Who cares if the game was going to be 3D? The last two 3D games I bought were very disapointing. The Bouncer and Shadow of Destiny. Both of them were hyped up because they have such great graphics, but the game play itself bites. So then I pick up Luna: Silver Star Story Complete (no 3D graphics, 2D sprites) and I'm having a wonderful time playing it.
3D graphics don't make a game. It's gameplay that matters. I'd be more focused on the gameplay elements that we'll be missing from UO2 before I'd care if it was going to be a 3D game.
I'm still boycotting also. So I guess that makes me the third.
Not only that, I sent a e-mail (yes, I should have sent a real letter, but I didn't) to them telling them why they wouldn't be getting my business anymore. I intend to boycott them even if the courts strike down the patent. The only way they will ever get my business back is if they admit they were wrong to file the patent.
--Ty
How long will it take before two powerful companies decide to merge, the FTC says they can't, and they say "Screw you, we'll merge anyways"?
My understanding, and IANAL, is that the FTC can't actually block the merger. What happens is if they decide against it and the two companies want to merge anyway, the FTC then brings some sort of anti-trust case against them in the courts.
You have to admit, there's a miniscule chance that the translation is just a coincidence
Isn't it true that the cyphertext from RSA can decrypt to any message of equal length if you just have the right key for that decryption?
I.e. "csh" can decrypt to "dog" or "cat" or "pop" depending on what key you used. (It would also decrypt to a bunch of giberish three letter combos as well). Isn't that one of it's strengths? It's hard to know what the "right" plaintext is without some context.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Is it possible that this encryption scheme has the same property?
Obfuscated Perl was on purpose.
Really bad, completely unintelligable Perl was because they didn't read all the man pages before they started coding.:)
Perl is such a godawful atrocity of a language that it's practically impossible NOT to write obfuscated Perl.
I would argue that any program written in a language you don't understand or with techniques you don't understand is Obfuscated to some degree.
I've seen beautiful, easy to read and understand Perl code, and I've seen Perl code that should cause the machine it was written on to burst into flame. Hell, I've written both of the above.
It all really depends on the effort you put into it, just like in any language.
I've written Perl and C that didn't make sense to me the next day, and I've written both that were obvious to everyone that's ever seen them.
It's the coders use of the language that makes the critial difference I think.
Of course hackers wouldn't even be interested in coffee sans caffiene.
Speak for yourself. While I may catch heat for saying it, I ingest very little caffeine in a day. I'm not being judgemental, if you want to drink it, that's fine. But don't make it sound like all hackers are made with the same mold. Some of us drink Sprint and code with the lights on.
Regarding the potential use of Web bugs to track Word documents, Microsoft said that there is no evidence that such activities are occurring.
Since it's not happening now, it couldn't possibly start happening later. I've never seen a problem with a MicroSoft product be exploited weeks, months, even years after it was released. Now I'll be able to sleep at night.
Can someone show me how using CGI instead of a guy in a trashcan means Lucas is less interested in telling a story? Dont' get me wrong, I think EpI sucked hard and that the magic just wasn't there, but I don't think EpII is gonna suck because Kenny Baker wasn't peddling R2D2 around the set.
I'm sure d.net would never go for it, though, they'd rather bore
us all to tears with a yet longer attempt to crack some obscure n-bit variant of a public key system. (d.net: we know that things can be cracked
by brute [yawn] force. do something more interesting!]
I've got to disagree with this. d.net is now working on the Optimal Golomb Ruler (OGR) project. This is a project which has actual uses beyond just proving that it can be done. I'll leave the site above and it's links to explain it further.
The type of game I miss most the the classic adventure game. Gabriel Knight being my favorite. GK3 is one of the best games I've ever played. I've been pained to hear that a GK4 is unlikely.
Since it seemed obvious from the outset that this Judge is as cluefull about electrical devices as, say a strict traditional Amish man (no offence to any of that faith reading this)
I don't know if this is funnier if it was or wasn't intended as a joke.:)
You do make a good point and I suspose you are right. It's just kind of frustrating. You try to give back to the community and get told you aren't good enough, only to get told that someone who won't even tell you who they are is.
