Wow. Hadn't seen that part. I mean, I'm a Java programmer, but yeah, I wouldn't want to write MMO server software with it. You use the right tool for the job, and much as I like Java, it ain't the right tool for that job.
Is that a typo? "and they're going to use the GPL, not their own CDDL or another *less*-restrictive license."
I mean, I know some people have a mad on against the GPL, but it ain't what you'd call restrictive. The only thing it does is mandate that all derivitve works also have to be GPLed.
Yeah, but the ISP's are doing it, and they aren't compelled to do so by law (at least not yet in the US). That implies that they have reasons of their own, and I'll be buggered if I can see what those reasons might be, beyond evil stuff like selling the info to advertisers.
Well, its what worries me about people *keeping* logs, actually....
On a practical note, how much storage are we talking about for a decent sized ISP? I'm assuming you'd want to store the customer's ID, the IP address visited by the customer, the website address (if there is one), a timestamp for that visit, and maybe the amount of transfer both upstream and downstream each time the computer sends or recieves. Even for small ISP's that sounds like a lot of info to keep, indefinately, for every single customer and ever single thing they do online. I know we store a lot these days, but for the big guys like AOL that sounds like it could get into the range of multiple gigabytes per day. I know that tape backups aren't that expensive, but it sounds like a lot of trouble to go through for not a lot of payoff.
Are my guesses here utterly off, or do they really store that much data on their users?
To me that would seem to apply mostly to people hosting commercial sites, not an ISP providing end user access. Is that your angle, or did I miss something obvious?
I'm not an admin, and never have been so I'm working on ignorance here. But my question is, why bother with long term logs anyway? I understand a need to keep logs of activity for a week or so to deal with various attacks, zombie machines, etc, but why not set the logs to automatically wipe anything past that point? I can see maybe going nasty and selling it to advertisers, but other than stuff like that is there a use?
Well, just because something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it can't happen. More importantly the tech has changed. Back in the 70's no one counted on how ruthless DeBeers would be in keeping its monopoly on diamonds, or how hard they'd push the advertising. They may yet pull it out, they're certainly spending a lot of money on advertising talking about how the "fake" diamonds aren't as good as their "natural" diamonds are. Whether it works or not is yet to be seen.
I do agree with the posters who pointed out that the jewelers are in a bind here. Its a bit like PC manufacturers and MicroSoft. If they buy from the synthetic folks DeBeers is likely to blackball them.
There's a saying, "Once is coincidence, twice is hapenstance, three times is enemy action". FOX news labeled Foley as "D-FL" in three separate instances. I could see it as a typo if it had happened once, but three separate times? Nope, I'm pretty sure its because FOX knows that the vast majority of their viewers never watch any other news source so they know they can say anything they want to and their viewers will believe it.
Much more important: use screenshots that aren't from cutscenes.
Anytime I see a game using nothing but cutscene art I know the actual in game graphics will blow. Cutscenes aren't the game, and showing cutscenes is just pathetic.
At Tokyo Game Show this year the preview of the new Metal Gear game was one of the more crowded areas, but no one got to see what the game would look like. We saw an impressive CG movie with all sort of nifty looking stuff, but I have no idea what actual gameplay will look like. Metal Gear has a pretty good history, so I'm sure the actual gameplay might be good. I *hope* that when it comes out the box will show what the game really looks like.
Well, despite the fact that the GPL is directly related to software, it doesn't really take any understanding of software, computers, etc to understand its legal implications. I'd assume that, since the guy was a judge, he understands copyright law, and that's really all you need to understand to get the GPL.
Japan is still having problems with its relations to fellow Asian countries such as China and South Korea
No shit? Might that have something to do with the evil behavior of Japan back during the 1930's through 1940's? City named Nanjing ring a bell? Forcing large numbers of young Korean women to serve as sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army?
I'm something of a Japanophile, I'm working on a degree in East Asian Studies (focused on Japan), I'm learning the Japanese language, and I'll eventually be doing international law (again, focused on Japan). Point is I like Japan. But I can definately see how people from the nations Japan invaded during WWII would feel differently. They've got to get over it, just like the people in Europe had to get over their anti-German feelings, but their feelings are understandable.
