I can't say for sure in this case, but I do know that word really gets around in some of the other game communities I'm involved in. I know if something like this happened in Enemy Territory, that about 50% players would probably hear about it within a day or two. Once word gets out into a few big game forums, people will start passing the word on.
The other big issue, which is also one of the biggest problems I see with fps players, is that they take everything ultra seriously. As soon as players get a whiff about people cheating, they will just loose it. It's also hard to find an group of people who are more likely to hold a long-term grudge. When server admins and clans talk about taking action, I don't doubt that many of them will do so.
You have a point there, but the power to boycott rests in a fairly small number of hands. CoD probably has less than 2000 servers and it wouldn't take that much to take a pretty large chunk out of those. Also, I'd say that the majority of game servers are directly run by clans and user communities and as a whole they are a pretty close-knit bunch. That being the case, I can easily see this catching on and gathering momentum.
The people who make fps multiplayer gaming possible belong to user communities. You can only get these people so pissed off before they just stop supporting your product. Sure, as some of the posters in the links say, Infinity Ward already has their money, but the next time the release something they may see the consequences.
Also, you can't totally blame this on the rush to release the game for the 360. I'm pretty sure that it took a couple of months for Punkbuster to be added to CoD as well.
If the current state of IP wasn't so ridiculous, then there wouldn't be a problem.
What the problem is, is that patents have a completely unreasonable scope that totally overlaps with pretty much everything. Now patent holders are having tantrums because there is an area of inovation that they cannot control, and rightfully so. It will be a very sad day when absolutely anything can be sold or owned.
Sadly friend, all that marketing mumbo-jubo was not meant for you. It was meant for those managers who are incharge of a group of devs who are in the ineviable position of having little say on what tools they will use.
I work in a room with the rest of my team. Our desks face each others. When I need to colaborate, I say hey you, "..". If you are in a situation where you can't break up your team enough to make this work then you probably have bigger problems then what colaboration software to use. You probably don't want some random one size fits all system of doing things imposed on you.
Beyond that, who is going to properly regulate NGSCP code to keep out the poorly coded crap? From the sounds of it, you won't be able do anything to fix it or get rid of it unless MS or whoever decides to patch it. As far as I can tell it will be pretty much a black hole full of all sorts of stuff that can, will and does kill your machine.
If you're having trouble getting the driver to work, make sure that you have SELinux disabled. Once I did that, I didn't have any trouble getting doom3 running on fedora.
Those are good questions.
Unfortunately, what I know about this is limited to the few inquires I've made on the Internet and things that have come up in my philosophy classes. I've never taken the time to look into the matter further.
I think that the ancient Greek new testament should be somewhat available online, so some simple text searching might come in handy. As far as theos goes, I think it could refer to any god in the greek pantheon (i.e. Zeus), I'm not positive on that though. There may be a plural version to refer to the whole group of gods in the pantheon.
Yep, and there are also problems with logos --> 'the word' because logos is a very broad term. It can logic, order and a long list of other things.
I can understand why the JW's would translate 'theos' that way since the ancient greeks were polytheistic, It makes sense that their word for god would be general.
There are also similar arguments for the books in the new testament that were written in Ancient Greek. John 1:1 "In the beginning.." is another example of how a somewhat abstract passage in Greek gets translated to something very specific in English.
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I doubt that most experienced programmers would get hung up over the byte b example. I'm pretty sure that you'd get similar behaviour with C and a lot of other languages.
Seems like that strategy has some potential to backfire though. For instance, how many parents who are thinking of buying one for christmas will change their mind if they have to keep jumping through hoops just to find one? They also have to have to be pretty sure their supply chain doesn't have any disruptions or they'll have trouble replacing the stock.
Wrong. I think that the entire purpose of the IT centre is to save a corporation's money. After all, no one is very productive if their computer is often broken and the email server constantly goes down etc. These may not be direct sources of revenue, but they will certainly increase revenue in other areas. Lets also not forget that IT depts. are also responsible for creating and maintaining products and services that do make money.
