Actually no they didn't produce a traditional MMORPG.
The game is heavy on PvP, heavy on Instancing (a halfway house between single player and multiplayer), and light on storyline. It appeals to the 13 year old gamer in a way that a traditional MMORPG never would.
This is what made them their millions..
Yes they lost people like me (who like to spend time with their RPGs and play over a period of years) but I'm probably in the minority.
1. Transmit the same number of channels at much higher quality. 2. Transmit 10* as many channels at the same or lower quality allowing them to massively increase their advertising revenue for negligible cost.
We've been through this is europe already. The answer is 2.
The promise of better quality didn't happen because the stations all overcompressed so much a lot of their stuff is on a par with AM.
Digital radio is also available cheaper via DTT (£40 for a TV receiver that does radio, vs. £80 for just a radio..or you can stick with £5 for your FM radio that you probably have already).
Not met anyone with a DAB set yet.. they won't get wide adoption until they're as cheap as standard radios.
Noisy, *extremely* slow (I'd expect it to be at least 3 times that speed), and it missed a huge section... can't see how it could hope to cover the whole floor evenly going the route it appeared to be trying to take - it would cover the same section multiple times which would give uneven wear over time.
I assume it was slowed down for the demo though.. would be pretty useless at that speed:p
So how do those work in the average UK house rather than the humungous american ones?
Looking at this room I reckon an automatic hoover would fail in about 10 seconds. The room is an odd shape, there are cables going between the TV/Computers/Hifi that need moving. To hoover behind the furniture you must move it... there's an area around the birdcage that needs extra work as it won't clean on the first pass... There's the a discarded coke bottle that needs picking up...
Not to mention the hallway is too narrow for the roomba at at least so that's out - it would have to be carried between rooms even if it knew how to open the doors.
The price is a bit of a bitch too... £250 for the basic Roomba ($400). Could buy about 10 standard hoovers for that.
The "Super device" is you. Or your wife, or cleaner.
Robots can't do that - even these automatic hoovers don't work in most houses because they require large basically square rooms.. they can't move cables out of the way, pick up litter, open doors, climb stairs...
Almost all the tunnel brokers have now closed down.
Good luck finding an ISP that supports the 192.88.99.1 6to4 gateway let alone gives you a proper ipv6 address. All the ISPs shutdown that address a few years ago as far as I can tell.
The BBC has multicast peering arrangements with many UK ISPs (not mine unfortunately) and that'll help a lot.
In the absence of such arrangements their only option is to block the stream or take the hit with unicast. For the most part they take the latter route (they do block some things like the high bandwidth news streams).
Every company I've ever worked for has shipped in a TV for events like this.
It comes down to:
1. Lose 2 hours of work when half the office watches the match on TV 2. Lose 8 hours of work when half the office call in sick to watch the match in the pub/at home 3. Lose your entire internet connection when half the office streams it from the BBC.
I always wondered if you could implement that anyway...
An extension to the network stack.. TCP+1 and UDP+1, that takes an extra byte. The first 4 bytes are your public IP address (routed normally, using the IP packet), plus an extra byte (or 3 or 4..) to route to your internal machines. Nat traversal on steroids basically.
Hell, you might be able to do it with TCP without much change anyway, using optional fields in the header. UDP is the funky one.
They might do it internally, but on their external links? Never. That'd be equivalent to cutting themselves off. ipv4 compatibility is a requirement that'll not go away soon if ever.
Hell, the way IPV6 is going there's plenty of time for them to change their minds and dump the idea.
But it was an experiment that didn't work out into somthing that got deployed.
So, just like IPV6 then.
The 6bone dying means the last ipv6 broker I know of just went out of commission...
In some ways it's a pity that ISPs never deployed it - it could have been in wide use by now. As it was you had to search all over the world for a broker and cope with 500ms first hop ping times & service that was never reliable.. the world has moved on and no longer needs it.
Vista doesn't actually ask for the root password. It just comes up with a box and a big 'OK' button.
After you've used it for 15 minutes it becomes instinctive to dismiss it instantly. Mostly because it's so damned annoying - it pops up *every time* you want to do anything vaguely interesting.
