What is your stance on user rights to bought, copyrighted software? Do you feel someone who buys a product can do whatever they want with it, or does the producer (MS) have the right to dictate how their products are used?
I had a similar experience, although I see the game through the wonderful filter of nostalgia. I remember playing it with my brother and getting really far, then getting to a point where we couldn't go forward anymore. I think we needed to have some rockets to blow through a wall, but we didn't predict the need, so were stuck.
That is the ultimate sign of bad game design, when you can just get stuck, with no options but hitting the reset button.
Another option would be having a special disk that mirrors the contents of RAM. On shutdown, the ram backup disk gets the contents of RAM, with possibly a battery backup or some huge capaciter to keep the copy going in case power goes out. Then, on reboot, you have the option of loading up the old contents of RAM or actually rebooting.
There's no more of a biological terror threat than there was 15 years ago.
Very true. The thing is, people get by on the illusion of security, not the reality. No one worries about all the bad things that could happen until they are shoved in your face. You don't think about highway shootings until it happens in your area. The illusion of security is shattered by the reality that humans are horribly fragile and are sometimes wickedly demented creatures. The Sept. 11th massacre shattered that illusion of security for most americans, and now people are getting concerned about the threats that have always existed.
Some films rated PG or PG-13 are still unacceptable by PTA types. Just think if everyone in the room is over 13, thus able to view PG-13 movies, and your wife pops in 'Titanic.' That movie is already rated PG-13, despite Kate Winslet's nudity.
As it has said before, parents need to chill out and realize that the way to teach kids the difference between fantasy and reality is to spend time with them in reality, instead of parking them in day care watching Pokemon or sticking the remote in their hand at the end of the day. When the majority of a child's life is spent in the fantasy of TV and movies, of course they're gonna get a little mixed up. The solution is not to sanitize fantasy to make it like reality, the solution is to go to the park, or to a musuem, or play soccer. If I ever decide to be a parent, my kid is not going to be raised by DragonballZ.
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I believe this is more along the lines of measuring the circumference of the earth without a direct measurement, deriving it's value from other measured quantities.
The basis of dark matter is that, assuming the law of gravity is true, the universe is too light to explain certain phenomena. What we can see isn't enough mass, so there must be some dark matter out there we can't see to account for measured effects.
OK, so they are going to scan every packet that flies through. What exactly will they do with this? While some could be put together as valuable information, who's going to sort through all the packets?
Also, centralizing the email system (BAD IDEA) would give terrorists a handful of nice targets, gearing to further take down American economy.
Are we going to see the FBI strong-arming ISPs and businesses into doing this? Sounds like a mafia thing. "Re-route your packets, and the FBI will 'protect' you from IRS audits, SPA inspections, and other government agencies."
is the word "Cyber". Maybe we should get an iTechno-X-Court. Anyone who can say "cyber-court" without snickering, dripping sarcasm, or making finger quotes does not deserve our ears.
If anything,/. needs to be the hacker court, moderating good hacks up, and bad hacks down. For example, I saw an ASP reference site where someone had done a global find and replace, s/default/defect/gi
This should be modded up. Media, and politicians especially, don't make the distinction between hackers and crackers. If someone breaks into my machine and just plays around, doing harmless things, then I'd be interested in emailing this person to ask how they did it, not prosecute. If they did something malicious, then yes, they need some punishment.
I believe most people in Congress are techno-phobes, (all with websites, most likely) and are using this tragedy as an excuse to take power away from the people. Personally, I would vote for a techonophile over an older man, regardless of party affiliation, because they wouldn't suggest stupid things like "cyber-court" or crypto-backdoors.
I agree that a moon base would be tremendously cool, and would advance humanity to another level in exploration. A few problems with moon bases are as follows: Moon dust is not a viable construction material
Compositional studies of moon dust have been done and a concrete like material can not be made with moon dust. Colonists would need this because... Having no atmosphere, the moon gets pummeled with space debris
Thus, the colonists need a stable structure to take cover in when these things happen. The classic plexiglass domes might not hold up to that. Living underground seems to me to be the best solution, but I don't know enough about lunar geology to say if that's safe or not. We can't afford to haul any appreciable amount of materials up there
The cost to send a pound of anything into space is tremendous. I read it somewhere, but I forget.
What we need to get is a more efficient way to get into space. Rockets are such a brute force way, and Nasa needs some more elegance in that department. Before we build a base on the moon, lets develop the ability to get there and back as easily as sailing the Atlantic.
