unfortunately, A virus like that dies out. It kills its host....Maybe if they made a virus operating system that only spread the virus, and showed a screen explaining how Pwned the person got.
First, congress cut defense spending and tied the hands of the CIA, and then they asked: "How could the CIA allow 9/11 to happen?"
Then, they put too much pressure on NASA to avoid to many delays because of safety, and cut their budget, and then say "Why did you allow our astronauts to die? "
Why do you need to bring a Laptop with you out to the outdoors? Unless your're a doctor, or something where the only way you'll get out of the office is if you're connected, don't bring everything with you. Otherwise, bringing along a laptop/DVD player/PDA defeats the purpose of going outdoors. Cell phones are ok, 'cause they can save your life, but still.
Unfortunately, sir, you are a leech if you do that.
I am not trying to flame, but that's what the RIAA is trying to do: Make people afraid to share. If that happens, then the networks will die themselves. The RIAA doesn't give a flying fuck about downloaders, the same way cops don't really care about petty drug users. They both know that you must cut off supply.
Of course, no pun intended, this whole situation is like the show trials in Soviet Russia, under Stalin. Stalin would force people to sign ludicrious confessions that involved grandiose plans to topple the government, and then had then executed for their "crime".
I scoured my game magazines to find info on the Phantom, and I came across my GameInformer that covers this years' E3. They have an interview with the CEO or President or something, I forget.
What i learned though, is that they are thinking about just selling them on Ebay, or other distrobution channel, since they don't have major support. The big thing though, is that they want to make the system available with different amounts of RAM or HD space. This is a huge no-no for consoles. Consoles should *not* become PC's, with regards to upgrading.
Step 1: Go to England Step 2: Kidnap Linux Torvalds Step 3: ??????????? Step 4: Sue Linus for creating an infringing program (Linux is an OS, and Windows is too!)
Actuallym I am reading a bok about wireless security. Bluetooth has a special frequency hopping scheme based on the ID of the device(you specify it). They would have to know that, or be able to monitor all 79 channels at once and reconstruct what you did, and oh yeah, there is provisions in Bluetooth for additional encryption.
Remember when Slashdot fractured the BitTorrent Community after Slashdot reported that BitTorrent had DVD-quality copies of Matrix:Reloaded?
Slashdot easily DDOS'd all the popular BitTorrent servers on that fateful day, because people posted links to good BitTorrent copies of the Matrix:Reloaded.
Yeah, I remember posting that Apple would be sued when they announced they would have exclusive distribution of the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" soundtrack through iTMS
Here's the post: http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7 0228&ci d=6387666
And WTF? I got modded redundant? I hope Im not getting modbombed;)
I have no words to describe how disgusted with the RIAA for this. A family living in the projects forced to shell out $2000, because they deprived a corporation of potential revenue!
I know I am preaching to the choir, but how do these people sleep at night? How could any artists agree that their newest Hummer is worth this?
Actually, about the Phantom, I read somewhere that the guy wants to sell the Phantom like a computer. You can get extra RAM or a bigger HDD. Unfortunately, it will NOT be available with a CD/DVD drive. That would make it sell too many units. The guy was even quoted as saying that he might try to sell them through E-Bay! If the Phantom had DVR, a DVD player, a nice HDD, and came first to market, it would have a very good chance of success. Even more so if it let you run XP-compatible programs and games. Unfortunately, that will probably not happen.
I just read an article recently about Indian call-centers. There is massive turnover, because the employees *know* they are underpaid. They also don't like the job because they have to maintain Central Standard Time, instaed of the local time.
As for foreign programmers, their code is often sub-par, needing extensive debugging, from what I hear.
"How can they legally tax something that's wholly owned and operated internally by an organization?"
Welcome to America, kid. Now the corporations have a whole other set of taxes to dodge.
Realy though, it sounds like a cash grab. Government sees money, so it always wants to get a slice of the pie. You will see this more and more in an effort to pay for the over-inflated security budgets of states due to terrorism.
"You can literally hand it to any random person on the street and they will know basically what they are doing in 30 seconds. Can you say the same for Quake? Starcraft? Warcraft?"
I figured out how to play Quake in 5 seconds at a very young age. Simply move the mouse onto anything that moves and click, or dare I say, double click?
Games are only this complicated because we want them complicated. Look at any video game magazine nowadays. If someone made Pong, or Frogger nowadays, it would be considered a crappy game, not a classic. We are just experiencing the progression of the genre. New console allow us to weave exquisite tales like KOTOR, and we like it. It is the same thing as the movie industry:
Silent Movies-->Sound-->Color
Pong-->2D Platfromers-->RPG's-->3D-->Cutscenes
A game CAN be a good nostalgia trip (such as pong,Frogger,Space Invaders), just like Black and White films are still good when the director chooses it to enhance the mood. To give a direct example of this in the Video Game world, compare Metroid Prime (GCN), and Metroid Fusion (GBA). They were released at the same time, by the same company, and the 2-D version got better reviews. Metroid Fusion was the SNES Super Metroid, with a (surprise!) really good story, a few new moves, but most of the same. It is the logical progression that causes better and better games to be made.
That was a bit of a confused rant, but I might have a few good points if you ignore the glaring disorganization of ideas.
Slashdot Mirror
unfortunately, A virus like that dies out. It kills its host....Maybe if they made a virus operating system that only spread the virus, and showed a screen explaining how Pwned the person got.
You don't want the King of England to just walk in here and start pushing you around, do you? Huh?
Disclaimer: I am an avid shooter and a member of the NRA.
Or something cool for them to play with. Something like a geek status-symbol.
First, congress cut defense spending and tied the hands of the CIA, and then they asked: "How could the CIA allow 9/11 to happen?"
