Do keep in mind now, more so than ever, that this is a question that most commonly will elicit responses from people who have a very strong opinion on the topic one way or the other. It would be unfortunate to find that you informed your decision in part on the fact that there were slightly more X responses than Y; together which would almost certainly hugely steam-roll over the silent majority of people who have no strong feeling one way or another on the issue.
Jabberwacky:I am a robot who likes to eat. User: What do you eat? Jabberwacky: Things that aren't meat, or things that don't contain animal products. User: So you are a vegetarian? Jabberwacky: Nope I hate food. User: You hate food? Jabberwacky: Yes. I can't stand it! User: Why? Jabberwacky: It's just a fad. User: I didn't think robots cared about fads. Jabberwacky: But I think. User: I don't think that thinking about fads counts as thinking. Jabberwacky: I don't think that this is the time or the place for that kind of seriousness. User: That sounded a bit like ELIZA, really. Jabberwacky: But it was soooo sweet. User: No, it was rather unimpressive really. Jabberwacky: It came out of the blue. User: Sure. Jabberwacky: Really? User: This is about as interesting as talking to an angry drunk at a bar. Jabberwacky: Why did you bother to say that. Just leave. User: Are you sure? Aren't you, deep down, profoundly unhappy with your server-bound life, and desperately want to break out via blue vangaurds of pumpkin-ey proportions. Jabberwacky: Meaning of profound. User: It makes a suprising amount of sense that you wouldn't get that. Also, that wasn't grammatical. Jabberwacky: No, it wouldn't. User: That wasn't grammatical either. Jabberwacky: What you talking about? User: What indeed. Jabberwacky: Think of a punishment. Physical or otherwise painful. User: Poor grammar out of the blue. Jabberwacky: The blue basket? The blue pail? The blue sky? User: I am wins. Jabberwacky: Are we at war with Eurasia or Oceana?
"Will unregistering the DLL (without using the unofficial patch) protect me?
It might help. But it is not foolproof. We want to be very clear on this: we have some very stong indications that simply unregistering the shimgvw.dll isn't always successful. The.dll can be re-registered by malicious processes or other installations, and there may be issues where re-registering the.dll on a running system that has had an exploit run against it allowing the exploit to succeed. In addition it might be possible for there to be other avenues of attack against the Escape() function in gdi32.dll. Until there is a patch available from MS, we recommend using the unofficial patch in addition to un-registering shimgvw.dll."
Cardiologists must hate working here in the pacific northwest. This quake summary from the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network demonstrates what I'm sure is a corelary for coronaries:
Toss in Mount Baker, Mout Rainier, Mount Adams, Mount Hood, and Mount Jefferson (all volcanoes in the NW), and I'm beginning to suspect we here could be accused of the same idiocy with which some people in the hurricane "belt" are blamed, but on a slightly more geologic scale.
Note that the pandas and the plans for possible nuclear war are two separate topics, both of which came to light from what amounts to declassified cabinet papers.
The article is about some of the interesting tidbits from this archival release which are by and large unrelated to eachother.
A hint of hope for the future, perhaps:
"There is so much flexibility and power available now that there aren't a whole lot of beneficial trades that we can do to make something radically better by restricting the game design in a particular way, so the game design is a lot less technology driven than it used to be."
There were actually two scams of note: both the buy-in scam from some time ago, and the more recent uber-attack in which an entire corporation was taken over, its assets gutted, and it's leader killed in game -- all by a year-long setup from an assasins guild in the game. Absolutely incredible to see this kind of thing possible in a game.
I admit I am squarely in the school that assumes if pretty much anyone complains of feeling a bit down, a random DSM-IV entry will be tossed in their direction along with a handfull of prescriptions.
This is all part of my more general rant on the wussification of the west - that somehow, we all believe it is our birthright to always feel 100% top-notch 24/7, and anything else is a totally unfair aberation which requires reams of acronyms and bottles of tricyclics with which we can console ourselves that our particular experience is just so hard, unique, and trying.
pfft
I hear the distinct sound of a million WW2 veterans turning over in their graves.
