Actually, you generally *do* put your finest detection systems on your SSBNs. You want them to hear when they're being hunted, and get the hell out of dodge.
That it does. Also includes detecting laser sights and what not. I'll point out, though, that fire detection is a known quantity, from AEGIS to CIWS to Patriot to anti-sniper and artillery counter-battery. Hell, Snow Crash has lengthy discussions about using millimeter-wave radar for trajectory plotting.
Ray Winninger's UnderGround, c 1993 MayFair Games.
More specifically: "Fully Strapped, Always Packed: Gats and Gear from the UnderGround" by Mitch Gitelman, c 1993 MayFair Games.
From "Fully Strapped, Always Packed, page 83-84": Geneve Dodge-Man
Dodge-Man is Geneve's entry into the conflict software market. Essentially a tool to combat Pueblo's Firefight!, Dodge-Man is billed as the ultimate 'First Alert' system, linking the Punkbuster radar detector (and other brands,) a "Lockout" laser-sight system foiler, adn a patented electrode system. Before leaving a place of safety, the user ocvers her body in adhesive electrodes. She then covers her body in Heavykev and/or MONDO armors as usual. When confronted by a positive lock from Pueblo Sniper! or Firefight!, Dodge-Man fires a small electrical charge into the epidermis of the wearer. This "buzz" alerts the user to incoming ifre and indicates the targeted area, allowing the user to get a jump on her dodge.
Running the program gives the user +2 to her Acrobatics/Dodge Specialty. It will take some time to get used to the muscle spasm/immediate movement component of the system. Most veterans practice several times with empty magazines to get the feel of the software.
One day, while installing Windows at home, it wanted a company name. Wouldn't let me continue without one. So I put in 'Defenders of Justice.'
A while later, while checking a resume written in Word 2000, I couldn't help but notice that 'Defenders of Justice' was auto-embedded in the file metadata.
Flawed...budget. LIQUIDATE THEM! (accountant, who during this was standing with a briefcase in one hand and a pen in the other, swaying back and forth and bouncing up and down, suddenly whips open the briefcase, pulls out a document, and starts writing on it with exaggerated, frenzied slashes of the pen.) BANKRUPTCY!
Oh, I did, but never the less, the fact that they can't be bothered to write a proper client-server architecture, what, twenty years later, is a prime example of the problem.
UAC was never about the user; it was about the developers. For ten bloody years now, everything necessary to write apps without admin requirements, without needing to write to places like program files, and so on, have been in Windows.
You could do it in WinME, you could do it in Win2000, you could do it in XP. Developers didn't bother. I *still* find programs that want to write user data to program files. Hell, I just about fell over when I discovered,installing the 'network' version of Quickbook 2008, that it sticks a file on a network share with a lockfile. Like dBase and Foxpro and what not for WfWg 3.11 did.
UAC is a big FU to those developers. It just didn't work as intended. People bitched at Microsoft for all of the 'unnecessary' prompts, rather than bitching at the developers for writing software that expected crazy access to the computer.
Well, see, that's the problem. Scientists, as a whole, almost always assume that 'what we know is what there is to know.'
Here's an example: requirements for life. Even as recently as the seventies, maybe the eighties, it was thought for a planet to support life, it had to be in the 'habitable zone' of a planet. I believe the Drake equation even requires this; one of the factors, as I recall, is 'number of planets within the habitable zone.' Basically, this involves liquid water, and, basically, Earth-normal temperature and the like.
You may even remember being told in school 'all life, the whole Earth food chain, derives from the Sun.'
Then they started finding extremeophiles. Entire ecosystems that never have, nor ever will, see the sun, right here on Earth.
So who knows how and where Life might just pop up? We certainly don't.
In the first case, the system would not read a USB stick. In an effort to debug why, I simply tried to run Control Panel to look at the device list. That locked up explorer so hard the system needed, yep, a reboot.
Hardware issue, likely.
The other case was similar, I was in a presentation and the presenter had a Vista laptop. Just as she was beginning the presentation, Windows Update kicked in with an uninterruptible update (at least there was no visual way to delay it). She had to speak free-form for about five minutes while the update finished, and then - yep, a reboot.
User couldn't be bothered to tell Windows Update to silently download, but require direct user intervention to install. Or her IT department had really stupid settings. Neither of these are Windows-specific in any way.
