They're basically doing this with a "man in the middle" attack by sending false messages to both parties in the communication, pretending to be the other. This is why all net traffic needs to be encrypted and signed.
Provided that your definition of legal means "obtained in violation of the terms of service and by providing fraudulent information to bypass the compliance checks."
Depends on how you use your phone. I use mine minimally, so I have a pre-paid "plan". I spend about $6.75 per month--true I only get 27 to 52 minutes for that, but I don't use that many (and *all* my unused cash balance carries indefinitely). The phone cost me about $100, and that was two years ago. Let's say I keep it for another year, so that works out to be about $2.75 month. So for phone and service, I spend just under $10/month. That's not even close to a "massive ripoff". If you can find me any service that's cheaper, I'm listening!
How is it I can live my whole life without ever hearing about something, and then twodifferent, unrelated, stories both reference this whole EGCS thing on the same day?
I think this could work quite well if, (and that may be a big IF), Marvel sticks to its strengths and brings in Hollywood talent to do the rest.
There's a mighty thin line between "Hollywood" and "Marvel". Marvel's current comic writers include J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame and Josh Whedon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly/Serenity fame. I think both of these "comic writers" know a thing or two about writing and producing for the screen.
Well, remember Halo was going to be a Mac game. They demoed it at a MacWorld and everyone oooo'ed and aaaaaahhh'ed about it. The Microsoft just stepped in and ended that whole thing.
Huh? I have the Mac version of Halo installed on my iMac. Universal binary and everything. So if "Microsoft just stepped in and ended that whole thing" then they did it in a weird way...
And just to put this in historical context, this patent was filed (never mind prep time) a scant 45 days after Alta Vista went live. It would be a couple years before Google would enter the scene. The big search engine of the day was AOL's WebCrawler. Compared to WebCrawler, this certainly is not an obvious idea.
Why can't/. produce blurbs that are decipherable without reading the link - yeah yeah, I know -, doing a google and wikipedia search, and having extensive industry insider knowledge?
It's called "writing to your target audience." It's actually something that a good journalist is supposed to do. That way every news story isn't filled with three paragraphs defining what "murder" is when the target audience already knows.
It originally launched in Japan, where TurboLinux marketed it to 'early adopters who are curious about using Linux but either don't want to or can't install the operating system.'
TurboLinux was introduced in 1992; that's 15 years ago. What bizarre definition of early adapter includes those jumping on the bandwagon 15 years later?
Websites? We shall see what WotC comes up with, but websites can be impermanent -- the content is only available as long as the site's owners chose to host it. What would have happened had TSR had such a site when they were looking to go out of business? My guess is, the site would be shut down and that information lost; even if not, little of the content would likely still be available on WotC's site today.
Steve Jackson Games has been publishing Pyramid (or the obligatory Wikipedia entry) electronically for 9 years now with pretty good results. Of course, you can always print out those important articles and they'll be as permanent as any magazine.
Forums? Not the same at all. I don't want to have to wade through mindless rules flamewars and irrelevant conversations to find useful stuff.
And yet you read comments on/. (Sorry, couldn't resist...)
none of the games in the Zelda series could seriously be considered true RPGs
I'll go you one better: no computer/console game ever could seriously be considered a true RPG (and what you defined is not a "true" RPG). It peeves me to no end how the software industry has co-opted the RPG term to describe something where you don't actually play a role with any degree of freedom. It's not a role-playing game until I can say "screw the plotline... I'm establishing Ordona as my base of power to take over the world!" Or maybe "Hey! I like being a wolf! Let me just live in the woods and eat bunnies, and find some nice wolf-bitch to raise my pups."
The graphics may be pretty, and the story more involved, but we really haven't progressed that much past Zork or Bard's Tale.
What really peeves me is that I've been reading Cap regularly for a while now, and I was just trying to by the next issue like I always do but all the frigging collectors and speculators bought them first. So a bunch of people who couldn't care less have it and I don't.
LEDs that work on alternating current do NOT work with dimmer switches.
Last I heard, the "D" in "LED" stands for "diode."
By definition, a diode is a device that allows current to flow in one direction while opposing it in the other direction.
It would seem that it would be therefore impossible to have an LED that truly works on non-rectified alternating current, unless it was running only 50% of the time.
What am I missing? Is it that the term LED is now a misnomer applied to a non-diode technology, or something else?
I worry more about the already laboring tabletop RPG and CCG markets. How long before they get pushed to the edges of the floor, or segregated into their own smaller room? Two years? One year? Five seconds?
Wouldn't there be a certain irony to that? Isn't that what the RPG industry did to the poor war games inductry back in the 1970's?
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Months ago? That link is over 7 years old!
