if you didn't realize by reading the news in the last week, it doesn't matter how long your software is attacked, new bugs are found. Yes, guess what, even microsoft has vulnerabilities announced every month. Millions of eyes on the code can help and obviously it did. We didn't hear about the new virus out there in order to find out about this exploit, we just found out about this exploit. Millions of eyes don't prevent mistakes, they do help find them faster and patch them quicker. And of course, even this story is exactly what that is, they already have vendors with patches out for this problem.
hm..... seems Micrsoft, even with all its monkey-pounding, still doesn't have a shot in hell with fixing problems as fast as the open source community does. I'll stick with the box that doesn't stay vulnerable for as long.
I have to agree with this, I just tried what I thought would be the easiest thing to search and come up with my response at number one, Hello World. If you don't know the project, it comes up number 1 on a google search but for some reason vivismo sees fit to hit me with adds for different websites before getting to the actual web page. Yes I find it a big deal to add 4 or 5 links to the top of a search only for advertising. I like to find my website in the first few options that pop up, at least the first page. If a large part of the first page is dedicated to that kind of stuff, then it makes my searches take longer.
It just isn't as efficient, and frankly, I don't use search engines for anything but searching out a single thing.
Though the topics have a niceness to them. I think google was designed with a dial up connection in mind and still is that(extremely low badwidth needs). The topics would probably allow me to parse searches faster for linux questions, but even that isn't guaranteed as I usually have my question answered in the first page of links on google. And as I said before, I see no reason to switch if it just takes more clicks to get where I want to go.
and of course, I think everyone should love that in most cases, even though firefox is pre 1.0, its still better in a lot of ways than IE is(tabbed browsing, a really well trained pop up blocker(though IE now has a decent one with SP2), and an interface that can almost be mistaken for IE if you mess with the colors and icons.
hm.... I wonder if MS ever put this much into a product before handing it over to marketing and calling it 1.0?
I wouldn't be surprised at all by the numbers, but that is because I feel a little differently about problems in open source software.
1) doesn't matter what you use, they all have loads of vulnerabilities, there is a great deal of security through obscurity that helps "some" OSS but not all.
2)I could honestly believe the number of errors could be the same between any MS product and OSS product of equal complexity, but you have to go searching.
3) So why do I use as much OSS as possible? simple actually. MS finds a major flaw in its program, it tells you about it and hten says, now wait till we feel like fixing it. They already decided its not a good marketing idea to release fixes as soon as possible and that rather, once a month makes the company look more secure(actually the exact opposite). In OSS, if there is an error, you have many people going at the problem trying to harden the code and then, as soon as it gets looked at for compatibility, its out there for everyone to take.
Frankly, the customer service of OSS who I do not pay has always beaten the hell out of MS, who I have had to pay directly or indirectly many times. I think the reason IIS6 might be more secure or come across better is that it is more obscure than apache and because MS actually has to compete with a strong force in the industry they can be just as good as OSS. I don't think OSS is fundamentally better, I Think competition is fundamentally better.
You should watch through the episodes with commentary, some of the random stuff they sneaked in their I thought was really creative, but of course, I only have seasons 1-3(while you were still watching).
I love the show but you know, there are some things that just define a person as eccentric(sp?) and this is one of them.
There are a lot of US based jokes, but it seems a lot of the stuff goes over most people's head(old movies, references to scholars and authors). Who knows, the show has started to fall off for me, but that took about 300 episodes.
just to tell you, most things in india are that way. My parents grew up in india and I have been there more times that I can actually count, and I have had many times where we don't have reliable power, there are beggars outside the front door on the street, and there is a computer in the household. Its the way it works, India is the country that seemed to miss out on the 20th century(a line taken from my dad).
This is how india improves itself, massive poverty, massive infrastructure and road problems, and yes, people still using that cart and horse at times in larger cities, and then guess where lots of high tech jobs go. Its hard to believe, but its how India see's its future going. Its a strong belief that if someone can get a good education, that next generation can go live somewhere with a decent power supply and clean water. Its really driving towards that future. Now, if things like textile industries weren't foolishly protected in the US(namely, making me pay a higher price for clothing) these 3rd world countries would improve even faster because what infrastructure they do have becomes a lot more profitable and they can expand faster.
Don't underestimate how hard it is to provide power to rural india. It's no small task and my uncle who lives there for the longest time had on site generators for his farm(large plantation, and actually my mother's uncle, though I make no distinction). It takes years to put these things up. Imagine, no matter how advanced we are, we have several places in the US without access to cable TV because that infrastructure is too expensive to put in. What do you think India is looking at with almost 4x the people and a microscopic percentage of the money.
Anyways, in your worryment about places like hospitals, they usually have onsite generators for small draw power items and if this type of electricity works, it could easily be expanded into the other fields. Keep in mind in many places in india, they are used to doing many complex medical procedures without power. An example is syphoning the blood from a person as you cut to do surgery. You can't have all htat blood in the way and if you don't have power you need to have some way to get the blood out of there. Just 30 years ago they used an interesting system where the tube that was used to siphon was connected at a 90 degree angle to a larger tube that they ran water through. Fluid moves, lower pressure, suction without power. This was used by my father when he worked in the Capital before coming to the US. If the capital didn't have a good power supply 30 years ago, what makes anyone think it will be all that spread out now?
I do agree that many of the items we have in our schools gathering dust could do a lot of good in India and similar countries and should be sent there, but this is how India will deal with this. This approach has led to the tech boom that we in the US degrade as outsourcing. Maybe they are onto something we can't understand?
