but there is a difference between what I described and carefully planning the burglary in advance.
Not really. The idea the parent was making is that you can use accidents, or losing control of yourself, or acting on instinct as part of your defense.
You can't say "it felt natural" to burgle. If thats your defense, you won't last long.
I completely agree with you, except that there are ways to "test the waters" and gaming offers a wide variety of ways to do that.
For example, I played lots of games as a kid. However, my parents wouldn't always buy me a new game every other month, so I would regularly get bored with a game. One day I decided to visit a forum about one of my favourite games. After talking with people there, they mentioned mods. The idea of mods was kind of new to me, so I decided to try one out. I enjoyed it. It made the game fun again, at least for another month.
Eventually, talking to someone on the forum, I asked them how they did it. They introduced me to the tools to make maps and mods for the game. I did the tutorials for mapping, as that seemed like something that should be easy to pick up on. I had found a new hobby - as opposed to just playing levels, I was making levels.
Eventually, the modding community for that game died, and I wanted to continue. After googling around, I found that Unreal Tournament (a game I was eyeing at the time) had a strong modding community, and then years later I learned that Half Life 2 had source code available. I was all over that.
All in all, I think game modding is your best bet to test if you might like coding. It gives you some experience in the field without the boring print hello world - and gets you excited because you make something people might enjoy. You may not know exactly what everything does when you read it, but if you get curious enough you'll self teach yourself.
Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can't backup all the... little emoticons. In... you see, in their last moments, browsers show you who they really are. So in a way, I know IE, Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera better than Ryan Gavin ever did. Would you like to know which of them were crashers?
how do we get from m^2 to BAU (Bad Analogy Units), so we can compare them?
Easy. We take a Car analagy, and use the units (CAU), divide by 1 Bad Analagy unit, leaving 1Car over 1Bad.
Next, we know Microsoft is bad, and their current market cap is 227.86 Billion Dollars. One of the most popular cars to make fun of in Analogies is a Prius, so you can turn your 1 car into 49miles per galon. Gas is averagely priced at 3.1 dollars per gallon, so you can multiply the miles per galon by that amount to get miles per dollar. So we have 15.8 miles per dollar. Units cancelling out, we get about 14421518987 miles, converted to meters is about 23209185052614. (I should mention these are rough estimates.)
Rooting that simply because I can, works out to be about 4817591 meters squared.
Don't tell me that people buy stolen creds and log into them just to take all their e-loot (worth thousands of e-dollars)? Oh for the love of humanity the things people will do in the name of wasting time.
No, this is often the people who STOLE the creds, log in, and sell the E-loot for REAL money. If you've never played WoW, Eve, or Runescape for more than a Month, I wouldn't expect you to understand. But this is a problem that does occur regularly.
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Had to get that out of me. So I didn't RTFA, but what I gather is that they used some kind of keylogger and now the server has 44 Million user credentials. At first I was like "Why didn't it just test the credentials when it recieved them, and then changed the password?" But that runs the risk of users detecting the virus, having it's spread shut down by Symantec, and the account being deemed worthless once the Game-Dev's shut it down and hand a new one to the original user.
So then I thought, "Why don't they have a system to report how often a keylog sends specific credentials to their server, so they know how recently certain credentials were used, to know which are still active?" Perhaps they didn't include that info when sending back keylogs though - sloppy programming, but I imagine they let this thing run for a while to see if it would even work and take off before putting in a ton of functionality.
So, I guess the issue I have is, how do you get a botnet to try out various logins without alerting the user? Could this have been how they were caught?
Basically what you said, I think its not so much about Apple Developers choosing Visual Studio, but Visual Studio developers being able to work on Apple Applications.
The Tony Hawk Ride was for a single game, the Wii Fit board is designed to be used across many games, and that is a measure of its success.
And the Wii Fit, the "very specific target audience" is a HUGE audience. Basically anyone who wants to get in shape, who likes games. That is their target audience.
The Natal, while I don't think will do as well, it won't bomb right off the bat like THR, because it will come with a wide variety of applications (they've already showcased a handful) for it, instead of 1 single application.
