will be to the enterprising young hacker(s) who sandbox the whole thing and reverse the streams involved with the loading and saving of game data, set up some quick and dirty webserver to respond to the proper requests and then thinstall/virtualize the whole damn thing, unless ubisoft is going to withhold a lot of their content on the central servers , i dont see how this screws over anyone BUT the paying people
but sometimes...i am way way off
but, how long will MS stay true to the ODF format, just because its a 'standard' doesnt mean they won't throw their own proprietary sh#t into the mix, they have done this before with other standards
4...3...2..
hopefully this is more than an attempt to glean free Office licenses from Microsoft, which they would undoubtedly cough up to prevent anyone else from gaining a foothold.
Good Luck Denmark, good to see this move, hope it was for the right reasons
c'mon read the fine(?) article, the guy says its going to happen this year, so at most that means about 5 years, not twenty, c'mon he didnt say first quarter next year did he? I could see 20yrs then
Final Fantasy 1 was THE game that got me into the RPG genre, and solidified my Nintendo Fan-boi-ism for many,many years to come, but now having seen my favorite game ported to Sony PSP and now iPhone/iPod without seeing an NDS remake is just boiling my oil. and also to Square/Enix, don't forget about those of us who saved your now-wretched company back then when Final Fantasy was almost your swan-song, We'd like a way to play this game on a console with bloodlines to the original, without having to resort to emulators to do so.
I've been waiting since i heard of the PSP version for a DS port/remake to come out, looks like I still have to keep waiting:\
Olo
If you RTFA you see that the 31 dollars is per-year handling of your disc, you set the prices for your prints and get commision based on that... sheesh guys wake up
chances are, the people who have made this switch(as I have,2 weeks running ubuntu(mind you it took several botched attempts at setting myself a proper partition size and swap, but i got through it)) are not making the switch because they think this is a way to run their windows programs 'better' i am assuming 95% of all people who switch to linux of any variant are doing so at the urging(and with the support) of close friends and family. ubuntu being my own personal experience(last install of linux i tried was redhat circa 1998-99) and my experience was several orders of magnitude better. compiz is the bomb, i dont honestly think i have been more pleased with a system, considering my pc would struggle at best to install a basic version of vista, i am quite pleased, my internet experience on the whole has increased, on windows when i would max my incoming bandwidth i would be experiencing disconnects and poor connectivity from other applications, none of these issues thus far in ubuntu, and i've noticed my upstream is on average 50-60K/sec faster, there are decent equivalents for just about any program i use, the only exception is that i run a virtual machine for apps i am not ready to let go of yet, mIRC (i spent all those years learning to script it i am not throwing that away) and convertxtodvd which i have not found a decent alternative to as of yet, i havent gone the WINE route as i feel it would be counter-productive to what I am trying to accomplish with the switch.
any thoughts?
will ISP's do the 'right thing' and maybe set some 'free-leech' whitelist where people who use services such as steam/youtube/wow/itunes that can accrue a lot of bandwidth over the course of the month, while trying to bill UPSTREAM to entice legitimate content-providers to buy themselves a slot on this 'whitelist' so their business model is not affected by this sudden loss of 'capacity' on the ISP networks?
I'm hoping not, but at least it would keep those who are legitimately paying for products and services to continue to receive the value that they are paying for.
ie, 100gb cap, but anything going thru itunes/wow/steam/youtube etc would not be counted against your quota, everything else does, hopefully this isnt where things are going, but who knows:( its time for a 'public internet' where you pay for your access and thats it, u are free to do as u please on the connection u pay for, if you do something that is illegal and get caught then thats between you and the authorities, the ISP should not be involved.
using Socket 478 based Pentium 4(2.8Ghz) running 2Gb RAM and WinXP Pro as the underlying OS i am able to run 2 Windows 2000 Pro Systems with very little Processor hit, I usually run around 7% CPU utilization and hit approx 50% RAM usage. With the minimize to the tray option I dont even realize these are running half the time.
