"So i will run out into the middle of the feild revive you then run back to my hiding place...you will get shot again then i will revive you again but look at who shot you then run back then you will die again and i will run out but not revive you yet shoot whoever shot you then revive you"
Heck... you revive me, I will kill whoever somehow killed me the first time, and say Danke for the assist... That's about as far as your little saga will go:P, Besides... you can't revive me AFTER taking my gun. I have to be 100% dead before you get it.
I know what you mean... I'm talking about 5-6 panzers on the opposing team that do suicide shots every time they pull the trigger. Those can be impossible to dodge when you come around a corner and are suddenly face to face. Rifle nades are another annoyance. They do take some skill, but I am just bothered by anything that comes out of nowhere, and is an instant kill. Probably because I like Close Quarters gunfights.
I mostly pull out my knife for amusement. I remember I was in a gunfight with an engineer... he wasn't hitting me at all, so I whipped out my knife, and knifed him to death while he shot at me.
I agree with you there... I am still playing ET after about 9 months, usually as a medic with a tommy.
It is a little confusing when you first start, but once you get used to it, you just can't stop playing.
Though I must admit that lately it is getting a little more irritating than anything else, what with all the rifle naders, and panzies around... Getting blown up around every turn.
The other night, there were only a few people on my usual server, so we started trying new things...
First, knife fights... knife only, enforced simply by suggestion, of course. If you have not tried this, you don't know what you're missing:P.
Then we moved on to Standing Mobile MG-42 fights. I'm terrible at that... have to be against the person to do much damage.
And one of the funniest was when everyone started using Mortars. I would run up to someone, we would get our mortars deployed, I would fire straight up, and try to get out of the way before it came down.
Anyway... Back to the topic, I would DEFINATELY recommend ET, as it is both Addictive, and FREE (as in beer). Also, the Punkbuster that most of the servers run seem to help keep out the cheaters... I have yet to see someone that could be positively identified as cheating.
That is the worst analogy I have ever seen... well... one of them.
People can find out who you are by IP address just as "easily" as they can by your License plate. Remember, that information is available to the police, not to the general public. Posting valid whois information for a domain is available to *anyone*.
Whois info is tantamount to being required to have all of your info posted right ON your license plate.
Now THAT, is a well-balance, high quality analogy.
Consider this: A 12 year old girl that has designed a website, and has a domain name for it. Of course, her parents would have to put the address on it when registering. Now that publicly available record is viewable by all kinds of sick people... That kind of situation would appear countless times if such a law were passed.
However, the point seems moot anyhow, since it was pointed out that this would be only in the case that the person was doing something illegal.
"Of all my posts please read this this one [slashdot.org]. "
I keep trying... I've been clicking that link now for an hour straight, and I still have not found the post to which you referred. I want my money back;)
Back in those days, they had to send people in order to see the lay of the land, etc. Now, we have telescopes, satellites, landers, and rovers to scout it out.
There's no longer any real need to send explorers there first on a 2-way trip. We only need to study it enough from afar, and prepare the technologies to allow colonists to survive on Mars, then keep them supplied.
Actually, powering these things with some form of nuclear power would be a great idea... With the technology we have now, I'm sure that we could get enough useful power out of it, at least to charge the batteries.
And when NASA can no longer maintain it, they can sell time with the rover to independent companies. The companies could carve people's names into martian rocks or something else that people would pay for lol... In the end, NASA makes back some money, heck, the project might even pay for itself in the long run.
Only problem now, is the environmental nuts lobbying congress, and causing a ruckass whenever something carrying anything more radioactive than a cabbage is sent into orbit.
There may be risks, but that is why it is launched over the ocean. If it goes down there, the environmental impact would be minimal, as a) the casings would undoutably be very solid, and could be recovered undamaged and b)even if some of it did leak out, it would be dilouted in millions of gallons of water in no time, and would not be any greater than the natural background radiation, and c)People are always complaining about all the species going extinct every day... well, how about a few new ones near the crash site? (Ok, that was a joke;)
Back when I was in school, around the time Cassini was launching, a teacher stated to the class his opinion that they could have a nuke explosion on the pad. I had to inform him that it is very difficult to get radioactive material to fission, and not only was it likely the wrong type, but that the chances of an explosion were next to nill.
IMO, someday we will overcome this ignorance and fear of nuclear power... same way that early man overcame his fear of fire. It will be great to see the kinds of things we can accomplish then, with proper care and safeguards.
