Adrian Edmondson (From "The Young Ones" TV show) wrote a funny little book called "How be a complete bastard" and this game is an obvious tie-in. I still have that book somewhere and I expect it is still funny and worth reading, unlike this shitty cnet article.
The war over privacy in the U.S. was fought during the last eight years and common people lost. Nothing is secure. No information is out of reach of any government agency that decides it wants it, and there are no legal protections. Laws are in place now to make sure that our old image of privacy can never be restored, no matter what the current presidential candidates might claim. They don't us t have that privacy back because it does not serve their purpose.
The war was fought. We lost. I don't blame people from other nations for being concerned but if they haven't already lost privacy where they live they soon will, and it isn't coming back.
Historically in the United States penalties for adulterated food and drug products are so small as to be laughable. For the last 100 years it has been far cheaper for drug companies to cast a blind eye toward safety and quality in favor of just eating the occasional penalty or lawsuit. Evem the larger penalties just result in a drug company reshuffling their ownership and credit credentials and just picking right up where they left off, poisoning and cheating their customers. Millions of people depend on prescription drugs and we're all basically helpless in the face of corporate malfeasance.
Just what in blue blazes is his story about? I tried reading the whole thing and it still makes no sense to me. Who is this guy? What does he have to do with Slashdot? Is this just some kind of weird fiction that's supposed to be funny?
I would happily sell my vote. In the U.S. a vote is worthless, but I could use the money to help the politician I prefer stay ahead of his competitors.
Unfortunately there are no politicians I prefer, so I could hold the money in trust until one shows up with an interest in providing leadership.
I haven't noticed different behavior in any version of Windows. How do you merge similarly named folders during a copy/move in Windows? In my experience you get the same "Do you want to replace this?" type prompt you get in OS X.
Stick a fork in them, they're done. They gave it a good effort but they bungled it, and with EA over them they have had to throw out some core mechanics and inject other to satisfy their new overlord. This is not a case of "oh we just want our game to be perfect", it's a case of "we have no idea how to make this work and be competitive so we're going for our SECOND rewrite."
I really wanted Warhammer to work but their team has collapsed under the new pressure from EA to beat Warcraft. They don't need to beat it, just be competitive, and they can't with their half thought out game design. Like DDO they will just limp along for a while until they are put out of their misery, and the next person can take a crack at the license.
It's a shame that Warcraft co-opted so much of Warhammer's ideas and was so successful doing it. It was a guarantee that Warhammer would look like a late to the game clone of Warcraft, with a bastardized Dark Age of Camelot design for the core mechanics.
Originally genetic modification was just things like making mice glow. Now they're creating results that would be appealing to exactly the wrong people: the military.
As soon as a science has military application it gets billions poured into it. Even if there are beneficial offshoots to the research that follows the repercussions are usually awful. Think atom bombs and biological weapons.
It is not unreasonable at this point to wonder where we're going to end up as a species. If we can genetically create human beings with abilities that far outpace anything an unmodified can do will that become the norm?
In my lifetime (40 years) genetic modification has gone from theory to fact. I am worried that it will be horribly abused.
I support a gaggle of Gen-Y'ers and would like to point out that using technology is not the same thing as understanding technology. Even the graphic designers who use Photoshop at the expert level five days a week don't know simple things like how to burn a data CD. It's possible for someone to own a Smartphone, digital video camera, home network, etc. and have not the slightest idea how they work or how to solve even the most minor of problems.
This is not a slam, just a clarification. I don't see ANY generation having more tech skills than any other, and that includes the current teenagers who were born surrounded by technology.
Heh. I just looked at your most recent posts and see they are all rated at 1. Reading closer I see that you're a troll. I'm glad I didn't spend much time trying to explore your point of view: you don't have one!:D
Your combination of smugness, hostility and an inability to express yourself leaves me with no way to continue. I'm sorry you feel the need to try and insult me.
Then can you explain why you feel that way? Maybe without calling me a fucking idiot? And what does "people like you" mean? I'm curious about the assumptions you made about me.
Do you really believe that swearing enhances workplace communication? If so, how? You can't express anger or frustration without it?
Like I said, there are times when swearing seems to be appropriate. For a typical office environment I think those times are extremely limited and the more often I hear swearing in that setting the more inclined I am to question the swearer's professionalism and communication skills.
