Why does it take over a week of riots, violence and protests for one single moderate islamic group to say that extremists are wrong. As soon as some nutcase christian calls for the assasination of Hugo Chavez every other moderate christian is outraged and they immediately voice their opinions.
Christianity has a central religious center that governs the exact details of the religion - in this case, it is the Vatican. (There are some splinter groups of Christians that have their own interpretation of the Bible, such as Protestantism and Lutheranism.) The central church provides a standard interpretation of the Bible and its meanings - and generally makes it clear that it is not meant to be read literally. (i.e. you'd whack right into a contradiction if you did.)
Islam, on the other hand, does not have a central authority - and generally relies on Literal interpretations of the Quran. (And as you know, Literal interpretations aren't really literal interpretations unless you read the entire Qu'ran.) Because of this, extremists can "prove" their point much more easily by quoting passages out-of-context.
GP:Adults have been using the "lets play a game" trick for years. "Lets play a game. Who can clean up their side of the room the fastest!" I cringe at how naive I used to be.
P:Hah! You say that because you always finished in second place, loser!:P
That's correct - speed cleaning is a completely different sport than proper cleaning. Speed Cleaning just plops things into nearby shelves without organization (thus displacing the mess elsewhere), and Proper Cleaning has a neat organizational pattern that is practical and usable at the same time.
It's just like the difference between Speed Skating and Figure Skating in the olympics. Speed Skating simply has you go around in circles, but Figure Skating has a plan to those circles.
The main difference between C++ and other popular languages these days (other than gross syntax) is C++'s lack of garbage collector. Thus in C++ you can corrupt memory while in other languages you can't.
A garbage collector protects against the leakage of memory and has nothing to do with what you described. What you wanted is boundry checking and/or a ton of other features designed to prevent a random corruption of memory - and that's already available in the most modern of compilers as an extension.
For example, instead of calling pthread_create which passes the parameters to the thread function through a void*, we have 20 createThread template functions that can be used to start a thread function with 0-19 arguments.
If you have to re-implement a generic function 20 times (once for each parameter), then you are doing something wrong - it means you have to implement it again the instant you need an the 21st parameter. C programmers would use the vararg functions, pass an array, or would pass an array of pointers - and it shouldn't be too hard for C++ programmers to do the same in a secure and type-safe method.
It's either that, or put a wrapper function based around individual start points for threads.
Just imagine an 'ideal' world where this would actually work: camera's everywhere, all your actions registered, all terrorists locked away, 100% of crimes solved, citizens obeying all rules, drop a chewing gum on the street and a fine is automatically subtracted from your paycheck, leave your doors unlocked and nobody would even think of walking in to steal your belongings. Bomb attacks only happening in movies or history books.
Now THAT is a scary thought. Would you want to live that way? I sure as hell don't. Sure, streets would be clean, life would be safe and easier, but it would also be very boring.
Video games can take care of the bordem, especially with Hot Coffee.
If Coffee isn't within your taste, there are plenty of other art forms to enjoy, such as Science Fiction books, Television, etc. You can even go ahead and create your own piece of art - the easiest to do is called "Modern Art", which has a green background with red paint splattered over it.
Hmmm... there does seem to be a trial available for download somewhere, but clicking on Game Information from TFA indicates a release date of December 2006 - which is well off.
As far as I know, the game is unreleased and there's nowhere to get it. Either the article's support page is incorrect, or it's something that will be forgotten by the time it hits the release date
I once worked for a computer store that required I sign a contract stating that I could not work for any of their competion within that county or any neighboring counties for 18 months after leaving employment there. This was in Dallas, Texas.
IANAL, but that's restraint of trade, not non-compete. A non-compete means you don't compete with the company during the period of employment or use their internal information to compete with the company (and may also appear as non-disclosure.) Restriant of trade prohibits work in a field after employment.
Such clauses are treated entirely differently in law - and any well developed legal system would consider such things to be unreasonable since it means that leaving the company requires you to switch careers (or spend a lot of money moving.)
