think there is bound to be a bit of prior art here... like the teletext, sms, wordprocessors and even digital radiotransmissions. Who grants this stuf anyway?
I like a game that is easy to get into but then can take up your whole life trying to master it. In my younger years for example I was a Dutch youthchampion in chess. That is what I look for in a game, not to many rules, relative easy to get you started but still providing you with a great challenge after you have learned the basics. I like stuf like sokoban, sudoku, atoms.
I have to agree with you, as a musician and debian fanboy I would not consider switching to linux/debian at this point. (and i have been using debian for many a year for all my other stuf) I really have a hard time getting my sound to work properly and sure, call me a noob, but when I don't have to restart Alsa by hand I still don't have any app that is good enough to mix and produce the music we make. Serious, in the world of music you have 2 options. Cubase or Pro tools. Depending on your specific needs one can be better than the other. But there is no alternative. There just isn't.
I've heared sort of the same stories from my friends who operate in those fields. One doesn't have to have a rich fantasy to see how this kind of pranks can go horrible wrong.
Being that the sims is the most sold game ever I would think there are quite a few people out there who DO care about this game. You may not like it, but best sold game ever isn't a title that is easy gained.
I am sorry... Since I know slashdot it has always been a community of relative smart people who know how to google. But here you go: http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
I didn't know that book even had a site dedicated to it, but seriously, it's a good book. It's not a 'let us shame IBM book' but a good insight into the world as it was in 1937-1945. I can recommend it to anyone with an interest in those days.
Have you actually spend the time reading IBM and the holocaust? It's an eye-opener. Without IBM the germans would not have been have as effective in killing jews. It's a long time ago and IBM is not the IBM they were at that time... but still... this is just wrong.
It's not who is to blame, it is just that we all participate.
But serieus, the breeder is for real, on paper. It has less polution, but the polution is still radioactive. It has less change of a meltdown, but if that meltdown occurs, and it will, it's no difference from chernobyle, except this one wil be bigger.
We really are not ready for this kind of power as mankind. Once we find a solution for the radioactive waste we will be. Till that time... there is always the sun.
Still a shame someone flagged me as flamebait instead of discussing our different views. Cause flamebait i Was not.
This really is just plain weird. In a world where we all know that radioactive energy brings with it unsolvable polution. In a world where they tells us that is ok and not true, in a world where in one of the best and most secure countries in the world just last week had to admit they were leaking radiactive material (germany) a company that has made many, many millions from selling this unsafe energy, now gets a very good deal?
Let me guess, if we trace back all the ownsers of said company, somewhere in that spaghetti of companies there is a company that has spend big time on this US president or the former US president.
This just ain't happening without some very powerfull people getting paid in powerfull cash.
And when my mail filters blocks spam, it sends out a message with redirections to an alternative gsm-number telling them to call me so I can whitelist the adres.
That's called back scatter and its as bad as spam.
Think about it, my mail servers block about 35,000 spam per day. If they sent a message to each failed recipient with alternative instructions, that would be 35,000 messages I sent out. Some 34,990 of those messages would either be undeliverable or would get delivered to people who had nothing to do with the original message. You are effectively clogging up a bunch of innocent peoples mail systems with your messages.
Put it another way, suppose some spammer sends 1,000,000 messages with your email address spoofed as the sender. If everyone else did what you do, you would then receive 1,000,000 messages back to your inbox giving you alternate instructions to contact these people.
You wouldn't want that. Nobody else does either. So please stop.
I do get your point really. But my dad (read: the boss) would not be happy if he missed a deal cause a million people who got spoofed got 1 mail from us telling them to call us if their message wasn't spam.
It's a flaw in the smtp protocol and we are handeling it is as best as we can. We send on every 1000 mails one message, telling them they got in the spambox and that they should call if it's not spam.
We are not the problem. The spammers are, so please, don't turn it around... I am not the problem, I just tackle the problem in the best way for both me and our customers. And it works. Now, go bug the dudes who don't want to make their precious smpt more secure.
Help me here... Personally I would think that if 10 is 100% 0.3 is less than 1 mail. And not 3 out of 10.
