They shoulda ran with it. Awesome names and acronyms have come out of stranger places. For example, my Dad knows one of the engineers that built the San Diego Wild Animal park. They were trying to decide a name for the park's monorail, now known as Wgasa. Apparently, after they had been at it for days one of the engineers coworkers said "Who gives a shit anyway?":D The story has no official evidence to back it up, but Snopes still believes it to be true.
So I say honor that Faget and give this device a proper name.
Futile attempts go exit there?
Finally a great ejection technology?
Faget's automatic gravity enhancing technique?
Fuckers are gonna egress tonight!
So I guess you were better than AOL, who funny enough just put you out of your misery even though you were around longer. And I was never really into you, even more so once I found local BBS'. Especially ones with pirate software and Trade Wars. To be honest I was only fascinated by what was possible with you, not what you actually offered. I should have been more open with you and told you.
But you were great fun while you lasted, which in the eyes of most people who knew about you probably ended somewhere around 1985. I hope you weren't lonely in the end, because I had no idea you were on that respirator and life support. I TOTALLY would have come to see you if I knew...I mean, me and the free shell accounts at Arbornet have been getting it on all kindsa nasty style for years now, so I hope you don't curse me from intarwebs hell. I just found a part of teh 'tubes that, you know, I clicked with. It was never you, Compuserve. It was totally me.
Nah, I was generalizing because the OP to my post started on the whole USB thing with no mention of the fact that USB devices are no longer allowed. It just sounded like typical Slashrant(TM, patents pending). I was pressed for time when I wrote it as I had to get my clearance over to the ship I went to today:D
If I had further time I would have accounted for the possibility that an skilled person with physical access could easily reactivate USB access for a given terminal. Furthermore, I would have also addressed that it would be possible if the keys to the multiple layers of encryption were compromised it would then be possible to gain access to a classified network, however extremely unlikely - just to re-enforce that the only likely scenario is via spies and moles with physical access. I would never suggest that classified networks are completely secure, I merely wanted to reinforce that the idea of external access to said networks is extremely unlikely.
I'm quite aware of how such classified(as in above sensitive, FOUO and the like) data is leaked, and it is almost - if not entirely - via cleared personnel who have gone 'rogue'. I failed in re-enforcing that, but I most certainly delineated that the "unless a person decides to become a spy" part is essential to the majority if not all of the espionage cases.
As an aside, I've also been accused of being wordy and unclear in my writing...:D
Third, it's a lot of data so unless a spy or mole was only taking certain entries it would be difficult to take all of it not only in one drive but at once.
Fourth, since the intelligence community is warming to it(yes, sometimes some of them are bumbling idiots), analysts have muddled the concept of Intellepidia, written reports and debated the subject with leadership. If it was such a terrible idea it would have gotten the axe by now.
Fifth, stealing data from outside a classified DOD network is terribly hard. Having a clearance means that the DOD thinks a given person is trustworthy, so unless a person decides to become a spy there is no way it's getting out.
Also, Intellipedia covers a multitude of subjects, not just people.
Yeah, me either. It's really no surprise that ATT's terms and service are crummy, and I was quite disappointed(if unsurprised) when Apple went exclusively with them. Needless to say I don't have an iPhone.
About month or so ago. The company also has portable rechargeable battery packs. The packs have multiple outlets and outlet types and variable voltage settings. They have enough to power laptop computers and ruggedized military equipment. For the life of me, I can't remember their name.
But with such a technology already in existence, one that is clearly capable of handling a variety of loads, why is the above story news?
I never got anything extra for my hour long(or more) call times when I helped a customer uninstall Bonzi Buddy. Man, those assholes...If I had lived near their offices I would have personally kicked at least one if not the entire staff [cartman voice]sqwaa, in the nuuhts[/cartman voice].
I once spent well over an hour trying to fix this this eldery woman's PC. It was one of the first times I tried - and we were an ISP, so this wasn't our deal at all but she was old and I knew few others would try. Having no luck with the add/remove programs, I went to the website...The website said to uninstall/reinstall. But of course that didn't work. So I went to the "contact us" section, which referred customers to an email address. So I did a whois on their domain and found an address and a phone number. I called the phone number, went to the tech support section, which promptly informed customers to their "support" section of the website - yeah, the single paragraph of uninstall/reinstall. So I called back and went through every other option on their phone system until I found an area with a lot of sub-options...I finally got through to a voice after about 20 minutes of trying, five of those dedicated to digging through that one subsection....All the while with the very patient and nice but confused and unhappy elderly woman on the other line.