Swearing is a language tool. Used skillfully it has a place in the world. Used constantly and in place of real content words it limits communication, increases people's hostility level and takes away from a professional atmosphere.
P.S. I don't think you're a "fucking idiot" but if you made your statement during a staff meeting I would definitely wonder about your ability to conduct yourself professionally.
I once worked at police department, a very swear-friendly environment. I wound up swearing ALL the time, including around my family. I had to work hard to break this new habit. In the jobs that followed (outside of emergency services) it was obvious that people who swore alot not only seemed unprofessional they appeared to be poor communicators that could not express themselves without obscenities.
It's not a prohibition on swearing that's keeping people from expressing themselves at work; it's restrictive environments created by management where one doesn't express oneself out of fear of retaliation.
I enjoy swearing when it's the right time, but work is not the place for it, and swearing is not a workplace communication enhancer; it's a tool of anger, frustration and an inability to express one's full feeling on a subject.
Microsoft is so large and its userbase so enormous that no amount of bad press can affect them. Anything short of eating live babies would not impact them in the slightest.
Shutting down Autopatcher is nothing to them and will not affect their business in even a negligible fashion.
I would like to think otherwise but I can't. They are unstoppable.
When it comes to your personal information there is no thing as security once it has left your control. None of it is really protected. Companies engage in "security theater" to give the appearance of protection but that is a sham. Why? THERE IS NO PENALTY FOR BREACHES.
Genuine security costs companies millions of dollars. Insecurity costs them NOTHING. They could expose every single piece of every person's information and it would have no penalty. None.
The government and corporations have no interest in protecting your information. So much is in the wild already that it makes no difference to them. 158 million people? What's 50 million more? 100 million more?
Stop complaining about this. The horse was out of the barn a long time ago. Security and privacy are illusions. They are gone and they are NEVER coming back. Your security and privacy have no value to the government or corporations.
I'm in general good health but I had cancer four years ago. Am I even allowed into this Brave New World of health insurance? If smoking is worth that much per check isn't having been personally visited by The Big C worth even more?
I understand that there is a connection between personal health choices and the cost of health care but how about things beyond our control?
Worrying about being denied coverage is one of the worst parts of suffering a major medical problem. Even if you survive you might not be able to afford to continue living.
I'm curious about which movies you would consider the great ones. I also have a low opinion of most science fiction movies, but with rather less hostility than yourself.:)
I've spent the last year cleaning up the mess left behind by AdmitMac at my company. This software is awful, so bad in fact that Thursby has removed their online support forum due to the tidal wave of complaints.
The worst bug: AdmitMac will simply refuse to allow a user, and sometimes even a local administrator from logging in! It did this from the earliest version we used in 2006 to the last version in early 2007. I would get late night and weekend calls from the CFO or the CEO that they couldn't log in and it didn't matter how many cached logins were specified in the prefs.
AdmitMac is shit, my dislike stoked even more by how expensive it is and how poor Thursby's support has been. The closest I got to any satisfaction was when I received an apology from a VP of Thursby after posting at their support forum that I was about to stack up all my copies of AdmitMac in the parking lot and set them on fire.
I'm 40. The first arcade game I played was "Computer Space" in 1972. I've been playing video games for pretty much as long as they have existed.
I think this whole controversy is dumb. Just like the organizations that tried to "protect" youth from slasher and nudie moves they are trying to do the same with video games.
It has nothing to do with the "original video game generation." Some people want to control other people. Some don't. These folks obviously do, and I don't support them.//proud of his "original video game generation" I.D. card///my dad played the predecessor to "Computer Space" at Bell Labs in the 1960s.:)///He still games
I find it hard to get concerned about a person who makes unsupported claims of authoring a Mac worm followed up by unsupported claims of death threats that I expect are meant to support his unsupported claims of authoring a Mac worm.
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Adrian Edmondson (From "The Young Ones" TV show) wrote a funny little book called "How be a complete bastard" and this game is an obvious tie-in. I still have that book somewhere and I expect it is still funny and worth reading, unlike this shitty cnet article.
