The _only_ time a review ever made me go and buy a game I hadn't thought of getting was when Old Man Murray said "No One Lives Forever, in many non-trivial ways, is a better game than Half-Life."
Of course, OMM had spent so much time and creative energy bashing Jason Hall, that to get them to admit the game was good was a herculean task....
I disagree. That's the equivalent of installing, say, 50 copies of AutoCAD when you only have one license, and then saying "well... yeah but only one person uses it at a time.
That's not the way it works. There is no descretionary license. If you want to play by the rules, then *everyone* plays by the rules. Including Microsoft Sales managers that like to hand out CDs to the unwitting.
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Ever hear of Per Seat licensing? That's exactly how it works. Three applications I work with use exactly that model, with installations to all potential user's desktops, but only x numbers can be running at once.
As part of a volume license, Microsoft hold the license, not the holder.
The reason we know about this guy is the high profile of some of his advocates. From the A.C.L.U- "According to a November 2002 Washington Post story on the use of material witness warrants, more than 40 people have been detained by the Justice Department since September 11, 2001. As of that time, seven of those were U.S. citizens."
Congratulations, your post has won the highest rating to bullcrap ratio I think I have seen on Slashdot yet. That is quite an achievement...
I have entertained the thought that you are a troll, and that responding to you would serve no purpose. That +5 moderation, however, shows a giant gaping void of ignorance in at least a subset of Slashdot moderators, and that, at least, should be addressed.
Now, I grew up in a household of "big engineering" so I'm a bit biased, but you are so wrong it isn't even funny. points: 1. No mathematics in engineering? I'm speechless. Flabbergasted... Stunned. What do you think engineers use, iambic pentameter? 2. Science. Right, no science in engineering, and a whole lot of science in programming. Why, engineers never use physics, say, or chemistry. Alot less than that guy over there working on opitimizing that printer driver. 3. Art. The Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate bride, the Hoover dam. or Windows ME.
Many engineers I have known have decades of programming experience, on bare metal, Fortran, and C++. Who do you think developed the field in the first place? That programming sprang fully formed from the forehead of Zues, like Athena?
..must not feed the trolls, must not feed the trolls...
Apparently they are talking of doing a remake of Kind Hearts and Coronets with Will Smith in the Dennis Price role and... Brace yourself... Robin Williams performing the Alec Guiness characters.
We finally have conclusive and definitive proof that there is no God.
Boy, between this, lamprey brain powered cyborgs, escaping robots, remote controlld roaches, cloning and rogue bioweapons, it's a great time to be a wild-haired crazy-eyed visionary.
Tampering in God's domain has never been more fruitful!
They said I was mad, the fools. Now, I will crush them all!
Agreed. I fear that in a few years, America will be almost entirely a service industry once all of our _real_ manufacturing capabilities go overseas. The trade deficit that will occur is going to ruin us all.
Thank you muchly to minimum wage legislation and unions for bringing this wonderful scenario to pass.
Almost every manufacturing job out there pays more than the minimum wage. You find minimum wage mostly in the service industry.
While everyone can trot out a number of union anectodes, the fact is the U.S. labor movement is nowhere as powerful as unions in other countries that are investing in R&D, and creating new products.
Funniest line in the Girl's guide to dating Geeks...
"Geeks are sensitive and caring lovers and husbands"
My wife would probably have many words to say about that. Even I know that I can be so completely focused on something that I'm oblivious to anything less than 1kt.
I have mixed emotions about the ISS. On one hand, it is a boondoggle of epic proportions; huge amounts of money shot into space for results that could mostly be obtained from unmanned satellites.
On the other, keeping people in space is important if we want to expand our horizons for manned missions to other planets. And, of course, space travel is neat. Is "neat" worth $40 Billion?
Out of curiosity -- are there any digital media specifically designed for centuries of storage? (In reality, as long as the specs for whatever reader are kept, we can always build another one.) I'm pretty sure that standard CDs, tapes, etc. don't last more than a few decades if you're lucky.
Well, Norsam makes a 1,000 analog storage system using focused ion beams as an engraver, and an electron microscope as a reader. If one was really motivated, I would think a digital version of this could be used.
The Atlas V has a similar throw weight, but uses a Russian designed motor.
Commercial space is a tough field right now: There are a lot of competitive products for as many payloads... Who knows, maybe they'll drag out the spaceplane one more time.
I was working in a bookstore, and would periodically tell my manager about the odd crises that would occur. Every time I did this, she would say "you know, in Chinese the word for crisis is the same as opportunity."
One day, one of the toilets in the men's room blew up: water was shooting up like old faithful, and we had a couple of inches on the floor. I went to her and said "Amy, we have a real opportunity in the men's room."
Section 508 of the ADA applies specfically to government agencies, but says nothing about private businesses.
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What would be great would be if it automatically piped it to the screen, with some form of high contrast text, like white text against a blue background...
My dream, and it is a modest one, is to somehow fund a secret manned trip to Mars. The only evidence of it would be when the official Mars explorers go to the site of the Mars Rover, and find it up on blocks with its wheels stolen.
