well where were you? All my teachers, techtv when it was techtv, and most of my techie friends all have stated that ME was a quick release of what they had done so far on XP or 2000 or whatever and they released it because OS9 had just come out.
"AOL might be successful enough to break away from Time Warner" Okay that's total BS but still, YES! They need to get the hell off the backs of Time Warner. I'm sick of them wasting bandwidth that decent road runner connections could have used. I suspect I only get 4.5 megabits out of 5 because of them (still beats every other ISP ever) Now if they could just dump Adelphia and I think Comcast they own too, they'd be free to actually be a good business. One of my friends is currently trying to switch from Adelphia to Road Runner and they're actually fighting over who keeps the modem and can't seem to disconnect Adelphia at all. Why do they even offer like 5 different internet services when Road Runner blows them all away?
FINALLY! Support for transparent PNGs so sites can finally look extra schmancy! I've been waiting for that forever. But too bad now position:fixed divs means evil ads that will follow you around on the page and cannot be closed.
everyone remember when Windows ME was rushed out because their main competetor, Apple, just released a new OS and they didn't want to lose the market share....hmmm, now the only question is, which is which?:-P Looks like IE is losing so far, lol.
yeah that's pretty much what Apple said in the quote from the initial article about this. I think there's only fingers pointing in one place, at Apple! And it's one finger in particular lol.
well that handles the me problem but now I gotta tell the thing I'm taking a picture of to sit still:P hey, sitting still for a picture, where (when) have I heard of that before? lol
my 2 MP camera has a hard enough time taking a clear picture when I'm holding it as still as I can and it's got like a 1/60 second shutter or something ridiculously fast like that. If you record an image one pixel at a time, it can't possibly be faster. Even those seemingly magic DLP mirrors couldn't possibly be faster.
this is kinda like the moderation system here at slashdot. If you have an opinion that's not popular with the majority of people, you catch a bunch of crap for it and get penailized and blocked for it. Speaking of that, I wonder how this post will be rated lol. Everything in the US is like this. Isn't this the way it is: If you vote independent you're a weirdo, if you're for the war in iraq you're a moron, and somehow if you're against the war in iraq you're an incompassionate jerk who thinks Sadam should still be leading iraq. What ever happened to freedom of speech? Btw, don't the majority of people think immigrants should stay out or at least bare minimum learn english?
first of all that heading could have just as easily said MMOG instead of massive...
anyway, I wrote a program in VB that does some fake sales operations and accounting. Are they going to tax that virtual currency too? How about currency I just made up in my head? Who cares, I'd just give away enough in-game currency to a charity (low lvl players lol) that I'd be tax exempt. Oh wait, the game I play is based in South Korea, never mind:)
don't depend on AI if you don't have to. My dad forwards his business line at our house (self employed) to his cell phone every time he leaves. It's easy and free. Dunno who our provider is though but it's not even digital. This way calls get to where you are no matter what your schedule is or if it changes.
didn't WGA used to be an activex on the windows update site? What was wrong with that? It sure would have worked a lot better leaving the genuine validation function on a webserver. They'd have to make it not go crazy if the computer wasn't connected to the internet though but who isn't?
I bet they'll try and fine slashdot for posting this:-P but seriously, if they don't plan to fine foreigners then I doubt they'd be able to tell the difference between a chinese citizen using a proxy and a real foreigner as long as they don't use their real name. And if they do plan to fine foreigners, it's on now!
why don't they build into Vista and update XP (since nobody's going to buy Vista) so that you can't send repeated connection requests up to a reasonable limit.
hey, you have to remember that it's their store and you're just an unwanted guest in it. Don't they have a sign that says that in their window? If they don't, they should.
I think you got the last 3 letters of truth wrong and spelled it troll;) It's completely true unless the program is designed with 100% unbreakable foolproof security that you can't break even when U know exactly how it works, which ppl keep saying is impossible. Though to the other replier, the only 100% secure security isn't Fort Knox style where you just try to keep people out through mounds of security and say "now it's invincible." That's an expensive waste of resources. Think of how much easier it'd be if they hid the gold in a cave and just set traps and threw away the diagram saying where they all are. It looks like a clear path to what you want but then BAM you're caught in a trap. If they applied that idea to software security, it would be nearly perfect but they still would have to not see the source code. Even the best hacker in the world would fall for traps. I use a trap on my own web server with a fake, unlinked, free floating text file named "server_password" in a directory somewhere and purposely left directory listing enabled so effectively anyone who accesses that file had to have listed that directory, something no normal person would do because normal ppl don't just go poking around. I ban anyone's IP who accesses that file and you'd be surprised how many do per month. It's worked great so far. With this style, nobody would want to hack anything because they wouldn't know if the hole was left there as a trap or not.
