So does anybody know how secure this likely to be?
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I don't play Everquest, but I find the whole topic simultaneously enthralling and ludicrous. It reminds of the visions of the future worlds from sci-fi writer's such as Philip K.Dick (Perky Pat), Gibson, and more recently Stephenson (Snow Crash). I mean, REAL money invested for all this virtual paraphenalia. I love it.
You are so right. The fact is that though that by busting one of them perhaps they hope the others will take it as a warning and stop doing whatever it is they are doing. Yeah, right..
...but back again tomorrow. When will these people learn that they will never be able to stop people inclined to play around with new technology playing around with new technology?
True, it did ask questions to verify you were old enough, I had forgotten that. I also forget what those were, but I do remember that when I played it I was only 10 years old, so they can't have been that taxing. But I see your point in that there should be a level protection against younger players playing, but age rating standards were not really around then and they are now, so I guess this 'masterpiece' from Acclaim must R rated or something?
That was vulgar and featured nudity and everybody loved it. No stores, as I recall, refused to sell that.
Still I suppose the graphics have come a little since those days, perhaps it is the realism that shocks them.
It is just my perception or do we seem to get a dozen new 'Invasion of Privacy' stories EVERY day? And then everybody gripes and debates about the whole immoral, disturbing consequences of this but nothing happens and it all goes ahead anyway. Does anybody really have any power to stand up against this stuff, and if they do then where are they?
Well, bugger me. Some programmer (aka 'bug finder') finds a bug and decides to bug everyone else by telling them about this bug. Those buggers at the giant Bug are probably bugged about this and will be bugging every worker bugs phone line fron now on - buggers. Meanwhile I am just buggered off at the fact that I spend all my days finding and fixing bugs, bug after bug after bug, only to find that all my emails contain new reports of bugs, bugs that have occurred as the result of 'fixing' other bugs, and bugs that, well, just don't exist, can't be found, can't be reproduced or are, infact, not bugs but 'unsupported features'. I mean really, this makes no sense and if you have read this far then nor, perhaps, do you, but it BUGS ME anyw...bugger it.
I think this is an interesting question. The company I work for has for some time now been selling a product which, basically, rocks. The product is an a complete development language and design methodology complete with IDE that is second to none. I say this not as a 'marketing within a marketing discussion' opportunity (I personally get no extra money if they sell more products or not) but because the product is far superior to any other I've encountered.
Unfortunately, however, it is still remarkable difficult to market because it is hard to convince programmers/developers to learn a new language even though the long term benefits (portability, reliability, time to market, etc.) of doing this are a great advantage.
Most people are still using languages with roots in the 60s and 70s and things have come on a lot since then but the language fundamentals have not. How do you market something that, by nature of its superiority, implies the methods currently employed are, most likely, not the best. People don't want to be told they are doing things wrong (or at least not optimally), especially when they have been doing it that way for years.
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So does anybody know how secure this likely to be?
I don't play Everquest, but I find the whole topic simultaneously enthralling and ludicrous. It reminds of the visions of the future worlds from sci-fi writer's such as Philip K.Dick (Perky Pat), Gibson, and more recently Stephenson (Snow Crash). I mean, REAL money invested for all this virtual paraphenalia. I love it.
...it might help
You are so right. The fact is that though that by busting one of them perhaps they hope the others will take it as a warning and stop doing whatever it is they are doing. Yeah, right..
...but back again tomorrow. When will these people learn that they will never be able to stop people inclined to play around with new technology playing around with new technology?
learn to program the right way
True, it did ask questions to verify you were old enough, I had forgotten that. I also forget what those were, but I do remember that when I played it I was only 10 years old, so they can't have been that taxing. But I see your point in that there should be a level protection against younger players playing, but age rating standards were not really around then and they are now, so I guess this 'masterpiece' from Acclaim must R rated or something?
That was vulgar and featured nudity and everybody loved it. No stores, as I recall, refused to sell that. Still I suppose the graphics have come a little since those days, perhaps it is the realism that shocks them.
It is just my perception or do we seem to get a dozen new 'Invasion of Privacy' stories EVERY day? And then everybody gripes and debates about the whole immoral, disturbing consequences of this but nothing happens and it all goes ahead anyway. Does anybody really have any power to stand up against this stuff, and if they do then where are they?
Anybody fancy working some XP exploits on their new 'secure' setup? Disclaimer: only joking (honest (-;)
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absolute classic :-)
Well, bugger me. Some programmer (aka 'bug finder') finds a bug and decides to bug everyone else by telling them about this bug. Those buggers at the giant Bug are probably bugged about this and will be bugging every worker bugs phone line fron now on - buggers. Meanwhile I am just buggered off at the fact that I spend all my days finding and fixing bugs, bug after bug after bug, only to find that all my emails contain new reports of bugs, bugs that have occurred as the result of 'fixing' other bugs, and bugs that, well, just don't exist, can't be found, can't be reproduced or are, infact, not bugs but 'unsupported features'. I mean really, this makes no sense and if you have read this far then nor, perhaps, do you, but it BUGS ME anyw...bugger it.
I think this is an interesting question. The company I work for has for some time now been selling a product which, basically, rocks. The product is an a complete development language and design methodology complete with IDE that is second to none. I say this not as a 'marketing within a marketing discussion' opportunity (I personally get no extra money if they sell more products or not) but because the product is far superior to any other I've encountered. Unfortunately, however, it is still remarkable difficult to market because it is hard to convince programmers/developers to learn a new language even though the long term benefits (portability, reliability, time to market, etc.) of doing this are a great advantage. Most people are still using languages with roots in the 60s and 70s and things have come on a lot since then but the language fundamentals have not. How do you market something that, by nature of its superiority, implies the methods currently employed are, most likely, not the best. People don't want to be told they are doing things wrong (or at least not optimally), especially when they have been doing it that way for years.