You could also have your computer play the entire game for you, but for some reason you don't. Some people consider the nitpicky details to be part of the fun.
Compare "Portal" with, say, "Zork" or "The Bard's Tale". The puzzles involved were quite simple and mostly involved wandering around in the dark desperately drawing maps until you found the clue hidden in one corner of a dungeon just so you could answer the riddle one level up and in the far corner, but the level of player involvement is significantly higher.
As the article and its accompanying comments mention, the market for involved puzzle games didn't shrink, it just didn't grow with the rest of the industry. While there may still be a market for a few thousand people who like Monkey Island, there are also now millions of people who think that Halo is about as complicated as a game can get before their heads explode. Welcome to today's market.
There are people out there who will track you down, smear you with honey and stake you out on top of an ant hill if you catch you distributing copies of "Alone in the Dark" or "BloodRayne". It's how the community polices itself.
If a meteoroid survives its transit of the atmosphere to come to rest on the surface, the resulting object is called a meteorite. A meteor striking the Earth or other object may produce an impact crater."
That's a pretty clear definition, and one which is shared by everyone who actually cares about such things.
Now if you will excuse me, we passed the limit of the joke still being funny days ago and are now nearing the absolute physical limit at which it becomes no longer possible to explain the joke without employing some kind of pop-up book or hand puppets.
such a network would also be useful for astronauts on another planet or meteor.
Actually, astronauts on a meteor might appreciate a really good heat shield more than a reliable interplanetary data network.
They might have also appreciated getting _off_ of the meteoroid before it entered the Earth's atmosphere and became a meteor, but it's probably too late for that.
The Black Canary can tell us whether we can safely breathe in the Green Cloud.
Actually all that the canary can do is tell you that you can safely breath in the cloud. It's when the canary stops telling you that that you need to worry.
Exactly. FF2 is still current, and is still preferable to FF3 in some cases. I could argue that anyone not running a nightly build from CVS isn't running the newest/latest, but that would just be silly.
Firefox 2.0 is just as current as 3.0, and will be until the end of this year. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
I would have assumed that Windows ME users were pretty much screwed from the beginning.
As I recall, current versions of Firefox 2 will still run on anything newer than Windows 95. It's just the 3.0 branch which dropped support for 98 and ME.
Back when HP was Compaq I once received a shipment from them consisting of one 60cm x 100cm x 100cm box completely filled with loose styrofoam packing chips. At the very bottom of the box, where none of the packing material would do it any good at all, was a plastic envelope containing a handful of license keys.
At least the guys who shipped this package made sure that their paperwork was protected from damage. It seems they're learning.
Nothing is going to save a server which somehow winds up in a private chop-shop where people with unlimited resources and inside knowledge of how it works want to do it harm, but try to think about more likely scenarios for this kind of attack.
Most server class machines have intrusion detection sensors which will trigger an alarm when the case is opened. They're hardly foolproof, but if you were concerned about this sort of attack then responding appropriately to a "Your Door Is Ajar" event would be a reasonable place to start.
When you approach a street hockey game, the Super Windshield will also highlight the puck with a blue line when it is being passed and a red line when somebody takes a shot on the net.
You're only hearing one side of the story, and that's not his. Consider this scenario. After Childs was fired by someone higher up in the poop-rolling-downhill order, said manager (Let's just refer to him 'Bonehead' for now) realized that the network policy he had written himself four years ago ("Leave all network devices at their default passwords, put a hard copy of all config files on the bulletin board in the lobby") was no longer valid. Bonehead then tried to break into the systems with a very clumsy brute force attack and got himself locked out. Rather than admit that he really had no clue of what he should be doing and should never have been allowed into the same room as anything more complicated than two cans and some string, Bonehead bravely announced that he was the victim of some kind of sabotage or terrorism and that the inconvenient former administrator should be arrested immediately.
When contacted about the problem, Childs replied "What? I already told you all the passwords you need. Here they are again. Read your email, you twit.", but of course those accounts had already been locked out thanks to Bonehead's bumbling attempt at cracking his own network. Things have now gone from bad to worse and poor, misunderstood Terry is now torn being asked to cough up passwords to accounts that he has already provided and is torn between just keeping his mouth shut to avoid being drawn further into this whole stupidity and quoting Ray Patterson by saying "You know, I'm not much on speeches, but it's so gratifying to leave you wallowing in the mess you've made. You're screwed, thank you, bye."
