Is that really logical? They hand the source code over to a group of people who now have to familiarize themselves with everything AND find/fix the security holes? Why not turn the people who worked on it for 5 years or however long into the WSE team?
But aren't all the satellite images used by Google maps public domain? Couldn't a terrorist interested in it just go get access to the original images?
And didn't we all have this conversation when they blurred the top of the White House and when Australia bitched to have it done to their nuclear power plants?
Interestingly enough we have three stores, all owned by Babbage's in the Freehold Raceway Mall. (Funcoland, GameStop and PlanetX) less than ten miles away from them we have two stores in two adjacent shopping centers (Gamestop and EBGames) less than ten miles away from them is another PlanetX, and less than ten miles from that PlanetX is the Ocean County Mall with an EBGames AND a Babbage's.
They all seem to be managing just fine, which is odd because you can go into Blockbuster and get any game you want for about $30 with their Rent it/Keep it system.
It's not "somtimes" it's all the time. The majority of the kids who go into the "system" stay there until they're 18. Only a small percentage of children are adopted after they're older than 5 or 6, and ones with disabilities are double-screwed. Listening on NJ101.5 a few weeks ago I heard of a lesbian couple who had adopted a blind girl.
Should they not get benefits of marriage just because some gays don't want kids?
Gays have the same biological instincts and desires regarding the raising of children as does everyone else, it doesn't turn off just because they aren't interested in a heterosexual relationship.
It's an anti-forgery mechanism. A forger doesn't want to duplicate a passport, a forger wants to create a passport with the bogus holder's photo, plus some either real or real-looking but innocuous identification data. The thing the RFID's copy of the data has that the printed page doesn't have is digital signatures. A forger may be able to print a perfect-looking passport, and embed a chip loaded with all of the corresponding data, but he won't have access to the private keys necessary to apply the proper digital signature to the data. This makes the new passports essentially impossible to forge, assuming RSA remains unbroken and assuming the private key is well-protected.
And provided the forger doesn't make the chip then smash it with a hammer thereby making it useless but authentic looking and apparently still viable for use.
Looking at those specs, it seems my 4 year old PC is running at or better than the new console's stats. So are consoles just 5 years behind PCs? Granted my PC was about 1200 at the time, but now-a-days I could put it together for well less than 600.
Then again I'm not as tech saavy as I was during the days of Pentium 1s so I could be missing something.
Or I could be right, and it would explain why BF2 looks like ass on the PS2
Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll leave all the half-finished stuff and voice recordings by the actors on the disc like Obsidian did in KotoR2 and an intrepid mod team can finish the game for them.
You'd think they would've learned from KotoR2 though, it's friggin Star Trek, it doesn't matter if you release it during the holidays or the middle of March, the same number of Trekkies are going to buy it regardless. And more people are likely to buy it if they believe it's finished.
Well clearly grandparent also gets his news from/. so he's pretty much covered.
I myself also only really get my news from Daily Show/Colbert and/.
I'd rather get my news with an air of levity (from Stewart or from the user comments) than the air of fear constantly portrayed by the 24 hour news and even local news.
What happened to personal freedom? There's nanny-bots for people who want it, do we really need the ISPs/Governments deciding what's best for everyone?
The really bad stuff will find ways around it and all that will be truly blocked is that which probably shouldn't be.
This, like the bnetd situation boggles my mind. I'm paying $50 or whatever for an online game. I understand because it says on the box, that if I want to play said game on their servers that I need to pay them for the costs of running/operating said servers.
If someone else out there wants to run one of them for free then the developers need to find ways to keep me wanting to play on their servers instead. And that really oughtn't be a hard thing to do.
Take Everquest the original for example. There's Shards of Dalaya (I think that's what it's called) that is basically a free server. I tried it out, frankly I think they mangled the original Everquest pretty nastily, and there's still a lot of stuff that they can't/don't emulate on their servers (like Vah Shir). That's plenty of reason for me to stay on an official server (I honestly don't know what they have to offer that's better mind you, I switched to City of Heroes over two years ago).
After the CD is in my possession it's MY game and I should be able to connect it to whatever server I want it to.
The only beef with that bull is that the EULA isn't printed on the box (and has likely changed multiple times since the game went gold anyway). Good luck returning it to the store if you don't like the EULA. And looking at how well bnetd went, a Free-WoW is going to face some harsh troubles 5 years from now.
Here's what some of the most popular "mods" are:
Look/feel changes: These simply change the appearance of the GUI. Sometimes they add more information, like overlaying a % over the enemies health bar, or highlighting party members who are taking damage.
Bars: Many of the early addons were to add more buttons, until Blizzard implemented this themselves.