I'd prefer it if they didn't focus on the war much, but rather used it as a background instead of trying to follow the whole war from start to finish. Someone else mentioned that the Jaina Proudmoore vs. her father storyline could be interesting. The fall and subsiquent redemption of Grom Hellscream might also be nice. Naturally they could just follow the fall of Arthus as outlined in the game, but for some reason that doesn't sound as interesting to me, don't know why.
There's one other significant thing about Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. It just plain sucked. The plot was a rehash of a rehash of a rehash without a single original aspect. Oh look, hacknied and completely unoriginal characters who act in steriotypical ways! What a great concept for a movie!
The CG was the best thing about FF:TSW, and it really wasn't as great as what we can do now. But don't say that the Final Fantasy movie failed because it was CG, it failed because as a movie it was grade B crap.
And naturally you have demographic evidence to back up your statement that over 50% of men will refuse to buy the Nintendo Wii simply on the basis of its name, yes? Of course not, you were just talking out of your ass.
Personall I'm a man, and I'll be buying one even if they decide to rename it "My Dick is Small" or the "For Men Who Need Viagra" or whatever. I'll be buying one, and not a Sony or Microsoft for two reasons: Zelda and Metroid. I can't afford multiple consoles, and those two games series are important to me, thus Nintendo gets a sale no matter what they call the console.
Besides, no one I know actually calls their Game Cube a Game Cube, they just call it a Nintendo. That's what they'll call the Wii too.
In general though, people use all sorts of stupid sounding products every day. I'm running GNU/Linux (Guh-new Luh-nux) for my OS, someone already mentioned the Gimp for photo editing, when you think about it the PS3 sounds like "piss three", UNIX sounds a lot like "eunichs" (and people make stupid jokes about it too), I write programs in a language called "PHP" which also has the potential for urine jokes, etc, etc, etc. Stupid names abound, and they don't stup things from being used.
What is the primary reason why MS Word is a bad idea? Everyone here knows the answer: closed format. If MS decides to take their marbles and go home, your documents may be unrecoverable [1]. You don't put your critical information in a closed format, because if you do the owners of that format own you.
This is at least five million times worse because you don't even have the closed format documents yourself, they're stored on *their* webservers. They go down? You don't have your documents. They go out of business? You don't have your documents. They decide to cancel your account? You don't have your documents. Also, legally, are they even your documents? How does copyright enter into this, if you write something on their servers, which is stored on their servers, can you really claim exclusive ownership?
I cannot imagine a worse idea.
Hard drives are big these days, putting a word processor onto your computer is not difficult, nor even costly since OpenOffice is free. This system *will* go down, all systems do eventually, and when it does I will do nothing but laugh and say "I told you so, but you wouldn't listen" to the suckers who suddenly find their documents unavailable.
[1] Yes, I know OO.o can read Word format, currently. Who's to say what the next release will bring, no?
Agree. Copyright covers a specific arrangement of words, or a specific image. An image that is similar to a copyrighted image is not a copyright violation.
Now, maybe if his family had patented his artistic style they could claim Google violated their patent. Hmmm... I wonder if I could patent an artistic style and exploit the US patent system for my own profit. To heck with business model patents, can you imagine owning the patent for slasher flicks?
I fail to see any "innovation" in the monitor's design. The review seems to be saying: "OMG!!! They made their monitor *black* instead of *white* how astonishing!!! This is an amazing innovation!!!"
I say, BFD. The monitor isn't ugly, but it looks exactly the same as every other flatpanel monitor I've seen except a) its black, and b) its based is burnished metal. I admit that there isn't really much room for artsy design in monitors, the function has fixed the form pretty severely, but are people really so desperate to see something new in monitor design that a simple color change is viewed with awe and astonishment?
My Japanese teacher, a native of Tokyo, uses romanji for his input and when I asked he said that everyone he knows uses romanji too. Apparently the kana keyboard options simply aren't used by most Japanese.
