Wow. Around half of the comments in this thread are for "lynching" Assange and Wikileaks.
More like half the comments in this thread were posted by employees/contractors of the NSA/DHS/CIA/DIA/whatever. US tax dollars hard at work. I'm just SOOOOOO glad we're operating with a major deficit so we can hire guys to troll up message boards with the skill of a 13 year-old. *face palm* Might as well just outsource that shit to India and save a buck, it couldn't be any more obvious than what they do now.
I have a rather good idea of what game will take your breath away, it's been in development for about 6 years and is still 1+ years out. Hasn't been announced so I can't talk about it but yea.... There's a real, "I've played it" WoW-killer coming that will specifically give people that love WoW a reason to play another MMO. This is coming from someone that played 3 WoW betas and has a almost 300 days worth of played time on characters *face palm*
I love how ass backwards twitter has always been with learning how to scale their 90s infrastructure up. I remember when they called out the Ruby community because they didn't understand MySQL replication and memcached.
I guess without a profit model they couldn't use a real RDBMS like Oracle. EFD (Enterprise Flash Drive) support anyone? 11g supports EFD on native SSD block-levels. Write scale? How about 1+ million transactions/sec on a single node Oracle DB using <$100K worth of equipment and licenses? Anyway, I've built HUGE databases for a long time, odds are most of you have interfaced with them. Just because it's free and open-source doesn't make it cheap.
I love FOSS don't get me wrong, but best-in-class is best-in-class. I only use FOSS when it happens to be best-in-class. I laugh at how none of the requirements included disaster recovery. No single point of failure does not preclude failing at every point simultaneously. EMP bomb at your primary datacenter anyone?
You just have to fake your Android version to appear to be the version they're looking for. If you look through the forum threads linked in the story the exact method is there. I will put it here for convenience:
adb shell reboot recovery ***Wait for Magic to boot into recovery*** adb shell mount -a adb shell cd system ls ***look for your build file, will be build.prop or build.sapphire.prop most likely*** CTRL-D ***to quit the shell*** adb pull/system/build.prop ***or whatever it was called*** ***make a backup copy and edit the file*** adb push build.prop/system/build.prop adb shell reboot
The actual changes you need to make to the file are:
Speaking for Texas, ya'll might have blackouts. We'll cut you off long before then.
Speaking of Texas, it's "y'all" OK, "Y'all." I can understand that like many, you've just moved to this state I was born in, but please get that one right if you intend to continuing living here. It's important =)
Nothing new here. I know personally of another incident involving Microsoft firing or having fired full-time employees and temps over a blog. Harte-Hanks, the company that houses XBox tech support here in Austin is located on Metric about 2 blocks from where I lived for nearly 3 years. I had friends that worked there and stopped by on lunch. These guys do XBox tech support, making $9/hour and they all hate their jobs. I hate doing what they do. Harte-Hanks is a thankless company that won Microsoft's bid by driving a slave farm.
They deal with a lot of BS and many stupid callers. One started a Blog called XBoxIdiots or something. They thought it was private, but someone in Microsoft found it. They posted here about all their stupid customers. Everyone that had an entry there was fired. People that posted as few as one time in it we treated the same, including my good friend Ali. Losing that job was the best thing that ever happened to him.
That was giving away private company info though. Like the fact that the first generation nVidia MCP didn't do Dolby Digital right, but they made the customers pay to get it fixed. Of course Microsoft likes Macs. They make software on Macs. How else are they going to develop software for Macs without Macs to develop on. What's the logic in this?
I can say that they are certainly screwing over the HL1 mod market. I current run one of the premiere Natural Selection servers known as Texas [HK] Palace.
We have a nice rig on an incredible network. However, Natural Selection is an incredible CPU hog. This is confounded by the newest version of hlds (3.1.1.1d+ on Linux, 4.1.1.1d+ on win32 I think) which uses 50-100% more CPU than hlds 3.1.1.0. Now, in the past we've had the choice on which version to use. With DoD, we need 3.1.1.1, same goes for CS1.6. On Natural Selection, the coolest HL mod IMO, we have to run 3.1.1.0. hlds 3.1.1.1 uses TWICE as much CPU has hlds 3.1.1.0.
