If you don't have any MS liscensed software then you can tell them to fuck off and they can't do a thing about it. They can call you back and say "You're in violation of the..." at which point you can respond "Go to hell please" and hang up again. It would be interesting to see if they could be baited into legal action, at which point the whole honeypot scheme would become evident and a certain scare tactic would likely be re-evaluated.
Technically, the q3 netcode is superior to qw's. Though technically the universe shouldn't exist... The next point release for q3 should give a hearty beef to HPB's out there, the Promode mod seems to (in some mystical magical way) run far smoother than normal q3:) I know something was done, but arQon (the guy who likely did it) hasn't revealed it- to me anyway. Its possible this magic will find its way into the next PR (or has found its way into promode from the PR- note: current promode release does not have the fix i'm talking about, the 99u version does and it's only available by downloading it from a server with a beta)
And yes, you are correct: qw==strategy q3==ping/aim. Again, check out Promode for an entirely different way of playing q3.
But when you're 13 and smart enough to crack a computer system (even a weakly protected system) you eventually get more and more bored by school until the curiosity finally overcomes you. Bam. Online vandalism. Hell, kids write on the bathroom stalls all the time and force the school to spend $$$ repainting them, this is just another form of vandalism. I'm not sure what kind of intimidation (if any) was used on this kid but i think that a 10 day suspension is excessive (and, as always, does little/nothing to actually teach the poor kid). Instead, why not make the kid fix the server- maybe let the kid help run the stuff? Blah, stupid reaction from administration, stupid pointless death (not attempting to infer guilt on administration, just noticing two stupid things in a row).
What about Kagato of Tenchi Muyo fame going through the series and single handedly kicking the shit out of everything and everyone? Then he could go back in time and do it to every other damn series and do the same damn thing! It would be brilliant! At least, as long as Xellos and Q popped up every once in a while and caused trouble...
You know all those sci fi nuts who talk about how clones are going to be the next generation's slaves? Wonder if this law is the first step toward that.
Not what i said and you know it. I said interruption based ads were the end of the world. At least get it right. The reason interruption based ads are so bad is because they essentially turn the net into "interactive tv", certainly NOT something i want to waste my time on. I'm not exactly against ads on the net (though i'm old enough to remember the Old Net That Was Ad (Though Not Lamer) Free) but i think both banner and interruption ads are the wrong way to go about it. At least, the way banner ads are supposed to work. Last i heard, ads were supposed to get your product recognized- not get instant customers. Oh well, some people never learn *irritated glare*
If this were to happen, that is: if the NYT forced you to watch a flash ad before you could look at their site i would absolutely refuse to go to their site anymore. I don't give a fuck if they're the biggest site on the web or if they have the best news anywhere: It destroys the reason the net is a better medium for myself personally than TV: It removes control of what i see from my hands. Let me say it once more in case someone didn't catch on
THIS WILL DESTROY THE FUCKING INTERNET
Maybe it won't turn it into the ghost town some of these other goddamn sillicon valley airheads would create, but it would turn it into "TV 2". There is a reason i do not watch TV (except public TV) or listen to the radio (except public radio): I have to be bombarded with ads every minute, even if i pay for the channel. Once i have to watch an ad to enter a hardware site, it defeats the purpose of having information there. No longer will i be able to "just go check this site quick" if i need to look at something- i have to watch a freaking ad which may take more time than getting the actual content itself.
Lets clarify. A front-page ad that must be watched will not be any better than a banner ad- and not just from a consumer point of view. Those who do commonly use websites with this form of advertising will merely leave the site always open. If the site uses a cookie based system to make sure you can't leave it open for days at a time, some bright person will forge cookies from all the big sites and presto, no ads! Now this particular method might not be used, but expect interruption ads to last about as long as DVD encryption. And if you think DVD decryption is widespread, wait until joe-AOL-luser wants to get rid of those ads. Think of the virus potential of a "ad remover" that does nothing of the sort. While any of these won't necessarily destroy a site, they will contribute.
Why do i only watch public TV/listen to public radio? Simple: no ads. While both public tv and radio are slowly creeping toward more advertising, they are still not unacceptable at this point: the content doesn't get interrupted with the ads- hence, it fails to be "interruption based" advertising; or more accurately: it is not possible to advertise in that manner as it is on commercial stations. So what does this mean? Not just an ad before the front page, but before every page. Imagine those huge multi-part hardware reviews (aka, we want ad money) but with 3 second ads before each page. Ready to leave the site yet?
