traditional water pump and flexible hose Water cooling is traditional now? I guess I gotta start shouting at kids to get off my lawn because my computer is air cooled.
and get noticed by law enforcement then specalist law enforcement and/or the military would be on your tail almost immediately. You can use the number of stars on your HUD as an indicator of the strength of law enforcement against you. Once you've got the national guard on you, getting ahold of one of their tanks should be your top priority if you want to keep your crime spree going.
If you chicken out, you can always use the spray shop. Or just load your last saved game.
I'd rather have some kind of liquid turned cabling on release... like a "spider's web" that I could "fling" to attach to objects and use that to propel myself through the city.
Talk about human support for mutiny is moot when even today in the United States our rights are being stripped out one thread at a time and nobody so much as blinks or turns away from American Idol or Walmart.
One worker might talk about it and wind up turned in (because he's a terrorist, obviously) and those that betray will be rewarded with coupons to McDonalds.
Can anyone list out some links to these specific cases? The following names should bring up details via Google:
Lisa McPherson, Noah Lottick, Brett Hanover, Keith Henson, Paulette Cooper, for starters.
What is "Fair Game" policy? I didn't want to fill this with links since one could easily say I'm stuffing the response with loaded links, but I guess one link won't hurt. Most telling quote in there: "ENEMY -- SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed"
I think you're putting too much emphasis on the impact Windows itself has on PC gaming. DirectX is pretty modular in it's memory usage such that only components needed get loaded into memory. Those myriad of drivers and alternative hardware schemes simply don't get loaded if they're not needed.
For the GP example, Assassin's Creed. The XBox 360 has 512 MB of memory. All of a sudden you need 3 GB (SIX times as much) on a PC? The CPU requirements are equally crazy. Methinks that the latest lazy-port fashion isn't porting games per se but instead wrapping them with emulated feature sets.
But, to temper this a little, the PC versions of GTA3 and above have featured better (more complete) car physics sampling than the console versions.
Considering those openly opposed to Scientology wind up harassed, publicly smeared, thrown in jail, or made dead due to the Fair Game policy, I don't blame them.
I'm generally in the camp that EA executives are full of crap, but...
As video games continue to take audiences away from television, we expect to see more TV news stories warning parents about the corrupting influence of interactive entertainment. ... I find that quote to be rather insightful. The same congressional members that make laws granting more and more power to the MAFIAA at the expense of the people are the ones demanding game companies be held to an unrealistic standard of decency in entertainment.
Recently/. had a story about how some parent's group was "outraged" that game companies are now trying to lobby congress for favor, but, as long as the TV, radio, and film conglomerates have deeper pockets and the numbers keep dropping in favor of interactive entertainment, it's not going to be enough. Faux News is showing their hand without fear since the existing career politicians are already beholden to those guys.
The way Apple has been for the last 18 months or so, I'm not even remotely surprised they screwed this up. They can't manage to keep their own products working properly together (Leopard+AEBS as one example), much less keep 3rd party stuff working. The real frustrating part is that all that iPod/iTunes money is swelling the Apple warchest and yet they seem to be falling down left and right on software and QA on hardware. They spend more time and money locking and deleting threads on their forums than actually engineering the best product possible and that's sad.
Show me a jurisdiction where an owner of a highway can put up a toll without government permits and authorization and I'll accept that it's not always government's fault when tolls are instituted.
Anything that starts with "replace the firmware of your device with this hacked firmware" can obviously cause you problems. I guess the idea is that the Apple Lockdown Experience that denies rightful owners of the iPhone the ability to run whatever code they wish specifically encourages hacks to open them up, and that these hacks are not inherantly secure so a malicious person can exploit it to their ends.
You can either lock the door and have your bad guys force themselves in or you could open it to the public and put a bouncer there to keep trouble out and give the kids what they want.
I reckon the SDK next month will pretty much take care of it, providing a sandbox for applications so that they don't intermingle with sensitive data without user permission.
(Apple TV needs Xvid/DivX support) Might want to check out the upcoming Archos TV+. It's basically an Apple TV plus ethernet, classic composite output, composite + component inputs, Xvid/DivX support, web-on-TV, remote with a QWERTY keypad.
Definitely after. The implementation of crowd motion in that game was derived from a more general brownian motion algorithm. The individuals in the crowd didn't really interact with the setting as much as they swirled around in it.
I think the main difference between the Bubble and today's impending recession is that back then the tech industry fell down and the "holdouts", namely brick and mortar stores, physical goods and services, etc were propped up because they could point to the.coms and say "We were never that audacious, we have business plans and 20+ years of experience blah blah blah."
Freelancing at that time was pretty clear because there still was a genuine need for getting wired and with the times and with the bust those still standing didn't want to invest heavily on an in-house version of what failed in the wild.
This US recession, at least, is being lead by the plummetting dollar and conversely skyrocketing oil prices along with just about every other commodity. Sub-prime fallout isn't helping and even with an impending intrest rate cut from the fed it's still not going to right itself anytime soon. This particular pain hurts every industry equally and IMHO there will be less money to go around altogether. With a shrinking pie, OSS might get a bigger slice of it but overall I don't see it getting better in the immediate future as far as funding.