Maybe, but just look at the Java fiasco. I don't know if anyone here would actually trust M$ to properly implement the spec. Before you know it they would be adding their own incompatible extensions, and I don't know if there is any way to stop them from doing so.
He should probably have known better since his job deals specifically with security. I'm even surprised that he would get hit with a phishing attack to begin with. Also if he got hit that hard over this, what would have happened to the owners of the site if he had been defrauded and had reported it to the authorities instead (it sounds like he and the site were based in the UK)?
I disagree, look at who some of the so called experts are anyway.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to clear smaller debris and help people sort out their belongings. Just use common sense, make sure you deal with the people that own any property you're working on and stay far away from any situations you don't feel comfortable with.
A wheelbarrow might be handy, maybe you could strap it on top of the trailer. It would be handy for moving your gear other stuff around in places where you can't fit a vehicle.
That doesn't surprise me. I heard that the person incharge of tech support at the school I went to had a degree in French if you can believe it and he doesn't have any great IT skills either. No wonder it is hard to find a tech job with people like that filling them up.
What I don't understand is why so many of the entries are so huge? Something go-cart sized is going to have a lot less trouble navigating around the obsticles just because it's smaller. I mean, maybe trying to go straight to a full sized autonomous vehicle is a bit of stretch, so why try a few iterations of smaller and less complex designs?
I kind of disagree with the mobility argument in the FA. Once you're done unplugging the power, mouse keyboard, speakers and any other peripherals, you may have just copied your work to a network directory so you can just access it somewhere else (you don't even have to lug the laptop with you). Also, I'd like to know how much 3d and autocad work was done on a laptop.
What it comes down to, is that most of the downsides that were mentioned about pc's are not that hard to overcome and there are only a few situations where laptops are really that much of a necessity.
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I can't say for sure in this case, but I do know that word really gets around in some of the other game communities I'm involved in. I know if something like this happened in Enemy Territory, that about 50% players would probably hear about it within a day or two. Once word gets out into a few big game forums, people will start passing the word on.
The other big issue, which is also one of the biggest problems I see with fps players, is that they take everything ultra seriously. As soon as players get a whiff about people cheating, they will just loose it. It's also hard to find an group of people who are more likely to hold a long-term grudge. When server admins and clans talk about taking action, I don't doubt that many of them will do so.
You have a point there, but the power to boycott rests in a fairly small number of hands. CoD probably has less than 2000 servers and it wouldn't take that much to take a pretty large chunk out of those. Also, I'd say that the majority of game servers are directly run by clans and user communities and as a whole they are a pretty close-knit bunch. That being the case, I can easily see this catching on and gathering momentum.
The people who make fps multiplayer gaming possible belong to user communities. You can only get these people so pissed off before they just stop supporting your product. Sure, as some of the posters in the links say, Infinity Ward already has their money, but the next time the release something they may see the consequences. Also, you can't totally blame this on the rush to release the game for the 360. I'm pretty sure that it took a couple of months for Punkbuster to be added to CoD as well.
If the current state of IP wasn't so ridiculous, then there wouldn't be a problem. What the problem is, is that patents have a completely unreasonable scope that totally overlaps with pretty much everything. Now patent holders are having tantrums because there is an area of inovation that they cannot control, and rightfully so. It will be a very sad day when absolutely anything can be sold or owned.
Sadly friend, all that marketing mumbo-jubo was not meant for you. It was meant for those managers who are incharge of a group of devs who are in the ineviable position of having little say on what tools they will use. I work in a room with the rest of my team. Our desks face each others. When I need to colaborate, I say hey you, "..". If you are in a situation where you can't break up your team enough to make this work then you probably have bigger problems then what colaboration software to use. You probably don't want some random one size fits all system of doing things imposed on you.
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Beyond that, who is going to properly regulate NGSCP code to keep out the poorly coded crap? From the sounds of it, you won't be able do anything to fix it or get rid of it unless MS or whoever decides to patch it. As far as I can tell it will be pretty much a black hole full of all sorts of stuff that can, will and does kill your machine.
