"Q: AMD was able to open source and/or document a lot by separating out the parts they couldn't legally disclose. Similar problems have been cited as preventing NVIDIA from open sourcing their driver (licensed 3rd parts code, etc) or documentation. Could nVidia use the same strategy?"
"... While at some point it may be possible to release some of this information in pubic form..."
Ever the child... I must admit it made me snigger...
Completely different issue there though, that one is due to the regular array of windmills acting like a diffraction grating and proucing multiple radar images of a given object. (Or so I've heard anyway).
Hmm.... I'm particularly loving the math skills of the International Herald Tribune's journalists.
Mammoth Lakes is about 10,000 feet, or 30,400 meters, above sea level, and snow makes already difficult terrain largely impassable and could bury plane wreckage.
For some reason the British customs think there is still something called a 'personal allowance' which limits how much you can import, but this is not in fact the case;
Yes and no...
There still are import allowances for certain EU countries, mostly countries that have only recently joined the EU and have not yet harmonised certain tax laws. e.g. the various baltic states and Poland at least that I know of.
I was particularly amused by the following quote:
Sure, it's not state-of-the-art - but when it comes to laptops you have three competing demands - fast, cheap, powerful - but you only get to choose two.
Am I the only one thinking this is a slightly stupid product with a stupid name?
The first 2-3 articles I saw about it didn't do anything to dispel the first impression that the name gave me, that this was an xbox 360 mounted in an arcade cabinet....
The developer can't even get the BBFC to give them the reason the game was rejected, and yet you think the reasoning is public. RTFA...
From the article, quoted from the Rockstar statement: (Rockstar are the developers of Manhunt).
The changes necessary in order to publish the game in Britain are unacceptable to us and represent a setback for video games. For the developer to be aware of the changes necessary for the BBFC to give Manhunt 2 a rating implies that the BBFC informed them of exactly what they considered unacceptable. They just don't want to do it.
And, as someone else has noted, the BBFC has only ever denied a rating to one other game (Carmageddon), although that decision was overturned on appeal. And if I remember correctly from the original decision (forgive me for being too busy to google for references, need to catch a train shortly), the BBFC said something about the game having nothing else to it apart form mindless sadistic violence, I think the phrase used was 'no redeemable qualities'.
I'm happy about one thing though, at least the BBFC seems to have based it's decision on a fairly solid foundation, as a fairly quick search on their website reveals the material that htey based their decision on (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/0/5F0B91FB15D5B748802572FF003BE984?OpenDocument) i.e. a complete playthrough.
Well, in some ways I second this, I'd love to see some new content lower down the levelling ladder, as the old instances and quests can get a little boring after having run through them a lot of times, and they never quite have the same magic redoing them on an alt as they did when you first when in and everything was new and mysterious, but you do need to consider that of the subscribing playerbase, quite a large proportion is at the endgame stage, ok, maybe not Black Temple/Mount Hyjal/etc, but a large proportion are level 70. (Census details)
I'd actually quite like to see some more stuff to do around the karazhan level, for those who aren't really interested in the 25-man stuff, or who can't commit to the time/organisation required. Zul'Aman could be quite good for this, but we shall have to see how it turns out.
It is probably worth mentioning that Dustwallow Marsh is due to get a rebuild in a coming patch before WotLK, with a new goblin town and a lot of the questing redone, with the stated intention of improving the 35-45 area. (Well, that's what I remember off the top of my head anyway).
And this doesn't just go for computer equipment either, there is a british motorbike charity that raises money and volunteers to go out to Africa and train people to use, ride and maintain motorbikes as they had noticed that many aid organisations provide motorbikes to the third world, but without any training they soon end up on the scrap heap when they break.
Most, if not all of the big backup software vendors (i.e. probably including the backup software you use for your servers) have plug ins/agents that will backup both desktops and laptops.
And usually it's not actually that expensive. A quick 30 seconds search through some suppliers puts the price at somewhere around £10 per laptop or desktop.
Also, usually you'll find that these products feature delta compression/synchronization abilities, same kind of thing as rsync.
Haven't seen this mentioned in the discussion yet, but we've been playing around with / testing softgrid in the lab, and it's kinda just the same as publishing applications through citrix...
It would be helpful to know what country you are talking about, as this will affect lots of things...
eg here in the UK we have freeeview, which is just a brand name for free-to-air terrestrial digital television, and many DVR/PVRs over here are built with this in mind.
