It apparently can't handle the/. effect.
I did have a chance to browse a few of the usage graphs and the infrastructure layout. It is very well laid out. I am most impressed with the beeb on this one, it appears my hard earned money I spend for BBCA to see BBC4 shows is going for much more than BBC4 quality programming.
but, will a $15 green laser reach that altitude? How in an enclosed cockpit do pilots see they are bieng painted? COuld this rash of laser tagging be the work of those making crop circles?
I heavily got into using a computer, I started playing online flight sims, moved to modding the game then building models for it, then eventually to programming my own apps.
My first contact with anything resembling a computer aside from gaming consoles was a C-64 keyboard, I would site for hours writing the lines of code in the booklet to see the balloons float across the screen, then recode to alter the balloons in some way.
Last year my 7 year old who was then 6 walked up on me while I was writing an app, and said "daddy, I want to do what you are doing", I was so proud that she wanted to be a little programmer. Bieng 6 she doesn't read nor write well enough yet to use a higher level language. She has had her own pc an old PII 233 with 128 megs of ram and an old 8 meg video card plenty to run 90% of the kids games out there. I did some research and found a program written by a professor who taught for awhile at MIT who also was in the same boat, kids wanted to program but were not developed enough for a higher language, so he began working with a few friends to develop a software pakage that taught children the basics of programming. It didn't teach syntax, but it teaches the basic concepts, loops, addition, multilication, division, and subtraction. You have a robot, you have to tell teh robot to do a specific task before he does anything. Once you tell him what to do you set the algorithym to tell him how long to do it. Turns out she loves the game.
For those who also have young children interested in programming here is the link. Well worth the $30 for the software. http://www.toontalk.com/
I even watch 1 hour and 42 minutes of TV a week much less that much per day. I get home, and bam into gameland. Chat with friends, mix music. Why on earth would I want to rot my brains, when I can use the internet to learn and stimulate my brain.
As a married man in a gaming clan who has little time for real world friendships. I wholeheartedly agree. People you play games with are true friends in every sense of friendship, I have people in my clan I have gamed with for 5 years. We met a few months ago IRL for the first time. It was great, we talked game, tech, we showed each other some hiding places in game and gave each other tips on how to play better, we ate drank and joked all weekend. It was like we grew up together. Why? Because we talked online, none of the social jockeying. We talked, no posturing neither of us trying to impress the other because there was no need. I think online gaming has created a new avenue to make friends, people you may not even consider as a friend had you gone to school with them because they may look different or sound different, they may not have hung out in the clique you did, this guy surely would have run in a different crowd than me in school, our love of gaming was our common ground, having gotten to know each other through talking has made us lifelong friends.
Personally I'm sick to death of hearing about the MPAA sueing everybody and their brother over illegally trading music. Why do people trade in the first place? If they would address that issue and rethink their production and distribution of media then maybe people would be more likely to goto the record store and purchase it.
Until they rethink their business model and do a radical change of their whole system, I for one won't buy shit. If everyone stopped buying music and didn't download it, artists would start to beg us to download and trade their music. How long is a record label going to back an artist that can't sell one ticket to a concert?
It dutifully tells me the extension isn't signed (good), but makes the default choice Install Now (bad). This is the opposite of what Internet Explorer decided to default to when it detected unsigned code (ref: above). Now tell me again, which is the more secure browser?
What he neglected to mention was that even though IE has ActvieX scripting prompting him Ma and Pa internet would have disabled the annoying little shit notification window by now, or that Javascript would have installed WebRebates and all sorts of shady crap.
IE because I know it will warn me about unsigned programs.
Since when does digital signing == security? Yeah, that spoofed website your on has you downloading FATFUCK and you think it's ok because it is using the previous signature from MSN Instant Messenger. So life is ok because "hey it is digitally signed, so it must be good".
OK. But now what if there's a security bug found in Flash and I want to disable it? With Internet Explorer, I can simply set the Internet Zone to "High" security mode (to block all ActiveX controls), or I could go to the Tools -> Manage Add-Ons dialog if I just wanted to disable Flash until an update was available.
Or let a cross-site-scripting bug in all versions of IE, totally ream my pc anally while adding it to the hoards of zombie spam networks. Why not? Conformity is cool right?
Mozilla has had its share of security vulnerabilities in the past (just as IE has), and -- despite what the open source folk might say -- Mozilla keeps their security bugs hidden from the public (just like Microsoft does) in order to protect their customers from coming under attack by malicious users. Note that this is not a bad thing;
The one true statement in the whole article. Although, if I can readily download the full source to Mozilla I can look at the code myself, and check for bugs, or even add something to it should I choose. Scuse me Mr. Gates, um please sir may I have the source to IE?
