I was getting 20-30 bounce back messages a day to one of my throw-away addresses. At least 75% of these contained the offending.pif attachment. Aside from the sheer quantity of incorrect messages received, I didn't mind (using pine on Linux, and I ended up filtering them myself), but I can't imagine how annoyed I'd've been if I had to download them over a dial-up account.
I'm still not sure how that address got harvested for spoofing tho. It's for a forum account and the e-mail is not publicly viewable.
IMHO, most of these claims are BS. I have never even heard of World of Darkness or White Wolf, yet I have heard of most of these (34 of the 44 WoD claims to be specific). They are fairly common parts of the Vampyre/Lycanthrope mythos. And what about claim 36? How is the omission of any claims about/use of wood is the same as it not having an affect?
These kids claimed to be mimicking GTA by trying to shoot at semi truck trailers. That alone should make it obvious that they are just trying to cover theire a$$es by blaming someone else. There is no point any GTA game that has you shooting semis with a sniper rifle - becuase there are no semis with trailers in any GTA game! There are semis without trailers, but there is never a mission that requires you to shoot them with a sniper rifle like they claim.
The only people who should be blamed in this case are the kids and their parents.
I don't believe that it's completely random. We actually got some delivered to my office about a month ago. Now here's the kicker: There are four people in this office, and we got four cds at once.. Coincidence? I doubt it..
That's because it's the only one that's currently a "Greatest Hits" title. Do you really think that EB would want to tell you that a title is going to be going down in price before it's time? They want to make as much money off a title as they can for as long as possible. If they say it's going down, people might not buy it until the price drops.
Makes me thing of Roujin Z - the story of an old man with a robotic hospital bed powered by his dead wife's brain. (After all, who could care for him better than his wife)
Of course, when the bed seems to go haywire, hilarity follows..
Stand there at the bookstore and read reviews in magazines, free of charge.
Um.. Have you been to a bookstore lately? Most game magazines are sealed in plastic because they come with demo cds. Kinda hard to read them in the store like that.
My first thoughts on seeing this was "ESA? Why would the European Space Agency care about this? And wouldn't they be smart enought to check the file at least?"
But it seems to be the "Entertainment Software Association".. Never heard of them.
Well.. There have been several new Pac Man games in the last few years. Pac Man World 1 & 2 and Pac Man Fever on the consoles and Pac Man: Adventures In Time on the PC.
I still wonder what they have to do with the classic except for the big round yellow guy..
When I moved to Washington, DC and found that the best computer store around was MicroCenter
IMHO, the best computer store is always a small local store. The people generally know what they're doing, and you can almost always find the part you're looking for at a great price.
I remember the first (and last) time I saw MS Bob. It was running on a computer at CompUSA. Really annoying.. I asked the nearest sales guy what he thought of if. "Damned annoying. We can't get it to stop."
They keep talking about how the new serial interfaces are going to bring huge performance increases. To this I have to say BS!!
Ok.. So ATA is going to go from 100MB/s shared by two devices (PATA) to 150MB/s for a single device (SATA) and SCSI is going from 320MB/s for up to 15 devices to 300MB/s for a single device. Big whoop! I wan't to see a device that will actually make these improvements really noticable. Hard drives don't come anywhere close to that kind of throughput.
Until some major changes come to the HDD world, we'll only see minor increases in performance when dealing with storage devices. The main thing I'm looking forward to with SATA is that there won't be any more problems with having two devices trying to use the same channel at the same time (like trying to burn a CD from a CD or HDD on the same channel) since it isn't shared anymore.
I'd love to see Joe Consumer buying the OEM version of XP, but the truth of the matter is that they have to spend $110 for the UPGRADE version of XP Pro and ~$230 for the full version. Those OEM versions are not legal to purchase standalone (although I see them at computer shows all the time right next to the "Academic" versions of various apps).
Sony has already stated that the PS3 will be backward compatible with the PS2, but not the PSOne. Perhaps they are changing their stance and looking for a way to emulate the PSOne in software.
A standard CBG contains two 688 class attack subs. Yeah, the subs that are easier to detect by finding the hole in the ocean rather than trying to actually find sound traces.
Um.. No, you're thinking of the Ohio class SSBNs (missile subs). 688s (Los Angeles class) are definately noticable even when just maintaining steerage (sp?). With stealth screws on (as opposed to speed screws), Ohios can go at least 12 knots without making more noise than the background.
My cousin used to be a sonar operator on an Ohio and would laugh about the 688s trying to sneak up on his sub during exercises. OTOH, the Ohios have the best passive sonars available in the navy.
Don't forget C#! MS says it's cross-platform, so it must be true! </sarcasm>
For me, I tend to stick to scripting languages when I need cross platform. I do use Java, but most of my Java development nowadays is J2ME, and that is just borderline in terms of being cross-platform with all the "Profiles".
Um.. Read the post again. It's not a MozillaZine interview, it's a MozillaQuest "interview". MozillaQuest has a long history of BS, so take everything you read there with a gigantic grain of salt.. Why hasn't SCO's claim to C++ been reported elsewhere since March 4 when this was posted?
Personally, I think that a claim to C++ would have a much wider impact than a claim to SCO code being put into Linux, were it true. Most UNIX/Linux code is still written in C, but the primary language in the Windows world is C++. (well.. MS C++)
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.pif attachment. Aside from the sheer quantity of incorrect messages received, I didn't mind (using pine on Linux, and I ended up filtering them myself), but I can't imagine how annoyed I'd've been if I had to download them over a dial-up account.
