Gee, sorry to have pissed on your cheerios. You know there are some of us who can give a rats ass about the P4.
There are some of us who'd like to see the difference between all 64bit processors out there.
I'm sorry that some of you can't wrap that around your pointy little heads, but I digress.
Look, IMO, benching a 64bit CPU vs a 32bit CPU while interesting is overkill when all the sites do basically the same review.
While the redundancy of these reviews can be good for QA of the overall reviewing process, the results of the P4 vs A64 are only usable for those that are concerned over the benefits of upgrading their desktop machine/lowend server.
For those of us that are scientists, animators, et al that currently plan on implementing a 64bit solution, it would be nice to see where things stack up.
So yeah, seeing the G5 bench against the A64 or the Opteron would be more beneficial and also let us see where the AMD/IBM crop sits against Intel/HP.
So of course I didn't read any of them. Gimme the results of Athlon 64 vs G5 vs Opteron vs Itanic... then there'd be something worth reading from a buyers perspective.
SCO has gone way too far in the last couple of days.
They have not proven any claims, have not disclosed to the public what exactly is being infringed nor how it is infringed and have no legal basis for these charges they are putting forth.
IANAL, but in my view this is extortion. And as such can be considered a felony by law.
Can some one (EFF? DOJ??) please get off your ass and sue these guys back to the TRS80 days their "IP" comes from?
The reactions towards SCO is one of sheer complacency and as far as I can tell, I and many others could be considered a felon by their new licensing terms (5 CPUs running linux = >3k, and "theft" of $2,500 is a felony) And no disrespect to RedHat, but we need more than a counter suit here, we need SCO under the microscope of a Federal Investigation.
The US DOJ needs to get in here and bitch-slap these guys personally as they are going after US corps and US citizens for manufactured charges that have no legal weight, no basis on actual market pricing, are established purely upon allegation and in my eyes, priced to harm Linux rather than pose any sincere solution towards the Linux community.
Thus SCO is harming US consumers and corporations, is it not the DOJ's mandate to act as our protection? It's high time they weighted in.
SCO's demands have gone well past the point of obsurdity and are now taking on more aggressive and rabid tones that though dismissable, should not have to be tolerated by law abiding citizens and corporations by a company that is taking actions that are highly suspect in legality.
C'mon Darl, I've personally got 2 Linux servers and 3 Linux workstations/playtoys.
By your reasoning, that's worth a cool $3495.00 US. Gee, that's a FELONY.
Think I give a rats ass? Come and get it Dickweed, send over them DMCA hounds!
Ohhh wait... your claims have yet to be substantiated, have no proven basis in fact and your allegedly stolen IP has yet to be disclosed as to what muchless when/where/why/how it was allegedly stolen.
Errrrmmm... Wait a minute, isn't this blackmail or at least extortion? And how many users of Linux is there?
I think now is the time the EFF stood up and layed some smack down. This last round of actions by SCO is just screaming for a class action on behalf of all users of Linux.
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For those interested, the actual bug report is here
The feds couldn't beat them, AOL is spreading it's legs while Mozilla is 6-feet under and half the content sites are requiring IE on Windows for media downloads!
But SCO/Caldera/whatever (Who kicked ass on MS over Dr. DOS) succedded in winning actual damages, and I sure as hell hope these guys do too, though I hope they don't succumb to the dark side of litigation as SCO has.
But it might just be that the little guys will be the Achillies heel for the Redmond Goliath in the end and do what the Fed could not.
I hope to god Intertrust stakes the farm on this and refuses settlement. Lord knows a product pull + rewrite + damages would set this DRM crap back to the stone age.
I think I just found my own personal Jesus Christ and Savior in InterTrust!
A close business friend has given me you electonique address for communication as I have PRESSING CIRCUMSTANCES that require your assistence. You see, I Mr. Darl McBride Esq. have a sum of US $100,000,000,000,000.00 due to me but can not on my own acquire these outstanding funds. You see I am the PRIME MINSTER OF CALDERA IP and as you may know have been DRIVEN INTO EXILE by IBM and their TYRRANICAL LINUX CONSPIRATORS AGAINST OUR SOVERIEGN NATION. Our matter of greatest importance demands that WE SEEK YOUR HELP. In return for assisting me, I will provide you 30% of the US $100,000,000,000,000.00 (US $30,000,000,000,000.00), all you need to do is provide me with your bank account number, a fascimile of your SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, VALID DRIVERS LICENSE OR ID and CONSENT TO OUR NDA and LICENSING AGREEMENT. YOU SEE, YOU HAVE MUCH TO GAIN and I trust and pray that you will provide us the assistence we require in this time of need.
