Surely unless they have a "good" deal on SMS messaging, there's no way that regular data transfers could be more expensive than SMS... Wasn't there a plausible story on/. a while back that put the cost of SMS at ~$1000 per Kb?
Also, I wonder just how much more chatter occurs in an IMAP conversation than in an SMS notification. This is something that's worth looking into, methinks.
Too bad you're AC and will never see this comment...
1) WTF. Where do you get this 70% figure. Seems like your must be doing black magic to arrive at that. 2) Get a big ol trackball. I have a Kensington Expert Mouse. It cost ~$100 and was worth every penny. You'll never play sniper again, but you can still play, and won't be wrecking your wrists anymore. : D
Mmm. Yeah. The lack of apparent depth concerns me. The Space stage is truly huge, but (twenty, twenty-four hours of gameplay in) it seems to all be more of the same "fly to a star, do some errands, make an ally, save their asses from disaster" stuff. Hopefully I'm missing something, or this is something that'll be addressed in a later patch or free expansion.
Furthermore, the securom services run as local-system, and can't be removed.
Pardon? I bet that *I* (and any halfway knowledgeable Windows user) could remove this service.
This is a rootkit, which could allow distribution of serious worms/viruses etc
I don't think that you know what a rootkit is. If you do, you need to back up your claim with facts. Regardless. Please tell me how the SecureROM service facilitates the spread of worms and/or viruses.
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What rootkit does Spore install? I'm genuinely curious.
I enjoy both turn-based and real time strategy games. I absolutely *adore* StarCraft. (The 1.0 skirmish mode AI was *fantastic*.) Warcraft II was *okay*. I hated WC 3. The Warhammer 40K RTS (Dawn of War?) is pretty okay. The "unlimited resources" concept took a while to get used to, but it's a refreshing change from Starcraft. My only gripe is the (seemingly arbitrary) per-unit caps. [eg: you can only have one of these Uber BaddAss Tanks in your army]
I used to be quite the FPS player, but I hate all console based FPS prior to Gears of War (and -surprisingly- GTA IV). Not that GoW is a good game, mind you, but the auto-aim feature is a welcome relief from trying to play the "line up the pixels" game with a really low-resolution controller. Anyway, it's entirely possible that Sins just isn't my thing... or that I'm expecting it to be something that it's not. I'm probably getting overly bummed about the travel restrictions, and shallowness of the economic and political sides of the game. I'll come back to it in a couple of months, after the buyer's remorse has faded. : D
WRT your love for Alpha Centauri: Daaaamn dude. That's dedication!
PS: A fun turn-based strat game is Moonbase Commander. It's a *really* old game that you're never gonna find in a store any more, but I bet that you could find a copy laying around somewhere on the internet.
I've logged... eighteen, nineteen hours in Spore. I am unimpressed with the Space stage.
Hell, I've been unimpressed with the whole thing. It's just minigame after minigame. As I've said upthread. I'll give it another go this weekend on Hard difficulty. (Started on easy, have a normal game going now.) I'd really like my opinion to be changed, but I might be too old (mid twenties) to understand these newfangled video games anymore.
Here's an old fogey that things Sins sucks a little bit more than Spore.
Seriously. If you're looking for a *strategy* game, pick up a copy of Alpha Centauri. If you're just looking to do point defense, then go ahead and play Sins.
(Please tell me what I'm missing with Sins... Getting burned by it has put me off buying AAA games for quite some time.)
Sim City is a toy game with a good bit of depth. There's a really nice simulator behind all those crummy graphics.
ATM, it seems that Spore doesn't have all that much (gameplay related) depth. Perhaps on my third playthrough this weekend, I'll find the depth in Spore... but I really, really doubt it.
1) "Run" the torrent. 2) Unpack the.rar files. 3) Unplug your network cable. 4) Mount the.ISO. 5) Install. 6) Copy over the cracked.EXE. (Included in the package!)
TBH, I'm tired of paying for shitty AAA games. (I've gotten burned recently on:
*Sins of A Solar Empire
*Unreal Tournament 3
*Supreme Commander)
And, as of this moment, I'm glad that I have not purchased Spore. I'll give it another run-through this weekend on hard, but I doubt that my opinion will change from this:
Except when it's not... Ya know, when I ask Linux "How much can this 1TB drive hold?" and it reports back "900 GB". As several folks upthread have reported, the *only* time that we see this base-ten definition of the numerical prefixes is in the permanent storage industry. (I was going to say "hard drive industry", but I looked more closely at my "8GB" [7.5GB (7806960 byte)] flash drive and "256MB" [242MB (246912 byte)] SD card *sigh*)
And before anyone starts talking about "But, that's the way the industry does it!" you remember reading about when it used to be standard industry practice to use adulterated meats and sawdust fillers in your food? Yeah, that's right. I went there.
I wonder if there might be something else going on, too? Is it probable that the FS is doing something special when it knows that it's going to fill a file with zeroes?
