Money can buy off the 'looking for other opportunities, including selling your data'.
Why do you think people that handle sensitive government information generally have their finances looked at? If you're hurting for money, you might try and pawn something you have access to.
True, some people will just take the money -AND- sell your crap.. some people will also take almost no money, but still not sell your crap.. what you're trying to buy is some insurance and CYA factor.
As for Managers -needing- to learn IT..I think it's dumb.. IT mangers should know IT.. but does a Accounting Manager need to know IT? no.. they do need to be able to communicate their needs and concerns effectively to the IT manager, and the IT manager needs to know enough to relate those needs/concerns into their 'IT world equivalents', and make sure some relevant things are taken care of too (the Account mgr might not realize that some information should be encrypted in case of data-theft, that's the IT managers job to point out and bring to the table)
You cannot make someone an expert in everything; there simply isn't enough time or desire to do it... welcome to Specialization.. it's sort of why the human got as far as we have.
Blizzard does have a history of putting out some good looking stuff on games and ending up not releasing that title (but roll alot of the Tech/Resources into a new title). I can appreciate the relationship they have with their games though.. if something isn't working out right, they can the project even if they PRed it at E3
True, but Doom didn't allow any actual Z overlap in the maps.. it you look at the levels from a top-down perspective, they laid out flat.
IIRC, the mouse was still coming into acceptance as an input mechanism on DOS desktops around the time Doom came out, so it wasn't that big a deal. This could have been a contributing factor to while Wolf3D wasn't pushed harder on the input side, ie: you could completely play the game on a keyboard.
IANAL, but I did sleep on 600-count sheets last night:
...for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research
Wouldn't that mean that the defendant would have to prove, in order to use Fair Use, that he was either: - a critic - a commentator - a reporter - a teacher - a scholar or - a researcher ----- My impression is he was neither of these things. Ergo, it seems that it wouldn't fall under fair use.
If he was a blogger doing music reviews, then he might have had something better to go on?
But that still doesn't cover distribution (ie; if he was uploading).
Ah sorry, neither TFA nor the summary (which is just the text from TFA) indicated any talk of the future. Usually when media say things including time frames, it's done as 'to date'. The fact that a media outlet might actually look into the future or report actually correct information strikes me as more uncommon then eclipses;]
How do I compare two providers of a 10 Mbps connection when they don't say what the practical speed will be
Isn't this what DSL reports, Speedtest.net are actually about?
Is it not reasonable to ask in some internet forum to locate actual 'power user' customers of your ISP and ask them what their experience is?
I'm with you on this..
The cord is only occasionally an issue on my mouse, and a complete non-issue on my trackball (since the device never moves, the cord never gets in the way)
(Having a Trackball at work and a mouse at home helps prevent RSI)
Just a quip about it.
The editor is thinking about 'Skill as in I twitch faster or know the map', whereby rather I believe they are referring to a Skill Point mechanic instead of a Leveling Up mechanic... that is, I have a "46.5% skill in Swordmanship" instead of "I'm a level 20 Swordsman".
Usually a Level based mechanic has some aspects of a Skill Based system as well (but usually it's relegated to Crafting in online games like WoW or DAoC); but to me the main difference was rather looked at as a "Class Based System" vs a "Skill Based System", which has been a debate in gaming long before computers came to the genre with things like "DnD" being a CBS and "Star Frontiers" being a Skill based system.
Personally, I generally perfer a Skill based system for a variety of small reasons.
For me, I'm able to work (programming or drywalling) best to music I'm -not- able to keep time by. That is, just certain styles of music that merge together so marking your life in 3-5min increments isn't possible.
When Einstruzende Neu. comes up in the playlist when I'm trying to work, I'll usually skip it.. but when WinAmp is in a mode to play just my EBM or newer 'industrial' then it's all good.
Alot of 'world music' also works well since the only thing that sticks in your brain is the patternized drumming; Opera and Classical only sometimes can fall into this mode, but very often Metal does.
The Libraries around here don't get into the filtering business (IE: yes Virginia, you can get pr0n on the libraries here)... Hurrah for free-speech and all.. but man I'm sure it hammers their network with all the crap those free computers collect on them.