I'm a cat person, and this was interesting because my Mom is also a cat person, but allergic to cats. I checked out their website, which had a page of.movs of this little guy: http://www.necoro.com/theater/index.html
Anyway, the video feature the cat in lots of standard cat mischief, but is now where near worth $1500. Buy a computer and the 'Catz' screensaver for $1500 instead. It'd be more mobile. They also have a picture gallery for the bandwidth-impaired. I particulary enjoyed the marketing video (the big link at the top) which shows a Japanese teenager cooing over her new toy with some strange music. Very odd, but it's no Mr. Sparkle.
So who is ever go to put time into this? Anyone who can write something like this is probably not interested in dialing up to AOL, and the 'ease-of-use' folks who can't write it probably appreciate the AOL interface.
Other than hacking into AOL for the fun of it, this is pretty useless. It's a good blow for the cause of open protocols and file formats. I suppose there might be a market for a simple AOL client, for those who use it for portable internet access.
For giving users a choice of OS. That way, it can appear to the 'ease-of-use' folks and to the people who want to put Linux on thier TI-83.
Could this be a replacement for PDAs? Just pull one of these babies out of your portfolio. They seem a bit bulky for that, but with a platform like this, wireless web might gain popularity.
If municipal wireless (or unsecured corporate wireless) networks gain ground, then these could really take off, especially with the wide flexibility it offers.
Rambling furthur, if you stick one of those quarter-sized IBM harddrives in this thing, and it puts my computer to shame. Maybe all laptops will head this way, using Crusoe to lengthen battery life.
Sorry buddy, I'm not hiring. I'm not even management. I get 8.50 an hour to do ASP. Which translates to 8.50 and hour to use javascript as much as possible and avoid ASP.
Good luck on the search, though.
So, how many people are we talking about here? 20? 100? Maybe they will disperse into existing Linux companies (Redhat, Suse, etc...) and improve the overall state of Linux. Maybe start a slew of consulting companies.
Either that, or exploit all those backdoors they built in HP-UX, just in case they ever got fired.
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...the penny arcade strip that will surely touch on this.
...is how I can get a Feed line.
What is your stance on user rights to bought, copyrighted software? Do you feel someone who buys a product can do whatever they want with it, or does the producer (MS) have the right to dictate how their products are used?
povray.org
Excellent for programmers.
So the next performance gain will be running cable straight through earth, rather than along the arc of the surface, to reduce the physical distane.
It'd be worth it.
Really.
I had a similar experience, although I see the game through the wonderful filter of nostalgia. I remember playing it with my brother and getting really far, then getting to a point where we couldn't go forward anymore. I think we needed to have some rockets to blow through a wall, but we didn't predict the need, so were stuck.
That is the ultimate sign of bad game design, when you can just get stuck, with no options but hitting the reset button.
God, I hate marketing people.
Your freedom is worth far more than a woman.
Enjoy it.
Another option would be having a special disk that mirrors the contents of RAM. On shutdown, the ram backup disk gets the contents of RAM, with possibly a battery backup or some huge capaciter to keep the copy going in case power goes out. Then, on reboot, you have the option of loading up the old contents of RAM or actually rebooting.
There's no more of a biological terror threat than there was 15 years ago.
Very true. The thing is, people get by on the illusion of security, not the reality. No one worries about all the bad things that could happen until they are shoved in your face. You don't think about highway shootings until it happens in your area. The illusion of security is shattered by the reality that humans are horribly fragile and are sometimes wickedly demented creatures. The Sept. 11th massacre shattered that illusion of security for most americans, and now people are getting concerned about the threats that have always existed.
Some films rated PG or PG-13 are still unacceptable by PTA types. Just think if everyone in the room is over 13, thus able to view PG-13 movies, and your wife pops in 'Titanic.' That movie is already rated PG-13, despite Kate Winslet's nudity.
As it has said before, parents need to chill out and realize that the way to teach kids the difference between fantasy and reality is to spend time with them in reality, instead of parking them in day care watching Pokemon or sticking the remote in their hand at the end of the day.
When the majority of a child's life is spent in the fantasy of TV and movies, of course they're gonna get a little mixed up. The solution is not to sanitize fantasy to make it like reality, the solution is to go to the park, or to a musuem, or play soccer. If I ever decide to be a parent, my kid is not going to be raised by DragonballZ. </rant>
I believe this is more along the lines of measuring the circumference of the earth without a direct measurement, deriving it's value from other measured quantities.
