I have this horrible horrible feeling after following the continued off an on development of this game for the past three years that all this is going to turn out as is Everquest in Middle Earth.
You know I really miss those days when all you had to program on was a monochrome VT-100 monitor connected up to a VAX machine and you were programming your little heart out in Fortran or Cobol... or some times... Assembler.
Ah those were the days. Sure it was not as efficient. Of course it was slow and clunky. But applications back then worked. There was only one release and it worked, we were not hounded by managers and marketers to get it out the door before it was ready. And things worked then. Because we were the forgotten people in the basement who kept everything going back stage.
Now you have all this superflous crap that is really unneeded. Windows... BAH! X-Windows BAH! Apple... thats what the OTHER computer people used. And with all this superflous complexity comes increased development cycles, more need for debugging, and yet less time to do it.
You know I remember back in the day programming an application in Assembler. If any single byte of my code was wrong the whole computer would crash and I would have to reboot it and pour over my code for a while to figure out where the error was. Now I make an error in my code and the system won't crash... at least this one won't. But the one in the next cube that has a small difference in hardware configuration will go down like a $20 hooker. And it will take me hours and hours to figure out where the error is and in fixing that error it does not mean that it has not gone and created another one or that it has made sure that there will never be another error.
I say a return to good old fashioned programming values is needed. A return to those old unforgiving languages and the inflexible systems they ran on. The fires from those big irons forged quality programmers.
I have to agree with him. I was a long time vetran of Mindspring when the merger took place. And I had been in a couple of companies that had gone through mergers but I had never seen one run so poorly.
After I left I heard about an interview one of the senior Earthlink CEOs said, Mr. Gary Betty. "The Earthlink merger was my chance to piss off 5000 people." He said this to a business magazine in Pasadena. Earthlink is going to go down the tubes. And sadly it is taking a very good company, Mindspring, which I truly loved like it was my family, with it.
Something that must be taken into account with these phenomena is that the pull of gravity from the sun and the planets is negligible out where these two probes are. And since neither of these probes are all that massive themselves small 1-2 ton objects massing within 10,000 km of the probe would cause its course to alter slightly. The closer it comes to one of these objects the larger the deflection of its course. And the probes probably do not have the instrumentation sensitive enough to be able to detect these 1-2 ton masses that it passes near.
May sound funny but I have run into stranger stuff. There was a mechanic near where I lived in Virginia called Christian Car Care. Their motto was "We will pray for your car." And they did, they would litterally come out and pray over your car for the power of the Lord to move through it and fix it... when that didn't work (and it usually didn't) they would take into the garage and fix it.
But I wonder if one could set up a Christian Computer Support. With the mission statement "We will pray for your Computer, and the power of the Lord Jesus Christ MCSE, CCNE, A+, MCSD, CCNA, etc, etc". Hmmmm... this is a good idea, just need to find some venture capital.
A person or organization that fosters an enviroment of criminal neglect may be held accountable for any crimes that occur because of their complicity or active assistance
It is known as aiding and abetting .
So I say we simply pressure our district attourney's in those areas where the DA is an elected official to have these principals and superintendents of these schools where peer abuse is rampant arrested.
After you put a few of them in jail for allowing an enviroment to exist that harbors assualt, harassment, and battery; then you will see a very fast change in the way things are done.
Its kind of funny really, when you take it all in perspective. My Grandfather told me when he was working for Magnavox that there was quite the to do about the fact their remote controls were going to have MUTE buttons.
Yep there were threats of law suit and all manner of huffing and puffing... it never really hit the press back then though because most people didn't care. And really nothing really came of it and nobody got into any big fight about it, and nobody lost anything from it.
Same story, different inovation.
searching for a specific site through a search engine is pretty well useless, unless you are a wizz at forming your querry properly. The only way I have ever been able to find what I was looking for was to search for index pages relating to the topic I was looking for and then jumping from index to index until I found what I needed.
These indexes tend to keep a small list of sites and and tend to check on these sites often for dead links or being off topic.
The sad fact though is that the larger and more complex that a system becomes (such as the Internet is becoming) the more chaotic and disorderly it will become. Like watching five buterflies fly around is alot easier than watching a million. And search engines are not going to be able to keep up, because the enviroment that we ask them to keep track of is billions of lines of text that are constantly changing. Then in this enviroment we want it to find a specific word that has context to what we want, while at the same time cutting out the superflous chatter. Impossible... at least impossible now, it is going to take a major breakthrough in search algorythms for this puzzle to be cracked.
