hehe... my dad used to play descent (the first one, just the demo realy) I still remember teaching him how to load it up in DOS (on the old win95 machine) so it wouldnt tab down when he was flying at an enemy, it was flying at him, and they were both shooting.
he stopped playing when the joystick broke. He played Descent 2 sometime later with a new one, but that broke pretty quickly as well, and he never realy got used to the controls anyway...
aside from that, my mom loves the webgames like cubis.
on a side note, I never got why digital cameras, when plugged in over USB, wouldn't function as webcams (I figured someone would have done this- maybe they have?)
"Trojan==idiot user clicked on BrittneySpearsNaked.jpg.exe; AV cannot prevent this."
Real-time scanning can catch this before the file is even opening, and can even catch it before the download is even finished in $p2pProgram
not quite the topic, but you are exactly right, people use these simulators to do things they wouldn't do in real life. Hear that Thompson?? NOT do in real life.
gestures with the mouse would be more problematic - ever played Black and White (I did get good at the gestures but still, they are hard to use in heat-of-battle situations)
The MMO I play (Ragnarok online) has somewhat of a solution for this - it has 3 rows of 10 hotkeys, and a mode in which the letter rows corrospond to all of the spells on all of the hotkey rows. Its quite easy to put everything (for a wizard, even with different spell levels) on the first 5 keys of each row, and then everything is very accessable without moving your hand around much.
Think about it this way: HTTPS etc encrypt your data before it is sent to the wireless card WPA/WEP encrypts the data as its recieved on the wireless card, then transmits it
not quite right but basicly, HTTPS encrypts data before it would be encrypted for WPA wireless.
Do most law agencies know about usenet and what it (usually) does? given the cases from the RIAA/MPAA I would have thought that usenet would have been targeted at least once.
Banning probably makes them more money... besides most misbehavior bans are temporary and try to just enforce a good community environment, perm bans result in new subscriptions (think bot farms, or people who still want to play etc.)
Slide down a slippery slope? its called banning, and all online games do it for violating ToS, and now all of them (that I've seen) include using the service to transmit or do illegal things, for example arrange drug sales, over the service. The company does their own investigation, and bans based on this. I wouldn't be surprized if they just banned based on this arrest (enough evidence to get you arrested is probably more than enough to get you banned)
Actually, I happen to have one such player (with coax out). Unfortunatly, it uses the standard component male/female type plug, not a normal coax plug, so I just got an RF modulator for $7.
The point is, RF modulators are legal, while anything that modulates HDMI wont be
I think what he meant was that the average joe wouldn't attribute it to DRM, even though thats why he had the problem (unless, of course, someone could get a TV news station to cover something like "Warning: why your upgrade won't work" or something)
I can't say if they would have, but I know they have asked me to copy DVDs before for them so they wouldn't have restricted operations, and so they could bring around the discs without having to worry about them getting ruined or forgetting them. They understand that they wouldn't have to ask me to do this if the encryption didn't exist. I've tried to teach them how to do it, but thats beyond them for some reason.
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hehe... my dad used to play descent (the first one, just the demo realy) I still remember teaching him how to load it up in DOS (on the old win95 machine) so it wouldnt tab down when he was flying at an enemy, it was flying at him, and they were both shooting.
he stopped playing when the joystick broke. He played Descent 2 sometime later with a new one, but that broke pretty quickly as well, and he never realy got used to the controls anyway...
aside from that, my mom loves the webgames like cubis.
I dunno... some games seem to have it built in, that distance between screens. So moving them closer would kinda throw that off
yea... you see that on virus definitions quite frequently... that the virus avoids .gov and things like microsoft.com
on a side note, I never got why digital cameras, when plugged in over USB, wouldn't function as webcams (I figured someone would have done this- maybe they have?)
"Trojan==idiot user clicked on BrittneySpearsNaked.jpg.exe; AV cannot prevent this." Real-time scanning can catch this before the file is even opening, and can even catch it before the download is even finished in $p2pProgram
Thats because the only automated translators for Japanese are Japanese --> Engrish translators. For English, you'll need a person to do it :)
Yea, that's exactly what happens. But more like on a Defense Appropriations Bill or something
don't think this is too far fetched either - transit workers and other workers in NYC get this when they retire
not quite the topic, but you are exactly right, people use these simulators to do things they wouldn't do in real life. Hear that Thompson?? NOT do in real life.
gestures with the mouse would be more problematic - ever played Black and White (I did get good at the gestures but still, they are hard to use in heat-of-battle situations)
The MMO I play (Ragnarok online) has somewhat of a solution for this - it has 3 rows of 10 hotkeys, and a mode in which the letter rows corrospond to all of the spells on all of the hotkey rows. Its quite easy to put everything (for a wizard, even with different spell levels) on the first 5 keys of each row, and then everything is very accessable without moving your hand around much.
yes.
Think about it this way:
HTTPS etc encrypt your data before it is sent to the wireless card
WPA/WEP encrypts the data as its recieved on the wireless card, then transmits it
not quite right but basicly, HTTPS encrypts data before it would be encrypted for WPA wireless.
Any experiment has something you are seeking to prove. Of course, you can fail to prove it.
The second definition of hypothesis (from dictionary.com): Something taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation; an assumption.
unfortunatly, the aluminum spike will degrade, and it cannot repair itself (this is realy where the power comes from also, not the tree)
It won't work for everything, but, you can uncheck the option "reparent" so that replies to posts below your threshold do not get displayed
Do most law agencies know about usenet and what it (usually) does? given the cases from the RIAA/MPAA I would have thought that usenet would have been targeted at least once.
if "manual" was implied we wouldn't have those things that try to make sure you arn't a bot
Right, I realy should have replied to the parent rather than you.
you are also being payed to work...
Banning probably makes them more money... besides most misbehavior bans are temporary and try to just enforce a good community environment, perm bans result in new subscriptions (think bot farms, or people who still want to play etc.)
Slide down a slippery slope? its called banning, and all online games do it for violating ToS, and now all of them (that I've seen) include using the service to transmit or do illegal things, for example arrange drug sales, over the service. The company does their own investigation, and bans based on this. I wouldn't be surprized if they just banned based on this arrest (enough evidence to get you arrested is probably more than enough to get you banned)
Actually, I happen to have one such player (with coax out). Unfortunatly, it uses the standard component male/female type plug, not a normal coax plug, so I just got an RF modulator for $7.
The point is, RF modulators are legal, while anything that modulates HDMI wont be
I think what he meant was that the average joe wouldn't attribute it to DRM, even though thats why he had the problem (unless, of course, someone could get a TV news station to cover something like "Warning: why your upgrade won't work" or something)
"The Linux stockings get a lump of Google Coal(tm)?" You forgot: (Beta)
no, he simply forgot to add "by making it manditory to buy the same piece of media at least once for every platform"
I can't say if they would have, but I know they have asked me to copy DVDs before for them so they wouldn't have restricted operations, and so they could bring around the discs without having to worry about them getting ruined or forgetting them. They understand that they wouldn't have to ask me to do this if the encryption didn't exist. I've tried to teach them how to do it, but thats beyond them for some reason.