the whole point of putting rare cards in any collectible card game is so that people will buy crates of cards to get them...
Actually the creator thought that a most people would have two starter decks and 4 booster packs. The reason for rare cards was to help balance the powerful cards. No one at wizards thought that magic would be as popular as it became and there was no way to predict it. Richard Garfield thought you'd never actually see all the cards, and rare cards would make the game more interesting.
The author goes on and on about how cheating will be rampant online and if you dup cards that we could end up with lots of dupped card being traded or worse yet that these cards could be traded in for actual magic cards.
On and on he goes about how dangerous this online version will be... but here's the catch:
If you can get physical cards for your online cards then you're playing Magic Online when you play at your local store. The meta game is now the same game. How can you tell if someone's "real life" deck isn't stacked with duped cards from his online deck?
Well you can't. And guess what, the game was hacked a long time ago, in real life. Richard Garfield never envisioned people buying crates of the cards to get four of the rare ones in their deck... the game was hacked with money.
So next time you lose at Magic the Gathering at your local hobby store, you can call the guy a cheater. I mean, can he prove he actually bought all those cards?
a steady stream of new threats. There was another model for anti-virus software. One that didn't have a patch model, but it was ignored because profit driven companies require "revenue streams".
Rather than having a program that removes a virus from your system after you've been infected or which requires an "inoculation" to recognize viruses, the other system looks at program activities.
The actions taken by a virus are painfully obvious when you look at them from a macro point of view (no pun intended). While not a trivial coding task, it's possible to monitor for these types of action and freeze a program that would take them. More over, with an ample supply of ram and CPU, new programs could be tested in a "Safe Zone" the first time they are run, ensuring that problem programs would be caught in the act.
Unfortunately this type of protection doesn't require incremental upgrades from Anti-Virus companies and so we're stuck with something that can make profits rather than something that works pro-actively. Thus is the basic flaw of capitalism.
who had been given this case came to hate MS, in much the same way as the previous judge had. She hated them because they lied, they cheated and they were trying all kinds of tricks to sway her viewpoint.
Now imagine you were really set to hit them upside the head with a nasty verdict. What would be the smartest thing in the world to do. Right... keep quiet about it. Never give a hint or whiff that you felt that way, or you'd never get your chance to apply a verdict at all. You'd know the previous judge really f*cked up when he talked about the case, so you wont make the same mistake. In fact, it would be nearly impossible for anyone to guess what you were planning on doing.
This is clearly conjecture on my part, but god it would be nice if it was true.
and I also hope that Microsoft doesn't start complaining about how the Military is now in competition with their games. How is Microsoft supposed to make money on military games if the US Military is giving games away for free?
On a serious note, I'd only have a problem with this if it didn't show what military life was really like. For example, I hope their sims version shows you the excitement of cleaning bathrooms and that you can level up in rock painting. Both of these skills are extremely important to the US Military.
The company also complained that the Pentagon is funding research on making free software more secure, which in effect subsidizes Microsoft's open-source competitors, Stenbit said.
In related news, the Salvation Army is suing the US Government over it's Welfare program.
"How are we supposed to keep America out of poverty when we have all this free competition? It it really fair to put us up against the money of the american people?"
Stallman feels that an opererating system is more than just a kernal, and he's right. But his entire history is based on using other peoples code to shortcut building "GNU" programs. He freely admits that he has used other's code to make his own, but since they don't have organizations with acronyms, I guess they are less deserving of title space.
Linux did the same thing. GNU assumes that anything touched by GNU is GNU, but that's hypocritical. How many additions to GNU have been made in the name of Linux? Perhaps GNU should be changing it's name.
The concept is deceptively simple. Every interaction in the universe can be reduced to a series of mathmatical equations of iteration that can be represented in two dimensional space. The clustering of solution follow extrememly simple rules, that even a child could learn in a few minutes. The reprocussions if this is proven to be true would be nothing short of revolutionary. Imagine the paradigm shift when the world finally realized that the earth revolved around the sun... this beats that by a factor of 100.
