How sad, that depicting women who have to sell their body to invading soldiers to get food or other goods is becoming a joke... I have no problems with the tactical meaning of a war which can be reduced to rules to a game (read The Art of War if you don't think that war hasn't a game-like aspect), but trivializing social impact of wars like that is going too far.
What's next, husbands beating women at The sims 3 and getting points for it?
What is worse, is that games like Manhunt that depicts a brutal *FANTASY* get more bad press than a game that depicts REAL SEXUAL ABUSE laughing at it. It makes me feel sick.
I'm against any kind of censorship if you are going to show it, show it like it is, it's cruel, it's sad, it's something everyone should be ashamed of. Show it at a game or at a movie, but don't come to me saying than screwing mama-sans at the base camp is fun like some wicked holiday camp for kids with killing and raping included.
The model of not reusing is what companies which can buy a license for a engine are doing already.
You can see examples of what "small, dedicated team who don't have to homogenize their work" on most of the games avalaible today, and sadly most are nothing to call home about.
Surely the makers of a engine know how to make the most of it too, which is a plus.
Been said that, you have a good point, and I hope that Troika doesn't fall in the deadlines trap and skip the content just to get the engine ready for license.
If he means a firewall based on network level and not on content it will fail miserably in providing good service for power users, because the firewall won't be able to react to new traffic trends. Even the NAT can give you headheaches and has been around for a while. If he means a firewall with content scanning embedded, is certainly a security risk... for the user, I don't trust my router deciding what is right and not right for me thank you.
What is needed here is a protocol for mail exchange designed with spam in mind, not zillions of dumb firewalls fighting their own users.
Stop bloating networks with security fails at top protocolos, some guys should reread OSI stack fundamentals...
The publishers should think of making games with more replayability instead throwing together a subpar script, an outdated engine, attaching a sticker which says "40 hours of gameplay", and calling it a game.
I can finish some of those games in 10 hours. Are they going to repay me the 75% of the price I payed?
I think the publishers are to blame here paying the developers to make the same game over an over again, instead listening to the new ideas that I'm sure the developers have.
Sure, wouldn't be cheaper to just train ppl of countrys with minefields to clean them? Oh, wait that would be dangerous for when you want to deploy mines there. And of course dogs trained to smell ppl are working NOW, not at 10-20 years scope, so no point in showing ppl how to train dogs, that would be very expensive.
As I said, I'm not against any kind of development but I'm annoyed by short-minded ppl like you that like to gulp anything they throw you at. Technology adapted? Yeah, just like when they adapted radiation therapy to make nuclear bombs.
Oh wait, no the bombs were developed before, and the motto was "the bomb which would end all wars", seems they have to adapt the mottos to the new short-mindeds like you.
If you can't see this is the "Hey ppl, be glad we invest money here, so we can save lifes" while the main goal is another one you are more stupid than blind.
This method could be used to build environment-aware autonomous robots able to clear a minefield or find heat sources in a collapsed building within 3 to 6 years.
Or to clear a warfield of targets or find heat sources in the night at the same warfield.
Yeah I'm sure the investors pumping that investigation are very interested in finding heat sources in a collapsed building. That will surely produce a lot of revenue.
Not that I am against any kind of investigation because it could be used for war, but the effort made in hiding any kind of military applications from this kind of news is just disturbing.
I'm sorry you're caught in the RBL, but I'm not that sorry.
I'm not caught in the RBL. You missed the shot.
What you fail to leave out is the fact that the blocks were blacklisted only after an untold number of complaints were summarily ignored. TDE brought it upon themselves and this is the only way to get them to act responsibly.
Wrong. Is not the only way. Is the easier way. Especially if you are a clueless sysadmin. I agree with you that TDE brought it upon themselves thought. Problem is that you aren't punishing only TDE. You are punishing innocent ppl too, so your analogy:
If there's a guy in your neighborhood that's a criminal and you know it
Isn't correct either. Is more like: If I know my left neighbour is a criminal and you are my right neighbour who isn't aware that what's happening the police will raid you too.
As I stated before I don't think that banging the users is a fair way of punishing a provider. Maybe a lot of that users can't change provider. I'm sure you don't mind, like you stated, but that doesn't make it fair, sorry.
So now we're going to build a big wall around that town so they can stop dumping their trash elsewhere.
You got it backwards. It's YOUR trash. 99,9% of it is USA spam directed to USA nerds.
TDE should fix their systems? Sure. Spammers should be hunted at their real origin? Yes. Blocking TDE is going to stop 419ers to find another badly configured system? No. Do you really want the spam to stop or do you prefer blaming ppl from the top of your soapbox? I don't know
You aren't addressing the real problem at all.
Why joe? Why vi, then?
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If being installed everywhere is a must, then you should use ed, that way you could use your editor, even if your only way to read output is a line printer, or maybe cat > file.txt, that is everywhere too;)
I'm a sysadmin and can use vi fairly well if I don't have joe available, just because I feel more confortable at it, and I don't think that is a problem, but I like to install bash, joe, less, top, lsof and several things, not because it can't be done on a clean install, but why not use some extra tools?.
For me the advantage of joe over all the other editors is that it has a *very easy* learning curve, and I can introduce new ppl to Unix text editing in a few minutes, also time is not wasted because is joe is a lightweight and very powerful editor if you go deep into it, a lot of the combos are useful in the prompt of several shells because they are similar to emacs. Have you ever tried to guide through telephone a guy who hasn't have a clue of unix through editing a conf file with vi? I have been through that some times, and joe served its purpose nicely.
Can't understand all this banging is all about choices.
