Heh, I had the same thing happen during Romeo and Juliet (the Leo remake).
A group of teenagers were genuinly astonished when both Romeo and Juliet died at the end. Don't they teach Romeo and Juliet (or at least West Side Story) in school anymore?
The fact is that IPv6 is being implemented. Just about every OS out there offers IPv6 in some form (*bsd, linux, cisco routers, etc). The exception being Windows, with only upgraded XP machines having it.
The problem is that there is not a big enough push for people to start using it. The technology is mostly already there, we just need to start using it.
It would be interesting to see if liberal news sources' audiences have such a high rate of misperception.
What liberal news sources?
All joking aside, I know there are liberal news sources out there, but the vast majority of news sources that the general public pays attention to is conservative.
It could be, but it doesn't have to be. The RIAA will probably push really hard to get her (and/or her mother) to sign the "amnesty" form. That is the only way for the RIAA to escape this situation unscathed.
If the mother and daughter do not sign the form, then the RIAA is potentially in trouble like you illustrated.
Here's hoping someone they trust advises them not to sign the form, since the RIAA is going to make it sound really attractive!
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4: I just sold my copy of this for the XBox. I was pretty disappointed, but then I'm not a skater, and don't know anything about the skating scene. This goes for THU you mentioned later, as well. Perhaps the game would be better with online support, but EA is lame and doesn't support XBox Live.
I'm not a skater either, but I really did enjoy this game. Perhaps it was because I was unemployed at the time and needed something to do? I don't know about Xbox Live, but the PS2 version did have online support and there was (and is) a very large community of THPS4 players online who compete and make maps, etc.
SSX: I actually preferred Amped over the SSX series, and will most likely pick up Amped 2 when it's released later this year. As well, I dislike EA and don't plan on buying any EA titles until they support XBox Live, but if I did buy SSX it's most likely be on XBox.
Never played Amped so I couldn't compare. I've only played SSX: Tricky. The game just seemed so insane I could not help having fun playing it.
Super Monkey Ball: Judging by the number of recommendations for this, I think I'm going to look for a good used copy of it soon. My only fear is that it'll turn out to be little more than the old Marble Madness game, which was frustrating.
The basic gameplay in the main game is like marble madness (but the camera follows the ball). I often got bored with marble madness, but for some reason Monkey Ball held my attention. Not to mention that there are several mini-games (like monkey bowling, monkey golf, etc) included that can be fun as well (especially with friends).
FF:CC: From what I've read, this one sounds like it'll play best with three friends and four GBAs. That's a lot of cash layout for a single game, especially since of my friends I'm the only one with a GBA. Add to that my disappointment with the last FF game I played (FFIX) and Square's love affair with Sony, and I'd have to say I'm a little jaded and probably won't return to the series for a while. But I've still got Anthology and Tactics to hold me over (need to pick up Chronicles).
The last FF game I played was FF2, but I have high hopes for this game. I'm mainly buying it for the multiplayer action. My understanding is that it won't require 4 GBA's, but it may be more enjoyable if you have them. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Mario Kart: This one looks like it could be great, but I'm afraid Nintendo's going to pull a Mario Sunshine with it (ie, it'll be nearly the exact same game as the N64 version, with slightly better graphics and only minor gameplay tweaks). If that's the case, I'll certainly buy it used later, but it's not worth $50 for a rehash of a game I've already played many, many times. I really wish Nintendo would've designed for online play, though. The LAN connector stuff that third parties are working on sounds pretty iffy, especially since the game itself won't have any compensation for lag or cheating.
I agree about the online/LAN thing. However I actually liked Mario Sunshine (although it was too short and too easy). I too hope they don't just rehash Mario Kart 64. But Mario Kart 64 was enough different than the original Mario Kart for me so there is hope!
This would be interesting since most DSL implementations I've seen use ATM as the transport mechanism, and then emulate/run ethernet (and subsequently IP) on top of that.
