There is nothing shocking about the slaughter of animals, and when I was young I watched animals being killed for food. Yes it jolts you, any death does, but it is food.
Violence in video games is human violence. It is a violence that blurs the lines between acceptable social behaviour.
French kids drink wine from a young age, they do not binge drink wine in their teens. Society programmed them. Fashion is also a social programming. When to wear clothes, what to wear etc.
You were trained to do this job, because you grew up on a farm.
I do not even consider what you saw was violence.
Violence isn't an act, it is a sentiment. You can cut someones face into pieces, in a calm manner of a plastic surgeon performing a lift.
Or a nut case ripping with a blunted hook.
Now, the violent themes in film have long been considered not suitable for children? Why? Becuase they are not mature enough to realise in some cases, that this is not a socially acceptable thing to do, or, realistically (and dont rely thinking I said watcing one movie will turn them into something regardless of their own personality or upbringing, ffs) it will scare and frighten them, and that isn't nice.
Now, you can show a violent film to kids, that is the parents choice, in fact, these are predominantly for the parents, who usually have the money.
Violence and other adult themes such as swearing and nudity / sex also have reasons for shieldin them from young people.
Do you agree or disagree?
Now, we are talking about games, and you sotry had *nothing* to do with violence (see first point* or games, or laws limiting mass media portrays of cruelty by humans to minors.
I am pro-gaming, heck, I would write a sim today that allowed you to pick off people in a mall until the cops come, and stand by it as fun. because it is a game dynamic.
Yes the sentiment is sick, and wrong. But it is a game. Kids run around shooting each other.
It is less about kids will become violent, although games can fuel agression, like driving in traffic does.
You have seen a clockwork orange? Well yesteryear, gaming priciples were abstract, more so than running around with cap pistols going pow pow.
This yellow blip was the indian, and this red blip was the cowboy.
even the carmegeddon era / mortal kombat had enough realism to realise that gaming graphical portrayals are close enough to video that the material should be labelled. fine, also, to HELP THE DUMBASS parents, put laws stopping their kids.
Now, these fuckface parents don't tell their kids, what game did you buy, let me see, oh no, they blame the companies who made the game.
Grow up, people are producing porn, you want to sue them in case your kid finds a smuty mag?
Anyway, I am against the idea of Germany forcing censorship of games, but they have their own stigma against violence.
I am against people not even seeing the point, and sidestepping issues, and talking shit, like you just did.
Normal you say? how normal is it to talk so much, and not realise you missed the fucking point.
People kill animals for food, yes, and in the same world, people classify movies based on violent themes as well as other factors.
Just install ubuntu, firefox, thunderbird on the machines, and place a windows Longhorn [top secret] wallpaper on the desktop, and tell you boss you got the latest windows W4r3z on the computer, and within 3 months everyone woudl haev seamlessly gone from typing
>>john@drinkbeer.com[tab]I am bored at work[tab]Hi JJ, I need some beer, fuck work, my boss is a twat.
and clicking send to typing
>>john@drinkbeer.com[tab]I am bored at work[tab]Hi JJ, I need some beer, fuck work, my boss is a twat.
and clicking send.
Seriously, ubuntu, firefox and thunderbird. He won't know will he, I mean, come on. You can setup their passwords etc. Go on, try it.
Don't for get the 'w1nd0wz l0ngh0r|\|' wallpaper for added authenticity. You might get a payrise. But, tell him you can't tell anyone, else SCO might ask for a license!
Oh hahaha! that should go in the joke thread. *wipes tear*
1. Tell us more about SMPVFS and its significance.
Yeah, nice warm entry into this article...you want more? more than? I feel the sleep fairys pulling down my eyelids!
Robert Watson John Baldwin: The SMPVFS work is a task to add fine-grained locking to the VFS layer of the kerne....
At this point I would simulate key presses synonymous with my head hittin the keyboard after falling asleep, however, I realised this may be too subtle for the slashdot crowd, and I fear I am verging on troll/redundant as it is.
On the other hand, Microsofts articles at least would allow the executive to stay awake long enough to scrawl the url to bring it up at the next meeting, or remember it...
I guess this is a techie case document, but BSD's should have business case documents around, as in companies where the IT guys have some real power, it is used substantially (like in our offices) but in larger corps, maybe it is overlooked?
Chick is a synonym of bird. Bird is an old word that means baby, and was not a derogatory term for a female. If anything, Bird may seem more derogatory than chick in today's world.
