I read before somewhere that any planets with an atmosphere similar to ours would be likely covered in water. I think we're meant to have lost a lot of our water or potential water in the same event that created the moon (ie huge asteroid kicking a whole lot of crap into orbit)? Sorry if that's completely wrong, can't remember the details but hopefully someone more knowledgeable will pipe up.
That's fine for geeks who actually take care of their computer, but I welcome moves like this by ISPs to actually make an attempt to stop the proliferation of malware and botnets on machines where the user is clueless. This service is like the "immunise" option in Spybot: S&D, but you don't need to clog up your hosts file or update it every few weeks.
For users that want a direct connection for whatever reason then yes I think voting with the wallet is a good option. I have been saying above that TalkTalk should let users opt out, but if they do I hope they really don't make it a big button that's easy for people to click on, otherwise everyone will disable it and we'll be back to square one.
How about reading TFA? This is not an invasion of privacy at all. It doesn't record any personal data. It is in fact a great thing to do when 99.9% your customers are complete noobs.
How is them trying to warn users they area about to visit a malicious site anything like recording activity for the purposes of relaying to the government? There is nothing two faced about this, it is good for the customer.
This is just the usual BS sensationalism. According to TFA, the data being recorded is anonymous:
Our scanning engines receive no knowledge about which users visited what sites (e.g. telephone number, account number, IP address), nor do they store any data for us to cross-reference this back to our customers. We are not interested in who has visited which site - we are simply scanning a list of sites which our customers, as a whole internet community, have visited. What we are interested in is making the web a safer place for all our customers.
This is the type of thing we should be encouraging rather than discouraging, if it reduces the number of idiots infecting their machines, which it will slightly. I think the ISP should enable this type of warning by default, with the option to opt out for those who actually want the very slight improvement in latency.
Except if you are in the sun a lot (ie enough to get burned), you probably should be using sunscreen otherwise you will get cancer even more quickly, and you're probably getting enough vitamin D in that case anyway (though I have no evidence to back this up).
And if any god existed, would you also want to teach about it in music classes or arithmetic classes? Unless perhaps said god was the god of music or arithmetic, I fail to see any reason to start injecting religion into the lessons. Religious education in a school setting should be left for RE classes.
I have no problem with them teaching the kids about any belief system they want in reglious education classes (and they even clearly labeled it a belief as quoted in TFS), but teaching about beliefs in a Science class is simply moronic.
He wasn't talking about personality types, he was asking what really makes any one group/clan/whatever different from another in any of these games. I think his point was that many of them may dislike each other simply because they are in a different group, when really they are all the same.
However in space games like this there will be groups and valid reasons to like or dislike them depending on your style of play. Everyone but pirates will hate pirates, whereas not many people will have an issue with guys who just trade for a living or work as mercenaries for hire.
Some of these guys will be traders, others will be pirates, possibly bounty hunters and so on. It seems rather obvious the regular traders would not be trading, making alliances with or having positive interactions and communication with pirates, though pirates probably have some of their own traders who sell stolen goods back to the real market, if the game mechanics are that advanced.
But really all the conclusions they drew here shouldn't surprise anyone. Not that such tests are not worth conducting in case they show any interesting deviations from your expectations, but I think that a few more tests need to be carried out in less extreme environments - like a workplace or a marketplace where killing and outright stealing are frowned upon - to actually draw any useful conclusions.
Thanks for explaining:) I do have a little knowledge of oil industry subcontracting as that's one of the things we do here - hire out dredging teams for cable burial/deburial, etc, but I didn't have much knowledge of how things worked on the upper end of the scale. I'm working in the IT dept, though I have been learning a little more about business operations since I'm building a database for our sales team right now.
There have been rumours about Intel, MS, etc paying people to encourage exclusivity for years, and while I find the rumours believable, it's better to actually see evidence first. Sometimes rumours are complete lies started by malicious parties.
I don't own Intel stock, nor have I ever bough an Intel processor for any of my PCs - though I was considering one for my next machine now that Intel have upped their game. What's the point in encouraging competition if you don't take advantage of the benefits every now and then?
After this little piece of news though, I'm definitely going to stick with AMD on my personal machines for the next few years, at least in arenas where there are both Intel an AMD offerings available. I'm not sure if I should let my personal feelings affect matters at work though. I used to choose Opteron and Athlon machines for work servers and workstations, but only because they were offering superior hardware at cheaper prices.
I had two external floppy drives for my A500. Great for games that were smart enough to check all drives for the next disk.
