Sounds to me like someone needed to be slapped in the face with volume "L" of any encyclopedia. Or, you know, just shown the "lynx" entry.
Some people just don't get/accept things like that when explained verbally. Show it to them in writing, like an encyclopedia, and it's more likely to sink in.
But I do worry about the fact that it makes die rolls in large batches, and stores them for hours before using them. A fine opportunity for cheating if you can get access to any of the dice-roller's controller software.
An interesting point, but if the site goes through THOUSANDS of rolls a day, then there really isn't any way to be able to exploit that. You could take a look at the order and such, but with 80,000+ rolls being used a day, there's no way of knowing which ones you'll get in advance.
If I recall correctly, McDonald's has a deal with Nintendo so that people can play their DS's online at their stores. Since a DS can't get past the whole "captive portal" thing, that would kinda be a deal breaker...
Let me put it to you this way: Mono is an implementation of the.Net framework for *nix systems. Do people call Mono an emulator? No, because it's just an implementation of the API.
Likewise, Wine is just an implementation of Windows API; it doesn't "emulate" any kind of hardware.
Again, even with the average idiot's tendency to click through just about anything, this warning STILL is far more likely to help than seeing the file extension, because the average idiot has NO idea what a file extension is in the first place.
Except that the users most likely to fall for this in the first place are the ones who don't know crap about file extensions in the first place.
Of course, this is nothing but FUD in the first place. Even XP gives you a security warning before opening an executable that was downloaded from the Internet or from e-mail. A warning that is FAR more likely to be actually understood than some three letter file extension.
If you want to be even more evil, tweak it so you're feeding obese people from overpopulated countries to starving people to get rid of three major problems with one stone!
Except that eating people with obscenely high fat content can NOT be healthy...
I think it's far preferable that a bunch of idiots on eBay buy fake "artifacts" than for real artifacts to be looted.
What's more is that I highly doubt that any court in the WORLD would think that these fools could have any reasonable expectation that these were in fact the genuine article. No reasonable expectation, no case.
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The question is, does such a device somewhat negate the values a Buddhist would stand for?"
Yes.
Or maybe Traveller.
I'm sorry, but most of us would rather play a game where Death must wait until AFTER character generation.
Sounds to me like someone needed to be slapped in the face with volume "L" of any encyclopedia. Or, you know, just shown the "lynx" entry.
Some people just don't get/accept things like that when explained verbally. Show it to them in writing, like an encyclopedia, and it's more likely to sink in.
But I do worry about the fact that it makes die rolls in large batches, and stores them for hours before using them. A fine opportunity for cheating if you can get access to any of the dice-roller's controller software.
An interesting point, but if the site goes through THOUSANDS of rolls a day, then there really isn't any way to be able to exploit that. You could take a look at the order and such, but with 80,000+ rolls being used a day, there's no way of knowing which ones you'll get in advance.
"Dices"? Really? "Dice" is the plural, "die" is the singular.
Cutting up the bodies with a chainsaw is NOT foreplay.
The goggles, they do nothing!
Troll? And here I was think that should have been modded redundant...
If I recall correctly, McDonald's has a deal with Nintendo so that people can play their DS's online at their stores. Since a DS can't get past the whole "captive portal" thing, that would kinda be a deal breaker...
I doubt that idiot had ever HEARD of the master boot record, let alone know what it is.
Let me put it to you this way: Mono is an implementation of the .Net framework for *nix systems. Do people call Mono an emulator? No, because it's just an implementation of the API.
Likewise, Wine is just an implementation of Windows API; it doesn't "emulate" any kind of hardware.
Trying?
Wine Is Not an Emulator.
Microsoft began work on Windows Vista, known at the time by its codename Longhorn in May 2001, five months before the release of Windows XP.
Vista IS Longhorn. There was never any other "Longhorn" at Microsoft.
Let me guess...
Apple from Xerox, right?
Deleted from Longhorn, promised again for vista, and then gone.
You DO know that Longhorn was the internal codename for Vista, right?
(warnings before executing downloaded files for the first time)
Hmm... that seems oddly familiar...
Again, even with the average idiot's tendency to click through just about anything, this warning STILL is far more likely to help than seeing the file extension, because the average idiot has NO idea what a file extension is in the first place.
Except that the users most likely to fall for this in the first place are the ones who don't know crap about file extensions in the first place.
Of course, this is nothing but FUD in the first place. Even XP gives you a security warning before opening an executable that was downloaded from the Internet or from e-mail. A warning that is FAR more likely to be actually understood than some three letter file extension.
You know, I've heard the guy called a lot of things, but "smart" just wasn't one of them...
He charged $50 an hour. For 40 hours of "work".
Yeah, uh, Symantec beat them to that purchase by like, nineteen years...
First thing to cross my mind when I read the headline was "holy crap, Borland's still around?"
If you want to be even more evil, tweak it so you're feeding obese people from overpopulated countries to starving people to get rid of three major problems with one stone!
Except that eating people with obscenely high fat content can NOT be healthy...
I think it's far preferable that a bunch of idiots on eBay buy fake "artifacts" than for real artifacts to be looted.
What's more is that I highly doubt that any court in the WORLD would think that these fools could have any reasonable expectation that these were in fact the genuine article. No reasonable expectation, no case.