I can understand this happening in SF, where you can't walk slowly without touching shoulders with everyone. On a large moving platform with handlebars, you're just begging for injuries and lawsuits and whatnot.
Oakland is a bit less crazy, same with Santa Cruz, and San Mateo is just silly (hey we're a big city too! give us some press!)
Anyway, there are definitly areas of all these cities where I'd love to be moving a bit faster, as well as areas where everyone should be walking. Bikes, rollerblades, skateboards, mopeds, etc should be banned by an area-by-area basis.
How about Walking-Only zones (handicapped excepted) in certain areas as opposed to shooting things down individually before they are even being shipped....geez
Sendmail configs are so horribly retarded that it boggles the mind. For simple jobs, I use Postfix, and for more complicated tasks I use Exim.
There are always special circumstances, especially with things that have been around as long as sendmail, when there is no alternative to complete a specific task, but I *never* have run into one (only heard about a couple).
As fast as they are, you would think that they would be in *much* higher qantity near an extremely large cluster of stars, like say a galaxy, even if they do travel beyond them. It's safe to say that even though light zips around, it's much brighter inside a galaxy than it is outside.
I heard about this on NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday last week. What i heard was: in order for neutrino's to change from one type to another, they must have a small ammount of mass, and even if you give neutrino's a tiny tiny tiny ammount of mass, they suddenly account for a good hunk of the dark matter out there.
I know nothing about any of this, so if someone could go into further detail it'd be great.
While people do currently think that their ISP bill is an all-access pass to the internet, that certainly seems like it is changing.
I would *not* pay $6 or $10 or however many dollars fileplanet charges for access to their speedy servers, but I certainly would pay them a bit more than it costs them in bandwidth costs to send me the file just once (what, like 10c? probably a whole lot less).
Once this becomes a real problem, I think we'll start to see ISP's picking up the slack. As Broadband moves along and becomes cheaper for the ISP, they'll have to find other ways to add value. They could keep their $60/mo plan at $60, if they partner with future pay sites.
To the cable companies, in particular, this is a familiar idea (think "basic cable" versus "silver" and "gold" packages wich give you 200 more channels and include x number of premium channels like HBO).
Another problem with micropayments is how it mucks up your credit card bill. I'm already peeved with all the.50, 1.00, and 1.50 atm charges that get thrown in every month and make it hard to read my bill. Maybe a prepaid paypal type account??
Something like flooz would work well in this sort of area, as opposed to the buying-merchandise-money-of-the-internet kind of area (what a bad idea).
Um, even if you are salaried, you are required to be paid for overtime. There have been many lawsuits because of this, and in all the ones I have heard of the employees won (in CA anyways)
I always assumed it came along with the job in IT, and never complained. Untill one year I was very sick (2.5 weeks) and they started docking my pay into the third week.
If they keep track, so should you. Time and a half is your right.
My company forced it's employees to take vacation from the 16th on to the 1st. Thus taking up all vaction accrued over the past year, so that they don't have to roll it over or pay us for it. It's like a negative bonus. Even if I had saved all my vacation for this year, I would still be out several days pay.
To make matters worse, I'm part of the consulting division. I have regular maintenance agreements that I had to fill. Thus shoving a months worth of work into 2 weeks. I got a bit of overtime, I sure would have rather worked normal weeks (normal in this economy is still difficult) and taken some vacation when I wanted to or better yet recieved some pay.
Like song title/artist for display ON the head unit of your stereo. Could also give out the radio station name when you tune to it, as well as their phone number/request line.
During commercials you could add some value by displaying the product/company name, website, or phone number.
Start rolling out head units that can do this, and it would be very useful for everyone.
I don't belive they disallow gatewaying to the internet. As I posted earlier, the whole 44.x.x.x class a is delegated to amateur radio operators. Many try to set up tcp/ip networks independant of, but connected to, the internet. Now, when it comes to browsing pr0n from your laptop using your 2 meter gateway at your house, that's a different story. First, things like that aren't allowed on the HAM bands, so you could go buy a license for buisiness bands or something, and second, downloading celebrity nudes at 19.2k probably isn't my idea of a grand time.
I've used my kenwood th-d7 to irc many a time, but on private channels where i know nobody will be swearing etc.
Encryption is not allowed, but I must say that I'm guilty of visiting the occasional ssl site, and I'm not totally sure how the FCC feels about that.
...now anyone in the world can dial in and see your messages.
