If that was his intent then he was very bad at conveying that intent. That wasn't the problem discussed in the article and the post he replied to was agreeing with the article.
Stop trying to read minds. You're not very good at it.
"With small form factor PCs, such as the Shuttle XPC line, becoming all the rage these days for office and gamer use"
I got to LAN parties, work in IT, and I don't see anyone looking for smaller form fctors for gaming.
Bringing a full size ATX tower to a LAN party just ins't that hard. Maybe if you're trying to take it on an airplane I could see the need. But otherwise, with all the heat and the size of video cards, I don't see small form factor being the rage in gaming. In fact I see the opposite. People wanting lots of room in their case.
I dont go to big name contests or national LAN parties, so maybe I've just lost touch.
Yes, I am constantly harrased by people that upon learning of my geekness barrage me with questions about fantasy novels.
And here all this time I thought it was just me.
Call of Duty unfairly targets Germans.
Hell, the whole game is about killing Germans. At least in Vice City they mix it up. But CoD takes hate to a new level.
And it goes far beyond video games.
In Independence Day they targeted aliens. They tried to kill all of them on or near Earth. Thats genocide my friends.
While most remember the colecovision, few remember the ADAM. It was a PC + a full fledged colecovision.
Though I was very young and with no adult help (my step father was the anti-geek) so I never used the computer for much more then word processing. But still, on a nastalgic geek scale the system itself is a 10.
Of course, when I opened that box Xmas morning I was a tad bit dissapointed. I had been asking for an Omnibot 2000 and the box was the right size.
that the the retail version of Doom 3 will include a playable mini-game version of Daikatana?
All kidding aside, the games been in development for too long. It will allmost be impossible to live up to the expectations that only grow as the game sits in development for what seem like forever.
What makes you think the human brain cna handle living 20 years? Or 40 years?
Does having too many 30 year old hold back progress?
What I think you've done wrong is treat our reality as some objective "this is how it should be" reality.
Plato's cave my friend. We will make of it what there is to make of it.
Their servers are mostly empty compared to release. Everyone flocks around only a few major cities. You can go to most of the cities and see no one in them.
They've had no need to bring online any new servers lately.
They are using spintronics to come up with that 300K subscribers number. Probably about 1/2 of those don't have an active account. They are still living off of their pre-sales numbers which were hige because most people didn't know (or believe) that the game sucked so bad.
I don't believe EQ used the same spintronics to come up with their numbers. But I could be wrong here.
And if 90% of the users used Apples, 90% of the virus would target Apples.
I run Windows XP here at home and at work and I haven't even seen a sniff of either virus.
Windows is everywhere. It is exploitable. Get over it. Here's an idea. Convince Apple to stop selling proprietary and overpriced systems and then you can start venting at them.
Or convince all Linux users to adopt the same exact desktop so that it has a chance of being installed on the desktops of non-techies. You know, the people that took days to get used to Win98 after upgrading from 95. That way you can bitch about all the insecurities in Linux.
I don't care what OS it is. As soon as you put it infront of stupid people, and millions of stupid people at that, it will get exploited.
No, you're just missing that what youre talking about has no bearing on this converstation.
His *friend* didn't modify himself. He obtained it. I'm not sending him a warrant so yes, I will use common sense and assume that. It is more then obvious.
Amazingly, you're the 3rd person that went that route. Why? Why would you avoid the obvious to go with the loophole. That is why I said the state of people here is sad. The software his friend is using IS illegal. We're not discussing draconian RIAA tactics, we're talking about legit developers protecting their assests.
Poor analagy.
The current model is more like Lojack. It has the capabilities to report at anytime but only does so when needed.
You're trying to make it sound like they are sending information back 24/7 which is not the case.
You are being nothing short of dishonest even mentioning that you can modify it yourself for your own use in this context. Clearly the user didn't create his own modified.exe
And furthermore, since when did installing copywrite protection become analogous to corrupt politicians?
The version of the software he is using is ilegal.
You can't just go around willy-nilly modifying other people's copywritten software to take out the parts you find annoying unless that right is explicitly granted.
I sersiously believe you think he's done nothing wrong and that is what scares me. We've gone so far in one direction we've forgetten where we came from.
I hate the RIAA. SCO sucks. Yadda yadda yadda. But come on, it is a tad obvious that just because you have a right to run a legit copy doesn't mean you have a right to run an illegally modified version of the it.
