Science can be seen as a threat to religion. But it doesn't have to be.
Science happens to make a lot more sense to most everyone. Scientific study of religion makes one way more skeptical.
It threatens those who take a literal interpretation of the Jesus hero allegory. Taking a literal interpretation is ludicrous.
But for those who have a strong faith and healthy skepticism, they believe in god, but not the literal interpretation.
The Vatican astronomer doesn't actually believe in the burning bush and the snake and the rib. It's because he has a healthy dose of skepticism from his scientific research. He's still catholic and still believes in god, but his beliefs are not ludicrous.
You can have both. You should really separate them though. Religion is not science and cannot be taught as such.
the browser tester is microsoft software. It's developed by microsoft. you can't trust their software to test other software without some sort of bias.
This is the best thing that EA could have done. Of course I don't actually believe it. EA must be pretty confident in the technological advances made in DRM in the past few months to try this.
If they get caught, it's gonna be the mother of all backfires.
That being said, what happens if someone steals your account and cheats or something like that?
I've mentioned it before and here again, I'd like to see token authentication with an RSA key fob or similar like paypal currently has.
They only cost $5 and you have a secured connection where only you can log in. Yes it's a hassle for some, but you don't have to make everyone use it. Just those of us who want to use it should.
After all, my account has a considerable investment with at least $1000 worth of games at the moment. I want to protect that investment.
nothing does, but steam will prevent you from running it if the digital signature doesn't match your steam account.
Since it's built-in to the engine now, we will still see no-steam patches made.
The real problem is, the exe won't run unless that stuff is in place because it's most likely both a digital signature and some sort of algorithm used to run your specific copy of the game.
Granted, you'd be hard pressed to simply crack it, but with some smart rev'eng'ing we'll see it in a few months maybe. Still, this won't affect games not made for steam and won't affect games made without steamworks (which is developer middleware for steam deployment). I don't think it will bother me either way since I buy games on steam. Maybe we'll see 3rd party steam games from EA and other larger publishers skip the secuROM and other intrusive and backward DRM schemes.
I think this is a great system. I buy steam games. I sometimes install them on my laptop, but generally I play them on my PC. When I want to uninstall and re-install them on any computer, I will still be the only person using them. I even bought a second copy of Left 4 Dead for my wife (she's practicing for the zombie apocalypse).
as long as I can install the game 2 years down the road or even 5 years, I'm ok.
also, Steam really needs to work on their account security policies and procedures.
I file this akin to those lodgenet gaming systems in hotel rooms. Sure they work, but no one except 7 year old kids play them. Last I checked, the gaming market for 7 year olds isn't doing too hot.
This is going to be a darling to all those MBAs until the 6 customers who use the service, and that's what it is, (software-as-a-service), decide to drop it once the cloud suffers a hiccup and you can't play.
Otherwise, you're essentially delivering video that you can control via the X protocol or vnc or something similar. We all know how those systems fail regularly due to normal net congestion and traffic.
What I'm saying is, gamers will not use this service. We like our hardware and we collect it to play our games. The hardware manufacturers should be worried about lost sales.
Game publishers should be shitting in their pants at the notion of this. No more sales? After all, you can't charge $60 for rental access to a game.
3 months ago, those 2 and 3 DOJ lackeys worked for the very organization on which behalf they're intervening.
If the administration were serious about that whole lobbying conflict of interest line they touted in the beginning, the DOJ would quietly side-step this one.
They're not, showing that the whole entertainment lobby is untrustworthy.
I've said it before, but this proves it, those appointments were just plain stupid. Whomever Obama chose to vett those picks was not aware of the truth, damn truth, or actual truth in that matter.
That they were qualified to work those posts may be true, but the appointments having the integrity and loyalty to serve is just truthy.
they waited a good year and a half to release on PC.
I bought it for PC. It kicked much ass. I played it in full 1080p. Ran like butter.
The only thing I didn't like was the fact that to play "bring down the sky", you had to play through the whole game again. I had already finished it before BDTS came out for PC.
anyway, it was a true masterpiece and I look forward to seeing what bioware comes up with.
if it's asking for instructions, why do they have to come from the blackhats? why couldn't someone write an update telling conficker to cease operation and uninstall itself?
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This is the best we can come up with? a fucking capsule?
That's not a spacecraft, it's a damn escape pod for a real space craft.
Why are we not focused on building a space ship? A real space ship? Why no earth corvette? or frigate?
I feel sorry for the crew who has to spend all that time in that shit box.
it is nowhere near as cool as ubiquity.
you don't have to even type full commands.
you highlight an address, press shift-space, and type map
it gives you a list as you type of the possible variables.
press enter opens a google map with that address mapped. way more cool than simple one letter shortcuts.
Religion is absolutely no threat to science.
Science can be seen as a threat to religion. But it doesn't have to be.
Science happens to make a lot more sense to most everyone. Scientific study of religion makes one way more skeptical.
It threatens those who take a literal interpretation of the Jesus hero allegory. Taking a literal interpretation is ludicrous.
But for those who have a strong faith and healthy skepticism, they believe in god, but not the literal interpretation.
