I noted that you didn't comment about questions about your legal certification.
GPL software can be sold to companies. Unless you are doing something major (e.g. Mozilla, Linux etc.), the only way GPL software may be adopted by a company is if you advertise your software as the correct solution. In the event that you give it out for free, then there's nothing preventing people from saying that you are a shoddy programmer (or as an alternative, taking your work and selling it for a small fee alongside developer support - using WhiteSpace as the preferred editing language.)
You also stated "On Every Licence" - which includes stuff other than regular GPL software. If you wanted to talk about the GPL licence, then say that you are talking about the GPL licence - don't lump it in with other propriatery licenses such as the Microsoft EULA.
Even then, it is still not an absolute protection even if it is free. As an example, put the GPL and source code in your newly released worm and see how your "GPL shield" protects you.
End Users should be required to pass a test to use this equipment and if they misuse it by speeding around the internet, sending out malicious packets, they should be fined and imprisoned and lose all their stuff.
Running Internet Explorer can potentially cause spyware to enter your system through malicious ActiveX coding - there was a way to prevent installation, but just regular typing in another window was known to trigger the install should a word contain a 'y'. This is fixed in Service Pack 2, but that patch wasn't available when it really mattered (i.e. In the Windows 95 - Windows XP SP1 era).
While there was Mozilla, the base install isn't trustable either as it barely had pop-up blocker support at the time. It still tried to install something should you even click within an area saying "Get the plugin". (It took until some Mozilla 1.x or one of its offshoots to be fixed.)
There's also the approach of running in a limited user account. Anyone who can do anything serious (beyond simply using Microsoft Office or equivalent thereof) in that setting may raise their hand. (Including gamers that have trouble with copy-protections that require Admin Access.)
It's right there, in every license of almost every piece of software made:
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE
Are you a lawyer? Cause I don't have to be to say that is against basic contract law.
It is held by whatever guarentee is made in sales and advertisements, even if it is one of those difficult features (such as being capable of being CABER compatable, i.e. survive a log hit) for a minimum of 30 days (exceptions being substandard legal systems.) If it does not function, then the product may be returned as defective.
If that clause was enforcable, then every software product would have cinematic quality: Any foobar off the web can remotely cause computer screns to explode (although a pop-up will appear 2 seconds before self-destruct), even if the destination is standalone. In real life, this would be classified as "unacceptable quality" and immediatly mandate government action.
Is the Video Game publishers and stores not actively enforcing their Voluntary ratings system. The government gave the industry a chance years ago to leave it in their hands.
But, as always, greed and making a buck in the short term won out and the industry ignored the potential consequences of what they were doing.
Even if a game like Duke Nukem 3D (containing adult content) required identification, how does one prevent the game from getting into the hands of minors?
Points of note: - That game has a demo version. In addition, it was released in a pre-ESRB era (but did have RSAC) and pre-broadband where games thrived based on a shareware concept. - That game in particular is easily distributed: 25MB is a drop in the bucket in modern broadband. It may be a problem getting it through Dial-up, but Getright and other download managers fixed that. (It also allowed 250+MB CDs being downloaded through dial-up - Personal experience says it takes about 1 month, including downtime.) - How can parents be sure that the children do not require administrator privilages (which effectivly means they can sneak in software) for day-to-day activities? While MS-Office works "well-enough", there are software products that require such privilages (in spite of the fact that it is in violation of the "Designed for Windows XP" logo - a fantastic document that can be used to identify shoddy software products.)
The problem isn't the industry cashing in - it has to do with both the tech level and/or the inability of computers to identify the age of the user. (Nobody here wants a massive DRM that requires individual ID cards required to even run a computer... yet.)
The demo for the Chronicals of Riddick has a prompt that requires entering the birthdate of the user, locking people out who don't qualify. It needs to ask it since it cannot determine the age from the materials at hand without some form of National ID smart card - and it is incapable of detecting users that lie about their age.
And finally, there's Cube - an open source first-person shooter. What prevents children from grabbing that game, and modifing it to look more gruesome? (It is capable of field-deployment where no admin privs are required to install or run - except on a highly locked down system.)
Aural realism is more important. That's the one thing that has made the great games great: the use of audio cues and audio environment to enhance the gaming experience.
This could be difficult...
While there are standards such as EAX, it doesn't feel as if it's implementation is standard. In some sound cards, it is not supported on half of the games - while other sound cards supports it in that half, but the other half stops working. In addition, there is distortion with some incorrect implementations (which I believe is caused by improper documentation or tutorials): For example, firing weapons in software causes sounds from both speakers - with hardware (+ EAX or some other option), firing while moving causes it to be only heard from one speaker (based on the direction of movement).
Until things get better (which I hope they do - there's already OpenAL to ensure that sound can be worked cleanly on the software side), I don't see how improving sound will satisify everyone unless you stick with pure software sound processing (which can be expensive for the highly advanced sound effects.)
