What really matters is the quality of character and environment designs? Really? I guess you don't own a next generation system then; there's really no point to, ever, when there are so many good (and better) games out there for older systems. But I guess everyone who owns a PS3 or a X360 is just a graphics fanboy.
This issue is not overblown; we're talking about a flagship game on a next-generation HD platform, which isn't even HD. The game essentially runs at 640 and is upscaled because they couldn't figure out a way to get enough FPS to run it smooth at 720.
They have the gall to suggest that it's "practically impossible to discern a difference" (higher resolution makes zero difference?) and then insult people who notice. The "tinfoil hat wearers" are 100% correct in this case -- this is not an HD game. It may be loads of fun, and while it may run in HD, it's upscaled just like the fucking PS2 game on a PS3 without any of the smoothing extras.
Worldcom used to co-locate a majority of their servers in telco facilities. All the servers (Sun Netra T-1125s) were mounted in telco racks with DC power. It was much neater/cleaner than AC, since even the power could be custom cut. We had one distribution rack given to us that we hung maybe 9 racks of equipment off of.
There were downsides; the enviornmental tolerances were much worse than in your standard datacenter and the servers suffered. Once, our servers started failing, we drove out there and found a half-inch of drywall dust on the top of the servers with it completely caked in the intake filters -- it turns out they had just decided to put a stairway in right next to our machines and never told us...
So, in other words, this isn't a new thing, if you ask, you'll find that sun, cisco, and compaq all sell DC power supplies.
I'd say there are just a few people who like Babylon 5, on which he was a 'creative consultant'. He gave enough input to the series that his name is shown prominently at the begining of every single episode.
I personally love B5 but I feel it doesn't hold a candle to some of his literary works (check out The Essential Ellison for a sampling of that).
As far as name recognition and viewer/readership of the general populace, I'd say B5 is his most 'famous' work.
Could it be that the curriculum is rendered obsolete by the fast moving technology sector?
And while we're on the subject, please explain why I need(ed) Calculus 3 to program or administrate computers.
Maybe if they offered REAL skills that translate into the workforce more people would sign up. As it is, just like with most degrees, all it says is that you are willing to put up with a lot of crap and look more at the long term than short.
I understand and appreciate the need for a broad education, but I don't see a need to run students through the extreme science grinder unnesessarily.
What people DON'T mention is that a large majority (somewhere around 3/4) of them are molested by members of their own family or friends, not a random stranger trolling on the internet. People don't like to think about that, so a *lot* of focus is put on the much smaller, more finger-pointable percentage.
I think we should deal more with what happens in the house than waste resources on what is a tiny percentage of the real problem.
Remember that the number of cases of molestation are often much greater than those reported becuase it's often hushed up or ignored by the family itself. Because of this, 1 in 5 doesn't seem a totally unreasonable number to me. Even if it was a quarter of that, 1 in 25 scares me to death - even moreso becuase I realize continually targeting and devising stings versus so called "internet preadators" is largely ineffectual. I've never actually heard of these people, except on the national radio and news when they need something senstational. I'm sure we all, however, could point to that 'strange uncle' in our family.
Why not a Bias button? Want to indulge in some head nodding and armchair politics? Feel like you need to preach to the choir? Simply Select the "Pro-Life" button and all those other distenting opinions are whisked away into the digital ether! You'll never have to question anything again!
Enough to browse slashdot. I know 3 personally who post on here, and have occasionally corrected the trolling "IANAL But I feel the need to make broad sweeping generalizations anyway" posts in the past.
*snip* How hard is it to just delete it? Is it's presence that bad that it actually causes people to react like it was a cockroach or maybe a demon? *snip*
The problem is not from the users complaining, it's from the thousands of messages a day that the spammer posts which can create serious storage and bandwidth issues when several spammers are involved. UDP (IMO) isn't malicious in any way, it's simply the last ditch attempt to get a ISP to do what they should already be doing (policing their own servers).
*snip* They mentioned in the article that @home people are operating "open proxies" I assume that this means that they are allowing public access from the outside world. Well my friend what is wrong with that? You know I have had accounts at the infameous hotmail and even then I got spam in small quantities. *snip*
Unfortunately, there are so few open proxies out there, the ones that exist are constantly bombarded with spammers (since usually their own ISP polices the ISP's newsgroup, they can't use it for spamming). While the idea of an open proxy is a good one, it just doesn't work out in the real world. All major ISPs have their own news servers, so you shouldn't really need to go looking for a open proxy. And, if they don't have the newsgroup you are looking for, you can usually e-mail the administrator and request it to be added. They usually will, as long as your requested newsgroup isn't alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica.beastiality.cows or some such high volume newsgroup. (There are a lot of sickos out there you know!)