p.s the VM's in question are only allocated 256Mb RAM each, and performance in each window is very snappy
of course this is pertinent, Slashdot is losing its vision, and has to look at stories over and over again to keep from forgetting them, or is this just your first day here.... no wait UID too low... what is your excuse;)
is this an indication that all ISP's in the country are full of boardmembers making over 500k a year? no internetsoup for you!! seriously though, I envision america's internet infrastructure to be as badly in need of repair/upgrades as their roads/water/electrical infrastructures. why the pullout? is this just so you naughty people wont pirate Britney's new tracks so fast?
apparently sub 1000000 Slashdot UID's don't hold the prestige they once did, ok so new rule, everyone with 967726 UID's or below are now the respected few , that the rest of us should look to and mod up when the situation allows:P, until they forget how to spell and start to transpose their there's:)
I cant think of a better way to slap a company in the face than to take away its newly discovered 'cash-cow', the guitar hero series has a lot of potential on the DS, its one of the few games I have purchased, seeing as I have a slot-1 flash cart, i can test games before i buy and avoid disappointing purchases.what Nintendo has done here is shoot Activision straight through the heart for this series... I mean, if i was stupid enough to 'upgrade' i would not be able to buy new guitar hero games... but I bet my Cyclo-DS will still work... hmm can someone tell me what the ??? before the 'Profit!!' would be in this case? I see no benefit other than an attack on piracy, that already looks like it wont work:\
I just got off the phone with one of the network engineers at CERN, they expect to have the whole thing up and running again by Dec 21st, 2012, nothing to be alarmed about here, people tend to read into things way too much:)
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It's a beowulf cluster of Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulators
totally offtopic but wow,. UID 10, one of the old ones has returned on st pattys day :D
will be to the enterprising young hacker(s) who sandbox the whole thing and reverse the streams involved with the loading and saving of game data, set up some quick and dirty webserver to respond to the proper requests and then thinstall/virtualize the whole damn thing, unless ubisoft is going to withhold a lot of their content on the central servers , i dont see how this screws over anyone BUT the paying people but sometimes...i am way way off
but, how long will MS stay true to the ODF format, just because its a 'standard' doesnt mean they won't throw their own proprietary sh#t into the mix, they have done this before with other standards
4...3...2.. hopefully this is more than an attempt to glean free Office licenses from Microsoft, which they would undoubtedly cough up to prevent anyone else from gaining a foothold. Good Luck Denmark, good to see this move, hope it was for the right reasons
ya but if my sim-memory hasn't failed me, its what only 50k per reactor? sweeeeeet spot!
c'mon read the fine(?) article, the guy says its going to happen this year, so at most that means about 5 years, not twenty, c'mon he didnt say first quarter next year did he? I could see 20yrs then
Final Fantasy 1 was THE game that got me into the RPG genre, and solidified my Nintendo Fan-boi-ism for many,many years to come, but now having seen my favorite game ported to Sony PSP and now iPhone/iPod without seeing an NDS remake is just boiling my oil. and also to Square/Enix, don't forget about those of us who saved your now-wretched company back then when Final Fantasy was almost your swan-song, We'd like a way to play this game on a console with bloodlines to the original, without having to resort to emulators to do so. I've been waiting since i heard of the PSP version for a DS port/remake to come out, looks like I still have to keep waiting :\
Olo
then explain the significance of this pegging of the yahn, it must be covering something up.
i was very happy to see this when i made my transition from windows world of visual studio over to linux, this ide is awesome, seems very powerfull
If you RTFA you see that the 31 dollars is per-year handling of your disc, you set the prices for your prints and get commision based on that... sheesh guys wake up
chances are, the people who have made this switch(as I have,2 weeks running ubuntu(mind you it took several botched attempts at setting myself a proper partition size and swap, but i got through it)) are not making the switch because they think this is a way to run their windows programs 'better' i am assuming 95% of all people who switch to linux of any variant are doing so at the urging(and with the support) of close friends and family. ubuntu being my own personal experience(last install of linux i tried was redhat circa 1998-99) and my experience was several orders of magnitude better. compiz is the bomb, i dont honestly think i have been more pleased with a system, considering my pc would struggle at best to install a basic version of vista, i am quite pleased, my internet experience on the whole has increased, on windows when i would max my incoming bandwidth i would be experiencing disconnects and poor connectivity from other applications, none of these issues thus far in ubuntu, and i've noticed my upstream is on average 50-60K/sec faster, there are decent equivalents for just about any program i use, the only exception is that i run a virtual machine for apps i am not ready to let go of yet, mIRC (i spent all those years learning to script it i am not throwing that away) and convertxtodvd which i have not found a decent alternative to as of yet, i havent gone the WINE route as i feel it would be counter-productive to what I am trying to accomplish with the switch. any thoughts?
