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So the moderators have no idea that the Omegathon is a huge part of PAX either. Very well then. Let me sum up by quoting from an interview on the subject:
(There's) the Omegathon. Twenty Omeganauts were selected from the pool of pre-registrants to take part in this three-day multi-genre duel. Starting Friday they work their way through single-elimination matches in tabletop, console, PC, and arcade games until only two remain. They'll be set on the stage in front of 2,000 of their peers for a final showdown on the big screens. The game? It's a secret. The prize: a Light Side or Dark Side Alienware Star Wars gaming rig (winner's choice), every NES product ever made, and eternal glory.
Yes, it's a big part of PAX. Last year's final secret showdown game was...PONG. Yes, a lot of people were excited about it. No, I haven't even heard anything about it save for the victor's name, "Coreside" (and mad props to Coreside for winning).
No, it's not off-topic. Yes, it was an attempt at a humorous but serious demand for information. No, I still don't know what the final game was.
Omegathon?
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What the heck? How can there be a respectable writeup about PAX without even mentioning the Omegathon II? With its prize pack (scroll down) of the ORIGINAL NES COLLECTION?
They're saying that games should be impossible for most men to understand, considered "dirty" and "taboo" by a surprisingly large number of women, portrayed horribly incorrectly by popular and underground media, ranked as FAR WORSE THAN BRUTAL MURDERS by the 'conservative' factions (and heaven forbid six-year-old Billy should know about a game, when he could be watching healthy shows about cops brutalizing criminals brutalizing passerby brutalizing cops)...
IP, though, is the industry standard protocol. These days, everybody knows how to use TCP/IP. That means anyone also deploying DECnet has to license both protocols. The good news is that the DECnet fees are a bit less than those for TCP/IP.
Did I miss something? So far as I know, the specifications for TCP, IP, and (most) assorted support protocols are openly avaliable, free of charge to implement, screw up, use and abuse. Is this suggesting DECnet fees involve someone paying you to use it? If that's the case, sign me up!
As a longtime friend and associate of Jason, I've watched him build up this thing from bare bones, and you will not find a more dedicated man nor a deeper labor of love than this documentary. I preordered a copy and can't/wait/ to see the finished product.
An easier-to-read 'formatted-for-print' version is here. (Not here, as I tried after decoding the base64-encoded GET, but that's beside the point.)
Not running as root works like this. Your data is no more inherently safe than it is when you/are/ running as root, but nobody ELSE'S data will fall prey to your screwup, nor will the central integrity of the system. (For granny, this means that grandson Billy can ssh in, recover this morning's backups from the write-once partition, and she can keep going, having lost minimal data.)
Running as root is like pointing a loaded gun at everyone just in case they're a criminal.
Not running as root is like fastening your seat belt. Sure, you're not intending to get in an accident...
Running as root is like driving down the highway with your hood open and your oil cap off.
Not running as root is like locking your door when you leave.
Running as root is like posting to slashdot without reading TFA.:)
They must have gotten an entirely different set of games. Last I checked, there were about 15 or so games for it here in the states, which even in a large typeface would make a list roughly the length of my hand.
Of course. The bar slides to the left and right and rolls up and down. This makes diagonal movement a little tricky, but it can be managed with a little care and practice. The bar also clicks for a left-click. You have infinite up-down rolling, but only so much left-right sliding, so there's a feature to bump the wall twice to move your cursor to that edge of the screen.
People are naysaying this, but I've been using one of these for a few weeks now, and it is INCREDIBALLY nice not to have to move my hand over to reach the mouse (and it has more buttons than your traditional laptop touchpad/eraserhead mouse, too). Yes, it's not for gaming, but if you're gaming, switch to a traditional mouse for that...then go back to an alternative input system which requires less motion, less stress, and gives you more productivity for the remainder of your computing time.
Linux doesn't do things for no reason. If something changed, it's because YOU changed it, not because Windows suddenly decided that, on this hour's autodetection, it would corrupt your IDE drivers.
The title, as well as this story, seem to me to be random, fear-mongering speculation. Yep, it's not free anymore. Is this a big surprise? No. The volume of USENET is immense, and it costs real money to provide a feed. There are still and will be for the forseeable future plenty of news sites that provide full access for a reasonably low monthly fee, and even most of the small ISPs (around here, anyway) provide newsgroup service through the simple means of contracting a larger, usenet-oriented provider to allow their customer base access to the usenet feeds.
Sure, but you wouldn't be/prohibited/ from using alternate extensions. You'd just have to save them to disk and install them from there through a manual process. The added steps would change it from an easy social engineering task to a difficult social engineering task (though, considering viruses are spreading successfully in password-protected ZIP files, certainly not an impossible one). Nevertheless, it offloads a bit more of the onus on the user to be smart about popups.