And he's got lots of hard data to back up his claim. Sampling from dozens of sciences, he shows the same patterns emerging over and over again. It's stunning to see some of the work because it becomes intuative after only a few examles and you can see the patterns in so many different places.
So either he's a complete nut, who has taken something that's absurdely simple and mis-applied it to all the major scientific endeavours, or he's a certifiable genius who has just opened the window to understand the universe in the most basic of ways.
What should M$ do with all their extra "on hand" cash? They should buy a space shuttle! Imagine the profits to be had by knocking down other peoples satalites!! Screw the anti-trust trial, they can't touch you in space. Make whatever you want and just beam in down to retailers.
I think there should be a toggle on a news story that emails you if the story changes. I know I often send the URL of stories to friends and my assumption is that the article at the URL will be the same as when I sent it.
This is particularly hard to deal with if there was a single point or phrase I wanted to convey that later was edited out.
At the very least, there should be a "View older versions" link so you can see the revisions made. Even if they had some disclaimer that there was newer information at another location (that was linked as well).
It would be really good if I had to relax (hence think) before I could edit a really important file, like/etc/passwd or before I could even become root. That would resolve 90% of the errors I make when I'm doing sys admin stuff.
User friendly OS's are secure to start and allow users to then configure their security down if they choose to. If NT isn't secure out of the box and this version of Linux is, then that is indeed a point for Linux. Your analogy of the tarball file is offbase because it ignores the fact that you don't need to do anything to make this distro of linux secure.
So it doesn't boil down to security vs. useability. Start secure and be useable.
I think it's horrible they sell a naked PC that has hardware that requires Windows to be used.
I think you're assuming that they knew. This is Wal-Mart guys... do you honestly think anyone even tried to turn the machines on? Technical knowledge is not their strong suit. They sell items as cheaply as possible. My guess is that the manufacturer they bought it from just told them "it has a modem".
If it were the Painstation I'd watch it. The Painstation is a version of Pong where one hand controls the game and the other rests in a pain unit. Every time you miss the ball, you get some pain. The first person to remove his hand from the pain unit loses. The pain comes in three kinds: heat, whip, and electric shock.
Those wacky Germans!
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Is it really a mystery?
How much do you pay a month for phone (in particular long distance)? How much do you pay a month for a DSL/Cable connection to the internet?
Now add them together.
If you want to get this number lower you have two options:
* Just use a modem and get rid of the DSL/Cable connection. -or- * Stop making long distance calls over phone lines.
The people who get the most benefit are those who are in other contries. It can reduce you phone bill from hundreds of dollars to almost nothing... for a network connection you were already paying for.
Cicso be damned, the only people who fear this are phone carriers.
Sure, it's nice to say that you're using MacOS "ten"... but in reality you're using a new OS. Brand spanking new... with a remarkably noble achievement in using postscript for the entire rendering. Most people don't get what this means, but it's a completely different way of dealing with what you see on the screen... You can take anything and save it as postscript.
Of course it's a little slow. It's new code. That's why they can make it faster with each revision. It's probably going to continue getting faster and faster as the coders get more comfortable with the code base.
Didn't any of you read the Terms of Use at the bottom of that page?
"PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION.
Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Services."
If I'm not mistaken, you guys have copied parts of that page and pasted it here. You are in soooo much trouble.
On Item 24: The existence of a unique bug that mirrors battle.net in bnetd's client-side login indicating that the source code was blatantly copied:
During reverse-engineering, if you observe something happening with the program on every login, would you not implement it? How would the bnetd coders know it was a bug? How does this prove the *code* was copied, not the functionality?
You're assuming that the bug was observable. What would you say if the bug had no observable effect and was reproduced in both bnetd's and battle.net?
This isn't something you can speculate, you have to see the code.
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the whole point of putting rare cards in any collectible card game is so that people will buy crates of cards to get them...
Actually the creator thought that a most people would have two starter decks and 4 booster packs. The reason for rare cards was to help balance the powerful cards. No one at wizards thought that magic would be as popular as it became and there was no way to predict it. Richard Garfield thought you'd never actually see all the cards, and rare cards would make the game more interesting.
