Tufts leans toward educating first-time offenders about the downsides of their behavior, saving harsh punishment for repeat delinquents, she says.
This isn't much of a deterrant for someone that has gone out of their way to be involved in the something that should be criminalized. In cases where running this software is not accidental, they knew what they were doing, they cannot plead ignorance and dare I say, they won't learn anything other than "Don't get caught next time."
First offence of deliberate abuse against a network == ban from that network.
Another Google search shortcut exists in Opera. In the browser bar (press F8 to get there in a hurry, also try ctrl-n), enter:
g "pictures of mountains" OR "mountain pictures"
to initiate a _G_oogle search for your stuff. Extremely handy. There's also about a dozen other such shortcuts (check Preferences/Search) You can even set the number of returned search items without setting a cookie:)
The only time I was this geeky was when I polymorphed into a metallivore called a Xorn, ate a trident and got the message, "That was pure chewing satisfaction."
Could it be that the hackers sending commands off to their slave machines couldn't send futher commands once DNS went down? In essence, did they hack a service that they use themselves?
Having switched over to Opera for research, work and school, I've noticed Opera is fast to *use*. That is, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, and a well thought-out interface makes Opera more efficient to use. The raw TCP performance is not the bottleneck, the user is.
I imagine people using ten-year old browsing techniques like physically moving the mouse onto a big button as a caveman hitting a target with a big club. It could be just me though.
The odd thing is that I've seen these ads and they get the IP address wrong! I mean, they don't even get the class right. Sure, h4ck whomever's machine that is, it's not mine!
No, no, no... use your tractor beam! Or extend your ship's warp field bubble to change the gravitational forces near the rock, or just become Q and change the gravitational constant of the universe.
One cause may be the choice of on-screen colours. Most applications, in the Windows world at least, have black text on a white background. This means users by default are basically looking straight at a light, which can't be good.
Change your colour scheme inside applications. For editors, I find yellow text on a blue background works great (a la Turbo [Pascal|C]). Override the default CSS file for website with too much brightness or small fonts (in Opera, press ctrl-G to toggle).
As for the selection of colours, you want to pick ones that contrast well against each other, but aren't too bright. Imagine rgb colours as a 3-space, each "primary" colour is an axis, going from, say no red at the origin, to as red as it gets at the other end of the axis. By selecting three values for primary colours (r,g,b), you pick a point in this 3-space. The distance between colours in 3-space is their contrast. In fact if you know which one colour you want, you can imagine a sphere surrounding it. Any colour inside the sphere won't contrast well with your chosen colour, anything on the sphere or farther away should contrast well. You can also find a maximum distance from the origin, past which the colour is too bright and leads to eye strain.
I find that careful choices about colours gives another 2-3 hours of computer use a day. Maybe that's a bad thing...:)
3DS MAX and Maya pretty much do everything under the sun. If they can't do it natively, third-party plugins are a good way to go. If you need some functionality that's not there, write the plugin, surely you've got the skills to do that. These products are very mature already, nevermind their popularity and the amount of training users have invested in them.
You've got an uphill climb if you want to write this thing from scratch.
Seems to me you need some sort of mechanical device, perhaps one useful for motion. You should try a roundish shape, some research has proven useful in this area. However, you should not take advantage of this research, rather, reinvent it.
Remember the episode where Data plays Strategama with those crazy sensors attached to his fingers? That's the interface we need! Look how fast he can manipulate those crazy grids!
So the first part of the article says how much Mr. Wright has enjoyed playing games in which he created things, and this has helped shape his career. Then he describes how the Sims may take ideas from users to change the game. Does anyone else notice a problem with this?
A child playing The Sims today may have his ideas stolen and used by someone else. All it takes is one clause in the Sims EULA which claims ownership of ideas presented for content generated within the game for this to be a huge problem.
I doubt this is what was intended; Mr. Wright et al only want to make their games better. But in doing so this way, they have made their lives irreproducible. It's like Pinball Construction Set taking your "work" and putting it into Pinball Construction Set 2. Imagine if a company with an evil agenda automated gathering and analysing its users' data. Bad news!
Slashdot Mirror
First offence of deliberate abuse against a network == ban from that network.