The laws vary from country to country. In general, these clauses are an extension of the regular employment contract - the company will have extra work to convince a jugde that such terms are legitimate if employment is terminated without cause (e.g. lack of work, bulk layoffs, constructive termination, etc.)
"Clear and present danger" was specifically NOT, as of 1969, a legitimate reason for punishing someone for speech. It certainly is not a legitimate reason for illegal search and seizure (ie, bypassing the court system.)
It's been replaced with "Imminant Lawless Action", as stated from the Wikipedia link. Regardless of it's legality, it can easily be used to encourage cooperation between the FBI and the library to have a forensics team analyze the exact source of the message without having to do an unnecessary bulk processing of 30 computers.
How the events turned out is exactly how things should be processed. Instead of a bulk request for 30 computers, it should be narrowed down to a smaller cluster that can be more easily analysed. In terms of evidence, it is quality, not quantity.
You know what the difference is between Halo 2 and Half Life 2?
In HL2 (at least with multi-player), you start with something that is generally classed as a super-weapon.
In every other FPS game, there is one super weapon, and everybody goes and gets that weapon and that's it, the game consists of marching around holding down the fire button.
As you know, the BFG10K is the equivalant of an auto-fire rocket launcher - it qualifies as the super-weapon. It may only appear on a few of the maps, but it is still a superweapon.
Even so, not all weapons are created equal. Expect most players to use either a railgun or rocket launcher, as those things generally kill "standard health" players.
That may explain why some people here might be puzzled to notice that geeks are among the most fervent supporters of DRM, copy-protection, spyware and other restrictive technologies
No, I'm a partial supporter of DRM, copy-protection, etc.
I don't support it entirely, since there is no escrow system to ensure that software does not fade away into total oblivion (unless the product is crap, in which case it may be thrown to the dogs.)
They seem to be fully content to have anti-copying and anti-cheating software running in the background while they play World of Warcraft or Half-Life.
Anti-copying is a debatable issue.
However, anti-cheating is a non-issue since it applies only if you are connected to a remote server (e.g. World of Warcraft), which has a completely different method of how things work. In the case of HL, and HL2, there are options to disable it (although it isn't an obvious check-box.)
Also, HL has the choice between VAC and CD, in the same way that some Quake source ports have their own anti-cheat tech.
Good. There aren't many workstations that average that amount.
The 4W of my TV is less than 2% of that, and my workstation is only a tiny part of my overall energy usage. Even if there are 6 billion of me, and our standby TVs are increasing our energy usage by.09%, 4W each does not bring affect the timetable of your Armaggedon.
If that is true, then: - For every 50 TVs made, each "full on" for 8 hours a day and taking 200W a piece, you have to generate enough power to control 52 TVs. Multiply that so that you reach a more accurrate conception of America - scale it high enough, and you will encounter brownouts and/or blackouts. - There are people that have been recently whapped with a massive energy bill. Those people will not be happy that all their idle items saps away power when they are supposedly off. - This is still ignoring mal-configurations concerning power-saving devices. For example, there are plenty of computers shipped out with wake-on-modem, wake-on-lan or wake-on-something enabled. Instantly, your 4W workstation takes up 100KW, just because someone tried to call you. (In my case, the TV swings back into full-on after a blackout unless I physically press the power button.)
Even if it doesn't speed up Armageddeon (which is incorrect, as there are many coal burning power plants), it is money that comes out of your pocket - and mine as well since it adds to the demand on the power supply. Don't say that it isn't strained either, since it takes the population of a single state to cause a brownout since they can't live without air conditioning (to combat the temperature caused by a massive amount of air conditioning.)
FYI, Fridges, Washers, Dryers and other household appliances are rated for yearly energy use. There's no reason luxury items can't be tested in the same manner.
I have a friend who worked for a defense sleep research lab, before Provigil was available via prescription.
Links please... Something like this would be considered Major enough that the users will need to instantly plop something in their bookmarks listing - just like everything else on the Internet that gets plopped into a single bookmark listing never to be looked at again.:)
Besides, why change your behavior when you can just use drugs?
