indeed, halo finally had a controller configuration i could actually use and i love it. unlike every single FPS attempt on every single console before ever. plus i'd spent years waiting to be able to play Doom on a handheld and when it finally came out on the GBA?...... the shoulder buttons were for strafe, not turn, and there was no way of chainging it.... noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
as you can see crackpot is somewhere between the yellow road and the red one, presumably its sending them across the gap instead of around because it's shorter even if the track is marked as 10mph, as that's a long way around
ahh, Hawes, suddenly i know where we're talking about, camped at hawes a few years back, walked up some big hills and visited some pubs, good fun. but yeah, for you americans, think of what england looks like in amercian movies, tree filled villages, cows, pubs and thin roads, well this bit looks like that in real life.
back in the 90s games such as Doom/quake made it so you could record your gameplay and play it back exactly. instead of storing the video data it stored the gameplay data. a bit like making a savegame for every frame. the id games actually did this by simply recording every event as it occurs (player steps forward, monster 1 turns left 10 degrees, rocket 12 hits wall). the playback was made reliable by a random-number generator who's output was always the same from initialisation... the "randomness" of the games came from the fact that the generator was stepped for every event, even if it didnt need it, so to replicate a game's randomness exactly whilst playing you'd have to press all the buttons at the exact frames you did last time. not impossible but highliy improbably.
if you did that then played it back you could adjust the framerate and then save as a string of bmps, or jpegs to mjpeg
i dont concat SQL strings. usually i'd apply an alphanum+spaces+couple_other_chars regexp filter to an input anyway, which happens to have the effect of removing semi colons. and if you're not using string concatation then you're not building INSERT queries are you.
the fun part is when you look through telescopes and microscopes a lot and everything's backwards, boy does that give your brain a hard time adjusting back and forth and to the scale of things too. but yeah, in the same way that when you roll your head away from the horizontal your stereo vision doesnt go all overlappy your brain adjusts, so it should adjust to "seeing" by a few dots quite well.
as an even further aside, and probably totally unreleated, over the years i've learnt to read (and occasionally write, badly) fluently upside down, backwards and mirrored... which often i dont realise until it's too late and i bang my nose trying to HSUP the PULL side of a door!
1. verify your data, i have a bunch of asp functions that each convert any input into a string/int/decimal/bool,date that return ""/0/0.0/false/(now) upon chocking on their inputs, simple
2. use regular expressions, strip out the naugty chars from your inputs where you can, like newlines, even semicolons (no one i know has a semi colon in their name, date of birth or email address), and HTML encode your data BEFORE you try to save it to your db, gets rid of the double quotes AND saves time encoding it for every page write.
3. generate unique ids. easy way: generate a long random number, and then add the date and time of the request to the end. sure the right hand half is somewhat guessable but it ensures uniqueness*, which is always handy.
4. FFS dont assume that a user will only click links, anything that comes from the get or post needs double checking against the user's permissions. a lot of security flaws have been found this way: log in, view your bank account, change the url from viewuseraccount.asp?id=1234 to viewuseraccount.asp?1235... i'd expect to be fired for making it that simple
5. dont have "website.com/admin/"
6. dont use "UPDATE" or "INSERT" or "DELETE" querys
7. etc.
*nearly, unless you get slashdotted i suppose, then i expect your server will go down before the left (random) half also provides a collision anyway:-)
- you have a fixed number of rentals at once - you have a list of films (in a specified order) you wish to rent - when you return a film the next one on the list is given to you automagically
having only visited blockbuster and libraries in real life i'd not seen this model before (aside from only being allowed to rent so many titles at once) so it wasn't obvious to me, i therefore agree with the grandparent.
indeed, over the years i've seen some nightmare pc setups, back when 200mhz pentium + win98 was the norm people would complain that their system was slow and crashed a lot. yet didnt realise that they didnt "need" 50 icons in their systray. it's not their fault, it was the fault of every bloody software house adding some process, a cd drive watcher for a media player, a quick start icon for real player, volume control and mixer app for the soundcard, the virus scanner, office startup, adobe gamma loader, etc etc etc. unfortunatley the hardware has caught up and now a "normal" system seems to perform ok, albeit with all the crap still running.
my PC at home is running win98se, with 98lite (no internet explorer), and it's a 2.8ghz P4, currently i'm re-learning my C so i can try knocking together some raw number crunching / RSA cracking programs:-)
i've only downloaded stuff i couldnt get ahold of otherwise, at least not conveniently, the only "hollywood" film i've ever downloaded was Narc*. which i then bought about 2 months later. But now i've spotted the aeon flux anime on dvd i'll be buying that too, woohoo!