So if the user replies: "Woman carving out her entrails" "Headless beaver chasing chickens" "Turtles, lots of turtles, they f333r m3!!!" etc etc etc
They could just lock the computer. And moreover, with the buddy-buddy nature MS shares with the fed, I'm sure they could send over some white suits to the users home to fit him/her with a brand new coat.
And maybe just maybe \. will see a few less trolls in the process.
I've been seeing overflows run against port 135 on my home network for awhile now. Typically, these requests seem to come from Korea. Fortunately, my pc never had that port open anyway, and port 135 is Samba on my mac, but that is not effected by this exploit, though linux had a samba BO exploit a couple months back as I recall.
So, it may be very possible this sploit has been around for some time now.
Exactly. Also, read up on Huxley and "reality tunnels"... the "Doors of Perception" is the book I believe (the book also inspired the naming of the 'Doors').
Thank you for the kindred spirits and some insight.
ya ya ya. Last guy said about humor. My reply stands so read it.
As far as PKD, I've read him and loved his work. I myself do have a very dark sense of humor.
However, moronic slapstick isn't my bag-o-tea. It reads too much like any number of the litany of tinfoil hat wearing-new age powerbead wearing-ufo worshipping-cia fearing-midnight anal probing-black helicopter flying-mayan calander datebook reading-illuminati singing bavarian folksongs over fat steins at the WTO commitee meeting-psychic wormhole tunneling-mindfield bending-time traveling-ramtha worshipping-crystal rubbing-crop circle hunting-chem trail conspiracy-antichrist numerology-mankind as reptoid slave race-hollow earth-awww what the fuck geocity uber-conspiracy circle jerk FOR ME TO EVEN TRY TO LAUGH.
'cuz it just ain't funny.
So enough about the "humor". Just because some one tries to be funny doesn't mean they can even come close.
And the best joke of all... Everyone understand pain and suffering. Very few will find your joke funny.
Universal turmoil vs. the "in-joke". Now that's comedy.
Actually, I'd be an android if I laughed at any ol' thang someone thought was funny.
The Laugh-track is just that android. But you see I have a mind, a self oriented point of reason and my own take on what the F*CK is funny thank u oh so very much.
Really though, this is straight out off the super market tabloid rack.
from the article: "I was experimenting with electronic voice phenomena. I was recording the analog noise between tracks on a scratchy old copy of Karl Muck conducting Parzifal with the Bayreuth Festival Chorus onto a cassette tape. Then I would cut, splice, and process the tape in various ways, and then listen to the results. On the third attempt I heard a voice that I recognized, from a tape once available through the Philip K. Dick Society, as belonging to the late science fiction writer. More incredible was my discovery that, by recording my own questions on the same cassette tape, I was able to initiate a genuine dialogue with this mysterious voice. Subsequent research proved, however, that all of the quotations have already made an appearance somewhere in Dick's fiction, letters, or essays. Nonetheless, the conversation seems worth presenting"
Jumping crack-heads on pogo-sticks batman! What crack are the editors smoking and please pass it because my reality distortion field is waning and I need a hook up before the shakes set in.
The page is only "text" from this supposed "interview" and none of the cut-spliced-processed audio is to be found. This is utter crap, if the audio was present it would at least have some artistic merit and therefore interest of value, but there is nothing but the rantings for those who wear shiny foil hats squarely screwed to their brows and interview excerpts readily available on Google!
Mod me down for being a troll, but/. just sank to new lows. I mean c'mon couldn't roll out the Bill of Nine or an SCO rant so we had to troll the readers with "bat-boy" fodder?
I can not wait for Anal-intrusive DRM to be included on every windows OS and Intel PC processor on the market.
In fact, I wish it was here right now.
I am salivating at the prospect of LAN wide system lock outs, Entire OS installtions destroyed because of stolen/forged Serial Numbers, the inability for a persson to have 2 copies of an app their my own equiptment, the deletion of personal files and monitoring of internet usage.
In fact, I hope they use and abuse back door facilities so that the entire machine is effectively a trojan and fast becomes the fabled crackers valhalla.