I was getting 20-30 bounce back messages a day to one of my throw-away addresses. At least 75% of these contained the offending
I'm still not sure how that address got harvested for spoofing tho. It's for a forum account and the e-mail is not publicly viewable.
IMHO, most of these claims are BS. I have never even heard of World of Darkness or White Wolf, yet I have heard of most of these (34 of the 44 WoD claims to be specific). They are fairly common parts of the Vampyre/Lycanthrope mythos. And what about claim 36? How is the omission of any claims about/use of wood is the same as it not having an affect?
What are they smoking?
Where can I get some?
These kids claimed to be mimicking GTA by trying to shoot at semi truck trailers. That alone should make it obvious that they are just trying to cover theire a$$es by blaming someone else. There is no point any GTA game that has you shooting semis with a sniper rifle - becuase there are no semis with trailers in any GTA game! There are semis without trailers, but there is never a mission that requires you to shoot them with a sniper rifle like they claim.
The only people who should be blamed in this case are the kids and their parents.
Especially given the First Rule of Government Spending: Why build one when you can have two at twice the price? :)
That would be second most famous landmark.
But then again, the most famous fell down in May, I guess it's not much of a landmark anymore..
I don't believe that it's completely random. We actually got some delivered to my office about a month ago. Now here's the kicker: There are four people in this office, and we got four cds at once.. Coincidence? I doubt it..
That's because it's the only one that's currently a "Greatest Hits" title. Do you really think that EB would want to tell you that a title is going to be going down in price before it's time? They want to make as much money off a title as they can for as long as possible. If they say it's going down, people might not buy it until the price drops.
Makes me thing of Roujin Z - the story of an old man with a robotic hospital bed powered by his dead wife's brain. (After all, who could care for him better than his wife)
Of course, when the bed seems to go haywire, hilarity follows..
Stand there at the bookstore and read reviews in magazines, free of charge.
Um.. Have you been to a bookstore lately? Most game magazines are sealed in plastic because they come with demo cds. Kinda hard to read them in the store like that.
..gamers tend to hold developers to every feature they promise.
Like say.. Bioware's promise to have a Linux version of Neverwinter Nights available at the same time as the Windows version?
My first thoughts on seeing this was "ESA? Why would the European Space Agency care about this? And wouldn't they be smart enought to check the file at least?"
But it seems to be the "Entertainment Software Association".. Never heard of them.
Well.. There have been several new Pac Man games in the last few years. Pac Man World 1 & 2 and Pac Man Fever on the consoles and Pac Man: Adventures In Time on the PC.
I still wonder what they have to do with the classic except for the big round yellow guy..
I remember the first (and last) time I saw MS Bob. It was running on a computer at CompUSA. Really annoying.. I asked the nearest sales guy what he thought of if. "Damned annoying. We can't get it to stop."
I uninstalled it.. He thanked me..
They keep talking about how the new serial interfaces are going to bring huge performance increases. To this I have to say BS!!
Ok.. So ATA is going to go from 100MB/s shared by two devices (PATA) to 150MB/s for a single device (SATA) and SCSI is going from 320MB/s for up to 15 devices to 300MB/s for a single device. Big whoop! I wan't to see a device that will actually make these improvements really noticable. Hard drives don't come anywhere close to that kind of throughput.
Until some major changes come to the HDD world, we'll only see minor increases in performance when dealing with storage devices. The main thing I'm looking forward to with SATA is that there won't be any more problems with having two devices trying to use the same channel at the same time (like trying to burn a CD from a CD or HDD on the same channel) since it isn't shared anymore.
HAH!
I'd love to see Joe Consumer buying the OEM version of XP, but the truth of the matter is that they have to spend $110 for the UPGRADE version of XP Pro and ~$230 for the full version. Those OEM versions are not legal to purchase standalone (although I see them at computer shows all the time right next to the "Academic" versions of various apps).
Sony has already stated that the PS3 will be backward compatible with the PS2, but not the PSOne. Perhaps they are changing their stance and looking for a way to emulate the PSOne in software.
Correction, the PSOne chip is the I/O Controller.
My cousin used to be a sonar operator on an Ohio and would laugh about the 688s trying to sneak up on his sub during exercises. OTOH, the Ohios have the best passive sonars available in the navy.
Yeah.. But wouldn't you rather carry around 4,190,703,826,736,921.50 Turkish Lira? :D
Don't forget C#! MS says it's cross-platform, so it must be true!
</sarcasm>
For me, I tend to stick to scripting languages when I need cross platform. I do use Java, but most of my Java development nowadays is J2ME, and that is just borderline in terms of being cross-platform with all the "Profiles".
Um.. Read the post again. It's not a MozillaZine interview, it's a MozillaQuest "interview". MozillaQuest has a long history of BS, so take everything you read there with a gigantic grain of salt.. Why hasn't SCO's claim to C++ been reported elsewhere since March 4 when this was posted?
Personally, I think that a claim to C++ would have a much wider impact than a claim to SCO code being put into Linux, were it true. Most UNIX/Linux code is still written in C, but the primary language in the Windows world is C++. (well.. MS C++)
Oh come on...this better not come as a surprise.
Especially considering that the "Deer Hunter" games were top sellers for quite some time..
That's what compiler errors are for.. How else are you supposed to find typos when vim doesn't have a spellchecker? :)