*and hardly a "hollywood" film at that, those guys really deserved my hard earned cash for their efforts!
halfassed indeed, it only cost about £80, but manages to show NTSC without rolling and in color. it's just the scan lines that are wrong, which is where the 16:9 button comes in handy. heh, me hax0rs the telly.
TFA suggests the possibility of a "no play" screen if an import game demands an output signal that is incompatible with your region coding so that things dont go bang. which to me suggests two possibilities.
1. the author is dumb 2. all my tvs have been magic tvs
currently (well, not this very second) i'm playing a US NTSC import of a PSone game on my PAL telly in the UK, sure the picture is a bit stretched but even this cheapo 19" tv has a 16:9 anamorphic button, squashing said picture back down to something more pleasant on the eyes. same goes for NTSC DVDs too.
yeah my playstation is getting a bit long in the tooth, i'm currently enjoying the Suikoden games after a reccomendation, which is good because i never got into the FF games and so would have avoided these too. i'm also slowly plodding through abe's oddysee trying to get 100% saves and 100% secrets. finally tracked down kula world a couple of weeks ago and now trying to get ahold of a copy of Tomb Raider 2 (the best of the series IMO) but gamestation always only seems to have copies of TR1, bah!
ok, IANA Linux Hacker but, cdrecord? if that does what i think the name suggests it does then, cdrecord? isnt this the kernel? sholdnt the kernel do stuff like: move the mouse pointer about and manage RAM?
honestly, i'm not trolling, but isn't this bloat? or does it come in under IO
seen this myself, a friend of mine broke his arm whilst arm wrestling. though it was a good couple of seconds after the loud crack sound that someone said, "what was that noise?". then he said "ARRRRGGHHHHHH!". we bundled him in an ambulance and got another round in...
read TFA and looks like he wasn't playing WOW properly at all, may not have been using a "bot" but was upgrading his skills by using a macro to fight, heal, fight, etc. which did require the repeated pressing of a button but hey, if that's ok then where does it stop?
To start with, if the apparent rest mass changed then I could easily tell how fast I was going by measuring the rest mass of a particle at rest relative to me.
no you couldn't, because the weight of the weight that your weighing scales are calibrated to weigh what your weighing against has also increased. and so they appear the same as before, relative to each other
yeah it's one of my (many) ambitions in life, to renovate an old theatre and open an indie cinema. there was one down the street from where i used to live that had a circle too (currently a mini bingo hall, surprise surprise). which i envisioned as the vip-member's area replete with bar. would show Apocalypse Now on the opening night and basically show good films, oh and bad films too: i quite like the idea of doing saturday midnight horror, zombie flesh eaters anybody? and then there'd be kung-fu friday... ahh perchanse to dream...
>None of this changes the fact that all of Apple's computers are 32-bit >machines, running a 32-bit OS, and a modern PC is 64-bit, running a 64-bit OS.
which may be true, but every single mac user who *doesn't* read slashdot does not know or care about the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit.
if i had mod points and this wasnt already at 5 i'd mod it up. i too use office 97 for everything, and will continue to do so for the forseeable future. so what i'd REALLY like is for someone to backport some '97 compatible plugins so i can save out in niceTM formats other than MS ones... either that or build an OO.o LITE that does word processing and spreadsheets very very well but with zero other funk built in (after all i install office 97 along these lines: "word -> program files" and "excel -> program files")
plus dont forget the fact that, in my city for example, there are 4 cinemas, totalling a good couple of dozen screens and yet they're all showing the exact same 4 films at the same time, 99% of the time. someone really really needs to do something about cinema distribution, and asking very very nicelly if they wouldnt mind dedicating one screen of their megaplex to independant/artyforeign/old films full time.
