That guy is my boss. Here's an email conversation re:firefox. Read from bottom email up, in typical exchange fashion.
"However, industry observers have long warned that the browser is more secure partly because of its relatively small user base. As Firefox's profile grows, attackers will increasingly target the browser."
-----Original Message----- From: Will Dunn Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:47 AM To: All Subject: RE: [ISN] Firefox suffers first 'extremely critical' security hole
If you use the built-in update feature in firefox, which is enabled by default (the little up-arrow in the top right corner), there's already a temporary fix being pushed down from the modzev group.
Not to mention, you're still more secure than if you use internet explorer - a search on Secunia returns 49 results for firefox, with 29 of those being for firefox 1.x versus 139 for internet explorer, 80 of which are for 6.x and 19 of which are unpatched.
-----Original Message----- From: [name removed to protect the ignorant] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:11 AM To: All Subject: FW: [ISN] Firefox suffers first 'extremely critical' security hole
-----Original Message----- From: isn-bounces@attrition.org [mailto:isn-bounces@attrition.org%5D On Behalf Of InfoSec News Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 3:18 AM To: isn@attrition.org Subject: [ISN] Firefox suffers first 'extremely critical' security hole
Firefox has unpatched "extremely critical" security holes and exploit code is already circulating on the Net, security researchers have warned.
The two unpatched flaws in the Mozilla browser could allow an attacker to take control of your system.
A patch is expected shortly, but in the meantime users can protect themselves by switching off JavaScript. In addition, the Mozilla Foundation has now made the flaws effectively impossible to exploit by changes to the server-side download mechanism on the update.mozilla.org and addons.mozilla.org sites, according to security experts.
[.....rest of article.....]
Wow. What an ignorant closeminded bastard. This coming from a guy who runs an exchange server and several IIS servers, and had me install, configure, and migrate his DNS from exchange to RedHat on my first two days because he was concerned about security. He's one of those "throw money at it" and "Microsoft is the solution for all problems"
xactly. I don't mind working hard and working fast from 7AM to 6:30PM - if I have to put in an 11 hour day, I have to put in an 11 hour day. But, the kid is a previous recurring commitment. I don't really see how people can be pissed off about stuff like this.
Not to mention: Your whole perspective changes with kids. I know it's cliche'd, but it's true. And sooner or later, most of our fellow loner 20-something slashdot readers will probably settle down and have a family.
Admittadely, flexibility may be an issue; if something needs rushed to completion, or you genuinely need to be away from work to look after a sick kid, I don't mind throwing in some extra time, but I expect for you to put in extra hours later to make up for it, and let me take it easy for a bit.
This is the issue with parenting and working. Sometimes there are two absolutes that have to be in opposition. For example, if you're going out with friends, and all of a sudden a crisis happens, you can call and cancel/reschedule. However, if I'm at work, and something goes down at 5PM, no matter *what* happens, I have to leave at 6:30 in order to pick my one-year-old up from daycare by 7:00pm. I might be able to push it to 6:35, but I think they start charging me $15 per minute past 7pm.
And yet another problem with this kind of bill is that the party who proposes the bill can tack a very sticky issue onto a very like-able bill, for example:
"Bill proposing to make September 11th a National Day of Rememberance"
and tacked onto the end of the bill could be: "Social security will henceforth include proponants of private accounting, in order that people may deflect a portion of their social security into an account they control".
What do you do now? This has created a lose-lose situation for someone opposed to privatization of social security - either vote for the bill and then everyone calls you a flip-flopper for your stance on Social Security, or vote against the bill and have your patriotism called into question.
Exactly. How hard is it to pass a Session ID as a hidden variable between pages, not in the URL? And if you close your browser, you'll have to start over. So what?
Um, plug the outside world (cable/dsl/etc) into a switch, and plug all the comptuers in to the switch next to it.
Like I said, if the computers have a non-world routable IP, like 192.168.1.X, and a subnet of not very many IPs, like 255.255.255.0, they'll have to ask the gateway how to get anywhere other than computers on the 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.254 block.
