I have to disagree (also). You can simulate responses to a situation without encountering the situation itself. Perfect example, the various studies of solving phobias with virtual encounters of such a phobia. If it snake exists or not does not affect the reaction of someone with a phobia of snakes.
This is also a side-point to the essence of the article. By producing an environment which stimulates such an encounter (simple example, the strategy of being a terrorist/counter-terrotist in Counter-Strike), you invoke a set of certain responces in the players (beyond 12 year olds yelling you're haxoring or that you're gay), but you also can invoke time-critical reaction, anaylsis and interactions.
I use CloneCD to create images of any CDs I purchase - and for quite a few reasons.
1) Ease of use: mounting/unmounting CDs via HD is so much easier 2) Asset Protection: CDs are delicate things, double so with 5 kids 3) LAN Parties: I will *not* take my CDs to a LAN Party 4) Price: Game CDs are more expensive than additonal HDs 5) Laptop: I have a laptop - and can choose between 2 batteries or 1 battery and CD
But, these reasons don't mount up to the suits in UBI. Indeed, this sounds like something which some PHB has thought up and pushed through. In all seriousness, the measures used by groups like Valve work - these do not. They've lost (yet another) customer. It's a wealthy market out there people, vote with your cash and walk away.
Back in the days when Commodore Australia and Commodore US were at war (atleast internally), I worked for a shop in Canberra Australia selling the brand new Amigas. Wonderful things.
Well, we had contacts on both sides of the pond - and when Commodore Australia wouldn't give us the brand new 1.1 release of the boot disk, we contacted the US office and got one sent out to us. It came by courier late in the day, in the middle of winter. Indeed, I was just going home. I grabbed the disk, thinking that I'd take it home and test it out there. So I grabbed my stuff, got into the car, and drove home. Grabbed a drink, and promptly forgot about it.
Next morning, I got up (at a loverly -4C.. the fridge was warm), got to work, parked, got out, and spotted the 3.5" floppy disk on the wall next to the car.. completely iced over. I freaked, calmed down, freaked, calmed down, chipped it out, and put it next to a VERY gentle heat source. Five hours later, I unscrewed the disk (remember when 3.5" disks had screws?) and transplanted the data to a new shell.
Worked. Beutifully. A quick backup or 10 and we were happy. Indeed, that became a mascot disk at the place for a while, and worked for ages.
I started part-time work when I was 15 - selling Atari, Intellivision and VIC20s. Then the C64 came out (as did the first Amigas) and it was fantastic. Well, fantastic compared to my ZX80 (which was a better frisbee than a computer). I remember writing a simple creditors/debitors system on a C64 for the company selling them and it was the beginning of a new life for me.
I still have one at home, sitting in a box, with the various robotic kits I managed to integrate with it. Ahhhh, glory days.
if you can have a local *nix server, how about logging into that and using that as the source of secure data? I guess the real issue is working with large files (engineering files can get friggin huge) across a network - but it's a local box on a LAN it's alot more doable than in a WAN environment. Trust me, I'm in that hell supporting one right now.
So, all work done at work is kept on the secure *nix box.. and to take files home, I guess you could use a 'half-decent' archiving tool with password protection. Not really that secure, but better than most. I recommend RAR out of the lot, but that's only from preference not security.
There are a range of secure disk-based systems... how about a server using that, and removable storage (USB disks, HD caddies, etc) with the same..?
Not just the US, AU as well. In the places I've worked in (or supported) it's two networks. One for the inter-business communications and general work, but all classified work is done on a classified network. We actually confused a poor old PHB (engineer) but saying in passing that the two networks use an AirGap Router. The ol' boy searched his manuals for one but couldn't find it.
Of my favourite two (which I have), they include a USB based battery recharger so I can recharge the batteries in my logitech RF mouse (sorry, cant find a link) and the USB Mobile Phone Charger.
Now, on the goofy side, nothing beats the PC 12V Cigarette Lighter Panel. Okay, it's not USB but it's still insane. I want one just so I can put a 'non-smoker' button in it.
My daughter wanted her own email address, and she talks to her friends using messenger, so she signed up at hotmail. She neglected to tick off the 'advertise my email address in the hotmail direcdtory' when she did, and in about 15 minutes, she was swamped - with up to 200 emails a day. Topics included viagra, penis enlargement, US based credit, dipolmas, find-a-fuckbuddy, and so much more.
I'd advise doing this, and forwarding the mail to your test account.
The four preview pages (linked below) start this story before the fall of a certain Endless. With luck, it'll help provide the missing gaps to the mythos as I've *always* wanted to use the Endless as the core of a pen and paper RPG.
