No one cares about your the view of the outside of your house. Obviously, if they were so "affluent" than they would have a gate. Frankly the street map of your village is already on google maps so its not like a bunch of pictures of your fancy gates and yards is going make it any easier for criminals.
Besides isn't your Utopian society supposed to be free of crime?
It is still better than bluehost. At least dreamhost is more upfront about what you can and cannot do and they specifically say that your if your website is just a normal website such as a blog that it will not be taken down due to being slashdotted, dugg, etc.
But on another note....I want that laptop. Its so awesome. That one of those things that you do just to say you did it and to show off your 1337ness.
Christ I must say..you have done quite a good job proving your 1337ness and I commend you ^_^
Why would you need filtering for a girl? Frankly girls aren't like guys and they are not going to go crazy for porn. Girls are not as sex crazed as guys are and they aren't going to be looking through porn all day. The worst they can do is spend way too much time on facebook and myspace....those things are like girl venus flytraps.
But if you don't want her to see porn advertising (and frankly who does?) than just install adblock in firefox. No need for filtering and all that.
Trust me, frankly the worst she is going to do is look up the actors from twilight, Hanah Montana, and the Jonas Brothers...that surely won't scar her for life xD....although it would probably scar me for life.
Well the problem is that if you don't immediately take it down than you are infringing and are no lose your ISP protection.
You have to immediately take it down and than file a counter DMCA to get it put back up. And than if the DMCA was erroneous than technically you can sue them...but its never been done before.
Yes I know, it sucks, it could have been worse at least they put ISP protection in there...otherwise 50% of the internet would have been sued already >.
Integrated components are never good. When they break you can't fix them unless your an electrical engineer with some serious experience soldering.
These days most people don't know how to solder anymore and actually desoldering and components is unheard of, even in logical cases like replacing/upgrading a graphics card on a laptop, upgrading/replacing the CPU on a laptop with a soldered on CPU etc.
Now with advancements in manufacturing and mass production individual components aren't replaced. You send a faulty motherboard back to the manufacturer and they are just going to throw it out and try to melt it down for gold.
In some ways its a good thing but in other ways its bad because the only way for people to upgrade/replace things (like a soldered on SSD) would be to replace the whole darn thing >.
And you can't imagine how expensive a server motherboard is.
Thanks sun but no thanks. We don't want to have to replace a $700+ motherboard every couple of years just to upgrade the SSD.
Google is being pretty forth coming about this. I would much rather have google be forthcoming about it then just secretly do it like DoubleClick originally did and most websites do...they just don't tell you about it. Just look at beacon, Phorm, etc.
I mean google is coming right out and saying that they are doing this and they are making it as painless as possible to opt-out. Such as using browser plug-ins. Frankly you can't blame them for not making it opt-in, after all then no one would do it and it would defeat the whole purpose of it. I never like companies tracking browsing habits but if they have to do it do it the right way and be transparent about it.
Hopefully when other companies do it they will take Google's lead and be as transparent as they are.
The problem is that so many torrents rely on piratebay as a tracker.
Piratebay tracks a large portion of torrents and just like when the mininova index went down, all other trackers and possibly even indexes will collapse under pressure.
It is extremely annoying because I can't read articles at-a-glance anymore. I only click on articles for the comments and I only read comments and write comments if I'm heavily interested in this story.
I mean no one is going to walk up to those people and be like "I don't want to do business with you because I saw someone say you did bad stuff on Topix.com".
I mean there is a point for libel laws. You don't want someone saying you did horrible things and ripped off a bunch of customers, when you didn't and than being unable to do business because of it.
Libel certainly can be harmful. But people on/b honestly aren't going to harm anyone. If they would have just said "they are just a bunch kids in their parents basement" like they truly were then honestly we wouldn't be talking about it.
They are the ones who are defaming themselves. Before this slashdot post I never even knew who these people were and I had never heard about this case.
"PC gaming is dead", "PC gaming is dead". Then this or that "expert" claims we won't play on PCs anymore in 5 or so years because everyone's moving over to consoles.
