an MP3 download of the same album
free mp3 version of the album, eh? so does that mean sony's gonna dole out mp3's? if so, wouldn't they in effect be supporting piracy, as the whole music believes mp3's are the source of all evil?
what i'm wondering is exactly how wireless you can get considering you still need to power everything. Assuming there is no such thing as wireless power, then there's gotta be some conduit that's giving all the motors, actuators, and wireless devices juice. and i woldn't imagine that, say, a cat5e cable (which has more than enough bandwidth for the entire plane) is gonna be that much more of an obstruction than power cables...
should we also now require that people who go into malls be 18 and over because there are changing rooms where people take their clothes off, and we don't want a child to wander into one of those changing rooms?
putting this mod on is something that any teenager will do if he wants to.. and no rating is going to prevent it.
make it so he can't legally buy it in stores, and he'll just pirate it off the net... indirect state sponsored piracy?
i don't think google actually has 2.7 gigs of physical hard disk space for each person. that'd be suicide... what's more likely is that google runs calculations based on what the typical usage percentage is.
say for example, that they can have a million accounts, and only reasonably expect 50% of them to use about 35% of the available space, 15% of the accounts to be unused or low usuage, etc....
something that irks me about adoption of new technologies that are potentially superior in every way is that emerging tech is often looked over or is regarded as inferior because something that's only becoming practically acceptable (electric cars) to the mainstream has to compete with a something that's been around since the turn of the century (gasoline cars).
i'm sure that if companies were to invest as much money into R&D for electric vehicles and given enough time, they'll surpass what we currently know and hold dear to our hearts with internal combustion.
the only negative i see with electric cars is that they just don't sound as good as internal combustion...
garage sales are also a multimillion (if not billion) dollar industry... and when was the last time you saw the irs busting down people's doors because they didn't claim their garage sale revenues.
when new ruels in regards to virtual moneys are passed, then it'll probably be relegated to a technicality the irs uses when they really want to put someone in jail, but can't find anything overtly wrong with them (like how most mob bosses were eventually tried and convicted of tax evasion and not the plethora of other offenses)
USB 2.0 drives stink for anything but archiving data overnight. it's just so slow i can't stand it... not to mention that if you start to really get to the limits of the USB 2.0 bus, then stuff like your USB mouse starts getting jumpy.
firewire 400 is the bare minimum for my work environment which involves heasy disk use. that way, i can keep disk operations and input decive traffic on separate buses.
i'd say a well run OSS outfit's leaps and bounds beyond this IT firm. Not only are things 100% for the customers, but the workers and the managers are each just as well accountable to each other. and talk abot efficiency! if a manager or coder isn't delivering, then they're gone!
the model is also decentralized and easily portable.
pfft rationality... when you've got a huge pile of unexplained phenomena on your desk, and you wanna get home by 5, the "Made by God" rubber stamp starts looking mighty tasty
i work at hp, and i'm sure this is standard practice across every industry... all review units go through a series of stringent screening process to determine the absolutely best units.
seriously think about it.... if you had a hot date, would you show up in a yellow wife-beater, messy hair and bad breathe, and ask her to pay the cab that's been waiting for them for the last 30 minutes?
dirty little secret: i used to cheat on yahoo chess by loading up chessmaster and setting it to the highest levels.
case in point: the human mind is far more creative than a group of programmers and any computer algorithm they can devise - and as long as that is true, then there will always be a way to cheat.
punk buster will catch all the popular readily available cheats (stuff u can find with a google search)
punk buster won't catch (and never will catch) cheats that are kept secret (like the ones where clan membership or the like are required)
i used to play sof2 quite religiously, and at some point, got extremely good at it. And eventually, got kicked and banned from just about every server.
for one server in particular, i decided to take a stand and try to get myself unbanned. i was initially banned for cheating because i had a score of 120-5 or something like that.
so from there started a long series of forum debates while i was trying to unban myself.
