It's a good point of course, but if the guy works at freaking NASA, I gotta belive he's thought of this already, and ruled it out as the cause for some reason (valid or otherwise).
I made a list of corrections that I sent to both O'Reilly and the author which were ignored.
Perhaps the corrections you sent had already been caught by someone else (at O'Reilly or otherwise), only too late to fix before this publication, and will be corrected in any future publications. Granted I suppose a note of thanks from the author would have been nice, but what did you expect, Hallmark?
God just please shut up with this already. Not only is this about the most unoriginal thing you can say in this forum, but it is obviously not the Silver Bullet you wish it to be, no matter how loudly you scream that it is. Some of us have to run and support Windows. Flame me from now until the end of uptime, but at the end of the day there is still going to be Windows, still going be people using it, and still going to be the need to support it.
That's awesome. What do you think of Half Life 2, World of Warcraft, and Rome: Total War? Oh that's right, you have no idea.
Despite what the moron article author is insinuating, it is quite possible to securely run Windows with little threat of virus or spyware infection if you know what you're doing.
...is that all these people are getting upset with Blizzard about balance issues.
Blizzard, not caring about balance. Anyone who knows anything about Blizzard games can appreciate the humor in this. This is the company that put out 8 patches trying to balance the Zerg right in Starcraft. The company that put the 1.10 patch out in Diablo 2 two years after the games release, balancing Summoning Necros. The company that was averaging probably 10-20 buff/nerfs a patch during W3's heyday trying to get all the races/heros balanced.
Go ask Star Wars Galaxies or Everquest players about balance. They'll tell you they'd give their left nut to have Sony care half as much about balance as Blizzard does. Blizzard will balance the Warrior. People just need to have a little patience.
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Which is itself a bit of a misleading statement, as stem cell research is a very recent thing. It would be like saying "President Britany Spears III was the first president to fund time travel research" in the year 2145.
...is why these farmers are buying Monsanto seed at all. They buy it because Monsanto has engineered their seeds to be particularly resistant to their own herbacide, Roundup. Farmers just dump Roundup by the ton on their bean fields, and basically forget about it.
Sweet deal for Monsanto, and it makes growing soybeans very easy and profitable of course, but where does all that Roundup go, do you think? Can you say, Water Table? There are a lot of people very worried about the over use of Roundup by a lot of farmers in the midwest.
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Kent: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent? Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that. Kent: I see. Well, what do you say to the accusation that your group has been causing more crimes than it's been preventing? Homer: [amused] Oh, Kent, I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing crimes. Kent: [pause] Well, touche'.
So I downloaded and installed this on my machine to check it out. Keep in mind that my machine routinely has spyware scans of all kinds run on it, as I test out almost every spyware system imaginable for work.
- It reported WinPCap as "spyware" (or rather an "enabler", whatever that means), but it did have a default action of "Ignore" associated with it when the scan was done.
- It disovered c:\program files\support tools\remote.exe as the Cyanure Remote Administration Tool, classified as a Severe threat. This is Microsoft-made tool that comes with their Windows 2000 Support Tools.
- Some leftover directories of Hotbar that Adaware apparently did not fully clean up from a previous intentional infection.
This is the first time I've ever seen WinPCap flagged on any kind of spyware scan, kind of find that amusing. Microsoft must hate Ethereal or something. The Remote.exe thing is sort of funny too, but probably not unexpected, though it did not have a problem with the copy of Remote Administrator I have installed on my machine (in server mode no less). It'll be interesting to see how this performs on some intentionally-infected machines, compared to AdAware and Spybot.
There isn't a facet of life on this planet that would not be fundamentally changed forever by the discovery of intelligent life on another planet. I mean, short of Jesus coming back to life, it would pretty much be the most significant thing to happen in recorded history.