But I have no idea what the situatuion is with non-subscription television services in other countries
We use a similar sort of philosophy. If the employee goes to a site that the software thinks is dodgy, they will get a page warnming them that we believe it is dodgy, and why, but there is a option to continue onto the page, thereby acknowledging the warning, and choosing to view the content anyway, with such events logged and reviewed by the HR department on a monthly basis.
(Althogh most restricitions are lifted outside of normal working hours, and at lunchtime.)
Sure the specification is out, but it will take a long time I suspect to find its way into computers Actually, the article states that:
Intel is expected to release its first PCIe 2.0 supporting chipsets, members of the 'Bearlake' family, next quarter.
Distances on road signs are in miles, yes, loose produce in shops is allowed to be sold in imperial quantities, but all packaged items end to be metric. And also pints for milk and beer. But that's about it.
And that still annoys me, having two systems side by side is almost worse than using just imperial, it makes it very difficult to compare the prices of, for instance, a pre-packaged bag of potatos and 3-4 loose potatos, but then again, maybe the supermarkets would rather we didn't compare their prices.
And worst of all, the children come out of school fully versed in metric, and then have to learn imperial just to make themselves understoood to old people.
For example, one significant problem with greylisting is if your organisation happens to use a large 3rd party mail processing company for antivirus and antispam services... with many many email servers... so greylisting may decide to accept mail from you this time... or not... do you feel lucky today?
I played Ryzom for more than 9 months, roughly from the introduction of the encylopaedia missions to shortly after the introduction of the PvP outposts, and for the most part, I loveed it, and made many friends there, some of whom I am still in contact with on a daily basis. One of the tings I liked most about it was the fact that it was so different to the other games around.
One of the high points in my eyes were the crafting system, which was, Shock! Horror!, more complex than 3a + 2b -> Sword No 5. Enough that best crafters gained a reputation for crafting better items than anyone else, and their items were highly sought after.
Other things that made it nice were the classless system (get bored of tanking? fine, heal instead), and the community that generally took in new players and guided them, with a remarkable lack of "FFS! Noob!".
Even though I've stopped playing, I used to pop my head in from time to time, and it is sad to see it get to this state, especially with the relatively recent addition of player created content (sort of player made instances) but hopefully there is an opportunity here for it to be reborn anew.
I think it's interesting that some people visit SuicideGirls to read articles.As they once read the articles and short stories in Playboy too, as I think they published stories by Artur C Clarke and Ian Fleming amongst others.
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While I do like the whole WRT54GL thing, you do appear to be answering a different question to the one that was asked.
I tend to use Mikogo - has worked fairly well for me so far.
And it's free and easy to use.
From page three:
Ever the child... I must admit it made me snigger...
Completely different issue there though, that one is due to the regular array of windmills acting like a diffraction grating and proucing multiple radar images of a given object. (Or so I've heard anyway).
Mammoth Lakes is about 10,000 feet, or 30,400 meters, above sea level, and snow makes already difficult terrain largely impassable and could bury plane wreckage.
For some reason the British customs think there is still something called a 'personal allowance' which limits how much you can import, but this is not in fact the case;
Yes and no... There still are import allowances for certain EU countries, mostly countries that have only recently joined the EU and have not yet harmonised certain tax laws. e.g. the various baltic states and Poland at least that I know of.
We already knew that Nvidia is working on a CUDA version for x86 CPUs, but said it would leave a modification for ATI GPUs to others./quote
You could try http://cert.startcom.org/
They provide free SSL certificates I think. (Not tried them, YMMV etc)
I think you mean 7.2Mbps if it the same device I have. And that's when in 3G covered areas - else it's ~50-60kbps, or worse.
Am I the only one thinking this is a slightly stupid product with a stupid name?
The first 2-3 articles I saw about it didn't do anything to dispel the first impression that the name gave me, that this was an xbox 360 mounted in an arcade cabinet....
From the article, quoted from the Rockstar statement: (Rockstar are the developers of Manhunt). The changes necessary in order to publish the game in Britain are unacceptable to us and represent a setback for video games. For the developer to be aware of the changes necessary for the BBFC to give Manhunt 2 a rating implies that the BBFC informed them of exactly what they considered unacceptable. They just don't want to do it.
And, as someone else has noted, the BBFC has only ever denied a rating to one other game (Carmageddon), although that decision was overturned on appeal. And if I remember correctly from the original decision (forgive me for being too busy to google for references, need to catch a train shortly), the BBFC said something about the game having nothing else to it apart form mindless sadistic violence, I think the phrase used was 'no redeemable qualities'.