When I finally got this person, I told him the name of the very large cable company I worked for, and the infinite number of PC's I had encountered that were severely damaged or outright tanked from their malware. I informed him that I had the lady's phone number, and she had mine - if there was any trouble getting the software removed, I promised to assist her in contacting all of the relevant entities such as the BBB, BSA and more...Needless to say the problem was fixed.
Either you can't brain today, or you're trolling. The terms are most certainly not equivalent, and the first sentence of TFW is reasonably clear about that and most certainly does not call them equivalent in any way shape or form. By the end of the first paragraph, it's abundantly clear that they are very much different, but in common parlance they are used interchangeably.
If you've misunderstood the article, then it's a different story - but I gather from your tone that you either recognize the facts and are simply flying in the face of science because of what you believe, or are simply trolling.
If it truly is the former, then I guess it's simply a mistake. In either of the two latter scenarios....
I can't believe they didn't mention Goonies...Can't remember if it was Goonies 1 or 2, but the one I played had no point at all, and it was terribly difficult to figure out how to accomplish anything - I gave up after a few hours. Now that was a terrible game.
Maybe - my assertion is that no one's given a list nor examples of such games, and that there are present day titles in the platform genre that are really good. See my reply to Blakely Rat above for more.
I've weeded through a long list of games to make a rather large collection of MAME ROM's. And while yes, many did suck there were quite a few that were great. I think the arena of suckage began in the early 90's where the proliferation exploded.
I think your analysis is on the right track, I did list known good games, but to illustrate how in the present, with far less platformers being released, the quality has gone up. It's not only the games from the 80's that have modern classics, but many new platformers(which I didn't list to try and stick with mostly the scrolling style) like the Banjo series, Ratchet and Clank, Viewtiful Joe, et cetera. And the mere fact that the prequels were good does not mean the sequels would be good either - The new Contras and Marios released in the 2000's could have sucked, but they did not. They've been received well because they were excellent games, and I stick by my assertion that there hasn't been any examples of shitty platformers listed yet:
Is that why most of the FPS players I know are awaiting the next big game, having stopped playing the other current games due to boredom and lack of challenge? Dunno about you, but my clan has barely played anything over the last few months for the same reasons. We're not top tier players either, and those of us who are still playing are either playing older games like CS:S and Quakelive or trudging through modern ones like COD4/5 until the next big game. There are some exceptions, but out of those it tends to be new games based on old tech like Killing Floor. I've seen many new games get good reviews yet often a common criticism is that they don't have enough single player content, challenge, nor replayability, and as far as I'm concerned, that's a big part of what makes these older games great.
I will concede, however, that there is way too much "get off my lawn" going on, and there certainly will be people saying the same tired phrases in ten years. It's human nature and it won't be surprising when it happens. It's not that there aren't good new games, but a myriad of reasons that bring us to these situations. COD is pretty darn good, but it does have it's drawbacks, and when the next big game comes we'll be moving on like most. Time will tell what games are really great.
So a good number of people have stated nostalgia, and out of those the majority have said that 2d platformers were mostly or all bad. Yet I've not seen any examples of how or why.
I call bullshit.
Platformers have continued to achieve success, and while they're far less common than they used to be, many of them have received rave reviews, and deservedly:
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night(1997)
Contra: Shattered Soldier(2002)
Neo Contra(2004)
Psychonauts(2005)
Bionic Commando Rearmed(2008)
Mega Man 9(2008)
And there's many more that I haven't listed. I think what made those games great back in the day is what makes them great now - simple to interact with, but challenging enemies and environments. Great soundtracks, great graphics, great fun.
No idea. I wouldn't be surprised that some of the AV companies offer a solution, even if it's one you have to burn yourself. I recall that later versions of Symantec were bootable out of the box, though it's functionality was limited.
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They shoulda ran with it. Awesome names and acronyms have come out of stranger places. For example, my Dad knows one of the engineers that built the San Diego Wild Animal park. They were trying to decide a name for the park's monorail, now known as Wgasa. Apparently, after they had been at it for days one of the engineers coworkers said "Who gives a shit anyway?" :D The story has no official evidence to back it up, but Snopes still believes it to be true.
So I say honor that Faget and give this device a proper name.
Futile attempts go exit there?
Finally a great ejection technology?
Faget's automatic gravity enhancing technique?
Fuckers are gonna egress tonight!
Discuss.
And there was more history than an argument...
Oh you mod trolls, you're so funny!
Who wants to see Erich Gamma play jazz flute!?
Compuserve, we barely knew thee...Cuz like, I could get offers to enlarge that certain part of the male body from the rest of teh webs since the early 90's.
