You hand-carried an E4K all the way across the building? Those things weigh 160 pounds! I nearly busted a gusset carrying one across a machine room (because I'm a manly man and we don't need carts!).
Some years ago, that is, when I was younger and stronger (and stupider). Maybe that explains the back problems I get now and again...
Anyways, if you really hauled that monstrosity across the building by hand... remind me to never piss you off in person.
With DVDs, the next gen recordable DVD, LTO2 or LTO3 drives, and the like, even a large hard drive, that's a hell of a lot of data before you need to generate a new pad.
And unless you know of a way to make your pad medium cleanly self-destruct on command, and your correspondent's copy too, the first search warrant at either end hands the authorities the keys to the kingdom. OTP is, indeed, brilliantly secure, as long as your pad is inviolate. Which is by no means guaranteed.
Not to be pedantic, (not intentionally), but reason standards aren't obviously consistent is because the ESRB is not the MPAA.
They're not the same organization, not controlled by the same people, not rating the same media, nothin'. They don't necessarily have the same leadership or employees.
To consumers, I'm sure, media is media is media, and consistent standards and enforcement should be obvious. But consistent standards and enforcement is not required and in the minds of some might be anti-competetive.
You expect consistency where there is no reason (other than in your expectations) for there to be any. The only place to enforce that "media-is-media" ratings consistency is government, and that's the LAST thing any sane consumer or producer wants.
Not the MMO team combat game that never came to be (Multiplayer BattleTech 3025), but an RPG. Become a mechwarrior, a mechtech, powered infantry, combat vehicle crew... any of the roles in the paper-n-pencil RPG. Form or join a merc company, undergo a trial of position to join a clan, become a fabulously wealthy trader or pirate...
If a hardware company is so proprietary or secretive or locked-down that OpenBSD can't (or chooses not to) support it, I don't believe that company will last in the long run.
There are certainly parallels between virtual economies and certain forms of commododities trading:
The traders acquire commodities "on paper", totally intangibly. (Has a CBOT purchaser ever actually taken delivery of 2,000 tons of orange juice concentrate?)
The system within which all this buying and selling occurs is pretty much self-contained.
The fundamental method of buying and selling is a bid system.
Trades in some systems occur in non-US currencies.
So, is an MMO virtual economy taxable economic activity? It certainly has some of the same characteristics.
All true oldschool geeks use a Northgate Omnikey Ultra. Specifically, one connected to their Amiga. Although you could use it with a PEECEE, if you had to.
Awesome keyboard, totally indestructible. Quite maintainable, too, and great keyfeel and audible feedback. Like the vaunted Model M above, except compatible (with the flip of a DIP switch) with the Amiga, a huge selling point for me back in 1990.
How to uninstall Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications
You can uninstall Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications by using Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel.
Now the obvious followup question is: What happens if I do uninstall this nagware? Am I crippling Windows? Will the Windows Genuine Disadvantage (tm) be reinstalled behind my back at the next automatic update? Will my name, address, phone number, IP address, and credit card information be phoned home to the Microsoft Secret Police?
What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers, quality assurance people, and customers in its wake.
Some lawyers need to put down their crack pipes before holding forth on their moronic delusions of the reach of intellectual property law. (I noticed the lawyers in question are SCO's representation, so it's doubly appropriate.)
I'm surprised SCO hasn't jumped on ARS for horning in on their exclusive "baseless IP infringement accusations for fun-n-profit" formula.
I'm not sure what you're whingeing about. Nobody said anything in the title or summary about an "announcement" by anyone.
Hell, I guess technically, you're correct; within the context of what shows up directly up in/., Apple didn't make this announcement. But doinking the editors is just silly and trollish.
Hell, there are plenty of things to doink editors about here; making crap up is pointless.
If only they fixed the incompatibility with the Nvidia 6600 chipset. I get so tired of lime-green almost featureless terrain just because there are weather precipitation effects overlaid.
Maybe it's Nvidia's fault; maybe it's Westwood's fault. I don't know or care. I just wish I could play all the maps and scenarios without being nauseated.
I hear ya. I'm curious, is accidental finding of 'nudity' on the web while surfing THAT big of a problem???
You've obviously never clicked on a cleverly-hidden goatse link here, have you?