Guess what? That argument dates back to the first Nintendo console that pushed into the US/Euro market? And? Two decades later and we're still playing on PCs. We still didn't dump the machines and turned to consoles all of a sudden. And for good reason.
First, some games just do not make any sense on a console. Ever tried a sensible flight sim on a console? How? Oh, I'm sure you could invent some sort of input device that costs a fortune and guess what? Nobody but a few sim nuts would buy it. But the game is pointless without it because you can't pilot a plane sensibly with standard controllers. So the flight sim will never be made due to a lack of market.
RTS? Ever tried it with a console controller? Until they get a sensible mouse support, I'm not going anywhere near it. Same goes for FPS games. Yes, they made it somehow into the console market, but frankly, before I try to play Halo with a game controller I shoot myself in the foot. Actually, thinking about it, chances are that this is exactly how well I'd be able to aim with the standard controller out there.
Yes, I'm no fan of the console controllers. I love my mouse and I enjoy having a keyboard.
What's the next argument? Oh, the ever increasing update necessity. Here's some news for you: Don't make games that need more horsepower than the average gamer machine can muster and you have a bigger market to sell to. It is actually that easy. If you require a game rig with ten graphics cards to make your latest and greatest game even run mediocre, you failed. Simple as that. And no, gamers do NOT want that. They want a good game. Yes, that may include decent graphics, but we already have that, it can be done with normal, current standard PCs! Now make decent games that are still good after the new car smell is gone and the player looks past the shiny surface of your stunning graphics effects! The only damn reason why console games are not so hardware hungry is simply that the hardware is set in stone. You CANNOT demand more than what the console can offer, so the game maker has to adjust to what the game rig can. He can't simply go and tell you you need a better graphics chip for your X360, it won't fly.
Could we please finally drop this completely ridiculous claim?
Case in point: Source Engine.
You know why counter strike and half life 2 are incredibly popular? Because they scale. Its all about scaling. I can play CS:Source or Half Life 2 on my crappy laptop with an integrated intel chipset and it still is manageable. I can also fire up my hand built gaming rig and get insane, wonderful, jaw dropping graphics. The key to making a good game is being able to look ok on at least mid range computers and looking amazing on high end rigs.
No the gaming PC is not dead. I have a wii, an xbox 360, and a hand built mid-upper level PC built from a compusa liquidation sale. My wii is cheap as hell and I have a mod chip in it. My xbox 360 is always fun because of Halo and it has nice graphics. Consoles are nice cause you can play multiplayer with your friends which is one of the few pros of console gaming. It really is fun to be able to play rock band, halo, etc. with your friends.
But my PC is still my pride and joy. Nothing is quite as good as PC gaming. Everything seems mediocre and keyboards and mice are still king. As long as consoles use controllers PC will always have a place...
Now this has got me thinking? Wouldn't it really change the game if consoles started also being able to use keyboards?
Well I guess we can so say goodbye to the world wide web because the ISPs would love nothing more than to not have to pay for bandwidth and just turn their networks into oversized LAN networks.
Well its ok we will still have are massive websites like google because they will just create a server in every ISPs local networks xD.
Neither Sprint nor Cogent is completely in the right here. Sprint just outright cut off the connection endangering both government, corporate, and university's business. As cogent and sprint are mostly used for data centers and large organizations.
But Cogent was also at fault because it was just getting bills from sprint and just brushing them off. They were in the wrong because they just assumed that sprint wouldn't doing anything.
Its Cogent's fault for just expecting nothing to happen and it is Sprint's fault for not being fair and refusing to work out a fair deal.
All in all some sort of government regulation needs to be created. There is no other thing Sprint could have done so its not completely their fault. The internet is based on universal connectivity. Backbones need to be fully connected and backbones should have direct connections to eachother. Connections should be free if the proportion is within a certain threshold (eg. 10% either way) and should have low, set fees if the proportion is more one sided.