Personally I'd rather deal with spam than mis out one 1 legitimate mail. My own personal anti-spam filter is quite rough but I don't mis that many mails. And when my mail filters blocks spam, it sends out a message with redirections to an alternative gsm-number telling them to call me so I can whitelist the adres. I had about 4 times people calling me. Not one of those was a spamwhore:) So the granted whitelist turned out to work perfect.
Yes sir I did. Because chess has a small learning curve. I know this because I was 10 I was the Dutch champion after only playing for 6 months. Chess is easy to learn. It is easy to learn te basic movement and the basic moves. Sure, later on you'll learn things like en passant and proven opening moves. But in it core chess is very basic game. It allows one many strategic movements and you will never stop learning chess ones you start playing it. But if you know the basic rules, you are set to go. So yes. Chess is a game in my world. Easy to learn, hard to master. Just like... mario:)
I happen to play that game. It's a really nice simulation. Just like falcon 4 is. But I consider both pieces of software not to be games. A game is, Mario. A game is something with a small learning curve (chess, mario) to get you going. A good game has some depth and will provide you with a challenge along the way (chess, mario) so you can learn new stuf. Neither falcon nor arma 2 have this. Before you'll have any succes in these simulations you'll have to invest considerably. Hence, number 1 complain for Arma is the interface.... Number 2 are the bugs.
Having that said, I think good games (read again, games...) 9 out of 10 times need a lot less keys. A controller certainly has it's advantages. Less stress on your fingers/wrisk (i probably spell that wrong), more natural feeling, less buttons: so easier to learn.
Take the mouse for example, 2, 3 (maybe 7) buttons... Easy to comprehend, just move it and your set. It's in no way comparible to a keyboard, that at the very least takes a year to be comfortable with it. To type fast... Most people can't type blind after a year... A simple xbox (or playstation or snes) controller on the other hand is something you can actually master in 2 weeks. It's like comparing kung fu with the full contact Sanda. It takes years to master kung fu, and when you do, yes... you will have a good chance against someone doing Sanda. But when you learn Sanda, you can become a serieus problem for anyone not trained in martial arts in a matter of months. After a year, you should be quite good and win in a fight from anyone who has been training wu-shu for 5 years or less.
So in the end, it's the applications that matters. And in my oppinion, simulations are fun. But they are not games. If it takes more than 20 keys to steer the software, it probably isn't a game.
Personally, I would love to see this as a requirement for all politicians.
"Are you sure this isn't about oil?"
*Imagines big red warning light spinning like crazy and a really irritating claxon going of*
With 1.5 million forced house-sales in the US one should be able to imagine that people have less money to spend on more critical things, like food. So I am not really suprised with this.
Whenever I go to foxnews I am happy to see there are still many, many very creative people releasing this interactive fiction, complete with hyperlinks to make it interactive leading you to even more fiction. I would say if there is one genre that really stood the test of time. It is IF. Horay!
I would awsner this in a pm if we had them, but yesterday someone asked me the same thing here. The reason I don't do that is because Santax is my alter-ego for slashdot. We often take strong political stances here and I want to keep my music-life seperated from my thoughts on such subjects. I sort of like the anonymous-thingie that is behind this nickname. I will keep it in mind though, and we knows, one day it will be in there. But for now I come here for the stuf that matters:P
Btw, I like this way of discussion also. No need for name calling, we always can agree to disagree:)
I have no doubt you are a educated musiclover and I can only aplaud that. But 80% of my earnings come from the people who happen to hear us on a radiostation or on a mp3 they hear at a friends house.
It's not something you can wave away when it's your income. Sure, a lot of people are like you and I and go looking for music, but many more just happen to hear something and think... ow I like that. And don't forget the impact it has when people hear a song multiple times. That's how you get in a top 40 or top 100.
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think there is bound to be a bit of prior art here... like the teletext, sms, wordprocessors and even digital radiotransmissions. Who grants this stuf anyway?
