Abuse of parenthetical comments? Like having nested parenthetical comments that make reading the original difficult? I do that too.
The recommended solution is the use of footnotes[1], since somebody can jump down to them, read them, then jump back up and easily reread the whole sentence ignoring them[2].
[1] Like this. [2] Further footnotes allow nesting without any difficulties[3] such as avoiding parentheses mismatch. [3] That said, nested footnotes should be use sparingly[4], as with too many layers it can be hard to reverse back up the stack. [4] And recursive footnotes should never be used[4]. [5] Unreferenced footnotes are also something to avoid.
Don't simply assume that Microsoft won't release an official activation crack when they shut down the activation servers. I've seen large companies do similar things enough times to know that that sort of thing can still happen.
True, the RJ11 plugs being used with RJ45 jacks that are setup as 8P8C can cause problems if the jacks are not very well made. But the fact remains that I have seen professional phone installations that used RJ45 style jacks for the phone lines. (I believe they may only have had the center 2 or 4 connectors present.) This was known to cause confusion as the only immediately obvious difference between the the Ethernet and phone jacks were the jack colors.
As for the passive hubs I mentioned, perhaps I was a little misleading to say "wire together passively" as they do tend to use some other passive elements like diodes to prevent the output of a NIC from being looped back to itself. Further, this may be restricted to half duplex communications too.
The Nintendo systems have always preferred local multiplayer. One of the reasons why GoldenEye was such a successful game was the local multiplayer, which I still see people play to this day.
Similarly the Smash Brothers series popularity is due almost exclusively to the local multiplayer.
How about the Mario Party series?
Hell, half the games for the Wii that are popular are popular for local multiplayer.
And that is not exclusive to Nintendo. I've seen 4 player local Halo often enough to know that.
Please keep in mind though that all of this is generally found only in college aged people or under. Older gamers tend to only do online multi-player.
Indeed, and there are quite a few console exclusive games that could not be considered casual games. Also consider that some games like DDR, guitar hero, Smash Bros., etc. can be played either casually or not so casually. The expert levels on some of those games are at least as difficult as expert difficulty is some more traditional genres.
Yes. With a few minor exceptions. Poker can be won, since you are not playing against the house.
Blackjack can be won in theory due to counting, although that will be spotted quickly, and one will be asked to leave.
Lastly, under lab conditions a few people have been shown to be able to assert a level of precision in throwing craps die to be able to gain a slight advantage. The problem with this one is that in real world conditions additional variables hamper this, and in any case the advantage is so small that it would take more time to earn significant amounts of cash that way then to take a regular job, so the casinos are not worried about that.
But yes, no betting based system will give you an advantage over the house.
The fact of the matter though is that if there was no organization the event would be classed as a riot, not spontaneous camping. Thanks the the events' namesake, that would be easy for the government to justify. Further, many of the imposed rules are mandates from the Bureau of Land Management, not from Black Rock City LLC.
This computer even includes the ability to be powered by an ATX power-supply. It is most definitely not trying to be a perfect historical replica. The idea is that is be able to run the same software as the apple 1, and be compatible with the add-on cards of the apple-1. For the most part it achieves that goal. It may have some issues with any software that tried to be too smart for its own good, such as overwriting the basic rom, etc, but basic software should run fine.
But let us say that the admin accounts are are now by design almost the same as regular user accounts. By default they should not be able to harm the system. If you deliberately elevate an application to full rights (equivalent to using sudo to run the program) then it can do anything.
The problem here is that an unelevated application can just inject code directly into the memory space of certain other unelevated applications which can elevate themselves at will without user interaction.
This is a broken design. It is equivalent to having some normal applications that can just call setuid(0) and be granted full root rights without any user input, and then having a way for other normal applications to span a new thread in the other process running arbitrary code.
I'm not entirely sure patents serve any valid purpose anymore. Look at the term of a granted patent. In this era of rapid innovation a term that long can only hamper innovation. Now only 100 years ago (a small number of patent terms ago) innovation occurred at a much slower rate, and terms of that size may have made sense. But now, I'm just not so sure.
Many of the patents I have seen filed recently are of the type that would have been invented even without the possibility of patent protection. Indeed often filing for a patent looks more like an afterthought.