Seriously though, hams have been doing this kind of stuff for a while, on various bands. BBSes and email are commonly used (and tied together). There are TCP/IP networks (granted, most of them on bands like 2m which have higher throughput) with internet gateways. As a matter of fact, amateur radio operators have their own Class A (i belive it's 44.x.x.x)
PSK31 is used on the HF bands and gives you a real matrix feel. You can see the information coming down throughout the band, and click on the stream to see the text moving through it. Here's a screenshot: http://users.skynet.be/on1dht/media/rxpsk_scrn1.gi f
some good points: What did Bruce Schneier and Mudge actually do? They found security flaws in Microsoft PPTP that allow attacks to sniff passwords across the network, break the encryption scheme and read confidential data, and mount denial of service attacks against PPTP servers.
How bad is it? Very. Microsoft PPTP is very broken, and there's no real way to fix it without taking the whole thing down and starting over. This isn't just one problem, but six different problems, any one of which breaks the protocol.
I especially like the comment about "kindergarten cryptographer" mistakes
not very. I know one of the cards they are using is a sierra wireless card. i can speculate that it's the aircard 555, since that's what verizons network uses (same network technology). I'm trying to get this working under linux now, but it's totally unsupported by the company. looks like it will work (friend who has one is coming down next week and i'll shove it in my system and find out).
It's sad to see something so cool being sold so horribly. I called their sales department, only to find that they are metering this service (no unlimited data service)
They use sierra wireless aircards (no model numbers, i assume 555 series) and novatel C201s
They had two prices, one was around $40-$50, and the other as $70-$80. You're limited pretty much to 1M/1$.
I stopped paying attention after they told me that there was no unlimited service. I guess it's "helloooo verizon", cept $1200 a year + modem seems to be a wee much. anyone know of any other carriers (preferably in the sf/bay area) offering these services?
well, anyone who knows anything about how IRC works (ie, a "hacker") knows that it has to be the most insecure method of communicating out there. Your message to #whatever is going down the line to everyone else in the channel, in plain text.
There is little doubt in my mind that the government already has something in place for monitoring IRC, what after all those "irc.psychic.com" web defacements a year or two ago.
Hacker crap asisde though, it's about time there was a secure method of chat to protect your messages from prying eyes (hackers, the government, or other). over at irc.leechbox.net, we're messing around with using SSL connections and providing backwards compatibility for all irc clients.
SSL only works if all parties involved are using it,,and not everyone on a server cares about "secure IRC", so some irc daemons are implementing secure channel modes, etc.
Authentication is another battle, "nickserv" just isn't secure enough. So i hope to see some proper use of SSL client and server certivicates in place sometime soon, but for now i'll settle with all text being encrypted.
I have NO PROBLEM paying for information, even when I don't have to. KQED (bay area public broadcaster) recives money from me every year, because they are non-profit. I'd pay/. $5 and probably more $, if i knew it was going to pay for bandwith, servers, and editors.
If you are a corporation, you are trying to weasel me out of more money than the product is worth, that's the nature of the beast. I'm fine with you weaseling that money out of some peddler who wants to put an advert on your site, but not me.
So, I'll continue to parse out your ads, and you can continue to get money from moronic corporations that still think banner adverts work. I hope for you that they never figure out they don't, because when they do, you'll have to start charging everyone, and I'll go find a real community site (non-profit).
These cable providers (att, formerly @home, cox, comcast) and even some satalite providers, are no longer selling people bandwith with ips and whatnot, they're selling "internet access".
I was on @home back when they first brought it to my area, they gave me a static, and there was no download/upload cap, and I recieved a static ip (i could have up to 3). They then started charging $2/mo or something for the statics, and later it's ALL dhcp. Then came caps, slower connections, horrible support, etc.
And so I switched to DSL. I'm paying for Buisiness DSL from pacbell (1.5/384 5IP) and it's a bit expensive (i got a deal at about $65-70), but i know what I'm getting. There's no "we switched you to a proxy" or "linux? no you have to use our windows software..." etc. And while they will yell at you for doing stupid things, there isn't a buch of suits sitting around in a room schemeing on ways to slow down the rate at which i download mp3s (i don't think), and thats rather comforting.
If someone puts you on a shitty network, takes away all the perks, and makes it so you can't even protect yourself from their insecure, poorly contsructed network (by installing a firewall), then the best way to deal with it is to switch.
Even non-technical friends who have @home-type connections are getting fed up and ordering DSL.
