Heh, well, if they do that after 6 weeks of training, then they probably aren't the type of person the military needs as a soldier. I'd doubt they'd go straight from the Desert Combat BF1942 mod to desert combat.:)
OK. I understand what you're saying. However if the text two weeks later said something reasonable, but incorrect - say it was a report on some dollar figure, and the dollar figure was increased or decreased 25% - it'd be somewhat unlikely that someone would go through extra effort to verify that a macro did not change the data.
A cut-and-paste verification solution, say an executable you run on your desktop (so you don't transfer the data elsewhere), could probably take care of that problem, making it easier to verify.
The file itself doesn't change though - the hash will still match. Unless there's a way to copy from Word and paste into some hash-checking thing, in which case it'd work fine in Notepad too...
You're right, I guess I wouldn't be appropriate for a beta. It sounds more like they have a beta phase just to appease the publisher anyways. "See we have all of these dedicated fans! We're going to be rich! Don't cancel the project!", heh.
I've tried many times to get in on first round beta testing for MMOGs, and have given up. I have a lot of ideas for MMOGs, and I've had a lot of complaints about the current offerings. I can point to a long history of postings by me about these problems.
Not to toot my own horn too much, but I think that it would be worthwhile for developers to seek out people who have posted a lot about other games for their initial betas - people who are highly opinionated and willing to put in actual time coming up with ideas or writing up problem reportas...
Individually our lives are not all that interesting to monitor. However, if a marketing company can monitor a few million individuals on the cheap, they most certainly would. It'd become an involuntary (in that people probably do not sign up to be monitored) Neilsen's system for things non-TV related.
They don't last as long as the alkalines I've used, but I haven't had any problems with them losing capacity over time. Then again I've only had them for about a year and a half. When they start to die, they seem to drop off pretty quick, making me think they are operating at a good voltage up until then, which seems like a good thing. (But I'm no chemist.:)
I bought three sets of 1800mAh NiMH batteries for my controllers. They've "paid for themselves" already, since I haven't had to buy about ~15 sets of alkalines. The rechargables, with charger, cost between $13/set and $20/set.
If you go the wireless route (I too highly recommend the Logitech) I'd definitely suggest investing in a few sets of rechargables. Not only will you feel better about what you're doing to the environment (heh;) ) but nothing beats the convenience of not having to rush to the store to get more batteries.
The Logitech PS2 wireless controllers are quite nice. They're bigger than the standard PS2 controllers, but maintain basically the same "feel" in terms of layout, except the d-pad is a full circle. Admittedly that makes fighting games tougher.
I use mine on my PC (via a cheap adapter) and the PS2. The batteries, with force feedback off, last me 2 weeks or so, and I do play a lot.
Most doctors I've seen carry handhelds around with them. They come in very handy when they want to look up drug interactions.
I use my PDA every day. It's a great calendar system. I can make a "floating todo list", where I can put events on a particular day, and if I don't check them off that day they automatically move to the next. Helps me a great deal with my poor memory.
I do not believe that is entirely correct. It's only giving it 256 bytes to store the redirected-to URL. It then gives 256 bytes for the fake URL and the true URL. Nothing, that I see in here, is preventing strcat/strcpy from pushing data beyond 256 bytes.
If you check the code, all it appears to do is redirect the browser to http://www.openwares.org/cgi-bin/exploit.cgi?URL if someone clicks on a bogus URL.
The overpresence of "strcpy" is a bit unsettling, too.
While it's a nice step, it's no replacement for an official Microsoft patch.
I'm almost certain that the city scene they showed, where the cylon was walking in to Caprica City (and killed the baby) was the same "set" as the one used in Stargate SG-1's "Tolana" world.
I'm not sure which Real World you've been in, but I'd like to visit.:) In the real world, the PHB world, projects have people assigned to them who are not necessarily committed to the project - rather they're committed to their paycheck and/or promotion, or worse, they are there to bring the project down. Happens all the time. Heh, real world griefing.
Successful teamwork however does involve commitment from everyone. A good team system would reward commitment (sort of self-fulfilling, but good for the game environment) above nearly all else.
