Sid Meier's first game came out eight years before Commander Keen, somehow I doubt this John was his influence. Some goes for Will Wright(6 years). Gabe Newell may have very well been influenced by John. Now if John Carmack is as legendary as/. is making him out to be, why isn't it John Carmack's Quake/Doom? First, those other games were not First Person Shooters. Sure, lots and lots of games existing before Carmack, but the world of FPS owes a lot to him. He broke new ground and opened up a whole new genre.
Not knowing who Carmack is isn't stupid. Just ignorant.
I think you're confusing criminal and civil law. In the US, at least, law enforcement concerns themselves only with criminal law enforcement. Copyright, trademark, patents, etc. are all considered civil.
It's equally ridiculous for placing the burden for civil enforcement on the universities, though.
Bear in mind I am not American, but from what I understand it is fairly costly to go to university there, and one of the easiest ways for people not born into money to finance themselves is to join the military for a bit before they go. That's true... kind of. We have what we call the "GI Bill", which was created back in 1944, 64 years ago, for veterans returning from WWII, and it helps pay for portions of the cost of higher education. Amounts vary depending on length of service. Serving in the military isn't what I would call easy, though. Especially not in wartime. As a previous poster indicated, there are many other ways of securing finances to attend college. It's a perk for joining the military, but usually not the reason.
Now, centres of power have an uneasy relationship with academia. On the one hand, healthy universities are vital to maintaining a countries technological and scientific edge. On the other hand, putting lots of smart, young people with fresh ideas in one place and giving them free time often breeds 'disrespectful' thinking. I don't agree with this statement at all. The military has a great relationship with academia. There's a river of money flowing from the military and its associated civilian agencies to higher education institutions. For example, Los Alamos National Laboratory, where they perform weapons research, is run under contract by University of California. It's well known that DARPA, which is a US federal agency, funded development of TCP/IP by higher education institutions because they needed a communications network that could survive if major pieces of it were destroyed.
Even if this were some nearly 65-year-old government conspiracy, the number of active duty military in the US is currently less than one half of one percent of the total population. We maintain one of the smallest per-capita armed forces in the world.
No, the colleges are doing a fine job of stifling free thinking all by themselves, sadly. But do remove the tin foil hat in this particular case, please.
The bank never uses the word "leaked". They use the term "stolen and forged bank records", which can certainly mean that they claim some of the documents were stolen and others were forged. Or perhaps they mean that a stolen document was modified to create a forgery. There doesn't appear to be anything contradictory in what they said.
It seems to me that a lot of people are trying to read something into the bank's statement that just isn't there.
I'm with you. I don't check Fark, Onion, Digg, etc., so I don't get all pissed off when something posts here that was already there. I got a laugh out of the video, and no one stood behind me with a gun to my head making me watch it.
This is off topic, but the zillion "Upgrade Vista by switching to XP" posts that get modded +5 funny are? Get a grip, people.
Protecting/clearing/overwriting portions of the memory during BIOS boot would work, unless the attacker cooled and moved the DRAM into their own system where the BIOS does not use the same areas, or perhaps the attacker is looking for other information besides the disk encryption key. I think you've already considered this, but it's worth a specific mention.
Crackers, not hackers While technically you're correct, you're also like those Japanese soldiers living in caves in the 1970's, still fighting a war that's been over for a long time. The definition of "hackers" has changed.
If you bothered to read the agreement you signed with Comcast you would realise that they,like probably every other ISP, have the ability to shape traffic as they see fit. There, fixed that for you. I'm assuming you wanted to state a fact and not an opinion, of course.
I think there are plenty more things out there little timmy could be exposed to that are far more dangerous than porn. True. I don't see what that has to do with the topic, though.
That being said, the only way to prevent a child from doing something they really want to do, is to provide them enough information that they no longer want to do it. All poor choices stem from lack of information. That sounds perfectly reasonable until you remember that you aren't always dealing with reason or logic. The difference between a fully functioning adult and a developing child is that the adult is, generally speaking, able to understand the consequences of their actions. Kids are much more limited in this respect.
I won't bother arguing my point further. I do not believe your theory has any basis in experience.
I can't tell if you have kids and were shooting for +5 Funny, or if you don't have kids and just don't understand that they have a tendency to decide for themselves what they want to see or don't see. Kids want to do a lot of things that are potentially harmful to themselves.
There are no 100% solutions, but that does not mean incremental efforts should be abandoned.
I'll bite. You're completely wrong. The reasons are obvious, but I'll list just the few that come immediately to mind.