I dunno, I think there might be something here, but also expand on it:
The Dalek model: One strong personality creates the project, and gets it to a first release.. then the other developers overthrow him, split the project, wage holy war upon the rest of the world (and each other), but occasionally bring back the original founder for their own reasons.. overall the project won't die since it's still popular with the masses even though everyone knows it's evil. (I submit 'Joomla/Mambo' for this model)
The Cybermen Model: Have a basic idea/product, but adapt it to every possible platform known to man even though there's little change between them. (I submit as an example the 'Nuke' CMS)
The "Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart" model: A project led by a Scottish project lead for the sole-purpose of getting tax credits
Actually a game set in the 1984 world with the story going on could be quite fun.. unfortunately with the likes of Mirrors Edge and all that coming out of late, it'd seem like just another bandwagon game.
And I just read some of the other comments.. looks like a few ppl were already mentioning how UTech had it already.. why as Anon I have no idea, but whatever.
Coming from a background in the UnrealEngine (and having no Hammer or whatever experience), I was actually a bit surprised that valve didn't ship them to begin with, for exactly the reasons they claim to be shipping them now.
Sure there are a few ways you can obfuscate maps for Unreal Engine as well, but there's no difference between the source of the map and what you're playing, at least in UTech up to 3 (I have no UE3 exp sadly).
Either way, I'm glad Valve is finally doing it..maybe they will start getting the clue about SDK support from the get-go with their titles where possible. *cough L4D cough*
It's not uncommon for students to pay $600-$900 a semester for books.
I thought we were talking Public school system, not College level? I never had to pay for a text book when I was in public school.. of course I never went in California either.
The "rm" thing was a very basic example, perhaps a poor one to use on this audience.
If I handed you a laptop and didn't explicitly give you root.. how long would it be before you rooted the system? We're talking about kids here, I definitely would have rooted it, or at least tried my best.. and If I have physical access, it -will- happen. On one hand, +1 for enabling hackerdom, on the other hand, it's a PITA for the school boards that will have to run tech support for said laptops.. even if you, the student, keep it intact, they will still want to nuke and wipe them after every student... and I've had the fortune of working with the local school board (I work for the ISP that does their transport).. They are good people, but their infrastructure is woefully out of date, and they usually have a lack of personnel available for tech purposes.
Sure, we can just dump a crap load of inexpensive Kindles/laptops/PCs or whatever and walk away.. but, as much as I hate to use it, think TCO. With a book, you pick it up, look at it.. if it doesn't smell bad, you shelve it for next year.. about a 10s per book job for a relative unskilled worker.
With a laptop, the easiest thing to will be just wipe the sucker and hope all the H/W still works good. While not a highly technical job, it still takes someone that knows what they are doing.
Yeap.. I was just going to post the same thing.. we as/. users are definitely on the tech side.. but lets remember not everyone has or can afford Internet access and the things to go with it (like a computer).
So really one must weight the cost of those dead-trees verses limited access mitigation like enhancing computer labs at schools, offering after-hours lab time, or even like you said, buying inexpensive netbooks for school (which you -know- will end up getting lost/damaged often so will need to be replaced.. plus who is gonna run the tech support for them when they get full of virii (or if they are linux, doing something like "rm -rf/")).
I'm very much for progress and technological evolution.... but we just got to realize there are still issues with doing it.
The difference is Property is -real-, or at least my tax assessor says it is, you do in fact own it (assuming things like you pay your taxes and don't get it taken under Eminent Domain).
With Domain names, you don't actually -OWN- them.. you are just leasing usage rights to them. It's very much like how phone numbers work.. every now and again the whole 867-5309 thing comesup.
Now YMMV with your individual telco how they feel about this.. but in short, you still don't OWN the number.. you need the telco's consent to move your phone line to a new physical premise.
Here's an alternative; move all the existing three letter TLDs under.us, and give each country control of their country-code TLD. Why should the USA have any say as to what happens under, say, China's TLD?
I sorta like this idea.. and frankly, it's already what alot of non-US nations do already...co.uk anyone?
You will have to come up with some way to deal with breakups of stuff like the old.ussr or.sov or whatever it was, but I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to outline..
And create a standard for 'this is how you MUST behave at the TLD level' (ie: you must remain compliant to the current DNS system).. just so I can in fact access.co.uk domains and they don't go and do something to break their access.
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Populous the MMO?!
Heresy.. and I mean that in the literal sense.. because my god shall smite your god!.. ..
i think MMO it'd be terrible.. as something like a browser-based game, it'd be pretty neat.
Money can buy off the 'looking for other opportunities, including selling your data'.
Why do you think people that handle sensitive government information generally have their finances looked at? If you're hurting for money, you might try and pawn something you have access to.
