I did my undergrad in Computer Engineering under the Networks track of CE. I am now finishing a Master's in CE with the same focus (now Wireless networks). DONT LISTEN TO JERKS WHO SAY ALL YOU NEED IS A CISCO CERT. There is a huge difference between understanding how to program cisco IOS and understanding the fundamentals behind networks. Ask a CCNA/NP/etc to do some signal processing, write a device driver, show why a routing algorithm has no loops, etc. Good luck. If you want to be on the trialing end of technology, go to a tech school. If you want to work on cool projects like Internet2, ad-hoc wireless networks, ubiquitous computing, etc, head towards a CS or a CE degree at a department that has a big research focus on networks. UC Berkeley, Santa Cruz, LA, San Diego are a bunch in California. Most of the good CS schools you will find some good networking people.
Santa Cruz specifically has a CE Networks degree. It's a CE degree, but you complete it by taking classes on network theory, design, implementation, etc in your senior year. But as most people said, you won't really get into the good stuff unless you do graduate research or work for a company doing a lot of research in that area.
There was some financial data released last year showing that some huge number, like 90% or more of people who obtained Onstar with their cars, did *not* renew after the 1 year was up. It seemed that people, especially those with cell phones, felt that the service was a beefed up cell phone and they didn't want to pay for two phones if they already had one, or just one phone for their car if they themselves didn't have a cell phone.
Take that to mean whatever you want, but I would rather use the equipment than let it sit unused just because I didn't pay for the service.
Not to be a troll, but this guy seems to be claiming he knows what he's doing. From his writeup, I very much doubt that. Performance modelling a cluster is FAR more complicated that "this is how long it takes to compile a kernel on one box, and this is how long in parallel." There are all kinds of issues such as MPICH's underlying communication structure (Tree, Linear, Cube, whatever). The fact that he could not get his MPI test program results consistant tells me that he has no idea how to configure it. Furthermore, when is the last time you saw a Linux kernel take 48 minutes to compile, on any Pentium 3 machine? The XBOX is capable of building a kernel far faster than that.. As another reader pointed out, read the specs.
Oh yeah, one final note. I *hate* how everyone always thinks that they were the first one to think of building a Xbox or PS2 cluster. Kudos to this guy for actually coming through, but his scientific reporting skills leave much to be desired.
I just got back from staying in a Mariott in Maimi, Florida. They had the whole facility covered in wireless access. There was a WAP right in my room too. It worked more or less the same way the wired system works. You dhcp, open a web browser, get redirected to some billing page. This one let me pay the provider (ASN I think) rather than Mariott, directly with a credit card which was actually kinda nice. It was $10 for 24 hours. Or $39.99 for a week, or $129.99 a month. You get a small discount at every step. Those numbers were just off the top of my head. Anyway, I took my laptop throughout the hotel - the lobby, the bar, the pool, the restaurant and it worked great (for the 24 hours I had it). I was getting a good 50K/s downloading some PDF docs from my work machine back in California. Hope this spreads to lots of hotels!
Although this is a nice post, this is not news. So called "wireless DSL" which only shares the bandwidth numbers with DSL, has been available IN "TELECOM VALLEY" as the sumitter puts it for well over a year through Sonic.net. It includes the exact same hardware as the poster mentions, and their coverage is gigantic. Wireless box and rooftop mounted antenna. Sonic is also a top rate ISP (no i dont work for them, but I am a customer with 3 DSL lines from them).
Also, being from 10 miles south of there, I would say that the roaming cattle in the Petaluma to Santa Rosa strip do not evoke the word "Telecom Valley" for Sonoma, even tho there are a lot of tech companies that fled Sillycone Valley to setup shop there. Stick with the name "Wine Country."
This will happen, it's just a matter of time. All the research in the networking industry is in wireless. The logic end for that research is fast, functional, multihop wireless networks that trade data via P2P type operations. Not just Palm pilots, but everything. The reason that this is not possible right now is that it is NOWHERE AS EASY AS IT SOUNDS.
There is a major problem with wireless networks in a multihop Ad-hoc setting and it is called Hidden Terminals. Essentially, due to the medium and the hardware, you can't (cheaply) implement Collision Detection or more specifically Carrier Sensing like CSMA/CD protocols such as Ethernet. A terminal between two other terminals can hear both of them, but the terminals on the edges don't know what each other is doing and they may both try to send data to the center node at the same time, resulting in interference and a collision. Here are some research papers if you're really interested but be warned, they are heavy on the math.