Its not neither of their fault as they are just businesses looking out for their own interests, which frankly is what they were supposed to do. I am not an idealist who thinks that all corporations should or will ever not be greedy or focus on themselves and try to make as much money as they can....thats what capitalism is about. But at the same time, since corporations are inherently self driven their needs to be regulation to make sure that corporations don't stifle innovation, quash competition, price fix, or destabilize vital infrastructure. Both Cogent or Sprint could have prevented it but they couldn't come to an agreement. We just need to make sure that the government keeps the world wide web truly worldwide and that backbones and ISPs don't partition their networks and wall them off like cell phone companies do. You should just as good a connection to a bellsouth customer as you would a comcast customer (not withstanding latency of course0
It would be called Animal Sanitation and Safety force. The A.S.S force would storm people's houses and fight off evil meat eaters.
You would have to raid farms and beat the crap out of a farmer until he decides to grow more vegetables and stop farming cows. You would storm into meat companies and slaughter the staff....
I thought that was quite interesting. I personally enjoyed the game America's Army and although I eventually got bored of it I thought it was quite fun and was in the right mindset for a video game with a purpose. It really did a decent job conveying the Army. Of course it didn't really feel like an educational game although it really was. It took a different stance to an education game because the publisher thought that it was better to be and immersive yet convey some amount of informational significance. It really did a decent job giving insight. But I think the most important part of it was that it was addictive...and that it was.
Heck I remember how I used to take notes on post its because I failed the first aid a couple times. And they were short and fun and the game never lost its gameness. And yes those first aid âoeclassesâ were actually pretty good because when I became a lifeguard I still remembered some of it and it was all pretty good information.
And the sniper skills were fun and you really ended up putting a lot of effort. It kinda showed you just how complicated it was when you have to take into account windspeed and all that.
Basically it really did provide you with the experience the army was trying to convey. Even if it didnâ(TM)t make you want to join the army it did provide an insight into how it was.
And of course it was a whole lot of fun. It was really rewarding when you get to be a medic or use a sniper and the difficulty of the classes actually made it more fun cause it made it valuable (in the same ways that MMOs like WoW make it valuable to be level 70).
So I thought it was interesting and it got me thinking how could a "peace" oriented game be actually fun and kind of be like America's Army.
In all seriousness if you wanted to do a semi peace oriented game...not aimed at being boring and more at just being fun. You could take it from a UN perspective and show the hardships of UN peacekeepers who try to provide aid whilst being caught up in conflict. For example you might have to make tough decisions on whether or not to save someone and you would have to try not get caught up in the crossfire. You could make it in the form of a fall out like RTS kind of like fall out where you are trying to help people in heavily conflicted areas (eg. Most of Africa). I'm not talking about an educational game, but it would be educational in the sense that it would show just how hard it is to provide aid and in a war ravaged country.
You would have to make moral choices on whether to save or life and put yourself at risk. You could be in Indonesia or India and try to keep stability and hand out supplies but not everyone is on your side. You would have to defend your supplies and duck bullets and have to defend against thieves and stuff.
I dunno just food for thought. I am just wondering how you think it would be possible to make a game like this fun. Because so far its never really happened. Games like this always turn out boring as all heck and pointless and just like a bunch of information strewn outand without much substance or fun.
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If its so important to you than look at the DVD before you buy it. Besides, you can exchange the game within 30 days with another copy.
I went on slashdot and I saw an article about texas doing something right for once. I then woke up in a fit of panic because I knew it wasn't real.
No one cares about your the view of the outside of your house. Obviously, if they were so "affluent" than they would have a gate. Frankly the street map of your village is already on google maps so its not like a bunch of pictures of your fancy gates and yards is going make it any easier for criminals.
Besides isn't your Utopian society supposed to be free of crime?
Just like in the amazing Heinlein book "Stranger In a Strange Land" morality is the root of all evil.
If we didn't have morality than a lot of the heartache and conflicts in this world will be diminished.
the speed or size but its you use it.
or
Yea its cute...just like you honey (brace yourself for a potential slap xD)
PS: No you cannot make your adorable, cute, and tiny little laptop manly.