I WOULD PAY MONEY to see the likes of bladerunner, the godfather trilogy, apocalypse now, akira, enter the dragon and such at the CINEMA
same here, most of the films, music and games you find on the torrent network are either
1. paris hilton porn
2. not another teen movie 5
3. britney spears
4. mega maina mmorpg tm
or something like that, and being the type of person who prefers obscurefilms and music and i've already got a copy of #1. and i only have a ps1 and mostly only play doom, sim city 2000/3000 and transport tycoon on my pc.
so yeah, i do download a couple of gigs of torrents a week, but fortunatley i'm "forced" to pay for my favourite things
in other news i'm also a cinema buff and got ripped copies of each lord of the rings film to occupy me in between seeing it at the cinema and buying the boxed set of all 3, and because i'd seen each really big on a big big screen first i was happy to put up with the crapness in the mean time. (oh and i own bladerunner on laserdisc, niiice!)
and quite a few things i've downloaded i already own (generally mp3 copies of music i already own on vynil, or films i have on vhs). in fact i downloaded an albumn the other day i alrady actually haev on cd, but couldnt be bothered to dig it out of the gigantic box of cds that still largely hasnt been unpacked since we moved house last summer. all probably not fair use according to some laywers.
what i reckon it needs is a versioning system, so there would be a JFK assasination article version 1.0, which is what you see when you go there, and a 1.1 beta version alongside it, and a 1.2 alpha next to that, which you can contribute edits to. an article would get from alpha to beta to "current" (old versions would still be available in a way similar to the page history) via some kind of revision voting system.
i havent thought this through properly, i just thought of it just now
also, you could then, when citing references for your essay, permalink to the article you're referencing by specifying the "released" version number you used in your research
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indeed, halo finally had a controller configuration i could actually use and i love it. unlike every single FPS attempt on every single console before ever. plus i'd spent years waiting to be able to play Doom on a handheld and when it finally came out on the GBA? ... ... the shoulder buttons were for strafe, not turn, and there was no way of chainging it .... noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=crackpot &ll=54.346352,-2.046547&spn=0.251346,0.684586
as you can see crackpot is somewhere between the yellow road and the red one, presumably its sending them across the gap instead of around because it's shorter even if the track is marked as 10mph, as that's a long way around
ahh, Hawes, suddenly i know where we're talking about, camped at hawes a few years back, walked up some big hills and visited some pubs, good fun. but yeah, for you americans, think of what england looks like in amercian movies, tree filled villages, cows, pubs and thin roads, well this bit looks like that in real life.
back in the 90s games such as Doom/quake made it so you could record your gameplay and play it back exactly. instead of storing the video data it stored the gameplay data. a bit like making a savegame for every frame. the id games actually did this by simply recording every event as it occurs (player steps forward, monster 1 turns left 10 degrees, rocket 12 hits wall). the playback was made reliable by a random-number generator who's output was always the same from initialisation... the "randomness" of the games came from the fact that the generator was stepped for every event, even if it didnt need it, so to replicate a game's randomness exactly whilst playing you'd have to press all the buttons at the exact frames you did last time. not impossible but highliy improbably.
if you did that then played it back you could adjust the framerate and then save as a string of bmps, or jpegs to mjpeg
i dont concat SQL strings. usually i'd apply an alphanum+spaces+couple_other_chars regexp filter to an input anyway, which happens to have the effect of removing semi colons. and if you're not using string concatation then you're not building INSERT queries are you.
the fun part is when you look through telescopes and microscopes a lot and everything's backwards, boy does that give your brain a hard time adjusting back and forth and to the scale of things too. but yeah, in the same way that when you roll your head away from the horizontal your stereo vision doesnt go all overlappy your brain adjusts, so it should adjust to "seeing" by a few dots quite well.
as an even further aside, and probably totally unreleated, over the years i've learnt to read (and occasionally write, badly) fluently upside down, backwards and mirrored... which often i dont realise until it's too late and i bang my nose trying to HSUP the PULL side of a door!