I think the major point here that the authour neglected to point out that regardless what your using common sense should be exercised. Don't trust a browser to handle your security. Just because a little box says "It's ok". It isn't use your own judgement. If you aren't sure then ask someone you know who knows. I don't trust IE for crap, at teh paranoid security setting you cant go 15 seconds without having to click a window or click OK. If I wanted to click pretty windows all day, Slashdots Widgets would be my first choice. I have donated to Mozilla and used the browser for 4 years now. I have to say that I only use IE when I absolutely have to. I trust Mozilla as much as you should trust any webrowser, but I trust my judgement first.
But the article said the crimes happened in 2001. It's now 2004. Why did it take this long to either A) find out who did it? or B) prosecute him? Also at the time he was 17 which means he was a minor and subject to punishment as a minor. Seems a slap on the wrist 6 months and resitution, compared to Mitnik.
Is that they get nerfed at each new patch. How many MMO's have you played where after weeks and endless hours of the same repetative crap have you found it was for a character or prize that was utter crap? Or only to have that new charatcter/skill/weapon yo uaquired from those weeks, nerfed with the latest patch?
I didn't catch the show, but from the previews leading up to, I could tell that it would be nothing near what it could be. I think the stigmata the gaming industry has will take a long time to shirk. Remember current developers are gen-Xers anyway. One of the reasons the gaming industry is so scrutinized is because of the reasons taughted in the article, the image thats portrayed of the average gamer. I don't really give a flamin fuck what game was most fueled by Mountain Dew. What the hell did they contribute anyway? Other than some cash to put on the event to get their spot. I think whomever put this event on, had the intent not to present the games and hardwork done in their proper context, but moreso to appeal to a genre of consumer.
Quite frankly any awards show bores the hell out of me, but I would like to see the industry get the credit it deserves in some form other than a fat check or higher market share.
People don't need protection. Sheep need protection, from wolves. Seems I have avoided this pitfall, why hath so many others fallen pray? If it is simply something they enjoy doing, if they want to spend thier time, and money doing it? Then why do they need protection? When swimming I could be eaten by a shark, should someone restrain me from swimming for my own protection? I could be choked to death while eating, should I not be allowed to eat?
If its something they feel that strongly enough in where they would sink that kind of cash into then go for it, I wonder what his next W-2 will look like! If he does make money from this venture what will he list the income as, "cyber developer"? If this property also makes money, whatif the government wants thier share, and claims since it is making him money he owns personal property taxes on it worth X% of its total acessed value.
It's fine and dandy if its a hobby but when it controls that much of your life, you have a serious problem.
but in virtual games you've got pretty much no protection whatsoever.
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So I guess common sense and good judgement don't count huh.
This is the reason I don't play MMORPG's. #1 I buy the lisence to play the game, #2 I see no reason to pay an extra $20 a month to play on their servers., #3 unless you can spend every waking minute in the game you get nowhere in the game, #4 you do the same repetative motions over and over ad nauseum. The main factor is what I refer to as "bitch factor" those whiners who shell out the money for this "hot new game" then complain cause it doesn't do this, or it takes 7 months to unlock this. Then comes the patches, all I hear is they should have left that alone, and the devs They don't care about your gaming experience, they care about your money. They want you to be addicted to pay for play every month.
A fool and his money are easily parted. Should be the mantra of all MMORPG's. Like this fool who dropped $25 large to own an electronic island. I can make one in any modelling studio I want and sit on a sandy beach listening to wav files of gulls and waves lapping the shore for free.
What he should have done is invest that $25k into the MMORPG and gotten a piece of all those other suckers money.
Completely interesting read and yet so pointless. You miss the big picture here, yes one day our SUV's gas tanks will run dry. The crux here is "one day", but not today. The mass don't care if it happens or even when it happens as long as it's not in their lifetime. You taught a mass extinction event as wiping out humans within 3 million years, that's great by then we'll infect another world and rape it untill it's doomsday.
Life is a cycle, enjoy your ride. For you get but one.
Slashdot Mirror
It apparently can't handle the /. effect.
I did have a chance to browse a few of the usage graphs and the infrastructure layout. It is very well laid out. I am most impressed with the beeb on this one, it appears my hard earned money I spend for BBCA to see BBC4 shows is going for much more than BBC4 quality programming.
