I should be able to run games that already have cd-keys for online-only play without requiring that I keep the CD in the drive while playing!
Just a heads up, World of Warcraft works such that you don't need to have the CD in to open/play the game. All that the CD's are needed for is installing.
there's nothing going on with XP except for service packs/bugfixes Uhhh, isn't that all that ever goes on with any development after its release?
On the rest, I completely agree, expect that I disagree on some parts.
The vector based display is GREAT. This has been happening in games for a long time, I was wondering how long it would take to evolve onto the desktop environment.
As of currently, though, everything else has not been implemeted in any of the alpha releases, so I can't comment on whether or not those work or suck. Esentially, the Alpha Longhorn release is XP with a different color scheme, and slightly different log-in screen. Also, the "security center" has returned to it's W2K form, where there are several options to select from, rather than simply giving the task manager.
As for the W95 part, that was true for a small amount of time. Shortly after, when W98 became good, W98 SE became a very popular OS. Microsoft has since done a lot to upgrade W2K, which is what I currently use. Of course, it helps that most mal-ware is targeted at XP, and not W2K.
But this still brings up the work-around of downloading. Kids could still download a game and their id cards wouldn't stop that.
As with most things (crime being the most obvious one), the only way to enforce something like this to the fullest extent is to have a police state. This simply will not happen in the US, so the downloading of games would not be made imposible, and we'd be back to where we are today, wodering why a kid got hold of a game when s/he is under age.
find it increasingly suspicious that these stories always start with "A friend of a friend's PC..." or "My Mom's PC..."
Not in my case. Having no firewall, but only anti-virus software allowed me to, one day, leave myself online for about 7 hours, and view the kind of things that happened. Over 200 different virus-has-been-blocked windows were waiting for me when I came back. Not to mention the other mal-ware that were uncovered with a subsequent scan with Ad-Aware and Spybot.
I disagree. A computer can be used to enhance the teaching environment, if used correctly. I do however realize that this will not always happen. But, why can the computers not be used for aiding the teaching process. A power-point of notes that you are explaining, allowing the kids both visual, written, and audio versions of the information.
Even if the computers are not used for teaching, they are used for grades. This by far speeds the process of getting grades back to the kids. It also has led to teachers putting grades online (passworded) so that students and their parents can, at any point, look up each individual grade that has been entered. This allows for parents to get more involved in the guiding of their kids, realizing when grades are falling, before it's too late to pull them up.
At my school, we are learning python, with the help of the livewires package. It's great for beginner programers, as it's taught for the computer science 1 class.
Not that this much matters to the performence of the systems, but I can't help but notice the unoriginal names that the Sony and Microsoft systems have.
"Playstation 3" - that's VERY original. "X-Box Next" - there's the X-Box word in the next console again. "Revolution" - That's something new, original; much better than "Gamecube 2" or whatever.
I mean, come on guys, pick a good name for your creation!
At least read the stuff about what the software does before you critize it. Saying that it does nothing? It's only made (so far) to protect you from 8 families of malware, so an anti-virus program will probably do everything thier stuff does.
This article sugests a company to intern at, but, as is the same everywhere else I look, they all require you to be in college or graduate school. It seems to be impossible to find an internship for high school students, and was wondering if anyone here may know any place(s) where I could search for high school internships.
well, if were available on consoles, it wouldn't look very good.
One of the main reasons I have restricted myself to PC games, is that they look so much better than console games. Why? The obvious one is the resolution. 1600x1200 looks far superior to 640x480. Unless WoW is restricted to 640x480 (as Blizzard has been known to do, see Diablo 2), I wouldn't get it for console.
The answer is yes. Fedora 3 uses a government level of security. The FBI (or was it CIA, they're all the same) created their own linux version, with their own level of security (think ultra-high). Since it had to be open-source, that security has been added into Core 3. I don't know much more else about it, except that you have full control over each file's security settings, haven't had much time to really look in to it.
I know what acceleration is, but what is deceleration? If you meant negative acceleration, than I understand what you are talking about. A fact that nobody seems to understand is that de means opposite. There is no such thing as the opposite of acceleration, but only acceleration in a different direction, usually behind you. This is negative acceleration, and nothing else. In my physics class you would be reprimanded for saying the d word.