If you're having trouble getting the driver to work, make sure that you have SELinux disabled. Once I did that, I didn't have any trouble getting doom3 running on fedora.
Those are good questions. Unfortunately, what I know about this is limited to the few inquires I've made on the Internet and things that have come up in my philosophy classes. I've never taken the time to look into the matter further. I think that the ancient Greek new testament should be somewhat available online, so some simple text searching might come in handy. As far as theos goes, I think it could refer to any god in the greek pantheon (i.e. Zeus), I'm not positive on that though. There may be a plural version to refer to the whole group of gods in the pantheon.
Yep, and there are also problems with logos --> 'the word' because logos is a very broad term. It can logic, order and a long list of other things. I can understand why the JW's would translate 'theos' that way since the ancient greeks were polytheistic, It makes sense that their word for god would be general.
There are also similar arguments for the books in the new testament that were written in Ancient Greek. John 1:1 "In the beginning.." is another example of how a somewhat abstract passage in Greek gets translated to something very specific in English.
I doubt that most experienced programmers would get hung up over the byte b example. I'm pretty sure that you'd get similar behaviour with C and a lot of other languages.
Seems like that strategy has some potential to backfire though. For instance, how many parents who are thinking of buying one for christmas will change their mind if they have to keep jumping through hoops just to find one? They also have to have to be pretty sure their supply chain doesn't have any disruptions or they'll have trouble replacing the stock.
??? Then why would an entity who's sole purpose is to make money, spend it on something that didn't have a benefit?
Wrong.
I think that the entire purpose of the IT centre is to save a corporation's money. After all, no one is very productive if their computer is often broken and the email server constantly goes down etc. These may not be direct sources of revenue, but they will certainly increase revenue in other areas. Lets also not forget that IT depts. are also responsible for creating and maintaining products and services that do make money.
Maybe, but just look at the Java fiasco. I don't know if anyone here would actually trust M$ to properly implement the spec. Before you know it they would be adding their own incompatible extensions, and I don't know if there is any way to stop them from doing so.
He should probably have known better since his job deals specifically with security. I'm even surprised that he would get hit with a phishing attack to begin with. Also if he got hit that hard over this, what would have happened to the owners of the site if he had been defrauded and had reported it to the authorities instead (it sounds like he and the site were based in the UK)?
I was the website for my gaming clan, but it's down now. I forgot to update my profile.
Maybe those types of people that are more likely to cheat, etc are drawn to P2P. Classic example of correlation vs causality.
I disagree, look at who some of the so called experts are anyway. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to clear smaller debris and help people sort out their belongings. Just use common sense, make sure you deal with the people that own any property you're working on and stay far away from any situations you don't feel comfortable with.
A wheelbarrow might be handy, maybe you could strap it on top of the trailer. It would be handy for moving your gear other stuff around in places where you can't fit a vehicle.
That doesn't surprise me. I heard that the person incharge of tech support at the school I went to had a degree in French if you can believe it and he doesn't have any great IT skills either. No wonder it is hard to find a tech job with people like that filling them up.
Yeah, there was a motorcycle, I saw it on Discovery.
What I don't understand is why so many of the entries are so huge? Something go-cart sized is going to have a lot less trouble navigating around the obsticles just because it's smaller. I mean, maybe trying to go straight to a full sized autonomous vehicle is a bit of stretch, so why try a few iterations of smaller and less complex designs?
I kind of disagree with the mobility argument in the FA. Once you're done unplugging the power, mouse keyboard, speakers and any other peripherals, you may have just copied your work to a network directory so you can just access it somewhere else (you don't even have to lug the laptop with you). Also, I'd like to know how much 3d and autocad work was done on a laptop. What it comes down to, is that most of the downsides that were mentioned about pc's are not that hard to overcome and there are only a few situations where laptops are really that much of a necessity.