"well, isn't it easier to make a few battles than to do something as unique as an epidemic"
Apparently not, seeing as the plague was accidental and caused by a bug. It didn't take any extra development time to create. All it took was some players realizing "hey cool I'm still infected, let's see if I can spread it!".
"in order to deliver malicious (read: virus) code"
malicious adj.
Having the nature of or resulting from malice; deliberately harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
A Trojan horse just has to be harmful and deceptive, not deliver a virus. A batch file with rm -rf in it named "coolfungame" could be considered a Trojan horse. Now if a virus infects a program file and executing the program causes the viral code to be executed, some people consider the infected file to have become a Trojan horse.
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"Considering that in EACH of those cases, the software IS distributed, they could have went after the offenders."
Selling or distributing an appliance is not against the license. You are selling the hardware with the free software installed on it. You can even make changes to the software so long as you release the modified code. This is exactly how the Cobalt RAQ servers were sold. They sold hardware and a proprietary web based GUI wrapper that configured the GPL'd web server applications. Nothing illegal about it. There are tons of appliances (firewalls, anti-virus, anti-spam, intrusion detection etc.) that are nothing but Linux servers with a custom web gui running open source apps. Just like Mac OS X can include Apache as the web server and not release the code for the GUI app that controls it.
This is the only way they really CAN do it. I'm kind of figuring that at launch there are going to be a LOT less heroes in the game while everyone levels up their villains. CoV adds PVP zones and high end super base raids which pretty much require an active population of both. Being able to play both sides will be beneficial for the game overall. I quite like a lot of the features they are putting into CoV. I think it will be a much needed injection of new content into the game.
Rise of Nations was excellent. I though Rome: Total War was pretty good, although not exactly in the classic RTS style. Battle for Middle Earth was really uninspired. I am waiting for Age of Empires 3, which seems like it might introduce some interesting twists (i.e. the home city, indian nations you can ally with). Rise of Legends should prove interesting as well.
Sure you can plug in four cards - but they won't all help with the 3D heavy lifting.
From the article:
"What is missing, of course, is SLI support. What would NVIDIA lose if it were to agree to Gigabyte's solution and release drivers that support SLI across four GPUs? Well, I guess there is not much to lose by being "first to market" here, especially since only very few people have the tremendous budget needed to go for a super expensive motherboard - we expect a minimum price of $250 - and as many as two dual GPU graphics cards at almost $1,000 each. We certainly do expect the efficiency of a quad GPU setup to be behind what current dual GPU SLI configurations scale. But would anybody willing to go the hardcore way really care? "
Also I don't see why the BSD license cannot be used for distributing Linux in countries like India where GPL is more of a hinderance.
Linux distributions contain tons of different pieces of software from different authors. There is no way they are all going to say "Sure lets use the BSD license in India!" And you can pretty much guarentee that there is no way GNU software (which is a huge chunk of a Linux distro) is going to be released under a BSD license. EVER. I would suggest reading up on Richard Stallman's views if you want to see why this is.
Well where I live, the local Software Etc. and Gamestop usually charge $5 over the normal retail cost for new games. Then for the used ones they take $5 off their regular price. So used new games are regular retail cost. Gotta love it.
I generally love O'reilly books and also get quite a kick out of the O'Really parodies. Everything from "Windows NT's Infernal Filesystem" to "Practical UNIX Terrorism". These are great t-shirts if just for the look on a fellow techies face when they read the title.
Gamestop sells refurbished PS2s for $99 plus the shipping. If there is a store in your area you can just buy it locally. A lot of other stores sell the same thing. We Love Katamari itself sells for $30 new - although since you haven't played the first one, you might as well pay $20 for Katamari Damacy. Admittedly $120-135 is still a lot to play one game. Luckily the grandparents bought my son a PS2, which has pretty much gone neglected with the exception of Katamari.
Well, that's rather a subjective comment isn't it? Instead of NetHack you could play Fate - which is much like a pretty graphical version of NetHack. For strategy there are plenty of upcoming games (i.e. Age of Empires 3, Civ 4, Rise of Legends) using snazzy 3D effects. I used to play MUDs - now I play MMOs. Both I think have their merits. You may want to play MOO 2 for the rest of your life, but I prefer some variety. And is there something inherently wrong about a good shooter like Half Life 2? Are games like Battlefield 2 in which good tactics will make the team successful mindless?