HL2 is removing our choice to run 3.1.1.0 or 3.1.1.1. They're removing WON authentication and replacing it with a new Steam powered system to make way for HL2. It will lower the total number of slots available for Natural Selection because few servers will have the dedicated CPU time to run a stable server of more than 18 players.
We will probably be forced to drop 4 to 6 slots from our NS server to accomidate an HL2 server. Or be forced to splurge on a dual-opteron to run the amd64 build of hlds.
You just get one of those and run fiber channel to your XServes. A lot more bandwidth. If you bought 9 XServes, you could surely afford one 3U Fiber Channel IDE RAID box to feed them. These are sexier than the XServes themselves. You get full redundance everywhere, lots of bandwidth, and hot-swat capability.
Originally, the 802.11a standard, notice it's before b, was supposed to be realized at the same time as b, but feel way behind in schedule. Naturally they want to push their technology.
What the hell? What crack was the submitter smoking and the person who approved that posting. That article didn't even mention PCs or compare anything to the performance of PCs. MacBibble was ten times faster than the software THE CAMERA MANUFACTURER MADE! So what? This has NOTHING TO DO WITH PERFORMANCE RELATIVE TO THE PC!
NOTHING! This says NOTHING about performance in relation to x86. NOTHING! How could this -possibly- shed ANY light on the previous debate about performance between PCs and Macs? It's not like the previous article used any benchmarks involving software the camera people released.
*sighs* At least slashdot posts something meaningful every now and then.
On the upside, the DJ had a good stream of music, there were more women than you'd expect, and some in small metal bras. And it was a gathering of a lot of smart geeks, a great opp to meet people.
Well, duh... of course there would be lots of women, some in small metal bras. Aren't those everywhere in your town?
Oh God, how could I forget the Panther? I drove that numerous times on the Merc MUSE I played the most. I was also in the DC faction as well as on the BTech 3056 MUSE, as well as brief stints in CMJ--Clan Smoke Jaguar--and Kell Hounds. The Urbanmech was hella slow if I remember correctly.
I was speaking of IS tech as Clan tech is awwfully hard to get ahold of if you're not in a clan; or KH or some other badass merc unit. The Merc MUSE which was like BTech 3062 or something was entirely IS tech, so... I was just thinking of IS in that analogy.
Clan tech is waaaaaay better. That's why they have all those "rules of engagement" and "duel" honor things that IS people like to bait them into traps with.
Anyway, I always think "Particle Projection Cannon" when I see PPC; it's been around a lot longer than the PowerPC;)
Besides, if you wanted straight-up hardcore power, you wouldn't be using a ppc. You'd be using a.357.
For me, it's a toss up between the PPC--Particle Projection Cannon--and a Gauss Rifle. Both weapons have very similar performance characteristics. Each do similar amounts of damage; ie enough to insta kill any BattleMech with a head shot. Each have similar range, to-hit penalties, and cycle time. However, the PPC is an energy weapon and the Gauss Rifle requires ammo.
Ammo takes up space, adds weight, and eventually runs out. Additionally, unless your 'mech is using an ammo POD, any shot that breaches armor and does internal damage to locations the ammo is stored in has the chance of getting a critical hit and thus denoating the ammo and removing that section of your mech. However, energy weapons build up quite a bit of heat; 20 or 25 heat for a PPC or Extended Range ERPPC variant. Firing a Gauss Rifle builds about 2 heat. Heat sinks required to dissipate said heat also take up space, add some weight, and run the risk of being crit'd.
So really, it's a toss up between a PPC and a Gauss Rifle. My favorite Inner Sphere strike 'mech was a version of the Falconer that had an ERPPC on the left arm, and a Gauss Rifle on the right arm.
Now a.357 is just a hand gun carried by infantry. You need at least a 45 ton 'mech to carry a Gauss Rifle or a PPC. A.357 is dated technology from around the 20th or 21st century. Gauss Rifles and PPCs are more like 31st or 32nd century technology. A.357 will pretty much just bounce off 'mech armor, where as a PPC will vaporize any infantry it hits.
Sorry, I'm gonna have to go with a PPC over a.357 for power.
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Apparently you haven't seen RED yet. Detergent + Ammonia/Draino/some-household-cleaner = Big Boom.
I'm pretty sure everything you see in the movies are true. /facetious
Wow. Around half of the comments in this thread are for "lynching" Assange and Wikileaks.