Huzzzzahhh Microsoft!!! When you kill your competition and get cocked sucked by the gov't it's just natural to become your own worst enemy.
So, do release your DRM post-haste and help usher in a much needed paradigm shift from Windows to OS X/Linux.
Anyone else remember the movie "Tommy" where they started the camp then gagged, bound, abused their followers and by doing so incited a revolt?
"We're not gonna take it!"
I believe that's what's about to happen here, and personally I can only pray that it does. Every time I read about DRM from Microsoft, a layer of cynicism fades away as I see a glimmer of hope
So you'd all be better off protesting and just sit there quietly with a smile while MS cocks it's BFG and aims squarely at it's foot:)
Slashdot posted a story just a few days ago that speculated on 15.4" tiBooks Personally, I think Apple plans on converting all their laptops and desktops to the 970 as soon as possible.
Not just because the 970's are more powerful processors, but because the overall system is more powerful and provides a much needed boost on the processor power hungry joe schmoe consumer market.
Think about it... Jobs has spent the last 4 years revamping the Apple product line and OS to compete head to head with the latest and greatest wintel platforms. But it's been the processors and busses keeping Apple down.
So Job would be crazy not to go out of his way to make sure that all systems were converted as soon as humanly possible to the new chips/mobos that can finally lay some smack down on wintel.
And as far as pricing goes, I firmly believe that Jobs will ensure Apple continues to price competitively with wintel. The mac pice diffference is over, has been for at least a ear now. If you compare the cost of comparitive systems, you would see that Apple products are priced very competitively with wintel machines. And I would think Jobs would be wise to sweeten the deal to take full advantage of having a 64bit processor and OS by making the base desktop a smidge lower in price than the going base Pentium-class. In doing so Apple would see a definite boost on their lagging desktop sales (hence the "year of the laptop")
Thank you for validating my long standing belief that SJ wishes to god it was LA but has nothing, nada zero null sip zilch in comparison to that plasticene hellhole of a concrete sprawl.
Frankly, SJ is worse than LA, it's a freakin police state and is void of any form of culture, be it plastic or soulfull.
Man oh man... I made the mistake of visiting there NEVER AGAIN!
Looks like the Crongressional Dip$hits are at it again. Perhaps they'll decide to save on legislature time and just try to roll the DMCA and the Patriot Act into one and just go ahead and lock up anyone with any sort of recording device as a Terrorist Threat.
Ya ya ya... I have zero faith in our government to ever not have it's head so far up it's ass when dealing with anything that is even remotely related to the tech sector or individual rights as opposed to corporate self interests.
Somehow, I have a feeling I'm not alone there. Anyway, time to toss some moolah to the EFF, because they're gonna need it.
ermm... when you get adrenelin you can use your motion keys to chose a power up. Invisibility is one of those.
Adrenalin
You can get Adrenalin by picking up the red and white pills scattered throughout the levels, or by achieving kills. Once your Adrenalin reaches 100, you will be allowed to perform one of the following special moves, the effects of which will only last for a while:
Speed - forward, forward, forward, forward
Regen - back, back, back, back
Invisibility - right, right, left, left
Berserk - forward, forward, back, back
Here in the US and many other countries, it is illegal to deny some one employment based upon age, gender, race or religion.
I have yet to hear of an employment descrimination case in the high tech sector based upon age. This may or may not be because of the hollywood "teenage hacker" stereotype that a lot of society is subjected to. That is to say many mid-career aged people (those in their 30's) may relent to a stereotype without bothering to think of their civil rights.
Overall, in my 10 years working in the tech sector most the people I've worked with are in their mid 20's to mid 30's. So I don't see the issue the article brings up other than the economy is bad and experience means a whole lot right now. But, there are many lower paying internship jobs available during which one may gain practical experience and possibly a lucrative position from.
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Holy crap.
Gee, sorry to have pissed on your cheerios.
You know there are some of us who can give a rats ass about the P4.
There are some of us who'd like to see the difference between all 64bit processors out there.
I'm sorry that some of you can't wrap that around your pointy little heads, but I digress.
Look, IMO, benching a 64bit CPU vs a 32bit CPU while interesting is overkill when all the sites do basically the same review.
While the redundancy of these reviews can be good for QA of the overall reviewing process, the results of the P4 vs A64 are only usable for those that are concerned over the benefits of upgrading their desktop machine/lowend server.