The war over privacy in the U.S. was fought during the last eight years and common people lost. Nothing is secure. No information is out of reach of any government agency that decides it wants it, and there are no legal protections. Laws are in place now to make sure that our old image of privacy can never be restored, no matter what the current presidential candidates might claim. They don't us t have that privacy back because it does not serve their purpose.
The war was fought. We lost. I don't blame people from other nations for being concerned but if they haven't already lost privacy where they live they soon will, and it isn't coming back.
Historically in the United States penalties for adulterated food and drug products are so small as to be laughable. For the last 100 years it has been far cheaper for drug companies to cast a blind eye toward safety and quality in favor of just eating the occasional penalty or lawsuit. Evem the larger penalties just result in a drug company reshuffling their ownership and credit credentials and just picking right up where they left off, poisoning and cheating their customers. Millions of people depend on prescription drugs and we're all basically helpless in the face of corporate malfeasance.
Just what in blue blazes is his story about? I tried reading the whole thing and it still makes no sense to me. Who is this guy? What does he have to do with Slashdot? Is this just some kind of weird fiction that's supposed to be funny?
I'm baffled.
I would happily sell my vote. In the U.S. a vote is worthless, but I could use the money to help the politician I prefer stay ahead of his competitors.
Unfortunately there are no politicians I prefer, so I could hold the money in trust until one shows up with an interest in providing leadership.
I swear that's what I saw when I first looked at the headline!
I haven't noticed different behavior in any version of Windows. How do you merge similarly named folders during a copy/move in Windows? In my experience you get the same "Do you want to replace this?" type prompt you get in OS X.
Stick a fork in them, they're done. They gave it a good effort but they bungled it, and with EA over them they have had to throw out some core mechanics and inject other to satisfy their new overlord. This is not a case of "oh we just want our game to be perfect", it's a case of "we have no idea how to make this work and be competitive so we're going for our SECOND rewrite."
I really wanted Warhammer to work but their team has collapsed under the new pressure from EA to beat Warcraft. They don't need to beat it, just be competitive, and they can't with their half thought out game design. Like DDO they will just limp along for a while until they are put out of their misery, and the next person can take a crack at the license.
It's a shame that Warcraft co-opted so much of Warhammer's ideas and was so successful doing it. It was a guarantee that Warhammer would look like a late to the game clone of Warcraft, with a bastardized Dark Age of Camelot design for the core mechanics.
Originally genetic modification was just things like making mice glow. Now they're creating results that would be appealing to exactly the wrong people: the military.
As soon as a science has military application it gets billions poured into it. Even if there are beneficial offshoots to the research that follows the repercussions are usually awful. Think atom bombs and biological weapons.
It is not unreasonable at this point to wonder where we're going to end up as a species. If we can genetically create human beings with abilities that far outpace anything an unmodified can do will that become the norm?
In my lifetime (40 years) genetic modification has gone from theory to fact. I am worried that it will be horribly abused.
I support a gaggle of Gen-Y'ers and would like to point out that using technology is not the same thing as understanding technology. Even the graphic designers who use Photoshop at the expert level five days a week don't know simple things like how to burn a data CD. It's possible for someone to own a Smartphone, digital video camera, home network, etc. and have not the slightest idea how they work or how to solve even the most minor of problems.
This is not a slam, just a clarification. I don't see ANY generation having more tech skills than any other, and that includes the current teenagers who were born surrounded by technology.
P.S. I am an X'er
Heh. I just looked at your most recent posts and see they are all rated at 1. Reading closer I see that you're a troll. I'm glad I didn't spend much time trying to explore your point of view: you don't have one! :D
Your combination of smugness, hostility and an inability to express yourself leaves me with no way to continue. I'm sorry you feel the need to try and insult me.
Then can you explain why you feel that way? Maybe without calling me a fucking idiot? And what does "people like you" mean? I'm curious about the assumptions you made about me.
Do you really believe that swearing enhances workplace communication? If so, how? You can't express anger or frustration without it?
Like I said, there are times when swearing seems to be appropriate. For a typical office environment I think those times are extremely limited and the more often I hear swearing in that setting the more inclined I am to question the swearer's professionalism and communication skills.
Swearing is a language tool. Used skillfully it has a place in the world. Used constantly and in place of real content words it limits communication, increases people's hostility level and takes away from a professional atmosphere.