it ended up, as i found out, that half the admins there thought i was cheating, and had demos to back their claims. and then the other half thought i wasn't cheating, using their own set of demos and also by pointing out things in the demos that alleged i was cheating.
in truth, there is a lot of subjectivity for very skilled players when viewing a demo and trying to determine whether or not the person really is that good, or if they've got an aimbot, wallhack, or some other type of hack.
long story short, after a month's worth of fighting, they unbanned me, and let me back on the server.
from there, i was recruited into a competitive clan, and participated regularly in tournaments that the server group would hold. and then i was eventually banned again by an admin who was new to the servers and his powers... claiming that i was too good to be true, despite the rest of the community saying otherwise.
the fun part is that of all the players on the servers who would accuse left and right as soon as they get killed by the same person a few times, i noticed that it was always the good players who never cared if somebody was cheating or not.
if a person was cheating, the skilled would find a way to play around it, or just simply leave. and what was left were the whiners and complainers.
so i'm rambling on a bit... but just screenshots and even demos along aren't enough to distinguish between a really skilled player and a cheating player.
the differences are often very subtle. but what you end up having to look for are mistakes, if things are repeated, etc... but even then, those things can be completely human, but appear to be due to a bot.
in the end, i believe it's the community and relationship each player builds with a server's admins that's way way way above demos and screenshots alone.
an ungodly good player with a good attitude are rarities that keep people coming back to a server or game. the ungodly good players with bad attitudes are what kill servers and kill games.
so despite it all, i believe it's ultimately up to the types of people a game attracts, the friendliness and supportiveness of the community, and the fairness and levelheadedness of it's admins that will trump any cheater.
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an MP3 download of the same album
free mp3 version of the album, eh? so does that mean sony's gonna dole out mp3's? if so, wouldn't they in effect be supporting piracy, as the whole music believes mp3's are the source of all evil?
what i'm wondering is exactly how wireless you can get considering you still need to power everything. Assuming there is no such thing as wireless power, then there's gotta be some conduit that's giving all the motors, actuators, and wireless devices juice. and i woldn't imagine that, say, a cat5e cable (which has more than enough bandwidth for the entire plane) is gonna be that much more of an obstruction than power cables...
should we also now require that people who go into malls be 18 and over because there are changing rooms where people take their clothes off, and we don't want a child to wander into one of those changing rooms?
putting this mod on is something that any teenager will do if he wants to.. and no rating is going to prevent it.
make it so he can't legally buy it in stores, and he'll just pirate it off the net... indirect state sponsored piracy?
i don't think google actually has 2.7 gigs of physical hard disk space for each person. that'd be suicide... what's more likely is that google runs calculations based on what the typical usage percentage is.
say for example, that they can have a million accounts, and only reasonably expect 50% of them to use about 35% of the available space, 15% of the accounts to be unused or low usuage, etc....
something that irks me about adoption of new technologies that are potentially superior in every way is that emerging tech is often looked over or is regarded as inferior because something that's only becoming practically acceptable (electric cars) to the mainstream has to compete with a something that's been around since the turn of the century (gasoline cars). i'm sure that if companies were to invest as much money into R&D for electric vehicles and given enough time, they'll surpass what we currently know and hold dear to our hearts with internal combustion. the only negative i see with electric cars is that they just don't sound as good as internal combustion...
hello kitty online and naughty america.... where does the line start?
neither! he just popped open the preferences panel and turned on color coding...
excuse my lack of programming 1337-ness, but what kind of code would compile with a missing parenthesis?
are the people in hollywood so out of ideas that they have to remake movies that are perfection?
garage sales are also a multimillion (if not billion) dollar industry... and when was the last time you saw the irs busting down people's doors because they didn't claim their garage sale revenues.