It seems to me that this problem is similar to other "table" propogations as well as firewall forwarding stuff. What I mean is take a look at a spanning tree algorithm where each node is a client on your MMORPG network.
Three words: The Sneakers Van. You might have to get Whistler to be a teacher for disabled kids, and mother can swap conspiracy theories with the rural hicks.
On another note, it would be cool if someone expanded this concept to a tour bus service for those long hauls. eg. I charter a bus from say SillyCone Valley for a trip to vegas. Get some guy to drive it and just play counterstrike, total annihilation, etc. in the bus for the 9-12 hour drive. That would kick ass. Of course you'd have to mount a mobilized satellite tracker and dish on the roof for Starband Satellite Internet Access so that you could run the webcam from the bus so that you're cronies back in their cubicles can watch you living it up!
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The NEO4 is CRAP - DO NOT INSTALL IT. The NEO4 is an irreversable mod to your PS2. During it's installation, not only do you have to make over 60 solder points which are EXTREMELY small, you also have to remove a capacitor and cut etched wires on the board. Furturemore, it has now been proven that it does not work with boards prior to version 4 (that is, if your PS2 is more than say 4 or 5 months old, it won't work). Go with the USB mod if you have to mod your PS2. It is only one solder wire, fairly easy to do, completely reversable, and only requires a little usb box on the outside of the PS2 and a game shark to boot the backups. Works just fine.
I don't know what kind of crack the submitter is on if they can't get a shiney new Linux distro onto a Sparcstation 5 in under an hour. Debian for one has a very good sparc distro. They have for a long time. I had a Sun Sparcstation 5 with 2 gigs of hdd space and 32MB of ram running apache+ssl+php+perl, shell services, and even the occational X application. It took only a couple of hours to set all that up and worked perfectly. The machine was up for 418 days before someone accidentally hit the wrong remote power cutoff in the colo and rebooted it. At the time that it went down it was a completely up to date distro except for the kernel because it hadn't been rebooted. apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade is magical. I suggest that you do more research before accusing the community of lagging SPARC support.
They think they got Napster beat, so now they are releasing their Winders virusus on Gnutella trying to keep users off. Obviously. Yes, that must be it. Of Course.
Umm.. Seems to me that almost anything that acts as a conductor would superconduct at that temperature. Problem is, it takes so much energy to get to that temperature, it's not worth it.
I am going to go on a short rant about why I
disagree with the critics and some other people, who hype this up as a good movie. So without further adue, here is my rant...
Let me start off by saying that I have seen a lot of movies, and I dont usually go in for hollywood bullshit. That doesnt make my opinion any more valid than anyone elses, but I keep my movie collection to mostly Hong Kong Cinema because most of it is complete bullshit and they dont try to hide it. It is fantasy. Anyway, onto this pile of beatle dung...
I wont bore you with the details of what this movie is all about. In general, the idea, I think, was to cover different angles of the modern drug smuggling trade. While perhaps a worthwile endeavour, there was absolutely no story in it. I have a major problem with the director of this movie, Steven Soderbergh. Aparently he thinks that he is the non-union mexican equivalent of Oliver Stone who should be keel-hauled or something. I mean, Out of Sight was great, but this? It may play well to art critics but I swear, if I see one more of those movies where the director tries to build tention by doing massive close-ups of the eyes and sweaty face, as well as attempt to build drama by using a shaky camera with different color filters, I will personally shove the director into the ass of a female alpaca in heat and then ship them to the alpaca mating colony on an island off Tiera Del Fuego, which incidentily is where I sent John Stienbeck when he
pissed me off...
Anywho... It is sufficient to say that this is one of those movies. It is not that this was bad or anything, but I sat through Dracula 2000, and this movie, "Traffic" was worse. A 2.5 hour epic of drug lectures, family values and healing, and drug cartels that you never see do anything interesting. To top it off, the different story lines almost come together, but not quite. The investigators in this movie couldnt make a case if they had a billboard with the answer strapped to the cieling of their bedroom. Oh yeah, and dont let me forget the innocent wealthy Soccer Mom turned drug overlord played by Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Before this movie, I never realized that everything in Washington DC has a blue tint, everything in Mexico has a yellow tint, and
everything else is normal. Oh... Wait... They dont have tints. WOW. Now, Im not entirely certain why I havent heard this sort of review anywhere else. The people I saw it with felt the same, as well as most of the people walking out of the theater.