IMO, it would be utterly impossible to charge for all email. As long as you have a data pipe as versatile as TCP/IP provides, people will find ways of setting up email systems. People running their own servers, changing ports, doing whatever they can to keep their service running. It will simply be moved from commercial email servers, to Free servers provided by people who believe in things like Linux, and open source.
I, for one, think this is yet another horrid, impossible-to-implement idea. Sure... set up pay services, but you aren't going to force people to use them.
So to me, it is not going to affect email all that much. Unless they close all Internet standards, and rework TCP/IP, and the entire Internet network, they cannot stop free email.
<SCO-vision Goggles>This HAD to be SCO, after all, that article was potentially damaging to SCO's case. It HAD to be DDoS'd... Everyone knows that is how we settle grievences on the net these days anyway...</SCO-vision Goggles>
Hmmm... that sounds familiar. Oh, yeah.. I remember. <sarcasm>SCO gets DDoS'd by Linuxers because of the case, so this attack on Groklaw HAS to be SCO attacking Linuxers because of the case!</sarcasm>
"As for your grudge -- were you there? And even if you were, why would you hold a grudge against a people who, on the whole, didn't do the fighting?"
You do know, that I was referring to their lack of support.... no... Total and outright opposition to the Most recent Iraq war, right? And even to the deployment of Patriots to defend Israel from possible recourse from the war? Yes, that bothered me. I for one am glad that we ended a war that started a decade ago... Even if the fact that no WMDs have been found rather concerns me, at best. And I'm not even going to get into the "human shields" that went over there...
Gee... and the interesting thing is that I don't even remember adding those grammar errors and mistypes. Guess I should have used the Preview button like it says.
Just pointing something out here...
Most of these movies are made in "Hollywood", in the USA. For what? Entertainment.
Movies are made for a particular audience, and since these movies were made in the USA, they were meant to to entertain, install pride, and patriotism of into the American Viewers...
If a movie is made in any other country, who do they concentrate on? Then do the same.
Because the USA filmmaking industry is so big, many films go out to other countries for their entertainment value, and thus are going out beyond the target audience. Some appreciate the origin of the movies, and the intended audience, and some just whine about it.
If I saw a movie from Japan, I would expect to see if glorifying their history and/or culture. Same with any other country. If people want to see facts, they watch a documentary. If they want to watch something entertaining, that leaves them with a sense of pride and patriotism, they watch a movie.
That said... If you do not like the way events are slanted in a movie about WWII, then watch something out of your own country.
That said, I know that the winning of WWII was in a very large part due to the British that fought and died as much as it was by Americans... The thing to remember is that Britain was a smaller nation, and yet was able to hold the Germans off for a very long time... Besides the revolutionary war, and that pesky war of 1812, Britain has long been an close ally. I have great respect for the people there, and their contributions to the world.
Not that I usually hold a grudge, but I cannot say the same for certain other unnamed french and german countries...:P (Yeah, I still sore about the war. I'll get over it.)
While that may be true...
From the way I have heard they work, the Range of an RFID signal is proportional to the power of the transmitter in the reader.
Thus, if a theif takes a reader, or builds one that has higher than standard output power, they could probably get the info from it quite a distance away.... along with everyone else's in the area at the same time.
I can see it now...
Cellphone viruses that copy to your phone, and send your financial transaction data to the writer, wirelessly over the Internet.
Not so sure about this idea:P
Agreed... the DO NOT CALL list is equivalent to putting a NO TRESSPASSING sign in your yard. It is pretty ridiculous that people are actually trying to say it violates an amendment. Calling someone's telephone, and taking time on the line that they pay for, should be regulated.
Here's an idea... Keep guns out of reach of children. Just like knives... and matches, and medicine, and anything else that can be dangerous. Don't let them play in the streets... Heck, be parents! It's impossible to make *everything* safe for children. That is one of the jobs of a parent.
Personally, I think the NRA is waay too obsessed with guns. But that is what happens when you have gun control advocates that are nuts as well, Things tend to balance out. Waaay off topic, but it's the same deal with DMCA advocates/opposition... Both sides of people on issues tend to put distance between each other, and thus move further, and further from the middle.
Those of us that despise the DMCA have some of the best minds in the world backing us up. With an organized "resistance" we'd win rather easily. I'm just waiting for the day when it gets organized enough for this to happen.
I work for a large broadband ISP, and the tracked cases of our customers calling in about this worm is around 7,000 and climbing. I hope this thing blows over soon...