If your gateway machine is 192.168.1.1, and it also has an ip of 56.78.90.12, or whatever the ISP is giving it, then it will simultaneously know how to get to the internet and the internal network (hence, gateway). For all requests that go to IPs other than the ones on the local slash-24 network, the client computers will ask their gateway, and the gateway (presumably, if it's also a router) will know where to send the request.
Admittedly, the only problem I see with this setup is if you want your comptuers other than the gateway to use DHCP. If your cable / DSL is also DHCP, this may cause issues - having 2 DHCP servers on the network is not a good thing. You want your computers to broadcast for a DHCP server when the log onto the network, and you want your gateway to answer, and not the cable company. Static IP addresses would, of course, solve the problem.
There really isn't much need for 2 NIC's. I'm not sure why a bunch of people think it's a killer feature. For starters, a gigabit NIC is capable of transfering in real world terms about 100MBytes/sec, which is faster than the real world performance of most hard drive read/writes (1 GBit/sec = 125MBytes/sec, minus overhead). I have no idea why these $140 motherboards are coming out with 2 Gigabit nics.
In addition, one NIC can up 254 IP addresses (if I remember correctly). At my last job, we had a SPARC box with 3 NICs in it, but that's because it was left over from before the days of HTTP1.1 and name-based virtual hosting, and it had 700ish IPs upped on it (you should have seen the init scripts).
A lot of people say 2 nics would be good for a firewall/router. I don't see that, either. Why not just up an external and an internal IP on one NIC and set all the other computers to the internal IP address scheme, with a subnet of [not enough ips to get to the internet on their own] and set the gateway to the firewall?
Whatever, it's just one of those wierd things i've noticed and don't really understand. Outside of high-end server environments, I just don't see the need for more than one NIC. And even in high end server environments, failover is an odd excuse for more than one NIC - I'd suspect the motherboard would go bad far more often than *only one* NIC would go bad.
Having said that, at my old job, we did have one machine with 2 nics that we were using both of - one was the internet connection, and the other was connected to a 10-baseT hub where our SNMP-capable UPS's were plugged in. It was basically listning and sniffing/grepping packets to alert us of power failures off-hours. Also, my Windows XP desktop has 2 NICs (daughter card and onboard), but that's only because the daughter card is a realtek 8139, which has native driver support, and I was too lazy to find the motherboard CD to get the driver last time I wiped and reloaded.
My friend, who does studio recording, does. It's a fantastic card. Needs a pre-processor, though.
8 inputs. It's awesome. When you run Cool Edit Pro, they all automatically become separate tracks. So nice. And you can even do it with 2 laylas - 16 track recording live.
That's exactly true. My new motherboard, an Intel-based board with a 915G chipset, sports onboard audio that's better than my old-skool soundblaster live. It's possible that it uses a few more cpu cycles to do the sound, but hey, that soundblaster used to be in an 800 mhz P-III, and this one's a 2.8Ghz P-4. Extra clock cycles i've got.
So, I ditched my soundblaster live. Doesn't bother me a bit.
Also: Onboard video today is perfectly suited to basic desktop usage. To put it in other terms: "There is no reason to buy a separate video card unless you are gaming or doing graphics-workstation cad design".
Yeah, I mean, star trek was a "Wagon train to the stars", as far as I knew. It wasn't supposed to be deep. Think about the next generation - random alien shows up, strange problem happens, strange problem stems from a problem with random alien, who is outwardly scary but inwardly kind and vastly misunderstood, enterprise makes friends, credits. But, you know what? It was good.
If you enjoyed watching it, it was good. I'm not putting on ears and going to conventions, but come on - it's not cool to hate everything. Just like what you like, for your own reasons.
The 350z, advertised at a local dealer here MSRP's for between $30,370 and $42,200, depending on options. That dealer lists the price as low as $28,000, but... who's buying a bottom barrel 350z? If I buy a sports car, I'm not trying to have non-automatic windows. Plus, I'm pretty sure a tricked out Mitsubishi Lancer that you spent $20,000 on the car and $20,000 on the upgrades could blow past a 305z, especially one with the cheapest of the options.
