What happened to the movie titled "Hackers"...
Every Skript Kiddie I know goes into a euphoria every time they watch their VCD of it on their Compaq laptops, which then crash....
Then they act like they are the characters in the movie, only using Windows 2000 or ME, and not actually hacking anything sucessfully...
At least they didn't use "WinNuke" in the movie....
It doesnt take much of anything to beat Marathon in the playability/graphics/interface/etc categlories... I remember my friends with macs always raving about marathon.... until I showed em Dark Forces on my 486 PC, which basically blew it away, not to mention quake, etc...
In fact, I remember the original game having around a quarter of the screen actually dedicated to the game, and the rest was graphics or weapons data or something... or... my friends macs could not handle it full screen, despite being the first power macs...
I think we all know who is at fault, and what to do about it... Lt. Col. David Grossman!!!
So, what should we do about this, you might ask? well, I propose that gamers from all parties come together, and make the official "David Grossman UT Skin!!" This creation of a common enemy would unite the gaming community further, giving it the strength to move the entire industry to Singapore once the lawmakers get their ways.
I am quite sure that he would never see it though, because, as his blatantly stupid arguments show, he has never played a video game in his life...
The Pinkerton name has a legacy in enforcing stupidity, going back to the industrialization of this country. As soon as unions were formed and strikes broke out, the industrialists would hire "Pinkerton Detectives", aka jack booted thugs, to put down the strike, and to beat the protesters into submission for whatever they wanted.
Now they are trying to cash in in a worse way on schools. Even thoughts of rebellion can now be cause for the jack booted thugs to be sent after a poor kid who only made a small comment.
Um... The powerglove did not read nervous impulses, unless you count reading what those impulses actually did to the muscles as such a device. In that case, my mouse is neurologically linked!!!
Though, where Nintendo failed, Atari prevailed. They actually had a device called the Mindlink Controller under development, but it was never released. Actually, it just took readings on changes in brow position or something, but it sure was closer, and cooler looking, than the power glove...
Bess at my high school is considerably worse. We have it implemented on a multi-district level, and the machine with the software on it is about 50 mi away in a little town. so, all of our internet traffic is routed 50 miles to a dinky town, even though we are in the same town as a major university with mega bandwidth (a couple years ago, the schools had an agreement with the university to use their bandwidth). After the initial route, all data is ROUTED TO CALIFORNIA!!! this is across the continent. Ive done the traceroutes to confirm it from the NT boxes we have for CompSci(everything else is imackish). Needless to say, we get around 2.0kbps tops on good days, and on bad days, almost nothing happens. Compare this to last year, when I was streaming Digitally Imported 128kbps (16KBps) into the NT lab while working on whatever mundane CS project I was doing. At first, Bess was only set up as a proxy, which could be disabled, and then, those dimwits decided to route ALL data through the bess box, slowing the networks to a halt. And now, people can set up proxies on their cable modems at home, or find lists of em on the net, and TOTALLY CIRCUMVENT the censorship..
Total waste of bandwidth, and time.
Re:Why not just have a large host.deny file?
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Hmm... if you have ever seen the typical school technician, you would know why they do not have the whole host.deny file thing going... I swear, these people have lobotomy scars. I can get a blank look from one of em in a couple seconds, even without trying, saying things that they SHOULD know. These people are barely able to maintain their NT machines, so anyone rational would not let em near a machine with a capably less "(l)user friendly" OS, unless you want your network to be down for three weeks (Ive seen this happen at my school)
I am pretty sure that a company that wants to keep it's employees from goofing off too much could sucessfully implement this, but the techs schools hire (in general, for what I have seen) are too dumb. If you go to a school with good techs, you are lucky.
SETI@Home is impractical. There is very little chance in finding anything, and even if there was, it would most likely be given to someone who runs it for 2 seconds, then decides that it isnt cool enough, and goes back to the "OpenGL Windows Logo".
I quit running data processing stuff as soon as I began to overclock heavily. My machine needs its rest!
