I've found in my desires for open source the thing I want isn't fixes, after all, the program should work well to start with. I find more often than not I'm asked to do something by 'salesguys' and I cannot due to program restraints (MS). Things that would take me an hour or two to simply add in c, and are specific 'add-ons' for this company.
Why is it hard? If you PK, you are labelled "PKer" (common in rpgs...) and there is a new 'auto-generated' land of evil for that particular PKer (with perhaps something to do, like send skeletons or some such out into the land to kill people and bring the evil person gold) and anyone who enters the land is fair game.
Also auto-gen'd would be a dungeon of difficulty equivalent to the PKer, which at it's end would be a 'special weapon' to kill the particular PKer.
Once dead, the PKer could start the game anew at level 1 with a clean slate.
I've seen this implimented, and it just makes PK-ing rampant, not not terribly less 'random'.
The idea being that PK-ing is essentially murder, and murder is to be dissuaded. Bounties do not help as lowly characters cannot defeat the powerful villain, and in the end die, and just give them more XP. If you limit the villain's area of control, and provide a 'ultimate-weapon' sort of thing it will perhaps dissuade PKing except for those that just want to rule with an iron fist over a little realm.
I've always wondered why the 'supervillain' players aren't just allowed to be supervillains... Some gameplay addition that gives them a fatal flaw, or restricts them to certain 'evil lands' when they PK. The 'good guys' could then search dungeons (after finding out about the fatal flaw at the local tavern/wise man) for the 'special thing' needed to kill the evil PKer. (note: the dungeon would be off limits to the PKer, and probably anyone 'evil' and just contain monsters and the such)
It'd be just like the predictable, mediocre plotlines of soo many stories we all love and enjoy. The PKers are happy that they can PK people foolish enough to enter their wicked realms, and the good guys can go off and fight 'eeeevil' (for great rewards of course)
I'd wager good money that while the sims and myst sold more games, Doom, Quake, Half-Life, Starcraft or even Everquest have been played more hours by the fewer people.
Granted, this doesn't make publishing companies happy (except for Verant maybe), but it should make the developers happy.
"Any hardware or software that reproduces, displays, or "retrieves or accesses" any kind of copyrighted work." Will require access control mechanisms.
Access control mechanisms that nearly everyone here can agree will broken in less time than it takes manufacturers to develop the new equipment. It will create an unreasonable price increase on "clean drives" from olden days, and for black market hardware.
IMO this is sufficient for me to contact my senator (though CA-D-Dianne Feinstein co-submitted the act *boo* *boo*) and say that I feel strongly that copy protection mechanisms are inherently flawed, proven time and time again to fail, and this is not a solution to the admitted problem of copyright theft and piracy.
Giving a proper email address in a public forum is like posting your phone number on a billboard in times square, and then expecting nobody you don't want to call!
He's a different sort of CEO from a different sort of time. Back when men were men, and people did not hide behind a veil of nicety to cover up half-truthes and outright lies! or something...
BTW I believe Larry Ellison is the sort to say similar thinks. The old "fuck yew budday" response and comments.
I am currently under one of these contracts. Anything done with company resources or even thinking about it during company time is applicable. The wording is vague enough to perhaps apply to non-work related tasks.
I don't code terribly much, though whenever I do most anything online or even semi-legitimately like coding, it will be published via psuedonym. This helps greatly imo with (legal) plausible denyability.
No... Laptop displays create *no* distractions in a dimly lit theatre...
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The only reason I mentioned the engine is because I'd love to design/write (I'd rather design) games one day, and that seems like something that would be a great thing for games, rather than re-implimenting Newtonian physics over and over again, there would be something akin to openGL that would have preset functions for things.
The processor itself would likely be a little specialized to handle (x,y,z,vx,vy,vz) style location/speed vectors and the such.
The closest thing I've seen to it was something one of my Materials Science TA's wrote to show and simulate forces on beams.
They actually have those in stores in my area to "test drive" cds. It's not totally effective, as you can vaguely hear the music walking by one of them, though I'd guess that's the idea trying to sell cd's in stores...
