A second question is how much you can learn about a potential mate from his online conduct. Does a willingness to bend the rules or make the lives of other players miserable translate into a person who will do the same in real life? I'd guess it probably does.
Nah.
I'm an ass in games. I talk a lot of smack, backstab, and just generally make other people miserable (if I decide I don't like them, which is more often than not). I like playing the bad guy. In real life, I'm nothing like that. I got over actually being the bad guy ten years ago.
Wasn't it just a couple of years ago that they were reading keystrokes through walls by way of magnetic induction?
I know "reading" a CPU is a bit more complex (understatement), but given enough time and resources someone will figure it out. We're already broadcasting our keystrokes and network communications, how easy do we need to make it?
Skype must be getting ready to put some nails in their own coffin.
"Wait, you mean to tell me that I can't get as many people on a conference call because I bought the wrong brand of CPU two years ago? Looks like I'm going to another service. Bye."
The problem is not any words at all; words are not problems, stigmas attached to words are problems. Maybe.
Well, if you want to get picky...the problem with some people has nothing to do with the word game. Better?:)
I'm a 28-year-old gamer. I own and regularly play an XBOX, but most of my gaming is on the trusty old PC. I regularly have LAN parties at my house. Games--primarily FPS and RTS--are my primary source of entertainment; I spend five hours gaming for every one hour I spend watching TV.
(entering tin-foil hat area)
Maybe that's what it's all about. Maybe it's not about an ignorant or close-minded media, maybe it's about a media that simply can't cope with the idea that the next generation has no need of them. Between advanced search engines like Google compiling news from all over the world, massive online communities providing real interaction and connection, and a vast array of games, our generation is already abandoning the old media. Our children will grow up with a mature internet being as common as the telephone was to our parents' generation. Television and print media are facing the decision to adapt or die...and the old guard never like to adapt. So, they project the idea that there's nothing grown up about gaming. They only talk about the negatives of game influence. They don't talk about Child's Play, they don't talk about the tens of thousands of dollars raised on the [H]ardForums to help out a member, and they don't talk about the supportive communities that grow out of interaction in online play. Because maybe, just maybe, those things remind them that the world isn't going to need them forever.
(/tin-foil zone)
The problem isn't the word "game". It's the term "video game". People still associate that with adolescents in dark arcades playing Pac-Man. We need to simply drop "video" when refering to an adult-oriented game and people won't think twice about it.
Where I come from, they have a law requiring all businesses to declare themselves as being smoke free, a smoking business, or having a smoking section. Smoking sections had to be sealed from the rest of the building and have their own ventilation.
Local law required that signs be placed on the doors of all businesses (basic signs available free from the city). Employers have to list in their advertised job openings and on their job applications if they are a smoking business or if the job may place a worker in a smoking area.
Customers were advised upon entering the building, potential employees knew when they applied what the smoking conditions would be, and business owners could decide how their property was used. It's the best solution for all involved.
I'm tired of people always blaming the sender. To be offened you have to choose to be offended, irritated, upset, whatever the hell the receivers problem is. Quit trying to lay your mental instability on me!
I don't think it's fair to say that everyone chooses to be offended. I am rarely offended by internet posts, but occasionally someone does manage to sneak one in that raises my ire. "Righteous indignation" might be a better word for it...I don't know.
I think it's justified to be offended by someone who assumes you are an idiot for whatever pointless reason. For example: I'm a Christian. That does not in itself say much at all about my character, my mental capacity, or any personality traits I might have. Yet any time that comes up on one of the debate forums I frequent, there's some bigot who thinks that my faith invalidates any points I might have. I find such mindless hate offensive, whether it's directed at me or at someone else.
Because of that, one might occasionally misinterpret a sarcastic/satirical post as being sincere, and take offense. Two intelligent people can sort that out easily enough without things escalating by simply saying "No, you misunderstood me." It's when one or both choose to be idiots that things get stupid.
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I just tried installing KnoppMyth on Saturday. It didn't work. The problem is (I assume) that the hard drive I was going to use to test it won't work when set as master, and KnoppMyth wants to be installed on hda. Even when I went through a manual installation, it didn't work.
It's probably due to the documentation. KnoppMyth, like 95% of the Linux projects I've encountered, is very poorly documented. It's as if the authors don't want to bother writing a simple "here's how you get a basic installation working step-by-step" and instead just go with their disorganized and jargon-filled technical documents.