Hmm. I'll code something up... http://simoncion.wargameweaver.com/code/temp.c (Not sure what this proves... Prolly that I'm too lazy to write a block device driver to generate a halfway decent test.)
I think that I'm convinced that you're right... I'm surprised that working with/dev/urandom is *that* much slower... I would have thought that disk IO would have been the bottleneck. Oh well.
$ #./temp* are the runs from my code: $ time./tempAlternating
real 0m9.254s user 0m7.230s sys 0m1.320s
$ time./tempZeroes
real 0m8.154s user 0m6.950s sys 0m1.180s
vs:
$ time dd bs=1024K count=100 if=/dev/zero of=tempfile.tmp 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 2.09533 s, 50.0 MB/s
real 0m2.267s user 0m0.010s sys 0m1.120s
$ time dd bs=1024K count=100 if=/dev/urandom of=tempfile.tmp 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 32.4097 s, 3.2 MB/s
Well, multiple passes of garbage for two reasons: 1)/dev/random is too slow, so we use/dev/urandom./dev/urandom is (probably?) less random than/dev/random. 2) The theory goes that the more noise you write over the existing data, the weaker the "signal" from the existing data becomes. Make sense?
As I said: "the drive must be in a living system". I figured people would think of a "living system" as one in which the drive is installed and the computer running. I suppose I was wrong.
Yeah. It helps *everyone* if you fight the encroachment of language muddling "manager-speak". Please try to speak clearly and plainly when you communicate for the purpose of information transfer.
and while each of those facilities will be good at focusing on itself, they will not have the advantage of seeing learnings from ALL the facilities across the organization, and they will miss things.
*LEARNINGS*? I think that you mis-typed. Perhaps you meant "lessons"? Maybe "results"? Perhaps "reports"? There are so many words that *humans* use that would fit in there. Why did you have to use "learnings"? *sad*
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Wait...
So you're telling me that it's like my Hurricane Electric tunnel... but in reverse?!
Hmm.
How does this trouble manifest itself?
*is running dual stack on the home LAN *RIGHT NOW**
OH SHIT!
They're on to me!
Pity. I was hoping to hear from the parent.
Surely unless they have a "good" deal on SMS messaging, there's no way that regular data transfers could be more expensive than SMS... Wasn't there a plausible story on /. a while back that put the cost of SMS at ~$1000 per Kb?
Also, I wonder just how much more chatter occurs in an IMAP conversation than in an SMS notification. This is something that's worth looking into, methinks.
So...
Why not do e-mail then?
Doesn't the iphone check your email periodically? Can it be configured to check every 60 seconds?
Too bad you're AC and will never see this comment...
1) WTF. Where do you get this 70% figure. Seems like your must be doing black magic to arrive at that.
2) Get a big ol trackball. I have a Kensington Expert Mouse. It cost ~$100 and was worth every penny. You'll never play sniper again, but you can still play, and won't be wrecking your wrists anymore. : D
Mmm. Yeah. The lack of apparent depth concerns me. The Space stage is truly huge, but (twenty, twenty-four hours of gameplay in) it seems to all be more of the same "fly to a star, do some errands, make an ally, save their asses from disaster" stuff. Hopefully I'm missing something, or this is something that'll be addressed in a later patch or free expansion.
Furthermore, the securom services run as local-system, and can't be removed.
Pardon?
I bet that *I* (and any halfway knowledgeable Windows user) could remove this service.
This is a rootkit, which could allow distribution of serious worms/viruses etc
I don't think that you know what a rootkit is. If you do, you need to back up your claim with facts.
Regardless. Please tell me how the SecureROM service facilitates the spread of worms and/or viruses.
What rootkit does Spore install? I'm genuinely curious.
I enjoy both turn-based and real time strategy games.
I absolutely *adore* StarCraft. (The 1.0 skirmish mode AI was *fantastic*.) Warcraft II was *okay*. I hated WC 3.
The Warhammer 40K RTS (Dawn of War?) is pretty okay. The "unlimited resources" concept took a while to get used to, but it's a refreshing change from Starcraft. My only gripe is the (seemingly arbitrary) per-unit caps. [eg: you can only have one of these Uber BaddAss Tanks in your army]
I used to be quite the FPS player, but I hate all console based FPS prior to Gears of War (and -surprisingly- GTA IV). Not that GoW is a good game, mind you, but the auto-aim feature is a welcome relief from trying to play the "line up the pixels" game with a really low-resolution controller.
Anyway, it's entirely possible that Sins just isn't my thing... or that I'm expecting it to be something that it's not. I'm probably getting overly bummed about the travel restrictions, and shallowness of the economic and political sides of the game. I'll come back to it in a couple of months, after the buyer's remorse has faded. : D
WRT your love for Alpha Centauri: Daaaamn dude. That's dedication!
PS: A fun turn-based strat game is Moonbase Commander. It's a *really* old game that you're never gonna find in a store any more, but I bet that you could find a copy laying around somewhere on the internet.
I've logged... eighteen, nineteen hours in Spore.