The cost of content aside (which is a seperate arguement), the reason SWG went with random content was to address a vocal minority of players that have screamed for years in MMORPG circles about how evil *camping* is. Not because of the cost.
There are many posts from SWG developers and designers and their random content. They do have some static content and once they fond people flocking to it, they nerfed the hell out of it (and no, I'm not joking or using hyperbole) to get people back to using the random content.
As to cost. For a game like M59 that is always was low budget, I could see how it could be said that content is expensive.
However, when a game like EQ was able to launch with 30+ zones and all but 1 was full of content, and it was all done in 1 year with one content developer, I think the "cost" of content appears to be about the price of 1 full time content creator.
We're looking at about 80K for two years of content development prior to launch. And then you have to remember that your saving a few months of developer time since now you don't need to create a massively complicated random content generator.
These games have mulit million dollar production budgets. So I can't agree with my parent that content is expensive.
In the content we're talking about thats like saying a nice computer is expensive. Sure, for you. But not for the SWG development team.
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Are you on the voting commity that turns theories into laws?
That fact that it got modded up at all is rather scary.
Theory vs law is just a name.
A very common one is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Why is it a law? Because it was named as such.
Commonly this law is pitted against evolution by ignortant zealots as if evolution violated the 2nd law of Thermodynamics and was therefore impossible.
Of course, the reality is the evidence for the Theory of Evolution is so much more vast then that for the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is really just a guideline and not a hard fast rule).
"law" vs "theory" is just a naming convention based on what sticks.
Long ago I had a hairbrained idea to start an Open Source type project where people could openly contribute to a fiction novel using current open source software practices.
I got really exited at the title
"Open Source Book a Collective Effort".
Sleep paralysis.
From the time I was 18 till 22 or so, I would occasional wake from a dream but still have the paralysis from REM sleep.
It is the opposite of fun waking up and being totally paralyzed. Couldn't even talk. It would happen within a dream first as well. One time in a dream I was being chased up a hill by *something* and I slowed down to a crawl. Before long I couldn't move. Woke up. Couldn't move.
Usually took about 5 minutes to wear off. The worse was when I woke up paralyzed one night face down on the inside of couch with my (now) wife sleeping on the outside but basically on top of me. My face was wedged down between the back of the couch and cushions. Could barely see anything, but I knew someone was on me. Nope, didn't like that one at all.
Because unless you plan to do your own detailed scientific research into the evidence, the source is what matter most.
Can you trust the source?
If a professor at Cal-Tech released this, I would be midly interested. If it was then further verfied by a research team from the University of Arizona and then later by another team from a Sweedish University, then I would consider it pretty legit.
Now, if you have the resources, the training and capability to validate claims yourself then by all means go ahead.
As for me, I use my "BS detector" to the best of my ability but in the end I know where my shortcomings are and in these areas defer to the experts.
Right now the Xbox can do 480p for games, but not for DVD output.
Are these modifications capable of changing this?
I'd imagine anyone into this enough to want one of these takes their electronics rather seriously and wouldn't actually use it. I know I wouldn't use it as quality wise it isn't on par with what I'd have (nor what I'd want if I didn't already have it).
Though there's certainly a coolness factor on par with see-through Case windows that have never been seen by anyone but the case owner.
"Well, it's over budget, let's start all over again."
I point you back to:
"or is NASA little more than a multi-billion-dollar jobs program for important U.S. aerospace contractors?"
By now you think NASA would realize that if every project is over-budget that they needed to accept the fact that their budgeting was too low. But thats not whats going on. Its corporate welfare.
This is how government works and its not just NASA nor is it just the DOD but goes down to state and city levels.
I've seen (1st hand )in place million $ state IT contracts canceled overnight for political reasons. If you can find a way to get some money back to the political world, they'll do all they can to keep you in business.
In fact the whole "small government" trend is really nothing more then a diversion of money from government employees to hand picked contracts. By hand picked I don't mean the "winner" of a bid, I mean "lets give these to Joe's company".
But back to NASA.
The problem is that the average Joe just doesn't care as much about NASA as the average Geek. By bringing this dissatisfaction to the public eye we risk NASA loosing its budget, not getting their spending habits fixed.
I'm sure I'm not alone in the wish that NASA would start doing more long term missions of "mythical" proportions. Give Zubrin the money, put men on Mars. Or really move forward with the Hubble replacement. Do something to inspire humanity. I just don't get worked up over the study of bacteria in weightlessness anymore.
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If that was his intent then he was very bad at conveying that intent. That wasn't the problem discussed in the article and the post he replied to was agreeing with the article.