Vic 20, then Coleco Adam, then in late 1990 a Packard Bell 386/16 with a whopping 125 MB HDD.
A year later we bought an external (and rather large) 1x CD-ROM, and I performed my first upgrade by adding a $100 SoundBlaster Pro and another MB RAM (for a total of 2!)
In '94 we got an IBM 486/66 with (I think) a 425 MB hard drive and a 4x CD-ROM. Upgraded the RAM in that bad boy to 4 MB a year later.
Built my first in '96: a Cyrix 120 Mhz. It was thoroughly mid-range with a 1.6 GB hard drive, and nothing particularly special about it.
In '98, that got upgraded. A lot. 350 Mhz of AMD K6-2 goodness, overclocked to ~410 Mhz. A whopping 13 GB HDD, an AGP video card and a Diamond Monster 3D addon accelerator. Added a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW by the end of '99 and replaced the video setup with a Voodoo3 2000.
In early 2000, right after I bought a 750 Mhz Athlon (Slot A! Wooo!) I was the first kid on the block (actually, probably for quite a few miles) with a watercooled CPU. That K6-2 pushed over 520 Mhz running stable with a completely home-made watercooling setup.
I didn't dare attempt anything like that with my new and expensive Athlon box:D
1. Write DRM software. 2. Release first crack for software two weeks later. 3. Write new version of DRM software. 4. Repeat steps 2-3 ad infinitum. 4a. Profit!
And if a computer program is taking cycles to figure out what on line purchases go best with a search for "Teri Hatcher swimsuit malfunction" you can bet a programmer wants to make sure it's coming back with the right results, which means logging it somewhere.
You're one of those guerilla marketing types, aren't you. Your job is to suggest tantalizing Google search topics so that they can sell more advertising.
...curse you, now I've got to open a new tab for Google.
Nah. Global warming will melt the icecaps, which will in turn shut down the ocean currents, which will trigger one massive week-long storm that sparks the next ice age. Texas will invade Mexico, a billion people will freeze to death, and somewhere a bunch of college students will race down a hall to the warmth of a fireplace to outrun freezing air.
Of course, it's entirely possible that in the midst of the panic of every current and past super power crumbling (that would be Russia, the US, and China) would result in some sort of nuclear exchange, so that we REALLY screw ourselves this time around.
But, at least the molten interior of our planet will still be spinning happily along.
"We can't say IE is any less safe," explained Levy, "because we choose to use an unpatched version [of each browser.] We were trying to understand the number of [spyware] threats, so if we used unpatched browsers then we would see more threats."
I hope they used a very old version of Firefox. Comparing FF1.5 to an old unpatched version of IE is hardly a fair comparison.
They should have patched both browsers and had them run the same crawl. Then we could see how each browser in its most current state handles spyware, and how much each one has improved via patch releases.
I don't have a virus/spyware problem. My XP box has NEVER had a virus or spyware. I don't put a lot of effort into it, it just hasn't picked one up.
Here's what I have:
A NetGear broadband router (buffer against most worms) Windows Firewall that spends most of its time turned off AVG Free AdAware Personal that I scan with irregularly Spybot and its automatic utilities
AVG, AdAware, and Spybot are almost always the first three things mentioned if you go anywhere on the internet and ask how to secure your XP system. A broadband router is often recommended even by ISPs these days, and provided by SBC DSL as part of the DSL modem (though I use my own because I like it better).
If we flipped Microsoft's market share with Apple or Linux, we'd find out just how many security holes exist in those operating systems. We don't see all the virus and spyware activity for them because there aren't enough in the hands of uneducated users for a virus to propagate. If you want to sell crappy $10 software at Wal-Mart, you write it for the largest number of average users you can. If you want a virus to spread and get noticed, you do the same.
mod this post -1 Unpopular for saying Apple and Linux have security holes:D
To be fair, they also killed the PC release of Halo along with the Mac version. It's assumed that MS arranged that to make Halo the killer app to drive XBOX sales.
I can remember as late as mid-2000 looking at demo videos of Halo at LAN parties and talking about all the upgrades some of the guys would have to make to run it. Then MS bought Bungie, Halo for XBOX was announced, and Halo for anything else went away.
Is it possible that the climate is just snapping back from a thousand-year cold spell? Hasn't it been suggested that the dark ages were in part caused by a drastic drop in temperature, possibly due to abnormal volcanic activity?
I doubt anyone is denying the reality of global warming/global climate change these days, but stuff like this certainly gives me reason to wonder if it's mere vanity that makes us so certain that we are responsible for the events we are observing.