So I guess you were better than AOL, who funny enough just put you out of your misery even though you were around longer. And I was never really into you, even more so once I found local BBS'. Especially ones with pirate software and Trade Wars. To be honest I was only fascinated by what was possible with you, not what you actually offered. I should have been more open with you and told you.
But you were great fun while you lasted, which in the eyes of most people who knew about you probably ended somewhere around 1985. I hope you weren't lonely in the end, because I had no idea you were on that respirator and life support. I TOTALLY would have come to see you if I knew...I mean, me and the free shell accounts at Arbornet have been getting it on all kindsa nasty style for years now, so I hope you don't curse me from intarwebs hell. I just found a part of teh 'tubes that, you know, I clicked with. It was never you, Compuserve. It was totally me.
Rest In Peace, old friend.
Nah, I was generalizing because the OP to my post started on the whole USB thing with no mention of the fact that USB devices are no longer allowed. It just sounded like typical Slashrant(TM, patents pending). I was pressed for time when I wrote it as I had to get my clearance over to the ship I went to today :D
:D
If I had further time I would have accounted for the possibility that an skilled person with physical access could easily reactivate USB access for a given terminal. Furthermore, I would have also addressed that it would be possible if the keys to the multiple layers of encryption were compromised it would then be possible to gain access to a classified network, however extremely unlikely - just to re-enforce that the only likely scenario is via spies and moles with physical access. I would never suggest that classified networks are completely secure, I merely wanted to reinforce that the idea of external access to said networks is extremely unlikely.
I'm quite aware of how such classified(as in above sensitive, FOUO and the like) data is leaked, and it is almost - if not entirely - via cleared personnel who have gone 'rogue'. I failed in re-enforcing that, but I most certainly delineated that the "unless a person decides to become a spy" part is essential to the majority if not all of the espionage cases.
As an aside, I've also been accused of being wordy and unclear in my writing...
For starters, USB devices are no longer allowed on any DOD networks, due to a worm appearing on unclassified military networks(separate from the classified networks).
Second, Intellipedia is separated by classification of the given network, and is not on a single network. So the data may be important, but does not necessarily constitute "exceptionally grave damage" if leaked.
Third, it's a lot of data so unless a spy or mole was only taking certain entries it would be difficult to take all of it not only in one drive but at once.
Fourth, since the intelligence community is warming to it(yes, sometimes some of them are bumbling idiots), analysts have muddled the concept of Intellepidia, written reports and debated the subject with leadership. If it was such a terrible idea it would have gotten the axe by now.
Fifth, stealing data from outside a classified DOD network is terribly hard. Having a clearance means that the DOD thinks a given person is trustworthy, so unless a person decides to become a spy there is no way it's getting out.
Also, Intellipedia covers a multitude of subjects, not just people.
There's more happening, and not all of it is necessarily going to work. I hope Thomas comes out on top, but I wonder how some of these tactics will affect the case overall.
Yeah, me either. It's really no surprise that ATT's terms and service are crummy, and I was quite disappointed(if unsurprised) when Apple went exclusively with them. Needless to say I don't have an iPhone.
Oh, it's so clear now. They couldn't possibly be stacking anything in their favor or manipulating variables to the disservice of their customers.
The general consensus here on Slashdot so far:
1)"tsfroggy"(RTA) agreed to his/her terms in a contract and has to deal with the pricing like everyone else.
2)A past discount is not an obligation for a future discount.
3)"tsfroggy" is a whiner.
4)AT&T is clearly in the right on this, even if the pricing is too high.
I must say, Congrats gentlemen. I'll be interested in seeing how long this lasts in this particular thread.
About month or so ago. The company also has portable rechargeable battery packs. The packs have multiple outlets and outlet types and variable voltage settings. They have enough to power laptop computers and ruggedized military equipment. For the life of me, I can't remember their name.
But with such a technology already in existence, one that is clearly capable of handling a variety of loads, why is the above story news?
You probably are taking crazy pills since your failure with the piano key necktie and Frankie Goes to Hollywood...
city Great Tits prefer other city Great Tits over country Great Tits. (Lets act like adults).
Or we could take George Carlin's view on the low brow - if you can't laugh at a fart joke...
I never got anything extra for my hour long(or more) call times when I helped a customer uninstall Bonzi Buddy. Man, those assholes...If I had lived near their offices I would have personally kicked at least one if not the entire staff [cartman voice]sqwaa, in the nuuhts[/cartman voice].
