Why do they split up the order form address fields? Because of credit card address verifications. Many (most?) sites let you check a box that simply says, use my billing address as the shipping address. And the billing address has to have zip code and address 1 broken out so they can be passed to the credit card AVS system. Passing these values from a free form textbox is not feasible and would probably lead to more declined cards.
the problem is the assumption that 240x180 resolution is adequate for regular tv viewing. It's not. And the technical requirements go up SHARPLY with added resolution.
Yep, mine does this too. I've occasionally seen it screw up though, in cases where there is a black screen either 30 seconds or a minute before a real commercial. It'll think that's the start of the commercial and you'll miss a little bit of program.
It tends to go nuts when you record HBO though. It spends a LOT of time looking for the commercials, unsuccesfully.
Not really off-topic. It's a reference to snow crash, by neal stephenson. Gargoyles are people who have wearable computers, and who constantly collect info/intel from their surroundings. Kinda like the ultimate in wearables.
You read the story on Salon -- you respond to it on Slashdot. That's the way it works now, and the way it always has worked here. And as always, no one is forcing you to click that link -- or comment on it either...
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Regarding Geri's Game...
They showed it in the theaters before Bug's Life, so it's probably on that tape. Probably the easiest way.
While I hate to defend the movie, they did take this into account. The reason they "knew" there would be a problem at the Seattle power plant was that there was a problem at a Swedish one that had the same design.
(Assuming full ISO date format YYYY-MM-DD and that 0 is not odd)
Chance of it being an odd year: 1/2 ^4 = 1/16 Chance of it being an odd month: 1/12 (only November) Chance of it being an odd day: about (1/2 * 5/30) + (1/2 * 6/31) = 1/12 + 3/31 = 67/372
(Half the months have 31 days, so they have an extra odd day. The "about" is due to my ignoring leap years, which changes that 30 in the dividend to a 28 or 29 for 1/12 (ish) of the months)
So overall, the odds are about: 67 out of 71424 days or 0.09386% of the time. so in 10000 years, there are 3,423 ODD days. So not many at all.
Now even days are quite a bit more likely, since the odds of the months being even are 4/12. But I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
No, the next odd day is 1/1/2011
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At least it is on all those damn computers with that Y2K bug...
The best part is that the code is "composed of about 11 million lines of C++ and Intercal code."
Here's what a quick web search on "Intercal" reveals:
"INTERCAL. The language designed to be Turing-complete but as fundamentally unlike any existing language as possible. Expressions that look like line noise. Control constracts that will make you gasp, make you laugh, and possibly make you hurl. Data structures? We don't need no steenking data structures! "
"Now if someone else can explain where they saw it before then I'll start being impressed.."
1) Look at this old article on Slashdot from *February*. 2) Scroll all the way down to the end. 3) Notice part about "more evil than the devil". 4) Be impressed.
So your main stated complaint with this GAME playing machine is that it's got a crappy modem and a bad web browser? Your complaints may be legit, but I don't those problems are going to affect most people, who buy console to PLAY GAMES.
I have a laptop for work that's plugged in 90% of the time. The reason I don't have a desktop is so I can use it at home (plugged in) as well. So for me, it's not dumb at all.
I think because of all those angry youth. Most of the responses here are not worthwhile questions. They're angry personal attacks by sub-teens. To actually get a decent interview the chaff has to be separated from the wheat.
And yes, the moderation system is in shambles. I think the number of available points out there is far too low. I mean, there's only two posts on this thread with a score above 1!
Yeah, a broken home makes you a loser. And anyone who doesn't hack the kernel regularly can't possible know anything about computers or have any talent with them. And having one article written about you in Salon (Salon!) means that you're the Poster Boy for the press. Grow up... while you still have a chance.
I thought hacking was an attitude, not being able to do your chosen list of approved things? You've never met this man, yet you're denouncing him as being a loser and a wannabe and clearly inferior to you. Yours is the kind of attitude that makes me sick about this community. I hope you are young enough that you have a chance to grow up a little before you die.
Variety is the spice of life. If I have to read another stupid interview with another mindless open-source programmer I think I'll scream. And do you really think Slashdot would be receptive to thinkers or artists, given the general moronic intelligence level that seems to be the norm here? Hell, most of the people who responded to this topic probably don't know what pablum means.
Why not let Slashdot print what it wants. You have the choice to not read the articles. But if they aren't posted at all, those who are interested won't get the chance at all. And would that be better? In my opinion it would just be sad.
Yeah, MTV is the reason kids are shooting other kids. Talk about crappy blame-shifting. MTV is fluff, but it's harmless. Next you're going to blame those Gap commercials for the downturn in American intellectualism.
People see the control that is exerted over.edu,.gov, and.mil, and they assume that same control exists over the other 3 (.com,.org,.net). But it doesn't. You can register a domain using any of the three that you want and no one "checks your papers". Sure, the intent was that.net was for network providers, but without policing, it's just an intention. Freshmeat can be.net, simply because they want to. You might not agree, but that's the way it is.
Gee, is 2600 Magazine passing out little quote sheets for mindless drones to reproduce in these forums now? Mitnick broke into Motorola's computers. That's a crime. Just because Motorola misstated the damages doesn't make it not a crime. I'm sorry, but it's true.
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Why do they split up the order form address fields? Because of credit card address verifications. Many (most?) sites let you check a box that simply says, use my billing address as the shipping address. And the billing address has to have zip code and address 1 broken out so they can be passed to the credit card AVS system. Passing these values from a free form textbox is not feasible and would probably lead to more declined cards.
the problem is the assumption that 240x180 resolution is adequate for regular tv viewing. It's not. And the technical requirements go up SHARPLY with added resolution.