I doubt any merger of networks will be forthcoming. It would be rather hard, anyway, the way it's set up now. Don't worry, the pipe will stay the same, you won't be getting lousy AOL ping. Now, as for content (www.rr.com) for subscribers, that may change. Who knows? It's still too early to tell, it'll probably be a few quarters before the actual merger happens and and the paperwork goes through. I wouldn't be too worried (As long as you ignore the new banner ads that stay in the upper left corner of the screen at all times.:)
I personally don't like working the evil AOL, but what can you do? On the bright side, this will hopefully help to bring cable modems (through Road Runner) to more areas, so we won't all have to live with POTS modems forever.
Oh yeah, and my opinions and views herein are not the opinions and views of Road Runner, AOL, Time/Warner, AOL/Time Warner or any other company. I'd like to keep my job, thank you very much. Blah Blah Blah.
There are several types of surgeries today, from inserting rods, burning, shaping, plastic inserted, and the most common peeling the cornea, burning, and replacing. It tends to cost thousands of dollars. The thing to remember is that this is a very new science, only a few years old. They are coming out with new techniques every day (the most common one (the one with peeling) works the best and has the lowest "failure" rate. Something new undoubtedly will come along in a year or so, and there are no studies on long term effects yet. I'm personally waiting for those studies, just to be safe. Also, new techniques are being developed (as mentioned in the TIME article) to increase sight. Currently, they burn your eye in a set oval, even on all sides. This is like wearing a contact, and works fine for most people. However, new tech is coming out that lets them scan your eye, and burn a shape specific to your eye, which can theoretically get you better than 30/20 vision. There are new technologies coming out, and I'd wait until one has stabalized. It's not like a computer, you can't buy a new one if something goes wrong.
The only problem, (if I recall correctly) is that in the doom.WAD, you can't have levels underneath each other. You have 2 variables, the ceiling height and the floor height. That makes it a little difficult to create multifloor buildings. Now if ID software could be pursuaded to release quake1 code...
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What really matters is the quality of character and environment designs? Really? I guess you don't own a next generation system then; there's really no point to, ever, when there are so many good (and better) games out there for older systems. But I guess everyone who owns a PS3 or a X360 is just a graphics fanboy.
This issue is not overblown; we're talking about a flagship game on a next-generation HD platform, which isn't even HD. The game essentially runs at 640 and is upscaled because they couldn't figure out a way to get enough FPS to run it smooth at 720.
They have the gall to suggest that it's "practically impossible to discern a difference" (higher resolution makes zero difference?) and then insult people who notice. The "tinfoil hat wearers" are 100% correct in this case -- this is not an HD game. It may be loads of fun, and while it may run in HD, it's upscaled just like the fucking PS2 game on a PS3 without any of the smoothing extras.
Worldcom used to co-locate a majority of their servers in telco facilities. All the servers (Sun Netra T-1125s) were mounted in telco racks with DC power. It was much neater/cleaner than AC, since even the power could be custom cut. We had one distribution rack given to us that we hung maybe 9 racks of equipment off of.
There were downsides; the enviornmental tolerances were much worse than in your standard datacenter and the servers suffered. Once, our servers started failing, we drove out there and found a half-inch of drywall dust on the top of the servers with it completely caked in the intake filters -- it turns out they had just decided to put a stairway in right next to our machines and never told us...
So, in other words, this isn't a new thing, if you ask, you'll find that sun, cisco, and compaq all sell DC power supplies.
Something you know, something you have, something you ... are?
Privacy and Mark of the Beast issues asside, if this is for medical reasons what are you going to when this person needs a MRI?
I'd say there are just a few people who like Babylon 5, on which he was a 'creative consultant'. He gave enough input to the series that his name is shown prominently at the begining of every single episode.
I personally love B5 but I feel it doesn't hold a candle to some of his literary works (check out The Essential Ellison for a sampling of that).
As far as name recognition and viewer/readership of the general populace, I'd say B5 is his most 'famous' work.
Could it be that the curriculum is rendered obsolete by the fast moving technology sector?
And while we're on the subject, please explain why I need(ed) Calculus 3 to program or administrate computers.
Maybe if they offered REAL skills that translate into the workforce more people would sign up. As it is, just like with most degrees, all it says is that you are willing to put up with a lot of crap and look more at the long term than short.
I understand and appreciate the need for a broad education, but I don't see a need to run students through the extreme science grinder unnesessarily.
(No, I did not graduate, yes I have a job.)
What people DON'T mention is that a large majority (somewhere around 3/4) of them are molested by members of their own family or friends, not a random stranger trolling on the internet. People don't like to think about that, so a *lot* of focus is put on the much smaller, more finger-pointable percentage.
