Because it's impossible for someone to unplug a cable to plug in his etherkiller? Google shows that locking ethernet cables exist, but I've never in my life seen them used, and I've been working in IT for decades.
So put together some cockpit graphics and make the player models look like mechs instead of people. I'll admit that we'll probably never be playing quake/unreal style FPS games in VR*, but that doesn't mean that we can't have VR FPS-style games. They'll just have to be a little different from the shooters we currently play.
*Yes, there are omnidirectional treadmills, which will be great for getting gamers to exercise, but no one's going to be doing an all-day gaming session if they have to physically run the whole time.
No. Congressional districts have been gerrymandered to hell and back, and there's little chance of that changing any time soon. Allocating electoral votes by district gives a huge advantage to whichever party managed to control the redistricting process after the last census.
That's completely untrue. They don't market them to children, and have prominent warnings all over the packaging saying to keep them away from children and that swallowing them can cause death. I counted no less than 5 copies of that warning in the last package of them I opened. One of the warnings was on a sticker holding the package closed - you can't even open them without seeing a large warning that they can kill you. There's also a warning on the little plastic box they give you to store them in.
The lawsuit is not about informing consumers because I honestly can't think of any more the company can do to warn people Cigarettes have fewer warning labels than buckyballs. The lawsuit is trying to prevent any sale of the product at all, which is stupid.
Wrong. Recidivism rates are much higher for people who are driven by a desire for money than they are for sexual offenders. Evidence from http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/ascii/rpr94.txt "Released prisoners with the highest rearrest rates were --
robbers (70.2%) burglars (74.0%) larcenists (74.6%) motor vehicle thieves (78.8%) possessors/sellers of stolen property (77.4%) possessors/sellers of illegal weapons (70.2%).
What these high-rate offenders have in common is that they were all in prison for what are generally thought of as crimes for money. By contrast, many of those with the lowest rearrest rates -- persons convicted of homicide (40.7%), rapists (46.0%), other sexual assaulters (41.4%), other violent offenders (51.7%), and those convicted of driving under the influence (51.5%) -- were in prison for crimes not generally motivated by desire for material gain."
Sexual offenders and pedophiles are a problem, but attempting to solve it with bad data won't work.
Now change that benchmark so that instead of requiring you to click after a random wait time, it counts down so that you're able to anticipate when to click. Rhythm games show you which buttons to push a predictable amount of time before you need to hit them, and in that case, 50 ms lag is very noticeable. I assume fighting games have similar issues.
I guess a new cover system might be nice, but I'd much rather they spent time designing side-quests that didn't all take place on identical ships/outposts etc.
Who the hell modded this up? Copyrights cannotx lapse if they aren't defended. Trademarks can, but the Windows source code is copyrighted, not trademarked. Microsoft doesn't have to bother anyone about this if they don't want to.
Reeeeeeealy now... Take something large, like a T-1. It's 1.5 Mbps, so a 22 GB DVD would take about 2 minutes to download - if you get full upload/download speeds, and dedicated T1 both at your side and at the other side. You think that's going to become common? Current price is around $1000/month.No. More like 36 hours to download 22GB on a T-1.
Pretty amusing when you consider that not a single line of this code originated with SCO/Caldera/AT&T or Novell and in fact the SCO group have never owned any of this code and agreements and amendments to the original SYS 5r4 license signed between IBM and AT&T grant IBM full control over any code they create for use with AIX, and that Sequent developed the technology seperate from Unix but implemented it on Unix which disallows claims from SCaldera that the code is a derivative of their work.
No, it's extraordinarily stupid. If it didn't crash the machine, most people who got it wouldn't even know they had a problem, and the worm would go on it's merry way for days or weeks, happily infecting other machines. As it is, even the dumbest of users knows that something is wrong, and in searching for a fix, is likely to remove the worm while removing the vulnerability.
Why? The average price for a dvd is $20, so buying all 3 separately would cost $60, $10 more than buying the bundle. And even if you were planning to skip "Temple of Doom", you would only be saving $10.
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And as for switching bodies, the classic story Bodyguard from Galaxy magazine comes to mind, as well as every book Jack Chalker's ever written.