The 360 wants to open itself to the same target audience the Wii does: Casual gamers.
What, you think they added "Avatars" because Halo 3 buffs asked for them? The 360 has been slowly tending towards this casual console and the Natal is the development to pull it off. Then, since the 360 can play DvD's and music, is easily networkable to your home network to access files on computers and other storage devices, not to mention X-box live matchmaking services, and their online store to purchase games (something Nintendo is trying at but not succeeding at) - the Natal+360 will be a better product.
Yeah, the Wii Fit board sure bombed too. Those casual gamers that support these kinds of products need to be informed of how inferior it is to a handheld controller!
Thats the thing though, I don't know how good the response would be if it didn't involve Shepard, I personally think their best bet is to just go with the discovery of Mass Relays and the Human/Turian War, but that's just me. I know some people would feel ripped off, like it wouldn't have touched half of the content made in Mass Effect.
maybe we won't have Johnny Fucking Depp or Robert Downey Jr playing Commander Shepard.
That is of course assuming they choose a male for the lead. It seems a little difficult because some of us may have associated Shepard with a female character. Others may have chosen a male. It's tough when you have characters that aren't clearly defined in the game, especially customizable ones.
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No. Thats not sufficient enough. Bring back the death penalty.
but there is a difference between what I described and carefully planning the burglary in advance.
Not really. The idea the parent was making is that you can use accidents, or losing control of yourself, or acting on instinct as part of your defense.
You can't say "it felt natural" to burgle. If thats your defense, you won't last long.
I completely agree with you, except that there are ways to "test the waters" and gaming offers a wide variety of ways to do that.
For example, I played lots of games as a kid. However, my parents wouldn't always buy me a new game every other month, so I would regularly get bored with a game. One day I decided to visit a forum about one of my favourite games. After talking with people there, they mentioned mods. The idea of mods was kind of new to me, so I decided to try one out. I enjoyed it. It made the game fun again, at least for another month.
Eventually, talking to someone on the forum, I asked them how they did it. They introduced me to the tools to make maps and mods for the game. I did the tutorials for mapping, as that seemed like something that should be easy to pick up on. I had found a new hobby - as opposed to just playing levels, I was making levels.
Eventually, the modding community for that game died, and I wanted to continue. After googling around, I found that Unreal Tournament (a game I was eyeing at the time) had a strong modding community, and then years later I learned that Half Life 2 had source code available. I was all over that.
All in all, I think game modding is your best bet to test if you might like coding. It gives you some experience in the field without the boring print hello world - and gets you excited because you make something people might enjoy. You may not know exactly what everything does when you read it, but if you get curious enough you'll self teach yourself.
Ymmv
Why not?
From every aspect of their business, it makes sense.
It'd be like, if a Car dealership could sell you a 20 year old car, for half the price of a new car, they'd make that deal.
It's said the offline mode doesn't require battle.net
So no, Solo against PC's won't get you dropped.
Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can't backup all the... little emoticons. In... you see, in their last moments, browsers show you who they really are. So in a way, I know IE, Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera better than Ryan Gavin ever did. Would you like to know which of them were crashers?
how do we get from m^2 to BAU (Bad Analogy Units), so we can compare them?
Easy. We take a Car analagy, and use the units (CAU), divide by 1 Bad Analagy unit, leaving 1Car over 1Bad.
Next, we know Microsoft is bad, and their current market cap is 227.86 Billion Dollars. One of the most popular cars to make fun of in Analogies is a Prius, so you can turn your 1 car into 49miles per galon. Gas is averagely priced at 3.1 dollars per gallon, so you can multiply the miles per galon by that amount to get miles per dollar. So we have 15.8 miles per dollar. Units cancelling out, we get about 14421518987 miles, converted to meters is about 23209185052614. (I should mention these are rough estimates.)
Rooting that simply because I can, works out to be about 4817591 meters squared.
Make sense?
I think more accurately, if we were prepared for it, it wouldn't be a disaster.
