I guess this is what happens when you have a giant corporate-sponsored lan party...you get lots of advertising and sponsor hype.
I mean think about it, the spirit of the lan party is in gathering your friends for hours of fragging and trash-talking. In a giant event like this, you're stuck between uber 1337 n1nj4 d00dz (strangers telling you to ph33r them, j00 n00b!) and companies advertising products in your face all day.
I'd take a teeny little router with a few friends any day instead.
After a lot of overhyped anticipation, SCO finally released all of the offending code. It seems that SCO had patented the symbol combinations "/*" and "*/" as well as "//" -- thus proving correct that the comments were obviously stolen code.
They are currently trying to get the courts to uphold their patent of the semi-colon, a pair of parentheses, curly braces, and the crlf combination.
SCO has also filed a lawsuit against a 14yr old California student whose "Hello World" program infringes on SCO's patents. The student could not be reached for comments.
That's a-maize-ing! That's one way to compile your kernel. Hey, guess what I managed to cobb-le together. Make plastic or make tequila...tough choice. Lastly, I am Cornholio...do you have TP for my bunghole?
First there were symbols on a cave -- pictures that represented what the catch of the day was. Then there were heiroglyphics -- a more elaborate group of pictures that when chained together told a story. Eventually we got to handwritten language exchanged through paper and ink. Printers then took writing to the masses
After all of this, we get to modern day computers where icons on a desktop represent actual programs installed on a machine. Now we've got Tablet PC's with digital ink. If I were you, I wouldn't be as worried about not knowing cursive handwriting than the fact that I don't know how to chisel pictures onto the next generation computing devices.
It's true, I tell you -- I've experienced this first-hand. I was playing Diablo II online and sure enough, these people started logging in and slowing down the entire bnet server thing.
When a game that promotes capitalism at its finest (lidless for an 2 SOJ) gets hindered by a "cyber-attac", the terrorists win!
You know, I always thought that the demise of napster would evolve into the great peer-to-peer era where we can all do filesharing without being tracked.
Gnutella proved to be a tad "too difficult" and Kazaa took off (taking Morpheus out in the process). Besides userbase, the only other advantage I see in Kazaa is the metadata. Still, though, when someone is in control of the entire network, you're forced to take what they give you (or run kazaa-lite).
I haven't followed peer-to-peer in quite some time now. Is there someplace that compares all the different services/protocols and rates them for ease of use, etc? I'm currently using gtk-gnutella but would like to know what my other options are. (qtella, eMule, etc?)
If the professor is using No Doubt's copyrighted lecture, I think it'd be the professor that would get in trouble, not you. I personally wouldn't want to piss off Gwen Stefani.
Ah, but in GNOME Mines, you can alter it so that it displays "Somebody set up us the bomb" before a game starts. Can't do that with minesweeper.
Behold the power of open source!!!
Imagine a multi-player minesweeper --I can almost hear the screaming "nooooooo, not there, you idiot!!! The square above it said 3, the one to the right said 2 -- so WTF were you thinking?" (l33tZi114 tags lartbait's toe)
I've heard rumors of touch-screens being used to make headshots. Under the definition given by the article (altering config files, etc) this isn't classified as "cheating."
Does "better" equipment constitute cheating? Someone with a laggy connection, for example, becomes harder to hit. Someone with a bigger monitor may be able to see movement more clearly than a poor guy with a 15in screen. Is this the digital divide in fragging?:)
I know touch-screens could provide a REAL advantage but wouldn't be defined as a cheat by the article. Sure, it's not as deliberate as an aimbot but it has to at least come close.
Actually, the greatest irony about it all is that these ads help support Slashdot -- a public forum known for its big share of people that don't support MS. So I say take the ad money, smile, say thank you, and walk away.
Some high-ranking government officials would probably consider the main topic as a terrorist threat with all those words put together like that.
Then they'd figure out that it's a discussion about a computer-related product that didn't involve microsoft...and they'd be CERTAIN that it's a terrorist discussion. After all, they seem to have bought the notion that what's good for microsoft is good for the US of A.
Instead of asking where's the bathroom, you'd ask for their "IP Address." As for the type of connection it would have, I'm sure it'll be phone lines using PPP.
Aaaaand they'll have bran muffins outside if you have problems generating logs. Now THAT's innovation!
Even after playing so much that my right wrist aches...
Didn't anyone ever tell you that you could also go blind doing stuff like that? Then how do you suppose you'd see clearly enough to pick off some guy from 300 yards?
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I guess this is what happens when you have a giant corporate-sponsored lan party...you get lots of advertising and sponsor hype.
I mean think about it, the spirit of the lan party is in gathering your friends for hours of fragging and trash-talking. In a giant event like this, you're stuck between uber 1337 n1nj4 d00dz (strangers telling you to ph33r them, j00 n00b!) and companies advertising products in your face all day.
I'd take a teeny little router with a few friends any day instead.
Heat things with a giant magnifying lens until the object smokes or pops. Nope
Shoot bb guns at stop signs (not lights). Nope
Slingshots...that's taken.
Blow darts with straws and paper...hmmm, yes, giant air pressure pipe to launch space capsules into orbit.
Anyone know a good modernized implementation of pouring salt on snails?