I read your entire post and it's well thought out and interesting.
But, I have to admit, I sort of wanted some cake to go with it. And maybe a tall glass of whole milk. Duh, of course there should be chocolate syrup in the milk.
You can login later on with their credentials (from a public AP, of course), but what are you going to do? You can't transfer any money to any account you own without it being traced back to you. With the newfound spirit of generocity going around, just hop on one of the many free WiFi hotspots.:)
Sure, everyone please use my unsecured local Wi-Fi access point. I'm giving back to the community...... and the community in turn will have all traffic filtered through a box that will sniff passwords, private keys, you name it.
So please "steal this Wi-Fi" since I need a few more social security and credit card numbers.
Yes, we're keeping Hitler's idea alive and well these days So, the idea of an affordable car for everyone is invalid because it was Hitler's, or do you have a real argument against it?
Contrast and compare headlines:
McCain, Clinton Win New Hampshire
Anti-Game Candidates Do Poorly in Iowa Caucuses I guess it's more of a style thing of ScuttleMonkey vs. CmdrTaco, but, what if the headlines read, respectively, like this:
Pro-War Candidates Do Poorly in Iowa Caucuses
Huckabee, Obama Win Iowa Surely one who reads/. every day every hour would notice such a thing? Perhaps it's more indicative that only one editor should be tracking and posting stories about these primaries?
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If you chicken out, you can always use the spray shop. Or just load your last saved game.
I'd rather have some kind of liquid turned cabling on release... like a "spider's web" that I could "fling" to attach to objects and use that to propel myself through the city.
People would call me The Human Spider.
Talk about human support for mutiny is moot when even today in the United States our rights are being stripped out one thread at a time and nobody so much as blinks or turns away from American Idol or Walmart.
One worker might talk about it and wind up turned in (because he's a terrorist, obviously) and those that betray will be rewarded with coupons to McDonalds.
Unit tests cannot prove there are no bugs, rather, proves the existance of a subset of possible bugs. I'd imagine a recount to be akin to those.
"Prove" is such a strong word. How about Proofiness?
Lisa McPherson, Noah Lottick, Brett Hanover, Keith Henson, Paulette Cooper, for starters. What is "Fair Game" policy? I didn't want to fill this with links since one could easily say I'm stuffing the response with loaded links, but I guess one link won't hurt. Most telling quote in there: "ENEMY -- SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed"
I think you're putting too much emphasis on the impact Windows itself has on PC gaming. DirectX is pretty modular in it's memory usage such that only components needed get loaded into memory. Those myriad of drivers and alternative hardware schemes simply don't get loaded if they're not needed.
For the GP example, Assassin's Creed. The XBox 360 has 512 MB of memory. All of a sudden you need 3 GB (SIX times as much) on a PC? The CPU requirements are equally crazy. Methinks that the latest lazy-port fashion isn't porting games per se but instead wrapping them with emulated feature sets.
But, to temper this a little, the PC versions of GTA3 and above have featured better (more complete) car physics sampling than the console versions.
Considering those openly opposed to Scientology wind up harassed, publicly smeared, thrown in jail, or made dead due to the Fair Game policy, I don't blame them.
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Show me a jurisdiction where an owner of a highway can put up a toll without government permits and authorization and I'll accept that it's not always government's fault when tolls are instituted.
You can either lock the door and have your bad guys force themselves in or you could open it to the public and put a bouncer there to keep trouble out and give the kids what they want.
I reckon the SDK next month will pretty much take care of it, providing a sandbox for applications so that they don't intermingle with sensitive data without user permission.
Definitely after. The implementation of crowd motion in that game was derived from a more general brownian motion algorithm. The individuals in the crowd didn't really interact with the setting as much as they swirled around in it.
I think the main difference between the Bubble and today's impending recession is that back then the tech industry fell down and the "holdouts", namely brick and mortar stores, physical goods and services, etc were propped up because they could point to the .coms and say "We were never that audacious, we have business plans and 20+ years of experience blah blah blah."
Freelancing at that time was pretty clear because there still was a genuine need for getting wired and with the times and with the bust those still standing didn't want to invest heavily on an in-house version of what failed in the wild.
This US recession, at least, is being lead by the plummetting dollar and conversely skyrocketing oil prices along with just about every other commodity. Sub-prime fallout isn't helping and even with an impending intrest rate cut from the fed it's still not going to right itself anytime soon. This particular pain hurts every industry equally and IMHO there will be less money to go around altogether. With a shrinking pie, OSS might get a bigger slice of it but overall I don't see it getting better in the immediate future as far as funding.
I read your entire post and it's well thought out and interesting.
But, I have to admit, I sort of wanted some cake to go with it. And maybe a tall glass of whole milk. Duh, of course there should be chocolate syrup in the milk.
I demand a cure for pancakes
The truth is stranger than fiction.
Sure, everyone please use my unsecured local Wi-Fi access point. I'm giving back to the community... ... and the community in turn will have all traffic filtered through a box that will sniff passwords, private keys, you name it.
So please "steal this Wi-Fi" since I need a few more social security and credit card numbers.
I heard Hitler liked breakfast, too.
So, why exactly is it that there wasn't a story posted when Obama and Huckabee won the Iowa Caucus?