There's also overreliance on sound that tends to kill games. Putting in sound is great, but if there is no fallback, all your effort is lost when players cannot hear the sound (e.g. Deafness, lack of speakers, etc.)
If a parent cannot notice any social changes exhibited by their child while playing these games, and later he/she commits to a lifestyle of violence one can draw two conclusions:
You forgot four other conclusions:
Such social changes were minimal compared to other events beyond the control of the parent. (e.g. "You can't punish me! I'm a young offender!")
The parents were not permitted (by law or otherwise some other social pressure) to correct their children. Recently, there's court cases that have risked the right of parents to spank their children because of one simple incident.
The parents became fatigued keeping at least one of their children stable. (This can happen - Autism is known to create "Mommy! Look at the mess I made!" situations which simply drain morale.)
The parents don't know that games are being played, and are forced to accept it somehow. As you know, any person can hide an install of whatever by disguising it, hiding it, etc. There's more than enough stories about how adults used to hide playing Descent or whatever when they were young.
Most parents don't give two shits to nurturing and shaping the belief system:
And that's why there's a lot of immature people around. Because of this, I'm suprised we haven't devolved into anarchy.
A quick glance doesn't seem to show anything special. However:
- The school/university year just started. - School/uni is still being hyped as essential, more so since there are too many potential Bill Gates to even get your foot in the door. Thus, most people place a bit more focus on study. - In some fields, you need to max out your skillset by studying, practice, etc... This takes away time from entertainment (even if it is something passive, such as watching CSI.) - Those unemployed... generally thing job hunt is a 30hr/week task because they aren't told otherwise. (Either that, or other entries to tho workforce do not work.) - The latest batch of games are being called rehashes. - The classical batches are becoming harder to play - either because of emotional buildup against repetition, more primitive interface, or some other reason. - Some people need to work 80-hours a week to keep employment. (Or keep up with school work...) - All of this, in addition to comments by other posters.
This is no suprise. Perhaps the study should focus on amount of recreation tima available.
First point: Yes he did cause damage. Money was spent investigating the intrusion which is monetary damages.
How did he attempt to intrude? Did he attempt a buffer overflow attack (generally exploiting an unknown hole), or did he simply place a few "../"s within the URL (asking politely where the information is located.)
Real-life eqivalents: The former is using a 20-pound ledge to break down a locked door, while the latter is simply asking a servant to unlock the door for him.
BTW, the judge found him guilty because he initially lied to police, even though the first paragraph for one of the TFAs said, "the judge hearing the case accepted that he meant to cause no harm". Given that a crime is composed of an act and intent (or lack thereof), what was the initial lie that caused the judge to find him guilty?
Having an opinion about this case is nice - but there's too little information to dismiss him as an amateur h@x0r. Perhaps the standard for prosecuting should be revised to explain why inserting "../" is a hack attempt.
Second Point: He very well could have caused damage had he successfully broken in. Do we not punish crackers now just because they didn't destroy data?
That's why attempting to do a crime is still considered a crime (and carries a lesser sentence.) He didn't break into the system at all - he merely attempted to do so.
Thirdly: He is a professional in the Information Security field! Of all people he should be held to a higher standard because of his career field.
I heard that a person was accused of hacking because he used telnet. It just goes to show - just because someone appears to be hacking doesn't mean that he does. And yes, those "hackers" posted proof of the so-called dirty deed to show that they did "hacking".
As for a feature request, I tend to be very strict about cookies, which unfortunately means that I am forced to endlessly click through "do you want this cookie?" "huh?" "how about now?" "how about this cookie?" "you wanna cookie?" dialogs. It would be really cool if these could be queued to some docked pane which allowed the site to load asynchronously. Unless a site is doing something really funky with frames or javascript, it shouldn't expect to immediately receive a cookie it just sent, so in the majority of cases I don't think these requests actually have to be acknowledged before the page is rendered (or simply block any pending pages - in the case of no frameset, say, 95% of the time - this will mean totally asynchronous rendering).
Mozilla had a feature where it would display an icon whenever a cookie was received. You can remve cookies based on that, keeping websites that require cookies (e.g. Session tracking for logging in.)
Of course, it was completely useless since: - It raised on any cookie, even "accepted" - The intermediate state, "flagged" was no different than accepted. - There was not much control within that cookie manager - you could only remove cookies - no visible option to "accept" them or do other fancy stuff with them (e.g. Modify - no reason not to, since cookies can be changed anyway by playing with cookies.txt). - There was no "supressed" option - similar to flagged but it doesn't send it to the webpage (and it gets junked). - You could remove cookies... but blocking sites that set cookies required you to delete only the cookies you want to ban and nothing else (it only takes effect after you close the *PREFERENCES* window.)
The FF beta might make things different - but it's a beta, not a released product.
