That's the key factor here. With out current knowledge/tech, prions are still a challange to verify. Additionally, we are not sure which proteins would have stable conformations that would make them prions. Therefore, with our tech as it is now, we would have to eliminate all proteins.
C/C++ do have try-catch-throw stuff now I thought (it says they don't)
D doesn't have multiple inheritance, that is my biggest problem when programming.NET or Java - having to program the same sets multiple times due to a lack of multiple inheritance - basically once for each combination of a set of features that can occure together or separately.
This was a few months ago... August I think. And my machine is a single core machine. Also, it wasn't my machine, which didn't crash at all, it was the server. It was down a lot (not just loaded with trial users, which wouldn't bother me, but actually *down*)
This year I'd have a tough call between Final Fantasy XII and Children of Mana. But Taco pretty much got FFXII in a nutshell...
As for Eve by another/. news sifter... Is it as unstable as the free-trial server on all servers? It kept crashing on the saturday I was playing. It was fine on off hours, but on peak hours it wouldn't stay up for more than an hour at a time, and I kept getting bad marks because the stupid thing was crashing, and mission timers kept timing out, even though I couldn't even get back on to play the missions.
It was a fun game, but when it crashes 5+ times a day in your peak play tiems, it's just not worth it.
Is that based on a deaths or deaths+injuries number? Per time interval of use? per absolute time interval regardless of use? distance? trip?
I've always seen that, but never seen the number, it's a stat I'm not sure I trust.
Numbers can be magled to proove whatever you want. I could say without looking at any numbers there are fewer plane related deaths per year than car related deaths. But the total number of minutes per year that people are in cars is probably a lot more.
Oh, someone mod my post -1 OT while you are at it...
funny, on weekends I occasionally go to a family vacation house with no internet. No one thinks it's worth it - it's in the middle of nowhere.
I've been at a few hotels, even recently, without internet also. Add to that my notebook's lack of wifi, and you get a lot of places where internet isn't available.
The real world isn't limited to your excessively limited interperetation, I'm sorry to say.
will probably never move to an online desktop. (bet you were expecting something about overlords)
(1) I don't want my personal data on another person or groups computer, especially without an option of having my own baackup of all my data. Even with the latter, I'd be leary, but the latter hasn't even happened yet in many cases, so I'm not expecting it to happen soon.
(2) An online storehouse like that would be a hackers dream. I'm not likely to have anything majorly secure on my system, but nonethelless, I'd rather remain a small unimportant target (my PC), than a large glowing beacon of temptation (remote server housing a lot of people's data).
(3) Occasionally ISPs have trouble. I've not seen this with my ISP yet, but I've known a lot of people who have had 4-24 hour downtimes. I don't want to loose access to my documents/data if that ever happens with my ISP.
(4) I don't have to deal with slower (compared to hard drive access) network connections and stressed servers making things slow when I'm using my computer.
(5) If I'm travelling around, and using my notebook, I don't want to have to worry about my documents not being available when I go somewhere that may not have internet access. Kein danke.
I understand 4 can be handled, and so can parts of 2, but I am really *not* keen on using an online desktop except for thnings that are naturally net-dependant anyway (such as email).
It's tough to get excited about space exploration when it's a handful of people riding up and down in a vehicle that's older than most young people's cars, and doing incomprehensible/boring stuff when they get there.
It should be...
It's tough to get excited about space exploration when it's a handful of people riding up and down in a vehicle that's older than most young people, and doing incomprehensible/boring stuff when they get there.
I agree, it's good to have a resolved storyline before making an RPG from a media form (book/tv/etc). If something hapens in the main story line that is mutually exclusive with something in your storyline (or vice versa) it tends to annoy people, depending on your group.
However, a creative GM can work with just about any world to make a game work, so the somewhat limiting scope of BSG could still have lots of fun games in it - in the back of my mind I can think of a few interesting things. The trick is to set the game in an interval BEFORE the current setting, and don't let the players play any of the main characters.
Fleet Officer (level 30 for captain, 40 for admiral) Pilot (at level 15 you gain "How the hell did you survive/that/" feat) and of couse Chating Biggot (Apollo and Starbuck mainly)
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with either version of the experiment. Nobody is actually getting hurt, nad afterwards the unknowning victim (the button pusher) is told that it's all fake either way.
What's the problem here.
