Consider how easy it is to slight someone, especially on the Internet. Consider how many people you may inadvertently slight over time. If everyone were to do as you suggest, we would all be drowning in spam.
There certainly are cheats for RTCW, and the sequel.
Of course there are cheats for the game as it comes out of the box - that's what punkbuster is for. It does a very good job of creating a level playing field.
I'm a sad bar steward, I've been playing RTCW for a year and a half: I have been owned many times, but there are some VERY skillful players.
With punkbuster, I've never felt I've been killed in a situation that would cause me to cry "cheat!" - and that's good enough for me:)
It's worse than that. The constant flow of software revisions (aka "upgrades") is being developed by young people. These may be technically brilliant, but they simply have not lived long enough to appreciate the benefits to the end user of an interface which changes as little as possible. These people haven't been through the three or four complete systems changes that cause more experienced developers to pause... and of course such pauses risk missing the marketing deadline, so the old fogies don't get hired.
One day we'll be able to say "told you so!" when the youngsters begin to see the light. But by that time there will of course be the next generation of enthusiasts just discovering the wonders of technology, ready to take over the task of reinventing the wheel all over again.
I always use a site-specific email address, so I can tell that (with one exception) none of the sites I've given my email address to have resulted in spam
Um. I agree that using a site-specific email address is a wise choice, but your argument is flawed. Did you ever consider that it's possible to filter out the obviously site-specific subscribed addresses when a list is sold on?
Every commercial website is an advertisement. If a website contains enough information about a product or service, and if there is a market for the product, prospective buyers will find it.
Pull, NOT push.
This is How The Web Works. Traditional marketing types simply haven't adapted yet.
Well, if javascript can be coerced to do such things then this is just one more vindication of my personal decision to disable javascript in my browser. And to hell with those websites that don't let me navigate without it enabled - the back button works just fine, thankyouverymuch.
Besides, didn't Microsoft itself advise recently that javascript should be disabled for security reasons?
My best advice is to use everything with a grain of salt because there is always something "better" on the horizon.
Seems to me that this is the biggest part of the problem. Over the last 15 years I haven't done a great deal of programming, but whenever I have, I've had to spend far too much time revisiting basic concepts all over again - even the simplest of things such as control constructs seem to shift and change over time.
I find it ironic that at a time when the number of natural human languages is decreasingly rapidly the number of computer languages just seems to go on proliferating. Why do we continually reinvent how to write a "hello world" program?
Let's work together with these countries to ensure that Microsoft doesn't become a global monopoly and eventually more powerful than the US government!
Seems to me it already is a de facto global monopoly, AND one which is more powerful than the US Government (it's already so powerful that it can run rings around attempts to reign in its monopolistic behaviour).:(
"It's the lowest common denominator, yet how do you penetrate it when it is on the opposite side of the fence?"
Easy. People should stop "pushing the d*mn envelope" and similar sexy-sounding stuff in the name of "freedom of expression". The one thing that made the WWW a popular medium was its availability to almost everyone - to publish their own inforamtion. That ease of access to the raw technology was its driving force. Dunno about you but it seems to me see that this is being eroded away as well, by that software curse: bloat:(
I think it's already been done, but in reverse...
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SpamArchive.org Launched
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In order to counter the rising tide of spam I recently installed a spamblocker, even though I'm wary of such beasts because of the danger of false positives.
Sure enough, I have received false positives. But only from one source: my filter traps the Network Solutions email asking for confirmation to proceed with the transfer away of a domain to another registrar. Net$ol changed the format of these emails a while back: they now start off by talking about a "special offer" and it's only towards the end that the real purpose of the message is revealed. My suspicious mind wonders whether these emails are intentionally designed to look like spam to reduce the number of successful transfers... sneaky:(
When cool gadgets that could "remember" things for me first came along I started using them and I also gradually started losing the ability to remember friends' phone numbers (which at one time I was able to do easily).
Inevitably, the gadget broke / was superseded by the next cool thing. And of course, there was no way to transfer the data they contained to the new incompatible device. And on, and on, it goes.
Well, I've had enough. I've gone back to a paper address book, and I've started retraining my brain how to remember important numbers. It ain't that hard: it's completely portable: there is no need for upgrades.
Be smart. It's far more cool to use the products of several million years' evolution instead of a couple decades' technology and marketing hype.
