We can see other galaxies rhat are millions and billions of light years away. If the universe was created less than 30,000 years ago there wouldn't even be room for our galaxy in it.
What?
All that creationists think is that God created the EARTH 6, or 30, thousand years ago. They have no basis on whether or not God is actually a God of other worlds or not.
Even if God did create the Universe 6, or 30, thousand years ago, what the hell does "there wouldn't even be room for our galaxy in it" mean? That's assuming the Universe was just one point (ala, the Big Bang Theory), he could have made it just start out that way, to see how we develop. We go from the wheel, to boats, to airplanes, to orbiting shuttles, to landing on the moon, so let's up the ante a big bit and see how they figure out how to get to Mars, which is multiple times out.
Plus, what do you mean there isn't "room"? I think even creationists believe the Universe is INFINITELY big, a scientific, well, theory. Do you think the Universe was actually just a small box at one time, and the Universe is expanding? No, nobody in their right mind does. The Universe has always been an infinitely large vacuum. The matter inside is whats expanding its reach within the infinitely large universe.
I think you're misreading your contract. Hard to say since the quote began mid-sentence, but if it's the same as the ones I've signed in the past, you're not allowed to take a job with customers of the company you contracted for (meaning you can't steal their business by cutting out the middleman).
"(a) In order to induce CNET to enter into this agreement and because of the confidential nature of matters on which Consultant will be working, during the period that Consultant is providing Services under this agreement, neither Consultant shall, directly or indirectly, perform similar services as those provided hereunder (i) for any other firm or entity which competes with CNET, or (ii) for any CNET customer for whom Consultant performed Services during the term of this Agreement."
Nowhere does it say "forevereywever" or some such.
I just looked at my consulting contract, and this is the word for word part under Non-Competition. This is what I can accept, not what MS has.
"directly or indirectly, perform similar services as those provided hereunder (i) for any other firm or entity which competes with CNET, or (ii) for any CNET customer for whom Consultant performed Services during the term of this Agreement." (bold mine)
That doesn't bar me from competition for life, just while I'm a Consultant for them, which is fine and dandy to me.
It's not like they say, "You can't use your fingers any more." He can still make a perfectly-fine living. Just has to wait for working on search stuff.
That's still bullshit. What if I worked on a search engine, and liked it, and then I tried a new job working on an OS, but hated it because maybe I wasn't as skilled at that stuff? I liked the search engine job, maybe I could try another search engine job, it might be fun again.
I'm never signing any contract that bars me from programming something similar for the rest of my life. Remember, you only have one of those.
According to Crate Review System, this might be the best game ever!
I thought the crate review system said that the sooner you see a crate, the worse it is. That would make this game the worst game of all time, not the best.
The system is in no way limited by either the two screens or touch functionality. Those actually make games like Kirby: Canvas Curse possible. Could you do the same on a PSP, GameCube, or any other system for that matter?
Yes, all of those. If you mean the touchscreen, then on a PDA. What does the second screen do? Oh that's right, it has a map, which has been done since the days of Nintendo on one screen.
Do you absolutely need both screens for every single game? No. Do you need touch functionality either? No. But they both have interesting applications that make games like Kirby's Canvas Curse possible.
What application does the second screen create? It's always a map or a menu screen, which was already a part of every game to begin with. The touchpad idea was a decent one, people just need to find more ways to use it. I think they would have been better off if they only had one screen, it would use less power, take up less room, have a longer lasting battery, and they could make the graphics of the other screen more powerful.
...but that can provide additional functionality to games like a map or status screen that's easy accessible without requiring that the game be paused.
If I'm accessing a menu screen, you better believe I want the game to be paused! I don't want to have to find a place where I can't get attacked by random creatures or have to constantly keep an eye on a second screen to make sure I'm not being attacked when I'm trying to manage my items.
Also, Grandma has a very unstable base for her case, if any at all, simply because it clearly states on the ESRB warning that the game is for players 17 years and older, nevermind the blatantly-spelled-out descriptions of WHY it was rated as such. The real question here is, why did she buy it for her 14-year-old grandson?
Another thing is, unless he's REALLY sheltered (and I meant REALLY REALLY sheltered), a bit of polygonal nudity isn't going to be a big surprise to any 14 year old. I'm sure he's watched plenty of porn already for it not to be a surprise to him, and that's more than just "sexually explicit". Of course, the courts probably don't accept this as real evidence...
"Certainly. And nowhere on the box does it state that the content on the disc includes simulated sex."