It is still better than bluehost. At least dreamhost is more upfront about what you can and cannot do and they specifically say that your if your website is just a normal website such as a blog that it will not be taken down due to being slashdotted, dugg, etc.
But on another note....I want that laptop. Its so awesome. That one of those things that you do just to say you did it and to show off your 1337ness.
Christ I must say..you have done quite a good job proving your 1337ness and I commend you ^_^
Why would you need filtering for a girl? Frankly girls aren't like guys and they are not going to go crazy for porn. Girls are not as sex crazed as guys are and they aren't going to be looking through porn all day. The worst they can do is spend way too much time on facebook and myspace....those things are like girl venus flytraps.
But if you don't want her to see porn advertising (and frankly who does?) than just install adblock in firefox. No need for filtering and all that.
Trust me, frankly the worst she is going to do is look up the actors from twilight, Hanah Montana, and the Jonas Brothers...that surely won't scar her for life xD....although it would probably scar me for life.
Well the problem is that if you don't immediately take it down than you are infringing and are no lose your ISP protection.
You have to immediately take it down and than file a counter DMCA to get it put back up. And than if the DMCA was erroneous than technically you can sue them...but its never been done before.
Yes I know, it sucks, it could have been worse at least they put ISP protection in there...otherwise 50% of the internet would have been sued already >.
Integrated components are never good. When they break you can't fix them unless your an electrical engineer with some serious experience soldering.
These days most people don't know how to solder anymore and actually desoldering and components is unheard of, even in logical cases like replacing/upgrading a graphics card on a laptop, upgrading/replacing the CPU on a laptop with a soldered on CPU etc.
Now with advancements in manufacturing and mass production individual components aren't replaced. You send a faulty motherboard back to the manufacturer and they are just going to throw it out and try to melt it down for gold.
In some ways its a good thing but in other ways its bad because the only way for people to upgrade/replace things (like a soldered on SSD) would be to replace the whole darn thing >.
And you can't imagine how expensive a server motherboard is.
Thanks sun but no thanks. We don't want to have to replace a $700+ motherboard every couple of years just to upgrade the SSD.
Lol, ahhh I can't stab old laddies in GTA...time to start stabbing them in real life.
Google is being pretty forth coming about this. I would much rather have google be forthcoming about it then just secretly do it like DoubleClick originally did and most websites do...they just don't tell you about it. Just look at beacon, Phorm, etc.
I mean google is coming right out and saying that they are doing this and they are making it as painless as possible to opt-out. Such as using browser plug-ins. Frankly you can't blame them for not making it opt-in, after all then no one would do it and it would defeat the whole purpose of it. I never like companies tracking browsing habits but if they have to do it do it the right way and be transparent about it.
Hopefully when other companies do it they will take Google's lead and be as transparent as they are.
you just violated the most important rule of usenet -_-
Rule 1 of usenet: Don't ever talk about usenet.
Thats an index >.
The problem is that so many torrents rely on piratebay as a tracker.
Piratebay tracks a large portion of torrents and just like when the mininova index went down, all other trackers and possibly even indexes will collapse under pressure.
It is extremely annoying because I can't read articles at-a-glance anymore. I only click on articles for the comments and I only read comments and write comments if I'm heavily interested in this story.
I mean no one is going to walk up to those people and be like "I don't want to do business with you because I saw someone say you did bad stuff on Topix.com".
I mean there is a point for libel laws. You don't want someone saying you did horrible things and ripped off a bunch of customers, when you didn't and than being unable to do business because of it.
Libel certainly can be harmful. But people on /b honestly aren't going to harm anyone. If they would have just said "they are just a bunch kids in their parents basement" like they truly were then honestly we wouldn't be talking about it.
They are the ones who are defaming themselves. Before this slashdot post I never even knew who these people were and I had never heard about this case.
Now everyone knows about them!
This will be great, you know when you have download a movie from usenet and its encoded in ANCII art.
Take that MPAA!