Bride, certainly not a derogatory term (or do feminists now think so... gee I like how feminists proclaim they represent all women... how bad is that? anyway..) and bride is actually the same word as bird.
So there.
Personally all the holes in my job take no offense to my address to them, they are too afraid of a good he-bitch-man-slapping. OMGLOLKTHXBI
I just wanted to say, I realise that a lot of the adventure games we used to know and love are now the basis of OPRG (forget all that MM business) which gives you the linear rich storyline, with side tasks, as well as charcter progression and combat. (without those they woudl just be multiplayer adventure games).
I would like to see more team puzzles, like those anti-squirrel bird feeders, that when two squirrels team up, they can share a chance to eat the bounty inside.
Perhaps positional, trust, or synchronised team work puzzles (like moving from square to square in various orders, or balancing on a pivot to press two buttons, or suchlike) would benefit such games (cue patents, bah.)
PS: I hate the sony patent for that literally wet ware (not even that) idea of sending stuff into the brain. it wasn't even a real patent - i.e. it was a theoretical patent.
I don't know about everyone else, but I was darn impressed to post images on there, I was just unfortunate to have slipped a bit of goatse in there. OK and bath tub girl.
AAaalright, and 'hot blowjob' BUT was that a reason to pull the article?
Aren't you sad that you actually visualised all three of those images, damn, what a sick world we live in. You cannot escape them.
Note well: I didn't do anything of the sort, I missed this article completely, saw it while metamodding, and for the record, who was the irresposible person who published this link on slashdot? Bull in china shop? he/she must have sceamed:
LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAAAR!!! as he/she hit submit. (are there any female 'editors'? (and I stress the quotes there))
My Nephew, IMHO, does have an unhealthy gaming life, he plays too many games, but sadly, there are others who play even more games than him. (there is just an inbalance)
Anyway, he goes out and swaps / buys games once a month, he is 10.
He comes back with an R game, it just looked like some cool sports game, I think it was one of those 'scaintily clad pixels' games.
His choices do get vetted, and I think it is hypocritical to allow children to role play cowboys and indians, and then to be worried about the colour of blood in a computer game.
Needless to say, this game was taken off him before he could play it, but the reasons were explained nicely.
If GTA* series would allow parental locks two things would happen:
The game could ship with blood turned off, and swearing and lewdness, the parent could lock this. Why? WHY? you will say.
Well, because, just like the SIX BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR THE TOBACCO COMPANIES MAKE ON UNDERAGE SMOKING IN THE US ALONE computer games will be sold to people under the advised limit.
Also, you might want to play this game, with sound, in a house which has you children and "Yo mother fucker n* lets take this whoring bitch and fuck her ass good" might not be a great cut scene to have play across your 6.1's.
Now, R* deliberately put lots of non-violent adult themes to force the issue of adult nature.
i.e. no body complains too much about porn, but that is because it is only generally *very* interesting to those entering adult hood anyway, because of biology.
Violence definately attracts the young, and kids immitate EVERYTHING from mortal combat to GTA. Cowboys and Indians becomes Da Boyz and Da Pigz, bow and arrows and romanticised rifles become 9's and uzis.
Instead of smoking the peace pipe, they eerr, smoke the peace crack pipe.
It does affect children, children always pick up on what is acceptable, and the more loose the boundaries are, the less they can work it out.
It is arrogant for US (people who are currenlty over 20) to have an opinion on what makes people violent, in our forming years the graphics were SHIT. A reason why many parents who do not think about these things, don't realise the realism involved.
So, unless you have an NVidia geforce chipset when you were 10, shut the fuck up complaining about the courts and parent groups concerned about violent video games: you cannot prove they are not sold to kids, they can, as a player (PLAYA) of violent video games, I appreciate their concerns.
Now for once, take a balanced view. (that goes for pennyarcade too - they are a rack short of a hosting server if you ask me - defend the right to play violent games, not the violent games themselves - let the fuckers at EA games, who make fuckloads of cash spend some of it ensuring the violence doesn't reach children)
Right when you network has crawled to a halt, you want ot tune into a broadband security video.
RSS anyone? Just have some XML feed, and put effort into making the content so unbelievably timely and incisive that people will switch.
That is where you money should go, the steak not the sizzle.
