Back in my day the schools had rules regardless of whether I agreed to them or not. They applied to everyone. Signing agreement is probably so that they KNOW what the rules are. Heh, back in my day ignorance wasn't an excuse, either.
All I need to do is say I walked 20 miles to school, in the snow, uphill, BOTH WAYS and I'd be officially admitted to the old gimp club.
Except they weren't taking a class on how to circumvent web filtering. If they were, hey, great job!
As far as "arbitrary rule", it's their network and their computers. All rules are discretionary, arbitrary or not.
Suppose they used the proxy to navigate to a site that was blocked and installed a bunch of spyware or viruses or other malware. Who's gonna clean it up? The smart kiddies who circumvented the rules? I doubt it: they just wanted to jump on myspace or whatever instead of using the school equipment for, you know, school-related activities.
It is malicious intent. If you are using the internet in an environment were you're blocked from visiting certain sites, then they don't want you visiting them on their network.
If you turn around and sneak through their system and do it anyway, that seems pretty bad faith to me.
If they locked up the computer lab after hours and because you are smart/skilled enough to get in anyway because you can pick locks, you're still doing something that you're not supposed to be doing.
To paraphrase Dragnet: "if you don't like the law you can try to get that law changed that doesn't give you the right to break it." The school network isn't "law", no, but they can still cause trouble for you if you go against it.
The problem is that it WON'T protect against spies. They'll still spy and steal the secrets. The punishments happen IF they are found out.
Even when they're found out, does this agreement have world-wide reach?
This agreement is just draconian. Can't even mention you used to work for Google? Can't mention salary? How does THAT protect against corporate espionage?
I'd LOVE to see this actually get addressed in a court of law in a suit against a prior interviewee.
Maximum Carnage caught my attention because it was the first major video game (to be fair to my lacking history, at least to western regions) to have it's soundtrack done by an established band, Green Jelly.
It wasn't CD quality, but at least, aside from a logo at startup, the advertising wasn't messing up things in-game.
Then again, I was younger and far more impressionable.
IIRC, the original Passme designs that enabled homebrew on the DS didn't work with ones that came out a year after launch when Nintendo was putting a new firmware on them.
How to explain the inability to stop newer homebrew kits? Thing is DS's have to have some contacts bridged in order to flash them. It's obviously not intended to be flashed except when being repaired. Contrast to the PSP's more aggressive flashing approach. Nintendo can't dispatch a firmware update, not even over WiFi, to fix those problems. The platform remains static and external influences which are allowed to evolve do and take complete advantage.
Nintendo has no love of homebrew. If someone lets themselves believe otherwise they are just setting themselves up for heartbreak.
"Well, there really aren't any good home pads for DDR unless you're looking at spending a couple hundred bucks. Plus nonstop hopping and stepping is an easy way to summon torches and pitchforks when you live in an apartment with tenants living under you."
That is, the above is what I would say IF I knew you weren't kidding since that's a pretty uninformed statement.
"The new physical education is moving away from competitive team sports . . . They can do it on their own, and they don't have to compete with anyone else."
If it's part of PE, it won't be on their own. Moreover, DDR players are extremely competitive regarding levels and songs their peers can complete while some can't. (I'm inside that crowd so I'm very much pot-kettle-black.)
I don't think using a video game for fitness is going to be a magic bullet to get kids bad at sports enthusiastic. Speaking as an ex-fat kid*, team sports and PE performance IS about drive and confidence and when you don't have confidence you can't have drive and you can't be excited about physical activity. DDR is just going to set another watermark for children who are already on the vector to obesity to never be able to obtain; children who already can't: perform one pull up, perform one sit up, run a quarter mile, touch their toes, or pass other basic fitness tests.
*Full disclosure: DDR *IS* how I lost weight. And the main factor in being brave enough to even start was the nearby arcade which was completely empty of all spying eyes during my lunch break. If I was around peers I'd probably would have snickered a lot and given up way sooner.
I still can't get over why generating "safe" code is the job of the compiler, anyway. What's wrong with checking lengths and buffers before using them? What's wrong with paranoid programming?
Did Microsoft's new focus on security from the ground up with Vista really just amount to compiling all its system components with/GS? Pathetic.
Exactly right... which is maybe why the Wii's different quirky gaming has gained so much ground compared to what's become par for the course with big-budget-but-uninspired games on the other platforms.
Don't get me wrong, Wii's going to get it's share of stinkers. But Nintendo has the MOST to lose if they do poorly so perhaps that's why they're willing to challenge and shake up the old dogmas. Microsoft and Sony's gaming divisions always have the safety net of the mamma corp (until, like you said, shareholders cut the cord) so maybe (just maybe) there really isn't a whole lot of urgency to innovate: and the longer that lasts the bigger a lead Nintendo will have.
(Which I'll come out and say is a bad thing. Other companies need to keep the fire going underfoot to keep things good for the customers.)
Is it normal for game divisions a year+ after their new console is released to still be in the red? Given Nintendo recently just reported record profits and Sony's Playstation division is still hemorraging money, it seems like Nintendo's on track to be the last man standing.