I'm sure there will be plenty of the "Use FireFox, Problem Solved!" comments as well. I have experienced, rarely, where a drive-by site is impossible to say "no" to when under Firefox and eventually crashed the browser but IE under SP2 handled itself very well on the same page.
Right, IE just calmly and quietly installs the software for you if you're not computer-savvy enough to say 'yes' to the dialog box to start with.;)
Seriously, though, I think that the/possibility/ of letting computers auto-install software that doesn't/directly/ come from a company that you've already approved - that is, Microsoft updates for Windows, Mozilla Foundation updates for Mozilla or Firefox, Adobe updates for Photoshop - causes more problems than it reduces headaches. Make people go through extra steps if they want to install FREE PR0N EXPAND YOUR PENIS NOW or A COOL SCREENSAVER FOR YOU, since computers have long been training your average user to just say 'ok' to any dialog box that pops up.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Microsoft is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Microsoft community when IDC confirmed that the Microsoft market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all BSD tools. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Microsoft has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Microsoft is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last year in the recent BSD Admin comprehensive OS test.
You don't need to be a Malone to predict the future of Microsoft. The handwriting is on the wall: Microsoft faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Microsoft because Microsoft is dying. Things are looking very bad for Microsoft. As many of us are already aware, Microsoft continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. A river with no windows.
FreeMicrosoft is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Microsoft developers Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Microsoft is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenMicrosoft leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenMicrosoft. How many users of Microsoft.NET are there? Let's see. The number of OpenMicrosoft versus Microsoft.NET posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Microsoft.NET users. Microsoft/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Microsoft.NET posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Microsoft/OS. A recent article put FreeMicrosoft at about 80 percent of the *Microsoft market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeMicrosoft users. This is consistent with the number of FreeMicrosoft Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Redmond, abysmal sales and so on, FreeMicrosoft went out of business and was taken over by MicrosoftI who sell another troubled OS. Now MicrosoftI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *Microsoft has steadily declined in market share. Microsoft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Microsoft is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *Microsoft continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Microsoft is dead.
It is one of the few CSS resources I've found that assume that you know what you're doing except where CSS is concerned, and doesn't try to teach you inane things like how to make a link to another document. I've got a copy that's rapidly becoming worn and well-used.
This smacks of junk science and hoop-la to me. According to what I'm picking up from the webpage, it's a sticker which magically permeates your battery, removes the bad ions, and generates new, good ions for the battery instead. Oh, and it does windows, too. (Seriously! Well, ok, battery separators, but it claims to scrub them clean.)
I wonder...If I stick one on my fuel line, will it work like the double-your-gas-mileage gasoline ion chargers?
The same thing happened with the initial appearance of 802.11b, and then again with 802.11g, and yet they caught on.
So long as nobody is stupid enough to decide that because they have a WiMax-enabled chipset, they can discard all 802.11(b|g) support...WiMax (or something very similar) will show up when it's good and ready, catch on, and be the Next Big Thing. For a while.
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(There's) the Omegathon. Twenty Omeganauts were selected from the pool of pre-registrants to take part in this three-day multi-genre duel. Starting Friday they work their way through single-elimination matches in tabletop, console, PC, and arcade games until only two remain. They'll be set on the stage in front of 2,000 of their peers for a final showdown on the big screens. The game? It's a secret. The prize: a Light Side or Dark Side Alienware Star Wars gaming rig (winner's choice), every NES product ever made, and eternal glory.
Yes, it's a big part of PAX. Last year's final secret showdown game was...PONG. Yes, a lot of people were excited about it. No, I haven't even heard anything about it save for the victor's name, "Coreside" (and mad props to Coreside for winning).
No, it's not off-topic. Yes, it was an attempt at a humorous but serious demand for information. No, I still don't know what the final game was.
What was the final battle?
HOW DID IT FEEL?
They're saying that games should be impossible for most men to understand, considered "dirty" and "taboo" by a surprisingly large number of women, portrayed horribly incorrectly by popular and underground media, ranked as FAR WORSE THAN BRUTAL MURDERS by the 'conservative' factions (and heaven forbid six-year-old Billy should know about a game, when he could be watching healthy shows about cops brutalizing criminals brutalizing passerby brutalizing cops)...
IP, though, is the industry standard protocol. These days, everybody knows how to use TCP/IP. That means anyone also deploying DECnet has to license both protocols. The good news is that the DECnet fees are a bit less than those for TCP/IP.
Did I miss something? So far as I know, the specifications for TCP, IP, and (most) assorted support protocols are openly avaliable, free of charge to implement, screw up, use and abuse. Is this suggesting DECnet fees involve someone paying you to use it? If that's the case, sign me up!
Yay, Jason!
The download for the client has been inoperable since before the story hit the Slashdot subscriber preview... :(
Not running as root works like this. Your data is no more inherently safe than it is when you /are/ running as root, but nobody ELSE'S data will fall prey to your screwup, nor will the central integrity of the system. (For granny, this means that grandson Billy can ssh in, recover this morning's backups from the write-once partition, and she can keep going, having lost minimal data.)
