well let's see one second is approximately 4.848136811 * 10^-6, i think I'd rather write +- 1' myself Well, one milliradian is approximately 2.06364806 * 10^2 arcseconds, I think I'd rather write +- 1 millirad myself.
I'm afraid I don't understand your logic here.
I absolutely agree. I saw this topic and the games I immediately thought of were Tron and Bolo, both of which are available for (at least) Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.
You can't go wrong with high-speed, first-person Tron.
Problem 2: Even if these people left them open for convenience, sharing, etc - their terms of service with their ISP almost always have a clause saying that service is to be used only be residents of the billing address. By using their connection, whether they want you to or not, you are aiding them in breaking their TOS.
I find this to be rather unreasonable. I'm not saying that someone isn't breaking their ISP's TOS by letting non-residents use their connection, but rather that it might be a little difficult to defend. To follow the trend of ridiculous analogies:
If my neighbor yells across his lawn to me "How many pounds are in a kilogram?", and I head to google type in "pounds in a kilogram", and yell the answer back, is that breaking my TOS? Let's hope not.
So when does it become a violation? What if we yell properly formatted TCP packets? What if we use carrier pigeons? What if we send morse code through flashes of visible light? 2.4GHz light? Properly formatted TCP packets in the 2.4GHz range? Maybe I'll get tired of manually flashing morse code at my neighbor and decide to automate the process using a router.
No matter how you spin it, it can still be interpretted as simply differing implemenations of the OSI Model/TCP/IP stack.
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I absolutely agree. I saw this topic and the games I immediately thought of were Tron and Bolo, both of which are available for (at least) Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. You can't go wrong with high-speed, first-person Tron.
If my neighbor yells across his lawn to me "How many pounds are in a kilogram?", and I head to google type in "pounds in a kilogram", and yell the answer back, is that breaking my TOS? Let's hope not.
So when does it become a violation? What if we yell properly formatted TCP packets? What if we use carrier pigeons? What if we send morse code through flashes of visible light? 2.4GHz light? Properly formatted TCP packets in the 2.4GHz range? Maybe I'll get tired of manually flashing morse code at my neighbor and decide to automate the process using a router.
No matter how you spin it, it can still be interpretted as simply differing implemenations of the OSI Model/TCP/IP stack.