From what I've seen, they way to capture an audience is to make them wait for hours before spawning a monster, let high level characters be able to farm, and have little to no support.
Pff, dream on. We can only WISH they would make a game like that. Throw in getting killed by bored 12-year-olds every ten minutes, and its the perfect game.
It may not be the first, but it is the most incisive because of the way it dissects the many fundamental flaws in Microsoft's latest creation.
ah, as usual at Slashdot, the senseless MS bashing continues. I love this statement- it at once opines that we do nothing to change anything, at at the same time bashes MS for doing something new.
How many original creations DONT have fundamental flaws? Things only get improved thru trial and error. Unless the poster is one of the perfect few who craps rose petals and does everything right on the first try.
FrzrBrn writes "Whitfield Diffie and Ronald Rivest raised concerns about Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (formerly Palladium) at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday. They are (naturally) concerned about vendor lock-in and having computers turned against their owners. See the story at EE Times."
"Our solution is to do nothing. We prefer to just complain about anything that MS will do."
Im surprised they didnt work MS into the article. It seems like Slashdot could be talking about Cracker Jack, and the fact that they didnt get a good prize is somehow because "Oh, Microsoft is a MONOPOLY"
I guess this leads me to another question, which would be why, if they are going to make a law, why didnt they exclude all expenses related to illegal activities, instead of limiting it to illegal activities involved in drug trafficing?
Not that there is probably a good answer to this (or any other "why?" question), but it just seems silly.
Thanks for the info, btw. Its very amusing, and actually illustrates proper use of tax deductions.
Its not necessarily thinking like a manager, so much as it is taking real-world technology issues into account. Its all well and good to tinker around with OSs and software at home, in your spare time, but quite another to actually work with products in a professional IT environment.
As touched on in the earlier post, this is the reason things like converting all 3000 of a company's users to Linux isnt going to happen: it costs more time and money to convert and retrain all your non-computer expert users to the new system than you will possibly gain by doing such a thing. Even if there were real benefits, which (aside from anecdotal evidence) there arent.
So we dont need everyone talking like a manager, but having everyone talking realisticly would be a nice change. Not that this is going to happen, of course, but its nice to dream...
Are you referring to the actual case where a bank robber deducted the cost of his gun and bullets as a tax deduction, and it was judged to be a valid expense in court?
On an semi-unrelated note, there was actually a drug dealer who went to jail, etc., and on release put "Interstate Drug Dealer" on his resume. Apparently, he had a lot more than a small-time operation, and was hiring truck drivers, coordinating shipments, etc. I dont know if he actually got a legit job with this tactic, however.
They discovered that playing EQ doesnt cause people to have no social life or stop bathing for days at a time. Apparently, EQ just tends to attract people who are already predisposed to such behavior.
I think they ripped off the idea after seeing how the Slashdot Servers run. LOL, it never ceases to amaze me how I can post one time in a day, but get an error stating how Ive exceeded my daily post amount.
this is something every Slashdotter should read, since it will likely inject a healthy dose of business practicality, not to mention just plain ol' reality, into their thought processes.
Gone will be thoughts of all software being free, or Linux on the desktop, or having 1000 people in an organization using the latest K3wL beta version MP3 player. Instead, they will start talking standards, support, and managing resources.
After that happens, we can all have a coke and a smile, link arms, and sing 'Kumbaya'.
Ask Slashdot with yet another stupid, inane question.
Ok, Assnozzle, here is the answer to your question- Do your taxes yourself! Wow, since you state they are pretty much all zeroes, lots of people tend to pick up a pen and write them zeroes in -all on their own-!!!!
Doing something for yourself, what an amazing concept. And also, if you are all into using computer assistance, there are all kinds of Tax Software!!! Wow, what an amazing world we live in!!
I guess overpricing your underpowered hardware and selling it to women and gays is quite lucrative. Now we see why Apple wants to have a monopoly on its platform.
I hear from unconfirmed (but reliable) sources that Steve Jobs is also building a secret base inside of a dormant volcano, and plans on taking over the world, forcing all PC users to buy appliance shaped computers in pretty, delightfully colored cases.
Considering Matrix BT is a physical creation that was most likely created two years before the movie was released, since it needed to be planned and all that icky stuff, and the fact that Max Payne's BT is a software engine *effect* that could just be slapped in with a few months of work once the underlying work was done, I really dont see how you can claim that the Bullet Time name was from 3d realms. As I said, the time lines just dont work out.
You just bought into the marketting department's stolen name for this feature, and swallowed the hook, line, and sinker, and are currently flopping around in the bottom of 3d realm's fanboy boat.
I would be more worried about the vulnerabilities in the Sun's Java VM that they havent gotten around to patching yet. Its not like they have a history of good (or even decent) programming. Heck, Sun doesnt even use Java for internal projects because of its flaws.
so that means that, citing their statistics, at least 30% of people have closet spammers living near them. Ya right!
I mean, Im sure most people living near me wouldnt mind downloading pr0n with my connection, but sending spam? Even if they had said hacking I would consider that a stretch. Its not like every kiddy is a script kiddy.