The *real* crime of 9/11 had nothing to do with Bush, but rather with the link between the FAA and NORAD.
While this may or may not be true (I don't have 30 minutes to research it now), there is not much that NORAD can do about it. NORAD was set up during the Cold War to spot nukes from other countries (stares at Russia). On 9/11, NORAD still only had the capability to look mostly into other parts of the world, and was blind to almost all of the US. There isn't much that they could have done anyway.
But about the time one jet has crashed into a building and 3 more are known hijacked, we should have been into Full Response, instead of confusion.
(taken from something that I saw on PBS about 9/11, not exact quote) On 9/11, there were 4 (count 'em, four!) fighter jets patroling the entire east coast of the United States. There were other jets (about 6, I think) in the air, but they were running training missions, and not armed with anything. A good response time for a fighter to be in the air was around 10-15 minutes, and then the planes would have to have flown hundreds of miles, at which point it would have been too late to stop the planes.
But then again, the famed 7-minute pause was *after* the 2nd jet crashed into the WTC. So even had he calmly stood up, excused himself, and taken/delegated control, it was too late.
ummm, hello? There were TWO MORE PLANES that had been hijacked. If there had been more, would it still have been too late to help stop them?
That is not the only point. As President, you must at least show decisiveness (which Bush has since prided himself on, see Iraq), and sitting in a room, not doing anything for 7 minutes is not acceptable (although people can debate this, it depends on what you think a leader of a country under attack should do).
Whatever happened to Truman's, "The Buck Stops Here?"
There is an obvious problem with the pay-per-month method. The average cable user gets about 500KB/s (maybe more, I'm going moderatly). The average song at CD quality is 4MB's. That is 324,000 songs in a 30 day month. That's a lot of songs for a one month fee, which probably won't be $320,760, I'm guessing.
...while the average citizen = default settings, usually insecure.Sitting in my home in my room with my new college laptop, playing Warcraft FT, it suddenly minimizes, to my amazment, with a dialog window saying "You may connect to the following wireless networks, yadda yadda yadda," and there were four networks, w/ SSID of D-Link, and linksys, w/out WEP, or 802.1x encription. Not even trying to wardrive for networks, four pop up and say, "JOIN ME, JOIN ME!!!!" If I had proper utilities, i could be bouncing off the four servers, and even the above average user probably wouldn't be able to see it.Note: I live in a suburb of Washington DC, so DC must not be tech savvy.
that's no excuse!
All the GTA games are out on PC, and as long as you don't have a four year old computer, you'll have no problem running them. They usually look better on PC than on your TV, when the settings are up at 1024x768x32+
I haven't done any of these myself, but I've seen people who've attached flashy lights to their TV whenever they turn it on, and equip wheelie chairs with fire extinguishers (rocket chairs).
If the cops come busting into my local gym because somebody told them that Locker #514 has dope in it and they have a warrant to search said locker can they seize the entire bank of lockers because the owner couldn't find the key in time? Could they then charge me (the user of locker #515) if they found something incriminating in my locker when they never had permission to search it in the first place?
hmmm...You're right
It is highly likely that by siezing all machines and data of a commercial data center, that they have deprived several customer of their due process of law (5th) and freedom from search and siezure (4th).
Unfortuantly, neither of these are true. Due process is removed when a legal warrent has been disclosed. Also, the 4th amendment, search and siezure, is only disallowed when there is no warrent.
.....in that everyone uses it, and everyone HAS used it for the past five years, or longer. People trust it, and that is something that just doesn't vanish.
Plus, they HAVE done new things, such as google news.
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I should be able to run games that already have cd-keys for online-only play without requiring that I keep the CD in the drive while playing!
Just a heads up, World of Warcraft works such that you don't need to have the CD in to open/play the game. All that the CD's are needed for is installing.
Well, that's just shite interface programming. Other apps don't suck 60MB to display a window.
Try having the AIM buddy list window open, and then closing it. See how much memory is saved!
there's nothing going on with XP except for service packs/bugfixes
Uhhh, isn't that all that ever goes on with any development after its release?
