It's true. Recent games aren't games so much as simulations.
Bollocks. Stop focusing on what's getting the headlines, which has been the latest photo-realistic FPS for at least ten years; look through the aisles at the store rather than the big stand, and you'll find all the variety there used to be is still alive and well. Yes, the quirkier "gamier" games get less exposure than the "realistic" ones, but guess what? They don't sell as well.
the article says the hackers were gathering "information on the evolution of both camps' policy positions"
Do you think this is actually just about that slasdot story from a few months back where the commenters pointed out you could still get PDFs of previous campaign positions off Obama's website?
Evil doesn't have to be the big stuff; I'd say deliberately doing actively bad things to others for the sake of one's own gain is enough to qualify. Yes, most politicians are evil by this measure; are you saying it isn't so?
Because like it or not, no country is an island. Well, mine is, in a purely literal sense, but not metaphorically. With more-or-less worldwide peace and a tightly interlinked global economy, what's good for one country is, mostly, good for all.
That's something, but it doesn't support my particular model (ID 046d:0870). It's just disappointing because it used to work, but linux clearly doesn't consider any kind of backward compatibility in the kernel to be worth it.
I've had the opposite experience - my logitech "quickcam" works perfectly on windows from XP up (wheras I had to use third party sucky drivers on earlier versions), but the linux driver won't compile against modern kernels.
And being able to jump helps you avoid being killed.
Sure, but it may not be practical in a suit of armour heavy enough to afford protection.
The only reason you can't jump in GoW is because they were worried people wouldn't use their ripped off cover system, proving that jumping is just as useful in video-game combat as a cover system.
I had no problems taking stuff developed on suns JVM on Windows PC's and running then on the arm. Trivial really.
Sure, it's fine as long as you're using a platform Sun supports. But if you want to step outside that, you're even more fucked than you are with C#.
The arm platform is something we designed from scratch based on Linux. Yea I know people could do the same in Wince, but I don't think the C# would port over as easy.
Actually, MS releases a version of the.net framework for windows CE; it would be exactly the same experience, just as trivial.
Windows always take 10x longer to develop code for, it's a nightmare. I don't know C# I am told it's just like Java, so then why not just use Java? Microsoft started with using Java and make up C# just to fuck with Sun and Netscape/Mozilla.
C# is what Java would have been if it had been designed with the benefit of five years' hindsight. It's not revolutionary, but that's a good thing - it's an incremental, evolutionary improvement of Java, smoothed out, with the most irritating flaws gone. While python remains my personal favourite language, C# is honestly a very nice language to write in.
I have no time for their crap. So many times have I followed there technology strategy down a dead end, I spend countless hours learning the MCI,VFW, then Direct Show, the DDK, COM, ALT.
I can understand your reluctance to trust MS again, but frankly you shouldn't knock it until you've tried it. C# is quite possibly the best thing they have ever made. Try developing with it under Mono if you like.
In Unix there was nothing new I needed to learn, fopen("/dev/vga") fopen("/dev/audio") presto I have video output access.
Well yes, but you can't exactly do that in Java, can you? And there are good reasons why people have moved to these higher-level APIs.
IIRC, The ones which are there to observe the Earth do so from very eccentric orbits where they essentially dive briefly into the atmosphere to take photos, then pull out before they burn up (of course, they're in a stable orbital pattern rather than doing this under power). And they don't use infrared.
VoilÃ[sic, thanks slashdot], a safe method of using MD5. (As far as I know, there is still no way to convert an MD5 hash back into the original text, or even a possible original text without using a Rainbow table.)
Safe for now, sure. But for how long? MD5 is crumbling, yes it's crumbling slowly, but once an algorithm has been shown to have flaws it usually collapses entirely not that long after. Worse, in the academic world the difference between "perfect" and "imperfect" matters a lot more than the difference between "partially broken" and "fully broken" - so now that it's been shown to have serious flaws, the people most interested will not be the academics but the criminals and the spies. Paranoid though it may seem, it's not at all unreasonable to believe that the NSA et al. or even your favourite organized crime syndicate have broken MD5 more thoroughly than has been done in published papers.
That MD5 hasn't been completely broken only means there's no need to panic-drop existing systems. For any new system being written today, MD5 shouldn't even be under consideration.
Because in practice, C# is more portable - Java may be theoretically open-source, but pick a random Java program and tell me it works in something other than Sun's own, non-portable JVM (I was briefly involved with the effort to port Java to BeOS. Last I heard they were stuck working on version 1.3). Wheras mono works, to the extent that if you pick a random C# application off the internet, it will probably work in mono.
Seriously, there are efforts in place for more advanced filesystems - but it's all to no avail when the linux kernel will neither merge these into its tree, nor provide a stable API for them to be maintained outside it. It's kernel politics that's the biggest thing holding back linux filesystem development.
In turn, these symbols have become so socially inacceptable that you can be sure anyone sporting them deserves a night in a cell, at the very least, in any case.
I can't believe I'm reading this on slashdot. What happened to this site?