I agree with that article completely... I have been an Internet helpdesk Techie for an ISP for awhile now. Tech support should be right under Air Traffic control as one of the most stressful jobs. I've had times where I spent 15 whole minutes, just trying to get someone to type their email address. There is an average call time to maintain, and you can really begin to get frustrated when your time is wasted like that. Getting users to describe what is on their screen, and find things is also like pulling teeth. Paraphrasing error messages, leaving the most critical parts out because they deem it insignificant, telling you that they have "Absolutely nothing" on the screen, because it shows their desktop, etc. There are even those that do not understand how to turn their computer on, and some that are illiterate (can't read).
I could go on all day about this, but won't. I'm not saying that All tech support agents are competent either. I know from working on the inside that some only care about meeting their average call lengths, and getting people off the phone. I also know that these people don't last very long.
So, I would urge people to think more carefully before going off on a techie, and blaming them for your troubles. They get more frustrated than most customers when services go down, as that usually means many customers in bad moods calling in rapid succession.
I wish the 98se machines at work ran that well... Course, the IT people seem to have a shortage of screws... Bump the case lightly with your foot (they sit on the floor), and they reboot, or just die altogether. The #1 thing that keeps me from going to XP is the product activation. My roommate bought a copy, and had to resinstall it on his PC after a format. It refused to activate again, so he called M$, and spent 45 minutes getting xFerred around about 10 times before they could assist him (although he called the number indicated on the screen.) It's also a bit too bloated for me... If someone could do with it what they have done with Win95, and MS would remove the PA, I might consider switching to it.
Keep in mind that stability is relative. Even the most "stable" Win9x OS isn't going to run for very long without crashing (I'm talking days or weeks here.)
So if you reboot it daily, and don't push it too hard, it might seem stable to you. It is impossible to get > 49.7 day uptime on 9x without an appropriate patch anyway, because of a bug in one of the VXDs. (I may have the number wrong, could be 47.9).
I prefer running PCs 24/7, and having loads of programs open all the time, so I tend to discount 9x OSes as merely OS-wannabe's. (I use Win2k, btw... and a little Linux on the side.)
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What does the government have to do with this?? The individual that posted it and/or the company he worked for should be responsible.
Think about it...
"So i will run out into the middle of the feild revive you then run back to my hiding place...you will get shot again then i will revive you again but look at who shot you then run back then you will die again and i will run out but not revive you yet shoot whoever shot you then revive you"
:P, Besides... you can't revive me AFTER taking my gun. I have to be 100% dead before you get it.
Heck... you revive me, I will kill whoever somehow killed me the first time, and say Danke for the assist... That's about as far as your little saga will go
I know what you mean... I'm talking about 5-6 panzers on the opposing team that do suicide shots every time they pull the trigger. Those can be impossible to dodge when you come around a corner and are suddenly face to face. Rifle nades are another annoyance. They do take some skill, but I am just bothered by anything that comes out of nowhere, and is an instant kill. Probably because I like Close Quarters gunfights.
I mostly pull out my knife for amusement. I remember I was in a gunfight with an engineer... he wasn't hitting me at all, so I whipped out my knife, and knifed him to death while he shot at me.
Fun, Fun, Fun!
I agree with you there... I am still playing ET after about 9 months, usually as a medic with a tommy.
:P.
It is a little confusing when you first start, but once you get used to it, you just can't stop playing.
Though I must admit that lately it is getting a little more irritating than anything else, what with all the rifle naders, and panzies around... Getting blown up around every turn.
The other night, there were only a few people on my usual server, so we started trying new things...
First, knife fights... knife only, enforced simply by suggestion, of course. If you have not tried this, you don't know what you're missing
Then we moved on to Standing Mobile MG-42 fights. I'm terrible at that... have to be against the person to do much damage.
And one of the funniest was when everyone started using Mortars. I would run up to someone, we would get our mortars deployed, I would fire straight up, and try to get out of the way before it came down.
Anyway... Back to the topic, I would DEFINATELY recommend ET, as it is both Addictive, and FREE (as in beer). Also, the Punkbuster that most of the servers run seem to help keep out the cheaters... I have yet to see someone that could be positively identified as cheating.
Come play me sometime on ET.EOF.NET.
Looks like no one was sympathetic enough to mod this funny, so he may well end up with everyone laughing AT him rather than WITH him... heh
Hmmmm... Sonic waves? Scare birds, maybe?... If it does, I want one of those things... My car gets bombed too often.
That is the worst analogy I have ever seen... well... one of them.
People can find out who you are by IP address just as "easily" as they can by your License plate. Remember, that information is available to the police, not to the general public. Posting valid whois information for a domain is available to *anyone*.
Whois info is tantamount to being required to have all of your info posted right ON your license plate.
