I'm going on 30--I nearly fucked up my college education by spending aeons of time on Netrek and progressed from that to C&C, to Red Alert, to Tomb Raider (my girlfriend loves to watch me play for some reason) to Half Life to Homeworld to Deus Ex to Battlefield 1942 (which I play pretty often.)
I was never too interested in always trying out the latest and greatest, but I notice increasingly that, once I've found something I enjoy, I tend to stick with it for far long--it just holds my attention better.
I don't know how people have time to always finish the newest games right when they come out and move on to something new--the only times I do that is when I find something episode-based or story-based (like Half Life), play it through once, then move on, but I take my time with that, sort of like reading a good book a bit at a time before going to bed.
...or at least for the cost of the really sturdy metal box and 50 pounds of TNT.
I'll make my money charging admission to see the first privately-launched man in space (did the X-Prize say whether he has to be alive when he gets there?)
We're putting together a security incident response team (CERt, whatever you want to call it) at a client's, which also takes care of all investigations involving computers.
These guys have an investigative department consisting primarily of ex-cops. They don't do much IT work, if any, but rather come to us. I've found that the most valuable resource in performing forensic investigations is experience, hands down.
The team involves people from a number of ops and engineering groups on a part-time basis (with extra confidentiality agreements, yada yada) who handle individual components of investigations for us. They're all very motivated and skilled, and the setup works like a charm.
Also, Guidance Software has some decent docs (they're very product specific, but will give you a start on where to start looking.)
I think I can safely say that this does not bother me at all. In fact, this is the kind of advertising I like to see--especially in sports games (or for all I care, pockmarked billboards on the side of a bombed-out building in some FPS) sort of adds to the realism.
Now what I'd really like to see is one of these toys as part of an options package.
Road rage? Someone cut you off? ZOT! BWAM! 120 decibels to the kisser!
They could sell it as a device to counter snowballs dropped on your roof by idiot kids on highway overpasses. Nail the little bastards while you're at it as well...
After intensive visual research, the scientists found the following.
Insertion of a miniature microphone yielded no conclusive results, although members of the team did claim to "someone" singing college fight songs in a very off-key manner.
Well, it just shows how difficult any Mars trip is going to be, with the astronauts having to be in close quarters for 2-3 years, rather than simply 6 months.
No, not really a problem--I volunteer for this one. I'm happy with any sort of team (under my command, of course) as long as it's a bunch of brainy gorgeous nymphomaniacs. Oh, and don't forget the correct choice of uniforms for my crew.
That's okay--then you could only play as the bad guys. Everyone knows that the bad guys have accents.
Think of the possibilities--terrorists, nazis, Japanese jungle troopers...
"Ve heff vays of makink you talk, Doktah Chones"...
Or for commands..."Klaus, take zis man outside and BEAT HIM!"
Or you could be like the guy in the movie "Midway" who runs up behind James Shigeta on the Japanese carrier, yelling "DIVE BOMBA! ENEMY DIVE BOMBA!"
Man, the possibilities are endless.
If you made allowance for the British, I see a whole genre of FPS arising, based on Bond movies. Russians? No problem. Arabs? Great--you're just limited to one side in Desert Combat ("Guys, I want to play Mohammed Al-Saaf this round pleeeaze!? There are no enemy tanks anywhere near us! The American ulug will be sent flaming to their doom!")
You could even launch a whole bunch of WWII games based on old B&W squad movies (the random guy bites it first, then the black dude, then the kid from Alabama with the sweetheart back home)--make people fill out a GameSpy demographic survey before logging in.
Too bad it'll lock all the barely literate 13 year olds (1 pwn3d j00 D00D fux0r!!111) out of online gaming, unless you create a 'Morlok' side in Counterstrike...
Have a peek at RFC2396 which supersedes 1738. It's a lot more ambiguous on the topic.
3.2.2. Server-based Naming Authority
URL schemes that involve the direct use of an IP-based protocol to a
specified server on the Internet use a common syntax for the server
component of the URI's scheme-specific data:
<userinfo>@<host>:<port>
Note they say "NOT RECOMMENDED" for passwords in the URL string--it's not "forbidden". But they do make allowance for '@'.
That's a superb run-down of everything I've been yelling and screaming for the last two to three years. I'd also like to add "make sure you're known for honesty and integrity" to that list...it's amazing how fast word gets around that you're not out to make a fast buck at the cost of helping people get things done.
The market ain't dried up, it ain't drying up and it ain't gonna dry up. You no longer have horrendous contract rates for PC movers, and it's no longer free money ("hey, gee, I can do computer shit, it pays really well") but if you put a little bit of effort into it, Bob's your uncle.
I realize that this seems like painting a rosy picture for some programmer/sysadmin who's been thrown out of work. However, I can think of very few cases where someone with initiative and talent stayed in serious trouble for very long.