1. verify your data, i have a bunch of asp functions that each convert any input into a string/int/decimal/bool,date that return ""/0/0.0/false/(now) upon chocking on their inputs, simple
... i'd expect to be fired for making it that simple
:-)
2. use regular expressions, strip out the naugty chars from your inputs where you can, like newlines, even semicolons (no one i know has a semi colon in their name, date of birth or email address), and HTML encode your data BEFORE you try to save it to your db, gets rid of the double quotes AND saves time encoding it for every page write.
3. generate unique ids. easy way: generate a long random number, and then add the date and time of the request to the end. sure the right hand half is somewhat guessable but it ensures uniqueness*, which is always handy.
4. FFS dont assume that a user will only click links, anything that comes from the get or post needs double checking against the user's permissions. a lot of security flaws have been found this way: log in, view your bank account, change the url from viewuseraccount.asp?id=1234 to viewuseraccount.asp?1235
5. dont have "website.com/admin/"
6. dont use "UPDATE" or "INSERT" or "DELETE" querys
7. etc.
*nearly, unless you get slashdotted i suppose, then i expect your server will go down before the left (random) half also provides a collision anyway
the process is this:
- you have a fixed number of rentals at once
- you have a list of films (in a specified order) you wish to rent
- when you return a film the next one on the list is given to you automagically
having only visited blockbuster and libraries in real life i'd not seen this model before (aside from only being allowed to rent so many titles at once) so it wasn't obvious to me, i therefore agree with the grandparent.
indeed, over the years i've seen some nightmare pc setups, back when 200mhz pentium + win98 was the norm people would complain that their system was slow and crashed a lot. yet didnt realise that they didnt "need" 50 icons in their systray. it's not their fault, it was the fault of every bloody software house adding some process, a cd drive watcher for a media player, a quick start icon for real player, volume control and mixer app for the soundcard, the virus scanner, office startup, adobe gamma loader, etc etc etc. unfortunatley the hardware has caught up and now a "normal" system seems to perform ok, albeit with all the crap still running.
:-)
my PC at home is running win98se, with 98lite (no internet explorer), and it's a 2.8ghz P4, currently i'm re-learning my C so i can try knocking together some raw number crunching / RSA cracking programs
what the other guy said about japanese cartoons
i've only downloaded stuff i couldnt get ahold of otherwise, at least not conveniently, the only "hollywood" film i've ever downloaded was Narc*. which i then bought about 2 months later. But now i've spotted the aeon flux anime on dvd i'll be buying that too, woohoo!
*and hardly a "hollywood" film at that, those guys really deserved my hard earned cash for their efforts!
halfassed indeed, it only cost about £80, but manages to show NTSC without rolling and in color. it's just the scan lines that are wrong, which is where the 16:9 button comes in handy. heh, me hax0rs the telly.
TFA suggests the possibility of a "no play" screen if an import game demands an output signal that is incompatible with your region coding so that things dont go bang. which to me suggests two possibilities.
1. the author is dumb
2. all my tvs have been magic tvs
currently (well, not this very second) i'm playing a US NTSC import of a PSone game on my PAL telly in the UK, sure the picture is a bit stretched but even this cheapo 19" tv has a 16:9 anamorphic button, squashing said picture back down to something more pleasant on the eyes. same goes for NTSC DVDs too.
yeah my playstation is getting a bit long in the tooth, i'm currently enjoying the Suikoden games after a reccomendation, which is good because i never got into the FF games and so would have avoided these too. i'm also slowly plodding through abe's oddysee trying to get 100% saves and 100% secrets. finally tracked down kula world a couple of weeks ago and now trying to get ahold of a copy of Tomb Raider 2 (the best of the series IMO) but gamestation always only seems to have copies of TR1, bah!
ok, IANA Linux Hacker but, cdrecord? if that does what i think the name suggests it does then, cdrecord? isnt this the kernel? sholdnt the kernel do stuff like: move the mouse pointer about and manage RAM?
honestly, i'm not trolling, but isn't this bloat? or does it come in under IO
...and am now considering buying an XBOX
an original one
not a 360
and playing Halo
seen this myself, a friend of mine broke his arm whilst arm wrestling. though it was a good couple of seconds after the loud crack sound that someone said, "what was that noise?". then he said "ARRRRGGHHHHHH!". we bundled him in an ambulance and got another round in...
read TFA and looks like he wasn't playing WOW properly at all, may not have been using a "bot" but was upgrading his skills by using a macro to fight, heal, fight, etc. which did require the repeated pressing of a button but hey, if that's ok then where does it stop?
morale: play properly, or not at all.
