Forget watch-style players with tiny headphones! Give me a Boom Hat(tm,(c),pat pend): MP3 player, loudspeakers and battery pack that I can wear on my head! It gives me the same, great skull-splitting sound I get from my car stereo plus I can really annoy the other people around me at the store, in the elevator and on the street!
QUAKE servers would be a logical market for this version of the game. Since multiplayer combat is the game's greatest strength, organizing a gaming group around a fast Linux server would make a lot of sense.
As far as timing: I would make a modest bet that a lot of computer games are sold in the week following Xmas, as gaming geeks cash in their gift certificates. So this might be a useful test of the popularity of Linux-based games.
People create life all the time. The process is called "sex". If this is playing god, then I guess we're all guilty of it.
I think what really troubles some people is the notion of (quoting the article) "creating life from unliving chemicals". The realization that there is no difference between "living" and "unliving" matter is more than many people can bear, so they insist that there is an ineffable qualitative difference that is beyond the power of science to describe or explain.
Prediction: if these scientists succeed in creating life in a lab, there will be those that insist that it isn't "real" life, just chemicals "imitating life".
I'm sorry, but I have to challenge this statement. Currency, perhaps, I can understand. But, given the wide variety of designs used in US postage, how would a copier recognize a stamp?
I doubt that most countries have a legal procedure for planting fabricated evidence.
Here in the US, police have been known to plant guns on people they've shot to death in order to justify the homicide. (Yes, LAPD, I am talking to you.) No doubt, they rationalize this behavior by claiming that this improves their "security". But it's still illegal, and when they get caught, they get busted.
The Australian law gives the authorities a license to cook the bits on anyone's computer and serve up the results in the courtroom.
As noted in the article, this provides an avenue to challenge any digital evidence presented by the police. It only makes it harder for honest policemen to do their jobs.
The Australian "brain drain" is evidently a real and present problem. Consider this exchange from the interview: ANDREW TRIDGELL, COMPUTER SCIENTIST: All we need to do is fire up a 98 box and do a domain log-on.
PHILIP WILLIAMS: If you understand this computer babble, you'd probably know Andrew Tridgell is hot property.
The Australian standard for "babble" appears to be rather low.
This undoubtedly explains the reason for the many foolish Internet-related laws coming out of Australia: almost anyone who knows anything has already left, and the few who remain are unable to make themselves understood.
If the government wants to seriously confront the problem of foreign intrusion into critical systems, then it should forthwith remove all restrictions on strong data encryption. Strong encryption and secure communication protocols are the only defense against this kind of invasion.
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I'll probably never use the word "geek" again.
Forget watch-style players with tiny headphones! Give me a Boom Hat(tm,(c),pat pend): MP3 player, loudspeakers and battery pack that I can wear on my head! It gives me the same, great skull-splitting sound I get from my car stereo plus I can really annoy the other people around me at the store, in the elevator and on the street!
QUAKE servers would be a logical market for this version of the game. Since multiplayer combat is the game's greatest strength, organizing a gaming group around a fast Linux server would make a lot of sense.
As far as timing: I would make a modest bet that a lot of computer games are sold in the week following Xmas, as gaming geeks cash in their gift certificates. So this might be a useful test of the popularity of Linux-based games.
This is why it's so important to (1) indent properly, (2) use meaningful variable names, and (3) provide adequate comments.
You never know when when your code will be GPL'd and then everyone will know what kind of programmer you really are!
People create life all the time. The process is called "sex". If this is playing god, then I guess we're all guilty of it.
I think what really troubles some people is the notion of (quoting the article) "creating life from unliving chemicals". The realization that there is no difference between "living" and "unliving" matter is more than many people can bear, so they insist that there is an ineffable qualitative difference that is beyond the power of science to describe or explain.
Prediction: if these scientists succeed in creating life in a lab, there will be those that insist that it isn't "real" life, just chemicals "imitating life".
I'm sorry, but I have to challenge this statement. Currency, perhaps, I can understand. But, given the wide variety of designs used in US postage, how would a copier recognize a stamp?
I doubt that most countries have a legal procedure for planting fabricated evidence.
Here in the US, police have been known to plant guns on people they've shot to death in order to justify the homicide. (Yes, LAPD, I am talking to you.) No doubt, they rationalize this behavior by claiming that this improves their "security". But it's still illegal, and when they get caught, they get busted.
The Australian law gives the authorities a license to cook the bits on anyone's computer and serve up the results in the courtroom.
As noted in the article, this provides an avenue to challenge any digital evidence presented by the police. It only makes it harder for honest policemen to do their jobs.
The Australian "brain drain" is evidently a real and present problem. Consider this exchange from the interview:
ANDREW TRIDGELL, COMPUTER SCIENTIST:
All we need to do is fire up a 98 box and do a domain log-on.
PHILIP WILLIAMS:
If you understand this computer babble, you'd probably know Andrew Tridgell is hot property.
The Australian standard for "babble" appears to be rather low.
This undoubtedly explains the reason for the many foolish Internet-related laws coming out of Australia: almost anyone who knows anything has already left, and the few who remain are unable to make themselves understood.
If the government wants to seriously confront the problem of foreign intrusion into critical systems, then it should forthwith remove all restrictions on strong data encryption. Strong encryption and secure communication protocols are the only defense against this kind of invasion.
I expect that Australia's experiment will fail, and its attempts at enforcement will spawn a whole host of new problems.
This will serve as an object lesson to those who would follow.
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"Olap" is Finnish in origin. It is synonymous with "data whorehouse". I don't understand it; I just explain it.