So you expect us to believe that you made a ridicuolous profit on this one deal and you just walked away without trying it again? Because you've "been to busy"? Or could it be that you're one of these stock spammers, only you've found a more efficient method of spreading your ads? Slashdot: Ads for Nerds. Spam that Matters.
Or maybe I'm a little grumpy. Either way, your story doesn't add up.
Let's get our units straight, shall we?
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A recent study on spam has revealed that spammers see a return between 4.9% and 6% when selling stocks they have bought low and spammed the world with.
Is that a 4.9% to 6% return per year? Per month? Per indeterminate period of time? It makes a huge difference.
This reminds me of lines like "the average home uses 10 killowatts of electricity per year."
I think you misunderstand. The console would continue to track the motion of the Wiimote after your sword stopped moving on the screen. I understand that it only senses motion, not absolute position, but it can use this information to calculate position relative to some starting point. That starting point could be the beginning of your swing, the beginning of a battle sequence, or some other point (perhaps you could press a button to recenter your sword). It doesn't have to be extremely accurate, just accurate enough not to be frustrating to the player.
The real difficult part is feedback. You swing a sword from right to left. Halfway through the swing, on screen, your opponent puts out his sword and blocks the attack. Your hand keeps going. Now your hand is all the way on the left, but on the screen, your sword is in the middle of the screen, confusing the heck out of the player.
Try something for me. Click on the scroll bar to the right and drag it until it reaches the top. Then drag it some more. The mouse cursor continues to move, but the scroll bar doesn't. Now move the mouse back down (without letting go of the button). The scroll bar doesn't move until the cursor reaches the point where the scroll bar stopped moving. Neat, huh?[1] Why couldn't this game be the same? If you swing past your opponent's sword, you can't recoil your sword until you move the wiimote back past the point of contact (in all three planes). Sounds simple enough to me. (Yes, yes, I know it would actually be a lot of work to implement. But the games industry is supposed to be cutting edge. Let's see some more edge cutting!)
[1] This post is only supported on Windows XP. If you are using some other window manager, this may not work. But trust me; it works on Windows.
Nevermind the fact that the idea of burning H2 generated from water to generate energy is ridiculous. Burning H2 in air isn't totally pollution free. Some of the nitrogen in the air will oxidize to produce nitrogen oxides, which in turn form acids when they dissolve in water. Fuel cells, on the other hand, generate electricity by oxidizing hydrogen at low temperature, and don't pollute.
"I'd actually think it more likely that the bacteriophages would go after the bacteria living in our digestive system, which would likely cause many of the same problems that a round of antibiotics does - ie, diarhea - but which is also simple to cure by recolonizing your intestines with those same bacteria (no colonizing your colon jokes please). So the cure for the bacteriophage run amok B-movie style would be... yogurt actually."
Antibiotics pass through your system, after which the bacteria can recolonize. But If you became infected with a virus that used your bacteria as hosts, it might not be so easy to get rid of. Eating yogurt wouldn't put down the virus population; it would "feed" it.
So you admit that it is falsified? You can't just take someone else's story, rewrite it (in the first person), and submit it as your own. For all you know, the original post was an advertisement or just a work of creative fiction. I'd say the GP was correct; this is a bogus story.
They may get more people downloading their browsers, but Firefox's core market has always been geeks.
What? I stopped using Firefox as soon as I saw it mentioned in the major media. Then I started using K-Meleon, until I found out that uber-geeks use Lynx. Or so I thought. Real geeks stopped using the Internet altogether in the early '90s when it started to get so commercial. Now I just sit in my (parents') basement and play Tennis for Two my oscilloscope all day. I'm so l33t.
If you only program in Java, and you have yet to use regexes, then I could see why you might possibly want this book. But how is it that much better than a general purpose regex book (of which there are several). I would think it would be more useful to have a book that covers regexes as a computing concept and then talks about the differences/limitations of different implementations (grep, sed, Java, JavaScript, Perl, etc.) Is Java still a big enough buzzword to sell books?
targetting IE is the obvious choice, since it is the only relevant standard (albeit a de facto one) in this context, and your pages will still mostly work on other browsers (or get their users to switch back temporarily to IE) anyway.
When you use your version of IE to test your web pages and apps, you may think you're ensuring compatability with about 85% of users, but that's not really the case. Although about 85% of people use IE, I think you'd find a significant percentage of those people don't use the latest version. So if you want to develop for "IE users", you really have to develop for IE 5.0 users, IE 5.5 users, IE 6.0 users, and, in the near future, IE 7 users. That's the price you pay for developing for a product by a company that refuses to even attempt to follow published standards, even their own.
1. Post an unskeptical story about telepathy research. 2. Select the most controversial comments. 3. Post story about controversial comments. 4. Three question marks. 5. Traffic!!!