1) With HD-DVD practically dead, and the relatively low adoption rate of either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray to date, Sony has no financial motivation for providing compatibility. There is no cost justification.
2) HD-DVD compatibility requires additional software to be loaded on the player, which is developed and licensed by Microsoft. Now, I'm sure MS would take the money and run if Sony were willing to pay, but once again there is no cost justification that can be made.
3) Even assuming that a lot of people already have a significant enough HD-DVD library that their player breaking would be catastrophic to them, it would be a lot cheaper to pick one up on eBay rather than spending quite a lot of money on a PS3.
4) I'll agree that HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are practically the same thing if you'll agree that 15GB per disk versus 25GB per disk is completely insignificant. Then we can both be wrong, together!
Am I the only one who doesn't give a damn one way or the other? Nope. I don't give a shit, either. I was planning to purchase one or the other when the dust settled and a winner emerged. Looks like we're just about there.
Think of all the people who spent thier hard earned money on an HD DVD player that is going to now become an expensive paperweight. This is a known risk every early adopter makes, whether they accept it or not.
I understand your point, but your assumptions are flawed.
With Windows 3.1, Microsoft needed market share. Today, they already have the market share. It doesn't make sense to permit or encourage piracy of your OS when you already have 90%+ of the desktop market share. That's just bad business. Windows 3.1 was 16 years ago. The situation isn't anywhere near the same today.
Users influence corporate IT strategy to a small extent when it comes to desktop OS, but corporate resistance to Vista has to do with support and hardware churn costs, not user familiarity. After all, from a user perspective there really isn't much difference. They still have a start button in the lower-left corner, they still have desktop icons and a system tray, and they still call IT when their applications don't do what they expect. I suspect businesses will begin adopting Vista more aggressively during 2008 as their applications become supported and their hardware gets refreshed.
The BSA doesn't go after individual users because they are interested in the money from fines, and individual users don't have enough money to make it worth their effort. Also, the BSA relies on whistle-blowers, and it's unlikely that someone will call the BSA to report themselves.
Home users are a small part of the pipeline. OEMs are a huge part of the pipeline.
I'm not sure what you mean by your last sentence. I think you're saying that Microsoft doesn't care if OEMs load XP instead of Vista? While some OEMs will now offer you a choice, please show me any major OEM that does not automatically select Vista when you build a system.
Lastly, if it was good for business for Microsoft to permit their OS to be pirated, WGA simply wouldn't exist.
That's an unpopular sentiment around here, where the upgrade-Vista-by-installing-XP +5 funny post apparently never loses its humor, but there's a lot of truth to what you said. Linux has come a long way towards desktop/user friendliness and distributions like Ubuntu are a huge leap forward, but they still haven't achieved the holy grail of but-can-my-grandmother-use-it. Getting closer, though.
They're desperate to get Vista adoption picked up faster (which ties in with the previous bullet, but kinda deserves its own) What good does it do to get Vista installed on more machines if they don't get paid for those copies? So confused. Your statement sounds like a circa-2000.com business model.
Lots of people already have a PDA and a sleek handset that they move their SIM back and forth between. I'm one of those people. This idea intrigues me because I'd sure like something easier than my current method:
"It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately." The first part of that sentence is probably true, but I fail to see what the second part of that sentence has to do with the first. I assume that Saadia Bukhari is under the impression that just because something is insensitive means it shouldn't be seen by anyone.
I respectfully refer him to http://www.somethingawful.com/ to gain an understanding of why this assumption is fundamentally flawed.
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Not knowing who Carmack is isn't stupid. Just ignorant.
I think it's funny. I suppose I'm an idiot, then. (shrug)
I think you're confusing criminal and civil law. In the US, at least, law enforcement concerns themselves only with criminal law enforcement. Copyright, trademark, patents, etc. are all considered civil.
It's equally ridiculous for placing the burden for civil enforcement on the universities, though.
Even if this were some nearly 65-year-old government conspiracy, the number of active duty military in the US is currently less than one half of one percent of the total population. We maintain one of the smallest per-capita armed forces in the world.
No, the colleges are doing a fine job of stifling free thinking all by themselves, sadly. But do remove the tin foil hat in this particular case, please.
The bank never uses the word "leaked". They use the term "stolen and forged bank records", which can certainly mean that they claim some of the documents were stolen and others were forged. Or perhaps they mean that a stolen document was modified to create a forgery. There doesn't appear to be anything contradictory in what they said.
It seems to me that a lot of people are trying to read something into the bank's statement that just isn't there.