NTT has owned Verio (one of the major backbone providers in the US) for a while now and I have to say it hasn't changed the state of US connectivity (for end users) very much.
You'll never get Internet2 connectivity, unless you are a research institution (or related to one in some capacity). Read about the purpose of Internet2 here.
Basically Internet2 is a big playground for Universities and research institutions. The idea is that on this playground they will develop new technologies that will someday get folded back into the good old commodity Internet.
Possibly, but I wouldn't count on it. SBC and the others are just using this tag line for justification to end the line-sharing rulings. My guess is that they will stall on powering up this box (and all the others just like it) until more legislation in their favor is passed, or until someone else pays for it (i.e. you, by jacking up the price of DSL).
So you want to add this all onto DNS eh? How do you get a DNS query to the destination without routing information already established? How do you get the response back?
If you use "promitive"[sic] routes to establish a base routing topology, then you are effectively creating another routing layer on top of layer 7. In fact, by keeping all the base protocols as you advocate above, you're just replicating all of this on top of layer 7. What's the point?
However inside the US, ISP's pretty much pay flat fees from backbone providers,
This is so not true. On T1's, maybe, but if you're talking to any of the tier 1 players (and most of the tier 2's as well) for anything bigger than a T1 you'll be paying per megabit on a 95 percentile basis.
Assuming it is an application that needs this type of cleanup, then yes you should be careful about how you call realloc().
However, if realloc() fails (and not because of bad input parameters), your write() call probably will fail too since the application most likely won't be able to allocate any new buffers to flush to disk. I agree, it would be good to at least try though (assuming the above is true).
This is of course assuming that you are trying to recover from a memory allocation error. Generally if realloc fails, it means that your program isn't going to execute very far before it totally pukes anyway.
I would personally treat it as a fatal error and just exit the program at that point.
Well I consider the PacMed building to be "downtown" Seattle, but I guess it technically really isn't. My bad.
-B
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Amazon never left Seattle. They are still headquartered in downtown Seattle. They no longer have warehouses in Seattle or ship from there, which is probably what you are thinking of. Most of their corporate offices are still in Seattle.
Nothing is resolved, nothing is explained, nothing even ties into another episode, you can watch them in almost any order.
I totally agree. If you want to see a show that has the same type of "what's going on here?" feel, but actually does tie it all together eventually, check out Babylon5.
True the effects/costumes can be kind of hokey at times, but if you pay attention to the story arc, you'll see it is very well written and enjoyable.
Metallica actually owns all of their music (I know, shocker!). At one point they sued their record label for ownership of their past recordings and won. All new recordings are owned by them. This is why they care so much about Napster; they actually absorb the "loses", not their record label.
but shouldn't the networks be going after the individuals who utilize the features of replayTV to violate copyright and not replayTV itself? Just because replayTV has the capabilities to allow users to violate copyright, it doesn't mean that all users will or that relayTV is forcing them to. Sure, going after users is difficult and expensive, but they are the ones actually breaking the law.
I guess the same argument could be made for Napster, and look where that ended up.
As far as I am aware there are no vendors that offer an ssh-like encrypted login for network equipment.
Cisco, Juniper, and Foundry all offer ssh access. Albeit Cisco's implementation of sshd seriously sucks, but it still works (kinda).
Those are just three examples. I'm sure other vendors offer ssh/ssl access as well.
Now if people choose to not use ssh in favor of telnet, that's another story....
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Heh, I had the same thing happen during Romeo and Juliet (the Leo remake).
A group of teenagers were genuinly astonished when both Romeo and Juliet died at the end. Don't they teach Romeo and Juliet (or at least West Side Story) in school anymore?
-B
The fact is that IPv6 is being implemented. Just about every OS out there offers IPv6 in some form (*bsd, linux, cisco routers, etc). The exception being Windows, with only upgraded XP machines having it.
