But how will a judgment about encryption like that work when everyone uses encryption?
Ok, I know that this is a special case where there obviously seems to be other suggestive evidence for criminal activity... but if you were to take the idea that encryption = evil intent, then you open a can of worms.
Also, if the installation of encryption software alerted to possible encryption of files, then all someone has to do to avoid suspicion is to encrypt data over to a remote machine with no encrytion software - except a few "hot spare unformatted hard drives" which are apparently "unused"
True, but I think the REAL problem occurs when someone else makes themselves look foolish and then blames you for it.
Ok, in this case the students deserved the blame however - but in many other office scenarios, all it takes is some stupid manager who doesn't know what he's doing to make an ass of himself.
MS probably has a lot of governments on the ropes. Think about it for a minute. MS is a foreign investor in many countries. It is cheaper to pay MS for software than it is to annoy Microsoft and lose millions of foreign investment capital
Let's say for example in the future it made no sense whatsoever to sell music, TV shows, movies, games, books, or any other form of content because it would be pirated the very instant it got out by everyone.
Entertainment would then be reduced to free blogs and content on websites (plus any free content someone happens to make), and the only free books would be limited to universities and government funded institutions.
Heck, we may not only revive folk music, but also wean ourselves off the idiot box yet!
Ironically, the best way for software vendors to preserve and gain market share today is by giving buyers the freedom to abandon the vendor's own product. Don't lock-in buyers and buyers won't be as likely to leave.
And ironically the best way to keep girlfriends around is by giving them the freedom to abandon you completely. As long as you don't lock up your women (or stop them seeing other people), they won't be as likely to leave....but when they get too attached and clingy and you can't get rid of them, THAT creates a whole bunch of other problems.
I'll probably get UT2007 anyway. The "Make something Unreal" competition really gave the game heaps of life on top of what was already there. The fact that UT2K4 ran faster on Linux for me was also a big plus.
And if they put exo-skeleton robots in as vehicles we could be having "Gundam" battles before long. I'd pay to see that.
To be fair, Unreal Engine is actually amazing. The scope of games you can actually make with it can only get better all the time (e.g. the UnWheel mod). The huge scrolling Conquest map, if done properly, is really going to push things even further.
It's just that I can only see Unreal Tournament being pretty much the same in the forseeable future. Similar guns, similar kinds of vehicles, etc. But who knows, maybe I'll change my mind next year.
I'll be more interested in the third parties who do unexpected things with the technology.
Seems that Epic have turned Unreal Tournament into less of a game franchise, but more of a showcase for their latest "Unreal" engine technology which they want to licence off to other developers.
Not a bad thing at all. I hope you all like deathmatch enough to buy it again!
Most of the innovative games came at a time when computing resources were limited and game designers had to rely on their imaginations more to find a concept which was fun. Nowadays with the technological barriers down, game designers are designing the things that they wanted to all those years ago.
In a sense creativity is not enforced anymore, and players don't have to use their imagination much with the game visuals. (simlar to the differences of reading a book vs watching a movie)
I do agree that there are too many FPS these days and the concept has been done to absolute death. Buying another FPS does not excite me, and as I get older I start getting more bored with games and realizing how much time I wasted playing them.... something I never considered when I was 12 years old... and now I see why my parents were telling me to stop and go outside.
I ownder if this tactic won't completely backfire on Microsoft.
Ballmer is hoping that people will realise the value of Microsoft products because they give advanced interoperability with Linux and other OSes.
What may end up happing is that people will realise the value of Linux and wonder why they need to spend money and wasted CPU resources running Windows in the first place.
While Microsoft is not going to fool a group of ol' beardy UNIX gurus, it can still fool the general public who aren't in key with how MS operates.
"Open Source" has become a bit of a buzzword these days. I figure that Microsoft reckons that it can ride on the open source wave by twisting the meaning to it's own benefit. Not too unlike their so-called "Open Licensing" or whatever-it-was initiative.
No MS. You can say it as many times as you like, but until you release Windows under an open source licence you will never be truly open. Charging money to see source code is not "open source".... so no, you can't play in our sandpit.
Upgrading to Windows XP SP2 is nothing compared to a corporate update of, say, FreeBSD.
Having said that, the problem remains : an admin REALLY BADLY WANTS to upgrade the companies machines, but is always faced with the daunting prospect that even with the best planning, you have NO IDEA what the hell the system is going to do once you start that update.
