You seem to forget that targeting multiple platforms is much harder than targeting only one. Of course, that isn't to say you couldn't create a virus or worm that works on a particular software that all of them are running, like, say, Apache, PHP, Perl, or whatever.
If there were a bug in Apache that let an external source write a file to disk then a worm could be made to write a php or perl file to the disk and run it.
Of course, due to the open sourcedness of Apache said bug would be patched within a day, if not a few minutes of it's discovery, assuming it even made it out of beta, which is still assuming it made it into the repository...
A video of it? No, but if they can take the memory out of your brain they might be able to put it back in someone else's.
Have you ever noticed that a taste or smell can bring back a memory and that exact state of mind you had during it?
If you had a particularly memorable thing happen while eating a mango and were angry at the time, and if you didn't have another mango for ten years, when you finally did you'd remember exactly, you'd feel angry, you'd smell the smells, you could even possibly hear the sounds. You'd know it was a memory, it's all sort of dulled down, you know you're not really angry, but you still feel it a little.
I can think of many uses for this, from psychology to law to education.
Of course, it's rather subtle... being that an "Inertial Guidance System" is a fancy way of saying gyroscope...
And, granted men generally don't get subtle very well (I should know, I am one), and the majority of nerds are men (well, male, at least), and since the majority of slashdot readers are nerds (all of them, possibly?) we can deduce that the majority of slashdot readers won't get the subtlety. And then take into account the fact that, in order to get mod points you really need to hang around slashdot more than usual, they're much more nerdy, and much more likely to be male, thus much less likely to pick up on subtle jokes, and really need it forced down their throats.
If someone wants to blow up a plane, they're going to. The only way of insuring that someone can't blow up, or take control of, a plane is to strip everyone down completely, give them hospital gowns to wear, not allow any carry on baggage, hold everyone in quarrantine for at least 24 hours to make sure they're not carrying anything inside their bodies followed by complete x-rays.
I'm not saying that they should do nothing, there should be truly random searches (computed by a random number generator seeded with something relatively random, like the difference between the scheduled departure time and actual departure time), x-rays of people, as well as baggage. If chemical testing can be done quickly (a few seconds, at most) that might be useful.
Get rid of all these stupid, idiotic rules like no pointy objects while pens, CDs and even glass is allowed, or no liquids or gels while powders and other things that could be mixed with water to create a bomb are allowed.
How easy would it be to create a gas bomb (ie. one that releases poisonous gas) by having a bottle of what looks like talcum powder, but is, in fact, two or more chemicals that, when mixed, release poisonous gas. In powder form they wouldn't interact, but add water and FOOM, instant fumes.
I'd be surprised if there weren't some way to create an actual explosive that would only require water to activate. (Maybe one set of chemicals to be the explosive, and another to be the heat generators).
In any case, the stupid rules are there to make it look like they're doing something, when, in fact, there's nothing they can do.
The way to stop terrorism is to not piss so many people off... Before Bush's time the US, while still big, powerful, and hated, was not universally hated, like it is now.
The whole reason 9/11 happened was because we were meddling in the Middle East. So, in response, what do we do? Yeah, that makes loads of sense... That'd be like trying to stop a headache by hitting your head with a brick...
part of their job is to make sure your ranting ends with them and doesn't bother the people-in-charge.
Actually, no, you're wrong. My job is to make sure people get their product, pay for it, and are happy doing so. It is NOT my job to take their bullshit, I don't get paid enough. The managers at my store have even said as much, that's their job! They have other jobs as well, but they take turns being "floor manager" which means, among other things, they're who we call as soon as anyone starts making a fuss.
I had one guy say something along the lines of "I know you have nothing to do with it but..." and then proceded to complain to me about how, five years ago the CD section of the store was twice as big. This was after I calmly explained that I was currently helping another customer and then ignored his rantings 'til I was done.
Yeah, I'm sorry dude, we don't carry every CD that has ever existed. We carry the new and popular stuff. If you want something else go check Amazon (which is what I've been telling lots of people).
If you really want to make sure that changes happen I'll suggest that you go buy enough stock as to have a controlling intrest, get on the board and make the changes. Keep in mind, though, that your changes probably affects someone else, who might be pissed at the changes ("There's not enough DVDs, who the fuck cares about CDs anyway?").
I would LOVE it if Adobe would release Flash, but complaining to the receptionist isn't going to do anything except make her life shit and probably go onto some website somewhere and complain about, and laugh at, you.
