Security? What? How is it hard? I mean if you're really that worried about it make the whole thing an unrouted private network. You can access it through a second NIC on your workstation if you must.
What the hell? What rock has this guy been living under that he thinks Dead Rising is a B Grade game? This game huge in both development costs and anticipation. It's been one of the A-List anticipated titles on the 360 for months.
Yeah, you're missing something all right. You're missing the truth.
" Gaim and kopete both have all the functionality of the major IM clients. "
That statement is just flat wrong. The gaim of today doesn't even have all of the features of the MSN client of 2 or 3 years ago, let alone the latest version. RTFA for an explanation.
" Which would you rather do? Write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, or six different ones, each with its own unique quality assurance and support problems?"
Now how does that make sense? Microsoft didn't meet anyone elses standards either. If anything even though the Unix guys didn't exactly pull it off, they still did a better job meeting standards than Microsoft. The truth is they were all doing their own thing, just MS managed to sell enough to get the userbase it needed to make developing for their platform a no-brainer. In short, it wasn't Windows standards compliance or lack thereof that made them win, Windows won in spite of it.
I work at a small ISP, about 10k users. We had a sunfire as a mail server for about 3 years then went to upgrade the disk space last year and a 75gb drive was $4000. Proprietary isn't worth it.
Many many helpdesk employees at ISP's tell users to delete cookies. I worked helpdesk for awhile about 4 years ago and back then although sometimes it did help it was mostly snake oil. Some help desk employees at a large ISP did little else besides tell people to delete cookies and reboot. Regardless of whether it works or not the users have learned to do it on their own. A lot of calls these days will start with "I deleted my cookies already but it still doesn't work.."
Do we really need to clog the unregulated spectrum with more noise? Every car in 30 miles broadcasting music is going to really take a bite of the available bandwidth don't you think?
Hrm, I see that a ton of captain obvious wannabes are pointing out that this isn't actually everything you need to know.. and then getting modded up +5. lol
I really didn't expect so many people to take the article so seriously when it was obviously tongue-in-cheek.
That's not what people mean when they say intelligent design. You bring up a good point though, we should probably change the name of the theory to something more suitable, like ignorant design.
"Penenberg and his staff of graduate students at New York University reviewed 160 articles"
"Penenberg provided Wired News with a list of 24 stories that contained sources he could not confirm"
"The unconfirmed sources affect the content of these stories to varying degrees. For example, the Florida network tax story contains only one quote from a source Penenberg could not confirm, but the quote does not materially affect the rest of the story."
"However, there are four articles in which unconfirmed sources arguably play a more prominent role."
Given that a certain percentage of people are going to lie about their name, I wouldn't be surprised to see these numbers as typical for jounalists everywhere. Could she have done a better job? Probably, but it's not like this story is making it out to be.
I am so sick and tired of the cynical crap leveled at the gaming industry so often. The gaming industry is more innovative and exciting than it has ever been. We've got platforms out the wazoo and people making great games for all of them. Everything from computers, to consoles to hand held gaming systems to cell phones. You've got games that are consistantly ported across all platforms, you've got free games, you've got web browser games, you've free massive online games, you've got commercial massive online games. What about shareware? Still going strong. There is a way to play games anywhere on everything, and lot of those games are damned good!
Are there bad games? Sure a ton of em! But how is that any different than any time in the past? There are tons of good new innovative games that come out as well. The good games are coming out at least as often as ever.
I'm home from work today, want to know what I'm going to do? I'm going to play Quake3 online, which at this point is so competitive it's nearly a sport, then I'll play World of Warcraft, the current cream of the crop of MMO's, I'll probably play Jade Empire the brilliant Xbox action-RPG from the always awesome Bioware, and you can bet I'll squeeze in some Nethack (the latest version is less than a year old folks).
I have been playing games since I could walk, I'm a hardcore gamer who has played an owned the majority of gaming platforms, and believe me gaming is better than it has ever been. It's a golden age people and if you ask me the only real problem gamers have these days is there isn't enough time to play everything that's worth playing.
