... allegedly. In the late 90s I received a cease-and-desist letter from a law firm representing DWANGO, the BBS-like gaming service which allowed 4-player Doom/Heretic games over a regular modem connection.
Apparently, I allegedly wrote a DOS TSR (Terminate&Stay Resident) program which behaved similarly to AOHELL (America Online fake account creator), only under DOS. It changed the hard drive serial number, which DWANGO used to prevent you from re-registering for a free trial account, and then it called up the DWANGO login windows and typed everything in for you, as a random person with a believable name, address, and a usually valid phone number.
Of course this is entirely hearsay because I can neither confirm nor deny writing such a program, but if I did, I sure would've gotten a kick out of it.
I wrote a DOS game in 1996 in Turbo Pascal which used $B800:0000 textmode space to display the action. Thanks to Free Pascal I successfully ported it to Windows... of course minus the literal memory addressing and such.
Free Pascal is amazing at how it "just works" with legacy Turbo Pascal syntax where Delphi would present more trouble. Lazarus, the Free Pascal IDE, is also very resemblant of Turbo Pascal IDE, with some modern touches.
Pascal is an underrated language. It may have been designed for education, but it has many advanced features, the executables are nearly as fast as C++ ones, it compiles fast, and the runtime diagnostics are detailed and specific. It "just works".
I heard the actual exchange, and it is obvious he didn't explicitly confirm the trap question. He was talking about the larger idea of security and building his wall. The question is, did YOU hear the actual exchange, or are you being purposely obtuse. Come to think of it, the answer is, actually, irrelevant.
The exchange was a trap by the reporter, after Trump just finished a long speech and was obviously tired. And even then, from the context it is obvious that Trump shifted his response to the Trump Wall, and he was talking mainly about that.
At no point did Trump actually say "yes we need Muslim database". As for "free interpretations", well, there are a thousand databases on EVERYONE already, including suspected terrorists.
In short, the press set up Trump. And everyone including Slashdot, fell for it. The result will only be increased support for Trump, because we the people see through the media's attempts to smear him. The circus is over.
The recent shrink of middle class is created by the Obama administration, which absolutely hates the middle class. Obamacare is a wealth redistribution system disquised as a common good. Just like any previous historical attempts to distribute wealth, it suffers from a fatal flaw - the takers have no limit on how much they take, so it will bleed the middle class dry.
But thanks for your disjointed attempt at gaslighting, Mr. Lenin.
It aces artificial AV tests in performance, because by default, it only scans files by extension, which is a huge security risk. The free version makes annoying advertisement pop-ups. And in my experience it popped out vaguely threatening messages about a vague virus which neither Combofix nor MBAM nor a couple of other AV products could find.
In my experience, all free AV programs are highly suspect in their behavior, by their nature and goal. They're full of upsells, they will passive-aggressively threaten you, they will try and install PUPs themselves... etc.
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It is insightful because it's 100% true. If you look at Fallout 1/2 walkthroughs, you will see the kind of non-linearity, environmental scripting depth and general feeling of freedom that no modern game provides. Fallout 3 especially was a complete corridor compared to this. In programming and design alone, the first two games are still better than ANYTHING out there. There's a CHASM of difference between "walk anywhere you want" and freedom of player agency. In a walking simulator, you'll still have to go through a series of linear mission checkpoint with no alternate choices.
As for witnessing your own birth, it's just a cutscene, and one you have to do EVERY TIME instead of just having a simple character creation screen.
Also, what is the point of "experiencing the world", if Fallout 3's writing was the worst I've ever seen in a game written by supposedly English speakers? Really, the entire gameworld was designed and written by people who's only ever written code. The NPCs are lifeless tusks with no point to their existence, none of them ever talk like real people, nothing makes sense!
Fallout 3 was so dumb, in the end you have an NPC who is resistant to radiation, and he makes YOU go into the radiation chamber. He refuses to go himself, why? Because, "it's your path and yours alone". Wait, what?
And what about the horrible UI? Loading screens upon entering every hut? Terrible combat with unbalanced VATS system? "SPECIAL" being just numbers on the screen which barely have any effect on anything in the environment, VASTLY unlike the original two games?
Moira gets exploded by a nuclear blast, instantly becomes a ghoul, and then asks you to "Not do it again, okay?" Cars filled with fuel 200 years after the war? Oversimplified, cartoonish take on the factions from the originals?