No matter whether HBO's reasons are legitimate, they are actually just executing a simple denial of service attack on BitTorrent,
No, they are executing a denial of service attack on *A* Torrent.
Injecting bad data in a movie (regardless of whether or not it magically passes the hash) does nothing to prevent me from downloading the latest Slackware ISOs.
Linux and Windows are completely two different software archetectures - Linux is focused around client-server connections using terminals (some of which are incapable of instantly distinguishing ESC from some other keypress without looking ahead) and has "perfected" that system. On the other hand, Windows is focused on a local user interface and has "perfected" that system - you can do almost anything in Windows just by using the base API.
Consider trying to write a truly portable C program - the advice given on news:comp.lang.c is to stick with the ANSI standard - which doesn't support any GUIs, mouse interfaces, networking, multi-threading or any other stuff that would make a modern operating system. Because of this, both MS, and POSIX either are or have different extensions to the operating system. Of these two, MS attempts to implement everything in their windowing system (including delay systems, timers, GDI, clipboard, and other stuff.), and POSIX extended networking, logon and file-system features.
Both systems are not complete at one time - Windows 3.0 didn't have builtin TCP/IP support, and required installation of a special package that interfaced with a modem, and used IPC to allow other applications to use the internet. On the other hand, POSIX was extended by XWindows and other stuff.
Right now, MS has merged various OS extensions into the main product (e.g. external WinSocks were replaced by an MS implementation.) However, I haven't seen much change in the basic Linux or POSIX API, aside from third party extensions (such as SDL.)
Unfortunately, as I stated earlier, to ignore him may be to simply put our heads in the sand.
That expression pertains to Ostriches - they stuff their head into the sand to feed, rather than to avoid fear.
If we're lucky, this "game law" he claims he's been comissioned to create will be his downfall into absolute crackpottery, but what if it turns out that he hasn't just been pulling this story out of his ass? What then?
If this were Canada, I'd be worried since there restrictiosn can be passed.
However, this is US law, which already had the first amendment passed since the dawn of the nation. If it's powerful enough to prevent children from being forced to pledge alliegance, then that's half the problem eliminated. Various other stuff here: http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/firstamendment/courtcas es/courtcases.htm#mfar
The first amendment doesn't seem to cover obsecne material - but if violence were obscene, then the Little Red Riding Hood (classical or bedtime version) is obscene since it has a man violently kill the wolf.
IANAL, and I don't have to be. There no need to worry until it survives a first amendment test. Even if it does, it will do nothing aside from encourage piracy (since minors can't buy the games now, nor can they even come close to finding them in a few months/years, they resort to piracy.)
4) The network gets locked down - Some companies will lock down the network in an effort to eliminate wasted time.
Most of this wasted time is caused by some idiot managing to somehow erase everything on the global common drive.
A proper lock-down of the network is legitimate - if an employee managed to do something that shouldn't be done (e.g. run SysEdit and accidently remove critical drivers), you can be sure that the IT department will be distracted by internal problems while some external h@x0r defaces the website using the infamous h@x-0-m@+1c.
Usually, lockdowns occur because something bad happened with the network (or IT department feels like their employees are on the line when unauthorized software appears) - not because of employees slacking off (as it can be done at the watercooler instead.)
If you follow his advice you'll do nothing but job-hop your entire career...
A.K.A. Independant contracting.
Waahhhh! I'm smarter than my manager, who's too old and feeble to know what he's talking about...
The programmer has experience on how quickly programs can progress, based on the portion he is working on. The manager does not have that information, unless he bases the rate of production of previous programmers - potentially ignoring the fact that the programmer may be used to an alternate method of code production or may have to learn a new portion of the IT field (e.g. DataAdapters and DataSets in VB, which have a semi-counterintuitive feeling caused by creating a seperate DataSet and DataAdapter for each database query you want to produce.)
There are legitimate reasons for saying that it takes six days instead of eight: 1- It can be completed in six business days, based on previous performance (unlikely, as later projects are more likely complex, or there is a need to learn.) 2- There are additional resources being assigned to the task (speeding it up without rushing it), or there is a partially working system. 3- The manager is willing to accept a 'rushed' product, as there is an immediate need - programs can be repaired later during slack. 4- The manager wants to give a subtle nudge to ensure that it will be completed in eight days.
However, any manager that expects that software engineering is just as infallable when rushed shouldn't be engineering - especially when they are trying to design systems for "nuclear reactors".
Could we please just put that asshole Thompson out of our collective misery already?
It's easier to ignore him. Jack Thompson is not important - as soon as he makes a law that restricts games, he either wasts taxpayers dollars on something that fails to the first admendment, or the law is forcefully extended by the game industry to supress removing all violent media (including a large quantity Agatha Christie novels which generally have someone murdered.)
Jack Thompson may claim to be the crusader in the "war against violence", but we all know how well such wars progress in practice - especially when most bullies are given a carte blanche for child abuse.