Would views of Microsoft change if they only offered one version of each operating system (equivalent to the Professional or Ultimate edition) and they charged only $50 per license?
Well, in this case, everybody on Slashdot would be bitching about how Microsoft is selling at a huge loss to undercut everybody else, and artificially extend their eeeeevil monopoly.
You really can't beat some of the old, light weight OSes for speed. DOS will probably give you the best app performance you'll ever get. Why? Because DOS doesn't do anything. DOS will load your program and then get the hell out of the way unless you specifically place a call to one of its few services. It doesn't manage memory, it doesn't handle processes, it just does disk operations (it's well named).
The downside, of course, being keeping ems, xms, qemu and what not straight; manually tweaking the load order of drivers to squeeze that last two kb of memory out of lowmem, needing to set IRQ and DMA numbers manually for your sound card, EVERY game having it's own setup routine (configure your digital sound system, FM or MIDI music system, and video system) and so on.
My point is that, as soon as you allow the President to have a means of making "private" communications, then don't you think he or she would use that to keep his or her own deliberations secret?
Ok. Where do you draw the line? The President can't use a non-official phone? The President cannot ever be alone with somebody? The President cannot write a birthday card to his Auntie Mabel without a copy going into the permanant record?
After all, 'best birthday wishes' might be code for 'buy Haliburton; we's invadin' another o'l country!' and 'best wishes on your birthday' might be code for 'sell Microsoft; we're sending Gates to Guantanamo tomorrow!'
Mobile technologies just add an extra element to this and make it a bit easier to do for the kids. Also safer. Girl can take a pic in the privacy of her room and send it to boy who can whack one off in the privacy of his room. In my day there was always the risk of getting caught with the girl in the woods and getting an ear bashing from the local bobby or parents.
Back in they day, if you took a picture of yourself all nekkid and pouty, you took it in to get developed. If you got away with that, the worst that would probably happen is that the developer would put a print in their Binder of Iniquity, and the person you gave it to might just pass it around, or make really crappy photocopies.
Take a digital picture of yourself, or Gods forbid a video, email it, and you might just be an Internet star within the week. It's happened before.
Actually, it's titled 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door'. However, for the American market, like so many other movies, it was thought that the title wasn't clear enough.
This is similar to how, in America, 'The Madness of King George The Third' was simply titled 'The Madness of King George,' lest movie-goers bitch about how they missed the first two. Or 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,' rather than 'Philosopher's Stone.'
I remember playing Police Quest 2. Mainly because it wasn't all that long ago; found the Police Quest Collection at Future Shop. Space Quest Collection too, for that matter.
Anywho, at one point you're on highway patrol, and need to clock a speeder by pacing him. When you go to court, you need to bring the calibration records for your speedometer with you.
How is this any different? Why don't the police need to prove, *prove* that the breathalyzer is reasonably maintained, accurate, and calibrated?
Back in the day of the NES, you could become an NES developer. You were allowed, I believe, five titles per year. Period. No exceptions.
There were other onerous requirements, such as needing to pre-order your carts, to be manufactured by Nintendo, with lead times measured in the months. Turns out your game is a hit? Hope you ordered enough, or the shelves will be empty for three months. Overestimated your game's appeal? You're left with a pile of carts you paid something like $30 each for.
Nintendo also reserved the right to approve or not a game. But when you only have five chances a year, you tend to make sure your games are good, so it did have a positive effect on game quality.
One of the ways Sony ate Nintendo's lunch with the PS1 was getting rid of those requirements. "Hey, make all the games you want! Throw it all out there and see what sticks!" Also, CDs are cents to duplicate, and you can churn out hundreds of thousands in a weekend. Had Nintendo not tried to force carts onto devs with the N64, the playing field in the middle 90s would have looked a *lot* different.
Note that this is why Microsoft was more-or-less destined to win when they decided to go into consoles; a console lives or dies by it's software, and therefore by developer support. Microsoft knows this; has for decades. The Dreamcast died because developers feared Sega's history with hardware. Nintendo has virtually no third-party blockbusters because developers all farked off to Sony. There are tons of PS1 and PS2 games with sequal numbers on the end that started on the Nintendo or the SNES. And now they're moving to the Xbox. Say, Star Ocean: 1 was an SNES game. 2 and 3 where PS2. And 4 is a 360 exclusive. Metal Gear? Originally an NES franchise. Final Fantasy? The first six were NES and SNES games. Seven through Twelve were PS1 or PS2 games. And Thirteen will be out on the 360.