If you look at any documented Let's Play thread of Fallout 3, and you have read at least 3 books in your life, your brain will start leaking out of your ears. It is inevitable.
At least New Vegas tried to follow canon and have an actual world, and it had a ton more content, a ton more choice&consequence, SPECIAL was actually checked frequently on various occasions. Some NPCs actually behaved vaguely human! In all ways it was a far superior product.
Their program will slow down your computer with all kinds of security theater "features", but like any other antivirus, it will fail to root out most viruses written in the past 8 years once they've been executed and implanted themselves as a rootkit.
Early adopters have been singing this same tune since Windows 95 at least. It's NEVER been true. Each version of Windows is more bloated than the one before it. It's part of their development strategy.
The impression of new OS being snappier is always created by comparing the previous OS's well-worn install to the new OS's fresh, bare install, in other words, placebo effect and wishful thinking. ALWAYS.
Seriously, it was, and is, far more confusing and disorienting than Facebook ever was. It looked like a steep learning curve, to guess exactly what the privacy settings are, what "adding to circle" REALLY means, who sees WHAT, etc.
Too few explanations, too many "helpful" abstractions. Not enough intuitive responses... i.e. places you'd expect to be (redundantly but helpfully) clickable, aren't...
When it rolled out it looked like an alpha. I'm amazed that they fixed nothing since then.
... until software stops being so expensive and TV shows stop being delayed and locked down by DRM. It's that simple. Let me buy a cheap subscription, let me convert it and stream it to any device I own... or bust.
1) Import 30 million of illegal aliens, many of whom are illiterate not just in English but in Spanish
2) Provide them a sneaky legal path to citizenship and voting
3) Implement mandatory voting
Result: Democrats win every election.
Did you even read the article? Did you even understand my larger point? Because your comments have branched out into a very specific tangenial subject, which I have no interest in talking about. In fact, there's nothing I can say on this except what's already been said. The article is rubbish. It is axiomic. There are some very good comments under the article itself which explain why it is rubbish.
"This reads like a liberal's didactic epistle to instruct the hidebound linguists that the lazy, ignorant and uneducated are their equals, particularly the minority youth and valley girls who might invent or redefine words to describe something because they "zoned out" during that learning opportunity in school. We mustn't judge."
As for my own words... the article purposely mixes the subject of language evolution (which is understandable) and just abandoning all the rules altogether. It is something straight out of the film "Idiocracy", and the more people stupidly embrace the notions of this article, the scarier our current reality is.
It's not just about the legal language. It's also about politicians who lie their asses off, openly, knowing the the public has long lost a sense of what the hell they're talking about. This is happening _now_.
Language doesn't have to be "complex". It just has to have agreed-on standards and meanings. And I really shouldn't have to explain or defend this. At all. To anyone.
... between "terror" and "terrible", "fuhrer" and "furor", "suffering" and "suffrage", you're ripe for being fooled and robbed by politicians at every step. And not just politicians. EULAs can use fancy words, knowing that average Joe is barely literate, and put them in various forms of electronic bondage. Credit card applications... you name it. Everything around you will take advantage of you.
Having strong grasp of language is VITAL for a society's survival. This is axiomic. There shouldn't be articles about it. It's not a controversial issue, or rather, it only becomes one when average IQ dipped low enough to warrant creating excuses for not learning the language.
But not humans? Unfortunately the contrived intravenous and electric chair methods which result in horrendous suffering are result of idiots thinking that shooting someone in the head is "gross". Well, overcome your childish sensibilities. All death is gross. But this method is humane.
As someone who migrated from former USSR... the living conditions there were very scarce when I left, and although that did change over the years, it's still no match to a civilized country like America/Germany/France/Israel/Britain/etc.
It's going to be a pretty big culture shock, and not in a good way at all. Yes, the Russian women are overwhelmingly attractive, much more so than in the United States, for example... but before you get your women and vodka you'll have to actually work for it and get your miserable salary and deal with complete corruption, bribery and deficit of produce and horrible healthcare and be generally miserable.
A lot of the so-called "modern values" are very different in Russia. Homophobia is rampant, for example.
If I had to evade prison and go to former USSR territory (for some reason), I'd probably choose Latvia. They actually seem to know what they're doing.
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... allegedly. In the late 90s I received a cease-and-desist letter from a law firm representing DWANGO, the BBS-like gaming service which allowed 4-player Doom/Heretic games over a regular modem connection.
