Being a slashdotter means never having to say you're sorry when you ostracize a seemingly archaic, yet dependable, technology that shows its worth when all else fails. Which is why we all love CowboyNeal.
They could totally play CS over this network. Imagine being busted and forced to watch two dumbass cops pretend to be Terrorists sneaking their explosive into de_dust.bsp! The cops would prolly buy AWPs and camp all over that shit - the gimps.
What would the ramifications be? Could you get off on a technicality - police brutality via electronic gaming device?
Will this work on the TI 99/4A or will I need a few extra 16k memory expansion cards to get up to snuff?
I still don't understand why any of you use these big computers. We only need 32k to do everything! I'm using one now and although I had to split this message over a cassette tape, it's still better than using those computers that Bill Gates said were too memory rich.
Not if they are weasel internships, where you get to be a weasel if they hire you full time. Those are free internships, because they are designed by weasels, for weasels. If you were interning for a non-weasel company, they would pay you almost as much as a full time employee. But you wouldn't get much more when you were hired.
At Microsoft, you get to do practically nothing once you're hired, except move goal posts. You can also be a safety conscious employee. There is also the next forty versions of windows after the next thirty they already have done to work on. Working on a new version of Windows usually means making some bugs and then taking a few years to fix them. It's not that hard -- expecially when you made the bugs to begin with.
Back to internship. You don't have to be paid because the job pays for itself!
How one Microsoft employee gets promoted to VP of E-services Technology:
"I propose we go with TMSP protocols instead of SMTP, because it will allow us to move goal posts, get on the same page, keep ahead of the game, reach out and manage expectations. Also, e-services facilitate gap analysis that is goal directed to overcome security contingencies in a consumer driven brand-limited distrobution channel. TMSP is also client-centric."
That musta been where Bin Laden hid for so long. On the WhiteHouse security staff as a stiff looking blonde guy. You know, the one who kept complaining about his pay.
I love LAN parties. The smell... is the only drawback.:P
My wife and I actually Honeymooned at the third Monster Mash LAN party. Seriously... we got married and went there! She was prego at the time and we couldn't fly, so there was nothing else going on. But seriously... it was cool of her to go there.
No, my wife isn't a gamer. Just a really cool chick.
Visit our NVIDIA® sponsored Vice City Capture Contest! You could win some wicked NVIDIA® gear while playing Vice City! All you have to do is run from the cops for about fifteen minutes, evade the law and don't cheat. Hurry contest closes soon!
"Would you rather have the military and government using open source software or Microsoft?"
Totally agree... because I would hate to see a headline like, "Microsoft gets exclusive US Military contract for $700 Million".
But on the flipside... man that's gotta hurt thinking that your Open Source could maybe have brought you that much money if you had sold it instead of gave it away.
You are reading too much meaning into the word "grid".
And you have missed the whole thrust of my argument.
Local, short-term perception is distinctly different from global, long(er)-term prediction.
Yes, and my statements, if you read them carefully, indicate that I find this segmentation to be in error. Microcosm as macrocosm. We should begin to pattern our technology (well at least cartography and meteorology) after human traits rather than linear or sinusoidal cartography. We should redefine our definitions and look to expand our horizons as we are expanding our horizons, wouldn't you agree?
There are a lot of differences between human thinking and the kind of analysis done by computers. These differences are frequently deliberate and mandated by the problem being solved.
I would not dispute that. But does it mean that we have to accept the tradition blindly?
If you're going to be philosophical, you should understand the issues first.
Good advice that you might consider yourself. Not that you don't understand the material, it's just that you appear hasty in your comments. You haven't really thought through what I was saying before you replied. If you did, perhaps could you spend some more time to clarify your meaning?
I don't mind hearing criticism at all... I just prefer it to be perhaps more informed, or more contemplative criticism.
Let's make some weather-balloons, crash them in the desert, send a bunch of military personnel wearing spacey looking nuclear suits to guard the weather-balloons, and then tell the world they are weather-balloons, not alien spacecraft and that UFOs do not exist!
Some users were talking about grid holes in weather forecasting. In game design, most environs are being made on the same kind of grid nodes, thus relying heavily on that concept to drive the world.
Yet, ask anyone into gaming and they'll tell you the same thing -- the more detail you have in view in a game, the slower things get, and the greater chances for show-stopper bugs to cripple the servers and clients. That said, when you have a whole real-world(TM) you've got all kinds of detail, so the natural solution is to build a bigger/better/badder computer to run the show with raw power. Likely this is not required, for the reason that while we are human and capable of perceiving the world ourselves, anyone could deduct that each of our brains are more powerful than that computer. Doesn't that tell you something?
Our brains can't be advanced enough to understand it all without some kind hack to it, but they can.
One thing is for certain: none of our brains came with the preconceived notion of grid thinking. They were organic, right? Grid thinking was imposed on us by our teachers and parents and society. Society relies heavily on grids for electricity, traffic, zoning and law. But perhaps this system is the problem! Perhaps it's what is really holding us back as a species. Perhaps the next step is to get past nodular thinking and move to something more enlightened.
