I meant to reply to the point of "cheating only happens in high school". That's just not true. As for papers vs tests, I only wrote about a dozen essays when I was getting my degree. (Tip: Pictures will bulk up your essay and make it look like it deserves more marks.)
The turnitin system is beautiful - from their perspective. They get paid for collecting their data, then get paid for using the same data.
Wait a minute...distributing copyright works of others over the internet without permission. I think I've heard this before somewhere. I thought the consensus on/. was that that was perfectly acceptable, and attempts to make it more difficult are to be flamed mercilessly until the poster abandons their username.
Anyway, when you profit from the works of others, then you should be paying them. The fact is they are getting paid by using the works of unpaid students. It's not a fair practice. We agree on this point.
The professors are simply using the same medium used for cheating to make their jobs easier. Yes, the tool is faulty. It's not like all software that's ever been written is perfectly flawless. It's just the only tool that's available.
What else would you suggest? Have the profs search for those essays online? Why not automate a tedious task?
One guy at my alma mater was in his last term of Engineering, plagiarized a report, and got expelled.
I went to college (and then University) with different guy who wrote notes on his hands and read them during tests.
When I was in my 2nd year, I worked in groups to solve homework problems. There was too much to do to get it done individually. Technically, this was against the rules. I also used the old exams extensively. (Which is better than cheating, IMO. I'd rather have the old exams than the answer key.)
So cheating, as defined and strictly enforced, does happen.
But it's not like cheating has consequences in real life anyway. My project manager's been stealing my work for a year and getting credit for it.
The answer isn't expensive smart cards with new infrastructure. As you've stated, the smart card chips aren't used in the majority of places.
Fortunately, we don't have to so that. It's way simpler.
1. Require all credit cards to add a photograph to the back as well as a signature panel. Overlay parts of the photo with holograms to make sure it's tough to copy. (It's not like the "lost card" field does fuck all when you've lost the card.)
2. Put identity photographs in everyone's credit history. If you're getting a mortgage or credit card or something else where you have to go in person, then it's pretty obvious if you're faking it.
3. Have the credit agency computers call a number listed in the credit history every time the history is accessed. ("This is Equifax. Beardo has applied for a $500k mortgage. If you are not aware of this transaction, call 1-800-HEY-WAIT.")
That's it.
The reason we won't see this - ever - is because it will cost the banks money to implement. When they can instead blame the victims for their DARING to have their stuff stolen, why bother to invest in making a secure environment? After all, it's perfectly secure from the bank's point of view.
I'm a vegetarian. I didn't put that in the original post because I figured it would cost me some karma. Like you, it's for health reasons, not ethical ones. I'm wearing leather shoes right now.
I've been meat-free since 2000. I'm ovo-lacto, and that's on rare occasions. (Once/twice a week.) No gelatin, glycerin, or other animal by-products. (I do keep my vaccines up-to-date.)
10 years ago, I weighed 250 pounds. I weigh 175 now. Most of that is from biking to work, but cutting out the Donair & Poutine lunches helped a lot too.
They feed chickens to cows, cows to chickens, fish to both, and GM corn with antibiotics to the chickens in the first place. The food chain looks like a fractal, not a line with humans at the top.
This won't fuck up the food chain any more than we already have.
And if I was dying (at a faster rate than the default) then I'd try out any new thing that could give me hope or maybe help out some other folks after me. So what if I have a sheep's liver, a robotic heart, and an embedded neural stabilizer?
1. Will Smith vs. killer robots. Explosions and stuff! Ooh, and product placement. He can do a rap number - perfect! Ha ha, look at the funny rapping black man.
vs.
2. People thinking out their problems and using their brains. Oh, and the lead character is a woman... and she's the world's smartest person and leading expert on robotics...
But it wasn't just "I, Robot."
Look at The Postman or Starship Troopers. (These three are the best (worst?) examples of butchery I can think of right now.) I haven't seen I, Robot. (I've heard that it would remind me of Vanilla Sky - GIVE ME MY TIME BACK!)
You might be thinking, "Wait, what? The Postman was scifi?" Yeah, it was. It was a pretty good book.