Yep, mine does this too. I've occasionally seen it screw up though, in cases where there is a black screen either 30 seconds or a minute before a real commercial. It'll think that's the start of the commercial and you'll miss a little bit of program.
It tends to go nuts when you record HBO though. It spends a LOT of time looking for the commercials, unsuccesfully.
Not really off-topic. It's a reference to snow crash, by neal stephenson. Gargoyles are people who have wearable computers, and who constantly collect info/intel from their surroundings. Kinda like the ultimate in wearables.
And if it is USGov sourced, why not just go back to the original source?
You read the story on Salon -- you respond to it on Slashdot. That's the way it works now, and the way it always has worked here. And as always, no one is forcing you to click that link -- or comment on it either...
Regarding Geri's Game...
They showed it in the theaters before Bug's Life, so it's probably on that tape. Probably the easiest way.
While I hate to defend the movie, they did take this into account. The reason they "knew" there would be a problem at the Seattle power plant was that there was a problem at a Swedish one that had the same design.
(Assuming full ISO date format YYYY-MM-DD and that 0 is not odd)
Chance of it being an odd year:
1/2 ^4 = 1/16
Chance of it being an odd month:
1/12 (only November)
Chance of it being an odd day:
about (1/2 * 5/30) + (1/2 * 6/31) = 1/12 + 3/31 = 67/372
(Half the months have 31 days, so they have an extra odd day. The "about" is due to my ignoring leap years, which changes that 30 in the dividend to a 28 or 29 for 1/12 (ish) of the months)
So overall, the odds are about:
67 out of 71424 days or 0.09386% of the time.
so in 10000 years, there are 3,423 ODD days. So not many at all.
Now even days are quite a bit more likely, since the odds of the months being even are 4/12. But I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
At least it is on all those damn computers with that Y2K bug...
The best part is that the code is "composed of about 11 million lines of C++ and Intercal code."
Here's what a quick web search on "Intercal" reveals:
"INTERCAL. The language designed to be Turing-complete but as fundamentally unlike any existing language as possible. Expressions that look like line noise. Control constracts that will make you gasp, make you laugh, and possibly make you hurl. Data structures? We don't need no steenking data structures! "
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Here ya go:
The Wonderful World of Linux 2.4
"Now if someone else can explain where they saw it before then I'll start being impressed.."
/02/19/0833230.shtml
1) Look at this old article on Slashdot from *February*.
2) Scroll all the way down to the end.
3) Notice part about "more evil than the devil".
4) Be impressed.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99
So your main stated complaint with this GAME playing machine is that it's got a crappy modem and a bad web browser? Your complaints may be legit, but I don't those problems are going to affect most people, who buy console to PLAY GAMES.
I have a laptop for work that's plugged in 90% of the time. The reason I don't have a desktop is so I can use it at home (plugged in) as well. So for me, it's not dumb at all.
I think because of all those angry youth. Most of the responses here are not worthwhile questions. They're angry personal attacks by sub-teens. To actually get a decent interview the chaff has to be separated from the wheat.
And yes, the moderation system is in shambles. I think the number of available points out there is far too low. I mean, there's only two posts on this thread with a score above 1!
Yeah, a broken home makes you a loser. And anyone who doesn't hack the kernel regularly can't possible know anything about computers or have any talent with them. And having one article written about you in Salon (Salon!) means that you're the Poster Boy for the press. Grow up... while you still have a chance.
I thought hacking was an attitude, not being able to do your chosen list of approved things? You've never met this man, yet you're denouncing him as being a loser and a wannabe and clearly inferior to you. Yours is the kind of attitude that makes me sick about this community. I hope you are young enough that you have a chance to grow up a little before you die.
Variety is the spice of life. If I have to read another stupid interview with another mindless open-source programmer I think I'll scream. And do you really think Slashdot would be receptive to thinkers or artists, given the general moronic intelligence level that seems to be the norm here? Hell, most of the people who responded to this topic probably don't know what pablum means.
Why not let Slashdot print what it wants. You have the choice to not read the articles. But if they aren't posted at all, those who are interested won't get the chance at all. And would that be better? In my opinion it would just be sad.
Yeah, MTV is the reason kids are shooting other kids. Talk about crappy blame-shifting. MTV is fluff, but it's harmless. Next you're going to blame those Gap commercials for the downturn in American intellectualism.
Yeah Eros, I was just wondering, are you capable of hitting the submit button only once?
Hey, and I'm wondering why you bothered to quadruple space your moronic question.
One joke deserves another.
Christ you're incoherent. What does MTV have to do with Ted Turner? It's owned by Viacom, which is run by Sumner Redstone.
"OSS is involved in subverting the dominant, commercially driven, poorly done products. MTV fits these all perfectly"
I thought that's what he did. He subverted MTV by cracking into their computer system. Isn't that the OSS mentality? Isn't it?
People see the control that is exerted over .edu, .gov, and .mil, and they assume that same control exists over the other 3 (.com, .org, .net). But it doesn't. You can register a domain using any of the three that you want and no one "checks your papers". Sure, the intent was that .net was for network providers, but without policing, it's just an intention. Freshmeat can be .net, simply because they want to. You might not agree, but that's the way it is.
Gee, is 2600 Magazine passing out little quote sheets for mindless drones to reproduce in these forums now? Mitnick broke into Motorola's computers. That's a crime. Just because Motorola misstated the damages doesn't make it not a crime. I'm sorry, but it's true.