2 is pretty good, but after playing it a few times I just got sick of the control style. I played the updated 1, and then the normal 3, and the speech verseion of 4:)
I was just playing Quest for Glory the other day (1, 3 and 4 that is). I was able to do this because of DosBox. So...looks like a few people must still be playing those darn games.
If you want computer news, and it is April 1st, please, for the love of Pete (or Patricia if you don't like guys) please stay away from/. on this day. They have been doing this for a long time now and I don't see it stopping just because you say: Enough, Enough already!
One year from now it will happen again. My only request is that you leave for this one day. Go get your news else where...or just disregard the news this day. Crap...go outside. If you leave April 1st, I promise to not visit/. on some other day. You pick.
"I'm sure any number of drive-by-installed spyware programs could say exactly the same thing." One problem here. Gmail didn't drive by and install itself on your machine! You went to their page and accepted their agreement and click many-a buttons to get your account. And if you don't like it, just don't check your email and look, nothing is read!
"What about the people I email, and whose email I'd receive in a gmail account? They haven't given their consent to have their communications tapped, and I hardly think it's practical to check the privacy policy of every email provider of everyone you might want to email." This is just a plain bad example. If your phone is tapped and I call you, I don't know that. But I still talk away. Once that email leaves your client it is out of your control, that is just the nature of it. It is no different than your ISP scanning incoming emails for SPAM and virii. Or is that an intrusion of your privacy too?
How again is this an invasion of privacy? You do realize you agreed to it when you started using the service right? You do realize you can choose to NOT use the service in light of this right? You do realize they aren't sending this data to anyone or caching your activities right?
Some people just like to blow things out of perspective cause they can...like you.
The thing that I think is great about this is that Google is basically willing to poke fun at themself. There are obviously tons of people that freak out about Gmail's method of showing ads when you view your emails and such, and here we have Google cracking jokes at their own practices.
Just classic.
What about via.htaccess? While I don't know if there is a way to block requested based on a header via.htaccess I would be somewhat suprised if you couldn't.
I have the 3mbit plan and my connection is synced up at 3008kbit. I pull at 260-280KBps with no problems from ign.com, kernel.org and the mirrors hosted by pair.com.
Aggg, that must hurt. I pay $29.95/month for my 3mbit DSL (of course I do have a few other features from SBC...). You can also get 1.5mbit for $19.95 from SBC these days!
I already run PortableFirefox on my iPod Shuffle. Talk about getting some wierd looks. "Yes, let me show you that page on my web browser on my iPod".
Now, what I really want is a "repair keychain". Thing of something like Portable Firefox but that lets me run AVG's system scan, some spyware clean up apps and crap like that.
Your second point is basically invalid. For your subpoint (a) you state encryption will help. If you read the article it makes it clear that this actually hurts VOIP due to the added delay on both ends. As for your (b), again, read the article. They aren't saying ISP's will degrade the quality of any one service, they are saying they will give THEIR VOIP packets priority over everything (even your precious traffic on port 80).
So yes...this could have a major impact on VOIP in our world.
"(Expect Animal Forest DS to feature warp pipe tech)"
I would love to see something like this substantiated. WarpPipe has spewed loads of PR crap for how long now about the DS and still has nothing to show? They tried to run a Viral Marketing campaign but bored everyone to death with it. Now claims like this. Sure...where is the proof.
It almost scares me how true this is. I have a Dish DVR 522 and end up watching 90% of my shows at the time they normally air. I usually end up about 10 minutes late (so I can fast forward through commercials), but I still watch Survivor at 7 and such. Interesting...
He landed in Salina, KS because of the airport that is there. It used to be a military airport so it has a crazy long run way for the old cargo planes. This custom crafted needed a long runway to hit the speed for take off due to the large about of initial fuel.
Also, there were many interested people there. KSU has a good size aviation school right there and it was a great oppurtunity for those students to see history being made. So, before you assume that Kansas is full of idiots that don't care...do some research.