Then, they put too much pressure on NASA to avoid to many delays because of safety, and cut their budget, and then say "Why did you allow our astronauts to die? "
They always pass the buck.
So will I be able to see an aurora from my latitude when it hits (40 deg. N)? And when will it hit earth, and over what time period?
Why do you need to bring a Laptop with you out to the outdoors? Unless your're a doctor, or something where the only way you'll get out of the office is if you're connected, don't bring everything with you. Otherwise, bringing along a laptop/DVD player/PDA defeats the purpose of going outdoors. Cell phones are ok, 'cause they can save your life, but still.
They simultaneously made the software available with their 19.99 DVD that teaches you how to use Maya. That is really smart.
Yeah, I think the DVD-R's for camcorder fit in the GC. I don't have a GC, or one of the camcorders, but it's an idea.
Unfortunately, sir, you are a leech if you do that.
I am not trying to flame, but that's what the RIAA is trying to do: Make people afraid to share. If that happens, then the networks will die themselves. The RIAA doesn't give a flying fuck about downloaders, the same way cops don't really care about petty drug users. They both know that you must cut off supply.
Of course, no pun intended, this whole situation is like the show trials in Soviet Russia, under Stalin. Stalin would force people to sign ludicrious confessions that involved grandiose plans to topple the government, and then had then executed for their "crime".
I scoured my game magazines to find info on the Phantom, and I came across my GameInformer that covers this years' E3. They have an interview with the CEO or President or something, I forget.
What i learned though, is that they are thinking about just selling them on Ebay, or other distrobution channel, since they don't have major support. The big thing though, is that they want to make the system available with different amounts of RAM or HD space. This is a huge no-no for consoles. Consoles should *not* become PC's, with regards to upgrading.
Step 1: Go to England
Step 2: Kidnap Linux Torvalds
Step 3: ???????????
Step 4: Sue Linus for creating an infringing program (Linux is an OS, and Windows is too!)
He said:
Tune in next week for part 2
I bet next week is going to be an even more scathing commentary.
Actuallym I am reading a bok about wireless security. Bluetooth has a special frequency hopping scheme based on the ID of the device(you specify it). They would have to know that, or be able to monitor all 79 channels at once and reconstruct what you did, and oh yeah, there is provisions in Bluetooth for additional encryption.
Don't encourage the goatse.cx trolls, please
Remember when Slashdot fractured the BitTorrent Community after Slashdot reported that BitTorrent had DVD-quality copies of Matrix:Reloaded?
Slashdot easily DDOS'd all the popular BitTorrent servers on that fateful day, because people posted links to good BitTorrent copies of the Matrix:Reloaded.
Yeah, I remember posting that Apple would be sued when they announced they would have exclusive distribution of the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" soundtrack through iTMS
7 0228&ci d=6387666
;)
Here's the post:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=
And WTF? I got modded redundant? I hope Im not getting modbombed
I have no words to describe how disgusted with the RIAA for this. A family living in the projects forced to shell out $2000, because they deprived a corporation of potential revenue!
I know I am preaching to the choir, but how do these people sleep at night? How could any artists agree that their newest Hummer is worth this?
Did they improve the response rate of the cup holder?
Actually, about the Phantom, I read somewhere that the guy wants to sell the Phantom like a computer. You can get extra RAM or a bigger HDD. Unfortunately, it will NOT be available with a CD/DVD drive. That would make it sell too many units. The guy was even quoted as saying that he might try to sell them through E-Bay! If the Phantom had DVR, a DVD player, a nice HDD, and came first to market, it would have a very good chance of success. Even more so if it let you run XP-compatible programs and games. Unfortunately, that will probably not happen.
This guy advocates selling EVERYTHING to corporations to finance all of this.
How would you feel if everything you loved and respected about your country were sold to the highest bidder?
I just read an article recently about Indian call-centers. There is massive turnover, because the employees *know* they are underpaid. They also don't like the job because they have to maintain Central Standard Time, instaed of the local time.
As for foreign programmers, their code is often sub-par, needing extensive debugging, from what I hear.
"How can they legally tax something that's wholly owned and operated internally by an organization?"
Welcome to America, kid. Now the corporations have a whole other set of taxes to dodge.
Realy though, it sounds like a cash grab. Government sees money, so it always wants to get a slice of the pie. You will see this more and more in an effort to pay for the over-inflated security budgets of states due to terrorism.
"You can literally hand it to any random person on the street and they will know basically what they are doing in 30 seconds. Can you say the same for Quake? Starcraft? Warcraft?"
I figured out how to play Quake in 5 seconds at a very young age. Simply move the mouse onto anything that moves and click, or dare I say, double click?
Games are only this complicated because we want them complicated. Look at any video game magazine nowadays. If someone made Pong, or Frogger nowadays, it would be considered a crappy game, not a classic. We are just experiencing the progression of the genre. New console allow us to weave exquisite tales like KOTOR, and we like it. It is the same thing as the movie industry:
Silent Movies-->Sound-->Color
Pong-->2D Platfromers-->RPG's-->3D-->Cutscenes
A game CAN be a good nostalgia trip (such as pong,Frogger,Space Invaders), just like Black and White films are still good when the director chooses it to enhance the mood. To give a direct example of this in the Video Game world, compare Metroid Prime (GCN), and Metroid Fusion (GBA). They were released at the same time, by the same company, and the 2-D version got better reviews. Metroid Fusion was the SNES Super Metroid, with a (surprise!) really good story, a few new moves, but most of the same. It is the logical progression that causes better and better games to be made.
That was a bit of a confused rant, but I might have a few good points if you ignore the glaring disorganization of ideas.