Imagine, you want to know about *scriptkiddyvariant*
20 seconds $1000000 video logo of A-T-&-T Security channel, bringing you security... blah blah blah - TTWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY!!! baddab boom bom b de da deheda ede *jingle*
And now, on todays *shit this has taken 1 minute already of streaming video*.....
And now, the main event! !!!! ECHO ECHO ECHO
Today *scriptkiddyvariant* was released, you are advised to like, you know, upgrade! I am ellen Feiss, whoring myself to a 2 bit internet tv venture!
Lame.
The people this would be aimed at would be execs, and lame ones at that. Think scaremongering and well placed, pay us you money, keep your job! ads.
I just wait until they pay or use their influence to have them being watched on some up comin high tech hacker film.... you can imagine *insert trendy actor* (maybe female) is the worlds best security expert, knows EVERYTHING about computers,and is pitting her/his wits against some teen hackers we are h4cking t3h plan1t!
However, if it wasn't for her broadband subscription to ATTsecuriTT.com videos, she would not win against them!
Have you seen any of the newer systems (Playstation, Jaguar, Nintendo 64)?
I think someone needs to date this article - is it too much to add content date meta tags?
Bah.
I bet this gets duped in 50 years
on
The Onion in 2056
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· Score: 3, Funny
They must be running a quantum webserver - one way to beat the/. effect, post stories 50 years early, by the time anyone needs to read it, there is a torrent available, a coral cache, and 250 karma-whores pasting the content/mirror on the posts:-)
Preemtpive slashdot cacheing?
On the front of the actual article, I laughed, the use of flash actually gave is a 2002 look, but lets pretend it was futuristic!:-)
The nice thing about GPS is it works ina very large area of the world, and even better the more remote you are, which is the inverse of the WPS analogy.
GPS doesn't handshake or anything, it is like a radio device (literally) interpretting signals.
GPS(n) with some kind of third party WAAS type configuration can pinpoint you to a meter.
GPS swarming is a way of GPS devices helping each other out over GSM networks, when one/two in the swarm drop a satellite signal.
I think it is a fairly good solution for localised services, if you have a map, turn on your PDA, list networks, and you will see:
Marios Pizza WiFi StarBucks Wifi XYZ Wifi
With a little more info, wifi boxes themselves could help you find them, and the wifi could be a geobeacon for local services.
"D-Wave is on track to produce a special-purpose, "noisy" piece of quantum hardware that could solve many of the physical-simulation problems that stump today's computers
All this for Doom 3 and The latest GTA? I mean, they stump my nvdia 5700 graphics card, but I am not about to go over the top.
I think it will be the same, except, instead of mimesweeper, there will be a grid of boxes, complete with cyanide gas canisters and cats, and you have to somehow work out which are alive.
Does this mean that Doom 5 will be called "Doom - the uncertainty principle"
Cue lots of cheesey names like the past: VR this, and 3D that, and Virtua the other.
Quantum Pool Quantum Golf Quantum Solitaire.
Oh dear.
Windows or linux first on quantum computing? I mean, it requires a whole new kernel I guess, with module names like 'schroedinger' (for predicting pipeline management in a super-modal setting?) and 'uncertainty' for the RNG.
If you look at the SETI front page, somewhere they link to their happy go cluky stat of 2358927549821743981273498172349721397432197 computer hours so far!!!111thirteen!
Computers using 30-60 watts, with seti, they run at FULL blast, and 24 hours a day. (and during work they run with high CPU in background.
If you calculate how much polution SETI has generated, and other tasks that lock the CPU to full blast (and fans) then you will be amazed. I did some napkin equations and sent them to Mr Electricity online.
So, as far as I am concerned, SETI can piss off, people only use it to get points, and try and win a game. If the points weren't there, noone would do a thing.
The guy was AMUSED that I didn't have Ruby installed on my machine.
Haha. He used Ruby in the script to rename the file.
Look, too many egos in linux, and too many ungrateful 'users' who are worthy enough to use this program, and just have problems.
Its a traditional client-developer relationship, but we are not paying.
I am into Mac OS, but as usual, EVERY story about this forgets one thing:
People will not BUY a new computer to try MacOS, so if it doesn't work on my computer I have at home today, then guess what, I won't try it, and probably won't steer my purchase decision based on OS.
I don't want intel, I don't want 'THAT' graphics card.
How can you type with your head in the sand? Are you using "das keyboard"?
rename *2004*.txt *2005*.txt
One mental thing I do with cmd's rename tool. When asking in linux help channel on day, I was given a *SCRIPT* to do this.