No offense, but in most every case, there is legitimate reasons for choosing youth over 'experience'.
in most companies, technical experience gained 10, 15, 20 years ago will be inversely useful today. Even business has changed in the past 2 decades. Things learned long ago obsolesce (sp?).
Experience is very very useful and desirable, but sometimes companies forget that experience doesn't always equate with ability. It is a better barometer for how mature, and understanding the worker is with standard policies, and the unwritten rules of the workplace.
Given that, most companies will then hire a 25 year old with 4 years of expereince over a 35 year old with 14 years of experience for a common coder job if they've similar talents. Why? Because the 35 year old probably has a wife, kids, and is asking $120k. The 25 year old is probably not as needy, and given the 'experience' factor, is probably only asking $80k.
NTFS can already support this, though the OS still uses the extention by default. It would be akin to adding a field like "Author" or the such that Word uses to keep track of who authored a document.
Just as arbitrary (especially since most users never see file extensions), just as modify-able, even less compatable.
Maybe it's just me, but I like to be able to move files from windows to *nix without loosing information (which should happen if it was done via ntfs, or I'll assume in any implimentation MS uses, to 'persuade' people not to use !windows)
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The 'freedom' of handwritten scribble, anywhere on the sheet, as compared to restricted rigidity of type...
The 'freedom' of self-written hacks, anywhere on the machine/OS, as compared to the restricted rigidity of a system...
I know that I use paper for tons of things, and would much rather type for tons of others. OSS and 'boxed' apps have their places...
Yeah, 2 slashdotings in as many days. That must place him in an elite (or infamous) group.
I've found in my desires for open source the thing I want isn't fixes, after all, the program should work well to start with. I find more often than not I'm asked to do something by 'salesguys' and I cannot due to program restraints (MS). Things that would take me an hour or two to simply add in c, and are specific 'add-ons' for this company.
Why is it hard? If you PK, you are labelled "PKer" (common in rpgs...) and there is a new 'auto-generated' land of evil for that particular PKer (with perhaps something to do, like send skeletons or some such out into the land to kill people and bring the evil person gold) and anyone who enters the land is fair game.
Also auto-gen'd would be a dungeon of difficulty equivalent to the PKer, which at it's end would be a 'special weapon' to kill the particular PKer.
Once dead, the PKer could start the game anew at level 1 with a clean slate.
I've seen this implimented, and it just makes PK-ing rampant, not not terribly less 'random'.
The idea being that PK-ing is essentially murder, and murder is to be dissuaded. Bounties do not help as lowly characters cannot defeat the powerful villain, and in the end die, and just give them more XP. If you limit the villain's area of control, and provide a 'ultimate-weapon' sort of thing it will perhaps dissuade PKing except for those that just want to rule with an iron fist over a little realm.
Right right, the idea would be to make it so they cannot easily do so except within their evil realm.
I've always wondered why the 'supervillain' players aren't just allowed to be supervillains... Some gameplay addition that gives them a fatal flaw, or restricts them to certain 'evil lands' when they PK. The 'good guys' could then search dungeons (after finding out about the fatal flaw at the local tavern/wise man) for the 'special thing' needed to kill the evil PKer. (note: the dungeon would be off limits to the PKer, and probably anyone 'evil' and just contain monsters and the such)
It'd be just like the predictable, mediocre plotlines of soo many stories we all love and enjoy. The PKers are happy that they can PK people foolish enough to enter their wicked realms, and the good guys can go off and fight 'eeeevil' (for great rewards of course)
I'd wager good money that while the sims and myst sold more games, Doom, Quake, Half-Life, Starcraft or even Everquest have been played more hours by the fewer people.
Granted, this doesn't make publishing companies happy (except for Verant maybe), but it should make the developers happy.
Better yet, they could collect the most amusing user-submitted MST3K-izations and release them as an add-on. Each submitter could get $$$ and fame.
Does it matter? It'll still *taste* like chicken.
Though NASA's probably one of few orginizations I'd expect to actually enlarge my penis 16%
Maybe then they could fund ISS! =]
"Any hardware or software that reproduces, displays, or "retrieves or accesses" any kind of copyrighted work." Will require access control mechanisms.