Compared to many of the other so-called "intellectual property laws", I'm just not very confortable with it.
Copyright: The terms are far too long, and abuse is fairly common. Special loopholes in the law for the music and television industries are pretty significant, and probably should not be in place.
Trademark: This has some consumer benefits. Moreover, it appears to be used primarily as intended, and overall little abuse of this protection has occurred. (There has been some abuse, especially with respect to domain names, but not nearly as bad as patent abuse).
That is absurd. We evolved those three specific colors color receptors because they worked reasonably well for distinguishing objects. We could also just as easily have evolved violet, cyan, and orange color receptors.
You are thinking about it the wrong way around. In the magenta pigment, you have particles that absorb yellow light. (All light not absorbed is reflected). In Cyan pigment you have particles that absorb red light. yellow pigment the blue light is absorbed.
You mix the blue and cyan pigments, and the red and blue light is absorbed, leaving only the green light to be reflected.
The Wii controler is not that bad. I'll assume the standard wiimote+numchuck setup.
The nunchuck has 2 buttons (trigger style) and 1 analog stick. As far as non motion-based controls that is it.
In the remote position, the wiimote has 2 readily accessible buttons, and a d-pad. (the dpad is positioned to awkwardly for regular directional use, but for item switching, etc it is fine) Two buttons that could logically be used as start or select are reachable with some strain.
So: 4 main buttons (3 in trigger positions), 1 awkward dpad, 1 analog stick, 2 secondary buttons (start/select style).
That is roughly equivalent to what was accessible at one time with the n64 controller. If it were not for game developers feeling the need to include some action that requires shaking the Wiimote or Nunchuk, just to say they did (like with the many of Nintendo's more traditional first party games (mario/zelda)) it would be a pretty reasonable controller.
I mean, when I play DK64, I actually wishe there were more buttons, such that they did not need to use the 2 button combos to access some features (in a fairly awkward manner too).
As I understand it, in at least some parts of Europe it works like this. costof(land->cell)>costof(land->land). That is to say that the cost to a landline user to call a cellphone is more than the cost to call another landline.
In the United States that was never the case. Calling a cell from a landline costs the same as calling another landline.
Harder than electronic voting, yes, but common exploits such as multiple voting (being on the voter list in multiple polling locations), "losing" ballot boxes during transportation after voting but before counting, would still apply. The later issue could be eliminated by counting all the votes in public at the polling location. At the end the results are recorded and certified on an election results card. Then these cards are accumulated from all voting stations in an area, and the contents of the cards being made publicly available (such as online).
The area chosen should be small enough that there are only 20 or so election results cards. Thus one missing would be very noticeable. Members of the public who saw the card filled out at the polling place would notice if the publicly posted figures differed from what they saw, so any funny business there would be detected.
The vote counters would sum up the values from the 20 or so cards, and write out a new 2nd level voting results card, which is certified.
Like the first level cards, these would be collected up in groups of say 20, and publicly posted. Those who independently verified the results of the first level election by adding them themselves would notice any discrepancy in the posted second level cards.
After ceil(log(pollingplaces)/log(20)) iterations, (which will of course be a reasonably small number) there will only be one voting result card, with the final election results.
If even 10 or so members of the public form each polling station watched the counting, verifying the results seen with the posted first level card for their area, verified the values on the posted second level card for their area, etc the result would be complete confidence in the final count matching the values actually cast.
Now we would still have the issues of coercion preventing people from voting, or forcing them to vote differently, and the issues of multiply registered voters, etc, but those issues could not possibly be corrected by electronic voting either.
That depends on the definition of Open Standards one is using. There are many definitions, including quite a few that allow for patents with RAND licensing, such as the AAC patents.
Yes, except Apple uses non-standard and undocumented MPEG-4 atoms for some features, especially metadata of types not specified in the MPEG-4 container format specification.
True. The extentions are in the form of MPEG-4 container format attributes. I was using the phrase aac format as a shorthand for "an MPEG-4 container containing no video, but containing an audio stream in aac format". And while some of the attributes iTunes uses are part of the MPEG-4 container format standard, several important ones are not.
The lawn mowing robots that are otherwise functionally similar to Roombas have been around for pretty much as long as the Roombas have. Since you mention this being a bright yellow machine, I can identify it as the Robomower from Friendly Robotics.
