Reverse engineered hell - we had some of the actual Germans who worked on the originals! I'm not certain it counts as reverse engineering when you're just continuing your own work.
Yeah, it's a big place but I'd bet (not having studied a map in any detail) there are relatively few good places to set up shop. We might end up arguing over those eventually.
What we need is another good scare. The Chinese are well on the way to their own orbital research station (entirely built by them...no comment on where the tech may have come from) and a follow-on exploration of the moon, the Indians are getting their space program going and will probably partner with China in the near-to-mid term, and the ESA and Russia are continuing with the Mars mission planning without us (thanks, Congress!).
Once we start getting left behind...again...it will freak the right people out and we'll get money once more. I just hope it happens before I'm too old to enjoy the new data and pictures.
Ever since they used that Russian malware billed as copy protection, I haven't purchased anything from them. Of course, considering all they release are poorly done console ports it doesn't look like I've missed much.
A general request for the game development community - please go talk with Bioware. They've, so far and with few exception anyway (I felt Mass Effect 2 suffered from some console gimpage), figured out the dual PC/console development process.
A specific request to Ubisoft - go out of business. Please. Let the good developers working for you find jobs with decent companies.
Yeah, I didn't realize what a cluster things were in until that incident. I remember one of the reports that came out after the investigation suggested NASA switch to metric for all dealings with the public. It also said that units used were different from center to center, even program to program. I always wondered what became of that suggestion...based on what you said, sounds like not much.
Nah, no hate intended...did you read either the WP article, or google the name of the lander? Here's another link for you.
Your line:
You should feel comfortable operating in any unit system. As a technically minded person (as you must be to be posting on Slashdot), you know that the system of units has absolutely no impact on the actually quantity being measured. The use of feet and km in this article make perfect sense. Actually I am so used to using both that I didn't even notice the different units
Seemed like part of a conversation that might have taken place at LMA during this time. Fortunately, it did result in NASA placing even more strict controls on source code, both internal and contract.
I largely agree with your comment - folk should be able to at least understand how metric and Imperial units scale to each other. However, consistency does have its place.
Nope - they were copying a PARC research project, same as Apple. Neither one of them does anything truly original - they both just have the resources/foresight to make big things happen. They both steal from anyone they can, and both pay penalties when they do get caught (numerous examples from MS, best example for Apple is the interface theft from Creative Labs for the iPod).
And if you truly believe Jobs would have turned down the contract opportunities Gates had with regards to the "MS tax" you're crazy. MS just got there first.
Yes, it did. Many of them also work in Opera. You're just - no offense - too stupid to change your browser's User Agent string so that it identifies itself as Safari, which is the only thing these demos check for.
You are - no offense - an arrogant prick who has missed the point. They claim to advocate standards across the intarwebs for all, putting up a page to view a new whiz-bang standard, but are forcing you to either download their browser, or take (what are to normal users) extraordinary means, to view the content.
Ability to change the User Agent has nothing at all to do with anything in this case.
On a side note, we need a catchy slogan. How about "Vote to Revolt"?
Or better yet, picture this short commercial:
A man and woman are talking, he's complaining about his current incumbent elected official. She says "Don't just complain vote him out of office"...fast forward a few weeks and he's voting (using an old-timey lever voting machine) for the incumbent because it's the only name he recognizes.
Immediately upon reaching the bottom of the arm swing he gets hit with a whole lotta USDA Grade A prime DC, prompting him to remember all his complaining and swing the other arm. He leaves the booth, shaking his head and muttering "close call."
Screen fades to black, slogan appears character-by-character from left to right:
Yes. Prove to me that, of those 100k pirated copies, enough people would actually have purchased the game to make it worth the cost and frustration of the DRM itself. Every pirated copy is NOT a lost sale...it applies to the *AA, and it applies here.
This just proves they made a game a lot of people wanted to play, and a lot of those people are cheapskates.
I, and many of my friends, haven't purchased a CD in a long time now because there is an increasing chance that it will not work on our equipment. They still stamp CD on discs that do not follow the standard, and their label of "Contains copy protection blahblahblah not work with all blahblah" is a cop out. I was burned a few times with this, on both older and new players.
That's your effect - we don't trust the media enough to purchase it, whether from the risk of a non-functional product or some piece of auto-run crap that will attempt to install on my Windows box when I try to play it there. Yes yes, "Run linux", and I do - but not on all of my machines, and I shouldn't have to disable autorun just because the *AA wants to maintain draconian control over a dieing business model.
DRM breaks stuff -> People don't buy it -> Stores go out of business.
I hope one of the health and safety issues they look in to is the effect a cell phone has on a trachea when forcefully inserted by an enraged passenger tired of hearing the unfortunate cell user blather for five continuous hours...
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The result of that many women will likely be pills...many 7-day courses of pills....
Reverse engineered hell - we had some of the actual Germans who worked on the originals! I'm not certain it counts as reverse engineering when you're just continuing your own work.
Yeah, it's a big place but I'd bet (not having studied a map in any detail) there are relatively few good places to set up shop. We might end up arguing over those eventually.