I suppose that the state and politics of the "War on Drugs" was appropriately shown, when they werent focusing on one family problem or another. Unfortunately, that can be better done with a documentary. I learned absolutely nothing from this movie, and I doubt anyone else did either. It was about as entertaining as a staring contest with the mexican staring frog of southern Sri Lanka. The characters lacked definition which is a shame, because some of their performances were actually good, like Benicio Del Toro whom I cant wait to see in Snatch.
None of this explains to me why critics like it and why the people on IMDB gave it an 8.7 (last I looked). I read their comments and it seems like they were watching the same movie but pulled something completely different out of it, something that wasnt the presuasive urge to vomit. So in short, I dont recommend this movie as it happens to suck. Oh well.
This is getting really scary. Everyone seems aligned against the consumer. Governments, the Music and Movie industries, the equipment manufacturers, and right wing activists. What's even more scary is that there isn't a whole lot we can do about it besides complain and even boycot certain devices or industries, but most of us are not hardcore enough to give up the things we've come to enjoy everyday. Also not good is that fact that there are more people abusing the system who are angry about Copy Control than their are legitimate complaints from people who Copy goods resonably or even leagally (ie Ripping their own CD's to MP3 or ogg vorbis or something). I don't know what to do about it. But that's my $0.02.
Ok. If any of you have ever seen a pirated dreamcast game boot, you will note that there is either a seperate bootdisc, or a selfbooting loader on the game that has been added. This bootloader can look ANYWAY the author wants it to. Some of them have big spinning animations, some have graphics of the team who created it, etc. There is no reason why it wouldn't be possible for me to make a bootloader(with the right equip) that looks like Linux booting up. IT WOULD BE EASY AS HELL. I fear that this may be the case, givin the lack of website, a 10 user limit on their ftp server, and only 2 developers listed on the Sourceforge site which also have zero comments, zero CVS commits, and no software. The "binary kernel" is also shady and the fact that they only distribute it in a scrambled CDRWIN.bin only adds to the suspicion.
Slashdot doesnt use one way encrytion like unix passwords? Like enter the password, encrypt it, and check against the encrypted save? Or do I have that ass-backwards and wrong. It would seem that you could do that sort of thing, even with a database. *shrug*
DSLReports actually is a good resource. Most of the big companies do suck. Your best bet is to find a small local ISP that will serve DSL. Get the line from your local phone company, or covad, or whoever, and have your small local ISP serve it. This is the way I am setup and couldn't be more pleased. The other thing in your case is that you are far from you Central Office. This means that you can only get IDSL which is ISDN with the header channel used for actual data. So for our purposes, it is ISDN (just so you know). The IDSL cards are prone to problems too. Don't think you are getting something you aren't. If you are far away from the CO (greater than 12000 to 15000 feet), then don't expect DSL to be your saviour of bandwidth. It will be slow, expensive, prone to problems, and hard to get. On the other hand, if you are close to your CO and can find a good local provider, or one of the better ones on DSLReports.com like Speakeasy.net or someone, you can get very good, reliable bandwidth, with good equipment and service. And for the record, I am not in the DSL/ISP industry. Just have had a lot of experience with it.
Uhhh. That is retarded. I have a DSL and my friend has @Home. We have setup a VPN using SSH and PPP. If @Home looked at his traffic, all they would see is a SSH connection. So what? They could never prove what he was doing with that connection. Lamers....
Hi. I submitted the article and commentary. Some excelent points have been brought up. In response to one posters comment about the GPL becoming a copyright graveyard; the RIAA still makes plenty of money from music even though people are pirating it. Also, I think (in response to someone else) that the GPL is not the appropriate licence here. They can release it under their own licence, as they have the right to do this as they are the sole distributers. An emailer suggested to me that the reason companies will do something like this is that they wish to retain the name of the game for future use on a future platform. That is perfectly viable with the proper wording in a licence. But I think one thing people loose sight of here is who is Sega's audience and who are they going after. Their target audience is people in the teens to late 20's. I think that is the bulk of their market. Something can be said about comsumer sentiment. I, being of that group, would be less inclined to buy something from Sega after seeing them going after someone in my age group. Whether they are right or wrong, this is bad press for them and that in the end will probably damage them more than the trading of illegal ROMS. Who knows how much good can come from loyalty and good feelings toward a game company by this group of people. Probably a lot. So, not being an IP lawyer, I think the best route for them would be to conceed that these games will continue to be traded, no matter how much time, money, and resources they sink into the problem and instead, find a way to satisfy thier requirement of keeping the name they want to protect and the company loyalty they need to sell games.