The problem is that there is not a big enough push for people to start using it. The technology is mostly already there, we just need to start using it.
-B
What liberal news sources?
All joking aside, I know there are liberal news sources out there, but the vast majority of news sources that the general public pays attention to is conservative.
-B
How do we know that the message actually came from a female? The NYT article called her "she", but I have yet to see any proof.
-B
Use "grep -c" instead of "wc -l" to count lines. Also you can do *.[chS] instead of the "-o -name" stuff.
-B
It could be, but it doesn't have to be. The RIAA will probably push really hard to get her (and/or her mother) to sign the "amnesty" form. That is the only way for the RIAA to escape this situation unscathed.
If the mother and daughter do not sign the form, then the RIAA is potentially in trouble like you illustrated.
Here's hoping someone they trust advises them not to sign the form, since the RIAA is going to make it sound really attractive!
-B
I'm not a skater either, but I really did enjoy this game. Perhaps it was because I was unemployed at the time and needed something to do? I don't know about Xbox Live, but the PS2 version did have online support and there was (and is) a very large community of THPS4 players online who compete and make maps, etc.
SSX: I actually preferred Amped over the SSX series, and will most likely pick up Amped 2 when it's released later this year. As well, I dislike EA and don't plan on buying any EA titles until they support XBox Live, but if I did buy SSX it's most likely be on XBox.
Never played Amped so I couldn't compare. I've only played SSX: Tricky. The game just seemed so insane I could not help having fun playing it.
Super Monkey Ball: Judging by the number of recommendations for this, I think I'm going to look for a good used copy of it soon. My only fear is that it'll turn out to be little more than the old Marble Madness game, which was frustrating.
The basic gameplay in the main game is like marble madness (but the camera follows the ball). I often got bored with marble madness, but for some reason Monkey Ball held my attention. Not to mention that there are several mini-games (like monkey bowling, monkey golf, etc) included that can be fun as well (especially with friends).
FF:CC: From what I've read, this one sounds like it'll play best with three friends and four GBAs. That's a lot of cash layout for a single game, especially since of my friends I'm the only one with a GBA. Add to that my disappointment with the last FF game I played (FFIX) and Square's love affair with Sony, and I'd have to say I'm a little jaded and probably won't return to the series for a while. But I've still got Anthology and Tactics to hold me over (need to pick up Chronicles).
The last FF game I played was FF2, but I have high hopes for this game. I'm mainly buying it for the multiplayer action. My understanding is that it won't require 4 GBA's, but it may be more enjoyable if you have them. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Mario Kart: This one looks like it could be great, but I'm afraid Nintendo's going to pull a Mario Sunshine with it (ie, it'll be nearly the exact same game as the N64 version, with slightly better graphics and only minor gameplay tweaks). If that's the case, I'll certainly buy it used later, but it's not worth $50 for a rehash of a game I've already played many, many times. I really wish Nintendo would've designed for online play, though. The LAN connector stuff that third parties are working on sounds pretty iffy, especially since the game itself won't have any compensation for lag or cheating.
I agree about the online/LAN thing. However I actually liked Mario Sunshine (although it was too short and too easy). I too hope they don't just rehash Mario Kart 64. But Mario Kart 64 was enough different than the original Mario Kart for me so there is hope!
-B
Here are the GC games that spend the most time in my system:
o Super Smash Brothers: Melee - More fun with 4 people but still good with just 1
o Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 - I found this game very addictive and quite difficult (without the slomo cheat)
o SSX Tricky - Fun just trying to do the most insane trick you can.
o Super Monkey Ball - Just play it, you won't be disappointed.
And games I would like to add to my collection:
o The Simpsons: Hit & Run - Supposed to be the GTA of Springfield. Out soon.
o Tony Hawk's Underground - Out soon.
o Splinter Cell - Out now.
o Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicals - Out in early (we hope) 2004.
o Mario Kart Double Dash - Out soon.
o SSX3: Out of bounds - Out soon.
o Super Monkey Ball 2 - Out now.
