Nearly everybody has a poor understanding of technology. It doesn't matter what Joe Anybody knows or doesn't know about current technology. At worst, he'll catch a virus, or have some credit charges rung up in his name. Senators and Representatives have the capacity to do much worse in their ignorance.
To look at the damage that can be done with limited understanding of a system, just look at some of the medical practices of the victorian era.
A confirmed, unannounced game? "Yeah, we're DEFINITELY working on SOMETHING..."
Let's look at Blizzard's history: # The Lost Vikings (1992) # Rock & Roll Racing (1993) # Blackthorne (1994) # The Death and Return of Superman (1994) # Warcraft (1994) # The Lost Vikings II (1995) # Warcraft II (1995) # Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal (1996) # Diablo (1996) # StarCraft (1998) # StarCraft: Brood War (1998) # Diablo II (2000) # Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (2001) # Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002) # Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (2003) # World of Warcraft (2004) # World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (2007)
Until WoW, we're seeing a game or expansion (and Blizzard's expansions are usually pretty large) every year, except '97 and '99. And a new franchise or full-fledged sequel every two years.
Since WoW? Two years+ and nothing new, including expansions. Probably not a new game until at least 2008. So we're looking at at least a four year gap between new games from Blizzard. That's half their already-slow (in the gaming industry, at least) output.
Blizzard is one of the solid-gold gaming companies out there. They're tied up making mmorpgs (ok..and cash, hand-over-fist) instead of making games I want to play. C'mon, where's Diablo 3? Where's the new, exciting property? I know there are only so many talented designers out there, and they're tied up feeding the cash cow. But take a few of them off WoW and put them on something the rest of us want to play.
You mean captchas? captchas won't fool a keylogger. The important stuff will already have been recorded.
However if the captcha is "Which one of these is your mother?" or some other piece of info that is specific to you, then that would make the data thief's job a little harder.
The using the randomly-ordered on-screen keypad to enter data is a pretty clever solution, though.
You're incorrect. Lucas's biggest weakness is his directing. He had a talented cast of experienced actors capable of delivering whatever performance he requested. Unfortunately, he wanted wooden, uninspiring performances. So that's what he, and we, got.
it is difficult to keep a list of CD's wich should not be sold to minors
It's super easy to keep a list of what can be sold to minors. Just blacklist the UPC, and get the register to query for the buyers birthdate before continuing. The same thing happens with any alchoholic beverage at the grocery store.
If given the option between a clean or explicit version of the same album, Wal-Mart will carry only the clean version.
It has going for it: a unified source (no mirror-hunting), no Fileplanet-like bullshit queues, and decent speeds. Static hardware also means that demos are probably going to be more stable on the 360 than a PC, though honestly I've not had too many demo stability problems in the last few years.
I admit, it's not as flexible as what's been available on PC for years, but it's a step in the right direction. It's much better than paying $7.99 for a demo disk packaged with old news and generic commentary.
Making sweeping judgements from a 101 textbook is inaccurate in any field. No one is arguing with S. Hawking using the Newtonian stuff you learn in Physics 101. No one is writing enterprise software using the techniques from CIS101 (well, some people are, but that's a different rant). So why is it that you're using introductory concepts to diagnose a ridiclously complicated system?
Predicting macroeconomics, or even fiding causal relationships is a craps game. While many of us computer scientists would like to be able to point to a book somewhere and say "No! NO! It's teh linear! RTFM!", that simply is not the case.
GW is awesome and all. But playing with your SO on the PC requires two computers capable of playing the game, in addition to two copies of the game (usually). You're going to have to drop at least 500 clams for a computer capable of playing GW.
Some people can do this. Personally, I'm still in the process of paying off our loans/credit card bills from school, and don't have the spare cash laying around.
I do, however, have a copy of Guitar Hero. GH is the gateway game. I'm thinking that after this, I can get her into some light RPGs and away from (shudder) sitcoms on DVD.
The Terminator games had, way back then, mouselook and player-drivable vehicles. You could also play as a terminator during multiplayer. Not just a different skin, but with a palpable change in gameplay.
There were some bugs, yes. But I remember putting hours and hours into both Daggerfall and Terminator: Future Shock. They did things that no one else did.
It runs on browsers that don't have the Flash plugin installed.
No, I'm not being a smartass. It situations where the plugin may not be installed, such as a public terminal, AJAX would work as long as JavaScript was enabled.
