And nobody knows where the money will come from two years from now when it's time to upgrade.
Typical government. Get drunk of their ass now forgetting about the crippling hangover to follow...
Think about all the other "for the children" projects. Where are they now? They're sucking all the tax dollars that could have gone straight to the teachers in the first place.
In CDE, it appears to bring up different things for different programs. With the mouse on the workspace, it brings up an "about" dialog. With the mouse over my CDE decktop clock, it brings up the clock properties dialog. It dosn't seem to work for everything, though. A toy, really.
...taking advantage of laws instead of technical quirks is the better strategy, more immune from arms races.
At least a small-time arms race doesn't run the risk of unintended consequenses, such as permanently removing rights that every person is entitled to. The markets are already telling telemarketers to piss off, the DNC list only makes it happen just a little sooner.
Seriously, though, SCO is so small that McDonalds could mop the floor with them using one day's revenue from apple pie. Why doesn't someone just buy them and let the company live for legacy customers, just so we don't have to hear them whine about Linux?
10) Submarine-style isolation of the interior of your building, to prevent sound transmission to the outside.
It'll be much harder for the competitor's spooks to get anything, but it seems things are getting a bit less simple, now. You know, a military submarine is a great example to follow for good network security!
1) Remove all floppy drives and other writable-removable-media drives from every desktop on the network.
2) Keep the servers in a locked room. Put two or three cameras in the server room.
3) Enable firmware passwords on all computers to prevent installation CD root access.
4) Put lock-down cables on all computers to prevent physical theft. Real computers, such as Sun workstations, even have it where the lock-down cable prevents opening the case, too.
5) Isolate your network from all others, especially the Internet.
6) Don't use DHCP or NIS.
7) Keep all network cabling out of the reach of inductive sniffer tools. Keep all network ports on a switched network. Lock all equipment closets.
There are probably a few more things, too, but the above is probably a 99% solution.
Most importantly, the child needs to receive positive attention when he's not misbehaving...
Yes, but how many parents and teachers do so? I think many people are too wound up in their status symbols/jobs/dead-end relationships and see their children only as an inconvenience--a nuisance. The success of a family is really only chance, anymore (literally, it's 50/50), where children everywhere are victimized due to the divorce of selfish and short-shighted parents. Many people simply don't care, either. Children are fast becoming either pets, political tools, or tragic accidents from their parent's point of view.
That's the logical connection you were going for, right?
Yes. Whenever someone realizes what their religion is all about they stop being religious. It's unfortunate that people lock themselves into a single denomination of a single "faith" pitting themselves against all others, when there is so much more to the world. The prophets didn't intend to start wars, but their religious followers did, anyway. Pretty sad.
If you are saying all religions, then you're just plain ignorant and/or wrong.
Why? Once something transcends from a philsophy into a religion, mayhem ensues. What about blind faith and following unreasoned arguments from political leaders doesn't bother you?
It's subtle, but an important piece of making the game a good one. It ties the levels together and without the basic story about a marine fighting hell spawn the game would have been rather empty and less playable. Postal strikes me as a game without any substance, which is also why I could only try to force myself to find it entertaining for about a minute or so. After about a minute, it was about as much fun as watching paint dry.
Most people probably don't recognize why Doom was a milestone in gaming history, while Postal is a game that most people think of and just shrug.
I'm actually not anti-violent-games, and I would never recommend censorship of any form. However, Postal just isn't a good reciple for a good game. People that find it entertaining for more than five minutes should probably take a few moments for introspection.
parents are amazingly irrelevant to their children's character.
This is wrong. I can see a direct relationship between my parents and my personality. The same is true of other people I know. People who are jerks have parents who are deadbeats in some respect, whether it is affluenza or downright abuse. Early divorces can be especially traumatic, where even if the kids appear stable on the outside, they can often hint at hidden feelings about it. And on and on and on.
Like all youth cultures, it goes from youth to youth, bypassing all adult control.
Only when children are left rotting in environments like our public schools, where tyrannical rules and absent teachers push them even harder into perverse lifestyles of all types. Adults have a direct and tangible impact, especially on how prepared a child is when faced with a moral dillema.
I think it's clear that the rigid and somewhat intolerant mentality of adult-youth relations in the States is a large part of the problem.