True, some people will just take the money -AND- sell your crap.. some people will also take almost no money, but still not sell your crap.. what you're trying to buy is some insurance and CYA factor.
As for Managers -needing- to learn IT. .I think it's dumb.. IT mangers should know IT.. but does a Accounting Manager need to know IT? no.. they do need to be able to communicate their needs and concerns effectively to the IT manager, and the IT manager needs to know enough to relate those needs/concerns into their 'IT world equivalents', and make sure some relevant things are taken care of too (the Account mgr might not realize that some information should be encrypted in case of data-theft, that's the IT managers job to point out and bring to the table)
You cannot make someone an expert in everything; there simply isn't enough time or desire to do it... welcome to Specialization.. it's sort of why the human got as far as we have.
Just Say'n.
Blizzard does have a history of putting out some good looking stuff on games and ending up not releasing that title (but roll alot of the Tech/Resources into a new title). I can appreciate the relationship they have with their games though.. if something isn't working out right, they can the project even if they PRed it at E3
True, but Doom didn't allow any actual Z overlap in the maps.. it you look at the levels from a top-down perspective, they laid out flat.
IIRC, the mouse was still coming into acceptance as an input mechanism on DOS desktops around the time Doom came out, so it wasn't that big a deal. This could have been a contributing factor to while Wolf3D wasn't pushed harder on the input side, ie: you could completely play the game on a keyboard.
IANAL, but I did sleep on 600-count sheets last night:
...for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research
Wouldn't that mean that the defendant would have to prove, in order to use Fair Use, that he was either:
- a critic
- a commentator
- a reporter
- a teacher
- a scholar
or
- a researcher
-----
My impression is he was neither of these things. Ergo, it seems that it wouldn't fall under fair use.
If he was a blogger doing music reviews, then he might have had something better to go on?
But that still doesn't cover distribution (ie; if he was uploading).
Ah sorry, neither TFA nor the summary (which is just the text from TFA) indicated any talk of the future. Usually when media say things including time frames, it's done as 'to date'. The fact that a media outlet might actually look into the future or report actually correct information strikes me as more uncommon then eclipses ;]
aka "Longest Eclipse in the last 8 years!" ?
How do I compare two providers of a 10 Mbps connection when they don't say what the practical speed will be
Isn't this what DSL reports, Speedtest.net are actually about? Is it not reasonable to ask in some internet forum to locate actual 'power user' customers of your ISP and ask them what their experience is?
I'm with you on this.. The cord is only occasionally an issue on my mouse, and a complete non-issue on my trackball (since the device never moves, the cord never gets in the way) (Having a Trackball at work and a mouse at home helps prevent RSI)
Per month btw, at least according to the summary. That's still inexpensive enough I might come back to Pandora and chip in.
Just a quip about it. The editor is thinking about 'Skill as in I twitch faster or know the map', whereby rather I believe they are referring to a Skill Point mechanic instead of a Leveling Up mechanic... that is, I have a "46.5% skill in Swordmanship" instead of "I'm a level 20 Swordsman". Usually a Level based mechanic has some aspects of a Skill Based system as well (but usually it's relegated to Crafting in online games like WoW or DAoC); but to me the main difference was rather looked at as a "Class Based System" vs a "Skill Based System", which has been a debate in gaming long before computers came to the genre with things like "DnD" being a CBS and "Star Frontiers" being a Skill based system. Personally, I generally perfer a Skill based system for a variety of small reasons.
For me, I'm able to work (programming or drywalling) best to music I'm -not- able to keep time by. That is, just certain styles of music that merge together so marking your life in 3-5min increments isn't possible. When Einstruzende Neu. comes up in the playlist when I'm trying to work, I'll usually skip it.. but when WinAmp is in a mode to play just my EBM or newer 'industrial' then it's all good. Alot of 'world music' also works well since the only thing that sticks in your brain is the patternized drumming; Opera and Classical only sometimes can fall into this mode, but very often Metal does.
The Libraries around here don't get into the filtering business (IE: yes Virginia, you can get pr0n on the libraries here)... Hurrah for free-speech and all.. but man I'm sure it hammers their network with all the crap those free computers collect on them.