Then with the current some stores carrying the AO version, she would still have a case. It would change "Strong Sexual Content" to "Explicit Sexual Content" and still, nowhere on the box does it state that the content on the disc includes simulated sex.
Instead of arguing with me, go ask a bunch of parents of teenagers or pre-teens which they think is more likely to happen: Pregnancy or murder.
If you asked me, I would say murder. I'm a nerd, so there's less chance of me having sex, but a higher chance that I piss the wrong person off being a smart ass and get killed for it.
Considering the complete lack of genitalia in the hidden scenes, and the fact that CJ is completely clothed the whole time
I've seen more sex in an episode of the Shield than in this "sex scandal", and that's on TV. Funny how they are attacking a game you have to purchase, as opposed to a show you can flip through and accidentally see on TV.
Just because something isn't on iTunes doesn't mean you should rip it off of P2P.
What about other people? I am in USA, and I like European Trance/Dance music. I especially like an artist called Praga Khan, but he lives in Belgium. The closest I've gotten is finding ONE album on Musicmatch, but I want all my music to be homogenous. So I download it off P2P.
I would also like to be not ripped off by iTunes. On iTunes, you pay the same price as the CD, for not actually having a physical CD, no case, no booklet, a lossy compressed version of the song, and a limit of how you can use it (DRM).
When DRMless FLAC audio comes around that I can pay for the music I like, I will definitely use the service. But until then, P2P is still my way of getting music.
No, you would have to have access to the IP you are spoofing to, and if you have access to the computer that owns that IP, then you might as well just launch it from there.
Poisoning the local ARP cache isn't going to do anything, you would need to convince the other computer that X.X.X.X belongs to you, and that would mean hacking into ISPs.
So it's easier to just compromise a random computer and use it as your proxy:)
Why the heck would they? If they did they most certainly would no longer be a hardware company.
This is something I don't like about Apple. They have the most extreme form of vendor lock in, hardware to the OS. After the IBM -> Intel switch, I was actually really happy. I was expecting to be able to give Mac OS X a real shot, and see how good it was. I've only had the ability to try Mac OS X in a store once for a little while... It seemed very smooth and stable, but that was just after a little bit of running it.
Now I guess I'll just have to go back to hoping one day Apple will get their head on straight. I can understand the PPC architecture being better than x86, but if they are going to ditch it they might as well give support for other Intel boxen with their OS, they would probably get a bigger market that way.
While it is nice, it's not double the price I paid for mine nice. It has a 3 GHz processor, compared to my 1.6 GHz, smaller HD (mine's 60GB, that one is 40GB), and this beats what I have: "3D Acceleration fully supported";). Mine is still PCI Express, and on a Windows XP dual boot it beats the one on that link, but on Linux it really doesn't matter, it's supported enough through DRI. Also, the screen's 17" WXGA, compared to my 15.4" WXGA.
A bit steep in prices, but probably the best site for Linux laptops, thanks for the link:)
If you're just gonna give a 10 year old $40 to go spend without knowing exactly what they are spending it on, please kindly remove yourself from the gene-pool you fucking retard.
No kidding.
I mean everyone should know a new game costs at least $50. I mean if you are going to give them the money, do it right, give them an extra $10 to buy a game like Doom 3 or GTA:SA.
This is another example of the legislature do a parents job for them. This is just stupid.
Exactly, I'm 17, and I've been playing "Mature" rated games since I was 8 or 9, because my parents knew I could handle it. I've never gone on a killing spree rampage or shot anybody. I'm just glad I bought HL2 last week, since I live in IL and just lost my ability to purchase Mature games (here, at least, most stores have (well, had) the policy that you have to be 17 to buy Mature games anyway). Irritating.
There are plenty of alternatives on the
market that sells Linux machines if your to lazy
or lack the skills necessary to build your own
workstation.
I lack the skills, resources, and tools necessary to build my own laptop, so I bought a Dell, for $909 discounted from $1659 through Ars Technica, which I turned around and formatted to Linux anyway. I'd like to see a non-big corporation come pre-installed with Linux that has the same specs:
1.6 Pentium M Centrino Processor
512MB DDR RAM (okay, this one is probably easy)
ATI X300 PCI Express x16 Graphics Card
8X DVD+-R/W|52X CD-R/W Burner
Honestly, you direct me to a company that competes with that for that price that comes pre-installed with Linux without the MS tax, and I'd happily buy one (after my current one dies).
What's wrong with Steam? I think it's a great way to keep game if you lose them. If I lose Windows XP, I have to buy it again ($300) if I want to reformat (legally). With Steam? I just have to click "download game" on my Steam account.