On a more serious note, such drugs could easily be classified as "performance-enhancing", and could easily cause people to be disqualified when they try to enter the olympics or some other athletics competition. (If cough medicine is somehow tagged as a performance enhancer, then so could this anti-sleep pill.)
2. A guild recruits, essentially emphasizing this rule by saying that guild members cannot break Blizzard's rule about harrassment. (fine, no problem right?)
3. Blizzard punishes the guild based on the rule the guild wants to enforce. (Wha?)
The problem is that #2 is not involved in your line of reasoning. The fact that they used the silly acronym is. Saying that you are whatever-friendly is still dividing people into two groups, as if you were subtlely implying that whatever is somehow inferior to normality.
If you really want to be whatever-friendly without having to explicitly state "whatever-friendly", then grab a screenshot of any bigotry and send it to Blizzard. Also, be sure to trash the reputation of the character by recommending him as a fine addition to various guilds - his immaturity will promote like-minded people into the guild and will rapidly increase the guild in size.
I was once told a story by a friend who is Jewish, I am an atheist, he said that "The Rabis think it's quite amusing that Christians take the Genesis story to be the literal truth." You see, the old testament is derived from the Torah. Rabis have been studying it for a long time (i.e. millenia)
All that studying is easily replaced with one observation - there are two different stories of Genesis.
Genesis 1:27 says that God created us male and female. Genesis 2:21 says that God created female from one of the ribs of the male.
Two stories of creationism - both of which are different. There are other inconsistancies between those two chapters as well - which is not unexpected because the bible wasn't written by a single person.
Let's suppose I have legally obtianed mp3, that I don't want anymore. I somehow *move* the file to a shared directory. The file is deleted from own machine.
In that case, you made a copy. If a move operation deletes something on your computer, then it has to make a physical copy. In addition, you are making copies by using the software that does the sharing - and since you don't clamp down the maximum number of copies to 1, you are doing mass distribution.
The correct procedure is to transfer the MP3 onto a removable media and give it to a friend - and delete all local copies you have. This, as you know, is one of the few legitimate procedures to copy a file.
Besides the pure and utter idiocy of a tax system such as this, one main concern I'd have is who decides if a game is or isn't violent?
First off, let's define violent. My definition includes Chess, Checkers, and other simple board games as they primairly involve defeating enemy units. You will note that my definition is correct in one sense - as Chess and Checkers abstract this violence by having those units "Captured".
A more standard definition counts the number of red pixels. This obviously excludes games such as Chess and Checkers. However, Battle Chess (where piece-capturing shows an animation) will not be available in the taxed area, since nobody in their right mind will pay $120 for a game of chess.
Based in this alone, any person who has a basic knowledge of the first admendment will know why this is a bad law - and there are many people who play video games.
I'm sure that principle could potentially be seen by some folks as violent and as such they'd slap it with a tax.
Lets look at another way of thinking - Doom 3, UT2K4, and Half-Life 2 are "engine" games. That's an extra 100% tax just to develop or even play MetaBall. You could try using other engines out there (Ha! Good luck...), although this will merely slow down production of such games as you have to search for them, decide which one is best when there isn't any field-testing of the engine, etc.
If anything, that "if it ain't broke" attitude of is part of what keeps me motivated to find the best tool I can for the job -- and be ready to switch when the best tool is replaced by something markedly better. Otherwise, I may be missing out on an opportunity.
In my opinion, a BitTorrent client is a BitTorrent client. Currently, all the major BT clients behave identially, aside from "internal client" extensions. The protocol has been around for a while, but there are still things that have to be changed - at the protocol level.
For example, there are users that are behind a firewalled NAT. Such a client that enters the swarm will be treated as if it were not firewalled.
The second protocol-level example is that there is no "back-off" system. Once you touch a torrent, you are bound to receive inbound connection requests to ports 6881-6889 for a few hours (perhaps more - my IP remained in even after 12 hours where my computer was turned off).
