About blackhawk down: I thought the movie aspect was excellent, but there wasn't really anything to say about the content. It is the director's best effort to portray what happened. When a movie is that accurate, what can you really say about it? Sure, you can talk about the ethics of the situation, and maybe question the portrayal. As someone who would know (though I have never been in combat) this movie was ridiculously accurate. I think part of why it wasn't more popular was for that reason.
A video game with that level of accuracy would have similar issues. You couldn't really say it was a great game. You could say it was accurate, and that the content was important, but not "great! 5 of 5!". And in reality, everyone knows better than to make the mistakes required to play one of these games "properly". It would be like playing global thermonuclear war: the only way to win is not to play.
Game players can be a vicious sort, but how many of us would rather die in the game and quit rather than continue to play and kill women and children, or bomb villages, or use agent orange or napalm on cilivians. I would like to think most of us. Yeah, I've run down plenty of civilians in Carmageddon and GTA3, but those do not represent real people who really suffered and died.
And then your health insurance contract and your employment contract explicitly state that if you have a cell phone you must have GPS turned on. And you'd better give them the keys to it. Then when you call work on the weekend and they notice you have the GPS turned off you get fired.
If this article can be believed and the release date has been pushed back to december (from 14 October), Deus Ex 2 and HL2 will have one more thing in common with the great video games of this age:
The release schedule pioneered by id software back in the day. "It'll be done when it's done"
But that's OK, the new system I buy to play it will be that much cheaper...
As someone who has spent some time pushing tables with weapons in my hand, I can tell you that you do not put your weapon down. No, I don't play paintball. Or laser tag.
Use one hand maybe, but shoving things out of the way with your body mass (or kicking it) is better anyways. In real life would you really put your weapon down? no. You would rather have a little extra trouble and still be able to shoot someone in the face if you need to.
Admittedly, their posture models may need work, but putting your weapon down in a hostile environment isn't done. Especially if you are trying to hold off an alien invasion by yourself:)
A medium which is usually about satire (or complaining in slashdot's case) ends up putting forward an excellent interview. Witness knucklehead Jon Stewart asking reasonable questions to senators and the like.
It certainly hints at a new media/political reality, and good things for slashdot's future.
A protesst for this would be a perfect action for one of those email/web random event things.
People on the list who want razors (and a good chunk of non-buyers for good measure) all go at one time to a store and madly swap razors after they pick them up off the shelves. Even if security doesn't go completely bonkers (someone _must_ be stealing something), it would certainly screw up their tracking systems.
This would be great for any number of RFID/super spying consumer tracking methods. Keep in mind this is also how car thieves steal cars: set of the alarm a few times first until no one cares.
Some of us look at this as a good reason to buy some spiffy new hardware. I was looking for a good excuse, now I have it. Thanks Carmack!
On a related note, slashdotters are mad that they have to buy a ferrari to go 180mph in a car. Come on folks, these games are asking computers for some hefty calculations. Do you really think you can ask your computer to do five times as many polygons without better hardware?
Do you think carmack/id are releasing crappy code? Those guys are fanatics.
1. Using openoffice would have the advantage of being legal, since he only has once license for Corel 7
2. Using openoffice would be a net install of a modern piece of software, which I think is a good idea in terms of compatibility. Otherwise I would just let him keep using netscape 4
3. Converting files one at a time would only annoy everyone as an added step to using old documents. It would also be confusing to them about with documents have been converted.
4. If Corel has to be installed anyways to do gradual conversions, no one will ever use openoffice.
5. He's an architect (which of course you didn't know) Buildings last a long time, and when someone comes back 10 years later the related documents are very relavent. He's lucky if he doesn't have to pull out the 5 1/4" floppies.
Now convince your 60 year old father who runs a home office that he should do this to 3,000+ of his archived documents from projects dating back to the wordperfect 5.1 days, just so you can uninstall a piece of software he already owns, and you'll have an argument.
The only reason he'll even use openoffice at all is if he gets a file in email that corel won't open.
The technical ability do do something does not mean that your wetware will be compatible, especially if your method is tedious and painful. You learn that stuff after college.
