Their lock was/is secure. If you play the game, there is no way you will see it.
However, if you modify their code, then you can see it. The same can be said of anything -- if people to change it, they can pervert it. Would you hold Edios responsible for the nuderaider patch?
Now, if there was a special in-game unlock code you could perform, I'd agree with you. Otherwise, its just a case of "you can see nude pictures when you download stuff from the internet".
Many of those games were on cutting-edge equipment at the time (ok, not the 2600). They used multiple processors, custom graphics chips, and custom sound chips. Yet, we've been able to emulate them pretty well.
Even the very advanced-for-its-time TMS34010 graphics processor chip has been emulated in software to play Hard Drivin'. That chip had bit-addressable memory, built-in clipping, overflow math, and 2D fill.
In 15 years, hardware and software will advance to emulate lots of the stuff in modern video games.... all in software. In the past, video games were closely tied to their hardware (the atari 2600 had to count its opcodes to fit the NTSC video signal). Now the interface is cleaner and independent of the hardware -- just emulate DirectX or OpenGL well and you've got a good start at emulating the whole game.
You're right. I stretched the term a little bit, but it's similar to astroturfing FIFA would do. They get some random network guy to say "oh my god this soccer game will be great" -- it was that missing link back to FIFA that made me suspicious.
But, considering this is soccer, I was also just trying to get a really bad pun in there... with the grassy field they play on and all that;-)
didn't provide accurate information when registering it..... then it's not quite the free speech issue it's made out to be.
Actually, it is a free speech issue, but not for the obvious reason. There are times when people critical of the government or corporations often need anonymity. Especially if there is nothing illegal about the site, then I find its removal offensive.
Neat. I honestly don't know much about VB, but I would think this would be one of the things it would be better at.
Is the database part of your product? Maybe a good compromise would be modifying it to connect to a different (faster) database. That way you can keep your essential stuff (GUIs, look+feel, billing), but still improve the speed.
If you do translate it, I would think the owner could still jump and and modify it. It's usually easier to do that in a foreign language than to architect a new project. He'll have examples of similar procedures, so he could add new ones or modify existing ones. That might make it an issue for support, though -- it's can be harder to debug in a different language.
What kind of project are you working on? The only description you provided is "Large". That could mean 3D FPS, relational database, mission-critical embedded vision system for an interstellar satellite, a cross-platform OS... all very different projects, and probably not suitable for VB.
Picking the right tool really requires a better understanding of your project.
Beyond the general problem, what are your expectations for reliability/testability, schedule, maintainability, expandability, performance?
If the owner is the only one qualified to improve the product, Visual Basic might be a good choice.
I once worked for a company that had an extremely accurate satellite propagation program. The problem was it was written in GWBASIC and did not run in a text-only mode (EGA graphics required!). For fun, I tried to convert it to C, but gave up - pure spaghetti code. The author became the head of a 200-person engineering department -- best leave it in GWBASIC and let him support it.
Or facing the prospect of many times that amount of deaths, if the Iraq catastrophe even stays at the current unacceptable scale of killing.
Actually, it's much worse than that. Because Bush started two simultaneous wars, he has crippled our ability to deter other countries. North Korea looks like it has (or soon will) developed nuclear weapons. Iran has seen how we invade countries for no logical reason and are probably building the bomb to insure their sovereignty -- and we'll be too thinly stretched to be able to prevent it. This may be the Iraq invasion's biggest failure.
With this sort of political climate, the public has to rely on leaks from people inside to even know what's going on.
Forget that... the Congress has to rely on leaks to know what's going on! Only 4 of the 535 members were briefed on the domestic/international warrant-less wiretaps. Who knows how many were briefed on this new privacy invasion.
That's actually not odd at all. Non-state organizations are often privy to our most prized secrets. For example, many cutting edge airplanes were designed by the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and their existence kept secret for years. Same with spy satellites and military communications. There are rules that companies must abide by to get top-secret contracts, but it's not too hard to win some of that business. It is often compartmentalized, too, so that only a few people in the company need to have the necessary clearances.