First of all, that editorial comment by emmett was in poor taste. Second, plenty of private conversations, either personal or business, are held on IRC. People that have meetings on IRC that require privacy include linux.com, themes.org, and many others.
Fuel cells are the next technology, there is no question about that. The reasons why they are not usable in cars widespread ATM is that they are trying to find a safer way (and set standards) as to how to carry the Hydrogen. In order to be compact and effective, the Hydrogen needs to be VERY compressed. The danger doesnt come from the hydrogen itself, but the super compressed containers. In addition, fuel cell technology has not been sufficiently sized down to fit inside a normal car well. The other issue is that right now Hydrogen is very expensive. Nobody denies that Fuel cells are the next power source, everyone is behind it (except oil conglomerates). It will just take time and money to develop it more, so you can bet it will be a while.
Is it just me, or isn't this whole PNP thing run my microsloth. If a protocol is going to be used to make devices talk to each other cross platform, from different manufactures, in different settings, with different hardware, shouldn't the protocol for telling them how to talk to each other be developed openly so that it is secure, reliable and flexible? Microsoft's original idea of PnP didn't work. We all know the popular phrase Plug 'n Pray. So what is there to make me belive that if I plug in my couch, it will actually find my coffee machine, huh? I don't want to open my foot-rest and have a coffee pot launched at high velocity towards me from the kitchen because the coffee machine mis-understood the couch's command to open the foot-rest.
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It's called a maker, and they are run by the mob. Duh.
I did my undergrad in Computer Engineering under the Networks track of CE. I am now finishing a Master's in CE with the same focus (now Wireless networks). DONT LISTEN TO JERKS WHO SAY ALL YOU NEED IS A CISCO CERT. There is a huge difference between understanding how to program cisco IOS and understanding the fundamentals behind networks. Ask a CCNA/NP/etc to do some signal processing, write a device driver, show why a routing algorithm has no loops, etc. Good luck. If you want to be on the trialing end of technology, go to a tech school. If you want to work on cool projects like Internet2, ad-hoc wireless networks, ubiquitous computing, etc, head towards a CS or a CE degree at a department that has a big research focus on networks. UC Berkeley, Santa Cruz, LA, San Diego are a bunch in California. Most of the good CS schools you will find some good networking people.
Santa Cruz specifically has a CE Networks degree. It's a CE degree, but you complete it by taking classes on network theory, design, implementation, etc in your senior year. But as most people said, you won't really get into the good stuff unless you do graduate research or work for a company doing a lot of research in that area.
Good luck!
There was some financial data released last year showing that some huge number, like 90% or more of people who obtained Onstar with their cars, did *not* renew after the 1 year was up. It seemed that people, especially those with cell phones, felt that the service was a beefed up cell phone and they didn't want to pay for two phones if they already had one, or just one phone for their car if they themselves didn't have a cell phone.
Take that to mean whatever you want, but I would rather use the equipment than let it sit unused just because I didn't pay for the service.
My $0.02
Not to be a troll, but this guy seems to be claiming he knows what he's doing. From his writeup, I very much doubt that. Performance modelling a cluster is FAR more complicated that "this is how long it takes to compile a kernel on one box, and this is how long in parallel." There are all kinds of issues such as MPICH's underlying communication structure (Tree, Linear, Cube, whatever). The fact that he could not get his MPI test program results consistant tells me that he has no idea how to configure it. Furthermore, when is the last time you saw a Linux kernel take 48 minutes to compile, on any Pentium 3 machine? The XBOX is capable of building a kernel far faster than that.. As another reader pointed out, read the specs.
Oh yeah, one final note. I *hate* how everyone always thinks that they were the first one to think of building a Xbox or PS2 cluster. Kudos to this guy for actually coming through, but his scientific reporting skills leave much to be desired.