Right, but that's after you spend a couple of nights in the local county jail, and after the government spends a few thousand (at least) to handle your case. For simply having a cell phone.
Congrats. You've uncovered the secret for Making Money Fast on eBay - charge excessive handling fees to pad your profits.
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Or he could perhaps consider a credit union, where you're the shareholder as well as the customer. I use Boeing Employee's Credit Union and while I've had a couple of problems (due to their not changing my address properly in their system, making the already-faulty AVS more problematic) I'm very happy with them. I don't get nickle-and-dimed to death.
Sure. And when enough of the investigations show a pattern of non-spam, maybe they'll scale it back, or discover some decent way to ignore the obviously non-spam. But it'll take humans to investigate these cases to decide what's necessary/worthwhile.
Here's what I'm talking about. The TiVo monitors when you skip over commercials - obviously. However, it has no way to know if your TV is on. It runs 24x7, but your TV could be off for days at a time.
The TiVo can report what shows it recorded, that you asked it to record. The TiVo can't know if you "stuck around" for the next show, and simply forgot to fast forward past commercials, or if you watched it while it was recording. Therefore it may mark you as watching those commercials.
If I find an ad insulting, I too will decide not to purchase from them. Insulting ads include those that pull the whole "men are so stupid" angle that advertisers are so fond of. I wonder if those ads are insulting to women, too? Like pandering? Man, I hate that.
However.. for Austin Powers, that is just a corny movie all around, so the heineken scene fits in a bit just because it's so corny. Heineken isn't bad beer, either, but if you're more likely to buy generics, you'd probably avoid Heineken anyways because it's relatively expensive.:)
I think it must be hard for the TiVo to know when you're actually sitting down in front of it. I mean, it's running 24x7. Maybe it can determine you're idle, but after how long would it decide that? A 30 minute show w/o interaction? 60 minutes? etc.
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Heh, well, if they do that after 6 weeks of training, then they probably aren't the type of person the military needs as a soldier. I'd doubt they'd go straight from the Desert Combat BF1942 mod to desert combat. :)
OK. I understand what you're saying. However if the text two weeks later said something reasonable, but incorrect - say it was a report on some dollar figure, and the dollar figure was increased or decreased 25% - it'd be somewhat unlikely that someone would go through extra effort to verify that a macro did not change the data.
A cut-and-paste verification solution, say an executable you run on your desktop (so you don't transfer the data elsewhere), could probably take care of that problem, making it easier to verify.
The file itself doesn't change though - the hash will still match. Unless there's a way to copy from Word and paste into some hash-checking thing, in which case it'd work fine in Notepad too...
You're right, I guess I wouldn't be appropriate for a beta. It sounds more like they have a beta phase just to appease the publisher anyways. "See we have all of these dedicated fans! We're going to be rich! Don't cancel the project!", heh.
I've tried many times to get in on first round beta testing for MMOGs, and have given up. I have a lot of ideas for MMOGs, and I've had a lot of complaints about the current offerings. I can point to a long history of postings by me about these problems.
Not to toot my own horn too much, but I think that it would be worthwhile for developers to seek out people who have posted a lot about other games for their initial betas - people who are highly opinionated and willing to put in actual time coming up with ideas or writing up problem reportas...
Individually our lives are not all that interesting to monitor. However, if a marketing company can monitor a few million individuals on the cheap, they most certainly would. It'd become an involuntary (in that people probably do not sign up to be monitored) Neilsen's system for things non-TV related.
I don't even know how much I've downloaded. I could probably look it up in my router, but it just reset from a power outage.
Does anyone have a list of links to pages at providers that allow us to monitor our usage?
They don't last as long as the alkalines I've used, but I haven't had any problems with them losing capacity over time. Then again I've only had them for about a year and a half. When they start to die, they seem to drop off pretty quick, making me think they are operating at a good voltage up until then, which seems like a good thing. (But I'm no chemist. :)
I bought three sets of 1800mAh NiMH batteries for my controllers. They've "paid for themselves" already, since I haven't had to buy about ~15 sets of alkalines. The rechargables, with charger, cost between $13/set and $20/set.