You don't need that shit. All it does is make you look like a disaffected Gen X-er who can't think outside your comfort zone of lattes, email, and Birkenstocks. Leave it at home and enjoy the culture of the places you're going. Questions like this are exactly why people hate Americans. You just don't get it.
Get this - there are places on Earth (our planet) right now that do not have electricity. Never mind wifi or Internet or broadband - NO POWER. There are people who consider light bulbs a miracle - fucking light bulbs, man. There are places without running WATER or available FOOD. Get a grip and see how life is lived by the majority of the world.
You want restaurant reviews? Ask people about good places to eat or just stop in to a place that looks interesting. Order the daily special without asking what it is.
You want to keep in touch with your friends? Send postcards. Use the phone. Send a motherfucking telegram.
For pictures, get disposable cameras. Otherwise, you're just going to end up giving the camera away to some stranger. They're cheap, they're good, and nobody will steal them.
A "cheap, throwaway" laptop is cutting edge in some places. "386? Wow, we're still using TRS-80s."
Unless you're just backpacking to meet foreign girls (or guys, I don't judge or care.) and hope to look sophisticated enough to write poetry on your laptop in the same cafe that Einstein went to when he was an undergrad, yet humble enough to take a leave of absence to discover the meaning of life. In that case, save some money and try somewhere closer. Since you seem attached (rather unhealthily) to your laptop, try Internet dating.
The only modern tech you should bring with you is full immunity to nasty diseases. Get your Hep shots and your DPT boosters.
That said, if you're going to places with lower tech, get a bunch of those cheap dollar store squeeze LED keychains. (They are a wondrous item to some people out there.)
Ten years ago, I weighed 250 pounds. Today, I'm at about 175. (I don't keep accurate track anymore, but I do check every now and again.)
I started by biking to school. On the first day, I had to stop about a dozen times. I didn't realize just how out of shape I had become. I stuck with it (the 4th day is the worst, since that's when you're the sorest.) and kept biking to school. I biked all the way through university, and I've been biking to work since graduating. (Electrical Engineering) I'm 30 years old and I'm in great shape. I don't take any drugs (including caffeine and alcohol).
If you can't do that, bike part of the way. Bus to work and bike home. Walk during your lunch break. (I only get 30 minutes, and I try to spend 15 of that outside.)
If you're concerned about being smelly, bike slower. Alternatively, bike to a nearby gym and shower/change there.
Biking is faster than driving or busing: 8.2 km between work and home: Bike: 45 minutes round trip. (22 to work, 23 home) Bus: 30 minutes to work, 1 hour home. Car: 20 minutes to work, 45 minutes home.
At the annual "Bike to Work" week, the bikes routinely beat the cars in the "Commuter Challenge". You simply don't save time by taking your car.
I save about $2000 a year by biking. I don't pay for car insurance or gas on a non-existent second car. Mind you, I did have to spend the money on a bike, bike clothes, armour, lights, etc. I did that after biking for a few years.
I've got two kids. Buy the right kind of seat and you won't have "problems".
I wear a dress shirt and nice pants at work.
So get out of your car, get onto a bike, and get some exercise. Your brain will thank you for it.
Your average chip (like the 16F88) has a 100,000 write cycle for its internal Flash. The SPI Flash chip M25P*0 has the same - 1,000,000 write lifetime. (By memory - I could be off by 10x on the `88)
Now, since this has come up before, that doesn't mean that your drive will work perfectly until it hits 1,000,000 writes and then mysteriously stop working with a blinking red LED on the top. What that means is that statistically speaking, there's a good chance that most of your chip will still be writeable up to a million times. Some bits will fail sooner, some will fail later.
If you're storing a lot of photos, it may not matter if a pixel in the middle is black instead of green. If an MP3 has a 1-bit blip, you won't notice. If you're storing a lot of financial data, it certainly will matter if the MSB in the millions byte is a 1 or a 0 or the tracking software on your GPS-enabled VHF transmitter tells you that your stolen truck is at 45' instead of at 55'.
So you can "use" the drive even when the Flash is fried. Depending on the data, that may not be a problem.
Yeah, we had a Charlie Foxtrot on a Windows 2003 server here. It was the DST patch.