They're basically doing this with a "man in the middle" attack by sending false messages to both parties in the communication, pretending to be the other. This is why all net traffic needs to be encrypted and signed.
This was just posted on Thursday.
The headline said the role was cast, and the summary said "in talks". Make up your mind, and don't get back to me until you have an answer.
Isn't "90 to 95 percent self-sufficient" another way of saying "Not self-sufficient"?
Provided that your definition of legal means "obtained in violation of the terms of service and by providing fraudulent information to bypass the compliance checks."
I'm perplexed... I'm paying a third of what you're paying. How am I getting hosed?
Depends on how you use your phone. I use mine minimally, so I have a pre-paid "plan". I spend about $6.75 per month--true I only get 27 to 52 minutes for that, but I don't use that many (and *all* my unused cash balance carries indefinitely). The phone cost me about $100, and that was two years ago. Let's say I keep it for another year, so that works out to be about $2.75 month. So for phone and service, I spend just under $10/month. That's not even close to a "massive ripoff". If you can find me any service that's cheaper, I'm listening!
How is it I can live my whole life without ever hearing about something, and then two different, unrelated, stories both reference this whole EGCS thing on the same day?
There's a mighty thin line between "Hollywood" and "Marvel". Marvel's current comic writers include J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame and Josh Whedon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly/Serenity fame. I think both of these "comic writers" know a thing or two about writing and producing for the screen.
Huh? I have the Mac version of Halo installed on my iMac. Universal binary and everything. So if "Microsoft just stepped in and ended that whole thing" then they did it in a weird way...
And just to put this in historical context, this patent was filed (never mind prep time) a scant 45 days after Alta Vista went live. It would be a couple years before Google would enter the scene. The big search engine of the day was AOL's WebCrawler. Compared to WebCrawler, this certainly is not an obvious idea.
It's called "writing to your target audience." It's actually something that a good journalist is supposed to do. That way every news story isn't filled with three paragraphs defining what "murder" is when the target audience already knows.
"...a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time."
TurboLinux was introduced in 1992; that's 15 years ago. What bizarre definition of early adapter includes those jumping on the bandwagon 15 years later?
Steve Jackson Games has been publishing Pyramid (or the obligatory Wikipedia entry) electronically for 9 years now with pretty good results. Of course, you can always print out those important articles and they'll be as permanent as any magazine.
Forums? Not the same at all. I don't want to have to wade through mindless rules flamewars and irrelevant conversations to find useful stuff.And yet you read comments on /. (Sorry, couldn't resist...)
none of the games in the Zelda series could seriously be considered true RPGs
I'll go you one better: no computer/console game ever could seriously be considered a true RPG (and what you defined is not a "true" RPG). It peeves me to no end how the software industry has co-opted the RPG term to describe something where you don't actually play a role with any degree of freedom. It's not a role-playing game until I can say "screw the plotline... I'm establishing Ordona as my base of power to take over the world!" Or maybe "Hey! I like being a wolf! Let me just live in the woods and eat bunnies, and find some nice wolf-bitch to raise my pups."
The graphics may be pretty, and the story more involved, but we really haven't progressed that much past Zork or Bard's Tale.
What really peeves me is that I've been reading Cap regularly for a while now, and I was just trying to by the next issue like I always do but all the frigging collectors and speculators bought them first. So a bunch of people who couldn't care less have it and I don't.
i am wondering if it is to much for me to ask for some semblance of reality injected into the comic industry.
I agree! Let's stick to realistic flying people with telepathic powers and super-human strength that the got from a gamma-radiated firefly!
LEDs that work on alternating current do NOT work with dimmer switches.
Last I heard, the "D" in "LED" stands for "diode."
By definition, a diode is a device that allows current to flow in one direction while opposing it in the other direction.
It would seem that it would be therefore impossible to have an LED that truly works on non-rectified alternating current, unless it was running only 50% of the time.
What am I missing? Is it that the term LED is now a misnomer applied to a non-diode technology, or something else?
Is 8000 MHz supposed to sound more impressive than 8 GHz?
I'm just confused as to why it was worded so oddly.
Wow, first Congress solved the spam problem, and now they're going to address net neutrality!
Why don't I feel comforted?
I worry more about the already laboring tabletop RPG and CCG markets. How long before they get pushed to the edges of the floor, or segregated into their own smaller room? Two years? One year? Five seconds?
Wouldn't there be a certain irony to that? Isn't that what the RPG industry did to the poor war games inductry back in the 1970's?
Precisely what GenCon is - its all about the geeks. Now if it would only move back to Milwaukee, where it belongs ...
Let's be a true purist and move it all the way back to Lake Geneva, where it really belongs! Afterall, it's not called "MilCon".
I wonder how this differs from PC-BSD.
They managed to ship earlier despite a later start. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.