Games are multi-threaded, most of the better ones. Most big titles since quake3 had the option of being run in multi-proc mode, even if you did have to envoke it thusly from the command line. Additionally, as I mentioned before, even if a game isn't multithreaded, you can still set the process affinity to the 2nd processor, leaving it completely in the hands of the video game, while the 1st handles all the OS functions, memory management, etc. This alone will speed things up.
AS STATED BEFORE, the PCI-e 6800GT is more expensive because it supports SLI. The ATI-X800XL (which appearantly is a real card, in as much as any ATI card is a "real" card until you try to find it in a retail store) does NOT support SLI. In fact, no ATI card does. I'm not an NVidia Fanboy (I switched from an X600 to the 6800GT, and I didn't mind ATI), but I am saying that SLI is a huge advantage. Not to mention the X800XL does have less than stellar performance -- from the article you reference:
If you ignore Doom 3, the X800 XL actually does fairly well against NVIDIA's 6800GT, equaling it in many games, outperforming it in Half Life 2, and coming within about 10% in Far Cry/Halo (while still being $100 cheaper). The problem is that Doom 3 [where the 6800GT is 30% faster] is a pretty big blemish on the X800 XL's record that may or may not be indicative of future game performance depending on engine licenses. However, given the $100 reduction in price, we'd be willing to deal with lower Doom 3 performance so long as performance in other games remains competitive.
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The 6800GT trumps the X800XL or any other X800 based card in another way, too: They're available for sale. I am getting fed up with ATI saying that their cards will be comming out soon, and will be cheaper and faster than NVidia's cards. When the only people that get cards are the review sites, it's a big problem that the benchmarks don't show.
Also, about SLI: How can I possibly not have a clue about gaming hardware? SLI boxes are the bleeding hyperexpensive edge of gaming hardware these days. First, I don't have an SLI box, I didn't want to pay ~$250 for an SLI motherboard when the P-4 dual core procs are on the way, and I don't know if the board will support them. 2.) A 40% performance gain, even if that's all you get, is hugely significant. But, with SLI, the gains are (admittedly not double, but) more in the neighborhood of 60-70%, from what I have read (on review sites and in maximumpc, etc). Also, how can I be a generation of features behind? What is a feature that the 6800GT doesn't support? And if a feature like that exists, what games make use of it?
Of course, you're retarted. You're also an AC because you are, in fact, the origional poster, and you're embarrased to log in and post anything worthwhile.
2a.) a 350z is more than $20,000, a good bit more. 2b.) gaming is a good application for dual core. A lot of games these days are multi-threaded, owing to the popularity of hyperthreaded procs. Not to mention, you can set process affinity to one core or the other and let one of the cores be completely used by the game, while the other one manages the OS. 2c.) Who in their right mind would buy a pentium 4 board with AGP today? PCI-Express is the slot of the future, AGP is old and busted. I'll grant that there aren't many performance gains from switching from AGP to PCIe, but there's that whole forward-looking ready for tomorrow thing too. Not to mention, even if you didn't care about PCIe, you'd probably be interested in some of the features of the Intel 915 / 925 chipset, which doesn't support AGP. 2d.) The 6800GT is not an X800XL. For that matter, the X800XL sounds like a nonexistant ATI card. You were probably looking for the X850XT. And of course, the 6800GT is an NVidia card. 2e.) The 6800GT in PCIe form is only slightly more expensive, and I'm sure a lot of people want to buy it for the same reason I bought it - SLI. AGP doesn't support SLI. I bought it so in the future, I can just buy another one and an SLI motherboard, and double my performance.
I know it's a hard concept for the non-techie to grasp, but it goes like this:
UNIX is a trademarked word. UNIX is also a POSIX compliant operating system. In order to be a posix compliant operating system, an operating system must follow X, Y, and Z criteria. Linux follows X, Y, and Z criteria. Linux is a POSIX compliant operating system. The Linux code has been built from scratch with the aim of being POSIX compliant. Since the POSIX standard is based on the UNIX operating system, Linux is a relative of, but not a derivitive of, UNIX.