Good job, timothy. I expect to see a lot more or your stories about gay marriage, abortion, and flag burning being posted on the main page. Keep up the dubious work.
Sure, there may be more violent crime, more pollution, more stress, and a generally lower quality of life, but at least you can sleep at night knowing that you, personally, have contributed less to global climate change. That is, if you can ignore the gunshots and incessant car alarms and horns honking.;)
When writing a program, you don't look up the meaning of a command in three sources do you?
Unfortunately, yes, I do. I have to work with Access, so I am forced to seek out several different sources. Microsoft's documentation is often incomplete and sometimes incorrect. Online Access tutorials and references abound, but they are not a whole lot better. I have a two-inch thick book just about Access, but it doesn't always have the answers to my questions, and many of it's suggestions are bad.
If you want to see the importance of seeking out multiple sources, just look at the References section of any peer-reviewed publication.
He said that digization efforts are hampered by a number of issues, not the least of which are the sheer size of the collection, the relatively small budget available, the extreme difficulty of digitizing some parts of the collection (like a 16-ton statue, for example). At this point, even getting an electronic catalogue of the entire collection would be a huge step forward.
You left out the difficulty in getting a government employee to do ANYTHING.
Well it certainly seems like you want to get GnuCash to run on Windows. But I can't imagine GnuCash needing any facilities that can't be provided in a cross-platform way. It is, after all, a number-crunching application. It's probably mostly the input and output that causes the problems. Perhaps if it had been developed in Java or a cross platform GUI library like FLTK from the beginning, this wouldn't be an issue. The point is that the development wasn't cross-platform oriented from the beginning and now people are devoting a lot of their time trying to retrofit cross-platform functionality.
WP is an Internet marvel. It has achieved what few people thought was possible: an extremely thorough (probably the most thorough) encyclopedia that is truly free. No high pressure sales tactics to guilt parents into buying a $1000 set of encyclopedias so their child won't fall behind. No advertisements or teaser articles to get you to pay a subscription fee to see the full article. No (top-level) editorial bias.
That's not so say it's perfect. In fact, I'm a little sceptical of everything I read on WP. Some people might not be because they aren't familiar with how it's written. So, finally, here's my point: Wikipedia should have an unmistakable warning at the top saying that its content is not written by paid experts, and what they're reading may not have had any editorial review at all. Then maybe we would stop hearing so many articles from people who have a vested interest in the traditional publishing industry whining about how dangerous it is to have something published without their prior approval.
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Didn't that exact post lead to a "+4, Funny" mod on at least a dozen other Slashdot posts?
Where was I when people were serving cold rice dressed with vinegar and garnished with raw seafood on a bedside tray?
So you expect us to believe that you made a ridicuolous profit on this one deal and you just walked away without trying it again? Because you've "been to busy"? Or could it be that you're one of these stock spammers, only you've found a more efficient method of spreading your ads? Slashdot: Ads for Nerds. Spam that Matters.
Or maybe I'm a little grumpy. Either way, your story doesn't add up.
Is that a 4.9% to 6% return per year? Per month? Per indeterminate period of time? It makes a huge difference.
This reminds me of lines like "the average home uses 10 killowatts of electricity per year."
Start making sense, Media!
I think you misunderstand. The console would continue to track the motion of the Wiimote after your sword stopped moving on the screen. I understand that it only senses motion, not absolute position, but it can use this information to calculate position relative to some starting point. That starting point could be the beginning of your swing, the beginning of a battle sequence, or some other point (perhaps you could press a button to recenter your sword). It doesn't have to be extremely accurate, just accurate enough not to be frustrating to the player.
Try something for me. Click on the scroll bar to the right and drag it until it reaches the top. Then drag it some more. The mouse cursor continues to move, but the scroll bar doesn't. Now move the mouse back down (without letting go of the button). The scroll bar doesn't move until the cursor reaches the point where the scroll bar stopped moving. Neat, huh?[1] Why couldn't this game be the same? If you swing past your opponent's sword, you can't recoil your sword until you move the wiimote back past the point of contact (in all three planes). Sounds simple enough to me. (Yes, yes, I know it would actually be a lot of work to implement. But the games industry is supposed to be cutting edge. Let's see some more edge cutting!)
[1] This post is only supported on Windows XP. If you are using some other window manager, this may not work. But trust me; it works on Windows.
"How does this effect the Stargate program?"
;)
Are you implying that it doesn't exist already? (Note: pay special attention to the word in italics
Nevermind the fact that the idea of burning H2 generated from water to generate energy is ridiculous. Burning H2 in air isn't totally pollution free. Some of the nitrogen in the air will oxidize to produce nitrogen oxides, which in turn form acids when they dissolve in water. Fuel cells, on the other hand, generate electricity by oxidizing hydrogen at low temperature, and don't pollute.
