Yes, and that's part of the problem. Note that I said that we weren't able to *feed* every mouth, which doesn't necessarily say that we have a lack of food, but like you say, a means of getting it to them. The bureaucracy of the matter, that is.
So, what happens then when we have more people in the world that we need to get food to? The lack of a system to get adequate food to people would be further complicated when more people *need* that system.
Hell, how can we justify this when we're still not able to feed every mouth in the world as it is, or have enough jobs for every set of hands? The last thing our planet needs right now is an ever-producing, never-dying species.
Ad-supported operating systems? Give me a break.
I want my OS to manage my hardware resources and programs, and I want it to be fast, secure, and reliable. I personally cannot stand advertisements, and even if I wanted to see advertisements, I'd go to the many other mediums that advertisement has creeped into, such as television, radio, internet, etc.
I personally can see no use in typing away happily at my computer, programming or writing in an attempt to be productive, and being distracted by banner ads on my desktop or my programs.
For those who love the music from the Sierra On-Line games, Quest Studios has songs in midi, mp3 and ogg format, as well as whole soundtrack files in midi format.
When I first started playing online games (Descent 2, Quake 2 timeframe), I found that the reaction I would get for being a female gamer would be based on what group I was talking to.
- Clan/Guild members would automatically believe me, and I rarely got any odd treatment for being a female. - Denizens in channels I'd frequent would be more reluctant to believe that I'm a female, and very often ask for pictures. When I would refuse these requests, I'd get the aforementioned flood of "U R a D00D lolololz" - While actually playing the game on servers, I'd almost never mention that I'm a female. I learned to do this because whenever I would mention my gender, I'd get the pix requests tenfold, and the excessive chatter (sometimes inquisitive, but most often crude) would deter me from the action and ruin the experience.
This list, of course, has some exceptions. While part of a online gaming clan, I was once a ranking officer of a section of the guild responsible for playing a particular game. During a clan match, one of the members found that one of our other members was cheating, and brought the questionable screenshot to my attention. While I was in the process of bringing this to the clan leader, I was subject to a rather vicious attack, one that focused mainly around the fact that I'm female, and of course must be a "camwhore" or "extremely fat and stupid", of which I am neither. He still got ejected from the clan, but not without dealing the damage and attacking me in front of 100+ clan members.
What has all of this taught me? There are times when I can be proud of being a female gamer, and other times when sticking my neck out like that will end up with my head rolling. I learned that it's far easier to just let my gender be a mystery while playing online, instead of letting my gaming experience being ruined by asshats.
With the increasing popularity of MMORPGS, however, many female gamers are now playing games online. These female gamers are now encountering the same treatment that I've been used to for years, and are quite taken back by it. Hopefully this flood of female gamers will bring the fact to life that female gamers do exist, that we do play, and that we just want to play.
We shouldn't need to provide a picture to prove who we are.:)
I didn't like Star Trek because it was overly contrived, condescending morality, and very little cast chemistry. It only got worse with each spinoff
It didn't get worse with DS9. A Federation presence on a Bajoran-ruled Cardassian station, coupled with tons of character interaction and numerous counts of law-breaking made the series stand out from the regular daily doldrums of the other Star Trek offerings.
I have a markerboard at my work desk, and it really helps out. I can keep my tasks updated and visible, map out/visualize more complicated pieces of code, and draw diagrams of systems. No desk is complete without one!:)
If you're interested in the PvP/RP server..
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don't bother right now with it. The queues are already 600+ with people waiting for hours just to login and make a character. Blizzard limited the maximum size of the server's capacity so that starting areas won't be jam-packed. Wait a couples days or a week until making a character.
Even though Sierra made some wonderful adventure games, The Secret of Monkey Island wasn't one of them. This wonderful game was instead made by the folks at LucasArts.