I've only been using Linux for about 2.5 years or so, but I am so happy that I learned on Slackware instead of other distro's. Learning on a vanilla distro like Slack really teaches you more about the in's and out's of Linux, as opposed to upgrading your kernal with an rpm.
I use primarially Slackware for my personal servers, as well as almost all the servers that I manage at my office (about 20). Sure, sometimes you have to fight with something when you wouldn't have to on RedHat or Debian, but if all you know is rpm --install, you're going to run into a wall at some point and not know where to go.
A company I colocate at (Hurricane Electric), uses primarially Slackware for all of their web hosting services. They've found that when you're managing a lot of servers, a basic distro is exactly what you're looking for.
I agree, computer crime is a crime. If someone spraypainted on my house or office building, I'd want them to learn their lesson, but not life in jail without parole. Jesus.
I'm starting an image archive of the events (I'm blatently taking them from the news sites). Just an attempt to mirror some of the pictures to take the load off of the servers. http://warpenguin.com. Pls mirror.
If I drive on, say, a private road, there is no speed limit. Is "speeding" in their contract, or is "speed over 90 MPH" in their contract?
Another interesting question is how these things work (whether it is tied to the speedometer or not). I would assume it is not, in which case "Your P.O.S. car broke down and I had it towed. Talk to the tow truck driver."
If it is tied to the spedometer somehow, then there's the "I got stuck in the mud" claim. If it's monitored by both, the tow truck excuse would still work, but you'd have to say it was being pulled and the moron truck driver left it in gear.
There's always the innocent untill proven guilty thing too (Someone stole it, drove it. I found it on my own without making a police report. You can't prove it was me).
All of these do sound rather silly, but it certianly reiterates the fact that an actual police officer didn't catch you, and instead a computer, which isn't all that accurate, did.
It'd be one thing if they said "all bets are off, here's your last two month's payment. We'll give you another months payment if you agree not to sue us", They'd still be breaching their contract, but It's much more acceptable (to site admins as wells as courts, most likely). I think this is open and shut if you can get a lawyer to represent you. Unfourtunately, for most of these sites, that might not be feasable.
I may have missed it, but man do I wish the new RFC included an encryption scheme. Of course, they'ed make it backwards-compatible with servers/clients that didn't support encryption...and while some may say this defies the point of putting it in the standard, I say it's about time we started to really think about the security of our mail.
If we say new servers that wish to comply with the RFC have to support an encryption-standard, and try to use that by default, then we're on our way to having secure mail transactions.
Come on. It's going to probably be pricy (or more expensive then one without that kind of bandwidth), and the real users ARE going to be people who jack it into things (mostly because nobodys going to spend a whole lot more for bandwith unless they have a laptop). While, right now, we're not accustomed to jacking our cell phones into things, this will probably change that.
Just imagine, you want to surf the web while riding the bus? no problem. Tired of crappy low-quality radio broadcasts? Just plug your cell-phone into your car stereo via the firewire or usb jack and connect to shoutcast. Have one of those minivans with a TV? Stream your Divx rip of "the matrix" from home.
While you are correct about short battery life being annoying, I think that it's not going to be as big of a problem as you think. Streaming an mp3 to your car stereo takes a big hunk of the processing out of your cell-phone, but there is still a medium ammount of processing going on. But things like firewire let you draw power while jacked in.
At a recent open source database conference-thingy down here in the SF bay area (sponsored by abriasoft), the mysql guys said that row level locking was a ways off. I, personally, was rather sad to hear that.
The lack of sales for the Linux version were partly due to the earlier release of it's windows counterpart, and the fact that when the Linux version came out, people just d/l the app for Linux and used their windows CDs. Thus making it look like there are less Linux users who purchased Q3 then there really were.
But, the real killer seemed not to be that there weren't a lot of Linux sales, but that the Linux sales didn't pay for themselves. It was, apparantly, a nightmare to support Linux, due to all the variations between them and lack of standardization.
My question is, can there be another way to sell to Linux users? I mean, just because Joe Lamer bought Q3 and needs to talk to tech support for an hour to get his voodoo working, does that mean that I have to pay $200 for q3....or worse yet, not even get the chance to buy it?
I'd be interested in, untill there is better standardization in Linux, purchasing games without tech suppor (for a little bit cheaper). You can bet lots of people would still go out and nab your game, even if they don't get support.
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I can understand this happening in SF, where you can't walk slowly without touching shoulders with everyone. On a large moving platform with handlebars, you're just begging for injuries and lawsuits and whatnot.