That's not exactly it, but it's close enough, and simple enough, that a reporter can digest it.
So, in some ways, you could say "Linux is a UNIX clone". In the same ways, you could say "Margarine is a Butter clone". Margarine was built from scratch, using entirely different ingrediants than butter, but with the aim of looking, smelling, and tasting like butter. But, margarine is not butter. However, I don't think anyone who went around calling margarine "Not Butter" is going to kill either industry.
So, I'm not even sure I know what this guy is trying to say. It sounds like he thinks that we are mad that SCO says linux is a unix clone. I don't know a linux user that would be bothered by this statement. All we (as linux users) are saying is "Linux contains no stolen copyrighted code from Unix", and "Linux is not Unix". And maybe a "Linux is similar enough in function to Unix that they share a computing standard".
1.) What's to differentiate GameA from GameB once the graphics are photorealistic? How about plot, characters, gameplay, strategy, immersive surroundings??
Ever read a Sci-Fi novel? They're just like every other sci-fi novel - ships fly around in space, lasers shoot, aliens invade. Does that mean that Ender's game was dumb because it came out after Rama? What about Fantasy? Should we toss "A Song of Ice and Fire" because it deals with the same broad settings as "Lord of the Rings"?
2.) I don't want photorealism in my games! For God's sake - I am so effing sick of the war genre FPS games that are coming out. Call of duty, Halo, Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six Twelve, Random WWII Shooter, etc. Even Doom3 looks "realistic" in that I guess zombies would look like that.
Do you have any idea why UT2004 is so damned successful? It's becuase it's REALLY fun to play. In real life, there's no "link guns", nuculear explosions from redeemers would obliterate maps, shock rifles don't exist, guns can't produce lightning, and no one busts up a deep voice that says "HEADSHOT" or "WICKED SICK" or "HOLY SHIT" when you cap some germans in WWII. Also, people can't double jump in real life. But, it's really fun! That's what sustains games.
You know, in Windows, you can hit Ctl+Alt+Del to bring up the task manager, go to the processes tab, right click on a process, and go to "Set Affinity".
If you've been around the internet for a while, you've probably come across "Sealand", which is the smallest country in the world, population 7. It's a world war II outpost in the british waters. It used to be in international waters, and when it was abandoned, someone claimed it and took it to be their country.
And they make money by hosting servers, with no copyright / slander / censor laws.
Unacceptable publications include, but are not limited to:
Material that is unlawful in the jurisdiction of the server. For instance, if a customer's machine is hosted on Sealand by HavenCo, content which is illegal in Sealand may not be published or housed on that server. Sealand's laws prohibit child pornography. Sealand currently has no regulations regarding copyright, patents, libel, restrictions on political speech, non-disclosure agreements, cryptography, restrictions on maintaining customer records, tax or mandatory licensing, DMCA, music sharing services, or other issues; child pornography is the only content explicitly prohibited. At the present time, child pornography is not precisely defined; HavenCo is obeying rules similar to those of the United States, specifically a prohibition on any depiction of those under 18 in a sexual context.
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Haha.
That guy is my boss.
Here's an email conversation re:firefox. Read from bottom email up, in typical exchange fashion.
Wow. What an ignorant closeminded bastard. This coming from a guy who runs an exchange server and several IIS servers, and had me install, configure, and migrate his DNS from exchange to RedHat on my first two days because he was concerned about security. He's one of those "throw money at it" and "Microsoft is the solution for all problems"
~Will
Also, slashdot dropped this: "E"
Found this on the FTP Site. Didn't use it myself... maybe it'll solve the problem.
e ases/1.0.4/update/win32/en-US/
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel
xactly. I don't mind working hard and working fast from 7AM to 6:30PM - if I have to put in an 11 hour day, I have to put in an 11 hour day. But, the kid is a previous recurring commitment. I don't really see how people can be pissed off about stuff like this.