-The law. You should have a lawyer, as a company. Use "it". Law _always_ _always_ _always_ supersedes business arrangements, policies, whatever. -Your contractual obligations and anything you've committed yourself to. See #1.
And you could argue about the following:
-Your customer's needs, your conscience, your reputation, etc etc etc.
Yeah, but your analogy falls down on the virtual level. I haven't played B.net, but most of the other online games I've seen don't easily let you see others' IP addresses.
Whereas your tennis partner, well, you can just beat the snot out of him with your racket.
Don't I agree with you. BF1942's eject feature is a bit lame, especially since (a) most average players have no idea what the console even looks like, and (b) it takes so many people to eject, even if it's a tkick instead of kick.
However, I've seen eject done with lower threshholds in Netrek, with the predictable result that...you can imagine what happens when the twat quotient passes a certain level. Of course, those aren't really games you'd want to be in anyway.
The thing I don't like about the supreme hand of dog kicking idiots out is that it's too subjective. Of course, as we also saw in Netrek, servers with excessively restrictive policies (i.e. server god being too ham-handed) quickly turned into ghost towns. The market decides, and all that.
As it stands, I find the most effective moron cleanser (wipes morons away!) to be a bit of patience and a steady aim. If there's one on the other team, the fair thing to do is to hole up somewhere reasonably safe and make sure you whack them again and again. They're usually not too skilled, and give you easy kills. If they decide to start coming after you, well hey, I've found that it sharpens my attention immensely to have to constantly watch my back from some idiot child who's pissed off at me.
Remember, if you can get them _that_ mad by just playing regularly, they don't shoot straight...
Well, no, you're missing the point--the people who would be generating all the energy from porn, let's just say that part of the reason this happens is that "fusion" doesn't enter anywhere into the picture.
And as for "heavy water", well, it may be heavy and liquid, but water it ain't...
What I find hilarious in that marketing "report" is the focus on "TCO" (which isn't so total). They don't address a whole bunch of factors which come back to bite you as a MS-only shop:
-resultant (direct and indirect) security costs -inflexibility -hardware costs -...
So essentially yeah, I can say the TCO (including acquisition) of a network of P90s running a DOS-based text interface is really low, but what does that say about my business' capability? *silence from the ranks*
I'm no Linux fanatic--I believe in somewhat heterogenous environments, and that every app/product has its place. Also, Microsoft here have been doing a fantastic job responding to our needs and requirements with information and updates about security issues, even though I'm sure it's a direct result of pressure and arm-twisting (shows what a bit of competition can do to a lazy organization).
However, this sort of goes to prove that adage about "lies, damn lies and statistics". What a lot of IT shops who've focused entirely on the bottom line start realizing is that you don't get around hiring very good, expensive IT staff if you want to keep your business running. Fact of life and all that.
But then again, I don't expect the types of people who want "facts of life" distilled down to "numbers on a Powerpoint presentation" to necessarily be directly interested in long-term benefit to their companies.
Nope, that's what the ruling said was not ok with this particular law. I believe there are several statutes on the books making it illegal to materially aid and abet foreign militant groups (interpret that how you will, I'm not familiar with the exact laws.)
What the ruling said was that it's not illegal under this particular law to communicate with these types, including telling the bum to please not use the fertilizer except for gardening.
In breaking news today, NASA's Spirit probe transmitted data confirming the existence of rocks on the red planet. "We're very excited" said Aloisious Smythe Ponsonby-Jones, project manager of the Mars mission's rock-finding department. "Right on this picture, you can see a little redd-ish one, and here another. This one's shaped like an egg, and the second one, if you look carefully, has a little face shape on it."
The mission's dust-detection sub-project, as well as its quest to determine whether Mars is, indeed, reddish-brown colored, are still awaiting further data.
Yes, true. However, take a walk around your average company sometime, and try to peek at peoples' desktops.
Notice background images, scrollbar positions, whatever. They like to change things around.
Now, if you're smart, you'll use window managers as nothing more than a logical extension of this--any good display manager lets you choose which window manager (assuming you configured it) to start with. Bundle several decent WMs with, say, kdm, present it as "desktop environment style" or something silly PEBKAC-friendly, and you have a winner.
And the beauty of it is, those of us who want to can still customize shit to our heart's content.
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I'm going on 30--I nearly fucked up my college education by spending aeons of time on Netrek and progressed from that to C&C, to Red Alert, to Tomb Raider (my girlfriend loves to watch me play for some reason) to Half Life to Homeworld to Deus Ex to Battlefield 1942 (which I play pretty often.)
I was never too interested in always trying out the latest and greatest, but I notice increasingly that, once I've found something I enjoy, I tend to stick with it for far long--it just holds my attention better.