Supposedly World of Warcraft is going to implement something like this via an "Honor System", where players who gank other players many levels below them eventually develop a bad reputation, leading to increased prices at vendors and such. I know it was planned but not implemented at launch, whether they are still on track to do this is currently up in the air I believe.
You're right of course, gaming has a much better sequel-to-suck ration than the movies. Also, some game characters/universes should never be allowed to die (Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, Warcraft, etc).
But it's almost getting to be too much of a good thing. Off the top of your head, can you even name more then 5 video games that are based on an original idea/concept, produced in the past year or so, and has either won critical acclaim or seen high sales? Without resorting to GameFAQ's I'll try and see what I can come up with:
1. Khatma Damacy (sp I'm sure)
2. Fable
3. City of Heroes
4........Far Cry?
5....................I'd like to say Mario Tennis but that doesn't really count...Viewtiful Joe!
Seriously, those last two took me quite a while. The point being that even if sequels are excellent on the whole, gaming needs new ideas. Look at a game like Metroid Prime. Excellent game in every aspect, technically solid, beautiful to look at, exciting and fun to play. But does it really break any new ground? You're still Samus Aran, alien bounty hunter, and you're still showing up on planets to kill beasts and crap bombs out of your butt.
I'm not trying to say these games don't need to be made, because quite frankly I love these types of games as much as the next guy. I'm just saying we have to keep the industry fresh with new ideas, or things are going to get stale.
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If I had mod points right now, you would have gotten one.
Well presumably those blurbs are there because they have been "accused" of being spyware or virus infecting PC's in the past.
But regardless, even if it cannot be technically classified as spyware or malware, it is most definitely "annoying-ware".
It's a good point of course, but if the guy works at freaking NASA, I gotta belive he's thought of this already, and ruled it out as the cause for some reason (valid or otherwise).
Yes. It's rock stable, but there are serious latency issues.
Isn't this a plot from a Dan Brown book?
With piracy resulting in only 4% loss, why are the studios making such a big deal?
Lol, go ask any retailer why they should care if their shrink is only 4%. They'll punch you in the mouth.
I made a list of corrections that I sent to both O'Reilly and the author which were ignored.
Perhaps the corrections you sent had already been caught by someone else (at O'Reilly or otherwise), only too late to fix before this publication, and will be corrected in any future publications. Granted I suppose a note of thanks from the author would have been nice, but what did you expect, Hallmark?
God just please shut up with this already. Not only is this about the most unoriginal thing you can say in this forum, but it is obviously not the Silver Bullet you wish it to be, no matter how loudly you scream that it is. Some of us have to run and support Windows. Flame me from now until the end of uptime, but at the end of the day there is still going to be Windows, still going be people using it, and still going to be the need to support it.
You believed even a word of that?
That's awesome. What do you think of Half Life 2, World of Warcraft, and Rome: Total War? Oh that's right, you have no idea.
Despite what the moron article author is insinuating, it is quite possible to securely run Windows with little threat of virus or spyware infection if you know what you're doing.
...is that all these people are getting upset with Blizzard about balance issues.
Blizzard, not caring about balance. Anyone who knows anything about Blizzard games can appreciate the humor in this. This is the company that put out 8 patches trying to balance the Zerg right in Starcraft. The company that put the 1.10 patch out in Diablo 2 two years after the games release, balancing Summoning Necros. The company that was averaging probably 10-20 buff/nerfs a patch during W3's heyday trying to get all the races/heros balanced.
Go ask Star Wars Galaxies or Everquest players about balance. They'll tell you they'd give their left nut to have Sony care half as much about balance as Blizzard does. Blizzard will balance the Warrior. People just need to have a little patience.
Which is itself a bit of a misleading statement, as stem cell research is a very recent thing. It would be like saying "President Britany Spears III was the first president to fund time travel research" in the year 2145.
...it's possible to escape to a parallel universe. But it's the Cowboy Universe, so if that's not your thing, maybe you'd rather just stay and die.
