I can see why ID would complain - Single player games are by far the easiest to pirate. Games Liek Fear and Prey were extremly easy games to pirate, and you only really need a keygen and a no-cd/fixed-image. All the steam based games are hard to pirate, and in fact i just bought them cause I liked them (games, not steam) so much. Despite the annoyances of steam, it does an excedingly good job of preventing pirating. Also, games like BF2, which only have an online multiplayer worth playing, can check cd-keys on login, and are also difficult to pirate.
Our school had minor problems with proxy services such as this one, but our school's web filtering system (Surf Control) did a great job at blocking them. I think students, when given the oppertunity, will browse myspace, but really will not go out of their way to do so.
The average technical know how of students in my year is terrable, generally not above simple instant messaging/powerpoint usage, and have no idea what 'proxy' means. I think any school with a half-sensable content-based web filtering system should have no problem preventing students from using proxies, especically if the admins are paying any attention to what their students are doing.
This is very much my situation. I just finished a Computer Science AP class at my Hich School, and know Java quite well, as well as c++, which I suppose isnt too bad for a high schooler. My suggestion: find someone you know, a teacher or an older friend, who knows something, then learn everything you can from him. I had a great Computer Science teacher in High School. Though it was just a Java class, I also got my feet wet with c++, css, html, bash, and loads of other stuff. The trick to learning something is to use it. You WILL NOT learn c++ without writing a large-ish program in c++, config your enviornment, read books, and get everything running. The same applies to every other language. Youo want to generalize yourself, so my strategy is to learn one language that you like pretty well (java would be a good choice), and at the same time, poke around in python and c++. That way, you can learn advanced programming ideas and dont have to worrb about the language, and learn fun programs. Have some fun and experiment: Write a network program - you learn a lot about networks. Get your program working on linux - learn about portability and the linux shell. Write a good game engine - learn how to use enginges. The key is to just jump in.
This is all applying to learning oo languages, but it applies to everything.
It is apple's Choice weather or not they are willing to sell a song, and it is the music industry weather or not they want to accept the losses for not having their music selling on iTMS.
Its a great idea to sell every song for $.99 and it fits in perfectally with apple's strategy or minamilism and simplicity.
Plus, wolnt raising the price revert more users to pirating?
So...Lets see here...If they choose to raise the price, apple wolnt sell their songs, (a minor wound to apple but they still have their ipod) but devistating the music industry, and more users will start pirating and circumventing DRM.
I'll admit its not quite a phone and addredd book, but its as simple as motorola gets, and as for those odd, expensive features, it does a great job at avoiding them.
The v180 is nice and simple and comes free with most carriers that carry it. http://direct.motorola.com/ENS/web_producthom e.asp?Country=USA&language=ENS&productid=29308
I have ~7.2 KB/s up and 118 KB/s down on my 1.5Mb/384Kb connection on this torrent. It started really slowly though - problably many leechers just connected form slashdot.
While I am not opposed to a slightly bloated browser, The ability to slim firefox down is what seperates it from other browsers.
If they start building loads of features that only half of the users find useful, it will make firefox no different from oprah or other browers.
I think they should make the entire extension system even more integrated into firefox, and (somehow) suggest to the user that having many extensions is easier.
My theory is that communities like this started with groups of people who had written these programs, and of course, they have good reason to promote their own program. Over time, other people in these early communoties who wrote other software began to promore each other's work in a possibly informal way
As the community grew from just coders into Coders, Artists, Enthusiasts, and Wannabees, they all tried to fit into the group and began to promore each other's work.
That is problably how it started; and overtime it grew into community members avidly promoting eachother's work and the work of the community as a whole.
I think having some discreet monotoring software would be more useful, and it would allow the parent to own their kil at the first sight of 'M' rated games.
I always thought marvin as something very humanoide (like bender or c3po). In the review, they stated that douglass adams had some input on the major changes from the book. Anyone know if this was douglass adam's idea?
soo... its like wikipedia, except dominated by bill gates?
If users like wikipedia, and MS relies on the users to write their encyclopedia(to save them money because we all know they need it), why would anyone write in it, especically if anything they write becomes Microsoft's to do whatever they want with?
I'm glad they have editors, or else the GNAA would send them to hell.
They should publish this in the form of a mobile device with the cover saying "DONT PANIC".
It would be as cool as hell, and quite useful on certain ocasions when a laptop is too large, or you dont want to risk it being stolen.
Anyone thought of making their iPod (mabey its too small) into The Guide?
I think I may have some insight to this as I am in 9th grade. I am however, not a girl. If you force non-geeky types into geeky positions, you are defeating the point of geekieness, which is bad.
Geekieness is not just a label applied to you to be mocked, when it is infact a social class which we want to keep pure (god i sound fascist, but I still agree with what I said).
Anyways, I know of very few girls into IT related things, but ten again there really arent that many more guys. Mabey 10(guys):3(girls) in our grade.