The only complaint I have about Steam is how they are dealing with HL2, I just bought HL2 a few days ago from the store. In order for me to get HL:Source and DoD:Source (when it comes out), I would have to register a new account on Steam, and pay for a more expensive version of HL2, again. There is no "upgrading" available. So because I purchased the game in the stores (easier, and most people do it), in order to get some mods (one of which I already have, I have HL, and the HL2 engine, so I have HL:Source) that I actually like (DoD is fun, or at least it was before they screwed it up) I would have to pay an extra $60 or so.
Other than that, Steam is great. I've long lost my copy of the HL Platinum pack, and my original copy of HL, but I can still play those games through Steam.
And Rockstar shouldn't be at trial for anything as ridiculous as this. Our government has many more pressing matters at hand than getting angry at a publisher whose games were bought by parents who could (hopefully) see the ESRB rating and not care.
Let alone, be at trial by OUR LEGISLATIVE BRANCH. Who do the people at the House & Senate think they are, the Illuminati? They're dealing with the people, as if they were the police or the judicial branch (this and Terry Shiavo are examples). What the hell is going on?
It might be not even them due to spoofing, but most likely, it is unauthorized use of their machine.
How would you go about brute forcing a server using IP spoofing? With IP spoofing, you don't get the packets to return to you, they get returned to the server, then dropped. No complete TCP connection can be made.
Therefore, SSH would never get the packet to begin with, and even if it did, and got your full packet, it wouldn't send the "success" or "failure" to you.
That computer is obviously either compromised (most likely), or being used by authorized personnel to launch this attack (very unlikely).
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We can see other galaxies rhat are millions and billions of light years away. If the universe was created less than 30,000 years ago there wouldn't even be room for our galaxy in it.
What?
All that creationists think is that God created the EARTH 6, or 30, thousand years ago. They have no basis on whether or not God is actually a God of other worlds or not.
Even if God did create the Universe 6, or 30, thousand years ago, what the hell does "there wouldn't even be room for our galaxy in it" mean? That's assuming the Universe was just one point (ala, the Big Bang Theory), he could have made it just start out that way, to see how we develop. We go from the wheel, to boats, to airplanes, to orbiting shuttles, to landing on the moon, so let's up the ante a big bit and see how they figure out how to get to Mars, which is multiple times out.
Plus, what do you mean there isn't "room"? I think even creationists believe the Universe is INFINITELY big, a scientific, well, theory. Do you think the Universe was actually just a small box at one time, and the Universe is expanding? No, nobody in their right mind does. The Universe has always been an infinitely large vacuum. The matter inside is whats expanding its reach within the infinitely large universe.
Twilight Princess.
:)
Let's see who wins this Christmas, shall we?
Okay, Xbox360, including PGR3 that has near photorealistic graphics vs the new Zelda game, blurry and blocky.
I think you're misreading your contract. Hard to say since the quote began mid-sentence, but if it's the same as the ones I've signed in the past, you're not allowed to take a job with customers of the company you contracted for (meaning you can't steal their business by cutting out the middleman).
"(a) In order to induce CNET to enter into this agreement and because of the confidential nature of matters on which Consultant will be working, during the period that Consultant is providing Services under this agreement, neither Consultant shall, directly or indirectly, perform similar services as those provided hereunder (i) for any other firm or entity which competes with CNET, or (ii) for any CNET customer for whom Consultant performed Services during the term of this Agreement."
Nowhere does it say "forevereywever" or some such.
Well, shucks, hit submit too soon.
I just looked at my consulting contract, and this is the word for word part under Non-Competition. This is what I can accept, not what MS has.
"directly or indirectly, perform similar services as those provided hereunder (i) for any other firm or entity which competes with CNET, or (ii) for any CNET customer for whom Consultant performed Services during the term of this Agreement." (bold mine)
That doesn't bar me from competition for life, just while I'm a Consultant for them, which is fine and dandy to me.
It's not like they say, "You can't use your fingers any more." He can still make a perfectly-fine living. Just has to wait for working on search stuff.
That's still bullshit. What if I worked on a search engine, and liked it, and then I tried a new job working on an OS, but hated it because maybe I wasn't as skilled at that stuff? I liked the search engine job, maybe I could try another search engine job, it might be fun again.
I'm never signing any contract that bars me from programming something similar for the rest of my life. Remember, you only have one of those.
According to Crate Review System, this might be the best game ever!