Actually, I'm surprised more people quit with the computer program now, knowing it was just a program, than with the person in the original experiment. Are we as a species, finally, collectively growing spines?
actually, that's a very relevant/insightful question. I asked that myself when looking at the article, it wasn't the most professional thing in the world. But I've also know people who handle those kiosks...
That's what the short 5 minute demos are for. Actually making the console freeze up is just stupid, it screams unstable. This sounds more like backpedaling to cover up design flaws.
1 has alread been answered 2 If you are talking about Visual Studios, ok, I understand that, but for the rest, Mono works quite nicely. 3 I've had that experience too, but I think it's partially due to the generic compilation used. I have not had that issue in either FreeBSD or Gentoo, where I had the exact opposite experience, when handling multiple tasks, they are much more responsive than windows. 4 No argument there 5 very little argument there. With WINE you can get some nice options, and if you are willing to search long/hard enough, you can find nice OSS options for linux/BSD
As for the video, again I'd blame Ubuntu, it is one of the slowest distros I've used.
Someone already mentioned using VMWare, which I'd strongly recommend. Given your background, I'd suggest you try the following initially to see what you like:
FreeBSD - Lots of "ports" (software you can install), relatively simple to use, robust and reliable, but not necessarily the most cutting edige - it sacrifices some advanced stuff for reliability and no-hassle. I use this myself, as I have had less than happy experiences with Linux. Also you can (reliably) compile apps on your system for your hardware, getting significant performance boosts. There are math and science sections in the ports tree that will probably make you happy. Gentoo - You get a lot of control and customisation with this, much like FreeBSD, except I found it's variant of ports (portage) is not quite as reliable/robust, but it also has over 10k more packages... Ubuntu - It simply works, until it doesn't. I've had it break when using the package update tool, and make my system unusable. Also, it's not as easy to compile-and-run like FreeBSD/Gentoo, so you won't get as much of a performance boost. ??? - There is a scientific variant of Linux, based off of Fedora I think, you might want to give that a try. I think it was mentioned here also.
It's good to try several variants, give each one 2-3 months, if possible a year. This will allow you to really see what you like. I personally (in order) did: 2-3+ years: red hat/fedora, and quit after... 6 months: FreeBSD, before trying... 4 months: ubuntu, before trying... 1 month: Gentoo...
FreeBSD caught me within two weeks. I love it, and it works quite well on my system, though it is somewhat picky on hardware, but getting better. In terms are hardware, it's got compatability to modern hardware like Linux had compatability to modern hardware (of the time) circa 2001-2002. Linux however, has made huge strides since then. FreeBSD seems to be on the upward swing with hardware right now, but still not near linux. You have to do quite a bit of reading, but the documentation is good, and the community is one of the friendliest I've dealt wtih.
Ubuntu/Kubuntu seemed nice, but didn't quite work reliably enough for me. They had small bugs, quirks and issues on my machine that didn't make me feel comfortable. There were a lot of 2D graphics artifacts on my i950 based notebook, which made me nervous as it has a shared memory arch - memory leaks in the graphics could corrupt data. Also, updating KDE (using only the stable trees) caused KDE to break on KUBuntu, giving me a royal hassle there.
Gentoo: Linux with a BSD feel. It acted a lot like BSD in terms of maintenance, and worked quite reliably. I was again hooked almost immediately. It doesn't always handle things like BSD would (FreeBSD will generate a SSL key for you, Gentoo won't). I had some troubles and could get some things to compile, which drove me nuts, though I could use similar tricks to get most stubborn packages working that I used in FreeBSD. The community was second only to FreeBSD in my experience for both friendliness and helpfulness.
Everyone knows that squirrels and pigeons have a protection from FBI spell cast on them, and cannot be photographed or photoshopped by FBI agents or those in collusion with them.
Slashdot Mirror
only a few /known/.
That's the key factor here. With out current knowledge/tech, prions are still a challange to verify. Additionally, we are not sure which proteins would have stable conformations that would make them prions. Therefore, with our tech as it is now, we would have to eliminate all proteins.
wouldn't you have to ensure it has no proteins of any type.
Now, if the article title/blurb said "no mad-cow prions", I wouldn't be so picky, but this said no prions, without qualifier.
"Aye, the cow aint got no prions! 'course 'ees dead, but thar be no prions in that thar cow!"