More like half the comments in this thread were posted by employees/contractors of the NSA/DHS/CIA/DIA/whatever. US tax dollars hard at work. I'm just SOOOOOO glad we're operating with a major deficit so we can hire guys to troll up message boards with the skill of a 13 year-old. *face palm* Might as well just outsource that shit to India and save a buck, it couldn't be any more obvious than what they do now.
Oh give the guy a break, he's just writing what his handler/commander tells him to. US Cyber-Warriors hard at work here, nothing to see!
I have a rather good idea of what game will take your breath away, it's been in development for about 6 years and is still 1+ years out. Hasn't been announced so I can't talk about it but yea.... There's a real, "I've played it" WoW-killer coming that will specifically give people that love WoW a reason to play another MMO. This is coming from someone that played 3 WoW betas and has a almost 300 days worth of played time on characters *face palm*
The CIA/US Gov't has a history of pirating software.
Where in that cycle is the is the part where they release the code to the world? I don't recall Facebook or MySpace ever being open-source.
How's Nancy Botwin gonna cap a bitch if they can hear her coming?
She can spy on what's in my pants! FIFTH GRADE HUMOR WHUT?
I love how ass backwards twitter has always been with learning how to scale their 90s infrastructure up. I remember when they called out the Ruby community because they didn't understand MySQL replication and memcached.
I guess without a profit model they couldn't use a real RDBMS like Oracle. EFD (Enterprise Flash Drive) support anyone? 11g supports EFD on native SSD block-levels. Write scale? How about 1+ million transactions/sec on a single node Oracle DB using <$100K worth of equipment and licenses? Anyway, I've built HUGE databases for a long time, odds are most of you have interfaced with them. Just because it's free and open-source doesn't make it cheap.
I love FOSS don't get me wrong, but best-in-class is best-in-class. I only use FOSS when it happens to be best-in-class. I laugh at how none of the requirements included disaster recovery. No single point of failure does not preclude failing at every point simultaneously. EMP bomb at your primary datacenter anyone?
You just have to fake your Android version to appear to be the version they're looking for. If you look through the forum threads linked in the story the exact method is there. I will put it here for convenience:
adb shell reboot recovery /system/build.prop ***or whatever it was called*** /system/build.prop
***Wait for Magic to boot into recovery***
adb shell mount -a
adb shell
cd system
ls
***look for your build file, will be build.prop or build.sapphire.prop most likely***
CTRL-D ***to quit the shell***
adb pull
***make a backup copy and edit the file***
adb push build.prop
adb shell reboot
The actual changes you need to make to the file are:
ro.build.description=3.05.631.7 CL#118917 release-keys
ro.build.changelist=118917
ro.product.ua=
ro.build.fingerprint=rogers/htc_magic/sapphire/sapphire:1.5/CUPCAKE/118917:user/release-keys
ro.build.display.id=DRC92 3.05.631.7
Once you reboot your Magic, you should see the changes in Settings->About Phone under "Build Number".
Call into Rogers and get then to reset your network and you should be good.
Speaking for Texas, ya'll might have blackouts. We'll cut you off long before then.
Speaking of Texas, it's "y'all" OK, "Y'all." I can understand that like many, you've just moved to this state I was born in, but please get that one right if you intend to continuing living here. It's important =)
On no, we'll cut your asses off first, trust me. Viva la Tejas!
Nothing new here. I know personally of another incident involving Microsoft firing or having fired full-time employees and temps over a blog. Harte-Hanks, the company that houses XBox tech support here in Austin is located on Metric about 2 blocks from where I lived for nearly 3 years. I had friends that worked there and stopped by on lunch. These guys do XBox tech support, making $9/hour and they all hate their jobs. I hate doing what they do. Harte-Hanks is a thankless company that won Microsoft's bid by driving a slave farm.
They deal with a lot of BS and many stupid callers. One started a Blog called XBoxIdiots or something. They thought it was private, but someone in Microsoft found it. They posted here about all their stupid customers. Everyone that had an entry there was fired. People that posted as few as one time in it we treated the same, including my good friend Ali. Losing that job was the best thing that ever happened to him.
