Not for ID. Video games are becoming mainstream, but ID is still a "Hardcore" gamer's company. They know that their market is the kind of people who hang out in IRC and play 6-8 hours daily. Sure, some "Normal" people will buy it, but their fanboy base is huge.
While that is true, in some cases there is an obvious "Right" and "Wrong" to the law and to the public eye (Not nessecarialy the same things). The Eolas patent on plugins was absurd and we had every reason to cheer Microsoft FOR THAT CASE, even if not overall.
While I wouldnt say the site is techy, I would say that the audience probably is because of the subject matter. Not many "normal" people play online games, and I know that there was a large population of people from slashdot on there for a while.
BTW, Great game and great book. Innovative marketing idea, too.
The iPod isn't the only harddisk audio player. It's the most popular, but it's at nowhere near monopoly levels. You can't argue that the iPod has a monopoly on playing dowloaded music either, since there are other services. Apple just has the best in two markets that they link heavily.
Recursive marketing is a breath of fresh air compared to the old style. I flip through the channels on my TV and see ads that I classify into three categories: Useless, stupid, and funny. Useless is things like Tampons, or Dishwashing detergent, neither of which I would buy even with their assurances of "Grease fighting crystals". Stupid is any sort of medication, which should be pitched and perscribed only by a liscenced doctor with your best interests at heart. Funny ads are almost exculsivley a fairly standard joke with a single logo or name tacked on.
Even worse are things like "Targeted" advertisements on the internet. Google's getting better, but internet ads still fall into the basic categories.
None of these catergories comes close to informing me or making good use of my time. My friends, on the other hand, have a pretty good idea of what I like and have a pretty vested interest in giving me honest opinions. Music is meant to be a question of "Hey, Bob, come listen to this song, it's got a really catchy tune.", not of "LOOKIT THIS GIRLS BOOBS! AND SHE SINGS!". It will happen, and this is it.
Why develop your own streaming software when VideoLan is already out there and working great? I regularly use it for any media viewing, and I've had great sucess with the streaming features.
I was at a SANS conference a while back, and the instructor, Ed Skoudis, explained it as replacing certain operations with equivalents to represent bits. For example, "add 0002h" would be 0, "sub FFFEh", technically equivalent, would be 1. The more replaceable operations a program has, the more it can store. Hydan also encrypts the data with blowfish before storing it.
Most UT mods come in the UMOD format, essentialy a zip file with some special instructions for the UT installer program. I dont know where you've been getting your mods without it.
No download, but you can find it on Amazon. $14 a month after the free trial month.
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Actually, by l users I meant the class of home users who are overall frightened by computers, also known as lusers.
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Thunderbird isn't a browser, it's an email client. And a danm good one at that. I regularly switch l users to Thunderbird from Outlook, and they never want to go back.
I've felt hardware detection was Knoppix's strong point. I've shoved the disc into 10 diffrent makes of computers and around 40 diffrent sets of boards (Total mishmash of Scsi, network, and sound cards in my school), and the only problem I've had is with the sound cards. More hardware detection is never a problme, though. Pretty soon, thanks to knoppix, I'll be able to have my own customised desktop on any computer I wish.
There's no baby in the bathwater of ActiveX installs. There never was. Who needs software installed directly from the web browser? Legitimate installer programs are easy to come by, and most people who are able to go out and search for the software in the first place are smart enough to get it downloaded and installed. There is a problem in preventing "Third party installations" from being included in the installers, as many games and legitimate tools have come to rely on DirectX, Quicktime, and Rad Game tools. But there is no necessity to include them as part of the installer itself. Meerly make a note in the installer that you need to install these utilities too and that they are included on the cd or in a setup directory.
Typical linux user: "I cant figure out why this feature is useful, nobody else I've talked to can, and it poses a huge security risk. How bout not enabling it by default?"
... With an XML format, as OO.o uses, it's fairly easy to ignore features that your current version of the program cannot interpret. Just ignore the tags that appear to be meaningless. Set up a special "Errors" section that takes note of lines of XML that arent readable, and you're gold. As I remember, OO.o supports the former, though I'm not sure about the latter.
This shouldn't be about wether or not gambling should be legal or not: It should be about wether or not online gambling is trustworthy. In casinos, the cards are laid out for checking after the game. You know that the casino didn't cheat. On the other hand, an online casino could set it so you win 50% of the time for bets under $5, but almost never with $100. Methods of verification/Proving legitimacy for online casinos don't exist, so they shouldn't. You could argue that they will police themselves: nobody will play if they keep losing, but building false confidence is all too easy: Look at Nigerian scams.
Good administration, however, is not something a linux box can function at all without. Linux is, quite simply, more complex to set up to run at all, and as such it has to be set up properly by someone. You dont need a user to be good, just good enough and the system good enough.
At the same time, I have had great sucess with my windows 2k machines as they can be set up to run like a good linux box: Seprate users for the installation and OS problems vs everyday use. XP has the fast switching that makes it even easier, though I havent switched to it for other reasons.
Zero degrees isnt enough. The lower the temprature, the easier electrons move and the faster gates switch. If you were to try to get a prescott to run at 5.5ghz normaly, it would result in errors as the gates wouldnt switch fast enough to keep up with the clock. With this level of cooling, it's no longer about heat concerns, but the speed of the logic gates.
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I'm doing a report on his murder for my Forensics class, and it's due tommorow. Just a little late, guys!
Not for ID. Video games are becoming mainstream, but ID is still a "Hardcore" gamer's company. They know that their market is the kind of people who hang out in IRC and play 6-8 hours daily. Sure, some "Normal" people will buy it, but their fanboy base is huge.