"? If I send an email suggesting that I am in possession of $50m and will hand it over in return for your bank details, why can't it just be that I also am breaking the law in two countries, not in some mythical 'cyberspace' with its own legal system? "
Guess what, you would be breaking the law in both countries. The more I think about how fundamentally flawed this thinking is, the angrier I get. Just because the Internet makes it easier doesn't make it less illegal. Currently on the news I'm hearing about a big 'Net kiddie porn bust done in both the U.S. and Europe; according to what the author is writing, I guess CNN is wrong, because this couldn't happen.
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The _only_ time a review ever made me go and buy a game I hadn't thought of getting was when Old Man Murray said "No One Lives Forever, in many non-trivial ways, is a better game than Half-Life."
Of course, OMM had spent so much time and creative energy bashing Jason Hall, that to get them to admit the game was good was a herculean task....
Ever hear of Per Seat licensing? That's exactly how it works. Three applications I work with use exactly that model, with installations to all potential user's desktops, but only x numbers can be running at once.
As part of a volume license, Microsoft hold the license, not the holder.
The reason we know about this guy is the high profile of some of his advocates. From the A.C.L.U- "According to a November 2002 Washington Post story on the use of material witness warrants, more than 40 people have been detained by the Justice Department since September 11, 2001. As of that time, seven of those were U.S. citizens."
Congratulations, your post has won the highest rating to bullcrap ratio I think I have seen on Slashdot yet. That is quite an achievement...
..must not feed the trolls, must not feed the trolls...
I have entertained the thought that you are a troll, and that responding to you would serve no purpose. That +5 moderation, however, shows a giant gaping void of ignorance in at least a subset of Slashdot moderators, and that, at least, should be addressed.
Now, I grew up in a household of "big engineering" so I'm a bit biased, but you are so wrong it isn't even funny.
points:
1. No mathematics in engineering? I'm speechless. Flabbergasted... Stunned. What do you think engineers use, iambic pentameter?
2. Science. Right, no science in engineering, and a whole lot of science in programming. Why, engineers never use physics, say, or chemistry. Alot less than that guy over there working on opitimizing that printer driver.
3. Art. The Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate bride, the Hoover dam.
or
Windows ME.
Many engineers I have known have decades of programming experience, on bare metal, Fortran, and C++. Who do you think developed the field in the first place? That programming sprang fully formed from the forehead of Zues, like Athena?
Apparently they are talking of doing a remake of Kind Hearts and Coronets with Will Smith in the Dennis Price role and... Brace yourself... Robin Williams performing the Alec Guiness characters.
We finally have conclusive and definitive proof that there is no God.
Boy, between this, lamprey brain powered cyborgs, escaping robots, remote controlld roaches, cloning and rogue bioweapons, it's a great time to be a wild-haired crazy-eyed visionary.
Tampering in God's domain has never been more fruitful!
They said I was mad, the fools. Now, I will crush them all!
"data" is not the plural of "anecdote."
Funniest line in the Girl's guide to dating Geeks...
"Geeks are sensitive and caring lovers and husbands"
My wife would probably have many words to say about that. Even I know that I can be so completely focused on something that I'm oblivious to anything less than 1kt.
For this to be a hoax, it would have to make some other attempt of historic accuracy. This is a joke, not a hoax.
I have mixed emotions about the ISS. On one hand, it is a boondoggle of epic proportions; huge amounts of money shot into space for results that could mostly be obtained from unmanned satellites.
On the other, keeping people in space is important if we want to expand our horizons for manned missions to other planets. And, of course, space travel is neat. Is "neat" worth $40 Billion?
The Atlas V has a similar throw weight, but uses a Russian designed motor. Commercial space is a tough field right now: There are a lot of competitive products for as many payloads... Who knows, maybe they'll drag out the spaceplane one more time.
No, this happened to me in 1995. FOAD.
I was working in a bookstore, and would periodically tell my manager about the odd crises that would occur. Every time I did this, she would say "you know, in Chinese the word for crisis is the same as opportunity."
One day, one of the toilets in the men's room blew up: water was shooting up like old faithful, and we had a couple of inches on the floor. I went to her and said "Amy, we have a real opportunity in the men's room."
She never brought that up again.
This is a breath of fresh air. I wish more sites would emulate this...
Section 508 of the ADA applies specfically to government agencies, but says nothing about private businesses.
What would be great would be if it automatically piped it to the screen, with some form of high contrast text, like white text against a blue background...
"Please put down your keyboard, you have 20 seconds to comply."
... The plural of syllabus is syllabus (with a long U.)
...because it can.
My dream, and it is a modest one, is to somehow fund a secret manned trip to Mars. The only evidence of it would be when the official Mars explorers go to the site of the Mars Rover, and find it up on blocks with its wheels stolen.
You, sir, have made my day; if I have to hear one more chucklehead say "The proof is in the pudding" I will not be held accountable for my actions.
"? If I send an email suggesting that I am in possession of $50m and will hand it over in return for your bank details, why can't it just be that I also am breaking the law in two countries, not in some mythical 'cyberspace' with its own legal system? "
Guess what, you would be breaking the law in both countries. The more I think about how fundamentally flawed this thinking is, the angrier I get. Just because the Internet makes it easier doesn't make it less illegal. Currently on the news I'm hearing about a big 'Net kiddie porn bust done in both the U.S. and Europe; according to what the author is writing, I guess CNN is wrong, because this couldn't happen.