FUD is an abbreviation for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, a sales or marketing strategy of disseminating negative but vague or inaccurate information on a competitor's product. The term originated to describe misinformation tactics in the computer software industry and has since been used more broadly.
Most gamers on the other hand have like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills, etc...
Having such a large repertoire of skills, over the years gamers have had to learn better multitasking skills out of necessity (unless, of course, you have a sweet bike or a mustache).
The matter of the fact is, documents on papers are not nearly as available as electronic copies. Hell, you could let thousands of people read all those documents at once for just a tiny amount of money in bandwidth costs (unless you have a university host it for free, which I'm sure they will). For most of us, this accessability is easily worth keeping a backup of the data, even if it also requires us to store it on new mediums as time goes on (i.e. switch from floppies to cdrs to dvdrs to whatever every 5-10 years).
The cold war era FEMA was trained and prepared with the nessesary tools to handle a nuclear disaster. The FEMA of today can't even build a fucking website? Wait, that's not it, because the site works fine with just about every browser, they just added some checks to forcably deny certain browsers that are fully (if not more) capable.
From the site: [ http://realmforge.com/ ]
"""
The RealmForge GDK is the cross-platform game development platform for.NET. It is written entirely in C# to ensure portability and allow the productivity, flexibility, and dynamic nature of the.NET Framework to be leveraged in all aspects of game development. This middleware is architected with both power and ease of use in mind and is released under the LPGL so that it is the free and ideal solution for both commercial and hobbyist projects.
This game development kit is characterized by its productivity, ease of use, and highly flexible and intuitive component-oriented architecture. This game engine and development environment consists of a framework, rendering engine, run-time development toolset (In-Game Editor), script and media libraries, and a growing showcase of demo games and tutorials which assist in rapid prototyping.
"""
The framework itself is under lots of active development and has support for just about everything expected of a modern game dev kit. Also, the support is simply amazing, with forums, google group mailing lists, irc channels, great documentation, etc.
ACSL, the American Computer Science League, is an international programming competition for high school students. Despite it's name, it has become an international competition that many students around the world enter.
It contains two parts. The first has your team of 3 or 5 people (depending on which division you are in) program 3 or 5 programs as a team that solve given problems. The second part is a written multiple choice test that quizes many basic programming skills from basic data structures to analyzing code.
The prizes this year were quite amazing as well. Our team took 6th place internationally and we each recieved a copy of MS Visual Studio.NET 2003 Professional, along with numerous books/games from individual-based prizes. IIRC, the top few teams recieved pocket PCs for each member.
What happens when someone finds a loophole and patents some sort of virus and then sues any AV companies that try to reverse engineer it?
Yay for our intellectual property dogma!
I don't think you understand. Of course us programers would like to see our creations battle live opponents outside of sample testing, but if they work and make us tons of money, I think I'd be happy enough =p
I am quite aware of how to add umlauts (I write in german quite often), but the *average* people that I know have aren't aware how to pronounce them correctly let alone insert them using alt-codes or some equivlent.
Although I'm sure a fantastic memory would be helpful right now, projects like beagle and dashboard will hopefully let those of us with horrible memory get by just as well.
Oh well, guess we have to waste money on something
Damn, I wish I hadn't wasted all those old processors by scrubbing gum out of my carpet and then throwing them out, I could have used them to make perfectly useful key chains...
Actually this happened to a friend of mine just a few weeks ago. He complained enough and got a new one, only to find that one had a dead pixel right in the middle of the screen as well. He returned this one and the same thing resulted. This went on for awhile until he finally got a fully working one and a refund.
Now obviously this doesn't always happen, but it certainly wasn't cost effective for them in this case.
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FUD is an abbreviation for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, a sales or marketing strategy of disseminating negative but vague or inaccurate information on a competitor's product. The term originated to describe misinformation tactics in the computer software industry and has since been used more broadly.
What kind of idiots would send 50 people to raid a fucking server room?
Oh wait...
I can't imagine more than 2-3 people out of the whole /. horde didn't tag it with floppingwienervision.
Emacs 22 will have many new features such as support for Mac OS X and Cygwin
Wait, so I can use my Emacs operating system on top my Windows operating system?
I'm still waiting for them to release an emacs that runs on the metal, without an inferior (read: not written in lisp) OS in the middle.