It is 2005. Can someone at gnu write a rename command? No, not mv, not cp (move, copy anyone) grep / find ? awk / sed ? It has long been established that NAMES are important for understanding an application, it is what seperates our program from machines code. You think machine code is hard to read?
It is easier than normal code to read! Get an insturction book, and off you go, oh, so you are loading this into that register...
Words like, for, while, if help us understand things. So do good variable names (like foo and bar).
So give programs good names. Linux supports AnyType.of.filename.You.WANT. Yes all programs executables are extremely contracted (and many are headless (command line) the name would be important.
Is mv so much faster to write than move?
Anyway, linux does have usability issues.
Yes, there are package management apps.
Hi mum, what, you want to install a new email client? yes, apt-get install, but, hang on, yeah, it if gives you anything about dependancies, oh them, yes, they are things that also need to be installed? What? on windows you ust double clicked and pressed next next next next finish, and it was in the startbar and on the desktop? Well that is OBVIOUSLY not good is it...
So, yeah, shut up fan boy.
(you reply, to save you typing 'but its easy for ME haha loxthxbi PWN3D'
I swear, I have not seen this cheat online: but on the original command and conquer, if you throw a grenade, and then keep clicking madly, the grenade will start homing in on your mouse cursor.
Win any battle by making grenadiers, and then getting about 100 of them to ctrl-target the ground near them, but then click and make the SWARM of granades follow your mouse, until your hit their power plants - other buildings, etc. Very rewarding.
If you could use this tactic to catch hackers, by all means do so
"I guess if we want to do it, we'll have to use home-made emulsions on paper."
No other company does B&W paper? Having done black and white paper development, and having a rather nice experience in the romantic qualities of the safety light while helping a fellow student rock the chemical bath trays to develop her photos, I too am rather sad.
Fond memories.
Still, if it helps, you can always put your SD card into a chemical trough...
There are some whippersnappers too oung even to remember the Pheonix browser *warm memories gloss over my cateract eyes*, then the Firebird... then Firefox.
Lest we forget. Mod up.
Caterects? I am twenty-bloody-five.
I will check out BackRub for some info on Pheonix.
Not a troll: For those debian ueber hippies, TRADEMARKS are good, copyright is good (copyleft is also nice!) patents are great! (except the vast majority of ones which are abused - worst one in my gut is the Sony patent for a currently wetware (pun intentded) idea of interfacing with brain. What is this, a sci-fi idea landrush for patents?)
Linux is patented. Before you start casting your sword of pious Freedom around, realise that you should fight the right battles.
Trademarking open source project names (I realise Mozilla are a bit bitchfucky about this) is a good idea, and definately should be done. Open source is allowed to sell itself, marketwise and financial wise.
I don't think debian can be harmed (and debian is just a distro, debian is basically an installer and package manager, and some default wallpapers, like most distros (and lots of packaging of projects) by having 'branded' name open source. What do they want to call Firefox?
Debian Extra Value Generic Browser?
Trademarking is good to promote image of a product that was written in a community.
What I found funny is: Mozilla community wrote Firefox (and i.e. the whole shebang of moving the NS code around, into mozilla, the XUL stuff, etc) YET debian are debating the legitimacy of their trademarking?
I mean, they should flavour their wrods cautiously, not to diminish or reprimand mozilla for choosing their own stance on trademarks, but just to imply their decision unfortunately would not allow them to have this great software, and then, bully for them!
I like debian actually.
apt-get install F1r3F0X0r (debian release - no trademark)
No, I realise that it does, but if you read about things such as grouping and chaining of quakes, you will notice how an earthquake in chile might cause a quake in calif, later.
Plus, various orders of quakes may sway location of probability.
But yes, we are aware that earthquake prediction isn't good. We can barely know when the next bus is coming.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree wholeheartedly, it belongs on slashdot without question.
freeBSD was used in a small company I worked at as a router/fileserver/hey we need a xyz server.
In my present larger job, its use is far more crucial, running webservers et al.
But I think the article was a little weird, it didn't look like a techie-lets-get-our-hands-dirty article, and the focus group was scattered.
I expected a jargon free talk about benefits etc. Maybe techie sites just got more sexy looking.
There is nothing shocking about the slaughter of animals, and when I was young I watched animals being killed for food. Yes it jolts you, any death does, but it is food.
Violence in video games is human violence. It is a violence that blurs the lines between acceptable social behaviour.