For those of us that are scientists, animators, et al that currently plan on implementing a 64bit solution, it would be nice to see where things stack up.
So yeah, seeing the G5 bench against the A64 or the Opteron would be more beneficial and also let us see where the AMD/IBM crop sits against Intel/HP.
So of course I didn't read any of them. ... then there'd be something worth reading from a buyers perspective.
Gimme the results of Athlon 64 vs G5 vs Opteron vs Itanic
Because Microsoft blew off security concerns for so long, millions of PCs remain unpatched, ready for the next Windows-transmitted disease
Well, I for one always wear protection when cybering on MSN
A Press Photo of Asimo vamping for the camera in Prague can be seen here:
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http://www.sfgate.com/news/pictures/2003/08/22/ro
Smithsonians Air and Space mag did an interview on Rutan, is pretty interesting and includes a quicktime panaorama of some of his aircraft.
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http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/ASM/Web/TWD/ru
SCO has gone way too far in the last couple of days.
They have not proven any claims, have not disclosed to the public what exactly is being infringed nor how it is infringed and have no legal basis for these charges they are putting forth.
IANAL, but in my view this is extortion.
And as such can be considered a felony by law.
Can some one (EFF? DOJ??) please get off your ass and sue these guys back to the TRS80 days their "IP" comes from?
The reactions towards SCO is one of sheer complacency and as far as I can tell, I and many others could be considered a felon by their new licensing terms (5 CPUs running linux = >3k, and "theft" of $2,500 is a felony)
And no disrespect to RedHat, but we need more than a counter suit here, we need SCO under the microscope of a Federal Investigation.
The US DOJ needs to get in here and bitch-slap these guys personally as they are going after US corps and US citizens for manufactured charges that have no legal weight, no basis on actual market pricing, are established purely upon allegation and in my eyes, priced to harm Linux rather than pose any sincere solution towards the Linux community.
Thus SCO is harming US consumers and corporations, is it not the DOJ's mandate to act as our protection? It's high time they weighted in.
SCO's demands have gone well past the point of obsurdity and are now taking on more aggressive and rabid tones that though dismissable, should not have to be tolerated by law abiding citizens and corporations by a company that is taking actions that are highly suspect in legality.
As long as you speak the new speak and waive your flag.
C'mon Darl,
I've personally got 2 Linux servers and 3 Linux workstations/playtoys.
By your reasoning, that's worth a cool $3495.00 US.
Gee, that's a FELONY.
Think I give a rats ass?
Come and get it Dickweed, send over them DMCA hounds!
Ohhh wait... your claims have yet to be substantiated, have no proven basis in fact and your allegedly stolen IP has yet to be disclosed as to what muchless when/where/why/how it was allegedly stolen.
Errrrmmm...
Wait a minute, isn't this blackmail or at least extortion?
And how many users of Linux is there?
I think now is the time the EFF stood up and layed some smack down. This last round of actions by SCO is just screaming for a class action on behalf of all users of Linux.
For those interested, the actual bug report is here
Hell ya, you go Intertrust!!!!
The feds couldn't beat them, AOL is spreading it's legs while Mozilla is 6-feet under and half the content sites are requiring IE on Windows for media downloads!
But SCO/Caldera/whatever (Who kicked ass on MS over Dr. DOS) succedded in winning actual damages, and I sure as hell hope these guys do too, though I hope they don't succumb to the dark side of litigation as SCO has.
But it might just be that the little guys will be the Achillies heel for the Redmond Goliath in the end and do what the Fed could not.
I hope to god Intertrust stakes the farm on this and refuses settlement. Lord knows a product pull + rewrite + damages would set this DRM crap back to the stone age.
I think I just found my own personal Jesus Christ and Savior in InterTrust!
FROM: Mr. Darl McBride
A close business friend has given me you electonique address for communication as I have PRESSING CIRCUMSTANCES that require your assistence.
You see, I Mr. Darl McBride Esq. have a sum of US $100,000,000,000,000.00 due to me but can not on my own acquire these outstanding funds. You see I am the PRIME MINSTER OF CALDERA IP and as you may know have been DRIVEN INTO EXILE by IBM and their TYRRANICAL LINUX CONSPIRATORS AGAINST OUR SOVERIEGN NATION. Our matter of greatest importance demands that WE SEEK YOUR HELP. In return for assisting me, I will provide you 30% of the US $100,000,000,000,000.00 (US $30,000,000,000,000.00), all you need to do is provide me with your bank account number, a fascimile of your SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, VALID DRIVERS LICENSE OR ID and CONSENT TO OUR NDA and LICENSING AGREEMENT.