Stop trying to read minds. You're not very good at it.
"With small form factor PCs, such as the Shuttle XPC line, becoming all the rage these days for office and gamer use"
I got to LAN parties, work in IT, and I don't see anyone looking for smaller form fctors for gaming.
Bringing a full size ATX tower to a LAN party just ins't that hard. Maybe if you're trying to take it on an airplane I could see the need. But otherwise, with all the heat and the size of video cards, I don't see small form factor being the rage in gaming. In fact I see the opposite. People wanting lots of room in their case.
I dont go to big name contests or national LAN parties, so maybe I've just lost touch.
Yes, I am constantly harrased by people that upon learning of my geekness barrage me with questions about fantasy novels. And here all this time I thought it was just me.
Call of Duty unfairly targets Germans.
Hell, the whole game is about killing Germans. At least in Vice City they mix it up. But CoD takes hate to a new level.
And it goes far beyond video games.
In Independence Day they targeted aliens. They tried to kill all of them on or near Earth. Thats genocide my friends.
While most remember the colecovision, few remember the ADAM. It was a PC + a full fledged colecovision.
Though I was very young and with no adult help (my step father was the anti-geek) so I never used the computer for much more then word processing. But still, on a nastalgic geek scale the system itself is a 10. Of course, when I opened that box Xmas morning I was a tad bit dissapointed. I had been asking for an Omnibot 2000 and the box was the right size.
that the the retail version of Doom 3 will include a playable mini-game version of Daikatana?
All kidding aside, the games been in development for too long. It will allmost be impossible to live up to the expectations that only grow as the game sits in development for what seem like forever.
What makes you think the human brain cna handle living 20 years? Or 40 years? Does having too many 30 year old hold back progress? What I think you've done wrong is treat our reality as some objective "this is how it should be" reality. Plato's cave my friend. We will make of it what there is to make of it.
I think they're even counting people like me that didn't play beyond the 1st free month but had an account. They don't even say *active* accounts.
Every account thats ever been active.
Their servers are mostly empty compared to release. Everyone flocks around only a few major cities. You can go to most of the cities and see no one in them.
They've had no need to bring online any new servers lately.
They are using spintronics to come up with that 300K subscribers number. Probably about 1/2 of those don't have an active account. They are still living off of their pre-sales numbers which were hige because most people didn't know (or believe) that the game sucked so bad.
I don't believe EQ used the same spintronics to come up with their numbers. But I could be wrong here.
The article is focusing on its use as a portable hard disk even though it really is a portable wireless server.
A USB keychain drive seems to fill this role better. If all I want is portability of my files I dont really need the CPU, the web server, etc..
And if 90% of the users used Apples, 90% of the virus would target Apples. I run Windows XP here at home and at work and I haven't even seen a sniff of either virus. Windows is everywhere. It is exploitable. Get over it. Here's an idea. Convince Apple to stop selling proprietary and overpriced systems and then you can start venting at them. Or convince all Linux users to adopt the same exact desktop so that it has a chance of being installed on the desktops of non-techies. You know, the people that took days to get used to Win98 after upgrading from 95. That way you can bitch about all the insecurities in Linux. I don't care what OS it is. As soon as you put it infront of stupid people, and millions of stupid people at that, it will get exploited.
just patent "a configuration of molecules that does stuff" and be done with it.
His *friend* didn't modify himself. He obtained it. I'm not sending him a warrant so yes, I will use common sense and assume that. It is more then obvious.
Amazingly, you're the 3rd person that went that route. Why? Why would you avoid the obvious to go with the loophole. That is why I said the state of people here is sad. The software his friend is using IS illegal. We're not discussing draconian RIAA tactics, we're talking about legit developers protecting their assests.
Poor analagy. The current model is more like Lojack. It has the capabilities to report at anytime but only does so when needed. You're trying to make it sound like they are sending information back 24/7 which is not the case.
You are being nothing short of dishonest even mentioning that you can modify it yourself for your own use in this context. Clearly the user didn't create his own modified .exe
And furthermore, since when did installing copywrite protection become analogous to corrupt politicians?
I sersiously believe you think he's done nothing wrong and that is what scares me. We've gone so far in one direction we've forgetten where we came from.
I hate the RIAA. SCO sucks. Yadda yadda yadda. But come on, it is a tad obvious that just because you have a right to run a legit copy doesn't mean you have a right to run an illegally modified version of the it.