Maybe you aren't if you have a 1.5 mbit/s DSL connection, but if you're still stuck dialing then you lose. Lets do the math: even a 75k ad at 5k/sec constant would take 15 seconds to download. Considering that people rarely wait 5 seconds for a page to load, that's a pretty big incentive to NOT do interruption based ads.
Still disagree with me? Well, lets look at two years down the road. "Ad buster" programs are so widespread that everyone uses them. There are ads on the front page (some on every page) but no one sees them- at least, no one with any sense of technology. And remember, five years ago barely anyone knew about the internet so don't think everyone will be completely unaware of the internet's capabilities in two years; i'm not saying it WILL happen, but i wouldn't be too surprised. The ad companies decide to do what companies do best: sue. Lets say they lose, then "interruption based" ads on the web are dead. Game over. Back to square one. Another damn stupid idea from the guys who brought you the dot-bomb economy. If they win, however, imagine the TV advertisers drooling over a settlement like that. Want to use TiVO to skip all the ads on your favorite TV shows? Can't do it unless you want to get beaten around by the corperate thugs. Want to use a VCR to record your favorite show? No can do: its an illegal ad-bypassing technology.
I could go on, but i've said enough.
Not just out of any sense of loyalty or anything (though i certainly have something to be loyal for) but because they make the best goddamn product available. And its not just me, but lots of people use slackware. I hesitate to bring this up after K5 recieved such a beating under the latest/.ing but K5 runs slackware on its machines:) The reason slackware is in trouble is more to do (IMHO) with the fact that they don't take much from the consumer while returning so much. After all, what other distro is so highly regarded yet available for $25 in the store or easily downloadable. Yes, all linuxes are downloadable, but some are easier than others:)
-Elendale (its either that or a BSD, take your pick)
While i can't say that the "average person" wants to just be left alone (the whole world is just too big, most people don't care there are people dying in wherever or that some place somewhere has some weird outbreak- they just want to know who got kicked off the survivor contest and what they're eating tonight) but i disagree that they always get their way. Now i could go through a list of why i think this, but i will just say this: you can't make everyone think at the same time, but if you work on it one at a time you can make a difference.
Well, isn't everyone? I know, i know: not an excuse. On the other hand, i don't know/. has slipped far enough to call black-hats heroes...
No, that'll be a few more years.
Seems like at least one of the questions asked the wrong thing. Instead of asking "Will MS ever port Office/similar to Linux&friends" the question should have been "Why has MS not ported Office to Linux and what can we (as the Linux guys) do to encourage the development of Office for Linux" or something like that.
As far as the Red Hat/Caldera comments. I wouldn't choose RH as the example, perhaps Slackware would be better. Slackware is a very solid distribution that is built on a small group making decisions and- more importantly- the company remains private. I feel that this is one of the things that will cause RH or similar companies trouble in the long run. Being a publicly owned company effectively means the only thing important is profits. This will kill someone who's product is basically free. Slackware, on the other hand, has a devout following who use it because it is a very powerful operating system. On par, IMHO, with the BSDs. Another plus is that Slack runs on my hardware while BSD does not.
Also, the comment about Linux not being revolutionary makes the mistake that many people make when the look at Linux: What is revolutionary isn't the OS- as the guy said, its a poor man's Unix clone- what is revolutionary is the method of distribution. Like how the assembly line revolutionized manufacturing, the big part of the Ford car wasn't the actual car but how it was made.
Is an AI chip next? Will the next-next-gen consoles sell on the strength of their AI chip? Or god forbid... the actual gameplay of their games rather than how shiny they are? Probably not. But it's nice to know that some people out there are making tactical games (or others) that fight challenging fights against real human opponents (see: the real Deep Blue).
After all, Deep Blue was not all about the graphical processing (infact, it only had 64 "pixels" and 16 "bpp" to worry about;)
I was talking about Halo there bud. Oni isn't that bad- it just tried way too hard to be anime and thus sucked overall. Halo, however, goes back to Bungie's roots: FPS (well, Halo looks to be another 3rd person...) with whack AIs and complex stories. I wasn't saying "i hope oni is another masterpiece" but rather "i hope Halo is another pasterpiece".