Say for example you have a grid of points around the earth for monitoring weather. Each hole in the points of monitoring permits errors in readings -- even at 2 km. What if there was a way to do this without a grid? Sounds Star Trek-ish, but I bet it's even possible with our current satellite systems to behave more organically, as a way to grasp what is before them.
Our only limitation presently, is how we as a species perceive the world. Are we perceiving it correctly by wrapping a grid around it? Paving over it? Maybe that's the problem -- all these lines we draw separate ourselves when in fact we ought be trying to see how it all fits, inversely.
Likely, there are currents we could be sensing that shatter any formal grid-tracking systems due to their random nature.
I'm fairly happy with my Geforce 4 MX, which is a big step up from my old Geforce 1 ddr. I've been utilizing the video capture feature of it and you can download a movie of me outrunning cops in Vice City, HERE.
I'm just curious... what is so bad about MX that it only cost me $112 Canadian dollars to get the card? I find that it gives me pretty good fps in Quake 3.
I've got plenty of credits and now with these neuro-interfaces I can start building pleasure domes. Thanks!
Re:BFD. You can do the same thing to the 10k CS
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"Games are no safer than any other piece of Internet connected piece of software."
I'd go one step further and suggest games are *less* secure than regular software since the dev team has many more issues to deal with other than regular software, with less time and less operating money, especially for PC games. Console game seem to have a lot more operations cash lying around, but I can't understand why. Likely it's because PC games attract more resourceful people who sell themselves short? Hard to say.
The half-life (pardon the pun) of games is also much less than regular software. The rush to buy a game might last a few months, while in contrast software like Photoshop has a continual demand that is unbending. And Microsoft could release a program with a little flashing textbox and sell a billion copies at $400 a pop. It's sick.
Games are also flukes at times, too. Who would have ever thunk CS would be so damn popular? I remember being on the first servers and we all thought it was cool but we never had a notion it would blow everything else away.
The problem with security for games like CS is that it was passed off by two other companies (id to valve and then to the CS team), so you've got a pretty confusing situation to take grasp of with all that passing of the security buck. I don't think the makers of CS are at all in the same league as John Carmack, but it doesn't seem to matter in the wake of HL/CS sales, does it?
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Being a slashdotter means never having to say you're sorry when you ostracize a seemingly archaic, yet dependable, technology that shows its worth when all else fails.
Which is why we all love CowboyNeal.
Not having one has made it a little harder to find a job somewhere other than at McDonald's.
All malice can be explained by stupidity. Why not just say, "never ascribe to malice"?
What a silly thought. That changing from first person view to third would be some kind of feat.
How you show your ignorance!
They could totally play CS over this network. Imagine being busted and forced to watch two dumbass cops pretend to be Terrorists sneaking their explosive into de_dust.bsp! The cops would prolly buy AWPs and camp all over that shit - the gimps.
What would the ramifications be? Could you get off on a technicality - police brutality via electronic gaming device?
They could classify this as "research for a sting operation", and just forget to sting...
Will this work on the TI 99/4A or will I need a few extra 16k memory expansion cards to get up to snuff?
I still don't understand why any of you use these big computers. We only need 32k to do everything! I'm using one now and although I had to split this message over a cassette tape, it's still better than using those computers that Bill Gates said were too memory rich.
Not if they are weasel internships, where you get to be a weasel if they hire you full time. Those are free internships, because they are designed by weasels, for weasels. If you were interning for a non-weasel company, they would pay you almost as much as a full time employee. But you wouldn't get much more when you were hired.
At Microsoft, you get to do practically nothing once you're hired, except move goal posts. You can also be a safety conscious employee. There is also the next forty versions of windows after the next thirty they already have done to work on. Working on a new version of Windows usually means making some bugs and then taking a few years to fix them. It's not that hard -- expecially when you made the bugs to begin with.
Back to internship. You don't have to be paid because the job pays for itself!
Visual recognition wouldn't be that hard to fool.
Kevin Mitnick holds up a glossy picture of someone we all know...
"Authenticated: President Bush... linkup complete"
That musta been where Bin Laden hid for so long. On the WhiteHouse security staff as a stiff looking blonde guy. You know, the one who kept complaining about his pay.
I'll go out on a limb and say we'll be in Heaven, but we'll be dead from over-population. :)
I love LAN parties. The smell... is the only drawback. :P
My wife and I actually Honeymooned at the third Monster Mash LAN party. Seriously... we got married and went there! She was prego at the time and we couldn't fly, so there was nothing else going on. But seriously... it was cool of her to go there.
No, my wife isn't a gamer. Just a really cool chick.
Visit our NVIDIA® sponsored Vice City Capture Contest! You could win some wicked NVIDIA® gear while playing Vice City! All you have to do is run from the cops for about fifteen minutes, evade the law and don't cheat. Hurry contest closes soon!
Vice City is amazing. Check out our NVIDIA® sponsored Vice City Capture Contest.
As a note to what I'm replying to:
Your woman will get the picture or she should not be your wife. PERIOD.
It's bad enough if you have OTHER problems, but if she doesn't get what you're about -- forget HER.
