No, it's more like suing a map-maker when they produce a map that was specifically designed for (or with the intention that) it would be used for bank-robbing and similar activities, and included details pertinent to that activity.
This doesn't quite fit what's happening here either, here's why; the 'map' in this particular scenario wasn't 'specifically designed' or with the 'intentions' that it 'would be used' for bank robbing and similar activities, it's simply a map for finding locations...now what you do at and with those locations knowing what 'kind' of locations they are before hand...is YOUR civil responsibility, NOT the map makers.
Make sense? Although I can totally understand you're devils advocation:)
The point of the book is to make people aware of the gradual attrition of human rights via subtle nuances and ideals put in place by the powers that be.
You don't defuse a bomb after it's gone off, but more so pay attention to the signs that a bomb is being built and put into place......you idiot.
...I'm in shock how many of the replies to this topic lack the basic knowledge that YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT UNDERAGE DRINKING IS TAKING PLACE WITH PHOTOGRAPHS, how the hell can you prove what's in the containers to begin with?
I'm sure even the cops are going "wow these parents are stupid for letting schools get away with this nonsense"
This is abuse of power by the school system.
It is the job of law enforcement to do this, not the school...what these kids do on their own time IS NONE OF THE SCHOOLS BUSINESS and this is further compounded if it is a state school as oppose to a private one.
When are parents going to GROW SOME FUCKING BALLS and start being responsible for their spawn!?
Most engines cannot handle large open spaces, this includes Valve's source engine. A lot of them do not support dynamic content and require a tonne of pre-rendering to get the effects and looks you desire - which second life just cannot do due to how dynamic the world is.
Yeah, I figured this would have been one of the many reasons. Second Life already takes an ungodly amount of time to load, I find that valve's engine's aren't too bad though...well wait, nah you're right...Half Life II level load times were horrendous as well, give and take I guess.
Also, I wouldn't call Second life a game. It is not very attractive for the interests of a gamer in my opinion as it is meant to be more of the 80s/90s stereotypical virtual reality.
That is an interesting point, and perhaps I am expecting too much of a gaming style interface, thereby causing bias in my opinion of it's controls & interface
If you want to see some better graphics, I suggest you use the windlight client. Things look a lot better there, but, you will need a pretty beefy machine to handle it.
I will give that a shot. What do you consider beefy? I'm running 1gig of PC3200 / 1.4 Gig Sempron / Ati Radeon All in Wonder Pro.
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I've always found that the only real problems I with second life...is the atrociously shitty graphics and world interface. The concept to me...is just an extension of the newer GTA Series. (I'm not sure which came first, I do apologize)
If a world engine much like Grand Theft Auto San Andreas was used, I think the game would attract many more 'serious' gamers.
Then again, perhaps this isn't feasible due to the size of the world within Second Life?
I agree with you though...I've tried getting into the game on a number of occasions, and I just can't bear using such horrible crappy controls / character movement combined with a doof-tard interface with vomit inducing graphics and object interfaces.
If this becomes standard, I'm not using PDFs anymore. Plain and simple. This whole "ahh we got you hooked on a format, ADVERTISEMENT TIME! MUAHAHAHA" attitude by software vendors is...retarded.
What a bunch of morons, way to kill off a document format...Adobe Tards (tm)
Also, you can't reasonably expect any privacy in email unless you encrypt its contents.
Amen to that. I've advocated this for years to my friends and family.
I will admit though, that this attempt by 'The Bushidiots' is grotesque, and nothing but another attempt to suppress free speech.
It cracks me up how much Bush can hate Castro, yet...his administration makes requests such as these?
This coming election could not come any SOONER, and I am refusing to vote by electronic ballot. Paper only. Period.
That's the simplest way to not eat this shit. You don't have to be held hostage.
There are other methods...perhaps not as convenient or well priced, but with this kind of nonsense going on these days...I'm willing to pay a much higher price to a company for service that is ethically based more-so (or at least better balanced) than strictly capital focused (yes...these kinds of companies still exist...contrary to popular belief), and with customer service that actually respects and values the customer instead of treating them like cattle which need to be herded or silenced when disgruntled.
I have hated Verizon from day one...the more I read about Comcast...the more it seems as if they share business strategies while playing mini-golf...as for AT&T a.k.a The DeathStar of the telco Universe...it's the Grand-Daddy of this abusive customer service mentality which seems to have been rearing it's ugly head recently.
This is kind of pathetic really but, IMHO, until it becomes PROFITABLE to be honest and sincere as a corporation...these executive types will never change their attitude or behaviour.
Anyone stupid enough to put this kind of information into the hands of Google, deserves all the horrid effects of the information security mis-haps that are on the horizon.
...people can barely deal with having their credit card numbers stolen and credit history ruined as a result of whack purchases etc...and they expect people to be receptive to this?
Come on...this is asking for trouble, and makes it quite clear, more so than any other service Google has offered, that Google is strictly into data mining information from the stupid.
This is going to take hacking and personal information security into a whole new dimension...
