Game development from scratch, and GPLing an old and established game are very different things. Marathon already has all the art, the levels, the core code, and so forth in place. All that needs to be done now (easy!:) is porting it different platforms and so forth. The open-source model is good for this, I'd say.
It seems everyone is missing this point. They think that Marathon is somehow purely developed from the GPL, but in fact it is an old commercial game, but rather than fading away entirely, has been GPLed for more fun!
Adolescent boys have been saying offensive, profoundly stupid things -- even hateful ones -- forever, as everybody online knows.
That seems to imply that the internet causes and was the beginning of adolescent stupidity. As anyone's grandfather can tell you, adolescents have been stupid for ages!
Without stupid adolecents through the ages, we never would have developed such innovations as "tricking out," dueling, speeding as an American institution, not to mention the creation of all sorts of absurd laws to prevent specific pranks once and for all.
They frequently imply that they log all activity, and then refer back to it if they catch you in a violation. In any case, all our traffic goes out the T1, so they can watch it themselves exceedingly easily, without bothering to use sniffing on the wireless part of the network.
I've heard that the length of a day is not exactly 24 hours. In fact, it is, I believe, farther off 24 hours/day than the best atomic clocks. I think to rectify this people should all drive cars, trucks, and supertankers east, to slice a few fractions of a second off each day.
They banned encryption. Yes, they banned it. They aren't aware that https is encryption, I guess. Here is the principal's email:
* Students are not allowed to download music to their laptops (i.e.,
macster/napster).
* MPA reserves the right to inspect the hard drive of any laptop
computer. In order to do so, the following are not allowed: file
encryption, password protection of individual files, or password protection
of keyboard access to the computer.
* Students are not allowed to play network-based or on-line games
while at school.
* Students should be able to prove that they own any games installed
on their hard drives (i.e. produce a CD or product license if requested).
It is not permissible to have "bootlegged" software on student computers.
Students in violation of the above rules will be subject to disciplinary
action.
And yes, they told me this encryption restriction extends to email as well. Shortly thereafter, they banned using the CD-ROM drives for anything except school stuff because too many ignorant kids didn't know how to open them. Frankly it's depressing to be thought of as such a criminal. I wasn't allowed to tell people that "Encrypt" is a command in the File menu. The knowledge is dangerous.:-(
My high school is one of the first in the country to use Apple's AirPort wireless technology in the classroom. We all have Apple iBooks. Everyone uses AOL Instant Messenger in class all day long.:-)
One day someone figured out that packet sniffers can be used on the network to see other people's POPmail passwords and AIM conversations, as well as whatever websites they are at. It is genuinely disturbing. However, I am terrified of telling our administration about this because of a kill-the-messenger syndrome.
Let me just say that this is one of the most ridiculously insecure technologies in the world, just waiting for the packets to be pulled down out of the air with a packet sniffer program like EtherPeek. People have been doing this for months around here.
This is just a school. It's terrifying to think that the world's important financial institutions rely on this technology's security.
I wonder if Linus will fly down the trench with TIEs on his tail. Or perhaps Tux will go bouncing down some huge steps. Perhaps Bill Gates will be lying on his deathbed and whisper, "UNIX... UNIX..."
For Macintosh, anyhow, (though I think there was a little Windows port) one of the absolute hands-down best space strategy games would have to have been Spaceward Ho! A classic theme, with a weird cowboy twist. Yahhh!
My question is: does it make any sort of biological sense to clone genetically infertile people? Then again, taking this standpoint leads easily to eugenics and such...
My question is: does it make any sort of biological sense to clone genetically infertile people? Then again, taking this standpoint leads easily to eugenics and such...
Man, don't worry about it, seriously. You're a sharp guy willing to say something. Slashdot trolls, really a big force in today's society... I say, let it slide, keep annoying people, good stuff will happen. And tell CmdrTaco to spellcheck.:-)
I recall the TV movie The Wave. If I recall, I actually watched it in History or English class when I was a freshman. In fact, it was based on a true story. The acting and production was generally atrocious, but it made a solid point.
