Video game companies, right back to Atari, have used comics to try to move copies of video games.
They were pretty good, too. The one for Yars Revenge in particular is loaded with images that I'll one day tear out to use in a new media project or flier.
I think it would be totally awesome if some kind of imaginary god did try and punish it's creation through the use of a cruel, life destroying virus - only to have his divine will deflected by something so simple as a tiny thicknesses of latex, education, testing and screening, as well as the hard work of doctors and scientists around the globe.
Would me wonder who should be quaking in fear from who.
Yes you can use a hammer as a hacksaw, but unless you're desperate it'd be insane.
To apply your metaphor to the actual situation being discussed here, not everyone can afford a hacksaw ( and the Federal Hacksaw Commission regulates who can and can't own one ) - but we already have the hammers.
I attended this talk at the National Student Media Conference last weekend, ( for any other attendees, I was the NSMC volunteer managing the digital projectors... ) and it was interesting to see the ideas mooted here percolating out into the other panels that took place over the rest of the conference. I think the independant media needs to continue to forge closer ties with the tech community to allow things like this to come to fruition.
One thing that didn't get brought up was whether this will compete with or complement Indymedia's upcoming IVDN video distribution framework. I was hoping to chase Mark up on this after the conference, but lost his email address - thanks submitter!
YLFI
P.S., Mark, if you're reading this, I crashed in your suite on Sunday night - thanks for the keys.:-P
Eh, in large enough organisations, things like this just slip through the cracks - I opened a cabinet at a large public university a few months ago to find six shrink-wrapped 5-license academic packs of Office:X. I'm sure they weren't free either, but they certainly weren't deployed.
I cobbled together a little OSX screensaver a while ago that feeds off this, if anyone wants to try it out. I think there's a similar module in XScreensaver these days.
The only problem with this ( it's not much of one ) is that at small key sizes, it means that if you choose to bruteforce the key, you have a much better chance of telling which decryption result is the genuine original plaintext, much like randomly trying wep keys until the IP checksum is correct. For this reason, isn't it better from a cryptographic standpoint ( if not a user friendly standpoint ) to disregard the notion of being able to tell the consumer if their decryption was successful or not altogether?
Or have I misunderstood? Crypto is not something I know much about.
I thought it was quite reasonable. Do you expect such treatment to extend to other products?
You wouldn't get far showing up at a sporting goods store with "Err, my stupid children broke my tennis racquet. Can I have a new one?" Learn to lock your things up, or teach your kids some respect for property. If they destroy the games, perhaps they'll be a little bit more careful with the next set of discs.
Well, self-same DJ's are not shy of threatening to "bury" bands who are rude to them - see this very interesting transcript which touches on threats made by a bunch of syndicated radio commentator wankers and Australian punkers Frenzal Rhomb.
Also touches on some of the other issues being discussed here with 'taste consolidation'. A good read, in my opinion.
Space exploration is going to stagnate unless they start using open technologies.
Honest question - why? The great thing about "open" is that everyone can use and modify it. How many folks have the scratch to run their own space exploration enterprise?
Now, a high level tech sharing accord between the major players, I could understand, but why on ( or off ) Earth does it "need" to be opened?
Can't speak for other countries, but the Australia/US FTA can be dissolved unilaterally on six months notice and agreement to pay reparations as decided by an independant board.
YLFI
p.s. - plug, plug, UNSW students can read all about it in the upcoming issue of "tharunka".
But... as this is a game I can be somebody else. I can even try being several different people. All without ruining my real life, of which there's only one.
The distinction you've made here is totally arbitary. The only limitations on you being several 'different' people in your real life are purely self imposed. You can acquire the rudiments of many of the skills people enjoy exercising in these games in a surprisingly short ratio to the time they spend playing them. Just find someone that knows how to do it, and ask them!
Believe me, I poured plenty of time into MUDs and so on myself. A wonderful place to pretend that you're a wizard or a dragon slaying barbarian, but carrots?
I would be more interested if there was some kind of company that owned a huge tract of desert and people could pay a subscription fee to come and live the environment for real.
We've experimented with "l33t scrabble" once or twice - you can place a tile upside down to play it as its numerical value. It's not very balanced this way, but interesting all the same.
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Yes, and that's why they're tax deductible. Did you even read the grandparent post?
They were pretty good, too. The one for Yars Revenge in particular is loaded with images that I'll one day tear out to use in a new media project or flier.
YLFINo, I coded up a stack of PPC assembly on my mac last weekend, and damn, it felt good to have all those extra registers and nice, simple instructions.