(ever try to get someone to switch from IE to a tabbed browser?)
It's the same way you get people to switch from Netscape 4.0 to IE.
Brand-name loyalty is a very strong factor. It is a tough nut to crack, but it can still be claimed. Case in point - I managed to get a switch from IE to a tabbed browser because he was playing with web-games where constantly clicking on a link did things much faster.
Fact: Azureus is a CPU and RAM hog. Now granted, give it enough CPU and RAM to work with and obviously you won't notice an impact on system performance. OTOH, try to play any recent 3d game while Azureus is busy, on virtually any system -- you'll find it quickly becomes untenable.
Right click on the taskbar. Select Task Manager. Click Processes. Right click on Azureus or the Java Runtime Engine, whichever is taking up more CPU. Open "Set Priority" and select "BelowNormal".
While you're at it, why not find an JRE that gives much better performance than the stock Sun implementation? Azureus, as you know, is written in Java - which is dependant on loading up a JRE framework.
c) Diabold refuses to let the source code be reviewed, and chose to run on Windows XP so neither the program or the OS of the box can be verified safe.
Do you have the source code for Unix?
Also, do you have the source code for the compiler that compiled that version of Unix?
Granted, all of this requires a level of sophistication not yet achieved. However, unless you are capable of manually examining the entire system, you still need to assume that there is a backdoor in the login program.
e) Diabold security is fucked whether or not they put the same code they have tested on the box. With tested, verfied boxes they cannot add XP security patches for known flaws after te verification date (and if there is one thing worth keeping an 0-day for...). If they do add security patches etc then we are trusting closed source biaries to be added to election counting machines without the possibility of review. One bad actor and the elecetion is up for grabs.
The same can be said for OpenBSD, which was considered to be next to a perfectly secure operating system. Then suddenly, a new vulnerability class was discovered that caused a sudden auditing frenzy.
Alright, but how do you expect a software developer to support such an old configuration?
They already support it all the time. With Windows 95, the only thing you are not getting is the absolute latest Platform SDK.
The only way you can drop support for Windows 95 is to use the latest version of DirectX, use features only known to work under the Windows NT line, or otherwise use a dependancy that only works under Windows XP. In general, if you dropped support for Windows 95 the instant Microsoft did, you dropped support for Windows 98 and ME.
Other then this flukish exception, the Windows 95-ME chain has two states: It's either supported or it's not.
BTW, Doom 3 did not support Windows 98 or ME - which caused a large number of complaints. And as you know, there was a very simple patch that resolved the issue since the problem was only with the installer.
Cinematics are bad when they "play" parts of the game for you.
That's nothing compared to the fact that some cutscenes somehow render the Player Character magically impotant.
As you know, those PCs have aim-bot accurracy and reaction time but as soon as they enter a cutscene, their arms are permanently locked into the lowered state. The PC can already take out armies of Level 60 Dragons, but is mercy to what amounts to a normal inchworm.
Simpler. Support current standards. Upgrade the users browser to support those standards. For free.
I have one computer that still runs Windows 95. Upgrading is "expensive" compared to free because:
- The computer is running a WinModem that doesn't apprear to run under Linux. - Directly downloading Mozilla and attempting to run it causes it to crash with no useful information, not even a quality feedback agent.
While there are more modern computers, they are either mine, virus laden, or much more primitive.
Now, if Microsoft change the way Windows works so as not to just hand out permission for any process to interfere with any other process, then the worms and viruses that depend on this behaviour will die off -- but so will all those applications that depend on this broken behaviour.
If Microsoft did that, it would be a hell of a lot more difficult to debug applications. It would bring things back to the "core-dump" era where core files had to be manually inspected as opposed to just loading up the debugger.
What you really mean is the ability to segregate user accounts from each other. Windows has already done this - and most serious business class software has to be written to take this into consideration (otherwise, they are classed as defective and get no sales.)
Also, Worms don't depend on that kind of behavior - most of them attract the "click-on-everything" crowd that can't even play a simple game. Viruses do, but they could just as easily attack a computer at the most vulnerable state - when it is booting up. Most people will laugh when I say that a boot sector virus can exist on a CD-ROM.