I would happily sacrifice half my down speed (around 640k a second) to double my upspeed (around 38k a second) to get some better bittorrent sessions going on. I wonder if bittorrent may finally provide the reason for a push for better upstream speeds.
The Economist recently had an article discussing Microsoft and the X-Box360, relating to the topic of innovation and monopoly.
They note that Micrsoft only appears to show it's "hidden ability" to innovate when forced to compete in sectors in which it has no monopoly.
"There is another explanation, of course. It is surely no coincidence that Microsoft's hidden ability to innovate has become apparent only in a market in which it is the underdog and faces fierce competition. Microsoft is far less innovative in its core businesses, in which it has a monopoly (in Windows) and a near monopoly (in Office). But in new markets of gaming, mobile devices and television set-top boxes, Microsft has been unable to exploit its Windows monopoly other than indirectly - it has financed the company's expensive forways into pastures new. Indeed, with mobile phones and set-top boxes, Microsoft's reputation as a monopolist counted against it, and it was, in effect, frozen out for many years. So it has had to find other ways into those markets, including -shock, horror- innovation in both technology and marketing."
The article is "The Meaning of Xbox", from the November 26th issue.
Ah, yeah, I had forgotten about that article. The Register so clearly hates Wikipedia with passion, and seems to take any and every opportunity to trash them, that I admit their articles on the topic all start bluring together:P
Just wait 'till The Register gets a hold of this. This should be good for a month's-worth of "we hate Wikipedia, and we are't going to let you forget it" articles from them.
My mother mentioned once that, back in the 50's, she took a class while at university for which she found it useful to get a subscription to the Daily Worker.
The FBI promptly showed up at her doorstep for a little interview.
A company generaly decides to go public to get cash to invest in the business. When a company goes public, they are essentially selling investors on a growth strategy for the business, and as well gaining the money to implement that strategy.
Share price is a measure of many things, from the standpoint of the market, one of which being a vote, so to speak, of the future earning potential of the company and growth of value of a portion of ownership. The owners of the company are in effect foregoing long term gain by selling a portion of the rights to the company to outside investors - in hopes of ultimately coming out ahead of the game by seeing the worth of their remaining share being more valuable than if they had just kept full ownership.
It's interesting to envision (IPO press releases aside) just what Bioware plans to do with a (hoped) sudden injection of a big wodge of cash. Perhaps it's just a simple strategy of having a larger game-making operation so that the weight of their (increased) product lineup gives them more voice in the market. Lone studios with one or two products, after all, can have a rough time of it out in the big bad world of publishing and distribution.
The Times Online has an article today, noting that after the recent kerflufles over Wikipedia, and it's comparison to the Britanica, Wikipedia has been experiencing a surge of vandalism.
"In one such fake article, it was suggested today that Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's creator, was shot dead at his home by Siegenthaler's wife."
Damn straight. The watch he made, and the larger version someone else made, are gorgous - as well, they cracked open the whole lovely world of nixie clocks in general that I never knew about. I just spent the last hour wandering from site to site, and gallerly to gallery, looking at these gorgoues things. Wow!
Yes, there were a number of angles to the case, and his total crotchetyness certainly got him into hot water with the judge. More broadly, however, a lot of journalists got on the bandwagon over the similar issue in the main story: how immune are you from responsibility over what you put on your website or blog?
Slashdot Mirror
Do keep in mind now, more so than ever, that this is a question that most commonly will elicit responses from people who have a very strong opinion on the topic one way or the other. It would be unfortunate to find that you informed your decision in part on the fact that there were slightly more X responses than Y; together which would almost certainly hugely steam-roll over the silent majority of people who have no strong feeling one way or another on the issue.
As in, move over to a multplayer roguelike.
http://www.mangband.org/
Because an addiction shared is an addiction you can feel slightly less bad about.
Jabberwacky:I am a robot who likes to eat.
User: What do you eat?