When I saw that CRA had a "glitch" on the same weekend as the IT guys here applied the DST patch, I thought, "Well now, that's either an amazing coincidence or I'll be reading about it on/."
It is unlikely that CRA will say the problem was the patch, even if it was.
The question is, "Will we save more energy switching the DST than we consume by switching the DST?"
Yeah, that's probably it. The pilots were told to just go along with the hijackers to prevent the loss of life. "It's not your money. We'll even pay you extra for the long flight, plus overtime and stress pay."
Makes perfect sense. I wonder why I didn't think of that.
Now, I understand how that would have failed on 9/11. The passengers thought they'd get a trip to Cuba, emerge unharmed, and sue the airline. Hey, I might have done the same thing, knowing only what I knew at the time. "Fuck it," I would have thought, "not my plane." It's like when you witness a store robbery: It ain't your money. Not worth a stabbin'.
The thing I never understood is this:
If someone breaks into the cockpit, the pilot can push down on the stick, then pull up on the stick. Those not in chairs are unconscious, having been hit by the ceiling and floor of the plane. I've heard it said that "no human can withstand the damage and remain conscious."
What's wrong with that system? And why did it fail six years ago?
I only used the "Honourable" title because of formalities. MPs are Honourable in title, not in action. I felt that using quotes would take away from the post.
They're all a bunch of whores. (Men included there.) Isn't that a pornocracy?
Not quite. Really close, but not quite. Dave's the Minister for International Trade. You'll want your local MP or the Heritage Ministry. Your local MP may not care that much about you. I'd write to them, sure, but CC them the letter that you're sending to the Heritage Critics.
In Canada, we actually have a group whose job it is to criticize the actions of the ruling party. We call them "Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition". It is their job and duty to ensure that the ruling party doesn't get too far out of hand.
The Heritage Minister (for Copyright stuff, including CCRA fees) is The Honourable Beverley J. Oda. You know how we've got a minority government and a multi-party system? Well, poor ol' Bev has no less than THREE people watching and critiquing her every move.
Charlie Angus, NDP Heritage Critic Ms Christina Keeper, Liberal Heritage Critic M. Maka Kotto, Bloc Heritage Critic
You may want to let those critics know that: 1. You're concerned about the recent lobbying around Bev, 2. You feel that the critics should be ever watchful about how American interests are attempting to take over Canada's sovereign rights and heritage. 3. Having American companies dictate when Canadians can use their equipment or listen to Canadian music is unconscionable.
M. Kotto will likely set Bev on fire. Just make sure you write in French.
Based on the links provided and the responses gleaned, ignore the comment about ShieldsUP! You should still check your firewall to make sure you haven't forgotten something.
The same companies that lie about the capacity on EVERY SINGLE DRIVE they make? You don't think that they're a bunch of lying fucking weasels? (We're both using sarcasm here.)
I don't care how you spin it. 1024 is the multiple. NOT 1000!
Failure doesn't get fixed because making a drive more reliable means it costs more. If it costs more, it's not going to get purchased.
We're a greedy lot here at Pocket Gamer. Even though the DS is already blessed with a large and varied library of great titles, we can't help but wish our lunchbreaks away over the games that should be, and the games that probably will never be.
To vent our desires, we've assembled a canon of forgotten gaming heroes and oddball fancies that make a good fit for Nintendo's dual-screened play thing. Would it help if we said "Please!"? 10 games we'd love to play on DS We want: A LucasArts adventure game collection
Before consoles and PCs got all hung up on 3D and LucasArts got all hung up on churning out legions of below average playable adverts for the Star Wars cash cow, LucasFilm Games (as it was known back then) carved out a reputation for quality point-and-click adventure games driven by its S.C.U.M.M. engine (that's Script Creation Utility, fact fans). This scripting tool yielded a plethora of adventure romps that would fit the DS's stylus like a glove. We would love to see an adventure game bumper cart celebrating the genre including Maniac Mansion, LOOM, Sam and Max Hit The Road, Full Throttle and, of course, The Secret of Monkey Island. Yes, you can get them on homebrew, but they really need to be tweaked for the smaller screen.