I am unimpressed with the Space stage.
Hell, I've been unimpressed with the whole thing. It's just minigame after minigame.
As I've said upthread. I'll give it another go this weekend on Hard difficulty. (Started on easy, have a normal game going now.) I'd really like my opinion to be changed, but I might be too old (mid twenties) to understand these newfangled video games anymore.
Can you tell me what I'm missing?
Guh.
Here's an old fogey that things Sins sucks a little bit more than Spore.
Seriously. If you're looking for a *strategy* game, pick up a copy of Alpha Centauri.
If you're just looking to do point defense, then go ahead and play Sins.
(Please tell me what I'm missing with Sins... Getting burned by it has put me off buying AAA games for quite some time.)
Sim City is a toy game with a good bit of depth. There's a really nice simulator behind all those crummy graphics.
ATM, it seems that Spore doesn't have all that much (gameplay related) depth. Perhaps on my third playthrough this weekend, I'll find the depth in Spore... but I really, really doubt it.
Hmm.
You are wrong.
Wine is not Windows. If Maxis and/or EA don't *say* that it works on Wine, then don't be surprised when it doesn't work on Wine.
This is kinda like complaining that Spore won't play on your 1337 Gam1ng R1gGG. [1]
[1] 1337 Gam1ng R1gGG Specs:
Pentium 133 Mhz
64 MB EDO RAM
500MB HDD
Sound Blaster 16 (ISA)
Voodoo 3 3000 (PCI)
Pardon?
How is this jumping through hoops?
1) "Run" the torrent. .rar files. .ISO. .EXE. (Included in the package!)
2) Unpack the
3) Unplug your network cable.
4) Mount the
5) Install.
6) Copy over the cracked
TBH, I'm tired of paying for shitty AAA games. (I've gotten burned recently on:
*Sins of A Solar Empire
*Unreal Tournament 3
*Supreme Commander)
And, as of this moment, I'm glad that I have not purchased Spore. I'll give it another run-through this weekend on hard, but I doubt that my opinion will change from this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/05/27/
Except when it's not... Ya know, when I ask Linux "How much can this 1TB drive hold?" and it reports back "900 GB".
As several folks upthread have reported, the *only* time that we see this base-ten definition of the numerical prefixes is in the permanent storage industry. (I was going to say "hard drive industry", but I looked more closely at my "8GB" [7.5GB (7806960 byte)] flash drive and "256MB" [242MB (246912 byte)] SD card *sigh*)
And before anyone starts talking about "But, that's the way the industry does it!" you remember reading about when it used to be standard industry practice to use adulterated meats and sawdust fillers in your food? Yeah, that's right. I went there.
I wonder if there might be something else going on, too?
Is it probable that the FS is doing something special when it knows that it's going to fill a file with zeroes?
Hmm. I'll code something up...
http://simoncion.wargameweaver.com/code/temp.c
(Not sure what this proves... Prolly that I'm too lazy to write a block device driver to generate a halfway decent test.)
I think that I'm convinced that you're right... I'm surprised that working with /dev/urandom is *that* much slower... I would have thought that disk IO would have been the bottleneck. Oh well.
$ #./temp* are the runs from my code: ./tempAlternating
$ time
real 0m9.254s
user 0m7.230s
sys 0m1.320s
$ time ./tempZeroes
real 0m8.154s
user 0m6.950s
sys 0m1.180s
vs:
$ time dd bs=1024K count=100 if=/dev/zero of=tempfile.tmp
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 2.09533 s, 50.0 MB/s
real 0m2.267s
user 0m0.010s
sys 0m1.120s
$ time dd bs=1024K count=100 if=/dev/urandom of=tempfile.tmp
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 32.4097 s, 3.2 MB/s
real 0m32.532s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m32.520s
I suppose that you missed this, then?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=955869&cid=24906241
Ah. Spoke too soon.
Well, multiple passes of garbage for two reasons: /dev/random is too slow, so we use /dev/urandom. /dev/urandom is (probably?) less random than /dev/random.
1)
2) The theory goes that the more noise you write over the existing data, the weaker the "signal" from the existing data becomes. Make sense?
Why not?
Can you convince me that
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
is significantly faster than
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda
?
I think that the ntfs3g folks have a pretty good handle on how the filenames would be stored.
Mmm.
That's four pizzas... if they're cheap.
That's not a lot of pizzas.
As I said: "the drive must be in a living system". I figured people would think of a "living system" as one in which the drive is installed and the computer running. I suppose I was wrong.
Yeah.
It helps *everyone* if you fight the encroachment of language muddling "manager-speak". Please try to speak clearly and plainly when you communicate for the purpose of information transfer.
"We have seen the enemy and hired him."
Bah. You should have said:
"We have seen the enemy and made him us."
*LEARNINGS*?
I think that you mis-typed.
Perhaps you meant "lessons"? Maybe "results"? Perhaps "reports"? There are so many words that *humans* use that would fit in there. Why did you have to use "learnings"? *sad*