French kids drink wine from a young age, they do not binge drink wine in their teens. Society programmed them. Fashion is also a social programming. When to wear clothes, what to wear etc.
You were trained to do this job, because you grew up on a farm.
I do not even consider what you saw was violence.
Violence isn't an act, it is a sentiment. You can cut someones face into pieces, in a calm manner of a plastic surgeon performing a lift.
Or a nut case ripping with a blunted hook.
Now, the violent themes in film have long been considered not suitable for children? Why? Becuase they are not mature enough to realise in some cases, that this is not a socially acceptable thing to do, or, realistically (and dont rely thinking I said watcing one movie will turn them into something regardless of their own personality or upbringing, ffs) it will scare and frighten them, and that isn't nice.
Now, you can show a violent film to kids, that is the parents choice, in fact, these are predominantly for the parents, who usually have the money.
Violence and other adult themes such as swearing and nudity / sex also have reasons for shieldin them from young people.
Do you agree or disagree?
Now, we are talking about games, and you sotry had *nothing* to do with violence (see first point* or games, or laws limiting mass media portrays of cruelty by humans to minors.
I am pro-gaming, heck, I would write a sim today that allowed you to pick off people in a mall until the cops come, and stand by it as fun. because it is a game dynamic.
Yes the sentiment is sick, and wrong. But it is a game. Kids run around shooting each other.
It is less about kids will become violent, although games can fuel agression, like driving in traffic does.
You have seen a clockwork orange? Well yesteryear, gaming priciples were abstract, more so than running around with cap pistols going pow pow.
This yellow blip was the indian, and this red blip was the cowboy.
even the carmegeddon era / mortal kombat had enough realism to realise that gaming graphical portrayals are close enough to video that the material should be labelled. fine, also, to HELP THE DUMBASS parents, put laws stopping their kids.
Now, these fuckface parents don't tell their kids, what game did you buy, let me see, oh no, they blame the companies who made the game.
Grow up, people are producing porn, you want to sue them in case your kid finds a smuty mag?
Anyway, I am against the idea of Germany forcing censorship of games, but they have their own stigma against violence.
I am against people not even seeing the point, and sidestepping issues, and talking shit, like you just did.
Normal you say? how normal is it to talk so much, and not realise you missed the fucking point.
People kill animals for food, yes, and in the same world, people classify movies based on violent themes as well as other factors.
You think that is somehow related?
fucks sake, dont make me explain myself again.
self respecting?
Just install ubuntu, firefox, thunderbird on the machines, and place a windows Longhorn [top secret] wallpaper on the desktop, and tell you boss you got the latest windows W4r3z on the computer, and within 3 months everyone woudl haev seamlessly gone from typing
>>john@drinkbeer.com[tab]I am bored at work[tab]Hi JJ, I need some beer, fuck work, my boss is a twat.
and clicking send to typing
>>john@drinkbeer.com[tab]I am bored at work[tab]Hi JJ, I need some beer, fuck work, my boss is a twat.
and clicking send.
Seriously, ubuntu, firefox and thunderbird. He won't know will he, I mean, come on. You can setup their passwords etc. Go on, try it.
Don't for get the 'w1nd0wz l0ngh0r|\|' wallpaper for added authenticity. You might get a payrise. But, tell him you can't tell anyone, else SCO might ask for a license!
Oh hahaha! that should go in the joke thread. *wipes tear*
Fighting over the implied accurancy of the joke.
Does anyone want to dissect the RDR^2 joke in simpsons?
Did it work? was the working correct?
Hahahahaha. Now I know why it says It's Funny, Laugh
Fact funnier than fiction! The very fact that he questioned that joke in a scientific way had me cracking up.
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1. Tell us more about SMPVFS and its significance.
Yeah, nice warm entry into this article...you want more? more than? I feel the sleep fairys pulling down my eyelids!
Robert Watson John Baldwin: The SMPVFS work is a task to add fine-grained locking to the VFS layer of the kerne....
At this point I would simulate key presses synonymous with my head hittin the keyboard after falling asleep, however, I realised this may be too subtle for the slashdot crowd, and I fear I am verging on troll/redundant as it is.
On the other hand, Microsofts articles at least would allow the executive to stay awake long enough to scrawl the url to bring it up at the next meeting, or remember it...
I guess this is a techie case document, but BSD's should have business case documents around, as in companies where the IT guys have some real power, it is used substantially (like in our offices) but in larger corps, maybe it is overlooked?
