A limited user on Windows (since 2000 at least) can only write to his own folder too. Seriously. At least, as long as you're not stupid enough to use a filesystem that can't do permissions.
A "power user" gets program files write access so he can run crap old programs, and an administrator gets write access to nearly everywhere by default (a couple of places are locked to system accounts, which I'm not so sure I like).
We have seen sites slashdotted before the 3rd comment, so it seems inevitable that eventually a site may end up slashdotted before it makes it to the front page, and eventually even before submission.
They also explicitly say that you don't have to top up the phone with calling credit to use the free Skype.
Just buy a phone, and you can make skype calls over their network free of charge forever. They also have msn messenger free too, to replace crazy expensive text messages.
I don't know how they can profit off of that. Perhaps the logic is that someone with a "3" phone might occasionally make normal calls with it, which do cost?
All "3" mobile phones have a skype client, the sticking point is the wifi.
On the other hand "3" seem to have gone completely off their rocker and aren't charging for the data skype uses on their wireless network. Net result? Free calls. Completely free calls.
However home-built tasers are pretty good for short range.
You can get a reasonable jolt out of a battery connected to a relay which has been wired through itself so that it is normally on and turns itself off when it gets power. Connect prongs on either side of the relay coil. It gets power, the coil charges a magnetic field, flicks the relay switch, which breaks the circuit. The coil loses power, the magnetic field dissipates, through the coil, creating a several hundred volt (and low current) spike across the prongs I told you to connect to each side of the coil, or more importantly whatever you've plunged the prongs into. The spring in the relay then pushes the switch closed again, and everything repeats.
The low current means that it hurts like hell* but isn't that dangerous. Keep away from hearts and pacemakers, don't apply directly to eyes, etc etc. Don't have it active for too long or the battery could explode, you are shorting it after all... * Actually the 9V version doesn't hurt much normally, but might if you use sharp pins and break the skin. Don't build one with three 9Vs and a 25V relay, or a 2A lab bench power-supply. Then you possibly cross the border into dangerous.
You can power it up by putting a second coil around the first with more turns, and connecting THAT to the danger prongs. It makes an impressive show, with a near constant visible spark between the prongs. My high-school physics teacher had built a contraption like that, can't remember what he was demonstrating.
I'm currently browsing slashdot on my eeepc 901 over wifi, it has 82% battery life remaining and varies between 3.5 and 4.5 hours left, and I've been browsing for about an hour. That suggests around 5 hours battery life using it like you'd expect to use a netbook. I'm running the Windows 7 beta, I'd probably also get more battery life without aero glass, or not using IE8 (which seems to lag when scrolling). I've also had several hours of playing streaming video over wifi out of it.
It can't play Dwarf Fortress:'( (something about the laptop disagrees with DF, it gets about 0.5fps, way below playable. It's still pretty bad even when paused.)
So, in short: There are plenty of laptops about with a decent battery life, people shouldn't complain about battery life when they didn't buy one of them.
There's no point in an AC posting "mod up" messages, because mods are less likely to see them than the original post. The whole point of a "mod parent up" message is to draw attention to it, which is best done by users with a +1 starting score from high karma.
That said, if I hadn't just used my last points in an earlier article I would have modded that post informative anyway.
You look like you just googled it and copied the resulting text into a Slashdot post.
More accurately, "soccer" (apparently derives from "association" (football) somehow), rugby (football) and (American) football all derive from a common game called "football" which had no real rules except involving a ball and being on foot, with millions of different variations. "Rugby football" being the Rugby school rules version of football. Which makes my statement about rugby deriving from football correct if taken literally, but not how I meant it (as I was referring to soccer).
Also, despite the number of people who content that "football" is derived from "on foot" and "involving a ball", apparently that's just a theory, and the real origin is lost to time.
I never did understand why the American "football" rarely involves a foot. I know it is descended from football, but so is rugby, and no-one calls that football.
But in all seriousness, a "rugby" game would be British I would think.
As we say here "Football is a gentleman's game played by ruffians and rugby is a ruffian's game played by gentlemen". Rugby players and fans typically celebrate with each other after a game (hence another saying, "my drinking team has a rugby problem"), where football fans have to be kept apart by the police...
Addendum: Also, with no ability to resell, the customer will have less money with which to buy other games, which could include your sequel. Thought that is probably cancelled out by people buying used copies.
I don't mind games (anything in fact) that can't be resold, as long as it's cheap enough to justify the purchase, or I know it's going to be good beforehand (e.g. recommendation from a friend, or a good demo).
