MarkT
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Lorian and goldenratiophi are both just about right.
The next question the two of you can fight out between yourselves.
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What is ISO-8859-1?
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Category 5 is the most well-known, and probably the most common for Ethernet
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Quick tip: Holding down Shift when you start up Acrobat Reader does the same thing without installing anything.You can disable that stuff using tools like the speedup-tool (of which I forgot the name, but Google should find it). -
Just to point out the work would be solely design at this stage - implementation of the CP AI won't begin for a while yet. There are also a couple of other people who are interested in working on the AI scripts when we get to that point.
Also worth considering is the bit in the contract about having to surrender your immortal soul and becoming a puppet minion of the AI div lead, but... anyway...
In roughly the same way as JavaScript programming for the web works - the engine the scripts run in present you with a set of objects and functions that you can manipulate. It's just that instead of objects like pages and buttons, our engine includes objects like units and players. You could, hypothetically, do something like some_army.attack( some_players_base ) - part of your job would be (in concert with the rest of us) devising the means you'd use to control things like this.I do have one question, how will the JavaScript work? -
Have you seen the one where Tux catches the MSN butterfly? That one's also funny.
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Or maybe it's conclusive that it's based on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Rather childish, really...
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You should see the way they fight in game. Trust me, they can take it.
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Yep, but:
- The harder you make it, the fewer people will succeed. The fewer hacks there are, the easier they (in theory) are to plug.
- You can still absolutely eliminate entire classes of cheats, even if you can't eliminate every category.
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I suppose you should get some of the programmers to reply in here...
But we'd only make you jealous
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Rest assured, we're making it as difficult to cheat in multiplayer as we know how.
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Err... why did you try to delete Linux that way?
In any case, the only reason I can think of for the keyboard not working before you boot into an OS is if it's a USB device. If that's the case, try getting a PS/2 keyboard from somewhere and use that for the install.
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No, you can rename stuff and change extensions freely. Windows says that the file may become unusable, but what it actually means is 'If you change the extension, I won't know what to open it with, because I rely on silly obsolete methods like extensions to tell me what to do. However, we at Microsoft don't think you're capable of understanding this, so I'll just show you this message saying Bad Things will happen so you won't try it.'
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Ehm... should you be posting that on the 'net?
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It's not a compiler error (they don't tend to throw exceptions), he just hasn't given it any arguments. I don't know how they're specified in whatever environment he's using, get him to check the book. (well, if it's the command line it 'java Daylist 2004', NetBeans has a project properties page, other than that I don't know...)
There's another error in that code, though; the day counter needs to be reset after he increments the month. But don't tell him that, you'd deprive him of the joy of debugging
...[EDIT]Philip: You will soon - they expect you to write your projects in it for the next two years...[/EDIT]
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So you're saying it is easier to make a 3D game than a 2D one? Interesting....
Well, pure 2D is relatively easy, but it's generally easier to go full 3D than a 2D-3D hybrid.
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It's not just for appearance that we went for full-3D: it's also simpler - allowing, as you mention, us to do other things with our time - it allows things (like changing the perspective) that we couldn't have done otherwise, and a big reason is that 3D models are more compact than a bunch of 2D renders. For a game distributed entirely over the 'net, that's a reasonable consideration
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Don, in this context, means to 'take on' or 'put on'.
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Probably quantum encryption (despite that not actually being a form of encryption, rather transmission)
Last I checked, cracking it was forbidden by the laws of physics. That's pretty tough
[EDIT:]http://www.tropsoft.com/strongenc/des.htm seems quite good.[/EDIT]
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So. I find this message just after it's been satisfactorily answered
. Nevertheless...In addition to Simon's point, you don't have to RSA-encrypt an entire text (in the real world, you seldom do). Instead, you encrypt your text with some lesser code (DES is common, you can use something simple like an addition-offset cipher) using a random key. This (much shorter) key is the thing you RSA-encrypt, and it's effectively a one-time pad - even simple encryption schemes are extremely difficult to break using a one-time key, and that's protected by the strong RSA encryption.
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I'd guess it's unlikely (but possible) that it's done something permanent to the BIOS (like alter the Flash, which could explain the lack of boot sequence, I suppose). I'd say to check that the Windows CD is still bootable, try booting from a floppy instead, and erase the CMOS memory on the motherboard and try again.
Also, you said it can detect the virus: What does it detect it as?
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Hmm. If I understand correctly, this is a case of what's known as the set-covering problem. It's NP-hard (like TSP), so I'm afraid for an optimal solution I think you're stuck with exhaustive search. (Actually, I think there is a better way in this case, but only slightly and it's horrendously complex)
For a non-optimal but decent solution, you can try a greedy algorithm (at each step, choose the book that covers the greatest number of tasks not already covered) - again, I've heard of possibly better ways, but they're complicated.
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Install Cygwin and do it in Bash. Far easier in the long run.
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A tex font would be neat, but if it only worked in FF that would not be fair to everyone, including me who use IE.
Why? If you choose to use IE over FF you're denying yourself features, that's just the way it is. IE is behind the times. Why should we have to be?
Exceptions made for those who /have/ to use IE (or something else - Lynx, say) for acccessibility or language - but there can't be many such here.
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Remove all the files you've currently got from version control (seek and destroy those hidden '.svn' directories; they're in every folder that contains at least one version-controlled file), then delete your repository (by any method, it's reasonably safe to rm -rf if you're sure you don't want any data from it), then create a new repository and import everything again.