Raid: lots of addons help with raiding, like showing the health of everyone in the raid, showing the main tank's target, etc. Also, debuff cleansing with one button press (scans the raid and casts an appropriate cure spell), though this is being disabled by Blizzard in the coming expansion.
Additional GUI: some mods don't just modify the existing GUI they add more. A bar across the top listing money, regen rate, your (x,y) location on the map, your XP/hour, your fps and ping, the amount of ammo you have left, etc. For classes with reagent needs it can track those.
Wow, all stuff given to you in the default UI of Everquest 2 and they don't ban ya for it. Minus the XP/hour and debuff cleansing (the debuff cleansing in EQ2 is pretty much done w/ one button per type, or button per two types depending on the class.)
Actually, since I have a penis, abortion is the last thing I should consider when voting.
I am a hardcore gamer, but I'm still gonna vote out Allen in Virginia. If he does anything to support games it's probably because he sees the gaming industry as the next **AA that will give him money.
Sad that so many "newer" games get touted as being so good when there were lots of momentous storyline games 10, 20 years ago. Games like Quest For Glory IV (and various other Sierra Quest games).
Hell even new amazing storytelling games like KotoR aren't even mentioned, but SIMS is? What story is there to Sims!? It's just the minutiae of real life turned into a video game! (And it was rather addictive until I realized I could clean up my actual house instead of a virtual one and have a far greater reward) but I'd hardly consider it good for "storytelling".
The choice isn't between the US and "the axis of evil". There's a whole mess of other countries out there y'know. I think we oughta hand over control to the Swiss myself; it just makes sense.
His name is Trent, he wears white shirt and jeans and has blonde hair. Generally picks on the nerds, target him and talk to him he'll usually say something like "Wanna play shirts and skins?"
Unfortunately the unlock from Art class that lets you kiss for health bonus without having to give over gifts doesn't work on him. He always wants stuff. I wouldn't think us gays would be more materialistic than women =p
With the way that accounts are handled in China/far east in general it's a bit inappropriate to say they have 7 million active user accounts. Those accounts are paid in a manner that keeps them always active whether the person plays it for 5 minutes and never plays again or plays continuously for years on end (as some of them apparently do).
How is an "improvised explosive device" a military weapon? That'd be an oxymoron.
There's civilian access to TNT in the US and the anarch cookbook is available for download. Not to mention in a civilian uprising military depots would probably get raided quite early.
Unfortunately the limitations on our second amendment rights have worn away much of the civilian advantage; there's still numbers however.
And speaking of amendments doesn't this bill violate the tenth?
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any guidelines for punishment of violations of the Geneva Conventions other than "If you don't follow it other nations don't have to listen either" The Insurrectionists aren't following the conventions.
I don't believe that's how the rules oughta be, but that certainly seems how they are. If I was head of a civilized nation I'd be demanding Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld stand trial lest America suffer the same fate as Iraq.
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Is that really logical? They hand the source code over to a group of people who now have to familiarize themselves with everything AND find/fix the security holes? Why not turn the people who worked on it for 5 years or however long into the WSE team?
Conveniently stops just short of discussing the release of the utter crap that was Star Trek Legacy.
Quick! Everyone go take a picture of every house in your neighborhood and put it in the public domain. It'll make this all a moot point.
But aren't all the satellite images used by Google maps public domain? Couldn't a terrorist interested in it just go get access to the original images? And didn't we all have this conversation when they blurred the top of the White House and when Australia bitched to have it done to their nuclear power plants?
Interestingly enough we have three stores, all owned by Babbage's in the Freehold Raceway Mall. (Funcoland, GameStop and PlanetX) less than ten miles away from them we have two stores in two adjacent shopping centers (Gamestop and EBGames) less than ten miles away from them is another PlanetX, and less than ten miles from that PlanetX is the Ocean County Mall with an EBGames AND a Babbage's. They all seem to be managing just fine, which is odd because you can go into Blockbuster and get any game you want for about $30 with their Rent it/Keep it system.
It's not "somtimes" it's all the time. The majority of the kids who go into the "system" stay there until they're 18. Only a small percentage of children are adopted after they're older than 5 or 6, and ones with disabilities are double-screwed. Listening on NJ101.5 a few weeks ago I heard of a lesbian couple who had adopted a blind girl. Should they not get benefits of marriage just because some gays don't want kids? Gays have the same biological instincts and desires regarding the raising of children as does everyone else, it doesn't turn off just because they aren't interested in a heterosexual relationship.
And what about the gays that have kids? Either through adoption, IVF, or eventually somatic-cell nuclear transfer.
And provided the forger doesn't make the chip then smash it with a hammer thereby making it useless but authentic looking and apparently still viable for use.