I find it ironic that at a time when natural human languages are disappearing fast the number of programming languages and variants just continues to increase.
I dispair of constantly being obliged to re-learn how to do the same old things using the latest syntax.
Is the human race ever going to wake up to the fact that we could communicate far more effectively if there were only one computer programming language?
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'The terms "online terrorism" and "cyberterrorism" are meaningless...'
Hold on a minute... how do we know that/. doesn't have a backdoor built into to allow in the marketing dept for the book under review so that they can manipulate the moderation of the articles in this thread whichever way they think is best (pro or con the paranoia) to promote the sales of their book?
....which would mean that... ummm... what's that castle?
Some of the best artists give the listener something to relate to, an emotion, a story, that keeps you captivated till you just want to hear that song over and over..
"Joe's Garage" (the concept album, not just the single) by Frank Zappa. Irony, or prophesy? Was Frank seriously warning us that there were those who would like to make music illegal?
Is the central scrutiniser about to appear? Or is s/he already here?
Just because Microsoft updated the software doesn't mean it got any better.
To my mind this is the biggest part of the problem. Something changes, but the user has no idea why it changed. If something breaks as a result of the change, identifying the cause could become a nightmare.
Yet again Microsoft stands to gain from the hordes of unpaid foot-soldiers (i.e. the friends & relatives of those who have computers but don't know how to drive them). Only this time perhaps M$ has gone too far, those in the trenches will be lost without word from High Command...
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Senator Inhofe is a well-known climate change denier. That he is in such a position makes me want to weep.
(See eg http://www.desmogblog.com/jame... )
For counterpoint book recommendations, I suggest:
'The Merchants of Doubt' by Oreskes and Conway
http://www.merchantsofdoubt.or...
'This Changes Everything' by Naomi Klein
http://thischangeseverything.o...
D'oh. My mistake, sorry...
Turns out that if the cure is worse than the disease people don't want the cure...
Some people seem to be 'denying' that that actually is the rational attitude.
Interesting. Where did you get that quote?
Turns out that when people don't like what they're hearing, they act as though they heard something else.
I'm all for digital TV. Digital is on/off. [Idiotbox in off mode] > [idiotbox in on mode].
Tommy Flowers designed and built "Colossus" in 1943: the world's first practical electronic digital information processing machine.
A working example exists today at Bletchley Park.
Consider how easy it is to slight someone, especially on the Internet. Consider how many people you may inadvertently slight over time. If everyone were to do as you suggest, we would all be drowning in spam.
:(
Hmmm, wait a minute, I AM drowning in spam
There certainly are cheats for RTCW, and the sequel.
:)
Of course there are cheats for the game as it comes out of the box - that's what punkbuster is for. It does a very good job of creating a level playing field.
I'm a sad bar steward, I've been playing RTCW for a year and a half: I have been owned many times, but there are some VERY skillful players.
With punkbuster, I've never felt I've been killed in a situation that would cause me to cry "cheat!" - and that's good enough for me
What i really hate is the fact that every game is prone to cheaters.
:)
Try Return to Castle Wolfenstein (or perhaps rather the imminent Enemy Territory sequel) - I don't believe there are any cheats for this game
Give us a break... broadcast or not, "spam" is *unsolicited* material.
It's worse than that. The constant flow of software revisions (aka "upgrades") is being developed by young people. These may be technically brilliant, but they simply have not lived long enough to appreciate the benefits to the end user of an interface which changes as little as possible. These people haven't been through the three or four complete systems changes that cause more experienced developers to pause... and of course such pauses risk missing the marketing deadline, so the old fogies don't get hired.
One day we'll be able to say "told you so!" when the youngsters begin to see the light. But by that time there will of course be the next generation of enthusiasts just discovering the wonders of technology, ready to take over the task of reinventing the wheel all over again.
I always use a site-specific email address, so I can tell that (with one exception) none of the sites I've given my email address to have resulted in spam
Um. I agree that using a site-specific email address is a wise choice, but your argument is flawed. Did you ever consider that it's possible to filter out the obviously site-specific subscribed addresses when a list is sold on?
Every commercial website is an advertisement. If a website contains enough information about a product or service, and if there is a market for the product, prospective buyers will find it.
Pull, NOT push.
This is How The Web Works. Traditional marketing types simply haven't adapted yet.