The other option (unnecessary) would asscoiate him with the same style of violence and anti-socialism that he tries to quash. The easiest method is to find his infamous one liners - one alleged quote is found at The Inquirer.
The people that answered "I plead the 5th!!! Where is my laywer!?" to the poll are not only richer than the other two types poll participants, but also are usually involved in politics.
Actually, that's a flag that they are American, or have been watching too many American TV Shows. (This is a Canadaian newspaper.)
Of course, I doubt such a poll contains anything other than yes/no - given that most phones are technically random telephone calls, it is very likely that the results are skewed to favour one result. For example, there's one section asks if users are willing to download music without paying for it - this is skewed in two ways: The first, people not wanting to admit to piracy would say "no", while others that download free music (where the artist released the work for free) could say "yes".
Which instantly means that PersonB is working on behalf of PersonA. As the other poster just mentioned, corporate shell games are not appreciated by the court systems.
BTW, it's better to cite the law directly rather than use a wikipedia link.
PersonA then takes out all the source discs and grinds them into powder, and then sells the binary-only discs to customers.
PersonA is now knowingly distributing a defective product - it is missing a component critical to distribution (the source code). This is no different than unbundling the individual floppy disks in a copy of Dos 6.22 - while it may appear to be functional, it is still an incomplete product and therefore defective.
There are not many people that are willing to purchase defective or incomplete products - these are an exception rather than the rule. Whether it is misrepresentation, a copyright violation, or a combination thereof, there's still a problem - even if it isn't illegal, it's an excellent way to get a bad reputation for your company.
More frequently, I see sysadmin-types say that we need a new computer computer when what we need is more memory or faster I/O.
That's what I would do - generally, the problems arising from lack of memory is distinctive hard drive thrashing.
In the event of Faster I/O, then there's a 50/50 chance that there's an archetecture upgrade required. (i.e. replace the mainboard to obtain SATA support.)
And also compare that number to the number that require you to have knowledge of History and Advanced Math?
History is of limited use, but there are a few jobs that require that. It may also be needed to identify past mistakes and plan around their repetition (e.g. having a disaster plan ready for the next Great Depression.) The only thing that is not significantly important for average people would be the random dates (except for culturally important events) - there is not much use in knowing the exact year that Alexander The Great died from illness.
Advanced Math... you'll need to learn at least one portion of it if you want to do something serious (e.g. cost-benefit analysis, Asset allocation), run your own business (e.g. filling out tax forms or making optimal plans to minimize tax expenses), as well as a few other positions. Also, when you learn advanced math, you will get a better sense of numerology so that you can more easily detect potential flaws at a quick glance.
While those topics might not seem important to most people in most cases, they will be needed eventually. Of course, History and Advanced Math can be easily learned through textbooks, as opposed to some softer skills such as Artwork.
This is a problem I have noticed with Linux many times. On the whole, Linux is incredibly rock solid. But there are rare instances where specific combinations of Linux software and hardware will cause crazy problems. For example, at one time there was a problem with APIC in the kernel. If you had an nforce2 motherboard and a kernel with APIC enabled it would freeze up semi-randomly. 99% of people did not have this combination, so it wasn't a problem for them. But for the 1% of people who did, how were they supposed to figure it out? Only if they are very involved in a Linux community would they discover this.
That's a standard problem with operating systems - there will always be a mysterious 1% that has the right combination of hardware to produce issues for technical support.
A comparable problem under Windows 98/ME would be a Creative Labs sound card on a Via chipset - while reprts of total lockups were rare, the general cause would be static in the sound, and required tweaking the Sound Accelleration. The two worst cases I had with this issue would be that some applications would freeze because the workaround was active (Bink Video was a culprit), and one aplication would *crash* because I failed to apply the workaround (complete with a bug tracker with a "Send to Erik" button - which didn't work.)
Of course, Windows now has a WHQL testing system that ensures that hardware developers don't make mistakes. Because of this, Windows hardware support will be much more comprehensive and stable than Linux, even if the rest of the operating system has problems.
After your kid graduates highschool, don't let them go to college, but instead kick them out. Make them get an apartment, and a job, and bust their ass trying to pay rent and have enough food to eat. Make them tired at the end of the day...
I'm not sure which school system that you played with, but it won't work here.
During the high-school period, the student is attempting to discover his career path, and is ready to transition into university or college. Breaking the education mid-way does absolutly nothing to help, and merely confuses the career path. It can also backfire in case your child has an undiagnosed or mis-diagnosed developmental disability, such as Spectral Autism Disorder - and may also backfire if the child is forced to rely on Welfare because there is no job available.
