Hilarious. Mod that guy up.
I've listened to some commentary and that's pretty much how valve works too. You have kids playing games in their mom's basement and she comes in for a status check every hour or so.
True that. I wasn't surprised at all. I'd be disappointed if they *weren't* using Server 2008.
Also, the summary is a little deceiving - although they don't have a firewall they are using the ACL on the router... so it's not like they've just plugged their web server directly into the interwebs - they do have some protection.
This just in - fratricide happens. You know that really dumb guy? no no, think of the dumbest person you know. yes, him, inevitably, there will be someone like him in the military. and he will probably find a way to - trip as he throws his grenade, turn as he shoots his rifle, flinch as he pulls the trigger, completely miss the fact that you're wearing the same uniform as him, etc. Most people in the military are well trained and skilled at what they are paid to do. But it only takes one dumb guy to screw it up. Fratricide has always been a problem. Not because "people get away with it" but because mistakes happen. Unfortunately these mistakes usually involve lethal ordinance. Coalition fighting has only made fratricide even worse. In addition to recognizing all of your own units you are now required to recognize the units of all of the other suckers roped into this conflict. That doesn't excuse their mistake; I'm just trying to put it into context here.
Insurgents? Screw that! I'm heading to the Amazon. Think of the ants you can fry with that bad boy! Yeeeeeha! When your kid gets old enough to cook 'em with a magnifying glass you can pull him aside and say, "lemme show you how you'll fry ants when you're a MAN son."
Anyone else give up reading the article a couple paragraphs in? The final straw for me was when I read - "Both systems employ a Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) that is made by combining a bunch of nasty chemicals". Ahh yes, a "bunch of nasty chemicals" that sounds very scientific. I realize that they listed a few of them after that... but the silliness of that in conjunction with the fact that the first few paragraphs barely made sense makes me sad. It seems like no one proofreads anymore... it's like journalism has turned into the slashdot discussion area.
And pissing off every poor sod that actually lives on that street. I don't understand the obsession with renaming streets. If the people are famous enough to warrant it, then clearly, most everyone already knows who they are and you aren't really accomplishing anything by naming a street after them anyway.
Interesting. I had chosen RAID 0 for the speed increases I'd seen in various benchmarks. It's crazy to see it have no affect on real world apps though.
Switching won't give me any extra disk space though. RAID 0 stripes the data across both drives, I've already got 150GB of space. I probably won't bother to switch anytime soon though. It'd be a real hassle. I do, however, appreciate the info. When I rebuild next time I won't bother with the RAID!
There's far more to computing than just Word. I think it's ironic that the slashdot group, being a tech savvy bunch, assume that everyone else just uses Word and their favorite web browser. There are plenty of people using power hungry applications. Have you ever rendered anything? Played around with an image the size of a poster in Photoshop with a high enough DPI for print? Mixed your own audio tracks? Made a movie? Used CAD software? Grandma aside, users are getting smarter and more and more people are using these kinds of programs. If all someone wants is just a typewriter with spell check then great, give them something that's 10 years old and be done with it. I don't think that's going to satisfy the average user though.
Woah... trusting web app employees is VERY different than trusting desktop app employees. There's a huge difference between trusting someone not to look at MY data housed on THEIR servers than there is to trust that someone didn't write some kind of back door code that allows them to see the contents of my hard drive. Firewall, virus protection, and various other monitoring tools all give me the ability to know exactly what's happening on my computer. I don't have that on their servers. I can't see if someone is trying to look at my files on their machines.
Additionally, any desktop company releasing a piece of software like that (Sony rootkit anyone!?) would immediately get slammed by the public. The evidence would be right in the code - you can't hide from that. That's much different than an employee at some data center casually browsing through everyone's files. Good luck proving they did it and good luck getting the company to admit it even if they know that they did it.
I bought most of the parts from NewEgg. I already had my two 20" flat panels but I bought everything else for the machine - case, PSU, mobo, video cards, etc, etc. It came to around $2500.
People keep on talking about thin clients... but I just don't see it happening anytime soon for a host of reasons.
Privacy - people scream at the idea of google reading their mail just to give them ads. What happens when they're storing all of their documents, photos, music, videos on someone else's server? I wouldn't be willing to do it. Nothing would convince me that employees of the company housing my data wouldn't be able to just go in there and check it out whenever they pleased. I believe Facebook is a classic example of this. Private profiles aren't private if you're an employee.
Power - I recently spoiled myself with a OC'd 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of RAM, two 150GB Raptors in RAID 0, two 640MB 8800GTSs and a 64 bit OS to make sure I'm taking advantage of my RAM. Games look beautiful on this beast. You'd have to have a heckuva server and a ridiculous internet connection to provide both me and other people (I say other people, because if I'm the only one using it, why is there a server / thin client set-up?) the same gaming experience I can get from my machine on my own. Not every piece of software will happily work using the thin client model. There are other examples, but games are the first thing that came to mind.