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I see you're not from Iceland.
Actually, you generally *do* put your finest detection systems on your SSBNs. You want them to hear when they're being hunted, and get the hell out of dodge.
We Hide With Pride.
"Uhm...vhat are you sinking about?"
That it does. Also includes detecting laser sights and what not. I'll point out, though, that fire detection is a known quantity, from AEGIS to CIWS to Patriot to anti-sniper and artillery counter-battery. Hell, Snow Crash has lengthy discussions about using millimeter-wave radar for trajectory plotting.
Ray Winninger's UnderGround, c 1993 MayFair Games.
More specifically: "Fully Strapped, Always Packed: Gats and Gear from the UnderGround" by Mitch Gitelman, c 1993 MayFair Games.
From "Fully Strapped, Always Packed, page 83-84":
Geneve Dodge-Man
Dodge-Man is Geneve's entry into the conflict software market. Essentially a tool to combat Pueblo's Firefight!, Dodge-Man is billed as the ultimate 'First Alert' system, linking the Punkbuster radar detector (and other brands,) a "Lockout" laser-sight system foiler, adn a patented electrode system. Before leaving a place of safety, the user ocvers her body in adhesive electrodes. She then covers her body in Heavykev and/or MONDO armors as usual. When confronted by a positive lock from Pueblo Sniper! or Firefight!, Dodge-Man fires a small electrical charge into the epidermis of the wearer. This "buzz" alerts the user to incoming ifre and indicates the targeted area, allowing the user to get a jump on her dodge.
Running the program gives the user +2 to her Acrobatics/Dodge Specialty. It will take some time to get used to the muscle spasm/immediate movement component of the system. Most veterans practice several times with empty magazines to get the feel of the software.
Emphasis mine.
It says 'we like money. There are more PS2s out there than there are PS3s and Xbox360s combined, and we'd be idiots to leave money on the table.'
One day, while installing Windows at home, it wanted a company name. Wouldn't let me continue without one. So I put in 'Defenders of Justice.'
A while later, while checking a resume written in Word 2000, I couldn't help but notice that 'Defenders of Justice' was auto-embedded in the file metadata.
Flawed...budget. LIQUIDATE THEM! (accountant, who during this was standing with a briefcase in one hand and a pen in the other, swaying back and forth and bouncing up and down, suddenly whips open the briefcase, pulls out a document, and starts writing on it with exaggerated, frenzied slashes of the pen.) BANKRUPTCY!
I think Microsoft does get it; I think you don't.
Mac says 'the computer is the most important thing; if you're not using a Mac, you're not cool.'
Microsoft says 'the user is the most important thing; the user needs to be able to accomplish what the user wants to do.
Oh, I did, but never the less, the fact that they can't be bothered to write a proper client-server architecture, what, twenty years later, is a prime example of the problem.
You're almost there!
UAC was never about the user; it was about the developers. For ten bloody years now, everything necessary to write apps without admin requirements, without needing to write to places like program files, and so on, have been in Windows.
You could do it in WinME, you could do it in Win2000, you could do it in XP. Developers didn't bother. I *still* find programs that want to write user data to program files. Hell, I just about fell over when I discovered,installing the 'network' version of Quickbook 2008, that it sticks a file on a network share with a lockfile. Like dBase and Foxpro and what not for WfWg 3.11 did.
UAC is a big FU to those developers. It just didn't work as intended. People bitched at Microsoft for all of the 'unnecessary' prompts, rather than bitching at the developers for writing software that expected crazy access to the computer.
Well, see, that's the problem. Scientists, as a whole, almost always assume that 'what we know is what there is to know.'
Here's an example: requirements for life. Even as recently as the seventies, maybe the eighties, it was thought for a planet to support life, it had to be in the 'habitable zone' of a planet. I believe the Drake equation even requires this; one of the factors, as I recall, is 'number of planets within the habitable zone.' Basically, this involves liquid water, and, basically, Earth-normal temperature and the like.
You may even remember being told in school 'all life, the whole Earth food chain, derives from the Sun.'
Then they started finding extremeophiles. Entire ecosystems that never have, nor ever will, see the sun, right here on Earth.