I once spent well over an hour trying to fix this this eldery woman's PC. It was one of the first times I tried - and we were an ISP, so this wasn't our deal at all but she was old and I knew few others would try. Having no luck with the add/remove programs, I went to the website...The website said to uninstall/reinstall. But of course that didn't work. So I went to the "contact us" section, which referred customers to an email address. So I did a whois on their domain and found an address and a phone number. I called the phone number, went to the tech support section, which promptly informed customers to their "support" section of the website - yeah, the single paragraph of uninstall/reinstall. So I called back and went through every other option on their phone system until I found an area with a lot of sub-options...I finally got through to a voice after about 20 minutes of trying, five of those dedicated to digging through that one subsection....All the while with the very patient and nice but confused and unhappy elderly woman on the other line.
When I finally got this person, I told him the name of the very large cable company I worked for, and the infinite number of PC's I had encountered that were severely damaged or outright tanked from their malware. I informed him that I had the lady's phone number, and she had mine - if there was any trouble getting the software removed, I promised to assist her in contacting all of the relevant entities such as the BBB, BSA and more...Needless to say the problem was fixed.
Either you can't brain today, or you're trolling. The terms are most certainly not equivalent, and the first sentence of TFW is reasonably clear about that and most certainly does not call them equivalent in any way shape or form. By the end of the first paragraph, it's abundantly clear that they are very much different, but in common parlance they are used interchangeably.
If you've misunderstood the article, then it's a different story - but I gather from your tone that you either recognize the facts and are simply flying in the face of science because of what you believe, or are simply trolling.
If it truly is the former, then I guess it's simply a mistake. In either of the two latter scenarios....
So I guess this means that emo isn't whiny, post-pseudointellectual narcissism? Man, Fall Out Boy is going to have a field day with this...
I can't believe they didn't mention Goonies...Can't remember if it was Goonies 1 or 2, but the one I played had no point at all, and it was terribly difficult to figure out how to accomplish anything - I gave up after a few hours. Now that was a terrible game.
Maybe - my assertion is that no one's given a list nor examples of such games, and that there are present day titles in the platform genre that are really good. See my reply to Blakely Rat above for more.
True, but the games could have sucked and they didn't - see my reply to Blakely Rat below for more.
I've weeded through a long list of games to make a rather large collection of MAME ROM's. And while yes, many did suck there were quite a few that were great. I think the arena of suckage began in the early 90's where the proliferation exploded.
I think your analysis is on the right track, I did list known good games, but to illustrate how in the present, with far less platformers being released, the quality has gone up. It's not only the games from the 80's that have modern classics, but many new platformers(which I didn't list to try and stick with mostly the scrolling style) like the Banjo series, Ratchet and Clank, Viewtiful Joe, et cetera. And the mere fact that the prequels were good does not mean the sequels would be good either - The new Contras and Marios released in the 2000's could have sucked, but they did not. They've been received well because they were excellent games, and I stick by my assertion that there hasn't been any examples of shitty platformers listed yet:
Is that why most of the FPS players I know are awaiting the next big game, having stopped playing the other current games due to boredom and lack of challenge? Dunno about you, but my clan has barely played anything over the last few months for the same reasons. We're not top tier players either, and those of us who are still playing are either playing older games like CS:S and Quakelive or trudging through modern ones like COD4/5 until the next big game. There are some exceptions, but out of those it tends to be new games based on old tech like Killing Floor. I've seen many new games get good reviews yet often a common criticism is that they don't have enough single player content, challenge, nor replayability, and as far as I'm concerned, that's a big part of what makes these older games great.
I will concede, however, that there is way too much "get off my lawn" going on, and there certainly will be people saying the same tired phrases in ten years. It's human nature and it won't be surprising when it happens. It's not that there aren't good new games, but a myriad of reasons that bring us to these situations. COD is pretty darn good, but it does have it's drawbacks, and when the next big game comes we'll be moving on like most. Time will tell what games are really great.
YEAH! Now Get Off My Lawn! :D
So a good number of people have stated nostalgia, and out of those the majority have said that 2d platformers were mostly or all bad. Yet I've not seen any examples of how or why.
I call bullshit.
Platformers have continued to achieve success, and while they're far less common than they used to be, many of them have received rave reviews, and deservedly:
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night(1997)
Contra: Shattered Soldier(2002)
Neo Contra(2004)
Psychonauts(2005)
Bionic Commando Rearmed(2008)
Mega Man 9(2008)
And there's many more that I haven't listed. I think what made those games great back in the day is what makes them great now - simple to interact with, but challenging enemies and environments. Great soundtracks, great graphics, great fun.
No idea. I wouldn't be surprised that some of the AV companies offer a solution, even if it's one you have to burn yourself. I recall that later versions of Symantec were bootable out of the box, though it's functionality was limited.