We demand: Okami DS
If there is one thing that the DS handles deftly, it's cell shading. Whilst the PS2 version of Okami's beautiful pastel depth may be out of the DS's reach, the scope its stylus would provide for manipulating the washed out dreamscape of Okami is obvious. A DS version with less emphasis on action and more of a focus on Okami's innovative celestial brush and puzzle sections would tick all of the right boxes for the casual RPG fan.
Give us: Pilot Wings DS
The game that helped to launch the N64 (and less famously the SNES) screams First-party Nintendo Smash from every pixel. And so where better to grant Pilot Wings a third flight than on what is arguably Nintendo's most Nintendo-ish console to date? Simulating wind to billow a paraglider's parafoil by blowing into the mic would be a great addition, as would the option to plot custom courses through the stages with the stylus (exchangeable via wi-fi, naturally).
Still want: Sketch Fighter DS
We've already made some noise about how much we would like Ambrosia's casual gaming gem to grace the DS, but this list would not be complete without a repeat shout in the hope that the right people might be listening. With its simple blasting action, its signature visual style and the option to draw your own multiplayer battle zones, one could be forgiven for thinking that this game was designed specifically for the DS. Ambrosia, if you are out there...
How about: A board game compendium for big kids?
The DS already has a fantastic card and board game collection in 42 All-Time Classics. But on the last day of school term, it was always the kids who brought in Operation and Mouse Trap that drew the most attention, whilst the boffins that tried to encourage a round of chess and checkers were left to sit in the corner discussing The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. We want a big kid's version of 42 All-Time Classics featuring the likes of Operation, Jenga (wi-fi possibilities), Mouse Trap, Kerplunk and any other game where the board is the least important part of the apparatus.
Please: Mario Paint DS
Mario Paint was a surprise hit for the SNES during Nintendo's 'Let's brand all of our first-party titles with Mario' phase, and paved the way for the ultra rare 64DD series entitled simply Mario Artist. These games enabled you to create images and 3D models, and even offered the option to share artwork via an online communication kit. We've got a stylus and wi-fi now - come on Nintendo, need we say more? You know it makes sense!
Be crazy not to do: Marble Madness DS
This long lost arcade classic was also the first game to appear on the Atari System 1, and set the machine apart from its contemporaries as the apex predator console of its day. Ori
Quit downloading everything in your email. If you don't recognize the name, delete it.
Don't click "Yes" to every security certificate. You should accept Microsoft's, and that's it.
You don't require new cursors or smiley programs for your emails. The new "Hyper-Exelent Surf 3000 Toolbar by Lucky 88 Company" is not going to make your life easier. Likewise, if you want to know the weather, look outside or in your local paper.
PC Cleaning programs from pop-up ads don't work. Actually, anything advertised on the Internet should be considered fraudulent. (Yes, even "those" pills. They're just bull semen and corn starch.)
Get your programs from sourceforge, not from the first link on Google. Make sure that Spybot and Mike's adblocking are installed on your machine.
The people who write viruses have anti-virus programs to test their work on.
For the sake of whatever god you believe in, get a hardware firewall!
Run ShieldsUP! from grc.com to make sure that you're invisible.
Applying the patch to a game or program you own is legal. After all, they've been telling us for years that we don't own the media - we own one (1) licence to run the software.
One of my professors at school had a legitimate, licenced copy of MATLAB. The damn thing wouldn't work on his MacBook 1/2 the time. The pirated version he downloaded worked great, every time. It loaded faster, too.
I think the same sort of thing happened in GTA3 for the PC. If you applied the no CD crack, then your performance went WAY up. In that case, Rockstar applied some parts of the patch to the next official release.
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Sorry, that's not what I meant.
/. was that that was perfectly acceptable, and attempts to make it more difficult are to be flamed mercilessly until the poster abandons their username.
I meant to reply to the point of "cheating only happens in high school". That's just not true. As for papers vs tests, I only wrote about a dozen essays when I was getting my degree. (Tip: Pictures will bulk up your essay and make it look like it deserves more marks.)
The turnitin system is beautiful - from their perspective. They get paid for collecting their data, then get paid for using the same data.
