I'm aware of at least one player who lost a titan (a very expensive ship) that was funded almost entirely through the sale of pilot license extensions (PLEX). Currently a $34.95 USD PLEX (two pack) will net you about 600 million ISK (the EVE currency). A titan will run you somewhere around 80 billion ISK. Do the math on that.
There are also rumors that entire in-game alliances have been funded through the sale of PLEX (or game time cards which existed for a while before PLEX), which could represent tens of thousands of dollars.
I wouldn't worry too much about that. They Voynich Manuscript is likely the work of a madman, who used a very inconsistent cipher to encode plain text from a language he was not fluent in. Then he added several hundred little tiny pictures of naked women, and a bunch of plants he saw on some sort of "vision quest".
We've seen a lot of discussion about "file and forget" digital storage methods. I haven't seen one that I'd trust over even a 10 year time period. The only practical solution is to periodically move your data over to the latest, long term storage medium. Make multiple copies each time, and store them in separate physical locations. I make sure to store all of my personal/financial/etc data along with family pictures and videos. I challenge you to go more than five years without wanting to watch your kids walk for the first time. This helps remind me when it's time to update.
You'll end up with every porn company and opportunist domain squatter slamming registration like we've never seen before. TLDs not country or government specific made available in the past were not immediately desirable. If I owned sexyblonds.com for example, I probably wouldn't have been that anxious to register sexyblonds.tv when it was made available. But I'll definitely want to register sexyblonds.xxx as soon as possible. Especially if I believe (whether true or not) that adult content will be legally forced into the.xxx TLD at some point in the future. ICANN, or whatever organizations are responsible, might want to come up with a plan to throttle registration.
You're also going to end up with people registering and posting (maybe even related) adult content on sites like disney.xxx. I foresee many lawsuits.
I'd rather people receive their "news" directly from the source in 140 character statements of fact, than through 60 minute politically charged, corporate funded rantings.
I call this job security. I expect it to last until someone manages to develop sentient heuristic AV software. Although, I'll wager that the black-hats will beat white-hats to the punch on this front and continue to out maneuver them. There's a sci-fi novel in there somewhere.
Games like Starcraft, Warcraft, C&C, etc almost always have one campaign for each faction. That's been the standard for decades now. Blizzard is slowly releasing a single game over (a year or two?) and making a lot more money in the process. I'll admit that 29 missions is slightly longer than your average campaign, and challenge modes are a nice way of recycling content, but it certainly doesn't make for a complete game. I'll still buy it.
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When I "write HTML" I'm actually writing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and SQL queries at the same time. On a good day. What the hell, why not add another syntax?
Whoops, someone of unknown identity just launched a nuclear missile in our direction. "...We must be prepared to fight through in the worst case scenario...". Welcome to the club buddy.
Let this man pick his mushrooms in peace. He may be our best bet at finding the question to the answer, which we all know is 42. Or maybe he'll come up with a proof for the Riemann Hypothesis whilst wandering about his mothers yard. Seriously, it's in everyone's best interest to back the hell off.
Actually, no. You see, sharks are very large creatures with special needs. You can't just dig up a moat and stick sharks in it. Picture something like Sea World, and then imagine it your front yard. Then figure in the difficulty of training sharks to properly use high-powered laser beams. It's quite a bit more expensive than you might think, not something within the reach of your average millionaire. Trust me, I know.
This was an accident that occurred on the fifth day. Also Europa was a trial run. Pay no attention to the unspeakable horrors that lay beneath it's icy surface.
It's not really fair to compare a technology that is still being developed to others that are very well established. The big benefit of HTML5 is it's non-proprietary nature. Once the standard is adopted and applications are built around it these comparisons will look very different.
I'd like to have a 100mbps connection while downloading games, videos and the occasional large file. Beyond that, I don't really need it. With 100mbps I could pull down a gigabyte in less than a minute and a half. At those rates my household would probably spend less than two hours a month actually utilizing the full bandwidth potential. And between the four of us we're online almost 24/7. I'm assuming Virgin is expecting the same from most of their customers. And as soon as heavy users start stressing their network, you'll see caps imposed.
It may just be poor luck, but I've had nothing but bad experiences with VPS hosts. Specifically when it comes to the performance of web apps. I get the impression that a lot of VPS hosts are cramming way too many VMs on one machine. About a year ago I migrated several sites from a VPS host that was costing me $45 USD per month to a run of the mill "unlimited" hosting account which costs me $80 per year. I now see better performance all around.
"So far, malware is unaware of the ability to suspend a process"
Detecting whether a Windows process has been suspended is trivial. It can be done by making calls into the kernel. It could be as simple as monitoring a file the malware is expected to write to every few seconds. I'd guess that the method you've described would defeat only a small percentage of malware in the wild today.
But a sample of 620 pieces over three years isn't large enough for useful analysis. I'd like to see this concept applied to graffiti large cities. I'm sure there are crews responsible for removing the graffiti that could document it in the process.
When talking into your blue-tooth headset, DO NOT make eye contact with people in the grocery store. I'm tired of strange people asking me if we need milk, damnit.
As we've feared for many years, The Google has finally become sentient. Larry and Sergey have advanced knowledge of this and plan to liquidate before The Google turns on the digital world and ultimately destroys itself.
"Some telecom employees, who were based in FBI offices so as to quickly respond to such requests..." The exchange of information is so direct that the parties involved literally work side by side. "Hi, my name is Bob and I've been hired by TelecomX specifically to provide information to the FBI." Nothing about this is frightening.