"I never understood comments like this about how things man does are not natural or "endorsed" by God. Why would God give us the intellect and capabilities to harvest eggs and many other things?"
It's because it becomes a moral question. God gave us the intellect to build nuclear weapons as well. God gave man the capacity to viciousness that can lead to the murder of millions. The point is that mankind is supposed to act morally. The question is simply: is harvesting embryos morally correct by God's law. Somehow I don't think there is a passage in the bible that states the correct answer bluntly (although I'm sure there are whackos out there who would consider the murder of innoncents to be descriptive). However because an embryo is a "potential child", killing the embryo is killing the potentiality with human hands - rather than by an unavoidable "natural" act. So the same argument applied against abortion is applied here. Now you imply that no one complains about the excess eggs in a fertility clinic. A quick search on google shows things like a bill in Kentucky that makes it illegal to fertilize more than one egg for IVF. Or the findings that there are 400,00 0 frozen embryos in storage, partially because the parents have moral qualms about getting rid of fertilized eggs they don't need. It seems like no one thought about it too much before the stem cell issue came up, but I would expect to see legislation passed in some states which will make IVF more difficult. I'm playing devil's advocate here - as these aren't my personal opinions.
The dual shock is a good controller but the boomerang PS3 one doesn't look ergonomic. In fact it looks like the design concentrated on form rather than function. It looks stylish but uncomfortable. Of course without holding one in your hands, that's pretty much speculation.
"To conclude, embryos have no inherent moral value. They only have moral value if you believe potential to have moral value gives something moral value, which I believe to be a kind of circular argument and a conflation of ideas."
Which would be a great argument if you were debating with a rational, scientific person. However, most of the objections come from people who have a religious orientation and some level of belief about association of a "soul" to the embryo (potential child). Miscarriage (many of which happen before the pregnancy is even evident) is a "natural" event and therefore within the realm of God. As in, you might not like it, but it's in God's plan and so it is acceptable. Deliberately creating and harvesting the embryos is not natural and not God endorsed.
(Disclaimer: These are not my beliefs, I am just illustrating that people who are anti stem cell research are not usually coming from a scientific perspective.)
Is this in reference to the early release with the time codes on it? I can't believe anyone that wanted to see the film would have opted to watch that version. It had big time code numbers obscuring the screen. Even the adjusted versions that blurred out the areas where the timecodes had been were distracting. I admit I downloaded the preview images of those releases to see what was up but I plunked down my money and saw it in the theater. I actually meant to go back and see it again, but never got around to it. I think mostly because inspite of the good parts, you had to swallow the big horse pill of terrible acting.
"Why does Blizard feel it is entitled to my upstream bandwidth to service other customers?"
Not to mention that once the patching is complete people don't want that upstream (which is usually pretty low on DSL) used up while they are trying to play WoW online.
So, the article is about Bittorrent getting venture capital funding to apply BT for commercial uses. I point out issues with a current company using BT for commercial uses and get modded offtopic. Well here's hoping I can get a "troll" or maybe "flamebait".
Yep I did. I tested it both ways. I really don't like having to open that many ports but I did test it. I think the problem is more the state of the "swarm" when I'm patching due to time zone differences. Although hell if I know if that makes sense. I also think it's retarded to expect average users to much with their router settings in order to patch their game. I've done plenty of tech support for WoW players having trouble with configuring their routers. If a solution is overly complicated for a regular (non tech savvy) user, I don't feel it should be used as the primary patch mechanism.
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"well, isn't it easier to make a few battles than to do something as unique as an epidemic"
Apparently not, seeing as the plague was accidental and caused by a bug. It didn't take any extra development time to create. All it took was some players realizing "hey cool I'm still infected, let's see if I can spread it!".
"in order to deliver malicious (read: virus) code"
malicious
adj.
Having the nature of or resulting from malice; deliberately harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
A Trojan horse just has to be harmful and deceptive, not deliver a virus. A batch file with rm -rf in it named "coolfungame" could be considered a Trojan horse.
