Plus, its pretty bad since whenever micorosoft gets something like this, people get pissed off if they take more then a weekend on it. Here, they took almost a week longer then RedHat, makes you wonder how long this sploit was in hacker circles, and how long the distros knew about it. Whatever happened to the claims of fast reaction in the opensource industry vs. old-skool business?
This isn't a troll, but an honest question - what tookem so long, and why didn't they just throw it open to end-users to protect themselves (like closing down ftps in worst-case) like is supposed to be standard practice?
I've often thought about this, and the company itself should be punished as well, and with severness similar to what you or I go through. Criminal Negligence Causing Death would come up more then once in a while in a company lifetime. You or me? A few years in the clink. Corporation? 00.3% hit out of their profits. Right. How bout they are denied the right to sell products for a 4 year period? Maybe when shareholders start noticing their stocks disappearing they might invest in companies that with more morals then a thailand organ-harvesting racket.
Yeah, except that the game was to be released years ago, and it was the Xbox holding up development, not Bungie. The e3 alpha version ran on a 266 with a tnt2. They were doing fine, it was going well, it wasn't "the project that wouldn't die". Oh, well.
I find the head-tracking to be often the worst flaw - the gun should be used for aiming, the head for looking. Otherwise you keep thinking you have eye-beams. This is why the best VR FPS is still that dumb-old "Dactyl Terror" game where you fight a pteridactyl - you have a hand-held gun you aim with. No eye-beams.
Rise of the Triad did. Nobody cared. Hence, noone bothers. I believe a little-known game called Locus uses head tracking for turret control in a sort of tank-soccer game.
I'm afraid I haven't got a link on this, but a Japanese firm is working on an impressive system that is classified as "augmented reality". The VR goggles are transparent, but can display images over the real ones, so it could be used to display non-existant sprites and characters in the real world. With a good model of the environment it is being done in, they can cas shadows and use realistic lightsourcing. It currently requires some very expensive hardware, has some bad lag, and is ludicrously expensive, but the tech's there. On of the first demonstration was an FPS where they shot at little flying sharks.
Now, imagine UT's weapon spread used with equipment like that in your favourite lasertag hangout.
UT has that, but few level designers use it. Try out the DM-Pyramid map - zero gravity shaft in the middle instead of some elevator or lame-ass springboard (who's ideas were those?).
This is a departure? Have you played an FPS game in the past 4 years? UT, Q3 and Half-life both have numerous mods that fit that description. This sounds like Counterstrike's gameplay with TFC's classes and respawning. Or UT-Assault (part of the game, not even a mod) with player classes. Its not innovative at all. Whether or not its a good game I'm not discussing - but innovative? They're just the first to build the whole main multiplayer game mode on that one concept. There are plenty of others with similar styles.
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A better approach to "integrating" Moz with an IM system would simply to build yourself an IM, bundle it with moz, and have systems to launch the IM from moz. With time, you may integrate the programs together, allowing moz to control some of the IM's functions (like MSN Messenger and Outlook Express) but still keeping the programs separate. You bundle them together and call the messenger Mozilla Messenger, and let the uninitiated think that "ooh, moz comes with a built in messaging system".
The Unix philosophy of many programs to do many jobs does not have to make things user unfriendly. Just let the programs work together with a few launch links and suchlike. Let them install all together and easily. Let them share a group in the executing list. Let the user feel like its a suite of programs, not a whole bunch of crap that comes in a package.
I disagree on the URL bar issue. I'm always annoyed in IE's tendency to start with the page getting focus. Personally, I rarely even look at the page that just opened with the browser window unless I used "open in new window", often opening new windows just for new browsing. In this case, the URL bar is what should have focus.
Or possibly the White Plague. Wow, that works on so many levels if you've read Frank Herbert.
The white plague - Top-notch genetic researcher loses his family in IRA bombing, goes insane, sells his house and everything he owns for a quarter million in lab equipment. Spends the next two years unraveling genetic code and designs himself the White Plague, his way of getting even. He unleashes the plague in Ireland and a handful of other places, then threatens to spread it to other nations if they try to interfere.
The white plague was a genetically tailored disease that killed only women, while men remained carriers to spread the disease. Thus our protagonist would get his revenge by making the nation of Ireland feel the same loss he did.
In the 70's, when this was written, it was sci-fi. Gene-tech was (pun intended) still in its embryonic phases. A first-year bio student can read the book and find that all the info in there that was cutting edge at the time of writing are now old hat. So, where are we headed?