And now instead of not getting to graduate because of thousands of dollars in library fines, students get to be ousted for copyright infringement.
Ironic, however, this connection between P2P and a Library. Wha?
"Would you rather have the military and government using open source software or Microsoft?"
Totally agree... because I would hate to see a headline like, "Microsoft gets exclusive US Military contract for $700 Million".
But on the flipside... man that's gotta hurt thinking that your Open Source could maybe have brought you that much money if you had sold it instead of gave it away.
So so very wrong the world is, isn't it?
Why stop with 64? Let's aim at 128! :P
Hey why not?
Which type of palm was that guy using? I want one of those! :)
You are reading too much meaning into the word "grid".
And you have missed the whole thrust of my argument.
Local, short-term perception is distinctly different from global, long(er)-term prediction.
Yes, and my statements, if you read them carefully, indicate that I find this segmentation to be in error. Microcosm as macrocosm. We should begin to pattern our technology (well at least cartography and meteorology) after human traits rather than linear or sinusoidal cartography. We should redefine our definitions and look to expand our horizons as we are expanding our horizons, wouldn't you agree?
There are a lot of differences between human thinking and the kind of analysis done by computers. These differences are frequently deliberate and mandated by the problem being solved.
I would not dispute that. But does it mean that we have to accept the tradition blindly?
If you're going to be philosophical, you should understand the issues first.
Good advice that you might consider yourself. Not that you don't understand the material, it's just that you appear hasty in your comments. You haven't really thought through what I was saying before you replied. If you did, perhaps could you spend some more time to clarify your meaning?
I don't mind hearing criticism at all... I just prefer it to be perhaps more informed, or more contemplative criticism.
Let's make some weather-balloons, crash them in the desert, send a bunch of military personnel wearing spacey looking nuclear suits to guard the weather-balloons, and then tell the world they are weather-balloons, not alien spacecraft and that UFOs do not exist!
Some users were talking about grid holes in weather forecasting. In game design, most environs are being made on the same kind of grid nodes, thus relying heavily on that concept to drive the world.
Yet, ask anyone into gaming and they'll tell you the same thing -- the more detail you have in view in a game, the slower things get, and the greater chances for show-stopper bugs to cripple the servers and clients. That said, when you have a whole real-world(TM) you've got all kinds of detail, so the natural solution is to build a bigger/better/badder computer to run the show with raw power. Likely this is not required, for the reason that while we are human and capable of perceiving the world ourselves, anyone could deduct that each of our brains are more powerful than that computer. Doesn't that tell you something?
Our brains can't be advanced enough to understand it all without some kind hack to it, but they can.
One thing is for certain: none of our brains came with the preconceived notion of grid thinking. They were organic, right? Grid thinking was imposed on us by our teachers and parents and society. Society relies heavily on grids for electricity, traffic, zoning and law. But perhaps this system is the problem! Perhaps it's what is really holding us back as a species. Perhaps the next step is to get past nodular thinking and move to something more enlightened.
Say for example you have a grid of points around the earth for monitoring weather. Each hole in the points of monitoring permits errors in readings -- even at 2 km. What if there was a way to do this without a grid? Sounds Star Trek-ish, but I bet it's even possible with our current satellite systems to behave more organically, as a way to grasp what is before them.
Our only limitation presently, is how we as a species perceive the world. Are we perceiving it correctly by wrapping a grid around it? Paving over it? Maybe that's the problem -- all these lines we draw separate ourselves when in fact we ought be trying to see how it all fits, inversely.
Likely, there are currents we could be sensing that shatter any formal grid-tracking systems due to their random nature.
I'm fairly happy with my Geforce 4 MX, which is a big step up from my old Geforce 1 ddr. I've been utilizing the video capture feature of it and you can download a movie of me outrunning cops in Vice City, HERE.
:)
I'm just curious... what is so bad about MX that it only cost me $112 Canadian dollars to get the card? I find that it gives me pretty good fps in Quake 3.
But Doom 3 will be another story, methinks.
I've got plenty of credits and now with these neuro-interfaces I can start building pleasure domes. Thanks!
"Games are no safer than any other piece of Internet connected piece of software."
I'd go one step further and suggest games are *less* secure than regular software since the dev team has many more issues to deal with other than regular software, with less time and less operating money, especially for PC games. Console game seem to have a lot more operations cash lying around, but I can't understand why. Likely it's because PC games attract more resourceful people who sell themselves short? Hard to say.
The half-life (pardon the pun) of games is also much less than regular software. The rush to buy a game might last a few months, while in contrast software like Photoshop has a continual demand that is unbending. And Microsoft could release a program with a little flashing textbox and sell a billion copies at $400 a pop. It's sick.
Games are also flukes at times, too. Who would have ever thunk CS would be so damn popular? I remember being on the first servers and we all thought it was cool but we never had a notion it would blow everything else away.
The problem with security for games like CS is that it was passed off by two other companies (id to valve and then to the CS team), so you've got a pretty confusing situation to take grasp of with all that passing of the security buck. I don't think the makers of CS are at all in the same league as John Carmack, but it doesn't seem to matter in the wake of HL/CS sales, does it?