I rarely reply to anonymous cowards, but you got lucky
Maybe i am a bastard,but, surely, no more than someone who is blind and wants to be a bus driver.
Or someone who is autistic and cant do even simple math and want to....
Never forget there is very little you can credit Microsoft with...
Now that you mention it, i wonder what are the things that we CAN credit Microsoft with?
I was wondering which innovation can be attributed to Microsoft.
Indeed there are many many ways to trigger a bomb.
Since you mention airports, what if someone used the WiFi that is available on some public places (like airports) to SSH from his home in other side of the world and 'trigger' the bomb? Should we ban that too?
SCO as an organization didn't do this. One lazy person or group which was supposed to write documentation decided not to write their own.
It could also be that because SCO sponsored Webmin at some point that said person assumed (incorrectly) that the Book was ok to use.
I doubt that evil was involved here...
The last thing Doom 3 needs is a rock music sound track. I think an ambient soundtrack by Trent would probably be good. (but I'm not a fan of the guy or NIN)
Ok i agree on Doom3 becaue it's supposed to be scary too, but i _really_ think that Metallica - Kill'em All is a Quake3 soundrack.
No Remorse,
Whiplash,
Metal Militia
These go well with a frag frenzy:)
Most people probably will not know/remember it since i doubt it was successful, but the most insanely difficilt game i've seen was Genghis Khan, a strategy from Infogrames. Released at around 1990 both for Amiga and the PC
Man, _THAT_ was dificult. I was a strategy enthusiast when a played this game (at around 1993-4) and nobody i knew could go far in this game.
I wonder if other Slashdoter have gone far with this thing..
Ok, ID may have not made any "breakthrough" after Wolf3D and Doom, but i wouldn't call them simple Graphics Hackers
There have been games with cutting edge graphics that simply sucked. But ID games are simply "fun" to play. Isn't that what matters? I can't say i am sure what exactly is that makes them successful, but there IS something.
I think that a big proof that ID games are more than graphics hacks is the fact that they are very popular even when newer , more graphics intensive games are created.
I mean, there are still people who play DOOM, Quake3 is still popular, and Enemy Territory is based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein (which, i believe is based on Q3 engine). I wouldn't call these games cutting edge but they are still VERY popular.
There were many many FPS games after DOOM.
No. There is 'something' more to ID than just the graphics. They make fun games.
Judge: You again!?
Jon: Uhm, yeah.. sorry...
Judge: I guess the DVD people just won't leave you alone..
Jon: No, it's Apple's DRM now.
Judge: Damn you kid!!
The time i spent in the army (obligatory military service in Greece) was the least stresfull time ever.
You eat / sleep / do stuf.
WHERE stuff = pretend to be busy and actually worry about nothing.
Naturally it was very important to know that i would never go into combat or anything, since we are a peaceful nation.
If would gladly spend a 1-2 weeks in the army for relaxation again.
As for hadware mixing, the Gravis Ultrasound cards did it (first as far as i know) before Live and the rest. It was an extra-cool card but never went popular. It was THE way to play doom (having a wavetable meant that DOOM sounded awsome).
It was rather popular with the Demoscene people though. Many demos refused to work unless you had a Gravis Ultrasound card
Too bad Gravis now only makes joypads
OH, SoundBlaster AWE also had hardware mixing (at least AWE 64 GOLD that i had).
Since it would be blindingly obvious that the article meant the kind of databases tha MySQL is (client/server , SQL syntax to store/retriece data, relational, etc) there is no need to mention that.
However, if you believe that by not mentioning this it is open to any interpretation possible i would suggest that neither BerkleyDB nor MySQL are the most popular. I am sure ext2fs is installed on more machines than MySQL so the article is lying. It's not MySQL , but ext2fs that is the most popular database.
Hell, why not compare it to DNS? Or anything that would qualify as a "database".
But that's not chess is it?
Chess has specific rules that a proper chess program has to follow.
Assuming that it DOES follow the rules, there is no way to cheat so as to win.