"I'd actually think it more likely that the bacteriophages would go after the bacteria living in our digestive system, which would likely cause many of the same problems that a round of antibiotics does - ie, diarhea - but which is also simple to cure by recolonizing your intestines with those same bacteria (no colonizing your colon jokes please). So the cure for the bacteriophage run amok B-movie style would be... yogurt actually."
Antibiotics pass through your system, after which the bacteria can recolonize. But If you became infected with a virus that used your bacteria as hosts, it might not be so easy to get rid of. Eating yogurt wouldn't put down the virus population; it would "feed" it.
"Just like bible story in John 8-7: Whichever one of you has committed no sin may throw the first stone at her."
You quote Bible on Internet. That illegal. You report to nearest re-education camp now!
So you admit that it is falsified? You can't just take someone else's story, rewrite it (in the first person), and submit it as your own. For all you know, the original post was an advertisement or just a work of creative fiction. I'd say the GP was correct; this is a bogus story.
They may get more people downloading their browsers, but Firefox's core market has always been geeks.
What? I stopped using Firefox as soon as I saw it mentioned in the major media. Then I started using K-Meleon, until I found out that uber-geeks use Lynx. Or so I thought. Real geeks stopped using the Internet altogether in the early '90s when it started to get so commercial. Now I just sit in my (parents') basement and play Tennis for Two my oscilloscope all day. I'm so l33t.
If you only program in Java, and you have yet to use regexes, then I could see why you might possibly want this book. But how is it that much better than a general purpose regex book (of which there are several). I would think it would be more useful to have a book that covers regexes as a computing concept and then talks about the differences/limitations of different implementations (grep, sed, Java, JavaScript, Perl, etc.) Is Java still a big enough buzzword to sell books?
John, if you spent half as much time working on your games as you do posting on /., we wouldn't be laughing at you right now. ;)
Pity they didn't choose an artist I would actually want to listen to.
I think you meant, "Pity they didn't choose an artist. I would actually want to listen to it."
1. Post an unskeptical story about telepathy research.
2. Select the most controversial comments.
3. Post story about controversial comments.
4. Three question marks.
5. Traffic!!!
Good job, timothy. I expect to see a lot more or your stories about gay marriage, abortion, and flag burning being posted on the main page. Keep up the dubious work.
Sure, there may be more violent crime, more pollution, more stress, and a generally lower quality of life, but at least you can sleep at night knowing that you, personally, have contributed less to global climate change. That is, if you can ignore the gunshots and incessant car alarms and horns honking. ;)
When writing a program, you don't look up the meaning of a command in three sources do you?
Unfortunately, yes, I do. I have to work with Access, so I am forced to seek out several different sources. Microsoft's documentation is often incomplete and sometimes incorrect. Online Access tutorials and references abound, but they are not a whole lot better. I have a two-inch thick book just about Access, but it doesn't always have the answers to my questions, and many of it's suggestions are bad.
If you want to see the importance of seeking out multiple sources, just look at the References section of any peer-reviewed publication.
He said that digization efforts are hampered by a number of issues, not the least of which are the sheer size of the collection, the relatively small budget available, the extreme difficulty of digitizing some parts of the collection (like a 16-ton statue, for example). At this point, even getting an electronic catalogue of the entire collection would be a huge step forward.
You left out the difficulty in getting a government employee to do ANYTHING.
You must be new here (Earth). Please read this.
!WARNING!
There are absolutely no pictures of a pervert displaying his stretched-out anus at the previously linked website. Sorry, freak.
!WARNING!
I don't see how a pumpkin wearing underwear has anything to do with the USA PATRIOT Act. Am I missing something?
Yes, I do write a lot of software.
Well it certainly seems like you want to get GnuCash to run on Windows. But I can't imagine GnuCash needing any facilities that can't be provided in a cross-platform way. It is, after all, a number-crunching application. It's probably mostly the input and output that causes the problems. Perhaps if it had been developed in Java or a cross platform GUI library like FLTK from the beginning, this wouldn't be an issue. The point is that the development wasn't cross-platform oriented from the beginning and now people are devoting a lot of their time trying to retrofit cross-platform functionality.
WP is an Internet marvel. It has achieved what few people thought was possible: an extremely thorough (probably the most thorough) encyclopedia that is truly free. No high pressure sales tactics to guilt parents into buying a $1000 set of encyclopedias so their child won't fall behind. No advertisements or teaser articles to get you to pay a subscription fee to see the full article. No (top-level) editorial bias.
That's not so say it's perfect. In fact, I'm a little sceptical of everything I read on WP. Some people might not be because they aren't familiar with how it's written. So, finally, here's my point: Wikipedia should have an unmistakable warning at the top saying that its content is not written by paid experts, and what they're reading may not have had any editorial review at all. Then maybe we would stop hearing so many articles from people who have a vested interest in the traditional publishing industry whining about how dangerous it is to have something published without their prior approval.