Apparently, I allegedly wrote a DOS TSR (Terminate&Stay Resident) program which behaved similarly to AOHELL (America Online fake account creator), only under DOS. It changed the hard drive serial number, which DWANGO used to prevent you from re-registering for a free trial account, and then it called up the DWANGO login windows and typed everything in for you, as a random person with a believable name, address, and a usually valid phone number.
Of course this is entirely hearsay because I can neither confirm nor deny writing such a program, but if I did, I sure would've gotten a kick out of it.
... go to Task Manager, find its filesystem location. Terminate running process. Remove all permissions from .exe in the filesystem.
It's the only way to be sure.
I wrote a DOS game in 1996 in Turbo Pascal which used $B800:0000 textmode space to display the action. Thanks to Free Pascal I successfully ported it to Windows... of course minus the literal memory addressing and such.
Free Pascal is amazing at how it "just works" with legacy Turbo Pascal syntax where Delphi would present more trouble. Lazarus, the Free Pascal IDE, is also very resemblant of Turbo Pascal IDE, with some modern touches.
Pascal is an underrated language. It may have been designed for education, but it has many advanced features, the executables are nearly as fast as C++ ones, it compiles fast, and the runtime diagnostics are detailed and specific. It "just works".
I heard the actual exchange, and it is obvious he didn't explicitly confirm the trap question. He was talking about the larger idea of security and building his wall. The question is, did YOU hear the actual exchange, or are you being purposely obtuse. Come to think of it, the answer is, actually, irrelevant.
The exchange was a trap by the reporter, after Trump just finished a long speech and was obviously tired. And even then, from the context it is obvious that Trump shifted his response to the Trump Wall, and he was talking mainly about that.
At no point did Trump actually say "yes we need Muslim database". As for "free interpretations", well, there are a thousand databases on EVERYONE already, including suspected terrorists.
In short, the press set up Trump. And everyone including Slashdot, fell for it. The result will only be increased support for Trump, because we the people see through the media's attempts to smear him. The circus is over.
... they hammer this out eventually.
The recent shrink of middle class is created by the Obama administration, which absolutely hates the middle class. Obamacare is a wealth redistribution system disquised as a common good. Just like any previous historical attempts to distribute wealth, it suffers from a fatal flaw - the takers have no limit on how much they take, so it will bleed the middle class dry.
But thanks for your disjointed attempt at gaslighting, Mr. Lenin.
It aces artificial AV tests in performance, because by default, it only scans files by extension, which is a huge security risk. The free version makes annoying advertisement pop-ups. And in my experience it popped out vaguely threatening messages about a vague virus which neither Combofix nor MBAM nor a couple of other AV products could find.
In my experience, all free AV programs are highly suspect in their behavior, by their nature and goal. They're full of upsells, they will passive-aggressively threaten you, they will try and install PUPs themselves... etc.
It is insightful because it's 100% true. If you look at Fallout 1/2 walkthroughs, you will see the kind of non-linearity, environmental scripting depth and general feeling of freedom that no modern game provides. Fallout 3 especially was a complete corridor compared to this. In programming and design alone, the first two games are still better than ANYTHING out there. There's a CHASM of difference between "walk anywhere you want" and freedom of player agency. In a walking simulator, you'll still have to go through a series of linear mission checkpoint with no alternate choices.
As for witnessing your own birth, it's just a cutscene, and one you have to do EVERY TIME instead of just having a simple character creation screen.
Also, what is the point of "experiencing the world", if Fallout 3's writing was the worst I've ever seen in a game written by supposedly English speakers? Really, the entire gameworld was designed and written by people who's only ever written code. The NPCs are lifeless tusks with no point to their existence, none of them ever talk like real people, nothing makes sense!
Fallout 3 was so dumb, in the end you have an NPC who is resistant to radiation, and he makes YOU go into the radiation chamber. He refuses to go himself, why? Because, "it's your path and yours alone". Wait, what?
And what about the horrible UI? Loading screens upon entering every hut? Terrible combat with unbalanced VATS system? "SPECIAL" being just numbers on the screen which barely have any effect on anything in the environment, VASTLY unlike the original two games?
Moira gets exploded by a nuclear blast, instantly becomes a ghoul, and then asks you to "Not do it again, okay?" Cars filled with fuel 200 years after the war? Oversimplified, cartoonish take on the factions from the originals?
If you look at any documented Let's Play thread of Fallout 3, and you have read at least 3 books in your life, your brain will start leaking out of your ears. It is inevitable.