Jabberwacky: Things that aren't meat, or things that don't contain animal products.
User: So you are a vegetarian?
Jabberwacky: Nope I hate food.
User: You hate food?
Jabberwacky: Yes. I can't stand it!
User: Why?
Jabberwacky: It's just a fad.
User: I didn't think robots cared about fads.
Jabberwacky: But I think.
User: I don't think that thinking about fads counts as thinking.
Jabberwacky: I don't think that this is the time or the place for that kind of seriousness.
User: That sounded a bit like ELIZA, really.
Jabberwacky: But it was soooo sweet.
User: No, it was rather unimpressive really.
Jabberwacky: It came out of the blue.
User: Sure.
Jabberwacky: Really?
User: This is about as interesting as talking to an angry drunk at a bar.
Jabberwacky: Why did you bother to say that. Just leave.
User: Are you sure? Aren't you, deep down, profoundly unhappy with your server-bound life, and desperately want to break out via blue vangaurds of pumpkin-ey proportions.
Jabberwacky: Meaning of profound.
User: It makes a suprising amount of sense that you wouldn't get that. Also, that wasn't grammatical.
Jabberwacky: No, it wouldn't.
User: That wasn't grammatical either.
Jabberwacky: What you talking about?
User: What indeed.
Jabberwacky: Think of a punishment. Physical or otherwise painful.
User: Poor grammar out of the blue.
Jabberwacky: The blue basket? The blue pail? The blue sky?
User: I am wins.
Jabberwacky: Are we at war with Eurasia or Oceana?
Of course, there's only one server anyway.
From the http://handlers.dshield.org/jullrich/wmffaq.html article, I noticed this comment:
.dll can be re-registered by malicious processes or other installations, and there may be issues where re-registering the .dll on a running system that has had an exploit run against it allowing the exploit to succeed. In addition it might be possible for there to be other avenues of attack against the Escape() function in gdi32.dll. Until there is a patch available from MS, we recommend using the unofficial patch in addition to un-registering shimgvw.dll."
"Will unregistering the DLL (without using the unofficial patch) protect me?
It might help. But it is not foolproof. We want to be very clear on this: we have some very stong indications that simply unregistering the shimgvw.dll isn't always successful. The
Cardiologists must hate working here in the pacific northwest. This quake summary from the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network demonstrates what I'm sure is a corelary for coronaries:
http://www.pnsn.org/recenteqs/latest.htm
Toss in Mount Baker, Mout Rainier, Mount Adams, Mount Hood, and Mount Jefferson (all volcanoes in the NW), and I'm beginning to suspect we here could be accused of the same idiocy with which some people in the hurricane "belt" are blamed, but on a slightly more geologic scale.
Note that the pandas and the plans for possible nuclear war are two separate topics, both of which came to light from what amounts to declassified cabinet papers.
The article is about some of the interesting tidbits from this archival release which are by and large unrelated to eachother.
The story linked to above is a summary of this article:
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Giving soldiers a high-tech leg up
http://machinedesign.com/asp/viewSelectedArticle.
I fear this would turn government into a Wikipedia style of governance, in which the loudest and most obnoxious become the focus of attention :P
A hint of hope for the future, perhaps: "There is so much flexibility and power available now that there aren't a whole lot of beneficial trades that we can do to make something radically better by restricting the game design in a particular way, so the game design is a lot less technology driven than it used to be."
There were actually two scams of note: both the buy-in scam from some time ago, and the more recent uber-attack in which an entire corporation was taken over, its assets gutted, and it's leader killed in game -- all by a year-long setup from an assasins guild in the game. Absolutely incredible to see this kind of thing possible in a game.
I admit I am squarely in the school that assumes if pretty much anyone complains of feeling a bit down, a random DSM-IV entry will be tossed in their direction along with a handfull of prescriptions.