There's a lot of stuff that Flash can do that AJAX can't right now. Animation, specificaly. However, there's been some work put into the CANVAS tag (inc. having one available for IE) that can handle some pretty cool animation stuff without requiring a plugin.
Perhaps you're just not as sensitive to the interruption since you're not shelling out a ridiculous amount of cash to see the movie.
At one point in the not so distant past, my wife worked at a movie theatre. As such, I could see as many movies as I pleased for free. I remember leaving satisfied by even mediocre movies (Riddick). Now I have to spend $20 just for tickets for the two of us to see a movie. I'm more aware of conversations and ringing phones than previously. It's now far less likely for me to feel I got my money's worth after a night at the movies.
It's just a trophy domain. Because it's too generic. Think about it, what service can you possibly sell there? I'm being serious. Sex is a highly specific thing with millions of "products", "choices". What would you expect to find at money.com or at drugs.com or at people.com? Nothing but a catch-all umbrella portal for other sites, so why go there and not directly to the specific flavour you're after, which is what a search engine is for anyway. Some poor sucker just paid 13,999,999 dollars too much for nothing useful.
A Trophy domain is exactly what you want. Pay for click banners, AdSense, and favorable linking practices net you, oh, $500,000 a month. It doesn't necessarily work under the old system, but it's a thriving internet business.
Take a look at the Belkin Nostromo N52. My wireless keyboard didn't always understand when I was holding a key down. I'd have to let off, then press it down again. Really bad news in just about every type of game. I'd notice it the most in the W key when using WASD.
So I needed a wired keypad that didn't take up a bunch of real estate. It fits the bill. Nice and snappy, and programmable as hell. It's got shift modes and macros galore. I love it.
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Or perhaps he purchased CallerID to see who was calling. Picking up spammers is just a little something extra.
Nearly everybody has a poor understanding of technology. It doesn't matter what Joe Anybody knows or doesn't know about current technology. At worst, he'll catch a virus, or have some credit charges rung up in his name. Senators and Representatives have the capacity to do much worse in their ignorance.
To look at the damage that can be done with limited understanding of a system, just look at some of the medical practices of the victorian era.
A confirmed, unannounced game? "Yeah, we're DEFINITELY working on SOMETHING..."
Let's look at Blizzard's history:
# The Lost Vikings (1992)
# Rock & Roll Racing (1993)
# Blackthorne (1994)
# The Death and Return of Superman (1994)
# Warcraft (1994)
# The Lost Vikings II (1995)
# Warcraft II (1995)
# Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal (1996)
# Diablo (1996)
# StarCraft (1998)
# StarCraft: Brood War (1998)
# Diablo II (2000)
# Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (2001)
# Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002)
# Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (2003)
# World of Warcraft (2004)
# World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (2007)
Until WoW, we're seeing a game or expansion (and Blizzard's expansions are usually pretty large) every year, except '97 and '99. And a new franchise or full-fledged sequel every two years.
Since WoW? Two years+ and nothing new, including expansions. Probably not a new game until at least 2008. So we're looking at at least a four year gap between new games from Blizzard. That's half their already-slow (in the gaming industry, at least) output.
Blizzard is one of the solid-gold gaming companies out there. They're tied up making mmorpgs (ok..and cash, hand-over-fist) instead of making games I want to play. C'mon, where's Diablo 3? Where's the new, exciting property? I know there are only so many talented designers out there, and they're tied up feeding the cash cow. But take a few of them off WoW and put them on something the rest of us want to play.
--Compulsion
You mean captchas? captchas won't fool a keylogger. The important stuff will already have been recorded.
However if the captcha is "Which one of these is your mother?" or some other piece of info that is specific to you, then that would make the data thief's job a little harder.
The using the randomly-ordered on-screen keypad to enter data is a pretty clever solution, though.
Lucas's biggest weakness is his writing...
You're incorrect. Lucas's biggest weakness is his directing. He had a talented cast of experienced actors capable of delivering whatever performance he requested. Unfortunately, he wanted wooden, uninspiring performances. So that's what he, and we, got.
.crp most likely
Ctrl-[ is also escape in vim. I use that FAR more than Esc. I don't have to move my fingers from the home keys.
it is difficult to keep a list of CD's wich should not be sold to minors
It's super easy to keep a list of what can be sold to minors. Just blacklist the UPC, and get the register to query for the buyers birthdate before continuing. The same thing happens with any alchoholic beverage at the grocery store.If given the option between a clean or explicit version of the same album, Wal-Mart will carry only the clean version.