The Home Office has steadfastly proclaimed that the law is aimed at catching terrorists, pedophiles, and hardened criminals--all parties which the UK government contends are rather adept at using encryption to cover up their activities
...then why don't they craft the law to focus the demand to be available by law enforcement only when the case falls into any of the above classifications...instead of creating this insanely overgeneralized law with an insanely high potential for abuse by insane megalomaniacal law enforcement officials.
Yeah, as time goes on, I'm going to eventually move all the internet connected machines to linux and put the graphic work stations on the inside / proxy.
So, if it were an external firewall, say via a router, that was instructed to block all incoming requests from specified servers...could that be a possible solution?
I ask because I've got about four machines in a sign shop, one is running XP, and I'm in the midst of re-configuring our router to avoid this nonsense.
First off because the story line is absolute dog excrement, the game play and controls...suck hot dogs, and secondly, it's a morphed crap version of a product that Bungi Studios (before Satan(tm) bought them out) was doing good with called Marathon (http://www.amazon.com/Marathon-Infinity-Mac/dp/B0 0079WF16), anyone remember that?
Halo, is a DIRECT copy of the leftover bits of Marathon. Microsoft did what they always do to great ideas they inherit from companies they buy out: take existing great ideas, piss and crap on them, generate hype and then sell the trash.
This is the most thorough and direct explanation of the phenomenon that has been taking place in America post 9/11. I wanted to say post G.W. Bush induction, but it's not so much him or his lack of leadership skills in the least, but moreso his unscrupulous attempts to capitalize off of September 11th, while lining the pockets of his corporate buddies.
You beat me to asking the very same question, I look forward to the replies that will follow.
This all seems really really...creepy
And before someone goes off about how every modern advancement of science has been called creepy by some activist group or individual...you have to admit...this takes it to a whole new level.
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I reformatted it and downgraded. Not to ME, but to Win2000, which it still runs fine.
Amen to that.
Server 2003 has been doing me just fine for everything from gaming to graphic design...it's perfect. Screw XP, screw Vista.
I'm slowly making the transition to using Linux full time.
No, it's more like suing a map-maker when they produce a map that was specifically designed for (or with the intention that) it would be used for bank-robbing and similar activities, and included details pertinent to that activity.
:)
This doesn't quite fit what's happening here either, here's why; the 'map' in this particular scenario wasn't 'specifically designed' or with the 'intentions' that it 'would be used' for bank robbing and similar activities, it's simply a map for finding locations...now what you do at and with those locations knowing what 'kind' of locations they are before hand...is YOUR civil responsibility, NOT the map makers.
Make sense? Although I can totally understand you're devils advocation
The point of the book is to make people aware of the gradual attrition of human rights via subtle nuances and ideals put in place by the powers that be.
...you idiot.
You don't defuse a bomb after it's gone off, but more so pay attention to the signs that a bomb is being built and put into place...
...I'm in shock how many of the replies to this topic lack the basic knowledge that YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT UNDERAGE DRINKING IS TAKING PLACE WITH PHOTOGRAPHS, how the hell can you prove what's in the containers to begin with?
I'm sure even the cops are going "wow these parents are stupid for letting schools get away with this nonsense"
This is abuse of power by the school system.
It is the job of law enforcement to do this, not the school...what these kids do on their own time IS NONE OF THE SCHOOLS BUSINESS and this is further compounded if it is a state school as oppose to a private one.
When are parents going to GROW SOME FUCKING BALLS and start being responsible for their spawn!?
Most engines cannot handle large open spaces, this includes Valve's source engine. A lot of them do not support dynamic content and require a tonne of pre-rendering to get the effects and looks you desire - which second life just cannot do due to how dynamic the world is.
Yeah, I figured this would have been one of the many reasons. Second Life already takes an ungodly amount of time to load, I find that valve's engine's aren't too bad though...well wait, nah you're right...Half Life II level load times were horrendous as well, give and take I guess.
Also, I wouldn't call Second life a game. It is not very attractive for the interests of a gamer in my opinion as it is meant to be more of the 80s/90s stereotypical virtual reality.
That is an interesting point, and perhaps I am expecting too much of a gaming style interface, thereby causing bias in my opinion of it's controls & interface If you want to see some better graphics, I suggest you use the windlight client. Things look a lot better there, but, you will need a pretty beefy machine to handle it.
I will give that a shot. What do you consider beefy? I'm running 1gig of PC3200 / 1.4 Gig Sempron / Ati Radeon All in Wonder Pro. --
I've always found that the only real problems I with second life...is the atrociously shitty graphics and world interface. The concept to me...is just an extension of the newer GTA Series. (I'm not sure which came first, I do apologize)
If a world engine much like Grand Theft Auto San Andreas was used, I think the game would attract many more 'serious' gamers.
Then again, perhaps this isn't feasible due to the size of the world within Second Life?
I agree with you though...I've tried getting into the game on a number of occasions, and I just can't bear using such horrible crappy controls / character movement combined with a doof-tard interface with vomit inducing graphics and object interfaces.
If this becomes standard, I'm not using PDFs anymore. Plain and simple. This whole "ahh we got you hooked on a format, ADVERTISEMENT TIME! MUAHAHAHA" attitude by software vendors is...retarded.