This is not a probelms with home users who can afford to have their boxes trashed by the upgrade and then freshly installed (or then again, maybe not with that whole activation thing), but in the enterprise it becomes a huge issue when people go without their internet for too long.
Oh come on. The only reason why these guys are interested in building these things is because the idea of a robot battle suit captures their imagination.
Incidently, as you say, such an exo-skeleton would be beneficial to the elderly as a useful side benefit. However believe me, a lot of the geeks here working on these things weren't inspired to do so by the idea of a robo-grandparent.
Once they're finished building super mega mega man, then they might get around to building the mecha grandparent frame.;)
I'm pretty sure that only reason why they're even devising these things is because of Japan's robot anime. You know, some guy jumps into a huge robot and control it through sensors all over his body.
There is some guy here in Japan who is that crazy about the anime that developed his own exo-skeleton to move his toy Mazinga robot around. They had him on TV wearing his Mazinga get up and fighting other geek's toy robots on one of the TV shows here. Apparently there are a lot of these robot hobbyists as well as uni students building these things.
Mazinga, BTW, is a really old anime, but not far removed from the likes of say Gundam, Voltron and a billion and one other ripoffs.
Good point.
I wonder why there isn't any Australian based enterprise Linux distributers getting the go-ahead?
Everything is RedHat RedHat RedHat these days. Where's the competiton?
Ok sure, RedHat have a lot of kernel hackers on-board so it helps credibility but, where are the other Aussies? (when they're not working on SAMBA and IPtables)
"America's army v9.00 - zapeveryone hax0r"...and for some strange reason I am reminded of the Simpson's episode featuring Dr. Marvin Munroe, when the Simpsons zap each other.
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But how will a judgment about encryption like that work when everyone uses encryption?
Ok, I know that this is a special case where there obviously seems to be other suggestive evidence for criminal activity... but if you were to take the idea that encryption = evil intent, then you open a can of worms.
Also, if the installation of encryption software alerted to possible encryption of files, then all someone has to do to avoid suspicion is to encrypt data over to a remote machine with no encrytion software - except a few "hot spare unformatted hard drives" which are apparently "unused"
I don't see an ethernet port on this thing.
That would be possible, because Mel Brooks said that he doesn't do sequels.
.......
But prequels?
True, but I think the REAL problem occurs when someone else makes themselves look foolish and then blames you for it. Ok, in this case the students deserved the blame however - but in many other office scenarios, all it takes is some stupid manager who doesn't know what he's doing to make an ass of himself.
How about someone develop a distro based on Autopackage then?
MS probably has a lot of governments on the ropes. Think about it for a minute. MS is a foreign investor in many countries. It is cheaper to pay MS for software than it is to annoy Microsoft and lose millions of foreign investment capital
As far as I know, there is a way to crack Aggressive mode Pre-shared keys when used on IP-Sec. It's been done and proven.
Let's say for example in the future it made no sense whatsoever to sell music, TV shows, movies, games, books, or any other form of content because it would be pirated the very instant it got out by everyone.
Entertainment would then be reduced to free blogs and content on websites (plus any free content someone happens to make), and the only free books would be limited to universities and government funded institutions.
Heck, we may not only revive folk music, but also wean ourselves off the idiot box yet!
Ironically, the best way for software vendors to preserve and gain market share today is by giving buyers the freedom to abandon the vendor's own product. Don't lock-in buyers and buyers won't be as likely to leave.
...but when they get too attached and clingy and you can't get rid of them, THAT creates a whole bunch of other problems.
And ironically the best way to keep girlfriends around is by giving them the freedom to abandon you completely. As long as you don't lock up your women (or stop them seeing other people), they won't be as likely to leave.
I'll probably get UT2007 anyway. The "Make something Unreal" competition really gave the game heaps of life on top of what was already there. The fact that UT2K4 ran faster on Linux for me was also a big plus.
And if they put exo-skeleton robots in as vehicles we could be having "Gundam" battles before long. I'd pay to see that.
To be fair, Unreal Engine is actually amazing. The scope of games you can actually make with it can only get better all the time (e.g. the UnWheel mod). The huge scrolling Conquest map, if done properly, is really going to push things even further.
It's just that I can only see Unreal Tournament being pretty much the same in the forseeable future. Similar guns, similar kinds of vehicles, etc. But who knows, maybe I'll change my mind next year.