Well you know if I could get the damn SDRAM chips to go into my ear and interface them properly with my brain I probably would not forget things quite so often...
While I am sure that this was probably just some knub-skull Spammer who sent 1,000 copies of the same mail to a list of 200,000 addresses. It still makes a point of what is going to be the only way to stop spammers. Legislation is all well and good but it takes time and in the end will only limit their abilities. What really needs to be done is a few more occurances like this to make "spam friendly" ISPs no longer accept such activity.
OK. When I was in Highschool some years ago my teacher freely admited that some us were more capable than she was. She never would have made a dare like that even in jest because kids being kids will do things if given the idea to do them.
If you give them the idea that they could get praise for doing something, even if it is a false idea. They will go ahead and do it.
Secondly. laypeople are so inundated with the hype of hackers taking over the digital world that they over react when ever there is even the hint of somebody cracking into a system. the kid simply did what kids do, and did nothing wrong. The school and the teacher on the other hand are severly at fault for giving their children the wrong ideas and then punishing them for being smarter than they are.
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Something you need to remember about the United States is that it was founded by a bunch of guys who didn't want to pay taxes. Which by the law of that time they were bound to pay.
I do not respect IP laws. I do not believe that they act in the best intrest of the majority of the people. Infact the only people that IP laws benifit are the large corporations that own the IP. To many people argue that they protect the little guy but I have seen more often the IP laws abused to benifit the big guys.
Personally I believe warez and abandonware to be a kind of Passive Ressistance to an injust law
It is out there and you can buy it from SSG directly. But it will not work on any OS higher than Win 95... really I would like to see this game recompiled for Win 98 and higher compatibility. I would buy that game ($59 easy), but as far as I have heard from them they have no plans or wishes to do this... so I sit here with my top of the line system and am unable to play one of the best and most versatile wargames ever designed in my opinion.
I have been wondering though how are these programs going to be able to tell the difference between an artistic nude and a pic of a money shot across a girls tits?
There has been only one sure fire way I have ever been able to differentiate actual art from pornography.
Pornography is the pictures I keep wanting to look at over and over and over and over again
Exit polls show Gore winning because he is getting a majority of the female, latino, african-american, and oriental vote. therefore off the districts already counted and the results of the exit polls they are using statistical reckoning and showing a Gore victory
never though of mnyself as a prognosticator. But here are the rest of the battle ground states.(as found on CNN.COM)
Maine New Hampshire
Deleware Pennsylvania
West Virginia Ohio
Michigan Wisconsin
Illinois Iowa
Missouri Arkansas
Louisianna Tennessee
Florida New Mexico
Arizona Nevada
Oregon Washington
The more of these states each Candidate takes will put them closer to winning.
The ones most likely to be taken by Gore in my view are. Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
the rest are to close to call. But with these electoral votes (121) along with the 150 he was predicted to get anyways should put him over the top.
Keep your eye on the Battle Ground states that are won like Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Missouri. These are states that are to statistcally close to call but were leaning slightly towards Gore.
You will notice that most of the Strong Bush States are going Bush but the first of the needed Battleground States (Florida) has been taken by Gore.
It will be interesting to see how this turns out because I was doing a little math and if the Really close gore Leaning states go Gore instead of Bush... the Gore Finishes with 280 Electoral votes... but not necesarily a majority of the popular vote.
I love people who make the actions of the entire Open Source Community more difficult. People who's ignorance and arrogance makes it impossible for them to see past their own ego. And see that they are actually making it easier for large corporations and governments to take more and more of our freedoms away.
I love people who make my employers feel that they have to place overly burdensome firewalls on their system to keep immature kids from damaging their systems and data.
I love people who have taken the intenet from an easy way to exchange info back and forth in '90 made it into such an annoying place now.
Note: This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day.
Did you people forget to read the article to the end and find this little bit of debunking? or were you all just to incesenced by what it said and that the Evil Bill might have said it to be able to make an educated response.
Personally I found it hilarious. And its not a satire against Bill... its a satire of us.
It works like this. Minesweeper seems logical from the start. but your mind is actually haviong to make some intuitive jumps at critical points. Such as when you have three blocks and you know that teo of them have mines with in them. it takes an intuitive jump to come at the problem from another direction and try to solve one of the three blocks from a different edge.
Straight Boolean logic chokes on this because there are not enough known values and to many unknown variables.
