Screw sequencing it. All you need to do is get a sample, mix it in with polychromase, and add a little heat to PCR the heck out of it. Its a laboratory procedure that high school science students can complete -- I should know, because I did it in AP biology. Congratulations, you know have a big container of paste that glows green under a specific frequency of light, for less than $100 in easily available ingridients (Popular Science magazine probably sells do-it-yourself-DNA-experiment-kits in the back). Add in one football and you're done.
Yeah, and peer review also caught that exploit in libpng after scant decades of use! Why, if that had been a Microsoft library, it would have taken... more decades!
It really is as easy to take their games from point A to point B as they advertise. I moved to Japan 2 years ago and the only game that came with me was GalCiv I, because they had associated my CD key with my email address and they let me download the entire thing over again (not a challenge for Japanese residential broadband;) ). That was pretty nice when the cost of a PC game here is about $100 ($60 for *Starcraft*, for pete's sake). I was so impressed at my ability to get GalCiv working fine on a new computer without any DRM issues and without the CD that I sent them a letter (sales@ is the email address) just to say thanks and *got a reply from a real actual human being thanking me for my business*. Try THAT with EA.
I was so impressed that I bought their 1-year subscription deal and, not to put too fine a point on it, it was pretty underwhelming -- the only game that I got out of it which I enjoyed was Political Machine (retail price $30 vs. $65 for subscription). Then I found out this past week that they did away with the one year deal thingee and converted my old one-year deal into 10 tokens to use to purchase their games, 5 of which just pre-ordered GalCiv 2 for me. Doing the math, that means I just got a premier turn-based strategy game for, oh, $17 or so. With some value saved up for the inevitable expansion or any other game they release that strikes my fancy*. I just love doing business with them.
* It seems recently they've started publishing casual games, too. One of them, the pizza one, is just "#$"&"#$ stupid addictive fun. I tried the download before from some random site but couldn't bother myself to spend $20 for it. But "pay two tokens" makes it sound like a pretty appealing proposition, given that I've already gotten my money's worth out of the tokens I've spent so its like I'm getting that game for free...
This is the weakness of the "indie" subculture -- they view making money as some sort of moral weakness, and despite the fact that nearly all of them hold dreams of eventually making money themselves anyone who actually manages to ascend to that magic plane of profitability will have to do it with millions of people wrapped around their ankles trying to hold them back. Its also one of the reasons you so rarely see worthwhile product from people with pretensions of indieness. Give me a company like Stardock or Three Rings -- "We're professionals and this is our job, but we value our independence" over the game developer equivalent of an emo kid any day.
Heck yes. 80 lbs of octopus, dang, you could practically justify using a state-of-the-art unmanned submersible as bait for what that would fetch in the Tokyo fishmarket.
Me thinks that whoever rated this comment Insightful was unaware that Jedi has now been made into a starting character class. Trust me, any pretense of Jedi being rare has been utterly discarded.
Or, more applicable for the current situation, "Give a man a $100 fishing pole and see it stolen by whoever got the $100 gun instead when the toys were handed out."
You should see my admin key: it is a 10^12 digit mersenne prime.
Leaving aside the fact that we've yet to find a 10^7 digit mersenne prime, if we did find the 10^12 digit mersenne prime sthat would reduce your keyspace to, oh, probably a couple of dozen possible numbers, all of which will eventually be published on the Internet. Yeah yeah, I know the post is suppose to be funny. But smart people sometimes do stupid things, like bragging to other engineers "My password is password -- I just won't tell you the language. Haha, I'm secure". (He got rooted by the end of the day -- C++ hackers should not mess with the natural language guys, what can I say. They didn't do anything too malicious, except aliased gcc to call gawk.)
I wonder how many times a day "mp3" is entered into a google search bar.
Thats another of their strengths -- convergence. Next time you enter "Junky Pop Song Surgically-enchanced Popstar mp3# into Google the first link you see will be "Buy this song on gTunes!".
The idea isn't to sell the speeches, its to lock them down. Its the same reason the official Catholic translation of the Bible gets copyrighted despite the fact that we'll give them out for free to literally anyone that asks -- copyright gives you the ability to legally enforce that all "copies" of the work are true to the original. That way no enterprising publisher starts publishing "Catholic" bibles with, e.g., the book of Leviticus missing, or republishing Evangelium Vitae (one of JPII's encyclicals, think of it as sort of a position paper for the Church) and rewriting the section on abortion to be pro-choice.
I thought I had remembered reading in a newspaper once upon a time that the core "Uh oh, thats a Falun Gong member over there" sign was doing some excercizes which were indistinguishable from tai chi. If I am misremembering or this information was mistaken I bow to your superior expertise.
I invite you to perform some tai chi excercizes in the Washington Mall, then in Tianamen Square, and after the broken bones heal you can lecture us all on the moral equivalence of the American and Chinese governments. By the way, if you had posted a message equally critical of China as your message is of America from China, you would be guilty of crimes against the state (and your Internet connection would probably have terminated after you sent an HTTP request containing the characters for oppression).
