Do the catridges really have a predetermined total space? The storage of a cartridge is really only limited by the amount of memory which can fit in that physical space and be powered by the amount of electricity provided by the console, right? Of course there might be some issues about the console being able to address large amounts of memory and such, but that could probably be fixed through swapping or some other means, I'm certainly no console programmer.
Am I the only one who's completely tired of the 'news' coverage of this event? I mean, for over a year now I've had people telling me I need to 'remember' and 'pay tribute' to our 'fallen heroes.' Almost invariably, the best way to do so is by buying some memento which they're conventiently selling for the low price of $19.99.
I think I'll spend the day commemorating with one of the over 150 books written about 9/11. Which one should I choose? Maybe 'Let's Roll' or 'Above Hallowed Ground.' Or there's the ones featuring children's art, or the impact of terrorist attacks on the gay community. At last check there are some 911 books on amazon.com dealing with the subject.
When I tire of reading a book I can browse some of the thousands of pictures taken that day, or perhaps just kick back with the 'special edition' of any given newspaper filled with pages of 'stories' which are little more than people complaining and wondering what rationale there is for such an attack. Or I could watch the six-hour special today show, or check out Barbara Walters as she sits in on grief conseling sessions with the families. If that's not enough I can check out the Spike Lee special with films 'inspired' by the events of 9/11. As if the normally anti-establishment Spike Lee getting in on the action isn't enough, even ESPN is trying their hand at news and covering 9/11 with a documentary about flight 93.
In short, I'm sick of the sensationalist propoganda surrounding what was certainly one of the nation's worst tragedies in history. I'm tired of people hawking 9/11 commemorative pins as if a pin will make a difference. I don't need an FDNY t-shirt, thank you. I refuse to take part in a 'moment of silence' or wear red white and blue to work. I refuse to purchase any publication with any sort of special edition or expanded coverage. I will not watch people crying on TV over their lost loved ones. I won't look at pictures of the orphaned babies who are somehow more worthy of our attention than the thousands of others orphaned in the year since 9/11. I will not let terrorism change my life as it has apparently changed everyone else's for the past year. I won't give in to the pressures of a society which is apparently hated by a good portion of the world.
We allow our capitalism to destroy the message of what really happened and why, and then the next time we'll wonder why anyone could despise us so greatly. Ratings, Money, Stock prices, these are our Gods. The tragedy of what happened is only a means through which we come closer to them. What kind of people would take part in an attack on innocent civilians? Clearly evil ones. What kind of people will spend a year making money off that in an orgy of patriotism and memorial gone wrong? I'll leave that to you to decide.
This really is a holy war, but maybe it's less about Allah and more about Dollahs.
I remember getting into arguments with my teachers and principals years ago because I did some research on the internet and there was no standard way of annotating it in the bibliography/footnotes yet. This was back around 1992.. evidentally there's now standards for that, but it's just one examples years ago.
Price has nothing to do with it for me, availability does. I can't get cable, dsl, or anything. I live in a heavily populated near suburb of Chicago so it's not like I'm out in the styx either. If I can't get it at any price, then price doesn't even enter the equation.
IANAL, but it seems to me there would be some sort of laws against releasing something for free public use, crushing competition, then raising prices on it. Maybe something about sacrificing their intellectual property into the public domain by not enforcing their decoder licenses for such a long period of time? I know there's restrictions requiring companies to protect IP, patents and trademarks or they risk losing them to the public domain, could this be a similar case?
The difficulty here is they've kept as tight a lease on the encoders as they could all along, but now their extending that to the decoder technology, which in my mind has already been given up to the public.
A - Hacks the voting server B - DDOSs the voting server C - Man-in-the-middle attacks the voting server D - ???? There have to be a ton more security problems with this.
Identity verification would be a bit of a problem too. No way short of mailing out the information short of a courier who verifies identity of the person he hands it to to ensure that someone doesn't simply steal usernames/passwords from all their neighbors mailboxes. At an actual polling place, they can at least compare your photo ID to your voter registration card, etc..