I just got back from staying in a Mariott in Maimi, Florida. They had the whole facility covered in wireless access. There was a WAP right in my room too. It worked more or less the same way the wired system works. You dhcp, open a web browser, get redirected to some billing page. This one let me pay the provider (ASN I think) rather than Mariott, directly with a credit card which was actually kinda nice. It was $10 for 24 hours. Or $39.99 for a week, or $129.99 a month. You get a small discount at every step. Those numbers were just off the top of my head. Anyway, I took my laptop throughout the hotel - the lobby, the bar, the pool, the restaurant and it worked great (for the 24 hours I had it). I was getting a good 50K/s downloading some PDF docs from my work machine back in California. Hope this spreads to lots of hotels!
Although this is a nice post, this is not news. So called "wireless DSL" which only shares the bandwidth numbers with DSL, has been available IN "TELECOM VALLEY" as the sumitter puts it for well over a year through Sonic.net. It includes the exact same hardware as the poster mentions, and their coverage is gigantic. Wireless box and rooftop mounted antenna. Sonic is also a top rate ISP (no i dont work for them, but I am a customer with 3 DSL lines from them).
Also, being from 10 miles south of there, I would say that the roaming cattle in the Petaluma to Santa Rosa strip do not evoke the word "Telecom Valley" for Sonoma, even tho there are a lot of tech companies that fled Sillycone Valley to setup shop there. Stick with the name "Wine Country."
This will happen, it's just a matter of time. All the research in the networking industry is in wireless. The logic end for that research is fast, functional, multihop wireless networks that trade data via P2P type operations. Not just Palm pilots, but everything. The reason that this is not possible right now is that it is NOWHERE AS EASY AS IT SOUNDS.
There is a major problem with wireless networks in a multihop Ad-hoc setting and it is called Hidden Terminals. Essentially, due to the medium and the hardware, you can't (cheaply) implement Collision Detection or more specifically Carrier Sensing like CSMA/CD protocols such as Ethernet. A terminal between two other terminals can hear both of them, but the terminals on the edges don't know what each other is doing and they may both try to send data to the center node at the same time, resulting in interference and a collision. Here are some research papers if you're really interested but be warned, they are heavy on the math.
CCRG Research at UCSC Publications
And more specifically,
C. L. Fullmer and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "Solutions to Hidden Terminal Problems in Wireless Networks", Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 97, Cannes, France, September 14-18, 1997. - There is also a pdf version on the CCRG page.
Enjoy!
It seems to me that this problem is similar to other "table" propogations as well as firewall forwarding stuff. What I mean is take a look at a spanning tree algorithm where each node is a client on your MMORPG network.
Three words: The Sneakers Van. You might have to get Whistler to be a teacher for disabled kids, and mother can swap conspiracy theories with the rural hicks.
On another note, it would be cool if someone expanded this concept to a tour bus service for those long hauls. eg. I charter a bus from say SillyCone Valley for a trip to vegas. Get some guy to drive it and just play counterstrike, total annihilation, etc. in the bus for the 9-12 hour drive. That would kick ass. Of course you'd have to mount a mobilized satellite tracker and dish on the roof for Starband Satellite Internet Access so that you could run the webcam from the bus so that you're cronies back in their cubicles can watch you living it up!
The NEO4 is CRAP - DO NOT INSTALL IT. The NEO4 is an irreversable mod to your PS2. During it's installation, not only do you have to make over 60 solder points which are EXTREMELY small, you also have to remove a capacitor and cut etched wires on the board. Furturemore, it has now been proven that it does not work with boards prior to version 4 (that is, if your PS2 is more than say 4 or 5 months old, it won't work). Go with the USB mod if you have to mod your PS2. It is only one solder wire, fairly easy to do, completely reversable, and only requires a little usb box on the outside of the PS2 and a game shark to boot the backups. Works just fine.
The Cowboy Bebop movie now playing in Japan is very poinient with this issue.
I don't know what kind of crack the submitter is on if they can't get a shiney new Linux distro onto a Sparcstation 5 in under an hour. Debian for one has a very good sparc distro. They have for a long time. I had a Sun Sparcstation 5 with 2 gigs of hdd space and 32MB of ram running apache+ssl+php+perl, shell services, and even the occational X application. It took only a couple of hours to set all that up and worked perfectly. The machine was up for 418 days before someone accidentally hit the wrong remote power cutoff in the colo and rebooted it. At the time that it went down it was a completely up to date distro except for the kernel because it hadn't been rebooted. apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade is magical. I suggest that you do more research before accusing the community of lagging SPARC support.
