See, that's a reasonable point. That's what should be reported and considered, not the "moral" objections of a batshit-crazy minority.
But the FDA generally does a good job of erring on the side of caution, to the point where other crazy people will accuse them of causing deaths by not approving a treatment faster. And given the prevalence of HPV (see the well-cited Wikipedia article, or any other reliable source) and its obvious dangers, vaccination makes sense as public health policy.
I have to plug the Yellow Umbrella Tour for promoting awareness of these issues. Great people, great music: Kaki King, Duncan Sheik, David Poe, Sarah Bettens, Ben Folds, etc. There should be another this summer/fall.
Seriously, what goes through the minds of these people? That the risk of getting HPV and cervical cancer is currently stopping teenage girls from having sex? How stupidly selfish do you have to be to not want more women to be vaccinated against HPV?
It has been proven over and over again that shareware doesn't work. People do not pay when there is an alternative to paying.
You might want to tell that to Jeff Vogel, who has been supporting himself, his family, and a couple of employees on nothing but shareware games for more than ten years.
Life's too short to worry about getting into the "best" schools. Go somewhere you'll enjoy, socially and academically. There's incredible research being done by brilliant professors at public universities too. Do well as an undergrad, and you should have no problem getting accepted to a big name school for your master's, if you need resume candy.
I'm sure you have some good points, but both the OP and I were referring to the original EverQuest. I know nothing about EQ2.
WoW simply doesn't challenge me, and seems to attract the kind of players that I just don't like. I never seen so much childish behaviour over loot/xp as in WoW for exmaple.
Ugh. The number of morons who feel the need to speak in the general chat is amazing. I thought the RP servers might be better since they theoretically have rules, but if anything they're worse.
Just because WoW is polished does not mean everyone likes its gameplay.
I would agree that WoW makes things too easy and shallow. But judging from the sales numbers, I'm guessing *most* people don't enjoy EQ-style downtime, camping, severe XP loss + corpse retrieval, etc. There are myriad arguments to be made about handling death in a MMORPG, but I don't really want to get into that too deeply now. It is kind of interesting that WoW makes the penalty small but pointlessly tedious (a shortish invulnerable run). An EQ corpse retrieval was often difficult and resulted in many people losing hours or days of "work", but at least it involved something other than sheer boredom. I think both these penalties suck equally, and I don't have the solution.
You could serve me the finest wine ever produced and I would still NOT like wine.
Heresy! But there is an analogy to be drawn here with WoW as the cheap-but-drinkable popular beer. It also tends to attract large numbers of idiots.
Personally, I haven't really liked anything since Ultima Online started sucking. I'm kind of looking for another MMORPG to try, after getting bored with Guild Wars, but I don't see anything out there.
I admit I've never played any MMOG at the high levels (aside from UO, arguably), but it's always seemed to me that EverQuest spawned a line of games -- Dark Age of Camelot, Anarchy Online, etc -- that had essentially the same gameplay as EQ, with some tweaks and maybe a few additional features. WoW strikes me as the best of that genre, a highly-polished EverQuest. I'm trying, but I can't think of any positive features of EQ (aside from nostalgia) that are absent in WoW.
An excellent point. I can buy another 2x1GB of DDR2-800 for $170, which isn't much more than a copy of Vista Home Premium and a 2GB USB stick. I think I'll stay with my Gentoo-based desktop.
Using P2P for swarming download amplification? That's another story. It had been tried before, but it took Bram's genius to make it work.
I was using eDonkey2000 long before BitTorrent showed up. At an abstract level, they work in an almost identical manner: the client gets some metadata, which is used to find multiple peers with the data you want. BitTorrent trades search and some other features in favor of semi-decentralization.
Innovator? Novel? I don't know about that. The BitTorrent protocol is extremely simple (it lacks, for example, the ability to batch multiple torrents into a single tracker request), and so is the concept. A large part of its popularity is due to legal reasons, not technical merits. I dunno about you, but I miss AudioGalaxy.
Uh...being able to track down your laptop would be the advantage.
Would it also trigger mindless fear for you if the OP used a CGI script on a web server? The potential security problems there would be slightly greater than the no-input login script.
You realize that it's trivial to set up a *nix user with no permissions beyond his home directory, right? Or a user with a login shell that's just a logging script.
Maybe we're all saying the same thing in different ways, but one of the major problems with political reporting today is that nearly everything is presented as "Foo said X. Bar said Y." Rarely is it pointed out when X or Y is a lie. The fact that it's a lie/wrong/distortion/etc is a necessary part of the story. I think with most reporters this isn't political slant, it's sheer laziness combined with the fear of being perceived as slanted if you call out something as blatantly wrong. It's so much easier to just present this false balance.
It really is true that the hardest job on the planet is to be a satirist of the pro-Bush Republicans, because it is almost impossible to create caricatures extreme enough to stay ahead of what they actually become in reality.
5) Using another distribution-independent system like autopackage, zero-install or klik -- none of them gained a significant market share so far.