I'd go into depth with my interpretation of what and how Destruction and Delirium became what they are now (part of my initial game) but that's just too geeky.... still, this IS slashdot:P
We don't have a corporate room for gaming, but a bunch of us at work get together about once every 2 to 3 months for a LAN session (out of hours), and we have a all-day on-site LAN game which is corporatly approved (well, they provide the overhead projector for the day). This is something we all talk about, look forward to, and has become one of the highlights of our team. Additionally, it's an event which has brought us a little closer together than NOT doing it. We've done the wine tours, hiring a boat and having BBQs, but this single yearly event gives a new spin on our interpersonal relasionships.
Two thumbs up for the original corporate who's going to try this out. It's always a pros and cons thing. If the pros of the activity outweigh the cons, then it's a goer.
Get Adobe and Macromedia to port to Linux and I think you'll see a major increase in usage.
Hmmm, not the worst idea I've heard of. Even more so as there seems to be some growing ill will between Adobe and Apple, what with the battle between them over their movie editing applications. Adobe adding the option of Linux would be a poke at OSX.
Still, it may be possible to get them to run on the BSD backend.. but that's another can of worms:) The only BSD I know of is NetBSD and I've found the ability to run Linux apps in it bloody useful, although I'm only running gaming server apps for it.
Still, I must agree with the core thread.
Dreamweaver (well, Homesite) and Photoshop would be very tasty in a Linux world. Hell, personally, I'd settle for Paint Shop Pro:P
Well, Evil Bob can be altered at your whim. All you need to do is flip the record switch to on, plug in the cable from your Audio Out to his input (that's right folks.. Bob does it Matrix style), and press the required trigger (ie his hand, the hammer, his head, whatever) and wait for the beep. Hear the beep, press play on the sound you want recorded.
My favourite is his left foot. Currently, it's 'Screw you guys, I'm going home'. But it's a close second with his spanner saying 'I'm going to get medieval on his ass'...
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> Deus Ex: Invisible War
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Patch it. I installed the game was almost cried. I installed the patch, and it was all joy.
Well, technically anyway
OH YES!
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I'm sure Curry would just camp it out to the max, and eat up the role. Who do I call to make this happen ?!?!
Seriously, I can see the image in my head right now, and I'm twitching
Starts with Dai ... Come on, you can do it ...
Took a while to troll through the archives, but I believe this comic sums up the issue ...
PvP Online ... Laugh, it's funny
I have to disagree (also). You can simulate responses to a situation without encountering the situation itself. Perfect example, the various studies of solving phobias with virtual encounters of such a phobia. If it snake exists or not does not affect the reaction of someone with a phobia of snakes.
This is also a side-point to the essence of the article. By producing an environment which stimulates such an encounter (simple example, the strategy of being a terrorist/counter-terrotist in Counter-Strike), you invoke a set of certain responces in the players (beyond 12 year olds yelling you're haxoring or that you're gay), but you also can invoke time-critical reaction, anaylsis and interactions.
Alot of potential, and I'm looking forward to it.
Found a US company with it ... pretty good for an Aussie :)
http://ismachines.com/sure_wake_clocks.html
Click around for the contact details. Couldn't find prices though.
I go to LAN Parties *because* I have 5 kids ...
I use CloneCD to create images of any CDs I purchase - and for quite a few reasons.
1) Ease of use: mounting/unmounting CDs via HD is so much easier
2) Asset Protection: CDs are delicate things, double so with 5 kids
3) LAN Parties: I will *not* take my CDs to a LAN Party
4) Price: Game CDs are more expensive than additonal HDs
5) Laptop: I have a laptop - and can choose between 2 batteries or 1 battery and CD
But, these reasons don't mount up to the suits in UBI. Indeed, this sounds like something which some PHB has thought up and pushed through. In all seriousness, the measures used by groups like Valve work - these do not. They've lost (yet another) customer. It's a wealthy market out there people, vote with your cash and walk away.
Back in the days when Commodore Australia and Commodore US were at war (atleast internally), I worked for a shop in Canberra Australia selling the brand new Amigas. Wonderful things.
.. the fridge was warm), got to work, parked, got out, and spotted the 3.5" floppy disk on the wall next to the car .. completely iced over. I freaked, calmed down, freaked, calmed down, chipped it out, and put it next to a VERY gentle heat source. Five hours later, I unscrewed the disk (remember when 3.5" disks had screws?) and transplanted the data to a new shell.
... now, back to work.
Well, we had contacts on both sides of the pond - and when Commodore Australia wouldn't give us the brand new 1.1 release of the boot disk, we contacted the US office and got one sent out to us. It came by courier late in the day, in the middle of winter. Indeed, I was just going home. I grabbed the disk, thinking that I'd take it home and test it out there. So I grabbed my stuff, got into the car, and drove home. Grabbed a drink, and promptly forgot about it.
Next morning, I got up (at a loverly -4C
Worked. Beutifully. A quick backup or 10 and we were happy. Indeed, that became a mascot disk at the place for a while, and worked for ages.
