To me, as a scientist, it sounded more like a badly written essay by a wanna-be layman scientist. Lots of difficult and obscure words meant to confuse and distract people with no formal training in sciences.
That's because you're a creation scientist. Real scientists expect explanations to be difficult sometimes.
In this case, as in other examples of supposed theft of computer resources, people seem to adopt either one of the extreme positions:
'Hacker' is a thief
'Hacker' provides a service by exposing dumbfuck admins
Why can't it be true both that the 'thief' is wrong to steal the resource, and that the victim is also to blame for leaving it unguarded?
We already see the notion of contributory negligence in the courts where a victim can be found to be, say, 30% responsible for their loss and have their damages reduced proportionally. (Yes, I know tort is not crime). There seems to be a similar continuous scale of responsible behaviour on the part of sysadmins.
The creator of this mentions he's having problems replicating the claustrophobic maze. In the original 2600 game you could only see a limited square of the maze surrounding your position, the rest was grey
I suppose there's not much need for it. In the original, the 'fog' stops you using your overhead perspective to look ahead. Wonderfully elegant solution IMHO. The 1st person perspective of Quake takes care of this already, making the fog redundant.
- the 1st ever fog effect in a game?
This doesn't predate Adventure, but did you ever see the 'fog' in 3D Monster Maze for the ZX81? It said something like 'The mists of time will pass over you while transporting you to the maze'. It then went into 'fast' (i.e. grey screen) mode for a few minutes while calculating the maze. Genius.
Atari 2600 Adventure had the first easter egg I ever came across. There's a dot (probably supposed to be sledgehammer or something, if the 'sword' is anything to go by) in one of the mazes which opens up a wall into a secret room. ISTR the words 'Created by Warren Robihep', but Google on 'Robihep' turns up no hits. Anyone remember this?
Gee, should we really force electronics makers to build chips that are easier to tinker with?
Nobody is advocating this. The issue is whether it's their own responsibility to make stuff difficult to tinker with, instead of getting the courts to pick up the pieces when they fail.
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Huh? And you say the Economist article jumps all over the place?
I think it would be rather nice if they could correct deliberate misspellings like this
Agreed, but...
One of the things we all (I hope) advocate is the usage of something apart from Microsoft
Isn't this assumption just as likely to alienate an unbiased reader?
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I'd expect any heuristic to be highly domain-specific
OTOH, it's exactly their method of enumerating and pruning the decision tree which can be generalized to many other problems
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5 - Arrive at a position where neither side can deliver checkmate with any sequence of legal moves
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No, chess is only a draw if it's 3 successive checks
No, it's if the same position occurs 3 times, not necessarily on successive moves. But someone needs to claim the draw. If nobody claims, the game can go on indefinitely
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Such as a merger with Netscape?
Great idea.
Pity that it's the other hand that is furiously generating kinteic energy in the typical Internet user.
Maybe the developers were called stuff like Joe Clutchfuck or Bob Killchild?
That's because you're a creation scientist. Real scientists expect explanations to be difficult sometimes.
Only if you're a creationist.
debunkingWhat is this, fucking kuro5hin?
Anyone got an email address or fax number for this Iris Scanners bitch so we can tell her where to go?
In this case, as in other examples of supposed theft of computer resources, people seem to adopt either one of the extreme positions:
Why can't it be true both that the 'thief' is wrong to steal the resource, and that the victim is also to blame for leaving it unguarded?
We already see the notion of contributory negligence in the courts where a victim can be found to be, say, 30% responsible for their loss and have their damages reduced proportionally. (Yes, I know tort is not crime). There seems to be a similar continuous scale of responsible behaviour on the part of sysadmins.
I was wondering how they came up with such a gay flag.
National anthem sucks too.
I think that must be of an early prototype. They replaced the big block of butter at the bottom right with some graphics stuff after initial testing.
I noticed that certain pages in my friend's twat magazines were glued together, presumably to prevent unauthorised copying.
I suppose there's not much need for it. In the original, the 'fog' stops you using your overhead perspective to look ahead. Wonderfully elegant solution IMHO. The 1st person perspective of Quake takes care of this already, making the fog redundant.
- the 1st ever fog effect in a game?This doesn't predate Adventure, but did you ever see the 'fog' in 3D Monster Maze for the ZX81? It said something like 'The mists of time will pass over you while transporting you to the maze'. It then went into 'fast' (i.e. grey screen) mode for a few minutes while calculating the maze. Genius.
Or carries away the bridge and leaves you stuck behind a wall, the little fucker.
Thanks. Looks like a more reasonable name. Guess it was some sort of funky font, or else my memory's decaying bitwise.
Atari 2600 Adventure had the first easter egg I ever came across. There's a dot (probably supposed to be sledgehammer or something, if the 'sword' is anything to go by) in one of the mazes which opens up a wall into a secret room. ISTR the words 'Created by Warren Robihep', but Google on 'Robihep' turns up no hits. Anyone remember this?
Nobody is advocating this. The issue is whether it's their own responsibility to make stuff difficult to tinker with, instead of getting the courts to pick up the pieces when they fail.
Hell0!Huh? And you say the Economist article jumps all over the place?
more bloody pyramid schemes
Turing was also known to have stuff inserted in his back door.
Agreed, but...
One of the things we all (I hope) advocate is the usage of something apart from MicrosoftIsn't this assumption just as likely to alienate an unbiased reader?
I'd expect any heuristic to be highly domain-specific
OTOH, it's exactly their method of enumerating and pruning the decision tree which can be generalized to many other problems
5 - Arrive at a position where neither side can deliver checkmate with any sequence of legal moves
No, it's if the same position occurs 3 times, not necessarily on successive moves. But someone needs to claim the draw. If nobody claims, the game can go on indefinitely
See Laws of Chess for more details.Because GPRS is part of GSM.
Hint: 89 != 99
Or maybe you're just "mistaken"