I remember reading about this in one of those airling expense toys catalogs. There's a similar thing that works a little differently. You bury a cable around the edges of your lawn, and around trees/shrubs/non-mowed areas. Put this thing out there and it does it's business, turning whenever it encounters the underground cable. At $500 it's not all that much more expensive than a decent mower already is.
It's not internet enabled, but is it really all that safe to be mowing remotely anyhow? At least sit in the hammock with a cold brew and make sure it doesn't hit your neighbor's kids or something.
Well yah.. it was meant to be a 'gee wouldn't this be cool' thing, not so much a practical solution. Course, if all the players brought their own laptops during a game...
Maybe things are different in your business, but at my company (commercial real estate) we make a lot of calls out to clients, potential clients, etc.. While there's quite a bit of internal communications, we can get phone service cheaper through traditional PRI circuits than we can by doing VoIP when you factor in the bandwidth needed for it.
Sometimes I think that gets overlooked in doing pricing comparisions. Bandwidth isn't free. PRI SLAs aren't cheap, but Frame circuits, PVCs, and CIR aren't cheap either.
Most of that stuff won't work anymore.. the tones when you drop a quarter in a phone don't really mean anything anymore, they're just feedback so you know the quarter was registered and such. Course, I suppose if you could find a way old payphone somewhere...
There's still things that will work though. Not much stopping someone from climbing a pole with a butt phone and tapping another line, etc..
Granted, security should be implemented at each layer if possible, but wouldn't VoIP inherit the security of the IP network itself? So far, most VoIP installations I've seen/heard about are either within an office, connecting handsets to a PBX with traditional trunks, or between offices of the same company using their internal WAN. Granted you can still have attacks internally, but in neither of these scenarios is it very easy for the general public to snoop or intercept your phone calls.
That said, I really don't see VoIP on a large scale taking off for a while. Two things need to occur before that happens;
- Suitably fast data service has to be ubiquitous. Spotty DSL/Cable coverage won't do it. - Said data service has to be less expensive than conventional phone service. This one's a no brainer. - Wireless data on a large scale would help as well.
So far, I don't see these criteria being met in all but niche markets, and that's exactly where VoIP has found itself... for now.
From what I can see of the cache link it looks like the messages might only run from DM->player and possibly the other way around.
It's not of much value to know the DM is sending someone a message if you can't see the actualy message. Between players it might be, you could tell if two people are keeping secrets from the rest of the group of something...
Why not just have laptop/palmtop PCs with IM running or something?
There's another feature the blurb didn't mention which is sure to be of great benefit to people who would want something like this. It's sized such that it can easily fit in most parent's basements!
From what I understand, the way blockbuster handles things is a bit different. Blockbuster merely states that they won't carry certain things, and require the studios to edit it or it won't appear in their stores. With Blockbuster representing such a major part of the rental market the studios cave. Blockbuster never actually modifies the film, they just require the studios to do so, or not be carried in their stores.
That said, I agree with you here. So long as they aren't selling a modified version of the film, it should be legal under fair use for me to mask portions of it which I find objectionable. I still think it's a bit ridiculous, but to each his own.
So then, what exactly is Microsoft trying to coerce society or the government into doing?
What force or Violence have the used?
Injecting words into a definition like that can seriously change the meaning of a word. Let's say the USA is defined as 'The United States of America' preface "America" with "South" and we've got a definition which is pretty much as similar to the original as yours.
Calling MS's actions terrorism is ridiculous. Is Enron a terrorist organization? How about Worldcom? To me, it's more appropriate to say that the US' actions in WWII, Nicaragua, Columbia, etc.. are terrorist than Microsoft's. We, as a nation (organized group) took part in both unlawful and threatened use of force against people and property, with the intention of intimidating and coercing societies for idealogical and political reasons. Micrsoft's actions might fit your 'prefaced' version of terrorism, but I prefer to stick with the actual definition of the word.
If there's any sad state of affairs to speak of, it's the fact that people deem it necessary to call anything they disagree with 'terrorism' for the sake of sensationalizing. I'd expect it from politicians, but to read it on/. is surprising.
Terrorism is murder, death, mayhem. Whatever your opinions on Microsoft (and I'll reserve mine) they are in no way as evil as those who would kill innocent men women and children to further their own agenda.