The cost of content aside (which is a seperate arguement), the reason SWG went with random content was to address a vocal minority of players that have screamed for years in MMORPG circles about how evil *camping* is. Not because of the cost. There are many posts from SWG developers and designers and their random content. They do have some static content and once they fond people flocking to it, they nerfed the hell out of it (and no, I'm not joking or using hyperbole) to get people back to using the random content. As to cost. For a game like M59 that is always was low budget, I could see how it could be said that content is expensive. However, when a game like EQ was able to launch with 30+ zones and all but 1 was full of content, and it was all done in 1 year with one content developer, I think the "cost" of content appears to be about the price of 1 full time content creator. We're looking at about 80K for two years of content development prior to launch. And then you have to remember that your saving a few months of developer time since now you don't need to create a massively complicated random content generator. These games have mulit million dollar production budgets. So I can't agree with my parent that content is expensive. In the content we're talking about thats like saying a nice computer is expensive. Sure, for you. But not for the SWG development team.
Are you on the voting commity that turns theories into laws?
That fact that it got modded up at all is rather scary.
Theory vs law is just a name.
A very common one is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Why is it a law? Because it was named as such. Commonly this law is pitted against evolution by ignortant zealots as if evolution violated the 2nd law of Thermodynamics and was therefore impossible.
Of course, the reality is the evidence for the Theory of Evolution is so much more vast then that for the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is really just a guideline and not a hard fast rule). "law" vs "theory" is just a naming convention based on what sticks.
not a book on Open Source.
Long ago I had a hairbrained idea to start an Open Source type project where people could openly contribute to a fiction novel using current open source software practices.
I got really exited at the title "Open Source Book a Collective Effort".
But alas, it was not what I hoped
I dont feel the site reaches the same level of artistic expression that something like the brick testament does
Sleep paralysis.
From the time I was 18 till 22 or so, I would occasional wake from a dream but still have the paralysis from REM sleep.
It is the opposite of fun waking up and being totally paralyzed. Couldn't even talk. It would happen within a dream first as well. One time in a dream I was being chased up a hill by *something* and I slowed down to a crawl. Before long I couldn't move. Woke up. Couldn't move.
Usually took about 5 minutes to wear off. The worse was when I woke up paralyzed one night face down on the inside of couch with my (now) wife sleeping on the outside but basically on top of me. My face was wedged down between the back of the couch and cushions. Could barely see anything, but I knew someone was on me. Nope, didn't like that one at all.
http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html
Can you trust the source?
If a professor at Cal-Tech released this, I would be midly interested. If it was then further verfied by a research team from the University of Arizona and then later by another team from a Sweedish University, then I would consider it pretty legit.
Now, if you have the resources, the training and capability to validate claims yourself then by all means go ahead. As for me, I use my "BS detector" to the best of my ability but in the end I know where my shortcomings are and in these areas defer to the experts.
Ill believe evidence of UFO's when the evidence isn't a link to a UFO-centric site.
I'd imagine anyone into this enough to want one of these takes their electronics rather seriously and wouldn't actually use it. I know I wouldn't use it as quality wise it isn't on par with what I'd have (nor what I'd want if I didn't already have it).
Though there's certainly a coolness factor on par with see-through Case windows that have never been seen by anyone but the case owner.
"Well, it's over budget, let's start all over again." I point you back to: "or is NASA little more than a multi-billion-dollar jobs program for important U.S. aerospace contractors?" By now you think NASA would realize that if every project is over-budget that they needed to accept the fact that their budgeting was too low. But thats not whats going on. Its corporate welfare. This is how government works and its not just NASA nor is it just the DOD but goes down to state and city levels. I've seen (1st hand )in place million $ state IT contracts canceled overnight for political reasons. If you can find a way to get some money back to the political world, they'll do all they can to keep you in business. In fact the whole "small government" trend is really nothing more then a diversion of money from government employees to hand picked contracts. By hand picked I don't mean the "winner" of a bid, I mean "lets give these to Joe's company". But back to NASA. The problem is that the average Joe just doesn't care as much about NASA as the average Geek. By bringing this dissatisfaction to the public eye we risk NASA loosing its budget, not getting their spending habits fixed. I'm sure I'm not alone in the wish that NASA would start doing more long term missions of "mythical" proportions. Give Zubrin the money, put men on Mars. Or really move forward with the Hubble replacement. Do something to inspire humanity. I just don't get worked up over the study of bacteria in weightlessness anymore.