Free Cell on the other hand can be solved easily by a computer simnply by using the brute force method. Because all of the components of the puzzle are layed out before it and it can plan each of its moves in advance... much like how a computer plays chess.
it is figuring out how to get the computer to make these intuitive leaps that seperates a P from a NP problem.
Well actually speaking from experience. Yes, when teching a problem you do assume that the problem is with the user's computer or hardware unless you have information that proves otherwise. This is just a basic rule when giving tech support to a customer.
Now @Home canceling him for what he did probably also is with in their Appropriate Use Policy and there fore is probably justified in their own look on the situation. And that will stand up in court. "If you don't like our service you cannopt use it" justification.
Now the fact that they used the DMCA to hide behind probably means that they do not have anything mentioning that in their AUP and they are trying to find something to legally protect them. And this might be worth fighting in court.
Client-Server Applications are probably your best bet in a situation like that. A company i used to work for used to use a Client-Server solution made Cyrix that worked really well.
Pretty much all the data layed in a rack of servers in a mag locked temp controlled room. The connections were secure because all the user's computer did was act as a dumb terminal to the server, sending key strokes and mouse movements to it that the server interprited. Any files that were saved were actually saved on teh server and required permission from the sysadmin to be saved outside of the server.
This system is actually a lot more secure than one might think. Because even though it did use the internet to send packets back and forth we were using a VPN to send information back and forth. Logins required a user name a secret password and a PIN created by a card that each user was given.
of course it just depends on how paranoid you are as to how much security you want to use. Cost of the security measure vs. Cost of losing the data.
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Ok that article made no sense. Pretty much making the argument that since Unix is old and has lots of things that use it as a base for more complex and advanced applications. Well by his assessment then the following will also be true.
Latin is not a language: it old, barely used and there are other languages that use parts of it to better effect
The Abacus is not a computer: Sure it computes numbers just like computers do today but it is old and no longer used... and it can't play EQ
The UK is not a country: it is just a has been empire upon which some of the world's super powers (US, China, etc...) have spawned from and is now old and useless
Bacteria are not life forms: Well yes they were the first life forms on the planet, and yes all the other life forms on earth have arisen from them through evolution. but they are old and obsolete now and pretty much useless now.
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I have this horrible horrible feeling after following the continued off an on development of this game for the past three years that all this is going to turn out as is Everquest in Middle Earth.
You know I really miss those days when all you had to program on was a monochrome VT-100 monitor connected up to a VAX machine and you were programming your little heart out in Fortran or Cobol... or some times... Assembler.
Ah those were the days. Sure it was not as efficient. Of course it was slow and clunky. But applications back then worked. There was only one release and it worked, we were not hounded by managers and marketers to get it out the door before it was ready. And things worked then. Because we were the forgotten people in the basement who kept everything going back stage.
Now you have all this superflous crap that is really unneeded. Windows... BAH! X-Windows BAH! Apple... thats what the OTHER computer people used. And with all this superflous complexity comes increased development cycles, more need for debugging, and yet less time to do it.
You know I remember back in the day programming an application in Assembler. If any single byte of my code was wrong the whole computer would crash and I would have to reboot it and pour over my code for a while to figure out where the error was. Now I make an error in my code and the system won't crash... at least this one won't. But the one in the next cube that has a small difference in hardware configuration will go down like a $20 hooker. And it will take me hours and hours to figure out where the error is and in fixing that error it does not mean that it has not gone and created another one or that it has made sure that there will never be another error.
I say a return to good old fashioned programming values is needed. A return to those old unforgiving languages and the inflexible systems they ran on. The fires from those big irons forged quality programmers.
I have to agree with him. I was a long time vetran of Mindspring when the merger took place. And I had been in a couple of companies that had gone through mergers but I had never seen one run so poorly.
After I left I heard about an interview one of the senior Earthlink CEOs said, Mr. Gary Betty. "The Earthlink merger was my chance to piss off 5000 people." He said this to a business magazine in Pasadena. Earthlink is going to go down the tubes. And sadly it is taking a very good company, Mindspring, which I truly loved like it was my family, with it.
What the hell? AOL uses Unix systems. Most of their network is based around Unix servers.
Clever spoofing though.
Yes now you to virtually masterbate with your Virtual Vixen. As Virtual Vixen senses every move of your muscles.
Now all they have to do is make it Water Proof.
Something that must be taken into account with these phenomena is that the pull of gravity from the sun and the planets is negligible out where these two probes are. And since neither of these probes are all that massive themselves small 1-2 ton objects massing within 10,000 km of the probe would cause its course to alter slightly. The closer it comes to one of these objects the larger the deflection of its course. And the probes probably do not have the instrumentation sensitive enough to be able to detect these 1-2 ton masses that it passes near.
