Was going to post something similar. I've observed that at some point most developers go from "must always use the latest and greatest" mindset out of college to "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mindset that comes with a few gray hairs. Just like any company Google would need to justify the cost of upgrading to newer technologies against any new capabilities the technologies would enable to either save costs or drive new revenue. If that cost can't be justified they could be running on existing technology for a long time (of course ensuring that you can hire people that know enough about these technologies is another story..)
This doesn't affect me one bit. I know that there is no keystroke logging where I work. The sys admins here are complete idiots and have their heads so far up their ass they wouldn't know how to implement key logg&*%$^
Now all we need is Advanced Military Algoritms and Pre-Sentient Algorithms until we achieve Fusion Power and our units become twice as strong as our enemy's units.
Intellectual Integrity and Cyberethics may pose a problem however.
Optical computers have been discovered? Superconducting fibre will soon follow and we will be able to build the dreaded gatling laser!
After that it is only a matter of time before fusion power is harnessed and our units are twice as strong as the enemies!
Don't get me wrong, I commend Rockstar for distributing a great game like GTA free of charge, but why not give the source also while they are at it? Since the game engine is completely different than the one used in GTA3 and Vice City they really don't have to worry about competition arising from modifications to the source code of the original GTA.
One great example of how releasing the source brings benefits to fans of a game is Descent Freespace 2. Early last year Volition released the source code to the game. I know personally I enjoyed hacking around with it a bit for fun (and playing make believe that I coded games for a living instead of backend java apps:P ). The FreeSpace Source Code Project was formed and has made many enhancements to the game. They recently released FS2 Open version 3.5 which adds OpenGL support, the ability to add custom movies to mission briefings, many new weapons, damage decals, and ship trails just to name a few things.
Releasing the source to GTA would undoubtedly spawn similar projects to enhance what is still a great game, and who knows some of the ideas the community may come up with could help Rockstar out with new innovations for latest games in the series.
Exactly. Ordinarily you wouldn't throw stones from a glass house, but if your house is about to be run over by a bulldozer you'll be more inclined to chuck away.
Hmmm okay. I was curious to see if they were using anything other than inconvenience.
I wonder if they could come up with a way to perform a quick modification on the BonusPak files once they are requested through Stardock? The key would be imprinted on the files somehow so that the BonusPak would only work with a game installation that uses the same key. This shouldn't affect legit users other than the bonus files would have to come from StarDock (which seems to be the idea now anyway)
responsibility to the nation than can least afford to do it.
That responsibility was given to the nation that was the most qualified to do it. Do you honestly believe that bringing the Russians on board for this project was a bad idea? The Russians are far more advanced than NASA is when it comes to inhabiting space for long periods of time. You may call those who made the decision to include the Russians dumb but I disagree. They pulled off a major coup that saved years off of the time it would have taken NASA to get the ISS to the point it is now.
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Alright I was both interested and bored so I decided to download a couple of these demos and see what they are like.
I have a couple questions.
1) What kind of drugs are best when coming up with the ideas for these things. Specifically what were your influences when coming up with the idea to make a scene about a psychotic looking little girl who chases around a bunny rabbit with a meat cleaver and removes it's testicles? 2) Where can I acquire said drugs.
I was half expecting it to read the largest nuclear chain reaction of the world in that successfully ran off. Up to the last second it remained exciting until those in the stands and everything from miles around was reduced to a fine dust.
On the plus side there would be one less backstreet boy.
This company has already caused trouble for other researchers within the US. For those who would suggest that if there were no profit incentive this "innovation" of discovering a gene wouldn't have happened I suggest you read this MSNBC article, which contains the following two paragraphs:
In Philadelphia, a university stopped testing 700 women a year for a genetic predisposition to breast cancer because its lab was accused of violating a biotechnology company's patents.
"I'm quite disgusted," said Arupa Ganguly at the University of Pennsylvania, who abandoned years of breast cancer research after Myriad Genetics Inc. warned her in 1999 that she was trespassing on the company's intellectual property. "My work went down the drain."
The fact is that this company just got to a position 1 or 2 years before University researchers would have. While there still may have been a patent put on this information by the University somehow I doubt you would have to pay extortionist fees to do anything related with those genes even if it's just further research by universities.
Americans have already been suffering because of this insane idea that a gene that occurs within every human can become the sole property of a single for profit company. It falls within the government's responsibility to prevent this situation from happening but for that to occur you need a government that is "for the people" not for corporate profits.
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Was going to post something similar. I've observed that at some point most developers go from "must always use the latest and greatest" mindset out of college to "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mindset that comes with a few gray hairs. Just like any company Google would need to justify the cost of upgrading to newer technologies against any new capabilities the technologies would enable to either save costs or drive new revenue. If that cost can't be justified they could be running on existing technology for a long time (of course ensuring that you can hire people that know enough about these technologies is another story..)
This doesn't affect me one bit. I know that there is no keystroke logging where I work. The sys admins here are complete idiots and have their heads so far up their ass they wouldn't know how to implement key logg&*%$^
!NO CARRIER
Now all we need is Advanced Military Algoritms and Pre-Sentient Algorithms until we achieve Fusion Power and our units become twice as strong as our enemy's units.
Intellectual Integrity and Cyberethics may pose a problem however.
$565 billion here. $565 billion there. Pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Play get your girlfriend to strip on webcam then put it on the internet for the rest of us to see!