The Apple Intel CPU ads are far funnier. I must have missed the part where my Intel PC didn't do anything interesting:)
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Seriously, Microsoft has become far more security conscious than they were. Don't forget that XP is now almost five years old...with all the talking they've done about security over the past several years, doesn't it stand to reason that they've learned quite a bit just from trial and error?
Bah. You clearly don't know how to improve times the slashdot way.
edit your winmine.ini file. Use realistic times. There's a call center out there where they're probably still trying to beat my 103 second Expert record.
Your point? I own a computer in additionto all those things(Except for WebTV). My uses for my legal pads, CD player, etc. tend to be things that would otherwise be impractical. I'd imagine that most computer users own these things as well.
My point is clearly well above your head:p
I own and regularly use a DVD player. I also watch DVDs on my computer. If I didn't have the capability, I'd be wondering why not since the DVD format seems so perfectly matched with PCs. Same for CDs.
My point is that while you could use a lot of specialized things and never need a computer for the vast majority of daily activities, the computer is useful in fact because it does so much. There are some functions that integrate well, and some that don't. Imagine needing a different device each for your check register, word processing, and spreadsheets. Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?
If the PS3 does a lot of things and someone only plays games with it, they simply ignore the other features. But what about those people who want something that does more than play games? Sony and Microsoft are taking the route they are because they see increasing demand for multifunction entertainment devices. Microsoft is tying the 360 in with MCE, which is going to put them out front with "entertainment networking". I'm actually quite excited about some of the prospects of all this.
PCs didn't begin to be considered as 'Media Centers' by the general public until apple started bundling iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, etc. with everything they sold. The PC tends to be a shitty platform for doing these things otherwise. Doing these things on a standard WinXP installation is a daunting task for most people, myself included.
A standard WinXP installation was never meant to be a media center, so I'm not surprised. Now, if you're talking about XP MCE, it does quite a bit out of the box. If my parents can use it without much effort, it's simple enough for most users.
I'm going to venture a guess that it's closest to #2.
It would be in Microsoft's best interest to help protect people not only when it's MS's technology, but applications developed that make use of that technology.
I doubt this will influence many developers away from Linux, to be honest. With luck, it will deter far more frivolous IP suits than it does Linux apps.
They're doing a good thing and protecting their interests at the same time. Just be happy that corporate interests can overlap with the greater good...then we all win.
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Nah.
I'm an ass in games. I talk a lot of smack, backstab, and just generally make other people miserable (if I decide I don't like them, which is more often than not). I like playing the bad guy. In real life, I'm nothing like that. I got over actually being the bad guy ten years ago.
But this isn't really all that special or new, is it?
I met my wife on a Counter-Strike server in 2000.
Wasn't it just a couple of years ago that they were reading keystrokes through walls by way of magnetic induction?
I know "reading" a CPU is a bit more complex (understatement), but given enough time and resources someone will figure it out. We're already broadcasting our keystrokes and network communications, how easy do we need to make it?
Skype must be getting ready to put some nails in their own coffin.
"Wait, you mean to tell me that I can't get as many people on a conference call because I bought the wrong brand of CPU two years ago? Looks like I'm going to another service. Bye."
Well, if you want to get picky...the problem with some people has nothing to do with the word game. Better? :)
I'm a 28-year-old gamer. I own and regularly play an XBOX, but most of my gaming is on the trusty old PC. I regularly have LAN parties at my house. Games--primarily FPS and RTS--are my primary source of entertainment; I spend five hours gaming for every one hour I spend watching TV.
(entering tin-foil hat area)
Maybe that's what it's all about. Maybe it's not about an ignorant or close-minded media, maybe it's about a media that simply can't cope with the idea that the next generation has no need of them. Between advanced search engines like Google compiling news from all over the world, massive online communities providing real interaction and connection, and a vast array of games, our generation is already abandoning the old media. Our children will grow up with a mature internet being as common as the telephone was to our parents' generation. Television and print media are facing the decision to adapt or die...and the old guard never like to adapt. So, they project the idea that there's nothing grown up about gaming. They only talk about the negatives of game influence. They don't talk about Child's Play, they don't talk about the tens of thousands of dollars raised on the [H]ardForums to help out a member, and they don't talk about the supportive communities that grow out of interaction in online play. Because maybe, just maybe, those things remind them that the world isn't going to need them forever.
(/tin-foil zone)
...a GAME of golf today?