To take your example, with lock-in on the game: If your game is terrible, you get many people buying your game because they don't bother reading reviews, many find out it's crappy and get annoyed at it and warn their friends off it. The next line of consumers who also don't read reviews (and who would have bought used copies before) mostly don't buy it, because a new copy is too expensive. People who have a passing interest wait for it in the bargain bins. You don't sell as many copies as you were hoping and you learn your lesson and don't make crap games. You might sell a few more copies than if used copies were available, but most people who bought a used copy before won't buy a new copy, so it's not a lot more.
I thought causality didn't require faster than light travel to be impossible, only travelling backwards in time at more than 1s/s (i.e. cancelling the normal flow of time out and stopping) to be impossible?
Net neutrality just means that you don't prioritise any source or destination outside your network's traffic over any other. Basically it means you can't intentionally slow anything except your direct subscribers. No slowing yahoo down in favour of google, but having a direct connection to google and an indirect connection to yahoo (making google faster) IS allowed; as is slowing the guy on your network who has reached the transfer limit in his contract.
You are allowed to peer directly with a company to get a better link to them, e.g. via a physical link. You are even allowed to set up terms with them that mean you can't relay their private addendum to the internet to anyone else. They are even allowed to provide a slower general service, requiring direct peering for any kind of speed.
It's because they're using their monopoly in one product (operating systems) to attempt to force a monopoly in another area (internet browsers). This is illegal.
It's not so much that Windows comes with IE, it's that they were disallowing OEM computer manufacturers from making any other browser the default. I'm not sure if they were even allowed to install another browser.
Apple sells their own computers, so the "OEM" middleman doesn't exist. An apple computer is entirely their own product, they can sell it however they like. If someone resold Apple computers, they would have to be allowed to change Safari for another browser.
Why not just a metal grid over the engine, which is raised slightly forward in the middle? Bird hits grid, bird bounces off grid and goes around the engine.
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A limited user on Windows (since 2000 at least) can only write to his own folder too. Seriously. At least, as long as you're not stupid enough to use a filesystem that can't do permissions.
A "power user" gets program files write access so he can run crap old programs, and an administrator gets write access to nearly everywhere by default (a couple of places are locked to system accounts, which I'm not so sure I like).
EVE Online has had that all along... :)
Characters switching sides frequently sabotage their old corp or steal as much as they can
We have seen sites slashdotted before the 3rd comment, so it seems inevitable that eventually a site may end up slashdotted before it makes it to the front page, and eventually even before submission.
Perhaps an "append" button then?
Your math sucks, 97 would be 1912, not '02. He also says that in '02 he was in college, so his birthday is well before that.
An ideal solution would be some way to store the prepared version of a query on the server.
Gah!
Say it with me: "Use prepared SQL queries not concatenation!"
Their video is dynamically building the SQL statement, which is full of injection possibilities.
They also explicitly say that you don't have to top up the phone with calling credit to use the free Skype.
Just buy a phone, and you can make skype calls over their network free of charge forever. They also have msn messenger free too, to replace crazy expensive text messages.
I don't know how they can profit off of that. Perhaps the logic is that someone with a "3" phone might occasionally make normal calls with it, which do cost?
All "3" mobile phones have a skype client, the sticking point is the wifi.
On the other hand "3" seem to have gone completely off their rocker and aren't charging for the data skype uses on their wireless network. Net result? Free calls. Completely free calls.
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Trying to use angle brackets in your title?
Apparently Slashdot requires you to use < and > in the titles, yet doesn't support any html tags in them.
However home-built tasers are pretty good for short range.
You can get a reasonable jolt out of a battery connected to a relay which has been wired through itself so that it is normally on and turns itself off when it gets power. Connect prongs on either side of the relay coil. It gets power, the coil charges a magnetic field, flicks the relay switch, which breaks the circuit. The coil loses power, the magnetic field dissipates, through the coil, creating a several hundred volt (and low current) spike across the prongs I told you to connect to each side of the coil, or more importantly whatever you've plunged the prongs into. The spring in the relay then pushes the switch closed again, and everything repeats.
The low current means that it hurts like hell* but isn't that dangerous. Keep away from hearts and pacemakers, don't apply directly to eyes, etc etc. Don't have it active for too long or the battery could explode, you are shorting it after all...
* Actually the 9V version doesn't hurt much normally, but might if you use sharp pins and break the skin. Don't build one with three 9Vs and a 25V relay, or a 2A lab bench power-supply. Then you possibly cross the border into dangerous.
You can power it up by putting a second coil around the first with more turns, and connecting THAT to the danger prongs. It makes an impressive show, with a near constant visible spark between the prongs. My high-school physics teacher had built a contraption like that, can't remember what he was demonstrating.
