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Or a total lack of a hard drive.....
Even with harddrives there were few games that let you install and run from it. Granted there was hacks to get around that for a lot of games, it wasn't built into games until the end side of the Amiga's life. and even then usually only for games that came on a large amount of disks.
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I think it's only fitting, keeping in mind, that in the old Amiga/Atari days, booting directly into your games was an absolutely normal thing to do - hardware resources were scarce, and the last thing you wanted was sharing RAM and precious CPU cycles with an OS running in the background.
Actually it was because of copy protection we booted from floppies.
Well, for the most part, the thefts have only involved tiny fractions of pennies normally lost due to rounding errors, so usually they don't get caught...
I've said before that Gates stepping down as CEO was exactly like Ernst Stavro Blofeld stepping down as head of SPECTRE and letting Number Two take the reins. There's a reason why he's called Number Two, and a reason why Blofeld is considered the evil genius.
When you account for inflation, game prices have been going down.. Hard to remember games were more expensive back when mommy and daddy were buying them for you.
Mom & Dad never bought me games. They did buy a C64 though, cassette drive, no disk drive. And a modem. -- much better then buying me games.
The last 3rd party candidate to do that was Roosevelt. The only person in my lifetime to get anywhere near that was Ross Perot. And even he wasn't able to crack 20% of the popular vote.
It doesn't matter if 100% of the people voted for Ross Perot. Peoples vote for the president doesn't count for shit. It doesn't pick a new president. That's not how it works in the USA.
I always thought Auction house is what make Diablo III relevant and rewarding since the game play focus on being grindy. Now that you can no longer exchange gears for actual money, what is the point? Is the game play itself fun enough?
How fun is it to do the same things over and over and over and over for very little reward? Seriously, that sounds like a minimum wage job that barely covers the bills.
But then, I play EQ2 and you can argue i do the same crap over and over and over and over. So I guess each his own.
But then I bot in EQ2, i control 6 toons at once (have to, no one plays anymore). In a guild with a few other botters and some live people. We have fun and do decently well. So it's all in the fun you make.
It boggles the mind that anyone would suggest something like this and then use the excuse of "well we only run on app on a box". That's such amateur hour nonsense. It's like running your cloud apps on classic MacOS or an Amiga.
Just because you've only got "one app", it doesn't mean that you've only got one process.
It sounds like running your 2013 server apps on an OS from 1985 but "in the cloud".
The NSA needs to know when the back doors it has built are uncovered. So it probably subscribes to a number of software security services that look for such stuff.
No, that is not what is happening. The NSA, because it doesn't have backdoors everywhere, have to buy 0 day exploits to gain access to systems.
While NSA might be able to get some companies to put back doors in their software, they can't get most. So they have to use exploits to break into systems.
This is actually common sense, we just have some proof of it now.
When did parents stop being the ones considered responsible for their child's well-being?
Blame the internet. See before the internet, your parent knew you did fucked up shit, but didn't really have any proof. Now that it's posted on fb, twitter, and whatever else is cool, parents are aware of what their kids are getting up to. So they want to blame the school, otherwise they feel that fault would be there own.
As for bullying, we are a culture of being bullies. It's in our movies, our tv shows, it's how business get bigger, it's how America treats the rest of the world. By being a bully. It's what we teach our kids, that you have to be mean to get ahead. That you can get anyone to do what you want by threatening them in some way, either physical, mental, and/or economically. So yes, kids are quick, they pick up on what adults do, and they copy it.
But hey, it's the internet age, we can blame everyone else for our failures.
Unfortunately for you, the information will stop and your idol (and his helpers) will be put in his rightful place - a supermax prison in Colorado for a good chunk of his life.
why the fuck, does every american citizen say, that surveilance is okay, when its sure, that no american citizens are targeted? Are you really that hostile to foreigners? Here in germany, everyone against surveilance, is against surveilance everywhere. We hate your oppressive laws as much as ours.
I am an American citizen and I don't agree with surveillance on anyone like we are doing it. Mass collecting data? Sorry, not needed and way to costly. Plus it makes us (American citizens) look worse then we really are.
So don't lump me in with "every" American, or I will start lumping all you Nazi's together. I mean, German citizens.
... They use bombs to target only random innocent people and that is so evil it's hard to comprehend, so getting targeted by drones even when hiding their cowardly asses behind their women and children is completely fair in every way.
Wait, let me get this right. You are saying since they kill innocent people it's okay for us to kill innocent people?
Why are we still hearing about this? There has been nothing notable about this attention-thirsty individual in a long time, notwithstanding "Mega" and its allegedly real users.
Other then the USA over reaching it's jurisdiction in another country, breaking laws there and here, destroying a business because the music/movie cartels asked for it? You know, where we claim people are innocent until proven guilty, yet doing every little thing they can (the USA) to keep the trial in there favor, if it even ever goes to trial.
