There are certain drawbacks in using a story line like this. For you it might be interesting to skip parts of it by not playing by the "rules". For experienced players not being able to circumvent the system is irritating. For less experienced or new players to the game, missing a clue can be catastrophic (doling forever is not fun, I've done it too many times). Same goes for _literally_ killing the story line of course.
The best games though find a way to redirect you to where you need to be, or make sure you get the hints some other way. It seems that that is not the case with this game - though I haven't played it myself yet.
almost made entirely out of aluminium. Aluminium manufacturing plants are normally found next to electric power stations. Furthermore, wasn't there something about aluminium being toxic after being hit? Not that it matters too much, if your car is hit by a DU bullet...
On Topic, however. Do we, as americans, have a right to pollute just as much as we want?
No, you don't have the right to do so. You can pollute, and you'll probably can get away with it, but it isn't your right to do so. It's not forbidden either but that's just because there is nobody there to forbid you to do it. There is nobody to give you the right either.
The question of course is not if you have the right, but if it is the right thing to do. I am not a believer, but I do believe that we have an obligation to make the world a good place to live in for all of us. That is including the future generations. If we don't, it's going to be a hell to live in, for all of us.
That's the problem with the current US government. They somehow manage to convince people that they are fighting for the world to be a better place, while they seem to grab every opportunity to fuck it up just to get profit. Either shut up and admit you're doing evil, or get with the program. Don't ask what the world can do for you, but what the US can do for the world.
3 million kg of depleted uranium dumped on Iraq, and counting.
And the Kuweity government (which is not democratic at all) and Saudi Arabia. Which does not even have regular prisons and is very high on the amnesty international lists (you can guess what kind of lists).
Luckily the US is doing a better job in Afganistan and Iraq. Unfortunately they are doing that to get a pipeline for natural gas and oil in return. The list goes on and on, doesn't it. War is bad, and almost always fought for the wrong reasons. They just put it under a veil of good intentions.
In the end, as in most wars, everybody looses, even concerning the gas and the oil (I hope).
My house is 2 minute walk to a highly available tram line. This connects to a circular line around Amsterdam. Then it's 7 minutes to the next trainstop. 5 minute walk to my seat at the office. Total time: 55 minute. Car: 20 minutes, 30/40 if it is really really really busy.
The biggest problem with public transport is that it is not going from A to B, but from A to C to D to E and then to B. Nothing will ever change that. Public transport is only useable when cars are really troublesome, or when there is a direct line from A to B.
And if you would want a car as well (weekends, holidays, visits, shopping etc.), then it's really expensive. I think this is the same all over the world.
The car is never going to disappear, lets build more efficient cars instead. And stop buying bigger and bigger cars. You don't need them, and make traffic _more_ dangerous in the end.
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This way the term "hacking" is subject to inflation. Death to those terrorist editors!
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Nah, you just want to keep them all to yourself, admit it.
Yeah, weird thing that. I've seen places where you can actually see the monitors they use to watch the camera's. You could very well take pictures of those and never be spotted:)
Well, you don't have to tell the/. crowd most employee's in such stores are as thick as polar ice. Most of us probably know 3 times as much about phones before we walk into such stores to begin with.
Note that I've got the same problem. My Palm Zire 71 is banned as well. Not that I can see the security personel find out about the camera in that particular device. It wouldn't be useful anyway, the resolution is way to low to steal the interesting stuff.
Nope, doesn't work that way. Do you have to miss out on the game because of a (minor) activation issue? Same problem with politics. Whichever party you choose, you will never like all their ideas. Or leaving an otherwise good job because of privacy issues (just get another employer, yeah, right). Sometimes you will have to rely on the goodness of people. Writing a letter would indeed be a good start.
Anyway, if you don't want your blood presure to go through the roof, you would be better off not buying first person action shooters...
Hmmm, I must be new to Java programming then. Some languages may use properties instead, but whats the difference? Anyway, people tend to forget that Java is a language that has little rules, and is thus easy to learn and parse (use Eclipse, and you know what I'm talking about). Adding properties etc. etc. would break that design decission. Just don't use get/set sparingly (think about your interface) and you're fine. Most java IDE's out there can create getters and setters automatically in the case that you do want to use them AND the type of the getter/setter is equal in the interface and the implementation.
Any distributed software needs to have the following requirements for me to install it on my system: - open source - free (as in beer) - portable code, or multicode - protected against buffer overflows etc. (managed code) - signed updates of grid software, grid client software and working packages - nice interface (including a good web server) - only for use for non-profit organizations - and I wan't to choose my projects
Sun (or any one else), hurry up please. I'm NOT going to run any trap that's now on the market - especially not folding at fucking home, who cannot even maintain a normal web site for all those users.
With the current incarnations of CPU's, there is power usage as well. Maybe there is a client where you can set power safe features as well? It isn't a must, but it would be a nice to have.
One advantage that Windows browsers will have is managed code. If you want to get rid of buffer overrun problems that managed code is the way to go. I don't know home much of Opera compiles against.net/mono, but that would be something I would look at. Unfortunately, there are no Java browsers available anymore.