Now if a virus infects a program file and executing the program causes the viral code to be executed, some people consider the infected file to have become a Trojan horse.
"Considering that in EACH of those cases, the software IS distributed, they could have went after the offenders."
Selling or distributing an appliance is not against the license. You are selling the hardware with the free software installed on it. You can even make changes to the software so long as you release the modified code. This is exactly how the Cobalt RAQ servers were sold. They sold hardware and a proprietary web based GUI wrapper that configured the GPL'd web server applications. Nothing illegal about it.
There are tons of appliances (firewalls, anti-virus, anti-spam, intrusion detection etc.) that are nothing but Linux servers with a custom web gui running open source apps. Just like Mac OS X can include Apache as the web server and not release the code for the GUI app that controls it.
It's not a virus. It is a Trojan horse. A program which claims to be something beneficial but in reality just messes your computer up.
"Don't download and install it."
I'm sure if it's listed as "PSP Trojan Horse - turn your PSP into a useless brick" - nobody would download it.
This is the only way they really CAN do it. I'm kind of figuring that at launch there are going to be a LOT less heroes in the game while everyone levels up their villains. CoV adds PVP zones and high end super base raids which pretty much require an active population of both. Being able to play both sides will be beneficial for the game overall.
I quite like a lot of the features they are putting into CoV. I think it will be a much needed injection of new content into the game.
"Maybe even have major NPCs that you can finally 'do' after completing difficult quests."
God that reminded me of the Dead Ale Wives sketch...
Moocher: Ogres? Man, I've got an ogre-slaying knife. I'ts got a plus-nine against ogres!
DM: You're not there, you're getting drunk!
Moocher: Okay, but if there's any girls there I wanna do them!
As long as half of the men are gay and there are no lesbians it should work out fine.
Rise of Nations was excellent. I though Rome: Total War was pretty good, although not exactly in the classic RTS style.
Battle for Middle Earth was really uninspired.
I am waiting for Age of Empires 3, which seems like it might introduce some interesting twists (i.e. the home city, indian nations you can ally with).
Rise of Legends should prove interesting as well.
Sure you can plug in four cards - but they won't all help with the 3D heavy lifting.
From the article:
"What is missing, of course, is SLI support. What would NVIDIA lose if it were to agree to Gigabyte's solution and release drivers that support SLI across four GPUs? Well, I guess there is not much to lose by being "first to market" here, especially since only very few people have the tremendous budget needed to go for a super expensive motherboard - we expect a minimum price of $250 - and as many as two dual GPU graphics cards at almost $1,000 each. We certainly do expect the efficiency of a quad GPU setup to be behind what current dual GPU SLI configurations scale. But would anybody willing to go the hardcore way really care? "
Also I don't see why the BSD license cannot be used for distributing Linux in countries like India where GPL is more of a hinderance.
Linux distributions contain tons of different pieces of software from different authors. There is no way they are all going to say "Sure lets use the BSD license in India!"
And you can pretty much guarentee that there is no way GNU software (which is a huge chunk of a Linux distro) is going to be released under a BSD license. EVER.
I would suggest reading up on Richard Stallman's views if you want to see why this is.
Who needs all that when you've got...
heroin?
(spoken in a Scottish accent of course)
Well where I live, the local Software Etc. and Gamestop usually charge $5 over the normal retail cost for new games. Then for the used ones they take $5 off their regular price. So used new games are regular retail cost.
Gotta love it.
I always though The Rutles were the Pre Fab Four!
I generally love O'reilly books and also get quite a kick out of the O'Really parodies. Everything from "Windows NT's Infernal Filesystem" to "Practical UNIX Terrorism". These are great t-shirts if just for the look on a fellow techies face when they read the title.
Gamestop sells refurbished PS2s for $99 plus the shipping. If there is a store in your area you can just buy it locally. A lot of other stores sell the same thing.
We Love Katamari itself sells for $30 new - although since you haven't played the first one, you might as well pay $20 for Katamari Damacy.
Admittedly $120-135 is still a lot to play one game.
Luckily the grandparents bought my son a PS2, which has pretty much gone neglected with the exception of Katamari.
"playing new mindless games"
Well, that's rather a subjective comment isn't it?