They dont want to be around us, we dont want to be around them, and the world was. Anyways, maturity has no correlation with interest in IT fields, or even willingness to go into the fields.
I agree, but not as trollishly. The most recent game, while being very realistic, lacks the action of newer games. I'll admit, I'm a sucker for source, but, IMHO, it isnt fun at all with the +8 min rounds. If you happpen to get killes in the first munite or so, you have time for a snack...or two...
Its just annoying, and compared to other games, even (shutter) halo 2, it cany quite compete. Frcry was great, if a little pricy (this can be expected of new games) and mabey, Ubisoft can pull this off, funded by our (your...I'm still a minor) hard earned taxes.
I for one, welcome UBIsoft as the devoloper od a new game with a great potential, but ugly, and kinda smelly past. (As long as its free, which is a different debate)
From my humble experiences, I have seen cabel rated at '3' Mbps perform worse than DSL rated at about 2 mbps. I do unserstand the way cable works with some a maximum community bandwidth, which makes sense because I live in a large, wealthy community where 95% of the population has some sort of broadband, the majority of which is Comcast Cable.
Also a question, are there any facts supporting better actuial speed/claimed speed for DSL than Cable?
I (sadly) use XP on one of my boxes, and I have found really no need to install SP2. It is on a subnet, with a linux box as a firewall/router, so I couldent care less If it included a (M$ quality) firewall. I also dont need some Operating ststem to tell me If my virus scan is working fine, I am fully capable of doing so my self.
I overall am pleased with windows update, until now when it will be force feeding us all sp2...great.
On a side note: SP2 broke my bluetooth, and I'm pissed. *Runs off to linux box to use Bluetooth without having to install anything and watch it work perfectally*
My uncle anc cousins have an interesting setup. They pay their neighbors about $10 a month and their neighbors supply them with a wireless key. They bought a kick-ass directional antenna and pointed it at their neighbor's house. Its not technically piggybacking, buy I dont know what the IPS's polocy is on sharing internet.
Limewire uses Compression whick im sure has a pretty likley chance of obscuring a fingerprint. Anyways, if these fingerprints are made public to the ISPs or if some one reverse-engeneers them, im sure they will be very easy to remove with a hex editor and a perdy little script.
Slashdot Mirror
I can see why ID would complain - Single player games are by far the easiest to pirate. Games Liek Fear and Prey were extremly easy games to pirate, and you only really need a keygen and a no-cd/fixed-image. All the steam based games are hard to pirate, and in fact i just bought them cause I liked them (games, not steam) so much. Despite the annoyances of steam, it does an excedingly good job of preventing pirating. Also, games like BF2, which only have an online multiplayer worth playing, can check cd-keys on login, and are also difficult to pirate.
Our school had minor problems with proxy services such as this one, but our school's web filtering system (Surf Control) did a great job at blocking them. I think students, when given the oppertunity, will browse myspace, but really will not go out of their way to do so.
The average technical know how of students in my year is terrable, generally not above simple instant messaging/powerpoint usage, and have no idea what 'proxy' means. I think any school with a half-sensable content-based web filtering system should have no problem preventing students from using proxies, especically if the admins are paying any attention to what their students are doing.
This is very much my situation. I just finished a Computer Science AP class at my Hich School, and know Java quite well, as well as c++, which I suppose isnt too bad for a high schooler. My suggestion: find someone you know, a teacher or an older friend, who knows something, then learn everything you can from him. I had a great Computer Science teacher in High School. Though it was just a Java class, I also got my feet wet with c++, css, html, bash, and loads of other stuff. The trick to learning something is to use it. You WILL NOT learn c++ without writing a large-ish program in c++, config your enviornment, read books, and get everything running. The same applies to every other language.
Youo want to generalize yourself, so my strategy is to learn one language that you like pretty well (java would be a good choice), and at the same time, poke around in python and c++. That way, you can learn advanced programming ideas and dont have to worrb about the language, and learn fun programs. Have some fun and experiment: Write a network program - you learn a lot about networks. Get your program working on linux - learn about portability and the linux shell. Write a good game engine - learn how to use enginges. The key is to just jump in.
This is all applying to learning oo languages, but it applies to everything.
http://www.typosquatting.com/
It is apple's Choice weather or not they are willing to sell a song, and it is the music industry weather or not they want to accept the losses for not having their music selling on iTMS.
Its a great idea to sell every song for $.99 and it fits in perfectally with apple's strategy or minamilism and simplicity.
Plus, wolnt raising the price revert more users to pirating?
So...Lets see here...If they choose to raise the price, apple wolnt sell their songs, (a minor wound to apple but they still have their ipod) but devistating the music industry, and more users will start pirating and circumventing DRM.