I think Bush just told the IRS, they're missing a great opportunity to rack up some serious in game currency (like Runescape GP:P) through taxes. Then you'll have some high up gov supercharacters in all the games. I say this because technically if you can convert in game currency to real currency, you can pay your taxes with either. In fact, if they implemented a policy that taxes those transfers, I plan on paying my income and property taxes with Silkroad Gold (from SRO)
There is a distinct advantage to having one single person design an entire program/mod/game/piece of software. It's fast, it all works together well, and there's no huge delays for stupid stuff that most game developers do.
I'm still waiting for the in game Radio Shack salespeople that follow you around for hours while you play asking if they can help you find what you're looking for. I'm sure advertising will go absolutely crazy in the game soon so it's really not that far from possible.
perils, pitfalls, and possible rewards of running a business based on free or open source software
let's spell it out here for a second...
rewards: it's free
perils and pitfalls: you have to support it yourself and since it's horribly insecure since everyone can see the source code. There's no gaurauntee of tech support at all. I just spent about 10 hours manually patching my phpBB database up to the latest version after it got hacked because their patcher doesn't run on ipowerweb's servers, one of the largest hosts in the world. The time you'll spent with headaches using open source software is NOT worth the free pricetag.
P.S. not that I'm saying sold software packages are all good or anything
this actually is a security hole in itself. If U add the logic for checking the version of any web app and not letting it interact with anything at all it if it isn't the latest version, then problem solved. More excuses from lazy programmers that want to blame someone else.
I think they'll eventually turn this idea into a gameshow. I could picture it now
"Okay, which do you think will be the first result found for a search for "DDR". Will it be RAM or Dance Dance Revolution?" I bet NBC would pick that one up.
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you have to buy your island, dude ;) Then you can do whatever you want with nobody to bug you.
well where were you? All my teachers, techtv when it was techtv, and most of my techie friends all have stated that ME was a quick release of what they had done so far on XP or 2000 or whatever and they released it because OS9 had just come out.
"AOL might be successful enough to break away from Time Warner" Okay that's total BS but still, YES! They need to get the hell off the backs of Time Warner. I'm sick of them wasting bandwidth that decent road runner connections could have used. I suspect I only get 4.5 megabits out of 5 because of them (still beats every other ISP ever) Now if they could just dump Adelphia and I think Comcast they own too, they'd be free to actually be a good business. One of my friends is currently trying to switch from Adelphia to Road Runner and they're actually fighting over who keeps the modem and can't seem to disconnect Adelphia at all. Why do they even offer like 5 different internet services when Road Runner blows them all away?
FINALLY! Support for transparent PNGs so sites can finally look extra schmancy! I've been waiting for that forever. But too bad now position:fixed divs means evil ads that will follow you around on the page and cannot be closed.
everyone remember when Windows ME was rushed out because their main competetor, Apple, just released a new OS and they didn't want to lose the market share....hmmm, now the only question is, which is which? :-P Looks like IE is losing so far, lol.
yeah that's pretty much what Apple said in the quote from the initial article about this. I think there's only fingers pointing in one place, at Apple! And it's one finger in particular lol.
well that handles the me problem but now I gotta tell the thing I'm taking a picture of to sit still :P hey, sitting still for a picture, where (when) have I heard of that before? lol
my 2 MP camera has a hard enough time taking a clear picture when I'm holding it as still as I can and it's got like a 1/60 second shutter or something ridiculously fast like that. If you record an image one pixel at a time, it can't possibly be faster. Even those seemingly magic DLP mirrors couldn't possibly be faster.
this is kinda like the moderation system here at slashdot. If you have an opinion that's not popular with the majority of people, you catch a bunch of crap for it and get penailized and blocked for it. Speaking of that, I wonder how this post will be rated lol. Everything in the US is like this. Isn't this the way it is: If you vote independent you're a weirdo, if you're for the war in iraq you're a moron, and somehow if you're against the war in iraq you're an incompassionate jerk who thinks Sadam should still be leading iraq. What ever happened to freedom of speech? Btw, don't the majority of people think immigrants should stay out or at least bare minimum learn english?