No. It goes like this: 1. Criminal opens checking account with minimum balance and high-numbered checks (to avoid places that won't accept low-numbered checks). 2. Criminal uses new checkbook to go on a spending spree. 3. Checks all bounce. 4. Bank comes after you. Your credit is screwed.
tip to Baen librarians - a back cover synopsis helps to sell a book... think about adding some.)
It's there. Everything you can read in the paperback copy is there. All the copyright and publishing info, lists of other books written by the author, laudatory quotes from the press, and the back cover synopsis are all there. If you doubt, here's the link to the synopsis for Mutineer's Moon.
Yes, except that it wasn't studio execs who made that dumb decision - the book was published in America as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". The movie people were just following the example set by the publishing industry.
And then the server administrator has a list of other people's cd keys. If this list gets out, those people can't ever play their legitimate games on battle.net, because someone else will always be logged on with a warezed copy of the game, and their cd-key. It's happened before when people have been stupid enough to let other people get their cd-key. This idea would just make things worse.
No. Because the way the cd-key works is, there's a large number of cd-keys that will allow install (these are the ones that serial generators produce) but a small number that will work on battle.net. If Blizzard gave bnetd code to check the keys, people would hack that, and the new serial generators would produce keys that would work on battle.net, thus destroying what little copy-protection blizzard games currently have.
Wow! That would be really funny and insightful if it was even close to reality. Unfortunately, it's not.
As the original post pointed out, it's hard for linux users to read microsoft word files. You tried to insinuate that it was just as hard for windows users to read unix text files. But it's only hard if the windows user is an idiot. Notepad borks on unix linefeeds, but it's about the only program that does. And the text is still readable, just poorly formatted. Wordpad and Word both read unix text files just fine, as do most email readers and web browsers for windows.
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For the approximatly three CD-R/W drives on the planet that didn't come with CD burning software.
How about for all the CD-R/W drives that came with Easy CD Creator, which doesn't work with XP? When you try to run it, XP helpfully tells you it won't work, then directs you to a page with upgrades. There you can get the new version, which supports XP, for only $99.95. Sorry, no free upgrades just because their software stopped working.
According to the producer of the dvd, there was a conscious decision to use the film master for the transfer, instead of the digital master. More information can be found in an interview with him here
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Because it's impossible for someone to unplug a cable to plug in his etherkiller? Google shows that locking ethernet cables exist, but I've never in my life seen them used, and I've been working in IT for decades.
So put together some cockpit graphics and make the player models look like mechs instead of people. I'll admit that we'll probably never be playing quake/unreal style FPS games in VR*, but that doesn't mean that we can't have VR FPS-style games. They'll just have to be a little different from the shooters we currently play.
*Yes, there are omnidirectional treadmills, which will be great for getting gamers to exercise, but no one's going to be doing an all-day gaming session if they have to physically run the whole time.
No. Congressional districts have been gerrymandered to hell and back, and there's little chance of that changing any time soon. Allocating electoral votes by district gives a huge advantage to whichever party managed to control the redistricting process after the last census.
That's completely untrue. They don't market them to children, and have prominent warnings all over the packaging saying to keep them away from children and that swallowing them can cause death. I counted no less than 5 copies of that warning in the last package of them I opened. One of the warnings was on a sticker holding the package closed - you can't even open them without seeing a large warning that they can kill you. There's also a warning on the little plastic box they give you to store them in.
The lawsuit is not about informing consumers because I honestly can't think of any more the company can do to warn people Cigarettes have fewer warning labels than buckyballs. The lawsuit is trying to prevent any sale of the product at all, which is stupid.
Wrong. Recidivism rates are much higher for people who are driven by a desire for money than they are for sexual offenders. Evidence from http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/ascii/rpr94.txt
"Released prisoners with the highest rearrest rates were --
robbers (70.2%)
burglars (74.0%)
larcenists (74.6%)
motor vehicle thieves (78.8%)
possessors/sellers of
stolen property (77.4%)
possessors/sellers of
illegal weapons (70.2%).
What these high-rate offenders have in common is that they were all in prison for what are generally thought of as crimes for money. By contrast, many of those with the lowest rearrest rates -- persons convicted of homicide (40.7%), rapists (46.0%), other sexual assaulters (41.4%), other violent offenders (51.7%), and those convicted of driving under the influence (51.5%) -- were in prison for crimes not generally motivated by desire for material gain."