This should go under a new department
From the desk of Captain Obvious department.
but, will a $15 green laser reach that altitude? How in an enclosed cockpit do pilots see they are bieng painted? COuld this rash of laser tagging be the work of those making crop circles?
That there is a mirror somewhere of that site, though I can't prove it.
I heavily got into using a computer, I started playing online flight sims, moved to modding the game then building models for it, then eventually to programming my own apps.
My first contact with anything resembling a computer aside from gaming consoles was a C-64 keyboard, I would site for hours writing the lines of code in the booklet to see the balloons float across the screen, then recode to alter the balloons in some way.
Last year my 7 year old who was then 6 walked up on me while I was writing an app, and said "daddy, I want to do what you are doing", I was so proud that she wanted to be a little programmer. Bieng 6 she doesn't read nor write well enough yet to use a higher level language. She has had her own pc an old PII 233 with 128 megs of ram and an old 8 meg video card plenty to run 90% of the kids games out there. I did some research and found a program written by a professor who taught for awhile at MIT who also was in the same boat, kids wanted to program but were not developed enough for a higher language, so he began working with a few friends to develop a software pakage that taught children the basics of programming. It didn't teach syntax, but it teaches the basic concepts, loops, addition, multilication, division, and subtraction. You have a robot, you have to tell teh robot to do a specific task before he does anything. Once you tell him what to do you set the algorithym to tell him how long to do it. Turns out she loves the game.
For those who also have young children interested in programming here is the link. Well worth the $30 for the software. http://www.toontalk.com/
I even watch 1 hour and 42 minutes of TV a week much less that much per day. I get home, and bam into gameland. Chat with friends, mix music. Why on earth would I want to rot my brains, when I can use the internet to learn and stimulate my brain.
As a married man in a gaming clan who has little time for real world friendships. I wholeheartedly agree. People you play games with are true friends in every sense of friendship, I have people in my clan I have gamed with for 5 years. We met a few months ago IRL for the first time. It was great, we talked game, tech, we showed each other some hiding places in game and gave each other tips on how to play better, we ate drank and joked all weekend. It was like we grew up together. Why? Because we talked online, none of the social jockeying. We talked, no posturing neither of us trying to impress the other because there was no need. I think online gaming has created a new avenue to make friends, people you may not even consider as a friend had you gone to school with them because they may look different or sound different, they may not have hung out in the clique you did, this guy surely would have run in a different crowd than me in school, our love of gaming was our common ground, having gotten to know each other through talking has made us lifelong friends.
Would you rather have someone illegally selling copies of your software, or trading illegal copies?
My question is which of the lesser evils would you prefer?
Idea for future releases. Add an autoupdate feature, this way you could have just killed all copies with the illegal regcode.
I for one welcome our new duplicate article posting overlords.
About as much as if they brought back the same memorable guy who played Daniel Jackson in the Stargate movie.
Personally I'm sick to death of hearing about the MPAA sueing everybody and their brother over illegally trading music. Why do people trade in the first place?
If they would address that issue and rethink their production and distribution of media then maybe people would be more likely to goto the record store and purchase it.
Until they rethink their business model and do a radical change of their whole system, I for one won't buy shit. If everyone stopped buying music and didn't download it, artists would start to beg us to download and trade their music. How long is a record label going to back an artist that can't sell one ticket to a concert?
One of the most phenominal and outstanding dev stories I have ever heard.
With a story like that even bieng a Windows slave it's hard not to run out and buy a Mac.
What he neglected to mention was that even though IE has ActvieX scripting prompting him Ma and Pa internet would have disabled the annoying little shit notification window by now, or that Javascript would have installed WebRebates and all sorts of shady crap.
Since when does digital signing == security? Yeah, that spoofed website your on has you downloading FATFUCK and you think it's ok because it is using the previous signature from MSN Instant Messenger. So life is ok because "hey it is digitally signed, so it must be good".
Or let a cross-site-scripting bug in all versions of IE, totally ream my pc anally while adding it to the hoards of zombie spam networks. Why not? Conformity is cool right?
The one true statement in the whole article. Although, if I can readily download the full source to Mozilla I can look at the code myself, and check for bugs, or even add something to it should I choose. Scuse me Mr. Gates, um please sir may I have the source to IE?
I think the major point here that the authour neglected to point out that regardless what your using common sense should be exercised. Don't trust a browser to handle your security. Just because a little box says "It's ok". It isn't use your own judgement. If you aren't sure then ask someone you know who knows. I don't trust IE for crap, at teh paranoid security setting you cant go 15 seconds without having to click a window or click OK. If I wanted to click pretty windows all day, Slashdots Widgets would be my first choice. I have donated to Mozilla and used the browser for 4 years now. I have to say that I only use IE when I absolutely have to. I trust Mozilla as much as you should trust any webrowser, but I trust my judgement first.