Yeah... yeah... I'm gunna have to... go ahead and ... disagree with you there. :P
Another Google search shortcut exists in Opera. In the browser bar (press F8 to get there in a hurry, also try ctrl-n), enter:
:)
g "pictures of mountains" OR "mountain pictures"
to initiate a _G_oogle search for your stuff. Extremely handy. There's also about a dozen other such shortcuts (check Preferences/Search) You can even set the number of returned search items without setting a cookie
If anyone actually shows up at your door, show them your Linux disks. :)
The only time I was this geeky was when I polymorphed into a metallivore called a Xorn, ate a trident and got the message, "That was pure chewing satisfaction."
Could it be that the hackers sending commands off to their slave machines couldn't send futher commands once DNS went down? In essence, did they hack a service that they use themselves?
That would be funny.
Having switched over to Opera for research, work and school, I've noticed Opera is fast to *use*. That is, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, and a well thought-out interface makes Opera more efficient to use. The raw TCP performance is not the bottleneck, the user is.
I believe they're called mouse gestures.
I imagine people using ten-year old browsing techniques like physically moving the mouse onto a big button as a caveman hitting a target with a big club. It could be just me though.
I think this guy's problem is that he sees all these email addresses on slashdot, but can't decipher the encoding :)
The odd thing is that I've seen these ads and they get the IP address wrong! I mean, they don't even get the class right. Sure, h4ck whomever's machine that is, it's not mine!
No, no, no... use your tractor beam! Or extend your ship's warp field bubble to change the gravitational forces near the rock, or just become Q and change the gravitational constant of the universe.
Voltron? That's just sci-fi, man.
One cause may be the choice of on-screen colours. Most applications, in the Windows world at least, have black text on a white background. This means users by default are basically looking straight at a light, which can't be good. Change your colour scheme inside applications. For editors, I find yellow text on a blue background works great (a la Turbo [Pascal|C]). Override the default CSS file for website with too much brightness or small fonts (in Opera, press ctrl-G to toggle). As for the selection of colours, you want to pick ones that contrast well against each other, but aren't too bright. Imagine rgb colours as a 3-space, each "primary" colour is an axis, going from, say no red at the origin, to as red as it gets at the other end of the axis. By selecting three values for primary colours (r,g,b), you pick a point in this 3-space. The distance between colours in 3-space is their contrast. In fact if you know which one colour you want, you can imagine a sphere surrounding it. Any colour inside the sphere won't contrast well with your chosen colour, anything on the sphere or farther away should contrast well. You can also find a maximum distance from the origin, past which the colour is too bright and leads to eye strain. I find that careful choices about colours gives another 2-3 hours of computer use a day. Maybe that's a bad thing... :)
Rule of Aquisition 109:
Pride and an empty sack is worth the sack.
Love that quote.
3DS MAX and Maya pretty much do everything under the sun. If they can't do it natively, third-party plugins are a good way to go. If you need some functionality that's not there, write the plugin, surely you've got the skills to do that. These products are very mature already, nevermind their popularity and the amount of training users have invested in them.
You've got an uphill climb if you want to write this thing from scratch.
Seems to me you need some sort of mechanical device, perhaps one useful for motion. You should try a roundish shape, some research has proven useful in this area. However, you should not take advantage of this research, rather, reinvent it.
Remember the episode where Data plays Strategama with those crazy sensors attached to his fingers? That's the interface we need! Look how fast he can manipulate those crazy grids!
You're right, this is ambiguous. How about:
( ("Mr. Simonyi has left Microsoft")
"with the right to use the intellectual property he developed and patented while working there" )
Dumb question -- does anyone know what slate.msn.com is? Because we were all just suckered into going to a site with all these MSN ads everywhere.
Is it a news page? I've never heard of it. Has Slashdot been inadvertantly used as advertising for this website?
So the first part of the article says how much Mr. Wright has enjoyed playing games in which he created things, and this has helped shape his career. Then he describes how the Sims may take ideas from users to change the game. Does anyone else notice a problem with this?
A child playing The Sims today may have his ideas stolen and used by someone else. All it takes is one clause in the Sims EULA which claims ownership of ideas presented for content generated within the game for this to be a huge problem.
I doubt this is what was intended; Mr. Wright et al only want to make their games better. But in doing so this way, they have made their lives irreproducible. It's like Pinball Construction Set taking your "work" and putting it into Pinball Construction Set 2. Imagine if a company with an evil agenda automated gathering and analysing its users' data. Bad news!