Nobody who has complained or cussed me out has gotten what they want. I just get pissed off, depressed, and go to message boards and complain about how much my life sucks.
There is some things that I would LOVE to happen at my store, being able to get J-Pop would be nice, but even the store manager (The highest person at the location) doesn't have much to say about that, she can ask her boss (the district manager) who can ask the people who deal with the distributors to ask them if they could carry it. By then I could have earned enough money to travel to Japan, buy the CDs I want and fly back.
It's partly the previous commenter's idea (10%? that's nothing), it's also that they weigh their potential gains against the cost of producing it.
I think 10% is quite a high number, maybe it's only 90% of home computer users are windows users, but that leaves 10% to devide up between Mac, Linux, and the much smaller ones of *BSD, OS/2, BeOS, Solaris, etc. You also have to keep in mind what the target audience is, and how many of those are going to be using the "Other" category.
In this case how much are they making on the Flash players? Nothing. They're making the money on the development programs. Who buys the development programs? Web designers. Who employs web designers? Usually large corporations to produce horrible websites based entirely on flash. Now, with this large gap between who produces it (Adobe) and who loses the 10% of customers (the websites) it's easy to see why things don't happen very fast.
If they were to suddenly drop the Linux version would the websites feel an immediate hit? No. In fact, they probably wouldn't even notice that there was any kind of change, and if they did they probably wouldn't see the connection (if they even knew that there wasn't a Linux version anymore). If they dropped the Mac version there might be a little more of a hit, but chances are the same thing would happen.
The only way that we're ever going to get Adobe to listen is to have everyone email the companies that use flash on their websites and get THEM to complain to Adobe. Of course, it'd probably just be easier, in most cases, for them to provide a non-flash version... In which case, we're still up shit creek (though we have an extra site that we can use).
What I think really needs to happen is for people to stop using flash for stupid things like entire news sites (yeah, I saw a news site that was done entirely in flash...).
Stopping? No, you're right. However it's not the same as PDF, PDF was (is) an open standard, they told people how to make viewers on various platforms with various tools, it's the main reason it caught on so quickly and so strongly.
As a friend of mine explained, the computer world is much differrent now, there isn't umpteen different OSs that companies have to deal with, in fact, they could (and do) get away with only supporting one. The percentage of Windows users is so high as to make everything else not even appear on many charts. The second and third places are covered by OS X and Linux, but those are so small compared to Windows that many companies don't even take a second glance.
I think this is very bad as it only makes people gravitate towards Windows more, thus making a vicious cycle. I think it would be wonderful if more companies started seeing the advantages of open standards and open source. Apple doesn't make the money on iTunes, it makes it from the store and iPods, so why not make the pprogram open source?
I got really pissed at Adobe recently for their idiotic canned support emails ("You seem to be having trouble with , you can find help with that at our FAQ, if you need more help please reply to this email" Dude, if your FAQ had the answers I was looking for I wouldn't have emailed you...). It sucks that a) there hasn't been a new flash player for linux for quite a while and b) there has never been one for AMD64. Having had several back-and-forth emails with Adobe support I got the sinking impression that the Linux versions had been dropped and were never going to be updated. I'm glad this is not true, and I applaud Adobe for doing the (mostly) right thing in releasing a Linux version of their player. Of course, if they opened the standard we'd get better flash players quicker and they wouldn't have to pay as many people to do it, win-win, if you ask me.
I don't understand why more companies aren't seeing the advantages of open source, but at least some of them aren't ignoring us completely.
There is a open source flash player, though it doesn't work too well.
Systems like Windows do seem to be out to get me. They're always assuming that they know more about what I want to do than I do. This rarely happens on my Linux machine.
On a windows machine if I want to use a different printer driver than the one currently installed sometimes it'll let me, others, it won't. Many times there isn't even an error message, it just pops back to a previous window with nothing changed. When there is an error message it's as if there wasn't one ("An error occured, please contact your system administrator", gee, lots of help, thanks). Yes, I realize that most people won't need to do things like this, but that doesn't excuse it. Hiding complexity away is one thing, shoving it in a triple locked safe is another.
With my Debian machine I never have to delve into config files and such, but, when I want to do some tweeking and tuning, they're there.
I want a system that makes the simple stuff easy and the complex things not impossible. OS X does that quite nicely, though it has its own oddities.
