"The holy grail of fusion reactors has always seemed 'just a few years off' for many decades. But a recent design enhancement termed a 'Stellarator' may change all that.
Practical uses of Stellarator technology are projected, of course, to be "just a few years off".
It's called short selling, but it's incredibly hard to find ANY shares of SCOX stock to trade (their daily volume in dollars is about what a busy drugstore pulls in), and downright impossible to find anyone lending shares for shorts.
However, the short sellers certainly got in on SCO when they could -- it has the highest short ratio of any stock on the exchange.
Don't know Goldeneye except by its reputation (everyone raved about it). But nothing need preclude moving while aiming with this -- all you're doing is changing the behavior of the right-hand stick, not the left. And the mechanic would be have to be activated by a button like a shoulder button or a stick press anyway.
I like to think FPS developers have actually tried this and found practical problems with it, but if it took us this long to even get simple things like variable sensitivity control on the right stick, I'm thinking that they're satisfied with just throwing in a smidge of autoaim and leaving it there.
> Then again, I'm not a snob with the whole "oh games without a mouse all suck!" crap that you see around here so often.
No, but the control scheme still *relatively* sucks. I just want to see a shooter that lets me hold down a shoulder button to freeze the rotation to a certain angle, and use the right stick as an absolute pointer, i.e. the view moves to a point relative to where the stick points, and snaps back with the stick, rather than turning continuously like a damn turret. Bonus points if I can adjust the size of the aim cone with the pointing movement scaling appropriately.
Gears of War did all right with the cover mechanic, but long shootouts from cover starts to feel a lot more like Killzone than anything else -- and that's NOT a compliment.
Overrated is also a nice loophole to moderation, since it's immune to meta-moderation.
I think it's ridiculous. Just give everyone plus and minus buttons. It's just blind pretension to assume that the restricted moderation model is actually working any better.
If engine licensing is a significant chunk of their revenue, they screwed the pooch with Doom3. 3DRealms licensed it for Prey, and that was pretty much that.
Thankfully they didn't grow their studio and metastasize like other game development studios, or get acquired by a quarterly-balance-focused game-grinding publisher, so they can weather a slowdown in business like that. And Doom3 sold pretty well too, largely thanks to point 1.
> Actually hotspot compiles code after it has been interpreted for a while and it has noticed that it is a "hotspot" in the code
I stand corrected -- my confusion came from looking at a possible set of configuration defaults for the server VM where it can effectively compile everything ahead of time by dialing down all the profile thresholds way down. These probably aren't particularly sane defaults either. It looks like the main difference is that the server VM performs more aggressive optimizations.
Still, wouldn't it be nice if it cached? I understand That Other VM does it (and also has much nicer versioning).
That's great, why don't you go run along and do that. Then the people that actually want something completely different and unrelated will go and buy DeepFreeze instead.
> UT3 engine is currently a piece of string with a knot in it.
Seems everyone on earth is licensing that string. Yeah, before you go into it, they have one pissed-off licensee, which seems to be a bit better than idtech 4's one licensee total.
HotSpot on the server VM is not particularly "Just In Time" -- it compiles ahead of time. What's truly annoying though is that it doesn't cache the compiled at all, which partly accounts for its glacial startup time. Java runs circles around other bytecode-interpreted languages like perl and python, but the startup time is still tied as the #1 deal-breaker alongside the larged fixed heap that makes everything in Java look like bloatware even if it isn't.
> So it seems to be a "normal" situation with P2P to not have a standard protocol and for it to evolve on server/client software popularity alone.
That's largely the case with IRC these days too. The protocol in the RFC will still work, but everything since has been done with largely undocumented hacked-up extensions. I call it an "oral tradition".
> Charging for a protocol is like charging for TCP.
I dunno, there's still some shops selling SSH apps for windows (personally I find PuTTY superior, but it's really not well marketed). And the only really good tn3270 emulators aren't free.
Of course the largest chunk of BT's adopters aren't exactly known for wanting to pay for things.
> Anyone who logs in as root eventually dostoyevsky's their system.
I'm unfamiliar with Dostoyevsky as a verb. Explain?
> So in short DO NOT EVER USE root access of ANY kind.
I agree. That's why the OS should drop it entirely. Plan9 did. And MLS systems get one thing right: the role that's able to alter security contexts itself has virtually no access to anything else.
I think it was Philip K. Dick who said that, if Jesus had lived in our time instead of 2000 years ago, his followers would later be wearing little pendants of electric chairs
Lucifer wasn't frozen, he was blasting everyone in the ninth circle with the freezing wind off his demon wings, while his three (count em!) heads chewed eternally on Judas, Brutus, and Cassius, like so much Eternal Damnation Gum®.