How it cheats?
I don't think it is possible for a chess program to cheat.
Games cheat in many ways, one of which is knowing what the user is doing (e.g if you have a lot of money then your opponent gets a lot of money)
But how can a chess program cheat? It can't.
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I rarely reply to anonymous cowards, but you got lucky
Maybe i am a bastard,but, surely, no more than someone who is blind and wants to be a bus driver.
Or someone who is autistic and cant do even simple math and want to....
Don't worry.
The are lot's of places you can work
Too bad that 'real' high encryption is illegal in the US. ;)
Now that you mention it, i wonder what are the things that we CAN credit Microsoft with?
I was wondering which innovation can be attributed to Microsoft.
Indeed there are many many ways to trigger a bomb.
Since you mention airports, what if someone used the WiFi that is available on some public places (like airports) to SSH from his home in other side of the world and 'trigger' the bomb? Should we ban that too?
It could also be that because SCO sponsored Webmin at some point that said person assumed (incorrectly) that the Book was ok to use.
I doubt that evil was involved here...
Ok i agree on Doom3 becaue it's supposed to be scary too, but i _really_ think that Metallica - Kill'em All is a Quake3 soundrack.
No Remorse, :)
Whiplash,
Metal Militia
These go well with a frag frenzy
Not the first attempt at the problem:. htm
http://franck.fleurey.free.fr/FaceDetection/index
Man, _THAT_ was dificult. I was a strategy enthusiast when a played this game (at around 1993-4) and nobody i knew could go far in this game.
I wonder if other Slashdoter have gone far with this thing..
Hmm, does this qualify as a 'crack', a 'cheat' or a 'trainer' for jigsaws?
There have been games with cutting edge graphics that simply sucked. But ID games are simply "fun" to play. Isn't that what matters? I can't say i am sure what exactly is that makes them successful, but there IS something.
I think that a big proof that ID games are more than graphics hacks is the fact that they are very popular even when newer , more graphics intensive games are created.
I mean, there are still people who play DOOM, Quake3 is still popular, and Enemy Territory is based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein (which, i believe is based on Q3 engine). I wouldn't call these games cutting edge but they are still VERY popular.
There were many many FPS games after DOOM. No. There is 'something' more to ID than just the graphics. They make fun games.
Judge: You again!?
Jon: Uhm, yeah.. sorry...
Judge: I guess the DVD people just won't leave you alone..
Jon: No, it's Apple's DRM now.
Judge: Damn you kid!!
As in: Nobody expects the holy inquisition ?
You eat / sleep / do stuf.
WHERE stuff = pretend to be busy and actually worry about nothing.
Naturally it was very important to know that i would never go into combat or anything, since we are a peaceful nation.
If would gladly spend a 1-2 weeks in the army for relaxation again.
It was rather popular with the Demoscene people though. Many demos refused to work unless you had a Gravis Ultrasound card
Too bad Gravis now only makes joypads OH, SoundBlaster AWE also had hardware mixing (at least AWE 64 GOLD that i had).
Even if the client is not aware of it, wouldn't it be possible to have another utility to do it before ssh attempts to connect?
However, if you believe that by not mentioning this it is open to any interpretation possible i would suggest that neither BerkleyDB nor MySQL are the most popular. I am sure ext2fs is installed on more machines than MySQL so the article is lying. It's not MySQL , but ext2fs that is the most popular database.
Hell, why not compare it to DNS? Or anything that would qualify as a "database".
Berkley is a relational database? Does it have anything to do with MySQL apart from the fact that the both have something to do with data?
But that's not chess is it?
Chess has specific rules that a proper chess program has to follow.
Assuming that it DOES follow the rules, there is no way to cheat so as to win.
How it cheats?
I don't think it is possible for a chess program to cheat.
Games cheat in many ways, one of which is knowing what the user is doing (e.g if you have a lot of money then your opponent gets a lot of money)
But how can a chess program cheat? It can't.