In my opinion, if you can't find something to play these days you just aren't a gamer, you're a poser. You probably flip about $2 a year into Galaga or Pac-man now and then so you think you're qualified to comment. Well I've got news for you buddy, I flipped the scoreboard on Galaga the other day, and I'm glad it only took 1 quarter and 45 minutes because I had to get home and play Gods of War on my ps2 (that game is awesome).
My point is that bitching about the state of games today is little more than old timers (as opposed to old schoolers) bitching about kids from their front porch. There are as many good new exciting and innovative games coming out today as there ever was. You can think of things nobody is doing, but what does that prove when compared with the past? Nothing really. The past has an awful lot of shitty games as well.
" Games, as a genre, are getting more and more rubbish. Picking one individual game from each year, of course they improve over time, but there's much more rubbish to wade through, less innovation and more reliance on benchmarks, eye-candy and PR."
What we have here is a case of selective memory. Games have always had about the level of innovation you see today. Did you play anything during the 8 to 16bit era? Nearly every NES game is freaking identical. At the time it was awesome, and there are still some great classics that I will replay today, but the library as a whole does not withstand the test of time. You get a few gem every year, and most of it is rehash. It's been that way since DAY 1. Remember ET on the Atari? What a train wreck.
"Get off your impulse-reaction high-horse and read the post again."
This is a funny statement considering that you're parent post little more than lording it over the current crop of gamers who don't know good games?
Oh dear is right. Here we go again. A/. article about games so we have a bunch of former gamers chipping in to bitch and moan about how terrible games are these days. They swear they are "gamers" but all modern games suck which is why they only play [insert 8 bit game here]. I'm sure the amount of hours spent gaming in a week by the parent and his enthuisiastic "me too!" fellows below could be counted on one hand, combined.
Listen, this is just horseshit. Having 3d graphics does not automatically make a game bad. I've been playing games since I learned to walk. My first games were on the Atari 2600 at the height of it's popularity. Since then I've owned and more importantly, played nearly every platform ever released, and believe me games are still good. There have been some damned fine releases in the past few years, and if you can't find something fun to play since then, you just aren't a gamer. That's your fault, not the games.
Don't be an idiot. Relying on the masses to send you stories is one thing, but relying on them to do all the editorial legwork (fact checking for instance) is just naive. Even if every submitter is making a genuinely good effort to provide nothing but good stories (and believe me, that's not that case) you're still going to get a lot of crap. The fault here lies with the editor.
I've worked for 3 ISP's in the midwest, and all of them have had no tolerance policies that allowed them to cut the customer off at the first sign of spam, trojan or virus activity. I personally have cut off dozens of accounts this way, and why not? People are responsible for their own machines, asking them to keep them cleaned up isn't unreasonable in my opinion. In fact, asking us to keep supplying service to them while their rogue systems flood the net with crap is a lot more unreasonable than that imo. This isn't like their bill is a day late or something, this is an active malicious atttack on the network, of course we aren't going to let it go on regardless of whether the customer is home to pick up the phone when we detect it. That's how it should be.
There I said it. No I'm not trolling or flamebaiting, it's just the simple truth. Every time I've ever used gnome over the last near decade it's been that way. It's a shame really because I love C and I like gnome is about, but the bottom line is the results simply aren't there. Going a day with a Segv in a gnome environment is unusual in my experience.
You haven't asked me then. I have little preference for window managers other than that they don't crash. Gnome and gnome apps have given me crashes every single time I've used it. I keep trying gnome just because I like their philosophy and my first programming love is C, but the stuff just isn't stable.
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And you sound like someone who had a very predictable knee jerk reaction and decided it was worthy of a post.
Hey, me too I guess.
Security? What? How is it hard? I mean if you're really that worried about it make the whole thing an unrouted private network. You can access it through a second NIC on your workstation if you must.
