What it could be interesting, is to make current DVD drivers to burn this kind of media, because then you will have to buy HP drives, like Yamaha did with Tattoo technology.
Yeah, games were easy to make ten years aog, i coded a few but it was a "code" challenge, now it's different, most of the time someone built a nice engine and everyone make content for it, that's why many studios just focus on design, don't get me wrong, design it's important but programmers don't qualify often for game industry unless you want to built something new, something that is not a goal for many companies.
But hey! What do i know? I live in Mexico, there is a small or not-existant game industry at all!
It would be nice if Apple could make cheaper products for other countries (like Mexico), other companies like Acer make cheap computers because many people downhere can't buy the "regular" computers from first world countries.
Apple computers are great, they use it where i work but they are so expensive!
Well, in Mexico for example with MegaRed for a home use we pay like 40us dlls for 384kbps using cable (well, they will change for the same price to 512kbps really soon).
DSL in Mexico with Telmex we have to pay 54 us dlls for 256kbps (they will change that to 512kbps really soon too for the same price)
In DSL we have no options, Telmex is a monopoly in our country, so no one can compete... Dialup is ile 17 us dlls for 56k, many ISPs do that now.
But we have several problems, for example my Cable provider only lets you connect a PC to the cable, no problem sharing, but they limit your simultaneous connections, 30max, so if you share or use clients like BitTorrent, you suck up those connections and you can't connect:(
Paying for commercial is like 60 us dlls for 512 or 100 us dlls for 1024
Of course there are other options but mostly local (local cable providers, local ISPs)
Hello
I believe the RPC vulnerability it's a great risk, but lets says that Microsoft had another similir vulnerabilities (IIS?).
THe big rpbolem here it's the users and the sysadmins witch a lack of knowledge or the actitude "i believe everything in Norton's site".
I remember a few weeks then it came out the RPC vulerability, sites like antivirus.com have it in "Low risk".
Another example it's the people who rowks on my school, there are several sysadmins (like 4) and they sent an email about using a firewall, and that will fix the problem. I mean, you need to apply patches... you NEED to deploy fix tools, but no. Maybe it's not government, but come one, you can get a shell with the vulnerability too in a profesor computer, student's paradise? maybe.
This misinformed users because of bad admins, it's like virus' hoaxes in E-mail...
I'm just surprised or maybe worried, where's AMD on this story? I mean, Intel it's big but for some people (me!) AMD have better technology than Intel, why this reporter from Wired didn't ask to AMD?
I believe the article it worth of reading, even if some poeple say that people do this several times or whatever, you know, most people will just trash the hardrive, cry and restore backups (if any).
And... i believe it's fun to do what he did... i can hear people saying "pay for X service to recovery" or whatever, anyway, everytime someone do this kind of stuff someone have to comment "just for the fun", i believe we have several projects with seems line no usefuel but most of them are just for the fun!:)
Just a tought... Why sites use "Linux" and "PC" version like if they were different, i mean i HAVE a PC with WINDOWS and LINUX. They make it sound weird.
Anyway, i believe it's like telling people the difference in "hacker" and "cracker".
Yes, i don't believe that credit cards are the major stop for global commerce, for example, i live in Mexico and there are companies who give you a "virtual" postal address in USA, so you can receive stuff there and then they will ship to Mexico, and believe me, people pay with their credit cards and there's no problem with Amazon or whatever.
I really like the idea, DivX player in a standalone device, but what about piracy?? i mean, we'll know that people needs it to play DivX traded on the Internet, for example in Mexico we have a hard time with piracy, DVD copies for 5 us dlls, VCDs, SVCDs, antipiracy laws doesnt work on Mexico, they even want to put a special tax to the CDR media to gain something, no one can stop them!!!! Now, if they release this device here or probably anywhere else, this will be a total chaos, it can carry several implication to Sharing Networks, IRC and stuff, if we see problems becasue we can BUILD a player like this, now in hands of the vareage consumer? And the problems will start when this player starts to raise in USA.
We (IT People) need to achieve more security, maybe more strict guidelines could help, because a importar part from our industry depends on CC trasactions. USA have a privileged seat on this, because people are used to buy with CC, but for example, in Mexico people are afraid to make an online trasaction, even if it's more risky doing this in person. The people needs to be educated and we need to stop this, crackers are a menace, but i bet lots of sysadmins, security experts now how to crack a server, we need to use this knowledge to get better security, i know it can't be 100% secure, but we need to minimize this problems. Don't get me wrong, i'm not angry, but i live in a country where this kind of problems scare so hard, that they don't want even to check their account balance online, they go to an ATM to do that.
I remember those days, i ran a small BBS in my local city (small one), really nice, we were subcribed to FidoNET (we need to make long distance calls to get messages), lots of pics, shareware, we even had people connecting from other states. FXTERM was the program at 2400bps, then 9600bps, 14,400 bps and then pum!, Internet... 28,800 bps and BBSs were lost in space, we closed... but i still have this old page from yellow pages, "Computers", a small mailbox draw, with big letters "BBS" and the phone number... the old days...:)
I love Simpsons family, i live in Mexico and i really love them talking in spanish, i mean, they are in primetime in national television here.
I just hope the movie will be dubbed in Spanish (Mexican) not like First DVD season(just spanish subtitles)
Well, after seeing all the strange and stupid show seen in Nickelodeon and MTV (not all ofcourse) i have to say Ren & Stimpy are the best, i still watch them in "Locomotion" (DTV from Mexico channel)
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What it could be interesting, is to make current DVD drivers to burn this kind of media, because then you will have to buy HP drives, like Yamaha did with Tattoo technology.
