That is so very true, but its only news to the crowd that started gaming when it became "cool". Cool demands cool graphics, cool explosions and a quick turnaround - you want the next new thing because its cool and you don't wanna be left behind.
Having said that, i believe the true gold, la creme de la creme in gaming occurs when a game comes out, its patched to stability, and then a brilliant mod comes out. Mods to stable, 1 or 2 year old games are in my opinion the best thing to play. Mods is also where i believe the open-source community should work on gaming, at least for now. Just get the engine at the game store instead of licensing it at the original software house. Many mods are much much better than the original game, often addressing its shortcomings that become obvious some time after launch. Of course, mods require another installation and looking it up in the first place, so once again there are some technical barriers to what are IMO the best gaming experiences. Desert Combat is an amazing game/mod and on a totally different style there are great mods to the totally scriptable Warcraft 3.
Right now buying a game at a store without having tried a "trial" version off edonkey is like gambling with really bad odds.
Why bother with all that when nessus already outputs a decent html? It even has _pie_ charts. Gotta love it. Just add your logo on top and collect your payment. That's how it works.
Apparently, having found nessus is sufficient competitive advantage to justify the existance of some companies. I wonder if they have donated to the project.
Your remarks about live music playing in the fifties are extremelly interesting. I think a lot about this, and considering the inevitability of filesharing, i am indeed concerned for musicians. The fact that there was a much larger market for live music performances in the fifties shows that musicians can just work for a living like the rest of us, doing what they like.
How long until "evil" means usage of p2p protocols? Legal, illegal, that'll be too much work to figure out. Any central point from which everyone's connectivity depends is a potential point of failure, and it will be compromised, either technically or legally and turned against, well, us. If we come to depend on it, it will be a matter of when, not if.
You are comparing the things we can observe (even if with microscopes or other tools, like you) with things we can't, like the "imprint". That's why all your examples are flawed.
Show me a way to measure the imprint, even if it is a blackbox imprint detector, and you might get more than "yawn" from any respectable scientist.
There is more to space than colonization, specially if it still takes 18 months to get to Mars.
That is a good point, the propulsion system. Good for the unmanned probe side, of course. Engineers can be much more "daring" if their drive is pushing a computer rather than humans. The sheer number of propulsion systems built if funding were diverted to robotic exploration would make advances in the field much faster.
I've seen spyware in the field that used kernel-level hiding of its files and processes. At the time, it was faster to reimage the system, however i did dig deep looking for it. The next day, ironically, sysinternals (the filemon/regmon people) released a tool to deal exactly with kernel level intrusions. You might want to look into it to be sure you don't miss the nastiest of the nastys.
If I download an album in a country where the RIAA is suing, there is a slight possibility i'll be sued.
If I, lets say, change it a bit, like the cover, and put my name in the credits, removing the original artist name, and start advertising and selling it as my own, i doubt there is a place on earth where i can hide.
"Imagine to what lengths people need to go in other industries in order to convince customers to upgrade. If all you are selling is a damn chocolate bar, there is only so much that you can do to improve it."
Actually, its much easier to sell more chocolate bars, since they are consumed on use, than chips, that can last a few years.
Grandpa, tell me that story again about how you didn't want cell towers, Quest had to sue you to get one up, and you still complain of crappy coverage. That was always my favourite.
Good for you, i jumped to conclusions. However my failure to correctly identify your origin should not be confused with any sort of merit in your original (grand-grandparent) post. It is so full of arrogant, unjustified and ignorant rants that it made me think right away you were american, and that should worry you.
The funny think about this is that you actually believe it. Here in the E.U. we try to be polite and not mock the less fortunate, but you ppl in the US live like slaves compared to us. The fact that you still feel superior only shows how well enslaved you are.
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"Eye-candy is extraneous, gameplay is vital"
That is so very true, but its only news to the crowd that started gaming when it became "cool". Cool demands cool graphics, cool explosions and a quick turnaround - you want the next new thing because its cool and you don't wanna be left behind.