What we need is another good scare. The Chinese are well on the way to their own orbital research station (entirely built by them...no comment on where the tech may have come from) and a follow-on exploration of the moon, the Indians are getting their space program going and will probably partner with China in the near-to-mid term, and the ESA and Russia are continuing with the Mars mission planning without us (thanks, Congress!).
Once we start getting left behind...again...it will freak the right people out and we'll get money once more. I just hope it happens before I'm too old to enjoy the new data and pictures.
You've really never played Fallout, have you?
I...think you went to the wrong "doctor."
We can exclude editors - can we please get an option to exclude regularly accepted submitters?
Ever since they used that Russian malware billed as copy protection, I haven't purchased anything from them. Of course, considering all they release are poorly done console ports it doesn't look like I've missed much.
A general request for the game development community - please go talk with Bioware. They've, so far and with few exception anyway (I felt Mass Effect 2 suffered from some console gimpage), figured out the dual PC/console development process.
A specific request to Ubisoft - go out of business. Please. Let the good developers working for you find jobs with decent companies.
Oh Oracle! What are we supposed to do with you?
Nuke it from orbit...it's the only way to be sure.
Yeah, I didn't realize what a cluster things were in until that incident. I remember one of the reports that came out after the investigation suggested NASA switch to metric for all dealings with the public. It also said that units used were different from center to center, even program to program. I always wondered what became of that suggestion...based on what you said, sounds like not much.
Nah, no hate intended...did you read either the WP article, or google the name of the lander? Here's another link for you.
Your line:
You should feel comfortable operating in any unit system. As a technically minded person (as you must be to be posting on Slashdot), you know that the system of units has absolutely no impact on the actually quantity being measured. The use of feet and km in this article make perfect sense. Actually I am so used to using both that I didn't even notice the different units
Seemed like part of a conversation that might have taken place at LMA during this time. Fortunately, it did result in NASA placing even more strict controls on source code, both internal and contract.
I largely agree with your comment - folk should be able to at least understand how metric and Imperial units scale to each other. However, consistency does have its place.
I see our resident Lockheed Martin Aerospace representative has chimed in.
Nope - they were copying a PARC research project, same as Apple. Neither one of them does anything truly original - they both just have the resources/foresight to make big things happen. They both steal from anyone they can, and both pay penalties when they do get caught (numerous examples from MS, best example for Apple is the interface theft from Creative Labs for the iPod).
And if you truly believe Jobs would have turned down the contract opportunities Gates had with regards to the "MS tax" you're crazy. MS just got there first.
Yes, it did. Many of them also work in Opera. You're just - no offense - too stupid to change your browser's User Agent string so that it identifies itself as Safari, which is the only thing these demos check for.
You are - no offense - an arrogant prick who has missed the point. They claim to advocate standards across the intarwebs for all, putting up a page to view a new whiz-bang standard, but are forcing you to either download their browser, or take (what are to normal users) extraordinary means, to view the content.
Ability to change the User Agent has nothing at all to do with anything in this case.
On a side note, we need a catchy slogan. How about "Vote to Revolt"?
Or better yet, picture this short commercial:
A man and woman are talking, he's complaining about his current incumbent elected official. She says "Don't just complain vote him out of office"...fast forward a few weeks and he's voting (using an old-timey lever voting machine) for the incumbent because it's the only name he recognizes.
Immediately upon reaching the bottom of the arm swing he gets hit with a whole lotta USDA Grade A prime DC, prompting him to remember all his complaining and swing the other arm. He leaves the booth, shaking his head and muttering "close call."
Screen fades to black, slogan appears character-by-character from left to right:
"Volt to re-vote".
Yes. Prove to me that, of those 100k pirated copies, enough people would actually have purchased the game to make it worth the cost and frustration of the DRM itself. Every pirated copy is NOT a lost sale...it applies to the *AA, and it applies here.
This just proves they made a game a lot of people wanted to play, and a lot of those people are cheapskates.
And she did that mov....no, waitaminute, that's the other...no wonder I can't find the LINDA programming language!
d'oh! Dying, not dieing. Wake up, read, respond...order is important.
Ummm....no.
I, and many of my friends, haven't purchased a CD in a long time now because there is an increasing chance that it will not work on our equipment. They still stamp CD on discs that do not follow the standard, and their label of "Contains copy protection blahblahblah not work with all blahblah" is a cop out. I was burned a few times with this, on both older and new players.
That's your effect - we don't trust the media enough to purchase it, whether from the risk of a non-functional product or some piece of auto-run crap that will attempt to install on my Windows box when I try to play it there. Yes yes, "Run linux", and I do - but not on all of my machines, and I shouldn't have to disable autorun just because the *AA wants to maintain draconian control over a dieing business model.
DRM breaks stuff -> People don't buy it -> Stores go out of business.
I hope one of the health and safety issues they look in to is the effect a cell phone has on a trachea when forcefully inserted by an enraged passenger tired of hearing the unfortunate cell user blather for five continuous hours...
Children are banned, having been found to be a result of pornography.