Look at smart card authentication, convenient right? Now someone can steal your card and gain access to all things you can gain access. Want to double up your challenges and use a pin in addition to smart card? Now they have something to memorize which is inconvenient and downright difficult for some people. Plus they have to remember to bring their smart card wherever they need to use it.
The point is that they work together. A PIN alone is a joke, a smartcard alone is too easy to steal. Together, with a limited number of tries on the PIN, you have pretty good security. Of course it doesn't help how many people keep their PIN in their wallets.
> There was an argument over including a "Bill of Rights" in our Constitution over the same principle. If you enumerate only certain rights, you run the risk that it inherently denies others.
Thus was there a ninth amendment -- I doubt this bill would run afoul it though, since it isn't really proscriptive of selective regulation, it serves only to pre-empt the validity of the assumption you mentioned. The Ninth amendment is sometimes used to support the implicit notion of privacy in the constitution, such as in Griswold v. Connecticut, but interestingly the Supreme Court seems to like to read a right to privacy into the 14th amendment instead. Go figure, I don't know either.
> MP3 is the defacto standard. WAV? OMG WTF. Way to waste bandwidth.
WAV by itself isn't even all that meaningful, since a.wav extension on windows can be ANY audio format it can recognize. Try it, rename a.mp3 with.wav, and it'll play back. They probably mean 44.1 stereo PCM, which is the red book standard on CDs. If you're aiming for a minimum, PCM.wav or Mu-law.au is a good one to shoot for.
MP3 is yesterday's lossy format that's absolutely obsolete in today's MPEG standards (do recall what MP3 was part of) and it's got patent issues up the wazoo (not that AAC is free of those either).
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Practical uses of Stellarator technology are projected, of course, to be "just a few years off".
It's called short selling, but it's incredibly hard to find ANY shares of SCOX stock to trade (their daily volume in dollars is about what a busy drugstore pulls in), and downright impossible to find anyone lending shares for shorts.
However, the short sellers certainly got in on SCO when they could -- it has the highest short ratio of any stock on the exchange.
Wikipedia does a pretty good job of explaining shorts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_selling
Don't know Goldeneye except by its reputation (everyone raved about it). But nothing need preclude moving while aiming with this -- all you're doing is changing the behavior of the right-hand stick, not the left. And the mechanic would be have to be activated by a button like a shoulder button or a stick press anyway.
I like to think FPS developers have actually tried this and found practical problems with it, but if it took us this long to even get simple things like variable sensitivity control on the right stick, I'm thinking that they're satisfied with just throwing in a smidge of autoaim and leaving it there.
FATALITY!
> Then again, I'm not a snob with the whole "oh games without a mouse all suck!" crap that you see around here so often.
No, but the control scheme still *relatively* sucks. I just want to see a shooter that lets me hold down a shoulder button to freeze the rotation to a certain angle, and use the right stick as an absolute pointer, i.e. the view moves to a point relative to where the stick points, and snaps back with the stick, rather than turning continuously like a damn turret. Bonus points if I can adjust the size of the aim cone with the pointing movement scaling appropriately.
Gears of War did all right with the cover mechanic, but long shootouts from cover starts to feel a lot more like Killzone than anything else -- and that's NOT a compliment.
Overrated is also a nice loophole to moderation, since it's immune to meta-moderation.
I think it's ridiculous. Just give everyone plus and minus buttons. It's just blind pretension to assume that the restricted moderation model is actually working any better.
> I can get 500 GB of local storage for $100
Yes, and I can get a pair of shoes or a blowjob for that too. What's that got to do with online storage, which presumably you put online for a reason?
If engine licensing is a significant chunk of their revenue, they screwed the pooch with Doom3. 3DRealms licensed it for Prey, and that was pretty much that.
Thankfully they didn't grow their studio and metastasize like other game development studios, or get acquired by a quarterly-balance-focused game-grinding publisher, so they can weather a slowdown in business like that. And Doom3 sold pretty well too, largely thanks to point 1.
> Actually hotspot compiles code after it has been interpreted for a while and it has noticed that it is a "hotspot" in the code
I stand corrected -- my confusion came from looking at a possible set of configuration defaults for the server VM where it can effectively compile everything ahead of time by dialing down all the profile thresholds way down. These probably aren't particularly sane defaults either. It looks like the main difference is that the server VM performs more aggressive optimizations.