Judge Reinhold, I think, played a teacher who wanted to get across to his middle school students how seductive fascism was. He began a program called "The Wave" and everyone wore armbands and such, and discipline became highly strict within the classroom and so forth. Certain kids became enforcers, like the brownshirts. The TV-movie revolved around 2 kids who got really freaked out by it, and they fought to stop the evil teacher.
Everything kept building to the point where the teacher planned to reveal the wave's "National Leader," and it was this really big deal. By that time, lots and lot of kids had joined the wave, and the 2 free-thinking ones were all panicking and so forth.
So in this big auditorium, the teacher says, "Here is our national leader," and he pulls a paper off the overhead and there is Adolf Hitler. He's made his point rather dramatically about fascism, and after supposedly being mean to these 2 kids, he smiles at them because they were onto him the whole time. He loses his job, the end.
It was a cheesy flick but I'm such a paranoid person that I loved it!
In the long run, global warming can't produce many serious effects.
Here's why: most CO2 pollution comes from fossil fuels. However there is little doubt that we will run out of oil within a century (sooner, no doubt, with 2 texas oilmen at the helm in the US).
When the oil runs out, you have no more combustion, and no more CO2 pollution, and QED no more global warming!:-P
The fact is, climate simulations are not even close to being able to predict patterns 1 year in the future, much less 100 bloody years. Not only is our understanding of climates at the stone knives and bearskin level (to quote Star Trek), but our computers are multiple orders of magnitude away from being able to do anything accurate. Proof? Give me a link to a study that was done, say, 3-4 years ago that correctly predicted the climate for this year. You can't, because it's all garbage
Your reasoning is completely flawed, I have to say. Yes, computers cannot accurately predict short-term (1 to 5 etc.) weather trends, that is, they can't calculate how such and such ocean currents will affect meteorology.
However, in the long run these short-term events cancel out. Computers are capable, with a limited degree of accuracy, given chaos and the data available, to extrapolate on long-term trends. This is completely different than a 2-week or even 2-year weather forecast.
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It seems everyone is missing this point. They think that Marathon is somehow purely developed from the GPL, but in fact it is an old commercial game, but rather than fading away entirely, has been GPLed for more fun!
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That seems to imply that the internet causes and was the beginning of adolescent stupidity. As anyone's grandfather can tell you, adolescents have been stupid for ages!
Without stupid adolecents through the ages, we never would have developed such innovations as "tricking out," dueling, speeding as an American institution, not to mention the creation of all sorts of absurd laws to prevent specific pranks once and for all.
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No matter how old or young the world may see you, we're all 17-year-old dorks on the inside! :-)
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Ahh, quick porn access and violence. All the things a man needs from bed... :)
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It did not take an expert to see that. Horrible ball, barbaric attitude. Couple interesting angles, I guess.
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They frequently imply that they log all activity, and then refer back to it if they catch you in a violation. In any case, all our traffic goes out the T1, so they can watch it themselves exceedingly easily, without bothering to use sniffing on the wireless part of the network.
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Slightly OT, but not really... :)
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Sure as hell has affected your memory of how to spell words! (headline has since been corrected :)
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* Students are not allowed to download music to their laptops (i.e., macster/napster).
* MPA reserves the right to inspect the hard drive of any laptop computer. In order to do so, the following are not allowed: file encryption, password protection of individual files, or password protection of keyboard access to the computer.
* Students are not allowed to play network-based or on-line games while at school.
* Students should be able to prove that they own any games installed on their hard drives (i.e. produce a CD or product license if requested). It is not permissible to have "bootlegged" software on student computers.
Students in violation of the above rules will be subject to disciplinary action.