Wait a minute...distributing copyright works of others over the internet without permission. I think I've heard this before somewhere. I thought the consensus on
Anyway, when you profit from the works of others, then you should be paying them. The fact is they are getting paid by using the works of unpaid students. It's not a fair practice. We agree on this point.
The professors are simply using the same medium used for cheating to make their jobs easier. Yes, the tool is faulty. It's not like all software that's ever been written is perfectly flawless. It's just the only tool that's available.
What else would you suggest? Have the profs search for those essays online? Why not automate a tedious task?
No, this happens all the time.
(Remember, the plural of anecdote is NOT data.)
One guy at my alma mater was in his last term of Engineering, plagiarized a report, and got expelled.
I went to college (and then University) with different guy who wrote notes on his hands and read them during tests.
When I was in my 2nd year, I worked in groups to solve homework problems. There was too much to do to get it done individually. Technically, this was against the rules. I also used the old exams extensively. (Which is better than cheating, IMO. I'd rather have the old exams than the answer key.)
So cheating, as defined and strictly enforced, does happen.
But it's not like cheating has consequences in real life anyway. My project manager's been stealing my work for a year and getting credit for it.
The answer isn't expensive smart cards with new infrastructure. As you've stated, the smart card chips aren't used in the majority of places.
Fortunately, we don't have to so that. It's way simpler.
1. Require all credit cards to add a photograph to the back as well as a signature panel. Overlay parts of the photo with holograms to make sure it's tough to copy. (It's not like the "lost card" field does fuck all when you've lost the card.)
2. Put identity photographs in everyone's credit history. If you're getting a mortgage or credit card or something else where you have to go in person, then it's pretty obvious if you're faking it.
3. Have the credit agency computers call a number listed in the credit history every time the history is accessed. ("This is Equifax. Beardo has applied for a $500k mortgage. If you are not aware of this transaction, call 1-800-HEY-WAIT.")
That's it.
The reason we won't see this - ever - is because it will cost the banks money to implement. When they can instead blame the victims for their DARING to have their stuff stolen, why bother to invest in making a secure environment? After all, it's perfectly secure from the bank's point of view.
Just don't end up with the brains of a chicken!
;)
So sayeth the Anonymous Coward...
*bock bock bock*
I'm a vegetarian. I didn't put that in the original post because I figured it would cost me some karma. Like you, it's for health reasons, not ethical ones. I'm wearing leather shoes right now.
I've been meat-free since 2000. I'm ovo-lacto, and that's on rare occasions. (Once/twice a week.) No gelatin, glycerin, or other animal by-products. (I do keep my vaccines up-to-date.)
10 years ago, I weighed 250 pounds. I weigh 175 now. Most of that is from biking to work, but cutting out the Donair & Poutine lunches helped a lot too.
Upset the food chain?
They feed chickens to cows, cows to chickens, fish to both, and GM corn with antibiotics to the chickens in the first place. The food chain looks like a fractal, not a line with humans at the top.
This won't fuck up the food chain any more than we already have.
And if I was dying (at a faster rate than the default) then I'd try out any new thing that could give me hope or maybe help out some other folks after me. So what if I have a sheep's liver, a robotic heart, and an embedded neural stabilizer?
I, Robot was butchered because:
1. Will Smith vs. killer robots. Explosions and stuff! Ooh, and product placement. He can do a rap number - perfect! Ha ha, look at the funny rapping black man.
vs.
2. People thinking out their problems and using their brains. Oh, and the lead character is a woman... and she's the world's smartest person and leading expert on robotics...
But it wasn't just "I, Robot."
Look at The Postman or Starship Troopers. (These three are the best (worst?) examples of butchery I can think of right now.) I haven't seen I, Robot. (I've heard that it would remind me of Vanilla Sky - GIVE ME MY TIME BACK!)
You might be thinking, "Wait, what? The Postman was scifi?" Yeah, it was. It was a pretty good book.
Don't get me started on ST.
Gah.
Don't take anything on your trip.
You don't need that shit. All it does is make you look like a disaffected Gen X-er who can't think outside your comfort zone of lattes, email, and Birkenstocks. Leave it at home and enjoy the culture of the places you're going. Questions like this are exactly why people hate Americans. You just don't get it.
