"For example, PlanetSide was a big risk for us-an unproven type of MMO."
No mention, though, of Sovereign, a MMORTS game which was an even bigger risk, evidenced by the fact that it was cancelled some time ago after years of development. Nobody's managed to pull off that game format yet, because the concept of persistence is hard to reconcile against the objective of victory in the long term where player competition is direct and the power law relation disadvantages the new player severely.
"In 2001 an international panel of climate experts concluded that there is increasingly strong evidence that most of the global warming observed over the past 50 years is attributable to human activities..."
What, no mention of who sponsored the panel? With what governmental body (UN, etc.) or special interest group (Greenpeace, Sierra Club) they were affiliated? Sure, it's "international", but a convocation of pastry chefs is international if it includes people from multiple nations - and that still doesn't mean that they can make a good crepe.
The article is interesting wrt the Pentagon's research, but you're right, the propaganda that was mixed in is old and tired.
Blaming the AV companies for the failure of the IT personnel of other organizations to evaluate and properly configure their mail gateway AV software seems like a load of crap to me.
Besides, sending these e-mails arguably provides a positive service, because self-propagating e-mail viruses are everyone's problem, and a bit of vigilance on each person's part is required to prevent one of these viruses from becoming a worldwide problem.
Using a shotgun approach to tell people that a virus is going around helps to inform everyone. Everyone needs to educate him- or herself about virus protection and prevention, so that they can personally know whether their machine could be infected or not.
Also, telling those people to contact their local IT staff just gets the IT staff in gear to help stave off something they should have already been on the ball about. If the IT staff were prepared, then their company's employees would already be in-the-know, and would not harass IT with needless panicky e-mails.
If, on the other hand, the software package sending the spam warnings provides links to their web page, then I'd lean toward considering it to be spam rather than information.
Worse, he stores documents on the desktop! And so do a number of people I know. With the people I've had contact with, this is invariably a sign of a lack of organizational skill: they'd rather not have to deal with understanding how their files are stored.
I do the same thing. Understanding doesn't enter into it. I'm just damn lazy.
No, content producers are selling a service, and companies such as those mentioned above are violating the agreement for use of that service by buying/selling in-game items for RL cash.
It also detracts from the integrity of the game as complete morons end up with uber characters that they have absolutely no idea how to play.
Version 0.11 was a bit buggy for me, which is unfortunate because it's the last version that works with Debian stable (woody). I bit the bullet and upgraded a bunch of relevant packages (mostly qt) to unstable, and upgraded MythTV to 0.13, and it runs beautifully. It's far more efficient than previous versions, and the only crashes it seems to have are very rare client lockups when watching one program, recording another, and seeking through the program you're watching. A quick alt-f2 and ctrl-c to kill X, an up-arrow and enter to restart X, and it's back on track. And as I said - those problems are rare.
In almost all cases in the U.S., merging traffic must yield. Generally speaking, this includes traffic entering a traffic circle.
However, I have seen traffic circles where the entrances all have stop signs or traffic lights at them; and I have seen one traffic circle where there are yield signs set up so that traffic in the circle is explicitly told to yield.
We have several "traffic circles" in the Cleveland, Ohio, suburbs, surprisingly enough. (Yes, mostly in affluent areas.)
One of these (in a slightly less affluent area) does permit traffic on the primary road to proceed straight through the circle. Unfortunately, this behavior is governed by a traffic light on both sides of the circle where this road intersects - it's timed so that you won't have to stop twice, of course.
We have another traffic circle that is so screwed up that (1) there is a *sign* that tells you how to drive around the thing (and it looks somewhat like the symbol that Prince was calling himself for a while, and (2) the people *already in the circle* are the ones who have to yield.
By the way, the traffic light was invented in Cleveland, which only adds a slight irony to still having traffic circles around here.
But SPEWS is not about blocking Spam, it is about trying to get high-level service providers to violate their contracts.
Or, perhaps, enforce their contracts? Most ISPs claim to have a no spam policy, if only to keep them under the radar for a longer period of time. SPEWS helps to urge them to enforce that clause in the service agreement.
And even those few ISPs who say nothing about spam usually specify that they can terminate service at any time for any reason - thus, cutting off a spammer is well within the boundaries of their contract.
This is similar to doing quests in DAoC, where if multiple people have started a quest, then they can group up and complete the quest at the same time by performing the required task once.
Wait, are you saying that if I type in playboy into Google, and it comes up with a search result for Hustler - in search results that are ostensibly created by formulaic analysis of the structure and content of the web as a whole - that Google can be held liable?
(This turns out not really to be the case, although the tenth link does point to some porn linkage site in Romania.)
Fortunately, there's a tag that you can use to link Flash cartoons in your documents, and it's been around since the very beginning. What's more, it doesn't conflict with Eolas's patent.
Slashdot Mirror
"For example, PlanetSide was a big risk for us-an unproven type of MMO."
No mention, though, of Sovereign, a MMORTS game which was an even bigger risk, evidenced by the fact that it was cancelled some time ago after years of development. Nobody's managed to pull off that game format yet, because the concept of persistence is hard to reconcile against the objective of victory in the long term where player competition is direct and the power law relation disadvantages the new player severely.
I noticed that, too. Quoth the article:
"In 2001 an international panel of climate experts concluded that there is increasingly strong evidence that most of the global warming observed over the past 50 years is attributable to human activities..."