So who knows how and where Life might just pop up? We certainly don't.
Less. Seriously.
Hardware issue, likely.
User couldn't be bothered to tell Windows Update to silently download, but require direct user intervention to install. Or her IT department had really stupid settings. Neither of these are Windows-specific in any way.
Well, in this case, everybody on Slashdot would be bitching about how Microsoft is selling at a huge loss to undercut everybody else, and artificially extend their eeeeevil monopoly.
The downside, of course, being keeping ems, xms, qemu and what not straight; manually tweaking the load order of drivers to squeeze that last two kb of memory out of lowmem, needing to set IRQ and DMA numbers manually for your sound card, EVERY game having it's own setup routine (configure your digital sound system, FM or MIDI music system, and video system) and so on.
Looking at the screenshots, I don't think it's Windows Mobile; I think it's Windows 2000.
-gt is (also?) a bash comparison operator.
Ok. Where do you draw the line? The President can't use a non-official phone? The President cannot ever be alone with somebody? The President cannot write a birthday card to his Auntie Mabel without a copy going into the permanant record?
After all, 'best birthday wishes' might be code for 'buy Haliburton; we's invadin' another o'l country!' and 'best wishes on your birthday' might be code for 'sell Microsoft; we're sending Gates to Guantanamo tomorrow!'
The word is 'delta green.'
And get an update out on the Hermes network while you're at it. I'll initiate the call in to Argus.
Fnord.
Microprose, Sierra and SSI: The Holy Trinity.
Back in they day, if you took a picture of yourself all nekkid and pouty, you took it in to get developed. If you got away with that, the worst that would probably happen is that the developer would put a print in their Binder of Iniquity, and the person you gave it to might just pass it around, or make really crappy photocopies.
Take a digital picture of yourself, or Gods forbid a video, email it, and you might just be an Internet star within the week. It's happened before.
So yes, it's now a different beast.
Actually, it's titled 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door'. However, for the American market, like so many other movies, it was thought that the title wasn't clear enough.
This is similar to how, in America, 'The Madness of King George The Third' was simply titled 'The Madness of King George,' lest movie-goers bitch about how they missed the first two. Or 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,' rather than 'Philosopher's Stone.'
I remember playing Police Quest 2. Mainly because it wasn't all that long ago; found the Police Quest Collection at Future Shop. Space Quest Collection too, for that matter.
Anywho, at one point you're on highway patrol, and need to clock a speeder by pacing him. When you go to court, you need to bring the calibration records for your speedometer with you.
How is this any different? Why don't the police need to prove, *prove* that the breathalyzer is reasonably maintained, accurate, and calibrated?
Sort of true, but you miss the point.
Back in the day of the NES, you could become an NES developer. You were allowed, I believe, five titles per year. Period. No exceptions.
There were other onerous requirements, such as needing to pre-order your carts, to be manufactured by Nintendo, with lead times measured in the months. Turns out your game is a hit? Hope you ordered enough, or the shelves will be empty for three months. Overestimated your game's appeal? You're left with a pile of carts you paid something like $30 each for.
Nintendo also reserved the right to approve or not a game. But when you only have five chances a year, you tend to make sure your games are good, so it did have a positive effect on game quality.
One of the ways Sony ate Nintendo's lunch with the PS1 was getting rid of those requirements. "Hey, make all the games you want! Throw it all out there and see what sticks!" Also, CDs are cents to duplicate, and you can churn out hundreds of thousands in a weekend. Had Nintendo not tried to force carts onto devs with the N64, the playing field in the middle 90s would have looked a *lot* different.
Note that this is why Microsoft was more-or-less destined to win when they decided to go into consoles; a console lives or dies by it's software, and therefore by developer support. Microsoft knows this; has for decades. The Dreamcast died because developers feared Sega's history with hardware. Nintendo has virtually no third-party blockbusters because developers all farked off to Sony. There are tons of PS1 and PS2 games with sequal numbers on the end that started on the Nintendo or the SNES. And now they're moving to the Xbox. Say, Star Ocean: 1 was an SNES game. 2 and 3 where PS2. And 4 is a 360 exclusive. Metal Gear? Originally an NES franchise. Final Fantasy? The first six were NES and SNES games. Seven through Twelve were PS1 or PS2 games. And Thirteen will be out on the 360.