Now THAT, is a well-balance, high quality analogy.
Consider this: A 12 year old girl that has designed a website, and has a domain name for it. Of course, her parents would have to put the address on it when registering. Now that publicly available record is viewable by all kinds of sick people... That kind of situation would appear countless times if such a law were passed.
However, the point seems moot anyhow, since it was pointed out that this would be only in the case that the person was doing something illegal.
"Of all my posts please read this this one [slashdot.org]. " I keep trying... I've been clicking that link now for an hour straight, and I still have not found the post to which you referred. I want my money back ;)
I had these same issues after upgrading from version the 2.03 that came with it, to 2.1... I went back to 2.03 as a result, which is available here.
Back in those days, they had to send people in order to see the lay of the land, etc. Now, we have telescopes, satellites, landers, and rovers to scout it out.
There's no longer any real need to send explorers there first on a 2-way trip. We only need to study it enough from afar, and prepare the technologies to allow colonists to survive on Mars, then keep them supplied.
Actually, powering these things with some form of nuclear power would be a great idea... With the technology we have now, I'm sure that we could get enough useful power out of it, at least to charge the batteries.
;)
And when NASA can no longer maintain it, they can sell time with the rover to independent companies. The companies could carve people's names into martian rocks or something else that people would pay for lol... In the end, NASA makes back some money, heck, the project might even pay for itself in the long run.
Only problem now, is the environmental nuts lobbying congress, and causing a ruckass whenever something carrying anything more radioactive than a cabbage is sent into orbit.
There may be risks, but that is why it is launched over the ocean. If it goes down there, the environmental impact would be minimal, as a) the casings would undoutably be very solid, and could be recovered undamaged and b)even if some of it did leak out, it would be dilouted in millions of gallons of water in no time, and would not be any greater than the natural background radiation, and c)People are always complaining about all the species going extinct every day... well, how about a few new ones near the crash site? (Ok, that was a joke
Back when I was in school, around the time Cassini was launching, a teacher stated to the class his opinion that they could have a nuke explosion on the pad. I had to inform him that it is very difficult to get radioactive material to fission, and not only was it likely the wrong type, but that the chances of an explosion were next to nill.
IMO, someday we will overcome this ignorance and fear of nuclear power... same way that early man overcame his fear of fire. It will be great to see the kinds of things we can accomplish then, with proper care and safeguards.
IMO, it would be utterly impossible to charge for all email. As long as you have a data pipe as versatile as TCP/IP provides, people will find ways of setting up email systems. People running their own servers, changing ports, doing whatever they can to keep their service running.
It will simply be moved from commercial email servers, to Free servers provided by people who believe in things like Linux, and open source.
I, for one, think this is yet another horrid, impossible-to-implement idea. Sure... set up pay services, but you aren't going to force people to use them.
So to me, it is not going to affect email all that much. Unless they close all Internet standards, and rework TCP/IP, and the entire Internet network, they cannot stop free email.
Let Freedom Ring!!
<SCO-vision Goggles>This HAD to be SCO, after all, that article was potentially damaging to SCO's case. It HAD to be DDoS'd... Everyone knows that is how we settle grievences on the net these days anyway...</SCO-vision Goggles>
Hmmm... that sounds familiar. Oh, yeah.. I remember. <sarcasm>SCO gets DDoS'd by Linuxers because of the case, so this attack on Groklaw HAS to be SCO attacking Linuxers because of the case!</sarcasm>
"We are SCO. You will be litigated."
Somehow, I just seem to see a parallel between some of their tactics.
If Star Trek is our future... Guess that makes Darl the borg Queen? Not a far stretch for my mind...
"As for your grudge -- were you there? And even if you were, why would you hold a grudge against a people who, on the whole, didn't do the fighting?"
You do know, that I was referring to their lack of support.... no... Total and outright opposition to the Most recent Iraq war, right? And even to the deployment of Patriots to defend Israel from possible recourse from the war?
Yes, that bothered me. I for one am glad that we ended a war that started a decade ago... Even if the fact that no WMDs have been found rather concerns me, at best. And I'm not even going to get into the "human shields" that went over there...
Gee... and the interesting thing is that I don't even remember adding those grammar errors and mistypes. Guess I should have used the Preview button like it says.