Playing MMORPGs saves you money. No joke. They act as a substitute for other game and leisure purchases. e.g. I generally bought one console game a month during my first year of real employment (money to spend, few activities to occupy my time). Thats, oh, lets call it a $500 a year gaming habit (cheap compared to any other form of entertainment on a per hour basis, with the possible exception of reading books). But after I got WoW, I haven't so much as turned my PS2 on except to play DVDs. I think WoW comes out to about $13 a month for me (I buy it in three month increments -- should probably increase that to six), and that is substantially less than the cost of any box in a video game store over here.
I don't see why the above is labeled as flamebait. Its true, you can trade Liberty Dollars for goods/services just as much as you could trade bottles of honey or Magic cards *so long as the other party will take them*. Regular old dollars aren't the only legal currency to use, they're just the only legal tender -- this means that if you attempt to pay a debt with dollars and the dollars are refused you have satisfied your legal obligation to repay the debt (the same is not true of Liberty Dollars, bottles of honey, and Magic cards).
Are Liberty Dollars a sound investment decision? Oh, heck no. In no concievable circumstance. You'd be better putting your money in bottles of honey or Magic cards. But if folks want to esteem them above their worth as a metal because they look pretty, it gives them a sense of security in tumultuous times, or because they like the frisson they get from rebelling from Uncle Sam in a teeny tiny way, hey, they're not hurting anybody. Of course, if my father hit his head one morning, woke up, and decided "I'm going to cash out my savings account and turn it into Liberty Dollars" I'd be a little upset.
Put up with it or find a different game. If the adds persist when you're not using the software, or its impossible to get rid of the software, then I'd agree you have a legitimate gripe.
I will make my own music the day after I write my own books, a week after I direct my own movies, and program my own web browser. Which is to say, never. I rather like the arrangement where I do something I enjoy and am good at for eight hours a day and leave the production of music (and, make no mistake, to me the majority of the time it is a good to be bought or sold like anything else, although I'll let the artists have their pretensions that they, at least, are different) and outsource my listening hours to someone who can carry a tune.
Play Vanguard. You can be as masochistic there as you want. You just don't get to have the sadistic glee of seeing others suffer with you just because they have no choice of playing a game that better suits their own play style. I played old school UO for years and old school EQ for a while, and I'm glad that WoW gives me the option to be a (little, virtual) hero on a mere two hours a night a couple of times weekly instead of a sheep to be slaughtered by the self-annointed elite. (Granted, after I hit sixty I joined the raid game and my play sessions are now longer than two hours twice a week, but a raid in WoW still takes less time than getting a bubble of experience in EQ did around level *15* or so where my interest in the game died its final death.)
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I'm not exactly a perl fan (more a fault of the perl programming mentality than anything in the language itself). Be that as it may, you certainly can build large-scale web applications in it, including an obscure web site you probably haven't heard of.
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Perl taught me C++
Somewhere, a maintenance programmer just slit his wrists.
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Screw sequencing it. All you need to do is get a sample, mix it in with polychromase, and add a little heat to PCR the heck out of it. Its a laboratory procedure that high school science students can complete -- I should know, because I did it in AP biology. Congratulations, you know have a big container of paste that glows green under a specific frequency of light, for less than $100 in easily available ingridients (Popular Science magazine probably sells do-it-yourself-DNA-experiment-kits in the back). Add in one football and you're done.
Yeah, and peer review also caught that exploit in libpng after scant decades of use! Why, if that had been a Microsoft library, it would have taken... more decades!
Happy to oblige. www.google.com
I was so impressed that I bought their 1-year subscription deal and, not to put too fine a point on it, it was pretty underwhelming -- the only game that I got out of it which I enjoyed was Political Machine (retail price $30 vs. $65 for subscription). Then I found out this past week that they did away with the one year deal thingee and converted my old one-year deal into 10 tokens to use to purchase their games, 5 of which just pre-ordered GalCiv 2 for me. Doing the math, that means I just got a premier turn-based strategy game for, oh, $17 or so. With some value saved up for the inevitable expansion or any other game they release that strikes my fancy*. I just love doing business with them.
* It seems recently they've started publishing casual games, too. One of them, the pizza one, is just "#$"&"#$ stupid addictive fun. I tried the download before from some random site but couldn't bother myself to spend $20 for it. But "pay two tokens" makes it sound like a pretty appealing proposition, given that I've already gotten my money's worth out of the tokens I've spent so its like I'm getting that game for free...
This is the weakness of the "indie" subculture -- they view making money as some sort of moral weakness, and despite the fact that nearly all of them hold dreams of eventually making money themselves anyone who actually manages to ascend to that magic plane of profitability will have to do it with millions of people wrapped around their ankles trying to hold them back. Its also one of the reasons you so rarely see worthwhile product from people with pretensions of indieness. Give me a company like Stardock or Three Rings -- "We're professionals and this is our job, but we value our independence" over the game developer equivalent of an emo kid any day.