This is ignoring the fact High School generaly leaves people unprepared for anything. It's a Buck-Shot (note the acronym) style of learning that teaches students things with limited connection. In general, a student could get by more easily skipping the last two years of High School with a job as Harvey's while learning at home. While College and/or University will be delayed by a year because he won't go directly in from high-school, the money he built up can easily be used as a backing for the college/university - with less money lost to rent. In fact, there can easily be more time spent allowing your child to learn the specialized material needed for his future position.
There are freakish positions that refuse to recognise a College Diploma/University Degree as a valid high-school replacement. Ignore these - there's plenty of other positions that are less asanine about requirements.
Let them do this for one year, and then tell them they can go to school. Tell them that year was what being poor is, and then tell them engineers, and doctors, and lawyers aren't poor.
That's another problem: Doctors and lawyers have limited enrollment. Engineers get limited pay (and have a ~1-2 year waiting period.) In addition, it is limited benefit to enter those fields blindly, as most people here have done - How many high-school students know off-hand the difference between "Computer Engineering Technology" and "Comptuer Science"? How does that number change when they are told to enroll to advance their career? If there is no development plan, you'll just produce another "Rookie of all, master of none".
This is also ignoring the fact that some students will not be able to tell if they will pass before enrollment. In fact, it's still imposible to tell from the first semester - I started College with a near 'A' record, but did not maintain such an exceptional performance (missing the "honours" by 0.03 points). There are some students where the drop of performance is much more serious, with a mix of 'D' and 'F' on the transcript.
The problems with education are real, but the problems with motivation in this country are much bigger. We've had it so easy for the last two generations that we've forgotton what it was like to *really* have to work hard
That's a misconception. Just because it seems that students are having it easy doesn't mean it is. For example, those students working at Harvey's in a weekend job are pressured to do tuff as quickly as possible, but get deductions from their pay of they accept a counterfit $20 (which they will, since Fat Food requires everything to be done as fast as possible - there's no time to check for counterfeits.)
This is also ignoring the changing job market. Some fields are being rendered obsolete (e.g. gas-pump specialists, as solar powered cars become deployed), while others have global competition (e.g. Any science or "Intellectual Property" position.)
The only major news outlet sympathetic to the current administration is Fox News. I don't know where you got that information, but CNN, ABC, and CBS news programs are all biased towards liberals.
While there are issues with the that op-ed (e.g. it apears to single out one person), it is an excellent resources for showing problems with US media companies. They even comment about a shift in media statements from 'suicide bombing' to 'homicide bombing'.
While the video is unavailable because of a lockout, it's considered a good resource that attractd enough attention.
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I noted that you didn't comment about questions about your legal certification.
GPL software can be sold to companies. Unless you are doing something major (e.g. Mozilla, Linux etc.), the only way GPL software may be adopted by a company is if you advertise your software as the correct solution. In the event that you give it out for free, then there's nothing preventing people from saying that you are a shoddy programmer (or as an alternative, taking your work and selling it for a small fee alongside developer support - using WhiteSpace as the preferred editing language.)
You also stated "On Every Licence" - which includes stuff other than regular GPL software. If you wanted to talk about the GPL licence, then say that you are talking about the GPL licence - don't lump it in with other propriatery licenses such as the Microsoft EULA.
Even then, it is still not an absolute protection even if it is free. As an example, put the GPL and source code in your newly released worm and see how your "GPL shield" protects you.
Running Internet Explorer can potentially cause spyware to enter your system through malicious ActiveX coding - there was a way to prevent installation, but just regular typing in another window was known to trigger the install should a word contain a 'y'. This is fixed in Service Pack 2, but that patch wasn't available when it really mattered (i.e. In the Windows 95 - Windows XP SP1 era).
While there was Mozilla, the base install isn't trustable either as it barely had pop-up blocker support at the time. It still tried to install something should you even click within an area saying "Get the plugin". (It took until some Mozilla 1.x or one of its offshoots to be fixed.)
There's also the approach of running in a limited user account. Anyone who can do anything serious (beyond simply using Microsoft Office or equivalent thereof) in that setting may raise their hand. (Including gamers that have trouble with copy-protections that require Admin Access.)
Are you a lawyer? Cause I don't have to be to say that is against basic contract law.
It is held by whatever guarentee is made in sales and advertisements, even if it is one of those difficult features (such as being capable of being CABER compatable, i.e. survive a log hit) for a minimum of 30 days (exceptions being substandard legal systems.) If it does not function, then the product may be returned as defective.
If that clause was enforcable, then every software product would have cinematic quality: Any foobar off the web can remotely cause computer screns to explode (although a pop-up will appear 2 seconds before self-destruct), even if the destination is standalone. In real life, this would be classified as "unacceptable quality" and immediatly mandate government action.
Even if a game like Duke Nukem 3D (containing adult content) required identification, how does one prevent the game from getting into the hands of minors?
Points of note:
- That game has a demo version. In addition, it was released in a pre-ESRB era (but did have RSAC) and pre-broadband where games thrived based on a shareware concept.