Oakland is a bit less crazy, same with Santa Cruz, and San Mateo is just silly (hey we're a big city too! give us some press!)
Anyway, there are definitly areas of all these cities where I'd love to be moving a bit faster, as well as areas where everyone should be walking. Bikes, rollerblades, skateboards, mopeds, etc should be banned by an area-by-area basis.
How about Walking-Only zones (handicapped excepted) in certain areas as opposed to shooting things down individually before they are even being shipped....geez
Sendmail configs are so horribly retarded that it boggles the mind. For simple jobs, I use Postfix, and for more complicated tasks I use Exim.
There are always special circumstances, especially with things that have been around as long as sendmail, when there is no alternative to complete a specific task, but I *never* have run into one (only heard about a couple).
Use Exim, and trust Cambridge over Berkeley...
As fast as they are, you would think that they would be in *much* higher qantity near an extremely large cluster of stars, like say a galaxy, even if they do travel beyond them. It's safe to say that even though light zips around, it's much brighter inside a galaxy than it is outside.
Somewhat offtopic:
6 -1 .html
In the world of diagnosing dark matter, scientists think that neutrinos could make up a good hunk of it.
http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2002/split/58
I heard about this on NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday last week. What i heard was: in order for neutrino's to change from one type to another, they must have a small ammount of mass, and even if you give neutrino's a tiny tiny tiny ammount of mass, they suddenly account for a good hunk of the dark matter out there.
I know nothing about any of this, so if someone could go into further detail it'd be great.
While people do currently think that their ISP bill is an all-access pass to the internet, that certainly seems like it is changing.
.50, 1.00, and 1.50 atm charges that get thrown in every month and make it hard to read my bill. Maybe a prepaid paypal type account??
I would *not* pay $6 or $10 or however many dollars fileplanet charges for access to their speedy servers, but I certainly would pay them a bit more than it costs them in bandwidth costs to send me the file just once (what, like 10c? probably a whole lot less).
Once this becomes a real problem, I think we'll start to see ISP's picking up the slack. As Broadband moves along and becomes cheaper for the ISP, they'll have to find other ways to add value. They could keep their $60/mo plan at $60, if they partner with future pay sites.
To the cable companies, in particular, this is a familiar idea (think "basic cable" versus "silver" and "gold" packages wich give you 200 more channels and include x number of premium channels like HBO).
Another problem with micropayments is how it mucks up your credit card bill. I'm already peeved with all the
Something like flooz would work well in this sort of area, as opposed to the buying-merchandise-money-of-the-internet kind of area (what a bad idea).
Um, even if you are salaried, you are required to be paid for overtime. There have been many lawsuits because of this, and in all the ones I have heard of the employees won (in CA anyways)
I always assumed it came along with the job in IT, and never complained. Untill one year I was very sick (2.5 weeks) and they started docking my pay into the third week.
If they keep track, so should you. Time and a half is your right.
My company forced it's employees to take vacation from the 16th on to the 1st. Thus taking up all vaction accrued over the past year, so that they don't have to roll it over or pay us for it. It's like a negative bonus. Even if I had saved all my vacation for this year, I would still be out several days pay.
To make matters worse, I'm part of the consulting division. I have regular maintenance agreements that I had to fill. Thus shoving a months worth of work into 2 weeks. I got a bit of overtime, I sure would have rather worked normal weeks (normal in this economy is still difficult) and taken some vacation when I wanted to or better yet recieved some pay.
Like song title/artist for display ON the head unit of your stereo. Could also give out the radio station name when you tune to it, as well as their phone number/request line.
During commercials you could add some value by displaying the product/company name, website, or phone number.
Start rolling out head units that can do this, and it would be very useful for everyone.
I don't belive they disallow gatewaying to the internet. As I posted earlier, the whole 44.x.x.x class a is delegated to amateur radio operators. Many try to set up tcp/ip networks independant of, but connected to, the internet. Now, when it comes to browsing pr0n from your laptop using your 2 meter gateway at your house, that's a different story. First, things like that aren't allowed on the HAM bands, so you could go buy a license for buisiness bands or something, and second, downloading celebrity nudes at 19.2k probably isn't my idea of a grand time.
I've used my kenwood th-d7 to irc many a time, but on private channels where i know nobody will be swearing etc.
Encryption is not allowed, but I must say that I'm guilty of visiting the occasional ssl site, and I'm not totally sure how the FCC feels about that.
-k6gnu
...now anyone in the world can dial in and see your messages.
