Warren Spector wasn't ultimately responsible for Deus Ex 2 (Harvey Smith(?) was). And even then, he could have learned from this experience - so bring on System Shock 3! Or failing that, give us a remake of parts 1 and 2 using the Doom 3 engine.
P2P means "point to point". When I sent a packet from my point to a packet at your point, I think of that as private communication that noone else has the right to monitor.
The only thing that is public is the list of files that are available for sharing. The sharing itself, however, is a private transaction between two parties.
They are waiting until Europe has approved software patents. It is no use to them to only destroy Linux in the USA, they need to destroy it wherever they can. If they were to do so now, the opponents of software patents in Europe would gain a powerful weapon. If they wait a while, until software patents have become a reality, they can strike and destroy Linux in two major markets.
Expect them to strike as soon as the future of software patents in Europe is known.
I guess your Amiga had no harddisk, and you were loading a lot of crap from floppy. If you had installed a harddisk you would have booted in about three seconds.
And for the record, after those second you will find yourself in a fully-fledged graphical environment running on a multitasking OS with just about everything that modern systems offer. Man, I miss those days...
why do files which were saved in word get formatted badly when using a differnt copy (same version, sp etc) of office.
Possibly because that other copy has a different printer with a different paper size installed. This will cause Word to reformat everything. Then again, it could also simply be a bug.
also, do you think the memory dump thing was a hashed up way of trying to prevent reverse engineering?
Probably not. They probably thought of it as a very quick, very cheap way to implementing loading and saving.
i thought office files used xml now?
It is optional in some version of Office and not available in others. I also seem to remember that these files are not feature-complete compared to normal Word files, but that may be wrong.
...NASA is going pretty great lengths to ensure they understand all effects and implications from staying in space a very long time.
Although the article doesn't specify, I think it is a safe bet that the 500kg probe will not be home to an astronaut. The effect of space travel on robotic missions is understood quite well...
Yeah, 2 days after it strikes slashdot will read:
Asteroid going to strike earth.
And again another two days later, and yet again after a week. Anyone who survived the impact will be killed by heart failure.
Think of the polls!
"After the impact, I will be..."
[ ] Dead.
[ ] Surviving.
[ ] Cowboy Neal will deflect the asteroid.
"Having only hours to live, I will..."
[ ] Find a beautiful woman and shag her until the earth shakes!
[ ] Post some more on slashdot.
[ ] Read a good book I never had time for before.
[ ] Make sure my backups are in order.
[ ] Position my webcame outside so people on other continents can see it come and watch me die.
[ ] Set up that webcam, find Cowboy Neal, shag him until the earth shakes, then post about it on slashdot, and still have the satisfiction that noone will survive to talk about it.
[ ] Same as above, but then find out the asteroid thing was a hoax.
Possibly, following the previous logic, what you're reading now is the most interesting thing ever. We are through the looking glass, here, people.
Allow me to come to your rescue, then. Although I originally held out hope that your post might bring me some unique insight or possibly contain a witty remark, I soon found it to be utterly uninteresting in every possible way. Thus it appears we are in no danger of civilisation collapsing under an endless recursion of meta-blogging.
What annoys me is that under other circumstances your post would be moderated away rapidly, but now that I added my humorous appraisal chances are that moderators will preserve your rambling thoughts as a poignant counterpart...;-)
How can it be? We pay more money per child than ever before in our history.
If that money is spent well it should not be a problem. However, my dad is a teacher and when I hear his complaints I usually get a strong feeling that for the amount of money that is being spent, much more education could take place. To give just one example: I do not think it is necessary to buy new computers for the entire school (in his case, that's 30.000+ students) every three years, especially if trade-related equipment is typically 30 years old and coming apart at the seams.
And I will not quickly forget the day when a news program did an interview outside a teacher-school here in the Netherlands. They asked the students (i.e. future teachers) about the quality of their own education. They followed that up with the simple question "what is one-third plus one-half?". It was sobering to realize that these future teachers were unable to answer this question without using a calculator.
The requirements for getting a passing grade in school subjects have also declined markedly, resulting in rampant grade inflation (I'm sure you've heard of this, if not the changing test requirements)
Not only had I heard of that, but I also know why it happens (at least, over here): schools are paid a bonus per succesful student. This creates immense pressure to pass students that should really be failing, which in turn had the effect of significantly reducing overal student quality over the last ten or so years.
