Yes, I think that this game would be VERY fun. Why hide the damn fact? Yes, I think it would be VERY fun to act as a terrorist and kill U.S. forces, while afterward, it would be VERY fun to play on the U.S. side and kill the terrorists. Why fun? Why should I say its fun to play a video game character that kills Americans? Why the hell not? The strategy and tactics involved in both sides would be interesting, no matter what it's actually meant to depict. In fact, simulating a defeat of the Marines would be quite fun to do, since they obviously won and outgunned their enemies.
Aside from that, killing anything and everything is fun in video games, and that's just how it is. I'll shoot a baby with a rocket launcher, and then get off the PC and go about my peaceful day in real life. It's a fucking game. Hence the name.
Anyone heard of Counterstrike? That game is notorious for being VERY fun, despite the fact that one of the teams has to play the terrorists. Whoever is sensitive to this needs to not play, and stop trying to ruin the time of those who want to play.
This is more ridiculous than the people who protested against Resident Evil 5, a game set in Africa, where (surprise!) a majority of the zombies are black.
Why not just give in and sell out? Sell Linux to Microsoft for a billion dollars. Then, fork it and use the money to continue development. If they want to pay for something that's free, they can go ahead:)
I think that if all cell phones are tracked but have no user-identifying information on them, including a law to specifically make all associations between such data and any end-user invalid, then it can have a chance of being safe.
It would allow for very useful statistical info, many uses of which don't deal with the end users, but more of service usage reports, etc. Think of Webalizer, but in this case it would be Cellalizer:D
Maybe 'deserved' is too much of a problematic word to use. However, if someone did the same to me as what Hans' wife did to him, well, I'd love for them to die. Painfully.
How is the security on the machines in China? Another way to look at it is that China can be a fat target for bot herding, etc. Just because a connection comes in from China, doesn't mean that it didn't originate from the States.
I've actually been hoping things like this come along for quite some time. For me, it all started with Samba, Synergy, VNC, NX, Cygwin and Wine. Some Thinstall was thrown in for application portability, but it wasn't until I saw VMware Fusion that I began to get really excited. I'm not a Mac user, so while I definitely liked it, it didn't do me much good.
After discovering VirtualBox's seamless mode and the new cross-platform Unity feature of the latest VMware Workstation Beta (Putting Windows apps into Linux) and coLinux/andLinux/Ulteo (Putting Linux apps into Windows), I am finally seeing what I've wanted to see for quite some time. Integrating OSes with each other can have some very interesting results.
After using Linux and Windows together for several years, I actually began to like both OSes more than before. Yes, I even began to appreciate Windows more. I guess it's because I have less reliance in Windows on the things Windows does wrong. It works the other way around too.
One of the things I did was find a way to keep Windows more safe and secure than it is on its own. While putting a Windows box behind NAT is a pretty nice way, I looked at it from another angle. While incoming connections to possibly insecure and exploitable services is one path to destruction, I noticed that another big one is through the browser. This is where coLinux (and its relatives) came in.
(Linux->Windows) To me, the web browser is among biggest sources of malware infestation in Windows. What if I don't use a web browser in Windows? What if it runs on Linux, but displays in Windows? I've done this before using NX, but it was VERY inconvenient. Now with things like andLinux, I can use what looks like a native Firefox, with a negligible risk of it being able to harm my Windows machine. This plugs up quite a large security hole, not to mention making my Windows machine feel like some sort of hybrid freak of nature.:)
(Windows->Linux) An example of it working the other way around is at work. My work laptop runs Ubuntu. However, some software and services that we use only runs in Windows or has an MSIE-only web interface. Having that Windows-only (Wine can't handle all of them) app open up on my Linux desktop running perfectly in its native environment (behind the scenes) is definitely a plus.
I'm sure others will come up with multitudes of purposes that will keep this thing going.
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I'm looking at those craters and am trying to figure out where the Phobos bases are. Perhaps it's at the wrong angle. Did the UAC cover it up?
I believe they were caused by Barons of Hell.
Your comment was a good read. You're someone that has sense.