No, we ban the advertisement for the cameras that obviously imply they are to be used for voyeurism. Showing a sexy girl and mentioning that you can hide this thing anywhere is directly implying that, and it is a quite inappropriate suggestion. The camera itself is not, and should not be illegal, simply advertising a product based on its illegal applications is, anymore then advertising a CD burner or internet connection on the basis that you'll never have to pay for music again.
If the advertisement is tasteful, then they can advertise all they want.
Yeah, well what if I'm on a deadline and your waste of my processor cycles causes it to be late because my software compiles too slowly? Or cause I can't transmit it to my boss since your eating my bandwidth? I might not know your doing it, I might not know anything's even wrong other then that things are going slow. But you're doing me harm, without my consent, for your own profit. There is a victim, and the person is not being victimized for a greater good with the consent of the government. Usually, things that fit that description are illegal.
IANAL, but actually, if they continue to call you after you've clearly stated "don't call me", then that's harrassment. Even religious organisations have been sued for that.
Yeah? Well my copy of WinXP just lost both my CD-rom drives after I installed one of those "burn to cdrw as if it were a normal disk drive" programs. I had to use a system backup to get it back.
Well in that case he's a very creative and intelligent man who should leave writing the actual dialogue and specifics to the experts, since if he talks at all like his characters then he's the corniest man on earth.
Try reading real sci-fi. No, back away from the serials, they are the spawn of the devil. Real authors, the ones who started in the 70's or earlier. Star-Trek is not sci-fi, any more then Star Wars is sci-fi. I'm not saying its bad (big fan of TNG and DS9 here) but its just sooo made-up. Star Trek is for kids and the undereducated, who don't realize they're making things up as they go along. Read some Niven, Brin (Uplift, not Postman), Bova, or maybe Gibson if that's more up your alley.
Real science fiction doesn't get movies and TV shows made about them, because the populace wouldn't understand the stories. Sci-fi is supposed to make you think. B5 is much closer to real science fiction, although the problem is that it has a tendency to be very hammy and crappy - plus the tendency to go totally paranormal (day of the dead) keeps it slightly in the realm of fantasy. I believe B5 is a very well laid-out series and JMS is a genious, but whatever writers he's got working for him are boobs. Still, its damn good sht.
Ah well, I'm just talking out of my ass. Anybody who believes me already reads the good stuff.
Whatever, read Tolkien. B5 already feels like it as is in a lot of ways (Tolkien quote in B5: "do not trifle wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger" or something like that)
Actually, by estimites of its composition and its known location, it is considered by many to be the solar system's biggest comet. It is located in the cometary belt, and it is constructed like a comet. It doesn't look like one just because comets do not form a coma and tail until they pass within Saturn's orbit.
Umm, did you just bash sony for making a market full of same old crap, then hail Nintendo for making remakes of their best SNES games? Whoat, theres some circular logic. Take a closer look - Nintendo's only reason for their apparent superiority is that they demanded serious personal reviewing of games before they came out, and Nintendo ports of any game had to have additional features. Sony let anyone come in and wipe their feet on their console.... however, this doesn't mean ps games suck, its just that there are more PS games, and a worse signal to noise ratio. Still, that also means that Sony let in some wierd, rare games you'll never find on any other console - like Carnage Heart, competitive Mecha and AI design.
PS2 has Armored Core 2 and Twisted Metal Black. Until those two games come to another console, PS2 will still have serious 0wnage. Yes, those games are somewhat tough to learn, but they've got a much better multiplayer nature then most of those that you just mentioned (mario kart is an exception). And pardon me, but single player is masturbation.
Actually, I'm always annoyed that N64 games are often insanely childish, but many have a difficulty/complexity level that would boggle an astronaut. Diddy Kong Racing was the worst, most uncomfortable, tough, POS I ever played. Honestly, the N64 first line games were sooo much better then the later stuff, cause they decided that if they'd make a game look childish and *feel* easy and childish too. Mario 64 and Kart 64 are still among the best I've played on N64, along with Super Smash.
While I like cartoon shader work (see Snoopy for Quake 3 at planetquake.com/polycount for a good example), that new Link looks butt ugly... I like the porcs though.
Heres the difference - anyone who knows anything about chemistry knows that's ridiculous. The oforementioned story is quite possible. Unlikely maybe, but possible. And anyone who knows anything about economics knows a long list of folks who'd be willing to be that way.
Hmph. This is lawsuit time in my world. Whatever service the MPAA used has just committed libel (or is it slander?). Shrink-wrap licenses that say "We can cancel service at any time" are quite questionable. Whats to stop someone from pulling a totally legal con job that way? It never said though, whether they recieved a refund at all for the time lost. If not, then thats a definite issue.
