Maybe all of their after-school programs were cancelled.
Touche. That's pretty funny.
No, I understand your point that they are not 14 year olds, and I agree that it is simply an immature prank. However I am sure that a fair number of script kiddies who think they can be an elite cracker will be glad to join up on such a prank.
How many 14 year olds are directly affected by Republican foriegn national policy? How many of them actually CARE, or have a real idea about what is going on in our government? Please don't get me wrong, there are plenty of very smart kids out there! Although how many in the Black Hat Hacker Bloc, or whatever they are called, are in it because they feel America is isolating itsself through it foreign affairs policys, and how many are in it because the name sounds cool...?
Why not use the system and vote to make yourself heard? Not be a bunch of hypcrite who bitch, and try to silence the dissenting opinon. Use the power you have. If you don't like how things are run in America, then change them. You have to power, through the Democracy.
- ZT
My school has recently changed their policy, which was in need of change. Now, if you computer is reported and found to have a virus it is blocked from the campus network until you bring it to an IT center to prove to them that you have cleaned it, or have them clean it for you. I think this is a decent policy that does not over step the bounds too much. So many virus I have seen on campus were not slick well written subversive pieces of code, they were blatant virus attached to e-mails with some dumb name. People STILL (some how) need more education on virus avoidance. When an attachment is called seeMyWifeNude.exe.zip.jpg this should send up a red flag. Obviously it doesn't for everybody yet.
- ZT
I get in to it sometimes. You need that added protection. Espescially for older games (well maybe not PS1 games, but if it could play some good old a$$-kickingly hard 8/16-bit games), it'd be worth it.
- ZT
On further thought and comparison... backwards compatibility is like airbags in a car, while they are not often used, you are glad to have them when you want/need them.
Backwards compatibility was the biggest selling point for the PS2 in my opinion. While I do not use it often, it is nice to occasionally fire up and older game. I have replayed a few Final Fantasy games, and the occasional random game that I have lyeing around.
- ZT
I remember back when DVDs were new, they had to compete with Divx discs. The difference, DVDs were expensive, but you paid once and owned it, Divx was cheap, but you had to pay each time you watched it... This seems like a good analog to this debate, and time has already shown how a market responds to subscription based technology goods. How many people ran out to buy the new divx disc of "Return of the King"?
- ZT
"Face it, the serious geeks are dying out, and the new ones just aren't the same. Maybe they're better than us, maybe they're worse... all I know for sure is that script-kiddies are lame."
Too true... too true. Kids today don't know anything about great games. I am an old school geek, I remember those great games from way back. Amiga's were the best thing, hell I remember using LOTUS and moving the turtle around and that was great fun, what amazing graphics you could make. Come on, PONG and WAR were two great games!
- ZT
The electrons was a miss type, I meant to use photons. Yes, this can easily be done in a physuics lecture hall, but the interference generated by shining a light through two slits can easily be computed, and therefore will not be too random. The single PHOTON experiment, will be random, I beleive, but the nessecary state at which it must be carried out is not too random.
Where to begin... For starters, the double slit experiment, to see the neat effects of single electron interference, must be done in a vacuum. The electorns must not be influenced by anything else at all, like air/gas molecules. Also, it must be done at temperatures near absolute zero, where the thermal bath of the environment doesn't wash out the quantum effect you are talking about... Just not possible on a portable system...
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Maybe all of their after-school programs were cancelled.
Touche. That's pretty funny.
No, I understand your point that they are not 14 year olds, and I agree that it is simply an immature prank. However I am sure that a fair number of script kiddies who think they can be an elite cracker will be glad to join up on such a prank.
- ZT
How many 14 year olds are directly affected by Republican foriegn national policy? How many of them actually CARE, or have a real idea about what is going on in our government? Please don't get me wrong, there are plenty of very smart kids out there! Although how many in the Black Hat Hacker Bloc, or whatever they are called, are in it because they feel America is isolating itsself through it foreign affairs policys, and how many are in it because the name sounds cool...?
- ZT
Why not use the system and vote to make yourself heard? Not be a bunch of hypcrite who bitch, and try to silence the dissenting opinon. Use the power you have. If you don't like how things are run in America, then change them. You have to power, through the Democracy. - ZT
My school has recently changed their policy, which was in need of change. Now, if you computer is reported and found to have a virus it is blocked from the campus network until you bring it to an IT center to prove to them that you have cleaned it, or have them clean it for you. I think this is a decent policy that does not over step the bounds too much. So many virus I have seen on campus were not slick well written subversive pieces of code, they were blatant virus attached to e-mails with some dumb name. People STILL (some how) need more education on virus avoidance. When an attachment is called seeMyWifeNude.exe.zip.jpg this should send up a red flag. Obviously it doesn't for everybody yet. - ZT
I get in to it sometimes. You need that added protection. Espescially for older games (well maybe not PS1 games, but if it could play some good old a$$-kickingly hard 8/16-bit games), it'd be worth it. - ZT
On further thought and comparison... backwards compatibility is like airbags in a car, while they are not often used, you are glad to have them when you want/need them.
Backwards compatibility was the biggest selling point for the PS2 in my opinion. While I do not use it often, it is nice to occasionally fire up and older game. I have replayed a few Final Fantasy games, and the occasional random game that I have lyeing around. - ZT
I remember back when DVDs were new, they had to compete with Divx discs. The difference, DVDs were expensive, but you paid once and owned it, Divx was cheap, but you had to pay each time you watched it... This seems like a good analog to this debate, and time has already shown how a market responds to subscription based technology goods. How many people ran out to buy the new divx disc of "Return of the King"? - ZT
"Face it, the serious geeks are dying out, and the new ones just aren't the same. Maybe they're better than us, maybe they're worse... all I know for sure is that script-kiddies are lame." Too true... too true. Kids today don't know anything about great games. I am an old school geek, I remember those great games from way back. Amiga's were the best thing, hell I remember using LOTUS and moving the turtle around and that was great fun, what amazing graphics you could make. Come on, PONG and WAR were two great games! - ZT
The electrons was a miss type, I meant to use photons. Yes, this can easily be done in a physuics lecture hall, but the interference generated by shining a light through two slits can easily be computed, and therefore will not be too random. The single PHOTON experiment, will be random, I beleive, but the nessecary state at which it must be carried out is not too random.
Where to begin... For starters, the double slit experiment, to see the neat effects of single electron interference, must be done in a vacuum. The electorns must not be influenced by anything else at all, like air/gas molecules. Also, it must be done at temperatures near absolute zero, where the thermal bath of the environment doesn't wash out the quantum effect you are talking about... Just not possible on a portable system...