Now try looking at a similar sample of mail-order catalogs. Will they ship out of the US? (I have no idea) Also, did they simply use different excuses pre 9/11?
It may be that everyone is looking for an excuse not to ship because there is more profit margin/ less potential legal hassle in the local market.
iTunes is no surprise. Apple of late has only been negotiating about US distribution. Did you think that distribution laws and contracts could be set up in all countries simultaneously with no extra effort? IANAL, but even I know better. The five major labels cover many countries, but local laws differ. One country at a time.
Hours of gameplay will be added by wandering around failing to figure out that the nightshade is growing in the neighbor's flower garden.
Not that I could ever identify with that problem...
When I was in the Army, my favorite way to carry extra duct tape (100 mile per hour tape, which is green and sticks better) was to wrap it around a credit card or something. (the only use I ever found for my "Army Values Card") (for those of you who know)
You start with a roll and take as much as you think you need with you. It's not hard folks.
A dark room.
blinking lights in the corner (like, servers maybe?)
Sysadmin looks up as the door to a lighted hallway opens, and takes on a look of horror as a long bladed glove casts a shadow across the room
Sysadmin: "Noooooo!"
A figure runs around the doorframe. A little mouse with spiky hair and a bad attitude. Sysadmin steps on it.
As soon as you start getting charged for bandwidth, email spam is against the TCPA.
Didn't they just determine that DSL was a telecommunication device?
Sue everybody!
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when you cop a sig, try attributing it as well.
Benjamin Franklin
who says you can't learn anything reading the Daily Rotten
About blackhawk down: I thought the movie aspect was excellent, but there wasn't really anything to say about the content. It is the director's best effort to portray what happened. When a movie is that accurate, what can you really say about it? Sure, you can talk about the ethics of the situation, and maybe question the portrayal. As someone who would know (though I have never been in combat) this movie was ridiculously accurate. I think part of why it wasn't more popular was for that reason.
A video game with that level of accuracy would have similar issues. You couldn't really say it was a great game. You could say it was accurate, and that the content was important, but not "great! 5 of 5!". And in reality, everyone knows better than to make the mistakes required to play one of these games "properly". It would be like playing global thermonuclear war: the only way to win is not to play.
Game players can be a vicious sort, but how many of us would rather die in the game and quit rather than continue to play and kill women and children, or bomb villages, or use agent orange or napalm on cilivians. I would like to think most of us. Yeah, I've run down plenty of civilians in Carmageddon and GTA3, but those do not represent real people who really suffered and died.
Alan: I'm back! Can I have my kernel now?
New Maintainer: Noooooooo! Mine!
Alan: but...
Possibly the willingness to give it back should be a quilification, unless Alan wants it back as his own personal branch.
Now where will we get intelligent to put on Mars?
Good God man, haven't you heard there's a monkey shortage on!?!
When my plans for world domination come to fruition in 2032 I'll set my sights on Mars as my next challenge!
What two things go better together than Star Wars and sex?
Linux and sex. Duh.
not if you have all of your ports properly blocked off
1. gaming. l33t gamers would probably try for shits and giggles (increasing linux coolness and maarket share) if it ran games.
2. printing 'nuff said
And then your health insurance contract and your employment contract explicitly state that if you have a cell phone you must have GPS turned on. And you'd better give them the keys to it. Then when you call work on the weekend and they notice you have the GPS turned off you get fired.
If this article can be believed and the release date has been pushed back to december (from 14 October), Deus Ex 2 and HL2 will have one more thing in common with the great video games of this age:
The release schedule pioneered by id software back in the day. "It'll be done when it's done"
But that's OK, the new system I buy to play it will be that much cheaper...
As someone who has spent some time pushing tables with weapons in my hand, I can tell you that you do not put your weapon down. No, I don't play paintball. Or laser tag.
:)
Use one hand maybe, but shoving things out of the way with your body mass (or kicking it) is better anyways. In real life would you really put your weapon down? no. You would rather have a little extra trouble and still be able to shoot someone in the face if you need to.
