hint? no, they're likely trying to figure out how to encorporate the modding communities latest innovations and simultaniously disallow them from making any future unauthorized innovations. that's how it always feels anyway.
quake1, or more properly, quakeworld was the first i can officially say i remember, for a truly free-controlled observer. maybe heretic, but i'm not sure. i don't know if i'd count racing gamed with a set camera-path/stations.
I've had an idea I'm continuing to look for further opinions on, if anyone would be so kind.
Basically, instead of plain-text legislation, allow laws to have multiple and different explanations for a law, eventually organized by a DOM to make it intuitive. Not quite the open-source politics meant by TA (oooo gods descend from olympus to post on messageboards), but it would make laws far more visible to the average man.
I've posted it before, so i shan't waste precious bits ^_-
you're absolutely correct, that's about as fair as that process gets: over long periods opinion may shift. still, though, doesn't that leave something to be desired? shouldn't the kindergarten be playing both games in different proportions?
perhaps you read more whining into it than there was. i wasn't inferring that kerry should be co-president, only that Bush shouldn't look upon this as validation--half of us still disagree.
so what if they hold the election _every recess_ the results of that scenario are still unfair if the kickball players never once acknowledge the barely-a-minority opinion.
I know I speak for half of us when I say: "AAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooonooonooonoooooooo*weepweepmoanm oangnashgnashsobsob*"...I'm in no particular mood to be articulate about it because the scope of my disagreements with the radial right is just so dizzying, I can't fathom another 4 years... a WORSE 4 years omg the house and senate are totally within their control, no balance of power this time.. it just makes me ill. I was ill last election (I was in Florida) knowing we'd somehow end up in Iraq (am I psychic?), but this time it's our civil liberties that I'm deathly afraid for. Gays, abortion, the war, these are all very important issues, but none are as important to me as the age-old checks-and-balances and basic freedoms designed into our republic: not just the problems at hand--but the governmental processes we leave future generations to solve the issues of THEIR day too.
I read a lot of people thinking/joking about going to Canada... it's definetly tempting. I'm not quite ready to stop being an American patriot yet, but if these 4 years go as I expect them to, I might.
We who cared so much for "not Bush" have a huge responsibility over these next 4 years. Since there is no balance of power spead accross the Presidency, Senate, or House, we must do the impossable and retain this focus near-constantly as if the next election were 4 years long. Write your congresspeople CONSTANTLY. Pay attention to their voting records and major legislation (and please, read deeper than the name of the bill). Join a website that serves issue-alerts to suit your politics (I personally get alerts from moveOn, the ACLU and the EFF, maybe about half of which I act on and write my Congresspeople--all three have webportals that make it about a 3-click 2 minute operation)
The silver lining to this election is thus: we've had a HUGE turnout, and all the right groups, the groups people have been struggling to motivate for generations, came out in-force. Regarless of who wins in the process, these groups have stood up and said "You had better cater to our opinion, we're a voting force now!". I'd be curious to see if there'll be any statistical corrolation between the number and scope of curfew laws as impacted by the young voter turnout; same for black issues.
So brace yourself everybody, it's going to be a hard 4 years, and there's nobody to keep Bush in check this time but us.
Lastly, a thought about majority rule: If 53% of a kindergarten class votes to play kickball every day at recess, and 47% vote 4-square, is the fair solution to always play kickball, or to merely play kickball more often than 4-square?
Several airports I've been to have passable arcades. What about gameboys tho, surely they cut into the market for arcades as well?
going offtopic: I've played outrun 2 for xbox recently, and it's been a pleasant reminder of the simple addictiveness and zen-while-playing that modern go-for-complexity videogames have been lacking.
>If you dislike something, you are more >prone to attack it than something you like.
I agree, but still, this is theory.
In looking to validate/invalidate that theory, shouldn't we see more exploits with messages? The only frequently-occurring examples of such political hacks I know of are webpage-hacking, and the message is usually relevant to the site. I've never (personally) seen an windows exploit that says "uz3 l1nux, a44w1p3!!1!" or vice-versa.
More properly, Windows has the most attacks because of what this article touches on most: a good/bad design conductive/inhibitive of exploits. I myself have no political message or OS-preference so dire I must don a black-hat, but I have seen gaping holes so tempting I just had to make a proof-of-concept.
You're absolutely correct. The joke was exactly that: presuming a 1:n relationship between #ofUsers and #ofExploits. This more truly would be a measure of how appetizing the platform is to black-hats. There are naturally far more variables in that equation, most especially how well the platform has been designed, but we who feel "all bugs are shallow given enough eyes" should be conscious "all platforms have exploits, given enough eyes"...wow, that was the fastest i've ever been modded down ^_^;;;
educational software isn't underdeveloped at all. compared to 3d shooters perhaps, but compared to many other markets.. I sold children's software at a small store that specialized in it around 95, and it tanked. We were located near a supermarket and parents could leave children with us to try any software we sold while they grocery shopped. great idea, i thought, but the market wasn't there.