(This note coming from an employee of a world reknown furniture company that is based in a town of 2200 people in Western Kansas).
I have the DishNetwork DVR 522. It is a SD box with dual tuners. This is great because I can either watch two live streams at once (on two seperate TV's or PIP on one), I can record two live streams to the Hard Drive, watch one live and record one, or I can record two and watch two previously recorded ones. The options that dual tuner DVR's bring to the table are great. Dish also just recently added their "Dish Pass" features to the 522 to offer full NBR (Name Based Recording). It is great to say "Give me all the CSI on CBS" or "Give me all the CSI on all channels" or "Give me all the new CSI on CBS". I love it!
Dish is now offering the DVR 942 as well. It is an HD DVR with all those features. The secondary output is SD and will even down sample all HD content (live and recorded) for viewing on your secondary box.
To not include these offerings from Dish seems silly. They are serious about DVR.
Halo 2 gives you just that on Live. When you are waiting for the level to load and for it to find people for you to play with you get to talk to all the people in your party. It is a great feature since Live is all about the people.
I don't claiming you software is spyware/virus free as being a bad thing...but only if it is true. We have gotten to a point on the internet were the "Average Joe" doesn't know what they can or can not download. Honestly I believe a catalog of "safe" software to download is something that we need...
Well, in light of this I guess I will plug the backup software I have been using. At my work we are using Yosemite's Tapeware. We currently backup two Linux servers and one Windows server and it works very well. You can manage the storage group from any of the servers (CLI on the Linux box's, GUI on the Windows machine). Yosemite even offers a 30 day trial of their software with no limitations. I am not sure how well it works on a larger setup than what I have, but for my needs, it works great and is cheaper than Arkeia too.
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2 is pretty good, but after playing it a few times I just got sick of the control style. I played the updated 1, and then the normal 3, and the speech verseion of 4 :)
I was just playing Quest for Glory the other day (1, 3 and 4 that is). I was able to do this because of DosBox. So...looks like a few people must still be playing those darn games.
"remaining from its glorious efforts"
And I thought I was the only one that was a member of the People's Republic of GNU.
If you want computer news, and it is April 1st, please, for the love of Pete (or Patricia if you don't like guys) please stay away from /. on this day. They have been doing this for a long time now and I don't see it stopping just because you say: /. on some other day. You pick.
Enough, Enough already!
One year from now it will happen again. My only request is that you leave for this one day. Go get your news else where...or just disregard the news this day. Crap...go outside. If you leave April 1st, I promise to not visit
"I'm sure any number of drive-by-installed spyware programs could say exactly the same thing."
One problem here. Gmail didn't drive by and install itself on your machine! You went to their page and accepted their agreement and click many-a buttons to get your account. And if you don't like it, just don't check your email and look, nothing is read!
"What about the people I email, and whose email I'd receive in a gmail account? They haven't given their consent to have their communications tapped, and I hardly think it's practical to check the privacy policy of every email provider of everyone you might want to email."
This is just a plain bad example. If your phone is tapped and I call you, I don't know that. But I still talk away. Once that email leaves your client it is out of your control, that is just the nature of it. It is no different than your ISP scanning incoming emails for SPAM and virii. Or is that an intrusion of your privacy too?
"Nothing to see here. Please move along.."
Isn't that true of most articles this day?
How again is this an invasion of privacy? You do realize you agreed to it when you started using the service right? You do realize you can choose to NOT use the service in light of this right? You do realize they aren't sending this data to anyone or caching your activities right?
Some people just like to blow things out of perspective cause they can...like you.
Simple solution, switch to something using Apache (whether it is on Linux or Windows).
The thing that I think is great about this is that Google is basically willing to poke fun at themself. There are obviously tons of people that freak out about Gmail's method of showing ads when you view your emails and such, and here we have Google cracking jokes at their own practices. Just classic.
