There's obviously a market for games with political elements. Fallout and Deus Ex are both widely hailed as amongst the best games ever released for the PC. Both depicted an artistic vision of how life could be if certain negative aspects of modern culture are not challenged, and it was the storyline that engrossed it's players.
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What ever happened to Co-op mode? That available back in the days of Quake and DN3 and was hugely popular.
I call BS. If you stopped looking at the world through rose-tinted glasses you'd recall practically nobody played co-op on the PC save maybe once out of curiosity. That's the reason it was dropped. No point spending the time to implement the feature if it's only used by a minute percentage of gamers -- that time was better spent on optimising performance or adding an extra level or something the vast majority would benefit from.
It's just as well that it's Microsoft who acquired them, because this month's Internet bandwidth bill is going to be monstrous now that half of Slashdot has decided to download every one of the free utilities from the website.:)
This is exactly how every decent-sized company I've ever worked at has operated, and is the only way you can begin to attempt to secure your corporate network.
You have to ask why Intel is admitting this. Could it be because they believe the net impact will be positive, given that this may drop their stock price a little, while now clearly admitting they're not a monopoly may affect AMD's case against them in their anti-trust suit?
Sorry, I should have outlined the lead-up to my statement.
The point is that programmers will make mistakes, and some of these worms will get out on the Internet. The stakes here are much higher than with regular software bugs. The author company/ies will be sued and the authors will be jailed. Intent is not a defence against unauthorised access to systems, at least not in Australia, and I don't imagine it would be in the USA either. Doubly so for corrupting/modifying data on without authorisation.
If a government passes law to permit these "harmless" worms, it's opening up a can of worms -- pun intended.
Distributed processing capabilities and distributed network monitoring capabilities would be great, but who gets jurisdiction over what governments/companies are allowed to execute code on my PC?
MS: Let's work with JBos to interoperate more cleanly. Once we're done, we can always change the way ours works... I mean improve on our protocols. Our customers can now use Windows and.NET to talk to JBoss, while JBoss users can't talk to our stuff. It's brilliant, as it makes JBoss look bad. Further, it will slow down the JBoss developers who will have to spend more time playing catch-up, while setting them up so that even if they change their own protocols in a game of tit-for-tat, we can point to them and say, "look, the JBoss developers deliberately broke compatibility with our software -- aren't they evil!".
While I applaud Coral for their service, having it on a non-standard port means that anyone browsing from behind a restrictive firewall or proxy cannot get at it. If it was on port 80, it would be more effective at preventing slashdotting.
With graphics cards (and soon Physics Processing Units) constantly improving, game developers are faced with a problem: creating environments with appropriate levels of detail is becoming increasingly expensive. Creating the models, texturing, lighting, etc takes time.
A technology like this could be used to use a movie set approach to developing games, allowing miniscule details to be included in scenes without the prohibitive cost of a human modelling every item in a room.
I'd rather it was considered ridiculously early and thoroughly covered than having our descendents ask in several million/billion years' time "Damn, we nearly know what we need to do, but we've run out of time. Literally. I wish our ancestors had had the wisdom to start earlier than they thought strictly necessary."
Another thing to consider is the business perspective. As an executive looking at the WoW project, how many servers you buy may not necessarily be governed by what capacity is required to support peak load.
Unless you have a viable business plan for what to do with excess servers once the hype and buzz over WoW dies down, buying all of the 200 servers required to meet user demand for the first 3 months following launch isn't savvy if during the 4th, 5th and 6th months the userbase tapers off to 60% of it's original number.
Have ridden, and the combination of being heavily dependent upon avoiding others' mistakes to survive in addition to the elitist mentality of riders (case in point "If you don't ride you'll never understad why we do") has me driving in my relatively safe and stable cage.
It boggles the mind that in centuries of legal proceedings resulting in precedents galore, that no judge has gotten fed up with behaviour like this and charged the person(s) involved with being in contempt of court, and them put them in the slammer for the balance of the prosecution's proposed jail time versus what the judge thought a more reasonable amount.
Doing something like this would result in a far saner legal system, as people would be loathe to overstate their claims.
The answer is obvious: the little green men that are following the rovers around and putting photos of a desolate wasteland up to the rover cameras have decided to prolong their fun by cleaning the solar panel with Windex.
So why is this wealthy industry not lobbying world governments? You may shudder at the thought of yet more special interest groups lobbying governments, but I'm sure there are cases for it (eg. adult gamers in Australia wanting an R/18+ classification for games, which are currently limited to MA/15+ only).
You would only use such systems in situations where both parties want total privacy. An office environment is not a place for this: your personal chats with friends are, as are research discussions with colleagues.
