google as my search engine, google.com as my homepage... i'm not exactly sure where the problem is here. It seems awfully out of character for Google to even raise an eyebrow here - i mean what else exactly are they looking for? They'd perhaps like the words "google.com" to appear in place of the little windows icon button that serves as the start menu? I'm surprised they bothered to even make a public request -- Google Tools have never seemed to have any problem co-existing on my Windoze box. Slow news day already?
lest someone hear you say something copyrighted... then you'd better be carrying a big stick. Of course I think that's paraphrased from somewhere else =] -- now that it's in writing is that suddenly copyright infringment? If this is truly "MySpace" through which I'm allowed to express myself, why should I not be allowed to post content that I legally own in a manner in which other people can enjoy it and perhaps share something in common with me (thereby gaining insight into who I am). How is this different than playing your favorite song for someone? Is a public broadcast of music from a CD I bought now illegal? I guess I'd better not EVER let anyone listen to a song off my iPod anymore -- they didn't buy the CD so unless they're lucky enough to hear the song on the radio between the 45 minutes of advertisments per hour they're just simply S.O.L.
It's waaaay too late to expect that this post will see the light of day on anyone's screen, but i couldn't pass up the mention of the taxpayer dollars that pay for your trip to the hospital, life-or-death major surgery, rehabilitation, and pain killers as they put your broken body back together at the public hospital since you weren't wearing your seatbelt.
Assuming you were actually fairly well insured, then your insurance will cover most of the costs... except as a general trend people like you cause the rising costs of healthcare as the insurance company simply ups your rates (and everyone else's in your statistical grouping) to offset their losses.
It MOST DEFINITELY hurts everyone else in the society around you. Perhaps not physically (although plenty of others responded with scenarios in which physical damage takes place) but certainly in the pocketbook... and assuming USofA, that's really where it hurts most anyway:)
This really isn't all that horribly different from the TollTags, EasyPasses, and basically every other scannable devices that identifies the device-holder. Your passport is the property of the government -- has been, and will continue to be. If they want to make it easier to check / scan / whatever, so be it. While I worry about the security of their online database, it's not really any less secure than it has been in the past.
I say there's no real change taking place here, except maybe if not too many of the people in front of me in line have lined their passport holder with tin foil, rig their chips with some hate-message, and/or any other potentially disturbing thing, perhaps the line might move a little faster and I'll make my connecting flight once in awhile...
If anyone has browsed the site a bit (or can still, if it's not already/.'ed for now) -- I especially liked how the developer network page wants you to use Flash programming for sellable mods (as opposed to.NET applications) and the site itself is written using PHP (as opposed to.ASP /.ASPX)... Just my observations...
FTFA: The Mood is Playful: The general mood of a third place is playful and witty. Players in online games crack jokes during heated battles, perform goofy actions with their avatars, and mock each others' appearances. Rarely are players overly serious about game matters.
Yeah -- that's really been my experience with online multiplayer games -- rarely are players overly serious about game matters. Seems to me the long-time players that the article claims are the real core of the community tend to be some of the *most* serious players i've ever encountered.
Seems slightly akin to restricting guns to reduce gun violence. If Perl and network security tools are ilegal, I'm sure all the hackers who are using such things for ilegal purposes will happily respect those laws and use something else.
Or maybe they won't respect those laws, and will just keep doing the same things they've always done.
On another note... read Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress" if this Crypto stuff gets ya goin...
Now, so as not to be -1 offtopic (for the shameless book plug)... Can't say I'm surprised at this sort of an announcement, and not to be a conspiracy theory-monger, but you've gotta believe the NSA has computers that will readily break basic MD5 and SHO-0 encryption. Bergofsky Principle quite simplified states that an unbreakable mathematical algorithm cannot be created. In contrapositive therefore, given enough time and trial, even the longest and most complex encryption can be broken.
I won't be happy until someone disproves that theory, and writes something that is truly immune to the CPU-cycle approach to break in. God only knows what the NSA would want with my emails and files, but I'm thinking that if it really came down to that, I wouldn't really be around to speculate for very long...
I said it over a year ago, and I'll say it again -- I'll believe it when i get my grubby fingers on the install... and proceed to spend the next 72+ hours (hopefully +) glued to the screen.
Oh how i've missed my BFG / Chainsaw rampage...
BTW, anyone have access to one of these supposed "retailers" that can pick them up starting Aug. 3rd?
This guy clearly does not post on or read slashdot ever. Nothing but learning and creativity here:-P
Come to think of it, basically everything I ever do with my computer involves a certain amount of learning and creativity.
Sounds like someone is lamenting their choice of employment -- just because HP is lacking in the forefront creativity department doesn't mean the last 20 years of computing development is in the toilet.