--Compulsion
I don't know what they'll be doing IN college. But once they're OUT they will spend all their otherwise-productive hours browsing /.
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It has going for it: a unified source (no mirror-hunting), no Fileplanet-like bullshit queues, and decent speeds. Static hardware also means that demos are probably going to be more stable on the 360 than a PC, though honestly I've not had too many demo stability problems in the last few years.
I admit, it's not as flexible as what's been available on PC for years, but it's a step in the right direction. It's much better than paying $7.99 for a demo disk packaged with old news and generic commentary.
Making sweeping judgements from a 101 textbook is inaccurate in any field. No one is arguing with S. Hawking using the Newtonian stuff you learn in Physics 101. No one is writing enterprise software using the techniques from CIS101 (well, some people are, but that's a different rant). So why is it that you're using introductory concepts to diagnose a ridiclously complicated system?
Predicting macroeconomics, or even fiding causal relationships is a craps game. While many of us computer scientists would like to be able to point to a book somewhere and say "No! NO! It's teh linear! RTFM!", that simply is not the case.
You need to check your definition of theft. One needs to have deprived the owner of the item for it to be defined as stolen.
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http://www.active.com/story.cfm?story_id=10296&si
Nice try. But you can't fool us. You're posting on Slashdot. Therefore, you've never had to pay $20 to go to the movies. Unless you took your mom out.
GW is awesome and all. But playing with your SO on the PC requires two computers capable of playing the game, in addition to two copies of the game (usually). You're going to have to drop at least 500 clams for a computer capable of playing GW.
Some people can do this. Personally, I'm still in the process of paying off our loans/credit card bills from school, and don't have the spare cash laying around.
I do, however, have a copy of Guitar Hero. GH is the gateway game. I'm thinking that after this, I can get her into some light RPGs and away from (shudder) sitcoms on DVD.
The Terminator games had, way back then, mouselook and player-drivable vehicles. You could also play as a terminator during multiplayer. Not just a different skin, but with a palpable change in gameplay.
There were some bugs, yes. But I remember putting hours and hours into both Daggerfall and Terminator: Future Shock. They did things that no one else did.
--Compulsion
Alert the media, sure. Just not FOX news.
If this is what you're referring to, they were very small worms, not bacteria. I'm sure there was some bacteria in there, though.
It runs on browsers that don't have the Flash plugin installed.
No, I'm not being a smartass. It situations where the plugin may not be installed, such as a public terminal, AJAX would work as long as JavaScript was enabled.
There's a lot of stuff that Flash can do that AJAX can't right now. Animation, specificaly. However, there's been some work put into the CANVAS tag (inc. having one available for IE) that can handle some pretty cool animation stuff without requiring a plugin.
We're not subjected to their landline on the bus, in the restaurant, in the movie, at church, etc...
Perhaps you're just not as sensitive to the interruption since you're not shelling out a ridiculous amount of cash to see the movie.
At one point in the not so distant past, my wife worked at a movie theatre. As such, I could see as many movies as I pleased for free. I remember leaving satisfied by even mediocre movies (Riddick). Now I have to spend $20 just for tickets for the two of us to see a movie. I'm more aware of conversations and ringing phones than previously. It's now far less likely for me to feel I got my money's worth after a night at the movies.
It's just a trophy domain. Because it's too generic. Think about it, what service can you possibly sell there? I'm being serious. Sex is a highly specific thing with millions of "products", "choices". What would you expect to find at money.com or at drugs.com or at people.com? Nothing but a catch-all umbrella portal for other sites, so why go there and not directly to the specific flavour you're after, which is what a search engine is for anyway. Some poor sucker just paid 13,999,999 dollars too much for nothing useful.
A Trophy domain is exactly what you want. Pay for click banners, AdSense, and favorable linking practices net you, oh, $500,000 a month. It doesn't necessarily work under the old system, but it's a thriving internet business.
Take a look at the Belkin Nostromo N52. My wireless keyboard didn't always understand when I was holding a key down. I'd have to let off, then press it down again. Really bad news in just about every type of game. I'd notice it the most in the W key when using WASD.
So I needed a wired keypad that didn't take up a bunch of real estate. It fits the bill. Nice and snappy, and programmable as hell. It's got shift modes and macros galore. I love it.
--Compulsion
But with a huge loss of accuracy. Even the most hardcore dual-analog player will admit that the mouse gives more control than the thumbpad.