Why don't people realize that the reason people liked Kirk was because he was a man's man? He took his ladies and he beat up his enemies. He didn't recite Shakepeare at them.
I just love this quote, recited almost exactly but talking about James Bond being castrated in his last movie with well.... really bad writing and a horribly non-Bond story line.
I think the problem is they forget you are doubtfully going to find new people to watch the shows and what you need to cater to is all the people who grew up on either the original or TNG(frankly, no other series has had the magnetism all the way through a create a new trekkie, and I used to be that person that would watch every new episode, till voyager just kept going down hill and then enterprise just sucked).
Cater to what made people fans of those movies with some changes. Yes, if you want to make social commentary, do it as quietly as possible so its actually something that people ahve to figure out for themselves. NO spoonfed morality, just new stories, and I think that needs time and well.... not using anyone that has to do with enterprise's first season.
Oh, and after voyager, rule for the writers, no more idiotic stories about time lines and loops and anomalies. TNG ended on an interesting, and voyager must have used that theme at least every 8 episodes, no more, for my sanity.
who knows, I think the only way you could say GR has a hole in it is because it doesn't seem to mesh well with quantum mech. Though I'm not sure if it would actually take hundreds of pages to write out the GR equations, I'm sure that back when it was first done, there were great ways to make it shorter(I've seen a few and I hate them, damnable tensors and other things that find their way into EM books).
oh well, its tough to say it, but I don't think you need to say GR has a hole in it, rather it is still a theory and therefore is relegated to not having been shown that there are no holes in it. I don't think its all that bad, I'm sure at some point relativity will need to be slightly changed and modified, just like special relativity modified alot of Newton's stuff by looking at the world differently(if you just do some expansions on the special relativity equations, the first term usually nicely works it way out to the newton equations). We might have something similar and relativity is just that much better of an approximation of reality.
oh well, be exciting to see what happens and I hope that this problem either leads to a new understanding of general relativity or a new addition to it, both are very exciting.
everything I have ever seen about the olympics as been about people coming together to compete for glory, it was like that thousands of years ago when the greeks did it and its like it today. It would be glory to Sparta if a spartan could win every 4 years like it is glory to say the japanese when they win in Judo in most of hte weight classes. Anyways, originally, all conflicts were stopped for at lesat the duration of the games so they were in some sense about peace.
of course, I don't quite understand your line about it not being about peace, I can't find what you are referring to but none of your examples have anything to do with them not being about peace, just equal rights. And it has never happened that a team is allowed to win the tour de france because their teammate died, only a stage which is a much smaller victory. If Ulrich had died on the course this year or any time in the last 6, do you actually believe Armstrong would have given up the chance to win the tour, no, but he might have ceded a stage to the german team. Sorry, but they are just as competitive when it comes to the overall tour, it just happens that there are these little competitions that also exist there that people will give up on. The olympics are just a lot more cut throat so you can't give empty things like that to someone(oh, sorry about your countryman who was crtically injured wrestling, here, just take the gold medal and lets not actually compete).
I have no real feelings about the Munich massacre, I'm not sure what canceling the games would have done. You have crazy terrorist groups trying to raise hell, I have never heard of anything that makes real sense. I guess you could have postponed the games for a coule weeks but I guess they didn't want to cause hell with so many other people. And it is quite possible that many of the athletes felt this was a war between two groups(Israel, palestine) that frankly wasn't their concern, or maybe they simply felt it was the Israel governments fault for not capitulating immediately to the demands. Maybe they felt that by going on would be a greater gift to the memory of their fellow athletes. hell, I don't know.
But you know what, you find your way into a major event lke that and then make your symbollic protest, you might put your years of your life you dedicated to this above something you feel doesn't concern you and you might not, but frankly, until you are there, you have no idea what was going through those peoples' minds so you might as well not blame them for something you have no idea about.
well, just so you don't feel too bad, I'm spending my first olympics outside the US, in Japan. My god, every bit of coverage is of a Japanese person getting a medal, and they have about 4 channels that show it over and over. I swear, I have seen more Judo in this last week and so many days that I ever want to.
so just to let you know, at least one more country is just like the US. I mean, if they would show japanese people, but at least not only the matches that they medal in. I've grown bored of the olympics here because you only see the same things over and over. Every now and then you get live coverage of something new, like soccer, but its rare.
so completely off topic, but I think it would be more interesting to hear it from the competitors than from any news agency. They can actually talk about how they felt and things that are really interesting(I mean, what goes through your mind when your competing for hte gold and the match just doesn't end. what do you do to not think about just giving up, or what your training was like to get you to this point, and of course I've always wondered how many people set personal records when they are at the olympics, just from the energy that is usually there).
Actually, for lots of things, that solution already is controversion. The nytimes had a big article on it about a month ago and I`d post it here except its now part of their archives so I`d have to pay to share it with everyone. but the title was `As Gene Test Menu Grows, Who Gets to Choose? ` if anyone actually wants to know.
Rather, the entire point was, how bad do the genetic defects have to be to make terminating a pregnancy morally correct and because everyone has their own ideas, sometimes doctors have to perform an abortion when they don`t agree with it(examples were something like some mothers terminating because of really bad genetic dfects(deformities of all limbs and mental retardation) as compared to some mothers using it to screen out girls because they wanted a boy).