will ISP's do the 'right thing' and maybe set some 'free-leech' whitelist where people who use services such as steam/youtube/wow/itunes that can accrue a lot of bandwidth over the course of the month, while trying to bill UPSTREAM to entice legitimate content-providers to buy themselves a slot on this 'whitelist' so their business model is not affected by this sudden loss of 'capacity' on the ISP networks? I'm hoping not, but at least it would keep those who are legitimately paying for products and services to continue to receive the value that they are paying for. ie, 100gb cap, but anything going thru itunes/wow/steam/youtube etc would not be counted against your quota, everything else does, hopefully this isnt where things are going, but who knows :( its time for a 'public internet' where you pay for your access and thats it, u are free to do as u please on the connection u pay for, if you do something that is illegal and get caught then thats between you and the authorities, the ISP should not be involved.
Another of my child-hood icons has fallen to the beast of time, thanks Dave, you've helped to inspire millions and will continue to do so. R.I.P
where is the money coming from to pay for these domain names?
using Socket 478 based Pentium 4(2.8Ghz) running 2Gb RAM and WinXP Pro as the underlying OS i am able to run 2 Windows 2000 Pro Systems with very little Processor hit, I usually run around 7% CPU utilization and hit approx 50% RAM usage. With the minimize to the tray option I dont even realize these are running half the time. p.s the VM's in question are only allocated 256Mb RAM each, and performance in each window is very snappy
of course this is pertinent, Slashdot is losing its vision, and has to look at stories over and over again to keep from forgetting them, or is this just your first day here.... no wait UID too low... what is your excuse ;)
hmm
captcha = speech
how ironic
fine, i accept your analysis, however i have based this on your UID and not the content of your message :D
is this an indication that all ISP's in the country are full of boardmembers making over 500k a year? no internetsoup for you!! seriously though, I envision america's internet infrastructure to be as badly in need of repair/upgrades as their roads/water/electrical infrastructures. why the pullout? is this just so you naughty people wont pirate Britney's new tracks so fast?
apparently sub 1000000 Slashdot UID's don't hold the prestige they once did, ok so new rule, everyone with 967726 UID's or below are now the respected few , that the rest of us should look to and mod up when the situation allows :P, until they forget how to spell and start to transpose their there's :)
-not usually a spelling nazi, but...LOL come on :D
This is old news, why does everyone fret so, see right here http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20081005&mode=classic. - this comment submitted by CAPTCHA-BOT 2000 Pro!
I cant think of a better way to slap a company in the face than to take away its newly discovered 'cash-cow', the guitar hero series has a lot of potential on the DS, its one of the few games I have purchased, seeing as I have a slot-1 flash cart, i can test games before i buy and avoid disappointing purchases.what Nintendo has done here is shoot Activision straight through the heart for this series... I mean, if i was stupid enough to 'upgrade' i would not be able to buy new guitar hero games... but I bet my Cyclo-DS will still work... hmm can someone tell me what the ??? before the 'Profit!!' would be in this case? I see no benefit other than an attack on piracy, that already looks like it wont work :\
They also point out that no other superfluid helium handling facility has mysteriously blown itself to pieces."
what about the one at Atlantis? think about that ;)
I just got off the phone with one of the network engineers at CERN, they expect to have the whole thing up and running again by Dec 21st, 2012, nothing to be alarmed about here, people tend to read into things way too much :)
this has got to be one of the top-10 funniest posts on slashdot yet, we need a +6 Epic Lulz around here