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Seriously though, hams have been doing this kind of stuff for a while, on various bands. BBSes and email are commonly used (and tied together). There are TCP/IP networks (granted, most of them on bands like 2m which have higher throughput) with internet gateways. As a matter of fact, amateur radio operators have their own Class A (i belive it's 44.x.x.x)
PSK31 is used on the HF bands and gives you a real matrix feel. You can see the information coming down throughout the band, and click on the stream to see the text moving through it. Here's a screenshot: http://users.skynet.be/on1dht/media/rxpsk_scrn1.g
definitly cool stuff.
73, k6gnu
http://www.counterpane.com/pptp-faq.html
some good points:
What did Bruce Schneier and Mudge actually do?
They found security flaws in Microsoft PPTP that allow attacks to sniff passwords across the network, break the encryption scheme and read confidential data, and mount denial of service attacks against PPTP servers.
How bad is it?
Very. Microsoft PPTP is very broken, and there's no real way to fix it without taking the whole thing down and starting over. This isn't just one problem, but six different problems, any one of which breaks the protocol.
I especially like the comment about "kindergarten cryptographer" mistakes
not very. I know one of the cards they are using is a sierra wireless card. i can speculate that it's the aircard 555, since that's what verizons network uses (same network technology). I'm trying to get this working under linux now, but it's totally unsupported by the company. looks like it will work (friend who has one is coming down next week and i'll shove it in my system and find out).
It's sad to see something so cool being sold so horribly. I called their sales department, only to find that they are metering this service (no unlimited data service)
They use sierra wireless aircards (no model numbers, i assume 555 series) and novatel C201s
They had two prices, one was around $40-$50, and the other as $70-$80. You're limited pretty much to 1M/1$.
I stopped paying attention after they told me that there was no unlimited service. I guess it's "helloooo verizon", cept $1200 a year + modem seems to be a wee much. anyone know of any other carriers (preferably in the sf/bay area) offering these services?
well, anyone who knows anything about how IRC works (ie, a "hacker") knows that it has to be the most insecure method of communicating out there. Your message to #whatever is going down the line to everyone else in the channel, in plain text.
,and not everyone on a server cares about "secure IRC", so some irc daemons are implementing secure channel modes, etc.
There is little doubt in my mind that the government already has something in place for monitoring IRC, what after all those "irc.psychic.com" web defacements a year or two ago.
Hacker crap asisde though, it's about time there was a secure method of chat to protect your messages from prying eyes (hackers, the government, or other). over at irc.leechbox.net, we're messing around with using SSL connections and providing backwards compatibility for all irc clients.
SSL only works if all parties involved are using it,
Authentication is another battle, "nickserv" just isn't secure enough. So i hope to see some proper use of SSL client and server certivicates in place sometime soon, but for now i'll settle with all text being encrypted.
I have NO PROBLEM paying for information, even when I don't have to. KQED (bay area public broadcaster) recives money from me every year, because they are non-profit. I'd pay /. $5 and probably more $, if i knew it was going to pay for bandwith, servers, and editors.
If you are a corporation, you are trying to weasel me out of more money than the product is worth, that's the nature of the beast. I'm fine with you weaseling that money out of some peddler who wants to put an advert on your site, but not me.
So, I'll continue to parse out your ads, and you can continue to get money from moronic corporations that still think banner adverts work. I hope for you that they never figure out they don't, because when they do, you'll have to start charging everyone, and I'll go find a real community site (non-profit).
These cable providers (att, formerly @home, cox, comcast) and even some satalite providers, are no longer selling people bandwith with ips and whatnot, they're selling "internet access".
I was on @home back when they first brought it to my area, they gave me a static, and there was no download/upload cap, and I recieved a static ip (i could have up to 3). They then started charging $2/mo or something for the statics, and later it's ALL dhcp. Then came caps, slower connections, horrible support, etc.
And so I switched to DSL. I'm paying for Buisiness DSL from pacbell (1.5/384 5IP) and it's a bit expensive (i got a deal at about $65-70), but i know what I'm getting. There's no "we switched you to a proxy" or "linux? no you have to use our windows software..." etc. And while they will yell at you for doing stupid things, there isn't a buch of suits sitting around in a room schemeing on ways to slow down the rate at which i download mp3s (i don't think), and thats rather comforting.
If someone puts you on a shitty network, takes away all the perks, and makes it so you can't even protect yourself from their insecure, poorly contsructed network (by installing a firewall), then the best way to deal with it is to switch.
