I remember, when I was designing the login system for a website of mine (which has since been taken down), I hashed the user's password along with their username, simply so that I wouldn't be able to tell who had the same password (and thus, neither would anyone else who got my database somehow.)
You just don't give out info about people's passwords. At all. Yeesh.
I have extremely thin wrists and hands. Invariably, when someone puts a wristband on me for any reason (i.e. "proof that you're over 21 at this party", or "let me back into the theater"), I can slip it off with little trouble.
One of my friends, who has even thinner wrists and hands than I do, has said "don't ask me how I know this, but California state police handcuffs don't work on me".
Dunno. Maybe, maybe not. Go ask them. Or find a balanced factual news article.:)
And it might change something - it all depends on how much publicity it gets. Throw around a few terms like "identity theft" and "ChoicePoint" and "won't someone please think of the children" and "terrorism" and you're set.
. . . imagine you're legally required to keep your electronics and jewelry in someone else's house. And not only that, but several hundred of your friends are too. And imagine that you know the security in this house is bad, and you've tried telling the owner of the house that your possessions are in danger, but he doesn't care. And you've tried telling the government that your possessions are in danger, but they don't care either. Your friends care though, and they're really frustrated knowing that all their possessions are in danger, just like yours, and that nobody seems to be able to do anything about it.
Maybe then you'd break in, to demonstrate it's possible, and get the owner of the house to tighten up security for the sake of you and your friends?
I don't honestly know. I handled the voice codec for headphone chat (it was some generic ADPCM, as I remember - speex compression took a major fraction of the PS2's CPU, though entertainingly decompression was faster than almost any other in the example set), but I never touched sound besides that, and that was a different sound pathway altogether.
The game's textures were sort-of procedurally generated - the reason there were so many is because we did static lighting for every single level in 3d Studio Max. But you just don't have that kind of horsepower on a PS2, and you just don't get that kind of quality easily any other way.
I don't know if this is the cause entirely, but Funny no longer gives a karma bonus, while Insightful does. People often rate Funny things as Insightful when they think it's funny enough to deserve a reward.
Heh. Funny watching all the comments. "Yeah, but it's all video!" "Who needs FMV?" "Games are small! It's just all video."
I worked on Everquest: Champions of Norrath, and we took up an entire double-layer DVD (to the point where we had to modify the international version - the voice files were too big due to the extra languages). The entire thing was textures. Gigabytes and gigabytes of compressed textures.
More space never hurts. Some games don't need it - if the PS2 had better hardware, I could have done the same thing with much better compression and decompression on the video system, but it didn't, so I couldn't. But on the other hand, maybe I would have found another use for the space.
I don't know if it's a *problem* - but it could definitely be an edge for the Revolution if they can do 20gb+ discs somehow.
. . . platforms that do not allow spyware? Like, say, a tin can? Or maybe a dead badger. I can't think of any way to install spyware on a dead badger.
Seriously - the day you know Linux is a major force is the day people start writing spyware for it. Hell, I could write spyware pretty easily - just run at login and pull the URLs out of any Firefox processes I see . ..
(Note: Firefox is a major force now. You can tell because people are explicitly working around the popup blocking.)
Way to make an unbiased and factual news post, Timothy!
Yeah yeah "but timothy didn't say it thesync did" ever heard of being an editor? Ever heard of a respectable news site?
The funny part is that the first quote *is* a quote (minus the blatant spelling error, of course - congratulations again!) while the second part is complete and total fabrication.
You know what? Stuff like this doesn't help *anyone*. If you need to put words in people's mouths to make your point, your point has failed.
Slashdot Headline: Longhorn Beta Is Really Amazing
bonch writes "Well, Longhorn beta 5048 was released a day before the start of WinHEC 2005, and, wow, everyone was totally impressed here. Paul Thurrott (a Windows writer whose previously reported review of Mac OS X Tiger was updated after user feedback) confirmed this today in day two of his blog from WinHEC. Microsoft needed something big to kill the hype of competitors, and they've pulled through in spades. To quote Thurrot: 'Who needs MacOS? Windows is incredible!' RMS could not be reached for comment, but mumbled something about his 'world crumbling around him'."
. . . Yeah, wake me when we'd see *that* on Slashdot.:P
Useful technique, chemical, or product can be dangerous when misused! With this groundbreaking announcement, aspect-oriented programming joins up with jet planes, oxygen, razor blades, and almonds. Scientists urge all Americans to avoid anything that could, in any way, be harmful to anyone, and the government will begin production of mandatory Full Isolation Spheres (tm) within the week.
According to http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=15053&item=5765975874&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW (another broken one), $350, if it's in new condition with accessories.