Admittedly, their posture models may need work, but putting your weapon down in a hostile environment isn't done. Especially if you are trying to hold off an alien invasion by yourself
This interview reminds me of the daily show:
A medium which is usually about satire (or complaining in slashdot's case) ends up putting forward an excellent interview. Witness knucklehead Jon Stewart asking reasonable questions to senators and the like.
It certainly hints at a new media/political reality, and good things for slashdot's future.
not all technology is based on individuals
you need IPs for all the web cams in public places so the fed can spy on us!
well, maybe it would be easier to have a camera for each person... so three, at most
A protesst for this would be a perfect action for one of those email/web random event things.
People on the list who want razors (and a good chunk of non-buyers for good measure) all go at one time to a store and madly swap razors after they pick them up off the shelves. Even if security doesn't go completely bonkers (someone _must_ be stealing something), it would certainly screw up their tracking systems.
This would be great for any number of RFID/super spying consumer tracking methods. Keep in mind this is also how car thieves steal cars: set of the alarm a few times first until no one cares.
Some of us look at this as a good reason to buy some spiffy new hardware. I was looking for a good excuse, now I have it. Thanks Carmack!
On a related note, slashdotters are mad that they have to buy a ferrari to go 180mph in a car. Come on folks, these games are asking computers for some hefty calculations. Do you really think you can ask your computer to do five times as many polygons without better hardware?
Do you think carmack/id are releasing crappy code? Those guys are fanatics.
1. Using openoffice would have the advantage of being legal, since he only has once license for Corel 7 2. Using openoffice would be a net install of a modern piece of software, which I think is a good idea in terms of compatibility. Otherwise I would just let him keep using netscape 4 3. Converting files one at a time would only annoy everyone as an added step to using old documents. It would also be confusing to them about with documents have been converted. 4. If Corel has to be installed anyways to do gradual conversions, no one will ever use openoffice. 5. He's an architect (which of course you didn't know) Buildings last a long time, and when someone comes back 10 years later the related documents are very relavent. He's lucky if he doesn't have to pull out the 5 1/4" floppies.
Now convince your 60 year old father who runs a home office that he should do this to 3,000+ of his archived documents from projects dating back to the wordperfect 5.1 days, just so you can uninstall a piece of software he already owns, and you'll have an argument.
The only reason he'll even use openoffice at all is if he gets a file in email that corel won't open.
The technical ability do do something does not mean that your wetware will be compatible, especially if your method is tedious and painful. You learn that stuff after college.
Does it do wordperfect files yet?
That is what stops my household from using 1.0.x Instead we're still using Corel 7
Now try looking at a similar sample of mail-order catalogs. Will they ship out of the US? (I have no idea) Also, did they simply use different excuses pre 9/11?
It may be that everyone is looking for an excuse not to ship because there is more profit margin/ less potential legal hassle in the local market.
iTunes is no surprise. Apple of late has only been negotiating about US distribution. Did you think that distribution laws and contracts could be set up in all countries simultaneously with no extra effort? IANAL, but even I know better. The five major labels cover many countries, but local laws differ. One country at a time.
Hours of gameplay will be added by wandering around failing to figure out that the nightshade is growing in the neighbor's flower garden.
Not that I could ever identify with that problem...
what about background checks for people writing software for the fed in the US? (for the chinese immigrants with maintenance and testing experience)
I suppose with TIA that would be redundant
That's what I used my MIT hacker card for.
When I was in the Army, my favorite way to carry extra duct tape (100 mile per hour tape, which is green and sticks better) was to wrap it around a credit card or something. (the only use I ever found for my "Army Values Card") (for those of you who know)
You start with a roll and take as much as you think you need with you. It's not hard folks.
A dark room.
blinking lights in the corner (like, servers maybe?)
Sysadmin looks up as the door to a lighted hallway opens, and takes on a look of horror as a long bladed glove casts a shadow across the room
Sysadmin: "Noooooo!"
A figure runs around the doorframe. A little mouse with spiky hair and a bad attitude. Sysadmin steps on it.
Cue credits.
As soon as you start getting charged for bandwidth, email spam is against the TCPA. Didn't they just determine that DSL was a telecommunication device? Sue everybody!