Which is disturbingly on-topic. How does a forum/blog operator self-protect against posters violating the content regulation implied in this law? If your frontpage doesn't have a "warning: may contain pr0n" tag, and some troll posts tubgirl or something, are you screwed?
I have to cry shenanigans on some of your commentary.
They are cheap and ugly....If I am going to buy a product, I want the product to be high quality, and have an instant "cool" value.
No gamer, you are. "Cool" is in the product, not the packaging. Sheesh. If you have to have "Ooooh, shiny" to appreciate it, well... i guess that's why "cool" rhymes with "tool".
The books would reprint lots of information.
Like every D20 game ever written.
Rifts? "It is like D&D, but with Cyberpunk thrown in, but with Cthulhu thrown in, but with Vampires thrown in, but with Sci-Fi thrown in.."...
Gosh, that sounds like Shadowrun, the coolest product TSR ever came out with. I don't see the problem here.
They had a terrible, hard to use game system.
OK, fair cop there. The mechanics always seemed too fidgety to me, and balance was always terrible in most every game they wrote.
You're right in your summary, though: it is a shrinking market, and between the legendary weakness of their paper-n-pencil games and their evident lack of marketing savvy, Paladium seems to have doomed itself. Still, I feel bad watching one of the pioneers going under.
How about not making the service publically accessible?
I'm tired of this ignorant noise. This is NTP. There is no meaningful method of limiting access.
"Router blocks?", did I hear someone in the back row shout?
-1, Missing the Point. The primary, "ow that really hurts" problem is not excessive access to the server. The problem is that the unauthorized traffic volume is causing the NTP service's bandwidth provider a hardship and making them consider charging for connectivity that they were donating for free--on the understanding that bandwidth needed wouldn't be that great.
I don't put up an MTA and then expect people not to spam me - quite the reverse.
So, your answer is, don't put up the service at all? How cynical and small your world is. By that logic, you shouldn't be displaying your "obfuscated" e-mail address as part of your/. profile. A careless/. correspondent may "out" it, violating your intended "terms of service", you know. But that's OK, if it happens, you asked for it--by your logic.
Wrong is wrong, stupid is stupid, and both should be called into account. Stop blaming the victim.
that '80s classic, Mondern English's I Melt With You? A pair of dancers whirling together in the darkness...
Meh, I must be getting sentimental in my old age.
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I'm sure Gates can afford it. Summoning the undead is essentially free.
Maintenance (roll-on antiperspirant, fresh changes of embalming fluid, regular sacrifices to the unspeakable powers of darkness) is a bit of a financial drag. But I think in the "unspeakable powers" category, Gates gets an employee discount.
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Some years ago, that is, when I was younger and stronger (and stupider). Maybe that explains the back problems I get now and again...
Anyways, if you really hauled that monstrosity across the building by hand... remind me to never piss you off in person.
And unless you know of a way to make your pad medium cleanly self-destruct on command, and your correspondent's copy too, the first search warrant at either end hands the authorities the keys to the kingdom. OTP is, indeed, brilliantly secure, as long as your pad is inviolate. Which is by no means guaranteed.
They're not the same organization, not controlled by the same people, not rating the same media, nothin'. They don't necessarily have the same leadership or employees.
To consumers, I'm sure, media is media is media, and consistent standards and enforcement should be obvious. But consistent standards and enforcement is not required and in the minds of some might be anti-competetive.
You expect consistency where there is no reason (other than in your expectations) for there to be any. The only place to enforce that "media-is-media" ratings consistency is government, and that's the LAST thing any sane consumer or producer wants.
Hmmm. I could use that for my keyboard. My python keeps looking like perl when I type it in.
Battletech MMORPG.
Not the MMO team combat game that never came to be (Multiplayer BattleTech 3025), but an RPG. Become a mechwarrior, a mechtech, powered infantry, combat vehicle crew... any of the roles in the paper-n-pencil RPG. Form or join a merc company, undergo a trial of position to join a clan, become a fabulously wealthy trader or pirate...
That would be too cool.
OpenBSD confirms it. Adaptec is dying.
"Bloody Vikings!"
There are certainly parallels between virtual economies and certain forms of commododities trading:
- The traders acquire commodities "on paper", totally intangibly. (Has a CBOT purchaser ever actually taken delivery of 2,000 tons of orange juice concentrate?)
- The system within which all this buying and selling occurs is pretty much self-contained.
- The fundamental method of buying and selling is a bid system.