YLFIhalo 2 goes gold where's the pc port, dudes?! x- box sux, l o l!
I think it would be totally awesome if some kind of imaginary god did try and punish it's creation through the use of a cruel, life destroying virus - only to have his divine will deflected by something so simple as a tiny thicknesses of latex, education, testing and screening, as well as the hard work of doctors and scientists around the globe.
Would me wonder who should be quaking in fear from who.
To apply your metaphor to the actual situation being discussed here, not everyone can afford a hacksaw ( and the Federal Hacksaw Commission regulates who can and can't own one ) - but we already have the hammers.
I attended this talk at the National Student Media Conference last weekend, ( for any other attendees, I was the NSMC volunteer managing the digital projectors... ) and it was interesting to see the ideas mooted here percolating out into the other panels that took place over the rest of the conference. I think the independant media needs to continue to forge closer ties with the tech community to allow things like this to come to fruition.
One thing that didn't get brought up was whether this will compete with or complement Indymedia's upcoming IVDN video distribution framework. I was hoping to chase Mark up on this after the conference, but lost his email address - thanks submitter!
YLFIP.S., Mark, if you're reading this, I crashed in your suite on Sunday night - thanks for the keys. :-P
Sure, but the license numbers are inside the still sealed shrink wrap, and Office X is fussy about watching the network for serial duplication.
Eh, in large enough organisations, things like this just slip through the cracks - I opened a cabinet at a large public university a few months ago to find six shrink-wrapped 5-license academic packs of Office:X. I'm sure they weren't free either, but they certainly weren't deployed.
Katamari Damacy.
What do I win?
Second place is first loser. You likewise fail it!
I cobbled together a little OSX screensaver a while ago that feeds off this, if anyone wants to try it out. I think there's a similar module in XScreensaver these days.
source, binaries ( let's hope this works )
The only problem with this ( it's not much of one ) is that at small key sizes, it means that if you choose to bruteforce the key, you have a much better chance of telling which decryption result is the genuine original plaintext, much like randomly trying wep keys until the IP checksum is correct. For this reason, isn't it better from a cryptographic standpoint ( if not a user friendly standpoint ) to disregard the notion of being able to tell the consumer if their decryption was successful or not altogether?
Or have I misunderstood? Crypto is not something I know much about.
YLFII agree, it's amazing, but if I had eight 15" LCD's to spare, bare panels or no, I'd be using them for computing with.
YLFII thought it was quite reasonable. Do you expect such treatment to extend to other products?
You wouldn't get far showing up at a sporting goods store with "Err, my stupid children broke my tennis racquet. Can I have a new one?" Learn to lock your things up, or teach your kids some respect for property. If they destroy the games, perhaps they'll be a little bit more careful with the next set of discs.
YLFIWell, self-same DJ's are not shy of threatening to "bury" bands who are rude to them - see this very interesting transcript which touches on threats made by a bunch of syndicated radio commentator wankers and Australian punkers Frenzal Rhomb.
Also touches on some of the other issues being discussed here with 'taste consolidation'. A good read, in my opinion.
Nah, if we're going to send them a movie, let's make it Citizen Kane.
I keed, I keed...Honest question - why? The great thing about "open" is that everyone can use and modify it. How many folks have the scratch to run their own space exploration enterprise?
Now, a high level tech sharing accord between the major players, I could understand, but why on ( or off ) Earth does it "need" to be opened?
He said "game", not "lame fuck-around, waste of time".
I know, the implementation is pretty lame, but apparently their source for queries uses a shockwave flash to show the information.
Is metaspy still around? Can they be screenscraped?
Can't speak for other countries, but the Australia/US FTA can be dissolved unilaterally on six months notice and agreement to pay reparations as decided by an independant board.
YLFIp.s. - plug, plug, UNSW students can read all about it in the upcoming issue of "tharunka".
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The distinction you've made here is totally arbitary. The only limitations on you being several 'different' people in your real life are purely self imposed. You can acquire the rudiments of many of the skills people enjoy exercising in these games in a surprisingly short ratio to the time they spend playing them. Just find someone that knows how to do it, and ask them!
Believe me, I poured plenty of time into MUDs and so on myself. A wonderful place to pretend that you're a wizard or a dragon slaying barbarian, but carrots?
I would be more interested if there was some kind of company that owned a huge tract of desert and people could pay a subscription fee to come and live the environment for real.
YLFIOog craft pyramid with open source CD.
We've experimented with "l33t scrabble" once or twice - you can place a tile upside down to play it as its numerical value. It's not very balanced this way, but interesting all the same.
YLFI