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Plus, its pretty bad since whenever micorosoft gets something like this, people get pissed off if they take more then a weekend on it. Here, they took almost a week longer then RedHat, makes you wonder how long this sploit was in hacker circles, and how long the distros knew about it. Whatever happened to the claims of fast reaction in the opensource industry vs. old-skool business?
This isn't a troll, but an honest question - what tookem so long, and why didn't they just throw it open to end-users to protect themselves (like closing down ftps in worst-case) like is supposed to be standard practice?
I've often thought about this, and the company itself should be punished as well, and with severness similar to what you or I go through. Criminal Negligence Causing Death would come up more then once in a while in a company lifetime. You or me? A few years in the clink. Corporation? 00.3% hit out of their profits. Right. How bout they are denied the right to sell products for a 4 year period? Maybe when shareholders start noticing their stocks disappearing they might invest in companies that with more morals then a thailand organ-harvesting racket.
umm, dood, futurama is the same genious as old Simpsons. The good writers left Simpsons to work on Futurama. Its the same stuff.
Yeah, except that the game was to be released years ago, and it was the Xbox holding up development, not Bungie. The e3 alpha version ran on a 266 with a tnt2. They were doing fine, it was going well, it wasn't "the project that wouldn't die". Oh, well.
I find the head-tracking to be often the worst flaw - the gun should be used for aiming, the head for looking. Otherwise you keep thinking you have eye-beams. This is why the best VR FPS is still that dumb-old "Dactyl Terror" game where you fight a pteridactyl - you have a hand-held gun you aim with. No eye-beams.
Rise of the Triad did. Nobody cared. Hence, noone bothers. I believe a little-known game called Locus uses head tracking for turret control in a sort of tank-soccer game.
I'm afraid I haven't got a link on this, but a Japanese firm is working on an impressive system that is classified as "augmented reality". The VR goggles are transparent, but can display images over the real ones, so it could be used to display non-existant sprites and characters in the real world. With a good model of the environment it is being done in, they can cas shadows and use realistic lightsourcing. It currently requires some very expensive hardware, has some bad lag, and is ludicrously expensive, but the tech's there. On of the first demonstration was an FPS where they shot at little flying sharks.
Now, imagine UT's weapon spread used with equipment like that in your favourite lasertag hangout.
Why stop there? Think gameshows.
UT has that, but few level designers use it. Try out the DM-Pyramid map - zero gravity shaft in the middle instead of some elevator or lame-ass springboard (who's ideas were those?).
This is a departure? Have you played an FPS game in the past 4 years? UT, Q3 and Half-life both have numerous mods that fit that description. This sounds like Counterstrike's gameplay with TFC's classes and respawning. Or UT-Assault (part of the game, not even a mod) with player classes. Its not innovative at all. Whether or not its a good game I'm not discussing - but innovative? They're just the first to build the whole main multiplayer game mode on that one concept. There are plenty of others with similar styles.
A better approach to "integrating" Moz with an IM system would simply to build yourself an IM, bundle it with moz, and have systems to launch the IM from moz. With time, you may integrate the programs together, allowing moz to control some of the IM's functions (like MSN Messenger and Outlook Express) but still keeping the programs separate. You bundle them together and call the messenger Mozilla Messenger, and let the uninitiated think that "ooh, moz comes with a built in messaging system".
The Unix philosophy of many programs to do many jobs does not have to make things user unfriendly. Just let the programs work together with a few launch links and suchlike. Let them install all together and easily. Let them share a group in the executing list. Let the user feel like its a suite of programs, not a whole bunch of crap that comes in a package.
I disagree on the URL bar issue. I'm always annoyed in IE's tendency to start with the page getting focus. Personally, I rarely even look at the page that just opened with the browser window unless I used "open in new window", often opening new windows just for new browsing. In this case, the URL bar is what should have focus.
Or possibly the White Plague. Wow, that works on so many levels if you've read Frank Herbert.
The white plague - Top-notch genetic researcher loses his family in IRA bombing, goes insane, sells his house and everything he owns for a quarter million in lab equipment. Spends the next two years unraveling genetic code and designs himself the White Plague, his way of getting even. He unleashes the plague in Ireland and a handful of other places, then threatens to spread it to other nations if they try to interfere.
The white plague was a genetically tailored disease that killed only women, while men remained carriers to spread the disease. Thus our protagonist would get his revenge by making the nation of Ireland feel the same loss he did.
In the 70's, when this was written, it was sci-fi. Gene-tech was (pun intended) still in its embryonic phases. A first-year bio student can read the book and find that all the info in there that was cutting edge at the time of writing are now old hat. So, where are we headed?
