This sucks. My brother is going to get several weeks of play time before I can even get the game. I'll tell you what, why doesn't ID sell the other platforms over the web and let us bypass those stupid distributors and their middleman mentalities. I for one don't want to be left in the dust waiting for my brother to play. I'll have to buy the damn game twice. Once to play, once to vote.
Has anyone actually looked at what's on this site?
Doesn't look like student help thing to me.
This doesn't really change my view that Purdue couldn't own it, but I start to wonder about why someone would post that they are providing student services.
...and yet you do nothing to investigate this perception. Here is your chance to decide for yourself about this person and you waste your chance by mouthing off. Neo
As competition heats up and other companies catch up with your lead in the first person shooter, who are you looking at as competition and what games are they making?
In other words, what would you play if you weren't playing Quake?
If you are snooping in on someone's e-mail without their knowledge, there could be serious backlash. Case law will probably follow the use of the telephone at the workplace as an example, and you can't listen to someone else's phone conversation without letting them know.
It's their e-mail, and it's their phone, but it's still your privacy. neo
If you are snooping in on someone's e-mail without their knowledge, there could be serious backlash. Case law will probably follow the use of the telephone at the workplace as an example, and you can't listen to someone else's phone conversation without letting them know.
It's their e-mail, and it's their phone, but it's still your privacy.
And while we're already waxing paranoid on this subject, is anyone else bothered by the routine foot/fingerprinting of children? What's next? Their SSN/barcode tatooed above their hairline?
No need to put it above the hairline. It's easy enough to add them so they are only visible in infrared and not in the visible spectrum. They could put them right on your forehead.
My personal opinion is that we already HAVE a national ID card. It's just that most people don't take the time to get one. We call them Passports.
But most people will never get one, so it's clear that we need some form of identification.
It's been a kludge for agencies to use the SSN as a substitute for a national Identity Number. What does access to my Social Security Fund have to do with who I am?
The other seeming rediculous form of Identity is the driver's license. Many states have given up telling people that it's not for ID and offer "walker's licences" so that people who don't drive can have an ID card.
The bottom line is that in a world full of databases, I would rather have a central ID number associated with a PIN or retinal scan or finger print than what we have now. It's horribly easy to steal someone's identity by getting their SSN number. That's what scares me.
So I welcome a national ID number system as long as it's combined with a user controlable confirmation.
If they don't meet the standard then some other company will. Clearly Microsoft loses when it can't dictate the standard. It's a document standard and if Microsoft tries to extend to change it, then they wont get the goverment contract.
One way the Government can deal with Microsoft is to stipulate it's own standards for document types. If the government agencies would dictate what standard types were involved with a text document, (tabs, tables, columns) then anyone could create files in this format and sell to the government.
It's easy to see why the public is stuck with proprietary standards in this regard when we our government doesn't dictate what formats are acceptable.
Even stating that RTF (rich text format) was the standard format for memo's and communication would relieve many problems.
First, why don't we rally a group of smart people around marketing Linux? Can the Bazaar out market the Cathedral? We need some support here.
Secondly, why aren't we running our own tests? I'm sure we can come up with impressive numbers that combat what other OS's are claiming. We need our own numbers, or we can't get the press to listen.
Humans have a very narrow understanding of intelligence. Our basic inferiority complex puts us on the highest scale of intelligence, and yet we can't even communicate with dolphins.
When computers are intelligent, it's going to be very hard for the majority of people to be able to deal with it. There are many reasons for this.
* Anything that removes the concepts of free will and human speciality destroys the basis of many religious and philosophical belief systems.
* The emergence of an intelligence which is non-human based is threatening to our self-centered view of the universe.
* Acceptance of computer intelligence (which is modular and hence expandible) puts the limits of human intelligence right in our face.
Computer intelligence is coming. I don't think we are ready to deal with it yet. It wont be like talking to another person... although we will try to make it that way.
neo
ps (If anyone knows how I can get in touch with those damn matrix guys... let me know. I want my name back.)
Understanding why these kids became monsters in no way condones what they did. While they may rot in hell for their actions, we must live in this hell... where people can't see past the mask to find the person underneath.
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This sucks. My brother is going to get several weeks of play time before I can even get the game. I'll tell you what, why doesn't ID sell the other platforms over the web and let us bypass those stupid distributors and their middleman mentalities. I for one don't want to be left in the dust waiting for my brother to play. I'll have to buy the damn game twice. Once to play, once to vote.
Has anyone actually looked at what's on this site?
Doesn't look like student help thing to me.
