Games do lose value over time. Unless they are classics or have some personal sentimental value, they are guaranteed to be obsolete in a few years' time. Automotive model years are the same process as a new game engine for the same tired content. If it's not the newest, coolest game ever using the newest, coolest tech ever then it's not worth as much. We humans are loathe to be wowed by what we've already seen several times. Neophiles are a special hyper subclass of that. Most gaming geeks are at least partly neophiles, even if we fondly remember when the cool new thing was Pong.
There are the Atari Flashback console, the Atari Arcade Pack, and the Atari Classics Evolved package at a minimum for that name. The game packs are available for the PC and PSP and I think one is for the DS.
Capcom has a multi-game title I think called Capcom Classics Pack which I nearly bought for the PSP the other day.
There's a Namco Legends title with Pac-Man and more on it.
I own a copy of the Midway Arcade Treasures package for PSP. It has 720 Cyberball 2070, Mortal Kombat 1-3, Spy Hunter, Paperboy, Spy Hunter, Joust, Rampage, and more. I think it set me back about $30 about 3 years ago. Activision's Pitfall for the Atari 2600 cost me as much, and $30 was a lot more back then.
Speaking of Activision, they have the Activision Anthology for (at least) the PS2. It has 50 or so Atari 2600 games (including 5 homebrew games released after the 2600 became a classic console). It has Pitfall! and Pitfall 2, Kaboom!, Seaquest, Megamania, Enduro, Barnstorming, and other outright classics. I only own three of the aforementioned as 2600 cartridges, but I might just pick up this collection for the others.
The group pricing on older games is nice. Heck, even Valve does this. I paid $40 for the Orange Box. It gave me Half Life 2, Half Life 2 Episode One, Half Life 2 Episode Two, Half Life: Source, Half Life Lost Highway (or some such -- haven't played it yet), Team Fortress 2, and Portal. Blizzard has its Battle Chest packs for the Warcraft and Starcraft games and their add-ons. SSI, EA, and others have traditionally put together 5 or so old war games or all of two years ago's sports games into one package at a deep discount.
It is not my responsibility nor yours to ensure the viability of the business plans adopted by EA, Valve, or THQ.
The game publisher just like the housing contractor invested the capital for the initial product. They have bought no stake in the second-hand market and therefore have no inherent right to profit from it.
The people who have a stake in the products after its initial sales are the game buyer or game store, the car owner or car dealer, and the homeowner or real estate company. They have invested in the original purchase or in buying from the original purchaser, and therefore have a right to expect that they can enjoy the fruits of their investment.
The game store profits on the markup of a new game sale.
The game studios have some leverage here, though. There are all sorts of signs and banners in the game stores touting a particular studio or that studio's games and when they'll be available. The studios could easily demand a cut of used game sales in exchange for the rights to use those trademarks in support of the store. They don't. I'm not sure why, but it seems to me that the game publishers are under the impression that if I want a game I'm not going to realize that GameStop will have it in stock on its launch date without being told.
You want to know where my city's drinking water comes from? A river. You want to know where the city's sewer system empties into? The same river. It's treated before we drink it and it's treated before it's put back. I happen to live along a very long river, and nearly all the cities and towns upstream and downstream do the exact same thing. Water is water. Either it's pure enough or it isn't.
There is a standard way for police to get incriminating evidence from a third party in the free world, such as logs from an ISP of who was using what IP address at the time of a crime.
In the US this is called a subpoena. It often referred to simply as a "court order", although a subpoena is a specific type of court order.
I was in charge of providing evidence to law enforcement for a multiple different ISPs over the years. Our policy was that a friendly fax or letter from an officer was enough in cases of child porn or in which they believed someone was in immediate danger. In all other cases, we required a subpoena.