- Trades in some systems occur in non-US currencies.
So, is an MMO virtual economy taxable economic activity? It certainly has some of the same characteristics.Awesome keyboard, totally indestructible. Quite maintainable, too, and great keyfeel and audible feedback. Like the vaunted Model M above, except compatible (with the flip of a DIP switch) with the Amiga, a huge selling point for me back in 1990.
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How to uninstall Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications
You can uninstall Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications by using Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel.
Now the obvious followup question is: What happens if I do uninstall this nagware? Am I crippling Windows? Will the Windows Genuine Disadvantage (tm) be reinstalled behind my back at the next automatic update? Will my name, address, phone number, IP address, and credit card information be phoned home to the Microsoft Secret Police?
What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers, quality assurance people, and customers in its wake.
Especially if you give him infinite time to release, just like the game.
I'm surprised SCO hasn't jumped on ARS for horning in on their exclusive "baseless IP infringement accusations for fun-n-profit" formula.
Would a storage (disk array) subsystem do? Here you go.
They are, after all, protecting us from the Terrible Secret of Space.
I'm not sure what you're whingeing about. Nobody said anything in the title or summary about an "announcement" by anyone.
Hell, I guess technically, you're correct; within the context of what shows up directly up in /., Apple didn't make this announcement. But doinking the editors is just silly and trollish.
Hell, there are plenty of things to doink editors about here; making crap up is pointless.
Maybe it's Nvidia's fault; maybe it's Westwood's fault. I don't know or care. I just wish I could play all the maps and scenarios without being nauseated.
You've obviously never clicked on a cleverly-hidden goatse link here, have you?
Which is disturbingly on-topic. How does a forum/blog operator self-protect against posters violating the content regulation implied in this law? If your frontpage doesn't have a "warning: may contain pr0n" tag, and some troll posts tubgirl or something, are you screwed?
They are cheap and ugly....If I am going to buy a product, I want the product to be high quality, and have an instant "cool" value.
No gamer, you are. "Cool" is in the product, not the packaging. Sheesh. If you have to have "Ooooh, shiny" to appreciate it, well... i guess that's why "cool" rhymes with "tool".
The books would reprint lots of information.
Like every D20 game ever written.
Rifts? "It is like D&D, but with Cyberpunk thrown in, but with Cthulhu thrown in, but with Vampires thrown in, but with Sci-Fi thrown in.."...
Gosh, that sounds like Shadowrun, the coolest product TSR ever came out with. I don't see the problem here.
They had a terrible, hard to use game system.
OK, fair cop there. The mechanics always seemed too fidgety to me, and balance was always terrible in most every game they wrote.
You're right in your summary, though: it is a shrinking market, and between the legendary weakness of their paper-n-pencil games and their evident lack of marketing savvy, Paladium seems to have doomed itself. Still, I feel bad watching one of the pioneers going under.
I'm guessing it'll be like a toll booth change bucket; just toss your finger and your eyeball into the basket and you're off!
How you detach those components and grow them back later is your problem.
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I'm tired of this ignorant noise. This is NTP. There is no meaningful method of limiting access.
"Router blocks?", did I hear someone in the back row shout?
-1, Missing the Point. The primary, "ow that really hurts" problem is not excessive access to the server. The problem is that the unauthorized traffic volume is causing the NTP service's bandwidth provider a hardship and making them consider charging for connectivity that they were donating for free--on the understanding that bandwidth needed wouldn't be that great.
I don't put up an MTA and then expect people not to spam me - quite the reverse.
So, your answer is, don't put up the service at all? How cynical and small your world is. By that logic, you shouldn't be displaying your "obfuscated" e-mail address as part of your /. profile. A careless /. correspondent may "out" it, violating your intended "terms of service", you know. But that's OK, if it happens, you asked for it--by your logic.
Wrong is wrong, stupid is stupid, and both should be called into account. Stop blaming the victim.
Meh, I must be getting sentimental in my old age.
I'm sure Gates can afford it. Summoning the undead is essentially free.
Maintenance (roll-on antiperspirant, fresh changes of embalming fluid, regular sacrifices to the unspeakable powers of darkness) is a bit of a financial drag. But I think in the "unspeakable powers" category, Gates gets an employee discount.
Way to gloss over the "risk to your customers" bit. What, the customers run the risk of missing out on the Superior Windows Experience (TM)?