Slashdot Mirror
Bollocks. Stop focusing on what's getting the headlines, which has been the latest photo-realistic FPS for at least ten years; look through the aisles at the store rather than the big stand, and you'll find all the variety there used to be is still alive and well. Yes, the quirkier "gamier" games get less exposure than the "realistic" ones, but guess what? They don't sell as well.
Some basic authentication mechanisms are a standard part of HTTP.
Do you think this is actually just about that slasdot story from a few months back where the commenters pointed out you could still get PDFs of previous campaign positions off Obama's website?
They will have applied statistics before calling. Which means they'll only be wrong 5% of the time.
Evil doesn't have to be the big stuff; I'd say deliberately doing actively bad things to others for the sake of one's own gain is enough to qualify. Yes, most politicians are evil by this measure; are you saying it isn't so?
Because like it or not, no country is an island. Well, mine is, in a purely literal sense, but not metaphorically. With more-or-less worldwide peace and a tightly interlinked global economy, what's good for one country is, mostly, good for all.
2000 was a bit different given the electoral irregularities. And there was a lot less whining in 2004.
That's something, but it doesn't support my particular model (ID 046d:0870). It's just disappointing because it used to work, but linux clearly doesn't consider any kind of backward compatibility in the kernel to be worth it.
I've had the opposite experience - my logitech "quickcam" works perfectly on windows from XP up (wheras I had to use third party sucky drivers on earlier versions), but the linux driver won't compile against modern kernels.
Sure, but it may not be practical in a suit of armour heavy enough to afford protection.
The only reason you can't jump in GoW is because they were worried people wouldn't use their ripped off cover system, proving that jumping is just as useful in video-game combat as a cover system.
And you have some evidence for this assertion?
That's all I want, but it's necessary to rip before we can do that. Cracking live discs will be harder.
To like, I don't know, protect you from being killed?
Sure, it's fine as long as you're using a platform Sun supports. But if you want to step outside that, you're even more fucked than you are with C#.
The arm platform is something we designed from scratch based on Linux. Yea I know people could do the same in Wince, but I don't think the C# would port over as easy.
Actually, MS releases a version of the .net framework for windows CE; it would be exactly the same experience, just as trivial.
Windows always take 10x longer to develop code for, it's a nightmare. I don't know C# I am told it's just like Java, so then why not just use Java? Microsoft started with using Java and make up C# just to fuck with Sun and Netscape/Mozilla.
C# is what Java would have been if it had been designed with the benefit of five years' hindsight. It's not revolutionary, but that's a good thing - it's an incremental, evolutionary improvement of Java, smoothed out, with the most irritating flaws gone. While python remains my personal favourite language, C# is honestly a very nice language to write in.
I have no time for their crap. So many times have I followed there technology strategy down a dead end, I spend countless hours learning the MCI ,VFW, then Direct Show, the DDK, COM, ALT.
I can understand your reluctance to trust MS again, but frankly you shouldn't knock it until you've tried it. C# is quite possibly the best thing they have ever made. Try developing with it under Mono if you like.
In Unix there was nothing new I needed to learn, fopen("/dev/vga") fopen("/dev/audio") presto I have video output access.
Well yes, but you can't exactly do that in Java, can you? And there are good reasons why people have moved to these higher-level APIs.
IIRC, The ones which are there to observe the Earth do so from very eccentric orbits where they essentially dive briefly into the atmosphere to take photos, then pull out before they burn up (of course, they're in a stable orbital pattern rather than doing this under power). And they don't use infrared.
Safe for now, sure. But for how long? MD5 is crumbling, yes it's crumbling slowly, but once an algorithm has been shown to have flaws it usually collapses entirely not that long after. Worse, in the academic world the difference between "perfect" and "imperfect" matters a lot more than the difference between "partially broken" and "fully broken" - so now that it's been shown to have serious flaws, the people most interested will not be the academics but the criminals and the spies. Paranoid though it may seem, it's not at all unreasonable to believe that the NSA et al. or even your favourite organized crime syndicate have broken MD5 more thoroughly than has been done in published papers.
That MD5 hasn't been completely broken only means there's no need to panic-drop existing systems. For any new system being written today, MD5 shouldn't even be under consideration.
Because in practice, C# is more portable - Java may be theoretically open-source, but pick a random Java program and tell me it works in something other than Sun's own, non-portable JVM (I was briefly involved with the effort to port Java to BeOS. Last I heard they were stuck working on version 1.3). Wheras mono works, to the extent that if you pick a random C# application off the internet, it will probably work in mono.
Oh, and because Java sucks.
If they were observing the Earth, surely it would be better to do it from below all that water vapor.
The point is that on the internet, no. Something is wrong precisely when there is something better.
That may be how it's gone with your efforts. It's working fine for me.
What, and WH40K is a realistic reflection of how all heavy armour operates?
Because you're making it costly for the company to do something unethical.
Seriously, there are efforts in place for more advanced filesystems - but it's all to no avail when the linux kernel will neither merge these into its tree, nor provide a stable API for them to be maintained outside it. It's kernel politics that's the biggest thing holding back linux filesystem development.
I can't believe I'm reading this on slashdot. What happened to this site?
You mean "per se". Peasant.
10MB/s is typical now? And you can actually use it to download a game at this speed? What country are you in?