- That game in particular is easily distributed: 25MB is a drop in the bucket in modern broadband. It may be a problem getting it through Dial-up, but Getright and other download managers fixed that. (It also allowed 250+MB CDs being downloaded through dial-up - Personal experience says it takes about 1 month, including downtime.)
- How can parents be sure that the children do not require administrator privilages (which effectivly means they can sneak in software) for day-to-day activities? While MS-Office works "well-enough", there are software products that require such privilages (in spite of the fact that it is in violation of the "Designed for Windows XP" logo - a fantastic document that can be used to identify shoddy software products.)
The problem isn't the industry cashing in - it has to do with both the tech level and/or the inability of computers to identify the age of the user. (Nobody here wants a massive DRM that requires individual ID cards required to even run a computer... yet.)
The demo for the Chronicals of Riddick has a prompt that requires entering the birthdate of the user, locking people out who don't qualify. It needs to ask it since it cannot determine the age from the materials at hand without some form of National ID smart card - and it is incapable of detecting users that lie about their age.
And finally, there's Cube - an open source first-person shooter. What prevents children from grabbing that game, and modifing it to look more gruesome? (It is capable of field-deployment where no admin privs are required to install or run - except on a highly locked down system.)
We are. I'm commenting on the fact that it is taking so damn long.
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This could be difficult...
While there are standards such as EAX, it doesn't feel as if it's implementation is standard. In some sound cards, it is not supported on half of the games - while other sound cards supports it in that half, but the other half stops working. In addition, there is distortion with some incorrect implementations (which I believe is caused by improper documentation or tutorials): For example, firing weapons in software causes sounds from both speakers - with hardware (+ EAX or some other option), firing while moving causes it to be only heard from one speaker (based on the direction of movement).
Until things get better (which I hope they do - there's already OpenAL to ensure that sound can be worked cleanly on the software side), I don't see how improving sound will satisify everyone unless you stick with pure software sound processing (which can be expensive for the highly advanced sound effects.)
There's also overreliance on sound that tends to kill games. Putting in sound is great, but if there is no fallback, all your effort is lost when players cannot hear the sound (e.g. Deafness, lack of speakers, etc.)
You forgot four other conclusions:
And that's why there's a lot of immature people around. Because of this, I'm suprised we haven't devolved into anarchy.
A quick glance doesn't seem to show anything special. However:
- The school/university year just started.
- School/uni is still being hyped as essential, more so since there are too many potential Bill Gates to even get your foot in the door. Thus, most people place a bit more focus on study.
- In some fields, you need to max out your skillset by studying, practice, etc... This takes away time from entertainment (even if it is something passive, such as watching CSI.)
- Those unemployed... generally thing job hunt is a 30hr/week task because they aren't told otherwise. (Either that, or other entries to tho workforce do not work.)
- The latest batch of games are being called rehashes.
- The classical batches are becoming harder to play - either because of emotional buildup against repetition, more primitive interface, or some other reason.
- Some people need to work 80-hours a week to keep employment. (Or keep up with school work...)
- All of this, in addition to comments by other posters.
This is no suprise. Perhaps the study should focus on amount of recreation tima available.
How did he attempt to intrude? Did he attempt a buffer overflow attack (generally exploiting an unknown hole), or did he simply place a few "../"s within the URL (asking politely where the information is located.)
Real-life eqivalents: The former is using a 20-pound ledge to break down a locked door, while the latter is simply asking a servant to unlock the door for him.
BTW, the judge found him guilty because he initially lied to police, even though the first paragraph for one of the TFAs said, "the judge hearing the case accepted that he meant to cause no harm". Given that a crime is composed of an act and intent (or lack thereof), what was the initial lie that caused the judge to find him guilty?
Having an opinion about this case is nice - but there's too little information to dismiss him as an amateur h@x0r. Perhaps the standard for prosecuting should be revised to explain why inserting "../" is a hack attempt.
That's why attempting to do a crime is still considered a crime (and carries a lesser sentence.) He didn't break into the system at all - he merely attempted to do so.
I heard that a person was accused of hacking because he used telnet. It just goes to show - just because someone appears to be hacking doesn't mean that he does. And yes, those "hackers" posted proof of the so-called dirty deed to show that they did "hacking".
Mozilla had a feature where it would display an icon whenever a cookie was received. You can remve cookies based on that, keeping websites that require cookies (e.g. Session tracking for logging in.)
Of course, it was completely useless since:
- It raised on any cookie, even "accepted"
- The intermediate state, "flagged" was no different than accepted.
- There was not much control within that cookie manager - you could only remove cookies - no visible option to "accept" them or do other fancy stuff with them (e.g. Modify - no reason not to, since cookies can be changed anyway by playing with cookies.txt).
- There was no "supressed" option - similar to flagged but it doesn't send it to the webpage (and it gets junked).