What's even more nuts to me is that with all the Live Gold subscribers they're still not making enough to offset losses. Are they still hedging all their bets on Halo 3?
Considering how maintaining accuracy of patient history, treatment records, billing records, allergies, lab reports, and others is paramount I'd say if it ain't broke don't fix it. Could you imagine the change controls in an environment like that? "Potential impact: PEOPLE WILL DIE DIE DIE."
I'm curious what percentages of civil cases DON'T follow producure to the letter but they go ahead anyway.
I mean, Kotaku was appended onto the case that's originally Jack Thomspon vs. a whole bunch of entities (including the Florida BAR). Maybe the judge was just looking for ony slip up, any slip up, regardless of how minor, in order to toss it and avoid extending this debaucle.
Mr. Kutaragi will now apply his extensive technological knowledge and leadership skills to one of our competitors so, hopefully, they can fail even beyond the world of PlayStation.
So, who picked this guy to be the successor to Jack Valenti who once famously said: "If you need a backup copy of a DVD you can go out and buy another one." Was it Valenti who choose/endorse the succesor, or did the board vote him in?
So back then the voice of the MPAA was just blowing smoke?
Who "owns" the results? What will happen to them? Unlike other distributed computing projects, Folding@home is run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University's Chemistry Department), which is a nonprofit institution dedicated to science research and education. We will not sell the data or make any money off of it.
Moreover, we will make the data available for others to use. In particular, the results from Folding@home will be made available on several levels. Most importantly, analysis of the simulations will be submitted to scientific journals for publication, and these journal articles will be posted on the web page after publication. Next, after publication of these scientific articles which analyze the data, the raw data of the folding runs will be available for everyone, including other researchers, here on this web site.
Alas, only after creating the username did I realize that paying homage to an NPC in Earthbound could be misconstrued as an homage to Apple. Oh well.;)
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I don't know. Consumer Reports seems to do pretty well with being 100% reader supported.
The issue then becomes the content in the magazine isn't good enough to warrant the price an advertising-free magazine would cost.
Home schooling? Other schools?
Back in my day the schools had rules regardless of whether I agreed to them or not. They applied to everyone. Signing agreement is probably so that they KNOW what the rules are. Heh, back in my day ignorance wasn't an excuse, either.
All I need to do is say I walked 20 miles to school, in the snow, uphill, BOTH WAYS and I'd be officially admitted to the old gimp club.
Except they weren't taking a class on how to circumvent web filtering. If they were, hey, great job!
As far as "arbitrary rule", it's their network and their computers. All rules are discretionary, arbitrary or not.
Suppose they used the proxy to navigate to a site that was blocked and installed a bunch of spyware or viruses or other malware. Who's gonna clean it up? The smart kiddies who circumvented the rules? I doubt it: they just wanted to jump on myspace or whatever instead of using the school equipment for, you know, school-related activities.
It is malicious intent. If you are using the internet in an environment were you're blocked from visiting certain sites, then they don't want you visiting them on their network.
If you turn around and sneak through their system and do it anyway, that seems pretty bad faith to me.
If they locked up the computer lab after hours and because you are smart/skilled enough to get in anyway because you can pick locks, you're still doing something that you're not supposed to be doing.
To paraphrase Dragnet: "if you don't like the law you can try to get that law changed that doesn't give you the right to break it." The school network isn't "law", no, but they can still cause trouble for you if you go against it.
Good, because now I don't have to admit I'm getting old and can't remember that 09 F-something something.
The problem is that it WON'T protect against spies. They'll still spy and steal the secrets. The punishments happen IF they are found out.
Even when they're found out, does this agreement have world-wide reach?
This agreement is just draconian. Can't even mention you used to work for Google? Can't mention salary? How does THAT protect against corporate espionage?
I'd LOVE to see this actually get addressed in a court of law in a suit against a prior interviewee.
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Maximum Carnage caught my attention because it was the first major video game (to be fair to my lacking history, at least to western regions) to have it's soundtrack done by an established band, Green Jelly.
It wasn't CD quality, but at least, aside from a logo at startup, the advertising wasn't messing up things in-game.
Then again, I was younger and far more impressionable.
He made a map of his school for a video game?
Excuse me, but I've been making maps of schools for Hello Kitty's Sunny Summer Adventure for years now.
IIRC, the original Passme designs that enabled homebrew on the DS didn't work with ones that came out a year after launch when Nintendo was putting a new firmware on them.
How to explain the inability to stop newer homebrew kits? Thing is DS's have to have some contacts bridged in order to flash them. It's obviously not intended to be flashed except when being repaired. Contrast to the PSP's more aggressive flashing approach. Nintendo can't dispatch a firmware update, not even over WiFi, to fix those problems. The platform remains static and external influences which are allowed to evolve do and take complete advantage.
Nintendo has no love of homebrew. If someone lets themselves believe otherwise they are just setting themselves up for heartbreak.