Get this - there are places on Earth (our planet) right now that do not have electricity. Never mind wifi or Internet or broadband - NO POWER. There are people who consider light bulbs a miracle - fucking light bulbs, man. There are places without running WATER or available FOOD. Get a grip and see how life is lived by the majority of the world.
You want restaurant reviews? Ask people about good places to eat or just stop in to a place that looks interesting. Order the daily special without asking what it is.
You want to keep in touch with your friends? Send postcards. Use the phone. Send a motherfucking telegram.
For pictures, get disposable cameras. Otherwise, you're just going to end up giving the camera away to some stranger. They're cheap, they're good, and nobody will steal them.
A "cheap, throwaway" laptop is cutting edge in some places. "386? Wow, we're still using TRS-80s."
Unless you're just backpacking to meet foreign girls (or guys, I don't judge or care.) and hope to look sophisticated enough to write poetry on your laptop in the same cafe that Einstein went to when he was an undergrad, yet humble enough to take a leave of absence to discover the meaning of life. In that case, save some money and try somewhere closer. Since you seem attached (rather unhealthily) to your laptop, try Internet dating.
The only modern tech you should bring with you is full immunity to nasty diseases. Get your Hep shots and your DPT boosters.
That said, if you're going to places with lower tech, get a bunch of those cheap dollar store squeeze LED keychains. (They are a wondrous item to some people out there.)
It's this simple: Bike to work.
Ten years ago, I weighed 250 pounds. Today, I'm at about 175. (I don't keep accurate track anymore, but I do check every now and again.)
I started by biking to school. On the first day, I had to stop about a dozen times. I didn't realize just how out of shape I had become. I stuck with it (the 4th day is the worst, since that's when you're the sorest.) and kept biking to school. I biked all the way through university, and I've been biking to work since graduating. (Electrical Engineering) I'm 30 years old and I'm in great shape. I don't take any drugs (including caffeine and alcohol).
If you can't do that, bike part of the way. Bus to work and bike home. Walk during your lunch break. (I only get 30 minutes, and I try to spend 15 of that outside.)
If you're concerned about being smelly, bike slower. Alternatively, bike to a nearby gym and shower/change there.
Biking is faster than driving or busing:
8.2 km between work and home:
Bike: 45 minutes round trip. (22 to work, 23 home)
Bus: 30 minutes to work, 1 hour home.
Car: 20 minutes to work, 45 minutes home.
At the annual "Bike to Work" week, the bikes routinely beat the cars in the "Commuter Challenge". You simply don't save time by taking your car.
I save about $2000 a year by biking. I don't pay for car insurance or gas on a non-existent second car. Mind you, I did have to spend the money on a bike, bike clothes, armour, lights, etc. I did that after biking for a few years.
I've got two kids. Buy the right kind of seat and you won't have "problems".
I wear a dress shirt and nice pants at work.
So get out of your car, get onto a bike, and get some exercise. Your brain will thank you for it.
There's a spike in accidents just after the spring shift from people getting less sleep.
Incorrect.
Any embedded engineer who isn't using just UTC is off his or her rocker. That's a time zone that's not going to change in our lifetimes.
It depends on the chip.
Your average chip (like the 16F88) has a 100,000 write cycle for its internal Flash. The SPI Flash chip M25P*0 has the same - 1,000,000 write lifetime. (By memory - I could be off by 10x on the `88)
Now, since this has come up before, that doesn't mean that your drive will work perfectly until it hits 1,000,000 writes and then mysteriously stop working with a blinking red LED on the top. What that means is that statistically speaking, there's a good chance that most of your chip will still be writeable up to a million times. Some bits will fail sooner, some will fail later.
If you're storing a lot of photos, it may not matter if a pixel in the middle is black instead of green. If an MP3 has a 1-bit blip, you won't notice. If you're storing a lot of financial data, it certainly will matter if the MSB in the millions byte is a 1 or a 0 or the tracking software on your GPS-enabled VHF transmitter tells you that your stolen truck is at 45' instead of at 55'.
So you can "use" the drive even when the Flash is fried. Depending on the data, that may not be a problem.
Yeah, we had a Charlie Foxtrot on a Windows 2003 server here. It was the DST patch.