Comparing a successful capitalist corporation, albeit one that has been found to have violated the law in numerous ways, with those who would kill thousands only for attention is irrational, and makes a mockery of those whose lives were taken from them.
Uligo and Goproblems.com are great places for learning how to play in common situations.
If you prefer a phyiscal board and stones check out Samarkand and Kiseido
Also, anyone in the Chicago area should check out the Evanston Go Club
A word of caution, if you decide to learn go, expect to lose most of your first 50-100 games. It's a long road, but once you start making progress, you'll grow quickly. I know I sure have. Anyone who's up for a game look for 'jjarmoc' on KGS.
Actually, hex was invented in 1942 by Piet Hien. Nash independently invented virtually the same game in 1948, but he was a little late. Kind of like Thomas Edison and what's his name's race with the telephone. Funny how in one case the second inventor is virtually unknown while in the other, it's Nash who gets the credit.
It's cheap enough to have a cell phone as your primary phone, and I believe there's laws prohibiting sales calls to cell phones, since the recipient is charged for the call in many cases.
At any rate, I get very few calls on my cell phone, and once I tell them it's a cell phone they actually VOLUNTEER to put me on their do not call list.
... so the FCC won't let me be, or let me be me, so let me see. They want to sell phone records monthly, and use it to get themselves wealthy. Hey, here's a concept that works, trash the little guys rights and profits emerge, but no matter how many rights are taken from me, it'd be so empty without being free.
Slashdot Mirror
Go crazy?
Isn't this a repeat?
No, wait.. this same rumor recirculates every few months, that's right.
As much as I'd love to see it happen, I'll believe it when there's something resembling a formal announcement.
Do the catridges really have a predetermined total space? The storage of a cartridge is really only limited by the amount of memory which can fit in that physical space and be powered by the amount of electricity provided by the console, right? Of course there might be some issues about the console being able to address large amounts of memory and such, but that could probably be fixed through swapping or some other means, I'm certainly no console programmer.
Nothing is holding this back short of IP law. In fact, I've seen MAME/NESticle cabinets that do pretty much that.
Am I the only one who's completely tired of the 'news' coverage of this event? I mean, for over a year now I've had people telling me I need to 'remember' and 'pay tribute' to our 'fallen heroes.' Almost invariably, the best way to do so is by buying some memento which they're conventiently selling for the low price of $19.99.
I think I'll spend the day commemorating with one of the over 150 books written about 9/11. Which one should I choose? Maybe 'Let's Roll' or 'Above Hallowed Ground.' Or there's the ones featuring children's art, or the impact of terrorist attacks on the gay community. At last check there are some 911 books on amazon.com dealing with the subject.
When I tire of reading a book I can browse some of the thousands of pictures taken that day, or perhaps just kick back with the 'special edition' of any given newspaper filled with pages of 'stories' which are little more than people complaining and wondering what rationale there is for such an attack. Or I could watch the six-hour special today show, or check out Barbara Walters as she sits in on grief conseling sessions with the families. If that's not enough I can check out the Spike Lee special with films 'inspired' by the events of 9/11. As if the normally anti-establishment Spike Lee getting in on the action isn't enough, even ESPN is trying their hand at news and covering 9/11 with a documentary about flight 93.
In short, I'm sick of the sensationalist propoganda surrounding what was certainly one of the nation's worst tragedies in history. I'm tired of people hawking 9/11 commemorative pins as if a pin will make a difference. I don't need an FDNY t-shirt, thank you. I refuse to take part in a 'moment of silence' or wear red white and blue to work. I refuse to purchase any publication with any sort of special edition or expanded coverage. I will not watch people crying on TV over their lost loved ones. I won't look at pictures of the orphaned babies who are somehow more worthy of our attention than the thousands of others orphaned in the year since 9/11. I will not let terrorism change my life as it has apparently changed everyone else's for the past year. I won't give in to the pressures of a society which is apparently hated by a good portion of the world.