To start with, if the apparent rest mass changed then I could easily tell how fast I was going by measuring the rest mass of a particle at rest relative to me.
no you couldn't, because the weight of the weight that your weighing scales are calibrated to weigh what your weighing against has also increased. and so they appear the same as before, relative to each other
yeah it's one of my (many) ambitions in life, to renovate an old theatre and open an indie cinema. there was one down the street from where i used to live that had a circle too (currently a mini bingo hall, surprise surprise). which i envisioned as the vip-member's area replete with bar. would show Apocalypse Now on the opening night and basically show good films, oh and bad films too: i quite like the idea of doing saturday midnight horror, zombie flesh eaters anybody? and then there'd be kung-fu friday... ahh perchanse to dream...
>None of this changes the fact that all of Apple's computers are 32-bit
>machines, running a 32-bit OS, and a modern PC is 64-bit, running a 64-bit OS.
which may be true, but every single mac user who *doesn't* read slashdot does not know or care about the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit.
if i had mod points and this wasnt already at 5 i'd mod it up. i too use office 97 for everything, and will continue to do so for the forseeable future. so what i'd REALLY like is for someone to backport some '97 compatible plugins so i can save out in niceTM formats other than MS ones... either that or build an OO.o LITE that does word processing and spreadsheets very very well but with zero other funk built in (after all i install office 97 along these lines: "word -> program files" and "excel -> program files")
plus dont forget the fact that, in my city for example, there are 4 cinemas, totalling a good couple of dozen screens and yet they're all showing the exact same 4 films at the same time, 99% of the time. someone really really needs to do something about cinema distribution, and asking very very nicelly if they wouldnt mind dedicating one screen of their megaplex to independant/artyforeign/old films full time.
I WOULD PAY MONEY to see the likes of bladerunner, the godfather trilogy, apocalypse now, akira, enter the dragon and such at the CINEMA
same here, most of the films, music and games you find on the torrent network are either
1. paris hilton porn 2. not another teen movie 5 3. britney spears 4. mega maina mmorpg tm
or something like that, and being the type of person who prefers obscure films and music and i've already got a copy of #1. and i only have a ps1 and mostly only play doom, sim city 2000/3000 and transport tycoon on my pc.
so yeah, i do download a couple of gigs of torrents a week, but fortunatley i'm "forced" to pay for my favourite things
in other news i'm also a cinema buff and got ripped copies of each lord of the rings film to occupy me in between seeing it at the cinema and buying the boxed set of all 3, and because i'd seen each really big on a big big screen first i was happy to put up with the crapness in the mean time. (oh and i own bladerunner on laserdisc, niiice!)
and quite a few things i've downloaded i already own (generally mp3 copies of music i already own on vynil, or films i have on vhs). in fact i downloaded an albumn the other day i alrady actually haev on cd, but couldnt be bothered to dig it out of the gigantic box of cds that still largely hasnt been unpacked since we moved house last summer. all probably not fair use according to some laywers.
what i reckon it needs is a versioning system, so there would be a JFK assasination article version 1.0, which is what you see when you go there, and a 1.1 beta version alongside it, and a 1.2 alpha next to that, which you can contribute edits to. an article would get from alpha to beta to "current" (old versions would still be available in a way similar to the page history) via some kind of revision voting system.
i havent thought this through properly, i just thought of it just now
also, you could then, when citing references for your essay, permalink to the article you're referencing by specifying the "released" version number you used in your research
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true, but then again i'm still runing windows 98 and it zips along very bloody nicely on a 2.8ghz p4 i can tell you.