Humongous entertainment makes some of the most vicariously fun and subliminally (and marginally) educational software with hits like putt-putt and freddie the fish (if you were 10, you'd know these titles). the bulk, by and large, are boring lectures in the guise of crappy guis. That was my opinion as a player at 6, as a children's software retailer at 15, now at 26, and fairly likely years from now when i shop for my kids.
I had this happen to me, but luckily I was able to fix it. As soon as I connected power, there was a small boom, and smoke came out the back of the xbox. Honestly I don't blame the xbox--I'm pretty sure there's something funny about the power in the place it happened (for other reasons). However, all I did to fix it was open the xbox and scan the board, and power source. When I looked at the power source, I saw what looked like formerly 3 identical big contact points, the center one now being a smoldering hole. I filled it back up with solder to match the other 2, and voila, my xbox has been back working for 6 months now. Your mileage may vary, I make no claims to really know what I'm doing on a circuit board.
fools, r-t-f-a. I've never seen more people correcting a mistake that never happened here on/...hey how about that for a./ article, the top 10 most mis-commented-on/. articles...
[quote]Don't underestimate the power of social networking," Blum says. "It will be a huge force to reckon with."[/quote]
So huge, your impending patents will be as a cork on the ocean--by far the influenced, rather than the influencor. You can't kid a kidder, and you can't socially engineer the social engineers (ehrm.. much). Business success may yet be yours however--comsumer whores may yet love your site, and lucky for you they abound.
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speak for yourself, i'm still waiting for street fighter 4. (or is it alpha 3 champion edition reissue?)
hint? no, they're likely trying to figure out how to encorporate the modding communities latest innovations and simultaniously disallow them from making any future unauthorized innovations.
that's how it always feels anyway.
quake1, or more properly, quakeworld was the first i can officially say i remember, for a truly free-controlled observer. maybe heretic, but i'm not sure. i don't know if i'd count racing gamed with a set camera-path/stations.
there's a space in that url that shouldn't have gotten there. apologies.
I think it should be more like this:
http://www.esri.com/industries/elections/g
what's not clear about 53%/47% popular vote?
slant it as you want, it's still pretty freaking even.
I've had an idea I'm continuing to look for further opinions on, if anyone would be so kind.
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Basically, instead of plain-text legislation, allow laws to have multiple and different explanations for a law, eventually organized by a DOM to make it intuitive. Not quite the open-source politics meant by TA (oooo gods descend from olympus to post on messageboards), but it would make laws far more visible to the average man.
I've posted it before, so i shan't waste precious bits ^_-
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=125671&ci
you're absolutely correct, that's about as fair as that process gets: over long periods opinion may shift. still, though, doesn't that leave something to be desired? shouldn't the kindergarten be playing both games in different proportions?
perhaps you read more whining into it than there was.
i wasn't inferring that kerry should be co-president, only that Bush shouldn't look upon this as validation--half of us still disagree.
so what if they hold the election _every recess_ the results of that scenario are still unfair if the kickball players never once acknowledge the barely-a-minority opinion.
einstein yourself. dig.
I know I speak for half of us when I say: "AAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooonooonooonoooooooo*weepweepmoanm oangnashgnashsobsob*" ...I'm in no particular mood to be articulate about it because the scope of my disagreements with the radial right is just so dizzying, I can't fathom another 4 years... a WORSE 4 years omg the house and senate are totally within their control, no balance of power this time.. it just makes me ill. I was ill last election (I was in Florida) knowing we'd somehow end up in Iraq (am I psychic?), but this time it's our civil liberties that I'm deathly afraid for. Gays, abortion, the war, these are all very important issues, but none are as important to me as the age-old checks-and-balances and basic freedoms designed into our republic: not just the problems at hand--but the governmental processes we leave future generations to solve the issues of THEIR day too.
I read a lot of people thinking/joking about going to Canada... it's definetly tempting. I'm not quite ready to stop being an American patriot yet, but if these 4 years go as I expect them to, I might.