Then we can watch the big GAME on TV.
We still on for the poker GAME Thursday night?
The problem isn't the word "game". It's the term "video game". People still associate that with adolescents in dark arcades playing Pac-Man. We need to simply drop "video" when refering to an adult-oriented game and people won't think twice about it.
This is careening off-topic nicely :)
Where I come from, they have a law requiring all businesses to declare themselves as being smoke free, a smoking business, or having a smoking section. Smoking sections had to be sealed from the rest of the building and have their own ventilation.
Local law required that signs be placed on the doors of all businesses (basic signs available free from the city). Employers have to list in their advertised job openings and on their job applications if they are a smoking business or if the job may place a worker in a smoking area.
Customers were advised upon entering the building, potential employees knew when they applied what the smoking conditions would be, and business owners could decide how their property was used. It's the best solution for all involved.
Excellent idea.
Let's ban civilian space flight. Every hippy and anarchist in the country would rush to get into orbit.
As a side bonus, we'll have actually managed to get rid of all the hippies and anarchists.
I don't think it's fair to say that everyone chooses to be offended. I am rarely offended by internet posts, but occasionally someone does manage to sneak one in that raises my ire. "Righteous indignation" might be a better word for it...I don't know.
I think it's justified to be offended by someone who assumes you are an idiot for whatever pointless reason. For example: I'm a Christian. That does not in itself say much at all about my character, my mental capacity, or any personality traits I might have. Yet any time that comes up on one of the debate forums I frequent, there's some bigot who thinks that my faith invalidates any points I might have. I find such mindless hate offensive, whether it's directed at me or at someone else.
Because of that, one might occasionally misinterpret a sarcastic/satirical post as being sincere, and take offense. Two intelligent people can sort that out easily enough without things escalating by simply saying "No, you misunderstood me." It's when one or both choose to be idiots that things get stupid.
I just tried installing KnoppMyth on Saturday. It didn't work. The problem is (I assume) that the hard drive I was going to use to test it won't work when set as master, and KnoppMyth wants to be installed on hda. Even when I went through a manual installation, it didn't work.
It's probably due to the documentation. KnoppMyth, like 95% of the Linux projects I've encountered, is very poorly documented. It's as if the authors don't want to bother writing a simple "here's how you get a basic installation working step-by-step" and instead just go with their disorganized and jargon-filled technical documents.
Prohibition of alcohol and illicit drugs fails miserably.
Vic 20, then Coleco Adam, then in late 1990 a Packard Bell 386/16 with a whopping 125 MB HDD.
:D
A year later we bought an external (and rather large) 1x CD-ROM, and I performed my first upgrade by adding a $100 SoundBlaster Pro and another MB RAM (for a total of 2!)
In '94 we got an IBM 486/66 with (I think) a 425 MB hard drive and a 4x CD-ROM. Upgraded the RAM in that bad boy to 4 MB a year later.
Built my first in '96: a Cyrix 120 Mhz. It was thoroughly mid-range with a 1.6 GB hard drive, and nothing particularly special about it.
In '98, that got upgraded. A lot. 350 Mhz of AMD K6-2 goodness, overclocked to ~410 Mhz. A whopping 13 GB HDD, an AGP video card and a Diamond Monster 3D addon accelerator. Added a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW by the end of '99 and replaced the video setup with a Voodoo3 2000.
In early 2000, right after I bought a 750 Mhz Athlon (Slot A! Wooo!) I was the first kid on the block (actually, probably for quite a few miles) with a watercooled CPU. That K6-2 pushed over 520 Mhz running stable with a completely home-made watercooling setup.
I didn't dare attempt anything like that with my new and expensive Athlon box
Updated for the new millenium:
1. Write DRM software.
2. Release first crack for software two weeks later.
3. Write new version of DRM software.
4. Repeat steps 2-3 ad infinitum.
4a. Profit!
You're one of those guerilla marketing types, aren't you. Your job is to suggest tantalizing Google search topics so that they can sell more advertising.
Nah. Global warming will melt the icecaps, which will in turn shut down the ocean currents, which will trigger one massive week-long storm that sparks the next ice age. Texas will invade Mexico, a billion people will freeze to death, and somewhere a bunch of college students will race down a hall to the warmth of a fireplace to outrun freezing air.
Of course, it's entirely possible that in the midst of the panic of every current and past super power crumbling (that would be Russia, the US, and China) would result in some sort of nuclear exchange, so that we REALLY screw ourselves this time around.
