as "Latest Headlines"). So what's new?
Yes, but from what I see of it, quantum cryptography only makes it impossible for the data (transmission) to be intercepted without the recepient knowing. Which means that in principle, the data might be intercepted anyway, it's just that the recepient gets to know of it.
read this as "NASA Ponders Postponing Lunch until July?
From the summary:
Although, x64 users will get one free support call to Microsoft.
What on earth does that mean? Does a call to MS support cost so much that one free call is worth mentioning in the summary?
Or do they know that anyone using W64 will need to call MS support, or what?
Oops, ignore that. I see no ads, but that could be because I'm not in the US, and Google has been known for delivering results based on geographic location.
I don't know about you, but when I search for Negroes, no ads appear on Google. This might be intentional on Google's part, or maybe there is no company that wants to be associated with the word. Either way, I don't recall seeing an offensive ad by Google, ever.