But the article said the crimes happened in 2001. It's now 2004. Why did it take this long to either A) find out who did it? or B) prosecute him? Also at the time he was 17 which means he was a minor and subject to punishment as a minor. Seems a slap on the wrist 6 months and resitution, compared to Mitnik.
Is that they get nerfed at each new patch. How many MMO's have you played where after weeks and endless hours of the same repetative crap have you found it was for a character or prize that was utter crap? Or only to have that new charatcter/skill/weapon yo uaquired from those weeks, nerfed with the latest patch?
I didn't catch the show, but from the previews leading up to, I could tell that it would be nothing near what it could be. I think the stigmata the gaming industry has will take a long time to shirk. Remember current developers are gen-Xers anyway. One of the reasons the gaming industry is so scrutinized is because of the reasons taughted in the article, the image thats portrayed of the average gamer. I don't really give a flamin fuck what game was most fueled by Mountain Dew. What the hell did they contribute anyway? Other than some cash to put on the event to get their spot. I think whomever put this event on, had the intent not to present the games and hardwork done in their proper context, but moreso to appeal to a genre of consumer.
Quite frankly any awards show bores the hell out of me, but I would like to see the industry get the credit it deserves in some form other than a fat check or higher market share.
People don't need protection. Sheep need protection, from wolves.
Seems I have avoided this pitfall, why hath so many others fallen pray? If it is simply something they enjoy doing, if they want to spend thier time, and money doing it? Then why do they need protection?
When swimming I could be eaten by a shark, should someone restrain me from swimming for my own protection? I could be choked to death while eating, should I not be allowed to eat?
If its something they feel that strongly enough in where they would sink that kind of cash into then go for it, I wonder what his next W-2 will look like! If he does make money from this venture what will he list the income as, "cyber developer"? If this property also makes money, whatif the government wants thier share, and claims since it is making him money he owns personal property taxes on it worth X% of its total acessed value.
It's fine and dandy if its a hobby but when it controls that much of your life, you have a serious problem.
This type of thing just isnt for me.
So I guess common sense and good judgement don't count huh.
This is the reason I don't play MMORPG's. #1 I buy the lisence to play the game, #2 I see no reason to pay an extra $20 a month to play on their servers., #3 unless you can spend every waking minute in the game you get nowhere in the game, #4 you do the same repetative motions over and over ad nauseum. The main factor is what I refer to as "bitch factor" those whiners who shell out the money for this "hot new game" then complain cause it doesn't do this, or it takes 7 months to unlock this. Then comes the patches, all I hear is they should have left that alone, and the devs They don't care about your gaming experience, they care about your money. They want you to be addicted to pay for play every month.
A fool and his money are easily parted. Should be the mantra of all MMORPG's. Like this fool who dropped $25 large to own an electronic island. I can make one in any modelling studio I want and sit on a sandy beach listening to wav files of gulls and waves lapping the shore for free.
What he should have done is invest that $25k into the MMORPG and gotten a piece of all those other suckers money.
Seeing as how I was one twelve months old, no.
Completely interesting read and yet so pointless. You miss the big picture here, yes one day our SUV's gas tanks will run dry. The crux here is "one day", but not today. The mass don't care if it happens or even when it happens as long as it's not in their lifetime. You taught a mass extinction event as wiping out humans within 3 million years, that's great by then we'll infect another world and rape it untill it's doomsday.
Life is a cycle, enjoy your ride. For you get but one.
Kill them, lest you lose your sanity.
At your trial plead temporary insanity.
If David Berkowitz could say his neighbors dog said to kill people, then I'm sure a "The Windows B.S.O.D. told me to", would work just as well.
I don't know, but my wife swears I'm addictied to bringing home computer parts like kids bring home stray animals.
My NAT does far more than any router could be, and who said anything about old "noisy" equipment?
"Those who can use iptables
Those who can't use Windows ICS, and a router"
More IT work, neighbors with viruses/spyware, simple cleanup == quik $$$.
Upgrades to friends families computers, good for free hardware, they don't usually want the old stuff, good for building a NAT server though.
Building full systems, good for quik $$$$, or a I'll do it if you buy X part, or game X for me.
You have done voice work on GTA: San Andreas, what are some of your favorite games?