It can take significant labor on the part of the ISP to provide the evidence needed for proper law enforcement in copyright, fraud, harassment, or any other kind of online crime. They come to the admin staff wanting to know who had a particular IP at a particular time according to their witness. When you account for possible time skew and approximation, there may be two or three possible names for them for a single incident due to lease changes. They often come with multiple reports of the same behavior on multiple IPs at multiple times. The ISP needs to compile the list of user accounts that have used each IP for half an hour or so before or after the stated time, see which user accounts make a trend over the multiple complaints, and explain to the officers what the logs mean and that they are not in themselves damning evidence. Customers can have trojan bots on their systems being used by others or could have had their authentication information stolen after all. Many people write it down and a teenager's "friend" leaves the house with a copy. I've seen that many times in fact.
So, is it the ISP's job to alienate customers by cutting their service (which they are often under contract to provide) without proof the customer had any ill intent? Is it the ISP's job to weigh the evidence the studio presents? I don't think so. Leave laws to the law enforcement and courts. Leave admins to run the damn networks.
A handful of US states have tax stamps for illicit drugs. A drug dealer can (anonymously, presumably) go buy the stamps and affix them to his product and only get charged with the drug violations if police catch him. If he gets caught selling and hasn't paid taxes on the drugs, then they also make him liable for tax evasion charges and back taxes. I can see the same methods being used for anything a government wants banned.
Well, if by "like Canada" he means it is a sovereign nation, has a large land area, is resource-rich, and sells a lot of its stuff to the US, then he's only being deceptive and can't be caught in an outright falsehood. China's not very much like Canada in most ways, though. Even a superficial glance at the news coverage from each country could tell you that.
This is an ages old trick of the trade for con artists and fraudsters. A con tells his mark something that's worded very ambiguously. He makes sure what the mark understands is patently false, but covers his ass with some fanciful alternate meaning. That way the con can blame the mark for moving forward with the deal without a clear understanding of the terms.
I know the con and fraudster labels get bandied about for politicians and bureaucrats all the time. In this case, it seems they might be especially fitting. He's either lying through his teeth, severely deranged, or counting on one of Wikipedia's favorite tricks to catch: weasel words.
The quotes hold, though. It is wicked and disgraceful to convince people not to provide for their own protection. In a world with predators, the unarmed are known as prey.
It's kind of like a transmission. It's actually also kind of like the reverse of the adjustable displacement engines in some vehicles.
In some cars, you have an 8-cylinder engine but can use 4, 6, or 8 cylinders at various times based on the amount of power you need to generate. It doesn't take 8 5 liters of displacement to maintain highway speeds, but getting up to them quickly may. Turning off cylinders not in use saves fuel by not burning it when it's not needed. Each cylinder only draws chemical energy to make kinetic energy as needed.
If you left all the coils engaged, you might have too much resistance to generate any electricity in light winds and too much to generate it efficiently in more moderate winds. Yet if you build a turbine specifically for only light or moderate winds, you don't get any additional power once it is maxed out.
This solution uses wind, but you can't just press down on a pedal and ask for more wind (well, you could ask, but you'd be disappointed most of the time). So what it does instead is it has a magnet-in-coil generator with separately activated coils. Each coil only draws mechanical energy to make electricity as the mechanical energy is available. The rest of the coils are left as open circuits. If there's enough wind to turn the blades with half the coils on but not all of them (or too slowly to make sense with all of them), then you just open the circuits on half the coils and the other half keep generating. Only the coils in a closed circuit generate current and present meaningful resistance to the turbine. As you have more wind, you generate more power up to the maximum. The maximum number of coils doesn't impede this turbine from generating less current when some wind is still available though, because it just disconnects the spare coils until they are needed.
I don't care about Microsoft passing the buck internally, and I doubt HP does either. What's important is that it's HP's buck that MS is passing.
Intel and Microsoft both got more cash by selling out companies trying to sell computers that were actually Vista-ready in favor of more and cheaper units from other vendors whose boxes weren't.
The usual industry acronym is 'AAA'. It stands for 'authentication, authorization, and accounting'.
You've just said that identification is when you're identified and authentication is when your identity is confirmed. That's a terribly nit-picky distinction and not the one generally used by AAA software authors, documentation writers, or users.
Authentication is determining who a user is. Authorization is determining what that user is allowed to do, what resources they are allowed to use, during what time frame they are allowed to have access, and what level of accounting is necessary for them. Accounting is the logging about who logged in or out when, and often also what they did while they had access.