Yet still under no circumstance have any scientists in the best labs been able to create any kind of life without using the already existing structure of life itself (DNA).
No, nobody's been able to create DNA through random chance, however a reproducable experiment shows that nucleotides (the building blocks of DNA) will form at random given the right conditions. And we know that nucleotides will link up with each other at random. Given time and/or concurrent repetitions anything will happen. Therefore, since nucleotides will form at random, and since those nucleotides will link together at random, there is a chance of them randomly forming a useful DNA strand. Of course DNA is not enough, you need something to protect the DNA, you need different chemicals and things to manipulate it and make something useful out of it. Again, that can happen at random.
There are plenty of ways of explaining the fact that, despite it being a rather slim chance of all these things occurring, they did, without resorting to a diety, of course, you still have to accept them on faith as there's probably no way of testing it. One is the multiverse theory where there is an infinate number of universes, any time something has at least two different outcomes, all outcomes happen, just with a split of the universe. Thus it was inevitable. This is the one I subscribe to.
I'm not saying that I deny the existance of God or some other diety, the other theories are just more plausable to me.
I see the universe as a set of probabilities, the probability that I exist is the most probable at just under 100% and the probability that the purple, six-legged, long-necked, five-eyed tree moose that's sitting in the chair next to me exists is pretty close to 0%... It could be that I don't exist but he does, just not very probable. Thus, I think it's a possibility that Judaism, its derivatives, Hinduism, etc. are right, just not probable. In my opinion.
(Of course, given the multiverse theory, they are all right, somewhere...)
I'm not religeous, at all, so perhaps I just don't get it. Why can't evolution be the process in which whatever diety you believe in produced us? For that matter, why couldn't the big bang be It's process?
Do you really think the "six days" were actually six twenty four hour periods? Couldn't it be six days as measured in some other way? Days on other planets are not 24 hours, so why would a day in Heaven (or wherever) be 24 hours? Couldn't six days actually be several billion years? Perhaps it was meant to be six awake-rest cycles but was interpreted wrong by the people who transcribed the different books of the bible.
Another point to look at is are we pets or an experiment? When you set up a cage for a pet you put everything together and you keep it that way, you keep feeding it, and you keep the cage clean. In an experiment you set the initial state and then, for the most part, you leave it to whatever it'll do. To me, the latter seems to be the case...
Star Trek may have popularised technobabble but Dr. Who did it before! The worst of it was usually reversing the tacheon pulse. At least that was what Pertwee always did, not sure what they did before him...
Just because they can't tell where the search originated from doesn't mean that people who want to find out who did it can't.
Some people still think it's wise to search for social security and credit card numbers and such. You know the whole email privacy saying: think of email as a postcard, don't write anything on it that you need to keep secret. Think of using a search engine as walking into times square and shouting out what you're looking for, chances are nobody will care what it is, but, just in case, don't go shouting out "Where can I find pictures of naked 15 year olds?!"
Bootcamp is pointless and stupid, I've done the whole dual boot thing (in fact, am doing so now), and you always end up using one OS 99% of the time, and figuring ways around the programs you're unable to run on your OS of choice.
You're much better off using one of the virtual machine programs, or, better yet, something like wine. Wine is good in that you don't have to buy Windows to run windows things, and the programs run as programs and not within the virtual machine window. Generally interactions between programs and the window manager are pretty seamless (copying, pasting, saving, etc.). I think that Apple should have come out with its own, integrated wine-like product. Imagine windows software running just like any of your Mac software, possibly even looking similar. Showing up in the dock like any other, double click any.exe as if it were a Mac program, etc. They've done similar things with the likes of classic.
At the time of the first video (I havn't seen any other ones) the game was barely usable, I'd imagine that all the code to progress to the next level of gameplay (2D to 3D water to land to tribe, to city, to etc.) were not in place and instead just used a keystroke. Also, it was fairly obvious that the genesis effect and super planet destroying weapon would not be something that you start with, you have to earn them. He just showed them to demonstrate the game.
Of course, "working" is a relative term... For example, the AC in my car "works" in the same way this guy's brain "works", ie. only enough to know that, at one point, it might have done it's job.
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You seem to forget that targeting multiple platforms is much harder than targeting only one. Of course, that isn't to say you couldn't create a virus or worm that works on a particular software that all of them are running, like, say, Apache, PHP, Perl, or whatever.