Look, you have a low UID, so i expect some smarts out of you, but apparently you are senile if you don't think the "Mega" has nothing to do with anyone else. It's one of the big shows the government put on for the Music/Movie industry. Why did they really go after mega? Because people like you think that because of what ever Kim's past have already judged him. You already think he's a criminal, so you are okay with the USA government breaking laws to put him out of business. They are counting on that.
It is sad that someone who's opinions can be revered on this site (because of the low UID) is so out of touch with how this case affects everyone.
If you can't see the reality that this brings, i guess being senile maybe isn't so bad since you are probably reliving the napster days...
'Mega' was/is just another scam he's running. I'd hardly call it luck, he just found a new method.
It is? Pretty expensive "scam" he is doing. I thought scams was about putting little money in and making a shit ton of money back. While he might of made some money with MegaUpload, he has been spending quite a bit of it to defend himself. Then, on top of that, he started up another Mega, is making a Music site, is starting up a political party. All of which cost money.
So once again, tell me how it is a scam what he is doing now?
But they really were caught off guard this weekend. He didn't follow the script like his advisors thought he should. Whether this really matters remains to be seen.
-- BMO
That's what happens when you don't hire actors to be presidents.
Like everyone else on slashdot, I only run Debian and must say I smile when I see reports such as country sponsored malware strikes like this. But it does make me ask an honest question:
How can we be sure that the Linux kernel isn't compromised? I don't really have the time to go through all lines of code and I doubt my security analysis and development skills are up to the task anyway.
Guess it's time to bring up the innovation of AmigaOS? OS that was decades ahead of it's time and NSA free!
While this is completely my opinion, it seems likely that the NSA paid MS to buy Skype, so then the NSA can easily gather the data/calls/videos from Skype users.
Or you could just push them over, slowly walk up a set of stairs, toss a towel over them, or any of a zillion simple ways to significantly disable them that even the fattest mall-cop would easily overcome.
Ah, I see you grew up watching Doctor Who defeat the daleks in various ways...
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Or a total lack of a hard drive.....
Even with harddrives there were few games that let you install and run from it. Granted there was hacks to get around that for a lot of games, it wasn't built into games until the end side of the Amiga's life. and even then usually only for games that came on a large amount of disks.
I think it's only fitting, keeping in mind, that in the old Amiga/Atari days, booting directly into your games was an absolutely normal thing to do - hardware resources were scarce, and the last thing you wanted was sharing RAM and precious CPU cycles with an OS running in the background.
Actually it was because of copy protection we booted from floppies.
My Local library sells any books donated to them so they can use that money to buy more books.
Go figure. They got a book, so instead of loaning it out, they sell it for less then it costs to buy another book. Great system.
Well, for the most part, the thefts have only involved tiny fractions of pennies normally lost due to rounding errors, so usually they don't get caught...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_III
Ya, Richard Pryor ftw.
I've said before that Gates stepping down as CEO was exactly like Ernst Stavro Blofeld stepping down as head of SPECTRE and letting Number Two take the reins. There's a reason why he's called Number Two, and a reason why Blofeld is considered the evil genius.
Nice, a James Bond reference.
When you account for inflation, game prices have been going down.. Hard to remember games were more expensive back when mommy and daddy were buying them for you.
Mom & Dad never bought me games. They did buy a C64 though, cassette drive, no disk drive. And a modem. -- much better then buying me games.
till they got the phone bill...
The last 3rd party candidate to do that was Roosevelt. The only person in my lifetime to get anywhere near that was Ross Perot. And even he wasn't able to crack 20% of the popular vote.
It doesn't matter if 100% of the people voted for Ross Perot. Peoples vote for the president doesn't count for shit. It doesn't pick a new president.
That's not how it works in the USA.
I always thought Auction house is what make Diablo III relevant and rewarding since the game play focus on being grindy. Now that you can no longer exchange gears for actual money, what is the point? Is the game play itself fun enough?
How fun is it to do the same things over and over and over and over for very little reward? Seriously, that sounds like a minimum wage job that barely covers the bills.
But then, I play EQ2 and you can argue i do the same crap over and over and over and over. So I guess each his own.
But then I bot in EQ2, i control 6 toons at once (have to, no one plays anymore). In a guild with a few other botters and some live people. We have fun and do decently well. So it's all in the fun you make.
Still have no plans to buy diablo III.
It boggles the mind that anyone would suggest something like this and then use the excuse of "well we only run on app on a box". That's such amateur hour nonsense. It's like running your cloud apps on classic MacOS or an Amiga.
Just because you've only got "one app", it doesn't mean that you've only got one process.
It sounds like running your 2013 server apps on an OS from 1985 but "in the cloud".
[shake head]
http://jsmess.textfiles.com/
That emulates a bunch of old computers, even 1985 ones. Runs on the cloud. Just need some server apps for any of them now...
The NSA needs to know when the back doors it has built are uncovered. So it probably subscribes to a number of software security services that look for such stuff.
No, that is not what is happening. The NSA, because it doesn't have backdoors everywhere, have to buy 0 day exploits to gain access to systems.