OSX is better because the padlock has a timeout - you unlock the dialog you're working with and all the superuser activities are then unlocked until you dismiss the dialog or it times out. On vista you have to keep hitting 'OK' before every single operation.. this gets tiresome fast and breeds bad habits.
I'd switch it off but I'm using it to test my software for vista compatibility...
The wierd thing about hibernate is the time it takes to come out of it.
XP starts in a *really* slow mode - the first drawing of the background bitmap takes >30 seconds and draws line by line. Once the logon box starts to appear it's speeding up, and maybe a couple of minutes after starting up everything's fine.
Had the same across multiple versions, 32 and 64 bit, multiple machines.. so it seems to be a general windows problem.
Beta 2 is better than Beta 1 (which prompted you so much - usually for rundll32 - it got tiresome). It still overprompts though.
Now they've released the second beta I've finally got to run tests on vista.. most stuff works, but the admin control panel, run by administrators... doesn't work because adminstrators don't have admin rights!
Trying to find a way around this... I might cheat and fudge an admin token to elevate the thread:p There's no documented way to create a thread with admin rights (the LUA dialog seems to be undocumented) - the MS documented way to do this is to use ShellExecute with special flags to run a new application, which won't work for us.
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Not a problem. The transaction is completed in russia on russian servers. Russian law holds.
You might argue that I don't have the right to import the resultant file, but that's not allofmp3's problem.
Actually no they didn't produce a traditional MMORPG.
The game is heavy on PvP, heavy on Instancing (a halfway house between single player and multiplayer), and light on storyline. It appeals to the 13 year old gamer in a way that a traditional MMORPG never would.
This is what made them their millions..
Yes they lost people like me (who like to spend time with their RPGs and play over a period of years) but I'm probably in the minority.
So is DAB. And 'HD' Radio probably will be too.
Which one do you think the broadcasters will do?
1. Transmit the same number of channels at much higher quality.
2. Transmit 10* as many channels at the same or lower quality allowing them to massively increase their advertising revenue for negligible cost.
We've been through this is europe already. The answer is 2.
DAB has had no impact on the radio market though.
The promise of better quality didn't happen because the stations all overcompressed so much a lot of their stuff is on a par with AM.
Digital radio is also available cheaper via DTT (£40 for a TV receiver that does radio, vs. £80 for just a radio..or you can stick with £5 for your FM radio that you probably have already).
Not met anyone with a DAB set yet.. they won't get wide adoption until they're as cheap as standard radios.
Noisy, *extremely* slow (I'd expect it to be at least 3 times that speed), and it missed a huge section... can't see how it could hope to cover the whole floor evenly going the route it appeared to be trying to take - it would cover the same section multiple times which would give uneven wear over time.
:p
I assume it was slowed down for the demo though.. would be pretty useless at that speed
So how do those work in the average UK house rather than the humungous american ones?
Looking at this room I reckon an automatic hoover would fail in about 10 seconds. The room is an odd shape, there are cables going between the TV/Computers/Hifi that need moving. To hoover behind the furniture you must move it... there's an area around the birdcage that needs extra work as it won't clean on the first pass... There's the a discarded coke bottle that needs picking up...
Not to mention the hallway is too narrow for the roomba at at least so that's out - it would have to be carried between rooms even if it knew how to open the doors.
The price is a bit of a bitch too... £250 for the basic Roomba ($400). Could buy about 10 standard hoovers for that.
The "Super device" is you. Or your wife, or cleaner.
Robots can't do that - even these automatic hoovers don't work in most houses because they require large basically square rooms.. they can't move cables out of the way, pick up litter, open doors, climb stairs...
Almost all the tunnel brokers have now closed down.
Good luck finding an ISP that supports the 192.88.99.1 6to4 gateway let alone gives you a proper ipv6 address. All the ISPs shutdown that address a few years ago as far as I can tell.
The BBC has multicast peering arrangements with many UK ISPs (not mine unfortunately) and that'll help a lot.
In the absence of such arrangements their only option is to block the stream or take the hit with unicast. For the most part they take the latter route (they do block some things like the high bandwidth news streams).
Every company I've ever worked for has shipped in a TV for events like this.