I think you do. I think More CP = Less victims.
Whats worse:
CP making it onto the net
or
CP existing with no record of it happening
Looking back on it, that was a pretty bad movie.
You know "IMHO" can sometimes be interpretted as "honest" and not "humble" right?
Not to mention the selling of characters, which does happen on occasion.
Wasn't MY idea, but you grazed exactly my point. What if Apple DOES? Is that anti-competitive?
It's the oldest trick in the book, and you'd be surprised how many people have lost their account info that way. ...
*shifty eyes*
I was twelve okay? I didn't know any better.
Don't tell me that people buy stolen creds and log into them just to take all their e-loot (worth thousands of e-dollars)? Oh for the love of humanity the things people will do in the name of wasting time.
No, this is often the people who STOLE the creds, log in, and sell the E-loot for REAL money. If you've never played WoW, Eve, or Runescape for more than a Month, I wouldn't expect you to understand. But this is a problem that does occur regularly.
You know Slashdot doesn't let you say your own password? Check it out:
*********
Also, Alt+F4 gets you instant Karma!
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Had to get that out of me. So I didn't RTFA, but what I gather is that they used some kind of keylogger and now the server has 44 Million user credentials. At first I was like "Why didn't it just test the credentials when it recieved them, and then changed the password?" But that runs the risk of users detecting the virus, having it's spread shut down by Symantec, and the account being deemed worthless once the Game-Dev's shut it down and hand a new one to the original user.
So then I thought, "Why don't they have a system to report how often a keylog sends specific credentials to their server, so they know how recently certain credentials were used, to know which are still active?" Perhaps they didn't include that info when sending back keylogs though - sloppy programming, but I imagine they let this thing run for a while to see if it would even work and take off before putting in a ton of functionality.
So, I guess the issue I have is, how do you get a botnet to try out various logins without alerting the user? Could this have been how they were caught?
while allowing a Flash-alike (Silverlight), but not actually allowing Flash (thank god).
Now THAT is an interesting idea.
I'm simultaneously excited and dreading it.
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Why do I get the impression this isn't the first time you've said that...
Basically what you said, I think its not so much about Apple Developers choosing Visual Studio, but Visual Studio developers being able to work on Apple Applications.
The Tony Hawk Ride was for a single game, the Wii Fit board is designed to be used across many games, and that is a measure of its success.
And the Wii Fit, the "very specific target audience" is a HUGE audience. Basically anyone who wants to get in shape, who likes games. That is their target audience.
The Natal, while I don't think will do as well, it won't bomb right off the bat like THR, because it will come with a wide variety of applications (they've already showcased a handful) for it, instead of 1 single application.
The 360 wants to open itself to the same target audience the Wii does: Casual gamers.
What, you think they added "Avatars" because Halo 3 buffs asked for them? The 360 has been slowly tending towards this casual console and the Natal is the development to pull it off. Then, since the 360 can play DvD's and music, is easily networkable to your home network to access files on computers and other storage devices, not to mention X-box live matchmaking services, and their online store to purchase games (something Nintendo is trying at but not succeeding at) - the Natal+360 will be a better product.
Yeah, the Wii Fit board sure bombed too. Those casual gamers that support these kinds of products need to be informed of how inferior it is to a handheld controller!
Thats the thing though, I don't know how good the response would be if it didn't involve Shepard, I personally think their best bet is to just go with the discovery of Mass Relays and the Human/Turian War, but that's just me. I know some people would feel ripped off, like it wouldn't have touched half of the content made in Mass Effect.
I remember laying waste to legions of undead armies with a mystical sword.
To each his own, yes?
maybe we won't have Johnny Fucking Depp or Robert Downey Jr playing Commander Shepard.
That is of course assuming they choose a male for the lead. It seems a little difficult because some of us may have associated Shepard with a female character. Others may have chosen a male. It's tough when you have characters that aren't clearly defined in the game, especially customizable ones.
You wouldn't believe how good an Orgasm can be when you control it from your subconscious. It's unlike anything else ever experienced.