first of all that heading could have just as easily said MMOG instead of massive... :)
anyway, I wrote a program in VB that does some fake sales operations and accounting. Are they going to tax that virtual currency too? How about currency I just made up in my head? Who cares, I'd just give away enough in-game currency to a charity (low lvl players lol) that I'd be tax exempt. Oh wait, the game I play is based in South Korea, never mind
don't depend on AI if you don't have to. My dad forwards his business line at our house (self employed) to his cell phone every time he leaves. It's easy and free. Dunno who our provider is though but it's not even digital. This way calls get to where you are no matter what your schedule is or if it changes.
didn't WGA used to be an activex on the windows update site? What was wrong with that? It sure would have worked a lot better leaving the genuine validation function on a webserver. They'd have to make it not go crazy if the computer wasn't connected to the internet though but who isn't?
why don't they just bring an ice machine next time they go to the moon? And some bacteria too then they'll be happy :-D
I bet they'll try and fine slashdot for posting this :-P but seriously, if they don't plan to fine foreigners then I doubt they'd be able to tell the difference between a chinese citizen using a proxy and a real foreigner as long as they don't use their real name. And if they do plan to fine foreigners, it's on now!
why don't they build into Vista and update XP (since nobody's going to buy Vista) so that you can't send repeated connection requests up to a reasonable limit.
hey, you have to remember that it's their store and you're just an unwanted guest in it. Don't they have a sign that says that in their window? If they don't, they should.
I think you got the last 3 letters of truth wrong and spelled it troll ;) It's completely true unless the program is designed with 100% unbreakable foolproof security that you can't break even when U know exactly how it works, which ppl keep saying is impossible. Though to the other replier, the only 100% secure security isn't Fort Knox style where you just try to keep people out through mounds of security and say "now it's invincible." That's an expensive waste of resources. Think of how much easier it'd be if they hid the gold in a cave and just set traps and threw away the diagram saying where they all are. It looks like a clear path to what you want but then BAM you're caught in a trap. If they applied that idea to software security, it would be nearly perfect but they still would have to not see the source code. Even the best hacker in the world would fall for traps. I use a trap on my own web server with a fake, unlinked, free floating text file named "server_password" in a directory somewhere and purposely left directory listing enabled so effectively anyone who accesses that file had to have listed that directory, something no normal person would do because normal ppl don't just go poking around. I ban anyone's IP who accesses that file and you'd be surprised how many do per month. It's worked great so far. With this style, nobody would want to hack anything because they wouldn't know if the hole was left there as a trap or not.
I think Bush just told the IRS, they're missing a great opportunity to rack up some serious in game currency (like Runescape GP :P) through taxes. Then you'll have some high up gov supercharacters in all the games. I say this because technically if you can convert in game currency to real currency, you can pay your taxes with either. In fact, if they implemented a policy that taxes those transfers, I plan on paying my income and property taxes with Silkroad Gold (from SRO)
There is a distinct advantage to having one single person design an entire program/mod/game/piece of software. It's fast, it all works together well, and there's no huge delays for stupid stuff that most game developers do.
I'm still waiting for the in game Radio Shack salespeople that follow you around for hours while you play asking if they can help you find what you're looking for. I'm sure advertising will go absolutely crazy in the game soon so it's really not that far from possible.
let's spell it out here for a second...
rewards: it's free
perils and pitfalls: you have to support it yourself and since it's horribly insecure since everyone can see the source code. There's no gaurauntee of tech support at all. I just spent about 10 hours manually patching my phpBB database up to the latest version after it got hacked because their patcher doesn't run on ipowerweb's servers, one of the largest hosts in the world. The time you'll spent with headaches using open source software is NOT worth the free pricetag.
P.S. not that I'm saying sold software packages are all good or anything
obviously global warming is increasing the storm's intensity :-P Stop driving your SUVs people or Mercury might get hotter too!
this actually is a security hole in itself. If U add the logic for checking the version of any web app and not letting it interact with anything at all it if it isn't the latest version, then problem solved. More excuses from lazy programmers that want to blame someone else.
I think they'll eventually turn this idea into a gameshow. I could picture it now "Okay, which do you think will be the first result found for a search for "DDR". Will it be RAM or Dance Dance Revolution?" I bet NBC would pick that one up.