Still, we don't suffer from a 68% illiteracy rate just yet. Is there any correlation between illiteracy and other factors (location, race, wealth, whatever)?
Please tell me you are kidding... Or if not, tell me how one-third of the population of the worlds single remaining super power cannot even read or write. Is it lack of education? Are the school so bad? Are students no longer interested? Why?
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But as a Swede living in California I have no doubt at all that there are far more Americans gainfully employed, and that it's much easier to get a job here.
Well, that makes sense. In Europe any private enterprise is effectively competing with the government in terms of pay. They must at least match unemployment pay before people will show up for the job. Secondary benefits (things like education subsidies for unemployed people) tends to make things even worse, and have in fact created a situation in which taking a low-paying job usually means significant loss of income compared to getting unemployment pay.
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I live in Europe, and the notion that there is some sort of safety net should I lose my job is comforting. However, I also agree that for some people it makes it just too easy to never work again. That's why I feel that unemployment pay should be coupled to some sort of community service. It doesn't have to be hard work, or even particularly long hours, but if you want your unemployment money by all means do something for the community in return. Cleaning the streets would be a good example. The people involved would still retain their working rythm, they would have a reason to find a real job again, and the working part of the population would see some benefits for their money. From my perspective it looks like a win for everyone.
I wasn't implying I use CD cracks, of course!;-) But people who know people that I know might have been known to know where to download cracks. They don't seem to be to bothered by the possibility of virusses or backdoors. Keeping your anti-virus software up to date and running anti-spyware tools regularly should help reduce the risk, and if all else fails make sure you have a backup of the important stuff.
Which reminds me, it's been a while since I backed up my pr0n...
I would think that developers would also attempt to actually cram 54GB of data onto those disks (using hi-res movies, etc.) just to slow down downloads. The convenience factor of downloads is kinda lost when it takes a week or two to download a game...
Ah wait, now I get it: this is to stop those people who have a reasonably modern PC and a highspeed internet connection, but no CD-burner, nor any friends with CD burners. Both of them.
Well, I'm sure it is worth the inconvenience to thousands of paying customers to stop these curiously equipped, friendless pirates from pirating...
What's the point of not allowing CD emulation? If you have a legal copy of the game I don't see why you shouldn't be allowed to play it from an emulated CD, and if you do not have a legal copy the crack will take care of it anyway. So what are they trying to achieve?
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I was under the impression it was still being developed? At least we still get the regular patches...
...is why Bill doesn't go to the owners of Linux to collect his share?
Warren Spector wasn't ultimately responsible for Deus Ex 2 (Harvey Smith(?) was). And even then, he could have learned from this experience - so bring on System Shock 3! Or failing that, give us a remake of parts 1 and 2 using the Doom 3 engine.
The only thing that is public is the list of files that are available for sharing. The sharing itself, however, is a private transaction between two parties.
They are waiting until Europe has approved software patents. It is no use to them to only destroy Linux in the USA, they need to destroy it wherever they can. If they were to do so now, the opponents of software patents in Europe would gain a powerful weapon. If they wait a while, until software patents have become a reality, they can strike and destroy Linux in two major markets.
Expect them to strike as soon as the future of software patents in Europe is known.
And for the record, after those second you will find yourself in a fully-fledged graphical environment running on a multitasking OS with just about everything that modern systems offer. Man, I miss those days...
Possibly because that other copy has a different printer with a different paper size installed. This will cause Word to reformat everything. Then again, it could also simply be a bug.
also, do you think the memory dump thing was a hashed up way of trying to prevent reverse engineering?
Probably not. They probably thought of it as a very quick, very cheap way to implementing loading and saving.
i thought office files used xml now?
It is optional in some version of Office and not available in others. I also seem to remember that these files are not feature-complete compared to normal Word files, but that may be wrong.
Although the article doesn't specify, I think it is a safe bet that the 500kg probe will not be home to an astronaut. The effect of space travel on robotic missions is understood quite well...
And again another two days later, and yet again after a week. Anyone who survived the impact will be killed by heart failure.
Think of the polls!
"After the impact, I will be..."
