While the game may implement certain restrictions on a player's avatar, there is still a wide variety of things that amatures just can't do. The computer does not have rules for how well you can aim (compared with other players), or how well you can micromanage (in terms of games like Starcraft). If you never have, I suggest finding a "VOD" of a professional South Korean Starcraft game. Then try doing it yourself. You'll see what I mean.
Yeah, but how did he do it the *first* time (for the steam engine)? In the first movie he used stolen nuclear fuel, and in the second and third they had Mr. Fusion. At the end of III, Marty took the only Mr. Fusion on hand back with him. Which left Doc back in the Wild West - in theory he could get a steam engine up to 88 MPH, but we're still lacking an electrical power source for the Flux Capacitor.
I think the knee-jerk reaction is really the sad feeling for the rest of us that do own and carry (for example) cameras, PDAs, and/or music players, but find it increasingly hard to round out the collection with a cellular; because we can only find hyped cellulars that cost us more and half-implement features that we already have in other devices. Maybe if you could still buy a phone that was only a phone we wouldn't be so frightened of convergence. Now someone will hopefully link me to a phone that is only a phone... so that I can go buy it.
I'm almost completely sure that someone competent enough to pull that off would be aware of the security risks. With that said, if the rich guy paid someone to do it instead...
You do realize that buying out really only can work if the company is public or has greedy private owners. If a company is owned soley by people that are determined not to have their company fall into EA's hands then it is not possible for EA to buy them. With that said, I'm sure there's plenty of other ugly things that EA could do to companies that resist bribery, but I'm not sure what they are from my rather boring consumer's view on the market.
Well, it is slightly complicated by the fact that there is a duopoly on broadband in my area, so technically I cannot switch ISPs without moving as well (the other ISP just can't offer a package that I'm interested in). That of course is really just another downfall of my already poor situation and speaks nothing to your arguement: your point is very well made. I'm basically SOL. I can attempt to contact my ISP, but there is a very low chance that they will actually do anything about it. (Somewhat similar to trying to call the cops on a couple of petty vandalism charges). They may file a report about it, but the chances of it actually stopping are low.
I also do not like this idea. I have difficulty joining several IRC networks or even posting on slashdot without jumping through hoops because it seems that there are an awful lot of kiddies on my subnet that like to spam/flood/ircbot. Could it get worse? I'm already discriminated against by the actions of my neighbours. How bad will it get? Will there be a point where I'll have to switch ISP just to get the services I want? Or will ISPs have to monitor every outgoing packet to make sure that there aren't any kids on the network (so they can ensure the availablility of service to other subscribers)?
No, we hate microsoft not because they make money but because their software sucks and they fight hard to screw the consumer and lock out any form of interoperability that didn't also come from within microsoft. Google on the other hand releases specs and APIs to work with the system and they don't care which platform you happen to be running on. When google starts releasing terrible software then I will start hating them. But not for making money - that just makes no sense.
Read the fucking summary. The target for this would be miniscule devices like PDAs and portable audio players, where 40GB would be more than passable. Of course comptuers come with huge >120 GB harddrives, you can fit quite a number of platters into those (relativly) huge standard PC sized harddrive boxes.
ID softare especially doesn't want to add third party code into the engine, because that means it is another part of it that they can't opensource - the Punkbuster code already has to be removed from Q3 before it can go GPL, which is not a major part of the engine. What if the physics engine had to be taken out? They could still opensource it, but it would be dead on arrival, and would need opensource programmers to implement their own physics before the engine code could actually be put to good use.
While that's true, the 2.6 series in general has vast performance and feature upgrades over 2.4. Only if I wanted EXTREME stability at the cost of uptime would I bother running something from the 2.4 series.
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While the game may implement certain restrictions on a player's avatar, there is still a wide variety of things that amatures just can't do. The computer does not have rules for how well you can aim (compared with other players), or how well you can micromanage (in terms of games like Starcraft). If you never have, I suggest finding a "VOD" of a professional South Korean Starcraft game. Then try doing it yourself. You'll see what I mean.
Yeah, but how did he do it the *first* time (for the steam engine)? In the first movie he used stolen nuclear fuel, and in the second and third they had Mr. Fusion. At the end of III, Marty took the only Mr. Fusion on hand back with him. Which left Doc back in the Wild West - in theory he could get a steam engine up to 88 MPH, but we're still lacking an electrical power source for the Flux Capacitor.
