It's the standard thing whenever big telco gets interested in a technology, they move in, release a version of the tech that's been "user-friendlied" (read: less of the cool features) and then after awhile, nobody misses those cool features because the guys who had them went under.
Thanks, I butchered things and sent it over. Chances are I'll get a form-letter response and the letter will go straight to the bit bucket on her freshly minted complimentary copy of Outlook.
Now there's a game I would be able to frag along with. Some players could be the investigators and one player would be the evil murderer (skin chosen at random).
Not a really great interview but it doesn't kill my enthusiasm for the project; I really want to see this thing come out and at least have some small interest amongst the Slashdot crowd, or at least the indie gamer crowd.
First of all, this kind of service should never be connected to the public network, or even better, never to a non-dumb terminal.
Secondly, Microsoft CLEARLY spells out that their software is never to be used in this kind of implementation. Most software manufacturers do -- Sun, Apple, and most Linux distros IIRC.
Now, if this is a case of a critical service being overflowed from a remote location simply because it's connected to a public network, that's bad enough. To be running a consumer operating system on those critical services is simply unacceptable and probably worthy of execution. I don't care if the system was offline at the time -- this kind of thing should be definitely ringing warning bells. I hope whatever moron implemented this system gets fired.
From reading the article the services that went down had analog backups, but it's still unacceptable. Don't connect critical services to the fucking Internet.
Here I was hoping that these agents were moving programmers and the people who actually build the game, and it turns out just to be some dorks who sell you an actor to go with your license.
If you'll trust some random idiot who posts on Slashdot, I found the book to be pretty informative and full of stuff I didn't know yet -- however, some bits were poorly written. I'd give it a 75%.
That's the kind of political speak that makes people from here want to vote. I say we need more geek candidates -- we may not make the right decisions, but hell, we can try better than these nincompoops.
According to this article their entire livelihood banks on paying enough money so that they can sucker people in before they read about how much the movie sucks. That seems almost criminal.
Yeah, I just got back from a while of being out and I check my mail and waiting on my nice Mac is a warning letter (from this morning) telling me to update my version of Windows from my ISP. Thanks guys. Makes me feel even more alone when all these Windows users are busy having all this virus-deletion hoopla.
This is definitely one of these patents invented by marketing/business weasels in order to try and grab as much revenue as possible.
It's really sad -- the PTO appears to be set up to reward idiots who patent a really simple (but hard to implement) idea and then demand royalties from whoever does actually implement it. There needs to be a big overhaul.
Your local high school electronics class might have a few old ones to pitch. Try second hand stores -- although I recently went to a "Liquidation" place and saw a tricked-out HP oscilloscope for the "bargain basement" price of $700.
Half the morons here seem to think that it's a competitive commercial game console, designed to beat up Microsoft and Sony. It's not. So the graphics hardware isn't great. Big deal.
It's here so that somebody can learn to program, or to play with hardware. I personally would like to see a repeat of the C64-style "walk up and code" system; kids today have little to no experience with programming and as such have resorted to just playing games and poking around in the warez translation of RPG Maker.
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I build my own GNU/Guns because the ones the Debian gun company can give me through apt-gun are sometimes seconds out of date. Imagine!
It's the standard thing whenever big telco gets interested in a technology, they move in, release a version of the tech that's been "user-friendlied" (read: less of the cool features) and then after awhile, nobody misses those cool features because the guys who had them went under.
They should just turn in all the people who are interested in voting, that way they'd get rid of all the voting-interested terrorists as well!
Thanks, I butchered things and sent it over. Chances are I'll get a form-letter response and the letter will go straight to the bit bucket on her freshly minted complimentary copy of Outlook.
Let's see Kasparov try to whip this IBM project's ass.
Now there's a game I would be able to frag along with. Some players could be the investigators and one player would be the evil murderer (skin chosen at random).
Not a really great interview but it doesn't kill my enthusiasm for the project; I really want to see this thing come out and at least have some small interest amongst the Slashdot crowd, or at least the indie gamer crowd.
Dying from OD on "power pills" is not a great way to fight a war with the departed.
First of all, this kind of service should never be connected to the public network, or even better, never to a non-dumb terminal.
Secondly, Microsoft CLEARLY spells out that their software is never to be used in this kind of implementation. Most software manufacturers do -- Sun, Apple, and most Linux distros IIRC.
Now, if this is a case of a critical service being overflowed from a remote location simply because it's connected to a public network, that's bad enough. To be running a consumer operating system on those critical services is simply unacceptable and probably worthy of execution. I don't care if the system was offline at the time -- this kind of thing should be definitely ringing warning bells. I hope whatever moron implemented this system gets fired.
From reading the article the services that went down had analog backups, but it's still unacceptable. Don't connect critical services to the fucking Internet.
I got similar speeds using my K6-2/200 running Debian. Hooray for btdownloadcurses.
Here I was hoping that these agents were moving programmers and the people who actually build the game, and it turns out just to be some dorks who sell you an actor to go with your license.
We need less licensed games -- and less shit.
Yeah, I've had CuteFTP stop working on me because AdAware took out one of its "Adware" DLLs.
If you'll trust some random idiot who posts on Slashdot, I found the book to be pretty informative and full of stuff I didn't know yet -- however, some bits were poorly written. I'd give it a 75%.
Open your preferences... now go down and uncheck "Caldera" from story topics. Problem solved.
That's the kind of political speak that makes people from here want to vote. I say we need more geek candidates -- we may not make the right decisions, but hell, we can try better than these nincompoops.
BeOS and the Amiga both are very good systems and should be remembered. SCO's outdated empire-ware, however, could do with some forgetting.
According to this article their entire livelihood banks on paying enough money so that they can sucker people in before they read about how much the movie sucks. That seems almost criminal.
Yeah, I just got back from a while of being out and I check my mail and waiting on my nice Mac is a warning letter (from this morning) telling me to update my version of Windows from my ISP. Thanks guys. Makes me feel even more alone when all these Windows users are busy having all this virus-deletion hoopla.
Doesn't matter. Too many people still buy into it even though they know it's unreliable. They fear or are ignorant of any alternatives.
Nobody agrees with the Liberals but hell, they're in power anyway and they suck. They're the dunderheads bringing in the "CD-Rs = PIRACY" policy.
This is definitely one of these patents invented by marketing/business weasels in order to try and grab as much revenue as possible.
It's really sad -- the PTO appears to be set up to reward idiots who patent a really simple (but hard to implement) idea and then demand royalties from whoever does actually implement it. There needs to be a big overhaul.
Your local high school electronics class might have a few old ones to pitch. Try second hand stores -- although I recently went to a "Liquidation" place and saw a tricked-out HP oscilloscope for the "bargain basement" price of $700.
Half the morons here seem to think that it's a competitive commercial game console, designed to beat up Microsoft and Sony. It's not. So the graphics hardware isn't great. Big deal.
It's here so that somebody can learn to program, or to play with hardware. I personally would like to see a repeat of the C64-style "walk up and code" system; kids today have little to no experience with programming and as such have resorted to just playing games and poking around in the warez translation of RPG Maker.
There must be a lot of subscribers. Or at least the site operator is one, saw his page get listed, and took the whole thing down in a panic.
Ours is Windows NT, with OpenVMS being relegated to a library catalog. Should be the other way around IMO.