Yeah, games were easy to make ten years aog, i coded a few but it was a "code" challenge, now it's different, most of the time someone built a nice engine and everyone make content for it, that's why many studios just focus on design, don't get me wrong, design it's important but programmers don't qualify often for game industry unless you want to built something new, something that is not a goal for many companies.
But hey! What do i know? I live in Mexico, there is a small or not-existant game industry at all!
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It would be nice if Apple could make cheaper products for other countries (like Mexico), other companies like Acer make cheap computers because many people downhere can't buy the "regular" computers from first world countries.
Apple computers are great, they use it where i work but they are so expensive!
1st post! :D
Well, in Mexico for example with MegaRed for a home use we pay like 40us dlls for 384kbps using cable (well, they will change for the same price to 512kbps really soon). DSL in Mexico with Telmex we have to pay 54 us dlls for 256kbps (they will change that to 512kbps really soon too for the same price) In DSL we have no options, Telmex is a monopoly in our country, so no one can compete... Dialup is ile 17 us dlls for 56k, many ISPs do that now. But we have several problems, for example my Cable provider only lets you connect a PC to the cable, no problem sharing, but they limit your simultaneous connections, 30max, so if you share or use clients like BitTorrent, you suck up those connections and you can't connect :(
Paying for commercial is like 60 us dlls for 512 or 100 us dlls for 1024
Of course there are other options but mostly local (local cable providers, local ISPs)
Not in Mexico! :)
We don't trust people in uniform... really sad
Now when you processor becomes obsolete... you can gave it like a gift! Really nice.
:)
And i was excited about using a Celeron-A 333Mhz as a key ring.
The funny part here its... SCO believes no one could write the "illegal" code, so it will collapse linux kernel! :)
Check this Story, SCO claims it owns so many lines on Linux Kernel that if they are removed, it will COLLAPSE!!!
Hello I believe the RPC vulnerability it's a great risk, but lets says that Microsoft had another similir vulnerabilities (IIS?). THe big rpbolem here it's the users and the sysadmins witch a lack of knowledge or the actitude "i believe everything in Norton's site". I remember a few weeks then it came out the RPC vulerability, sites like antivirus.com have it in "Low risk". Another example it's the people who rowks on my school, there are several sysadmins (like 4) and they sent an email about using a firewall, and that will fix the problem. I mean, you need to apply patches... you NEED to deploy fix tools, but no. Maybe it's not government, but come one, you can get a shell with the vulnerability too in a profesor computer, student's paradise? maybe. This misinformed users because of bad admins, it's like virus' hoaxes in E-mail...
Hello
I'm just surprised or maybe worried, where's AMD on this story?
I mean, Intel it's big but for some people (me!) AMD have better technology than Intel, why this reporter from Wired didn't ask to AMD?
Any comments?
Hello
:)
I believe the article it worth of reading, even if some poeple say that people do this several times or whatever, you know, most people will just trash the hardrive, cry and restore backups (if any).
And... i believe it's fun to do what he did... i can hear people saying "pay for X service to recovery" or whatever, anyway, everytime someone do this kind of stuff someone have to comment "just for the fun", i believe we have several projects with seems line no usefuel but most of them are just for the fun!
Don't be so hard with this guy.
Just a tought... Why sites use "Linux" and "PC" version like if they were different, i mean i HAVE a PC with WINDOWS and LINUX. They make it sound weird.
Anyway, i believe it's like telling people the difference in "hacker" and "cracker".
Yes, i don't believe that credit cards are the major stop for global commerce, for example, i live in Mexico and there are companies who give you a "virtual" postal address in USA, so you can receive stuff there and then they will ship to Mexico, and believe me, people pay with their credit cards and there's no problem with Amazon or whatever.
I really like the idea, DivX player in a standalone device, but what about piracy?? i mean, we'll know that people needs it to play DivX traded on the Internet, for example in Mexico we have a hard time with piracy, DVD copies for 5 us dlls, VCDs, SVCDs, antipiracy laws doesnt work on Mexico, they even want to put a special tax to the CDR media to gain something, no one can stop them!!!!
Now, if they release this device here or probably anywhere else, this will be a total chaos, it can carry several implication to Sharing Networks, IRC and stuff, if we see problems becasue we can BUILD a player like this, now in hands of the vareage consumer?
And the problems will start when this player starts to raise in USA.
We (IT People) need to achieve more security, maybe more strict guidelines could help, because a importar part from our industry depends on CC trasactions. USA have a privileged seat on this, because people are used to buy with CC, but for example, in Mexico people are afraid to make an online trasaction, even if it's more risky doing this in person. The people needs to be educated and we need to stop this, crackers are a menace, but i bet lots of sysadmins, security experts now how to crack a server, we need to use this knowledge to get better security, i know it can't be 100% secure, but we need to minimize this problems. Don't get me wrong, i'm not angry, but i live in a country where this kind of problems scare so hard, that they don't want even to check their account balance online, they go to an ATM to do that.
Hello
:)
I remember those days, i ran a small BBS in my local city (small one), really nice, we were subcribed to FidoNET (we need to make long distance calls to get messages), lots of pics, shareware, we even had people connecting from other states. FXTERM was the program at 2400bps, then 9600bps, 14,400 bps and then pum!, Internet... 28,800 bps and BBSs were lost in space, we closed... but i still have this old page from yellow pages, "Computers", a small mailbox draw, with big letters "BBS" and the phone number... the old days...
I love Simpsons family, i live in Mexico and i really love them talking in spanish, i mean, they are in primetime in national television here. I just hope the movie will be dubbed in Spanish (Mexican) not like First DVD season(just spanish subtitles)
Well, after seeing all the strange and stupid show seen in Nickelodeon and MTV (not all ofcourse) i have to say Ren & Stimpy are the best, i still watch them in "Locomotion" (DTV from Mexico channel)
This is good...