Really, right now there is nothing legally against it but you have to ask yourself if blindness is that bad of a disability(I personally don`t know, not blind nor is anyone close to me). I think its such a personal question all you could do it make it an option and lots of people would still prefer to have the child even if he/she will be born blind. I hope technologies like this make it so that we don`t even have to get into these kinds of arguments. I mean, maybe one day a doctor can say `your child wil be born blind so we are already preparing to replace his eyes with these that can see just as well`. Who knows, gladly, I`m young enough to see these things possibly happen.
but then why not take that to the next level, if this technology gets far enough along, lets say by 2020, then if a child is born blind and we have good ways of testing it, we could immediately implant the eyes and train the visual cortex from as early as possible so the child gains at least some sight(of course, I`m assuming you can`t do this surgery on a new born but probably can before the age of 6).
Anyways, if they can do heart surgery on newborns, I think they could quickly learn to pull this off and it would be an even greater gift by helping to eliminate many forms of blindness.
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I cannot find it now, but I remember reading that if a work is no longer made available in todays standards then it looses its protection against copyright. This might have only been high tech, I`m not even very sure of it,but I think it compares to coming out with a song on record adn now since you won`t release on cd, no one can listen. So you lose copyright.
If this istrue,I wonder if it would mean the original theatrical releases now fall under this because lucas refuses to release them.
I`m not sure adn definitely not a lawyer, but any takers as to the truth of this???
my only problem is this hurts the immersion. If I know I could do it, I want my bad ass character in the future to at least be able to do that. It would be much more interesting if you had it as an option but then it hurt your accuracy because you lose some stability and of course, no big guns could be shot with it.
So I guess realism isn't the word I should be using. Rather, even if you do have duct tape, there are just things that can be done and it doesn't hurt the game play if you make interesting trade-offs in the process. But who knows, the mod community might be able to do something like this, though it wouldn't be easy I would think(I have no idea how to go off and do mods so I'm not even gonna try to bullshit it).
who knows, I'm really bitching about nothing. My computer can't drive the game worth shit so I'm waiting until January when I get back home to play it, probably on someone elses computer unless I decide a new computer is needed for this game.
I don't know, there is a lack of realism of a marine can't hold a flashlight and say, a pistol at the same time, seeing as how its not hard at all to do. This is just assuming he doesn't have any duct tape, but whatever.
oh well, I just say, if you want, install the mod, try it out, if its not what's good(ie, the game is less scary for me) then just get rid of it. We aren't talking about something difficult to do.
just going by a definition of seminal from dictionary.com, I assume you mean
Of, relating to, or having the power to originate; creative. or Highly influential in an original way; constituting or providing a basis for further development: a seminal idea in the creation of a new theory.
The first definition I think best fits this game. Other games will grab this engine and put much more intricate stories behind it so frankly, doom III has changed how we see games, but I don`t think it has changed that much. They have continued to push a graphical envelope that many games have(farcry is the best example). I do not think doom III is highly influential in an innovative way yet. You can`t call it seminal until we actually see vast changes to at least part of the gaming landscape due to it.
But who knows, a game that takes graphics to such an unheard of level will open up a new level of gaming. I don:t know if I would call it seminal just yet though.
Anyways, I`m not the most knowledgable about FPS so maybe for this genre, this truly is a seminal leap. But maybe the creepiness of this game will draw me in, the idea of being scared shitless is what is attracting me to the game.
Why is a 12 year old playing a rated M game anyway?
not quite sure, but I know I did at 12, also was watching R rated movies when I was 9 and lots of other things that I wasn:t supposed to do. All I know is as soon as someone tells me I can`t do something because of something like age, I`ll find some way to do it just to spite them. And since I came up with little johnny, he is going to be like that as well;)
oh, I don:t deny for a second taht it isn:t breaking the law, just pointing out it`s very easy to see a situation where 12 year old johnny wants a game, has a computer than can play it, and yet, cannot convince those parents to buy it is all.
Mom, dad, I need this computer with a radeon 9800XT and a 3 Ghz HT P4 because I will be studying all the time and I have to do it to do good in class. I can even use it to run programs to help with stuff for college and all
"well, johnny, ok, if you will be using it to study and it will really help you get into a good college then I think it's a good 2500 dollars spent. *to store clerk* I don't know much about these computers but my son does and he has to have the top of the line for school so just get whatever he thinks is good."
3 months later, with no work ever being done on the computer, the parent realizes all the computer is now being used for is chatting online, reading email, and games that were bought ages ago. Doom III is released.
Dad, I want to get this oh so cool game dad. Everyone is buying it and it's the coolest thing ever.
Dad, while not knowing much about computers, knows about scams and suddenly realizes he was being completely played for a fool. He says "no" and Johnny still wants that game. Oh what ever does a young school boy do, who spends all his time doing nothing very productive(part time jobs are not an option for johnny, he isn't used to his parents seeing through his bullshit, but then, this is probably the first time it cost so much).
Part time jobs are not the option but his best buddy just told him about suprnova, a great sight that you can get anything for free. After misspelling the name several times and going to the.com and.net versions of the site, he finally kicks off the download.
Yeah, this happens. I did it once, convincing my parents that a top of the line computer was needed for school. Unfortunately my uncle and aunt are computer engineers so they got calls first and my bull shit only had a slight effect. Not so many people have that uncle or aunt who can ruin those hard worked plans.
Well shoot, I pirate games all the time. In Fact, I recently downloaded half life, Knights of hte old republic, and chessmaster 9000(which I own, so I wonder if its piracy if I download it when I forget the disk and won't be returning home for 8 months??).
but frankly, I will never buy these games and I have a good reason to download them. Half life, even the just 45 mintues I played, has me really excited about its sequel which I will buy if I have a computer that can play it. It's the same with knights of the old republic. I do admit I'm one of few that do this, but I also have the need of doing this for games that I can never be sure will run on my computer(laptop, mobility 9000).
