When I read of the Star
Wars DVD release I immediately thought of the speech Gordon Gekko
give the board of Teldon Papers in the movie
Wall Street (1987)
"The point is, ladies and gentleman, is that greed --
for lack of a better word -- is good. Greed is right. Greed
works."
Years after the DVD has become ubiquitous they decide to release the
original 3 on that medium. It was only a few years ago that they
released the VHS set to the consumers.
Lucas "found some time" in his schedule and "was willing
and eager to make it happen."
Wow! Thanks, George! The story makes it sound like they're doing us a
favour! Yeah right. The only favour is to their bank accounts. The
tide of cash flowing in from the "Official VHS set" has slowed to a
crawl. They want the consumers to re-purchase the same stuff
on a new format. George didn't "[find] some time", the market studies
indicated that this is the right time to release the DVDs.
Thanks but no thanks George. After the embarassment of
Episodes I & II and your blatant milking of the franchise you've lost
a big fan in me. I'd only buy the set if I could guarantee that my
money buys the exact slice of pizza you choke on.
I would hope that reading such as this is sought out by IT managers looking at a migration to any other platform. Real world results are what count. Trusting studies paid for by $COMPANY is just plain ignorant.
Ideally a firewall is in a default deny state. That way you can open it up for things you know you need rather than missing something and having a hole into your LAN. If you followed that advice then you wouldn't need to worry about closing the port.
I can't agree with their conclusions. Three days after I bought
Thief:
The Dark Project I was out shopping for a blackjack, dark cloak
and rope arrows.
OK, I had to look at the link when you mentioned Darl's pic. Then this line in the article jumped out at me:
"Bill Gates has produced something of value," Newman said of the co-founder of Microsoft Corp., who has been reviled for abusing his company's monopoly on desktop operating systems. But Newman said that McBride "has produced nothing of value."
HAHAHAHA! Oh man I was laughing out loud over that.
SCO's lawyers are practicing the tried & true method of
Throw Enough Shit Against the Wall and Some of It Will
Stick.
They know it's a poor case they have so they keep
adding more and more claims to their position along with the
necessary bravado stupid investors have come to love.
Whenever I read of a new virus or hear of one on the radio, I wish they'd start to hammer home the fact that 99.99% (wild number I pulled from my arse) of these affect Windows machines only. The ignorant masses just assume that viruses and worms are a way of life, they don't know that it's a way of life only if you use a certain OS.
Cheap Windows shots aside, there are many ways to get crap on your non-Windows machines. Cookies, web-bugs cross-site banners etc etc are ways to track a user. My OpenBSD boxes are secure from known hacks but I still surf with a Privoxy filter and a Squid cache at the head of my home LAN..
Security and privacy are like an onion, no need to repeat the whole analogy here.
If you run a Windows system then I heartily recommend Spybot Seek & Destroy to keep it clean and immunized. Support the author too, donate a few bucks for good work.
If you have numbered multipart forms then this ensures that the sheets of paper you sign/ship/mail are part of the original multipart form and not a reprint.
Many places want original paperwork, you can't guarantee it with a laser. Dot matrix is still a darn useful technology.
Sure, MS can do all that. As I recall, however, one of the keys for writing for the XBOX was the ease of porting over code from the PC game version (or from XBOX->PC)
An entire new architecture will certainly scare away game designers when they have to invest in more developers to port to a console with a small market share.
AH.. those are girls? I've seen them mentioned on/. many times but wasn't sure what to look for. Certainly there are none of them in my parent's basement.
Cisco products are expensive but pretty damn stable.
Your "open source" comment is stupid, Cisco uses ASICs and other hardware level goop for much of their routing. Unless you're going to open a chip fab plant and start open sourcing your chips... need I say more? (There are some exeptions, ala the Cisco PIX 525 firewall, basically a PC motherboard with some custom stuff for failover etc.)
"Open Source cures cancer!" blah blah blah Use the right tool for the job, you won't paint yourself into a corner and you leave your options open, lad.
Double-Rubbish on that... I tried exactly that and got it to install and run...It just wasn't playable.
Oh? Sorry! I have Thief Gold and Thief 2 installed and working via DarkLoader for my fan missions. System Shock 2 works as well. There's an unofficial patch for SS2 to make it work. I can't find it at the moment but google should help.
Ah, if your machine has Hyperthreading or is a dual-cpu unit you should look at this link for a program called Process Loader which helps. Also make sure you patch your game binaries to the latest versions, that solves some problems.
My game machine is a P3-500 (OC'd to 566) with Win2K. Not the best but I'm waiting for Thief 3 and Doom 3 before I do the big upgrade.:)
Hope this helps!
ps: we can carry this thread offline, mail grub@grub.net (hotmail/msn/aol/yahoo accounts are only accepted from a whitelist..)
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Please bear with my rant..
When I read of the Star Wars DVD release I immediately thought of the speech Gordon Gekko give the board of Teldon Papers in the movie Wall Street (1987) Years after the DVD has become ubiquitous they decide to release the original 3 on that medium. It was only a few years ago that they released the VHS set to the consumers. Wow! Thanks, George! The story makes it sound like they're doing us a favour! Yeah right. The only favour is to their bank accounts. The tide of cash flowing in from the "Official VHS set" has slowed to a crawl. They want the consumers to re-purchase the same stuff on a new format. George didn't "[find] some time", the market studies indicated that this is the right time to release the DVDs.