Now when the Matrix became a big hit they named the effect Bullet-time in the game as well. That they chose this name because of the movie is obvious since characters in the game talk about the movie (Matrix) and "how cool it would be to move like that". (And they you jump in a shoot them.)
I believe that is the point I was making with my original post. The replier was trying to rewrite history and say that Max Payne was calling it Bullet Time before The Matrix used the term, which hardly seems likely, given the timelines. The fact are "The Matrix" was release three years before "Max Payne".
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From what I've seen, they way to capture an audience is to make them wait for hours before spawning a monster, let high level characters be able to farm, and have little to no support.
Pff, dream on. We can only WISH they would make a game like that. Throw in getting killed by bored 12-year-olds every ten minutes, and its the perfect game.
But we could only be so lucky.
ah, as usual at Slashdot, the senseless MS bashing continues. I love this statement- it at once opines that we do nothing to change anything, at at the same time bashes MS for doing something new.
How many original creations DONT have fundamental flaws? Things only get improved thru trial and error. Unless the poster is one of the perfect few who craps rose petals and does everything right on the first try.
Does anyone, per chance, have Rush Limbaugh's home address?
"Our solution is to do nothing. We prefer to just complain about anything that MS will do."
Im surprised they didnt work MS into the article. It seems like Slashdot could be talking about Cracker Jack, and the fact that they didnt get a good prize is somehow because "Oh, Microsoft is a MONOPOLY"
Not that there is probably a good answer to this (or any other "why?" question), but it just seems silly.
Thanks for the info, btw. Its very amusing, and actually illustrates proper use of tax deductions.
As touched on in the earlier post, this is the reason things like converting all 3000 of a company's users to Linux isnt going to happen: it costs more time and money to convert and retrain all your non-computer expert users to the new system than you will possibly gain by doing such a thing. Even if there were real benefits, which (aside from anecdotal evidence) there arent.
So we dont need everyone talking like a manager, but having everyone talking realisticly would be a nice change. Not that this is going to happen, of course, but its nice to dream...
On an semi-unrelated note, there was actually a drug dealer who went to jail, etc., and on release put "Interstate Drug Dealer" on his resume. Apparently, he had a lot more than a small-time operation, and was hiring truck drivers, coordinating shipments, etc. I dont know if he actually got a legit job with this tactic, however.
Sorry, I choose not to pay the Lycoris tax with any PC I buy. I only drink FREE beer.
They discovered that playing EQ doesnt cause people to have no social life or stop bathing for days at a time. Apparently, EQ just tends to attract people who are already predisposed to such behavior.
This just in: Russia is going to pass along all research data on this program to Iraq.
I think they ripped off the idea after seeing how the Slashdot Servers run. LOL, it never ceases to amaze me how I can post one time in a day, but get an error stating how Ive exceeded my daily post amount.
Gone will be thoughts of all software being free, or Linux on the desktop, or having 1000 people in an organization using the latest K3wL beta version MP3 player. Instead, they will start talking standards, support, and managing resources.
After that happens, we can all have a coke and a smile, link arms, and sing 'Kumbaya'.
The moron is probably afraid his kiddy porn stash is going to get discovered.
Ok, Assnozzle, here is the answer to your question- Do your taxes yourself! Wow, since you state they are pretty much all zeroes, lots of people tend to pick up a pen and write them zeroes in -all on their own-!!!!
Doing something for yourself, what an amazing concept. And also, if you are all into using computer assistance, there are all kinds of Tax Software!!! Wow, what an amazing world we live in!!
I hear from unconfirmed (but reliable) sources that Steve Jobs is also building a secret base inside of a dormant volcano, and plans on taking over the world, forcing all PC users to buy appliance shaped computers in pretty, delightfully colored cases.
It wouldnt surpise me at all if somebody hooked together the MLM idea with the concept of spamming. Well, at least you didnt get burned on the idea.
You just bought into the marketting department's stolen name for this feature, and swallowed the hook, line, and sinker, and are currently flopping around in the bottom of 3d realm's fanboy boat.
I would be more worried about the vulnerabilities in the Sun's Java VM that they havent gotten around to patching yet. Its not like they have a history of good (or even decent) programming. Heck, Sun doesnt even use Java for internal projects because of its flaws.
Forget the handheld, thats my description of the perfect woman!
If we ignore SARS, maybe it will just go away, right?
Oh ja, d00d. |_1|\|u> iz da b0mbzor, M$ \/\/ind0z3 iz da Sux0r.
Oops, I realized I fuxored the numbers. Its more like 18%, not 30%
I mean, Im sure most people living near me wouldnt mind downloading pr0n with my connection, but sending spam? Even if they had said hacking I would consider that a stretch. Its not like every kiddy is a script kiddy.
I believe that is the point I was making with my original post. The replier was trying to rewrite history and say that Max Payne was calling it Bullet Time before The Matrix used the term, which hardly seems likely, given the timelines. The fact are "The Matrix" was release three years before "Max Payne".