I don't know how people have time to always finish the newest games right when they come out and move on to something new--the only times I do that is when I find something episode-based or story-based (like Half Life), play it through once, then move on, but I take my time with that, sort of like reading a good book a bit at a time before going to bed.
...or at least for the cost of the really sturdy metal box and 50 pounds of TNT.
I'll make my money charging admission to see the first privately-launched man in space (did the X-Prize say whether he has to be alive when he gets there?)
We're putting together a security incident response team (CERt, whatever you want to call it) at a client's, which also takes care of all investigations involving computers.
These guys have an investigative department consisting primarily of ex-cops. They don't do much IT work, if any, but rather come to us. I've found that the most valuable resource in performing forensic investigations is experience, hands down.
The team involves people from a number of ops and engineering groups on a part-time basis (with extra confidentiality agreements, yada yada) who handle individual components of investigations for us. They're all very motivated and skilled, and the setup works like a charm.
Also, Guidance Software has some decent docs (they're very product specific, but will give you a start on where to start looking.)
I think I can safely say that this does not bother me at all. In fact, this is the kind of advertising I like to see--especially in sports games (or for all I care, pockmarked billboards on the side of a bombed-out building in some FPS) sort of adds to the realism.
Now what I'd really like to see is one of these toys as part of an options package.
Road rage? Someone cut you off? ZOT! BWAM! 120 decibels to the kisser!
They could sell it as a device to counter snowballs dropped on your roof by idiot kids on highway overpasses. Nail the little bastards while you're at it as well...
After intensive visual research, the scientists found the following.
Insertion of a miniature microphone yielded no conclusive results, although members of the team did claim to "someone" singing college fight songs in a very off-key manner.
This reminds me of the German antipersonnel sonic cannon developed during WWII.
Apparently, this one required a targetted infantryman to remain in place for more than half a minute, but the idea is probably similar.
No, not really a problem--I volunteer for this one. I'm happy with any sort of team (under my command, of course) as long as it's a bunch of brainy gorgeous nymphomaniacs. Oh, and don't forget the correct choice of uniforms for my crew.
That's what the airlocks are for.
Easy solution to this: sell them the kids in return for them not pestering you anymore.
Frightfully effective tactic, that.
...the department of homeland security recently adopted Zapf Dingbats as its official font.
Should clear up their communiques a bit.
That's okay--then you could only play as the bad guys. Everyone knows that the bad guys have accents.
Think of the possibilities--terrorists, nazis, Japanese jungle troopers...
"Ve heff vays of makink you talk, Doktah Chones"...
Or for commands..."Klaus, take zis man outside and BEAT HIM!"
Or you could be like the guy in the movie "Midway" who runs up behind James Shigeta on the Japanese carrier, yelling "DIVE BOMBA! ENEMY DIVE BOMBA!"
Man, the possibilities are endless.
If you made allowance for the British, I see a whole genre of FPS arising, based on Bond movies. Russians? No problem. Arabs? Great--you're just limited to one side in Desert Combat ("Guys, I want to play Mohammed Al-Saaf this round pleeeaze!? There are no enemy tanks anywhere near us! The American ulug will be sent flaming to their doom!")
You could even launch a whole bunch of WWII games based on old B&W squad movies (the random guy bites it first, then the black dude, then the kid from Alabama with the sweetheart back home)--make people fill out a GameSpy demographic survey before logging in.
Too bad it'll lock all the barely literate 13 year olds (1 pwn3d j00 D00D fux0r!!111) out of online gaming, unless you create a 'Morlok' side in Counterstrike...
Have a peek at RFC2396 which supersedes 1738.
It's a lot more ambiguous on the topic.
3.2.2. Server-based Naming Authority
URL schemes that involve the direct use of an IP-based protocol to a
specified server on the Internet use a common syntax for the server
component of the URI's scheme-specific data:
<userinfo>@<host>:<port>
Note they say "NOT RECOMMENDED" for passwords in the URL string--it's not "forbidden". But they do make allowance for '@'.
The theory that "a million monkeys with typewriters will eventually produce something intelligent" is age-old. And, as we now know, wrong.
The Internet has conclusively disproven it.
And, this is not a troll but based on my experience, a billion Indians with telephones have yet to produce an intelligible tech support call.
But then again, the same goes for Texans/Irish/Germans/...
That's a superb run-down of everything I've been yelling and screaming for the last two to three years. I'd also like to add "make sure you're known for honesty and integrity" to that list...it's amazing how fast word gets around that you're not out to make a fast buck at the cost of helping people get things done.
The market ain't dried up, it ain't drying up and it ain't gonna dry up. You no longer have horrendous contract rates for PC movers, and it's no longer free money ("hey, gee, I can do computer shit, it pays really well") but if you put a little bit of effort into it, Bob's your uncle.
I really like Stokely's Golden Rules of Consulting for this.