On the rest, I completely agree, expect that I disagree on some parts.
The vector based display is GREAT. This has been happening in games for a long time, I was wondering how long it would take to evolve onto the desktop environment.
As of currently, though, everything else has not been implemeted in any of the alpha releases, so I can't comment on whether or not those work or suck. Esentially, the Alpha Longhorn release is XP with a different color scheme, and slightly different log-in screen. Also, the "security center" has returned to it's W2K form, where there are several options to select from, rather than simply giving the task manager.
As for the W95 part, that was true for a small amount of time. Shortly after, when W98 became good, W98 SE became a very popular OS. Microsoft has since done a lot to upgrade W2K, which is what I currently use. Of course, it helps that most mal-ware is targeted at XP, and not W2K.
But this still brings up the work-around of downloading. Kids could still download a game and their id cards wouldn't stop that.
As with most things (crime being the most obvious one), the only way to enforce something like this to the fullest extent is to have a police state. This simply will not happen in the US, so the downloading of games would not be made imposible, and we'd be back to where we are today, wodering why a kid got hold of a game when s/he is under age.
find it increasingly suspicious that these stories always start with "A friend of a friend's PC..." or "My Mom's PC..."
Not in my case. Having no firewall, but only anti-virus software allowed me to, one day, leave myself online for about 7 hours, and view the kind of things that happened. Over 200 different virus-has-been-blocked windows were waiting for me when I came back. Not to mention the other mal-ware that were uncovered with a subsequent scan with Ad-Aware and Spybot.
I disagree. A computer can be used to enhance the teaching environment, if used correctly. I do however realize that this will not always happen. But, why can the computers not be used for aiding the teaching process. A power-point of notes that you are explaining, allowing the kids both visual, written, and audio versions of the information.
Even if the computers are not used for teaching, they are used for grades. This by far speeds the process of getting grades back to the kids. It also has led to teachers putting grades online (passworded) so that students and their parents can, at any point, look up each individual grade that has been entered. This allows for parents to get more involved in the guiding of their kids, realizing when grades are falling, before it's too late to pull them up.
At my school, we are learning python, with the help of the livewires package. It's great for beginner programers, as it's taught for the computer science 1 class.
Not that this much matters to the performence of the systems, but I can't help but notice the unoriginal names that the Sony and Microsoft systems have.
"Playstation 3" - that's VERY original.
"X-Box Next" - there's the X-Box word in the next console again.
"Revolution" - That's something new, original; much better than "Gamecube 2" or whatever.
I mean, come on guys, pick a good name for your creation!
At least read the stuff about what the software does before you critize it. Saying that it does nothing? It's only made (so far) to protect you from 8 families of malware, so an anti-virus program will probably do everything thier stuff does.
This article sugests a company to intern at, but, as is the same everywhere else I look, they all require you to be in college or graduate school. It seems to be impossible to find an internship for high school students, and was wondering if anyone here may know any place(s) where I could search for high school internships.
/Not exactly on topic
//Probably too late anyway
well, if were available on consoles, it wouldn't look very good.
One of the main reasons I have restricted myself to PC games, is that they look so much better than console games. Why? The obvious one is the resolution. 1600x1200 looks far superior to 640x480. Unless WoW is restricted to 640x480 (as Blizzard has been known to do, see Diablo 2), I wouldn't get it for console.
What the fuck is this supposed to mean?
processFunc = collapse and (lambda s: " ".join(s.split())) or (lambda s: s)
Way to go, and pick a complicated line to use as your example. I think by saying the language reads like pseudocode, they mean:
print 'hello, world'
answer = read_string('what is the answer')
a = str(a)
stuff like that. And don't think that all languages don't have this kind of unreadable code.
The answer is yes. Fedora 3 uses a government level of security. The FBI (or was it CIA, they're all the same) created their own linux version, with their own level of security (think ultra-high). Since it had to be open-source, that security has been added into Core 3. I don't know much more else about it, except that you have full control over each file's security settings, haven't had much time to really look in to it.
...acceleration and deceleration...