Having said that, i believe the true gold, la creme de la creme in gaming occurs when a game comes out, its patched to stability, and then a brilliant mod comes out. Mods to stable, 1 or 2 year old games are in my opinion the best thing to play. Mods is also where i believe the open-source community should work on gaming, at least for now. Just get the engine at the game store instead of licensing it at the original software house. Many mods are much much better than the original game, often addressing its shortcomings that become obvious some time after launch. Of course, mods require another installation and looking it up in the first place, so once again there are some technical barriers to what are IMO the best gaming experiences. Desert Combat is an amazing game/mod and on a totally different style there are great mods to the totally scriptable Warcraft 3.
Right now buying a game at a store without having tried a "trial" version off edonkey is like gambling with really bad odds.
Why bother with all that when nessus already outputs a decent html? It even has _pie_ charts. Gotta love it. Just add your logo on top and collect your payment. That's how it works.
Apparently, having found nessus is sufficient competitive advantage to justify the existance of some companies. I wonder if they have donated to the project.
No, they stopped when he posted that he didn't like it because it mapped the BSD raid-1 in an open source mouse.
I'm fine with that.
"you have reached your limits so don't expect my money!"
Your remarks about live music playing in the fifties are extremelly interesting. I think a lot about this, and considering the inevitability of filesharing, i am indeed concerned for musicians. The fact that there was a much larger market for live music performances in the fifties shows that musicians can just work for a living like the rest of us, doing what they like.
How long until "evil" means usage of p2p protocols? Legal, illegal, that'll be too much work to figure out. Any central point from which everyone's connectivity depends is a potential point of failure, and it will be compromised, either technically or legally and turned against, well, us. If we come to depend on it, it will be a matter of when, not if.
We don't sleep.
"We kicked the taliban out of afghanistan but implemented one of our own."
I guess you can't kill the monster without becoming the monster.
Wow. That was one of the most useless comments I have ever seen....
Computer Science is automated mathematics.
You are comparing the things we can observe (even if with microscopes or other tools, like you) with things we can't, like the "imprint". That's why all your examples are flawed.
Show me a way to measure the imprint, even if it is a blackbox imprint detector, and you might get more than "yawn" from any respectable scientist.
There is more to space than colonization, specially if it still takes 18 months to get to Mars.
That is a good point, the propulsion system. Good for the unmanned probe side, of course. Engineers can be much more "daring" if their drive is pushing a computer rather than humans. The sheer number of propulsion systems built if funding were diverted to robotic exploration would make advances in the field much faster.
Are there preconfigured VM's available for download? Maybe you could consider sharing yours.
I've seen spyware in the field that used kernel-level hiding of its files and processes. At the time, it was faster to reimage the system, however i did dig deep looking for it. The next day, ironically, sysinternals (the filemon/regmon people) released a tool to deal exactly with kernel level intrusions. You might want to look into it to be sure you don't miss the nastiest of the nastys.
If anyone wants to see some old timers post, just mod this up. The 2-digit methuselahs will sense it and show up pretty soon.
If I download an album in a country where the RIAA is suing, there is a slight possibility i'll be sued.
If I, lets say, change it a bit, like the cover, and put my name in the credits, removing the original artist name, and start advertising and selling it as my own, i doubt there is a place on earth where i can hide.
Humm... Microsoft has a page that only Microsoft's search engine can see, due to robots.txt.
Sounds just the same, sounds like nothing.
"Imagine to what lengths people need to go in other industries in order to convince customers to upgrade. If all you are selling is a damn chocolate bar, there is only so much that you can do to improve it."
Actually, its much easier to sell more chocolate bars, since they are consumed on use, than chips, that can last a few years.
So...
You won slashdot.
If you must keep your algorithm a secret, you don't have an algorithm.
Yay an AC called me a coward. I win slashdot.
Grandpa, tell me that story again about how you didn't want cell towers, Quest had to sue you to get one up, and you still complain of crappy coverage. That was always my favourite.
Good for you, i jumped to conclusions. However my failure to correctly identify your origin should not be confused with any sort of merit in your original (grand-grandparent) post. It is so full of arrogant, unjustified and ignorant rants that it made me think right away you were american, and that should worry you.
The funny think about this is that you actually believe it. Here in the E.U. we try to be polite and not mock the less fortunate, but you ppl in the US live like slaves compared to us. The fact that you still feel superior only shows how well enslaved you are.