Chick is a synonym of bird. Bird is an old word that means baby, and was not a derogatory term for a female. If anything, Bird may seem more derogatory than chick in today's world.
Bride, certainly not a derogatory term (or do feminists now think so... gee I like how feminists proclaim they represent all women... how bad is that? anyway..) and bride is actually the same word as bird.
So there.
Personally all the holes in my job take no offense to my address to them, they are too afraid of a good he-bitch-man-slapping. OMGLOLKTHXBI
I just wanted to say, I realise that a lot of the adventure games we used to know and love are now the basis of OPRG (forget all that MM business) which gives you the linear rich storyline, with side tasks, as well as charcter progression and combat. (without those they woudl just be multiplayer adventure games).
I would like to see more team puzzles, like those anti-squirrel bird feeders, that when two squirrels team up, they can share a chance to eat the bounty inside.
Perhaps positional, trust, or synchronised team work puzzles (like moving from square to square in various orders, or balancing on a pivot to press two buttons, or suchlike) would benefit such games (cue patents, bah.)
PS: I hate the sony patent for that literally wet ware (not even that) idea of sending stuff into the brain. it wasn't even a real patent - i.e. it was a theoretical patent.
I don't know about everyone else, but I was darn impressed to post images on there, I was just unfortunate to have slipped a bit of goatse in there. OK and bath tub girl.
AAaalright, and 'hot blowjob' BUT was that a reason to pull the article?
Aren't you sad that you actually visualised all three of those images, damn, what a sick world we live in. You cannot escape them.
Note well: I didn't do anything of the sort, I missed this article completely, saw it while metamodding, and for the record, who was the irresposible person who published this link on slashdot? Bull in china shop? he/she must have sceamed:
LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAAAR!!! as he/she hit submit. (are there any female 'editors'? (and I stress the quotes there))
My Nephew, IMHO, does have an unhealthy gaming life, he plays too many games, but sadly, there are others who play even more games than him. (there is just an inbalance)
Anyway, he goes out and swaps / buys games once a month, he is 10.
He comes back with an R game, it just looked like some cool sports game, I think it was one of those 'scaintily clad pixels' games.
His choices do get vetted, and I think it is hypocritical to allow children to role play cowboys and indians, and then to be worried about the colour of blood in a computer game.
Needless to say, this game was taken off him before he could play it, but the reasons were explained nicely.
If GTA* series would allow parental locks two things would happen:
The game could ship with blood turned off, and swearing and lewdness, the parent could lock this. Why? WHY? you will say.
Well, because, just like the SIX BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR THE TOBACCO COMPANIES MAKE ON UNDERAGE SMOKING IN THE US ALONE computer games will be sold to people under the advised limit.
Also, you might want to play this game, with sound, in a house which has you children and "Yo mother fucker n* lets take this whoring bitch and fuck her ass good" might not be a great cut scene to have play across your 6.1's.
Now, R* deliberately put lots of non-violent adult themes to force the issue of adult nature.
i.e. no body complains too much about porn, but that is because it is only generally *very* interesting to those entering adult hood anyway, because of biology.
Violence definately attracts the young, and kids immitate EVERYTHING from mortal combat to GTA. Cowboys and Indians becomes Da Boyz and Da Pigz, bow and arrows and romanticised rifles become 9's and uzis.
Instead of smoking the peace pipe, they eerr, smoke the peace crack pipe.
It does affect children, children always pick up on what is acceptable, and the more loose the boundaries are, the less they can work it out.
It is arrogant for US (people who are currenlty over 20) to have an opinion on what makes people violent, in our forming years the graphics were SHIT. A reason why many parents who do not think about these things, don't realise the realism involved.
So, unless you have an NVidia geforce chipset when you were 10, shut the fuck up complaining about the courts and parent groups concerned about violent video games: you cannot prove they are not sold to kids, they can, as a player (PLAYA) of violent video games, I appreciate their concerns.
Now for once, take a balanced view. (that goes for pennyarcade too - they are a rack short of a hosting server if you ask me - defend the right to play violent games, not the violent games themselves - let the fuckers at EA games, who make fuckloads of cash spend some of it ensuring the violence doesn't reach children)
-1 going against the grain
Right when you network has crawled to a halt, you want ot tune into a broadband security video.
RSS anyone? Just have some XML feed, and put effort into making the content so unbelievably timely and incisive that people will switch.
