Most users aren't that bright. Hell, most users aren't bright enough to set automatic updates to 'download and notify'. Seriously.
I look upon myself as brighter than 'most users', but I just install every update to Ubuntu and FF plugins without question. With updates arriving seemingly every second day, I do a lot of approving without examining the details.
Technology such as telephones, email, websites, etc Should be acting as a double edged sword. In that whilst it allows such crooks the the ability to target more people than if they had to physically visit people in order to try and con them, as was their only option in the past.
I was surprised to learn that the word 'phoney' comes from telephone con artist. Bruce Sterling's 'The Hacker Crackdown' makes for interesting reading. http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html
That's good advice. I discovered this for myself a few years ago when I bought 'The Incredibles' on PC for my daughter. Just could not get it to work. Bit the bullet and bought a PS2 and managed to persuade the shop to trade versions of 'The Incredibles' (they're always reluctant to take PC games back). Every PS2 game subsequently bought 'just works' with no fuss at all. Also, there's a healthy pre-owned/trade-in market with consoles that you don't have with PC games.
A great example is Kirikiri, an open source (GPL) adventure game/visual novel scripting engine used in many popular Japanese games, including Fate/Stay Night, one of the most popular games of the genre. Fate/Stay Night, if it even has to be mentioned, made bucketloads of money and was successful enough to spawn a massive franchise including an anime, many sequel games, a novel series, and more.
How did the programmers of Kirikiri get paid ? Are they the ones earning 'bucketloads of money' now ?
The ONLY entities that we don't actually need in the software business is large software companies selling binary-only copies of software, and then trying to constrain the users of the software in what they can do with it. Those entities are the deadweights in the software industry.
Like games houses ? Good luck with trying to steer them away from the 'licensed binaries' model. The FOSS model of selling support or training will never work for games development.
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Most users aren't that bright. Hell, most users aren't bright enough to set automatic updates to 'download and notify'. Seriously.
I look upon myself as brighter than 'most users', but I just install every update to Ubuntu and FF plugins without question. With updates arriving seemingly every second day, I do a lot of approving without examining the details.
I LOL'ed. Mod parent +5 funny, if you can get past the fact that he's slagging Linux and not Windows.
Because she's pretty.
Does Europe have their own version of Steamboat Willy?
Yeah, over here it's called Syphilis.
LOL. Mod +1 Funny.
We need Alpinekat to write a new rap telling us what went wrong in 'street' terms.
Are you a member of the A.N.D. ?
Anonymity is a cornerstone of free society.
and hamburgers are the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.
Since this is the UK you will hand over your encryption keys, have a nice day.
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability
I could do with a breathalizer on my PC, but only to stop me writing regretable e-mails and postings when I'm pished.
Technology such as telephones, email, websites, etc Should be acting as a double edged sword. In that whilst it allows such crooks the the ability to target more people than if they had to physically visit people in order to try and con them, as was their only option in the past.
I was surprised to learn that the word 'phoney' comes from telephone con artist. Bruce Sterling's 'The Hacker Crackdown' makes for interesting reading. http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html
That'd be a Nimbus 2001.
(there's not much market for used PC games in the last few years).
'Game' in the UK don't accept PC games as trade-ins.
Amusingly, when I asked the sales bloke why not, he stated that it was because "they can be infected with viruses". "A CD-ROM ?". "Oh yeah". Loony.
You could remove the "To Linux In" and the headline would be more accurate for this teacher:
"When Teachers Are Obstacles Education" ?
vi - The WYSIWTF editor.
He's getting rather old but he's a good mouse.
Aha ! So you enjoy orking cows. No wonder you're hiding behind the cloak of anonymity.
if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about.
And yet you post this as an AC. What do you have to hide, hmmm ?
Amazon needs to be taken down under the Patriot Act:
http://www.amazon.com/Groucho-Glasses-Fake-Mustache-Brows/dp/B001HHECYU
Ackerman wrote over 2,000 articles and short stories, including, oddly enough, lesbian fiction in the 1940s.
Oddly enough ? The guy was a sci-fi geek. The closest he was going to get near a woman, never mind a lesbian, was to write a fictional one.
where the Hell is my goddamned time machine ?
In the museum area over by Costco. But the ride sucks.
You're better off going console.
That's good advice. I discovered this for myself a few years ago when I bought 'The Incredibles' on PC for my daughter. Just could not get it to work. Bit the bullet and bought a PS2 and managed to persuade the shop to trade versions of 'The Incredibles' (they're always reluctant to take PC games back). Every PS2 game subsequently bought 'just works' with no fuss at all. Also, there's a healthy pre-owned/trade-in market with consoles that you don't have with PC games.
Hehehe. Made me chuckle. If I had any mod points, they'd be coming your way.
Worst. Haiku. Ever.
A great example is Kirikiri, an open source (GPL) adventure game/visual novel scripting engine used in many popular Japanese games, including Fate/Stay Night, one of the most popular games of the genre. Fate/Stay Night, if it even has to be mentioned, made bucketloads of money and was successful enough to spawn a massive franchise including an anime, many sequel games, a novel series, and more.
How did the programmers of Kirikiri get paid ? Are they the ones earning 'bucketloads of money' now ?
The ONLY entities that we don't actually need in the software business is large software companies selling binary-only copies of software, and then trying to constrain the users of the software in what they can do with it. Those entities are the deadweights in the software industry.
Like games houses ? Good luck with trying to steer them away from the 'licensed binaries' model. The FOSS model of selling support or training will never work for games development.