I think we should deal more with what happens in the house than waste resources on what is a tiny percentage of the real problem.
Remember that the number of cases of molestation are often much greater than those reported becuase it's often hushed up or ignored by the family itself. Because of this, 1 in 5 doesn't seem a totally unreasonable number to me. Even if it was a quarter of that, 1 in 25 scares me to death - even moreso becuase I realize continually targeting and devising stings versus so called "internet preadators" is largely ineffectual. I've never actually heard of these people, except on the national radio and news when they need something senstational. I'm sure we all, however, could point to that 'strange uncle' in our family.
Why not a Bias button? Want to indulge in some head nodding and armchair politics? Feel like you need to preach to the choir? Simply Select the "Pro-Life" button and all those other distenting opinions are whisked away into the digital ether! You'll never have to question anything again!
It looks like a waste of money and battery life. Also looks a bit too big. If it doesn't fit in my pocket, I'm not buying it. The GBA *barely* fits.
Enough to browse slashdot. I know 3 personally who post on here, and have occasionally corrected the trolling "IANAL But I feel the need to make broad sweeping generalizations anyway" posts in the past.
It's too late. the domains aol-rr.com and rr-aol.com have already been taken. By AOL. On Monday.
Kowai.
*snip*
How hard is it to just delete it? Is it's presence that bad that it actually causes people to react like it was a cockroach or maybe a demon?
*snip*
The problem is not from the users complaining, it's from the thousands of messages a day that the spammer posts which can create serious storage and bandwidth issues when several spammers are involved. UDP (IMO) isn't malicious in any way, it's simply the last ditch attempt to get a ISP to do what they should already be doing (policing their own servers).
*snip*
They mentioned in the article that @home people are operating "open proxies" I assume that this means that they are allowing public access from the outside world. Well my friend what is wrong with that? You know I have had accounts at the infameous hotmail and even then I got spam in small quantities.
*snip*
Unfortunately, there are so few open proxies out there, the ones that exist are constantly bombarded with spammers (since usually their own ISP polices the ISP's newsgroup, they can't use it for spamming). While the idea of an open proxy is a good one, it just doesn't work out in the real world. All major ISPs have their own news servers, so you shouldn't really need to go looking for a open proxy. And, if they don't have the newsgroup you are looking for, you can usually e-mail the administrator and request it to be added. They usually will, as long as your requested newsgroup isn't alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica.beastiality.cows or some such high volume newsgroup. (There are a lot of sickos out there you know!)
They license the technology out.
I doubt any merger of networks will be forthcoming. It would be rather hard, anyway, the way it's set up now. Don't worry, the pipe will stay the same, you won't be getting lousy AOL ping. Now, as for content (www.rr.com) for subscribers, that may change. Who knows? It's still too early to tell, it'll probably be a few quarters before the actual merger happens and and the paperwork goes through. I wouldn't be too worried (As long as you ignore the new banner ads that stay in the upper left corner of the screen at all times. :)
I personally don't like working the evil AOL, but what can you do? On the bright side, this will hopefully help to bring cable modems (through Road Runner) to more areas, so we won't all have to live with POTS modems forever.
Oh yeah, and my opinions and views herein are not the opinions and views of Road Runner, AOL, Time/Warner, AOL/Time Warner or any other company. I'd like to keep my job, thank you very much. Blah Blah Blah.
If you go into the time laps photo section, he explains it as artifacts caused by very bright light. They aren't really there. (duh)
There are several types of surgeries today, from inserting rods, burning, shaping, plastic inserted, and the most common peeling the cornea, burning, and replacing. It tends to cost thousands of dollars. The thing to remember is that this is a very new science, only a few years old. They are coming out with new techniques every day (the most common one (the one with peeling) works the best and has the lowest "failure" rate. Something new undoubtedly will come along in a year or so, and there are no studies on long term effects yet. I'm personally waiting for those studies, just to be safe. Also, new techniques are being developed (as mentioned in the TIME article) to increase sight. Currently, they burn your eye in a set oval, even on all sides. This is like wearing a contact, and works fine for most people. However, new tech is coming out that lets them scan your eye, and burn a shape specific to your eye, which can theoretically get you better than 30/20 vision. There are new technologies coming out, and I'd wait until one has stabalized. It's not like a computer, you can't buy a new one if something goes wrong.
The only problem, (if I recall correctly) is that in the doom .WAD, you can't have levels underneath each other. You have 2 variables, the ceiling height and the floor height. That makes it a little difficult to create multifloor buildings. Now if ID software could be pursuaded to release quake1 code...