While that is true, in some cases there is an obvious "Right" and "Wrong" to the law and to the public eye (Not nessecarialy the same things). The Eolas patent on plugins was absurd and we had every reason to cheer Microsoft FOR THAT CASE, even if not overall.
While I wouldnt say the site is techy, I would say that the audience probably is because of the subject matter. Not many "normal" people play online games, and I know that there was a large population of people from slashdot on there for a while.
BTW, Great game and great book. Innovative marketing idea, too.
The iPod isn't the only harddisk audio player. It's the most popular, but it's at nowhere near monopoly levels. You can't argue that the iPod has a monopoly on playing dowloaded music either, since there are other services. Apple just has the best in two markets that they link heavily.
Recursive marketing is a breath of fresh air compared to the old style. I flip through the channels on my TV and see ads that I classify into three categories: Useless, stupid, and funny. Useless is things like Tampons, or Dishwashing detergent, neither of which I would buy even with their assurances of "Grease fighting crystals". Stupid is any sort of medication, which should be pitched and perscribed only by a liscenced doctor with your best interests at heart. Funny ads are almost exculsivley a fairly standard joke with a single logo or name tacked on.
Even worse are things like "Targeted" advertisements on the internet. Google's getting better, but internet ads still fall into the basic categories.
None of these catergories comes close to informing me or making good use of my time. My friends, on the other hand, have a pretty good idea of what I like and have a pretty vested interest in giving me honest opinions. Music is meant to be a question of "Hey, Bob, come listen to this song, it's got a really catchy tune.", not of "LOOKIT THIS GIRLS BOOBS! AND SHE SINGS!". It will happen, and this is it.
Why develop your own streaming software when VideoLan is already out there and working great? I regularly use it for any media viewing, and I've had great sucess with the streaming features.
I was at a SANS conference a while back, and the instructor, Ed Skoudis, explained it as replacing certain operations with equivalents to represent bits. For example, "add 0002h" would be 0, "sub FFFEh", technically equivalent, would be 1. The more replaceable operations a program has, the more it can store. Hydan also encrypts the data with blowfish before storing it.
Most UT mods come in the UMOD format, essentialy a zip file with some special instructions for the UT installer program. I dont know where you've been getting your mods without it.
Really? I am constantly 0w|\|ing windows boxes. They make it so easy, it must be an invitation.
No download, but you can find it on Amazon. $14 a month after the free trial month.
Actually, by l users I meant the class of home users who are overall frightened by computers, also known as lusers.
Thunderbird isn't a browser, it's an email client. And a danm good one at that. I regularly switch l users to Thunderbird from Outlook, and they never want to go back.
but it is fairly obvious that the RIAA is not reporting the most 'useful' numbers to the public
Next you'll tell me that windows is less secure than linux!
I would, were it not for their spam I recieved this morning (shown here)
I've felt hardware detection was Knoppix's strong point. I've shoved the disc into 10 diffrent makes of computers and around 40 diffrent sets of boards (Total mishmash of Scsi, network, and sound cards in my school), and the only problem I've had is with the sound cards. More hardware detection is never a problme, though. Pretty soon, thanks to knoppix, I'll be able to have my own customised desktop on any computer I wish.
There's no baby in the bathwater of ActiveX installs. There never was. Who needs software installed directly from the web browser? Legitimate installer programs are easy to come by, and most people who are able to go out and search for the software in the first place are smart enough to get it downloaded and installed.
There is a problem in preventing "Third party installations" from being included in the installers, as many games and legitimate tools have come to rely on DirectX, Quicktime, and Rad Game tools. But there is no necessity to include them as part of the installer itself. Meerly make a note in the installer that you need to install these utilities too and that they are included on the cd or in a setup directory.
Google threatened a "Destruction of Property" lawsuit if any more decided to "Drop in".
Typical linux user: "I cant figure out why this feature is useful, nobody else I've talked to can, and it poses a huge security risk. How bout not enabling it by default?"
... With an XML format, as OO.o uses, it's fairly easy to ignore features that your current version of the program cannot interpret. Just ignore the tags that appear to be meaningless. Set up a special "Errors" section that takes note of lines of XML that arent readable, and you're gold. As I remember, OO.o supports the former, though I'm not sure about the latter.
I'm sorry, I can't let you do that, Dave...
This shouldn't be about wether or not gambling should be legal or not: It should be about wether or not online gambling is trustworthy. In casinos, the cards are laid out for checking after the game. You know that the casino didn't cheat. On the other hand, an online casino could set it so you win 50% of the time for bets under $5, but almost never with $100. Methods of verification/Proving legitimacy for online casinos don't exist, so they shouldn't. You could argue that they will police themselves: nobody will play if they keep losing, but building false confidence is all too easy: Look at Nigerian scams.
At least they haven't yet decided to kill a dozen kids to promote sneakers.
Good administration, however, is not something a linux box can function at all without. Linux is, quite simply, more complex to set up to run at all, and as such it has to be set up properly by someone. You dont need a user to be good, just good enough and the system good enough.
At the same time, I have had great sucess with my windows 2k machines as they can be set up to run like a good linux box: Seprate users for the installation and OS problems vs everyday use. XP has the fast switching that makes it even easier, though I havent switched to it for other reasons.
Zero degrees isnt enough. The lower the temprature, the easier electrons move and the faster gates switch. If you were to try to get a prescott to run at 5.5ghz normaly, it would result in errors as the gates wouldnt switch fast enough to keep up with the clock. With this level of cooling, it's no longer about heat concerns, but the speed of the logic gates.