One of the reasons more games aren't multithreaded is that people generally don't buy dualproc systems for games. As dualproc systems get cheaper and more reliable, this will change.
Even on a game system, dualproc is useful just so you can do multiple things at the same time. Especially at LAN parties - you can run the server *and* play, and each of those runs at full speed. (Which I've done many times - amusingly, people with a single faster CPU still can't do that because the game keeps trying to devour an entire CPU.)
If you do factor it in, you've still got a site that does a bare fraction of what my host does. It's getting more cost-effective, but if I want to, say, set up an hourly rsync cron job (which is something I'm actually going to be adding soon) I'm totally out of luck. Or if I want to put a Python script to make a few things easier (in this case, something I already have), or a PHP cron job (something I used to have, but no longer need so it's gone), or set up my own email server with a thousand inboxes, etc etc etc . . . (In fact, the only thing I can't do on that box is IRC. Apparently their datacenter doesn't allow it.)
But again, I'm not sure this is the same target audience.
Generally I buy my hardware from newegg. It's a bit more expensive than Pricewatch, but the different in customer service and part quality is worth it.
I've found the best way to get me to buy products is to make it worthwhile.
Comparing your service to the VPS I use - your Silver plan is equal in cost, yet provides one tenth the hard drive space, 33% less bandwidth, and is a simple web hosting service rather than a full virtual server. I could go pay my VPS another $10/mo, provide two people with your entire service, and still have a lot of hard drive space left over.
And that's assuming I don't want to risk oversubscribing.
I realize your target audience might be quite a bit different - but from my point of view, your deal can't even hope to compete, and all the advertising in the world won't change my mind.
(No, this isn't taking into account your special Slashdotter offer.)
(www.rimuhosting.com for the curious - say I referred you and I get a free month, I think!:P)
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I remember, when I was designing the login system for a website of mine (which has since been taken down), I hashed the user's password along with their username, simply so that I wouldn't be able to tell who had the same password (and thus, neither would anyone else who got my database somehow.)
You just don't give out info about people's passwords. At all. Yeesh.
Man. That sounds like the most awesome card ever. I bet that would sell *tons*.
I have extremely thin wrists and hands. Invariably, when someone puts a wristband on me for any reason (i.e. "proof that you're over 21 at this party", or "let me back into the theater"), I can slip it off with little trouble.
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:)
One of my friends, who has even thinner wrists and hands than I do, has said "don't ask me how I know this, but California state police handcuffs don't work on me".
(Someday I'll get that story out of her . .
Sometimes you don't even need to lose weight.
No they aren't. Go find me the person who's being forced to use a bank against their will. :P
Good idea. I wouldn't have thought of that, though, and I suspect these people wouldn't have either. :)
I'll have to remember that though.
Dunno. Maybe, maybe not. Go ask them. Or find a balanced factual news article. :)
And it might change something - it all depends on how much publicity it gets. Throw around a few terms like "identity theft" and "ChoicePoint" and "won't someone please think of the children" and "terrorism" and you're set.
I don't. I'm just pointing out a hole in his analogy. I have no idea why these people did this, but I can easily think of plausible reasons.
On the other hand . . .
. . . imagine you're legally required to keep your electronics and jewelry in someone else's house. And not only that, but several hundred of your friends are too. And imagine that you know the security in this house is bad, and you've tried telling the owner of the house that your possessions are in danger, but he doesn't care. And you've tried telling the government that your possessions are in danger, but they don't care either. Your friends care though, and they're really frustrated knowing that all their possessions are in danger, just like yours, and that nobody seems to be able to do anything about it.
Maybe then you'd break in, to demonstrate it's possible, and get the owner of the house to tighten up security for the sake of you and your friends?
I don't honestly know. I handled the voice codec for headphone chat (it was some generic ADPCM, as I remember - speex compression took a major fraction of the PS2's CPU, though entertainingly decompression was faster than almost any other in the example set), but I never touched sound besides that, and that was a different sound pathway altogether.
The game's textures were sort-of procedurally generated - the reason there were so many is because we did static lighting for every single level in 3d Studio Max. But you just don't have that kind of horsepower on a PS2, and you just don't get that kind of quality easily any other way.
I don't know if this is the cause entirely, but Funny no longer gives a karma bonus, while Insightful does. People often rate Funny things as Insightful when they think it's funny enough to deserve a reward.
How much does bandwidth cost in bulk? You might be able to find people to donate money to run a fully-open Tor node.
Heh. Funny watching all the comments. "Yeah, but it's all video!" "Who needs FMV?" "Games are small! It's just all video."
