No you won't have a problem, because you read slashdot. Within a month of Longhorn's release, there will be tons of hacks and cracks to get past these petty attempts at extortion, and slashdot will link to all of them.
Mods - please mod parent down. No need to reply, I'll understand. Thanks.;)
Seriously though, that wasn't the intention, I was being sincere. Its been years since I've participated in moderation, but last time I did, you could post after doing a mod and it wouldn't retroactively delete the mod. I guess you're saying that has changed. In any case, mods could log out and then post anonymously.
I seriously hope they don't stay true to the cartoon. Honestly, the thing I remember most about the cartoon was how whiney the robots were. I mean c'mon - they're robots - wtf is with the whiney voices and temper tantrums!!!
It's easy to care about something, but its harder to understand it at a level where you can affect positive change. It basically amounts to uneducated caring.
My opinion, you're trolling... but I can't resist...
Doom 3 had some decent static lights in it. But they screwed up soooo much with the light that mattered - the flashlight. I don't mean not being able to hold the flashlight and gun at the same time. I mean that the flashlight was technically poorly implemented.
For starters, the realism was killed for me immediately by the fact that I could look through the SIDE of the light beam, and the wall I was looking at was illuminated even though the flashlight wasn't even pointed at it.
However, the wall that the light was pointed at was totally black. And don't try to use the flashlight in a large room or long corridor, or on anything up close. You need to be within a certain distance range for it to work acceptably, and even then you also have to be at the right angle.
I don't know what being a thin client or fat client makes any difference. Our company has both, and we certainly don't show preference to one over the other. After all, their weight has little to do with them buying our software products.
You could always use it as a way to learn to program , assuming you don't already know. Or if you already can program, those kind of things are always nice to use as a test bed for implementing new technologies that you feel like playing with.
Hey now, Longhorn is coming along nicely. They'll meet their deadlines. They've just about removed enough features now. Just a little more tweaking to hide the remaining features and they'll be all set.
Just so you all know - here's the "initial coverage" he has which was just a link to an AP blurb on Yahoo:
"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Today's launch of the space shuttle "Discovery" has been scrubbed. The launch was called off because of a faulty fuel-tank sensor. Discovery was supposed to take off for the first shuttle flight since the "Columbia" disaster of two and a-half years ago."
Larger images aren't cached on the archive servers, so they'd go to the real server. Most likely the original images weren't there so they started getting a flood of 404s and started investigating the problem.
"2. Similarly, many Slashdot readers are brilliant people who have educated themselves to a large extent. Let's further accept that most people are not capable of doing this, or at any rate need help reaching that sort of educational self-sufficiency."
Yes, the readers are absolutely brilliant. Unfortunately the posters are a different breed so you may not get the types of repsonses you were hoping for.
Yes I realize what group I've just put myself in by making this comment.
I'm not even sure those are from cut scenes. If I have to sit there and watch a static book flip through page after page I'm popping a different game in.
We're talking about the late 80s. Microsoft did not have 60,000 employees at the time and I'm sure Gates was much more involved with partners back then.
Because when you deal with partners like Intel and Compaq, the higher-ups know what's going on, if they aren't the ones doing the dealing themselves. It's not like some intern would be calling up other CEOs on his lunch break.
From TFA (which did not have a lot of details), I got the impression that the laws would be geared toward companies that control your personal information and intimidate them into being responsible with it.
For once it looks like "hackers" aren't going to be the scapegoat on this one. Although it may be too soon to tell.
There's a trick in U.S. laws regarding this. If they can't get you one way, they'll get you another. So if you aren't nailed for distribution of copyrighted material, you'll get nailed for possession of stolen goods. Hell, go ahead and really piss of the DA and they'll slap a terrorist label on your forehead.
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No you won't have a problem, because you read slashdot. Within a month of Longhorn's release, there will be tons of hacks and cracks to get past these petty attempts at extortion, and slashdot will link to all of them.
