If you already have to keep the keys around in the physical world, then what's the point of not carrying around the actual paper documents themselves, or a CD-R or DVD? Sure, it's sort of impressive tech, but it's a poor idea overall.
I hope whatever moronic coders are busily trying to pull out script-kiddie tools for the RIAA to use on random people think that this is a morally acceptable way to make money. I also hope that the greater population finds out about this kind of thing, and especially the name of the coders responsible so they can have visits paid.
It would seem like a great idea until this little bugger identifies your kids, the cat, or the postman as not being one of your plants and sprays them with elaborate toxins.
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On Marathon, one of Bungie's earlier (and IMO better) games, you could use the spacebar to fire the right weapon and the option/alt key to fire the one in your left hand. Red Faction II also just did this, allowing you to fire with either trigger.
When I dialed up Wired's site about a week ago, I was treated to a less-than-enjoyable full-screen flash ad with a teeny-tiny close box, advertising the Intel Centrino system. Before that, there was an ad on Gamedev.net (that sparked a controversy) which threw green slime on the screen with flash for the ATI Radeon line of cards. Guess what I'm not buying now, kids? That's right, Intel and ATI.
Do companies seriously think pissing off the people who surf the web is going to get more people buying their product?
What happens when our powerful security forces are firing their "borrowed" AK-47s at evil terrorists and they accidentally pop in this mp3 player instead of a bullet-laden magazine? I smell lawsuit!
Well, apparently if it works here, it might just cross over into other lines of justice, thus making the police in many urban towns completely useless and creating an angry, distrusting populace, ready to turn each other in for fabulous prizes. What's that? Operation TIPS?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
The government should have a program where they pay bounty out to the first person to publicly execute known spammers.
Don't get me wrong, it's fantastic that Linux is getting more games. I love games. It's just that your average Joe definitely isn't going to jump on with Linux if the entire game collection consists of clones of other games and very few "big-name" games will run on it.
Porthouses like Hyperion need to start talking to the developers that make big-name games, considering that the publishers certainly aren't taking a chance on it. Simplistic? Yeah. Idealistic? Definitely. But it needs to happen.
Now our children's limbs can atrophy further, because we no longer have need for scissors and manual dexterity. Thanks, technology! In 2048 when children are routinely born with no arms I'll be thanking this widget after fitting the little buggers for hoversleds.
You can do soft reboots really fast on Mac OS Classic if you drop a simple system folder on the RAM Disk (created using the Memory control panel) and reboot while the disk is selected in Startup Disk. Lots of fun when you're trying to crash the machine. I think the Amiga had a similar toy.
At the local mall, you can rent time on a hydrochamber-ish thing while it sprays you with a high-pressure host in a half-hearted imitation of a car wash. Dunno on price, but it looks like the poor saps who fall for it appear to be getting a decent time.
If you're dealing with Macs, carry an iPod. If your machine has FireWire, you can keep a copy of the system folder on there and boot right from the XXGB drive, which also lets you store all your junk along with it.
For dealing with other kinds of computers, pack a lot of spare (blank) floppies along with your boot disk and possibly some USB flash drives with your kit on it.
On the software side, pack Partition Magic, an old copy of FWB's hard disk toolkit (for Macs), and memtest86. A floppy-based linux distro that can read ntfs (dunno if there are any) is probably a good idea to pack to recover Win files from a crashed HD. Oh, and bring cat5. Every time you deal with networking supplies and you need to test to see if the cable is bad, you won't have another nearby.
Burglar alarms are connected via a (supposedly open) phone line to central dispatch, and I'm sure they can update the flash code from there: who's to say that your "new generation (cr)ackers" won't use that angle now or that some genius who wrote the code in the first place doesn't pop in a backdoor so he can waltz into your house undetected?
For 25k? If I were in control of giving money out at Microsoft I could probably drop a couple times that per day on paying people for their ideas and nobody would notice.
I don't think Microsoft starts taking ideas seriously until they start nearing the couple-of-mil mark.
The real strength of the GP32 is that anyone can write code, press it to a SmartMedia card, and execute it.
I can think of about a million uses for a 32-bit RISC portable system that I can write my own games for, and to limit it to playing emulated games on other systems isn't doing the beauty of the "open console" concept justice. I thought/. was supposed to have a fairly high ratio of developers to content thieves but obviously I'm wrong.
It'll be interesting to see if Google is really evil enough to beat Microsoft. Oh, and Microsoft's search engine really sucks (at least the few times I've used it), so it'll be good to see a version that doesn't.
The chimes of death give me this weird feeling in the pit of my stomach, it scares the shit out of me too. Strange how that one sound has the power to nearly kill me.
Shareware is a great thing on the Mac platform, it's nice and profitable, and I've heard from people that write shareware for Windows. The thing that keeps me from doing so is the piracy issue. Piracy rates are extremely high on the Windows side (and to be honest, pretty high on the Mac side too but only over a few users), and I'm sure the only thing that keeps shareware profitable is the fact that most of those pirates are pimply preteens who want to play the latest release of Grand Theft Auto: Inner Qwghlm or whatever.
Then again, those kinds of idiots don't download and play shareware games either (because they're not "big name" entertainment), so who needs 'em?
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And I wondered where the Rat Things in Snow Crash came from.
If you already have to keep the keys around in the physical world, then what's the point of not carrying around the actual paper documents themselves, or a CD-R or DVD? Sure, it's sort of impressive tech, but it's a poor idea overall.