- You could remove cookies... but blocking sites that set cookies required you to delete only the cookies you want to ban and nothing else (it only takes effect after you close the *PREFERENCES* window.)
The FF beta might make things different - but it's a beta, not a released product.
No, they are executing a denial of service attack on *A* Torrent.
Injecting bad data in a movie (regardless of whether or not it magically passes the hash) does nothing to prevent me from downloading the latest Slackware ISOs.
Try "re-written".
Linux and Windows are completely two different software archetectures - Linux is focused around client-server connections using terminals (some of which are incapable of instantly distinguishing ESC from some other keypress without looking ahead) and has "perfected" that system. On the other hand, Windows is focused on a local user interface and has "perfected" that system - you can do almost anything in Windows just by using the base API.
Consider trying to write a truly portable C program - the advice given on news:comp.lang.c is to stick with the ANSI standard - which doesn't support any GUIs, mouse interfaces, networking, multi-threading or any other stuff that would make a modern operating system. Because of this, both MS, and POSIX either are or have different extensions to the operating system. Of these two, MS attempts to implement everything in their windowing system (including delay systems, timers, GDI, clipboard, and other stuff.), and POSIX extended networking, logon and file-system features.
Both systems are not complete at one time - Windows 3.0 didn't have builtin TCP/IP support, and required installation of a special package that interfaced with a modem, and used IPC to allow other applications to use the internet. On the other hand, POSIX was extended by XWindows and other stuff.
Right now, MS has merged various OS extensions into the main product (e.g. external WinSocks were replaced by an MS implementation.) However, I haven't seen much change in the basic Linux or POSIX API, aside from third party extensions (such as SDL.)
That expression pertains to Ostriches - they stuff their head into the sand to feed, rather than to avoid fear.
Most of this wasted time is caused by some idiot managing to somehow erase everything on the global common drive.
A proper lock-down of the network is legitimate - if an employee managed to do something that shouldn't be done (e.g. run SysEdit and accidently remove critical drivers), you can be sure that the IT department will be distracted by internal problems while some external h@x0r defaces the website using the infamous h@x-0-m@+1c.
Usually, lockdowns occur because something bad happened with the network (or IT department feels like their employees are on the line when unauthorized software appears) - not because of employees slacking off (as it can be done at the watercooler instead.)
A.K.A. Independant contracting.
The programmer has experience on how quickly programs can progress, based on the portion he is working on. The manager does not have that information, unless he bases the rate of production of previous programmers - potentially ignoring the fact that the programmer may be used to an alternate method of code production or may have to learn a new portion of the IT field (e.g. DataAdapters and DataSets in VB, which have a semi-counterintuitive feeling caused by creating a seperate DataSet and DataAdapter for each database query you want to produce.)
There are legitimate reasons for saying that it takes six days instead of eight:
1- It can be completed in six business days, based on previous performance (unlikely, as later projects are more likely complex, or there is a need to learn.)
2- There are additional resources being assigned to the task (speeding it up without rushing it), or there is a partially working system.
3- The manager is willing to accept a 'rushed' product, as there is an immediate need - programs can be repaired later during slack.
4- The manager wants to give a subtle nudge to ensure that it will be completed in eight days.
However, any manager that expects that software engineering is just as infallable when rushed shouldn't be engineering - especially when they are trying to design systems for "nuclear reactors".
It's easier to ignore him. Jack Thompson is not important - as soon as he makes a law that restricts games, he either wasts taxpayers dollars on something that fails to the first admendment, or the law is forcefully extended by the game industry to supress removing all violent media (including a large quantity Agatha Christie novels which generally have someone murdered.)
Jack Thompson may claim to be the crusader in the "war against violence", but we all know how well such wars progress in practice - especially when most bullies are given a carte blanche for child abuse.
The other option (unnecessary) would asscoiate him with the same style of violence and anti-socialism that he tries to quash. The easiest method is to find his infamous one liners - one alleged quote is found at The Inquirer.
You should be careful about what you say... Because you will get exactly
what you wish for.
Actually, that's a flag that they are American, or have been watching too many American TV Shows. (This is a Canadaian newspaper.)
Of course, I doubt such a poll contains anything other than yes/no - given that most phones are technically random telephone calls, it is very likely that the results are skewed to favour one result. For example, there's one section asks if users are willing to download music without paying for it - this is skewed in two ways: The first, people not wanting to admit to piracy would say "no", while others that download free music (where the artist released the work for free) could say "yes".
Which instantly means that PersonB is working on behalf of PersonA. As the other poster just mentioned, corporate shell games are not appreciated by the court systems.
BTW, it's better to cite the law directly rather than use a wikipedia link.
PersonA is now knowingly distributing a defective product - it is missing a component critical to distribution (the source code). This is no different than unbundling the individual floppy disks in a copy of Dos 6.22 - while it may appear to be functional, it is still an incomplete product and therefore defective.