That was giving away private company info though. Like the fact that the first generation nVidia MCP didn't do Dolby Digital right, but they made the customers pay to get it fixed. Of course Microsoft likes Macs. They make software on Macs. How else are they going to develop software for Macs without Macs to develop on. What's the logic in this?
I can say that they are certainly screwing over the HL1 mod market. I current run one of the premiere Natural Selection servers known as Texas [HK] Palace.
We have a nice rig on an incredible network. However, Natural Selection is an incredible CPU hog. This is confounded by the newest version of hlds (3.1.1.1d+ on Linux, 4.1.1.1d+ on win32 I think) which uses 50-100% more CPU than hlds 3.1.1.0. Now, in the past we've had the choice on which version to use. With DoD, we need 3.1.1.1, same goes for CS1.6. On Natural Selection, the coolest HL mod IMO, we have to run 3.1.1.0. hlds 3.1.1.1 uses TWICE as much CPU has hlds 3.1.1.0.
HL2 is removing our choice to run 3.1.1.0 or 3.1.1.1. They're removing WON authentication and replacing it with a new Steam powered system to make way for HL2. It will lower the total number of slots available for Natural Selection because few servers will have the dedicated CPU time to run a stable server of more than 18 players.
We will probably be forced to drop 4 to 6 slots from our NS server to accomidate an HL2 server. Or be forced to splurge on a dual-opteron to run the amd64 build of hlds.
This is the most intelligent perspective I've seen.
XServe RAID == badass
You just get one of those and run fiber channel to your XServes. A lot more bandwidth. If you bought 9 XServes, you could surely afford one 3U Fiber Channel IDE RAID box to feed them. These are sexier than the XServes themselves. You get full redundance everywhere, lots of bandwidth, and hot-swat capability.
Or so the history channel claims. I have no idea what A-Day means.
If having $9 billion in the bank is going out of business, I'd like to be going out of business too!
Previous Slashdot Article
Originally, the 802.11a standard, notice it's before b, was supposed to be realized at the same time as b, but feel way behind in schedule. Naturally they want to push their technology.
What the hell? What crack was the submitter smoking and the person who approved that posting. That article didn't even mention PCs or compare anything to the performance of PCs. MacBibble was ten times faster than the software THE CAMERA MANUFACTURER MADE! So what? This has NOTHING TO DO WITH PERFORMANCE RELATIVE TO THE PC!
NOTHING! This says NOTHING about performance in relation to x86. NOTHING! How could this -possibly- shed ANY light on the previous debate about performance between PCs and Macs? It's not like the previous article used any benchmarks involving software the camera people released.
*sighs* At least slashdot posts something meaningful every now and then.
Well, duh... of course there would be lots of women, some in small metal bras. Aren't those everywhere in your town?
Oh God, how could I forget the Panther? I drove that numerous times on the Merc MUSE I played the most. I was also in the DC faction as well as on the BTech 3056 MUSE, as well as brief stints in CMJ--Clan Smoke Jaguar--and Kell Hounds. The Urbanmech was hella slow if I remember correctly.
;)
I was speaking of IS tech as Clan tech is awwfully hard to get ahold of if you're not in a clan; or KH or some other badass merc unit. The Merc MUSE which was like BTech 3062 or something was entirely IS tech, so... I was just thinking of IS in that analogy.
Clan tech is waaaaaay better. That's why they have all those "rules of engagement" and "duel" honor things that IS people like to bait them into traps with.
Anyway, I always think "Particle Projection Cannon" when I see PPC; it's been around a lot longer than the PowerPC
Ammo takes up space, adds weight, and eventually runs out. Additionally, unless your 'mech is using an ammo POD, any shot that breaches armor and does internal damage to locations the ammo is stored in has the chance of getting a critical hit and thus denoating the ammo and removing that section of your mech. However, energy weapons build up quite a bit of heat; 20 or 25 heat for a PPC or Extended Range ERPPC variant. Firing a Gauss Rifle builds about 2 heat. Heat sinks required to dissipate said heat also take up space, add some weight, and run the risk of being crit'd.
So really, it's a toss up between a PPC and a Gauss Rifle. My favorite Inner Sphere strike 'mech was a version of the Falconer that had an ERPPC on the left arm, and a Gauss Rifle on the right arm.
Now a
Sorry, I'm gonna have to go with a PPC over a
*blush*