You know though, this is really just about piracy. When I played the original doom and its sequel, I was never really engrossed, I just though it was really fun to run around and shoot the hell out of things, but I can only do that for so long, it wasn't tactically challenging but that was ages ago. If these reviews I'm seeing for doom 3 are the same I know this: if I buy it, maybe 10 hours of fun, and if I buy it, my comptuer will need to be replaced.
But I do hope that everyone who get's this game, no matter how, and really loves it, goes out and buys it. The idea of that 55$ price tag is because there are millions who think it's worth and then there are probably hundreds of thousands that think it's worth it but can get it for free, and then there are actually a few people that can't afford it. I have to say, I've never been in a position where 55$ dollars couldn't be had. I mean, that would be 2 weeks at a 10 hr. a week part time job and that gets me the game and some spending money, and those jobs are always out there and time can be made if you want it.
I guess the difference is its now so easy to pirate the games that nobody cares anymore. I mean, I"m guilty of it. I should have gone out and bought HL and KOTOR if I really cared, but I don't believe any voice actor is going hungry so I'll carry that mental burden. I'm betting there are a lot of people like me, that just don't care and find some measily reason to do it(my previewing for sequels, that 55$ is too much money). Oh well, as long as people are willing to send me copies for free, I'll always pirate games but you know, if you make a damn good game and I'm already interested, I'll buy it.
you know, I should be modded down for incesent rambling, I really feel bad for you if you made it this far already.....
just wondering, I want you to take doom III with your dusty old computer and turn it up to full and let's see if you can even get a semi playable frame rate. Just because a game can be turned down to let a person who doens't want to buy a new computer play, doesn't mean it can't be turned up for anyone that wants to. Frankly, I'll be stuck playing this game at probably 1/3 it's capabilities and you know, it is inciting me to buy a desktop so I can actually play it the way it was designed. Now if you told me that to even see the game, I would need to find someone with the latest hardware of today, well, I probably would just never take interest in it. Yeah, I mean, in 3 years I could afford the hardware to play it but frankly, in 3 years, the game will be beaten by something new.
This is just to clear up the bullshit your spreading. Yes doom III can and will throttle the latest cards into the ground if you try to turn everything up(I've seen stats where even the newest cards can't stay above 25 when everything is turned up).
and yes, doom I could be run on a console, all you have to do is what they will do with Doom III, turn all the textures, resolution, and quality down to almost nothing of what it was originally programmed as and it would run just fine, great frame rates and all.
Of course, if you are just not gonna play the most hardware intensive computer game ever made(I would say that pushes the envelope, obviously you wouldn't), then feel free. No one here really will care while we are enjoying it on our "not 4000 latest computer".
ok, out of ignorance, please inform me how this can happen.
Mr. Guthrie is dead. He has been dead now for something like 37 years. When he was alive he said it would only be protected for 28 years. Now how is it that this stuff can get so out of hand it's life was extended. Actually, 28 years seems kinda long, I would think something like 10 would be more than enough, though I would think that anyone who ever makes any modifications should give credit to the original author, even if the stuff isn't under copyright(but it seems people do, though the only stuff I know of in the public domain anymore is stuff like Beethoven).
when did hte law change and when does this stuff come into the public domain??? I know I could look it up, but you know, I'm sure its long after I'll care anymore.
really, what I wonder is how can someone with no relation to the author hold the copyright. That seems to be a violation of what copyright is about because niether the inventor or author can profit from it now. I think copyrights have gotten so far out of hand, its impossible for an author or inventor to be the only one secured to make money on an invention/writing. I mean if this stuff lasts after you die, I don't think we are limiting this to the author and that just seems ridiculous. I don't think the founding fathers thought things like copyrights would last so long people would actually sell them. I think the founding fathers thought this stuff would run out when the stuff loses a lot of its initial profit potential.
oh well, just my two cents, obviously wrong because our genius lawmakers haven't seen this yet.....
Just to let you know, Intel is already addressing what you are saying, they even have a new rating system ready to be implemented but I think its hard. Centrino suffers even though it is vastly superior to P4 chips that are reasonable in a laptop(heat issues, power and performance are vastly improved).
I think as you said, with so much invested into the Mghz myth, they are kinda like a crack addict in withdrawal. They have to repaint what it means to have a rating, granted, their rating now isn't very useful in cross comparing chips from different lines(ie. should I get a 745 or a 520 in my laptop, assuming I am all about performance and not worried about heat or power)
a link for anyone interested
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.as px/intel_naming?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
have fun. It seemed like the best link to put up that I could find easily, but isn't the news article where I read it. Oh well.
I run microsoft all the time and you know, I`m going on 4 years without ever getting anything worse than adware on my computer. Of course, this could be because unlike most MS users your referring to, I`m not ignorant on how to easily protect my computer(have anti virus software running, don`t be an idiot with email, enabling certain basic security feature, actually getting security updates when they are available, unlike the last major worm which actually started spreading a month after the update was available).
I think you should realize that the reason most MS users face these worms and trojans is because of ignorance to their computers. No operating system can withstand the abuse a windows user will put on his system(the worst being downloading and running programs from porn sites simply to get into the site).
MS users don`t face a lack of security, they face ignorance as to how to protect the system. If people did simple things like run antivirus software every week and every month update, they would be in good shape. I know someone is thinking *I don:t have to do this with my `insert non windows system here`* but then, I doubt your system faces the number of people trying to attack it. Abscurity is a layer of security in itself.