I'm currently browsing slashdot on my eeepc 901 over wifi, it has 82% battery life remaining and varies between 3.5 and 4.5 hours left, and I've been browsing for about an hour.
That suggests around 5 hours battery life using it like you'd expect to use a netbook. I'm running the Windows 7 beta, I'd probably also get more battery life without aero glass, or not using IE8 (which seems to lag when scrolling).
I've also had several hours of playing streaming video over wifi out of it.
It can't play Dwarf Fortress :'(
(something about the laptop disagrees with DF, it gets about 0.5fps, way below playable. It's still pretty bad even when paused.)
So, in short: There are plenty of laptops about with a decent battery life, people shouldn't complain about battery life when they didn't buy one of them.
There's no point in an AC posting "mod up" messages, because mods are less likely to see them than the original post. The whole point of a "mod parent up" message is to draw attention to it, which is best done by users with a +1 starting score from high karma.
That said, if I hadn't just used my last points in an earlier article I would have modded that post informative anyway.
Good for you.
Someone beat you to it, and said it a little more concisely: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1273083&cid=28372475
You look like you just googled it and copied the resulting text into a Slashdot post.
More accurately, "soccer" (apparently derives from "association" (football) somehow), rugby (football) and (American) football all derive from a common game called "football" which had no real rules except involving a ball and being on foot, with millions of different variations. "Rugby football" being the Rugby school rules version of football. Which makes my statement about rugby deriving from football correct if taken literally, but not how I meant it (as I was referring to soccer).
Also, despite the number of people who content that "football" is derived from "on foot" and "involving a ball", apparently that's just a theory, and the real origin is lost to time.
Trademarks.
That would make some kind of sense, but the little internet research I've just done says that that is only a theory, and the true origin is unknown.
I never did understand why the American "football" rarely involves a foot. I know it is descended from football, but so is rugby, and no-one calls that football.
But in all seriousness, a "rugby" game would be British I would think.
As we say here "Football is a gentleman's game played by ruffians and rugby is a ruffian's game played by gentlemen". Rugby players and fans typically celebrate with each other after a game (hence another saying, "my drinking team has a rugby problem"), where football fans have to be kept apart by the police...
Addendum:
Also, with no ability to resell, the customer will have less money with which to buy other games, which could include your sequel. Thought that is probably cancelled out by people buying used copies.
I don't mind games (anything in fact) that can't be resold, as long as it's cheap enough to justify the purchase, or I know it's going to be good beforehand (e.g. recommendation from a friend, or a good demo).
To take your example, with lock-in on the game:
If your game is terrible, you get many people buying your game because they don't bother reading reviews, many find out it's crappy and get annoyed at it and warn their friends off it. The next line of consumers who also don't read reviews (and who would have bought used copies before) mostly don't buy it, because a new copy is too expensive. People who have a passing interest wait for it in the bargain bins. You don't sell as many copies as you were hoping and you learn your lesson and don't make crap games. You might sell a few more copies than if used copies were available, but most people who bought a used copy before won't buy a new copy, so it's not a lot more.
I thought causality didn't require faster than light travel to be impossible, only travelling backwards in time at more than 1s/s (i.e. cancelling the normal flow of time out and stopping) to be impossible?
This isn't against net neutrality, as I read it.
Net neutrality just means that you don't prioritise any source or destination outside your network's traffic over any other. Basically it means you can't intentionally slow anything except your direct subscribers. No slowing yahoo down in favour of google, but having a direct connection to google and an indirect connection to yahoo (making google faster) IS allowed; as is slowing the guy on your network who has reached the transfer limit in his contract.
You are allowed to peer directly with a company to get a better link to them, e.g. via a physical link. You are even allowed to set up terms with them that mean you can't relay their private addendum to the internet to anyone else. They are even allowed to provide a slower general service, requiring direct peering for any kind of speed.
It's because they're using their monopoly in one product (operating systems) to attempt to force a monopoly in another area (internet browsers). This is illegal.
It's not so much that Windows comes with IE, it's that they were disallowing OEM computer manufacturers from making any other browser the default. I'm not sure if they were even allowed to install another browser.
Apple sells their own computers, so the "OEM" middleman doesn't exist. An apple computer is entirely their own product, they can sell it however they like. If someone resold Apple computers, they would have to be allowed to change Safari for another browser.
Why not just a metal grid over the engine, which is raised slightly forward in the middle?
Bird hits grid, bird bounces off grid and goes around the engine.
Holy crap I missed that one!
Hope it's better than "beast with a billion backs".