Even non-technical friends who have @home-type connections are getting fed up and ordering DSL.
I've only been using Linux for about 2.5 years or so, but I am so happy that I learned on Slackware instead of other distro's. Learning on a vanilla distro like Slack really teaches you more about the in's and out's of Linux, as opposed to upgrading your kernal with an rpm.
I use primarially Slackware for my personal servers, as well as almost all the servers that I manage at my office (about 20). Sure, sometimes you have to fight with something when you wouldn't have to on RedHat or Debian, but if all you know is rpm --install, you're going to run into a wall at some point and not know where to go.
A company I colocate at (Hurricane Electric), uses primarially Slackware for all of their web hosting services. They've found that when you're managing a lot of servers, a basic distro is exactly what you're looking for.
I agree, computer crime is a crime. If someone spraypainted on my house or office building, I'd want them to learn their lesson, but not life in jail without parole. Jesus.
I'm starting an image archive of the events (I'm blatently taking them from the news sites). Just an attempt to mirror some of the pictures to take the load off of the servers. http://warpenguin.com. Pls mirror.
If I drive on, say, a private road, there is no speed limit. Is "speeding" in their contract, or is "speed over 90 MPH" in their contract?
Another interesting question is how these things work (whether it is tied to the speedometer or not). I would assume it is not, in which case "Your P.O.S. car broke down and I had it towed. Talk to the tow truck driver."
If it is tied to the spedometer somehow, then there's the "I got stuck in the mud" claim. If it's monitored by both, the tow truck excuse would still work, but you'd have to say it was being pulled and the moron truck driver left it in gear.
There's always the innocent untill proven guilty thing too (Someone stole it, drove it. I found it on my own without making a police report. You can't prove it was me).
All of these do sound rather silly, but it certianly reiterates the fact that an actual police officer didn't catch you, and instead a computer, which isn't all that accurate, did.
It'd be one thing if they said "all bets are off, here's your last two month's payment. We'll give you another months payment if you agree not to sue us", They'd still be breaching their contract, but It's much more acceptable (to site admins as wells as courts, most likely). I think this is open and shut if you can get a lawyer to represent you. Unfourtunately, for most of these sites, that might not be feasable.
I may have missed it, but man do I wish the new RFC included an encryption scheme. Of course, they'ed make it backwards-compatible with servers/clients that didn't support encryption...and while some may say this defies the point of putting it in the standard, I say it's about time we started to really think about the security of our mail. If we say new servers that wish to comply with the RFC have to support an encryption-standard, and try to use that by default, then we're on our way to having secure mail transactions.
Come on. It's going to probably be pricy (or more expensive then one without that kind of bandwidth), and the real users ARE going to be people who jack it into things (mostly because nobodys going to spend a whole lot more for bandwith unless they have a laptop). While, right now, we're not accustomed to jacking our cell phones into things, this will probably change that.
Just imagine, you want to surf the web while riding the bus? no problem. Tired of crappy low-quality radio broadcasts? Just plug your cell-phone into your car stereo via the firewire or usb jack and connect to shoutcast. Have one of those minivans with a TV? Stream your Divx rip of "the matrix" from home.
While you are correct about short battery life being annoying, I think that it's not going to be as big of a problem as you think. Streaming an mp3 to your car stereo takes a big hunk of the processing out of your cell-phone, but there is still a medium ammount of processing going on. But things like firewire let you draw power while jacked in.
This is really some neato stuff
At a recent open source database conference-thingy down here in the SF bay area (sponsored by abriasoft), the mysql guys said that row level locking was a ways off. I, personally, was rather sad to hear that.
The lack of sales for the Linux version were partly due to the earlier release of it's windows counterpart, and the fact that when the Linux version came out, people just d/l the app for Linux and used their windows CDs. Thus making it look like there are less Linux users who purchased Q3 then there really were.
But, the real killer seemed not to be that there weren't a lot of Linux sales, but that the Linux sales didn't pay for themselves. It was, apparantly, a nightmare to support Linux, due to all the variations between them and lack of standardization.
My question is, can there be another way to sell to Linux users? I mean, just because Joe Lamer bought Q3 and needs to talk to tech support for an hour to get his voodoo working, does that mean that I have to pay $200 for q3....or worse yet, not even get the chance to buy it?
I'd be interested in, untill there is better standardization in Linux, purchasing games without tech suppor (for a little bit cheaper). You can bet lots of people would still go out and nab your game, even if they don't get support.