But what about those million-dollar-an-hour Cisco engineers who are desperately trying to fix the network but can't make any headway against Terry Childs' evil hackerish plots? It's hard to fix anything when Bonehead keeps getting in the way. "No no no... For security reasons nobody else can touch the network. Why don't you just tell me what commands you need me to run and then I will do them? No I already tried that! The admin password is 'password'. I already told you that. Stop wasting your time with this."
I'm not saying that this has to be what happened, but remember that you're only hearing one side of the story here. It's just as possible that Childs is just taking the blame for someone else's screwup and is just pissed off enough about being arrested over it that he's not cheerfully volunteering to help clean it all up again as it is that he really is the James Bond style evil mastermind who is trying to hold an entire city for ransom.
If management behaved like this they would have been fired before this guy was
It's nice to believe that but, to abuse an oft-quoted phrase, quis sacko ipsos pointyhaires?
Before you can fire someone for being a complete idiot, you have to not be totally out to lunch yourself. More importantly you have to possess evidence to back up your decision which is at least strong enough to outweigh the political costs of making it.
If you think this all sounds like a load of crap, then consider yourself lucky that you have never been in the middle of it.
I believe there's also a portable version of TrueCrypt that can be used that leaves no traces on the OS install once you're finished.
Your OS, however, will happily record that it ran a program called truecrypt and cached any DLLs it needed, log any changes in available drives and make a note that it accessed documents on the recently mounted 'F:' drive. Those are very definitely traces, and the documentation for TrueCrypt traveler mode is very clear about their existence.
They do suggest using BartPE to lock down Windows in very specific ways which will prevent it from doing that kind of thing, but that is itself a trace.
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You could also have your computer play the entire game for you, but for some reason you don't. Some people consider the nitpicky details to be part of the fun.
Compare "Portal" with, say, "Zork" or "The Bard's Tale". The puzzles involved were quite simple and mostly involved wandering around in the dark desperately drawing maps until you found the clue hidden in one corner of a dungeon just so you could answer the riddle one level up and in the far corner, but the level of player involvement is significantly higher.
You don't see players making detailed hand-drawn maps of every level of Portal, complete with precise notes, just so they can solve the puzzles. Gamers today just don't have the patience for it. Even online RPGs, the last stronghold of the fanatical mappers and note-takers, have all given up and provided automatic mapping tools which even a brain-dead cat sleeping on the keyboard could use.
As the article and its accompanying comments mention, the market for involved puzzle games didn't shrink, it just didn't grow with the rest of the industry. While there may still be a market for a few thousand people who like Monkey Island, there are also now millions of people who think that Halo is about as complicated as a game can get before their heads explode. Welcome to today's market.
You know what helps to prevent piracy?
Making a really terrible movie.
There are people out there who will track you down, smear you with honey and stake you out on top of an ant hill if you catch you distributing copies of "Alone in the Dark" or "BloodRayne". It's how the community polices itself.
What is there to look up? Well, you could start with "Meteor". You could end there too, since that's really the only word under discussion.
If you do, you'll probably learn something like this: "A meteor is the visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earth's (or another body's) atmosphere, commonly called a shooting star. The visibility is due to the heat produced by the atmospheric entry. A very bright meteor, brighter than the apparent magnitude of Venus, may be called a fireball or bolide.
If a meteoroid survives its transit of the atmosphere to come to rest on the surface, the resulting object is called a meteorite. A meteor striking the Earth or other object may produce an impact crater."
That's a pretty clear definition, and one which is shared by everyone who actually cares about such things.
Now if you will excuse me, we passed the limit of the joke still being funny days ago and are now nearing the absolute physical limit at which it becomes no longer possible to explain the joke without employing some kind of pop-up book or hand puppets.
This would all become much clearer if you would look that word up. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
Actually, it is incorrect usage. Keep that in mind when your house is destroyed and you try to collect on your meteor insurance policy.
Would I make something like this up?
Actually, astronauts on a meteor might appreciate a really good heat shield more than a reliable interplanetary data network.
They might have also appreciated getting _off_ of the meteoroid before it entered the Earth's atmosphere and became a meteor, but it's probably too late for that.
I'm sure that nobody has ever had to deal with it before.
If they had then maybe they would have come up with a simple, straightforward response to the problem.
Try reading the article at the top of the page you're on.
"Memphis Police Director, Larry Godwin, is suing AOL"
Then one would think you would at least know the correct Canadian spelling of "armour".
Actually all that the canary can do is tell you that you can safely breath in the cloud. It's when the canary stops telling you that that you need to worry.