This doesn't really change my view that Purdue couldn't own
it, but I start to wonder about why someone would post
that they are providing student services.
neo
...and yet you do nothing to investigate this perception. Here is your chance to decide for yourself about this person and you waste your chance by mouthing off. Neo
As competition heats up and other companies
catch up with your lead in the first person
shooter, who are you looking at as competition
and what games are they making?
In other words, what would you play if you
weren't playing Quake?
John Lewis
If you are snooping in on someone's e-mail without their knowledge, there could be serious backlash. Case law will probably follow the use of the telephone at the workplace as an example, and you can't listen to someone else's phone conversation without letting them know.
It's their e-mail, and it's their phone, but it's still your privacy. neo
If you are snooping in on someone's e-mail without their knowledge, there could be serious backlash. Case law will probably follow the use of the telephone at the workplace as an example, and you can't listen to someone else's phone conversation without letting them know.
It's their e-mail, and it's their phone, but it's still your privacy.
neo
And while we're already waxing paranoid on this subject, is anyone else bothered by the routine foot/fingerprinting of children? What's next? Their SSN/barcode tatooed above their hairline?
No need to put it above the hairline. It's easy enough to add them so they are only visible in infrared and not in the visible spectrum. They could put them right on your forehead.
The technology is already out there.
My personal opinion is that we already HAVE a national ID card. It's just that most people don't take the time to get one. We call them Passports.
But most people will never get one, so it's clear that we need some form of identification.
It's been a kludge for agencies to use the SSN as a substitute for a national Identity Number. What does access to my Social Security Fund have to do with who I am?
The other seeming rediculous form of Identity is the driver's license. Many states have given up telling people that it's not for ID and offer "walker's licences" so that people who don't drive can have an ID card.
The bottom line is that in a world full of databases, I would rather have a central ID number associated with a PIN or retinal scan or finger print than what we have now. It's horribly easy to steal someone's identity by getting their SSN number. That's what scares me.
So I welcome a national ID number system as long as it's combined with a user controlable confirmation.
John -
If they don't meet the standard then some other company will. Clearly Microsoft loses when it can't dictate the standard. It's a document standard and if Microsoft tries to extend to change it, then they wont get the goverment contract.
One way the Government can deal with Microsoft is to stipulate it's own standards for document types. If the government agencies would dictate what standard types were involved with a text document, (tabs, tables, columns) then anyone could create files in this format and sell to the government.
It's easy to see why the public is stuck with proprietary standards in this regard when we our government doesn't dictate what formats are acceptable.
Even stating that RTF (rich text format) was the standard format for memo's and communication would relieve many problems.
I've been neo since 1985. I'm looking for a new name.
Two points:
First, why don't we rally a group of smart people around marketing Linux? Can the Bazaar out market the Cathedral? We need some support here.
Secondly, why aren't we running our own tests? I'm sure we can come up with impressive numbers that combat what other OS's are claiming. We need our own numbers, or we can't get the press to listen.
I hope we can get some more mirrors up, as the slshdot effect overwhelms those that exist.
Magic the Gathering sells cards for a collectible card game. They can print as many as they want.
There is a secondary market in Magic cards that's been selling them for years.
By your second point, someone at that company should have printed up some cards and sold them, thus destroying the market for these cards.
Once you wrapped your head around that one, try thinking before putting cute little quotes at the end of your messages.
Anyone want to buy "neo"?
You don't have to read about any gaming on /.
Get a filter from the prefrence menu.
It differs in this:
When you quit playing Gauntlet you had to start over.
When you quit playing UO, you can start back up in the same position.
We call this "persistant".
Humans have a very narrow understanding of intelligence. Our basic inferiority complex puts us on the highest scale of intelligence, and yet we can't even communicate with dolphins.
When computers are intelligent, it's going to be very hard for the majority of people to be able to deal with it. There are many reasons for this.
* Anything that removes the concepts of free will and human speciality destroys the basis of many religious and philosophical belief systems.
* The emergence of an intelligence which is non-human based is threatening to our self-centered view of the universe.
* Acceptance of computer intelligence (which is modular and hence expandible) puts the limits of human intelligence right in our face.
Computer intelligence is coming. I don't think we are ready to deal with it yet. It wont be like talking to another person... although we will try to make it that way.
neo
ps (If anyone knows how I can get in touch with those damn matrix guys... let me know. I want my name back.)
Understanding why these kids became monsters in no way condones what they did. While they may rot in hell for their actions, we must live in this hell... where people can't see past the mask to find the person underneath.