While NSA might be able to get some companies to put back doors in their software, they can't get most. So they have to use exploits to break into systems.
This is actually common sense, we just have some proof of it now.
When did parents stop being the ones considered responsible for their child's well-being?
Blame the internet. See before the internet, your parent knew you did fucked up shit, but didn't really have any proof. Now that it's posted on fb, twitter, and whatever else is cool, parents are aware of what their kids are getting up to. So they want to blame the school, otherwise they feel that fault would be there own.
As for bullying, we are a culture of being bullies. It's in our movies, our tv shows, it's how business get bigger, it's how America treats the rest of the world. By being a bully. It's what we teach our kids, that you have to be mean to get ahead. That you can get anyone to do what you want by threatening them in some way, either physical, mental, and/or economically. So yes, kids are quick, they pick up on what adults do, and they copy it.
But hey, it's the internet age, we can blame everyone else for our failures.
Unfortunately for you, the information will stop and your idol (and his helpers) will be put in his rightful place - a supermax prison in Colorado for a good chunk of his life.
How is your job at the NSA working out Seth?
why the fuck, does every american citizen say, that surveilance is okay, when its sure, that no american citizens are targeted? Are you really that hostile to foreigners? Here in germany, everyone against surveilance, is against surveilance everywhere. We hate your oppressive laws as much as ours.
I am an American citizen and I don't agree with surveillance on anyone like we are doing it. Mass collecting data? Sorry, not needed and way to costly. Plus it makes us (American citizens) look worse then we really are.
So don't lump me in with "every" American, or I will start lumping all you Nazi's together. I mean, German citizens.
Congress needs to impeach Obama.
The Congress & Senate need to impeach themselves also for allowing this to happen during their watch.
... They use bombs to target only random innocent people and that is so evil it's hard to comprehend, so getting targeted by drones even when hiding their cowardly asses behind their women and children is completely fair in every way.
Wait, let me get this right. You are saying since they kill innocent people it's okay for us to kill innocent people?
Which has nothing to do with the network.
You said you limited access to a network.
His computer is connected to a network and has limited access to that network based on the access it has on the computer.
You do realize that being connected to a network with your computer is the norm now, right? This isn't the 1990's anymore?
Why are we still hearing about this? There has been nothing notable about this attention-thirsty individual in a long time, notwithstanding "Mega" and its allegedly real users.
Other then the USA over reaching it's jurisdiction in another country, breaking laws there and here, destroying a business because the music/movie cartels asked for it? You know, where we claim people are innocent until proven guilty, yet doing every little thing they can (the USA) to keep the trial in there favor, if it even ever goes to trial.
Look, you have a low UID, so i expect some smarts out of you, but apparently you are senile if you don't think the "Mega" has nothing to do with anyone else. It's one of the big shows the government put on for the Music/Movie industry. Why did they really go after mega? Because people like you think that because of what ever Kim's past have already judged him. You already think he's a criminal, so you are okay with the USA government breaking laws to put him out of business. They are counting on that.
It is sad that someone who's opinions can be revered on this site (because of the low UID) is so out of touch with how this case affects everyone.
If you can't see the reality that this brings, i guess being senile maybe isn't so bad since you are probably reliving the napster days...
'Mega' was/is just another scam he's running. I'd hardly call it luck, he just found a new method.
It is? Pretty expensive "scam" he is doing. I thought scams was about putting little money in and making a shit ton of money back. While he might of made some money with MegaUpload, he has been spending quite a bit of it to defend himself. Then, on top of that, he started up another Mega, is making a Music site, is starting up a political party. All of which cost money.
So once again, tell me how it is a scam what he is doing now?
He's a real criminal. Many criminal charges including credit card theft, pump and dump stock schemes, and investment fraud.
So you are saying he has experience going up against the corporations that are running the show?
Indeed.
But they really were caught off guard this weekend. He didn't follow the script like his advisors thought he should. Whether this really matters remains to be seen.
--
BMO
That's what happens when you don't hire actors to be presidents.
Like everyone else on slashdot, I only run Debian and must say I smile when I see reports such as country sponsored malware strikes like this. But it does make me ask an honest question:
How can we be sure that the Linux kernel isn't compromised? I don't really have the time to go through all lines of code and I doubt my security analysis and development skills are up to the task anyway.
Guess it's time to bring up the innovation of AmigaOS? OS that was decades ahead of it's time and NSA free!
=)
You lack Slack.
Kill Bob.
While this is completely my opinion, it seems likely that the NSA paid MS to buy Skype, so then the NSA can easily gather the data/calls/videos from Skype users.
Or you could just push them over, slowly walk up a set of stairs, toss a towel over them, or any of a zillion simple ways to significantly disable them that even the fattest mall-cop would easily overcome.
Ah, I see you grew up watching Doctor Who defeat the daleks in various ways...
Elop sounds too close to "Flop", if we're only considering by name.
More interesting, backwards it's Pole
Even more interesting, Stephen backwards is Nehpets. Neh pets pole.