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if you didn't realize by reading the news in the last week, it doesn't matter how long your software is attacked, new bugs are found. Yes, guess what, even microsoft has vulnerabilities announced every month. Millions of eyes on the code can help and obviously it did. We didn't hear about the new virus out there in order to find out about this exploit, we just found out about this exploit. Millions of eyes don't prevent mistakes, they do help find them faster and patch them quicker. And of course, even this story is exactly what that is, they already have vendors with patches out for this problem.
hm..... seems Micrsoft, even with all its monkey-pounding, still doesn't have a shot in hell with fixing problems as fast as the open source community does. I'll stick with the box that doesn't stay vulnerable for as long.
I have to agree with this, I just tried what I thought would be the easiest thing to search and come up with my response at number one, Hello World. If you don't know the project, it comes up number 1 on a google search but for some reason vivismo sees fit to hit me with adds for different websites before getting to the actual web page. Yes I find it a big deal to add 4 or 5 links to the top of a search only for advertising. I like to find my website in the first few options that pop up, at least the first page. If a large part of the first page is dedicated to that kind of stuff, then it makes my searches take longer. It just isn't as efficient, and frankly, I don't use search engines for anything but searching out a single thing. Though the topics have a niceness to them. I think google was designed with a dial up connection in mind and still is that(extremely low badwidth needs). The topics would probably allow me to parse searches faster for linux questions, but even that isn't guaranteed as I usually have my question answered in the first page of links on google. And as I said before, I see no reason to switch if it just takes more clicks to get where I want to go.
and of course, I think everyone should love that in most cases, even though firefox is pre 1.0, its still better in a lot of ways than IE is(tabbed browsing, a really well trained pop up blocker(though IE now has a decent one with SP2), and an interface that can almost be mistaken for IE if you mess with the colors and icons. hm.... I wonder if MS ever put this much into a product before handing it over to marketing and calling it 1.0?
I wouldn't be surprised at all by the numbers, but that is because I feel a little differently about problems in open source software.
1) doesn't matter what you use, they all have loads of vulnerabilities, there is a great deal of security through obscurity that helps "some" OSS but not all.
2)I could honestly believe the number of errors could be the same between any MS product and OSS product of equal complexity, but you have to go searching.
3) So why do I use as much OSS as possible? simple actually. MS finds a major flaw in its program, it tells you about it and hten says, now wait till we feel like fixing it. They already decided its not a good marketing idea to release fixes as soon as possible and that rather, once a month makes the company look more secure(actually the exact opposite). In OSS, if there is an error, you have many people going at the problem trying to harden the code and then, as soon as it gets looked at for compatibility, its out there for everyone to take.
Frankly, the customer service of OSS who I do not pay has always beaten the hell out of MS, who I have had to pay directly or indirectly many times. I think the reason IIS6 might be more secure or come across better is that it is more obscure than apache and because MS actually has to compete with a strong force in the industry they can be just as good as OSS. I don't think OSS is fundamentally better, I Think competition is fundamentally better.
You should watch through the episodes with commentary, some of the random stuff they sneaked in their I thought was really creative, but of course, I only have seasons 1-3(while you were still watching). I love the show but you know, there are some things that just define a person as eccentric(sp?) and this is one of them. There are a lot of US based jokes, but it seems a lot of the stuff goes over most people's head(old movies, references to scholars and authors). Who knows, the show has started to fall off for me, but that took about 300 episodes.
just to tell you, most things in india are that way. My parents grew up in india and I have been there more times that I can actually count, and I have had many times where we don't have reliable power, there are beggars outside the front door on the street, and there is a computer in the household. Its the way it works, India is the country that seemed to miss out on the 20th century(a line taken from my dad).
This is how india improves itself, massive poverty, massive infrastructure and road problems, and yes, people still using that cart and horse at times in larger cities, and then guess where lots of high tech jobs go. Its hard to believe, but its how India see's its future going. Its a strong belief that if someone can get a good education, that next generation can go live somewhere with a decent power supply and clean water. Its really driving towards that future. Now, if things like textile industries weren't foolishly protected in the US(namely, making me pay a higher price for clothing) these 3rd world countries would improve even faster because what infrastructure they do have becomes a lot more profitable and they can expand faster.
Don't underestimate how hard it is to provide power to rural india. It's no small task and my uncle who lives there for the longest time had on site generators for his farm(large plantation, and actually my mother's uncle, though I make no distinction). It takes years to put these things up. Imagine, no matter how advanced we are, we have several places in the US without access to cable TV because that infrastructure is too expensive to put in. What do you think India is looking at with almost 4x the people and a microscopic percentage of the money.
Anyways, in your worryment about places like hospitals, they usually have onsite generators for small draw power items and if this type of electricity works, it could easily be expanded into the other fields. Keep in mind in many places in india, they are used to doing many complex medical procedures without power. An example is syphoning the blood from a person as you cut to do surgery. You can't have all htat blood in the way and if you don't have power you need to have some way to get the blood out of there. Just 30 years ago they used an interesting system where the tube that was used to siphon was connected at a 90 degree angle to a larger tube that they ran water through. Fluid moves, lower pressure, suction without power. This was used by my father when he worked in the Capital before coming to the US. If the capital didn't have a good power supply 30 years ago, what makes anyone think it will be all that spread out now?
I do agree that many of the items we have in our schools gathering dust could do a lot of good in India and similar countries and should be sent there, but this is how India will deal with this. This approach has led to the tech boom that we in the US degrade as outsourcing. Maybe they are onto something we can't understand?