Has anyone thought about porting the Gecko engine to java yet? Relying on Mono does not seem to be the way to go, unless you want to support Microsoft indirectly. There is already a lot of support for XML and HTTP/SSL in Java. The biggest tasks would be the layout of web pages. Maybe the SWT framework can be a bit of help in that respect as well.
C++ and C will very fast become extinct for desktop applications, but all the web-browsers and mail clients still seem to rely on this old technology, which is easy to attack (or, difficult to get right).
Tell that to my bank, my government, all the car rental companies and some airline and hotel reservation systems. Windows was late in the internet business, and now it sometimes seem that you have to buy it to get the best browsing experience. And the European commission is sueing Microsoft for monopolistic behaviour. Let's just start with the governments themselfes, shall we?
taxrefund.exe, ow how ironic. Lets spend a few euro's to get my tax back, shall we?
Can someone explain why having this is such a good idea? I can imagine that putting executable code in by using a buffer overflow is a bad thing. But you would still be able to change the parameters of the program and/or destroy data from the program. So though it might prevent some worms from spreading, I don't see the big difference. With a bit of engeneering, you might alter the application enough to get to the same results anyway.
What the question boild down to is: how much more secure would this make the average program or operating system?
The World Wibbly Web IS the browser portion, the internet is all the protocols/sw/hardware etc. combined. It's called the web because of all the links.
Nah, my parents still have one with mercury inside. But I'm thirty already:). Old thermometers will do the trick as well. Current ones use alcohol I think.
even the GPL specifically disclaims any warranties concerning fitness for purpose
What do you mean with "even"? Nobody directly benefits if you use the code. So who would indemnify you? Isn't their time enough investment for your cause? And which one of the co-writers would indemnify you? Looking at your last sentence the GPL example might have been a bit unlucky though.
Come again? You mean that after MS personally put 60 million in the war-chest of SCO that they are now doing the good thing? First financing the spreading of FUD, and then claiming your customers don't have to fear the same FUD. Yep, they seem on the right track to me. Maybe you should take a better look yourself at the SCO case.
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A picture of a tiny imp with a even tinier spinning wheel comes to mind. Maybe I've been reading to much Discworld novels lately.
There are certain drawbacks in using a story line like this. For you it might be interesting to skip parts of it by not playing by the "rules". For experienced players not being able to circumvent the system is irritating. For less experienced or new players to the game, missing a clue can be catastrophic (doling forever is not fun, I've done it too many times). Same goes for _literally_ killing the story line of course.
The best games though find a way to redirect you to where you need to be, or make sure you get the hints some other way. It seems that that is not the case with this game - though I haven't played it myself yet.
almost made entirely out of aluminium. Aluminium manufacturing plants are normally found next to electric power stations. Furthermore, wasn't there something about aluminium being toxic after being hit? Not that it matters too much, if your car is hit by a DU bullet...
On Topic, however. Do we, as americans, have a right to pollute just as much as we want?
No, you don't have the right to do so. You can pollute, and you'll probably can get away with it, but it isn't your right to do so. It's not forbidden either but that's just because there is nobody there to forbid you to do it. There is nobody to give you the right either.
The question of course is not if you have the right, but if it is the right thing to do. I am not a believer, but I do believe that we have an obligation to make the world a good place to live in for all of us. That is including the future generations. If we don't, it's going to be a hell to live in, for all of us.
That's the problem with the current US government. They somehow manage to convince people that they are fighting for the world to be a better place, while they seem to grab every opportunity to fuck it up just to get profit. Either shut up and admit you're doing evil, or get with the program. Don't ask what the world can do for you, but what the US can do for the world.
3 million kg of depleted uranium dumped on Iraq, and counting.
And the Kuweity government (which is not democratic at all) and Saudi Arabia. Which does not even have regular prisons and is very high on the amnesty international lists (you can guess what kind of lists).
Luckily the US is doing a better job in Afganistan and Iraq. Unfortunately they are doing that to get a pipeline for natural gas and oil in return. The list goes on and on, doesn't it. War is bad, and almost always fought for the wrong reasons. They just put it under a veil of good intentions.
In the end, as in most wars, everybody looses, even concerning the gas and the oil (I hope).
Well, it seems that they got the beef of IT covered. Learn your acronyms and you are halfway there (not).
Hi, could I have a Double Data Rate 2 Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory Dual Inline Memory Module?
My house is 2 minute walk to a highly available tram line. This connects to a circular line around Amsterdam. Then it's 7 minutes to the next trainstop. 5 minute walk to my seat at the office. Total time: 55 minute. Car: 20 minutes, 30/40 if it is really really really busy.
The biggest problem with public transport is that it is not going from A to B, but from A to C to D to E and then to B. Nothing will ever change that. Public transport is only useable when cars are really troublesome, or when there is a direct line from A to B.
And if you would want a car as well (weekends, holidays, visits, shopping etc.), then it's really expensive. I think this is the same all over the world.
The car is never going to disappear, lets build more efficient cars instead. And stop buying bigger and bigger cars. You don't need them, and make traffic _more_ dangerous in the end.