Running as root is like pointing a loaded gun at everyone just in case they're a criminal.
Not running as root is like fastening your seat belt. Sure, you're not intending to get in an accident...
Running as root is like driving down the highway with your hood open and your oil cap off.
Not running as root is like locking your door when you leave.
Running as root is like posting to slashdot without reading TFA. :)
"Mesothelioma"? It's a cancer, I guess (or so Google says), but not one I've ever heard of. How did that get to be an expensive adsense word?
Don't forget Poland! Er, I mean Longhorn!
They must have gotten an entirely different set of games. Last I checked, there were about 15 or so games for it here in the states, which even in a large typeface would make a list roughly the length of my hand.
Of course. The bar slides to the left and right and rolls up and down. This makes diagonal movement a little tricky, but it can be managed with a little care and practice. The bar also clicks for a left-click. You have infinite up-down rolling, but only so much left-right sliding, so there's a feature to bump the wall twice to move your cursor to that edge of the screen.
People are naysaying this, but I've been using one of these for a few weeks now, and it is INCREDIBALLY nice not to have to move my hand over to reach the mouse (and it has more buttons than your traditional laptop touchpad/eraserhead mouse, too). Yes, it's not for gaming, but if you're gaming, switch to a traditional mouse for that...then go back to an alternative input system which requires less motion, less stress, and gives you more productivity for the remainder of your computing time.
Linux doesn't do things for no reason. If something changed, it's because YOU changed it, not because Windows suddenly decided that, on this hour's autodetection, it would corrupt your IDE drivers.
Whenever someone types 'pwned' at me, I pronounce it "DAMN YOU AIMBOT WALLHACKERS!"
In other news, BSD is dying!
Sure, but you wouldn't be /prohibited/ from using alternate extensions. You'd just have to save them to disk and install them from there through a manual process. The added steps would change it from an easy social engineering task to a difficult social engineering task (though, considering viruses are spreading successfully in password-protected ZIP files, certainly not an impossible one). Nevertheless, it offloads a bit more of the onus on the user to be smart about popups.
I'm sure there will be plenty of the "Use FireFox, Problem Solved!" comments as well. I have experienced, rarely, where a drive-by site is impossible to say "no" to when under Firefox and eventually crashed the browser but IE under SP2 handled itself very well on the same page. Right, IE just calmly and quietly installs the software for you if you're not computer-savvy enough to say 'yes' to the dialog box to start with. ;)
Seriously, though, I think that the /possibility/ of letting computers auto-install software that doesn't /directly/ come from a company that you've already approved - that is, Microsoft updates for Windows, Mozilla Foundation updates for Mozilla or Firefox, Adobe updates for Photoshop - causes more problems than it reduces headaches. Make people go through extra steps if they want to install FREE PR0N EXPAND YOUR PENIS NOW or A COOL SCREENSAVER FOR YOU, since computers have long been training your average user to just say 'ok' to any dialog box that pops up.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Microsoft community when IDC confirmed that the Microsoft market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all BSD tools. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Microsoft has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Microsoft is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last year in the recent BSD Admin comprehensive OS test.
You don't need to be a Malone to predict the future of Microsoft. The handwriting is on the wall: Microsoft faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Microsoft because Microsoft is dying. Things are looking very bad for Microsoft. As many of us are already aware, Microsoft continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. A river with no windows.
FreeMicrosoft is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Microsoft developers Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Microsoft is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenMicrosoft leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenMicrosoft. How many users of Microsoft.NET are there? Let's see. The number of OpenMicrosoft versus Microsoft.NET posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Microsoft.NET users. Microsoft/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Microsoft.NET posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Microsoft/OS. A recent article put FreeMicrosoft at about 80 percent of the *Microsoft market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeMicrosoft users. This is consistent with the number of FreeMicrosoft Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Redmond, abysmal sales and so on, FreeMicrosoft went out of business and was taken over by MicrosoftI who sell another troubled OS. Now MicrosoftI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *Microsoft has steadily declined in market share. Microsoft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Microsoft is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *Microsoft continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Microsoft is dead.
Fact: Microsoft is dying
An aggrivating control scheme which requires you to drive your character like an RC car.
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It is one of the few CSS resources I've found that assume that you know what you're doing except where CSS is concerned, and doesn't try to teach you inane things like how to make a link to another document. I've got a copy that's rapidly becoming worn and well-used.
I wonder...If I stick one on my fuel line, will it work like the double-your-gas-mileage gasoline ion chargers?
Or perhaps just 'getting paid extremely well to host spammers'?
So long as nobody is stupid enough to decide that because they have a WiMax-enabled chipset, they can discard all 802.11(b|g) support...WiMax (or something very similar) will show up when it's good and ready, catch on, and be the Next Big Thing. For a while.
You're making me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.