'Violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low... It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware. To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to violent descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it.
This has got to be the most insightful and intelligent thing I've ever heard a person of political or judiciary status say.
Just because something is legal doesn't make it right. There might be something wrong with the election process in the U.S., but that doesn't mean people should be finding ways to circumvent it, legally or otherwise. What's happening here is a workaround, and workarounds don't typically lead to solutions.
The game-tree approach doesn't work in poker because in many situations there is no one best move and a top-notch player adapts his play over time, exploiting his opponent's behavior.
I believe that the summary is referring to a "minimax" tree here. In a perfect information game (which most forms of poker technically are), you can construct a tree, each tier of which contains every possible "move" that the active player can make during that turn (each of these "moves" are nodes of the tree). Each node is assigned a value based on the strength of the "move" it represents; generally, this value is based on how many of the child paths for that node result in a victory (this is the part that is hard to quantify in poker, as a "move" can be defined as receiving your cards, having more cards revealed, betting, calling, etc.). From this tree, you can determine the best possible course of action for a given player, giving them the best possible chance of winning.
Unfortunately, with games such as poker that contain hidden information (i.e. each players' cards), the number of possibilities for a given tier of the tree increases exponentially, as it has to take into account every possible combination of cards that any given player might be holding, not to mention the fact that the concept of bluffing completely throws off the assignment of a "strength" value to any given node in the tree.
"Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act "
I happen to agree with this. For starters, let's enforce a universal coding standard. Also, for God's sake, comment your code! And no more of this "squeeze everything onto one line" bullshit! We gotta teach these kids proper programming techniques at a young age, or they'll end up thinking they're "1337 h@x0r$" or some such nonsense.
The Founding Fathers thought those rights were vital for a functioning democracy... and they had been through an actual war on U.S. soil. I'm inclined to trust their judgement on what we can 'afford'.
Yep, and if you can show me a functioning democracy, I'll agree with you 100%.
And maybe you can't read properly, as I clearly labelled in my post that I was both responding to your post (i.e. the grandparent post) AND the parent post.
From grandparent: All I know is, if I were Obi Wan, I would have made sure Lord Vader was indeed dead on Mustafar!
That's a nice, dissociative opinion you've got there. I'm sure you'd do exactly that if you'd just found out not even 2 days ago that your best friend of 13 years had suddenly decided to turn evil. Yeah, you'd be ready and raring to deliver the finishing blow to your prone, helpless friend after chopping off his arms and legs. Makes perfect sense.
From parent: Um...everything he said.
I'll assume "zarth" is a typo. And you contradicted yourself in your first 2 sentences. Exact quote: yoda said to obiwan that there has been a way discovered to communicate from the afterlife. Key word: afterlife. That thing that comes after, you know, life. So, in order to communicate from the afterlife, you'd have to be in that phase that comes after your life. You know, being dead. Vader killed Obi-wan, regardless of whether Obi-wan let him do it or not.
Anyways, back to the article at hand, I think it's great that they're still supported this franchise after 30 years. Most filmmakers would have let it drop a long time ago.
I think you got your analogy a little backwards there. And your facts. I'm not sure where you got the idea that WINE was developed with the intent of implementing DirectX compatibility for Linux, because it wasn't. DirectX compatibility was a feature added to a branch of WINE affectionately named WineX, which in 2004 was renamed to...you guessed it...Cedega.
Honestly, in the past I've had more success running games with just straight up WINE than Cedega. I had a 1 month subscription, and it was a complete waste, cheap as it was. Not a single game worked as advertised.
As usual, I'm sure their benchmarks were acquired from a machine with a very specific setup requiring hours of tweaking to get right.
Linux has its uses, and they are many. Gaming is not currently among them, and this hack (yeah, I went there; Cedega is a hack, nothing more) is not the solution to bring Linux gaming into the mainstream.
but just the process of securing a Windows reinstall can take days, unless you have the time to babysit the whole thing.
It doesn't have to. This process need only be done once, sorta.