No, we ban the advertisement for the cameras that obviously imply they are to be used for voyeurism. Showing a sexy girl and mentioning that you can hide this thing anywhere is directly implying that, and it is a quite inappropriate suggestion. The camera itself is not, and should not be illegal, simply advertising a product based on its illegal applications is, anymore then advertising a CD burner or internet connection on the basis that you'll never have to pay for music again.
If the advertisement is tasteful, then they can advertise all they want.
Yeah, well what if I'm on a deadline and your waste of my processor cycles causes it to be late because my software compiles too slowly? Or cause I can't transmit it to my boss since your eating my bandwidth? I might not know your doing it, I might not know anything's even wrong other then that things are going slow. But you're doing me harm, without my consent, for your own profit. There is a victim, and the person is not being victimized for a greater good with the consent of the government. Usually, things that fit that description are illegal.
IANAL, but actually, if they continue to call you after you've clearly stated "don't call me", then that's harrassment. Even religious organisations have been sued for that.
Yeah? Well my copy of WinXP just lost both my CD-rom drives after I installed one of those "burn to cdrw as if it were a normal disk drive" programs. I had to use a system backup to get it back.
Well in that case he's a very creative and intelligent man who should leave writing the actual dialogue and specifics to the experts, since if he talks at all like his characters then he's the corniest man on earth.
Try reading real sci-fi. No, back away from the serials, they are the spawn of the devil. Real authors, the ones who started in the 70's or earlier. Star-Trek is not sci-fi, any more then Star Wars is sci-fi. I'm not saying its bad (big fan of TNG and DS9 here) but its just sooo made-up. Star Trek is for kids and the undereducated, who don't realize they're making things up as they go along. Read some Niven, Brin (Uplift, not Postman), Bova, or maybe Gibson if that's more up your alley.
Real science fiction doesn't get movies and TV shows made about them, because the populace wouldn't understand the stories. Sci-fi is supposed to make you think. B5 is much closer to real science fiction, although the problem is that it has a tendency to be very hammy and crappy - plus the tendency to go totally paranormal (day of the dead) keeps it slightly in the realm of fantasy. I believe B5 is a very well laid-out series and JMS is a genious, but whatever writers he's got working for him are boobs. Still, its damn good sht.
Ah well, I'm just talking out of my ass. Anybody who believes me already reads the good stuff.
Whatever, read Tolkien. B5 already feels like it as is in a lot of ways (Tolkien quote in B5: "do not trifle wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger" or something like that)
No, even better was Carrie Fisher as a nun.
Actually, by estimites of its composition and its known location, it is considered by many to be the solar system's biggest comet. It is located in the cometary belt, and it is constructed like a comet. It doesn't look like one just because comets do not form a coma and tail until they pass within Saturn's orbit.
Umm, did you just bash sony for making a market full of same old crap, then hail Nintendo for making remakes of their best SNES games? Whoat, theres some circular logic. Take a closer look - Nintendo's only reason for their apparent superiority is that they demanded serious personal reviewing of games before they came out, and Nintendo ports of any game had to have additional features. Sony let anyone come in and wipe their feet on their console.... however, this doesn't mean ps games suck, its just that there are more PS games, and a worse signal to noise ratio. Still, that also means that Sony let in some wierd, rare games you'll never find on any other console - like Carnage Heart, competitive Mecha and AI design.
PS2 has Armored Core 2 and Twisted Metal Black. Until those two games come to another console, PS2 will still have serious 0wnage. Yes, those games are somewhat tough to learn, but they've got a much better multiplayer nature then most of those that you just mentioned (mario kart is an exception). And pardon me, but single player is masturbation.
Actually, I'm always annoyed that N64 games are often insanely childish, but many have a difficulty/complexity level that would boggle an astronaut. Diddy Kong Racing was the worst, most uncomfortable, tough, POS I ever played. Honestly, the N64 first line games were sooo much better then the later stuff, cause they decided that if they'd make a game look childish and *feel* easy and childish too. Mario 64 and Kart 64 are still among the best I've played on N64, along with Super Smash.
While I like cartoon shader work (see Snoopy for Quake 3 at planetquake.com/polycount for a good example), that new Link looks butt ugly... I like the porcs though.
Heres the difference - anyone who knows anything about chemistry knows that's ridiculous. The oforementioned story is quite possible. Unlikely maybe, but possible. And anyone who knows anything about economics knows a long list of folks who'd be willing to be that way.
Hmph. This is lawsuit time in my world. Whatever service the MPAA used has just committed libel (or is it slander?). Shrink-wrap licenses that say "We can cancel service at any time" are quite questionable. Whats to stop someone from pulling a totally legal con job that way? It never said though, whether they recieved a refund at all for the time lost. If not, then thats a definite issue.