Well, I've read now that the telnetd in question does not, in fact, run as root. I wonder if that means the platform doesn't enforce limitations on who can listen on ports below 1024, but that's a side issue.
So something else is elevating the user's status. It could be login or something else. I don't have one of the phones and I don't have the cash to buy one just for the sake of curiosity right now. If I did buy an "open phone platform" on which I was being kept from being root, though, I'd be pissed.
It gives me the human-readable total for several subdirectories of the current total, summed up as total recursive usage for each. Then I can look deeper at the subdirectories that are actually causing the problem, perhaps without the -s.
There's a feature of bash that auto-completes more than filenames. You may not have it installed or enabled. It's often a separate package in package-managed distros.
For example, bash on Mandriva 2008.0 is bash-3.2-5mdv2008.0 but the bash completion RPM is bash-completion-20060301-18mdv2008.0 to get the extra features. Those versions may or may not have been updated since release, and I didn't check.
The bookmarks for ncftp and knowns hosts for ssh are but two examples of things it will autocomplete. Samba, quota, minicom, several different browsers, the OpenOffice applications, and more are configured with autocompletion rules under bash on my system.
Part of the flavor of the meat is from the diet of the cattle and from the marrow in the bones, though. If you give the muscle the ideal nutrient mix for fast growth and sell it in isolation, then you have to weigh the tenderness and fat content against those factors. It should be possible, though. At least a steak from a vat, if anyone ever does produce such a thing commercially, should taste better than other vat options like yeast paste.
The point is that they didn't do anything special to protect the cells against the damage of freezing. They took a mouse that was frozen just the way an animal would be frozen after death in the wild and worked around the damage freezing causes. The current cloning processes all use an intact healthy cell from an adult. This proves that's not necessary.
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Games do lose value over time. Unless they are classics or have some personal sentimental value, they are guaranteed to be obsolete in a few years' time. Automotive model years are the same process as a new game engine for the same tired content. If it's not the newest, coolest game ever using the newest, coolest tech ever then it's not worth as much. We humans are loathe to be wowed by what we've already seen several times. Neophiles are a special hyper subclass of that. Most gaming geeks are at least partly neophiles, even if we fondly remember when the cool new thing was Pong.
There are the Atari Flashback console, the Atari Arcade Pack, and the Atari Classics Evolved package at a minimum for that name. The game packs are available for the PC and PSP and I think one is for the DS.
Capcom has a multi-game title I think called Capcom Classics Pack which I nearly bought for the PSP the other day.
There's a Namco Legends title with Pac-Man and more on it.
I own a copy of the Midway Arcade Treasures package for PSP. It has 720 Cyberball 2070, Mortal Kombat 1-3, Spy Hunter, Paperboy, Spy Hunter, Joust, Rampage, and more. I think it set me back about $30 about 3 years ago. Activision's Pitfall for the Atari 2600 cost me as much, and $30 was a lot more back then.
Speaking of Activision, they have the Activision Anthology for (at least) the PS2. It has 50 or so Atari 2600 games (including 5 homebrew games released after the 2600 became a classic console). It has Pitfall! and Pitfall 2, Kaboom!, Seaquest, Megamania, Enduro, Barnstorming, and other outright classics. I only own three of the aforementioned as 2600 cartridges, but I might just pick up this collection for the others.
The group pricing on older games is nice. Heck, even Valve does this. I paid $40 for the Orange Box. It gave me Half Life 2, Half Life 2 Episode One, Half Life 2 Episode Two, Half Life: Source, Half Life Lost Highway (or some such -- haven't played it yet), Team Fortress 2, and Portal. Blizzard has its Battle Chest packs for the Warcraft and Starcraft games and their add-ons. SSI, EA, and others have traditionally put together 5 or so old war games or all of two years ago's sports games into one package at a deep discount.
It is not my responsibility nor yours to ensure the viability of the business plans adopted by EA, Valve, or THQ.
The game publisher just like the housing contractor invested the capital for the initial product. They have bought no stake in the second-hand market and therefore have no inherent right to profit from it.