I think the knee-jerk reaction is really the sad feeling for the rest of us that do own and carry (for example) cameras, PDAs, and/or music players, but find it increasingly hard to round out the collection with a cellular; because we can only find hyped cellulars that cost us more and half-implement features that we already have in other devices. Maybe if you could still buy a phone that was only a phone we wouldn't be so frightened of convergence. Now someone will hopefully link me to a phone that is only a phone... so that I can go buy it.
I'm almost completely sure that someone competent enough to pull that off would be aware of the security risks. With that said, if the rich guy paid someone to do it instead...
You do realize that buying out really only can work if the company is public or has greedy private owners. If a company is owned soley by people that are determined not to have their company fall into EA's hands then it is not possible for EA to buy them. With that said, I'm sure there's plenty of other ugly things that EA could do to companies that resist bribery, but I'm not sure what they are from my rather boring consumer's view on the market.
Well, it is slightly complicated by the fact that there is a duopoly on broadband in my area, so technically I cannot switch ISPs without moving as well (the other ISP just can't offer a package that I'm interested in). That of course is really just another downfall of my already poor situation and speaks nothing to your arguement: your point is very well made. I'm basically SOL. I can attempt to contact my ISP, but there is a very low chance that they will actually do anything about it. (Somewhat similar to trying to call the cops on a couple of petty vandalism charges). They may file a report about it, but the chances of it actually stopping are low.
Damn.
Here's a problem: It is a 9250.
Being an RMS emulator has its time and place, but lets be realistic shall we?
I also do not like this idea. I have difficulty joining several IRC networks or even posting on slashdot without jumping through hoops because it seems that there are an awful lot of kiddies on my subnet that like to spam/flood/ircbot. Could it get worse? I'm already discriminated against by the actions of my neighbours. How bad will it get? Will there be a point where I'll have to switch ISP just to get the services I want? Or will ISPs have to monitor every outgoing packet to make sure that there aren't any kids on the network (so they can ensure the availablility of service to other subscribers)?
Monkeyboy, geeze, think of what you just said. You missed a propogation step! A worm really isn't a worm without it...
(also, OE and Outlook Express are the same thing - and they can't be uninstalled)
How would they use Intel tools on PPC arch?
Why is this modded funny? It is true.
Good for you for pointing that out. Now I would like you to compile a list of microsoft products that work in linux.
No, we hate microsoft not because they make money but because their software sucks and they fight hard to screw the consumer and lock out any form of interoperability that didn't also come from within microsoft. Google on the other hand releases specs and APIs to work with the system and they don't care which platform you happen to be running on. When google starts releasing terrible software then I will start hating them. But not for making money - that just makes no sense.
Read the fucking summary. The target for this would be miniscule devices like PDAs and portable audio players, where 40GB would be more than passable. Of course comptuers come with huge >120 GB harddrives, you can fit quite a number of platters into those (relativly) huge standard PC sized harddrive boxes.
ID softare especially doesn't want to add third party code into the engine, because that means it is another part of it that they can't opensource - the Punkbuster code already has to be removed from Q3 before it can go GPL, which is not a major part of the engine. What if the physics engine had to be taken out? They could still opensource it, but it would be dead on arrival, and would need opensource programmers to implement their own physics before the engine code could actually be put to good use.
It Just Works(tm) for me... =/
I concede. It seems that Milage Varies quite a bit depending on browser and OS. For the sake of accuracy it could be said that we're both right. =/
I think you're wrong. Try 0.0.0.0 in your browser. Then try 127.0.0.1.
Why do they use localhost and not 0.0.0.0?
ZING! I agree. :(
Too much work. Try this:
http://www.spamgourmet.com/
I suspect that the whole Mac at school -> Mac at home thing never really caught on because they're SO FUCKING EXPENSIVE.
It didn't need to add up perfectly because some of them can be vulnerable and vulnerable at the same time.
While that's true, the 2.6 series in general has vast performance and feature upgrades over 2.4. Only if I wanted EXTREME stability at the cost of uptime would I bother running something from the 2.4 series.
I did it...