If this is true, it's a prime opportunity for law enforcement to infiltrate the newly-forming groups. Furthermore, unlike The Lone Hacker, these groups are going to be much more vulnerable. If just one of them is identified, the entire network will get done. As an added bonus for investigators, a confederation of specialised individuals will either:
1. contain some individuals that by virtue of not specialising in protecting their identities are going to be easier to catch
or
2. use best-of-breed tools produced by those specialising in staying anonymous and cleaning up their tracks. This is a double-edged sword for while it will make it harder to get the first individual in the chain, once you have one, you have them all.
Never mind that once they get caught, they're double screwed because not only will they get charged with whatever crimes they perpetrated, they will also be charged with conspiracy charges of all sorts. Given the current political climate, I wouldn't be surprised if terrorism charges were somehow included as a bonus >:)
You plug an Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter into a 64-bit 66MHz PCI slot, not a 32-bit 33MHz PCI slot. That, and most high-end workstation/server motherboards that are going to be used in a SCSI RAID box will have multiple independent PCI buses, so their bandwidth will not be shared with other devices.
The reason they don't get it is that they don't want to get it. It suits their petty and vengeful natures to have an emotionally-charged label they can use against others they dislike, whether those others' actions warrant such a label or not. It's the pseudo-intellectual adult version of a kid labelling someone they don't like a wanker, tosser, bitch, etc. They get to feel very righteous about themselves while they do it. It's all about appeasement of their egos, nothing more.
Regardless of whether someone committing copyright infringement is viewed as a heinously immoral sinner or not, the fact of the matter is that during intelligent discussion with adults, the phrase "copyright infringer" should carry sufficient weight in itself. If it doesn't, perhaps there's a message in that about how society views it relative to crimes like theft.
You're completely overlooking the driver's attitude towards driving, and their skill at doing so. The biggest factor is and always has been driver experience behind the wheel, and by that I don't just mean time driving, but also the variety of conditions that you've mastered driving in.
While the factors you have listed definitely have a bearing on the situation, the most important by far is experience (through time, situations and training). Airline pilots have plenty of it, while average drivers have very little. What's more, the worst drivers are abysmal, yet permitted to drive the same cars on the same roads as the rest of us.
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There's obviously a market for games with political elements. Fallout and Deus Ex are both widely hailed as amongst the best games ever released for the PC. Both depicted an artistic vision of how life could be if certain negative aspects of modern culture are not challenged, and it was the storyline that engrossed it's players.
What ever happened to Co-op mode? That available back in the days of Quake and DN3 and was hugely popular.
I call BS. If you stopped looking at the world through rose-tinted glasses you'd recall practically nobody played co-op on the PC save maybe once out of curiosity. That's the reason it was dropped. No point spending the time to implement the feature if it's only used by a minute percentage of gamers -- that time was better spent on optimising performance or adding an extra level or something the vast majority would benefit from.
It's just as well that it's Microsoft who acquired them, because this month's Internet bandwidth bill is going to be monstrous now that half of Slashdot has decided to download every one of the free utilities from the website. :)
This is exactly how every decent-sized company I've ever worked at has operated, and is the only way you can begin to attempt to secure your corporate network.
You have to ask why Intel is admitting this. Could it be because they believe the net impact will be positive, given that this may drop their stock price a little, while now clearly admitting they're not a monopoly may affect AMD's case against them in their anti-trust suit?
Sorry, I should have outlined the lead-up to my statement.
The point is that programmers will make mistakes, and some of these worms will get out on the Internet. The stakes here are much higher than with regular software bugs. The author company/ies will be sued and the authors will be jailed. Intent is not a defence against unauthorised access to systems, at least not in Australia, and I don't imagine it would be in the USA either. Doubly so for corrupting/modifying data on without authorisation.
If a government passes law to permit these "harmless" worms, it's opening up a can of worms -- pun intended.
Which brings me to my original statement.
Distributed processing capabilities and distributed network monitoring capabilities would be great, but who gets jurisdiction over what governments/companies are allowed to execute code on my PC?
MS: Let's work with JBos to interoperate more cleanly. Once we're done, we can always change the way ours works ... I mean improve on our protocols. Our customers can now use Windows and .NET to talk to JBoss, while JBoss users can't talk to our stuff. It's brilliant, as it makes JBoss look bad. Further, it will slow down the JBoss developers who will have to spend more time playing catch-up, while setting them up so that even if they change their own protocols in a game of tit-for-tat, we can point to them and say, "look, the JBoss developers deliberately broke compatibility with our software -- aren't they evil!".
While I applaud Coral for their service, having it on a non-standard port means that anyone browsing from behind a restrictive firewall or proxy cannot get at it. If it was on port 80, it would be more effective at preventing slashdotting.