And yes, they told me this encryption restriction extends to email as well. Shortly thereafter, they banned using the CD-ROM drives for anything except school stuff because too many ignorant kids didn't know how to open them. Frankly it's depressing to be thought of as such a criminal. I wasn't allowed to tell people that "Encrypt" is a command in the File menu. The knowledge is dangerous. :-(
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One day someone figured out that packet sniffers can be used on the network to see other people's POPmail passwords and AIM conversations, as well as whatever websites they are at. It is genuinely disturbing. However, I am terrified of telling our administration about this because of a kill-the-messenger syndrome.
Let me just say that this is one of the most ridiculously insecure technologies in the world, just waiting for the packets to be pulled down out of the air with a packet sniffer program like EtherPeek. People have been doing this for months around here.
This is just a school. It's terrifying to think that the world's important financial institutions rely on this technology's security.
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I wonder if Linus will fly down the trench with TIEs on his tail. Or perhaps Tux will go bouncing down some huge steps. Perhaps Bill Gates will be lying on his deathbed and whisper, "UNIX... UNIX..."
I'm just jokin' around. Pretty clearly a lot of people are banding together at last! :-)
For Macintosh, anyhow, (though I think there was a little Windows port) one of the absolute hands-down best space strategy games would have to have been Spaceward Ho! A classic theme, with a weird cowboy twist. Yahhh!
Good lord, that's the longest acronym I've ever seen! Hardly a "nice abstraction!"
Everyone's going to look at the title and say, "Damn, I don't even know what NAIS means. Screw this!"
My question is: does it make any sort of biological sense to clone genetically infertile people? Then again, taking this standpoint leads easily to eugenics and such...
My question is: does it make any sort of biological sense to clone genetically infertile people? Then again, taking this standpoint leads easily to eugenics and such...
Not only that, but it permits me to see into the future! Check this out! Dated Feb. 2, 2001!
Thanks a ton, though, man, very cool.
Man, don't worry about it, seriously. You're a sharp guy willing to say something. Slashdot trolls, really a big force in today's society... I say, let it slide, keep annoying people, good stuff will happen. And tell CmdrTaco to spellcheck. :-)
Is that the British spelling?
Judge Reinhold, I think, played a teacher who wanted to get across to his middle school students how seductive fascism was. He began a program called "The Wave" and everyone wore armbands and such, and discipline became highly strict within the classroom and so forth. Certain kids became enforcers, like the brownshirts. The TV-movie revolved around 2 kids who got really freaked out by it, and they fought to stop the evil teacher.
Everything kept building to the point where the teacher planned to reveal the wave's "National Leader," and it was this really big deal. By that time, lots and lot of kids had joined the wave, and the 2 free-thinking ones were all panicking and so forth.
So in this big auditorium, the teacher says, "Here is our national leader," and he pulls a paper off the overhead and there is Adolf Hitler. He's made his point rather dramatically about fascism, and after supposedly being mean to these 2 kids, he smiles at them because they were onto him the whole time. He loses his job, the end.
It was a cheesy flick but I'm such a paranoid person that I loved it!
That is waaay too close to goatse.cx for me! Ick!
Here's why: most CO2 pollution comes from fossil fuels. However there is little doubt that we will run out of oil within a century (sooner, no doubt, with 2 texas oilmen at the helm in the US).
When the oil runs out, you have no more combustion, and no more CO2 pollution, and QED no more global warming! :-P
Your reasoning is completely flawed, I have to say. Yes, computers cannot accurately predict short-term (1 to 5 etc.) weather trends, that is, they can't calculate how such and such ocean currents will affect meteorology.
However, in the long run these short-term events cancel out. Computers are capable, with a limited degree of accuracy, given chaos and the data available, to extrapolate on long-term trends. This is completely different than a 2-week or even 2-year weather forecast.
Luge lessons...
In the summers we would make meat helmets!
Ah, how hats imitate art imitates life...
Sounds like this dude's the first beta tester.
This sentence reminds me of... executions... translators... that one scene in a Star Trek movie where Kirk and McCoy are on trial with the Klingons.