We allow our capitalism to destroy the message of what really happened and why, and then the next time we'll wonder why anyone could despise us so greatly. Ratings, Money, Stock prices, these are our Gods. The tragedy of what happened is only a means through which we come closer to them. What kind of people would take part in an attack on innocent civilians? Clearly evil ones. What kind of people will spend a year making money off that in an orgy of patriotism and memorial gone wrong? I'll leave that to you to decide.
This really is a holy war, but maybe it's less about Allah and more about Dollahs.
(end rant)
I remember getting into arguments with my teachers and principals years ago because I did some research on the internet and there was no standard way of annotating it in the bibliography/footnotes yet. This was back around 1992.. evidentally there's now standards for that, but it's just one examples years ago.
Price has nothing to do with it for me, availability does. I can't get cable, dsl, or anything. I live in a heavily populated near suburb of Chicago so it's not like I'm out in the styx either. If I can't get it at any price, then price doesn't even enter the equation.
IANAL, but it seems to me there would be some sort of laws against releasing something for free public use, crushing competition, then raising prices on it. Maybe something about sacrificing their intellectual property into the public domain by not enforcing their decoder licenses for such a long period of time? I know there's restrictions requiring companies to protect IP, patents and trademarks or they risk losing them to the public domain, could this be a similar case?
The difficulty here is they've kept as tight a lease on the encoders as they could all along, but now their extending that to the decoder technology, which in my mind has already been given up to the public.
That'd work real fine until someone;
A - Hacks the voting server
B - DDOSs the voting server
C - Man-in-the-middle attacks the voting server
D - ???? There have to be a ton more security problems with this.
Identity verification would be a bit of a problem too. No way short of mailing out the information short of a courier who verifies identity of the person he hands it to to ensure that someone doesn't simply steal usernames/passwords from all their neighbors mailboxes. At an actual polling place, they can at least compare your photo ID to your voter registration card, etc..
I remember reading about this in one of those airling expense toys catalogs. There's a similar thing that works a little differently. You bury a cable around the edges of your lawn, and around trees/shrubs/non-mowed areas. Put this thing out there and it does it's business, turning whenever it encounters the underground cable. At $500 it's not all that much more expensive than a decent mower already is.
It's not internet enabled, but is it really all that safe to be mowing remotely anyhow? At least sit in the hammock with a cold brew and make sure it doesn't hit your neighbor's kids or something.
Here's some links;
Robomower w/ video of it in action!
Robomower
Well yah.. it was meant to be a 'gee wouldn't this be cool' thing, not so much a practical solution. Course, if all the players brought their own laptops during a game...
Maybe things are different in your business, but at my company (commercial real estate) we make a lot of calls out to clients, potential clients, etc.. While there's quite a bit of internal communications, we can get phone service cheaper through traditional PRI circuits than we can by doing VoIP when you factor in the bandwidth needed for it.
Sometimes I think that gets overlooked in doing pricing comparisions. Bandwidth isn't free. PRI SLAs aren't cheap, but Frame circuits, PVCs, and CIR aren't cheap either.
Most of that stuff won't work anymore.. the tones when you drop a quarter in a phone don't really mean anything anymore, they're just feedback so you know the quarter was registered and such. Course, I suppose if you could find a way old payphone somewhere...
There's still things that will work though. Not much stopping someone from climbing a pole with a butt phone and tapping another line, etc..
Granted, security should be implemented at each layer if possible, but wouldn't VoIP inherit the security of the IP network itself? So far, most VoIP installations I've seen/heard about are either within an office, connecting handsets to a PBX with traditional trunks, or between offices of the same company using their internal WAN. Granted you can still have attacks internally, but in neither of these scenarios is it very easy for the general public to snoop or intercept your phone calls.
That said, I really don't see VoIP on a large scale taking off for a while. Two things need to occur before that happens;
- Suitably fast data service has to be ubiquitous. Spotty DSL/Cable coverage won't do it.
- Said data service has to be less expensive than conventional phone service. This one's a no brainer.
- Wireless data on a large scale would help as well.
So far, I don't see these criteria being met in all but niche markets, and that's exactly where VoIP has found itself... for now.
From what I can see of the cache link it looks like the messages might only run from DM->player and possibly the other way around.