You are mistakenly taking technology for better games. I know a lot of games who need a PC in the order of 1000$ to play nicely and still they aren't remotely as fun as pac-man.
Better graphics Better games.
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What's next, husbands beating women at The sims 3 and getting points for it?
What is worse, is that games like Manhunt that depicts a brutal *FANTASY* get more bad press than a game that depicts REAL SEXUAL ABUSE laughing at it. It makes me feel sick. I'm against any kind of censorship if you are going to show it, show it like it is, it's cruel, it's sad, it's something everyone should be ashamed of. Show it at a game or at a movie, but don't come to me saying than screwing mama-sans at the base camp is fun like some wicked holiday camp for kids with killing and raping included.
You can see examples of what "small, dedicated team who don't have to homogenize their work" on most of the games avalaible today, and sadly most are nothing to call home about.
Surely the makers of a engine know how to make the most of it too, which is a plus.
Been said that, you have a good point, and I hope that Troika doesn't fall in the deadlines trap and skip the content just to get the engine ready for license.
I want good games no 1,5Gb technology demos, pls.
If he means a firewall based on network level and not on content it will fail miserably in providing good service for power users, because the firewall won't be able to react to new traffic trends. Even the NAT can give you headheaches and has been around for a while.
If he means a firewall with content scanning embedded, is certainly a security risk... for the user, I don't trust my router deciding what is right and not right for me thank you.
What is needed here is a protocol for mail exchange designed with spam in mind, not zillions of dumb firewalls fighting their own users.
Stop bloating networks with security fails at top protocolos, some guys should reread OSI stack fundamentals...
The publishers should think of making games with more replayability instead throwing together a subpar script, an outdated engine, attaching a sticker which says "40 hours of gameplay", and calling it a game.
I can finish some of those games in 10 hours. Are they going to repay me the 75% of the price I payed?
I think the publishers are to blame here paying the developers to make the same game over an over again, instead listening to the new ideas that I'm sure the developers have.
Sure, wouldn't be cheaper to just train ppl of countrys with minefields to clean them? Oh, wait that would be dangerous for when you want to deploy mines there. And of course dogs trained to smell ppl are working NOW, not at 10-20 years scope, so no point in showing ppl how to train dogs, that would be very expensive.
As I said, I'm not against any kind of development but I'm annoyed by short-minded ppl like you that like to gulp anything they throw you at.
Technology adapted? Yeah, just like when they adapted radiation therapy to make nuclear bombs.
Oh wait, no the bombs were developed before, and the motto was "the bomb which would end all wars", seems they have to adapt the mottos to the new short-mindeds like you.
If you can't see this is the "Hey ppl, be glad we invest money here, so we can save lifes" while the main goal is another one you are more stupid than blind.
Or to clear a warfield of targets or find heat sources in the night at the same warfield. Yeah I'm sure the investors pumping that investigation are very interested in finding heat sources in a collapsed building. That will surely produce a lot of revenue.
Not that I am against any kind of investigation because it could be used for war, but the effort made in hiding any kind of military applications from this kind of news is just disturbing.
How much of an egyptian income takes buying a computer? What is the computer/population ratio? How is the average hardware? PIII? PIV?
I'm not caught in the RBL. You missed the shot.
Wrong. Is not the only way. Is the easier way. Especially if you are a clueless sysadmin.
I agree with you that TDE brought it upon themselves thought. Problem is that you aren't punishing only TDE. You are punishing innocent ppl too, so your analogy:
Isn't correct either. Is more like: If I know my left neighbour is a criminal and you are my right neighbour who isn't aware that what's happening the police will raid you too.
As I stated before I don't think that banging the users is a fair way of punishing a provider. Maybe a lot of that users can't change provider. I'm sure you don't mind, like you stated, but that doesn't make it fair, sorry.
You got it backwards. It's YOUR trash. 99,9% of it is USA spam directed to USA nerds.
TDE should fix their systems? Sure.
Spammers should be hunted at their real origin? Yes.
Blocking TDE is going to stop 419ers to find another badly configured system? No.
Do you really want the spam to stop or do you prefer blaming ppl from the top of your soapbox? I don't know
You aren't addressing the real problem at all.
If being installed everywhere is a must, then you should use ed, that way you could use your editor, even if your only way to read output is a line printer, or maybe cat > file.txt, that is everywhere too ;)
I'm a sysadmin and can use vi fairly well if I don't have joe available, just because I feel more confortable at it, and I don't think that is a problem, but I like to install bash, joe, less, top, lsof and several things, not because it can't be done on a clean install, but why not use some extra tools?.
For me the advantage of joe over all the other editors is that it has a *very easy* learning curve, and I can introduce new ppl to Unix text editing in a few minutes, also time is not wasted because is joe is a lightweight and very powerful editor if you go deep into it, a lot of the combos are useful in the prompt of several shells because they are similar to emacs.
Have you ever tried to guide through telephone a guy who hasn't have a clue of unix through editing a conf file with vi? I have been through that some times, and joe served its purpose nicely.
Can't understand all this banging is all about choices.
Shift button?
You are mistakenly taking technology for better games. I know a lot of games who need a PC in the order of 1000$ to play nicely and still they aren't remotely as fun as pac-man. Better graphics Better games.
Nintendo is already releasing SNES games ported to GBA (Zelda, Final Fantasy 1 & 2). But they are ported, not emulated.
They are already here :) : GBAGI
GBA has 6 buttons + Direction pad. A,B,L,R,select and start. All are used in games, and some emulators have even virtual keyboards. ZX spectrum on GBA