To answer the question posed by the summary:
How long do you have to fiddle with computer until you have it set up the way you like? Do you use any shortcuts to speed up the process?"
Absolutely. Go check out nLite. It's a tool that allows you to customize your Windows installation CD to your tastes. You can hack out all the extraneous garbage that comes with Windows, as well as slipstream hotfixes and service packs into the installations process (no more re-updating with Windows Update each time a system wipe occurs). Also, you can automate the installation process and do some simple setup on how Windows behaves visually.
I reinstalled Windows off of my nLited installation CD last week. The whole process, from beginning the installation to me actually having the system back to where I like it took under an hour (and a decent portion of that time was me manually doing some post-installation tweaks that could have been part of the nLite installation; I just haven't generated a new installation CD recently).
Also, removing all of the unnecessary garbage from Windows makes it a very sleek OS, indeed. My installation ISO that nLite produced is a mere fraction of the size of the stock Windows installation ISO. I've clocked months of uptime with absolutely no issues (please, no comments on how much better Unix/Linux is with uptime....we know). The boot process is under 20 seconds from power button press to Windows desktop. Shutdown is faster.
So yeah, check it out. It's definitely worth the time.
I've been using Lycos Mail for over 12 years, starting out back when it was Mailcity, before Lycos bought them out. It definitely isn't the best e-mail service ever. I know exactly what Whitney is talking about with regards to their spam filters and downtime in the past few months; I experienced it first hand. But I always stuck with Lycos out of convenience. Everyone I know knows my e-mail address there. Never had a good reason to switch to anything else. This just might be a valid reason.
For the uninformed, QA = Quality Assurance. A must-have for any self-respecting software model.
NASA has got it rough, has since the mid 70s. Their wildest successes are regarded as routine and hardly noticed by the public eye. Their failures, on the other hand, are spun to be the worst disasters in human history. Granted, when shuttles explode and people die, it's reasonable that the public be concerned. But it seems to me that for every 20 great things that NASA accomplishes, the media picks 1 failure (and sometimes blows that failure out of proportion) to rile the masses into a furious frenzy calling for the dissolution of NASA.
What, your HTPC can't render Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within on the fly? Lame.;)
Okay, no, seriously. I have an Athlon X2 3800, and it runs deathly quiet for any operation I've thrown at it. Considering that the machine I have it in is my primary gaming PC, I'd say that's noteworthy. And I've never noticed any great amount of heat production, either.
127.0.0.1: $ cat robots.txt
# robots.txt for 127.0.0.1
# This file is copyright 2006 by me.
User-agent: AttributorCorporationDMCABot
Disallow: *
Hahaha! You screwed up! I have your IP address now! I will send 127.0.0.1 to every company that uses the sniffer and tell them the person at that IP is an evil, evil person who exploits innocent people for their own profit and power!
On the contrare, Lucas didn't screw anything up. The exact phrase, "It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs." is perfectly valid, even if you're not talking about a measurement of time but rather a measurement of distance. A further explanation of why Han said that (though it really has little to do with Lucas) can be foudn in the books The Paraside Snare, The Hutt Gambit, and Rebel Dawn.
This information would include things such as where they are from, how they paid for tickets, their motor vehicle records, past one-way travel, seating preference and the meals they ordered in-flight.
I'm just saying that Microsoft could make some exclusions for some of their operating systems (such as the Server editions). I'm quite certain that they won't even bother to inform the user of normal PCs that their power settings have been messed with by an update. At the very least, they can have the new power-saving stuff be off by default for Server editions and inform the sysadmins of those systems (via a simple message prompt or whatever) that there are new power-saving features that they will have to activate manually if they want them.
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'Violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low ... It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware. To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to violent descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it.
This has got to be the most insightful and intelligent thing I've ever heard a person of political or judiciary status say.
Just because something is legal doesn't make it right. There might be something wrong with the election process in the U.S., but that doesn't mean people should be finding ways to circumvent it, legally or otherwise. What's happening here is a workaround, and workarounds don't typically lead to solutions.
Like, OMG! 'refplirocal' is, like, totally in right now! Get the 411, like, totally!
