Yeah, you're right, but it definitely doesn't have anything to do with getting huge amounts of points. I was mainly thinking of the cracks for super liam that were found a while back, where you could go into the registry or something and give yourself infinite lives or something like that, that's why hacking came to mind. Anyway, starting to stray away from gaming a bit so I'll shut up now. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 8:48 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Expressions On Audiogames Silliness
> Hi, > Actually, believe it or not hacking is the most misunderstood word in > the English language. The term hacker refered to software engineers who > programmed main frames, and later was applied to PC software engineers. > Hacking therefore meant you were programming a computer system. > To the hacker comunity, software programmers, a person who broke into > computers, cracked security codes, etc were known as crackers. For the > obvious reason they cracked things. > Well, over time the mainstream media and general public got it all wrong > as usual. Someone heard the term hacker, misunderstood what it really > means, and call crackers hackers even though that is the incorrect > definition. Since they got it all wrong Joe Smo usually says someone was > hacking into his system rather than using the correct word cracking. > Cheers. > > Shadow Dragon wrote: >> Um, hacking has nothing to do with getting points, it has to do with game >> wise usually cheating to make yourself ungodly, give yourself infinite >> lives, all weapons depending on the game, and such like that. Not game >> related it means hacking into someone elses system or network to do >> something with it that that person may or may not know about, malicious >> or >> otherwise. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