YOU SEE, YOU HAVE MUCH TO GAIN and I trust and pray that you will provide us the assistence we require in this time of need.
This sounds good to me.
So if the user replies:
"Woman carving out her entrails"
"Headless beaver chasing chickens"
"Turtles, lots of turtles, they f333r m3!!!"
etc etc etc
They could just lock the computer.
And moreover, with the buddy-buddy nature MS shares with the fed, I'm sure they could send over some white suits to the users home to fit him/her with a brand new coat.
And maybe just maybe \. will see a few less trolls in the process.
I've been seeing overflows run against port 135 on my home network for awhile now. Typically, these requests seem to come from Korea. Fortunately, my pc never had that port open anyway, and port 135 is Samba on my mac, but that is not effected by this exploit, though linux had a samba BO exploit a couple months back as I recall.
So, it may be very possible this sploit has been around for some time now.
All humour is dependent on context;
Exactly.
Also, read up on Huxley and "reality tunnels"... the "Doors of Perception" is the book I believe (the book also inspired the naming of the 'Doors').
Thank you for the kindred spirits and some insight.
ya ya ya.
Last guy said about humor.
My reply stands so read it.
As far as PKD, I've read him and loved his work.
I myself do have a very dark sense of humor.
However, moronic slapstick isn't my bag-o-tea.
It reads too much like any number of the litany of tinfoil hat wearing-new age powerbead wearing-ufo worshipping-cia fearing-midnight anal probing-black helicopter flying-mayan calander datebook reading-illuminati singing bavarian folksongs over fat steins at the WTO commitee meeting-psychic wormhole tunneling-mindfield bending-time traveling-ramtha worshipping-crystal rubbing-crop circle hunting-chem trail conspiracy-antichrist numerology-mankind as reptoid slave race-hollow earth-awww what the fuck geocity uber-conspiracy circle jerk
FOR ME TO EVEN TRY TO LAUGH.
'cuz it just ain't funny.
So enough about the "humor".
Just because some one tries to be funny doesn't mean they can even come close.
And the best joke of all...
Everyone understand pain and suffering.
Very few will find your joke funny.
Universal turmoil vs. the "in-joke".
Now that's comedy.
Actually, I'd be an android if I laughed at any ol' thang someone thought was funny.
The Laugh-track is just that android.
But you see I have a mind, a self oriented point of reason and my own take on what the F*CK is funny thank u oh so very much.
Really though, this is straight out off the super market tabloid rack.
/. just sank to new lows. I mean c'mon couldn't roll out the Bill of Nine or an SCO rant so we had to troll the readers with "bat-boy" fodder?
from the article:
"I was experimenting with electronic voice phenomena. I was recording the analog noise between tracks on a scratchy old copy of Karl Muck conducting Parzifal with the Bayreuth Festival Chorus onto a cassette tape. Then I would cut, splice, and process the tape in various ways, and then listen to the results. On the third attempt I heard a voice that I recognized, from a tape once available through the Philip K. Dick Society, as belonging to the late science fiction writer. More incredible was my discovery that, by recording my own questions on the same cassette tape, I was able to initiate a genuine dialogue with this mysterious voice. Subsequent research proved, however, that all of the quotations have already made an appearance somewhere in Dick's fiction, letters, or essays. Nonetheless, the conversation seems worth presenting"
Jumping crack-heads on pogo-sticks batman!
What crack are the editors smoking and please pass it because my reality distortion field is waning and I need a hook up before the shakes set in.
The page is only "text" from this supposed "interview" and none of the cut-spliced-processed audio is to be found.
This is utter crap, if the audio was present it would at least have some artistic merit and therefore interest of value, but there is nothing but the rantings for those who wear shiny foil hats squarely screwed to their brows and interview excerpts readily available on Google!
Mod me down for being a troll, but
This is the best news I have heard since 1996.
:)
I can not wait for Anal-intrusive DRM to be included on every windows OS and Intel PC processor on the market.
In fact, I wish it was here right now.
I am salivating at the prospect of LAN wide system lock outs, Entire OS installtions destroyed because of stolen/forged Serial Numbers, the inability for a persson to have 2 copies of an app their my own equiptment, the deletion of personal files and monitoring of internet usage.