Course by the time I hit submit, I'm sure there will be 50 other posts with this exact same thread, and I'll suddenly by -1 BORING...
Found an interesting thing that Intel's been doing with their old Pentium Pro chips...
Making them into keychains for their employees. You can find similar items on Ebay, where someone has just taken an old Pentium and speared a key ring through it, but that's not the same thing...
I have the core and the L2 cache removed from the chip, and embedded into some kinda plated gold mounting.
It's really kinda cool --- if anyone can track down where to get more, I'd love a few other chips...
Wonder how long till my brand new P4 EE (cost almost as much as a used car) shows up on 5 dollar keychains...
Granted no one likes my posts, and granted there's over 300 of such stories already...
Plenty of stories include critters pissing on hardware, but I actually had a roomate in college that stooped that low. On his iMac too... Kid constantly talked about how great his wonderful iMac was, until he got drunk one evening, and used it for a toilet in the middle of the night.
Not only did i refuse to try and fix it for him, as I had an aversion to draining his piss out of the system, but I made fun of him for months.:-)
Of all the targets to hit late at night... it had to be the iToilet! OS X marks the spot!
So will convicted felons now be prohibited from owning a Pentium 4 grade PC? Can we expect background checks, and 5 day waiting periods before we're allowed to pick up our new P4 systems... And be required to take training classes and obtain licenses to carry concealed laptops?
Then again, I know quite a few people that could use a couple of classes in proper handling and use of their dangerous Pentium 4 system... Maybe I'd get less spam forwards and virus-ridden emails from them!
From article:
"Will the format of input and output files change?
Yes. The new format is XML-like (though not legal XML). "
Sorry SETI, the RIAA has long since scared me away from having anything illegal on my PC.:-P
Correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe your options in firing up a multiplayer session of D / D2 (used to get grounded regularly for tying up the phone lines at home, and making my dad miss important business calls while i was blasting my friends with the BFG) were IPX/SPX and TCP/IP. Often had to modify your modem init strings and such, but I'm pretty sure it could handle TCP/IP.
Sounds like it's time for me to track down the software, and check it out to be sure...
Haven't played level 13 of that mayhem recently -- mancubus awaits!
From an article on Doomworld, quoted again here on imgmagazine.com:
http://www.imgmagazine.com/news/story.php?Articl eI D=366
"...id has noted several times in the past that Doom 3 will come to the Mac, but only for users running Mac OS X. Since it should be at least a year or two before Doom 3's release, this may not be a problem for many gamers..."
Looks like you might be in the clear... Now whether or not your little G5 (hopefully dual) with a weak little AGP slot (hopefully at least 8x and upgradeable) will run it... You might be stuck, but at least it sounds like you've got a chance!
Everyone knows the Revenant was a much more difficult enemy to handle than the mancubus...
I also pre-paid to secure the first copies of Doom3, but was able to reclaim my 10 bucks from Best Buy when they first delayed the release. Perhaps you could look into a similar possibility?
I intend to stand in line if necessary and get my hands on a copy when it comes out just the same... saving myself 10 bucks to spend on a pewter statuette of whatever beastly creature gives me the most crap in the third version!
How long till there's a 5 day waiting period and background check to purchase one of these babies for "home defense" or "sporting / hunting" purposes from your local Wal-Mart? Aside from the 250 mile range, it still sounds more sporting than your average assault rifle...
I stand aptly corrected -- excuse my mistake.
However, let's review:
1) 90 degree roll to the right twice upon firing the main engine
2) Loud BANG while firing the main engine
3) Upon reaching "space" you suddenly find you've lost all attitude control
Any picture of me climbing out of that aircraft would include a very very soggy pair of pants, not a happy-go-lucky thumbs up!
While i'm sure this will get a -1 Flamebait, i have to at least start by expressing my dissapointment with the vast number of "attitude" jokes so far...
That said, I'm surprised the development team isn't more concerned with the extreme instabilities reportedly experienced while firing the engines. Seems to me that such a huge misalignment of thrust is a much greater problem than a "slight glitch in the attitude controls"
Perhaps Jon Carmack's team still has a shot at the big bucks.... Even without bothering to make any cash from finally releasing Doom3.
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The SanDisk 32GB version reports a 2 million hour MTBF... http://www.sandisk.com/Oem/Default.aspx?CatID=1478
That's quite a bit better than typical hard drives these days!
Has anyone found MTBF information regarding the Samsung versions?