What about via .htaccess? While I don't know if there is a way to block requested based on a header via .htaccess I would be somewhat suprised if you couldn't.
I have the 3mbit plan and my connection is synced up at 3008kbit. I pull at 260-280KBps with no problems from ign.com, kernel.org and the mirrors hosted by pair.com.
Aggg, that must hurt. I pay $29.95/month for my 3mbit DSL (of course I do have a few other features from SBC...). You can also get 1.5mbit for $19.95 from SBC these days!
Here are some older torrents! ;)
I already run PortableFirefox on my iPod Shuffle. Talk about getting some wierd looks. "Yes, let me show you that page on my web browser on my iPod".
Now, what I really want is a "repair keychain". Thing of something like Portable Firefox but that lets me run AVG's system scan, some spyware clean up apps and crap like that.
Your second point is basically invalid. For your subpoint (a) you state encryption will help. If you read the article it makes it clear that this actually hurts VOIP due to the added delay on both ends. As for your (b), again, read the article. They aren't saying ISP's will degrade the quality of any one service, they are saying they will give THEIR VOIP packets priority over everything (even your precious traffic on port 80). So yes...this could have a major impact on VOIP in our world.
Why not get on the national do no call list? I haven't had a telemarketers call since I signed up.
in soviet russia outside contact jokes you!
Does this change affect ICQ as well, or only AIM?
"(Expect Animal Forest DS to feature warp pipe tech)"
I would love to see something like this substantiated. WarpPipe has spewed loads of PR crap for how long now about the DS and still has nothing to show? They tried to run a Viral Marketing campaign but bored everyone to death with it. Now claims like this. Sure...where is the proof.
It almost scares me how true this is. I have a Dish DVR 522 and end up watching 90% of my shows at the time they normally air. I usually end up about 10 minutes late (so I can fast forward through commercials), but I still watch Survivor at 7 and such. Interesting...
He landed in Salina, KS because of the airport that is there. It used to be a military airport so it has a crazy long run way for the old cargo planes. This custom crafted needed a long runway to hit the speed for take off due to the large about of initial fuel. Also, there were many interested people there. KSU has a good size aviation school right there and it was a great oppurtunity for those students to see history being made. So, before you assume that Kansas is full of idiots that don't care...do some research.
(This note coming from an employee of a world reknown furniture company that is based in a town of 2200 people in Western Kansas).
I have the DishNetwork DVR 522. It is a SD box with dual tuners. This is great because I can either watch two live streams at once (on two seperate TV's or PIP on one), I can record two live streams to the Hard Drive, watch one live and record one, or I can record two and watch two previously recorded ones. The options that dual tuner DVR's bring to the table are great. Dish also just recently added their "Dish Pass" features to the 522 to offer full NBR (Name Based Recording). It is great to say "Give me all the CSI on CBS" or "Give me all the CSI on all channels" or "Give me all the new CSI on CBS". I love it!
Dish is now offering the DVR 942 as well. It is an HD DVR with all those features. The secondary output is SD and will even down sample all HD content (live and recorded) for viewing on your secondary box.
To not include these offerings from Dish seems silly. They are serious about DVR.
Halo 2 gives you just that on Live. When you are waiting for the level to load and for it to find people for you to play with you get to talk to all the people in your party. It is a great feature since Live is all about the people.
I don't claiming you software is spyware/virus free as being a bad thing...but only if it is true. We have gotten to a point on the internet were the "Average Joe" doesn't know what they can or can not download. Honestly I believe a catalog of "safe" software to download is something that we need...
Well, in light of this I guess I will plug the backup software I have been using. At my work we are using Yosemite's Tapeware. We currently backup two Linux servers and one Windows server and it works very well. You can manage the storage group from any of the servers (CLI on the Linux box's, GUI on the Windows machine). Yosemite even offers a 30 day trial of their software with no limitations. I am not sure how well it works on a larger setup than what I have, but for my needs, it works great and is cheaper than Arkeia too.