May sound funny but I have run into stranger stuff. There was a mechanic near where I lived in Virginia called Christian Car Care. Their motto was "We will pray for your car." And they did, they would litterally come out and pray over your car for the power of the Lord to move through it and fix it... when that didn't work (and it usually didn't) they would take into the garage and fix it.
But I wonder if one could set up a Christian Computer Support. With the mission statement "We will pray for your Computer, and the power of the Lord Jesus Christ MCSE, CCNE, A+, MCSD, CCNA, etc, etc". Hmmmm... this is a good idea, just need to find some venture capital.
A person or organization that fosters an enviroment of criminal neglect may be held accountable for any crimes that occur because of their complicity or active assistance
It is known as aiding and abetting .
So I say we simply pressure our district attourney's in those areas where the DA is an elected official to have these principals and superintendents of these schools where peer abuse is rampant arrested.
After you put a few of them in jail for allowing an enviroment to exist that harbors assualt, harassment, and battery; then you will see a very fast change in the way things are done.
Its kind of funny really, when you take it all in perspective. My Grandfather told me when he was working for Magnavox that there was quite the to do about the fact their remote controls were going to have MUTE buttons. Yep there were threats of law suit and all manner of huffing and puffing... it never really hit the press back then though because most people didn't care. And really nothing really came of it and nobody got into any big fight about it, and nobody lost anything from it. Same story, different inovation.
searching for a specific site through a search engine is pretty well useless, unless you are a wizz at forming your querry properly. The only way I have ever been able to find what I was looking for was to search for index pages relating to the topic I was looking for and then jumping from index to index until I found what I needed.
These indexes tend to keep a small list of sites and and tend to check on these sites often for dead links or being off topic.
The sad fact though is that the larger and more complex that a system becomes (such as the Internet is becoming) the more chaotic and disorderly it will become. Like watching five buterflies fly around is alot easier than watching a million. And search engines are not going to be able to keep up, because the enviroment that we ask them to keep track of is billions of lines of text that are constantly changing. Then in this enviroment we want it to find a specific word that has context to what we want, while at the same time cutting out the superflous chatter. Impossible... at least impossible now, it is going to take a major breakthrough in search algorythms for this puzzle to be cracked.
Well you know if I could get the damn SDRAM chips to go into my ear and interface them properly with my brain I probably would not forget things quite so often...
While I am sure that this was probably just some knub-skull Spammer who sent 1,000 copies of the same mail to a list of 200,000 addresses. It still makes a point of what is going to be the only way to stop spammers. Legislation is all well and good but it takes time and in the end will only limit their abilities. What really needs to be done is a few more occurances like this to make "spam friendly" ISPs no longer accept such activity.
OK. When I was in Highschool some years ago my teacher freely admited that some us were more capable than she was. She never would have made a dare like that even in jest because kids being kids will do things if given the idea to do them.
If you give them the idea that they could get praise for doing something, even if it is a false idea. They will go ahead and do it.
Secondly. laypeople are so inundated with the hype of hackers taking over the digital world that they over react when ever there is even the hint of somebody cracking into a system. the kid simply did what kids do, and did nothing wrong. The school and the teacher on the other hand are severly at fault for giving their children the wrong ideas and then punishing them for being smarter than they are.
Something you need to remember about the United States is that it was founded by a bunch of guys who didn't want to pay taxes. Which by the law of that time they were bound to pay.
I do not respect IP laws. I do not believe that they act in the best intrest of the majority of the people. Infact the only people that IP laws benifit are the large corporations that own the IP. To many people argue that they protect the little guy but I have seen more often the IP laws abused to benifit the big guys.
Personally I believe warez and abandonware to be a kind of Passive Ressistance to an injust law
It is out there and you can buy it from SSG directly. But it will not work on any OS higher than Win 95... really I would like to see this game recompiled for Win 98 and higher compatibility. I would buy that game ($59 easy), but as far as I have heard from them they have no plans or wishes to do this... so I sit here with my top of the line system and am unable to play one of the best and most versatile wargames ever designed in my opinion.
Its really quite sad.
I have been wondering though how are these programs going to be able to tell the difference between an artistic nude and a pic of a money shot across a girls tits?
There has been only one sure fire way I have ever been able to differentiate actual art from pornography.
