Uh, no. Running an Internet-enabled video game with Administrator access is a terrible idea regardless of what OS you're running. (Yes, even Mac OS X.) It's not Microsoft's fault that this game requires administrator access.
I'd just like to point out the irony of running a closed-source OS then complaining about untrusted code run as administrator. Pragmatically, there's also the lack of proof of concept attacks via games in this way.
Steam and windows XP. All the OS issues are because vista is legendarily crap at compatibility/stability. As a gamer with a widescreen monitor I do lament the apparent lack of support but there's just not that much of a crossover and most games do work. All your issues with serials/copy protection go away with steam (though you can't resell the games there).
Besides, it's not like you're spending your time generating power
Walk over concrete. Now walk over sand. Which one takes more effort? The mechanical motion of the floor absorbs energy that would otherwise rebound from the shoe sole, or would never have been expended in the first place.
Maybe the rest of the world just didn't see him as a real threat
At the risk of godwinning myself, it's not like the rest of the world jumps every time a dictator takes over a single country, only after a few countries have fallen.
ermione doesn't consider it worth learning as it is too "dangerous"
Oh, and learning it worked out so well for Crabbe. If the room of requirement hadn't closed up, the fire may have destroyed the entire school. It's like someone earlier said, you could have used time magic, but there are some things you just don't mess with.
as an earlier poster said, it's not like the jedi and light vs dark, perhaps more like the guy in the jedi knight games, balancing good and evil. I didn't blame him for using the cruciatus. I don't think harry ever used the killing curse, though.
There were published studies clearly showing this effect, 20 years ago. I guess it's taken this long for the industry to stop crushing it long enough to get a word out. I'd paste references but it's sunday morning and they're in a book on the other side of the room.
The stereotype itself is a statement which is false, yes. However, it is an exxageration of a statistically significant statement. Thus, "all scots are ginger" is a stereotype and has some merit, whereas "all scots are twenty foot tall" is a completely useless lie.
No, stereotypes are statistically significant observations, but everyone who mingles with the stereotyped culture/people knows that it's far from ubiqitous, perhaps only 5 or 10% of the total sample population. For example, the stereotype that all scottish people are ginger is based on a true statistic of increased incidence, but obviously not the entire population.
I regret not having the points, this is by far the most insightful post I've seen on slashdot. So many uuid's here only seem to post belittling smarter people than themselves.
If you tried selling me on the concept before it launched, I would have said it was a nice idea but impossible
Therein lies the source of wikipedia naysayers unshakeable conviction - logically, it can't work, and to see it working is an insult to their intelligence. So they vandalise a page to prove a point, and for 3 seconds the article on "butterscotch" or whatever it was that I answered their question with says "PatrickThomson is a faggot". Ok, I'll confess this was a specific incident, and I haven't bumped into anyone openly hostile to wikipedia in a few years, now that it's been popular for a while. But still.
Game prices here in the UK for major big-name release day titles have gone up from maybe £30 to £40 in the last five years - taking the differing exchange rates into account that's a fluctuation from $42 to $80! Perhaps part of the effect you are feeling is your, let's be honest, crashing worthless currency.
Could it be possible to organise things such that information sent from a third party, equidistant between the sender and reciever, was used as the classical communication channel? If the sender and reciever were 2 light-seconds apart and the sender got the trigger 1 light millisecond before the reciever, couldn't that work? Or does the information going from A to B along classical channels need to be generated by the sender?
Oh, and remember that in the UK, newly-qualified doctors have to spend some large number of years working for the NHS before they can go private, so your fancy-pants expensive doctor got trained up on everyone elses nat. ins. payments.
There you go with the selfish attitudes. Speaking as a member of the middle classes, the NHS is perfectly acceptable. It's only non-vital operations like hip replacement that have gigantic waiting lists. And you'd advocate turning us into another America, because you penny-pinching rich bastards want to stop paying nat. ins. ?
Sad truth is, unlike car assembly lines (which he mentions), it's cheaper to use trained humans to assemble low-value products like these, especially in a market based almost entirely on price (for consumer items at least).
Yes, that's because fuel is so cheap that public transport isn't profitable. I thought I belaboured that point sufficiently obviously. In other words, a quintupling of the carless masses will perhaps lead a bus service to think "If we run a route through this district, we will make money.".
You do realise that europeans have been living with those costs of car fuel for the last 15 years, right? Here in the UK, all it means is that poor people take the bus, and there are more buses to cater for all the poor people. And students.
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Uh, no. Running an Internet-enabled video game with Administrator access is a terrible idea regardless of what OS you're running. (Yes, even Mac OS X.) It's not Microsoft's fault that this game requires administrator access.
I'd just like to point out the irony of running a closed-source OS then complaining about untrusted code run as administrator. Pragmatically, there's also the lack of proof of concept attacks via games in this way.
