You have a point there, actually. I retract my previous statement of "living life". Although she definitely shouldn't be doing things that I deem worthy. I just can't help it, she (and most others) must have something more worthwhile to do than play computer games.
However, I still think it is ridiculous how computer games are becoming the controlling part of our lives.
Seriously? I had never heard of auctioning nor selling game items online until World of Warcraft. Not to mention the girl who offered sex in exchange for 5.000 gold pieces, or something to that extent. All because of some PC game? All I can say is "wow" (no pun intended, really). Now the community is getting spammed by some "virtual gold sellers". People, it's just a game. Don't forget to live your life. It should be far more important than a computer game.
Precisely. Make that five computers with as many public IPs for me. Google and my local newspaper must love how much traffic I generate every day. Inflation alert!
That reminds me of my reign of hacking back in high school. I'd made myself a game of obtaining passwords from the kids taking computer classes with me. Mostly by basic social engineering. The poor things almost worshiped me for my amazing "hacking abilities".
Continuing off topic... Same school. We had this rather old BBC Micro in one of the classrooms. During breaks, some kid would turn it on to play a game of Frogger. One day I made a simple program. It'd ask the user for his name, and then greet him in a rather rude and distasteful manner. Unfortunately, the principal was the first one to try it out. Thankfully, he was only amused. Again, the kids would flood me with the usual questions of how, where, when and what.
I don't blame people for ignorance. I blame ignorance for people.;)
I too did the right thing. The *other* right thing. I installed Linux.:) Later, due to restrictions at my workplace, I was forced to use Windows. Eventually, they bought me one of those nifty XP Pro licenses. Now I'm a user of both platforms, with a clear conscience, and enjoying nearly every day of it. Emphasis on "nearly".
Still, programmers are privileging speed and efficiency over security, which leads to the famous "buffer overflows"... Am I the only one who finds the above sentence just strange? In my books and experience, speed optimisations most certainly don't result in buffer overflows. Recklessness does, however.
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I don't have any reliable sources, really. Only a link posted on SlashDot a couple of days ago (see article).
Aforementioned link.
You have a point there, actually. I retract my previous statement of "living life". Although she definitely shouldn't be doing things that I deem worthy. I just can't help it, she (and most others) must have something more worthwhile to do than play computer games.
However, I still think it is ridiculous how computer games are becoming the controlling part of our lives.
Seriously? I had never heard of auctioning nor selling game items online until World of Warcraft. Not to mention the girl who offered sex in exchange for 5.000 gold pieces, or something to that extent. All because of some PC game? All I can say is "wow" (no pun intended, really). Now the community is getting spammed by some "virtual gold sellers". People, it's just a game. Don't forget to live your life. It should be far more important than a computer game.
If there's no water nearby, I simply skip step 2.
For the punchline: "Hasta la vista, baby!". That'll hopefully mark the end of the dreadful Hollywood flicks.
Precisely. Make that five computers with as many public IPs for me. Google and my local newspaper must love how much traffic I generate every day. Inflation alert!
That reminds me of my reign of hacking back in high school. I'd made myself a game of obtaining passwords from the kids taking computer classes with me. Mostly by basic social engineering. The poor things almost worshiped me for my amazing "hacking abilities".
;)
Continuing off topic... Same school. We had this rather old BBC Micro in one of the classrooms. During breaks, some kid would turn it on to play a game of Frogger. One day I made a simple program. It'd ask the user for his name, and then greet him in a rather rude and distasteful manner. Unfortunately, the principal was the first one to try it out. Thankfully, he was only amused. Again, the kids would flood me with the usual questions of how, where, when and what.
I don't blame people for ignorance. I blame ignorance for people.
"Wet before nuking".
I too did the right thing. The *other* right thing. I installed Linux. :)
Later, due to restrictions at my workplace, I was forced to use Windows. Eventually, they bought me one of those nifty XP Pro licenses. Now I'm a user of both platforms, with a clear conscience, and enjoying nearly every day of it. Emphasis on "nearly".
Without development, there won't be much testing. Likewise, without testing, there won't be much development. Farewell, reputation.