Instead of NetHack you could play Fate - which is much like a pretty graphical version of NetHack. For strategy there are plenty of upcoming games (i.e. Age of Empires 3, Civ 4, Rise of Legends) using snazzy 3D effects.
I used to play MUDs - now I play MMOs. Both I think have their merits.
You may want to play MOO 2 for the rest of your life, but I prefer some variety.
And is there something inherently wrong about a good shooter like Half Life 2? Are games like Battlefield 2 in which good tactics will make the team successful mindless?
"I never understood comments like this about how things man does are not natural or "endorsed" by God. Why would God give us the intellect and capabilities to harvest eggs and many other things?"
It's because it becomes a moral question. God gave us the intellect to build nuclear weapons as well. God gave man the capacity to viciousness that can lead to the murder of millions. The point is that mankind is supposed to act morally.
The question is simply: is harvesting embryos morally correct by God's law.
Somehow I don't think there is a passage in the bible that states the correct answer bluntly (although I'm sure there are whackos out there who would consider the murder of innoncents to be descriptive). However because an embryo is a "potential child", killing the embryo is killing the potentiality with human hands - rather than by an unavoidable "natural" act. So the same argument applied against abortion is applied here.
Now you imply that no one complains about the excess eggs in a fertility clinic. A quick search on google shows things like a bill in Kentucky that makes it illegal to fertilize more than one egg for IVF. Or the findings that there are 400,00 0 frozen embryos in storage, partially because the parents have moral qualms about getting rid of fertilized eggs they don't need. It seems like no one thought about it too much before the stem cell issue came up, but I would expect to see legislation passed in some states which will make IVF more difficult.
I'm playing devil's advocate here - as these aren't my personal opinions.
The dual shock is a good controller but the boomerang PS3 one doesn't look ergonomic. In fact it looks like the design concentrated on form rather than function. It looks stylish but uncomfortable. Of course without holding one in your hands, that's pretty much speculation.
"To conclude, embryos have no inherent moral value. They only have moral value if you believe potential to have moral value gives something moral value, which I believe to be a kind of circular argument and a conflation of ideas."
Which would be a great argument if you were debating with a rational, scientific person. However, most of the objections come from people who have a religious orientation and some level of belief about association of a "soul" to the embryo (potential child). Miscarriage (many of which happen before the pregnancy is even evident) is a "natural" event and therefore within the realm of God. As in, you might not like it, but it's in God's plan and so it is acceptable. Deliberately creating and harvesting the embryos is not natural and not God endorsed.
(Disclaimer: These are not my beliefs, I am just illustrating that people who are anti stem cell research are not usually coming from a scientific perspective.)
Is this in reference to the early release with the time codes on it?
I can't believe anyone that wanted to see the film would have opted to watch that version. It had big time code numbers obscuring the screen. Even the adjusted versions that blurred out the areas where the timecodes had been were distracting.
I admit I downloaded the preview images of those releases to see what was up but I plunked down my money and saw it in the theater.
I actually meant to go back and see it again, but never got around to it. I think mostly because inspite of the good parts, you had to swallow the big horse pill of terrible acting.
Also missing is Neverwhere, which is not only an enjoyable novel, but was also made into an enjoyable TV mini series.
"Why does Blizard feel it is entitled to my upstream bandwidth to service other customers?"
Not to mention that once the patching is complete people don't want that upstream (which is usually pretty low on DSL) used up while they are trying to play WoW online.
I use Azureus for Bittorents just fine with well over 30 connections running.
It's not a problem with the router.
So, the article is about Bittorrent getting venture capital funding to apply BT for commercial uses. I point out issues with a current company using BT for commercial uses and get modded offtopic.
Well here's hoping I can get a "troll" or maybe "flamebait".
Yep I did. I tested it both ways. I really don't like having to open that many ports but I did test it. I think the problem is more the state of the "swarm" when I'm patching due to time zone differences. Although hell if I know if that makes sense.
I also think it's retarded to expect average users to much with their router settings in order to patch their game. I've done plenty of tech support for WoW players having trouble with configuring their routers. If a solution is overly complicated for a regular (non tech savvy) user, I don't feel it should be used as the primary patch mechanism.