The dollar signs came later.
The author goes on and on about how cheating will be rampant online and if you dup cards that we could end up with lots of dupped card being traded or worse yet that these cards could be traded in for actual magic cards.
On and on he goes about how dangerous this online version will be... but here's the catch:
If you can get physical cards for your online cards then you're playing Magic Online when you play at your local store. The meta game is now the same game. How can you tell if someone's "real life" deck isn't stacked with duped cards from his online deck?
Well you can't. And guess what, the game was hacked a long time ago, in real life. Richard Garfield never envisioned people buying crates of the cards to get four of the rare ones in their deck... the game was hacked with money.
So next time you lose at Magic the Gathering at your local hobby store, you can call the guy a cheater. I mean, can he prove he actually bought all those cards?
rooted. If I didn't check in once in a while, the system would assume my unix box was rooted and take action to lock down the system.
really slow proxie server. It's just got lots of options for which caches version you want to see. :-)
they are then responsible for it's security. Period. Anything else is just neglegence and will get their pants sued off them.
a steady stream of new threats. There was another model for anti-virus
software. One that didn't have a patch model, but it was ignored because
profit driven companies require "revenue streams".
Rather than having a program that removes a virus from your system after
you've been infected or which requires an "inoculation" to recognize
viruses, the other system looks at program activities.
The actions taken by a virus are painfully obvious when you look at them
from a macro point of view (no pun intended). While not a trivial coding
task, it's possible to monitor for these types of action and freeze a
program that would take them. More over, with an ample supply of ram and
CPU, new programs could be tested in a "Safe Zone" the first time they are
run, ensuring that problem programs would be caught in the act.
Unfortunately this type of protection doesn't require incremental upgrades
from Anti-Virus companies and so we're stuck with something that can make
profits rather than something that works pro-actively. Thus is the basic
flaw of capitalism.
Can't you broadcast in something else?!?
who had been given this case came to hate MS, in much the same way as the previous judge had. She hated them because they lied, they cheated and they were trying all kinds of tricks to sway her viewpoint.
Now imagine you were really set to hit them upside the head with a nasty verdict. What would be the smartest thing in the world to do. Right... keep quiet about it. Never give a hint or whiff that you felt that way, or you'd never get your chance to apply a verdict at all. You'd know the previous judge really f*cked up when he talked about the case, so you wont make the same mistake. In fact, it would be nearly impossible for anyone to guess what you were planning on doing.
This is clearly conjecture on my part, but god it would be nice if it was true.
and I also hope that Microsoft doesn't start complaining about how the Military is now in competition with their games. How is Microsoft supposed to make money on military games if the US Military is giving games away for free?
On a serious note, I'd only have a problem with this if it didn't show what military life was really like. For example, I hope their sims version shows you the excitement of cleaning bathrooms and that you can level up in rock painting. Both of these skills are extremely important to the US Military.
The company also complained that the Pentagon is funding research on making free software more secure, which in effect subsidizes Microsoft's open-source competitors, Stenbit said.
In related news, the Salvation Army is suing the US Government over it's Welfare program.
"How are we supposed to keep America out of poverty when we have all this free competition? It it really fair to put us up against the money of the american people?"
Stallman feels that an opererating system is more than just a kernal, and he's right. But his entire history is based on using other peoples code to shortcut building "GNU" programs. He freely admits that he has used other's code to make his own, but since they don't have organizations with acronyms, I guess they are less deserving of title space.
Linux did the same thing. GNU assumes that anything touched by GNU is GNU, but that's hypocritical. How many additions to GNU have been made in the name of Linux? Perhaps GNU should be changing it's name.
To Lignux.
The concept is deceptively simple. Every interaction in the universe can be reduced to a series of mathmatical equations of iteration that can be represented in two dimensional space. The clustering of solution follow extrememly simple rules, that even a child could learn in a few minutes. The reprocussions if this is proven to be true would be nothing short of revolutionary. Imagine the paradigm shift when the world finally realized that the earth revolved around the sun... this beats that by a factor of 100.