Looking at those specs, it seems my 4 year old PC is running at or better than the new console's stats. So are consoles just 5 years behind PCs? Granted my PC was about 1200 at the time, but now-a-days I could put it together for well less than 600. Then again I'm not as tech saavy as I was during the days of Pentium 1s so I could be missing something. Or I could be right, and it would explain why BF2 looks like ass on the PS2
yay minesweeper porn!
Oh was that joke meant to have been subtle? Oops
Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll leave all the half-finished stuff and voice recordings by the actors on the disc like Obsidian did in KotoR2 and an intrepid mod team can finish the game for them. You'd think they would've learned from KotoR2 though, it's friggin Star Trek, it doesn't matter if you release it during the holidays or the middle of March, the same number of Trekkies are going to buy it regardless. And more people are likely to buy it if they believe it's finished.
Well clearly grandparent also gets his news from /. so he's pretty much covered.
I myself also only really get my news from Daily Show/Colbert and /.
I'd rather get my news with an air of levity (from Stewart or from the user comments) than the air of fear constantly portrayed by the 24 hour news and even local news.
What happened to personal freedom? There's nanny-bots for people who want it, do we really need the ISPs/Governments deciding what's best for everyone? The really bad stuff will find ways around it and all that will be truly blocked is that which probably shouldn't be.
This, like the bnetd situation boggles my mind. I'm paying $50 or whatever for an online game. I understand because it says on the box, that if I want to play said game on their servers that I need to pay them for the costs of running/operating said servers. If someone else out there wants to run one of them for free then the developers need to find ways to keep me wanting to play on their servers instead. And that really oughtn't be a hard thing to do. Take Everquest the original for example. There's Shards of Dalaya (I think that's what it's called) that is basically a free server. I tried it out, frankly I think they mangled the original Everquest pretty nastily, and there's still a lot of stuff that they can't/don't emulate on their servers (like Vah Shir). That's plenty of reason for me to stay on an official server (I honestly don't know what they have to offer that's better mind you, I switched to City of Heroes over two years ago). After the CD is in my possession it's MY game and I should be able to connect it to whatever server I want it to.
The only beef with that bull is that the EULA isn't printed on the box (and has likely changed multiple times since the game went gold anyway). Good luck returning it to the store if you don't like the EULA. And looking at how well bnetd went, a Free-WoW is going to face some harsh troubles 5 years from now.
1976 WAS 30 years ago.
Anyone else missing the states' rights movement at this point?
"War, economy, abortion, jobs.... gaming"
Actually, since I have a penis, abortion is the last thing I should consider when voting. I am a hardcore gamer, but I'm still gonna vote out Allen in Virginia. If he does anything to support games it's probably because he sees the gaming industry as the next **AA that will give him money.
Does this mean Canada can invade the US now? I promise to greet you as a liberator!
Sad that so many "newer" games get touted as being so good when there were lots of momentous storyline games 10, 20 years ago. Games like Quest For Glory IV (and various other Sierra Quest games). Hell even new amazing storytelling games like KotoR aren't even mentioned, but SIMS is? What story is there to Sims!? It's just the minutiae of real life turned into a video game! (And it was rather addictive until I realized I could clean up my actual house instead of a virtual one and have a far greater reward) but I'd hardly consider it good for "storytelling".
The choice isn't between the US and "the axis of evil". There's a whole mess of other countries out there y'know. I think we oughta hand over control to the Swiss myself; it just makes sense.
His name is Trent, he wears white shirt and jeans and has blonde hair. Generally picks on the nerds, target him and talk to him he'll usually say something like "Wanna play shirts and skins?" Unfortunately the unlock from Art class that lets you kiss for health bonus without having to give over gifts doesn't work on him. He always wants stuff. I wouldn't think us gays would be more materialistic than women =p
With the way that accounts are handled in China/far east in general it's a bit inappropriate to say they have 7 million active user accounts. Those accounts are paid in a manner that keeps them always active whether the person plays it for 5 minutes and never plays again or plays continuously for years on end (as some of them apparently do).
How is an "improvised explosive device" a military weapon? That'd be an oxymoron. There's civilian access to TNT in the US and the anarch cookbook is available for download. Not to mention in a civilian uprising military depots would probably get raided quite early. Unfortunately the limitations on our second amendment rights have worn away much of the civilian advantage; there's still numbers however. And speaking of amendments doesn't this bill violate the tenth?
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any guidelines for punishment of violations of the Geneva Conventions other than "If you don't follow it other nations don't have to listen either" The Insurrectionists aren't following the conventions. I don't believe that's how the rules oughta be, but that certainly seems how they are. If I was head of a civilized nation I'd be demanding Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld stand trial lest America suffer the same fate as Iraq.