Access control mechanisms that nearly everyone here can agree will broken in less time than it takes manufacturers to develop the new equipment. It will create an unreasonable price increase on "clean drives" from olden days, and for black market hardware.
IMO this is sufficient for me to contact my senator (though CA-D-Dianne Feinstein co-submitted the act *boo* *boo*) and say that I feel strongly that copy protection mechanisms are inherently flawed, proven time and time again to fail, and this is not a solution to the admitted problem of copyright theft and piracy.
webmaster@website.com??
my-site@yahoo/hotmail.com
Im.dumb@its.your.own.fault.org?
Giving a proper email address in a public forum is like posting your phone number on a billboard in times square, and then expecting nobody you don't want to call!
He's a different sort of CEO from a different sort of time. Back when men were men, and people did not hide behind a veil of nicety to cover up half-truthes and outright lies! or something...
BTW I believe Larry Ellison is the sort to say similar thinks. The old "fuck yew budday" response and comments.
I am currently under one of these contracts. Anything done with company resources or even thinking about it during company time is applicable. The wording is vague enough to perhaps apply to non-work related tasks.
I don't code terribly much, though whenever I do most anything online or even semi-legitimately like coding, it will be published via psuedonym. This helps greatly imo with (legal) plausible denyability.
And your sound is muted from boot time! Cuz everyone knows how psychotic people can become when they hear the windows boot sound!
No... Laptop displays create *no* distractions in a dimly lit theatre...
The only reason I mentioned the engine is because I'd love to design/write (I'd rather design) games one day, and that seems like something that would be a great thing for games, rather than re-implimenting Newtonian physics over and over again, there would be something akin to openGL that would have preset functions for things.
The processor itself would likely be a little specialized to handle (x,y,z,vx,vy,vz) style location/speed vectors and the such.
The closest thing I've seen to it was something one of my Materials Science TA's wrote to show and simulate forces on beams.
Or perhaps better yet the motherboard will just be a backplane for Graphics, Sound, Physics, AI, Network modules and the such.
:/
Some machines might just need Math modules (all you SETI junkies.)
Though unfortunately computing for the home seems to be moving towards "all in one" motherboards and the such.
Dell will also ship you the boxes with Solaris or BSD or whatever you'd like if you provide them with an image, and are a big enough customer.
They actually run rather well with Solaris x86, or at least as well as anything can run Solaris x86...
Actually the 'correct' answer in this day and age, given Samba's maturity, and windows NFS' lack thereof is A.
Especially given the blatant insecurity of NFS.
Though the 'best' way imo to share files between the two is winscp on the windows box. imo of course.
They actually have those in stores in my area to "test drive" cds. It's not totally effective, as you can vaguely hear the music walking by one of them, though I'd guess that's the idea trying to sell cd's in stores...
Legal, though it's also likely to draw attention. Listening to traffic is a little more suripticious.
No offense, but in most every case, there is legitimate reasons for choosing youth over 'experience'.
in most companies, technical experience gained 10, 15, 20 years ago will be inversely useful today. Even business has changed in the past 2 decades. Things learned long ago obsolesce (sp?).
Experience is very very useful and desirable, but sometimes companies forget that experience doesn't always equate with ability. It is a better barometer for how mature, and understanding the worker is with standard policies, and the unwritten rules of the workplace.
Given that, most companies will then hire a 25 year old with 4 years of expereince over a 35 year old with 14 years of experience for a common coder job if they've similar talents. Why? Because the 35 year old probably has a wife, kids, and is asking $120k. The 25 year old is probably not as needy, and given the 'experience' factor, is probably only asking $80k.
NTFS can already support this, though the OS still uses the extention by default. It would be akin to adding a field like "Author" or the such that Word uses to keep track of who authored a document.
Just as arbitrary (especially since most users never see file extensions), just as modify-able, even less compatable.
Maybe it's just me, but I like to be able to move files from windows to *nix without loosing information (which should happen if it was done via ntfs, or I'll assume in any implimentation MS uses, to 'persuade' people not to use !windows)