The usefullness of the chat channel was higher for me, as I wasn't always just looking to grind instances. I would stay in the LFG channel, and on occasion I would see a call out for an instance available to me, I could decide yeah, I could go for a ZF run, i'm in.
What I think would be useful is a small on-screen summary showing what instances i'm available for (or specific others if i might be interested in taking an alt), that flashes an instance name if there's a group looking. that helps reduce the wait time, and also advertise to people who aren't immediately thinking "i need a group for $instance"
Reminds me of Red vs Blue:
I'm a pacifist
Your a thing that babies suck on?
No man, that's a pediphile
I think he means pacifier
Oh... I was thinking of something else
Other than some old hardware not having drivers yet, every person I've talked to who has actually ran Vista for a week agreed it is an improvement.
This is a major understatement. I personally haven't used vista much, but my dad is having major problems with getting hardware to work under vista. A few manufacturers have simply refused to write new drivers for Vista. (I suppose that it is related to the new driver-signing requirement that Microsoft has. I might have given vista a shot without this.)
For example, his camera, a mid to high end Cannon, when he called support, they said his only option was to buy a card reader.
I had him give Linux a shot a year ago or so, and he did, and with some hacking, he was able to get most everything work. He had some USB problems, and the only thing that he could never get working was his USB mouse. Shortly after, he said that Linux just isn't ready if it can't handle a fairly standard USB mouse.
Now his mouse is the only USB peripheral he has that works on Vista, and he just complains.
He said nothing when I said that Windows just isn't ready for the desktop if it can't handle basic USB devices:)
I've been watching "White Knight's Story" for the PS3 pretty closely, it may just be it's "Killer App". I've never owned a playstation of any generation, despite my constant interest in the FF series. I don't want more than once console of this generation, and have been holding out due to lack of time and interest (I haven't been overly interested in any of the games this time around; WoW has my focus when I have time to play) If WKS turns out to be what it looks like, I might just have to go with Sony this round.
If their goal was to be just like every other software out there, what would be the point?
Personally, I abhore the attitude of "that's how it's always been done", and although I'm not a blender power user, have found many of it's features to just make sense once you understand the basic concept (which does have a fairly steep learning curve.
You, and many others, are missing the point, and failed even to RTFS (as long as it may be) it is worth reading if you beleive that this is an extension of Google's PageRank, or of any other voting site out there. The primary concept is this: Users cannot select what to vote for, preventing a subsect of users to overwhelm the voting. Instead random users are chosen (like meta-moderating on Slashdot) to vote yes or no. In order for SEO to be possible, the SEO company would have to own more than a majority of the entire population of the user base. The largest flaws, however, lie in 2 problems: there would be a constant reshuffeling of results based on new votes, and that it requires users to care about the result of their voting.
This is a misconception that really bothers me, and I've seen it a few times in this discussion already. Walking into a building with guns blazing Matrix-style, and swiping a server does NOT count as hacking. Anything that requires physical access to the target computer is outside the realms of computer security. (the assumed topic of discussion) The computer responds to requests, and if the computer responds inappropriately to a request, responding with inappropriate data, or performing an action (deleting/changing a database) outside what is intentionally allowed, is hacking. This mind-set of "Anything is hackable" is a mindset only made true by Windows.
Please, please stop saying anything is hackable. Computers respond to a set of inputs. Short of guessing passwords or accounts, this simply isn't true.
Take a game like starcraft: As mentioned earlier, ray tracing is embarrasingly parallel; each core can render a few hundred pixels, making real-time ray tracing possible at 30fps.
AI: some strategy applications of AI are parallel: i.e. figuring out several possible paths at once; as the path branches, more cores can be used to determine the best possible approach.
each unit can have an AI (probably more usefull in FPS games)
and finally: there is more to computing than starcraft. (sorry, Korea)
I believe that you meant this seriously, and not as flamebait. (or else it's really well constructed flamebait), so I'll bite.
<sarcasm>
I think this is a really good idea, in fact, I think I'll move to Germany (I'm mostly german, so I should fit in ok) and get a group together to take France (again). It shouldn't be too hard. Once the UN pays^Wbribes me the 500 billion, I'll donate half of it back to Germany, and come home a rich, rich man.
</sarcasm>
In reality, paying off aggressors would only promote more aggressors. Reguardless of what you think would work out, we can't Promote ILLEGAL behaviour.
Except that something like this wouldn't have to go into a driver. It could be a chip built into the keyboard, and as you type it adds a short delay. reading that delay is how it would work.
Honestly, I've only read about it. Apparently there is incredible detailed grass textures on the ground, and trees that are each rendered differently and uniquely over a period of years. Also, there are sometimes swings.;)
ugh, it all sounded good untill you mentioned the java GUI library. I'll stay as far away from that as I can.