I'll admit its not quite a phone and addredd book, but its as simple as motorola gets, and as for those odd, expensive features, it does a great job at avoiding them.
m e.asp?Country=USA&language=ENS&productid=29308
The v180 is nice and simple and comes free with most carriers that carry it.
http://direct.motorola.com/ENS/web_productho
hmm...
I have ~7.2 KB/s up and 118 KB/s down on my 1.5Mb/384Kb connection on this torrent. It started really slowly though - problably many leechers just connected form slashdot.
Just wait till the accelerator gets slashdotted
While I am not opposed to a slightly bloated browser, The ability to slim firefox down is what seperates it from other browsers.
If they start building loads of features that only half of the users find useful, it will make firefox no different from oprah or other browers.
I think they should make the entire extension system even more integrated into firefox, and (somehow) suggest to the user that having many extensions is easier.
"Room Temprature"
My theory is that communities like this started with groups of people who had written these programs, and of course, they have good reason to promote their own program. Over time, other people in these early communoties who wrote other software began to promore each other's work in a possibly informal way
As the community grew from just coders into Coders, Artists, Enthusiasts, and Wannabees, they all tried to fit into the group and began to promore each other's work.
That is problably how it started; and overtime it grew into community members avidly promoting eachother's work and the work of the community as a whole.
I think having some discreet monotoring software would be more useful, and it would allow the parent to own their kil at the first sight of 'M' rated games.
I play games my parents dont approve of, but after I got Doom 3 from a friend they just stopped caring.
I always thought marvin as something very humanoide (like bender or c3po). In the review, they stated that douglass adams had some input on the major changes from the book. Anyone know if this was douglass adam's idea?
soo... its like wikipedia, except dominated by bill gates?
If users like wikipedia, and MS relies on the users to write their encyclopedia(to save them money because we all know they need it), why would anyone write in it, especically if anything they write becomes Microsoft's to do whatever they want with?
I'm glad they have editors, or else the GNAA would send them to hell.
Try running windows
They should publish this in the form of a mobile device with the cover saying "DONT PANIC". It would be as cool as hell, and quite useful on certain ocasions when a laptop is too large, or you dont want to risk it being stolen. Anyone thought of making their iPod (mabey its too small) into The Guide?
all 7 of them
I think I may have some insight to this as I am in 9th grade. I am however, not a girl. If you force non-geeky types into geeky positions, you are defeating the point of geekieness, which is bad. Geekieness is not just a label applied to you to be mocked, when it is infact a social class which we want to keep pure (god i sound fascist, but I still agree with what I said). Anyways, I know of very few girls into IT related things, but ten again there really arent that many more guys. Mabey 10(guys):3(girls) in our grade. They dont want to be around us, we dont want to be around them, and the world was. Anyways, maturity has no correlation with interest in IT fields, or even willingness to go into the fields.
I agree, but not as trollishly. The most recent game, while being very realistic, lacks the action of newer games. I'll admit, I'm a sucker for source, but, IMHO, it isnt fun at all with the +8 min rounds. If you happpen to get killes in the first munite or so, you have time for a snack...or two...
Its just annoying, and compared to other games, even (shutter) halo 2, it cany quite compete. Frcry was great, if a little pricy (this can be expected of new games) and mabey, Ubisoft can pull this off, funded by our (your...I'm still a minor) hard earned taxes.
I for one, welcome UBIsoft as the devoloper od a new game with a great potential, but ugly, and kinda smelly past.
(As long as its free, which is a different debate)
w00t
From my humble experiences, I have seen cabel rated at '3' Mbps perform worse than DSL rated at about 2 mbps. I do unserstand the way cable works with some a maximum community bandwidth, which makes sense because I live in a large, wealthy community where 95% of the population has some sort of broadband, the majority of which is Comcast Cable. Also a question, are there any facts supporting better actuial speed/claimed speed for DSL than Cable?
I (sadly) use XP on one of my boxes, and I have found really no need to install SP2. It is on a subnet, with a linux box as a firewall/router, so I couldent care less If it included a (M$ quality) firewall. I also dont need some Operating ststem to tell me If my virus scan is working fine, I am fully capable of doing so my self. I overall am pleased with windows update, until now when it will be force feeding us all sp2...great. On a side note: SP2 broke my bluetooth, and I'm pissed. *Runs off to linux box to use Bluetooth without having to install anything and watch it work perfectally*
My uncle anc cousins have an interesting setup. They pay their neighbors about $10 a month and their neighbors supply them with a wireless key. They bought a kick-ass directional antenna and pointed it at their neighbor's house. Its not technically piggybacking, buy I dont know what the IPS's polocy is on sharing internet.
Limewire uses Compression whick im sure has a pretty likley chance of obscuring a fingerprint. Anyways, if these fingerprints are made public to the ISPs or if some one reverse-engeneers them, im sure they will be very easy to remove with a hex editor and a perdy little script.
I for one welcomes our new (*Patented*)Part-Human Hybrid Overlords.