If there were a bug in Apache that let an external source write a file to disk then a worm could be made to write a php or perl file to the disk and run it.
Of course, due to the open sourcedness of Apache said bug would be patched within a day, if not a few minutes of it's discovery, assuming it even made it out of beta, which is still assuming it made it into the repository...
Insightful? Absolutely...
I did, but people just thought I was sneezing.
A video of it? No, but if they can take the memory out of your brain they might be able to put it back in someone else's.
Have you ever noticed that a taste or smell can bring back a memory and that exact state of mind you had during it?
If you had a particularly memorable thing happen while eating a mango and were angry at the time, and if you didn't have another mango for ten years, when you finally did you'd remember exactly, you'd feel angry, you'd smell the smells, you could even possibly hear the sounds. You'd know it was a memory, it's all sort of dulled down, you know you're not really angry, but you still feel it a little.
I can think of many uses for this, from psychology to law to education.
You plug in a 12v or 18v dc power supply and the motherboard does the rest...
Of course, it's rather subtle... being that an "Inertial Guidance System" is a fancy way of saying gyroscope...
And, granted men generally don't get subtle very well (I should know, I am one), and the majority of nerds are men (well, male, at least), and since the majority of slashdot readers are nerds (all of them, possibly?) we can deduce that the majority of slashdot readers won't get the subtlety. And then take into account the fact that, in order to get mod points you really need to hang around slashdot more than usual, they're much more nerdy, and much more likely to be male, thus much less likely to pick up on subtle jokes, and really need it forced down their throats.
Consider it forced...
As in Parameter RAM? As in "a small amount of NVRAM used on early Apple Macintosh machines to store configuration information"?
some states?
Statements like that are likely to get you elected to Congress or the Presidency...
It's the same kind of logic as "We can't find them, thus they must be there..."
If someone wants to blow up a plane, they're going to. The only way of insuring that someone can't blow up, or take control of, a plane is to strip everyone down completely, give them hospital gowns to wear, not allow any carry on baggage, hold everyone in quarrantine for at least 24 hours to make sure they're not carrying anything inside their bodies followed by complete x-rays.
I'm not saying that they should do nothing, there should be truly random searches (computed by a random number generator seeded with something relatively random, like the difference between the scheduled departure time and actual departure time), x-rays of people, as well as baggage. If chemical testing can be done quickly (a few seconds, at most) that might be useful.
Get rid of all these stupid, idiotic rules like no pointy objects while pens, CDs and even glass is allowed, or no liquids or gels while powders and other things that could be mixed with water to create a bomb are allowed.
How easy would it be to create a gas bomb (ie. one that releases poisonous gas) by having a bottle of what looks like talcum powder, but is, in fact, two or more chemicals that, when mixed, release poisonous gas. In powder form they wouldn't interact, but add water and FOOM, instant fumes.
I'd be surprised if there weren't some way to create an actual explosive that would only require water to activate. (Maybe one set of chemicals to be the explosive, and another to be the heat generators).
In any case, the stupid rules are there to make it look like they're doing something, when, in fact, there's nothing they can do.
The way to stop terrorism is to not piss so many people off... Before Bush's time the US, while still big, powerful, and hated, was not universally hated, like it is now.
The whole reason 9/11 happened was because we were meddling in the Middle East. So, in response, what do we do? Yeah, that makes loads of sense... That'd be like trying to stop a headache by hitting your head with a brick...
Actually, no, you're wrong. My job is to make sure people get their product, pay for it, and are happy doing so. It is NOT my job to take their bullshit, I don't get paid enough. The managers at my store have even said as much, that's their job! They have other jobs as well, but they take turns being "floor manager" which means, among other things, they're who we call as soon as anyone starts making a fuss.
I had one guy say something along the lines of "I know you have nothing to do with it but..." and then proceded to complain to me about how, five years ago the CD section of the store was twice as big. This was after I calmly explained that I was currently helping another customer and then ignored his rantings 'til I was done.
Yeah, I'm sorry dude, we don't carry every CD that has ever existed. We carry the new and popular stuff. If you want something else go check Amazon (which is what I've been telling lots of people).
If you really want to make sure that changes happen I'll suggest that you go buy enough stock as to have a controlling intrest, get on the board and make the changes. Keep in mind, though, that your changes probably affects someone else, who might be pissed at the changes ("There's not enough DVDs, who the fuck cares about CDs anyway?").