Heck yes. 80 lbs of octopus, dang, you could practically justify using a state-of-the-art unmanned submersible as bait for what that would fetch in the Tokyo fishmarket.
Me thinks that whoever rated this comment Insightful was unaware that Jedi has now been made into a starting character class. Trust me, any pretense of Jedi being rare has been utterly discarded.
Or, more applicable for the current situation, "Give a man a $100 fishing pole and see it stolen by whoever got the $100 gun instead when the toys were handed out."
Leaving aside the fact that we've yet to find a 10^7 digit mersenne prime, if we did find the 10^12 digit mersenne prime sthat would reduce your keyspace to, oh, probably a couple of dozen possible numbers, all of which will eventually be published on the Internet. Yeah yeah, I know the post is suppose to be funny. But smart people sometimes do stupid things, like bragging to other engineers "My password is password -- I just won't tell you the language. Haha, I'm secure". (He got rooted by the end of the day -- C++ hackers should not mess with the natural language guys, what can I say. They didn't do anything too malicious, except aliased gcc to call gawk.)
Thats another of their strengths -- convergence. Next time you enter "Junky Pop Song Surgically-enchanced Popstar mp3# into Google the first link you see will be "Buy this song on gTunes!".
The idea isn't to sell the speeches, its to lock them down. Its the same reason the official Catholic translation of the Bible gets copyrighted despite the fact that we'll give them out for free to literally anyone that asks -- copyright gives you the ability to legally enforce that all "copies" of the work are true to the original. That way no enterprising publisher starts publishing "Catholic" bibles with, e.g., the book of Leviticus missing, or republishing Evangelium Vitae (one of JPII's encyclicals, think of it as sort of a position paper for the Church) and rewriting the section on abortion to be pro-choice.
I thought I had remembered reading in a newspaper once upon a time that the core "Uh oh, thats a Falun Gong member over there" sign was doing some excercizes which were indistinguishable from tai chi. If I am misremembering or this information was mistaken I bow to your superior expertise.
Two, by my count.
I invite you to perform some tai chi excercizes in the Washington Mall, then in Tianamen Square, and after the broken bones heal you can lecture us all on the moral equivalence of the American and Chinese governments. By the way, if you had posted a message equally critical of China as your message is of America from China, you would be guilty of crimes against the state (and your Internet connection would probably have terminated after you sent an HTTP request containing the characters for oppression).
Use the money you're saving from copyright infringement and buy yourself a shift key, please.
Playing MMORPGs saves you money. No joke. They act as a substitute for other game and leisure purchases. e.g. I generally bought one console game a month during my first year of real employment (money to spend, few activities to occupy my time). Thats, oh, lets call it a $500 a year gaming habit (cheap compared to any other form of entertainment on a per hour basis, with the possible exception of reading books). But after I got WoW, I haven't so much as turned my PS2 on except to play DVDs. I think WoW comes out to about $13 a month for me (I buy it in three month increments -- should probably increase that to six), and that is substantially less than the cost of any box in a video game store over here.
You are NEVER, EVER to speak again. That image will be scarred on my retina for life.
Are Liberty Dollars a sound investment decision? Oh, heck no. In no concievable circumstance. You'd be better putting your money in bottles of honey or Magic cards. But if folks want to esteem them above their worth as a metal because they look pretty, it gives them a sense of security in tumultuous times, or because they like the frisson they get from rebelling from Uncle Sam in a teeny tiny way, hey, they're not hurting anybody. Of course, if my father hit his head one morning, woke up, and decided "I'm going to cash out my savings account and turn it into Liberty Dollars" I'd be a little upset.
Put up with it or find a different game. If the adds persist when you're not using the software, or its impossible to get rid of the software, then I'd agree you have a legitimate gripe.
I will make my own music the day after I write my own books, a week after I direct my own movies, and program my own web browser. Which is to say, never. I rather like the arrangement where I do something I enjoy and am good at for eight hours a day and leave the production of music (and, make no mistake, to me the majority of the time it is a good to be bought or sold like anything else, although I'll let the artists have their pretensions that they, at least, are different) and outsource my listening hours to someone who can carry a tune.
Play Vanguard. You can be as masochistic there as you want. You just don't get to have the sadistic glee of seeing others suffer with you just because they have no choice of playing a game that better suits their own play style. I played old school UO for years and old school EQ for a while, and I'm glad that WoW gives me the option to be a (little, virtual) hero on a mere two hours a night a couple of times weekly instead of a sheep to be slaughtered by the self-annointed elite. (Granted, after I hit sixty I joined the raid game and my play sessions are now longer than two hours twice a week, but a raid in WoW still takes less time than getting a bubble of experience in EQ did around level *15* or so where my interest in the game died its final death.)
20 years ago: Beware of this VIRUS
20 days ago: lol this is not a virus
... of course, I work in Japan.
I'm not exactly a perl fan (more a fault of the perl programming mentality than anything in the language itself). Be that as it may, you certainly can build large-scale web applications in it, including an obscure web site you probably haven't heard of.
Somewhere, a maintenance programmer just slit his wrists.