The Vatican astronomer doesn't actually believe in the burning bush and the snake and the rib. It's because he has a healthy dose of skepticism from his scientific research. He's still catholic and still believes in god, but his beliefs are not ludicrous.
You can have both. You should really separate them though. Religion is not science and cannot be taught as such.
A control group? are you mad?
Have you ever tried to control a 3 year old?
there are a few things we don't yet know.
It might be us who ran that spy net. It could also be the chinese, the russians or even the pakistanis.
the browser tester is microsoft software. It's developed by microsoft. you can't trust their software to test other software without some sort of bias.
They should still offer the facilities.
Maybe not all the computers, but the desks and data ports and wifi and printers and access to student data storage.
They can cut out a huge expense and still provide the services necessary.
I was just about to post this. I agree that we should be testing whether plants will grow in moon dirt.
I think though the lack of organics in moon dirt will ultimately be the fail.
This is the best thing that EA could have done. Of course I don't actually believe it. EA must be pretty confident in the technological advances made in DRM in the past few months to try this.
If they get caught, it's gonna be the mother of all backfires.
That being said, what happens if someone steals your account and cheats or something like that?
I've mentioned it before and here again, I'd like to see token authentication with an RSA key fob or similar like paypal currently has.
They only cost $5 and you have a secured connection where only you can log in. Yes it's a hassle for some, but you don't have to make everyone use it. Just those of us who want to use it should.
After all, my account has a considerable investment with at least $1000 worth of games at the moment. I want to protect that investment.
they're not willing to give up merchandising to all those kids.
nothing does, but steam will prevent you from running it if the digital signature doesn't match your steam account.
Since it's built-in to the engine now, we will still see no-steam patches made.
The real problem is, the exe won't run unless that stuff is in place because it's most likely both a digital signature and some sort of algorithm used to run your specific copy of the game.
Granted, you'd be hard pressed to simply crack it, but with some smart rev'eng'ing we'll see it in a few months maybe. Still, this won't affect games not made for steam and won't affect games made without steamworks (which is developer middleware for steam deployment). I don't think it will bother me either way since I buy games on steam. Maybe we'll see 3rd party steam games from EA and other larger publishers skip the secuROM and other intrusive and backward DRM schemes.
I know that, but my point was, who plays the games on lodgenet? little kids who whine to their parents.
I think this is a great system. I buy steam games. I sometimes install them on my laptop, but generally I play them on my PC. When I want to uninstall and re-install them on any computer, I will still be the only person using them. I even bought a second copy of Left 4 Dead for my wife (she's practicing for the zombie apocalypse).
as long as I can install the game 2 years down the road or even 5 years, I'm ok.
also, Steam really needs to work on their account security policies and procedures.
an RSA keyfob for login wouldn't hurt.
I file this akin to those lodgenet gaming systems in hotel rooms. Sure they work, but no one except 7 year old kids play them. Last I checked, the gaming market for 7 year olds isn't doing too hot.
This is going to be a darling to all those MBAs until the 6 customers who use the service, and that's what it is, (software-as-a-service), decide to drop it once the cloud suffers a hiccup and you can't play.
Otherwise, you're essentially delivering video that you can control via the X protocol or vnc or something similar. We all know how those systems fail regularly due to normal net congestion and traffic.
What I'm saying is, gamers will not use this service. We like our hardware and we collect it to play our games. The hardware manufacturers should be worried about lost sales.
Game publishers should be shitting in their pants at the notion of this. No more sales? After all, you can't charge $60 for rental access to a game.
agreed. if they want to ban games, they should ban music and movies.
as true as this is, most newer smart phones just don't have IR anymore.
my G1 would greatly benefit from IR.
even then there were no true universal remote apps.
3 months ago, those 2 and 3 DOJ lackeys worked for the very organization on which behalf they're intervening.
If the administration were serious about that whole lobbying conflict of interest line they touted in the beginning, the DOJ would quietly side-step this one.
They're not, showing that the whole entertainment lobby is untrustworthy.
I've said it before, but this proves it, those appointments were just plain stupid. Whomever Obama chose to vett those picks was not aware of the truth, damn truth, or actual truth in that matter.
That they were qualified to work those posts may be true, but the appointments having the integrity and loyalty to serve is just truthy.
He says Windows and Linux but spuriously leaves out Mac?
mac suffers from the same damn problem. The OS and most apps weren't written for multi-core processors.
that's why any true multi-core app is distributed. hence rendering farms, not rendering server.
Left 4 Dead is THE survival horror game.
I can't really call RE5 survival horror when the main characters are zombie hunters by trade.
Dead Space is definitely survival horror, but sci-fi flavored.
it feels like a year and a half then!
they waited a good year and a half to release on PC.
I bought it for PC. It kicked much ass. I played it in full 1080p. Ran like butter.
The only thing I didn't like was the fact that to play "bring down the sky", you had to play through the whole game again. I had already finished it before BDTS came out for PC.
anyway, it was a true masterpiece and I look forward to seeing what bioware comes up with.
bats can't survive in space.
bats can't survive in the upper atmosphere.
bats aren't falcons.
completely agreed.
government should not be profiting from anything.
if it's asking for instructions, why do they have to come from the blackhats? why couldn't someone write an update telling conficker to cease operation and uninstall itself?