There are not many people that are willing to purchase defective or incomplete products - these are an exception rather than the rule. Whether it is misrepresentation, a copyright violation, or a combination thereof, there's still a problem - even if it isn't illegal, it's an excellent way to get a bad reputation for your company.
That's what I would do - generally, the problems arising from lack of memory is distinctive hard drive thrashing.
In the event of Faster I/O, then there's a 50/50 chance that there's an archetecture upgrade required. (i.e. replace the mainboard to obtain SATA support.)
How good are you at lifting crates?
History is of limited use, but there are a few jobs that require that. It may also be needed to identify past mistakes and plan around their repetition (e.g. having a disaster plan ready for the next Great Depression.) The only thing that is not significantly important for average people would be the random dates (except for culturally important events) - there is not much use in knowing the exact year that Alexander The Great died from illness.
Advanced Math... you'll need to learn at least one portion of it if you want to do something serious (e.g. cost-benefit analysis, Asset allocation), run your own business (e.g. filling out tax forms or making optimal plans to minimize tax expenses), as well as a few other positions. Also, when you learn advanced math, you will get a better sense of numerology so that you can more easily detect potential flaws at a quick glance.
While those topics might not seem important to most people in most cases, they will be needed eventually. Of course, History and Advanced Math can be easily learned through textbooks, as opposed to some softer skills such as Artwork.
That's a standard problem with operating systems - there will always be a mysterious 1% that has the right combination of hardware to produce issues for technical support.
A comparable problem under Windows 98/ME would be a Creative Labs sound card on a Via chipset - while reprts of total lockups were rare, the general cause would be static in the sound, and required tweaking the Sound Accelleration. The two worst cases I had with this issue would be that some applications would freeze because the workaround was active (Bink Video was a culprit), and one aplication would *crash* because I failed to apply the workaround (complete with a bug tracker with a "Send to Erik" button - which didn't work.)
Of course, Windows now has a WHQL testing system that ensures that hardware developers don't make mistakes. Because of this, Windows hardware support will be much more comprehensive and stable than Linux, even if the rest of the operating system has problems.
I'm not sure which school system that you played with, but it won't work here.
During the high-school period, the student is attempting to discover his career path, and is ready to transition into university or college. Breaking the education mid-way does absolutly nothing to help, and merely confuses the career path. It can also backfire in case your child has an undiagnosed or mis-diagnosed developmental disability, such as Spectral Autism Disorder - and may also backfire if the child is forced to rely on Welfare because there is no job available.
This is ignoring the fact High School generaly leaves people unprepared for anything. It's a Buck-Shot (note the acronym) style of learning that teaches students things with limited connection. In general, a student could get by more easily skipping the last two years of High School with a job as Harvey's while learning at home. While College and/or University will be delayed by a year because he won't go directly in from high-school, the money he built up can easily be used as a backing for the college/university - with less money lost to rent. In fact, there can easily be more time spent allowing your child to learn the specialized material needed for his future position.
There are freakish positions that refuse to recognise a College Diploma/University Degree as a valid high-school replacement. Ignore these - there's plenty of other positions that are less asanine about requirements.
That's another problem: Doctors and lawyers have limited enrollment. Engineers get limited pay (and have a ~1-2 year waiting period.) In addition, it is limited benefit to enter those fields blindly, as most people here have done - How many high-school students know off-hand the difference between "Computer Engineering Technology" and "Comptuer Science"? How does that number change when they are told to enroll to advance their career? If there is no development plan, you'll just produce another "Rookie of all, master of none".
This is also ignoring the fact that some students will not be able to tell if they will pass before enrollment. In fact, it's still imposible to tell from the first semester - I started College with a near 'A' record, but did not maintain such an exceptional performance (missing the "honours" by 0.03 points). There are some students where the drop of performance is much more serious, with a mix of 'D' and 'F' on the transcript.
That's a misconception. Just because it seems that students are having it easy doesn't mean it is. For example, those students working at Harvey's in a weekend job are pressured to do tuff as quickly as possible, but get deductions from their pay of they accept a counterfit $20 (which they will, since Fat Food requires everything to be done as fast as possible - there's no time to check for counterfeits.)
This is also ignoring the changing job market. Some fields are being rendered obsolete (e.g. gas-pump specialists, as solar powered cars become deployed), while others have global competition (e.g. Any science or "Intellectual Property" position.)
The only case where CNN, ABC, CBS, and a bunch of other TLAs could be considered liberal is if you incorrectly consider Fox to be "Mainstream":
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Sticks+and+St
While there are issues with the that op-ed (e.g. it apears to single out one person), it is an excellent resources for showing problems with US media companies. They even comment about a shift in media statements from 'suicide bombing' to 'homicide bombing'.
While the video is unavailable because of a lockout, it's considered a good resource that attractd enough attention.