This way the term "hacking" is subject to inflation. Death to those terrorist editors!
Nah, you just want to keep them all to yourself, admit it.
Yeah, weird thing that. I've seen places where you can actually see the monitors they use to watch the camera's. You could very well take pictures of those and never be spotted :)
Well, you don't have to tell the /. crowd most employee's in such stores are as thick as polar ice. Most of us probably know 3 times as much about phones before we walk into such stores to begin with.
Note that I've got the same problem. My Palm Zire 71 is banned as well. Not that I can see the security personel find out about the camera in that particular device. It wouldn't be useful anyway, the resolution is way to low to steal the interesting stuff.
Nope, doesn't work that way. Do you have to miss out on the game because of a (minor) activation issue? Same problem with politics. Whichever party you choose, you will never like all their ideas. Or leaving an otherwise good job because of privacy issues (just get another employer, yeah, right). Sometimes you will have to rely on the goodness of people. Writing a letter would indeed be a good start.
Anyway, if you don't want your blood presure to go through the roof, you would be better off not buying first person action shooters...
In my robotics invention system 2.0 from LEGO :)
IIRC, a lot of Java stuff requires them.
Hmmm, I must be new to Java programming then. Some languages may use properties instead, but whats the difference? Anyway, people tend to forget that Java is a language that has little rules, and is thus easy to learn and parse (use Eclipse, and you know what I'm talking about). Adding properties etc. etc. would break that design decission. Just don't use get/set sparingly (think about your interface) and you're fine. Most java IDE's out there can create getters and setters automatically in the case that you do want to use them AND the type of the getter/setter is equal in the interface and the implementation.
I forgot the open, non proprietary protocol part. And please replace fucking by freakin' in the above text :)
Any distributed software needs to have the following requirements for me to install it on my system:
- open source
- free (as in beer)
- portable code, or multicode
- protected against buffer overflows etc. (managed code)
- signed updates of grid software, grid client software and working packages
- nice interface (including a good web server)
- only for use for non-profit organizations
- and I wan't to choose my projects
Sun (or any one else), hurry up please. I'm NOT going to run any trap that's now on the market - especially not folding at fucking home, who cannot even maintain a normal web site for all those users.
With the current incarnations of CPU's, there is power usage as well. Maybe there is a client where you can set power safe features as well? It isn't a must, but it would be a nice to have.
One advantage that Windows browsers will have is managed code. If you want to get rid of buffer overrun problems that managed code is the way to go. I don't know home much of Opera compiles against .net/mono, but that would be something I would look at. Unfortunately, there are no Java browsers available anymore.
Has anyone thought about porting the Gecko engine to java yet? Relying on Mono does not seem to be the way to go, unless you want to support Microsoft indirectly. There is already a lot of support for XML and HTTP/SSL in Java. The biggest tasks would be the layout of web pages. Maybe the SWT framework can be a bit of help in that respect as well.
C++ and C will very fast become extinct for desktop applications, but all the web-browsers and mail clients still seem to rely on this old technology, which is easy to attack (or, difficult to get right).
Tell that to my bank, my government, all the car rental companies and some airline and hotel reservation systems. Windows was late in the internet business, and now it sometimes seem that you have to buy it to get the best browsing experience. And the European commission is sueing Microsoft for monopolistic behaviour. Let's just start with the governments themselfes, shall we?
taxrefund.exe, ow how ironic. Lets spend a few euro's to get my tax back, shall we?
Can someone explain why having this is such a good idea? I can imagine that putting executable code in by using a buffer overflow is a bad thing. But you would still be able to change the parameters of the program and/or destroy data from the program. So though it might prevent some worms from spreading, I don't see the big difference. With a bit of engeneering, you might alter the application enough to get to the same results anyway.
What the question boild down to is: how much more secure would this make the average program or operating system?
The World Wibbly Web IS the browser portion, the internet is all the protocols/sw/hardware etc. combined. It's called the web because of all the links.
Nah, my parents still have one with mercury inside. But I'm thirty already :). Old thermometers will do the trick as well. Current ones use alcohol I think.
Imagine the nightmare that would have happened if they reinvented TCP/IP because they couldn't grab the BSD sockets code!
Ehm, maybe my mind is playing tricks on me, but didn't they make an effort to do exactly that?
even the GPL specifically disclaims any warranties concerning fitness for purpose
What do you mean with "even"? Nobody directly benefits if you use the code. So who would indemnify you? Isn't their time enough investment for your cause? And which one of the co-writers would indemnify you? Looking at your last sentence the GPL example might have been a bit unlucky though.
Gee, I guess you never heard of SCO.
For once, MS is doing a good thing
Come again? You mean that after MS personally put 60 million in the war-chest of SCO that they are now doing the good thing? First financing the spreading of FUD, and then claiming your customers don't have to fear the same FUD. Yep, they seem on the right track to me. Maybe you should take a better look yourself at the SCO case.
You are all forgetting the default disclaimers. Maybe there is some law against that, but then again, IANAL.