I know that admitting this means I have to turn in my Obscure Indie Game Enthusiast card, but I didn't know about Uplink until yesterday when I bought the newest Humble Bundle. Played it some today. Still amazed that they made the idea work at all, and that it's actually quite a bit of fun.
We all owe a huge debt of gratitude to Introversion for their pioneering work in indie games. I know that their games have a particular flair that doesn't appeal to everyone, but *that's the whole point* of indie games; with enough independent developers, you eventually get something quirky and awesome that fits your particular tastes.
Using stars between us and the black hole as a lens to magnify the viewing target? That seems like the astronomer's equivalent of a ninja move. Brilliant.
We're sure getting a lot of use out of Hubble. Weren't we planning on decommissioning it at some point in time? I'm glad we didn't.
The problem is NOT java, the problem is SSL/TLS. Java was just the vector which was used to exploit this, and disabling Java doesn't disable the real problem, especially since Mozilla refuses to support TLS 1.1.
What really shocks me is that this is the lead developers of Firefox recommending this solution. I just kind of assumed they would address the SSL/TLS issue instead of the particular implementation flavor the researchers chose.
Ostensibly, bands that play cover songs are supposed to pre-arrange the rights to record or perform said songs with a performance rights organization, and then pay royalties for the performance or pay for a license to record and distribute the song. The PROs make their money off of this, so they can be pretty aggressive about hunting down people who play or perform the music of the copyright holders they represent. The question of who actually pays the fee can get complicated depending on how the music is performed; in a traditional live performance, the location hosting the performance would likely be paying the performance royalty, not the band.
That being said, I'm betting a lot of local performers and garage bands often don't have enough visibility to show up on the radar.
That's how it works, though; legally, you have to pay a fee to get your guitar out and perform a song so common any random stranger could hum the tune along with you.
After reading this, I just want to go shake Jan Standal's hand. It's not often you see a a suit invert a rival's rhetoric against them so pointedly and humorously. Usually it's all serious business, especially, you know, with the internet.
I think this trend has more to do with the size and shape of laptops than anything else. A keyboard and touchpad usually don't need to take up a 4:3 rectangular space, and space is at a premium for laptops.
I know that California's budget concerns go far beyond just the building of this school, but this is still the kind of irresponsible spending that got them into the mess they're currently in. If I were in charge of this project, I wouldn't want anyone to know about it right now.
Violence was probably the biggest factor. Enough of the general population would be repulsed by the level of violence/gore in Bioshock. Perhaps more importantly, if the professor's intent is to discuss a video game's expression of humanity, they'd probably like to avoid slipping into the boilerplate "violence in video games" discussion. For essentially being an FPS, Portal is one of the least violent video games available, at least in terms of violence initiated by the player.
Other reasons to not choose Bioshock include, but are not limited to:
Length of play time
Required skill level of player
Steeper system requirements
PC Version of Bioshock is seriously buggy, has chronic crashing problems on many machines
Many non-gamers get motion sick when playing an FPS, especially Portal. This sounds like a bad idea.
Mod parent up, please. This is probably the biggest hurdle to discussing Portal in an academic setting. I know people I would love to recommend the game to, but I'm not going to because they feel like throwing up after watching 5 minutes of an FPS.
Data naturally goes stale like bread, can be fed to ducks.
All of the language around "letting data degrade" seems to imply that it would be no work, no trouble at all for Google to make this happen. Just let it get less specific, that determining the rules for gracefully removing data while maintaining integrity is the natural order of database storage.
I'm afraid I have to agree with the article in principle, but it depends a lot on the specific racing game you're playing and what behaviors it encourages. As the parent post suggests, some games may actually improve your alertness and reactions.
On the other hand, after extended periods of playing some racing games, I've had to noticeably resist the urge to speed or make wide left hand turns. The urge did fade away soon after I stopped playing.
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With SOPA, they can take your site down if you link to (or, presumably, mention) megaupload.com. Think about that one for a minute.
I know that admitting this means I have to turn in my Obscure Indie Game Enthusiast card, but I didn't know about Uplink until yesterday when I bought the newest Humble Bundle. Played it some today. Still amazed that they made the idea work at all, and that it's actually quite a bit of fun.
We all owe a huge debt of gratitude to Introversion for their pioneering work in indie games. I know that their games have a particular flair that doesn't appeal to everyone, but *that's the whole point* of indie games; with enough independent developers, you eventually get something quirky and awesome that fits your particular tastes.