Not to mention: Your whole perspective changes with kids. I know it's cliche'd, but it's true. And sooner or later, most of our fellow loner 20-something slashdot readers will probably settle down and have a family.
~Will
Admittadely, flexibility may be an issue; if something needs rushed to completion, or you genuinely need to be away from work to look after a sick kid, I don't mind throwing in some extra time, but I expect for you to put in extra hours later to make up for it, and let me take it easy for a bit.
This is the issue with parenting and working. Sometimes there are two absolutes that have to be in opposition. For example, if you're going out with friends, and all of a sudden a crisis happens, you can call and cancel/reschedule. However, if I'm at work, and something goes down at 5PM, no matter *what* happens, I have to leave at 6:30 in order to pick my one-year-old up from daycare by 7:00pm. I might be able to push it to 6:35, but I think they start charging me $15 per minute past 7pm.
~will
And yet another problem with this kind of bill is that the party who proposes the bill can tack a very sticky issue onto a very like-able bill, for example:
"Bill proposing to make September 11th a National Day of Rememberance"
and tacked onto the end of the bill could be: "Social security will henceforth include proponants of private accounting, in order that people may deflect a portion of their social security into an account they control".
What do you do now? This has created a lose-lose situation for someone opposed to privatization of social security - either vote for the bill and then everyone calls you a flip-flopper for your stance on Social Security, or vote against the bill and have your patriotism called into question.
Sigh.
~Will
Exactly. How hard is it to pass a Session ID as a hidden variable between pages, not in the URL? And if you close your browser, you'll have to start over. So what?
That's a really good point - switch failure I see a lot more than motherboard or NIC failure. I stand corrected.
Um, plug the outside world (cable/dsl/etc) into a switch, and plug all the comptuers in to the switch next to it.
Like I said, if the computers have a non-world routable IP, like 192.168.1.X, and a subnet of not very many IPs, like 255.255.255.0, they'll have to ask the gateway how to get anywhere other than computers on the 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.254 block.
If your gateway machine is 192.168.1.1, and it also has an ip of 56.78.90.12, or whatever the ISP is giving it, then it will simultaneously know how to get to the internet and the internal network (hence, gateway). For all requests that go to IPs other than the ones on the local slash-24 network, the client computers will ask their gateway, and the gateway (presumably, if it's also a router) will know where to send the request.
Admittedly, the only problem I see with this setup is if you want your comptuers other than the gateway to use DHCP. If your cable / DSL is also DHCP, this may cause issues - having 2 DHCP servers on the network is not a good thing. You want your computers to broadcast for a DHCP server when the log onto the network, and you want your gateway to answer, and not the cable company. Static IP addresses would, of course, solve the problem.
~Wx
There really isn't much need for 2 NIC's. I'm not sure why a bunch of people think it's a killer feature. For starters, a gigabit NIC is capable of transfering in real world terms about 100MBytes/sec, which is faster than the real world performance of most hard drive read/writes (1 GBit/sec = 125MBytes/sec, minus overhead). I have no idea why these $140 motherboards are coming out with 2 Gigabit nics.
In addition, one NIC can up 254 IP addresses (if I remember correctly). At my last job, we had a SPARC box with 3 NICs in it, but that's because it was left over from before the days of HTTP1.1 and name-based virtual hosting, and it had 700ish IPs upped on it (you should have seen the init scripts).
A lot of people say 2 nics would be good for a firewall/router. I don't see that, either. Why not just up an external and an internal IP on one NIC and set all the other computers to the internal IP address scheme, with a subnet of [not enough ips to get to the internet on their own] and set the gateway to the firewall?
Whatever, it's just one of those wierd things i've noticed and don't really understand. Outside of high-end server environments, I just don't see the need for more than one NIC. And even in high end server environments, failover is an odd excuse for more than one NIC - I'd suspect the motherboard would go bad far more often than *only one* NIC would go bad.