I worked on Everquest: Champions of Norrath, and we took up an entire double-layer DVD (to the point where we had to modify the international version - the voice files were too big due to the extra languages). The entire thing was textures. Gigabytes and gigabytes of compressed textures.
More space never hurts. Some games don't need it - if the PS2 had better hardware, I could have done the same thing with much better compression and decompression on the video system, but it didn't, so I couldn't. But on the other hand, maybe I would have found another use for the space.
I don't know if it's a *problem* - but it could definitely be an edge for the Revolution if they can do 20gb+ discs somehow.
. . . platforms that do not allow spyware? Like, say, a tin can? Or maybe a dead badger. I can't think of any way to install spyware on a dead badger.
.
Seriously - the day you know Linux is a major force is the day people start writing spyware for it. Hell, I could write spyware pretty easily - just run at login and pull the URLs out of any Firefox processes I see . .
(Note: Firefox is a major force now. You can tell because people are explicitly working around the popup blocking.)
Yeah, no kidding.
Way to make an unbiased and factual news post, Timothy!
Yeah yeah "but timothy didn't say it thesync did" ever heard of being an editor? Ever heard of a respectable news site?
The funny part is that the first quote *is* a quote (minus the blatant spelling error, of course - congratulations again!) while the second part is complete and total fabrication.
You know what? Stuff like this doesn't help *anyone*. If you need to put words in people's mouths to make your point, your point has failed.
My question isn't what Microsoft plans to do for the open source movement.
It's what they want the open source movement to do for them.
Slashdot Headline: Longhorn Beta Is Really Amazing
:P
bonch writes "Well, Longhorn beta 5048 was released a day before the start of WinHEC 2005, and, wow, everyone was totally impressed here. Paul Thurrott (a Windows writer whose previously reported review of Mac OS X Tiger was updated after user feedback) confirmed this today in day two of his blog from WinHEC. Microsoft needed something big to kill the hype of competitors, and they've pulled through in spades. To quote Thurrot: 'Who needs MacOS? Windows is incredible!' RMS could not be reached for comment, but mumbled something about his 'world crumbling around him'."
. . . Yeah, wake me when we'd see *that* on Slashdot.
+1, World's Most Insightful Comment Regarding Both The Guinness Book Of World Records And Public Relations In A Negative Fashion
Useful technique, chemical, or product can be dangerous when misused! With this groundbreaking announcement, aspect-oriented programming joins up with jet planes, oxygen, razor blades, and almonds. Scientists urge all Americans to avoid anything that could, in any way, be harmful to anyone, and the government will begin production of mandatory Full Isolation Spheres (tm) within the week.
According to http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=15053&item=5765975874&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW (another broken one), $350, if it's in new condition with accessories.
That's a lot.
City of Heroes is multithreaded.
One of the reasons more games aren't multithreaded is that people generally don't buy dualproc systems for games. As dualproc systems get cheaper and more reliable, this will change.
Even on a game system, dualproc is useful just so you can do multiple things at the same time. Especially at LAN parties - you can run the server *and* play, and each of those runs at full speed. (Which I've done many times - amusingly, people with a single faster CPU still can't do that because the game keeps trying to devour an entire CPU.)
Are you on drugs?
Like we really need the sharks with frickin' laser beams to be even *more* powerful.
I, for one, welcome our new brain-controlling frickin' laser shark overlords.
(Smooth, guys. Real smooth.)
If you do factor it in, you've still got a site that does a bare fraction of what my host does. It's getting more cost-effective, but if I want to, say, set up an hourly rsync cron job (which is something I'm actually going to be adding soon) I'm totally out of luck. Or if I want to put a Python script to make a few things easier (in this case, something I already have), or a PHP cron job (something I used to have, but no longer need so it's gone), or set up my own email server with a thousand inboxes, etc etc etc . . . (In fact, the only thing I can't do on that box is IRC. Apparently their datacenter doesn't allow it.)
But again, I'm not sure this is the same target audience.
Generally I buy my hardware from newegg. It's a bit more expensive than Pricewatch, but the different in customer service and part quality is worth it.
I've found the best way to get me to buy products is to make it worthwhile.
:P)
Comparing your service to the VPS I use - your Silver plan is equal in cost, yet provides one tenth the hard drive space, 33% less bandwidth, and is a simple web hosting service rather than a full virtual server. I could go pay my VPS another $10/mo, provide two people with your entire service, and still have a lot of hard drive space left over.
And that's assuming I don't want to risk oversubscribing.
I realize your target audience might be quite a bit different - but from my point of view, your deal can't even hope to compete, and all the advertising in the world won't change my mind.
(No, this isn't taking into account your special Slashdotter offer.)
(www.rimuhosting.com for the curious - say I referred you and I get a free month, I think!