Step 1: Port game
Step 2: General controversy over game
Step 3: Profit!
IMHO this post was scored incorrectly....
this is not just "Funny" but is also just plain smart/insightful. this may have been a clever move, but it was more than that...this was just plain smart. creating controversy (especially among this community) is advertising. i imagine that sales for this game has gone up (and will continue to go up) since this post. i for one will probably pick this game up when i finish this post. like i said, many times controversy => advertisement...and a lot of that advertisement ends up being positive...i mean geeze....look at the tone of this thread...
-ryan
The present Pope seems to be a lot more forward-thinking and progressive than previous popes. There was a very interesting read in Time magazine recently (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1727724,00.html) that showed not only his stance on America (the main topic of the article) but also his beliefs/forward thinking mentality.
While this seems like a dirty Big Brother thing to do, and something that many Americans would think that are government would never do, I wouldn't put it past the US to do just that. In their defense, why not? If they are _truly_ doing it for the better good (prisons, terrorist tracking, etc), is it really all that bad? You cant devise a better test case scenario...
Some food for thought anyway. I have pretty strong opinions for both sides on something like this.
With all of the digital media that we tote around on our 250GB hard drives (I in particular drag around 100 GB of media when on transcontinental trips), this sort of thing makes you wonder...if they are going to search and seize...without probable cause...whats next? Does the RIAA and the MPAA jump in too and try to catch people who enjoy their "own" in-flight entertainment?
Being a firearms aficionado (I collect a library of guns and compete very heavily), I have learned that their are some entities in the government that dont really care about due process and what the law says...search/seizure. They glaze right over a lot of stuff. While I personally have never had ANY problems with the BATFE, I have heard countless stories of scary things that happen to innocent people and it takes a lot of money to clear their good name...but I digress.
"Nearly half of all respondents said that they used the same password for all of their online accounts..."
I have statistical evidence (sample size of a little over 5000) that proves that says that the percentage is MUCH higher...more like 80-85%.
We talk all the time about privacy, net security, identity theft, etc., but this something that is VERY often overlooked. There are many LAMP projects out there (mostly put together by high schoolers or ambitious university freshmen) that collect an email and a password for their own user authentication and then don't encrypt their users' passwords in database. Dishonest 15 year-old admin + one select query on his own database and then approx 80% of the time you have access to the users' email account. From there, the sky's the limit. Online banking, university login accounts, etc. Troubling to say the least. We need a LOT more education of stupid kids that don't know how to encrypt passwords safely in their DB. Furthermore, we need to remember good old fashion ethics in this stuff.
We just need to get "space vacations" down to the sub-million dollar mark. Right now...unless you have more money than God, you are pretty much out of luck.
Good to see some competition. This will hopefully achieve the goal of lowering the price for a space getaway.
That would be wonderful. You are right...competition is good.
Along those lines...it is interesting that in many ways OS X (and the iPhone for that matter) have made it to the desktop and consumer market and become extraordinarily successful by utilizing open source software that was originally designed to run with Linux and other unices to compete with Microsoft all while the powers that be at Apple have been VERY strict about what goes in to the OS, what makes it to prime-time, etc.
In my opinion, Apple has done a great job at both releasing very competitive products (with open source underpinnings and features) and maintaining a balance between the potentially chaotic open-source world and the "real" consumer world in their products...something that Linux unfortunately has failed to do thus far.
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Step 1: Port game
Step 2: General controversy over game
Step 3: Profit!
IMHO this post was scored incorrectly.... this is not just "Funny" but is also just plain smart/insightful. this may have been a clever move, but it was more than that...this was just plain smart. creating controversy (especially among this community) is advertising. i imagine that sales for this game has gone up (and will continue to go up) since this post. i for one will probably pick this game up when i finish this post. like i said, many times controversy => advertisement...and a lot of that advertisement ends up being positive...i mean geeze....look at the tone of this thread... -ryan
1 3.5" floppy = 30 gram
1 floppy = 1.44 MB
1 petabyte = 1,073,741,824 MB
1 petabyte (stored in floppy format) weighs: 745,654,044.44 grams (745.65404444 metric tons)
dont laugh...my _favorite_ pass-times are blowing the hell out of hardware.
steps:
1. go here to buy explosives (legally):
2. supply center-fire rifle
3. mix (hardware + tannerite)
4. blow the hell out of it.
enjoy.
The present Pope seems to be a lot more forward-thinking and progressive than previous popes. There was a very interesting read in Time magazine recently (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1727724,00.html) that showed not only his stance on America (the main topic of the article) but also his beliefs/forward thinking mentality.
While this seems like a dirty Big Brother thing to do, and something that many Americans would think that are government would never do, I wouldn't put it past the US to do just that. In their defense, why not? If they are _truly_ doing it for the better good (prisons, terrorist tracking, etc), is it really all that bad? You cant devise a better test case scenario... Some food for thought anyway. I have pretty strong opinions for both sides on something like this.
With all of the digital media that we tote around on our 250GB hard drives (I in particular drag around 100 GB of media when on transcontinental trips), this sort of thing makes you wonder...if they are going to search and seize...without probable cause...whats next? Does the RIAA and the MPAA jump in too and try to catch people who enjoy their "own" in-flight entertainment? Being a firearms aficionado (I collect a library of guns and compete very heavily), I have learned that their are some entities in the government that dont really care about due process and what the law says...search/seizure. They glaze right over a lot of stuff. While I personally have never had ANY problems with the BATFE, I have heard countless stories of scary things that happen to innocent people and it takes a lot of money to clear their good name...but I digress.
"Nearly half of all respondents said that they used the same password for all of their online accounts..." I have statistical evidence (sample size of a little over 5000) that proves that says that the percentage is MUCH higher...more like 80-85%. We talk all the time about privacy, net security, identity theft, etc., but this something that is VERY often overlooked. There are many LAMP projects out there (mostly put together by high schoolers or ambitious university freshmen) that collect an email and a password for their own user authentication and then don't encrypt their users' passwords in database. Dishonest 15 year-old admin + one select query on his own database and then approx 80% of the time you have access to the users' email account. From there, the sky's the limit. Online banking, university login accounts, etc. Troubling to say the least. We need a LOT more education of stupid kids that don't know how to encrypt passwords safely in their DB. Furthermore, we need to remember good old fashion ethics in this stuff.
We just need to get "space vacations" down to the sub-million dollar mark. Right now...unless you have more money than God, you are pretty much out of luck. Good to see some competition. This will hopefully achieve the goal of lowering the price for a space getaway.
Precisely. Even RIM is shaking in their boots...not to mention Palm...
That would be wonderful. You are right...competition is good. Along those lines...it is interesting that in many ways OS X (and the iPhone for that matter) have made it to the desktop and consumer market and become extraordinarily successful by utilizing open source software that was originally designed to run with Linux and other unices to compete with Microsoft all while the powers that be at Apple have been VERY strict about what goes in to the OS, what makes it to prime-time, etc. In my opinion, Apple has done a great job at both releasing very competitive products (with open source underpinnings and features) and maintaining a balance between the potentially chaotic open-source world and the "real" consumer world in their products...something that Linux unfortunately has failed to do thus far.
iPhone will be hard to beat. Apple is way ahead of the curve no matter how you cut it.
...you can't fight here. This is the war room!