They will never figure out what those 4GB collections of ANCII art could possibly be.
Sorry wrong version
In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me â"
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...
by: Pastor Martin NiemÃller
When first they came for the criminals I did not speak
Then they began to take the Jews
When they fetched the people who were members of trade unions
I did not speak
When they took the Bible students, rounded up the homosexuals
Then they gathered up the immigrants and the gypsies
I did not speak, I did not speak
Eventually they came for me and there was no one left to speak
Hmm, seems vaguely familiar.
"PC gaming is dead", "PC gaming is dead". Then this or that "expert" claims we won't play on PCs anymore in 5 or so years because everyone's moving over to consoles.
Guess what? That argument dates back to the first Nintendo console that pushed into the US/Euro market? And? Two decades later and we're still playing on PCs. We still didn't dump the machines and turned to consoles all of a sudden. And for good reason.
First, some games just do not make any sense on a console. Ever tried a sensible flight sim on a console? How? Oh, I'm sure you could invent some sort of input device that costs a fortune and guess what? Nobody but a few sim nuts would buy it. But the game is pointless without it because you can't pilot a plane sensibly with standard controllers. So the flight sim will never be made due to a lack of market.
RTS? Ever tried it with a console controller? Until they get a sensible mouse support, I'm not going anywhere near it. Same goes for FPS games. Yes, they made it somehow into the console market, but frankly, before I try to play Halo with a game controller I shoot myself in the foot. Actually, thinking about it, chances are that this is exactly how well I'd be able to aim with the standard controller out there.
Yes, I'm no fan of the console controllers. I love my mouse and I enjoy having a keyboard.
What's the next argument? Oh, the ever increasing update necessity. Here's some news for you: Don't make games that need more horsepower than the average gamer machine can muster and you have a bigger market to sell to. It is actually that easy. If you require a game rig with ten graphics cards to make your latest and greatest game even run mediocre, you failed. Simple as that. And no, gamers do NOT want that. They want a good game. Yes, that may include decent graphics, but we already have that, it can be done with normal, current standard PCs! Now make decent games that are still good after the new car smell is gone and the player looks past the shiny surface of your stunning graphics effects! The only damn reason why console games are not so hardware hungry is simply that the hardware is set in stone. You CANNOT demand more than what the console can offer, so the game maker has to adjust to what the game rig can. He can't simply go and tell you you need a better graphics chip for your X360, it won't fly.
Could we please finally drop this completely ridiculous claim?
Case in point: Source Engine.
You know why counter strike and half life 2 are incredibly popular? Because they scale. Its all about scaling. I can play CS:Source or Half Life 2 on my crappy laptop with an integrated intel chipset and it still is manageable. I can also fire up my hand built gaming rig and get insane, wonderful, jaw dropping graphics. The key to making a good game is being able to look ok on at least mid range computers and looking amazing on high end rigs.
No the gaming PC is not dead. I have a wii, an xbox 360, and a hand built mid-upper level PC built from a compusa liquidation sale. My wii is cheap as hell and I have a mod chip in it. My xbox 360 is always fun because of Halo and it has nice graphics. Consoles are nice cause you can play multiplayer with your friends which is one of the few pros of console gaming. It really is fun to be able to play rock band, halo, etc. with your friends.
But my PC is still my pride and joy. Nothing is quite as good as PC gaming. Everything seems mediocre and keyboards and mice are still king. As long as consoles use controllers PC will always have a place...
Now this has got me thinking? Wouldn't it really change the game if consoles started also being able to use keyboards?
You insensitive clod! glider can be used for legitimate uses like playing solitaire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Oy9fOwyr4
Pff I mean anyone would pay a hundred dollars for a solitaire helper :P
Pre-used tissues
Well I guess we can so say goodbye to the world wide web because the ISPs would love nothing more than to not have to pay for bandwidth and just turn their networks into oversized LAN networks.
Well its ok we will still have are massive websites like google because they will just create a server in every ISPs local networks xD.