It comes down to:
1. Lose 2 hours of work when half the office watches the match on TV
2. Lose 8 hours of work when half the office call in sick to watch the match in the pub/at home
3. Lose your entire internet connection when half the office streams it from the BBC.
(1) is the better option really.
I always wondered if you could implement that anyway...
An extension to the network stack.. TCP+1 and UDP+1, that takes an extra byte. The first 4 bytes are your public IP address (routed normally, using the IP packet), plus an extra byte (or 3 or 4..) to route to your internal machines. Nat traversal on steroids basically.
Hell, you might be able to do it with TCP without much change anyway, using optional fields in the header. UDP is the funky one.
Don't worry IPV6 has NAT too.
/128 and you'll be in the exact same position you are now.
And if you ever have an ISP that supports it they'll very probably give you a
Basically IPV6 is no change to the normal user. Only large coroporate users will see the change, and they'll NAT as a basic security measure anyway.
They might do it internally, but on their external links? Never. That'd be equivalent to cutting themselves off. ipv4 compatibility is a requirement that'll not go away soon if ever.
Hell, the way IPV6 is going there's plenty of time for them to change their minds and dump the idea.
There is IPV6 NAT. NAT is going nowhere.
NAT is useful to obscure corporate networks, so cisco routers all have it.... corporate desktops must *not* be directly addressable. Ever.
But it was an experiment that didn't work out into somthing that got deployed.
So, just like IPV6 then.
The 6bone dying means the last ipv6 broker I know of just went out of commission...
In some ways it's a pity that ISPs never deployed it - it could have been in wide use by now. As it was you had to search all over the world for a broker and cope with 500ms first hop ping times & service that was never reliable.. the world has moved on and no longer needs it.
TBH I think the new site is bloody ugly. I've been looking for a preference to switch it back.
Sky still do this - some of the adverts are so loud that they rattle the windows.
Have you used it?
The 'prompt' consists of:
'Rundll32 wants to run a privileged operation. OK?'
The 'help' consists of:
'c:\windows\system32\rundl32.exe Shell32.dll,Control_RunDll appwiz.cpl'
Sorry, that isn't informing users at all.
Plus it comes up *constantly* - it's the most annoying feature I've ever seen in an OS - and that's coming from someone who's used OS/400..
Vista doesn't actually ask for the root password. It just comes up with a box and a big 'OK' button.
After you've used it for 15 minutes it becomes instinctive to dismiss it instantly. Mostly because it's so damned annoying - it pops up *every time* you want to do anything vaguely interesting.
OSX is better because the padlock has a timeout - you unlock the dialog you're working with and all the superuser activities are then unlocked until you dismiss the dialog or it times out. On vista you have to keep hitting 'OK' before every single operation.. this gets tiresome fast and breeds bad habits.
I'd switch it off but I'm using it to test my software for vista compatibility...
The wierd thing about hibernate is the time it takes to come out of it.
XP starts in a *really* slow mode - the first drawing of the background bitmap takes >30 seconds and draws line by line. Once the logon box starts to appear it's speeding up, and maybe a couple of minutes after starting up everything's fine.
Had the same across multiple versions, 32 and 64 bit, multiple machines.. so it seems to be a general windows problem.
The TPM virus is yet to hit us.
It'll be really funny though when the first virus that actually does that gets released... want your files back? You gotta crack TPM...
The key words are at the end:
"the underwriters' acceptance of your conditional offer to purchase shares"
It's a conditional offer. You can withdraw it.
Romulans actually.
And no it doesn't, because we've got a couple of centuries until we actually sign it.
Basically, We can find you.
Welcome to America. Land of the free.
Beta 2 is better than Beta 1 (which prompted you so much - usually for rundll32 - it got tiresome). It still overprompts though.
:p There's no documented way to create a thread with admin rights (the LUA dialog seems to be undocumented) - the MS documented way to do this is to use ShellExecute with special flags to run a new application, which won't work for us.
Now they've released the second beta I've finally got to run tests on vista.. most stuff works, but the admin control panel, run by administrators... doesn't work because adminstrators don't have admin rights!
Trying to find a way around this... I might cheat and fudge an admin token to elevate the thread
What I'd do for a setuid call...