Steam and windows XP. All the OS issues are because vista is legendarily crap at compatibility/stability. As a gamer with a widescreen monitor I do lament the apparent lack of support but there's just not that much of a crossover and most games do work. All your issues with serials/copy protection go away with steam (though you can't resell the games there).
Besides, it's not like you're spending your time generating power
Walk over concrete. Now walk over sand. Which one takes more effort? The mechanical motion of the floor absorbs energy that would otherwise rebound from the shoe sole, or would never have been expended in the first place.
Maybe the rest of the world just didn't see him as a real threat
At the risk of godwinning myself, it's not like the rest of the world jumps every time a dictator takes over a single country, only after a few countries have fallen.
Oh, and learning it worked out so well for Crabbe. If the room of requirement hadn't closed up, the fire may have destroyed the entire school. It's like someone earlier said, you could have used time magic, but there are some things you just don't mess with.
as an earlier poster said, it's not like the jedi and light vs dark, perhaps more like the guy in the jedi knight games, balancing good and evil. I didn't blame him for using the cruciatus. I don't think harry ever used the killing curse, though.
There were published studies clearly showing this effect, 20 years ago. I guess it's taken this long for the industry to stop crushing it long enough to get a word out. I'd paste references but it's sunday morning and they're in a book on the other side of the room.
Let's see the pendants call me on this one
I hate myself for doing this, but it's spelled "pedant".
The stereotype itself is a statement which is false, yes. However, it is an exxageration of a statistically significant statement. Thus, "all scots are ginger" is a stereotype and has some merit, whereas "all scots are twenty foot tall" is a completely useless lie.
No, stereotypes are statistically significant observations, but everyone who mingles with the stereotyped culture/people knows that it's far from ubiqitous, perhaps only 5 or 10% of the total sample population. For example, the stereotype that all scottish people are ginger is based on a true statistic of increased incidence, but obviously not the entire population.
It doesn't count as a suicide bomber when the bomber dies by accident or incompetence.
niiice, assuming the coinboxes are flush left or flush right that's perfect. THe ones I remember have them jimmied a little way in, though.
The chain is tiny, too short for you to couple a cart with itself by one link. The ways trolleys nest makes them just fit.
Meanwhile, an approved patented medicine (a 20-year monopoly, remember?), may bring in 2 billion annually.
Yes, it's so fortunate that 100% of all drugs that make it to stage 3 testing are approved and marketed. Oh, wait...
I regret not having the points, this is by far the most insightful post I've seen on slashdot. So many uuid's here only seem to post belittling smarter people than themselves.
If you tried selling me on the concept before it launched, I would have said it was a nice idea but impossible
Therein lies the source of wikipedia naysayers unshakeable conviction - logically, it can't work, and to see it working is an insult to their intelligence. So they vandalise a page to prove a point, and for 3 seconds the article on "butterscotch" or whatever it was that I answered their question with says "PatrickThomson is a faggot". Ok, I'll confess this was a specific incident, and I haven't bumped into anyone openly hostile to wikipedia in a few years, now that it's been popular for a while. But still.
Game prices here in the UK for major big-name release day titles have gone up from maybe £30 to £40 in the last five years - taking the differing exchange rates into account that's a fluctuation from $42 to $80! Perhaps part of the effect you are feeling is your, let's be honest, crashing worthless currency.
There are so many things happening right now we COULD make use of to further our knowledge
Guess someone's a little grouchy about their rejected submissions, then.
Could it be possible to organise things such that information sent from a third party, equidistant between the sender and reciever, was used as the classical communication channel? If the sender and reciever were 2 light-seconds apart and the sender got the trigger 1 light millisecond before the reciever, couldn't that work? Or does the information going from A to B along classical channels need to be generated by the sender?
Oh, and remember that in the UK, newly-qualified doctors have to spend some large number of years working for the NHS before they can go private, so your fancy-pants expensive doctor got trained up on everyone elses nat. ins. payments.
There you go with the selfish attitudes. Speaking as a member of the middle classes, the NHS is perfectly acceptable. It's only non-vital operations like hip replacement that have gigantic waiting lists. And you'd advocate turning us into another America, because you penny-pinching rich bastards want to stop paying nat. ins. ?
Yes, because "ctrl-c, ctrl-v" is something hollywood can compete with by hiring better writers. Oh, wait...
Sad truth is, unlike car assembly lines (which he mentions), it's cheaper to use trained humans to assemble low-value products like these, especially in a market based almost entirely on price (for consumer items at least).
Yes, that's because fuel is so cheap that public transport isn't profitable. I thought I belaboured that point sufficiently obviously. In other words, a quintupling of the carless masses will perhaps lead a bus service to think "If we run a route through this district, we will make money.".
You do realise that europeans have been living with those costs of car fuel for the last 15 years, right? Here in the UK, all it means is that poor people take the bus, and there are more buses to cater for all the poor people. And students.