Well, if javascript can be coerced to do such things then this is just one more vindication of my personal decision to disable javascript in my browser. And to hell with those websites that don't let me navigate without it enabled - the back button works just fine, thankyouverymuch.
Besides, didn't Microsoft itself advise recently that javascript should be disabled for security reasons?
My best advice is to use everything with a grain of salt because there is always something "better" on the horizon.
Seems to me that this is the biggest part of the problem. Over the last 15 years I haven't done a great deal of programming, but whenever I have, I've had to spend far too much time revisiting basic concepts all over again - even the simplest of things such as control constructs seem to shift and change over time.
I find it ironic that at a time when the number of natural human languages is decreasingly rapidly the number of computer languages just seems to go on proliferating. Why do we continually reinvent how to write a "hello world" program?
Let's work together with these countries to ensure that Microsoft doesn't become a global monopoly and eventually more powerful than the US government!
:(
Seems to me it already is a de facto global monopoly, AND one which is more powerful than the US Government (it's already so powerful that it can run rings around attempts to reign in its monopolistic behaviour).
"I understand the advantages that can come from this technology, but it also scares the #$^@ out of me."
;)
Advantages? Hmmm... I wonder who will benefit most. Morlocks and Eloi?
Scares me, too. (But what's more scary is that I'm still going to pay to see Matrix Reloaded
"It's the lowest common denominator, yet how do you penetrate it when it is on the opposite side of the fence?"
:(
Easy. People should stop "pushing the d*mn envelope" and similar sexy-sounding stuff in the name of "freedom of expression". The one thing that made the WWW a popular medium was its availability to almost everyone - to publish their own inforamtion. That ease of access to the raw technology was its driving force. Dunno about you but it seems to me see that this is being eroded away as well, by that software curse: bloat
In order to counter the rising tide of spam I recently installed a spamblocker, even though I'm wary of such beasts because of the danger of false positives.
:(
Sure enough, I have received false positives. But only from one source: my filter traps the Network Solutions email asking for confirmation to proceed with the transfer away of a domain to another registrar. Net$ol changed the format of these emails a while back: they now start off by talking about a "special offer" and it's only towards the end that the real purpose of the message is revealed. My suspicious mind wonders whether these emails are intentionally designed to look like spam to reduce the number of successful transfers... sneaky
When cool gadgets that could "remember" things for me first came along I started using them and I also gradually started losing the ability to remember friends' phone numbers (which at one time I was able to do easily).
Inevitably, the gadget broke / was superseded by the next cool thing. And of course, there was no way to transfer the data they contained to the new incompatible device. And on, and on, it goes.
Well, I've had enough. I've gone back to a paper address book, and I've started retraining my brain how to remember important numbers. It ain't that hard: it's completely portable: there is no need for upgrades.
Be smart. It's far more cool to use the products of several million years' evolution instead of a couple decades' technology and marketing hype.
No: perhaps because it's a "spell checker" :)
I find it ironic that at a time when natural human languages are disappearing fast the number of programming languages and variants just continues to increase.
I dispair of constantly being obliged to re-learn how to do the same old things using the latest syntax.
Is the human race ever going to wake up to the fact that we could communicate far more effectively if there were only one computer programming language?
'The terms "online terrorism" and "cyberterrorism" are meaningless ...'
/. doesn't have a backdoor built into to allow in the marketing dept for the book under review so that they can manipulate the moderation of the articles in this thread whichever way they think is best (pro or con the paranoia) to promote the sales of their book?
Hold on a minute... how do we know that
....which would mean that... ummm... what's that castle?
Some of the best artists give the listener something to relate to, an emotion, a story, that keeps you captivated till you just want to hear that song over and over..
"Joe's Garage" (the concept album, not just the single) by Frank Zappa. Irony, or prophesy? Was Frank seriously warning us that there were those who would like to make music illegal?
Is the central scrutiniser about to appear? Or is s/he already here?
See e.g. The Emotional Dimension
Just because Microsoft updated the software doesn't mean it got any better.
To my mind this is the biggest part of the problem. Something changes, but the user has no idea why it changed. If something breaks as a result of the change, identifying the cause could become a nightmare.
Yet again Microsoft stands to gain from the hordes of unpaid foot-soldiers (i.e. the friends & relatives of those who have computers but don't know how to drive them). Only this time perhaps M$ has gone too far, those in the trenches will be lost without word from High Command...
A: all of them