(yes, I read TFA, I know they meant mad-cow prions, not prions in general).
looking at the comparison:
.NET or Java - having to program the same sets multiple times due to a lack of multiple inheritance - basically once for each combination of a set of features that can occure together or separately.
C/C++ do have try-catch-throw stuff now I thought (it says they don't)
D doesn't have multiple inheritance, that is my biggest problem when programming
This was a few months ago... August I think. And my machine is a single core machine. Also, it wasn't my machine, which didn't crash at all, it was the server. It was down a lot (not just loaded with trial users, which wouldn't bother me, but actually *down*)
This year I'd have a tough call between Final Fantasy XII and Children of Mana. But Taco pretty much got FFXII in a nutshell...
/. news sifter... Is it as unstable as the free-trial server on all servers? It kept crashing on the saturday I was playing. It was fine on off hours, but on peak hours it wouldn't stay up for more than an hour at a time, and I kept getting bad marks because the stupid thing was crashing, and mission timers kept timing out, even though I couldn't even get back on to play the missions.
As for Eve by another
It was a fun game, but when it crashes 5+ times a day in your peak play tiems, it's just not worth it.
"It's safer to fly than to drive"
Is that based on a deaths or deaths+injuries number? Per time interval of use? per absolute time interval regardless of use? distance? trip?
I've always seen that, but never seen the number, it's a stat I'm not sure I trust.
Numbers can be magled to proove whatever you want. I could say without looking at any numbers there are fewer plane related deaths per year than car related deaths. But the total number of minutes per year that people are in cars is probably a lot more.
Oh, someone mod my post -1 OT while you are at it...
funny, on weekends I occasionally go to a family vacation house with no internet. No one thinks it's worth it - it's in the middle of nowhere.
I've been at a few hotels, even recently, without internet also. Add to that my notebook's lack of wifi, and you get a lot of places where internet isn't available.
The real world isn't limited to your excessively limited interperetation, I'm sorry to say.
I do, I want to be able to back up my email and such so I don't have to worry about screw-ups like that.
I use Outlook Express, and have done so for several years, and the mail servers I use are POP3 based.
will probably never move to an online desktop. (bet you were expecting something about overlords)
(1) I don't want my personal data on another person or groups computer, especially without an option of having my own baackup of all my data. Even with the latter, I'd be leary, but the latter hasn't even happened yet in many cases, so I'm not expecting it to happen soon.
(2) An online storehouse like that would be a hackers dream. I'm not likely to have anything majorly secure on my system, but nonethelless, I'd rather remain a small unimportant target (my PC), than a large glowing beacon of temptation (remote server housing a lot of people's data).
(3) Occasionally ISPs have trouble. I've not seen this with my ISP yet, but I've known a lot of people who have had 4-24 hour downtimes. I don't want to loose access to my documents/data if that ever happens with my ISP.
(4) I don't have to deal with slower (compared to hard drive access) network connections and stressed servers making things slow when I'm using my computer.
(5) If I'm travelling around, and using my notebook, I don't want to have to worry about my documents not being available when I go somewhere that may not have internet access. Kein danke.
I understand 4 can be handled, and so can parts of 2, but I am really *not* keen on using an online desktop except for thnings that are naturally net-dependant anyway (such as email).
It should be...
I agree, it's good to have a resolved storyline before making an RPG from a media form (book/tv/etc). If something hapens in the main story line that is mutually exclusive with something in your storyline (or vice versa) it tends to annoy people, depending on your group.
However, a creative GM can work with just about any world to make a game work, so the somewhat limiting scope of BSG could still have lots of fun games in it - in the back of my mind I can think of a few interesting things. The trick is to set the game in an interval BEFORE the current setting, and don't let the players play any of the main characters.
Don't forget the classes of:
/that/" feat)
Fleet Officer (level 30 for captain, 40 for admiral)
Pilot (at level 15 you gain "How the hell did you survive
and of couse
Chating Biggot (Apollo and Starbuck mainly)
Now if they can just fix the "Eudora still runs" bug, it'll be ready for production.
I still feel sorry for them? How many calls are they gonna get from slashdotters complaing that the files are not in an open format?
I know the people who's numbers are listed aren't responsible, but you can be sure there will be a number who act first, think later.
That's a neat idea.