Thanks but no thanks George. After the embarassment of Episodes I & II and your blatant milking of the franchise you've lost a big fan in me. I'd only buy the set if I could guarantee that my money buys the exact slice of pizza you choke on.
I would hope that reading such as this is sought out by IT managers looking at a migration to any other platform. Real world results are what count. Trusting studies paid for by $COMPANY is just plain ignorant.
ISPs have a much different type of user base - they should be allowing the end-to-end Internet to work
Oh I agree 100%, however the way the question was posed made it sound like he was an admin of a small/midsized LAN.
I would hope ISPs have rules on paper for this sort of thing, not "let's ask Slashdot!"
Ideally a firewall is in a default deny state. That way you can open it up for things you know you need rather than missing something and having a hole into your LAN. If you followed that advice then you wouldn't need to worry about closing the port.
No, you say this angrily when a condom breaks.
Umm.. this is slashdot, no one here knows what's actually inside the boxes marked "Condoms" at the pharmacy.
Al Gore isn't running this time around. Heck, I'm not even American and I knew that.
That "f'rubber" looks pretty good in the initial testing phases. Not 100% human-like but close.
"Isn't it interesting how you can make anything sound omnious just by adding "of Doom" to the end?"
"Shut the Fuck Up of Doom".. by gum, you're right!
I wonder which would start higher, Opera or Google?
Slashdot needs a "-1, Rhetorical Karma Whoring Question" moderation option.
What?! That little green dot next to your name means so much to me! Why are you leaving?
I can't agree with their conclusions. Three days after I bought Thief: The Dark Project I was out shopping for a blackjack, dark cloak and rope arrows.
The rope arrows were a bit hard to find..
OK, I had to look at the link when you mentioned Darl's pic. Then this line in the article jumped out at me: HAHAHAHA! Oh man I was laughing out loud over that.
SCO's lawyers are practicing the tried & true method of Throw Enough Shit Against the Wall and Some of It Will Stick.
They know it's a poor case they have so they keep adding more and more claims to their position along with the necessary bravado stupid investors have come to love.
but do not go believing that if no one ran windows the days of viruses would be finished.
Nowhere did I say that, nor did I say that all this malware runs only on Windows.
Whenever I read of a new virus or hear of one on the radio, I wish they'd start to hammer home the fact that 99.99% (wild number I pulled from my arse) of these affect Windows machines only. The ignorant masses just assume that viruses and worms are a way of life, they don't know that it's a way of life only if you use a certain OS.
Out of every 1000 slashdotters, 1.6180339887... will have had sex with a real woman.
Cheap Windows shots aside, there are many ways to get crap on your non-Windows machines. Cookies, web-bugs cross-site banners etc etc are ways to track a user. My OpenBSD boxes are secure from known hacks but I still surf with a Privoxy filter and a Squid cache at the head of my home LAN..
Security and privacy are like an onion, no need to repeat the whole analogy here.
If you run a Windows system then I heartily recommend Spybot Seek & Destroy to keep it clean and immunized. Support the author too, donate a few bucks for good work.
not related in any way, just a satisfied user
If you have numbered multipart forms then this ensures that the sheets of paper you sign/ship/mail are part of the original multipart form and not a reprint.
Many places want original paperwork, you can't guarantee it with a laser. Dot matrix is still a darn useful technology.
I will not buy any console unless there's a large body of cheap used games for it.
Mod chips?
Sure, MS can do all that. As I recall, however, one of the keys for writing for the XBOX was the ease of porting over code from the PC game version (or from XBOX->PC)
An entire new architecture will certainly scare away game designers when they have to invest in more developers to port to a console with a small market share.
What kind of woman writes stuff like this.
Hey man, don't sell the women short. Lots of women have smart DNA in them, unfortunately most of them spit it out.
is posting links to hot girls considered trolling
AH.. those are girls? I've seen them mentioned on
Cisco products are expensive but pretty damn stable.
Your "open source" comment is stupid, Cisco uses ASICs and other hardware level goop for much of their routing. Unless you're going to open a chip fab plant and start open sourcing your chips... need I say more? (There are some exeptions, ala the Cisco PIX 525 firewall, basically a PC motherboard with some custom stuff for failover etc.)
"Open Source cures cancer!" blah blah blah Use the right tool for the job, you won't paint yourself into a corner and you leave your options open, lad.
Double-Rubbish on that... I tried exactly that and got it to install and run...It just wasn't playable.
Oh? Sorry! I have Thief Gold and Thief 2 installed and working via DarkLoader for my fan missions. System Shock 2 works as well. There's an unofficial patch for SS2 to make it work. I can't find it at the moment but google should help.
Ah, if your machine has Hyperthreading or is a dual-cpu unit you should look at this link for a program called Process Loader which helps. Also make sure you patch your game binaries to the latest versions, that solves some problems.
My game machine is a P3-500 (OC'd to 566) with Win2K. Not the best but I'm waiting for Thief 3 and Doom 3 before I do the big upgrade.
Hope this helps!
ps: we can carry this thread offline, mail grub@grub.net (hotmail/msn/aol/yahoo accounts are only accepted from a whitelist..)