;-)
And he's got lots of hard data to back up his claim. Sampling from dozens of sciences, he shows the same patterns emerging over and over again. It's stunning to see some of the work because it becomes intuative after only a few examles and you can see the patterns in so many different places.
So either he's a complete nut, who has taken something that's absurdely simple and mis-applied it to all the major scientific endeavours, or he's a certifiable genius who has just opened the window to understand the universe in the most basic of ways.
I'll let you know after I read the book.
Internet Time is your friend.
What should M$ do with all their extra "on hand" cash? They should buy a space shuttle! Imagine the profits to be had by knocking down other peoples satalites!! Screw the anti-trust trial, they can't touch you in space. Make whatever you want and just beam in down to retailers.
I think there should be a toggle on a news story that emails you if the story changes. I know I often send the URL of stories to friends and my assumption is that the article at the URL will be the same as when I sent it.
This is particularly hard to deal with if there was a single point or phrase I wanted to convey that later was edited out.
At the very least, there should be a "View older versions" link so you can see the revisions made. Even if they had some disclaimer that there was newer information at another location (that was linked as well).
It would be really good if I had to relax (hence think) before I could edit a really important file, like /etc/passwd or before I could even become root. That would resolve 90% of the errors I make when I'm doing sys admin stuff.
I'll believe it when I can afford to buy a copy of the newspaper.
Sorry to rant, but I'm tired of all those Neo-worshippers.
Me too.
User friendly OS's are secure to start and allow users to then configure their security down if they choose to. If NT isn't secure out of the box and this version of Linux is, then that is indeed a point for Linux. Your analogy of the tarball file is offbase because it ignores the fact that you don't need to do anything to make this distro of linux secure.
So it doesn't boil down to security vs. useability. Start secure and be useable.
I think it's horrible they sell a naked PC that has hardware that requires Windows to be used.
I think you're assuming that they knew. This is Wal-Mart guys... do you honestly think anyone even tried to turn the machines on? Technical knowledge is not their strong suit. They sell items as cheaply as possible. My guess is that the manufacturer they bought it from just told them "it has a modem".
If it were the Painstation I'd watch it. The Painstation is a version of Pong where one hand controls the game and the other rests in a pain unit. Every time you miss the ball, you get some pain. The first person to remove his hand from the pain unit loses. The pain comes in three kinds: heat, whip, and electric shock.
Those wacky Germans!
Is it really a mystery?
How much do you pay a month for phone (in particular long distance)?
How much do you pay a month for a DSL/Cable connection to the internet?
Now add them together.
If you want to get this number lower you have two options:
* Just use a modem and get rid of the DSL/Cable connection.
-or-
* Stop making long distance calls over phone lines.
The people who get the most benefit are those who are in other contries. It can reduce you phone bill from hundreds of dollars to almost nothing... for a network connection you were already paying for.
Cicso be damned, the only people who fear this are phone carriers.
Sure, it's nice to say that you're using MacOS "ten"... but in reality you're using a new OS. Brand spanking new... with a remarkably noble achievement in using postscript for the entire rendering. Most people don't get what this means, but it's a completely different way of dealing with what you see on the screen... You can take anything and save it as postscript.
Of course it's a little slow. It's new code. That's why they can make it faster with each revision. It's probably going to continue getting faster and faster as the coders get more comfortable with the code base.
So yeah, it's slow. Is anyone really surprised?
Didn't any of you read the Terms of Use at the bottom of that page?
"PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION.
Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Services."
If I'm not mistaken, you guys have copied parts of that page and pasted it here. You are in soooo much trouble.
oh crap... I just pasted part of the TOU here...
On Item 24:
The existence of a unique bug that mirrors battle.net in bnetd's client-side login indicating that the source code was blatantly copied:
During reverse-engineering, if you observe something happening with the program on every login, would you not implement it? How would the bnetd coders know it was a bug? How does this prove the *code* was copied, not the functionality?
You're assuming that the bug was observable. What would you say if the bug had no observable effect and was reproduced in both bnetd's and battle.net?
This isn't something you can speculate, you have to see the code.