I'm happy about one thing though, at least the BBFC seems to have based it's decision on a fairly solid foundation, as a fairly quick search on their website reveals the material that htey based their decision on (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/0/5F0B91FB15D5B748802572FF003BE984?OpenDocument) i.e. a complete playthrough.
Well, in some ways I second this, I'd love to see some new content lower down the levelling ladder, as the old instances and quests can get a little boring after having run through them a lot of times, and they never quite have the same magic redoing them on an alt as they did when you first when in and everything was new and mysterious, but you do need to consider that of the subscribing playerbase, quite a large proportion is at the endgame stage, ok, maybe not Black Temple/Mount Hyjal/etc, but a large proportion are level 70. (Census details)
I'd actually quite like to see some more stuff to do around the karazhan level, for those who aren't really interested in the 25-man stuff, or who can't commit to the time/organisation required. Zul'Aman could be quite good for this, but we shall have to see how it turns out.
It is probably worth mentioning that Dustwallow Marsh is due to get a rebuild in a coming patch before WotLK, with a new goblin town and a lot of the questing redone, with the stated intention of improving the 35-45 area. (Well, that's what I remember off the top of my head anyway).
And this doesn't just go for computer equipment either, there is a british motorbike charity that raises money and volunteers to go out to Africa and train people to use, ride and maintain motorbikes as they had noticed that many aid organisations provide motorbikes to the third world, but without any training they soon end up on the scrap heap when they break.
Most, if not all of the big backup software vendors (i.e. probably including the backup software you use for your servers) have plug ins/agents that will backup both desktops and laptops.
And usually it's not actually that expensive. A quick 30 seconds search through some suppliers puts the price at somewhere around £10 per laptop or desktop.
Also, usually you'll find that these products feature delta compression/synchronization abilities, same kind of thing as rsync.
Haven't seen this mentioned in the discussion yet, but we've been playing around with / testing softgrid in the lab, and it's kinda just the same as publishing applications through citrix...
It would be helpful to know what country you are talking about, as this will affect lots of things...
eg here in the UK we have freeeview, which is just a brand name for free-to-air terrestrial digital television, and many DVR/PVRs over here are built with this in mind.
But I have no idea what the situatuion is with non-subscription television services in other countries
We use a similar sort of philosophy. If the employee goes to a site that the software thinks is dodgy, they will get a page warnming them that we believe it is dodgy, and why, but there is a option to continue onto the page, thereby acknowledging the warning, and choosing to view the content anyway, with such events logged and reviewed by the HR department on a monthly basis.
(Althogh most restricitions are lifted outside of normal working hours, and at lunchtime.)
Not really entirely accurate.
Distances on road signs are in miles, yes, loose produce in shops is allowed to be sold in imperial quantities, but all packaged items end to be metric. And also pints for milk and beer. But that's about it.
And that still annoys me, having two systems side by side is almost worse than using just imperial, it makes it very difficult to compare the prices of, for instance, a pre-packaged bag of potatos and 3-4 loose potatos, but then again, maybe the supermarkets would rather we didn't compare their prices.
And worst of all, the children come out of school fully versed in metric, and then have to learn imperial just to make themselves understoood to old people.
The funniest one I've seen was from a thermometer, and it said:
"Once used rectally, do not use orally."
For example, one significant problem with greylisting is if your organisation happens to use a large 3rd party mail processing company for antivirus and antispam services... with many many email servers... so greylisting may decide to accept mail from you this time... or not... do you feel lucky today?
I played Ryzom for more than 9 months, roughly from the introduction of the encylopaedia missions to shortly after the introduction of the PvP outposts, and for the most part, I loveed it, and made many friends there, some of whom I am still in contact with on a daily basis. One of the tings I liked most about it was the fact that it was so different to the other games around.
One of the high points in my eyes were the crafting system, which was, Shock! Horror!, more complex than 3a + 2b -> Sword No 5. Enough that best crafters gained a reputation for crafting better items than anyone else, and their items were highly sought after.
Other things that made it nice were the classless system (get bored of tanking? fine, heal instead), and the community that generally took in new players and guided them, with a remarkable lack of "FFS! Noob!".
Even though I've stopped playing, I used to pop my head in from time to time, and it is sad to see it get to this state, especially with the relatively recent addition of player created content (sort of player made instances) but hopefully there is an opportunity here for it to be reborn anew.
I think it's interesting that some people visit SuicideGirls to read articles.As they once read the articles and short stories in Playboy too, as I think they published stories by Artur C Clarke and Ian Fleming amongst others.