I thought the crate review system said that the sooner you see a crate, the worse it is. That would make this game the worst game of all time, not the best.
If this has no online play like q3,I don't care about it.with no ctf,I might as well go play bzflag.
I've been playing Q3 online for ages, including CTF... what?
The system is in no way limited by either the two screens or touch functionality. Those actually make games like Kirby: Canvas Curse possible. Could you do the same on a PSP, GameCube, or any other system for that matter?
...but that can provide additional functionality to games like a map or status screen that's easy accessible without requiring that the game be paused.
Yes, all of those. If you mean the touchscreen, then on a PDA. What does the second screen do? Oh that's right, it has a map, which has been done since the days of Nintendo on one screen.
Do you absolutely need both screens for every single game? No. Do you need touch functionality either? No. But they both have interesting applications that make games like Kirby's Canvas Curse possible.
What application does the second screen create? It's always a map or a menu screen, which was already a part of every game to begin with. The touchpad idea was a decent one, people just need to find more ways to use it. I think they would have been better off if they only had one screen, it would use less power, take up less room, have a longer lasting battery, and they could make the graphics of the other screen more powerful.
If I'm accessing a menu screen, you better believe I want the game to be paused! I don't want to have to find a place where I can't get attacked by random creatures or have to constantly keep an eye on a second screen to make sure I'm not being attacked when I'm trying to manage my items.
Also, Grandma has a very unstable base for her case, if any at all, simply because it clearly states on the ESRB warning that the game is for players 17 years and older, nevermind the blatantly-spelled-out descriptions of WHY it was rated as such. The real question here is, why did she buy it for her 14-year-old grandson?
Another thing is, unless he's REALLY sheltered (and I meant REALLY REALLY sheltered), a bit of polygonal nudity isn't going to be a big surprise to any 14 year old. I'm sure he's watched plenty of porn already for it not to be a surprise to him, and that's more than just "sexually explicit". Of course, the courts probably don't accept this as real evidence...
"Certainly. And nowhere on the box does it state that the content on the disc includes simulated sex."
Then with the current some stores carrying the AO version, she would still have a case. It would change "Strong Sexual Content" to "Explicit Sexual Content" and still, nowhere on the box does it state that the content on the disc includes simulated sex.
Instead of arguing with me, go ask a bunch of parents of teenagers or pre-teens which they think is more likely to happen: Pregnancy or murder.
If you asked me, I would say murder. I'm a nerd, so there's less chance of me having sex, but a higher chance that I piss the wrong person off being a smart ass and get killed for it.
Considering the complete lack of genitalia in the hidden scenes, and the fact that CJ is completely clothed the whole time
I've seen more sex in an episode of the Shield than in this "sex scandal", and that's on TV. Funny how they are attacking a game you have to purchase, as opposed to a show you can flip through and accidentally see on TV.
Yet you have a 1 in 100 chance of being killed in a car crash. Does that stop anyone from getting into their cars in the morning to get to work?
What? One in every hundred cars I see driving to work aren't crashed with people killed. Try closer to 1 in a 5000 or so.
Just because something isn't on iTunes doesn't mean you should rip it off of P2P.
What about other people? I am in USA, and I like European Trance/Dance music. I especially like an artist called Praga Khan, but he lives in Belgium. The closest I've gotten is finding ONE album on Musicmatch, but I want all my music to be homogenous. So I download it off P2P.
I would also like to be not ripped off by iTunes. On iTunes, you pay the same price as the CD, for not actually having a physical CD, no case, no booklet, a lossy compressed version of the song, and a limit of how you can use it (DRM).
When DRMless FLAC audio comes around that I can pay for the music I like, I will definitely use the service. But until then, P2P is still my way of getting music.
No, you would have to have access to the IP you are spoofing to, and if you have access to the computer that owns that IP, then you might as well just launch it from there.
:)
Poisoning the local ARP cache isn't going to do anything, you would need to convince the other computer that X.X.X.X belongs to you, and that would mean hacking into ISPs.
So it's easier to just compromise a random computer and use it as your proxy
if(reboot = true) potty_break();
So, you are always on a potty break?
(Note: this is NOT a jab at Windows, reread his syntax, if you are a programmer, you should be able to notice the syntax error)
Why the heck would they? If they did they most certainly would no longer be a hardware company.
This is something I don't like about Apple. They have the most extreme form of vendor lock in, hardware to the OS. After the IBM -> Intel switch, I was actually really happy. I was expecting to be able to give Mac OS X a real shot, and see how good it was. I've only had the ability to try Mac OS X in a store once for a little while... It seemed very smooth and stable, but that was just after a little bit of running it.