That is where you money should go, the steak not the sizzle.
Imagine, you want to know about *scriptkiddyvariant*
20 seconds $1000000 video logo of A-T-&-T Security channel, bringing you security... blah blah blah - TTWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY!!! baddab boom bom b de da deheda ede *jingle*
And now, on todays *shit this has taken 1 minute already of streaming video*.....
And now, the main event! !!!! ECHO ECHO ECHO
Today *scriptkiddyvariant* was released, you are advised to like, you know, upgrade! I am ellen Feiss, whoring myself to a 2 bit internet tv venture!
Lame.
The people this would be aimed at would be execs, and lame ones at that. Think scaremongering and well placed, pay us you money, keep your job! ads.
I just wait until they pay or use their influence to have them being watched on some up comin high tech hacker film.... you can imagine *insert trendy actor* (maybe female) is the worlds best security expert, knows EVERYTHING about computers,and is pitting her/his wits against some teen hackers we are h4cking t3h plan1t!
However, if it wasn't for her broadband subscription to ATTsecuriTT.com videos, she would not win against them!
dun dun duuuun! sucks
WHat I like is, it doesn't have the floaty noise of the gimp toolbars, everything is locked down.
Who said having vague floating windows is a good idea?
Give me one damn window, and something to do inside it, not everything all slapdash.
Luckily I even use kayboard shortcuts for as much as possible.
looks like GTA: Schrodinger is still a ways off
I was looking forward to lots of tasteless 'pussy' puns (no pun intended).
Seriously, I am scared of Quanta. It irks me.
I don't want to worry about taking out my block every time I get a geek like urge to overclock my machine, or make a little hack.
I can imagine MAKE:: Magazine in 20 years:
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY: Any attempt at the following hack to play pentaphonic music on your qPod MAY END THE UNIVERSE.
Have you seen any of the newer systems (Playstation, Jaguar, Nintendo 64)?
I think someone needs to date this article - is it too much to add content date meta tags?
Bah.
They must be running a quantum webserver - one way to beat the /. effect, post stories 50 years early, by the time anyone needs to read it, there is a torrent available, a coral cache, and 250 karma-whores pasting the content/mirror on the posts :-)
:-)
Preemtpive slashdot cacheing?
On the front of the actual article, I laughed, the use of flash actually gave is a 2002 look, but lets pretend it was futuristic!
My fav by a hair was:
Menstruation cured!
At last...
The nice thing about GPS is it works ina very large area of the world, and even better the more remote you are, which is the inverse of the WPS analogy.
GPS doesn't handshake or anything, it is like a radio device (literally) interpretting signals.
GPS(n) with some kind of third party WAAS type configuration can pinpoint you to a meter.
GPS swarming is a way of GPS devices helping each other out over GSM networks, when one/two in the swarm drop a satellite signal.
I think it is a fairly good solution for localised services, if you have a map, turn on your PDA, list networks, and you will see:
Marios Pizza WiFi
StarBucks Wifi
XYZ Wifi
With a little more info, wifi boxes themselves could help you find them, and the wifi could be a geobeacon for local services.
(or use a GPS style geotag)
"D-Wave is on track to produce a special-purpose, "noisy" piece of quantum hardware that could solve many of the physical-simulation problems that stump today's computers
All this for Doom 3 and The latest GTA? I mean, they stump my nvdia 5700 graphics card, but I am not about to go over the top.
I think it will be the same, except, instead of mimesweeper, there will be a grid of boxes, complete with cyanide gas canisters and cats, and you have to somehow work out which are alive.
Does this mean that Doom 5 will be called "Doom - the uncertainty principle"
Cue lots of cheesey names like the past: VR this, and 3D that, and Virtua the other.
Quantum Pool
Quantum Golf
Quantum Solitaire.
Oh dear.
Windows or linux first on quantum computing? I mean, it requires a whole new kernel I guess, with module names like 'schroedinger' (for predicting pipeline management in a super-modal setting?) and 'uncertainty' for the RNG.
If you look at the SETI front page, somewhere they link to their happy go cluky stat of 2358927549821743981273498172349721397432197 computer hours so far!!!111thirteen!
Computers using 30-60 watts, with seti, they run at FULL blast, and 24 hours a day. (and during work they run with high CPU in background.
If you calculate how much polution SETI has generated, and other tasks that lock the CPU to full blast (and fans) then you will be amazed. I did some napkin equations and sent them to Mr Electricity online.