Moved up to an A600 that I bought off a friend for £30, then eventually my parents got me an A1200 with 68030EC, 16MB RAM and a 200MB HDD. Those were the days:) I really wanted a 680x0 processor with an FPU, or a PPC board, but I couldn't afford it and we eventually ended somehow up with a 486 (which I guess I loved simply because I could play Quake on it), then a PIII.. with Windows.. bleh.
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Something tells me you mean MB, not GB, for all those hard drive sizes..
Well, everyone from the president to world news have been blaming the thing on BP so I assumed they were the guys in charge of all of this. I don't know if you're saying that BP subcontract TransOcean or vice versa, but either way they both have plenty of money and expertise and should be able to provide redundant systems for something as simple and cheap as a computer.
Yep, I even had a mouse for Quake 2 on the PS1, but for some reason most games these days don't even support it. I think one of the Unreal games might, but I've never been a big fan of Unreal. I do have a Fragnstein which has worked okay for the single player games I played, but I need to plug it into a Windows PC sometime to set up the sensitivity and try one of the game specific firmwares, not to mention I need to order a decent mousemat so I can use the mouse adequately on my sofa. I will feel a little bad pwning all those people still using controllers, but for all I know all the really good players on PS3 are already using Fragnsteins or equivalent!
I am one of those people that thought console gaming would suck, but because of the analog stick rather than auto-aim.
However, I always have turned auto-aim off where I could and I still did fine in FPSes and third person action games. With games like MW2 where you can't turn the auto-aim off I actually dislike even the slight magnet effect, though it's still playable (and I probably get just as many kills with knife as guns in MW2 anyway).
I tried Resistance:FoM last year and I hated it so much that I didn't even bother to complete it. Aiming for the head and firing often resulted in a snap to the center of the body. Maybe it has no locational damage anyway. Whatever, I played it for two or three levels and just didn't see what the fuss was about. Today's generation of console FPSers don't realise what they're missing out on, so even stuff like R:FoM and Halo seems good to them..
then you also lose a lot of from the game, because for example with FPS and strategy games you know where everyone else is and what they are doing.
Sounds like a big win if you're playing co-op. You can also put a table in front of your sofa for beer. And though I used to hate the idea of a controller for FPSes because of the lack of control, I can deal with it if I know everyone else is limited in the same way. Actually I have a controller for my PS3 that lets me use a mouse that simulates the right analog stick to allow mouse aiming, but I haven't tried it online yet..
That's a little insulting. I doubt intelligence is a good predictor of what type of games you will enjoy. I think it will be a decent predictor of how quickly you can learn to become good at any particular type of game though.
Games where you directly control the player character do require decent coordination and reflexes before you can start to apply strategy, but they do require intelligence to be a consistently good player. I'm sure many Slashdotters will agree.
I say this as someone who really enjoys driving (both irl and virtually) and FPS games, but finds RTS games dull. I can complete the missions in RTS games fine, I just don't have much fun doing it compared to other games. Considering how much geeks stereotypically hate management, I'm surprised so many enjoy playing manager in RTSes. I much prefer to be in the action.
Well, since I was brought up as a pretty fundamental Christian (though I am no longer religious), many of my friends will actually never have sex until after they're married. And then there are some people who value the relationship over the sex. Of course I'm not saying a lot of people are bad at sex, and statistically most people are obviously likely to be average - and it is of course just a natural thing so it's hard to do "wrong" as long as you're not simply getting tired or a clueless n00b.
Feels kinda weird to spell it out, but my criteria for things that contribute to good sex:
Making the other person feel good, obviously - being aware of more than just what you are wanting out of the experience, actually having foreplay and such rather than just going straight for the sex
If you're a guy, stereotypically there is the time you are able to last before orgasm (though it's my experience that you can keep going past that if you're still aroused enough and the second time around you last for aaaaages until whatever it is that needs recharging is recharged, so it seems a strange stereotype)
Core and leg strength+cardiovascular endurance to be able to make repetitive movements for any length of time
Creativity and enthusiasm xD Varying position and occasionally speed of said repetitive movements. Forcing yourselves to go really slow can be a lot of fun (it's good to enjoy the journey rather than just the destination, as they say!)
Humourous or sexy talk, anything that will make you mentally as well as physically stimulated, probably especially important for getting a woman excited because it really doesn't take much for most guys:p
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My last gf would get tired pretty quickly (probably less than an hour from kissing until she was reportedly satisfied and just wanted to sleep) because she was a lazy bint that ate mostly garbage (though she'd at least be okay to go again after she rested a bit), whereas one of my previous gfs was properly hyperactive and as healthy as me, so we could occupy ourselves for many consecutive hours with mindless physical gratification.. heh. Good times!