What, no mention of who sponsored the panel? With what governmental body (UN, etc.) or special interest group (Greenpeace, Sierra Club) they were affiliated? Sure, it's "international", but a convocation of pastry chefs is international if it includes people from multiple nations - and that still doesn't mean that they can make a good crepe.
The article is interesting wrt the Pentagon's research, but you're right, the propaganda that was mixed in is old and tired.
Blaming the AV companies for the failure of the IT personnel of other organizations to evaluate and properly configure their mail gateway AV software seems like a load of crap to me.
Besides, sending these e-mails arguably provides a positive service, because self-propagating e-mail viruses are everyone's problem, and a bit of vigilance on each person's part is required to prevent one of these viruses from becoming a worldwide problem.
Using a shotgun approach to tell people that a virus is going around helps to inform everyone. Everyone needs to educate him- or herself about virus protection and prevention, so that they can personally know whether their machine could be infected or not.
Also, telling those people to contact their local IT staff just gets the IT staff in gear to help stave off something they should have already been on the ball about. If the IT staff were prepared, then their company's employees would already be in-the-know, and would not harass IT with needless panicky e-mails.
If, on the other hand, the software package sending the spam warnings provides links to their web page, then I'd lean toward considering it to be spam rather than information.
Space Cadet keyboard
Worse, he stores documents on the desktop! And so do a number of people I know. With the people I've had contact with, this is invariably a sign of a lack of organizational skill: they'd rather not have to deal with understanding how their files are stored.
I do the same thing. Understanding doesn't enter into it. I'm just damn lazy.
No, content producers are selling a service, and companies such as those mentioned above are violating the agreement for use of that service by buying/selling in-game items for RL cash.
It also detracts from the integrity of the game as complete morons end up with uber characters that they have absolutely no idea how to play.
Websites, however, are inventions and should be protected when you invest in developing something new.
No, websites are code and/or art, and therefore are copyrightable but not (well, should not be) patentable.
Version 0.11 was a bit buggy for me, which is unfortunate because it's the last version that works with Debian stable (woody). I bit the bullet and upgraded a bunch of relevant packages (mostly qt) to unstable, and upgraded MythTV to 0.13, and it runs beautifully. It's far more efficient than previous versions, and the only crashes it seems to have are very rare client lockups when watching one program, recording another, and seeking through the program you're watching. A quick alt-f2 and ctrl-c to kill X, an up-arrow and enter to restart X, and it's back on track. And as I said - those problems are rare.
In almost all cases in the U.S., merging traffic must yield. Generally speaking, this includes traffic entering a traffic circle.
However, I have seen traffic circles where the entrances all have stop signs or traffic lights at them; and I have seen one traffic circle where there are yield signs set up so that traffic in the circle is explicitly told to yield.
We have several "traffic circles" in the Cleveland, Ohio, suburbs, surprisingly enough. (Yes, mostly in affluent areas.)
One of these (in a slightly less affluent area) does permit traffic on the primary road to proceed straight through the circle. Unfortunately, this behavior is governed by a traffic light on both sides of the circle where this road intersects - it's timed so that you won't have to stop twice, of course.
We have another traffic circle that is so screwed up that (1) there is a *sign* that tells you how to drive around the thing (and it looks somewhat like the symbol that Prince was calling himself for a while, and (2) the people *already in the circle* are the ones who have to yield.
By the way, the traffic light was invented in Cleveland, which only adds a slight irony to still having traffic circles around here.
Note that I said nothing about weight loss. I was only indicating which one people are in more dire need of.
But SPEWS is not about blocking Spam, it is about trying to get high-level service providers to violate their contracts.
Or, perhaps, enforce their contracts? Most ISPs claim to have a no spam policy, if only to keep them under the radar for a longer period of time. SPEWS helps to urge them to enforce that clause in the service agreement.
And even those few ISPs who say nothing about spam usually specify that they can terminate service at any time for any reason - thus, cutting off a spammer is well within the boundaries of their contract.
But the capitals of New York are the N and the Y!
T'Pol may be the Ginger of ST:E, but Hoshi is definitely the Mary Ann.
Just admit, no game will ever get it right.
DAoC got pretty damn close.
This is similar to doing quests in DAoC, where if multiple people have started a quest, then they can group up and complete the quest at the same time by performing the required task once.
So, it's really nothing new.
It's also possible - considering the rather limited form of "proof" you have - that turnitin's web crawler was merely crawling the web.
Dammit, George! They're on to me!
Most people (the fat guy in the picture in the BBC article, for example) need aerobic exercise a lot more than isometrics or weight training.
As a poster above said, DDR will work a lot better at getting us all in shape.
Wait, are you saying that if I type in playboy into Google, and it comes up with a search result for Hustler - in search results that are ostensibly created by formulaic analysis of the structure and content of the web as a whole - that Google can be held liable?
(This turns out not really to be the case, although the tenth link does point to some porn linkage site in Romania.)
You could always walk.
One could also call it justice.
Fortunately, there's a tag that you can use to link Flash cartoons in your documents, and it's been around since the very beginning. What's more, it doesn't conflict with Eolas's patent.
That tag?
You guessed it: <a>.
Then you just redownload the tracks via P2P. You've already paid the artist/label for the right to own and listen to a copy, so no guilt there.
"This wristwatch has a built-in high-powered laser. It will allow foreign governments to track you everywhere you go!"
"Uhhhmmm... thank you, Q...."