Now I guess I'll just have to go back to hoping one day Apple will get their head on straight. I can understand the PPC architecture being better than x86, but if they are going to ditch it they might as well give support for other Intel boxen with their OS, they would probably get a bigger market that way.
That place has some nice laptops, such as:
;). Mine is still PCI Express, and on a Windows XP dual boot it beats the one on that link, but on Linux it really doesn't matter, it's supported enough through DRI. Also, the screen's 17" WXGA, compared to my 15.4" WXGA.
:)
LC2500 Series Linux laptops - 17" Screen Extreme Workstations
While it is nice, it's not double the price I paid for mine nice. It has a 3 GHz processor, compared to my 1.6 GHz, smaller HD (mine's 60GB, that one is 40GB), and this beats what I have: "3D Acceleration fully supported"
A bit steep in prices, but probably the best site for Linux laptops, thanks for the link
If you're just gonna give a 10 year old $40 to go spend without knowing exactly what they are spending it on, please kindly remove yourself from the gene-pool you fucking retard.
No kidding.
I mean everyone should know a new game costs at least $50. I mean if you are going to give them the money, do it right, give them an extra $10 to buy a game like Doom 3 or GTA:SA.
Jeez, parents these days.
This is another example of the legislature do a parents job for them. This is just stupid.
Exactly, I'm 17, and I've been playing "Mature" rated games since I was 8 or 9, because my parents knew I could handle it. I've never gone on a killing spree rampage or shot anybody. I'm just glad I bought HL2 last week, since I live in IL and just lost my ability to purchase Mature games (here, at least, most stores have (well, had) the policy that you have to be 17 to buy Mature games anyway). Irritating.
There are plenty of alternatives on the market that sells Linux machines if your to lazy or lack the skills necessary to build your own workstation.
I lack the skills, resources, and tools necessary to build my own laptop, so I bought a Dell, for $909 discounted from $1659 through Ars Technica, which I turned around and formatted to Linux anyway. I'd like to see a non-big corporation come pre-installed with Linux that has the same specs: 1.6 Pentium M Centrino Processor 512MB DDR RAM (okay, this one is probably easy) ATI X300 PCI Express x16 Graphics Card 8X DVD+-R/W|52X CD-R/W Burner Honestly, you direct me to a company that competes with that for that price that comes pre-installed with Linux without the MS tax, and I'd happily buy one (after my current one dies).
check out Steam, you'll frigging hate it.
What's wrong with Steam? I think it's a great way to keep game if you lose them. If I lose Windows XP, I have to buy it again ($300) if I want to reformat (legally). With Steam? I just have to click "download game" on my Steam account.
The only complaint I have about Steam is how they are dealing with HL2, I just bought HL2 a few days ago from the store. In order for me to get HL:Source and DoD:Source (when it comes out), I would have to register a new account on Steam, and pay for a more expensive version of HL2, again. There is no "upgrading" available. So because I purchased the game in the stores (easier, and most people do it), in order to get some mods (one of which I already have, I have HL, and the HL2 engine, so I have HL:Source) that I actually like (DoD is fun, or at least it was before they screwed it up) I would have to pay an extra $60 or so.
Other than that, Steam is great. I've long lost my copy of the HL Platinum pack, and my original copy of HL, but I can still play those games through Steam.
And Rockstar shouldn't be at trial for anything as ridiculous as this. Our government has many more pressing matters at hand than getting angry at a publisher whose games were bought by parents who could (hopefully) see the ESRB rating and not care.
Let alone, be at trial by OUR LEGISLATIVE BRANCH. Who do the people at the House & Senate think they are, the Illuminati? They're dealing with the people, as if they were the police or the judicial branch (this and Terry Shiavo are examples). What the hell is going on?
If that's not true, then they essentially stole that part of the price from you.
They also stole that part of the price from me when I bought my laptop pre-installed with Windows, and I immediately formatted it and put Linux on it.
It might be not even them due to spoofing, but most likely, it is unauthorized use of their machine.
How would you go about brute forcing a server using IP spoofing? With IP spoofing, you don't get the packets to return to you, they get returned to the server, then dropped. No complete TCP connection can be made.
Therefore, SSH would never get the packet to begin with, and even if it did, and got your full packet, it wouldn't send the "success" or "failure" to you.
That computer is obviously either compromised (most likely), or being used by authorized personnel to launch this attack (very unlikely).