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Christianity has a central religious center that governs the exact details of the religion - in this case, it is the Vatican. (There are some splinter groups of Christians that have their own interpretation of the Bible, such as Protestantism and Lutheranism.) The central church provides a standard interpretation of the Bible and its meanings - and generally makes it clear that it is not meant to be read literally. (i.e. you'd whack right into a contradiction if you did.)
Islam, on the other hand, does not have a central authority - and generally relies on Literal interpretations of the Quran. (And as you know, Literal interpretations aren't really literal interpretations unless you read the entire Qu'ran.) Because of this, extremists can "prove" their point much more easily by quoting passages out-of-context.
That's correct - speed cleaning is a completely different sport than proper cleaning. Speed Cleaning just plops things into nearby shelves without organization (thus displacing the mess elsewhere), and Proper Cleaning has a neat organizational pattern that is practical and usable at the same time.
It's just like the difference between Speed Skating and Figure Skating in the olympics. Speed Skating simply has you go around in circles, but Figure Skating has a plan to those circles.
A garbage collector protects against the leakage of memory and has nothing to do with what you described. What you wanted is boundry checking and/or a ton of other features designed to prevent a random corruption of memory - and that's already available in the most modern of compilers as an extension.
If you have to re-implement a generic function 20 times (once for each parameter), then you are doing something wrong - it means you have to implement it again the instant you need an the 21st parameter. C programmers would use the vararg functions, pass an array, or would pass an array of pointers - and it shouldn't be too hard for C++ programmers to do the same in a secure and type-safe method.
It's either that, or put a wrapper function based around individual start points for threads.
Video games can take care of the bordem, especially with Hot Coffee.
If Coffee isn't within your taste, there are plenty of other art forms to enjoy, such as Science Fiction books, Television, etc. You can even go ahead and create your own piece of art - the easiest to do is called "Modern Art", which has a green background with red paint splattered over it.
Hmmm... there does seem to be a trial available for download somewhere, but clicking on Game Information from TFA indicates a release date of December 2006 - which is well off.
As far as I know, the game is unreleased and there's nowhere to get it. Either the article's support page is incorrect, or it's something that will be forgotten by the time it hits the release date
The game hasn't been released yet. How can it be successful?
In the mean time, Mutant Storm is already available - plus it has eight difficulty levels along with two-player support.
IANAL, but that's restraint of trade, not non-compete. A non-compete means you don't compete with the company during the period of employment or use their internal information to compete with the company (and may also appear as non-disclosure.) Restriant of trade prohibits work in a field after employment.
Such clauses are treated entirely differently in law - and any well developed legal system would consider such things to be unreasonable since it means that leaving the company requires you to switch careers (or spend a lot of money moving.)
The laws vary from country to country. In general, these clauses are an extension of the regular employment contract - the company will have extra work to convince a jugde that such terms are legitimate if employment is terminated without cause (e.g. lack of work, bulk layoffs, constructive termination, etc.)
It's been replaced with "Imminant Lawless Action", as stated from the Wikipedia link. Regardless of it's legality, it can easily be used to encourage cooperation between the FBI and the library to have a forensics team analyze the exact source of the message without having to do an unnecessary bulk processing of 30 computers.
How the events turned out is exactly how things should be processed. Instead of a bulk request for 30 computers, it should be narrowed down to a smaller cluster that can be more easily analysed. In terms of evidence, it is quality, not quantity.
In HL2 (at least with multi-player), you start with something that is generally classed as a super-weapon.
As you know, the BFG10K is the equivalant of an auto-fire rocket launcher - it qualifies as the super-weapon. It may only appear on a few of the maps, but it is still a superweapon.
Even so, not all weapons are created equal. Expect most players to use either a railgun or rocket launcher, as those things generally kill "standard health" players.
No, I'm a partial supporter of DRM, copy-protection, etc.