I realize that this seems like painting a rosy picture for some programmer/sysadmin who's been thrown out of work. However, I can think of very few cases where someone with initiative and talent stayed in serious trouble for very long.
-The law. You should have a lawyer, as a company. Use "it". Law _always_ _always_ _always_ supersedes business arrangements, policies, whatever.
-Your contractual obligations and anything you've committed yourself to. See #1.
And you could argue about the following:
-Your customer's needs, your conscience, your reputation, etc etc etc.
Yeah, but your analogy falls down on the virtual level. I haven't played B.net, but most of the other online games I've seen don't easily let you see others' IP addresses.
Whereas your tennis partner, well, you can just beat the snot out of him with your racket.
Don't I agree with you. BF1942's eject feature is a bit lame, especially since (a) most average players have no idea what the console even looks like, and (b) it takes so many people to eject, even if it's a tkick instead of kick.
However, I've seen eject done with lower threshholds in Netrek, with the predictable result that...you can imagine what happens when the twat quotient passes a certain level. Of course, those aren't really games you'd want to be in anyway.
The thing I don't like about the supreme hand of dog kicking idiots out is that it's too subjective. Of course, as we also saw in Netrek, servers with excessively restrictive policies (i.e. server god being too ham-handed) quickly turned into ghost towns. The market decides, and all that.
As it stands, I find the most effective moron cleanser (wipes morons away!) to be a bit of patience and a steady aim. If there's one on the other team, the fair thing to do is to hole up somewhere reasonably safe and make sure you whack them again and again. They're usually not too skilled, and give you easy kills. If they decide to start coming after you, well hey, I've found that it sharpens my attention immensely to have to constantly watch my back from some idiot child who's pissed off at me.
Remember, if you can get them _that_ mad by just playing regularly, they don't shoot straight...
Well, no, you're missing the point--the people who would be generating all the energy from porn, let's just say that part of the reason this happens is that "fusion" doesn't enter anywhere into the picture.
And as for "heavy water", well, it may be heavy and liquid, but water it ain't...
What I find hilarious in that marketing "report" is the focus on "TCO" (which isn't so total). They don't address a whole bunch of factors which come back to bite you as a MS-only shop:
-resultant (direct and indirect) security costs
-inflexibility
-hardware costs
-...
So essentially yeah, I can say the TCO (including acquisition) of a network of P90s running a DOS-based text interface is really low, but what does that say about my business' capability? *silence from the ranks*
I'm no Linux fanatic--I believe in somewhat heterogenous environments, and that every app/product has its place. Also, Microsoft here have been doing a fantastic job responding to our needs and requirements with information and updates about security issues, even though I'm sure it's a direct result of pressure and arm-twisting (shows what a bit of competition can do to a lazy organization).
However, this sort of goes to prove that adage about "lies, damn lies and statistics". What a lot of IT shops who've focused entirely on the bottom line start realizing is that you don't get around hiring very good, expensive IT staff if you want to keep your business running. Fact of life and all that.
But then again, I don't expect the types of people who want "facts of life" distilled down to "numbers on a Powerpoint presentation" to necessarily be directly interested in long-term benefit to their companies.
Yes. You're right (except for the black-helicopters-paranoia-bits.)
Answer?
Linux
does
not
spread
this
virus.
Basta.
Nope, that's what the ruling said was not ok with this particular law. I believe there are several statutes on the books making it illegal to materially aid and abet foreign militant groups (interpret that how you will, I'm not familiar with the exact laws.)
What the ruling said was that it's not illegal under this particular law to communicate with these types, including telling the bum to please not use the fertilizer except for gardening.
This is pretty cool, sort of an "avalanche light" experience.
They could rescue people with chihuahuas carrying cans of diet pepsi.
In breaking news today, NASA's Spirit probe transmitted data confirming the existence of rocks on the red planet. "We're very excited" said Aloisious Smythe Ponsonby-Jones, project manager of the Mars mission's rock-finding department. "Right on this picture, you can see a little redd-ish one, and here another. This one's shaped like an egg, and the second one, if you look carefully, has a little face shape on it."
The mission's dust-detection sub-project, as well as its quest to determine whether Mars is, indeed, reddish-brown colored, are still awaiting further data.
Yes, true. However, take a walk around your average company sometime, and try to peek at peoples' desktops.
Notice background images, scrollbar positions, whatever. They like to change things around.
Now, if you're smart, you'll use window managers as nothing more than a logical extension of this--any good display manager lets you choose which window manager (assuming you configured it) to start with. Bundle several decent WMs with, say, kdm, present it as "desktop environment style" or something silly PEBKAC-friendly, and you have a winner.
And the beauty of it is, those of us who want to can still customize shit to our heart's content.
You misunderstand .NET
I'm not pushing for
I'd rather eat poo.