But, at least the molten interior of our planet will still be spinning happily along.
From TFA:
"We can't say IE is any less safe," explained Levy, "because we choose to use an unpatched version [of each browser.] We were trying to understand the number of [spyware] threats, so if we used unpatched browsers then we would see more threats."
I hope they used a very old version of Firefox. Comparing FF1.5 to an old unpatched version of IE is hardly a fair comparison.
They should have patched both browsers and had them run the same crawl. Then we could see how each browser in its most current state handles spyware, and how much each one has improved via patch releases.
As I've said several times here before:
:D
I don't have a virus/spyware problem. My XP box has NEVER had a virus or spyware. I don't put a lot of effort into it, it just hasn't picked one up.
Here's what I have:
A NetGear broadband router (buffer against most worms)
Windows Firewall that spends most of its time turned off
AVG Free
AdAware Personal that I scan with irregularly
Spybot and its automatic utilities
AVG, AdAware, and Spybot are almost always the first three things mentioned if you go anywhere on the internet and ask how to secure your XP system. A broadband router is often recommended even by ISPs these days, and provided by SBC DSL as part of the DSL modem (though I use my own because I like it better).
If we flipped Microsoft's market share with Apple or Linux, we'd find out just how many security holes exist in those operating systems. We don't see all the virus and spyware activity for them because there aren't enough in the hands of uneducated users for a virus to propagate. If you want to sell crappy $10 software at Wal-Mart, you write it for the largest number of average users you can. If you want a virus to spread and get noticed, you do the same.
mod this post -1 Unpopular for saying Apple and Linux have security holes
To be fair, they also killed the PC release of Halo along with the Mac version. It's assumed that MS arranged that to make Halo the killer app to drive XBOX sales.
I can remember as late as mid-2000 looking at demo videos of Halo at LAN parties and talking about all the upgrades some of the guys would have to make to run it. Then MS bought Bungie, Halo for XBOX was announced, and Halo for anything else went away.
Is it possible that the climate is just snapping back from a thousand-year cold spell? Hasn't it been suggested that the dark ages were in part caused by a drastic drop in temperature, possibly due to abnormal volcanic activity?
I doubt anyone is denying the reality of global warming/global climate change these days, but stuff like this certainly gives me reason to wonder if it's mere vanity that makes us so certain that we are responsible for the events we are observing.
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Seriously, Microsoft has become far more security conscious than they were. Don't forget that XP is now almost five years old...with all the talking they've done about security over the past several years, doesn't it stand to reason that they've learned quite a bit just from trial and error?
Weapons of Mass DRM?
I'm sure we'll see those soon enough.
Bah. You clearly don't know how to improve times the slashdot way.
edit your winmine.ini file. Use realistic times. There's a call center out there where they're probably still trying to beat my 103 second Expert record.
My point is clearly well above your head :p
I own and regularly use a DVD player. I also watch DVDs on my computer. If I didn't have the capability, I'd be wondering why not since the DVD format seems so perfectly matched with PCs. Same for CDs.
My point is that while you could use a lot of specialized things and never need a computer for the vast majority of daily activities, the computer is useful in fact because it does so much. There are some functions that integrate well, and some that don't. Imagine needing a different device each for your check register, word processing, and spreadsheets. Doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?
If the PS3 does a lot of things and someone only plays games with it, they simply ignore the other features. But what about those people who want something that does more than play games? Sony and Microsoft are taking the route they are because they see increasing demand for multifunction entertainment devices. Microsoft is tying the 360 in with MCE, which is going to put them out front with "entertainment networking". I'm actually quite excited about some of the prospects of all this.
PCs didn't begin to be considered as 'Media Centers' by the general public until apple started bundling iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, etc. with everything they sold. The PC tends to be a shitty platform for doing these things otherwise. Doing these things on a standard WinXP installation is a daunting task for most people, myself included.
A standard WinXP installation was never meant to be a media center, so I'm not surprised. Now, if you're talking about XP MCE, it does quite a bit out of the box. If my parents can use it without much effort, it's simple enough for most users.
I'm going to venture a guess that it's closest to #2.
It would be in Microsoft's best interest to help protect people not only when it's MS's technology, but applications developed that make use of that technology.
I doubt this will influence many developers away from Linux, to be honest. With luck, it will deter far more frivolous IP suits than it does Linux apps.
They're doing a good thing and protecting their interests at the same time. Just be happy that corporate interests can overlap with the greater good...then we all win.