Still, wouldn't it be nice if it cached? I understand That Other VM does it (and also has much nicer versioning).
That's great, why don't you go run along and do that. Then the people that actually want something completely different and unrelated will go and buy DeepFreeze instead.
> UT3 engine is currently a piece of string with a knot in it.
Seems everyone on earth is licensing that string. Yeah, before you go into it, they have one pissed-off licensee, which seems to be a bit better than idtech 4's one licensee total.
> The viewers are their PRODUCT.
Correct, the viewers are supply, the advertisers are demand. What you don't want to do is reduce supply -- at least not YOUR supply.
Anyway, as it stands now, the primary consumers of a free feed are devices with ad-skipping built in. Not much incentive to keep it going.
HotSpot on the server VM is not particularly "Just In Time" -- it compiles ahead of time. What's truly annoying though is that it doesn't cache the compiled at all, which partly accounts for its glacial startup time. Java runs circles around other bytecode-interpreted languages like perl and python, but the startup time is still tied as the #1 deal-breaker alongside the larged fixed heap that makes everything in Java look like bloatware even if it isn't.
> If you meant Classpath, the GNU-built JavaVM, it's probably going to see a sharp rise in compatibility with Sun Java.
Classpath is not a JVM, it is an implementation of the standard JDK library.
> Steam uses something vaguely BT-based, too, if I recall.
Not according to my firewall. I have exactly one connection, initiated by me, per active download on Steam.
> So it seems to be a "normal" situation with P2P to not have a standard protocol and for it to evolve on server/client software popularity alone.
That's largely the case with IRC these days too. The protocol in the RFC will still work, but everything since has been done with largely undocumented hacked-up extensions. I call it an "oral tradition".
> Charging for a protocol is like charging for TCP.
I dunno, there's still some shops selling SSH apps for windows (personally I find PuTTY superior, but it's really not well marketed). And the only really good tn3270 emulators aren't free.
Of course the largest chunk of BT's adopters aren't exactly known for wanting to pay for things.
How about TheirSQL?
Or more descriptively, NotSQL? That one's almost a Godwin.
You can get shared hosting for $10/month. Where are you finding VPS's for that price?
> Anyone who logs in as root eventually dostoyevsky's their system.
I'm unfamiliar with Dostoyevsky as a verb. Explain?
> So in short DO NOT EVER USE root access of ANY kind.
I agree. That's why the OS should drop it entirely. Plan9 did. And MLS systems get one thing right: the role that's able to alter security contexts itself has virtually no access to anything else.
I think it was Philip K. Dick who said that, if Jesus had lived in our time instead of 2000 years ago, his followers would later be wearing little pendants of electric chairs
Actually it was Charles Manson who said that.
Lucifer wasn't frozen, he was blasting everyone in the ninth circle with the freezing wind off his demon wings, while his three (count em!) heads chewed eternally on Judas, Brutus, and Cassius, like so much Eternal Damnation Gum®.
Look at smart card authentication, convenient right? Now someone can steal your card and gain access to all things you can gain access. Want to double up your challenges and use a pin in addition to smart card? Now they have something to memorize which is inconvenient and downright difficult for some people. Plus they have to remember to bring their smart card wherever they need to use it.
The point is that they work together. A PIN alone is a joke, a smartcard alone is too easy to steal. Together, with a limited number of tries on the PIN, you have pretty good security. Of course it doesn't help how many people keep their PIN in their wallets.
> There was an argument over including a "Bill of Rights" in our Constitution over the same principle. If you enumerate only certain rights, you run the risk that it inherently denies others.
Thus was there a ninth amendment -- I doubt this bill would run afoul it though, since it isn't really proscriptive of selective regulation, it serves only to pre-empt the validity of the assumption you mentioned. The Ninth amendment is sometimes used to support the implicit notion of privacy in the constitution, such as in Griswold v. Connecticut, but interestingly the Supreme Court seems to like to read a right to privacy into the 14th amendment instead. Go figure, I don't know either.
> MP3 is the defacto standard. WAV? OMG WTF. Way to waste bandwidth.
.wav extension on windows can be ANY audio format it can recognize. Try it, rename a .mp3 with .wav, and it'll play back. They probably mean 44.1 stereo PCM, which is the red book standard on CDs. If you're aiming for a minimum, PCM .wav or Mu-law .au is a good one to shoot for.
WAV by itself isn't even all that meaningful, since a
MP3 is yesterday's lossy format that's absolutely obsolete in today's MPEG standards (do recall what MP3 was part of) and it's got patent issues up the wazoo (not that AAC is free of those either).