It is, but this doesn't mean parents are not the cure, either. Allowing freedom breeds non-violence. I know this is hard for many reactionaries out there to understand, but perhaps they should look back about 200 years in US history for some answers on this issue.
Uh, since when is a video game a "form of expression?"
Is a canvas not suitable for artistic expression? How about a typewriter?
I can take paint and fling it on a canvas at random. That is not art. Likewise, Postal is not art (any person could come up with it without much effort at all).
However, as a medium of graphics and music, there really is no limit to video games as a means of expression. Although Deus Ex was too linear, etc., it did have a story with political overtones, for example.
I know lots of parents that sent their children to time out, and it worked.
The "guilt trip" mode of punishment only turns children into soft adults who whimper at the thought of real responsibility. Parents need to chew out their kids more (not like Wal-Mart trash...reasoned arguments can be okay, too). If the point is to teach children proper behavior, then why not talk to them for ten minutes rather than do ten minutes of time-out?
Fact: modern parents are lazy and too distracted by digital cable over 5.1 audio to really give a damn about their children.
Guns don't cause violence and neither do video games.
This won't stop Congress from shredding the Constitution further with insane laws to sate their retarded constituents.
Gun laws, drug laws, parent surviellance, no freedom in school...these are the things that breed violence and crime among frustrated and stifled kids. Give them some slack!
I remember seeing the first Postal. It was practically the only game I've ever found so revolting that I felt sorry for the people who actually thought it was fun. And this is after I had been playing all the Doom and Doom-derivitive games for years. Just going around and shooting people without a just cause is absolutely fucking stupid. At least Doom was fighting against an invasion from Hell or something. In Postal, it wasn't even self-defense.
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Just aim for the ground and miss.
I suppose California Tantra, or California Taoism, as such practices might be called, may fit the bill...
Thus my use of the word "some."
What's your take on the phallis temples in some parts of Asia?
And nobody knows where the money will come from two years from now when it's time to upgrade.
Typical government. Get drunk of their ass now forgetting about the crippling hangover to follow...
Think about all the other "for the children" projects. Where are they now? They're sucking all the tax dollars that could have gone straight to the teachers in the first place.
e-mail, Slashdot, and porn (not necessarily in that order) are all computers are really used for, anyway.
Um. I think you need more than five fingers for that?
Symbolics computers were designed by men.
what's so funny to have Left-Control at 3rd raw, while Right-Control at the buttom?
Real computers don't have a right control button. Real computer users use vi.
Tough doodie.
In CDE, it appears to bring up different things for different programs. With the mouse on the workspace, it brings up an "about" dialog. With the mouse over my CDE decktop clock, it brings up the clock properties dialog. It dosn't seem to work for everything, though. A toy, really.
...taking advantage of laws instead of technical quirks is the better strategy, more immune from arms races.
At least a small-time arms race doesn't run the risk of unintended consequenses, such as permanently removing rights that every person is entitled to. The markets are already telling telemarketers to piss off, the DNC list only makes it happen just a little sooner.
330 employees
Seriously, though, SCO is so small that McDonalds could mop the floor with them using one day's revenue from apple pie. Why doesn't someone just buy them and let the company live for legacy customers, just so we don't have to hear them whine about Linux?
Here's a couple more:
8) No windows.
9) Faraday cage in the walls.
10) Submarine-style isolation of the interior of your building, to prevent sound transmission to the outside.
It'll be much harder for the competitor's spooks to get anything, but it seems things are getting a bit less simple, now. You know, a military submarine is a great example to follow for good network security!
1) Remove all floppy drives and other writable-removable-media drives from every desktop on the network.
2) Keep the servers in a locked room. Put two or three cameras in the server room.
3) Enable firmware passwords on all computers to prevent installation CD root access.
4) Put lock-down cables on all computers to prevent physical theft. Real computers, such as Sun workstations, even have it where the lock-down cable prevents opening the case, too.
5) Isolate your network from all others, especially the Internet.
6) Don't use DHCP or NIS.
7) Keep all network cabling out of the reach of inductive sniffer tools. Keep all network ports on a switched network. Lock all equipment closets.
There are probably a few more things, too, but the above is probably a 99% solution.
Most importantly, the child needs to receive positive attention when he's not misbehaving...