Neither Sprint nor Cogent is completely in the right here. Sprint just outright cut off the connection endangering both government, corporate, and university's business. As cogent and sprint are mostly used for data centers and large organizations.
But Cogent was also at fault because it was just getting bills from sprint and just brushing them off. They were in the wrong because they just assumed that sprint wouldn't doing anything.
Its Cogent's fault for just expecting nothing to happen and it is Sprint's fault for not being fair and refusing to work out a fair deal.
All in all some sort of government regulation needs to be created. There is no other thing Sprint could have done so its not completely their fault. The internet is based on universal connectivity. Backbones need to be fully connected and backbones should have direct connections to eachother. Connections should be free if the proportion is within a certain threshold (eg. 10% either way) and should have low, set fees if the proportion is more one sided.
Its not neither of their fault as they are just businesses looking out for their own interests, which frankly is what they were supposed to do. I am not an idealist who thinks that all corporations should or will ever not be greedy or focus on themselves and try to make as much money as they can....thats what capitalism is about. But at the same time, since corporations are inherently self driven their needs to be regulation to make sure that corporations don't stifle innovation, quash competition, price fix, or destabilize vital infrastructure. Both Cogent or Sprint could have prevented it but they couldn't come to an agreement. We just need to make sure that the government keeps the world wide web truly worldwide and that backbones and ISPs don't partition their networks and wall them off like cell phone companies do. You should just as good a connection to a bellsouth customer as you would a comcast customer (not withstanding latency of course0
It would be called Animal Sanitation and Safety force. The A.S.S force would storm people's houses and fight off evil meat eaters.
You would have to raid farms and beat the crap out of a farmer until he decides to grow more vegetables and stop farming cows. You would storm into meat companies and slaughter the staff....
You know...fighting the good fight!
I thought that was quite interesting. I personally enjoyed the game America's Army and although I eventually got bored of it I thought it was quite fun and was in the right mindset for a video game with a purpose. It really did a decent job conveying the Army. Of course it didn't really feel like an educational game although it really was. It took a different stance to an education game because the publisher thought that it was better to be and immersive yet convey some amount of informational significance. It really did a decent job giving insight. But I think the most important part of it was that it was addictive...and that it was.
Heck I remember how I used to take notes on post its because I failed the first aid a couple times. And they were short and fun and the game never lost its gameness. And yes those first aid âoeclassesâ were actually pretty good because when I became a lifeguard I still remembered some of it and it was all pretty good information.
And the sniper skills were fun and you really ended up putting a lot of effort. It kinda showed you just how complicated it was when you have to take into account windspeed and all that.
Basically it really did provide you with the experience the army was trying to convey. Even if it didnâ(TM)t make you want to join the army it did provide an insight into how it was.
And of course it was a whole lot of fun. It was really rewarding when you get to be a medic or use a sniper and the difficulty of the classes actually made it more fun cause it made it valuable (in the same ways that MMOs like WoW make it valuable to be level 70).
So I thought it was interesting and it got me thinking how could a "peace" oriented game be actually fun and kind of be like America's Army.
In all seriousness if you wanted to do a semi peace oriented game...not aimed at being boring and more at just being fun. You could take it from a UN perspective and show the hardships of UN peacekeepers who try to provide aid whilst being caught up in conflict. For example you might have to make tough decisions on whether or not to save someone and you would have to try not get caught up in the crossfire. You could make it in the form of a fall out like RTS kind of like fall out where you are trying to help people in heavily conflicted areas (eg. Most of Africa). I'm not talking about an educational game, but it would be educational in the sense that it would show just how hard it is to provide aid and in a war ravaged country.
You would have to make moral choices on whether to save or life and put yourself at risk. You could be in Indonesia or India and try to keep stability and hand out supplies but not everyone is on your side. You would have to defend your supplies and duck bullets and have to defend against thieves and stuff.
I dunno just food for thought. I am just wondering how you think it would be possible to make a game like this fun. Because so far its never really happened. Games like this always turn out boring as all heck and pointless and just like a bunch of information strewn outand without much substance or fun.