It sounds like something was not working right, since after reversing it should be rotating before moving forward, so as to get around the obstacle.
Microsoft may legally prevent people from using the OS core libraries in a software project that is distributed. There is no doubt about that. But because that would be stupid beyond belief.
Homebrew applications do not link against any of the official libraries of a console, so that argument is not applicable.
Please remember that the code built into consoles functions like a kernel rather than a library. And the difference between the two is that an application never sees the kernel code. In fact, from an application perspective, the kernel features called via interrupts might actually be handled directly by specialized hardware in the processor. That is very different from a library which inherently must be software.
But we was right in so far that Apple's extensions to AAC which are heavily used by iTunes for the features I described are not an open standard. As far as I can tell, this is only because they have not bothered to document these extensions in an appropriate format, and currently don't plan to do so since there is no demand for that. If Microsoft or some other vendor started pestering them, I suspect they would document the extensions.
My Guess: CMX will require using specific Windows software (5 years later a Mac version will be released), and will require a mandatory 30+ second anti-piracy video before you can play a song.
Perhaps I am wrong. I mean I would not mind a file format that allowed album artwork, lyrics, and liner notes to be stored in a standardized way along with all the songs of a single album, as long as individual songs can still be extracted.
But why bother? The iTunes extentions to the aac format allow album art, all the information from liner notes, lyrics (although not synchronized lyrics AFAIK), and more to be embeded in a song. Heck, it even supports synchronized images to be muxed in along with the audio, and chapter marks to be inserted.
So I see no advantage to such a system over a zip file of all the songs of the album in AAC format, unless the whole purpose is to make albums into a branded experience.
My guess is that the format is really just a way to bundle the autoplay executable, and other "extended extras" found on the data track of modern audio CDs.
Don't be so sire of that. At first Hubbard surely did not believe, but I've heard some claims that due to Alzheimer's or Dementia he may have actually believed his own garbage by the end.
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Your inside router most certainly cannot be ::1 (except to itself) since that is localhost. (Loopback address)
Abuse of parenthetical comments? Like having nested parenthetical comments that make reading the original difficult? I do that too.
The recommended solution is the use of footnotes[1], since somebody can jump down to them, read them, then jump back up and easily reread the whole sentence ignoring them[2].
[1] Like this.
[2] Further footnotes allow nesting without any difficulties[3] such as avoiding parentheses mismatch.
[3] That said, nested footnotes should be use sparingly[4], as with too many layers it can be hard to reverse back up the stack.
[4] And recursive footnotes should never be used[4].
[5] Unreferenced footnotes are also something to avoid.
Don't simply assume that Microsoft won't release an official activation crack when they shut down the activation servers. I've seen large companies do similar things enough times to know that that sort of thing can still happen.
True, the RJ11 plugs being used with RJ45 jacks that are setup as 8P8C can cause problems if the jacks are not very well made. But the fact remains that I have seen professional phone installations that used RJ45 style jacks for the phone lines. (I believe they may only have had the center 2 or 4 connectors present.) This was known to cause confusion as the only immediately obvious difference between the the Ethernet and phone jacks were the jack colors.
As for the passive hubs I mentioned, perhaps I was a little misleading to say "wire together passively" as they do tend to use some other passive elements like diodes to prevent the output of a NIC from being looped back to itself. Further, this may be restricted to half duplex communications too.
The Nintendo systems have always preferred local multiplayer. One of the reasons why GoldenEye was such a successful game was the local multiplayer, which I still see people play to this day.
Similarly the Smash Brothers series popularity is due almost exclusively to the local multiplayer.
How about the Mario Party series?
Hell, half the games for the Wii that are popular are popular for local multiplayer.
And that is not exclusive to Nintendo. I've seen 4 player local Halo often enough to know that.
Please keep in mind though that all of this is generally found only in college aged people or under. Older gamers tend to only do online multi-player.
Indeed, and there are quite a few console exclusive games that could not be considered casual games. Also consider that some games like DDR, guitar hero, Smash Bros., etc. can be played either casually or not so casually. The expert levels on some of those games are at least as difficult as expert difficulty is some more traditional genres.