Sexual offenders and pedophiles are a problem, but attempting to solve it with bad data won't work.
Now change that benchmark so that instead of requiring you to click after a random wait time, it counts down so that you're able to anticipate when to click. Rhythm games show you which buttons to push a predictable amount of time before you need to hit them, and in that case, 50 ms lag is very noticeable. I assume fighting games have similar issues.
Yes, you're right. I too miss reading about hot grits in every story. Bring back the old slashdot!
I guess a new cover system might be nice, but I'd much rather they spent time designing side-quests that didn't all take place on identical ships/outposts etc.
Who the hell modded this up? Copyrights cannotx lapse if they aren't defended. Trademarks can, but the Windows source code is copyrighted, not trademarked. Microsoft doesn't have to bother anyone about this if they don't want to.
Reeeeeeealy now... Take something large, like a T-1. It's 1.5 Mbps, so a 22 GB DVD would take about 2 minutes to download - if you get full upload/download speeds, and dedicated T1 both at your side and at the other side. You think that's going to become common? Current price is around $1000/month.No. More like 36 hours to download 22GB on a T-1.
That sentence should be taken out back and shot.
No, it's extraordinarily stupid. If it didn't crash the machine, most people who got it wouldn't even know they had a problem, and the worm would go on it's merry way for days or weeks, happily infecting other machines. As it is, even the dumbest of users knows that something is wrong, and in searching for a fix, is likely to remove the worm while removing the vulnerability.
Why? The average price for a dvd is $20, so buying all 3 separately would cost $60, $10 more than buying the bundle. And even if you were planning to skip "Temple of Doom", you would only be saving $10.
Fixed that for you.
Technically, Inversions is set in the Culture universe, though even a hard-core Culture fan might miss the oblique references it makes.
No. It goes like this:
1. Criminal opens checking account with minimum balance and high-numbered checks (to avoid places that won't accept low-numbered checks).
2. Criminal uses new checkbook to go on a spending spree.
3. Checks all bounce.
4. Bank comes after you. Your credit is screwed.
It's there. Everything you can read in the paperback copy is there. All the copyright and publishing info, lists of other books written by the author, laudatory quotes from the press, and the back cover synopsis are all there. If you doubt, here's the link to the synopsis for Mutineer's Moon.
Yes, except that it wasn't studio execs who made that dumb decision - the book was published in America as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". The movie people were just following the example set by the publishing industry.
And then the server administrator has a list of other people's cd keys. If this list gets out, those people can't ever play their legitimate games on battle.net, because someone else will always be logged on with a warezed copy of the game, and their cd-key. It's happened before when people have been stupid enough to let other people get their cd-key. This idea would just make things worse.
No. Because the way the cd-key works is, there's a large number of cd-keys that will allow install (these are the ones that serial generators produce) but a small number that will work on battle.net. If Blizzard gave bnetd code to check the keys, people would hack that, and the new serial generators would produce keys that would work on battle.net, thus destroying what little copy-protection blizzard games currently have.
bnetd is the one that was patched to allow you to play the warcraft III beta on it. The others weren't.
Wow! That would be really funny and insightful if it was even close to reality. Unfortunately, it's not. As the original post pointed out, it's hard for linux users to read microsoft word files. You tried to insinuate that it was just as hard for windows users to read unix text files. But it's only hard if the windows user is an idiot. Notepad borks on unix linefeeds, but it's about the only program that does. And the text is still readable, just poorly formatted. Wordpad and Word both read unix text files just fine, as do most email readers and web browsers for windows. G0del
How about for all the CD-R/W drives that came with Easy CD Creator, which doesn't work with XP? When you try to run it, XP helpfully tells you it won't work, then directs you to a page with upgrades. There you can get the new version, which supports XP, for only $99.95. Sorry, no free upgrades just because their software stopped working.
G0del
According to the producer of the dvd, there was a conscious decision to use the film master for the transfer, instead of the digital master. More information can be found in an interview with him here G0del
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P.S. I know, I know, (-1, offtopic).