I would LOVE it if Adobe would release Flash, but complaining to the receptionist isn't going to do anything except make her life shit and probably go onto some website somewhere and complain about, and laugh at, you.
Nobody who has complained or cussed me out has gotten what they want. I just get pissed off, depressed, and go to message boards and complain about how much my life sucks.
There is some things that I would LOVE to happen at my store, being able to get J-Pop would be nice, but even the store manager (The highest person at the location) doesn't have much to say about that, she can ask her boss (the district manager) who can ask the people who deal with the distributors to ask them if they could carry it. By then I could have earned enough money to travel to Japan, buy the CDs I want and fly back.
It's partly the previous commenter's idea (10%? that's nothing), it's also that they weigh their potential gains against the cost of producing it.
I think 10% is quite a high number, maybe it's only 90% of home computer users are windows users, but that leaves 10% to devide up between Mac, Linux, and the much smaller ones of *BSD, OS/2, BeOS, Solaris, etc. You also have to keep in mind what the target audience is, and how many of those are going to be using the "Other" category.
In this case how much are they making on the Flash players? Nothing. They're making the money on the development programs. Who buys the development programs? Web designers. Who employs web designers? Usually large corporations to produce horrible websites based entirely on flash. Now, with this large gap between who produces it (Adobe) and who loses the 10% of customers (the websites) it's easy to see why things don't happen very fast.
If they were to suddenly drop the Linux version would the websites feel an immediate hit? No. In fact, they probably wouldn't even notice that there was any kind of change, and if they did they probably wouldn't see the connection (if they even knew that there wasn't a Linux version anymore). If they dropped the Mac version there might be a little more of a hit, but chances are the same thing would happen.
The only way that we're ever going to get Adobe to listen is to have everyone email the companies that use flash on their websites and get THEM to complain to Adobe. Of course, it'd probably just be easier, in most cases, for them to provide a non-flash version... In which case, we're still up shit creek (though we have an extra site that we can use).
What I think really needs to happen is for people to stop using flash for stupid things like entire news sites (yeah, I saw a news site that was done entirely in flash...).
Stopping? No, you're right. However it's not the same as PDF, PDF was (is) an open standard, they told people how to make viewers on various platforms with various tools, it's the main reason it caught on so quickly and so strongly.
As a friend of mine explained, the computer world is much differrent now, there isn't umpteen different OSs that companies have to deal with, in fact, they could (and do) get away with only supporting one. The percentage of Windows users is so high as to make everything else not even appear on many charts. The second and third places are covered by OS X and Linux, but those are so small compared to Windows that many companies don't even take a second glance.
I think this is very bad as it only makes people gravitate towards Windows more, thus making a vicious cycle. I think it would be wonderful if more companies started seeing the advantages of open standards and open source. Apple doesn't make the money on iTunes, it makes it from the store and iPods, so why not make the pprogram open source?
I got really pissed at Adobe recently for their idiotic canned support emails ("You seem to be having trouble with , you can find help with that at our FAQ, if you need more help please reply to this email" Dude, if your FAQ had the answers I was looking for I wouldn't have emailed you...). It sucks that a) there hasn't been a new flash player for linux for quite a while and b) there has never been one for AMD64. Having had several back-and-forth emails with Adobe support I got the sinking impression that the Linux versions had been dropped and were never going to be updated. I'm glad this is not true, and I applaud Adobe for doing the (mostly) right thing in releasing a Linux version of their player. Of course, if they opened the standard we'd get better flash players quicker and they wouldn't have to pay as many people to do it, win-win, if you ask me.
I don't understand why more companies aren't seeing the advantages of open source, but at least some of them aren't ignoring us completely.
There is a open source flash player, though it doesn't work too well.
Systems like Windows do seem to be out to get me. They're always assuming that they know more about what I want to do than I do. This rarely happens on my Linux machine.
On a windows machine if I want to use a different printer driver than the one currently installed sometimes it'll let me, others, it won't. Many times there isn't even an error message, it just pops back to a previous window with nothing changed. When there is an error message it's as if there wasn't one ("An error occured, please contact your system administrator", gee, lots of help, thanks). Yes, I realize that most people won't need to do things like this, but that doesn't excuse it. Hiding complexity away is one thing, shoving it in a triple locked safe is another.
With my Debian machine I never have to delve into config files and such, but, when I want to do some tweeking and tuning, they're there.