The first step is to fill the atmosphere with lethal levels of sulphuric acid. Once we have that taken care of then we can work on floating cities.
Firefox 2.0 is just as current as 3.0, and will be until the end of this year. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
I would have assumed that Windows ME users were pretty much screwed from the beginning.
As I recall, current versions of Firefox 2 will still run on anything newer than Windows 95. It's just the 3.0 branch which dropped support for 98 and ME.
Back when HP was Compaq I once received a shipment from them consisting of one 60cm x 100cm x 100cm box completely filled with loose styrofoam packing chips. At the very bottom of the box, where none of the packing material would do it any good at all, was a plastic envelope containing a handful of license keys.
At least the guys who shipped this package made sure that their paperwork was protected from damage. It seems they're learning.
Nothing is going to save a server which somehow winds up in a private chop-shop where people with unlimited resources and inside knowledge of how it works want to do it harm, but try to think about more likely scenarios for this kind of attack.
Most server class machines have intrusion detection sensors which will trigger an alarm when the case is opened. They're hardly foolproof, but if you were concerned about this sort of attack then responding appropriately to a "Your Door Is Ajar" event would be a reasonable place to start.
Why don't you just give them all giant Q-tips and play the Star Trek fight music every time they meet?
Surely that would be at least as productive as asking them to all agree on coding standards.
No, Fluoride is definitely a conspiracy, and it is alive and well today.
When you approach a street hockey game, the Super Windshield will also highlight the puck with a blue line when it is being passed and a red line when somebody takes a shot on the net.
You're only hearing one side of the story, and that's not his. Consider this scenario. After Childs was fired by someone higher up in the poop-rolling-downhill order, said manager (Let's just refer to him 'Bonehead' for now) realized that the network policy he had written himself four years ago ("Leave all network devices at their default passwords, put a hard copy of all config files on the bulletin board in the lobby") was no longer valid. Bonehead then tried to break into the systems with a very clumsy brute force attack and got himself locked out. Rather than admit that he really had no clue of what he should be doing and should never have been allowed into the same room as anything more complicated than two cans and some string, Bonehead bravely announced that he was the victim of some kind of sabotage or terrorism and that the inconvenient former administrator should be arrested immediately.
When contacted about the problem, Childs replied "What? I already told you all the passwords you need. Here they are again. Read your email, you twit.", but of course those accounts had already been locked out thanks to Bonehead's bumbling attempt at cracking his own network. Things have now gone from bad to worse and poor, misunderstood Terry is now torn being asked to cough up passwords to accounts that he has already provided and is torn between just keeping his mouth shut to avoid being drawn further into this whole stupidity and quoting Ray Patterson by saying "You know, I'm not much on speeches, but it's so gratifying to leave you wallowing in the mess you've made. You're screwed, thank you, bye."
But what about those million-dollar-an-hour Cisco engineers who are desperately trying to fix the network but can't make any headway against Terry Childs' evil hackerish plots? It's hard to fix anything when Bonehead keeps getting in the way. "No no no... For security reasons nobody else can touch the network. Why don't you just tell me what commands you need me to run and then I will do them? No I already tried that! The admin password is 'password'. I already told you that. Stop wasting your time with this."
I'm not saying that this has to be what happened, but remember that you're only hearing one side of the story here. It's just as possible that Childs is just taking the blame for someone else's screwup and is just pissed off enough about being arrested over it that he's not cheerfully volunteering to help clean it all up again as it is that he really is the James Bond style evil mastermind who is trying to hold an entire city for ransom.
It's nice to believe that but, to abuse an oft-quoted phrase, quis sacko ipsos pointyhaires?
Before you can fire someone for being a complete idiot, you have to not be totally out to lunch yourself. More importantly you have to possess evidence to back up your decision which is at least strong enough to outweigh the political costs of making it.
If you think this all sounds like a load of crap, then consider yourself lucky that you have never been in the middle of it.
If it was a Microsoft product, we'd still be waiting for the patch.
Your OS, however, will happily record that it ran a program called truecrypt and cached any DLLs it needed, log any changes in available drives and make a note that it accessed documents on the recently mounted 'F:' drive. Those are very definitely traces, and the documentation for TrueCrypt traveler mode is very clear about their existence.
They do suggest using BartPE to lock down Windows in very specific ways which will prevent it from doing that kind of thing, but that is itself a trace.
Good luck.
That's funny, because the latest version of DOS that I have is dated September 3, 2006.
Is that too old now?