While it may get modded "off-topic" in your infinite elderly wisdom, what's your preference for an NNTP reader?
google as my search engine, google.com as my homepage... i'm not exactly sure where the problem is here. It seems awfully out of character for Google to even raise an eyebrow here - i mean what else exactly are they looking for? They'd perhaps like the words "google.com" to appear in place of the little windows icon button that serves as the start menu? I'm surprised they bothered to even make a public request -- Google Tools have never seemed to have any problem co-existing on my Windoze box. Slow news day already?
lest someone hear you say something copyrighted... then you'd better be carrying a big stick. Of course I think that's paraphrased from somewhere else =] -- now that it's in writing is that suddenly copyright infringment? If this is truly "MySpace" through which I'm allowed to express myself, why should I not be allowed to post content that I legally own in a manner in which other people can enjoy it and perhaps share something in common with me (thereby gaining insight into who I am). How is this different than playing your favorite song for someone? Is a public broadcast of music from a CD I bought now illegal? I guess I'd better not EVER let anyone listen to a song off my iPod anymore -- they didn't buy the CD so unless they're lucky enough to hear the song on the radio between the 45 minutes of advertisments per hour they're just simply S.O.L.
It's waaaay too late to expect that this post will see the light of day on anyone's screen, but i couldn't pass up the mention of the taxpayer dollars that pay for your trip to the hospital, life-or-death major surgery, rehabilitation, and pain killers as they put your broken body back together at the public hospital since you weren't wearing your seatbelt. Assuming you were actually fairly well insured, then your insurance will cover most of the costs... except as a general trend people like you cause the rising costs of healthcare as the insurance company simply ups your rates (and everyone else's in your statistical grouping) to offset their losses. It MOST DEFINITELY hurts everyone else in the society around you. Perhaps not physically (although plenty of others responded with scenarios in which physical damage takes place) but certainly in the pocketbook... and assuming USofA, that's really where it hurts most anyway :)
This really isn't all that horribly different from the TollTags, EasyPasses, and basically every other scannable devices that identifies the device-holder. Your passport is the property of the government -- has been, and will continue to be. If they want to make it easier to check / scan / whatever, so be it. While I worry about the security of their online database, it's not really any less secure than it has been in the past. I say there's no real change taking place here, except maybe if not too many of the people in front of me in line have lined their passport holder with tin foil, rig their chips with some hate-message, and/or any other potentially disturbing thing, perhaps the line might move a little faster and I'll make my connecting flight once in awhile...
If anyone has browsed the site a bit (or can still, if it's not already /.'ed for now) -- I especially liked how the developer network page wants you to use Flash programming for sellable mods (as opposed to .NET applications) and the site itself is written using PHP (as opposed to .ASP / .ASPX)... Just my observations...
FTFA:
The Mood is Playful: The general mood of a third place is playful and witty. Players in online games crack jokes during heated battles, perform goofy actions with their avatars, and mock each others' appearances. Rarely are players overly serious about game matters.
Yeah -- that's really been my experience with online multiplayer games -- rarely are players overly serious about game matters. Seems to me the long-time players that the article claims are the real core of the community tend to be some of the *most* serious players i've ever encountered.
Seems slightly akin to restricting guns to reduce gun violence. If Perl and network security tools are ilegal, I'm sure all the hackers who are using such things for ilegal purposes will happily respect those laws and use something else.
Or maybe they won't respect those laws, and will just keep doing the same things they've always done.
Yeah, i'm thinkin the second part is more likely.
1. Locate sub-average intelligent tribes in the deepest jungles
2. Learn their language
3. Propose and conduct some humiliating "research" that even a monkey could succesfully complete
Many. ??
Many. ??
Many. Profit!
On another note... read Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress" if this Crypto stuff gets ya goin...
Now, so as not to be -1 offtopic (for the shameless book plug)... Can't say I'm surprised at this sort of an announcement, and not to be a conspiracy theory-monger, but you've gotta believe the NSA has computers that will readily break basic MD5 and SHO-0 encryption. Bergofsky Principle quite simplified states that an unbreakable mathematical algorithm cannot be created. In contrapositive therefore, given enough time and trial, even the longest and most complex encryption can be broken.
I won't be happy until someone disproves that theory, and writes something that is truly immune to the CPU-cycle approach to break in. God only knows what the NSA would want with my emails and files, but I'm thinking that if it really came down to that, I wouldn't really be around to speculate for very long...
my 2 yen's worth (grossly inflated, of course)
~Ess
Hey, does anyone know what the minimum hardware REQ's ar....
errr...
Just tryin to be funny --
if (dry_sarcasm == funny) then
{ggComedyCentral(DaveChappel ME);}
RTFA -- not only does the article specifically state that the writer has no idea what the min specs are, neither would anyone else really.
Please no more posts about the hardware Req's -- you know damn well it'll be another 2 grand in parts to play this one.
I said it over a year ago, and I'll say it again -- I'll believe it when i get my grubby fingers on the install... and proceed to spend the next 72+ hours (hopefully +) glued to the screen.