I don't support it entirely, since there is no escrow system to ensure that software does not fade away into total oblivion (unless the product is crap, in which case it may be thrown to the dogs.)
Anti-copying is a debatable issue.
However, anti-cheating is a non-issue since it applies only if you are connected to a remote server (e.g. World of Warcraft), which has a completely different method of how things work. In the case of HL, and HL2, there are options to disable it (although it isn't an obvious check-box.)
Also, HL has the choice between VAC and CD, in the same way that some Quake source ports have their own anti-cheat tech.
Good. There aren't many workstations that average that amount.
If that is true, then:
- For every 50 TVs made, each "full on" for 8 hours a day and taking 200W a piece, you have to generate enough power to control 52 TVs. Multiply that so that you reach a more accurrate conception of America - scale it high enough, and you will encounter brownouts and/or blackouts.
- There are people that have been recently whapped with a massive energy bill. Those people will not be happy that all their idle items saps away power when they are supposedly off.
- This is still ignoring mal-configurations concerning power-saving devices. For example, there are plenty of computers shipped out with wake-on-modem, wake-on-lan or wake-on-something enabled. Instantly, your 4W workstation takes up 100KW, just because someone tried to call you. (In my case, the TV swings back into full-on after a blackout unless I physically press the power button.)
Even if it doesn't speed up Armageddeon (which is incorrect, as there are many coal burning power plants), it is money that comes out of your pocket - and mine as well since it adds to the demand on the power supply. Don't say that it isn't strained either, since it takes the population of a single state to cause a brownout since they can't live without air conditioning (to combat the temperature caused by a massive amount of air conditioning.)
FYI, Fridges, Washers, Dryers and other household appliances are rated for yearly energy use. There's no reason luxury items can't be tested in the same manner.
Links please... Something like this would be considered Major enough that the users will need to instantly plop something in their bookmarks listing - just like everything else on the Internet that gets plopped into a single bookmark listing never to be looked at again.
On a more serious note, such drugs could easily be classified as "performance-enhancing", and could easily cause people to be disqualified when they try to enter the olympics or some other athletics competition. (If cough medicine is somehow tagged as a performance enhancer, then so could this anti-sleep pill.)
The problem is that #2 is not involved in your line of reasoning. The fact that they used the silly acronym is. Saying that you are whatever-friendly is still dividing people into two groups, as if you were subtlely implying that whatever is somehow inferior to normality.
If you really want to be whatever-friendly without having to explicitly state "whatever-friendly", then grab a screenshot of any bigotry and send it to Blizzard. Also, be sure to trash the reputation of the character by recommending him as a fine addition to various guilds - his immaturity will promote like-minded people into the guild and will rapidly increase the guild in size.
That's suprisingly close to a game on NeoPets: http://www.neopets.com/games/epc.phtml
All that studying is easily replaced with one observation - there are two different stories of Genesis.
Genesis 1:27 says that God created us male and female.
Genesis 2:21 says that God created female from one of the ribs of the male.
Two stories of creationism - both of which are different. There are other inconsistancies between those two chapters as well - which is not unexpected because the bible wasn't written by a single person.
And thus don't have access to your CDs while they are being shared.
I probably should call the Analogy Police.
In that case, you made a copy. If a move operation deletes something on your computer, then it has to make a physical copy. In addition, you are making copies by using the software that does the sharing - and since you don't clamp down the maximum number of copies to 1, you are doing mass distribution.
The correct procedure is to transfer the MP3 onto a removable media and give it to a friend - and delete all local copies you have. This, as you know, is one of the few legitimate procedures to copy a file.
First off, let's define violent. My definition includes Chess, Checkers, and other simple board games as they primairly involve defeating enemy units. You will note that my definition is correct in one sense - as Chess and Checkers abstract this violence by having those units "Captured".
A more standard definition counts the number of red pixels. This obviously excludes games such as Chess and Checkers. However, Battle Chess (where piece-capturing shows an animation) will not be available in the taxed area, since nobody in their right mind will pay $120 for a game of chess.