What the hell? What rock has this guy been living under that he thinks Dead Rising is a B Grade game? This game huge in both development costs and anticipation. It's been one of the A-List anticipated titles on the 360 for months.
dear rmadmin
Why can't you figure out that the tube analogy maps perfectly to the pipe analogy we in the Internet business have been using for decades.
Sincerely,
Clued-in Internet Network Admin
Let's see.. hrm.. how about,
The Internet.
It says that in the FA. if you would just READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE you might know what the hell you were talking about.
Yeah, you're missing something all right. You're missing the truth.
" Gaim and kopete both have all the functionality of the major IM clients. "
That statement is just flat wrong. The gaim of today doesn't even have all of the features of the MSN client of 2 or 3 years ago, let alone the latest version.
RTFA for an explanation.
" Which would you rather do? Write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, or six different ones, each with its own unique quality assurance and support problems?"
Now how does that make sense? Microsoft didn't meet anyone elses standards either. If anything even though the Unix guys didn't exactly pull it off, they still did a better job meeting standards than Microsoft. The truth is they were all doing their own thing, just MS managed to sell enough to get the userbase it needed to make developing for their platform a no-brainer.
In short, it wasn't Windows standards compliance or lack thereof that made them win, Windows won in spite of it.
Wait.. you can't wait to buy it, so you're gonna wait. Wait.. what?
I work at a small ISP, about 10k users.
We had a sunfire as a mail server for about 3 years then went to upgrade the disk space last year and a 75gb drive was $4000. Proprietary isn't worth it.
Many many helpdesk employees at ISP's tell users to delete cookies. I worked helpdesk for awhile about 4 years ago and back then although sometimes it did help it was mostly snake oil. Some help desk employees at a large ISP did little else besides tell people to delete cookies and reboot. Regardless of whether it works or not the users have learned to do it on their own. A lot of calls these days will start with "I deleted my cookies already but it still doesn't work.."
Do we really need to clog the unregulated spectrum with more noise? Every car in 30 miles broadcasting music is going to really take a bite of the available bandwidth don't you think?
Wait, are you saying that if I wanted to bulid a nuclear bomb I'd have to do more research than merely RTFA?
I don't believe it!
Love the +5, that's hilarious.
Hrm, I see that a ton of captain obvious wannabes are pointing out that this isn't actually everything you need to know.. and then getting modded up +5. lol
I really didn't expect so many people to take the article so seriously when it was obviously tongue-in-cheek.
That's not what people mean when they say intelligent design.
You bring up a good point though, we should probably change the name of the theory to something more suitable, like ignorant design.
If you RTFA you see that:
"Penenberg and his staff of graduate students at New York University reviewed 160 articles"
"Penenberg provided Wired News with a list of 24 stories that contained sources he could not confirm"
"The unconfirmed sources affect the content of these stories to varying degrees. For example, the Florida network tax story contains only one quote from a source Penenberg could not confirm, but the quote does not materially affect the rest of the story."
"However, there are four articles in which unconfirmed sources arguably play a more prominent role."
Given that a certain percentage of people are going to lie about their name, I wouldn't be surprised to see these numbers as typical for jounalists everywhere. Could she have done a better job? Probably, but it's not like this story is making it out to be.
I am so sick and tired of the cynical crap leveled at the gaming industry so often.
The gaming industry is more innovative and exciting than it has ever been. We've got platforms out the wazoo and people making great games for all of them. Everything from computers, to consoles to hand held gaming systems to cell phones. You've got games that are consistantly ported across all platforms, you've got free games, you've got web browser games, you've free massive online games, you've got commercial massive online games. What about shareware? Still going strong.
There is a way to play games anywhere on everything, and lot of those games are damned good!
Are there bad games? Sure a ton of em! But how is that any different than any time in the past? There are tons of good new innovative games that come out as well. The good games are coming out at least as often as ever.
I'm home from work today, want to know what I'm going to do? I'm going to play Quake3 online, which at this point is so competitive it's nearly a sport, then I'll play World of Warcraft, the current cream of the crop of MMO's, I'll probably play Jade Empire the brilliant Xbox action-RPG from the always awesome Bioware, and you can bet I'll squeeze in some Nethack (the latest version is less than a year old folks).