Why don't people realize that the reason people liked Kirk was because he was a man's man? He took his ladies and he beat up his enemies. He didn't recite Shakepeare at them. I just love this quote, recited almost exactly but talking about James Bond being castrated in his last movie with well.... really bad writing and a horribly non-Bond story line. I think the problem is they forget you are doubtfully going to find new people to watch the shows and what you need to cater to is all the people who grew up on either the original or TNG(frankly, no other series has had the magnetism all the way through a create a new trekkie, and I used to be that person that would watch every new episode, till voyager just kept going down hill and then enterprise just sucked). Cater to what made people fans of those movies with some changes. Yes, if you want to make social commentary, do it as quietly as possible so its actually something that people ahve to figure out for themselves. NO spoonfed morality, just new stories, and I think that needs time and well.... not using anyone that has to do with enterprise's first season. Oh, and after voyager, rule for the writers, no more idiotic stories about time lines and loops and anomalies. TNG ended on an interesting, and voyager must have used that theme at least every 8 episodes, no more, for my sanity.
who knows, I think the only way you could say GR has a hole in it is because it doesn't seem to mesh well with quantum mech. Though I'm not sure if it would actually take hundreds of pages to write out the GR equations, I'm sure that back when it was first done, there were great ways to make it shorter(I've seen a few and I hate them, damnable tensors and other things that find their way into EM books).
oh well, its tough to say it, but I don't think you need to say GR has a hole in it, rather it is still a theory and therefore is relegated to not having been shown that there are no holes in it. I don't think its all that bad, I'm sure at some point relativity will need to be slightly changed and modified, just like special relativity modified alot of Newton's stuff by looking at the world differently(if you just do some expansions on the special relativity equations, the first term usually nicely works it way out to the newton equations). We might have something similar and relativity is just that much better of an approximation of reality.
oh well, be exciting to see what happens and I hope that this problem either leads to a new understanding of general relativity or a new addition to it, both are very exciting.
everything I have ever seen about the olympics as been about people coming together to compete for glory, it was like that thousands of years ago when the greeks did it and its like it today. It would be glory to Sparta if a spartan could win every 4 years like it is glory to say the japanese when they win in Judo in most of hte weight classes. Anyways, originally, all conflicts were stopped for at lesat the duration of the games so they were in some sense about peace.
of course, I don't quite understand your line about it not being about peace, I can't find what you are referring to but none of your examples have anything to do with them not being about peace, just equal rights. And it has never happened that a team is allowed to win the tour de france because their teammate died, only a stage which is a much smaller victory. If Ulrich had died on the course this year or any time in the last 6, do you actually believe Armstrong would have given up the chance to win the tour, no, but he might have ceded a stage to the german team. Sorry, but they are just as competitive when it comes to the overall tour, it just happens that there are these little competitions that also exist there that people will give up on. The olympics are just a lot more cut throat so you can't give empty things like that to someone(oh, sorry about your countryman who was crtically injured wrestling, here, just take the gold medal and lets not actually compete).
I have no real feelings about the Munich massacre, I'm not sure what canceling the games would have done. You have crazy terrorist groups trying to raise hell, I have never heard of anything that makes real sense. I guess you could have postponed the games for a coule weeks but I guess they didn't want to cause hell with so many other people. And it is quite possible that many of the athletes felt this was a war between two groups(Israel, palestine) that frankly wasn't their concern, or maybe they simply felt it was the Israel governments fault for not capitulating immediately to the demands. Maybe they felt that by going on would be a greater gift to the memory of their fellow athletes. hell, I don't know.
But you know what, you find your way into a major event lke that and then make your symbollic protest, you might put your years of your life you dedicated to this above something you feel doesn't concern you and you might not, but frankly, until you are there, you have no idea what was going through those peoples' minds so you might as well not blame them for something you have no idea about.
well, just so you don't feel too bad, I'm spending my first olympics outside the US, in Japan. My god, every bit of coverage is of a Japanese person getting a medal, and they have about 4 channels that show it over and over. I swear, I have seen more Judo in this last week and so many days that I ever want to. so just to let you know, at least one more country is just like the US. I mean, if they would show japanese people, but at least not only the matches that they medal in. I've grown bored of the olympics here because you only see the same things over and over. Every now and then you get live coverage of something new, like soccer, but its rare. so completely off topic, but I think it would be more interesting to hear it from the competitors than from any news agency. They can actually talk about how they felt and things that are really interesting(I mean, what goes through your mind when your competing for hte gold and the match just doesn't end. what do you do to not think about just giving up, or what your training was like to get you to this point, and of course I've always wondered how many people set personal records when they are at the olympics, just from the energy that is usually there).
Actually, for lots of things, that solution already is controversion. The nytimes had a big article on it about a month ago and I`d post it here except its now part of their archives so I`d have to pay to share it with everyone. but the title was `As Gene Test Menu Grows, Who Gets to Choose? ` if anyone actually wants to know.
Rather, the entire point was, how bad do the genetic defects have to be to make terminating a pregnancy morally correct and because everyone has their own ideas, sometimes doctors have to perform an abortion when they don`t agree with it(examples were something like some mothers terminating because of really bad genetic dfects(deformities of all limbs and mental retardation) as compared to some mothers using it to screen out girls because they wanted a boy).