"Well, there really aren't any good home pads for DDR unless you're looking at spending a couple hundred bucks. Plus nonstop hopping and stepping is an easy way to summon torches and pitchforks when you live in an apartment with tenants living under you."
That is, the above is what I would say IF I knew you weren't kidding since that's a pretty uninformed statement.
"The new physical education is moving away from competitive team sports . . . They can do it on their own, and they don't have to compete with anyone else."
If it's part of PE, it won't be on their own. Moreover, DDR players are extremely competitive regarding levels and songs their peers can complete while some can't. (I'm inside that crowd so I'm very much pot-kettle-black.)
I don't think using a video game for fitness is going to be a magic bullet to get kids bad at sports enthusiastic. Speaking as an ex-fat kid*, team sports and PE performance IS about drive and confidence and when you don't have confidence you can't have drive and you can't be excited about physical activity. DDR is just going to set another watermark for children who are already on the vector to obesity to never be able to obtain; children who already can't: perform one pull up, perform one sit up, run a quarter mile, touch their toes, or pass other basic fitness tests.
*Full disclosure: DDR *IS* how I lost weight. And the main factor in being brave enough to even start was the nearby arcade which was completely empty of all spying eyes during my lunch break. If I was around peers I'd probably would have snickered a lot and given up way sooner.
I still can't get over why generating "safe" code is the job of the compiler, anyway. What's wrong with checking lengths and buffers before using them? What's wrong with paranoid programming?
/GS? Pathetic.
Did Microsoft's new focus on security from the ground up with Vista really just amount to compiling all its system components with
If you now own the ideas contained in this reply, let me make the following yours:
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You know, Hitler might have been right about a few things.
Enjoy your new idea!
Yet.
"The RIAA Decision" simply doesn't have the ring as "The Seretech Decision." (background).
Exactly right... which is maybe why the Wii's different quirky gaming has gained so much ground compared to what's become par for the course with big-budget-but-uninspired games on the other platforms.
Don't get me wrong, Wii's going to get it's share of stinkers. But Nintendo has the MOST to lose if they do poorly so perhaps that's why they're willing to challenge and shake up the old dogmas. Microsoft and Sony's gaming divisions always have the safety net of the mamma corp (until, like you said, shareholders cut the cord) so maybe (just maybe) there really isn't a whole lot of urgency to innovate: and the longer that lasts the bigger a lead Nintendo will have.
(Which I'll come out and say is a bad thing. Other companies need to keep the fire going underfoot to keep things good for the customers.)
Is it normal for game divisions a year+ after their new console is released to still be in the red? Given Nintendo recently just reported record profits and Sony's Playstation division is still hemorraging money, it seems like Nintendo's on track to be the last man standing.
What's even more nuts to me is that with all the Live Gold subscribers they're still not making enough to offset losses. Are they still hedging all their bets on Halo 3?
Eggs in 1 basket much?
Considering how maintaining accuracy of patient history, treatment records, billing records, allergies, lab reports, and others is paramount I'd say if it ain't broke don't fix it. Could you imagine the change controls in an environment like that? "Potential impact: PEOPLE WILL DIE DIE DIE."
I'm curious what percentages of civil cases DON'T follow producure to the letter but they go ahead anyway.
I mean, Kotaku was appended onto the case that's originally Jack Thomspon vs. a whole bunch of entities (including the Florida BAR). Maybe the judge was just looking for ony slip up, any slip up, regardless of how minor, in order to toss it and avoid extending this debaucle.
Hmm... I don't know. The PC versions of GTA always looked better but I never heard of them outselling console versions.
Mr. Kutaragi will now apply his extensive technological knowledge and leadership skills to one of our competitors so, hopefully, they can fail even beyond the world of PlayStation.
So, who picked this guy to be the successor to Jack Valenti who once famously said: "If you need a backup copy of a DVD you can go out and buy another one." Was it Valenti who choose/endorse the succesor, or did the board vote him in?
So back then the voice of the MPAA was just blowing smoke?
Does this mean I can write off a PS3 purchase on my taxes? Sweet. B)
"This is scientific research that will eventually be patented..."
Um... from the FAQ:
Who "owns" the results? What will happen to them? Unlike other distributed computing projects, Folding@home is run by an academic institution (specifically the Pande Group, at Stanford University's Chemistry Department), which is a nonprofit institution dedicated to science research and education. We will not sell the data or make any money off of it.
Moreover, we will make the data available for others to use. In particular, the results from Folding@home will be made available on several levels. Most importantly, analysis of the simulations will be submitted to scientific journals for publication, and these journal articles will be posted on the web page after publication. Next, after publication of these scientific articles which analyze the data, the raw data of the folding runs will be available for everyone, including other researchers, here on this web site.
So now that games are less engrossing than other media, can we please stop blaming them for society's violence ills?
"To steal a train of thought from your username"
;)
Alas, only after creating the username did I realize that paying homage to an NPC in Earthbound could be misconstrued as an homage to Apple. Oh well.