.....holy shit, I did not just say that. I think I've been infected with stupid. Please.....kill.....me.......
Uh huh. And later in life, they're called "Yes sir, right away, sir!"
The game-tree approach doesn't work in poker because in many situations there is no one best move and a top-notch player adapts his play over time, exploiting his opponent's behavior.
I believe that the summary is referring to a "minimax" tree here. In a perfect information game (which most forms of poker technically are), you can construct a tree, each tier of which contains every possible "move" that the active player can make during that turn (each of these "moves" are nodes of the tree). Each node is assigned a value based on the strength of the "move" it represents; generally, this value is based on how many of the child paths for that node result in a victory (this is the part that is hard to quantify in poker, as a "move" can be defined as receiving your cards, having more cards revealed, betting, calling, etc.). From this tree, you can determine the best possible course of action for a given player, giving them the best possible chance of winning.
Unfortunately, with games such as poker that contain hidden information (i.e. each players' cards), the number of possibilities for a given tier of the tree increases exponentially, as it has to take into account every possible combination of cards that any given player might be holding, not to mention the fact that the concept of bluffing completely throws off the assignment of a "strength" value to any given node in the tree.
"Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act "
I happen to agree with this. For starters, let's enforce a universal coding standard. Also, for God's sake, comment your code! And no more of this "squeeze everything onto one line" bullshit! We gotta teach these kids proper programming techniques at a young age, or they'll end up thinking they're "1337 h@x0r$" or some such nonsense.
Please, won't someone think of the software?
The Founding Fathers thought those rights were vital for a functioning democracy... and they had been through an actual war on U.S. soil. I'm inclined to trust their judgement on what we can 'afford'.
Yep, and if you can show me a functioning democracy, I'll agree with you 100%.
And maybe you can't read properly, as I clearly labelled in my post that I was both responding to your post (i.e. the grandparent post) AND the parent post.
From grandparent: All I know is, if I were Obi Wan, I would have made sure Lord Vader was indeed dead on Mustafar!
That's a nice, dissociative opinion you've got there. I'm sure you'd do exactly that if you'd just found out not even 2 days ago that your best friend of 13 years had suddenly decided to turn evil. Yeah, you'd be ready and raring to deliver the finishing blow to your prone, helpless friend after chopping off his arms and legs. Makes perfect sense.
From parent: Um...everything he said.
I'll assume "zarth" is a typo. And you contradicted yourself in your first 2 sentences. Exact quote: yoda said to obiwan that there has been a way discovered to communicate from the afterlife. Key word: afterlife. That thing that comes after, you know, life. So, in order to communicate from the afterlife, you'd have to be in that phase that comes after your life. You know, being dead. Vader killed Obi-wan, regardless of whether Obi-wan let him do it or not.
Anyways, back to the article at hand, I think it's great that they're still supported this franchise after 30 years. Most filmmakers would have let it drop a long time ago.
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Christ, is it bad that I can recite that from memory?
(Joke-buster: this is a Windows XP VLK, not a Windows 98 key)
I think you got your analogy a little backwards there. And your facts. I'm not sure where you got the idea that WINE was developed with the intent of implementing DirectX compatibility for Linux, because it wasn't. DirectX compatibility was a feature added to a branch of WINE affectionately named WineX, which in 2004 was renamed to...you guessed it...Cedega.
...I'll bet that it still doesn't work right.
Honestly, in the past I've had more success running games with just straight up WINE than Cedega. I had a 1 month subscription, and it was a complete waste, cheap as it was. Not a single game worked as advertised.
As usual, I'm sure their benchmarks were acquired from a machine with a very specific setup requiring hours of tweaking to get right.
Linux has its uses, and they are many. Gaming is not currently among them, and this hack (yeah, I went there; Cedega is a hack, nothing more) is not the solution to bring Linux gaming into the mainstream.
but just the process of securing a Windows reinstall can take days, unless you have the time to babysit the whole thing.
It doesn't have to. This process need only be done once, sorta.