What a bunch of morons, way to kill off a document format...Adobe Tards (tm)
Also, you can't reasonably expect any privacy in email unless you encrypt its contents. Amen to that. I've advocated this for years to my friends and family.
I will admit though, that this attempt by 'The Bushidiots' is grotesque, and nothing but another attempt to suppress free speech.
It cracks me up how much Bush can hate Castro, yet...his administration makes requests such as these?
This coming election could not come any SOONER, and I am refusing to vote by electronic ballot. Paper only. Period.
Do not use their services.
That's the simplest way to not eat this shit. You don't have to be held hostage.
There are other methods...perhaps not as convenient or well priced, but with this kind of nonsense going on these days...I'm willing to pay a much higher price to a company for service that is ethically based more-so (or at least better balanced) than strictly capital focused (yes...these kinds of companies still exist...contrary to popular belief), and with customer service that actually respects and values the customer instead of treating them like cattle which need to be herded or silenced when disgruntled.
I have hated Verizon from day one...the more I read about Comcast...the more it seems as if they share business strategies while playing mini-golf...as for AT&T a.k.a The DeathStar of the telco Universe...it's the Grand-Daddy of this abusive customer service mentality which seems to have been rearing it's ugly head recently.
This is kind of pathetic really but, IMHO, until it becomes PROFITABLE to be honest and sincere as a corporation...these executive types will never change their attitude or behaviour.
...so sorry.
Fuck Apple
This is more horrendous bullshit, from a hardware manufacturer trying to hold it's consumers / customers hostage...to the world's shittiest telco.
There is NO device that has functionality SO GREAT...that would make me jump through hoops such as this nonsense.
When are people going to wake up?
Anyone stupid enough to put this kind of information into the hands of Google, deserves all the horrid effects of the information security mis-haps that are on the horizon.
...people can barely deal with having their credit card numbers stolen and credit history ruined as a result of whack purchases etc...and they expect people to be receptive to this?
Come on...this is asking for trouble, and makes it quite clear, more so than any other service Google has offered, that Google is strictly into data mining information from the stupid.
This is going to take hacking and personal information security into a whole new dimension...
...buying Sony products all together, a long time ago. I advise anyone else who thinks this is absolute foolishness, to stop as well.
They only have as much power / money as you give them.
This situation has gotten way way out of control.
The Home Office has steadfastly proclaimed that the law is aimed at catching terrorists, pedophiles, and hardened criminals--all parties which the UK government contends are rather adept at using encryption to cover up their activities
...then why don't they craft the law to focus the demand to be available by law enforcement only when the case falls into any of the above classifications...instead of creating this insanely overgeneralized law with an insanely high potential for abuse by insane megalomaniacal law enforcement officials.
...Google should have been doing from the beginning.
Yeah, as time goes on, I'm going to eventually move all the internet connected machines to linux and put the graphic work stations on the inside / proxy.
Thanks for your help.
Understood.
So, if it were an external firewall, say via a router, that was instructed to block all incoming requests from specified servers...could that be a possible solution?
I ask because I've got about four machines in a sign shop, one is running XP, and I'm in the midst of re-configuring our router to avoid this nonsense.
...Wouldn't a simple firewall (such a Kerio personal firewall etc.) have picked this up?
"Microsoft states that 'some of what we are seeing is expected behavior, and some of it is not'"
If it was expected...then why didn't you fix the 'some of it' that you were expecting...before it happened?
Thats quite an odd comment for them to make...
(I apologize for this being a little off-topic)
I agree with you wholeheartedly, it's just funny that our special interests governed government of the USA doesn't understand this when it comes to:
Some plants that grow in the dirt.
Just wait for it, the word of the decade (terrorism) is going to come up in just a matter of time...you watch.
...who can't stand this game?
0 0079WF16), anyone remember that?
First off because the story line is absolute dog excrement, the game play and controls...suck hot dogs, and secondly, it's a morphed crap version of a product that Bungi Studios (before Satan(tm) bought them out) was doing good with called Marathon (http://www.amazon.com/Marathon-Infinity-Mac/dp/B
Halo, is a DIRECT copy of the leftover bits of Marathon. Microsoft did what they always do to great ideas they inherit from companies they buy out: take existing great ideas, piss and crap on them, generate hype and then sell the trash.
Yeah, you can flame me now...
After seeing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I
I give much more weight to that statement than I ever would have before.
You are an incredible writer.
This is the most thorough and direct explanation of the phenomenon that has been taking place in America post 9/11. I wanted to say post G.W. Bush induction, but it's not so much him or his lack of leadership skills in the least, but moreso his unscrupulous attempts to capitalize off of September 11th, while lining the pockets of his corporate buddies.
No thanks...I'd much rather be eaten by the (possible) dragon in that cave or deal with truly understanding the ways of The Penguin ;)
You beat me to asking the very same question, I look forward to the replies that will follow.
This all seems really really...creepy
And before someone goes off about how every modern advancement of science has been called creepy by some activist group or individual...you have to admit...this takes it to a whole new level.