That's effing hilarious, for those who don't get it, bloodninja
For something more on-topic, (and so I don't become a Karma Whore):People, many times you need to consider that just because a tech itself doesn't seem life-changing, the usefulness is there. Personally, I hate the noise of dryer buzzers enough that I would rather turn it off, and go check it occasionally than listen to it. This also has implications for deaf, and possibly some automated closewashing system (I can dream, can't I?)
Contrarily, I think that's kind of the point. Most people view robots as complex, or outside of their ability to understand. This would more than likely keep out the "I can type on MS Word, so i bet i can be a programmer" kind of people (which I've seen a few of try to go through CS classes).
On the other hand, I'd like to see more "tinkerers" go through CS. These are the people who I think would be swayed by the robot.
Insightful? Please. This is plain, old-fashion trolling. If you want the latest up-to-date mac news, you can probably get it from apple's press releases yourself.
For the rest of us who aren't nominal Mac fans, but still want to hear about their place in the industry, slashdot is a good place to hear about it. Personally, I check slashdot because i don't want to keep up with a dozen specific news feeds every day. Slashdot usually lets through the interesting stuff, even if it is a little behind.
Slashdot is offered to you free. Accept it, suggest improvement, or complain if you want. These complaints shouldn't be modded "Insightful", but "offtopic", or occasionally "Flamebait"/"troll"
more likely, Microsoft's managers are trying to please stockholders by making half-hearted attempts at every market they can.
***ding*ding*ding*ding***
Congratulations, you just won the answer your own question contest.
</sarcasm>
The real answer:
In our economy, the way stocks are set up, they are absolutely worthless unless a company is growing.
For a small company, (apple), a growth (meaning new sales) of several million may bring 10% interest on stocks (good investment). However, for a monolithic company such as Microsoft, they have to keep expanding into new markets as they reach limits on the markets they are in. Most large companies have done this in the past to keep value. (see IBM, Sony, et. al.).
If you think they are bad now, wait untill they start loosing share in one of their core markets (OS, office, entertainment), and see the land-grab they go through to make up lost business to keep their market value from dropping.
Easy, I run linux at home, but our servers at work use Windows Server. I will be expected to be able to remote to work on occasion when I am brought on full time, and there is no way in hell I am polluting my gentoo box with wine (let alone dual booting windows) to run remote desktop.
Going to check out rdesktop ASAP.
The whole desensitized to violence issue really confuses me.
Do we have any studies that say we are any more insensitive to violence than we have ever been?
If you've ever seen the Passion of the Christ, Gladiator, or any other movie representative of historical violence, you'll see people that cheer and applause at acts of extreme violence.
The truth is, we are prone to enjoying violence to begin with, and have been for centuries. Video games give us a new way to vent that violence. Instead of going to war, watching people beat the **** out of eachother, or otherwise , we have ways of emulating this behavior, without people actually getting hurt.
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The usefullness of the chat channel was higher for me, as I wasn't always just looking to grind instances. I would stay in the LFG channel, and on occasion I would see a call out for an instance available to me, I could decide yeah, I could go for a ZF run, i'm in.
What I think would be useful is a small on-screen summary showing what instances i'm available for (or specific others if i might be interested in taking an alt), that flashes an instance name if there's a group looking. that helps reduce the wait time, and also advertise to people who aren't immediately thinking "i need a group for $instance"
Reminds me of Red vs Blue:
I'm a pacifist
Your a thing that babies suck on?
No man, that's a pediphile
I think he means pacifier
Oh... I was thinking of something else
For example, his camera, a mid to high end Cannon, when he called support, they said his only option was to buy a card reader.
I had him give Linux a shot a year ago or so, and he did, and with some hacking, he was able to get most everything work. He had some USB problems, and the only thing that he could never get working was his USB mouse. Shortly after, he said that Linux just isn't ready if it can't handle a fairly standard USB mouse. Now his mouse is the only USB peripheral he has that works on Vista, and he just complains.
He said nothing when I said that Windows just isn't ready for the desktop if it can't handle basic USB devices
I've been watching "White Knight's Story" for the PS3 pretty closely, it may just be it's "Killer App". I've never owned a playstation of any generation, despite my constant interest in the FF series. I don't want more than once console of this generation, and have been holding out due to lack of time and interest (I haven't been overly interested in any of the games this time around; WoW has my focus when I have time to play)
If WKS turns out to be what it looks like, I might just have to go with Sony this round.
If their goal was to be just like every other software out there, what would be the point?
Personally, I abhore the attitude of "that's how it's always been done", and although I'm not a blender power user, have found many of it's features to just make sense once you understand the basic concept (which does have a fairly steep learning curve.
Unless the vote occures during a scheduled downtime, they^W we aren't voting either
You, and many others, are missing the point, and failed even to RTFS (as long as it may be) it is worth reading if you beleive that this is an extension of Google's PageRank, or of any other voting site out there. The primary concept is this: Users cannot select what to vote for, preventing a subsect of users to overwhelm the voting. Instead random users are chosen (like meta-moderating on Slashdot) to vote yes or no. In order for SEO to be possible, the SEO company would have to own more than a majority of the entire population of the user base. The largest flaws, however, lie in 2 problems: there would be a constant reshuffeling of results based on new votes, and that it requires users to care about the result of their voting.