I like a game that is easy to get into but then can take up your whole life trying to master it. In my younger years for example I was a Dutch youthchampion in chess. That is what I look for in a game, not to many rules, relative easy to get you started but still providing you with a great challenge after you have learned the basics. I like stuf like sokoban, sudoku, atoms.
I have to agree with you, as a musician and debian fanboy I would not consider switching to linux/debian at this point. (and i have been using debian for many a year for all my other stuf) I really have a hard time getting my sound to work properly and sure, call me a noob, but when I don't have to restart Alsa by hand I still don't have any app that is good enough to mix and produce the music we make. Serious, in the world of music you have 2 options. Cubase or Pro tools. Depending on your specific needs one can be better than the other. But there is no alternative. There just isn't.
I've heared sort of the same stories from my friends who operate in those fields. One doesn't have to have a rich fantasy to see how this kind of pranks can go horrible wrong.
Until your daughter is doing 'games' with a player.
Being that the sims is the most sold game ever I would think there are quite a few people out there who DO care about this game. You may not like it, but best sold game ever isn't a title that is easy gained.
I am sorry... Since I know slashdot it has always been a community of relative smart people who know how to google. But here you go: http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/ I didn't know that book even had a site dedicated to it, but seriously, it's a good book. It's not a 'let us shame IBM book' but a good insight into the world as it was in 1937-1945. I can recommend it to anyone with an interest in those days.
I don't know mate. Putting up cams in my 13 year old daughters bedroom tells me they don't have a problem with paedophiles.
Have you actually spend the time reading IBM and the holocaust? It's an eye-opener. Without IBM the germans would not have been have as effective in killing jews. It's a long time ago and IBM is not the IBM they were at that time... but still... this is just wrong.
Good thing, now maybe ms. Santax wil get of her lazy ass and start bringing in some cash too.
Since yesterday... Met him here in Amsterdam in a hookerbar. He kept me clean of tabs all night! Nice fellow, he said he could spare some cents.
It's not who is to blame, it is just that we all participate. But serieus, the breeder is for real, on paper. It has less polution, but the polution is still radioactive. It has less change of a meltdown, but if that meltdown occurs, and it will, it's no difference from chernobyle, except this one wil be bigger. We really are not ready for this kind of power as mankind. Once we find a solution for the radioactive waste we will be. Till that time... there is always the sun. Still a shame someone flagged me as flamebait instead of discussing our different views. Cause flamebait i Was not.
This really is just plain weird. In a world where we all know that radioactive energy brings with it unsolvable polution. In a world where they tells us that is ok and not true, in a world where in one of the best and most secure countries in the world just last week had to admit they were leaking radiactive material (germany) a company that has made many, many millions from selling this unsafe energy, now gets a very good deal? Let me guess, if we trace back all the ownsers of said company, somewhere in that spaghetti of companies there is a company that has spend big time on this US president or the former US president. This just ain't happening without some very powerfull people getting paid in powerfull cash.
And when my mail filters blocks spam, it sends out a message with redirections to an alternative gsm-number telling them to call me so I can whitelist the adres.
That's called back scatter and its as bad as spam.
Think about it, my mail servers block about 35,000 spam per day. If they sent a message to each failed recipient with alternative instructions, that would be 35,000 messages I sent out. Some 34,990 of those messages would either be undeliverable or would get delivered to people who had nothing to do with the original message. You are effectively clogging up a bunch of innocent peoples mail systems with your messages.
Put it another way, suppose some spammer sends 1,000,000 messages with your email address spoofed as the sender. If everyone else did what you do, you would then receive 1,000,000 messages back to your inbox giving you alternate instructions to contact these people.
You wouldn't want that. Nobody else does either. So please stop.
I do get your point really. But my dad (read: the boss) would not be happy if he missed a deal cause a million people who got spoofed got 1 mail from us telling them to call us if their message wasn't spam. It's a flaw in the smtp protocol and we are handeling it is as best as we can. We send on every 1000 mails one message, telling them they got in the spambox and that they should call if it's not spam. We are not the problem. The spammers are, so please, don't turn it around... I am not the problem, I just tackle the problem in the best way for both me and our customers. And it works. Now, go bug the dudes who don't want to make their precious smpt more secure.