Obviously I can't say if many of these games are good or not since they aren't out yet, but they all have promise in my opinion.
HTH
-B
This would be interesting since most DSL implementations I've seen use ATM as the transport mechanism, and then emulate/run ethernet (and subsequently IP) on top of that.
-Brian
No wonder Oregon has one of the highest (if not the highest) unemployment rate in the country!
-B
NTT has owned Verio (one of the major backbone providers in the US) for a while now and I have to say it hasn't changed the state of US connectivity (for end users) very much.
-B
You'll never get Internet2 connectivity, unless you are a research institution (or related to one in some capacity). Read about the purpose of Internet2 here.
Basically Internet2 is a big playground for Universities and research institutions. The idea is that on this playground they will develop new technologies that will someday get folded back into the good old commodity Internet.
-Brian
I'm not familiar with LEO satellites. How much better is their latency figures? Good enough to be a avid quake3 gamer?
-Brian
Possibly, but I wouldn't count on it. SBC and the others are just using this tag line for justification to end the line-sharing rulings. My guess is that they will stall on powering up this box (and all the others just like it) until more legislation in their favor is passed, or until someone else pays for it (i.e. you, by jacking up the price of DSL).
-B
So you want to add this all onto DNS eh? How do you get a DNS query to the destination without routing information already established? How do you get the response back?
If you use "promitive"[sic] routes to establish a base routing topology, then you are effectively creating another routing layer on top of layer 7.
In fact, by keeping all the base protocols as you advocate above, you're just replicating all of this on top of layer 7. What's the point?
-B
This is so not true. On T1's, maybe, but if you're talking to any of the tier 1 players (and most of the tier 2's as well) for anything bigger than a T1 you'll be paying per megabit on a 95 percentile basis.
-BAssuming it is an application that needs this type of cleanup, then yes you should be careful about how you call realloc().
However, if realloc() fails (and not because of bad input parameters), your write() call probably will fail too since the application most likely won't be able to allocate any new buffers to flush to disk. I agree, it would be good to at least try though (assuming the above is true).
-B
This is of course assuming that you are trying to
recover from a memory allocation error. Generally
if realloc fails, it means that your program isn't going to execute very far before it totally pukes anyway.
I would personally treat it as a fatal error and just exit the program at that point.
Well I consider the PacMed building to be "downtown" Seattle, but I guess it technically really isn't. My bad.
-B
Amazon never left Seattle. They are still headquartered in downtown Seattle. They no longer have warehouses in Seattle or ship from there, which is probably what you are thinking of. Most of their corporate offices are still in Seattle.
-B
I totally agree. If you want to see a show that has the same type of "what's going on here?" feel, but actually does tie it all together eventually, check out Babylon5. True the effects/costumes can be kind of hokey at times, but if you pay attention to the story arc, you'll see it is very well written and enjoyable.
-BMetallica actually owns all of their music (I know, shocker!). At one point they sued their record label for ownership of their past recordings and won. All new recordings are owned by them. This is why they care so much about Napster; they actually absorb the "loses", not their record label.
-Bbut shouldn't the networks be going after the individuals who utilize the features of replayTV to violate copyright and not replayTV itself? Just because replayTV has the capabilities to allow users to violate copyright, it doesn't mean that all users will or that relayTV is forcing them to. Sure, going after users is difficult and expensive, but they are the ones actually breaking the law.
I guess the same argument could be made for Napster, and look where that ended up.
-B
Cisco, Juniper, and Foundry all offer ssh access. Albeit Cisco's implementation of sshd seriously sucks, but it still works (kinda).
Those are just three examples. I'm sure other vendors offer ssh/ssl access as well. Now if people choose to not use ssh in favor of telnet, that's another story....
-BI had to sit the original PS on its side to get many of the games to even load. While this isn't "crashing", it's still a problem.
-B