I hope whatever moronic coders are busily trying to pull out script-kiddie tools for the RIAA to use on random people think that this is a morally acceptable way to make money. I also hope that the greater population finds out about this kind of thing, and especially the name of the coders responsible so they can have visits paid.
It would seem like a great idea until this little bugger identifies your kids, the cat, or the postman as not being one of your plants and sprays them with elaborate toxins.
On Marathon, one of Bungie's earlier (and IMO better) games, you could use the spacebar to fire the right weapon and the option/alt key to fire the one in your left hand. Red Faction II also just did this, allowing you to fire with either trigger.
When I dialed up Wired's site about a week ago, I was treated to a less-than-enjoyable full-screen flash ad with a teeny-tiny close box, advertising the Intel Centrino system. Before that, there was an ad on Gamedev.net (that sparked a controversy) which threw green slime on the screen with flash for the ATI Radeon line of cards. Guess what I'm not buying now, kids? That's right, Intel and ATI.
Do companies seriously think pissing off the people who surf the web is going to get more people buying their product?
What happens when our powerful security forces are firing their "borrowed" AK-47s at evil terrorists and they accidentally pop in this mp3 player instead of a bullet-laden magazine? I smell lawsuit!
Well, wouldn't the graphical user interface count as an indelible impression on computer use? Even XWindows changed a lot of UNIX use.
Well, apparently if it works here, it might just cross over into other lines of justice, thus making the police in many urban towns completely useless and creating an angry, distrusting populace, ready to turn each other in for fabulous prizes. What's that? Operation TIPS?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
The government should have a program where they pay bounty out to the first person to publicly execute known spammers.
Don't get me wrong, it's fantastic that Linux is getting more games. I love games. It's just that your average Joe definitely isn't going to jump on with Linux if the entire game collection consists of clones of other games and very few "big-name" games will run on it.
Porthouses like Hyperion need to start talking to the developers that make big-name games, considering that the publishers certainly aren't taking a chance on it. Simplistic? Yeah. Idealistic? Definitely. But it needs to happen.
Now our children's limbs can atrophy further, because we no longer have need for scissors and manual dexterity. Thanks, technology! In 2048 when children are routinely born with no arms I'll be thanking this widget after fitting the little buggers for hoversleds.
You can do soft reboots really fast on Mac OS Classic if you drop a simple system folder on the RAM Disk (created using the Memory control panel) and reboot while the disk is selected in Startup Disk. Lots of fun when you're trying to crash the machine. I think the Amiga had a similar toy.
At the local mall, you can rent time on a hydrochamber-ish thing while it sprays you with a high-pressure host in a half-hearted imitation of a car wash. Dunno on price, but it looks like the poor saps who fall for it appear to be getting a decent time.
Thanks. That comment made my last cup of coffee the second one that slashdot has fired onto my keyboard. I'm going to start billing.
I can only imagine your outrage at being fired by your own code.
Try "root". Anyone who works with real computers will instantly figure that one out. It's also really easy to fill out on business cards.
If you're dealing with Macs, carry an iPod. If your machine has FireWire, you can keep a copy of the system folder on there and boot right from the XXGB drive, which also lets you store all your junk along with it.
For dealing with other kinds of computers, pack a lot of spare (blank) floppies along with your boot disk and possibly some USB flash drives with your kit on it.
On the software side, pack Partition Magic, an old copy of FWB's hard disk toolkit (for Macs), and memtest86. A floppy-based linux distro that can read ntfs (dunno if there are any) is probably a good idea to pack to recover Win files from a crashed HD. Oh, and bring cat5. Every time you deal with networking supplies and you need to test to see if the cable is bad, you won't have another nearby.
Burglar alarms are connected via a (supposedly open) phone line to central dispatch, and I'm sure they can update the flash code from there: who's to say that your "new generation (cr)ackers" won't use that angle now or that some genius who wrote the code in the first place doesn't pop in a backdoor so he can waltz into your house undetected?
For 25k? If I were in control of giving money out at Microsoft I could probably drop a couple times that per day on paying people for their ideas and nobody would notice.
I don't think Microsoft starts taking ideas seriously until they start nearing the couple-of-mil mark.
The real strength of the GP32 is that anyone can write code, press it to a SmartMedia card, and execute it.
/. was supposed to have a fairly high ratio of developers to content thieves but obviously I'm wrong.
I can think of about a million uses for a 32-bit RISC portable system that I can write my own games for, and to limit it to playing emulated games on other systems isn't doing the beauty of the "open console" concept justice. I thought
I was more referring to the "Google is Evil" hysteria of awhile back, not poking fun at Microsoft's apparent evility.
It'll be interesting to see if Google is really evil enough to beat Microsoft. Oh, and Microsoft's search engine really sucks (at least the few times I've used it), so it'll be good to see a version that doesn't.
The chimes of death give me this weird feeling in the pit of my stomach, it scares the shit out of me too. Strange how that one sound has the power to nearly kill me.
Shareware is a great thing on the Mac platform, it's nice and profitable, and I've heard from people that write shareware for Windows. The thing that keeps me from doing so is the piracy issue. Piracy rates are extremely high on the Windows side (and to be honest, pretty high on the Mac side too but only over a few users), and I'm sure the only thing that keeps shareware profitable is the fact that most of those pirates are pimply preteens who want to play the latest release of Grand Theft Auto: Inner Qwghlm or whatever.
Then again, those kinds of idiots don't download and play shareware games either (because they're not "big name" entertainment), so who needs 'em?
The bot looks dead to me, it was working before but suddenly stopped. I don't think many commercial breaks go for 30 minutes..