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I'm aware of at least one player who lost a titan (a very expensive ship) that was funded almost entirely through the sale of pilot license extensions (PLEX). Currently a $34.95 USD PLEX (two pack) will net you about 600 million ISK (the EVE currency). A titan will run you somewhere around 80 billion ISK. Do the math on that. There are also rumors that entire in-game alliances have been funded through the sale of PLEX (or game time cards which existed for a while before PLEX), which could represent tens of thousands of dollars.
I wouldn't worry too much about that. They Voynich Manuscript is likely the work of a madman, who used a very inconsistent cipher to encode plain text from a language he was not fluent in. Then he added several hundred little tiny pictures of naked women, and a bunch of plants he saw on some sort of "vision quest".
We've seen a lot of discussion about "file and forget" digital storage methods. I haven't seen one that I'd trust over even a 10 year time period. The only practical solution is to periodically move your data over to the latest, long term storage medium. Make multiple copies each time, and store them in separate physical locations. I make sure to store all of my personal/financial/etc data along with family pictures and videos. I challenge you to go more than five years without wanting to watch your kids walk for the first time. This helps remind me when it's time to update.
You'll end up with every porn company and opportunist domain squatter slamming registration like we've never seen before. TLDs not country or government specific made available in the past were not immediately desirable. If I owned sexyblonds.com for example, I probably wouldn't have been that anxious to register sexyblonds.tv when it was made available. But I'll definitely want to register sexyblonds.xxx as soon as possible. Especially if I believe (whether true or not) that adult content will be legally forced into the .xxx TLD at some point in the future. ICANN, or whatever organizations are responsible, might want to come up with a plan to throttle registration.
You're also going to end up with people registering and posting (maybe even related) adult content on sites like disney.xxx. I foresee many lawsuits.
I'd rather people receive their "news" directly from the source in 140 character statements of fact, than through 60 minute politically charged, corporate funded rantings.
I call this job security. I expect it to last until someone manages to develop sentient heuristic AV software. Although, I'll wager that the black-hats will beat white-hats to the punch on this front and continue to out maneuver them. There's a sci-fi novel in there somewhere.
Games like Starcraft, Warcraft, C&C, etc almost always have one campaign for each faction. That's been the standard for decades now. Blizzard is slowly releasing a single game over (a year or two?) and making a lot more money in the process. I'll admit that 29 missions is slightly longer than your average campaign, and challenge modes are a nice way of recycling content, but it certainly doesn't make for a complete game. I'll still buy it.
When I "write HTML" I'm actually writing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and SQL queries at the same time. On a good day. What the hell, why not add another syntax?
Flying cars are supposed to hover silently using some sort of technology which is compact enough to also fit in skateboard. Duh.
Whoops, someone of unknown identity just launched a nuclear missile in our direction. "...We must be prepared to fight through in the worst case scenario...". Welcome to the club buddy.
Let this man pick his mushrooms in peace. He may be our best bet at finding the question to the answer, which we all know is 42. Or maybe he'll come up with a proof for the Riemann Hypothesis whilst wandering about his mothers yard. Seriously, it's in everyone's best interest to back the hell off.
Actually, no. You see, sharks are very large creatures with special needs. You can't just dig up a moat and stick sharks in it. Picture something like Sea World, and then imagine it your front yard. Then figure in the difficulty of training sharks to properly use high-powered laser beams. It's quite a bit more expensive than you might think, not something within the reach of your average millionaire. Trust me, I know.
Party pooper.
I'm glad I wasn't the only dirty-minded person who read "a handy" and immediately thought of something very much unlike a cellphone. Or was I?
This was an accident that occurred on the fifth day. Also Europa was a trial run. Pay no attention to the unspeakable horrors that lay beneath it's icy surface.
It's not really fair to compare a technology that is still being developed to others that are very well established. The big benefit of HTML5 is it's non-proprietary nature. Once the standard is adopted and applications are built around it these comparisons will look very different.
I'd like to have a 100mbps connection while downloading games, videos and the occasional large file. Beyond that, I don't really need it. With 100mbps I could pull down a gigabyte in less than a minute and a half. At those rates my household would probably spend less than two hours a month actually utilizing the full bandwidth potential. And between the four of us we're online almost 24/7. I'm assuming Virgin is expecting the same from most of their customers. And as soon as heavy users start stressing their network, you'll see caps imposed.
It may just be poor luck, but I've had nothing but bad experiences with VPS hosts. Specifically when it comes to the performance of web apps. I get the impression that a lot of VPS hosts are cramming way too many VMs on one machine. About a year ago I migrated several sites from a VPS host that was costing me $45 USD per month to a run of the mill "unlimited" hosting account which costs me $80 per year. I now see better performance all around.
Awesome. Now I have some ammunition for the next time my wife insists something I've assembled is a "death trap" because there are leftover parts.
"So far, malware is unaware of the ability to suspend a process" Detecting whether a Windows process has been suspended is trivial. It can be done by making calls into the kernel. It could be as simple as monitoring a file the malware is expected to write to every few seconds. I'd guess that the method you've described would defeat only a small percentage of malware in the wild today.
But a sample of 620 pieces over three years isn't large enough for useful analysis. I'd like to see this concept applied to graffiti large cities. I'm sure there are crews responsible for removing the graffiti that could document it in the process.
When talking into your blue-tooth headset, DO NOT make eye contact with people in the grocery store. I'm tired of strange people asking me if we need milk, damnit.
As we've feared for many years, The Google has finally become sentient. Larry and Sergey have advanced knowledge of this and plan to liquidate before The Google turns on the digital world and ultimately destroys itself.
Just in time for 2012. Hmm, what has The Google told them that it's not telling us?
"Some telecom employees, who were based in FBI offices so as to quickly respond to such requests..." The exchange of information is so direct that the parties involved literally work side by side. "Hi, my name is Bob and I've been hired by TelecomX specifically to provide information to the FBI." Nothing about this is frightening.