...is why these farmers are buying Monsanto seed at all. They buy it because Monsanto has engineered their seeds to be particularly resistant to their own herbacide, Roundup. Farmers just dump Roundup by the ton on their bean fields, and basically forget about it.
Sweet deal for Monsanto, and it makes growing soybeans very easy and profitable of course, but where does all that Roundup go, do you think? Can you say, Water Table? There are a lot of people very worried about the over use of Roundup by a lot of farmers in the midwest.
Kent: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?
Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that.
Kent: I see. Well, what do you say to the accusation that your group has been causing more crimes than it's been preventing?
Homer: [amused] Oh, Kent, I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing crimes.
Kent: [pause] Well, touche'.
Maybe Hollywood could stick to ORIGINAL ideas?
That would be nice, but where are we going to find a time machine to take us back to 1945?
So I downloaded and installed this on my machine to check it out. Keep in mind that my machine routinely has spyware scans of all kinds run on it, as I test out almost every spyware system imaginable for work.
- It reported WinPCap as "spyware" (or rather an "enabler", whatever that means), but it did have a default action of "Ignore" associated with it when the scan was done.
- It disovered c:\program files\support tools\remote.exe as the Cyanure Remote Administration Tool, classified as a Severe threat. This is Microsoft-made tool that comes with their Windows 2000 Support Tools.
- Some leftover directories of Hotbar that Adaware apparently did not fully clean up from a previous intentional infection.
This is the first time I've ever seen WinPCap flagged on any kind of spyware scan, kind of find that amusing. Microsoft must hate Ethereal or something. The Remote.exe thing is sort of funny too, but probably not unexpected, though it did not have a problem with the copy of Remote Administrator I have installed on my machine (in server mode no less). It'll be interesting to see how this performs on some intentionally-infected machines, compared to AdAware and Spybot.
An old South Park episode. The boys encounter Underpants Gnomes, who have an excellent business plan:
1. Steal underpants.
2. ??????
3. Profit!
It's obvious when you think about it.
That doesn't look suspicious or anything. I've seen fake pizza boxes in movies that looked more real than that.
When, oh when will someone be able to guarentee wild-ass internet rumors and fanciful speculations?
There isn't a facet of life on this planet that would not be fundamentally changed forever by the discovery of intelligent life on another planet. I mean, short of Jesus coming back to life, it would pretty much be the most significant thing to happen in recorded history.
Why the secrecy?
Perhaps they don't want to give the black-hats a specific target for next year?
Now if we can only program it to find Sarah Conner.
Supposedly World of Warcraft is going to implement something like this via an "Honor System", where players who gank other players many levels below them eventually develop a bad reputation, leading to increased prices at vendors and such. I know it was planned but not implemented at launch, whether they are still on track to do this is currently up in the air I believe.
You're right of course, gaming has a much better sequel-to-suck ration than the movies. Also, some game characters/universes should never be allowed to die (Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, Warcraft, etc).
.......Far Cry? ...................I'd like to say Mario Tennis but that doesn't really count...Viewtiful Joe!
But it's almost getting to be too much of a good thing. Off the top of your head, can you even name more then 5 video games that are based on an original idea/concept, produced in the past year or so, and has either won critical acclaim or seen high sales? Without resorting to GameFAQ's I'll try and see what I can come up with:
1. Khatma Damacy (sp I'm sure)
2. Fable
3. City of Heroes
4.
5.
Seriously, those last two took me quite a while. The point being that even if sequels are excellent on the whole, gaming needs new ideas. Look at a game like Metroid Prime. Excellent game in every aspect, technically solid, beautiful to look at, exciting and fun to play. But does it really break any new ground? You're still Samus Aran, alien bounty hunter, and you're still showing up on planets to kill beasts and crap bombs out of your butt.
I'm not trying to say these games don't need to be made, because quite frankly I love these types of games as much as the next guy. I'm just saying we have to keep the industry fresh with new ideas, or things are going to get stale.