My two roommates and I are all Firefly fanatics, and this is how the "Buffy Fandom" breaks down between us:
- One likes Buffy, but has only watched a couple seasons
- One has watched Buffy (forced to by his fiancee) and doesn't care for it
- One vehemently hates Buffy and refuses to have anything to do with the show
However, I think that this degree should ONLY be allowed if the student majors in something other than CS as well, ie business, chemistry, even a foriegn language. They could then take their CS knowledge and apply it in new and interesting ways in their chosen field.
To an extent, they do this at the college that I graduated from. When I chose CS as a major, I was required to pick an area of special interest (ASI) that correlated to another department at the school. In this ASI, we're required to take at least 4 specific junior and senior-level classes (and their prerequisites) in order to discover and explore another discipline in which to use our expertise.
This reminds me of a quote from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri:
"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"
for Sony to make a slot for the old Memory cards (doesn't need to be in the front, it could be hidden), and make a small function that reads the old saves and writes them on the new disk?
They have the code.. they have the tech.. now all they need to do is implement this into the PS3 and save themselves a marketing nightmare.
Actually, this guy effectively did a courtesy knock. He followed all the protocols for establishing a legitimate connection to an access point. His computer did a courtesy knock asking his AP if he could have access. The AP said yes. Now if he sat there and cracked a WEP key or spoofed a legitimate MAC address to gain access, then sure I'd agree and say what he did was closer to sneaking into the house and plugging in without a courtesy knock.
I meant "Courtesy Knock" as in "letting the person who is paying for the service *know* that you're using the service". The "Courtesy Knock" that you're talking about is network protocols, which can happen from either talking to an AP or plugging directly into a switch. There *is* a difference.
Regarding if I have access to someone's wireless network, I like to do a mental test: Would this person let me hook my computer up to their router/switch/hub if I knocked on their door, laptop and network cord in hand?
If the answer's a no, then I don't connect to their wireless either, because that's effectively what I'm doing (minus the courtesy knock).
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"University of Colorado: Trying to justify drunkeness since 1876"
It looks like their server is a Segway as well. :(
Sure! I've always wanted to win at a felony!
chill out man... stay loose....
This whole thing only took about two hours to set up, and it's certainly worth it in terms of peace of mind.
Until you lose that piece of mind that has the password, right?
The Phoenix Down should absolutely have habanero in it.
Yes, and that's part of the problem. Note that I said that we weren't able to *feed* every mouth, which doesn't necessarily say that we have a lack of food, but like you say, a means of getting it to them. The bureaucracy of the matter, that is.
So, what happens then when we have more people in the world that we need to get food to? The lack of a system to get adequate food to people would be further complicated when more people *need* that system.
Hell, how can we justify this when we're still not able to feed every mouth in the world as it is, or have enough jobs for every set of hands? The last thing our planet needs right now is an ever-producing, never-dying species.
Ad-supported operating systems? Give me a break. I want my OS to manage my hardware resources and programs, and I want it to be fast, secure, and reliable. I personally cannot stand advertisements, and even if I wanted to see advertisements, I'd go to the many other mediums that advertisement has creeped into, such as television, radio, internet, etc. I personally can see no use in typing away happily at my computer, programming or writing in an attempt to be productive, and being distracted by banner ads on my desktop or my programs.
I just hope Microsoft becomes rare. \:D/
For those who love the music from the Sierra On-Line games, Quest Studios has songs in midi, mp3 and ogg format, as well as whole soundtrack files in midi format.
When I first started playing online games (Descent 2, Quake 2 timeframe), I found that the reaction I would get for being a female gamer would be based on what group I was talking to.
:)
- Clan/Guild members would automatically believe me, and I rarely got any odd treatment for being a female.
- Denizens in channels I'd frequent would be more reluctant to believe that I'm a female, and very often ask for pictures. When I would refuse these requests, I'd get the aforementioned flood of "U R a D00D lolololz"
- While actually playing the game on servers, I'd almost never mention that I'm a female. I learned to do this because whenever I would mention my gender, I'd get the pix requests tenfold, and the excessive chatter (sometimes inquisitive, but most often crude) would deter me from the action and ruin the experience.