So, as far as I am concerned, SETI can piss off, people only use it to get points, and try and win a game. If the points weren't there, noone would do a thing.
The guy was AMUSED that I didn't have Ruby installed on my machine.
Haha. He used Ruby in the script to rename the file.
Look, too many egos in linux, and too many ungrateful 'users' who are worthy enough to use this program, and just have problems.
Its a traditional client-developer relationship, but we are not paying.
I am into Mac OS, but as usual, EVERY story about this forgets one thing:
People will not BUY a new computer to try MacOS, so if it doesn't work on my computer I have at home today, then guess what, I won't try it, and probably won't steer my purchase decision based on OS.
I don't want intel, I don't want 'THAT' graphics card.
So there.
This usability crap is an old myth
How can you type with your head in the sand? Are you using "das keyboard"?
rename *2004*.txt *2005*.txt
One mental thing I do with cmd's rename tool. When asking in linux help channel on day, I was given a *SCRIPT* to do this.
It is 2005. Can someone at gnu write a rename command? No, not mv, not cp (move, copy anyone) grep / find ? awk / sed ? It has long been established that NAMES are important for understanding an application, it is what seperates our program from machines code. You think machine code is hard to read?
It is easier than normal code to read! Get an insturction book, and off you go, oh, so you are loading this into that register...
Words like, for, while, if help us understand things. So do good variable names (like foo and bar).
So give programs good names. Linux supports AnyType.of.filename.You.WANT. Yes all programs executables are extremely contracted (and many are headless (command line) the name would be important.
Is mv so much faster to write than move?
Anyway, linux does have usability issues.
Yes, there are package management apps.
Hi mum, what, you want to install a new email client? yes, apt-get install, but, hang on, yeah, it if gives you anything about dependancies, oh them, yes, they are things that also need to be installed? What? on windows you ust double clicked and pressed next next next next finish, and it was in the startbar and on the desktop? Well that is OBVIOUSLY not good is it...
So, yeah, shut up fan boy.
(you reply, to save you typing 'but its easy for ME haha loxthxbi PWN3D'
yep
I swear, I have not seen this cheat online: but on the original command and conquer, if you throw a grenade, and then keep clicking madly, the grenade will start homing in on your mouse cursor.
Win any battle by making grenadiers, and then getting about 100 of them to ctrl-target the ground near them, but then click and make the SWARM of granades follow your mouse, until your hit their power plants - other buildings, etc. Very rewarding.
If you could use this tactic to catch hackers, by all means do so
"I guess if we want to do it, we'll have to use home-made emulsions on paper."
No other company does B&W paper? Having done black and white paper development, and having a rather nice experience in the romantic qualities of the safety light while helping a fellow student rock the chemical bath trays to develop her photos, I too am rather sad.
Fond memories.
Still, if it helps, you can always put your SD card into a chemical trough...
There are some whippersnappers too oung even to remember the Pheonix browser *warm memories gloss over my cateract eyes*, then the Firebird... then Firefox.
Lest we forget. Mod up.
Caterects? I am twenty-bloody-five.
I will check out BackRub for some info on Pheonix.
Linux is patented. Before you start casting your sword of pious Freedom around, realise that you should fight the right battles.
Trademarking open source project names (I realise Mozilla are a bit bitchfucky about this) is a good idea, and definately should be done. Open source is allowed to sell itself, marketwise and financial wise.
I don't think debian can be harmed (and debian is just a distro, debian is basically an installer and package manager, and some default wallpapers, like most distros (and lots of packaging of projects) by having 'branded' name open source. What do they want to call Firefox?
Debian Extra Value Generic Browser?
Trademarking is good to promote image of a product that was written in a community.
What I found funny is: Mozilla community wrote Firefox (and i.e. the whole shebang of moving the NS code around, into mozilla, the XUL stuff, etc) YET debian are debating the legitimacy of their trademarking?
I mean, they should flavour their wrods cautiously, not to diminish or reprimand mozilla for choosing their own stance on trademarks, but just to imply their decision unfortunately would not allow them to have this great software, and then, bully for them!
I like debian actually.
No, I realise that it does, but if you read about things such as grouping and chaining of quakes, you will notice how an earthquake in chile might cause a quake in calif, later.
Plus, various orders of quakes may sway location of probability.
But yes, we are aware that earthquake prediction isn't good. We can barely know when the next bus is coming.