Yes. With a few minor exceptions. Poker can be won, since you are not playing against the house.
Blackjack can be won in theory due to counting, although that will be spotted quickly, and one will be asked to leave.
Lastly, under lab conditions a few people have been shown to be able to assert a level of precision in throwing craps die to be able to gain a slight advantage. The problem with this one is that in real world conditions additional variables hamper this, and in any case the advantage is so small that it would take more time to earn significant amounts of cash that way then to take a regular job, so the casinos are not worried about that.
But yes, no betting based system will give you an advantage over the house.
The fact of the matter though is that if there was no organization the event would be classed as a riot, not spontaneous camping. Thanks the the events' namesake, that would be easy for the government to justify. Further, many of the imposed rules are mandates from the Bureau of Land Management, not from Black Rock City LLC.
Yes.
This computer even includes the ability to be powered by an ATX power-supply. It is most definitely not trying to be a perfect historical replica. The idea is that is be able to run the same software as the apple 1, and be compatible with the add-on cards of the apple-1. For the most part it achieves that goal. It may have some issues with any software that tried to be too smart for its own good, such as overwriting the basic rom, etc, but basic software should run fine.
Modern windows has many levels of "admin".
But let us say that the admin accounts are are now by design almost the same as regular user accounts. By default they should not be able to harm the system. If you deliberately elevate an application to full rights (equivalent to using sudo to run the program) then it can do anything.
The problem here is that an unelevated application can just inject code directly into the memory space of certain other unelevated applications which can elevate themselves at will without user interaction.
This is a broken design. It is equivalent to having some normal applications that can just call setuid(0) and be granted full root rights without any user input, and then having a way for other normal applications to span a new thread in the other process running arbitrary code.
I'm not entirely sure patents serve any valid purpose anymore. Look at the term of a granted patent. In this era of rapid innovation a term that long can only hamper innovation. Now only 100 years ago (a small number of patent terms ago) innovation occurred at a much slower rate, and terms of that size may have made sense. But now, I'm just not so sure.
Many of the patents I have seen filed recently are of the type that would have been invented even without the possibility of patent protection. Indeed often filing for a patent looks more like an afterthought.
Compared to many of the other so-called "intellectual property laws", I'm just not very confortable with it.
Copyright: The terms are far too long, and abuse is fairly common. Special loopholes in the law for the music and television industries are pretty significant, and probably should not be in place.
Trademark: This has some consumer benefits. Moreover, it appears to be used primarily as intended, and overall little abuse of this protection has occurred. (There has been some abuse, especially with respect to domain names, but not nearly as bad as patent abuse).
Copyright does not protect ideas. Copyrights protect a particular expression of an idea. Nothing protects ideas themselves.
That is absurd. We evolved those three specific colors color receptors because they worked reasonably well for distinguishing objects. We could also just as easily have evolved violet, cyan, and orange color receptors.
You are thinking about it the wrong way around. In the magenta pigment, you have particles that absorb yellow light. (All light not absorbed is reflected). In Cyan pigment you have particles that absorb red light. yellow pigment the blue light is absorbed.
You mix the blue and cyan pigments, and the red and blue light is absorbed, leaving only the green light to be reflected.
The Wii controler is not that bad.
I'll assume the standard wiimote+numchuck setup.
The nunchuck has 2 buttons (trigger style) and 1 analog stick. As far as non motion-based controls that is it.
In the remote position, the wiimote has 2 readily accessible buttons, and a d-pad. (the dpad is positioned to awkwardly for regular directional use, but for item switching, etc it is fine) Two buttons that could logically be used as start or select are reachable with some strain.
So: 4 main buttons (3 in trigger positions), 1 awkward dpad, 1 analog stick, 2 secondary buttons (start/select style).
That is roughly equivalent to what was accessible at one time with the n64 controller. If it were not for game developers feeling the need to include some action that requires shaking the Wiimote or Nunchuk, just to say they did (like with the many of Nintendo's more traditional first party games (mario/zelda)) it would be a pretty reasonable controller.
I mean, when I play DK64, I actually wishe there were more buttons, such that they did not need to use the 2 button combos to access some features (in a fairly awkward manner too).
As I understand it, in at least some parts of Europe it works like this. costof(land->cell)>costof(land->land). That is to say that the cost to a landline user to call a cellphone is more than the cost to call another landline.