Oh how i've missed my BFG / Chainsaw rampage...
BTW, anyone have access to one of these supposed "retailers" that can pick them up starting Aug. 3rd?
I'm your new best friend!
This guy clearly does not post on or read slashdot ever. Nothing but learning and creativity here :-P
Come to think of it, basically everything I ever do with my computer involves a certain amount of learning and creativity.
Sounds like someone is lamenting their choice of employment -- just because HP is lacking in the forefront creativity department doesn't mean the last 20 years of computing development is in the toilet.
Course by the time I hit submit, I'm sure there will be 50 other posts with this exact same thread, and I'll suddenly by -1 BORING...
Found an interesting thing that Intel's been doing with their old Pentium Pro chips...
Making them into keychains for their employees. You can find similar items on Ebay, where someone has just taken an old Pentium and speared a key ring through it, but that's not the same thing...
I have the core and the L2 cache removed from the chip, and embedded into some kinda plated gold mounting.
It's really kinda cool --- if anyone can track down where to get more, I'd love a few other chips...
Wonder how long till my brand new P4 EE (cost almost as much as a used car) shows up on 5 dollar keychains...
Granted no one likes my posts, and granted there's over 300 of such stories already... Plenty of stories include critters pissing on hardware, but I actually had a roomate in college that stooped that low. On his iMac too... Kid constantly talked about how great his wonderful iMac was, until he got drunk one evening, and used it for a toilet in the middle of the night. Not only did i refuse to try and fix it for him, as I had an aversion to draining his piss out of the system, but I made fun of him for months. :-)
Of all the targets to hit late at night... it had to be the iToilet! OS X marks the spot!
So will convicted felons now be prohibited from owning a Pentium 4 grade PC? Can we expect background checks, and 5 day waiting periods before we're allowed to pick up our new P4 systems... And be required to take training classes and obtain licenses to carry concealed laptops?
Then again, I know quite a few people that could use a couple of classes in proper handling and use of their dangerous Pentium 4 system... Maybe I'd get less spam forwards and virus-ridden emails from them!
From article: "Will the format of input and output files change? Yes. The new format is XML-like (though not legal XML). " Sorry SETI, the RIAA has long since scared me away from having anything illegal on my PC. :-P
I can hear the deer complaining about me being a fagg0t campz0r already...
Correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe your options in firing up a multiplayer session of D / D2 (used to get grounded regularly for tying up the phone lines at home, and making my dad miss important business calls while i was blasting my friends with the BFG) were IPX/SPX and TCP/IP. Often had to modify your modem init strings and such, but I'm pretty sure it could handle TCP/IP.
Sounds like it's time for me to track down the software, and check it out to be sure...
Haven't played level 13 of that mayhem recently -- mancubus awaits!
From an article on Doomworld, quoted again here on imgmagazine.com:
l eI D=366
http://www.imgmagazine.com/news/story.php?Artic
"...id has noted several times in the past that Doom 3 will come to the Mac, but only for users running Mac OS X. Since it should be at least a year or two before Doom 3's release, this may not be a problem for many gamers..."
Looks like you might be in the clear... Now whether or not your little G5 (hopefully dual) with a weak little AGP slot (hopefully at least 8x and upgradeable) will run it... You might be stuck, but at least it sounds like you've got a chance!
Best of luck!
Everyone knows the Revenant was a much more difficult enemy to handle than the mancubus...
I also pre-paid to secure the first copies of Doom3, but was able to reclaim my 10 bucks from Best Buy when they first delayed the release. Perhaps you could look into a similar possibility?
I intend to stand in line if necessary and get my hands on a copy when it comes out just the same... saving myself 10 bucks to spend on a pewter statuette of whatever beastly creature gives me the most crap in the third version!
How long till there's a 5 day waiting period and background check to purchase one of these babies for "home defense" or "sporting / hunting" purposes from your local Wal-Mart? Aside from the 250 mile range, it still sounds more sporting than your average assault rifle...
I stand aptly corrected -- excuse my mistake. However, let's review: 1) 90 degree roll to the right twice upon firing the main engine 2) Loud BANG while firing the main engine 3) Upon reaching "space" you suddenly find you've lost all attitude control Any picture of me climbing out of that aircraft would include a very very soggy pair of pants, not a happy-go-lucky thumbs up!
While i'm sure this will get a -1 Flamebait, i have to at least start by expressing my dissapointment with the vast number of "attitude" jokes so far...
That said, I'm surprised the development team isn't more concerned with the extreme instabilities reportedly experienced while firing the engines. Seems to me that such a huge misalignment of thrust is a much greater problem than a "slight glitch in the attitude controls"
Perhaps Jon Carmack's team still has a shot at the big bucks.... Even without bothering to make any cash from finally releasing Doom3.