Pornography is the pictures I keep wanting to look at over and over and over and over again
Exit polls show Gore winning because he is getting a majority of the female, latino, african-american, and oriental vote. therefore off the districts already counted and the results of the exit polls they are using statistical reckoning and showing a Gore victory
never though of mnyself as a prognosticator. But here are the rest of the battle ground states.(as found on CNN.COM)
Maine New Hampshire
Deleware Pennsylvania
West Virginia Ohio
Michigan Wisconsin
Illinois Iowa
Missouri Arkansas
Louisianna Tennessee
Florida New Mexico
Arizona Nevada
Oregon Washington
The more of these states each Candidate takes will put them closer to winning.
The ones most likely to be taken by Gore in my view are. Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
the rest are to close to call. But with these electoral votes (121) along with the 150 he was predicted to get anyways should put him over the top.
Keep your eye on the Battle Ground states that are won like Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Missouri. These are states that are to statistcally close to call but were leaning slightly towards Gore.
You will notice that most of the Strong Bush States are going Bush but the first of the needed Battleground States (Florida) has been taken by Gore.
It will be interesting to see how this turns out because I was doing a little math and if the Really close gore Leaning states go Gore instead of Bush... the Gore Finishes with 280 Electoral votes... but not necesarily a majority of the popular vote.
I love people who make the actions of the entire Open Source Community more difficult. People who's ignorance and arrogance makes it impossible for them to see past their own ego. And see that they are actually making it easier for large corporations and governments to take more and more of our freedoms away.
I love people who make my employers feel that they have to place overly burdensome firewalls on their system to keep immature kids from damaging their systems and data.
I love people who have taken the intenet from an easy way to exchange info back and forth in '90 made it into such an annoying place now.
Thank you all, I hope you burn in hell.
Note: This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day.
Did you people forget to read the article to the end and find this little bit of debunking? or were you all just to incesenced by what it said and that the Evil Bill might have said it to be able to make an educated response.
Personally I found it hilarious. And its not a satire against Bill... its a satire of us.
It works like this. Minesweeper seems logical from the start. but your mind is actually haviong to make some intuitive jumps at critical points. Such as when you have three blocks and you know that teo of them have mines with in them. it takes an intuitive jump to come at the problem from another direction and try to solve one of the three blocks from a different edge. Straight Boolean logic chokes on this because there are not enough known values and to many unknown variables. Free Cell on the other hand can be solved easily by a computer simnply by using the brute force method. Because all of the components of the puzzle are layed out before it and it can plan each of its moves in advance... much like how a computer plays chess. it is figuring out how to get the computer to make these intuitive leaps that seperates a P from a NP problem.
Well actually speaking from experience. Yes, when teching a problem you do assume that the problem is with the user's computer or hardware unless you have information that proves otherwise. This is just a basic rule when giving tech support to a customer.
Now @Home canceling him for what he did probably also is with in their Appropriate Use Policy and there fore is probably justified in their own look on the situation. And that will stand up in court. "If you don't like our service you cannopt use it" justification.
Now the fact that they used the DMCA to hide behind probably means that they do not have anything mentioning that in their AUP and they are trying to find something to legally protect them. And this might be worth fighting in court.
Client-Server Applications are probably your best bet in a situation like that. A company i used to work for used to use a Client-Server solution made Cyrix that worked really well.
Pretty much all the data layed in a rack of servers in a mag locked temp controlled room. The connections were secure because all the user's computer did was act as a dumb terminal to the server, sending key strokes and mouse movements to it that the server interprited. Any files that were saved were actually saved on teh server and required permission from the sysadmin to be saved outside of the server.
This system is actually a lot more secure than one might think. Because even though it did use the internet to send packets back and forth we were using a VPN to send information back and forth. Logins required a user name a secret password and a PIN created by a card that each user was given.
of course it just depends on how paranoid you are as to how much security you want to use. Cost of the security measure vs. Cost of losing the data.
Ok that article made no sense. Pretty much making the argument that since Unix is old and has lots of things that use it as a base for more complex and advanced applications. Well by his assessment then the following will also be true.
Latin is not a language: it old, barely used and there are other languages that use parts of it to better effect
The Abacus is not a computer: Sure it computes numbers just like computers do today but it is old and no longer used... and it can't play EQ
The UK is not a country: it is just a has been empire upon which some of the world's super powers (US, China, etc...) have spawned from and is now old and useless
Bacteria are not life forms: Well yes they were the first life forms on the planet, and yes all the other life forms on earth have arisen from them through evolution. but they are old and obsolete now and pretty much useless now.
give me a break