We who cared so much for "not Bush" have a huge responsibility over these next 4 years. Since there is no balance of power spead accross the Presidency, Senate, or House, we must do the impossable and retain this focus near-constantly as if the next election were 4 years long. Write your congresspeople CONSTANTLY. Pay attention to their voting records and major legislation (and please, read deeper than the name of the bill). Join a website that serves issue-alerts to suit your politics (I personally get alerts from moveOn, the ACLU and the EFF, maybe about half of which I act on and write my Congresspeople--all three have webportals that make it about a 3-click 2 minute operation)
The silver lining to this election is thus: we've had a HUGE turnout, and all the right groups, the groups people have been struggling to motivate for generations, came out in-force. Regarless of who wins in the process, these groups have stood up and said "You had better cater to our opinion, we're a voting force now!". I'd be curious to see if there'll be any statistical corrolation between the number and scope of curfew laws as impacted by the young voter turnout; same for black issues.
So brace yourself everybody, it's going to be a hard 4 years, and there's nobody to keep Bush in check this time but us.
Lastly, a thought about majority rule: If 53% of a kindergarten class votes to play kickball every day at recess, and 47% vote 4-square, is the fair solution to always play kickball, or to merely play kickball more often than 4-square?
Several airports I've been to have passable arcades. What about gameboys tho, surely they cut into the market for arcades as well?
going offtopic: I've played outrun 2 for xbox recently, and it's been a pleasant reminder of the simple addictiveness and zen-while-playing that modern go-for-complexity videogames have been lacking.
do not, repeat, do NOT use a vaporizer to smoke tobacco. you'll only disagree with me once.
there aren't any arcades near me anymore anyway.
>If you dislike something, you are more
>prone to attack it than something you like.
I agree, but still, this is theory.
In looking to validate/invalidate that theory, shouldn't we see more exploits with messages? The only frequently-occurring examples of such political hacks I know of are webpage-hacking, and the message is usually relevant to the site. I've never (personally) seen an windows exploit that says "uz3 l1nux, a44w1p3!!1!" or vice-versa.
More properly, Windows has the most attacks because of what this article touches on most: a good/bad design conductive/inhibitive of exploits. I myself have no political message or OS-preference so dire I must don a black-hat, but I have seen gaping holes so tempting I just had to make a proof-of-concept.
-g
I don't see activism as the primary goal of the majority of windows exploits. Most seem to be greed or mischief. Am I wrong?
You're absolutely correct. The joke was exactly that: presuming a 1:n relationship between #ofUsers and #ofExploits. This more truly would be a measure of how appetizing the platform is to black-hats. There are naturally far more variables in that equation, most especially how well the platform has been designed, but we who feel "all bugs are shallow given enough eyes" should be conscious "all platforms have exploits, given enough eyes".
-flamebait-
security through obscurity. Fewer AmigaOS exploits these days too.
-/flamebait-
(i'm joking.. just couldn't resist.)
educational software isn't underdeveloped at all.
compared to 3d shooters perhaps, but compared to many other markets.. I sold children's software at a small store that specialized in it around 95, and it tanked. We were located near a supermarket and parents could leave children with us to try any software we sold while they grocery shopped. great idea, i thought, but the market wasn't there.
Humongous entertainment makes some of the most vicariously fun and subliminally (and marginally) educational software with hits like putt-putt and freddie the fish (if you were 10, you'd know these titles). the bulk, by and large, are boring lectures in the guise of crappy guis. That was my opinion as a player at 6, as a children's software retailer at 15, now at 26, and fairly likely years from now when i shop for my kids.
offtopic my ass
oregon (muthafuckin) trail.
(ok, 3 words.)
did you know the first version was for teletype machines? yes, we all grew up on the appleIIe version, but new versions are made all the time.
I had this happen to me, but luckily I was able to fix it. As soon as I connected power, there was a small boom, and smoke came out the back of the xbox. Honestly I don't blame the xbox--I'm pretty sure there's something funny about the power in the place it happened (for other reasons). However, all I did to fix it was open the xbox and scan the board, and power source. When I looked at the power source, I saw what looked like formerly 3 identical big contact points, the center one now being a smoldering hole. I filled it back up with solder to match the other 2, and voila, my xbox has been back working for 6 months now. Your mileage may vary, I make no claims to really know what I'm doing on a circuit board.
-g
you're absolutely right.
i hereby rescind the entire meaning of my point because one out-of-three times, i typoed
fools, r-t-f-a.
I've never seen more people correcting a mistake that never happened here on
[quote]Don't underestimate the power of social networking," Blum says. "It will be a huge force to reckon with."[/quote]
So huge, your impending patents will be as a cork on the ocean--by far the influenced, rather than the influencor. You can't kid a kidder, and you can't socially engineer the social engineers (ehrm.. much). Business success may yet be yours however--comsumer whores may yet love your site, and lucky for you they abound.
* me throws a little karma on the bonfire
-g
Cat and Girl on Moral Consumption as a Luxury
gah, sorry, there was an unintentional space in that first url