For Half-Life 2 if you registered your CD with a steam account you don't need the CD check. Just uninstall the game. Redownload using Steam. I bought all my Valve games with the CD but I never have to whip out the CDs anymore. Totally love Steam. I hope more companies do something similar.
I loved that game. It took me a year to understand it. Probably because I didn't understand football at the time. I broke the power switch so I had to hold the switch while playing. It added to the challenge.
I think if you love your job %25 of the time you are doing OK. Politics and tedious work 75% of the time is worth the programming 25% of the time. I just think about the money when I am getting yelled at for not being able to read a manager's mind.
If anybody saw the MTV Real Life on professional gamers they interviewed the Pac Man champion from 1982. He was a huge celebrity at the time. Now he has the really sad life going nowhere. He talks about his time as a celebrity like it was the only happy time in his now pathetic life. That Fatality dude should get a back up plan and go to college. Video Game champion of FPS games is cool now. FPS games will be replaced by some other genre. Just like the Pac Man champion can't make it as a FPS champion he will be replaced.
In other words, it seems to me that sequelitis is directly responsible for the surge in the used market, and the only way out of it is to produce new and innovative games
Actually you got it backwards. Sequelitis actually kills the used market for the previous game. Madden 05 is worthless when Madden 06 comes out. Who wants the old version when the newer version is out even if it has only a few new features? As a someone who buys Madden every year, I try to sell it a couple months before the new version comes out. It's a difference of $10 - $15. When the new version comes out, the old Madden is worth exactly $2.
What to kill the used market for Halo? Release Halo 2.
The Ricky Gervais podcast is hillarious. The whole show is Ricky making fun of Karl Pinkington who talks about the wierdest crap. Karl is like every caller to the Art Bell radio show. In Karl's world chimps are the most intelligent beings that can operate spaceships and rescue people from burning buildings. It's awesome.
Anyone with an IQ over room temperature can memorize a sequence of 8 alphanumeric characters.
They shouldn't have to. What are the chances of an intruder getting a password from a brute force attack over a post it note?
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one of our brillant developper (which also happen to be a manager) decided he'd "fix" it himself, and he ended up turning what would have been a 5 minutes fix into a 3 hours outage for 4000 customers, if he had just waiting 10 more minutes. he doesn't have access anymore.
I have seen that before. You got know your limits. I am often given sysadmin privledges to an Oracle database. If I see any kind of wierd Oracle error I don't even try to play with it. That's the DBA's problem.
Mine was serviced five times in two years. It was sad because my company would just send you another 6100 when your was broken. One guy had to go through 3 laptops before he got his original 6100 back. They had everyone get their computer serviced to proactive fix things and that left my laptop without sound until I finally could get rid of the thing.
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It was probably caused by some crazy password policy that makes remembering the password impossible.
1. Requiring special characters
2. Requiring a lower case and a upper case letter
3. Changing passwords every 30 days
4. No common words
This all leads to lower security with a post it note.
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I can't tell you how many times I have sat there doing nothing but billing a client because I didn't have security to a system. There is always just one guy who can give you access and he is on vacation. I can't tell you how many times I wasn't able to fix a production system because we needed some DBA to run some SQL script I wrote to fix the system. It's not like the DBA even looks at the scripts. I could've stuck in a statement to delete all the tables and he wouldn't have known. My last client had to give you MAC address to Server name security access. My motherboard fried so my MAC address changed. Of course server guy is on vacation. Eight hours X $150\hr = where is the savings? I know the majority of/. is UNIX/NT admin guys and not programmers so I probably won't get anybody to understand. It's safer for the admin guy's job to lock your system down then worry about development costs. If management really knew the additional software costs, developers wouldn't be locked down. Often it seems the admin guys have some kind of power trip with access. Am I really more of a security threat than the admin guy with lots of Lord of the Rings crap all over his cube?
Though I will state now, I liked Zen in HalfLife. The indoor bits particularly.
Zen in HalfLife was horrible. Every part of Half Life rocked except Zen. I couldn't wait to get it over with. I got lost like three times because everything looked the same. I almost gave up on Half Life, but I am glad I stuck though it for the end. Half-Life still is one the best games of all time.
That's great if you have a 1 parameter function. Multiple infinity by 100 diffrent variables. I am going to try running the test on my Pentium III. I should have it fully tested when they wake my body up from carbon freezing in 5995.
I think he is talking about the original C&C. We did the original C&C at our house with coaxial cables in an IPX network using the 2 CDs. It was fun when the games didn't go on too long.
I think Nintendo has the right idea of not allowing open chat on the DS Wi-Fi. The worse someone can do is repeatitily slam thier kart into someone. I think chat is more annoying in a lot of games than helpful. BF2 has the canned voice chat thing down that voice isn't really needed. Counterstrike seems to have less annoying kids on it these days but for a while Counterstrike really sucked because of screamers. (Thank you X-box live). Even playinng PS2 Madden online can suck sometimes because I have to wait 30 seconds for some tool to accuse me of cheating? (No, I am not cheating, there are no cheats, you just suck.) I can see you need it on MMORPG but I don't play those. Get rid of all chat/voice in games and I won't miss it one bit.