The people who have a stake in the products after its initial sales are the game buyer or game store, the car owner or car dealer, and the homeowner or real estate company. They have invested in the original purchase or in buying from the original purchaser, and therefore have a right to expect that they can enjoy the fruits of their investment.
The game store profits on the markup of a new game sale.
The game studios have some leverage here, though. There are all sorts of signs and banners in the game stores touting a particular studio or that studio's games and when they'll be available. The studios could easily demand a cut of used game sales in exchange for the rights to use those trademarks in support of the store. They don't. I'm not sure why, but it seems to me that the game publishers are under the impression that if I want a game I'm not going to realize that GameStop will have it in stock on its launch date without being told.
If you're playing as Man United, it's also fairly redundant, yes? ;-)
You want to know where my city's drinking water comes from? A river. You want to know where the city's sewer system empties into? The same river. It's treated before we drink it and it's treated before it's put back. I happen to live along a very long river, and nearly all the cities and towns upstream and downstream do the exact same thing. Water is water. Either it's pure enough or it isn't.
Screw them. L. Frank Baum's family has living descendants. If anyone has a claim on the name "Oz", it's them.
Customers of other providers should also switch to iiNet and cite this as the reason to both the old and new companies for the change.
There is a standard way for police to get incriminating evidence from a third party in the free world, such as logs from an ISP of who was using what IP address at the time of a crime.
In the US this is called a subpoena. It often referred to simply as a "court order", although a subpoena is a specific type of court order.
I was in charge of providing evidence to law enforcement for a multiple different ISPs over the years. Our policy was that a friendly fax or letter from an officer was enough in cases of child porn or in which they believed someone was in immediate danger. In all other cases, we required a subpoena.
It can take significant labor on the part of the ISP to provide the evidence needed for proper law enforcement in copyright, fraud, harassment, or any other kind of online crime. They come to the admin staff wanting to know who had a particular IP at a particular time according to their witness. When you account for possible time skew and approximation, there may be two or three possible names for them for a single incident due to lease changes. They often come with multiple reports of the same behavior on multiple IPs at multiple times. The ISP needs to compile the list of user accounts that have used each IP for half an hour or so before or after the stated time, see which user accounts make a trend over the multiple complaints, and explain to the officers what the logs mean and that they are not in themselves damning evidence. Customers can have trojan bots on their systems being used by others or could have had their authentication information stolen after all. Many people write it down and a teenager's "friend" leaves the house with a copy. I've seen that many times in fact.
So, is it the ISP's job to alienate customers by cutting their service (which they are often under contract to provide) without proof the customer had any ill intent? Is it the ISP's job to weigh the evidence the studio presents? I don't think so. Leave laws to the law enforcement and courts. Leave admins to run the damn networks.
A handful of US states have tax stamps for illicit drugs. A drug dealer can (anonymously, presumably) go buy the stamps and affix them to his product and only get charged with the drug violations if police catch him. If he gets caught selling and hasn't paid taxes on the drugs, then they also make him liable for tax evasion charges and back taxes. I can see the same methods being used for anything a government wants banned.
Well, if by "like Canada" he means it is a sovereign nation, has a large land area, is resource-rich, and sells a lot of its stuff to the US, then he's only being deceptive and can't be caught in an outright falsehood. China's not very much like Canada in most ways, though. Even a superficial glance at the news coverage from each country could tell you that.
This is an ages old trick of the trade for con artists and fraudsters. A con tells his mark something that's worded very ambiguously. He makes sure what the mark understands is patently false, but covers his ass with some fanciful alternate meaning. That way the con can blame the mark for moving forward with the deal without a clear understanding of the terms.
I know the con and fraudster labels get bandied about for politicians and bureaucrats all the time. In this case, it seems they might be especially fitting. He's either lying through his teeth, severely deranged, or counting on one of Wikipedia's favorite tricks to catch: weasel words.
The quotes hold, though. It is wicked and disgraceful to convince people not to provide for their own protection. In a world with predators, the unarmed are known as prey.
It's kind of like a transmission. It's actually also kind of like the reverse of the adjustable displacement engines in some vehicles.