Behavioural interviewing is a very dodgy 'science'
To test your assertion, I ran the text of your post through a behavioral analysis program. Here are the results of your personality, using the HDWU scale:
If was thinking of OSR2 for Windows 95: It added FAT32 support... but that isn't nearly as major as NTFS->WinFS. I'd agree with you - it'll be a while.
MS promised lots of new features that got axed in Vista. If you time it on a features-basis, it might be 6 years from the time WinFS was supposed to ship until it actually does (probably Vista SP2 or something like that).
yes, you are. The force that is keeping them away is the weight of the rocks you're throwing reacting against their skulls. The force needn't be invisible nor mysterious.
Or, you could use this non-newtonian definition of force: "a person or thing exerting power or influence", which would pretty much fit any defense system.
Good point... but you have to compare the companies that don't participate with walmart to those companies that do participate. Vlassic found that their $3/gallon walmart deal sold like gangbusters, but it cannibalized their sales at other stores... as a result, profits went down.
So, the quasar is effectively transmitting the decryption key. Great! -- Now all you need to do is prevent everyone in the world except your intended recipient from seeing it.
That's why I'm migrating my whole office to the xbox360 -- I'm just waiting for Word360 and Outlook360 to be released. Without virii, trojans, and phisihing to worry about, productivity should soar!
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... and doesn't look like a hippie troublemaker.
I hear you find them in certain parking lots...
locked it away.
Their lock was/is secure. If you play the game, there is no way you will see it.
However, if you modify their code, then you can see it. The same can be said of anything -- if people to change it, they can pervert it. Would you hold Edios responsible for the nuderaider patch?
Now, if there was a special in-game unlock code you could perform, I'd agree with you. Otherwise, its just a case of "you can see nude pictures when you download stuff from the internet".
Many of those games were on cutting-edge equipment at the time (ok, not the 2600). They used multiple processors, custom graphics chips, and custom sound chips. Yet, we've been able to emulate them pretty well.
Even the very advanced-for-its-time TMS34010 graphics processor chip has been emulated in software to play Hard Drivin'. That chip had bit-addressable memory, built-in clipping, overflow math, and 2D fill.
In 15 years, hardware and software will advance to emulate lots of the stuff in modern video games.... all in software.
In the past, video games were closely tied to their hardware (the atari 2600 had to count its opcodes to fit the NTSC video signal). Now the interface is cleaner and independent of the hardware -- just emulate DirectX or OpenGL well and you've got a good start at emulating the whole game.
You're right. I stretched the term a little bit, but it's similar to astroturfing FIFA would do. They get some random network guy to say "oh my god this soccer game will be great" -- it was that missing link back to FIFA that made me suspicious.
;-)
But, considering this is soccer, I was also just trying to get a really bad pun in there... with the grassy field they play on and all that
... so you're saying he's astroturfing to generate demand for the systems he sells?
I agree - Wendy (founder of Chilling Effects) and Fred (EFF laywer) rock!
didn't provide accurate information when registering it. .... then it's not quite the free speech issue it's made out to be.
Actually, it is a free speech issue, but not for the obvious reason. There are times when people critical of the government or corporations often need anonymity. Especially if there is nothing illegal about the site, then I find its removal offensive.
Neat. I honestly don't know much about VB, but I would think this would be one of the things it would be better at.
Is the database part of your product? Maybe a good compromise would be modifying it to connect to a different (faster) database. That way you can keep your essential stuff (GUIs, look+feel, billing), but still improve the speed.
If you do translate it, I would think the owner could still jump and and modify it. It's usually easier to do that in a foreign language than to architect a new project. He'll have examples of similar procedures, so he could add new ones or modify existing ones. That might make it an issue for support, though -- it's can be harder to debug in a different language.
Good luck!
What kind of project are you working on? The only description you provided is "Large". That could mean 3D FPS, relational database, mission-critical embedded vision system for an interstellar satellite, a cross-platform OS... all very different projects, and probably not suitable for VB.