In fact, I hope they use and abuse back door facilities so that the entire machine is effectively a trojan and fast becomes the fabled crackers valhalla.
Huzzzzahhh Microsoft!!!
When you kill your competition and get cocked sucked by the gov't it's just natural to become your own worst enemy.
So, do release your DRM post-haste and help usher in a much needed paradigm shift from Windows to OS X/Linux.
Anyone else remember the movie "Tommy" where they started the camp then gagged, bound, abused their followers and by doing so incited a revolt?
"We're not gonna take it!"
I believe that's what's about to happen here, and personally I can only pray that it does. Every time I read about DRM from Microsoft, a layer of cynicism fades away as I see a glimmer of hope
So you'd all be better off protesting and just sit there quietly with a smile while MS cocks it's BFG and aims squarely at it's foot
What if someone slaps a EULA on a virus, and then sues anti-virus researchers?
Well, so far M$'s legal department has the first half covered. Rumour has it that they are backing SCO in attempt at the other half.
Slashdot posted a story just a few days ago that speculated on 15.4" tiBooks Personally, I think Apple plans on converting all their laptops and desktops to the 970 as soon as possible.
Not just because the 970's are more powerful processors, but because the overall system is more powerful and provides a much needed boost on the processor power hungry joe schmoe consumer market.
Think about it... Jobs has spent the last 4 years revamping the Apple product line and OS to compete head to head with the latest and greatest wintel platforms. But it's been the processors and busses keeping Apple down.
So Job would be crazy not to go out of his way to make sure that all systems were converted as soon as humanly possible to the new chips/mobos that can finally lay some smack down on wintel.
And as far as pricing goes, I firmly believe that Jobs will ensure Apple continues to price competitively with wintel.
The mac pice diffference is over, has been for at least a ear now. If you compare the cost of comparitive systems, you would see that Apple products are priced very competitively with wintel machines. And I would think Jobs would be wise to sweeten the deal to take full advantage of having a 64bit processor and OS by making the base desktop a smidge lower in price than the going base Pentium-class. In doing so Apple would see a definite boost on their lagging desktop sales (hence the "year of the laptop")
bwahahahahahhaha
Thank you for validating my long standing belief that SJ wishes to god it was LA but has nothing, nada zero null sip zilch in comparison to that plasticene hellhole of a concrete sprawl.
Frankly, SJ is worse than LA, it's a freakin police state and is void of any form of culture, be it plastic or soulfull.
Man oh man... I made the mistake of visiting there
NEVER AGAIN!
Looks like the Crongressional Dip$hits are at it again.
Perhaps they'll decide to save on legislature time and just try to roll the DMCA and the Patriot Act into one and just go ahead and lock up anyone with any sort of recording device as a Terrorist Threat.
Ya ya ya... I have zero faith in our government to ever not have it's head so far up it's ass when dealing with anything that is even remotely related to the tech sector or individual rights as opposed to corporate self interests.
Somehow, I have a feeling I'm not alone there.
Anyway, time to toss some moolah to the EFF, because they're gonna need it.
Pass the hat.
Adrenalin
You can get Adrenalin by picking up the red and white pills scattered throughout the levels, or by achieving kills. Once your Adrenalin reaches 100, you will be allowed to perform one of the following special moves, the effects of which will only last for a while:
Speed - forward, forward, forward, forward
Regen - back, back, back, back
Invisibility - right, right, left, left
Berserk - forward, forward, back, back
Read more here: http://unrealtournament2003.pcgameszone.com/unrea
I was starting to worry about getting a BSoD while trying to download my brownware.
And don't even get me started about the built in DRM system to handle the secure "door locking" functionality and toilette paper access restrictions.
Here in the US and many other countries, it is illegal to deny some one employment based upon age, gender, race or religion.
I have yet to hear of an employment descrimination case in the high tech sector based upon age. This may or may not be because of the hollywood "teenage hacker" stereotype that a lot of society is subjected to. That is to say many mid-career aged people (those in their 30's) may relent to a stereotype without bothering to think of their civil rights.
Overall, in my 10 years working in the tech sector most the people I've worked with are in their mid 20's to mid 30's. So I don't see the issue the article brings up other than the economy is bad and experience means a whole lot right now. But, there are many lower paying internship jobs available during which one may gain practical experience and possibly a lucrative position from.