Yes, I think that this game would be VERY fun. Why hide the damn fact? Yes, I think it would be VERY fun to act as a terrorist and kill U.S. forces, while afterward, it would be VERY fun to play on the U.S. side and kill the terrorists. Why fun? Why should I say its fun to play a video game character that kills Americans? Why the hell not? The strategy and tactics involved in both sides would be interesting, no matter what it's actually meant to depict. In fact, simulating a defeat of the Marines would be quite fun to do, since they obviously won and outgunned their enemies.
Aside from that, killing anything and everything is fun in video games, and that's just how it is. I'll shoot a baby with a rocket launcher, and then get off the PC and go about my peaceful day in real life. It's a fucking game. Hence the name.
Anyone heard of Counterstrike? That game is notorious for being VERY fun, despite the fact that one of the teams has to play the terrorists. Whoever is sensitive to this needs to not play, and stop trying to ruin the time of those who want to play.
This is more ridiculous than the people who protested against Resident Evil 5, a game set in Africa, where (surprise!) a majority of the zombies are black.
Why not just give in and sell out? Sell Linux to Microsoft for a billion dollars. Then, fork it and use the money to continue development. If they want to pay for something that's free, they can go ahead :)
This is what you're looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM
LMAO
I think that if all cell phones are tracked but have no user-identifying information on them, including a law to specifically make all associations between such data and any end-user invalid, then it can have a chance of being safe.
It would allow for very useful statistical info, many uses of which don't deal with the end users, but more of service usage reports, etc. Think of Webalizer, but in this case it would be Cellalizer :D
Obscenity laws? A court case over what pr0n someone wants to watch? JIHAD!
But seriously.. WTF? This is very rediculous.
Where's the form for sending in my current iPhone for a cheap/free upgrade to the new one?
Maybe 'deserved' is too much of a problematic word to use. However, if someone did the same to me as what Hans' wife did to him, well, I'd love for them to die. Painfully.
How is the security on the machines in China? Another way to look at it is that China can be a fat target for bot herding, etc. Just because a connection comes in from China, doesn't mean that it didn't originate from the States.
I've actually been hoping things like this come along for quite some time. For me, it all started with Samba, Synergy, VNC, NX, Cygwin and Wine. Some Thinstall was thrown in for application portability, but it wasn't until I saw VMware Fusion that I began to get really excited. I'm not a Mac user, so while I definitely liked it, it didn't do me much good.
:)
After discovering VirtualBox's seamless mode and the new cross-platform Unity feature of the latest VMware Workstation Beta (Putting Windows apps into Linux) and coLinux/andLinux/Ulteo (Putting Linux apps into Windows), I am finally seeing what I've wanted to see for quite some time. Integrating OSes with each other can have some very interesting results.
After using Linux and Windows together for several years, I actually began to like both OSes more than before. Yes, I even began to appreciate Windows more. I guess it's because I have less reliance in Windows on the things Windows does wrong. It works the other way around too.
One of the things I did was find a way to keep Windows more safe and secure than it is on its own. While putting a Windows box behind NAT is a pretty nice way, I looked at it from another angle. While incoming connections to possibly insecure and exploitable services is one path to destruction, I noticed that another big one is through the browser. This is where coLinux (and its relatives) came in.
(Linux->Windows)
To me, the web browser is among biggest sources of malware infestation in Windows. What if I don't use a web browser in Windows? What if it runs on Linux, but displays in Windows? I've done this before using NX, but it was VERY inconvenient. Now with things like andLinux, I can use what looks like a native Firefox, with a negligible risk of it being able to harm my Windows machine. This plugs up quite a large security hole, not to mention making my Windows machine feel like some sort of hybrid freak of nature.
(Windows->Linux)
An example of it working the other way around is at work. My work laptop runs Ubuntu. However, some software and services that we use only runs in Windows or has an MSIE-only web interface. Having that Windows-only (Wine can't handle all of them) app open up on my Linux desktop running perfectly in its native environment (behind the scenes) is definitely a plus.
I'm sure others will come up with multitudes of purposes that will keep this thing going.
Holy shit.. Number munchers! I remember playing this back in elementary school. Almost as good as DOOM ;)
I wonder if those run linux. If not, how long before they become a botnet?