We already have a more appropriate name prepared for it.
Using stars between us and the black hole as a lens to magnify the viewing target? That seems like the astronomer's equivalent of a ninja move. Brilliant.
We're sure getting a lot of use out of Hubble. Weren't we planning on decommissioning it at some point in time? I'm glad we didn't.
They're not giving that vaccine to *my* sweet, innocent, raging hormonal teenage boy!
This sounds like the Self-Aware Colony in Alpha Centauri.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqN3Ur-wP0
The problem is NOT java, the problem is SSL/TLS. Java was just the vector which was used to exploit this, and disabling Java doesn't disable the real problem, especially since Mozilla refuses to support TLS 1.1.
What really shocks me is that this is the lead developers of Firefox recommending this solution. I just kind of assumed they would address the SSL/TLS issue instead of the particular implementation flavor the researchers chose.
Relevant quote: "...occurred while a person was manually driving the car."
Headline should be: "Human damages Google car by operating it with his own slow, meaty appendages"
Ostensibly, bands that play cover songs are supposed to pre-arrange the rights to record or perform said songs with a performance rights organization, and then pay royalties for the performance or pay for a license to record and distribute the song. The PROs make their money off of this, so they can be pretty aggressive about hunting down people who play or perform the music of the copyright holders they represent. The question of who actually pays the fee can get complicated depending on how the music is performed; in a traditional live performance, the location hosting the performance would likely be paying the performance royalty, not the band.
That being said, I'm betting a lot of local performers and garage bands often don't have enough visibility to show up on the radar.
That's how it works, though; legally, you have to pay a fee to get your guitar out and perform a song so common any random stranger could hum the tune along with you.
I love the implication that Anonymous has a representative that can "disavow knowledge of such an attack."
Anonymous is not an organization! It's a bunch of jerks on the internet.
*slow clap*
These comments are just bristling with penis jokes.
After reading this, I just want to go shake Jan Standal's hand. It's not often you see a a suit invert a rival's rhetoric against them so pointedly and humorously. Usually it's all serious business, especially, you know, with the internet.
"Study Confirms That Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, etc. Makes You Stupid".
No, really, that's what the article says.
Hey-o!
I think this trend has more to do with the size and shape of laptops than anything else. A keyboard and touchpad usually don't need to take up a 4:3 rectangular space, and space is at a premium for laptops.
I know that California's budget concerns go far beyond just the building of this school, but this is still the kind of irresponsible spending that got them into the mess they're currently in. If I were in charge of this project, I wouldn't want anyone to know about it right now.
From the article
"I thought about Bioshock".
Would you kindly explain why it wasn't chosen?
Violence was probably the biggest factor. Enough of the general population would be repulsed by the level of violence/gore in Bioshock. Perhaps more importantly, if the professor's intent is to discuss a video game's expression of humanity, they'd probably like to avoid slipping into the boilerplate "violence in video games" discussion. For essentially being an FPS, Portal is one of the least violent video games available, at least in terms of violence initiated by the player.
Other reasons to not choose Bioshock include, but are not limited to:
Many non-gamers get motion sick when playing an FPS, especially Portal. This sounds like a bad idea.
Mod parent up, please. This is probably the biggest hurdle to discussing Portal in an academic setting. I know people I would love to recommend the game to, but I'm not going to because they feel like throwing up after watching 5 minutes of an FPS.
Why would you need to recharge a microplane? And why would you want to use a powerline? I just use mine for lemon zest.
That's...
*sigh* Okay, that was pretty good.
Data naturally goes stale like bread, can be fed to ducks.
All of the language around "letting data degrade" seems to imply that it would be no work, no trouble at all for Google to make this happen. Just let it get less specific, that determining the rules for gracefully removing data while maintaining integrity is the natural order of database storage.
Let them eat cake.
I'm afraid I have to agree with the article in principle, but it depends a lot on the specific racing game you're playing and what behaviors it encourages. As the parent post suggests, some games may actually improve your alertness and reactions.
On the other hand, after extended periods of playing some racing games, I've had to noticeably resist the urge to speed or make wide left hand turns. The urge did fade away soon after I stopped playing.
Yes! I cried out in jubilation when I heard they finally included proper "read-only slave" replication in the next major relese.
This has been the shameful shortcoming of Postgres for a long time.
This "get off my lawn" response was totally awesome. Five stars.