I know what acceleration is, but what is deceleration? If you meant negative acceleration, than I understand what you are talking about. A fact that nobody seems to understand is that de means opposite. There is no such thing as the opposite of acceleration, but only acceleration in a different direction, usually behind you. This is negative acceleration, and nothing else. In my physics class you would be reprimanded for saying the d word.
The *real* crime of 9/11 had nothing to do with Bush, but rather with the link between the FAA and NORAD.
While this may or may not be true (I don't have 30 minutes to research it now), there is not much that NORAD can do about it. NORAD was set up during the Cold War to spot nukes from other countries (stares at Russia). On 9/11, NORAD still only had the capability to look mostly into other parts of the world, and was blind to almost all of the US. There isn't much that they could have done anyway.
But about the time one jet has crashed into a building and 3 more are known hijacked, we should have been into Full Response, instead of confusion.
(taken from something that I saw on PBS about 9/11, not exact quote)
On 9/11, there were 4 (count 'em, four!) fighter jets patroling the entire east coast of the United States. There were other jets (about 6, I think) in the air, but they were running training missions, and not armed with anything. A good response time for a fighter to be in the air was around 10-15 minutes, and then the planes would have to have flown hundreds of miles, at which point it would have been too late to stop the planes.
But then again, the famed 7-minute pause was *after* the 2nd jet crashed into the WTC. So even had he calmly stood up, excused himself, and taken/delegated control, it was too late.
ummm, hello? There were TWO MORE PLANES that had been hijacked. If there had been more, would it still have been too late to help stop them?
That is not the only point. As President, you must at least show decisiveness (which Bush has since prided himself on, see Iraq), and sitting in a room, not doing anything for 7 minutes is not acceptable (although people can debate this, it depends on what you think a leader of a country under attack should do).
Whatever happened to Truman's, "The Buck Stops Here?"
I'm wondering the same thing.
Users can choose to pay per-song or per-month.
There is an obvious problem with the pay-per-month method. The average cable user gets about 500KB/s (maybe more, I'm going moderatly). The average song at CD quality is 4MB's. That is 324,000 songs in a 30 day month. That's a lot of songs for a one month fee, which probably won't be $320,760, I'm guessing.
...while the average citizen = default settings, usually insecure.Sitting in my home in my room with my new college laptop, playing Warcraft FT, it suddenly minimizes, to my amazment, with a dialog window saying "You may connect to the following wireless networks, yadda yadda yadda," and there were four networks, w/ SSID of D-Link, and linksys, w/out WEP, or 802.1x encription. Not even trying to wardrive for networks, four pop up and say, "JOIN ME, JOIN ME!!!!" If I had proper utilities, i could be bouncing off the four servers, and even the above average user probably wouldn't be able to see it.Note: I live in a suburb of Washington DC, so DC must not be tech savvy.
that's no excuse! All the GTA games are out on PC, and as long as you don't have a four year old computer, you'll have no problem running them. They usually look better on PC than on your TV, when the settings are up at 1024x768x32+
now why would anyone in their right mind spend ANY money on an e-mail acount. If you want 1GB e-mail right now, see spymac.com
I haven't done any of these myself, but I've seen people who've attached flashy lights to their TV whenever they turn it on, and equip wheelie chairs with fire extinguishers (rocket chairs).
If the cops come busting into my local gym because somebody told them that Locker #514 has dope in it and they have a warrant to search said locker can they seize the entire bank of lockers because the owner couldn't find the key in time? Could they then charge me (the user of locker #515) if they found something incriminating in my locker when they never had permission to search it in the first place? hmmm...You're right
Why not just pull out the RFID?
The next powerbook (and maybe powermac!) will almost surely be water cooled. but how will you cool down the water?
It is highly likely that by siezing all machines and data of a commercial data center, that they have deprived several customer of their due process of law (5th) and freedom from search and siezure (4th).
Unfortuantly, neither of these are true. Due process is removed when a legal warrent has been disclosed. Also, the 4th amendment, search and siezure, is only disallowed when there is no warrent.
.....in that everyone uses it, and everyone HAS used it for the past five years, or longer. People trust it, and that is something that just doesn't vanish. Plus, they HAVE done new things, such as google news.