It's not of much value to know the DM is sending someone a message if you can't see the actualy message. Between players it might be, you could tell if two people are keeping secrets from the rest of the group of something...
Why not just have laptop/palmtop PCs with IM running or something?
Here's the google cache link
There's another feature the blurb didn't mention which is sure to be of great benefit to people who would want something like this. It's sized such that it can easily fit in most parent's basements!
From what I understand, the way blockbuster handles things is a bit different. Blockbuster merely states that they won't carry certain things, and require the studios to edit it or it won't appear in their stores. With Blockbuster representing such a major part of the rental market the studios cave. Blockbuster never actually modifies the film, they just require the studios to do so, or not be carried in their stores.
That said, I agree with you here. So long as they aren't selling a modified version of the film, it should be legal under fair use for me to mask portions of it which I find objectionable. I still think it's a bit ridiculous, but to each his own.
So then, what exactly is Microsoft trying to coerce society or the government into doing?
What force or Violence have the used?
Injecting words into a definition like that can seriously change the meaning of a word. Let's say the USA is defined as 'The United States of America' preface "America" with "South" and we've got a definition which is pretty much as similar to the original as yours.
Calling MS's actions terrorism is ridiculous. Is Enron a terrorist organization? How about Worldcom? To me, it's more appropriate to say that the US' actions in WWII, Nicaragua, Columbia, etc.. are terrorist than Microsoft's. We, as a nation (organized group) took part in both unlawful and threatened use of force against people and property, with the intention of intimidating and coercing societies for idealogical and political reasons. Micrsoft's actions might fit your 'prefaced' version of terrorism, but I prefer to stick with the actual definition of the word.
Why do I feel like I'm just fueling the trolls?
Monopolistic terrorism? Are you serious?
/. is surprising.
If there's any sad state of affairs to speak of, it's the fact that people deem it necessary to call anything they disagree with 'terrorism' for the sake of sensationalizing. I'd expect it from politicians, but to read it on
Terrorism is murder, death, mayhem. Whatever your opinions on Microsoft (and I'll reserve mine) they are in no way as evil as those who would kill innocent men women and children to further their own agenda.
Comparing a successful capitalist corporation, albeit one that has been found to have violated the law in numerous ways, with those who would kill thousands only for attention is irrational, and makes a mockery of those whose lives were taken from them.
D'oh! I knew that, just had a lapse in thinking.. haha.. Ohh well, my point is still valid even if the facts are obviously messed up.
I guess I'll probably get modded down on that one.. *shrug*
For those of you interested in learning more about Go, here's some links to resources I've found helpful since starting to play 3 weeks ago.
k5 had an article about go which is what initially piqued my interest and got me started in the game.
Kiseido Go Server is my favorite place to play online, and very newbie friendly.
Some great introductions are available from Kiseido The Interactive Way to Go and Tel's Go Notes
Uligo and Goproblems.com are great places for learning how to play in common situations.
If you prefer a phyiscal board and stones check out Samarkand and Kiseido
Also, anyone in the Chicago area should check out the Evanston Go Club
A word of caution, if you decide to learn go, expect to lose most of your first 50-100 games. It's a long road, but once you start making progress, you'll grow quickly. I know I sure have. Anyone who's up for a game look for 'jjarmoc' on KGS.
Actually, hex was invented in 1942 by Piet Hien. Nash independently invented virtually the same game in 1948, but he was a little late. Kind of like Thomas Edison and what's his name's race with the telephone. Funny how in one case the second inventor is virtually unknown while in the other, it's Nash who gets the credit.
Look here for documentation of this.
It's cheap enough to have a cell phone as your primary phone, and I believe there's laws prohibiting sales calls to cell phones, since the recipient is charged for the call in many cases.
At any rate, I get very few calls on my cell phone, and once I tell them it's a cell phone they actually VOLUNTEER to put me on their do not call list.
... so the FCC won't let me be, or let me be me, so let me see. They want to sell phone records monthly, and use it to get themselves wealthy. Hey, here's a concept that works, trash the little guys rights and profits emerge, but no matter how many rights are taken from me, it'd be so empty without being free.