Having said that, at my old job, we did have one machine with 2 nics that we were using both of - one was the internet connection, and the other was connected to a 10-baseT hub where our SNMP-capable UPS's were plugged in. It was basically listning and sniffing/grepping packets to alert us of power failures off-hours. Also, my Windows XP desktop has 2 NICs (daughter card and onboard), but that's only because the daughter card is a realtek 8139, which has native driver support, and I was too lazy to find the motherboard CD to get the driver last time I wiped and reloaded.
~Wx
AMD actually currently integrates the north bridge in the athlon64 if I'm not wrong.
It's actually the memory controller, I believe. Which is why Athlon 64's haven't rolled out DDR-2 support - the type of ram is tied to the processor.
~Wx
Do you have an echo layla?
My friend, who does studio recording, does. It's a fantastic card. Needs a pre-processor, though.
8 inputs. It's awesome. When you run Cool Edit Pro, they all automatically become separate tracks. So nice. And you can even do it with 2 laylas - 16 track recording live.
~Will
That's exactly true. My new motherboard, an Intel-based board with a 915G chipset, sports onboard audio that's better than my old-skool soundblaster live. It's possible that it uses a few more cpu cycles to do the sound, but hey, that soundblaster used to be in an 800 mhz P-III, and this one's a 2.8Ghz P-4. Extra clock cycles i've got.
So, I ditched my soundblaster live. Doesn't bother me a bit.
Also: Onboard video today is perfectly suited to basic desktop usage. To put it in other terms: "There is no reason to buy a separate video card unless you are gaming or doing graphics-workstation cad design".
~Will
Yeah, I mean, star trek was a "Wagon train to the stars", as far as I knew. It wasn't supposed to be deep. Think about the next generation - random alien shows up, strange problem happens, strange problem stems from a problem with random alien, who is outwardly scary but inwardly kind and vastly misunderstood, enterprise makes friends, credits. But, you know what? It was good.
If you enjoyed watching it, it was good. I'm not putting on ears and going to conventions, but come on - it's not cool to hate everything. Just like what you like, for your own reasons.
~Will
The 350z, advertised at a local dealer here MSRP's for between $30,370 and $42,200, depending on options. That dealer lists the price as low as $28,000, but... who's buying a bottom barrel 350z? If I buy a sports car, I'm not trying to have non-automatic windows. Plus, I'm pretty sure a tricked out Mitsubishi Lancer that you spent $20,000 on the car and $20,000 on the upgrades could blow past a 305z, especially one with the cheapest of the options.
Games are multi-threaded, most of the better ones. Most big titles since quake3 had the option of being run in multi-proc mode, even if you did have to envoke it thusly from the command line. Additionally, as I mentioned before, even if a game isn't multithreaded, you can still set the process affinity to the 2nd processor, leaving it completely in the hands of the video game, while the 1st handles all the OS functions, memory management, etc. This alone will speed things up.
AS STATED BEFORE, the PCI-e 6800GT is more expensive because it supports SLI. The ATI-X800XL (which appearantly is a real card, in as much as any ATI card is a "real" card until you try to find it in a retail store) does NOT support SLI. In fact, no ATI card does. I'm not an NVidia Fanboy (I switched from an X600 to the 6800GT, and I didn't mind ATI), but I am saying that SLI is a huge advantage. Not to mention the X800XL does have less than stellar performance -- from the article you reference:
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The 6800GT trumps the X800XL or any other X800 based card in another way, too: They're available for sale. I am getting fed up with ATI saying that their cards will be comming out soon, and will be cheaper and faster than NVidia's cards. When the only people that get cards are the review sites, it's a big problem that the benchmarks don't show.
Also, about SLI: How can I possibly not have a clue about gaming hardware? SLI boxes are the bleeding hyperexpensive edge of gaming hardware these days. First, I don't have an SLI box, I didn't want to pay ~$250 for an SLI motherboard when the P-4 dual core procs are on the way, and I don't know if the board will support them. 2.) A 40% performance gain, even if that's all you get, is hugely significant. But, with SLI, the gains are (admittedly not double, but) more in the neighborhood of 60-70%, from what I have read (on review sites and in maximumpc, etc). Also, how can I be a generation of features behind? What is a feature that the 6800GT doesn't support? And if a feature like that exists, what games make use of it?