The basis of dark matter is that, assuming the law of gravity is true, the universe is too light to explain certain phenomena. What we can see isn't enough mass, so there must be some dark matter out there we can't see to account for measured effects.
OK, so they are going to scan every packet that flies through. What exactly will they do with this? While some could be put together as valuable information, who's going to sort through all the packets?
Also, centralizing the email system (BAD IDEA) would give terrorists a handful of nice targets, gearing to further take down American economy.
Are we going to see the FBI strong-arming ISPs and businesses into doing this? Sounds like a mafia thing. "Re-route your packets, and the FBI will 'protect' you from IRS audits, SPA inspections, and other government agencies."
is the word "Cyber". Maybe we should get an iTechno-X-Court. Anyone who can say "cyber-court" without snickering, dripping sarcasm, or making finger quotes does not deserve our ears. /. needs to be the hacker court, moderating good hacks up, and bad hacks down. For example, I saw an ASP reference site where someone had done a global find and replace, s/default/defect/gi
If anything,
This should be modded up. Media, and politicians especially, don't make the distinction between hackers and crackers. If someone breaks into my machine and just plays around, doing harmless things, then I'd be interested in emailing this person to ask how they did it, not prosecute. If they did something malicious, then yes, they need some punishment.
I believe most people in Congress are techno-phobes, (all with websites, most likely) and are using this tragedy as an excuse to take power away from the people. Personally, I would vote for a techonophile over an older man, regardless of party affiliation, because they wouldn't suggest stupid things like "cyber-court" or crypto-backdoors.
I agree that a moon base would be tremendously cool, and would advance humanity to another level in exploration. A few problems with moon bases are as follows:
Moon dust is not a viable construction material
Compositional studies of moon dust have been done and a concrete like material can not be made with moon dust. Colonists would need this because...
Having no atmosphere, the moon gets pummeled with space debris
Thus, the colonists need a stable structure to take cover in when these things happen. The classic plexiglass domes might not hold up to that. Living underground seems to me to be the best solution, but I don't know enough about lunar geology to say if that's safe or not.
We can't afford to haul any appreciable amount of materials up there
The cost to send a pound of anything into space is tremendous. I read it somewhere, but I forget.
What we need to get is a more efficient way to get into space. Rockets are such a brute force way, and Nasa needs some more elegance in that department. Before we build a base on the moon, lets develop the ability to get there and back as easily as sailing the Atlantic.
I'm a cat person, and this was interesting because my Mom is also a cat person, but allergic to cats. I checked out their website, which had a page of .movs of this little guy:
http://www.necoro.com/theater/index.html
Anyway, the video feature the cat in lots of standard cat mischief, but is now where near worth $1500. Buy a computer and the 'Catz' screensaver for $1500 instead. It'd be more mobile. They also have a picture gallery for the bandwidth-impaired. I particulary enjoyed the marketing video (the big link at the top) which shows a Japanese teenager cooing over her new toy with some strange music. Very odd, but it's no Mr. Sparkle.
So who is ever go to put time into this? Anyone who can write something like this is probably not interested in dialing up to AOL, and the 'ease-of-use' folks who can't write it probably appreciate the AOL interface.
Other than hacking into AOL for the fun of it, this is pretty useless. It's a good blow for the cause of open protocols and file formats.
I suppose there might be a market for a simple AOL client, for those who use it for portable internet access.
For giving users a choice of OS. That way, it can appear to the 'ease-of-use' folks and to the people who want to put Linux on thier TI-83.
Could this be a replacement for PDAs? Just pull one of these babies out of your portfolio. They seem a bit bulky for that, but with a platform like this, wireless web might gain popularity.
If municipal wireless (or unsecured corporate wireless) networks gain ground, then these could really take off, especially with the wide flexibility it offers.
Rambling furthur, if you stick one of those quarter-sized IBM harddrives in this thing, and it puts my computer to shame. Maybe all laptops will head this way, using Crusoe to lengthen battery life.
Just a thought.
Sorry buddy, I'm not hiring. I'm not even management. I get 8.50 an hour to do ASP. Which translates to 8.50 and hour to use javascript as much as possible and avoid ASP.
Good luck on the search, though.
So, how many people are we talking about here? 20? 100? Maybe they will disperse into existing Linux companies (Redhat, Suse, etc...) and improve the overall state of Linux. Maybe start a slew of consulting companies. Either that, or exploit all those backdoors they built in HP-UX, just in case they ever got fired.