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What happened to the movie titled "Hackers"... Every Skript Kiddie I know goes into a euphoria every time they watch their VCD of it on their Compaq laptops, which then crash.... Then they act like they are the characters in the movie, only using Windows 2000 or ME, and not actually hacking anything sucessfully... At least they didn't use "WinNuke" in the movie....
Ain't there Enkrip-shun in Texas?
It doesnt take much of anything to beat Marathon in the playability/graphics/interface/etc categlories... I remember my friends with macs always raving about marathon.... until I showed em Dark Forces on my 486 PC, which basically blew it away, not to mention quake, etc...
In fact, I remember the original game having around a quarter of the screen actually dedicated to the game, and the rest was graphics or weapons data or something... or... my friends macs could not handle it full screen, despite being the first power macs...
I think we all know who is at fault, and what to do about it... Lt. Col. David Grossman!!!
So, what should we do about this, you might ask? well, I propose that gamers from all parties come together, and make the official "David Grossman UT Skin!!" This creation of a common enemy would unite the gaming community further, giving it the strength to move the entire industry to Singapore once the lawmakers get their ways.
I am quite sure that he would never see it though, because, as his blatantly stupid arguments show, he has never played a video game in his life...
The Pinkerton name has a legacy in enforcing stupidity, going back to the industrialization of this country. As soon as unions were formed and strikes broke out, the industrialists would hire "Pinkerton Detectives", aka jack booted thugs, to put down the strike, and to beat the protesters into submission for whatever they wanted.
Now they are trying to cash in in a worse way on schools. Even thoughts of rebellion can now be cause for the jack booted thugs to be sent after a poor kid who only made a small comment.
Um... The powerglove did not read nervous impulses, unless you count reading what those impulses actually did to the muscles as such a device. In that case, my mouse is neurologically linked!!!
Though, where Nintendo failed, Atari prevailed. They actually had a device called the Mindlink Controller under development, but it was never released. Actually, it just took readings on changes in brow position or something, but it sure was closer, and cooler looking, than the power glove...
Bess at my high school is considerably worse. We have it implemented on a multi-district level, and the machine with the software on it is about 50 mi away in a little town. so, all of our internet traffic is routed 50 miles to a dinky town, even though we are in the same town as a major university with mega bandwidth (a couple years ago, the schools had an agreement with the university to use their bandwidth). After the initial route, all data is ROUTED TO CALIFORNIA!!! this is across the continent. Ive done the traceroutes to confirm it from the NT boxes we have for CompSci(everything else is imackish). Needless to say, we get around 2.0kbps tops on good days, and on bad days, almost nothing happens. Compare this to last year, when I was streaming Digitally Imported 128kbps (16KBps) into the NT lab while working on whatever mundane CS project I was doing. At first, Bess was only set up as a proxy, which could be disabled, and then, those dimwits decided to route ALL data through the bess box, slowing the networks to a halt. And now, people can set up proxies on their cable modems at home, or find lists of em on the net, and TOTALLY CIRCUMVENT the censorship.. Total waste of bandwidth, and time.
Hmm... if you have ever seen the typical school technician, you would know why they do not have the whole host.deny file thing going... I swear, these people have lobotomy scars. I can get a blank look from one of em in a couple seconds, even without trying, saying things that they SHOULD know. These people are barely able to maintain their NT machines, so anyone rational would not let em near a machine with a capably less "(l)user friendly" OS, unless you want your network to be down for three weeks (Ive seen this happen at my school) I am pretty sure that a company that wants to keep it's employees from goofing off too much could sucessfully implement this, but the techs schools hire (in general, for what I have seen) are too dumb. If you go to a school with good techs, you are lucky.
SETI@Home is impractical. There is very little chance in finding anything, and even if there was, it would most likely be given to someone who runs it for 2 seconds, then decides that it isnt cool enough, and goes back to the "OpenGL Windows Logo".
I quit running data processing stuff as soon as I began to overclock heavily. My machine needs its rest!