Of course, you're retarted. You're also an AC because you are, in fact, the origional poster, and you're embarrased to log in and post anything worthwhile.
2.) Don't troll.
Shut up.
~Will
I know it's a hard concept for the non-techie to grasp, but it goes like this:
UNIX is a trademarked word. UNIX is also a POSIX compliant operating system. In order to be a posix compliant operating system, an operating system must follow X, Y, and Z criteria. Linux follows X, Y, and Z criteria. Linux is a POSIX compliant operating system. The Linux code has been built from scratch with the aim of being POSIX compliant. Since the POSIX standard is based on the UNIX operating system, Linux is a relative of, but not a derivitive of, UNIX.
That's not exactly it, but it's close enough, and simple enough, that a reporter can digest it.
So, in some ways, you could say "Linux is a UNIX clone". In the same ways, you could say "Margarine is a Butter clone". Margarine was built from scratch, using entirely different ingrediants than butter, but with the aim of looking, smelling, and tasting like butter. But, margarine is not butter. However, I don't think anyone who went around calling margarine "Not Butter" is going to kill either industry.
So, I'm not even sure I know what this guy is trying to say. It sounds like he thinks that we are mad that SCO says linux is a unix clone. I don't know a linux user that would be bothered by this statement. All we (as linux users) are saying is "Linux contains no stolen copyrighted code from Unix", and "Linux is not Unix". And maybe a "Linux is similar enough in function to Unix that they share a computing standard".
~Will
God, why do people not get this??!?
1.) What's to differentiate GameA from GameB once the graphics are photorealistic? How about plot, characters, gameplay, strategy, immersive surroundings??
Ever read a Sci-Fi novel? They're just like every other sci-fi novel - ships fly around in space, lasers shoot, aliens invade. Does that mean that Ender's game was dumb because it came out after Rama? What about Fantasy? Should we toss "A Song of Ice and Fire" because it deals with the same broad settings as "Lord of the Rings"?
2.) I don't want photorealism in my games! For God's sake - I am so effing sick of the war genre FPS games that are coming out. Call of duty, Halo, Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six Twelve, Random WWII Shooter, etc. Even Doom3 looks "realistic" in that I guess zombies would look like that.
Do you have any idea why UT2004 is so damned successful? It's becuase it's REALLY fun to play. In real life, there's no "link guns", nuculear explosions from redeemers would obliterate maps, shock rifles don't exist, guns can't produce lightning, and no one busts up a deep voice that says "HEADSHOT" or "WICKED SICK" or "HOLY SHIT" when you cap some germans in WWII. Also, people can't double jump in real life. But, it's really fun! That's what sustains games.
~Will
(with the possible exception of auto-recharging shields - but there CERTAINLY have been shields)
BZZT. Tribes 1 - grab a shield pack, and it used your auto-recharging energy bar as a shield (depleated when hit, recharged while waiting).
What's going to happen in 5 or 6 years when iPods have 400GB hard drives?? $4.30 x 400 = $1,720 in tax.
WTF?
Well, we've always been able to print to postscript, in most operating systems; this is just an evolution.
And then there's "ps2pdf".
You know, in Windows, you can hit Ctl+Alt+Del to bring up the task manager, go to the processes tab, right click on a process, and go to "Set Affinity".
Just sayin'...
If you've been around the internet for a while, you've probably come across "Sealand", which is the smallest country in the world, population 7. It's a world war II outpost in the british waters. It used to be in international waters, and when it was abandoned, someone claimed it and took it to be their country.
And they make money by hosting servers, with no copyright / slander / censor laws.
See http://www.havenco.com/legal/aup.html:
You can see Sealand's website at sealandgov.com.
~Wx
You think that's bad? Wait 'till your astrophysics professor starts talking about the possibility of homosexual africans developing space travel...
Sometimes putting a "dead" drive in the freezer revives it for an hour or so.