;) ) but nothing beats the convenience of not having to rush to the store to get more batteries.
If you go the wireless route (I too highly recommend the Logitech) I'd definitely suggest investing in a few sets of rechargables. Not only will you feel better about what you're doing to the environment (heh
The Logitech PS2 wireless controllers are quite nice. They're bigger than the standard PS2 controllers, but maintain basically the same "feel" in terms of layout, except the d-pad is a full circle. Admittedly that makes fighting games tougher.
I use mine on my PC (via a cheap adapter) and the PS2. The batteries, with force feedback off, last me 2 weeks or so, and I do play a lot.
I disagree. It may be the biggest computer-related success, but a bigger success has been the marketing of oil/gasoline.
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When was the last time you saw a war started because of Windows prices?
Most doctors I've seen carry handhelds around with them. They come in very handy when they want to look up drug interactions.
I use my PDA every day. It's a great calendar system. I can make a "floating todo list", where I can put events on a particular day, and if I don't check them off that day they automatically move to the next. Helps me a great deal with my poor memory.
I do not believe that is entirely correct. It's only giving it 256 bytes to store the redirected-to URL. It then gives 256 bytes for the fake URL and the true URL. Nothing, that I see in here, is preventing strcat/strcpy from pushing data beyond 256 bytes.
If you check the code, all it appears to do is redirect the browser to http://www.openwares.org/cgi-bin/exploit.cgi?URL if someone clicks on a bogus URL.
The overpresence of "strcpy" is a bit unsettling, too.
While it's a nice step, it's no replacement for an official Microsoft patch.
I'm almost certain that the city scene they showed, where the cylon was walking in to Caprica City (and killed the baby) was the same "set" as the one used in Stargate SG-1's "Tolana" world.
I'm not sure which Real World you've been in, but I'd like to visit. :) In the real world, the PHB world, projects have people assigned to them who are not necessarily committed to the project - rather they're committed to their paycheck and/or promotion, or worse, they are there to bring the project down. Happens all the time. Heh, real world griefing.
Successful teamwork however does involve commitment from everyone. A good team system would reward commitment (sort of self-fulfilling, but good for the game environment) above nearly all else.
Right, but that's after you spend a couple of nights in the local county jail, and after the government spends a few thousand (at least) to handle your case. For simply having a cell phone.
Congrats. You've uncovered the secret for Making Money Fast on eBay - charge excessive handling fees to pad your profits.
Or he could perhaps consider a credit union, where you're the shareholder as well as the customer. I use Boeing Employee's Credit Union and while I've had a couple of problems (due to their not changing my address properly in their system, making the already-faulty AVS more problematic) I'm very happy with them. I don't get nickle-and-dimed to death.
Sure. And when enough of the investigations show a pattern of non-spam, maybe they'll scale it back, or discover some decent way to ignore the obviously non-spam. But it'll take humans to investigate these cases to decide what's necessary/worthwhile.
Here's what I'm talking about. The TiVo monitors when you skip over commercials - obviously. However, it has no way to know if your TV is on. It runs 24x7, but your TV could be off for days at a time.
The TiVo can report what shows it recorded, that you asked it to record. The TiVo can't know if you "stuck around" for the next show, and simply forgot to fast forward past commercials, or if you watched it while it was recording. Therefore it may mark you as watching those commercials.
If I find an ad insulting, I too will decide not to purchase from them. Insulting ads include those that pull the whole "men are so stupid" angle that advertisers are so fond of. I wonder if those ads are insulting to women, too? Like pandering? Man, I hate that.
.. for Austin Powers, that is just a corny movie all around, so the heineken scene fits in a bit just because it's so corny. Heineken isn't bad beer, either, but if you're more likely to buy generics, you'd probably avoid Heineken anyways because it's relatively expensive. :)
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I think it must be hard for the TiVo to know when you're actually sitting down in front of it. I mean, it's running 24x7. Maybe it can determine you're idle, but after how long would it decide that? A 30 minute show w/o interaction? 60 minutes? etc.
Now where's the plushie stand-up arcade? Life size, of course!
Almost nobody (relatively) plays online console games. Nintendo is wise to wait until that market matures.