If you like Half Life (for the story at least, the actual gameplay was trash IMHO) then check out System Shock or Marathon. Both of these series have a cult following that is unbelievable. Marathon more so than System Shock (System Shock is actually a sort of tribute to Marathon). Check this page just for a glimpse at the sheer volume of information surrounding this game. Note that Marathon was made by the same people who made Oni as well (Bungie, though they had help). Another game that i'm looking forward to is Halo, that despite its appearance of being a shiny "we'll do it because we can" game will hopefully turn out to be another masterpiece from the folks at Bungie.
Not to mention the fact that using anything the strength of a neutron bomb against 'military' targets is absurd. Hell, even WW2 grade atomic weaponry is enough to take out cities. Hydrogen bombs would be used against a large city and its surroundings. Neutron bombs are for when <faky advertising voice>absolutely nothing must survive!</faky advertising voice> Another thing about a neutron bomb is that, as you mentioned, it is 'clean' and does minimal structural damage- a perfect prelude to invasion and not a military target destroying weapon
In all seriousness, we can't afford (as a species) to go tossing weapons of this strength around. My physics teacher from high school once pondered (of course, after teaching us to build nuclear weapons) that the current US nuclear capability would be enough to crack the world in half and that a single, high megaton hydrogen bomb could probably cause earthquakes across the globe.
On a side note, at least its not a 'cobolt bomb' or something similar. These weapons, as a google search will probably show, are completely genocidal and likely capable of wiping out life on earth.
M$ FUD commercial: "Linux is bad, it'll make you impotent and has been shown to cause rabies"
J Random Consumer: "Wow, wonder what all the big deal about this Linux is? MS is sure talking about it a lot... maybe I should check it out... after all, something Microsoft is putting so much effort into must be amazing!"
Maybe not quite like that, but i would be willing to bet it'll happen at least a little bit.
...and parents everywhere scorn the moral perversity that he brings to their children and to the general culture. The year was 1956; young teens everywhere were easily corrupted by his swaying mid-section and his sexual intimations, and the parental populace was outraged.
LOL. Lets see, someone who was sixteen in 1956 would be... umm... sixty today, about the age of many of the people shouting 'moral perversity'. An interesting thought, that. I hope that when i'm sixty i will remember this.
I agree. M$ actually using Linux code in Windows is highly unlikely. I imagine that the nightmares caused by trying to just copy the code would be incredible. I would be surprised, however, if someone, somewhere at M$ doesn't look around in other code and find cool tricks to use. However, to steal a censorware supporter quote, "the only reason people would not want open code is because the have something to hide"
How, exactly, is Florida law Bush's fault? As I recall, no one had a problem with the initial recount since it was the law. It's the endless recounts after the first one that people have problems with.
Bush was the first one to tamper with the system. He wanted the law to work to his benefit- depsite all his bitching about Gore 'rewriting the law'.
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Still playing that game today, just played a dm6 match actually.
-Elendale
And yes, you are correct: qw==strategy q3==ping/aim. Again, check out Promode for an entirely different way of playing q3.
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THIS WILL DESTROY THE FUCKING INTERNET
Maybe it won't turn it into the ghost town some of these other goddamn sillicon valley airheads would create, but it would turn it into "TV 2". There is a reason i do not watch TV (except public TV) or listen to the radio (except public radio): I have to be bombarded with ads every minute, even if i pay for the channel. Once i have to watch an ad to enter a hardware site, it defeats the purpose of having information there. No longer will i be able to "just go check this site quick" if i need to look at something- i have to watch a freaking ad which may take more time than getting the actual content itself.Lets clarify. A front-page ad that must be watched will not be any better than a banner ad- and not just from a consumer point of view. Those who do commonly use websites with this form of advertising will merely leave the site always open. If the site uses a cookie based system to make sure you can't leave it open for days at a time, some bright person will forge cookies from all the big sites and presto, no ads! Now this particular method might not be used, but expect interruption ads to last about as long as DVD encryption. And if you think DVD decryption is widespread, wait until joe-AOL-luser wants to get rid of those ads. Think of the virus potential of a "ad remover" that does nothing of the sort. While any of these won't necessarily destroy a site, they will contribute.