[ ] Dead.
[ ] Surviving.
[ ] Cowboy Neal will deflect the asteroid.
"Having only hours to live, I will..."
[ ] Find a beautiful woman and shag her until the earth shakes!
[ ] Post some more on slashdot.
[ ] Read a good book I never had time for before.
[ ] Make sure my backups are in order.
[ ] Position my webcame outside so people on other continents can see it come and watch me die.
[ ] Set up that webcam, find Cowboy Neal, shag him until the earth shakes, then post about it on slashdot, and still have the satisfiction that noone will survive to talk about it.
[ ] Same as above, but then find out the asteroid thing was a hoax.
Damn it, you were supposed to KEEP QUIET about that!
Allow me to come to your rescue, then. Although I originally held out hope that your post might bring me some unique insight or possibly contain a witty remark, I soon found it to be utterly uninteresting in every possible way. Thus it appears we are in no danger of civilisation collapsing under an endless recursion of meta-blogging.
What annoys me is that under other circumstances your post would be moderated away rapidly, but now that I added my humorous appraisal chances are that moderators will preserve your rambling thoughts as a poignant counterpart... ;-)
Yes, I read the fine article...
I don't know what scares me more: that someone would know this, or that it gets modded "+4 insightful"...
If that money is spent well it should not be a problem. However, my dad is a teacher and when I hear his complaints I usually get a strong feeling that for the amount of money that is being spent, much more education could take place. To give just one example: I do not think it is necessary to buy new computers for the entire school (in his case, that's 30.000+ students) every three years, especially if trade-related equipment is typically 30 years old and coming apart at the seams.
And I will not quickly forget the day when a news program did an interview outside a teacher-school here in the Netherlands. They asked the students (i.e. future teachers) about the quality of their own education. They followed that up with the simple question "what is one-third plus one-half?". It was sobering to realize that these future teachers were unable to answer this question without using a calculator.
The requirements for getting a passing grade in school subjects have also declined markedly, resulting in rampant grade inflation (I'm sure you've heard of this, if not the changing test requirements)
Not only had I heard of that, but I also know why it happens (at least, over here): schools are paid a bonus per succesful student. This creates immense pressure to pass students that should really be failing, which in turn had the effect of significantly reducing overal student quality over the last ten or so years.
Still, we don't suffer from a 68% illiteracy rate just yet. Is there any correlation between illiteracy and other factors (location, race, wealth, whatever)?
Please tell me you are kidding... Or if not, tell me how one-third of the population of the worlds single remaining super power cannot even read or write. Is it lack of education? Are the school so bad? Are students no longer interested? Why?
Well, that makes sense. In Europe any private enterprise is effectively competing with the government in terms of pay. They must at least match unemployment pay before people will show up for the job. Secondary benefits (things like education subsidies for unemployed people) tends to make things even worse, and have in fact created a situation in which taking a low-paying job usually means significant loss of income compared to getting unemployment pay.
I live in Europe, and the notion that there is some sort of safety net should I lose my job is comforting. However, I also agree that for some people it makes it just too easy to never work again. That's why I feel that unemployment pay should be coupled to some sort of community service. It doesn't have to be hard work, or even particularly long hours, but if you want your unemployment money by all means do something for the community in return. Cleaning the streets would be a good example. The people involved would still retain their working rythm, they would have a reason to find a real job again, and the working part of the population would see some benefits for their money. From my perspective it looks like a win for everyone.
Which reminds me, it's been a while since I backed up my pr0n...
I would think that developers would also attempt to actually cram 54GB of data onto those disks (using hi-res movies, etc.) just to slow down downloads. The convenience factor of downloads is kinda lost when it takes a week or two to download a game...
They hired Slashdot to take it down, and we are working on it even as I type this.
Heisenberg is certainly dead.
...it is hard to make a quick getaway in your wheelchair.
Well, I'm sure it is worth the inconvenience to thousands of paying customers to stop these curiously equipped, friendless pirates from pirating...
What's the point of not allowing CD emulation? If you have a legal copy of the game I don't see why you shouldn't be allowed to play it from an emulated CD, and if you do not have a legal copy the crack will take care of it anyway. So what are they trying to achieve?
Actually the whole Iraq-thing is just a big inter-office dispute...