With graphics cards (and soon Physics Processing Units) constantly improving, game developers are faced with a problem: creating environments with appropriate levels of detail is becoming increasingly expensive. Creating the models, texturing, lighting, etc takes time.
A technology like this could be used to use a movie set approach to developing games, allowing miniscule details to be included in scenes without the prohibitive cost of a human modelling every item in a room.
I'd rather it was considered ridiculously early and thoroughly covered than having our descendents ask in several million/billion years' time "Damn, we nearly know what we need to do, but we've run out of time. Literally. I wish our ancestors had had the wisdom to start earlier than they thought strictly necessary."
Another thing to consider is the business perspective. As an executive looking at the WoW project, how many servers you buy may not necessarily be governed by what capacity is required to support peak load.
Unless you have a viable business plan for what to do with excess servers once the hype and buzz over WoW dies down, buying all of the 200 servers required to meet user demand for the first 3 months following launch isn't savvy if during the 4th, 5th and 6th months the userbase tapers off to 60% of it's original number.
Just food for thought there.
Way to go, Mr Anonymous Windows Expert. The Indexing Service does everything these desktop search tools do, and has for many years.
Have ridden, and the combination of being heavily dependent upon avoiding others' mistakes to survive in addition to the elitist mentality of riders (case in point "If you don't ride you'll never understad why we do") has me driving in my relatively safe and stable cage.
It boggles the mind that in centuries of legal proceedings resulting in precedents galore, that no judge has gotten fed up with behaviour like this and charged the person(s) involved with being in contempt of court, and them put them in the slammer for the balance of the prosecution's proposed jail time versus what the judge thought a more reasonable amount.
Doing something like this would result in a far saner legal system, as people would be loathe to overstate their claims.
Agreed: what a tosser. No life, no spine, and so insecure that he needs to justify his gutlessness to himself.
The answer is obvious: the little green men that are following the rovers around and putting photos of a desolate wasteland up to the rover cameras have decided to prolong their fun by cleaning the solar panel with Windex.
So why is this wealthy industry not lobbying world governments? You may shudder at the thought of yet more special interest groups lobbying governments, but I'm sure there are cases for it (eg. adult gamers in Australia wanting an R/18+ classification for games, which are currently limited to MA/15+ only).
You would only use such systems in situations where both parties want total privacy. An office environment is not a place for this: your personal chats with friends are, as are research discussions with colleagues.
If this is true, it's a prime opportunity for law enforcement to infiltrate the newly-forming groups. Furthermore, unlike The Lone Hacker, these groups are going to be much more vulnerable. If just one of them is identified, the entire network will get done. As an added bonus for investigators, a confederation of specialised individuals will either:
1. contain some individuals that by virtue of not specialising in protecting their identities are going to be easier to catch
or
2. use best-of-breed tools produced by those specialising in staying anonymous and cleaning up their tracks. This is a double-edged sword for while it will make it harder to get the first individual in the chain, once you have one, you have them all.
Never mind that once they get caught, they're double screwed because not only will they get charged with whatever crimes they perpetrated, they will also be charged with conspiracy charges of all sorts. Given the current political climate, I wouldn't be surprised if terrorism charges were somehow included as a bonus >:)
You're not the only one. It Just Works (tm).
Bingo. If you play the game you can expect to be played, as there's always someone faster, stronger, etc.
Sounds to me like BB's business planners were simply incompetent, and now they're all upset that people have noticed.
You plug an Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter into a 64-bit 66MHz PCI slot, not a 32-bit 33MHz PCI slot. That, and most high-end workstation/server motherboards that are going to be used in a SCSI RAID box will have multiple independent PCI buses, so their bandwidth will not be shared with other devices.
The reason they don't get it is that they don't want to get it. It suits their petty and vengeful natures to have an emotionally-charged label they can use against others they dislike, whether those others' actions warrant such a label or not. It's the pseudo-intellectual adult version of a kid labelling someone they don't like a wanker, tosser, bitch, etc. They get to feel very righteous about themselves while they do it. It's all about appeasement of their egos, nothing more.
Regardless of whether someone committing copyright infringement is viewed as a heinously immoral sinner or not, the fact of the matter is that during intelligent discussion with adults, the phrase "copyright infringer" should carry sufficient weight in itself. If it doesn't, perhaps there's a message in that about how society views it relative to crimes like theft.
You're completely overlooking the driver's attitude towards driving, and their skill at doing so. The biggest factor is and always has been driver experience behind the wheel, and by that I don't just mean time driving, but also the variety of conditions that you've mastered driving in.
While the factors you have listed definitely have a bearing on the situation, the most important by far is experience (through time, situations and training). Airline pilots have plenty of it, while average drivers have very little. What's more, the worst drivers are abysmal, yet permitted to drive the same cars on the same roads as the rest of us.