They think they got Napster beat, so now they are releasing their Winders virusus on Gnutella trying to keep users off. Obviously. Yes, that must be it. Of Course.
Mir Pieces Splashdown: 2001-03-23 23:23:23
Umm.. Seems to me that almost anything that acts as a conductor would superconduct at that temperature. Problem is, it takes so much energy to get to that temperature, it's not worth it.
I am going to go on a short rant about why I
disagree with the critics and some other people, who hype this up as a good movie. So without further adue, here is my rant...
Let me start off by saying that I have seen a lot of movies, and I dont usually go in for hollywood bullshit. That doesnt make my opinion any more valid than anyone elses, but I keep my movie collection to mostly Hong Kong Cinema because most of it is complete bullshit and they dont try to hide it. It is fantasy. Anyway, onto this pile of beatle dung...
I wont bore you with the details of what this movie is all about. In general, the idea, I think, was to cover different angles of the modern drug smuggling trade. While perhaps a worthwile endeavour, there was absolutely no story in it. I have a major problem with the director of this movie, Steven Soderbergh. Aparently he thinks that he is the non-union mexican equivalent of Oliver Stone who should be keel-hauled or something. I mean, Out of Sight was great, but this? It may play well to art critics but I swear, if I see one more of those movies where the director tries to build tention by doing massive close-ups of the eyes and sweaty face, as well as attempt to build drama by using a shaky camera with different color filters, I will personally shove the director into the ass of a female alpaca in heat and then ship them to the alpaca mating colony on an island off Tiera Del Fuego, which incidentily is where I sent John Stienbeck when he
pissed me off...
Anywho... It is sufficient to say that this is one of those movies. It is not that this was bad or anything, but I sat through Dracula 2000, and this movie, "Traffic" was worse. A 2.5 hour epic of drug lectures, family values and healing, and drug cartels that you never see do anything interesting. To top it off, the different story lines almost come together, but not quite. The investigators in this movie couldnt make a case if they had a billboard with the answer strapped to the cieling of their bedroom. Oh yeah, and dont let me forget the innocent wealthy Soccer Mom turned drug overlord played by Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Before this movie, I never realized that everything in Washington DC has a blue tint, everything in Mexico has a yellow tint, and
everything else is normal. Oh... Wait... They dont have tints. WOW. Now, Im not entirely certain why I havent heard this sort of review anywhere else. The people I saw it with felt the same, as well as most of the people walking out of the theater.
I suppose that the state and politics of the "War on Drugs" was appropriately shown, when they werent focusing on one family problem or another. Unfortunately, that can be better done with a documentary. I learned absolutely nothing from this movie, and I doubt anyone else did either. It was about as entertaining as a staring contest with the mexican staring frog of southern Sri Lanka. The characters lacked definition which is a shame, because some of their performances were actually good, like Benicio Del Toro whom I cant wait to see in Snatch.
None of this explains to me why critics like it and why the people on IMDB gave it an 8.7 (last I looked). I read their comments and it seems like they were watching the same movie but pulled something completely different out of it, something that wasnt the presuasive urge to vomit. So in short, I dont recommend this movie as it happens to suck. Oh well.
This is getting really scary. Everyone seems aligned against the consumer. Governments, the Music and Movie industries, the equipment manufacturers, and right wing activists. What's even more scary is that there isn't a whole lot we can do about it besides complain and even boycot certain devices or industries, but most of us are not hardcore enough to give up the things we've come to enjoy everyday. Also not good is that fact that there are more people abusing the system who are angry about Copy Control than their are legitimate complaints from people who Copy goods resonably or even leagally (ie Ripping their own CD's to MP3 or ogg vorbis or something). I don't know what to do about it. But that's my $0.02.
Ok. If any of you have ever seen a pirated dreamcast game boot, you will note that there is either a seperate bootdisc, or a selfbooting loader on the game that has been added. This bootloader can look ANYWAY the author wants it to. Some of them have big spinning animations, some have graphics of the team who created it, etc. There is no reason why it wouldn't be possible for me to make a bootloader(with the right equip) that looks like Linux booting up. IT WOULD BE EASY AS HELL. I fear that this may be the case, givin the lack of website, a 10 user limit on their ftp server, and only 2 developers listed on the Sourceforge site which also have zero comments, zero CVS commits, and no software. The "binary kernel" is also shady and the fact that they only distribute it in a scrambled CDRWIN .bin only adds to the suspicion.