Help me here... Personally I would think that if 10 is 100% 0.3 is less than 1 mail. And not 3 out of 10. Personally I'd rather deal with spam than mis out one 1 legitimate mail. My own personal anti-spam filter is quite rough but I don't mis that many mails. And when my mail filters blocks spam, it sends out a message with redirections to an alternative gsm-number telling them to call me so I can whitelist the adres. I had about 4 times people calling me. Not one of those was a spamwhore :) So the granted whitelist turned out to work perfect.
I feel alive :)
I for one, am downloading the complete works of James Brown as we speak.
Yes sir I did. Because chess has a small learning curve. I know this because I was 10 I was the Dutch champion after only playing for 6 months. Chess is easy to learn. It is easy to learn te basic movement and the basic moves. Sure, later on you'll learn things like en passant and proven opening moves. But in it core chess is very basic game. It allows one many strategic movements and you will never stop learning chess ones you start playing it. But if you know the basic rules, you are set to go. So yes. Chess is a game in my world. Easy to learn, hard to master. Just like... mario :)
I happen to play that game. It's a really nice simulation. Just like falcon 4 is. But I consider both pieces of software not to be games. A game is, Mario. A game is something with a small learning curve (chess, mario) to get you going. A good game has some depth and will provide you with a challenge along the way (chess, mario) so you can learn new stuf. Neither falcon nor arma 2 have this. Before you'll have any succes in these simulations you'll have to invest considerably. Hence, number 1 complain for Arma is the interface.... Number 2 are the bugs. Having that said, I think good games (read again, games...) 9 out of 10 times need a lot less keys. A controller certainly has it's advantages. Less stress on your fingers/wrisk (i probably spell that wrong), more natural feeling, less buttons: so easier to learn. Take the mouse for example, 2, 3 (maybe 7) buttons... Easy to comprehend, just move it and your set. It's in no way comparible to a keyboard, that at the very least takes a year to be comfortable with it. To type fast... Most people can't type blind after a year... A simple xbox (or playstation or snes) controller on the other hand is something you can actually master in 2 weeks. It's like comparing kung fu with the full contact Sanda. It takes years to master kung fu, and when you do, yes... you will have a good chance against someone doing Sanda. But when you learn Sanda, you can become a serieus problem for anyone not trained in martial arts in a matter of months. After a year, you should be quite good and win in a fight from anyone who has been training wu-shu for 5 years or less. So in the end, it's the applications that matters. And in my oppinion, simulations are fun. But they are not games. If it takes more than 20 keys to steer the software, it probably isn't a game.
Personally, I would love to see this as a requirement for all politicians. "Are you sure this isn't about oil?" *Imagines big red warning light spinning like crazy and a really irritating claxon going of*
With 1.5 million forced house-sales in the US one should be able to imagine that people have less money to spend on more critical things, like food. So I am not really suprised with this.
Whenever I go to foxnews I am happy to see there are still many, many very creative people releasing this interactive fiction, complete with hyperlinks to make it interactive leading you to even more fiction. I would say if there is one genre that really stood the test of time. It is IF. Horay!
I would awsner this in a pm if we had them, but yesterday someone asked me the same thing here. The reason I don't do that is because Santax is my alter-ego for slashdot. We often take strong political stances here and I want to keep my music-life seperated from my thoughts on such subjects. I sort of like the anonymous-thingie that is behind this nickname. I will keep it in mind though, and we knows, one day it will be in there. But for now I come here for the stuf that matters :P
Btw, I like this way of discussion also. No need for name calling, we always can agree to disagree :)
I have no doubt you are a educated musiclover and I can only aplaud that. But 80% of my earnings come from the people who happen to hear us on a radiostation or on a mp3 they hear at a friends house. It's not something you can wave away when it's your income. Sure, a lot of people are like you and I and go looking for music, but many more just happen to hear something and think... ow I like that. And don't forget the impact it has when people hear a song multiple times. That's how you get in a top 40 or top 100.
Only me and the Queen... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBUr1pSWTVI