Security - This is the trust issue all over again. The "paris hilton cell phone" hack comes to mind. Her phone wasn't hacked, the server that housed some of the data that she stored on her phone was hacked. Aaaand naked pictures of her ended up everywhere and every poor sucker that knew her got called until they switched numbers. That was just crap from a phone - not the entire contents of someones computer. Everyone thinks it's funny when it happens to a celebrity but how would it be if your intimate videos ended up on the net for co-workers to watch? Personal letters? Photos? Angry rants about your current boss? The list goes on... The fact is I don't think any system will ever by "hack proof" but my little box under my desk is a much smaller target than say a server housing thousands or even millions of other people's data.
I'm not trying to crap on your parade, it just seems like ever since the.com boom people have been saying it more and more and I just don't see it as being a good idea.
Or lousy timelines... If you're perpetually behind schedule you're always hurrying. Nothing gets done right. He said they went straight from alpha to final product. Even if your team is amazing you're still going to end up with a half-assed product if you release it before it's ready to go.
Games are already quite expensive and most devs get paid pretty well. Management just needs to learn that play testing and honing can make the difference between a game that gets 6/10 and a game that gets 9/10. Stop rushing stuff out the door and you'll end up with a better product that more people will be willing to buy.
It's cool that he's accepting responsibility for some of the ugliness... but you have to wonder about the whole politics in games thing. People are playing games for entertainment, for fun. They don't necessarily want to get a lesson from you about politics. I understand that there's a fine line between making your game an interactive version of something like "An Inconvenient Truth" and making a game with political undertones. But you can't produce something meant specifically for entertainment and then balk when people don't "get it". I'm not sure if I'd want to play a game full of any kind of message - whether I agreed with it or not. That's just not why I'm playing. Do any of you guys play games looking for secret moral / political messages?
Yep. It's the same in every store. The only way to get a Wii is to find out what day they're shipped in, and show up at the store / call to find out if they got any. That's how my family got all three of our Wiis last year. Anyone that sees those signs and actually believes they can buy a Wii is C-R-A-Z-Y. Every store owner I've talked to has said that Wiis are consistently gone by the end of the day on the day they get them. Good luck to those of you looking!:)
I'd give ya some points if I had 'em. Paintball is absolutely a delicious way of dealing with a little aggression. Particularly if you can get some people you know to go with you;) No overshooting though, that's just mean.
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Hilarious. Mod that guy up.
I've listened to some commentary and that's pretty much how valve works too. You have kids playing games in their mom's basement and she comes in for a status check every hour or so.
HBI - Hot But Incarcerated?
True that. I wasn't surprised at all. I'd be disappointed if they *weren't* using Server 2008.
Also, the summary is a little deceiving - although they don't have a firewall they are using the ACL on the router... so it's not like they've just plugged their web server directly into the interwebs - they do have some protection.
Tis a sad day when the fanbois can't even get their insults right. shameful.
This just in - fratricide happens. You know that really dumb guy? no no, think of the dumbest person you know. yes, him, inevitably, there will be someone like him in the military. and he will probably find a way to - trip as he throws his grenade, turn as he shoots his rifle, flinch as he pulls the trigger, completely miss the fact that you're wearing the same uniform as him, etc. Most people in the military are well trained and skilled at what they are paid to do. But it only takes one dumb guy to screw it up. Fratricide has always been a problem. Not because "people get away with it" but because mistakes happen. Unfortunately these mistakes usually involve lethal ordinance. Coalition fighting has only made fratricide even worse. In addition to recognizing all of your own units you are now required to recognize the units of all of the other suckers roped into this conflict. That doesn't excuse their mistake; I'm just trying to put it into context here.
Insurgents? Screw that! I'm heading to the Amazon. Think of the ants you can fry with that bad boy! Yeeeeeha! When your kid gets old enough to cook 'em with a magnifying glass you can pull him aside and say, "lemme show you how you'll fry ants when you're a MAN son."
Anyone else give up reading the article a couple paragraphs in? The final straw for me was when I read - "Both systems employ a Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) that is made by combining a bunch of nasty chemicals". Ahh yes, a "bunch of nasty chemicals" that sounds very scientific. I realize that they listed a few of them after that... but the silliness of that in conjunction with the fact that the first few paragraphs barely made sense makes me sad. It seems like no one proofreads anymore... it's like journalism has turned into the slashdot discussion area.
*sigh* He was talking about the actual cost of producing the book. Not the insane price that college students / school districts are forced to pay.
And pissing off every poor sod that actually lives on that street. I don't understand the obsession with renaming streets. If the people are famous enough to warrant it, then clearly, most everyone already knows who they are and you aren't really accomplishing anything by naming a street after them anyway.
ahhh sometimes I wish I could edit my posts... that should be 300GB - not 150GB. My bad.
Interesting. I had chosen RAID 0 for the speed increases I'd seen in various benchmarks. It's crazy to see it have no affect on real world apps though.