This list, of course, has some exceptions. While part of a online gaming clan, I was once a ranking officer of a section of the guild responsible for playing a particular game. During a clan match, one of the members found that one of our other members was cheating, and brought the questionable screenshot to my attention. While I was in the process of bringing this to the clan leader, I was subject to a rather vicious attack, one that focused mainly around the fact that I'm female, and of course must be a "camwhore" or "extremely fat and stupid", of which I am neither. He still got ejected from the clan, but not without dealing the damage and attacking me in front of 100+ clan members.
What has all of this taught me? There are times when I can be proud of being a female gamer, and other times when sticking my neck out like that will end up with my head rolling. I learned that it's far easier to just let my gender be a mystery while playing online, instead of letting my gaming experience being ruined by asshats.
With the increasing popularity of MMORPGS, however, many female gamers are now playing games online. These female gamers are now encountering the same treatment that I've been used to for years, and are quite taken back by it. Hopefully this flood of female gamers will bring the fact to life that female gamers do exist, that we do play, and that we just want to play.
We shouldn't need to provide a picture to prove who we are.
This has really got to suck if one has test anxiety.
I didn't like Star Trek because it was overly contrived, condescending morality, and very little cast chemistry. It only got worse with each spinoff
It didn't get worse with DS9. A Federation presence on a Bajoran-ruled Cardassian station, coupled with tons of character interaction and numerous counts of law-breaking made the series stand out from the regular daily doldrums of the other Star Trek offerings.
Nerf Blizzard PR!
I have a markerboard at my work desk, and it really helps out. I can keep my tasks updated and visible, map out/visualize more complicated pieces of code, and draw diagrams of systems. No desk is complete without one! :)
don't bother right now with it. The queues are already 600+ with people waiting for hours just to login and make a character. Blizzard limited the maximum size of the server's capacity so that starting areas won't be jam-packed. Wait a couples days or a week until making a character.
Even though Sierra made some wonderful adventure games, The Secret of Monkey Island wasn't one of them. This wonderful game was instead made by the folks at LucasArts.
My two roommates and I are all Firefly fanatics, and this is how the "Buffy Fandom" breaks down between us:
- One likes Buffy, but has only watched a couple seasons
- One has watched Buffy (forced to by his fiancee) and doesn't care for it
- One vehemently hates Buffy and refuses to have anything to do with the show
I forgot to mention that the school that does this is the Colorado School of Mines, and it's formally called a Technical Area of Special Interest.
However, I think that this degree should ONLY be allowed if the student majors in something other than CS as well, ie business, chemistry, even a foriegn language. They could then take their CS knowledge and apply it in new and interesting ways in their chosen field.
To an extent, they do this at the college that I graduated from. When I chose CS as a major, I was required to pick an area of special interest (ASI) that correlated to another department at the school. In this ASI, we're required to take at least 4 specific junior and senior-level classes (and their prerequisites) in order to discover and explore another discipline in which to use our expertise.
This reminds me of a quote from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri:
"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"
for Sony to make a slot for the old Memory cards (doesn't need to be in the front, it could be hidden), and make a small function that reads the old saves and writes them on the new disk?
They have the code.. they have the tech.. now all they need to do is implement this into the PS3 and save themselves a marketing nightmare.
Actually, this guy effectively did a courtesy knock. He followed all the protocols for establishing a legitimate connection to an access point. His computer did a courtesy knock asking his AP if he could have access. The AP said yes. Now if he sat there and cracked a WEP key or spoofed a legitimate MAC address to gain access, then sure I'd agree and say what he did was closer to sneaking into the house and plugging in without a courtesy knock.
I meant "Courtesy Knock" as in "letting the person who is paying for the service *know* that you're using the service". The "Courtesy Knock" that you're talking about is network protocols, which can happen from either talking to an AP or plugging directly into a switch. There *is* a difference.
Regarding if I have access to someone's wireless network, I like to do a mental test: Would this person let me hook my computer up to their router/switch/hub if I knocked on their door, laptop and network cord in hand?
If the answer's a no, then I don't connect to their wireless either, because that's effectively what I'm doing (minus the courtesy knock).