Just pointing something out here... Most of these movies are made in "Hollywood", in the USA. For what? Entertainment. Movies are made for a particular audience, and since these movies were made in the USA, they were meant to to entertain, install pride, and patriotism of into the American Viewers... If a movie is made in any other country, who do they concentrate on? Then do the same. Because the USA filmmaking industry is so big, many films go out to other countries for their entertainment value, and thus are going out beyond the target audience. Some appreciate the origin of the movies, and the intended audience, and some just whine about it. If I saw a movie from Japan, I would expect to see if glorifying their history and/or culture. Same with any other country. If people want to see facts, they watch a documentary. If they want to watch something entertaining, that leaves them with a sense of pride and patriotism, they watch a movie. That said... If you do not like the way events are slanted in a movie about WWII, then watch something out of your own country. That said, I know that the winning of WWII was in a very large part due to the British that fought and died as much as it was by Americans... The thing to remember is that Britain was a smaller nation, and yet was able to hold the Germans off for a very long time... Besides the revolutionary war, and that pesky war of 1812, Britain has long been an close ally. I have great respect for the people there, and their contributions to the world. Not that I usually hold a grudge, but I cannot say the same for certain other unnamed french and german countries... :P (Yeah, I still sore about the war. I'll get over it.)
While that may be true... From the way I have heard they work, the Range of an RFID signal is proportional to the power of the transmitter in the reader. Thus, if a theif takes a reader, or builds one that has higher than standard output power, they could probably get the info from it quite a distance away.... along with everyone else's in the area at the same time.
I can see it now... Cellphone viruses that copy to your phone, and send your financial transaction data to the writer, wirelessly over the Internet. Not so sure about this idea :P
Agreed... the DO NOT CALL list is equivalent to putting a NO TRESSPASSING sign in your yard.
It is pretty ridiculous that people are actually trying to say it violates an amendment.
Calling someone's telephone, and taking time on the line that they pay for, should be regulated.
Here's an idea... Keep guns out of reach of children. Just like knives... and matches, and medicine, and anything else that can be dangerous. Don't let them play in the streets... Heck, be parents! It's impossible to make *everything* safe for children. That is one of the jobs of a parent. Personally, I think the NRA is waay too obsessed with guns. But that is what happens when you have gun control advocates that are nuts as well, Things tend to balance out. Waaay off topic, but it's the same deal with DMCA advocates/opposition... Both sides of people on issues tend to put distance between each other, and thus move further, and further from the middle. Those of us that despise the DMCA have some of the best minds in the world backing us up. With an organized "resistance" we'd win rather easily. I'm just waiting for the day when it gets organized enough for this to happen.
I work for a large broadband ISP, and the tracked cases of our customers calling in about this worm is around 7,000 and climbing. I hope this thing blows over soon...
I agree with that article completely... I have been an Internet helpdesk Techie for an ISP for awhile now. Tech support should be right under Air Traffic control as one of the most stressful jobs. I've had times where I spent 15 whole minutes, just trying to get someone to type their email address. There is an average call time to maintain, and you can really begin to get frustrated when your time is wasted like that. Getting users to describe what is on their screen, and find things is also like pulling teeth. Paraphrasing error messages, leaving the most critical parts out because they deem it insignificant, telling you that they have "Absolutely nothing" on the screen, because it shows their desktop, etc. There are even those that do not understand how to turn their computer on, and some that are illiterate (can't read). I could go on all day about this, but won't. I'm not saying that All tech support agents are competent either. I know from working on the inside that some only care about meeting their average call lengths, and getting people off the phone. I also know that these people don't last very long. So, I would urge people to think more carefully before going off on a techie, and blaming them for your troubles. They get more frustrated than most customers when services go down, as that usually means many customers in bad moods calling in rapid succession.
I wish the 98se machines at work ran that well... Course, the IT people seem to have a shortage of screws... Bump the case lightly with your foot (they sit on the floor), and they reboot, or just die altogether. The #1 thing that keeps me from going to XP is the product activation. My roommate bought a copy, and had to resinstall it on his PC after a format. It refused to activate again, so he called M$, and spent 45 minutes getting xFerred around about 10 times before they could assist him (although he called the number indicated on the screen.) It's also a bit too bloated for me... If someone could do with it what they have done with Win95, and MS would remove the PA, I might consider switching to it.
Keep in mind that stability is relative. Even the most "stable" Win9x OS isn't going to run for very long without crashing (I'm talking days or weeks here.) So if you reboot it daily, and don't push it too hard, it might seem stable to you. It is impossible to get > 49.7 day uptime on 9x without an appropriate patch anyway, because of a bug in one of the VXDs. (I may have the number wrong, could be 47.9). I prefer running PCs 24/7, and having loads of programs open all the time, so I tend to discount 9x OSes as merely OS-wannabe's. (I use Win2k, btw... and a little Linux on the side.)