I'm with you. I don't check Fark, Onion, Digg, etc., so I don't get all pissed off when something posts here that was already there. I got a laugh out of the video, and no one stood behind me with a gun to my head making me watch it.
This is off topic, but the zillion "Upgrade Vista by switching to XP" posts that get modded +5 funny are? Get a grip, people.
True, but bribes? I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Who got bribed? Are you replying to the right article?
Protecting/clearing/overwriting portions of the memory during BIOS boot would work, unless the attacker cooled and moved the DRAM into their own system where the BIOS does not use the same areas, or perhaps the attacker is looking for other information besides the disk encryption key. I think you've already considered this, but it's worth a specific mention.
If you read TFA (yes, I know this is /.), you'll see that it's just a conceptual design and there is no working prototype.
...playing World of Warcraft with our minds! One could argue the impossibility of such a thing, regardless of what input controller is used.I won't bother arguing my point further. I do not believe your theory has any basis in experience.
I can't tell if you have kids and were shooting for +5 Funny, or if you don't have kids and just don't understand that they have a tendency to decide for themselves what they want to see or don't see. Kids want to do a lot of things that are potentially harmful to themselves.
There are no 100% solutions, but that does not mean incremental efforts should be abandoned.
I'll bite. You're completely wrong. The reasons are obvious, but I'll list just the few that come immediately to mind.
1) With HD-DVD practically dead, and the relatively low adoption rate of either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray to date, Sony has no financial motivation for providing compatibility. There is no cost justification.
2) HD-DVD compatibility requires additional software to be loaded on the player, which is developed and licensed by Microsoft. Now, I'm sure MS would take the money and run if Sony were willing to pay, but once again there is no cost justification that can be made.
3) Even assuming that a lot of people already have a significant enough HD-DVD library that their player breaking would be catastrophic to them, it would be a lot cheaper to pick one up on eBay rather than spending quite a lot of money on a PS3.
4) I'll agree that HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are practically the same thing if you'll agree that 15GB per disk versus 25GB per disk is completely insignificant. Then we can both be wrong, together!
Pretty sure they mean the Starbucks credit card, not the pre-paid cards.
I understand your point, but your assumptions are flawed.
With Windows 3.1, Microsoft needed market share. Today, they already have the market share. It doesn't make sense to permit or encourage piracy of your OS when you already have 90%+ of the desktop market share. That's just bad business. Windows 3.1 was 16 years ago. The situation isn't anywhere near the same today.
Users influence corporate IT strategy to a small extent when it comes to desktop OS, but corporate resistance to Vista has to do with support and hardware churn costs, not user familiarity. After all, from a user perspective there really isn't much difference. They still have a start button in the lower-left corner, they still have desktop icons and a system tray, and they still call IT when their applications don't do what they expect. I suspect businesses will begin adopting Vista more aggressively during 2008 as their applications become supported and their hardware gets refreshed.
The BSA doesn't go after individual users because they are interested in the money from fines, and individual users don't have enough money to make it worth their effort. Also, the BSA relies on whistle-blowers, and it's unlikely that someone will call the BSA to report themselves.
Home users are a small part of the pipeline. OEMs are a huge part of the pipeline.
I'm not sure what you mean by your last sentence. I think you're saying that Microsoft doesn't care if OEMs load XP instead of Vista? While some OEMs will now offer you a choice, please show me any major OEM that does not automatically select Vista when you build a system.
Lastly, if it was good for business for Microsoft to permit their OS to be pirated, WGA simply wouldn't exist.
That's an unpopular sentiment around here, where the upgrade-Vista-by-installing-XP +5 funny post apparently never loses its humor, but there's a lot of truth to what you said. Linux has come a long way towards desktop/user friendliness and distributions like Ubuntu are a huge leap forward, but they still haven't achieved the holy grail of but-can-my-grandmother-use-it. Getting closer, though.
1. Remove smart phone from leather holster.
2. Remove smart phone batter door cover.
3. Remove smart phone battery.
4. Extract SIM from smart phone holder.
5. Replace smart phone battery.
6. Replace smart phone battery cover.
7. Replace smart phone leather holster.
8. Remove slim phone battery door cover.
9. Remove slim phone battery.
10. Flip up slim phone MiniSD holder.
11. Insert SIM into slim phone.
12. Replace slim phone MiniSD.
13. Replace slim phone battery.
14. Replace slim phone battery door cover.
And lest I forget, I need two wall chargers and two car chargers. So yeah, I'd consider buying something like this.
I respectfully refer him to http://www.somethingawful.com/ to gain an understanding of why this assumption is fundamentally flawed.