Yes, but how many parents and teachers do so? I think many people are too wound up in their status symbols/jobs/dead-end relationships and see their children only as an inconvenience--a nuisance. The success of a family is really only chance, anymore (literally, it's 50/50), where children everywhere are victimized due to the divorce of selfish and short-shighted parents. Many people simply don't care, either. Children are fast becoming either pets, political tools, or tragic accidents from their parent's point of view.
That's the logical connection you were going for, right?
Yes. Whenever someone realizes what their religion is all about they stop being religious. It's unfortunate that people lock themselves into a single denomination of a single "faith" pitting themselves against all others, when there is so much more to the world. The prophets didn't intend to start wars, but their religious followers did, anyway. Pretty sad.
Can you provide examples of the pacifist religions where they have gratuitous sex?
Taoism isn't really a religion, but some of the people that follow its philosophy do enjoy themselves.
If you are saying all religions, then you're just plain ignorant and/or wrong.
Why? Once something transcends from a philsophy into a religion, mayhem ensues. What about blind faith and following unreasoned arguments from political leaders doesn't bother you?
Doom had a "just cause" for the violence?
It's subtle, but an important piece of making the game a good one. It ties the levels together and without the basic story about a marine fighting hell spawn the game would have been rather empty and less playable. Postal strikes me as a game without any substance, which is also why I could only try to force myself to find it entertaining for about a minute or so. After about a minute, it was about as much fun as watching paint dry.
Most people probably don't recognize why Doom was a milestone in gaming history, while Postal is a game that most people think of and just shrug.
anti-violent-game people
I'm actually not anti-violent-games, and I would never recommend censorship of any form. However, Postal just isn't a good reciple for a good game. People that find it entertaining for more than five minutes should probably take a few moments for introspection.
And given that programmers are overwhelmingly male...
Then, they can share one chair. Four arms typing would be a boost of productivity, anyway.
parents are amazingly irrelevant to their children's character.
This is wrong. I can see a direct relationship between my parents and my personality. The same is true of other people I know. People who are jerks have parents who are deadbeats in some respect, whether it is affluenza or downright abuse. Early divorces can be especially traumatic, where even if the kids appear stable on the outside, they can often hint at hidden feelings about it. And on and on and on.
Like all youth cultures, it goes from youth to youth, bypassing all adult control.
Only when children are left rotting in environments like our public schools, where tyrannical rules and absent teachers push them even harder into perverse lifestyles of all types. Adults have a direct and tangible impact, especially on how prepared a child is when faced with a moral dillema.
I think it's clear that the rigid and somewhat intolerant mentality of adult-youth relations in the States is a large part of the problem.
It is, but this doesn't mean parents are not the cure, either. Allowing freedom breeds non-violence. I know this is hard for many reactionaries out there to understand, but perhaps they should look back about 200 years in US history for some answers on this issue.
But I have yet to find a way to kill with a DAT tape.
Wrap the plastic ribbon around someone's neck. Really, I didn't have to think very hard about this.
Uh, since when is a video game a "form of expression?"
Is a canvas not suitable for artistic expression? How about a typewriter?
I can take paint and fling it on a canvas at random. That is not art. Likewise, Postal is not art (any person could come up with it without much effort at all).
However, as a medium of graphics and music, there really is no limit to video games as a means of expression. Although Deus Ex was too linear, etc., it did have a story with political overtones, for example.
I know lots of parents that sent their children to time out, and it worked.
The "guilt trip" mode of punishment only turns children into soft adults who whimper at the thought of real responsibility. Parents need to chew out their kids more (not like Wal-Mart trash...reasoned arguments can be okay, too). If the point is to teach children proper behavior, then why not talk to them for ten minutes rather than do ten minutes of time-out?
Fact: modern parents are lazy and too distracted by digital cable over 5.1 audio to really give a damn about their children.
This appears to be exactly backwards.
Religion will do that to people.
Guns don't cause violence and neither do video games.
This won't stop Congress from shredding the Constitution further with insane laws to sate their retarded constituents.
Gun laws, drug laws, parent surviellance, no freedom in school...these are the things that breed violence and crime among frustrated and stifled kids. Give them some slack!
I remember seeing the first Postal. It was practically the only game I've ever found so revolting that I felt sorry for the people who actually thought it was fun. And this is after I had been playing all the Doom and Doom-derivitive games for years. Just going around and shooting people without a just cause is absolutely fucking stupid. At least Doom was fighting against an invasion from Hell or something. In Postal, it wasn't even self-defense.