In the United States that was never the case. Calling a cell from a landline costs the same as calling another landline.
Harder than electronic voting, yes, but common exploits such as multiple voting (being on the voter list in multiple polling locations), "losing" ballot boxes during transportation after voting but before counting, would still apply. The later issue could be eliminated by counting all the votes in public at the polling location. At the end the results are recorded and certified on an election results card. Then these cards are accumulated from all voting stations in an area, and the contents of the cards being made publicly available (such as online).
The area chosen should be small enough that there are only 20 or so election results cards. Thus one missing would be very noticeable. Members of the public who saw the card filled out at the polling place would notice if the publicly posted figures differed from what they saw, so any funny business there would be detected.
The vote counters would sum up the values from the 20 or so cards, and write out a new 2nd level voting results card, which is certified.
Like the first level cards, these would be collected up in groups of say 20, and publicly posted.
Those who independently verified the results of the first level election by adding them themselves would notice any discrepancy in the posted second level cards.
After ceil(log(pollingplaces)/log(20)) iterations, (which will of course be a reasonably small number) there will only be one voting result card, with the final election results.
If even 10 or so members of the public form each polling station watched the counting, verifying the results seen with the posted first level card for their area, verified the values on the posted second level card for their area, etc the result would be complete confidence in the final count matching the values actually cast.
Now we would still have the issues of coercion preventing people from voting, or forcing them to vote differently, and the issues of multiply registered voters, etc, but those issues could not possibly be corrected by electronic voting either.
That depends on the definition of Open Standards one is using. There are many definitions, including quite a few that allow for patents with RAND licensing, such as the AAC patents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Standard
Yes, except Apple uses non-standard and undocumented MPEG-4 atoms for some features, especially metadata of types not specified in the MPEG-4 container format specification.
True. The extentions are in the form of MPEG-4 container format attributes. I was using the phrase aac format as a shorthand for "an MPEG-4 container containing no video, but containing an audio stream in aac format". And while some of the attributes iTunes uses are part of the MPEG-4 container format standard, several important ones are not.
The lawn mowing robots that are otherwise functionally similar to Roombas have been around for pretty much as long as the Roombas have. Since you mention this being a bright yellow machine, I can identify it as the Robomower from Friendly Robotics.
It sounds like something was not working right, since after reversing it should be rotating before moving forward, so as to get around the obstacle.
Microsoft may legally prevent people from using the OS core libraries in a software project that is distributed. There is no doubt about that. But because that would be stupid beyond belief.
Homebrew applications do not link against any of the official libraries of a console, so that argument is not applicable.
Please remember that the code built into consoles functions like a kernel rather than a library. And the difference between the two is that an application never sees the kernel code. In fact, from an application perspective, the kernel features called via interrupts might actually be handled directly by specialized hardware in the processor. That is very different from a library which inherently must be software.
But we was right in so far that Apple's extensions to AAC which are heavily used by iTunes for the features I described are not an open standard. As far as I can tell, this is only because they have not bothered to document these extensions in an appropriate format, and currently don't plan to do so since there is no demand for that. If Microsoft or some other vendor started pestering them, I suspect they would document the extensions.
My Guess:
CMX will require using specific Windows software (5 years later a Mac version will be released), and will require a mandatory 30+ second anti-piracy video before you can play a song.
Perhaps I am wrong. I mean I would not mind a file format that allowed album artwork, lyrics, and liner notes to be stored in a standardized way along with all the songs of a single album, as long as individual songs can still be extracted.
But why bother? The iTunes extentions to the aac format allow album art, all the information from liner notes, lyrics (although not synchronized lyrics AFAIK), and more to be embeded in a song. Heck, it even supports synchronized images to be muxed in along with the audio, and chapter marks to be inserted.
So I see no advantage to such a system over a zip file of all the songs of the album in AAC format, unless the whole purpose is to make albums into a branded experience.
My guess is that the format is really just a way to bundle the autoplay executable, and other "extended extras" found on the data track of modern audio CDs.
Don't be so sire of that. At first Hubbard surely did not believe, but I've heard some claims that due to Alzheimer's or Dementia he may have actually believed his own garbage by the end.