But in the end, you are right, what matters is that the story got posted.
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Okay, so I should learn to read the other posts before I go off on my rant. :)
Origin was going to be 3-D, correct?
Who cares if the game was going to be 3D? The last two 3D games I bought were very disapointing. The Bouncer and Shadow of Destiny. Both of them were hyped up because they have such great graphics, but the game play itself bites. So then I pick up Luna: Silver Star Story Complete (no 3D graphics, 2D sprites) and I'm having a wonderful time playing it.
3D graphics don't make a game. It's gameplay that matters. I'd be more focused on the gameplay elements that we'll be missing from UO2 before I'd care if it was going to be a 3D game.
--Ty
I'm still boycotting also. So I guess that makes me the third.
Not only that, I sent a e-mail (yes, I should have sent a real letter, but I didn't) to them telling them why they wouldn't be getting my business anymore. I intend to boycott them even if the courts strike down the patent. The only way they will ever get my business back is if they admit they were wrong to file the patent.
--Ty
Happy Solstice, btw.
--Ty
My understanding, and IANAL, is that the FTC can't actually block the merger. What happens is if they decide against it and the two companies want to merge anyway, the FTC then brings some sort of anti-trust case against them in the courts.
--Ty
Isn't it true that the cyphertext from RSA can decrypt to any message of equal length if you just have the right key for that decryption?
I.e. "csh" can decrypt to "dog" or "cat" or "pop" depending on what key you used. (It would also decrypt to a bunch of giberish three letter combos as well). Isn't that one of it's strengths? It's hard to know what the "right" plaintext is without some context.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Is it possible that this encryption scheme has the same property?
--Ty
--Ty
Seriously, wouldn't the easiest way to accomplish this be to just turn off DNS
--Ty
Don't you mean, "Dude, I started doing this once, but then, um, like, I got a life, ok.."
--Ty
Really bad, completely unintelligable Perl was because they didn't read all the man pages before they started coding.
--Ty
I would argue that any program written in a language you don't understand or with techniques you don't understand is Obfuscated to some degree.
I've seen beautiful, easy to read and understand Perl code, and I've seen Perl code that should cause the machine it was written on to burst into flame. Hell, I've written both of the above.
It all really depends on the effort you put into it, just like in any language.
I've written Perl and C that didn't make sense to me the next day, and I've written both that were obvious to everyone that's ever seen them.
It's the coders use of the language that makes the critial difference I think.
--Ty
--Ty
--Ty
"Astronomers Find Black Hole With Milky Way Center"
Maybe I've been working too hard
--Ty
You can write a web server in awk?
I'm impressed.
--Ty
Speak for yourself. While I may catch heat for saying it, I ingest very little caffeine in a day. I'm not being judgemental, if you want to drink it, that's fine. But don't make it sound like all hackers are made with the same mold. Some of us drink Sprint and code with the lights on.
Since it's not happening now, it couldn't possibly start happening later. I've never seen a problem with a MicroSoft product be exploited weeks, months, even years after it was released. Now I'll be able to sleep at night.
--Ty
Yeah, that's it...
That's exactly what I meant!
--Ty
Can someone show me how using CGI instead of a guy in a trashcan means Lucas is less interested in telling a story? Dont' get me wrong, I think EpI sucked hard and that the magic just wasn't there, but I don't think EpII is gonna suck because Kenny Baker wasn't peddling R2D2 around the set.
I've got to disagree with this. d.net is now working on the Optimal Golomb Ruler (OGR) project. This is a project which has actual uses beyond just proving that it can be done. I'll leave the site above and it's links to explain it further.
--Ty
I don't know if this is funnier if it was or wasn't intended as a joke. :)
--Ty
But in the end, you are right, what matters is that the story got posted.
--Ty
--Ty