This is a misconception that really bothers me, and I've seen it a few times in this discussion already. Walking into a building with guns blazing Matrix-style, and swiping a server does NOT count as hacking.
Anything that requires physical access to the target computer is outside the realms of computer security. (the assumed topic of discussion) The computer responds to requests, and if the computer responds inappropriately to a request, responding with inappropriate data, or performing an action (deleting/changing a database) outside what is intentionally allowed, is hacking. This mind-set of "Anything is hackable" is a mindset only made true by Windows.
Please, please stop saying anything is hackable. Computers respond to a set of inputs. Short of guessing passwords or accounts, this simply isn't true.
Take a game like starcraft:
As mentioned earlier, ray tracing is embarrasingly parallel; each core can render a few hundred pixels, making real-time ray tracing possible at 30fps.
AI: some strategy applications of AI are parallel: i.e. figuring out several possible paths at once; as the path branches, more cores can be used to determine the best possible approach.
each unit can have an AI (probably more usefull in FPS games)
and finally: there is more to computing than starcraft. (sorry, Korea)
As a matter of fact, there is a way to run it from a pendrive
I believe that you meant this seriously, and not as flamebait. (or else it's really well constructed flamebait), so I'll bite.
<sarcasm>
I think this is a really good idea, in fact, I think I'll move to Germany (I'm mostly german, so I should fit in ok) and get a group together to take France (again). It shouldn't be too hard. Once the UN pays^Wbribes me the 500 billion, I'll donate half of it back to Germany, and come home a rich, rich man.
</sarcasm>
In reality, paying off aggressors would only promote more aggressors. Reguardless of what you think would work out, we can't Promote ILLEGAL behaviour.
Except that something like this wouldn't have to go into a driver. It could be a chip built into the keyboard, and as you type it adds a short delay. reading that delay is how it would work.
That's effing hilarious, for those who don't get it, bloodninja
For something more on-topic, (and so I don't become a Karma Whore):People, many times you need to consider that just because a tech itself doesn't seem life-changing, the usefulness is there. Personally, I hate the noise of dryer buzzers enough that I would rather turn it off, and go check it occasionally than listen to it. This also has implications for deaf, and possibly some automated closewashing system (I can dream, can't I?)
Contrarily, I think that's kind of the point. Most people view robots as complex, or outside of their ability to understand. This would more than likely keep out the "I can type on MS Word, so i bet i can be a programmer" kind of people (which I've seen a few of try to go through CS classes).
On the other hand, I'd like to see more "tinkerers" go through CS. These are the people who I think would be swayed by the robot.
Harvest Moon
Wasted many hours in High School on that one.
Insightful? Please. This is plain, old-fashion trolling. If you want the latest up-to-date mac news, you can probably get it from apple's press releases yourself.
For the rest of us who aren't nominal Mac fans, but still want to hear about their place in the industry, slashdot is a good place to hear about it. Personally, I check slashdot because i don't want to keep up with a dozen specific news feeds every day. Slashdot usually lets through the interesting stuff, even if it is a little behind.
Slashdot is offered to you free. Accept it, suggest improvement, or complain if you want. These complaints shouldn't be modded "Insightful", but "offtopic", or occasionally "Flamebait"/"troll"
The real answer:
In our economy, the way stocks are set up, they are absolutely worthless unless a company is growing.
For a small company, (apple), a growth (meaning new sales) of several million may bring 10% interest on stocks (good investment). However, for a monolithic company such as Microsoft, they have to keep expanding into new markets as they reach limits on the markets they are in. Most large companies have done this in the past to keep value. (see IBM, Sony, et. al.).
If you think they are bad now, wait untill they start loosing share in one of their core markets (OS, office, entertainment), and see the land-grab they go through to make up lost business to keep their market value from dropping.
Easy, I run linux at home, but our servers at work use Windows Server. I will be expected to be able to remote to work on occasion when I am brought on full time, and there is no way in hell I am polluting my gentoo box with wine (let alone dual booting windows) to run remote desktop.
Going to check out rdesktop ASAP.
The whole desensitized to violence issue really confuses me.
Do we have any studies that say we are any more insensitive to violence than we have ever been?
If you've ever seen the Passion of the Christ, Gladiator, or any other movie representative of historical violence, you'll see people that cheer and applause at acts of extreme violence.
The truth is, we are prone to enjoying violence to begin with, and have been for centuries. Video games give us a new way to vent that violence. Instead of going to war, watching people beat the **** out of eachother, or otherwise , we have ways of emulating this behavior, without people actually getting hurt.
It just had to be said
Remember Alf? He's back!!! In POG form!!!
Mirror Here
Are you sure Windows was intelligently designed? :)
It certainly doesn't follow "Survival of the Fittest" rules