Really, right now there is nothing legally against it but you have to ask yourself if blindness is that bad of a disability(I personally don`t know, not blind nor is anyone close to me). I think its such a personal question all you could do it make it an option and lots of people would still prefer to have the child even if he/she will be born blind. I hope technologies like this make it so that we don`t even have to get into these kinds of arguments. I mean, maybe one day a doctor can say `your child wil be born blind so we are already preparing to replace his eyes with these that can see just as well`. Who knows, gladly, I`m young enough to see these things possibly happen.
but then why not take that to the next level, if this technology gets far enough along, lets say by 2020, then if a child is born blind and we have good ways of testing it, we could immediately implant the eyes and train the visual cortex from as early as possible so the child gains at least some sight(of course, I`m assuming you can`t do this surgery on a new born but probably can before the age of 6).
Anyways, if they can do heart surgery on newborns, I think they could quickly learn to pull this off and it would be an even greater gift by helping to eliminate many forms of blindness.
I cannot find it now, but I remember reading that if a work is no longer made available in todays standards then it looses its protection against copyright. This might have only been high tech, I`m not even very sure of it,but I think it compares to coming out with a song on record adn now since you won`t release on cd, no one can listen. So you lose copyright.
If this istrue,I wonder if it would mean the original theatrical releases now fall under this because lucas refuses to release them.
I`m not sure adn definitely not a lawyer, but any takers as to the truth of this???
my only problem is this hurts the immersion. If I know I could do it, I want my bad ass character in the future to at least be able to do that. It would be much more interesting if you had it as an option but then it hurt your accuracy because you lose some stability and of course, no big guns could be shot with it.
So I guess realism isn't the word I should be using. Rather, even if you do have duct tape, there are just things that can be done and it doesn't hurt the game play if you make interesting trade-offs in the process. But who knows, the mod community might be able to do something like this, though it wouldn't be easy I would think(I have no idea how to go off and do mods so I'm not even gonna try to bullshit it).
who knows, I'm really bitching about nothing. My computer can't drive the game worth shit so I'm waiting until January when I get back home to play it, probably on someone elses computer unless I decide a new computer is needed for this game.
I don't know, there is a lack of realism of a marine can't hold a flashlight and say, a pistol at the same time, seeing as how its not hard at all to do. This is just assuming he doesn't have any duct tape, but whatever.
oh well, I just say, if you want, install the mod, try it out, if its not what's good(ie, the game is less scary for me) then just get rid of it. We aren't talking about something difficult to do.
just going by a definition of seminal from dictionary.com, I assume you mean
Of, relating to, or having the power to originate; creative.
or
Highly influential in an original way; constituting or providing a basis for further development: a seminal idea in the creation of a new theory.
The first definition I think best fits this game. Other games will grab this engine and put much more intricate stories behind it so frankly, doom III has changed how we see games, but I don`t think it has changed that much. They have continued to push a graphical envelope that many games have(farcry is the best example). I do not think doom III is highly influential in an innovative way yet. You can`t call it seminal until we actually see vast changes to at least part of the gaming landscape due to it.
But who knows, a game that takes graphics to such an unheard of level will open up a new level of gaming. I don:t know if I would call it seminal just yet though.
Anyways, I`m not the most knowledgable about FPS so maybe for this genre, this truly is a seminal leap. But maybe the creepiness of this game will draw me in, the idea of being scared shitless is what is attracting me to the game.
Why is a 12 year old playing a rated M game anyway?
not quite sure, but I know I did at 12, also was watching R rated movies when I was 9 and lots of other things that I wasn:t supposed to do. All I know is as soon as someone tells me I can`t do something because of something like age, I`ll find some way to do it just to spite them. And since I came up with little johnny, he is going to be like that as well;)
oh, I don:t deny for a second taht it isn:t breaking the law, just pointing out it`s very easy to see a situation where 12 year old johnny wants a game, has a computer than can play it, and yet, cannot convince those parents to buy it is all.
I can:
.com and .net versions of the site, he finally kicks off the download.
Mom, dad, I need this computer with a radeon 9800XT and a 3 Ghz HT P4 because I will be studying all the time and I have to do it to do good in class. I can even use it to run programs to help with stuff for college and all
"well, johnny, ok, if you will be using it to study and it will really help you get into a good college then I think it's a good 2500 dollars spent. *to store clerk* I don't know much about these computers but my son does and he has to have the top of the line for school so just get whatever he thinks is good."
3 months later, with no work ever being done on the computer, the parent realizes all the computer is now being used for is chatting online, reading email, and games that were bought ages ago. Doom III is released.
Dad, I want to get this oh so cool game dad. Everyone is buying it and it's the coolest thing ever.
Dad, while not knowing much about computers, knows about scams and suddenly realizes he was being completely played for a fool. He says "no" and Johnny still wants that game. Oh what ever does a young school boy do, who spends all his time doing nothing very productive(part time jobs are not an option for johnny, he isn't used to his parents seeing through his bullshit, but then, this is probably the first time it cost so much).
Part time jobs are not the option but his best buddy just told him about suprnova, a great sight that you can get anything for free. After misspelling the name several times and going to the
Yeah, this happens. I did it once, convincing my parents that a top of the line computer was needed for school. Unfortunately my uncle and aunt are computer engineers so they got calls first and my bull shit only had a slight effect. Not so many people have that uncle or aunt who can ruin those hard worked plans.
Well shoot, I pirate games all the time. In Fact, I recently downloaded half life, Knights of hte old republic, and chessmaster 9000(which I own, so I wonder if its piracy if I download it when I forget the disk and won't be returning home for 8 months??).
but frankly, I will never buy these games and I have a good reason to download them. Half life, even the just 45 mintues I played, has me really excited about its sequel which I will buy if I have a computer that can play it. It's the same with knights of the old republic. I do admit I'm one of few that do this, but I also have the need of doing this for games that I can never be sure will run on my computer(laptop, mobility 9000).