Picking the right tool really requires a better understanding of your project.
Beyond the general problem, what are your expectations for reliability/testability, schedule, maintainability, expandability, performance?
If the owner is the only one qualified to improve the product, Visual Basic might be a good choice.
I once worked for a company that had an extremely accurate satellite propagation program. The problem was it was written in GWBASIC and did not run in a text-only mode (EGA graphics required!). For fun, I tried to convert it to C, but gave up - pure spaghetti code. The author became the head of a 200-person engineering department -- best leave it in GWBASIC and let him support it.
You do, however, realize that the way you live is rather atypical, right?
If only I had a get-out-of-jail-for-free card for every time I've heard that...
... and the people who can't spell, too. Their always the first up against the whall ;-)
preach it, brother... I agree!
Or facing the prospect of many times that amount of deaths, if the Iraq catastrophe even stays at the current unacceptable scale of killing.
Actually, it's much worse than that. Because Bush started two simultaneous wars, he has crippled our ability to deter other countries. North Korea looks like it has (or soon will) developed nuclear weapons. Iran has seen how we invade countries for no logical reason and are probably building the bomb to insure their sovereignty -- and we'll be too thinly stretched to be able to prevent it. This may be the Iraq invasion's biggest failure.
With this sort of political climate, the public has to rely on leaks from people inside to even know what's going on.
Forget that... the Congress has to rely on leaks to know what's going on! Only 4 of the 535 members were briefed on the domestic/international warrant-less wiretaps. Who knows how many were briefed on this new privacy invasion.
That's actually not odd at all. Non-state organizations are often privy to our most prized secrets. For example, many cutting edge airplanes were designed by the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and their existence kept secret for years. Same with spy satellites and military communications. There are rules that companies must abide by to get top-secret contracts, but it's not too hard to win some of that business. It is often compartmentalized, too, so that only a few people in the company need to have the necessary clearances.
... or it's really great!!
Yoo-hoo has 1g fat per 8oz. I'm sure that Doogh, being a yogurt-based soda, has even more!
p.s. Doogh is really good. Yoo-hoo tastes like aluminum foil.
Behavioural interviewing is a very dodgy 'science'
To test your assertion, I ran the text of your post through a behavioral analysis program. Here are the results of your personality, using the HDWU scale:
Happy: 2%
Depressed: 98%
Winner: 3%
Under-achiever: 97%
The stated margin of error is 5%, so I think it did pretty well is assessing your personality. Well, if usernames are to believed...
If was thinking of OSR2 for Windows 95: It added FAT32 support ... but that isn't nearly as major as NTFS->WinFS. I'd agree with you - it'll be a while.
MS promised lots of new features that got axed in Vista. If you time it on a features-basis, it might be 6 years from the time WinFS was supposed to ship until it actually does (probably Vista SP2 or something like that).
yes, you are. The force that is keeping them away is the weight of the rocks you're throwing reacting against their skulls. The force needn't be invisible nor mysterious.
Or, you could use this non-newtonian definition of force: "a person or thing exerting power or influence", which would pretty much fit any defense system.
Good point... but you have to compare the companies that don't participate with walmart to those companies that do participate. Vlassic found that their $3/gallon walmart deal sold like gangbusters, but it cannibalized their sales at other stores ... as a result, profits went down.
I've heard you have to do the decompression carefully, though -- If you do it too quickly, you just end up making a big mess.
So, the quasar is effectively transmitting the decryption key. Great! -- Now all you need to do is prevent everyone in the world except your intended recipient from seeing it.
That's why I'm migrating my whole office to the xbox360 -- I'm just waiting for Word360 and Outlook360 to be released. Without virii, trojans, and phisihing to worry about, productivity should soar!
The XBOX360 has been out for 4 months now -- that's the same amount of time it took iTunes to sell 10 million songs. But, Xbox has been released world-wide -- at that time, iTunes hadn't launched in europe yet and was only available to rabid mac owners.