Mods - please mod parent down. No need to reply, I'll understand. Thanks. ;)
Seriously though, that wasn't the intention, I was being sincere. Its been years since I've participated in moderation, but last time I did, you could post after doing a mod and it wouldn't retroactively delete the mod. I guess you're saying that has changed. In any case, mods could log out and then post anonymously.
I seriously hope they don't stay true to the cartoon. Honestly, the thing I remember most about the cartoon was how whiney the robots were. I mean c'mon - they're robots - wtf is with the whiney voices and temper tantrums!!!
It's easy to care about something, but its harder to understand it at a level where you can affect positive change. It basically amounts to uneducated caring.
They don't enforce "good" parenting, they enforce "required" parenting. There's a big difference.
My opinion, you're trolling... but I can't resist...
Doom 3 had some decent static lights in it. But they screwed up soooo much with the light that mattered - the flashlight. I don't mean not being able to hold the flashlight and gun at the same time. I mean that the flashlight was technically poorly implemented. For starters, the realism was killed for me immediately by the fact that I could look through the SIDE of the light beam, and the wall I was looking at was illuminated even though the flashlight wasn't even pointed at it.
However, the wall that the light was pointed at was totally black. And don't try to use the flashlight in a large room or long corridor, or on anything up close. You need to be within a certain distance range for it to work acceptably, and even then you also have to be at the right angle.
I don't know what being a thin client or fat client makes any difference. Our company has both, and we certainly don't show preference to one over the other. After all, their weight has little to do with them buying our software products.
I think its just as disturbing that people stay on his site for 4 minutes.
You could always use it as a way to learn to program , assuming you don't already know. Or if you already can program, those kind of things are always nice to use as a test bed for implementing new technologies that you feel like playing with.
Hey now, Longhorn is coming along nicely. They'll meet their deadlines. They've just about removed enough features now. Just a little more tweaking to hide the remaining features and they'll be all set.
Why link to Drudge??? WHY!?!?
Just so you all know - here's the "initial coverage" he has which was just a link to an AP blurb on Yahoo:
"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Today's launch of the space shuttle "Discovery" has been scrubbed. The launch was called off because of a faulty fuel-tank sensor. Discovery was supposed to take off for the first shuttle flight since the "Columbia" disaster of two and a-half years ago."
Larger images aren't cached on the archive servers, so they'd go to the real server. Most likely the original images weren't there so they started getting a flood of 404s and started investigating the problem.
"2. Similarly, many Slashdot readers are brilliant people who have educated themselves to a large extent. Let's further accept that most people are not capable of doing this, or at any rate need help reaching that sort of educational self-sufficiency."
Yes, the readers are absolutely brilliant. Unfortunately the posters are a different breed so you may not get the types of repsonses you were hoping for.
Yes I realize what group I've just put myself in by making this comment.
Define "force the compiler". Is it a command line switch, or something else?
Is that anything like a prostitute?
No, this is not the most worthwhile use of your money. That will be $11,995.00 for my consultation fees.
So once somebody writes a 3200 page book on how to write maintainable C# code, can we kill that language?
That's 26 more than any "musician" featured on TRL can play.
I'm not even sure those are from cut scenes. If I have to sit there and watch a static book flip through page after page I'm popping a different game in.
We're talking about the late 80s. Microsoft did not have 60,000 employees at the time and I'm sure Gates was much more involved with partners back then.
Because when you deal with partners like Intel and Compaq, the higher-ups know what's going on, if they aren't the ones doing the dealing themselves. It's not like some intern would be calling up other CEOs on his lunch break.
From TFA (which did not have a lot of details), I got the impression that the laws would be geared toward companies that control your personal information and intimidate them into being responsible with it.
For once it looks like "hackers" aren't going to be the scapegoat on this one. Although it may be too soon to tell.
There's a trick in U.S. laws regarding this. If they can't get you one way, they'll get you another. So if you aren't nailed for distribution of copyrighted material, you'll get nailed for possession of stolen goods. Hell, go ahead and really piss of the DA and they'll slap a terrorist label on your forehead.
Phew, I was worried after those first couple symptoms, but luckily my hands don't shake so I'm just fine.
Maybe its a computer "lab" in a school?