In some cars, you have an 8-cylinder engine but can use 4, 6, or 8 cylinders at various times based on the amount of power you need to generate. It doesn't take 8 5 liters of displacement to maintain highway speeds, but getting up to them quickly may. Turning off cylinders not in use saves fuel by not burning it when it's not needed. Each cylinder only draws chemical energy to make kinetic energy as needed.
If you left all the coils engaged, you might have too much resistance to generate any electricity in light winds and too much to generate it efficiently in more moderate winds. Yet if you build a turbine specifically for only light or moderate winds, you don't get any additional power once it is maxed out.
This solution uses wind, but you can't just press down on a pedal and ask for more wind (well, you could ask, but you'd be disappointed most of the time). So what it does instead is it has a magnet-in-coil generator with separately activated coils. Each coil only draws mechanical energy to make electricity as the mechanical energy is available. The rest of the coils are left as open circuits. If there's enough wind to turn the blades with half the coils on but not all of them (or too slowly to make sense with all of them), then you just open the circuits on half the coils and the other half keep generating. Only the coils in a closed circuit generate current and present meaningful resistance to the turbine. As you have more wind, you generate more power up to the maximum. The maximum number of coils doesn't impede this turbine from generating less current when some wind is still available though, because it just disconnects the spare coils until they are needed.
I don't care about Microsoft passing the buck internally, and I doubt HP does either. What's important is that it's HP's buck that MS is passing.
Intel and Microsoft both got more cash by selling out companies trying to sell computers that were actually Vista-ready in favor of more and cheaper units from other vendors whose boxes weren't.
The usual industry acronym is 'AAA'. It stands for 'authentication, authorization, and accounting'.
You've just said that identification is when you're identified and authentication is when your identity is confirmed. That's a terribly nit-picky distinction and not the one generally used by AAA software authors, documentation writers, or users.
Authentication is determining who a user is. Authorization is determining what that user is allowed to do, what resources they are allowed to use, during what time frame they are allowed to have access, and what level of accounting is necessary for them. Accounting is the logging about who logged in or out when, and often also what they did while they had access.
It might be /dev/audio or something else again on your system. It might be busy playing audio for some other process, for that matter.
They sent it down the wrong tube. That's the whole issue! ;-)
Well, I've read now that the telnetd in question does not, in fact, run as root. I wonder if that means the platform doesn't enforce limitations on who can listen on ports below 1024, but that's a side issue.
So something else is elevating the user's status. It could be login or something else. I don't have one of the phones and I don't have the cash to buy one just for the sake of curiosity right now. If I did buy an "open phone platform" on which I was being kept from being root, though, I'd be pissed.
I often prefer
It gives me the human-readable total for several subdirectories of the current total, summed up as total recursive usage for each. Then I can look deeper at the subdirectories that are actually causing the problem, perhaps without the -s.
Damnit, as if I didn't waste enough time on the fortune files already.
There's a feature of bash that auto-completes more than filenames. You may not have it installed or enabled. It's often a separate package in package-managed distros.
For example, bash on Mandriva 2008.0 is bash-3.2-5mdv2008.0 but the bash completion RPM is bash-completion-20060301-18mdv2008.0 to get the extra features. Those versions may or may not have been updated since release, and I didn't check.
The bookmarks for ncftp and knowns hosts for ssh are but two examples of things it will autocomplete. Samba, quota, minicom, several different browsers, the OpenOffice applications, and more are configured with autocompletion rules under bash on my system.
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
Part of the flavor of the meat is from the diet of the cattle and from the marrow in the bones, though. If you give the muscle the ideal nutrient mix for fast growth and sell it in isolation, then you have to weigh the tenderness and fat content against those factors. It should be possible, though. At least a steak from a vat, if anyone ever does produce such a thing commercially, should taste better than other vat options like yeast paste.
I'd rather have Paleolithic Park, and Greenland works for me.
The point is that they didn't do anything special to protect the cells against the damage of freezing. They took a mouse that was frozen just the way an animal would be frozen after death in the wild and worked around the damage freezing causes. The current cloning processes all use an intact healthy cell from an adult. This proves that's not necessary.