Hey I am surfing with Netscape on my 486 with "four megabytes of ram" just fine. It comes with a popup blocker because it doesn't have no crappy JavaScript support. Just try to render the HTML BLINK tag with your fancy new browsers. No longer supported eh? Does your cool new browser have a world spinning with a big "N" when it loads a page?? No? Netscape forever!!!
The problem is with the 360 is that it has a cool looking X that turns when you turn the console. It's almost like they sat in board room and said "what fancy crap can we stick on this thing to make it scratch disks". My PS2 would probably scratch a disk if I turned it sideways while playing a game but it is lacking a cool looking X to give me incentive to turn it. I need to get one of cool looking X-box faceplates and glue it on to my PS2.
So yes, when the international corporations BECOME the defacto government (by undermining political systems) than they effectively become the state and they will equally fit the "1984" paradigm.
Dude, international corporations don't become the government in "1984". READ THE BOOK.
China and India started from the same post-colonialist situation yet half the Indian population, more than half a billion people, still suffers from endemic hunger, desperate destitution, illiteracy, high infant mortality, disease, low life expectancy, and other problems that would shame any self-respecting nation and that China has done much better on.
Are you joking? Remember something from history class called the Great Leap Forward? Only 25 million people starved to death in China. But that's a drop in the bucket for China eh? I am sure your going to say some academic bullshit that it wasn't Communism. China is doing a lot better now that it is moving to capitalism.
I think it's just as apt to say that Orwell's "1984" is what we end up withn when we see capitalism taken to it's ultimate extreme (at least the sort of "capitalism" we see in the western world today).
"1984" extreme capitialism? Uh no. Did you read "1984"? "Brave New World" maybe.
The truth is that communism is one of the fastest ways to bring a country from total anarchy and poverty to a functioning economy.
All of that is short term. Without free enterprise the economy won't grow. The only countries that can sustain marxism for long are countries with a lot of natural resources to exploit. Communism will never work because absolute power will corrupt absolutely. Regulated captialism is the only economic system that works despite its flaws.
True Communism has been tried many times. It is destined to change into a oligarchic dictatorship everytime. That is why Communism will always fail. Ideals are always thrown out after that much power is given to so few people. Orwell's Animal Farm has happened so many times in different countries. Just subsitute different names for the characters.
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Huh?? I had a 286 and I was jealous of my friends with a NES. They could see more than my 4 colors my CGA monitor was displaying.
when I want to play Half-Life 2
For Half-Life 2 if you registered your CD with a steam account you don't need the CD check. Just uninstall the game. Redownload using Steam. I bought all my Valve games with the CD but I never have to whip out the CDs anymore. Totally love Steam. I hope more companies do something similar.
I loved that game. It took me a year to understand it. Probably because I didn't understand football at the time. I broke the power switch so I had to hold the switch while playing. It added to the challenge.
I think if you love your job %25 of the time you are doing OK. Politics and tedious work 75% of the time is worth the programming 25% of the time. I just think about the money when I am getting yelled at for not being able to read a manager's mind.
If anybody saw the MTV Real Life on professional gamers they interviewed the Pac Man champion from 1982. He was a huge celebrity at the time. Now he has the really sad life going nowhere. He talks about his time as a celebrity like it was the only happy time in his now pathetic life. That Fatality dude should get a back up plan and go to college. Video Game champion of FPS games is cool now. FPS games will be replaced by some other genre. Just like the Pac Man champion can't make it as a FPS champion he will be replaced.
In other words, it seems to me that sequelitis is directly responsible for the surge in the used market, and the only way out of it is to produce new and innovative games
Actually you got it backwards. Sequelitis actually kills the used market for the previous game. Madden 05 is worthless when Madden 06 comes out. Who wants the old version when the newer version is out even if it has only a few new features? As a someone who buys Madden every year, I try to sell it a couple months before the new version comes out. It's a difference of $10 - $15. When the new version comes out, the old Madden is worth exactly $2.
What to kill the used market for Halo? Release Halo 2.
The Ricky Gervais podcast is hillarious. The whole show is Ricky making fun of Karl Pinkington who talks about the wierdest crap. Karl is like every caller to the Art Bell radio show. In Karl's world chimps are the most intelligent beings that can operate spaceships and rescue people from burning buildings. It's awesome.
I got the USB adapter. It was easy to setup and works well. It doesn't leave a hole in the network because only an authorized DS works.
Anyone with an IQ over room temperature can memorize a sequence of 8 alphanumeric characters.
They shouldn't have to. What are the chances of an intruder getting a password from a brute force attack over a post it note?
one of our brillant developper (which also happen to be a manager) decided he'd "fix" it himself, and he ended up turning what would have been a 5 minutes fix into a 3 hours outage for 4000 customers, if he had just waiting 10 more minutes. he doesn't have access anymore.
I have seen that before. You got know your limits. I am often given sysadmin privledges to an Oracle database. If I see any kind of wierd Oracle error I don't even try to play with it. That's the DBA's problem.