/."
When I saw that CRA had a "glitch" on the same weekend as the IT guys here applied the DST patch, I thought, "Well now, that's either an amazing coincidence or I'll be reading about it on
It is unlikely that CRA will say the problem was the patch, even if it was.
The question is, "Will we save more energy switching the DST than we consume by switching the DST?"
Yeah, that's probably it. The pilots were told to just go along with the hijackers to prevent the loss of life. "It's not your money. We'll even pay you extra for the long flight, plus overtime and stress pay."
Makes perfect sense. I wonder why I didn't think of that.
Thanks.
Now, I understand how that would have failed on 9/11. The passengers thought they'd get a trip to Cuba, emerge unharmed, and sue the airline. Hey, I might have done the same thing, knowing only what I knew at the time. "Fuck it," I would have thought, "not my plane." It's like when you witness a store robbery: It ain't your money. Not worth a stabbin'.
The thing I never understood is this:
If someone breaks into the cockpit, the pilot can push down on the stick, then pull up on the stick. Those not in chairs are unconscious, having been hit by the ceiling and floor of the plane. I've heard it said that "no human can withstand the damage and remain conscious."
What's wrong with that system? And why did it fail six years ago?
Ah, excellent, I was looking for those links.
I only used the "Honourable" title because of formalities. MPs are Honourable in title, not in action. I felt that using quotes would take away from the post.
They're all a bunch of whores. (Men included there.) Isn't that a pornocracy?
Not quite. Really close, but not quite. Dave's the Minister for International Trade. You'll want your local MP or the Heritage Ministry. Your local MP may not care that much about you. I'd write to them, sure, but CC them the letter that you're sending to the Heritage Critics.
In Canada, we actually have a group whose job it is to criticize the actions of the ruling party. We call them "Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition". It is their job and duty to ensure that the ruling party doesn't get too far out of hand.
The Heritage Minister (for Copyright stuff, including CCRA fees) is The Honourable Beverley J. Oda. You know how we've got a minority government and a multi-party system? Well, poor ol' Bev has no less than THREE people watching and critiquing her every move.
Charlie Angus, NDP Heritage Critic
Ms Christina Keeper, Liberal Heritage Critic
M. Maka Kotto, Bloc Heritage Critic
You may want to let those critics know that:
1. You're concerned about the recent lobbying around Bev,
2. You feel that the critics should be ever watchful about how American interests are attempting to take over Canada's sovereign rights and heritage.
3. Having American companies dictate when Canadians can use their equipment or listen to Canadian music is unconscionable.
M. Kotto will likely set Bev on fire. Just make sure you write in French.
Based on the links provided and the responses gleaned, ignore the comment about ShieldsUP! You should still check your firewall to make sure you haven't forgotten something.
The rest is still valid information.
Really? An actual, Iron Ring wearing, B.Eng holding, Association of Professional Engineers affiliated Software Engineer?
/EE here
//Wait, this isn't Fark.
I'm just asking because they have those now, and they're rare.
What, really?
The same companies that lie about the capacity on EVERY SINGLE DRIVE they make? You don't think that they're a bunch of lying fucking weasels? (We're both using sarcasm here.)
I don't care how you spin it. 1024 is the multiple. NOT 1000!
Failure doesn't get fixed because making a drive more reliable means it costs more. If it costs more, it's not going to get purchased.
We're a greedy lot here at Pocket Gamer. Even though the DS is already blessed with a large and varied library of great titles, we can't help but wish our lunchbreaks away over the games that should be, and the games that probably will never be.
To vent our desires, we've assembled a canon of forgotten gaming heroes and oddball fancies that make a good fit for Nintendo's dual-screened play thing. Would it help if we said "Please!"?
10 games we'd love to play on DS
We want: A LucasArts adventure game collection
Before consoles and PCs got all hung up on 3D and LucasArts got all hung up on churning out legions of below average playable adverts for the Star Wars cash cow, LucasFilm Games (as it was known back then) carved out a reputation for quality point-and-click adventure games driven by its S.C.U.M.M. engine (that's Script Creation Utility, fact fans). This scripting tool yielded a plethora of adventure romps that would fit the DS's stylus like a glove. We would love to see an adventure game bumper cart celebrating the genre including Maniac Mansion, LOOM, Sam and Max Hit The Road, Full Throttle and, of course, The Secret of Monkey Island. Yes, you can get them on homebrew, but they really need to be tweaked for the smaller screen.