I want a system that makes the simple stuff easy and the complex things not impossible. OS X does that quite nicely, though it has its own oddities.
My first thought was "They were part of it?"
Or possibly just want to not hear nails on a chalkboard mixed in with your song...
No, nobody's been able to create DNA through random chance, however a reproducable experiment shows that nucleotides (the building blocks of DNA) will form at random given the right conditions. And we know that nucleotides will link up with each other at random. Given time and/or concurrent repetitions anything will happen. Therefore, since nucleotides will form at random, and since those nucleotides will link together at random, there is a chance of them randomly forming a useful DNA strand. Of course DNA is not enough, you need something to protect the DNA, you need different chemicals and things to manipulate it and make something useful out of it. Again, that can happen at random.
There are plenty of ways of explaining the fact that, despite it being a rather slim chance of all these things occurring, they did, without resorting to a diety, of course, you still have to accept them on faith as there's probably no way of testing it. One is the multiverse theory where there is an infinate number of universes, any time something has at least two different outcomes, all outcomes happen, just with a split of the universe. Thus it was inevitable. This is the one I subscribe to.
I'm not saying that I deny the existance of God or some other diety, the other theories are just more plausable to me.
I see the universe as a set of probabilities, the probability that I exist is the most probable at just under 100% and the probability that the purple, six-legged, long-necked, five-eyed tree moose that's sitting in the chair next to me exists is pretty close to 0%... It could be that I don't exist but he does, just not very probable. Thus, I think it's a possibility that Judaism, its derivatives, Hinduism, etc. are right, just not probable. In my opinion.
(Of course, given the multiverse theory, they are all right, somewhere...)
What about all the inconsistancies?
And still, what about my argument that a "day" is not neccessarily 24 hours?
I'm not religeous, at all, so perhaps I just don't get it. Why can't evolution be the process in which whatever diety you believe in produced us? For that matter, why couldn't the big bang be It's process?
Do you really think the "six days" were actually six twenty four hour periods? Couldn't it be six days as measured in some other way? Days on other planets are not 24 hours, so why would a day in Heaven (or wherever) be 24 hours? Couldn't six days actually be several billion years? Perhaps it was meant to be six awake-rest cycles but was interpreted wrong by the people who transcribed the different books of the bible.
Another point to look at is are we pets or an experiment? When you set up a cage for a pet you put everything together and you keep it that way, you keep feeding it, and you keep the cage clean. In an experiment you set the initial state and then, for the most part, you leave it to whatever it'll do. To me, the latter seems to be the case...
Star Trek may have popularised technobabble but Dr. Who did it before! The worst of it was usually reversing the tacheon pulse. At least that was what Pertwee always did, not sure what they did before him...
Um, perhaps they check and see who's giving the commands?
Just because they can't tell where the search originated from doesn't mean that people who want to find out who did it can't.
Some people still think it's wise to search for social security and credit card numbers and such. You know the whole email privacy saying: think of email as a postcard, don't write anything on it that you need to keep secret. Think of using a search engine as walking into times square and shouting out what you're looking for, chances are nobody will care what it is, but, just in case, don't go shouting out "Where can I find pictures of naked 15 year olds?!"
Bootcamp is pointless and stupid, I've done the whole dual boot thing (in fact, am doing so now), and you always end up using one OS 99% of the time, and figuring ways around the programs you're unable to run on your OS of choice.
.exe as if it were a Mac program, etc. They've done similar things with the likes of classic.
You're much better off using one of the virtual machine programs, or, better yet, something like wine. Wine is good in that you don't have to buy Windows to run windows things, and the programs run as programs and not within the virtual machine window. Generally interactions between programs and the window manager are pretty seamless (copying, pasting, saving, etc.). I think that Apple should have come out with its own, integrated wine-like product. Imagine windows software running just like any of your Mac software, possibly even looking similar. Showing up in the dock like any other, double click any
At the time of the first video (I havn't seen any other ones) the game was barely usable, I'd imagine that all the code to progress to the next level of gameplay (2D to 3D water to land to tribe, to city, to etc.) were not in place and instead just used a keystroke. Also, it was fairly obvious that the genesis effect and super planet destroying weapon would not be something that you start with, you have to earn them. He just showed them to demonstrate the game.
Is it just me or should posts like this be an immediate ban?
Of course, "working" is a relative term... For example, the AC in my car "works" in the same way this guy's brain "works", ie. only enough to know that, at one point, it might have done it's job.