Mine was serviced five times in two years. It was sad because my company would just send you another 6100 when your was broken. One guy had to go through 3 laptops before he got his original 6100 back. They had everyone get their computer serviced to proactive fix things and that left my laptop without sound until I finally could get rid of the thing.
It was probably caused by some crazy password policy that makes remembering the password impossible.
1. Requiring special characters
2. Requiring a lower case and a upper case letter
3. Changing passwords every 30 days
4. No common words
This all leads to lower security with a post it note.
I can't tell you how many times I have sat there doing nothing but billing a client because I didn't have security to a system. There is always just one guy who can give you access and he is on vacation. I can't tell you how many times I wasn't able to fix a production system because we needed some DBA to run some SQL script I wrote to fix the system. It's not like the DBA even looks at the scripts. I could've stuck in a statement to delete all the tables and he wouldn't have known. My last client had to give you MAC address to Server name security access. My motherboard fried so my MAC address changed. Of course server guy is on vacation. Eight hours X $150\hr = where is the savings? I know the majority of /. is UNIX/NT admin guys and not programmers so I probably won't get anybody to understand. It's safer for the admin guy's job to lock your system down then worry about development costs. If management really knew the additional software costs, developers wouldn't be locked down. Often it seems the admin guys have some kind of power trip with access. Am I really more of a security threat than the admin guy with lots of Lord of the Rings crap all over his cube?
Though I will state now, I liked Zen in HalfLife. The indoor bits particularly.
Zen in HalfLife was horrible. Every part of Half Life rocked except Zen. I couldn't wait to get it over with. I got lost like three times because everything looked the same. I almost gave up on Half Life, but I am glad I stuck though it for the end. Half-Life still is one the best games of all time.
That's great if you have a 1 parameter function. Multiple infinity by 100 diffrent variables. I am going to try running the test on my Pentium III. I should have it fully tested when they wake my body up from carbon freezing in 5995.
I think he is talking about the original C&C. We did the original C&C at our house with coaxial cables in an IPX network using the 2 CDs. It was fun when the games didn't go on too long.
I think Nintendo has the right idea of not allowing open chat on the DS Wi-Fi. The worse someone can do is repeatitily slam thier kart into someone. I think chat is more annoying in a lot of games than helpful. BF2 has the canned voice chat thing down that voice isn't really needed. Counterstrike seems to have less annoying kids on it these days but for a while Counterstrike really sucked because of screamers. (Thank you X-box live). Even playinng PS2 Madden online can suck sometimes because I have to wait 30 seconds for some tool to accuse me of cheating? (No, I am not cheating, there are no cheats, you just suck.) I can see you need it on MMORPG but I don't play those. Get rid of all chat/voice in games and I won't miss it one bit.
The answer to that is "four megabytes of ram".
Hey I am surfing with Netscape on my 486 with "four megabytes of ram" just fine. It comes with a popup blocker because it doesn't have no crappy JavaScript support. Just try to render the HTML BLINK tag with your fancy new browsers. No longer supported eh? Does your cool new browser have a world spinning with a big "N" when it loads a page?? No? Netscape forever!!!
The problem is with the 360 is that it has a cool looking X that turns when you turn the console. It's almost like they sat in board room and said "what fancy crap can we stick on this thing to make it scratch disks". My PS2 would probably scratch a disk if I turned it sideways while playing a game but it is lacking a cool looking X to give me incentive to turn it. I need to get one of cool looking X-box faceplates and glue it on to my PS2.
So yes, when the international corporations BECOME the defacto government (by undermining political systems) than they effectively become the state and they will equally fit the "1984" paradigm.
Dude, international corporations don't become the government in "1984". READ THE BOOK.
China and India started from the same post-colonialist situation yet half the Indian population, more than half a billion people, still suffers from endemic hunger, desperate destitution, illiteracy, high infant mortality, disease, low life expectancy, and other problems that would shame any self-respecting nation and that China has done much better on.
Are you joking? Remember something from history class called the Great Leap Forward? Only 25 million people starved to death in China. But that's a drop in the bucket for China eh? I am sure your going to say some academic bullshit that it wasn't Communism. China is doing a lot better now that it is moving to capitalism.
I think it's just as apt to say that Orwell's "1984" is what we end up withn when we see capitalism taken to it's ultimate extreme (at least the sort of "capitalism" we see in the western world today).
"1984" extreme capitialism? Uh no. Did you read "1984"? "Brave New World" maybe.
The truth is that communism is one of the fastest ways to bring a country from total anarchy and poverty to a functioning economy.
All of that is short term. Without free enterprise the economy won't grow. The only countries that can sustain marxism for long are countries with a lot of natural resources to exploit. Communism will never work because absolute power will corrupt absolutely. Regulated captialism is the only economic system that works despite its flaws.
True Communism has been tried many times. It is destined to change into a oligarchic dictatorship everytime. That is why Communism will always fail. Ideals are always thrown out after that much power is given to so few people. Orwell's Animal Farm has happened so many times in different countries. Just subsitute different names for the characters.
All christians interpet the bible in any way possible to get them what they feel is right. And most christians do interpet Genesis literally.
OK, if all christians interpet the bible how can most believe in Genesis literally? You do realize that Genesis is in the Bible.