At least New Vegas tried to follow canon and have an actual world, and it had a ton more content, a ton more choice&consequence, SPECIAL was actually checked frequently on various occasions. Some NPCs actually behaved vaguely human! In all ways it was a far superior product.
Their program will slow down your computer with all kinds of security theater "features", but like any other antivirus, it will fail to root out most viruses written in the past 8 years once they've been executed and implanted themselves as a rootkit.
It's nice to finally meet the other Delphi programmer.
Early adopters have been singing this same tune since Windows 95 at least. It's NEVER been true. Each version of Windows is more bloated than the one before it. It's part of their development strategy.
The impression of new OS being snappier is always created by comparing the previous OS's well-worn install to the new OS's fresh, bare install, in other words, placebo effect and wishful thinking. ALWAYS.
Seriously, it was, and is, far more confusing and disorienting than Facebook ever was. It looked like a steep learning curve, to guess exactly what the privacy settings are, what "adding to circle" REALLY means, who sees WHAT, etc.
Too few explanations, too many "helpful" abstractions. Not enough intuitive responses... i.e. places you'd expect to be (redundantly but helpfully) clickable, aren't...
When it rolled out it looked like an alpha. I'm amazed that they fixed nothing since then.
... until software stops being so expensive and TV shows stop being delayed and locked down by DRM. It's that simple. Let me buy a cheap subscription, let me convert it and stream it to any device I own... or bust.
Lost 30lbs in a month. Great for keeping in shape. Natural inability to digest many junk foods, chocolate, soda, etc. It's great!*
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*Not really great
You have a very poor understanding of idioms.
Someone doesn't follow the news on immigration bills.
1) Import 30 million of illegal aliens, many of whom are illiterate not just in English but in Spanish 2) Provide them a sneaky legal path to citizenship and voting 3) Implement mandatory voting Result: Democrats win every election.
Did you even read the article? Did you even understand my larger point? Because your comments have branched out into a very specific tangenial subject, which I have no interest in talking about. In fact, there's nothing I can say on this except what's already been said. The article is rubbish. It is axiomic. There are some very good comments under the article itself which explain why it is rubbish.
"This reads like a liberal's didactic epistle to instruct the hidebound linguists that the lazy, ignorant and uneducated are their equals, particularly the minority youth and valley girls who might invent or redefine words to describe something because they "zoned out" during that learning opportunity in school. We mustn't judge."
As for my own words... the article purposely mixes the subject of language evolution (which is understandable) and just abandoning all the rules altogether. It is something straight out of the film "Idiocracy", and the more people stupidly embrace the notions of this article, the scarier our current reality is.
It's not just about the legal language. It's also about politicians who lie their asses off, openly, knowing the the public has long lost a sense of what the hell they're talking about. This is happening _now_.
Language doesn't have to be "complex". It just has to have agreed-on standards and meanings. And I really shouldn't have to explain or defend this. At all. To anyone.
... between "terror" and "terrible", "fuhrer" and "furor", "suffering" and "suffrage", you're ripe for being fooled and robbed by politicians at every step. And not just politicians. EULAs can use fancy words, knowing that average Joe is barely literate, and put them in various forms of electronic bondage. Credit card applications... you name it. Everything around you will take advantage of you.
Having strong grasp of language is VITAL for a society's survival. This is axiomic. There shouldn't be articles about it. It's not a controversial issue, or rather, it only becomes one when average IQ dipped low enough to warrant creating excuses for not learning the language.
But not humans? Unfortunately the contrived intravenous and electric chair methods which result in horrendous suffering are result of idiots thinking that shooting someone in the head is "gross". Well, overcome your childish sensibilities. All death is gross. But this method is humane.
As someone who migrated from former USSR... the living conditions there were very scarce when I left, and although that did change over the years, it's still no match to a civilized country like America/Germany/France/Israel/Britain/etc. It's going to be a pretty big culture shock, and not in a good way at all. Yes, the Russian women are overwhelmingly attractive, much more so than in the United States, for example... but before you get your women and vodka you'll have to actually work for it and get your miserable salary and deal with complete corruption, bribery and deficit of produce and horrible healthcare and be generally miserable. A lot of the so-called "modern values" are very different in Russia. Homophobia is rampant, for example. If I had to evade prison and go to former USSR territory (for some reason), I'd probably choose Latvia. They actually seem to know what they're doing.
Lawless President, lawless DOJ - what do you expect. First they came for Dotcom...