I dunno, I think there might be something here, but also expand on it:
The Dalek model: One strong personality creates the project, and gets it to a first release.. then the other developers overthrow him, split the project, wage holy war upon the rest of the world (and each other), but occasionally bring back the original founder for their own reasons.. overall the project won't die since it's still popular with the masses even though everyone knows it's evil. (I submit 'Joomla/Mambo' for this model)
The Cybermen Model: Have a basic idea/product, but adapt it to every possible platform known to man even though there's little change between them. (I submit as an example the 'Nuke' CMS)
The "Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart" model: A project led by a Scottish project lead for the sole-purpose of getting tax credits
Actually a game set in the 1984 world with the story going on could be quite fun.. unfortunately with the likes of Mirrors Edge and all that coming out of late, it'd seem like just another bandwagon game.
And I just read some of the other comments.. looks like a few ppl were already mentioning how UTech had it already.. why as Anon I have no idea, but whatever.
Coming from a background in the UnrealEngine (and having no Hammer or whatever experience), I was actually a bit surprised that valve didn't ship them to begin with, for exactly the reasons they claim to be shipping them now.
Sure there are a few ways you can obfuscate maps for Unreal Engine as well, but there's no difference between the source of the map and what you're playing, at least in UTech up to 3 (I have no UE3 exp sadly).
Either way, I'm glad Valve is finally doing it..maybe they will start getting the clue about SDK support from the get-go with their titles where possible. *cough L4D cough*
It's not uncommon for students to pay $600-$900 a semester for books.
I thought we were talking Public school system, not College level?
I never had to pay for a text book when I was in public school.. of course I never went in California either.
The "rm" thing was a very basic example, perhaps a poor one to use on this audience.
If I handed you a laptop and didn't explicitly give you root.. how long would it be before you rooted the system? We're talking about kids here, I definitely would have rooted it, or at least tried my best.. and If I have physical access, it -will- happen.
On one hand, +1 for enabling hackerdom, on the other hand, it's a PITA for the school boards that will have to run tech support for said laptops.. even if you, the student, keep it intact, they will still want to nuke and wipe them after every student... and I've had the fortune of working with the local school board (I work for the ISP that does their transport).. They are good people, but their infrastructure is woefully out of date, and they usually have a lack of personnel available for tech purposes.
Sure, we can just dump a crap load of inexpensive Kindles/laptops/PCs or whatever and walk away.. but, as much as I hate to use it, think TCO.
With a book, you pick it up, look at it.. if it doesn't smell bad, you shelve it for next year.. about a 10s per book job for a relative unskilled worker.
With a laptop, the easiest thing to will be just
wipe the sucker and hope all the H/W still works good. While not a highly technical job, it still takes someone that knows what they are doing.
Yeap.. I was just going to post the same thing.. we as /. users are definitely on the tech side.. but lets remember not everyone has or can afford Internet access and the things to go with it (like a computer).
So really one must weight the cost of those dead-trees verses limited access mitigation like enhancing computer labs at schools, offering after-hours lab time, or even like you said, buying inexpensive netbooks for school (which you -know- will end up getting lost/damaged often so will need to be replaced.. plus who is gonna run the tech support for them when they get full of virii (or if they are linux, doing something like "rm -rf /")).
I'm very much for progress and technological evolution.... but we just got to realize there are still issues with doing it.
The difference is Property is -real-, or at least my tax assessor says it is, you do in fact own it (assuming things like you pay your taxes and don't get it taken under Eminent Domain).
With Domain names, you don't actually -OWN- them.. you are just leasing usage rights to them. It's very much like how phone numbers work.. every now and again the whole 867-5309 thing comes up.
Now YMMV with your individual telco how they feel about this.. but in short, you still don't OWN the number.. you need the telco's consent to move your phone line to a new physical premise.
Here's an alternative; move all the existing three letter TLDs under .us, and give each country control of their country-code TLD. Why should the USA have any say as to what happens under, say, China's TLD?
I sorta like this idea.. and frankly, it's already what alot of non-US nations do already.. .co.uk anyone?
You will have to come up with some way to deal with breakups of stuff like the old .ussr or .sov or whatever it was, but I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to outline..
And create a standard for 'this is how you MUST behave at the TLD level' (ie: you must remain compliant to the current DNS system).. just so I can in fact access .co.uk domains and they don't go and do something to break their access.
b) what augmented reality is.
Maybe we all just think 4th Edition Shadowrun sucked?
'I'm a guy who doesn't see anything good having come from the Internet, period.'
Well then I trust you personally don't use it at all.
I think he probably just doesn't like the Sony Online brand.. someone there probably ran over his dog and showed him up on a promotion or something.
Although.. it -IS- Sony Online.. so they really _haven't_ done anything good have they?
No, but it'd be perfectly acceptable for Lord British to ride a talking horse.