To answer the question posed by the summary:
How long do you have to fiddle with computer until you have it set up the way you like? Do you use any shortcuts to speed up the process?"
Absolutely. Go check out nLite. It's a tool that allows you to customize your Windows installation CD to your tastes. You can hack out all the extraneous garbage that comes with Windows, as well as slipstream hotfixes and service packs into the installations process (no more re-updating with Windows Update each time a system wipe occurs). Also, you can automate the installation process and do some simple setup on how Windows behaves visually.
I reinstalled Windows off of my nLited installation CD last week. The whole process, from beginning the installation to me actually having the system back to where I like it took under an hour (and a decent portion of that time was me manually doing some post-installation tweaks that could have been part of the nLite installation; I just haven't generated a new installation CD recently).
Also, removing all of the unnecessary garbage from Windows makes it a very sleek OS, indeed. My installation ISO that nLite produced is a mere fraction of the size of the stock Windows installation ISO. I've clocked months of uptime with absolutely no issues (please, no comments on how much better Unix/Linux is with uptime....we know). The boot process is under 20 seconds from power button press to Windows desktop. Shutdown is faster.
So yeah, check it out. It's definitely worth the time.
I can just imagine cracking a tooth on the ceramic tiles these seeds must use for reentry.
Which is why you should try American-brand Space Potatoes, instead. The ceramic tiles do the cracking, not your teeth.
I've been using Lycos Mail for over 12 years, starting out back when it was Mailcity, before Lycos bought them out. It definitely isn't the best e-mail service ever. I know exactly what Whitney is talking about with regards to their spam filters and downtime in the past few months; I experienced it first hand. But I always stuck with Lycos out of convenience. Everyone I know knows my e-mail address there. Never had a good reason to switch to anything else. This just might be a valid reason.
For the uninformed, QA = Quality Assurance. A must-have for any self-respecting software model.
NASA has got it rough, has since the mid 70s. Their wildest successes are regarded as routine and hardly noticed by the public eye. Their failures, on the other hand, are spun to be the worst disasters in human history. Granted, when shuttles explode and people die, it's reasonable that the public be concerned. But it seems to me that for every 20 great things that NASA accomplishes, the media picks 1 failure (and sometimes blows that failure out of proportion) to rile the masses into a furious frenzy calling for the dissolution of NASA.
Any other decision would defy all logic.
You're not from around here, are you...
What, your HTPC can't render Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within on the fly? Lame. ;)
Okay, no, seriously. I have an Athlon X2 3800, and it runs deathly quiet for any operation I've thrown at it. Considering that the machine I have it in is my primary gaming PC, I'd say that's noteworthy. And I've never noticed any great amount of heat production, either.
127.0.0.1: $ cat robots.txt
# robots.txt for 127.0.0.1
# This file is copyright 2006 by me.
User-agent: AttributorCorporationDMCABot
Disallow: *
Hahaha! You screwed up! I have your IP address now! I will send 127.0.0.1 to every company that uses the sniffer and tell them the person at that IP is an evil, evil person who exploits innocent people for their own profit and power!
You forgot:
E) Profit!
It had to be said.
On the contrare, Lucas didn't screw anything up. The exact phrase, "It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs." is perfectly valid, even if you're not talking about a measurement of time but rather a measurement of distance. A further explanation of why Han said that (though it really has little to do with Lucas) can be foudn in the books The Paraside Snare, The Hutt Gambit, and Rebel Dawn.
And yes, I am a nerd. I'm aware, thanks.
Translation:
Thanks you for watching our latest Homeland Security video!
Sony's not the only one.
...that when the special edition of Armageddon is released, it'll be marked as "based on a true story?"
I'm just saying that Microsoft could make some exclusions for some of their operating systems (such as the Server editions). I'm quite certain that they won't even bother to inform the user of normal PCs that their power settings have been messed with by an update. At the very least, they can have the new power-saving stuff be off by default for Server editions and inform the sysadmins of those systems (via a simple message prompt or whatever) that there are new power-saving features that they will have to activate manually if they want them.