when new ruels in regards to virtual moneys are passed, then it'll probably be relegated to a technicality the irs uses when they really want to put someone in jail, but can't find anything overtly wrong with them (like how most mob bosses were eventually tried and convicted of tax evasion and not the plethora of other offenses)
USB 2.0 drives stink for anything but archiving data overnight. it's just so slow i can't stand it... not to mention that if you start to really get to the limits of the USB 2.0 bus, then stuff like your USB mouse starts getting jumpy. firewire 400 is the bare minimum for my work environment which involves heasy disk use. that way, i can keep disk operations and input decive traffic on separate buses.
hey, anything that makes it hotter so as to cause the spontaneous shedding of clothing by women is ok in my books
i'd say a well run OSS outfit's leaps and bounds beyond this IT firm. Not only are things 100% for the customers, but the workers and the managers are each just as well accountable to each other. and talk abot efficiency! if a manager or coder isn't delivering, then they're gone!
the model is also decentralized and easily portable.
click here to see what the missing link is all about...
pfft rationality... when you've got a huge pile of unexplained phenomena on your desk, and you wanna get home by 5, the "Made by God" rubber stamp starts looking mighty tasty
i work at hp, and i'm sure this is standard practice across every industry... all review units go through a series of stringent screening process to determine the absolutely best units.
seriously think about it.... if you had a hot date, would you show up in a yellow wife-beater, messy hair and bad breathe, and ask her to pay the cab that's been waiting for them for the last 30 minutes?
... and that the replies to them are by part the dumberest
...and many a lesser supper genious will go hungry in your wake
i'm idaho!
this is the government we're talking about here.... they have no distaster recovery plan
dirty little secret: i used to cheat on yahoo chess by loading up chessmaster and setting it to the highest levels.
case in point: the human mind is far more creative than a group of programmers and any computer algorithm they can devise - and as long as that is true, then there will always be a way to cheat.
punk buster will catch all the popular readily available cheats (stuff u can find with a google search) punk buster won't catch (and never will catch) cheats that are kept secret (like the ones where clan membership or the like are required)
i used to play sof2 quite religiously, and at some point, got extremely good at it. And eventually, got kicked and banned from just about every server. for one server in particular, i decided to take a stand and try to get myself unbanned. i was initially banned for cheating because i had a score of 120-5 or something like that. so from there started a long series of forum debates while i was trying to unban myself. it ended up, as i found out, that half the admins there thought i was cheating, and had demos to back their claims. and then the other half thought i wasn't cheating, using their own set of demos and also by pointing out things in the demos that alleged i was cheating. in truth, there is a lot of subjectivity for very skilled players when viewing a demo and trying to determine whether or not the person really is that good, or if they've got an aimbot, wallhack, or some other type of hack. long story short, after a month's worth of fighting, they unbanned me, and let me back on the server. from there, i was recruited into a competitive clan, and participated regularly in tournaments that the server group would hold. and then i was eventually banned again by an admin who was new to the servers and his powers... claiming that i was too good to be true, despite the rest of the community saying otherwise. the fun part is that of all the players on the servers who would accuse left and right as soon as they get killed by the same person a few times, i noticed that it was always the good players who never cared if somebody was cheating or not. if a person was cheating, the skilled would find a way to play around it, or just simply leave. and what was left were the whiners and complainers. so i'm rambling on a bit... but just screenshots and even demos along aren't enough to distinguish between a really skilled player and a cheating player. the differences are often very subtle. but what you end up having to look for are mistakes, if things are repeated, etc... but even then, those things can be completely human, but appear to be due to a bot. in the end, i believe it's the community and relationship each player builds with a server's admins that's way way way above demos and screenshots alone. an ungodly good player with a good attitude are rarities that keep people coming back to a server or game. the ungodly good players with bad attitudes are what kill servers and kill games. so despite it all, i believe it's ultimately up to the types of people a game attracts, the friendliness and supportiveness of the community, and the fairness and levelheadedness of it's admins that will trump any cheater.
actually only a millisecond difference would've been enough to give the 6:42, 6:43 difference. bastard beat me to the punch
imagine a beowulf cluster of these guys...