Anyway.. I hope I'm wrong.
- jon
Slashdot doesnt use one way encrytion like unix passwords? Like enter the password, encrypt it, and check against the encrypted save? Or do I have that ass-backwards and wrong. It would seem that you could do that sort of thing, even with a database. *shrug*
DSLReports actually is a good resource. Most of the big companies do suck. Your best bet is to find a small local ISP that will serve DSL. Get the line from your local phone company, or covad, or whoever, and have your small local ISP serve it. This is the way I am setup and couldn't be more pleased. The other thing in your case is that you are far from you Central Office. This means that you can only get IDSL which is ISDN with the header channel used for actual data. So for our purposes, it is ISDN (just so you know). The IDSL cards are prone to problems too. Don't think you are getting something you aren't. If you are far away from the CO (greater than 12000 to 15000 feet), then don't expect DSL to be your saviour of bandwidth. It will be slow, expensive, prone to problems, and hard to get. On the other hand, if you are close to your CO and can find a good local provider, or one of the better ones on DSLReports.com like Speakeasy.net or someone, you can get very good, reliable bandwidth, with good equipment and service. And for the record, I am not in the DSL/ISP industry. Just have had a lot of experience with it.
Uhhh. That is retarded. I have a DSL and my friend has @Home. We have setup a VPN using SSH and PPP. If @Home looked at his traffic, all they would see is a SSH connection. So what? They could never prove what he was doing with that connection. Lamers....
Hi. I submitted the article and commentary. Some excelent points have been brought up. In response to one posters comment about the GPL becoming a copyright graveyard; the RIAA still makes plenty of money from music even though people are pirating it. Also, I think (in response to someone else) that the GPL is not the appropriate licence here. They can release it under their own licence, as they have the right to do this as they are the sole distributers. An emailer suggested to me that the reason companies will do something like this is that they wish to retain the name of the game for future use on a future platform. That is perfectly viable with the proper wording in a licence. But I think one thing people loose sight of here is who is Sega's audience and who are they going after. Their target audience is people in the teens to late 20's. I think that is the bulk of their market. Something can be said about comsumer sentiment. I, being of that group, would be less inclined to buy something from Sega after seeing them going after someone in my age group. Whether they are right or wrong, this is bad press for them and that in the end will probably damage them more than the trading of illegal ROMS. Who knows how much good can come from loyalty and good feelings toward a game company by this group of people. Probably a lot. So, not being an IP lawyer, I think the best route for them would be to conceed that these games will continue to be traded, no matter how much time, money, and resources they sink into the problem and instead, find a way to satisfy thier requirement of keeping the name they want to protect and the company loyalty they need to sell games.
First of all, that editorial comment by emmett was in poor taste. Second, plenty of private conversations, either personal or business, are held on IRC. People that have meetings on IRC that require privacy include linux.com, themes.org, and many others.
Fuel cells are the next technology, there is no question about that. The reasons why they are not usable in cars widespread ATM is that they are trying to find a safer way (and set standards) as to how to carry the Hydrogen. In order to be compact and effective, the Hydrogen needs to be VERY compressed. The danger doesnt come from the hydrogen itself, but the super compressed containers. In addition, fuel cell technology has not been sufficiently sized down to fit inside a normal car well. The other issue is that right now Hydrogen is very expensive. Nobody denies that Fuel cells are the next power source, everyone is behind it (except oil conglomerates). It will just take time and money to develop it more, so you can bet it will be a while.
Is it just me, or isn't this whole PNP thing run my microsloth. If a protocol is going to be used to make devices talk to each other cross platform, from different manufactures, in different settings, with different hardware, shouldn't the protocol for telling them how to talk to each other be developed openly so that it is secure, reliable and flexible? Microsoft's original idea of PnP didn't work. We all know the popular phrase Plug 'n Pray. So what is there to make me belive that if I plug in my couch, it will actually find my coffee machine, huh? I don't want to open my foot-rest and have a coffee pot launched at high velocity towards me from the kitchen because the coffee machine mis-understood the couch's command to open the foot-rest.