You know though, this is really just about piracy. When I played the original doom and its sequel, I was never really engrossed, I just though it was really fun to run around and shoot the hell out of things, but I can only do that for so long, it wasn't tactically challenging but that was ages ago. If these reviews I'm seeing for doom 3 are the same I know this: if I buy it, maybe 10 hours of fun, and if I buy it, my comptuer will need to be replaced.
But I do hope that everyone who get's this game, no matter how, and really loves it, goes out and buys it. The idea of that 55$ price tag is because there are millions who think it's worth and then there are probably hundreds of thousands that think it's worth it but can get it for free, and then there are actually a few people that can't afford it. I have to say, I've never been in a position where 55$ dollars couldn't be had. I mean, that would be 2 weeks at a 10 hr. a week part time job and that gets me the game and some spending money, and those jobs are always out there and time can be made if you want it.
I guess the difference is its now so easy to pirate the games that nobody cares anymore. I mean, I"m guilty of it. I should have gone out and bought HL and KOTOR if I really cared, but I don't believe any voice actor is going hungry so I'll carry that mental burden. I'm betting there are a lot of people like me, that just don't care and find some measily reason to do it(my previewing for sequels, that 55$ is too much money). Oh well, as long as people are willing to send me copies for free, I'll always pirate games but you know, if you make a damn good game and I'm already interested, I'll buy it.
you know, I should be modded down for incesent rambling, I really feel bad for you if you made it this far already.....
just wondering, I want you to take doom III with your dusty old computer and turn it up to full and let's see if you can even get a semi playable frame rate. Just because a game can be turned down to let a person who doens't want to buy a new computer play, doesn't mean it can't be turned up for anyone that wants to. Frankly, I'll be stuck playing this game at probably 1/3 it's capabilities and you know, it is inciting me to buy a desktop so I can actually play it the way it was designed. Now if you told me that to even see the game, I would need to find someone with the latest hardware of today, well, I probably would just never take interest in it. Yeah, I mean, in 3 years I could afford the hardware to play it but frankly, in 3 years, the game will be beaten by something new.
This is just to clear up the bullshit your spreading. Yes doom III can and will throttle the latest cards into the ground if you try to turn everything up(I've seen stats where even the newest cards can't stay above 25 when everything is turned up).
and yes, doom I could be run on a console, all you have to do is what they will do with Doom III, turn all the textures, resolution, and quality down to almost nothing of what it was originally programmed as and it would run just fine, great frame rates and all.
Of course, if you are just not gonna play the most hardware intensive computer game ever made(I would say that pushes the envelope, obviously you wouldn't), then feel free. No one here really will care while we are enjoying it on our "not 4000 latest computer".
ok, out of ignorance, please inform me how this can happen.
Mr. Guthrie is dead. He has been dead now for something like 37 years. When he was alive he said it would only be protected for 28 years. Now how is it that this stuff can get so out of hand it's life was extended. Actually, 28 years seems kinda long, I would think something like 10 would be more than enough, though I would think that anyone who ever makes any modifications should give credit to the original author, even if the stuff isn't under copyright(but it seems people do, though the only stuff I know of in the public domain anymore is stuff like Beethoven).
when did hte law change and when does this stuff come into the public domain??? I know I could look it up, but you know, I'm sure its long after I'll care anymore.
really, what I wonder is how can someone with no relation to the author hold the copyright. That seems to be a violation of what copyright is about because niether the inventor or author can profit from it now. I think copyrights have gotten so far out of hand, its impossible for an author or inventor to be the only one secured to make money on an invention/writing. I mean if this stuff lasts after you die, I don't think we are limiting this to the author and that just seems ridiculous. I don't think the founding fathers thought things like copyrights would last so long people would actually sell them. I think the founding fathers thought this stuff would run out when the stuff loses a lot of its initial profit potential.
oh well, just my two cents, obviously wrong because our genius lawmakers haven't seen this yet.....
Just to let you know, Intel is already addressing what you are saying, they even have a new rating system ready to be implemented but I think its hard. Centrino suffers even though it is vastly superior to P4 chips that are reasonable in a laptop(heat issues, power and performance are vastly improved). I think as you said, with so much invested into the Mghz myth, they are kinda like a crack addict in withdrawal. They have to repaint what it means to have a rating, granted, their rating now isn't very useful in cross comparing chips from different lines(ie. should I get a 745 or a 520 in my laptop, assuming I am all about performance and not worried about heat or power) a link for anyone interested http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.as px/intel_naming?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
have fun. It seemed like the best link to put up that I could find easily, but isn't the news article where I read it. Oh well.
I run microsoft all the time and you know, I`m going on 4 years without ever getting anything worse than adware on my computer. Of course, this could be because unlike most MS users your referring to, I`m not ignorant on how to easily protect my computer(have anti virus software running, don`t be an idiot with email, enabling certain basic security feature, actually getting security updates when they are available, unlike the last major worm which actually started spreading a month after the update was available).
I think you should realize that the reason most MS users face these worms and trojans is because of ignorance to their computers. No operating system can withstand the abuse a windows user will put on his system(the worst being downloading and running programs from porn sites simply to get into the site).
MS users don`t face a lack of security, they face ignorance as to how to protect the system. If people did simple things like run antivirus software every week and every month update, they would be in good shape. I know someone is thinking *I don:t have to do this with my `insert non windows system here`* but then, I doubt your system faces the number of people trying to attack it. Abscurity is a layer of security in itself.