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with either version of the experiment. Nobody is actually getting hurt, nad afterwards the unknowning victim (the button pusher) is told that it's all fake either way.
What's the problem here.
Actually, I'm surprised more people quit with the computer program now, knowing it was just a program, than with the person in the original experiment. Are we as a species, finally, collectively growing spines?
yep, it's a feature called "helping keep you from wasting your money on another console"
actually, that's a very relevant/insightful question. I asked that myself when looking at the article, it wasn't the most professional thing in the world. But I've also know people who handle those kiosks...
They aren't getting PS3s.
No, no I infact won't. Changed my mind.
That's what the short 5 minute demos are for. Actually making the console freeze up is just stupid, it screams unstable. This sounds more like backpedaling to cover up design flaws.
depending on how much of a nooblet someone is, they may not be aware of 2, 3, and 5.
1 has alread been answered
2 If you are talking about Visual Studios, ok, I understand that, but for the rest, Mono works quite nicely.
3 I've had that experience too, but I think it's partially due to the generic compilation used. I have not had that issue in either FreeBSD or Gentoo, where I had the exact opposite experience, when handling multiple tasks, they are much more responsive than windows.
4 No argument there
5 very little argument there. With WINE you can get some nice options, and if you are willing to search long/hard enough, you can find nice OSS options for linux/BSD
As for the video, again I'd blame Ubuntu, it is one of the slowest distros I've used.
Someone already mentioned using VMWare, which I'd strongly recommend. Given your background, I'd suggest you try the following initially to see what you like:
FreeBSD - Lots of "ports" (software you can install), relatively simple to use, robust and reliable, but not necessarily the most cutting edige - it sacrifices some advanced stuff for reliability and no-hassle. I use this myself, as I have had less than happy experiences with Linux. Also you can (reliably) compile apps on your system for your hardware, getting significant performance boosts. There are math and science sections in the ports tree that will probably make you happy.
Gentoo - You get a lot of control and customisation with this, much like FreeBSD, except I found it's variant of ports (portage) is not quite as reliable/robust, but it also has over 10k more packages...
Ubuntu - It simply works, until it doesn't. I've had it break when using the package update tool, and make my system unusable. Also, it's not as easy to compile-and-run like FreeBSD/Gentoo, so you won't get as much of a performance boost.
??? - There is a scientific variant of Linux, based off of Fedora I think, you might want to give that a try. I think it was mentioned here also.
It's good to try several variants, give each one 2-3 months, if possible a year. This will allow you to really see what you like. I personally (in order) did:
2-3+ years: red hat/fedora, and quit after...
6 months: FreeBSD, before trying...
4 months: ubuntu, before trying...
1 month: Gentoo...
FreeBSD caught me within two weeks. I love it, and it works quite well on my system, though it is somewhat picky on hardware, but getting better. In terms are hardware, it's got compatability to modern hardware like Linux had compatability to modern hardware (of the time) circa 2001-2002. Linux however, has made huge strides since then. FreeBSD seems to be on the upward swing with hardware right now, but still not near linux. You have to do quite a bit of reading, but the documentation is good, and the community is one of the friendliest I've dealt wtih.
Ubuntu/Kubuntu seemed nice, but didn't quite work reliably enough for me. They had small bugs, quirks and issues on my machine that didn't make me feel comfortable. There were a lot of 2D graphics artifacts on my i950 based notebook, which made me nervous as it has a shared memory arch - memory leaks in the graphics could corrupt data. Also, updating KDE (using only the stable trees) caused KDE to break on KUBuntu, giving me a royal hassle there.
Gentoo: Linux with a BSD feel. It acted a lot like BSD in terms of maintenance, and worked quite reliably. I was again hooked almost immediately. It doesn't always handle things like BSD would (FreeBSD will generate a SSL key for you, Gentoo won't). I had some troubles and could get some things to compile, which drove me nuts, though I could use similar tricks to get most stubborn packages working that I used in FreeBSD. The community was second only to FreeBSD in my experience for both friendliness and helpfulness.
but going over there is too much effort.
that doesn't explain the squirrels
Everyone knows that squirrels and pigeons have a protection from FBI spell cast on them, and cannot be photographed or photoshopped by FBI agents or those in collusion with them.
different application.
But both the applications I mentioned before sent applets to the browser, not just server side JSP, so the browser was running Java stuff too.