Switching won't give me any extra disk space though. RAID 0 stripes the data across both drives, I've already got 150GB of space. I probably won't bother to switch anytime soon though. It'd be a real hassle. I do, however, appreciate the info. When I rebuild next time I won't bother with the RAID!
Woah... trusting web app employees is VERY different than trusting desktop app employees. There's a huge difference between trusting someone not to look at MY data housed on THEIR servers than there is to trust that someone didn't write some kind of back door code that allows them to see the contents of my hard drive. Firewall, virus protection, and various other monitoring tools all give me the ability to know exactly what's happening on my computer. I don't have that on their servers. I can't see if someone is trying to look at my files on their machines.
Additionally, any desktop company releasing a piece of software like that (Sony rootkit anyone!?) would immediately get slammed by the public. The evidence would be right in the code - you can't hide from that. That's much different than an employee at some data center casually browsing through everyone's files. Good luck proving they did it and good luck getting the company to admit it even if they know that they did it.
I bought most of the parts from NewEgg. I already had my two 20" flat panels but I bought everything else for the machine - case, PSU, mobo, video cards, etc, etc. It came to around $2500.
bah, for some reason /. killed my link... I meant to provide this link - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/19/AR2005051900711.html about the Paris hack.
Privacy - people scream at the idea of google reading their mail just to give them ads. What happens when they're storing all of their documents, photos, music, videos on someone else's server? I wouldn't be willing to do it. Nothing would convince me that employees of the company housing my data wouldn't be able to just go in there and check it out whenever they pleased. I believe Facebook is a classic example of this. Private profiles aren't private if you're an employee.
Power - I recently spoiled myself with a OC'd 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of RAM, two 150GB Raptors in RAID 0, two 640MB 8800GTSs and a 64 bit OS to make sure I'm taking advantage of my RAM. Games look beautiful on this beast. You'd have to have a heckuva server and a ridiculous internet connection to provide both me and other people (I say other people, because if I'm the only one using it, why is there a server / thin client set-up?) the same gaming experience I can get from my machine on my own. Not every piece of software will happily work using the thin client model. There are other examples, but games are the first thing that came to mind.
Security - This is the trust issue all over again. The "paris hilton cell phone" hack comes to mind. Her phone wasn't hacked, the server that housed some of the data that she stored on her phone was hacked. Aaaand naked pictures of her ended up everywhere and every poor sucker that knew her got called until they switched numbers. That was just crap from a phone - not the entire contents of someones computer. Everyone thinks it's funny when it happens to a celebrity but how would it be if your intimate videos ended up on the net for co-workers to watch? Personal letters? Photos? Angry rants about your current boss? The list goes on... The fact is I don't think any system will ever by "hack proof" but my little box under my desk is a much smaller target than say a server housing thousands or even millions of other people's data.
I'm not trying to crap on your parade, it just seems like ever since the .com boom people have been saying it more and more and I just don't see it as being a good idea.
Or lousy timelines... If you're perpetually behind schedule you're always hurrying. Nothing gets done right. He said they went straight from alpha to final product. Even if your team is amazing you're still going to end up with a half-assed product if you release it before it's ready to go.
Games are already quite expensive and most devs get paid pretty well. Management just needs to learn that play testing and honing can make the difference between a game that gets 6/10 and a game that gets 9/10. Stop rushing stuff out the door and you'll end up with a better product that more people will be willing to buy.
It's cool that he's accepting responsibility for some of the ugliness... but you have to wonder about the whole politics in games thing. People are playing games for entertainment, for fun. They don't necessarily want to get a lesson from you about politics. I understand that there's a fine line between making your game an interactive version of something like "An Inconvenient Truth" and making a game with political undertones. But you can't produce something meant specifically for entertainment and then balk when people don't "get it". I'm not sure if I'd want to play a game full of any kind of message - whether I agreed with it or not. That's just not why I'm playing. Do any of you guys play games looking for secret moral / political messages?
Yep. It's the same in every store. The only way to get a Wii is to find out what day they're shipped in, and show up at the store / call to find out if they got any. That's how my family got all three of our Wiis last year. Anyone that sees those signs and actually believes they can buy a Wii is C-R-A-Z-Y. Every store owner I've talked to has said that Wiis are consistently gone by the end of the day on the day they get them. Good luck to those of you looking! :)
Hey! Where are the cheetos? I'm getting some Mt. Dew, anyone want some Mt. Dew?
I'd give ya some points if I had 'em. Paintball is absolutely a delicious way of dealing with a little aggression. Particularly if you can get some people you know to go with you ;) No overshooting though, that's just mean.
heh, possibly, but you'll be charged an arm and a leg for the data transmission. With with a "plan", data is still expensive.
Well, a penny saved is worth two in the bush, isn't it?
and Don't cross the road... if you can't get out of the kitchen.
And you were like "no way". And then I was all, we pretended we were going to murder you. That was great.
Yeah... his point was that he was using the wrong version of "your"... not "too". He said "your" when he should have said "you're".
It's not just computers. First generation cars are pretty notorious for having problems as well.