I have been playing games since I could walk, I'm a hardcore gamer who has played an owned the majority of gaming platforms, and believe me gaming is better than it has ever been. It's a golden age people and if you ask me the only real problem gamers have these days is there isn't enough time to play everything that's worth playing.
In my opinion, if you can't find something to play these days you just aren't a gamer, you're a poser. You probably flip about $2 a year into Galaga or Pac-man now and then so you think you're qualified to comment. Well I've got news for you buddy, I flipped the scoreboard on Galaga the other day, and I'm glad it only took 1 quarter and 45 minutes because I had to get home and play Gods of War on my ps2 (that game is awesome).
This is how we do it, player.
My point is that bitching about the state of games today is little more than old timers (as opposed to old schoolers) bitching about kids from their front porch. There are as many good new exciting and innovative games coming out today as there ever was. You can think of things nobody is doing, but what does that prove when compared with the past? Nothing really. The past has an awful lot of shitty games as well.
" Games, as a genre, are getting more and more rubbish. Picking one individual game from each year, of course they improve over time, but there's much more rubbish to wade through, less innovation and more reliance on benchmarks, eye-candy and PR."
What we have here is a case of selective memory. Games have always had about the level of innovation you see today. Did you play anything during the 8 to 16bit era? Nearly every NES game is freaking identical. At the time it was awesome, and there are still some great classics that I will replay today, but the library as a whole does not withstand the test of time. You get a few gem every year, and most of it is rehash. It's been that way since DAY 1. Remember ET on the Atari? What a train wreck.
"Get off your impulse-reaction high-horse and read the post again."
This is a funny statement considering that you're parent post little more than lording it over the current crop of gamers who don't know good games?
Oh dear is right. Here we go again. A /. article about games so we have a bunch of former gamers chipping in to bitch and moan about how terrible games are these days. They swear they are "gamers" but all modern games suck which is why they only play [insert 8 bit game here]. I'm sure the amount of hours spent gaming in a week by the parent and his enthuisiastic "me too!" fellows below could be counted on one hand, combined.
Listen, this is just horseshit. Having 3d graphics does not automatically make a game bad. I've been playing games since I learned to walk. My first games were on the Atari 2600 at the height of it's popularity. Since then I've owned and more importantly, played nearly every platform ever released, and believe me games are still good. There have been some damned fine releases in the past few years, and if you can't find something fun to play since then, you just aren't a gamer. That's your fault, not the games.
Don't be an idiot. Relying on the masses to send you stories is one thing, but relying on them to do all the editorial legwork (fact checking for instance) is just naive. Even if every submitter is making a genuinely good effort to provide nothing but good stories (and believe me, that's not that case) you're still going to get a lot of crap. The fault here lies with the editor.
I've worked for 3 ISP's in the midwest, and all of them have had no tolerance policies that allowed them to cut the customer off at the first sign of spam, trojan or virus activity. I personally have cut off dozens of accounts this way, and why not? People are responsible for their own machines, asking them to keep them cleaned up isn't unreasonable in my opinion. In fact, asking us to keep supplying service to them while their rogue systems flood the net with crap is a lot more unreasonable than that imo. This isn't like their bill is a day late or something, this is an active malicious atttack on the network, of course we aren't going to let it go on regardless of whether the customer is home to pick up the phone when we detect it. That's how it should be.
There I said it. No I'm not trolling or flamebaiting, it's just the simple truth. Every time I've ever used gnome over the last near decade it's been that way.
It's a shame really because I love C and I like gnome is about, but the bottom line is the results simply aren't there. Going a day with a Segv in a gnome environment is unusual in my experience.
holy self-indulgent tripe batman.
I agree with the literal thing you are saying, however.
You haven't asked me then. I have little preference for window managers other than that they don't crash. Gnome and gnome apps have given me crashes every single time I've used it. I keep trying gnome just because I like their philosophy and my first programming love is C, but the stuff just isn't stable.