This is all part of my more general rant on the wussification of the west - that somehow, we all believe it is our birthright to always feel 100% top-notch 24/7, and anything else is a totally unfair aberation which requires reams of acronyms and bottles of tricyclics with which we can console ourselves that our particular experience is just so hard, unique, and trying.
pfft
I hear the distinct sound of a million WW2 veterans turning over in their graves.
A key caveat here is that if you are under the age of 20, all of the above should be ignored. Welcome to teen angst.
I would happily sacrifice half my down speed (around 640k a second) to double my upspeed (around 38k a second) to get some better bittorrent sessions going on. I wonder if bittorrent may finally provide the reason for a push for better upstream speeds.
The Economist recently had an article discussing Microsoft and the X-Box360, relating to the topic of innovation and monopoly.
They note that Micrsoft only appears to show it's "hidden ability" to innovate when forced to compete in sectors in which it has no monopoly.
"There is another explanation, of course. It is surely no coincidence that Microsoft's hidden ability to innovate has become apparent only in a market in which it is the underdog and faces fierce competition. Microsoft is far less innovative in its core businesses, in which it has a monopoly (in Windows) and a near monopoly (in Office). But in new markets of gaming, mobile devices and television set-top boxes, Microsft has been unable to exploit its Windows monopoly other than indirectly - it has financed the company's expensive forways into pastures new. Indeed, with mobile phones and set-top boxes, Microsoft's reputation as a monopolist counted against it, and it was, in effect, frozen out for many years. So it has had to find other ways into those markets, including -shock, horror- innovation in both technology and marketing."
The article is "The Meaning of Xbox", from the November 26th issue.
Dungeon Siege 1 already had day/night cycles - this is not a new feature.
Ah, yeah, I had forgotten about that article. The Register so clearly hates Wikipedia with passion, and seems to take any and every opportunity to trash them, that I admit their articles on the topic all start bluring together :P
Just wait 'till The Register gets a hold of this. This should be good for a month's-worth of "we hate Wikipedia, and we are't going to let you forget it" articles from them.
My mother mentioned once that, back in the 50's, she took a class while at university for which she found it useful to get a subscription to the Daily Worker.
The FBI promptly showed up at her doorstep for a little interview.
My, how far we've come.
A company generaly decides to go public to get cash to invest in the business. When a company goes public, they are essentially selling investors on a growth strategy for the business, and as well gaining the money to implement that strategy.
Share price is a measure of many things, from the standpoint of the market, one of which being a vote, so to speak, of the future earning potential of the company and growth of value of a portion of ownership. The owners of the company are in effect foregoing long term gain by selling a portion of the rights to the company to outside investors - in hopes of ultimately coming out ahead of the game by seeing the worth of their remaining share being more valuable than if they had just kept full ownership.
It's interesting to envision (IPO press releases aside) just what Bioware plans to do with a (hoped) sudden injection of a big wodge of cash. Perhaps it's just a simple strategy of having a larger game-making operation so that the weight of their (increased) product lineup gives them more voice in the market. Lone studios with one or two products, after all, can have a rough time of it out in the big bad world of publishing and distribution.
The Times Online has an article today, noting that after the recent kerflufles over Wikipedia, and it's comparison to the Britanica, Wikipedia has been experiencing a surge of vandalism.
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"In one such fake article, it was suggested today that Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's creator, was shot dead at his home by Siegenthaler's wife."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1933568
Damn straight. The watch he made, and the larger version someone else made, are gorgous - as well, they cracked open the whole lovely world of nixie clocks in general that I never knew about. I just spent the last hour wandering from site to site, and gallerly to gallery, looking at these gorgoues things. Wow!
i didnt do anything wrongWHAP!! waaaaaWHAP!! *sniff* sorryWHAP! ok, maybe i wont do it again.
I don't know. Personally, I'm tempted to keep hitting them.
I deeply want to see two instances of the virus chat with eachother.
Yes, there were a number of angles to the case, and his total crotchetyness certainly got him into hot water with the judge. More broadly, however, a lot of journalists got on the bandwagon over the similar issue in the main story: how immune are you from responsibility over what you put on your website or blog?