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I read before somewhere that any planets with an atmosphere similar to ours would be likely covered in water. I think we're meant to have lost a lot of our water or potential water in the same event that created the moon (ie huge asteroid kicking a whole lot of crap into orbit)? Sorry if that's completely wrong, can't remember the details but hopefully someone more knowledgeable will pipe up.
Why do you think there is such an interest in phones having IP addresses in stead of an ADC?
Why do you think giving phones IP addresses makes them any easier to monitor than they are already?
Evidence matters not when living inside a tinfoil fort you are.
That's fine for geeks who actually take care of their computer, but I welcome moves like this by ISPs to actually make an attempt to stop the proliferation of malware and botnets on machines where the user is clueless. This service is like the "immunise" option in Spybot: S&D, but you don't need to clog up your hosts file or update it every few weeks.
For users that want a direct connection for whatever reason then yes I think voting with the wallet is a good option. I have been saying above that TalkTalk should let users opt out, but if they do I hope they really don't make it a big button that's easy for people to click on, otherwise everyone will disable it and we'll be back to square one.
How about reading TFA? This is not an invasion of privacy at all. It doesn't record any personal data. It is in fact a great thing to do when 99.9% your customers are complete noobs.
How is them trying to warn users they area about to visit a malicious site anything like recording activity for the purposes of relaying to the government? There is nothing two faced about this, it is good for the customer.
This is just the usual BS sensationalism. According to TFA, the data being recorded is anonymous:
Our scanning engines receive no knowledge about which users visited what sites (e.g. telephone number, account number, IP address), nor do they store any data for us to cross-reference this back to our customers. We are not interested in who has visited which site - we are simply scanning a list of sites which our customers, as a whole internet community, have visited. What we are interested in is making the web a safer place for all our customers.
This is the type of thing we should be encouraging rather than discouraging, if it reduces the number of idiots infecting their machines, which it will slightly. I think the ISP should enable this type of warning by default, with the option to opt out for those who actually want the very slight improvement in latency.
Except if you are in the sun a lot (ie enough to get burned), you probably should be using sunscreen otherwise you will get cancer even more quickly, and you're probably getting enough vitamin D in that case anyway (though I have no evidence to back this up).
And if any god existed, would you also want to teach about it in music classes or arithmetic classes? Unless perhaps said god was the god of music or arithmetic, I fail to see any reason to start injecting religion into the lessons. Religious education in a school setting should be left for RE classes.
I have no problem with them teaching the kids about any belief system they want in reglious education classes (and they even clearly labeled it a belief as quoted in TFS), but teaching about beliefs in a Science class is simply moronic.
Some people just seem to use that to signal a word that's pronounced in an elongated way, but not necessarily sarcasm..
Actually, he was talking about this.
He wasn't talking about personality types, he was asking what really makes any one group/clan/whatever different from another in any of these games. I think his point was that many of them may dislike each other simply because they are in a different group, when really they are all the same.
However in space games like this there will be groups and valid reasons to like or dislike them depending on your style of play. Everyone but pirates will hate pirates, whereas not many people will have an issue with guys who just trade for a living or work as mercenaries for hire.
Some of these guys will be traders, others will be pirates, possibly bounty hunters and so on. It seems rather obvious the regular traders would not be trading, making alliances with or having positive interactions and communication with pirates, though pirates probably have some of their own traders who sell stolen goods back to the real market, if the game mechanics are that advanced.
But really all the conclusions they drew here shouldn't surprise anyone. Not that such tests are not worth conducting in case they show any interesting deviations from your expectations, but I think that a few more tests need to be carried out in less extreme environments - like a workplace or a marketplace where killing and outright stealing are frowned upon - to actually draw any useful conclusions.
Thanks for explaining :) I do have a little knowledge of oil industry subcontracting as that's one of the things we do here - hire out dredging teams for cable burial/deburial, etc, but I didn't have much knowledge of how things worked on the upper end of the scale. I'm working in the IT dept, though I have been learning a little more about business operations since I'm building a database for our sales team right now.
There have been rumours about Intel, MS, etc paying people to encourage exclusivity for years, and while I find the rumours believable, it's better to actually see evidence first. Sometimes rumours are complete lies started by malicious parties.
I don't own Intel stock, nor have I ever bough an Intel processor for any of my PCs - though I was considering one for my next machine now that Intel have upped their game. What's the point in encouraging competition if you don't take advantage of the benefits every now and then?