That's because the average person has no skills.
Most gamers on the other hand have like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills, etc...
Having such a large repertoire of skills, over the years gamers have had to learn better multitasking skills out of necessity (unless, of course, you have a sweet bike or a mustache).
this gets through, yet nothing I ever submit does simply wow
*starts getting to work on some country songs to exploit the situation* "Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day..."
er, sorry, i meant a working torrent. (the one on the site the poster linked to doesn't work)
what's this, no bittorrent?? LINK ME!!!!
The matter of the fact is, documents on papers are not nearly as available as electronic copies. Hell, you could let thousands of people read all those documents at once for just a tiny amount of money in bandwidth costs (unless you have a university host it for free, which I'm sure they will). For most of us, this accessability is easily worth keeping a backup of the data, even if it also requires us to store it on new mediums as time goes on (i.e. switch from floppies to cdrs to dvdrs to whatever every 5-10 years).
The cold war era FEMA was trained and prepared with the nessesary tools to handle a nuclear disaster. The FEMA of today can't even build a fucking website? Wait, that's not it, because the site works fine with just about every browser, they just added some checks to forcably deny certain browsers that are fully (if not more) capable.
I honestly hope you were merely kidding, as it would be very disappointing if you actually meant that.
From the site: [ http://realmforge.com/ ] """ The RealmForge GDK is the cross-platform game development platform for .NET. It is written entirely in C# to ensure portability and allow the productivity, flexibility, and dynamic nature of the .NET Framework to be leveraged in all aspects of game development. This middleware is architected with both power and ease of use in mind and is released under the LPGL so that it is the free and ideal solution for both commercial and hobbyist projects.
This game development kit is characterized by its productivity, ease of use, and highly flexible and intuitive component-oriented architecture. This game engine and development environment consists of a framework, rendering engine, run-time development toolset (In-Game Editor), script and media libraries, and a growing showcase of demo games and tutorials which assist in rapid prototyping.
"""
The framework itself is under lots of active development and has support for just about everything expected of a modern game dev kit. Also, the support is simply amazing, with forums, google group mailing lists, irc channels, great documentation, etc.
ACSL, the American Computer Science League, is an international programming competition for high school students. Despite it's name, it has become an international competition that many students around the world enter. It contains two parts. The first has your team of 3 or 5 people (depending on which division you are in) program 3 or 5 programs as a team that solve given problems. The second part is a written multiple choice test that quizes many basic programming skills from basic data structures to analyzing code. The prizes this year were quite amazing as well. Our team took 6th place internationally and we each recieved a copy of MS Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional, along with numerous books/games from individual-based prizes. IIRC, the top few teams recieved pocket PCs for each member.
What happens when someone finds a loophole and patents some sort of virus and then sues any AV companies that try to reverse engineer it? Yay for our intellectual property dogma!
I don't think you understand. Of course us programers would like to see our creations battle live opponents outside of sample testing, but if they work and make us tons of money, I think I'd be happy enough =p
I think it was fairly obvious I meant it in the way of distributing information about contest entries and results in general..
I am quite aware of how to add umlauts (I write in german quite often), but the *average* people that I know have aren't aware how to pronounce them correctly let alone insert them using alt-codes or some equivlent.
I fairly sure I'm not alone when I say " wtf? "
It's good to see the hobbyist will never die no matter how lame things get...
Although I'm sure a fantastic memory would be helpful right now, projects like beagle and dashboard will hopefully let those of us with horrible memory get by just as well.
Oh well, guess we have to waste money on something
Damn, I wish I hadn't wasted all those old processors by scrubbing gum out of my carpet and then throwing them out, I could have used them to make perfectly useful key chains...
Actually this happened to a friend of mine just a few weeks ago. He complained enough and got a new one, only to find that one had a dead pixel right in the middle of the screen as well. He returned this one and the same thing resulted. This went on for awhile until he finally got a fully working one and a refund.
Now obviously this doesn't always happen, but it certainly wasn't cost effective for them in this case.
I must say I'm proud to see them distributing the packet dump via bittorrent. Every legit reason for p2p helps.
I fully agree.
Apparently they expected people to whip out their magic wands of hax0ring skillz.
Personally, I would have kept the server up until someone finally broke through (although for a lesser prize?) just out of curiosity.