I'll be more interested in the third parties who do unexpected things with the technology.
Seems that Epic have turned Unreal Tournament into less of a game franchise, but more of a showcase for their latest "Unreal" engine technology which they want to licence off to other developers.
Not a bad thing at all. I hope you all like deathmatch enough to buy it again!
"It's a validation of your game when people are willing to spend upwards of $2,000 on a character," Kramer said.
OMFG.
Right, I've now officially heard it all. Excuse me while I tie this rope around my head and kick out the chaalsifysfwgbvwe fafg.g.g..
NO CARRIER+++
If God is the Way, the Truth, and the Life we can therefore scientifically say that:-
If God is all life, then the true Way promotes life. And that is the truth.
I'm not sure if I've solved anything by looking at this logically, but in case I have... well there you are. Live and let live.
Most of the innovative games came at a time when computing resources were limited and game designers had to rely on their imaginations more to find a concept which was fun. Nowadays with the technological barriers down, game designers are designing the things that they wanted to all those years ago.
In a sense creativity is not enforced anymore, and players don't have to use their imagination much with the game visuals. (simlar to the differences of reading a book vs watching a movie)
I do agree that there are too many FPS these days and the concept has been done to absolute death. Buying another FPS does not excite me, and as I get older I start getting more bored with games and realizing how much time I wasted playing them.... something I never considered when I was 12 years old... and now I see why my parents were telling me to stop and go outside.
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As soon as a game becomes something you can win money at, it becomes GAMBLING.
Sony better check their local ordinances.
I ownder if this tactic won't completely backfire on Microsoft.
Ballmer is hoping that people will realise the value of Microsoft products because they give advanced interoperability with Linux and other OSes.
What may end up happing is that people will realise the value of Linux and wonder why they need to spend money and wasted CPU resources running Windows in the first place.
This while idea sounds like the beginning of the plotline for a murder mystery/thriller/disaster movie.
While Microsoft is not going to fool a group of ol' beardy UNIX gurus, it can still fool the general public who aren't in key with how MS operates.
"Open Source" has become a bit of a buzzword these days. I figure that Microsoft reckons that it can ride on the open source wave by twisting the meaning to it's own benefit. Not too unlike their so-called "Open Licensing" or whatever-it-was initiative.
No MS. You can say it as many times as you like, but until you release Windows under an open source licence you will never be truly open. Charging money to see source code is not "open source".... so no, you can't play in our sandpit.
Upgrading to Windows XP SP2 is nothing compared to a corporate update of, say, FreeBSD.
Having said that, the problem remains : an admin REALLY BADLY WANTS to upgrade the companies machines, but is always faced with the daunting prospect that even with the best planning, you have NO IDEA what the hell the system is going to do once you start that update.
This is not a probelms with home users who can afford to have their boxes trashed by the upgrade and then freshly installed (or then again, maybe not with that whole activation thing), but in the enterprise it becomes a huge issue when people go without their internet for too long.
Oh come on. The only reason why these guys are interested in building these things is because the idea of a robot battle suit captures their imagination.
;)
Incidently, as you say, such an exo-skeleton would be beneficial to the elderly as a useful side benefit. However believe me, a lot of the geeks here working on these things weren't inspired to do so by the idea of a robo-grandparent.
Once they're finished building super mega mega man, then they might get around to building the mecha grandparent frame.
I'm pretty sure that only reason why they're even devising these things is because of Japan's robot anime. You know, some guy jumps into a huge robot and control it through sensors all over his body.
There is some guy here in Japan who is that crazy about the anime that developed his own exo-skeleton to move his toy Mazinga robot around. They had him on TV wearing his Mazinga get up and fighting other geek's toy robots on one of the TV shows here. Apparently there are a lot of these robot hobbyists as well as uni students building these things.
Mazinga, BTW, is a really old anime, but not far removed from the likes of say Gundam, Voltron and a billion and one other ripoffs.
Good point. I wonder why there isn't any Australian based enterprise Linux distributers getting the go-ahead? Everything is RedHat RedHat RedHat these days. Where's the competiton? Ok sure, RedHat have a lot of kernel hackers on-board so it helps credibility but, where are the other Aussies? (when they're not working on SAMBA and IPtables)
"America's army v9.00 - zapeveryone hax0r" ...and for some strange reason I am reminded of the Simpson's episode featuring Dr. Marvin Munroe, when the Simpsons zap each other.