After a lot of overhyped anticipation, SCO finally released all of the offending code. It seems that SCO had patented the symbol combinations "/*" and "*/" as well as "//" -- thus proving correct that the comments were obviously stolen code.
They are currently trying to get the courts to uphold their patent of the semi-colon, a pair of parentheses, curly braces, and the crlf combination.
SCO has also filed a lawsuit against a 14yr old California student whose "Hello World" program infringes on SCO's patents. The student could not be reached for comments.
That's a-maize-ing!
That's one way to compile your kernel.
Hey, guess what I managed to cobb-le together.
Make plastic or make tequila...tough choice.
Lastly, I am Cornholio...do you have TP for my bunghole?
First there were symbols on a cave -- pictures that represented what the catch of the day was. Then there were heiroglyphics -- a more elaborate group of pictures that when chained together told a story. Eventually we got to handwritten language exchanged through paper and ink. Printers then took writing to the masses
After all of this, we get to modern day computers where icons on a desktop represent actual programs installed on a machine. Now we've got Tablet PC's with digital ink. If I were you, I wouldn't be as worried about not knowing cursive handwriting than the fact that I don't know how to chisel pictures onto the next generation computing devices.
Quick, get your patch here
It's true, I tell you -- I've experienced this first-hand. I was playing Diablo II online and sure enough, these people started logging in and slowing down the entire bnet server thing.
When a game that promotes capitalism at its finest (lidless for an 2 SOJ) gets hindered by a "cyber-attac", the terrorists win!
You know, I always thought that the demise of napster would evolve into the great peer-to-peer era where we can all do filesharing without being tracked.
Gnutella proved to be a tad "too difficult" and Kazaa took off (taking Morpheus out in the process). Besides userbase, the only other advantage I see in Kazaa is the metadata. Still, though, when someone is in control of the entire network, you're forced to take what they give you (or run kazaa-lite).
I haven't followed peer-to-peer in quite some time now. Is there someplace that compares all the different services/protocols and rates them for ease of use, etc? I'm currently using gtk-gnutella but would like to know what my other options are. (qtella, eMule, etc?)
If the professor is using No Doubt's copyrighted lecture, I think it'd be the professor that would get in trouble, not you. I personally wouldn't want to piss off Gwen Stefani.
A new and innovative way to get my arse whipped by a computer. As if losing umpteen times on the standard chessboard wasn't enough.
Leverage Fiber...
Sounds like the slogan for the not-fake-fake-not-fake iLoo!!!!!
Damn, only in America!
But seriously, what does 802.11 have to do with running Windows programs in Linux?
Welcome to Slashdot. Among the many things you'll see here are posts that start along these lines:
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1) Imagine a beowulf cluster of...
2) All your base...
3) Profit!
4) In Soviet Russia...
5) Micro$oft Sux
Also, feel free to post duplicate stories and mangle spelling and grammar. Again, welcome to Slashdot.
Ah, but in GNOME Mines, you can alter it so that it displays "Somebody set up us the bomb" before a game starts. Can't do that with minesweeper.
Behold the power of open source!!!
Imagine a multi-player minesweeper --I can almost hear the screaming "nooooooo, not there, you idiot!!! The square above it said 3, the one to the right said 2 -- so WTF were you thinking?" (l33tZi114 tags lartbait's toe)
I've heard rumors of touch-screens being used to make headshots. Under the definition given by the article (altering config files, etc) this isn't classified as "cheating."
:)
Does "better" equipment constitute cheating? Someone with a laggy connection, for example, becomes harder to hit. Someone with a bigger monitor may be able to see movement more clearly than a poor guy with a 15in screen. Is this the digital divide in fragging?
I know touch-screens could provide a REAL advantage but wouldn't be defined as a cheat by the article. Sure, it's not as deliberate as an aimbot but it has to at least come close.
Actually, the greatest irony about it all is that these ads help support Slashdot -- a public forum known for its big share of people that don't support MS. So I say take the ad money, smile, say thank you, and walk away.
I say ping flood the bastard!
Some high-ranking government officials would probably consider the main topic as a terrorist threat with all those words put together like that.
Then they'd figure out that it's a discussion about a computer-related product that didn't involve microsoft...and they'd be CERTAIN that it's a terrorist discussion. After all, they seem to have bought the notion that what's good for microsoft is good for the US of A.
Instead of asking where's the bathroom, you'd ask for their "IP Address." As for the type of connection it would have, I'm sure it'll be phone lines using PPP.
Aaaaand they'll have bran muffins outside if you have problems generating logs. Now THAT's innovation!
Will they name it after Apple's naming convention (or the ipaq) and call it iBROWN or BROWN-i?
I believe 2600 magazine published an article regarding this topic on their Spring 2002 edition. The article title was "CampusWide Wide Open."
Didn't anyone ever tell you that you could also go blind doing stuff like that? Then how do you suppose you'd see clearly enough to pick off some guy from 300 yards?
To quote the gerbil in the microwave (after being zapped, popped, and reduced to an eyeball) -- "Give it up for DNA!"
And according to
this article, Yellow Hat from the Dalai Lama.
That'd be GNU/Iraq to you, buddy!
Is that free as in beer or free as in say something bad about the government and mysteriously disapp