Why do i only watch public TV/listen to public radio? Simple: no ads. While both public tv and radio are slowly creeping toward more advertising, they are still not unacceptable at this point: the content doesn't get interrupted with the ads- hence, it fails to be "interruption based" advertising; or more accurately: it is not possible to advertise in that manner as it is on commercial stations. So what does this mean? Not just an ad before the front page, but before every page. Imagine those huge multi-part hardware reviews (aka, we want ad money) but with 3 second ads before each page. Ready to leave the site yet?
Maybe you aren't if you have a 1.5 mbit/s DSL connection, but if you're still stuck dialing then you lose. Lets do the math: even a 75k ad at 5k/sec constant would take 15 seconds to download. Considering that people rarely wait 5 seconds for a page to load, that's a pretty big incentive to NOT do interruption based ads.Still disagree with me? Well, lets look at two years down the road. "Ad buster" programs are so widespread that everyone uses them. There are ads on the front page (some on every page) but no one sees them- at least, no one with any sense of technology. And remember, five years ago barely anyone knew about the internet so don't think everyone will be completely unaware of the internet's capabilities in two years; i'm not saying it WILL happen, but i wouldn't be too surprised. The ad companies decide to do what companies do best: sue. Lets say they lose, then "interruption based" ads on the web are dead. Game over. Back to square one. Another damn stupid idea from the guys who brought you the dot-bomb economy. If they win, however, imagine the TV advertisers drooling over a settlement like that. Want to use TiVO to skip all the ads on your favorite TV shows? Can't do it unless you want to get beaten around by the corperate thugs. Want to use a VCR to record your favorite show? No can do: its an illegal ad-bypassing technology.
I could go on, but i've said enough.
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-Elendale (its either that or a BSD, take your pick)
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No, that'll be a few more years.
-Elendale
As far as the Red Hat/Caldera comments. I wouldn't choose RH as the example, perhaps Slackware would be better. Slackware is a very solid distribution that is built on a small group making decisions and- more importantly- the company remains private. I feel that this is one of the things that will cause RH or similar companies trouble in the long run. Being a publicly owned company effectively means the only thing important is profits. This will kill someone who's product is basically free. Slackware, on the other hand, has a devout following who use it because it is a very powerful operating system. On par, IMHO, with the BSDs. Another plus is that Slack runs on my hardware while BSD does not.
Also, the comment about Linux not being revolutionary makes the mistake that many people make when the look at Linux: What is revolutionary isn't the OS- as the guy said, its a poor man's Unix clone- what is revolutionary is the method of distribution. Like how the assembly line revolutionized manufacturing, the big part of the Ford car wasn't the actual car but how it was made.
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After all, Deep Blue was not all about the graphical processing (infact, it only had 64 "pixels" and 16 "bpp" to worry about
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I was talking about Halo there bud. Oni isn't that bad- it just tried way too hard to be anime and thus sucked overall. Halo, however, goes back to Bungie's roots: FPS (well, Halo looks to be another 3rd person...) with whack AIs and complex stories. I wasn't saying "i hope oni is another masterpiece" but rather "i hope Halo is another pasterpiece".
-Elendale
In all seriousness, we can't afford (as a species) to go tossing weapons of this strength around. My physics teacher from high school once pondered (of course, after teaching us to build nuclear weapons) that the current US nuclear capability would be enough to crack the world in half and that a single, high megaton hydrogen bomb could probably cause earthquakes across the globe.
On a side note, at least its not a 'cobolt bomb' or something similar. These weapons, as a google search will probably show, are completely genocidal and likely capable of wiping out life on earth.
-Elendale
J Random Consumer: "Wow, wonder what all the big deal about this Linux is? MS is sure talking about it a lot... maybe I should check it out... after all, something Microsoft is putting so much effort into must be amazing!"
Maybe not quite like that, but i would be willing to bet it'll happen at least a little bit.
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-Elendale (and yes, i go by this name there to :P)
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-Elendale (i happen to like anarchy)
LOL. Lets see, someone who was sixteen in 1956 would be... umm... sixty today, about the age of many of the people shouting 'moral perversity'. An interesting thought, that. I hope that when i'm sixty i will remember this.
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Bush was the first one to tamper with the system. He wanted the law to work to his benefit- depsite all his bitching about Gore 'rewriting the law'.
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