There are very good reasons why autopackage hasn't been accepted. It's hopelessly broken. Anyway, asking for one unified package format is like asking for exactly one Linux distro; it betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the OSS community.
There's an appalling number of entries where half the article's wordcount describes how a given subject appears in comics, video games, anime, TV shows, and etc.
Ugh. I've now taken to systematically purging the "In popular culture" fancruft whenever I stumble across it. I've only been reverted once so far.
Yay for Darklands. I still play it with DosBox every once in a while. But by 1994, there was AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve/etc, though I don't think I ever downloaded the patch back then.
You don't need to stick everything in its own VM, you just need to be able to grant each application only the privileges it needs and nothing more. The problem isn't technical; SELinux already exists. The problem is making it user- and developer-friendly.
Consider: every major game ever released has been cracked. Every single one. There have been a wide array of extremely complex, highly obfuscated copy protection schemes (no different in concept from DRM), and every one has been blown to piecees. For computer games. I won't even get into all the dongle-dependent applications that have been cracked. And you think these skilled people or those like them won't be interested in cracking the next-gen video formats?
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See, that's a reasonable point. That's what should be reported and considered, not the "moral" objections of a batshit-crazy minority.
But the FDA generally does a good job of erring on the side of caution, to the point where other crazy people will accuse them of causing deaths by not approving a treatment faster. And given the prevalence of HPV (see the well-cited Wikipedia article, or any other reliable source) and its obvious dangers, vaccination makes sense as public health policy.
Continuing that bizarre analogy, do you think the lack of a bulletproof vest is preventing anyone from mugging someone?
I have to plug the Yellow Umbrella Tour for promoting awareness of these issues. Great people, great music: Kaki King, Duncan Sheik, David Poe, Sarah Bettens, Ben Folds, etc. There should be another this summer/fall.
Seriously, what goes through the minds of these people? That the risk of getting HPV and cervical cancer is currently stopping teenage girls from having sex? How stupidly selfish do you have to be to not want more women to be vaccinated against HPV?
Life's too short to worry about getting into the "best" schools. Go somewhere you'll enjoy, socially and academically. There's incredible research being done by brilliant professors at public universities too. Do well as an undergrad, and you should have no problem getting accepted to a big name school for your master's, if you need resume candy.
Personally, I haven't really liked anything since Ultima Online started sucking. I'm kind of looking for another MMORPG to try, after getting bored with Guild Wars, but I don't see anything out there.
I admit I've never played any MMOG at the high levels (aside from UO, arguably), but it's always seemed to me that EverQuest spawned a line of games -- Dark Age of Camelot, Anarchy Online, etc -- that had essentially the same gameplay as EQ, with some tweaks and maybe a few additional features. WoW strikes me as the best of that genre, a highly-polished EverQuest. I'm trying, but I can't think of any positive features of EQ (aside from nostalgia) that are absent in WoW.
An excellent point. I can buy another 2x1GB of DDR2-800 for $170, which isn't much more than a copy of Vista Home Premium and a 2GB USB stick. I think I'll stay with my Gentoo-based desktop.
Innovator? Novel? I don't know about that. The BitTorrent protocol is extremely simple (it lacks, for example, the ability to batch multiple torrents into a single tracker request), and so is the concept. A large part of its popularity is due to legal reasons, not technical merits. I dunno about you, but I miss AudioGalaxy.
Uh...being able to track down your laptop would be the advantage.
Would it also trigger mindless fear for you if the OP used a CGI script on a web server? The potential security problems there would be slightly greater than the no-input login script.
You realize that it's trivial to set up a *nix user with no permissions beyond his home directory, right? Or a user with a login shell that's just a logging script.
Now now, they're just following the pros, who will stoop to the most offensive shit for the sake of cutesy headlines.
Maybe we're all saying the same thing in different ways, but one of the major problems with political reporting today is that nearly everything is presented as "Foo said X. Bar said Y." Rarely is it pointed out when X or Y is a lie. The fact that it's a lie/wrong/distortion/etc is a necessary part of the story. I think with most reporters this isn't political slant, it's sheer laziness combined with the fear of being perceived as slanted if you call out something as blatantly wrong. It's so much easier to just present this false balance.
Congratulations, you've learned that you can write shit software on top of any OS.
Uh, Jeff has done you one better. He makes his own CRPGs. He's hardly a "whiner" any more than those who write about game design in Gamasutra are.
Have you studied computational linguistics at all? It is far from trivial to summarize arbitrary text accurately.
Yay for Darklands. I still play it with DosBox every once in a while. But by 1994, there was AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve/etc, though I don't think I ever downloaded the patch back then.
You don't need to stick everything in its own VM, you just need to be able to grant each application only the privileges it needs and nothing more. The problem isn't technical; SELinux already exists. The problem is making it user- and developer-friendly.
Consider: every major game ever released has been cracked. Every single one. There have been a wide array of extremely complex, highly obfuscated copy protection schemes (no different in concept from DRM), and every one has been blown to piecees. For computer games. I won't even get into all the dongle-dependent applications that have been cracked. And you think these skilled people or those like them won't be interested in cracking the next-gen video formats?