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/dev/random / Re: The Official 2012 Football Season Thread

« on: February 03, 2013, 05:00:21 PM »

damn ravens playing really good, and sanfran thinking their quarterback is fucked up and calling plays not going for first down.  might as well at least try to win.

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Quake / Re: Another Quake 2 package - nQuake2

« on: January 03, 2013, 07:32:39 PM »

vote map X, q2 crashes and your computer's taken over!?

 

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Quake / Re: "Quake 2" vs Other Quakes's Netcodes!

« on: December 23, 2012, 08:50:08 PM »

quake 2 also has the double jump and gaining speed from slopes which makes the movement better.

I don't know much about quake 2 netcode, but I imagine they're all UDP which is contained within the IP packet.  UDP doesn't guarantee transmissions, it just sends or recieves and the application handles what to do.  UDP is used because you want to send and receive the information right away without retransmitting it.

I've never really noticed a problem with it unless there's packet loss, and packet loss is the problem.  probably a lot of problems went away after people moved of dialup, and switched to r1q2

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Quake / Re: Ventrilo / ex

« on: December 20, 2012, 07:35:54 PM »

of course it's cheating if you give away the enemy location which wouldn't be known playing the game.  it's like having someone spec a duel and tell one player where the other is ...

chat is good, but since it's not often used, it would be right to say you are using it before someone wants to play a team match

so yeah pretty dick move by ex there, clear cheating

 

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Quake / Re: Q2 15th anniversary FFA event, Friday Dec 7th, 8PM Central

« on: December 07, 2012, 08:26:31 PM »

where can you get those quake figures!

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0x1337c0de / Re: How 4 Microsoft engineers proved copy protection would fail

« on: December 03, 2012, 06:41:51 PM »

Since Microsoft is somewhat of a monopoly, you should create something like an information bill of rights.

This would cover doing things specifically that unfairly eliminate competition, like for some reason not to allow a firefox install on OEM machines, or to create an Operating System that will only work with a Microsoft application, with APIs only Microsoft has access to.
Not letting you play a video or song with open source encoding
a lack of an off key for some type of digital rights scheme

I agree though that you could just record a movie and put it on a usb drive no matter what Microsoft does, even things like tor would evolve.  you could change these things, but it'd be a massive undertaking beyond even Microsoft alone, and it probably still wouldn't be foolproof.

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/dev/random / Re: FishTank

« on: November 05, 2012, 05:30:34 PM »

Looks like enough $$ to feed the fam for 2 months.  I spent a bundle just on a freshwater ten gallon never had the balls to do saltwater.  Looks really nice.

thanks, my other tank is a fresh water 10 gallon with some live plants and neons.  When you don't know what you're doing it sucks, and I started with a 5 gallon salt water tank, which is way harder to take care of because there's so much less room for error.   The only problem I've found with it is it's expensive, and you'd definitely want to read up on it or ask a friend who had one how to maintain it.  I use a method which uses lots of live rock and live sand, with minimal biological load.  So bacteria in the rock and sand breaks down "bad stuff" and a protein skimmer (mixes air into water, and that type of surface collects crap) and catches stuff before it breaks down.  From reading it's an effective way to simulate ocean like water, and it seems to work good.  The problem is with such a low volume of water compared to the ocean, the waste and food breaks down into ammonia and other harmful compounds.  Plus I way overdid it for a 30 gallon tank, I put a 15 gallon sump tank with a 500gph pump , which takes the water through bags of carbon : ).

The problem is now I'm addicted and that's just the beginning.  Eventually I'm going to put up clear plastic shelves in that tank and put some cool corals up there, under the high straight flow, then cover the rock in some cheap mushroom corals I'll get online.

I know you didn't indicate this exactly, but that's a salt water aquarium in reaper's pic(the good kind). As a child and the son of a commercial fisherman, my dad would drop all sorts of cool stuff from work in there; octopus, crabs, lobsters, seahorses, living sand dollars, various fish, etc...

when the blue crab and the lobster finally fought to the death it was epic.

I like having all types of things in the aquarium myself.  Some octopus are very poisonous.  From what I was reading you never know what you're gonna get with the creatures in the ocean, even common creatures sold in aquarium stores can be very poisonous depending on the batch.  The mantis shrimp is pretty tough for its size.

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/dev/random / FishTank

« on: November 04, 2012, 08:15:59 PM »

Got new fish tank brewin!

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Tech Junkie Lounge / demo avi

« on: July 14, 2012, 10:14:51 AM »

is there a quake 2 client that can create avi's from demos, so for example they could play on the tv through the xbox?

I know i've used a client before but I can't remember which one, or if there's one where the avi support is good.  then I could put a site up that created the avi by calling the client and having it run the demo.  I have not much RAM, but CPU is pretty powerful, I suppose i could rate-limit the avi conversions, etc.

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Science / Re: Higgs boson: God Particle.

« on: July 13, 2012, 09:32:51 PM »

"O men! Here is a parable set forth! listen to it! Those on whom, besides God, ye call, cannot create (even) a fly, if they all met together for the purpose! and if the fly should snatch away anything from them, they would have no power to release it from the fly. Feeble are those who petition and those whom they petition!  (The Noble Quran, 22:73)"

It looks as though our universe may have "zero total energy (because gravity can have negative energy)".

Given the properties of quantum mechanics and gravity, a universe having zero total energy should eventually spontaneously appear as a quantum event.


So I guess you could say: God created quantum mechanics and gravity, then went on vacation.

The energy is still there, I asked where it came from, which seems a legitmate question to me since it is all things.  So the universe morphs into what I want from a massive amount of energy, seems pretty godlike to me.  And by that I mean it requires an explanation, for such an accident. Night, day, what looks to be the correct order of things.

As for what they don't know about the universe, seeing that they don't know what half the matter in the universe is should be a pretty big wake up call about the unknowns of the universe. 

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Science / Re: Higgs boson: God Particle.

« on: July 13, 2012, 07:22:27 PM »

where  does the energy of the universe come from?

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Tech Junkie Lounge / Re: Valve Employee Handbook (2012)

« on: June 12, 2012, 07:08:20 PM »

I doubt it's true.  I think google's 10 percent do something you want to do is nice, maybe even not enough.  For one, who's gonna do shit stuff no one wants to do?

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0x1337c0de / Re: Fix downloaded files that are the wrong mimetype

« on: June 06, 2012, 09:14:11 PM »

couldn't you uncompress the code that is there, depending on the compression algorithm the exectuable format uses?

then maybe you could create some assembly source, and see what the program is attempting to do to recreate it?  And nice decoding of what the data is and what happened!

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0x1337c0de / Re: Fix downloaded files that are the wrong mimetype

« on: June 06, 2012, 07:58:36 PM »

Why would netscape remove characters from an HTML file?  Maybe it wants only ASCII characters like the alphabet?  But an HTML file could have any character and be different encodings.

I see mostly numbers, are most opcodes numbers when represented with ASCII?  So this browser took control ASCII characters, or bytes that weren't ASCII representations, and removed them?

I suppose you would have to fill in the gaps, so you'd have to start constructing the assembly source, but it'd be extremely difficult.

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0x1337c0de / Re: Fix downloaded files that are the wrong mimetype

« on: June 06, 2012, 05:44:40 PM »

The server is not sending the browser anything different, although HTTP will allow compression.  Netscape probably did something to it, but I don't think other browsers would.  Let's see the hex representation, and figure out what it did.

Is that the whole file?  I don't see 273 at a different location in the "failed" file.