We demand: Okami DS
If there is one thing that the DS handles deftly, it's cell shading. Whilst the PS2 version of Okami's beautiful pastel depth may be out of the DS's reach, the scope its stylus would provide for manipulating the washed out dreamscape of Okami is obvious. A DS version with less emphasis on action and more of a focus on Okami's innovative celestial brush and puzzle sections would tick all of the right boxes for the casual RPG fan.
Give us: Pilot Wings DS
The game that helped to launch the N64 (and less famously the SNES) screams First-party Nintendo Smash from every pixel. And so where better to grant Pilot Wings a third flight than on what is arguably Nintendo's most Nintendo-ish console to date? Simulating wind to billow a paraglider's parafoil by blowing into the mic would be a great addition, as would the option to plot custom courses through the stages with the stylus (exchangeable via wi-fi, naturally).
Still want: Sketch Fighter DS
We've already made some noise about how much we would like Ambrosia's casual gaming gem to grace the DS, but this list would not be complete without a repeat shout in the hope that the right people might be listening. With its simple blasting action, its signature visual style and the option to draw your own multiplayer battle zones, one could be forgiven for thinking that this game was designed specifically for the DS. Ambrosia, if you are out there...
How about: A board game compendium for big kids?
The DS already has a fantastic card and board game collection in 42 All-Time Classics. But on the last day of school term, it was always the kids who brought in Operation and Mouse Trap that drew the most attention, whilst the boffins that tried to encourage a round of chess and checkers were left to sit in the corner discussing The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. We want a big kid's version of 42 All-Time Classics featuring the likes of Operation, Jenga (wi-fi possibilities), Mouse Trap, Kerplunk and any other game where the board is the least important part of the apparatus.
Please: Mario Paint DS
Mario Paint was a surprise hit for the SNES during Nintendo's 'Let's brand all of our first-party titles with Mario' phase, and paved the way for the ultra rare 64DD series entitled simply Mario Artist. These games enabled you to create images and 3D models, and even offered the option to share artwork via an online communication kit. We've got a stylus and wi-fi now - come on Nintendo, need we say more? You know it makes sense!
Be crazy not to do: Marble Madness DS
This long lost arcade classic was also the first game to appear on the Atari System 1, and set the machine apart from its contemporaries as the apex predator console of its day. Ori
Read the "Surviving the first day of Windows XP".
Quit downloading everything in your email. If you don't recognize the name, delete it.
Don't click "Yes" to every security certificate. You should accept Microsoft's, and that's it.
You don't require new cursors or smiley programs for your emails. The new "Hyper-Exelent Surf 3000 Toolbar by Lucky 88 Company" is not going to make your life easier. Likewise, if you want to know the weather, look outside or in your local paper.
PC Cleaning programs from pop-up ads don't work. Actually, anything advertised on the Internet should be considered fraudulent. (Yes, even "those" pills. They're just bull semen and corn starch.)
Get your programs from sourceforge, not from the first link on Google. Make sure that Spybot and Mike's adblocking are installed on your machine.
The people who write viruses have anti-virus programs to test their work on.
For the sake of whatever god you believe in, get a hardware firewall!
Run ShieldsUP! from grc.com to make sure that you're invisible.
Probably, "Why didn't I nail that librarian?"
Yeah, a heterosexual can choose not to have sex at all, either.
It's a choice, but unless you're a monk, it's a lame one.
Applying the patch to a game or program you own is legal. After all, they've been telling us for years that we don't own the media - we own one (1) licence to run the software.
One of my professors at school had a legitimate, licenced copy of MATLAB. The damn thing wouldn't work on his MacBook 1/2 the time. The pirated version he downloaded worked great, every time. It loaded faster, too.
I think the same sort of thing happened in GTA3 for the PC. If you applied the no CD crack, then your performance went WAY up. In that case, Rockstar applied some parts of the patch to the next official release.