Based in this alone, any person who has a basic knowledge of the first admendment will know why this is a bad law - and there are many people who play video games.
Lets look at another way of thinking - Doom 3, UT2K4, and Half-Life 2 are "engine" games. That's an extra 100% tax just to develop or even play MetaBall. You could try using other engines out there (Ha! Good luck...), although this will merely slow down production of such games as you have to search for them, decide which one is best when there isn't any field-testing of the engine, etc.
In my opinion, a BitTorrent client is a BitTorrent client. Currently, all the major BT clients behave identially, aside from "internal client" extensions. The protocol has been around for a while, but there are still things that have to be changed - at the protocol level.
For example, there are users that are behind a firewalled NAT. Such a client that enters the swarm will be treated as if it were not firewalled.
The second protocol-level example is that there is no "back-off" system. Once you touch a torrent, you are bound to receive inbound connection requests to ports 6881-6889 for a few hours (perhaps more - my IP remained in even after 12 hours where my computer was turned off).
It's the same way you get people to switch from Netscape 4.0 to IE.
Brand-name loyalty is a very strong factor. It is a tough nut to crack, but it can still be claimed. Case in point - I managed to get a switch from IE to a tabbed browser because he was playing with web-games where constantly clicking on a link did things much faster.
Right click on the taskbar. Select Task Manager. Click Processes. Right click on Azureus or the Java Runtime Engine, whichever is taking up more CPU. Open "Set Priority" and select "BelowNormal".
While you're at it, why not find an JRE that gives much better performance than the stock Sun implementation? Azureus, as you know, is written in Java - which is dependant on loading up a JRE framework.
Do you have the source code for Unix?
Also, do you have the source code for the compiler that compiled that version of Unix?
And finally, do you have the source code for the compiler that compiled the compiler?
Granted, all of this requires a level of sophistication not yet achieved. However, unless you are capable of manually examining the entire system, you still need to assume that there is a backdoor in the login program.
The same can be said for OpenBSD, which was considered to be next to a perfectly secure operating system. Then suddenly, a new vulnerability class was discovered that caused a sudden auditing frenzy.
They already support it all the time. With Windows 95, the only thing you are not getting is the absolute latest Platform SDK.
The only way you can drop support for Windows 95 is to use the latest version of DirectX, use features only known to work under the Windows NT line, or otherwise use a dependancy that only works under Windows XP. In general, if you dropped support for Windows 95 the instant Microsoft did, you dropped support for Windows 98 and ME.
Other then this flukish exception, the Windows 95-ME chain has two states: It's either supported or it's not.
BTW, Doom 3 did not support Windows 98 or ME - which caused a large number of complaints. And as you know, there was a very simple patch that resolved the issue since the problem was only with the installer.
That's nothing compared to the fact that some cutscenes somehow render the Player Character magically impotant.
As you know, those PCs have aim-bot accurracy and reaction time but as soon as they enter a cutscene, their arms are permanently locked into the lowered state. The PC can already take out armies of Level 60 Dragons, but is mercy to what amounts to a normal inchworm.
I have one computer that still runs Windows 95. Upgrading is "expensive" compared to free because:
- The computer is running a WinModem that doesn't apprear to run under Linux.
- Directly downloading Mozilla and attempting to run it causes it to crash with no useful information, not even a quality feedback agent.
While there are more modern computers, they are either mine, virus laden, or much more primitive.
If Microsoft did that, it would be a hell of a lot more difficult to debug applications. It would bring things back to the "core-dump" era where core files had to be manually inspected as opposed to just loading up the debugger.
What you really mean is the ability to segregate user accounts from each other. Windows has already done this - and most serious business class software has to be written to take this into consideration (otherwise, they are classed as defective and get no sales.)
Also, Worms don't depend on that kind of behavior - most of them attract the "click-on-everything" crowd that can't even play a simple game. Viruses do, but they could just as easily attack a computer at the most vulnerable state - when it is booting up. Most people will laugh when I say that a boot sector virus can exist on a CD-ROM.