Ahh memories
All I want for Christmas is my Embrio
...
Urgh. Now there was an image I didn't want
Gates as Morpheus. Can someone please stab my minds eye?
I started part-time work when I was 15 - selling Atari, Intellivision and VIC20s. Then the C64 came out (as did the first Amigas) and it was fantastic. Well, fantastic compared to my ZX80 (which was a better frisbee than a computer). I remember writing a simple creditors/debitors system on a C64 for the company selling them and it was the beginning of a new life for me.
I still have one at home, sitting in a box, with the various robotic kits I managed to integrate with it. Ahhhh, glory days.
if you can have a local *nix server, how about logging into that and using that as the source of secure data? I guess the real issue is working with large files (engineering files can get friggin huge) across a network - but it's a local box on a LAN it's alot more doable than in a WAN environment. Trust me, I'm in that hell supporting one right now.
.. and to take files home, I guess you could use a 'half-decent' archiving tool with password protection. Not really that secure, but better than most. I recommend RAR out of the lot, but that's only from preference not security.
... how about a server using that, and removable storage (USB disks, HD caddies, etc) with the same ..?
So, all work done at work is kept on the secure *nix box
There are a range of secure disk-based systems
Not just the US, AU as well. In the places I've worked in (or supported) it's two networks. One for the inter-business communications and general work, but all classified work is done on a classified network. We actually confused a poor old PHB (engineer) but saying in passing that the two networks use an AirGap Router. The ol' boy searched his manuals for one but couldn't find it.
Of my favourite two (which I have), they include a USB based battery recharger so I can recharge the batteries in my logitech RF mouse (sorry, cant find a link) and the USB Mobile Phone Charger.
Now, on the goofy side, nothing beats the PC 12V Cigarette Lighter Panel. Okay, it's not USB but it's still insane. I want one just so I can put a 'non-smoker' button in it.
My daughter wanted her own email address, and she talks to her friends using messenger, so she signed up at hotmail. She neglected to tick off the 'advertise my email address in the hotmail direcdtory' when she did, and in about 15 minutes, she was swamped - with up to 200 emails a day. Topics included viagra, penis enlargement, US based credit, dipolmas, find-a-fuckbuddy, and so much more.
I'd advise doing this, and forwarding the mail to your test account.
(Carefully Avoiding Spoilers)
.. .. still, this IS slashdot :P
The four preview pages (linked below) start this story before the fall of a certain Endless. With luck, it'll help provide the missing gaps to the mythos as I've *always* wanted to use the Endless as the core of a pen and paper RPG.
I'd go into depth with my interpretation of what and how Destruction and Delirium became what they are now (part of my initial game) but that's just too geeky
We don't have a corporate room for gaming, but a bunch of us at work get together about once every 2 to 3 months for a LAN session (out of hours), and we have a all-day on-site LAN game which is corporatly approved (well, they provide the overhead projector for the day). This is something we all talk about, look forward to, and has become one of the highlights of our team. Additionally, it's an event which has brought us a little closer together than NOT doing it. We've done the wine tours, hiring a boat and having BBQs, but this single yearly event gives a new spin on our interpersonal relasionships.
Two thumbs up for the original corporate who's going to try this out. It's always a pros and cons thing. If the pros of the activity outweigh the cons, then it's a goer.
Just have the candidates fight it out in armed combat.
Hmmm, not the worst idea I've heard of. Even more so as there seems to be some growing ill will between Adobe and Apple, what with the battle between them over their movie editing applications. Adobe adding the option of Linux would be a poke at OSX.
Still, it may be possible to get them to run on the BSD backend
Still, I must agree with the core thread.
Dreamweaver (well, Homesite) and Photoshop would be very tasty in a Linux world. Hell, personally, I'd settle for Paint Shop Pro
... I'm working on hover skateboards ... shhh!
I got into a hotel, after doing 18 hours work off site .. slumped down onto the bed, turned on the TV and caught the last 10 minutes of that movie.
...
AAAAAAAAAAARRGH!
Sorry, had to share
We have one of those. We grabbed a sample of the deep voice from Quake ..
User: I'd like to double my inbox size.
Evil Bob: "DENIED"
M
Well, Evil Bob can be altered at your whim. All you need to do is flip the record switch to on, plug in the cable from your Audio Out to his input (that's right folks .. Bob does it Matrix style), and press the required trigger (ie his hand, the hammer, his head, whatever) and wait for the beep. Hear the beep, press play on the sound you want recorded.
...
My favourite is his left foot. Currently, it's 'Screw you guys, I'm going home'. But it's a close second with his spanner saying 'I'm going to get medieval on his ass'
M
Oh yes we do .. oh, but you posted as an AC you dork ..
.. Want to pointlessly bitch, then turn your AC back on and feel free to reply.
sheesh
Don't like it, then move on