After this little piece of news though, I'm definitely going to stick with AMD on my personal machines for the next few years, at least in arenas where there are both Intel an AMD offerings available. I'm not sure if I should let my personal feelings affect matters at work though. I used to choose Opteron and Athlon machines for work servers and workstations, but only because they were offering superior hardware at cheaper prices.
they should have told investors that they received money (illegally) from Intel
That would be amazingly dumb. They could have, you know, just not done anything illegal.
I had two external floppy drives for my A500. Great for games that were smart enough to check all drives for the next disk.
Moved up to an A600 that I bought off a friend for £30, then eventually my parents got me an A1200 with 68030EC, 16MB RAM and a 200MB HDD. Those were the days :) I really wanted a 680x0 processor with an FPU, or a PPC board, but I couldn't afford it and we eventually ended somehow up with a 486 (which I guess I loved simply because I could play Quake on it), then a PIII.. with Windows.. bleh.
Something tells me you mean MB, not GB, for all those hard drive sizes..
Well, everyone from the president to world news have been blaming the thing on BP so I assumed they were the guys in charge of all of this. I don't know if you're saying that BP subcontract TransOcean or vice versa, but either way they both have plenty of money and expertise and should be able to provide redundant systems for something as simple and cheap as a computer.
Yep, I even had a mouse for Quake 2 on the PS1, but for some reason most games these days don't even support it. I think one of the Unreal games might, but I've never been a big fan of Unreal. I do have a Fragnstein which has worked okay for the single player games I played, but I need to plug it into a Windows PC sometime to set up the sensitivity and try one of the game specific firmwares, not to mention I need to order a decent mousemat so I can use the mouse adequately on my sofa. I will feel a little bad pwning all those people still using controllers, but for all I know all the really good players on PS3 are already using Fragnsteins or equivalent!
I am one of those people that thought console gaming would suck, but because of the analog stick rather than auto-aim.
However, I always have turned auto-aim off where I could and I still did fine in FPSes and third person action games. With games like MW2 where you can't turn the auto-aim off I actually dislike even the slight magnet effect, though it's still playable (and I probably get just as many kills with knife as guns in MW2 anyway).
I tried Resistance:FoM last year and I hated it so much that I didn't even bother to complete it. Aiming for the head and firing often resulted in a snap to the center of the body. Maybe it has no locational damage anyway. Whatever, I played it for two or three levels and just didn't see what the fuss was about. Today's generation of console FPSers don't realise what they're missing out on, so even stuff like R:FoM and Halo seems good to them..
then you also lose a lot of from the game, because for example with FPS and strategy games you know where everyone else is and what they are doing.
Sounds like a big win if you're playing co-op. You can also put a table in front of your sofa for beer. And though I used to hate the idea of a controller for FPSes because of the lack of control, I can deal with it if I know everyone else is limited in the same way. Actually I have a controller for my PS3 that lets me use a mouse that simulates the right analog stick to allow mouse aiming, but I haven't tried it online yet..
That's a little insulting. I doubt intelligence is a good predictor of what type of games you will enjoy. I think it will be a decent predictor of how quickly you can learn to become good at any particular type of game though.
Games where you directly control the player character do require decent coordination and reflexes before you can start to apply strategy, but they do require intelligence to be a consistently good player. I'm sure many Slashdotters will agree.
I say this as someone who really enjoys driving (both irl and virtually) and FPS games, but finds RTS games dull. I can complete the missions in RTS games fine, I just don't have much fun doing it compared to other games. Considering how much geeks stereotypically hate management, I'm surprised so many enjoy playing manager in RTSes. I much prefer to be in the action.
Fair enough, I see what you were saying now. Your first comment did influence how I read the second I guess.
Well, since I was brought up as a pretty fundamental Christian (though I am no longer religious), many of my friends will actually never have sex until after they're married. And then there are some people who value the relationship over the sex. Of course I'm not saying a lot of people are bad at sex, and statistically most people are obviously likely to be average - and it is of course just a natural thing so it's hard to do "wrong" as long as you're not simply getting tired or a clueless n00b.
Feels kinda weird to spell it out, but my criteria for things that contribute to good sex:
My last gf would get tired pretty quickly (probably less than an hour from kissing until she was reportedly satisfied and just wanted to sleep) because she was a lazy bint that ate mostly garbage (though she'd at least be okay to go again after she rested a bit), whereas one of my previous gfs was properly hyperactive and as healthy as me, so we could occupy ourselves for many consecutive hours with mindless physical gratification.. heh. Good times!