Thank You.
scene of vulcan underwear giving engineer a hand job
So where can I get this underwear that gives you handjobs? Don't tell me I have to wait until the 23rd century!
And you yet again found the time to post hundreds of times to slashdot today. I've always admired your stamina Anonymous Coward!
Optical computers have been discovered? Superconducting fibre will soon follow and we will be able to build the dreaded gatling laser!
/discoveries according to Alpha Centauri
After that it is only a matter of time before fusion power is harnessed and our units are twice as strong as the enemies!
Don't get me wrong, I commend Rockstar for distributing a great game like GTA free of charge, but why not give the source also while they are at it? Since the game engine is completely different than the one used in GTA3 and Vice City they really don't have to worry about competition arising from modifications to the source code of the original GTA.
:P ). The FreeSpace Source Code Project was formed and has made many enhancements to the game. They recently released FS2 Open version 3.5 which adds OpenGL support, the ability to add custom movies to mission briefings, many new weapons, damage decals, and ship trails just to name a few things.
One great example of how releasing the source brings benefits to fans of a game is Descent Freespace 2. Early last year Volition released the source code to the game. I know personally I enjoyed hacking around with it a bit for fun (and playing make believe that I coded games for a living instead of backend java apps
Releasing the source to GTA would undoubtedly spawn similar projects to enhance what is still a great game, and who knows some of the ideas the community may come up with could help Rockstar out with new innovations for latest games in the series.
Exactly. Ordinarily you wouldn't throw stones from a glass house, but if your house is about to be run over by a bulldozer you'll be more inclined to chuck away.
Hmmm okay. I was curious to see if they were using anything other than inconvenience.
I wonder if they could come up with a way to perform a quick modification on the BonusPak files once they are requested through Stardock? The key would be imprinted on the files somehow so that the BonusPak would only work with a game installation that uses the same key. This shouldn't affect legit users other than the bonus files would have to come from StarDock (which seems to be the idea now anyway)
What is there to stop people from distributing the bonus downloads from Stardock via the same methods pirates will use for copies of the game?
A million ASCII kitchen sinks flowing for a million years will produce the greatest works of literature known to man.
"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!!?? You stupid kitchen sink!"
Since the price difference is only 30%
Ahhhh to be able to look at the toys and not pay attention to the price tag again *sigh*
Try purchasing a couple 6 terabyte file servers and then ask yourself how much a non-"kinda hackish" solution is worth. $10,000? $20,000?
You have /.ers looking at "illegal-art", messing around with the DoD .mil domain registration system, ants.... in space( think about it)
Trying to save some bandwidth costs by removing a few readers from the free roaming population?
Well ok ants in space might not get you in trouble. Maybe.
It would be even more funny if this would have propelled the story to be displayed on the google news front page.
However I suppose google's AI code would look for corresponding sources before alerting it's readers to something major like this.
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Yes things were so much better when internet users were concerned with the world trade center and anthrax
responsibility to the nation than can least afford to do it.
That responsibility was given to the nation that was the most qualified to do it. Do you honestly believe that bringing the Russians on board for this project was a bad idea? The Russians are far more advanced than NASA is when it comes to inhabiting space for long periods of time. You may call those who made the decision to include the Russians dumb but I disagree. They pulled off a major coup that saved years off of the time it would have taken NASA to get the ISS to the point it is now.
Alright I was both interested and bored so I decided to download a couple of these demos and see what they are like.
I have a couple questions.
1) What kind of drugs are best when coming up with the ideas for these things. Specifically what were your influences when coming up with the idea to make a scene about a psychotic looking little girl who chases around a bunny rabbit with a meat cleaver and removes it's testicles?
2) Where can I acquire said drugs.
Thanks.
I was half expecting it to read the largest nuclear chain reaction of the world in that successfully ran off. Up to the last second it remained exciting until those in the stands and everything from miles around was reduced to a fine dust.
On the plus side there would be one less backstreet boy.
This company has already caused trouble for other researchers within the US. For those who would suggest that if there were no profit incentive this "innovation" of discovering a gene wouldn't have happened I suggest you read this MSNBC article, which contains the following two paragraphs:
In Philadelphia, a university stopped testing 700 women a year for a genetic predisposition to breast cancer because its lab was accused of violating a biotechnology company's patents.
"I'm quite disgusted," said Arupa Ganguly at the University of Pennsylvania, who abandoned years of breast cancer research after Myriad Genetics Inc. warned her in 1999 that she was trespassing on the company's intellectual property. "My work went down the drain."
The fact is that this company just got to a position 1 or 2 years before University researchers would have. While there still may have been a patent put on this information by the University somehow I doubt you would have to pay extortionist fees to do anything related with those genes even if it's just further research by universities.
Americans have already been suffering because of this insane idea that a gene that occurs within every human can become the sole property of a single for profit company. It falls within the government's responsibility to prevent this situation from happening but for that to occur you need a government that is "for the people" not for corporate profits.
"Oh Yeah!" - [Jumps up and does pelvic thrust taunt]
It was hacked. Looks like they have shut down the site now though. You can access a mirror of it here. I'm sure this will be on the news later today.
Completely offtopic but go check out the RIAA website They've just been hacked.
Now that they have figured it out i'm sure NBC news anchor Michael Scott is anxiously awaiting gecko resistant suits.