P.S. I don't think you're a "fucking idiot" but if you made your statement during a staff meeting I would definitely wonder about your ability to conduct yourself professionally.
I once worked at police department, a very swear-friendly environment. I wound up swearing ALL the time, including around my family. I had to work hard to break this new habit. In the jobs that followed (outside of emergency services) it was obvious that people who swore alot not only seemed unprofessional they appeared to be poor communicators that could not express themselves without obscenities.
It's not a prohibition on swearing that's keeping people from expressing themselves at work; it's restrictive environments created by management where one doesn't express oneself out of fear of retaliation.
I enjoy swearing when it's the right time, but work is not the place for it, and swearing is not a workplace communication enhancer; it's a tool of anger, frustration and an inability to express one's full feeling on a subject.
Hmmm... FAR appears to be Norton Commander.
I loved Norton Commander when I first used it in the 1980s. It was so easy to use, and fast.
Microsoft is so large and its userbase so enormous that no amount of bad press can affect them. Anything short of eating live babies would not impact them in the slightest.
Shutting down Autopatcher is nothing to them and will not affect their business in even a negligible fashion.
I would like to think otherwise but I can't. They are unstoppable.
...only outlaws will reincarnate!
When it comes to your personal information there is no thing as security once it has left your control. None of it is really protected. Companies engage in "security theater" to give the appearance of protection but that is a sham. Why? THERE IS NO PENALTY FOR BREACHES.
Genuine security costs companies millions of dollars. Insecurity costs them NOTHING. They could expose every single piece of every person's information and it would have no penalty. None.
The government and corporations have no interest in protecting your information. So much is in the wild already that it makes no difference to them. 158 million people? What's 50 million more? 100 million more?
Stop complaining about this. The horse was out of the barn a long time ago. Security and privacy are illusions. They are gone and they are NEVER coming back. Your security and privacy have no value to the government or corporations.
I'm in general good health but I had cancer four years ago. Am I even allowed into this Brave New World of health insurance? If smoking is worth that much per check isn't having been personally visited by The Big C worth even more?
I understand that there is a connection between personal health choices and the cost of health care but how about things beyond our control?
Worrying about being denied coverage is one of the worst parts of suffering a major medical problem. Even if you survive you might not be able to afford to continue living.
I'm curious about which movies you would consider the great ones. I also have a low opinion of most science fiction movies, but with rather less hostility than yourself. :)
Is it just me or does that Sunshine page prominently feature separate videos to show every single character dying? Is this some kind of gimmick?
//confused
Usually I don't want to know how the movie ends until, you know... the end of the movie.
I've spent the last year cleaning up the mess left behind by AdmitMac at my company. This software is awful, so bad in fact that Thursby has removed their online support forum due to the tidal wave of complaints.
The worst bug: AdmitMac will simply refuse to allow a user, and sometimes even a local administrator from logging in! It did this from the earliest version we used in 2006 to the last version in early 2007. I would get late night and weekend calls from the CFO or the CEO that they couldn't log in and it didn't matter how many cached logins were specified in the prefs.
AdmitMac is shit, my dislike stoked even more by how expensive it is and how poor Thursby's support has been. The closest I got to any satisfaction was when I received an apology from a VP of Thursby after posting at their support forum that I was about to stack up all my copies of AdmitMac in the parking lot and set them on fire.
It's really that bad.
I'm 40. The first arcade game I played was "Computer Space" in 1972. I've been playing video games for pretty much as long as they have existed.
//proud of his "original video game generation" I.D. card ///my dad played the predecessor to "Computer Space" at Bell Labs in the 1960s. :) ///He still games
I think this whole controversy is dumb. Just like the organizations that tried to "protect" youth from slasher and nudie moves they are trying to do the same with video games.
It has nothing to do with the "original video game generation." Some people want to control other people. Some don't. These folks obviously do, and I don't support them.
$60 is too much. I have only purchased a couple at that price. The handful of others were all purchased used at a greatly reduced price.
I find it hard to get concerned about a person who makes unsupported claims of authoring a Mac worm followed up by unsupported claims of death threats that I expect are meant to support his unsupported claims of authoring a Mac worm.
See where I'm going with this?