While I vastly prefer subs, the one time I watched my copy of Mononoke dubbed I actually liked Thorton's voice acting, and I thought he fit the character well. Surely I'm not the only one who liked it?
What really disturbs me is that the folks at Gamespot came up with what sounded like a pretty workable way to put in a race like the Zerg into an MMORPG as an April fool's joke. I thought the whole idea of World of Starcraft sounded extremely cool, but the Zerg race notes sounded like it might be a workable game mechanic...
It aint frugality in my case, its poverty. I have to eat ramen for a while if I want to upgrade something cheap like my memory. I paid less for my entire PC, including monitor (bought at an auction) than even one of those cards costs; again, not because I really wanted to, but because otherwise I simply couldn't have afforded it.
The car analogy is a good one. I bought a cheap car because I need to get from point A to point B, talk about how cool BMW's are is great for those who can afford 'em, but it sure isn't meant for me.
Not all of us have jobs or social events that allow us to wear digital watches
What, is there some sort of luddite movement that forbids digital watches at certain jobs? Are digital watches considered socially unacceptable among the upper crust?
I'm not being an ass, I'm honestly asking. Until I saw your post I had no idea that there was even the possibility that a digital watch might be considered a faux pas...
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Wow. Hadn't seen that part. I mean, I'm a Java programmer, but yeah, I wouldn't want to write MMO server software with it. You use the right tool for the job, and much as I like Java, it ain't the right tool for that job.
He wasn't worried about porn being made with it, he was worried about bad repetitive porn being made with it.
Is that a typo? "and they're going to use the GPL, not their own CDDL or another *less*-restrictive license."
I mean, I know some people have a mad on against the GPL, but it ain't what you'd call restrictive. The only thing it does is mandate that all derivitve works also have to be GPLed.
Yeah, but the ISP's are doing it, and they aren't compelled to do so by law (at least not yet in the US). That implies that they have reasons of their own, and I'll be buggered if I can see what those reasons might be, beyond evil stuff like selling the info to advertisers.
Well, its what worries me about people *keeping* logs, actually....
On a practical note, how much storage are we talking about for a decent sized ISP? I'm assuming you'd want to store the customer's ID, the IP address visited by the customer, the website address (if there is one), a timestamp for that visit, and maybe the amount of transfer both upstream and downstream each time the computer sends or recieves. Even for small ISP's that sounds like a lot of info to keep, indefinately, for every single customer and ever single thing they do online. I know we store a lot these days, but for the big guys like AOL that sounds like it could get into the range of multiple gigabytes per day. I know that tape backups aren't that expensive, but it sounds like a lot of trouble to go through for not a lot of payoff.
Are my guesses here utterly off, or do they really store that much data on their users?
To me that would seem to apply mostly to people hosting commercial sites, not an ISP providing end user access. Is that your angle, or did I miss something obvious?
I'm not an admin, and never have been so I'm working on ignorance here. But my question is, why bother with long term logs anyway? I understand a need to keep logs of activity for a week or so to deal with various attacks, zombie machines, etc, but why not set the logs to automatically wipe anything past that point? I can see maybe going nasty and selling it to advertisers, but other than stuff like that is there a use?
Well, just because something hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it can't happen. More importantly the tech has changed. Back in the 70's no one counted on how ruthless DeBeers would be in keeping its monopoly on diamonds, or how hard they'd push the advertising. They may yet pull it out, they're certainly spending a lot of money on advertising talking about how the "fake" diamonds aren't as good as their "natural" diamonds are. Whether it works or not is yet to be seen.
I do agree with the posters who pointed out that the jewelers are in a bind here. Its a bit like PC manufacturers and MicroSoft. If they buy from the synthetic folks DeBeers is likely to blackball them.
There's a saying, "Once is coincidence, twice is hapenstance, three times is enemy action". FOX news labeled Foley as "D-FL" in three separate instances. I could see it as a typo if it had happened once, but three separate times? Nope, I'm pretty sure its because FOX knows that the vast majority of their viewers never watch any other news source so they know they can say anything they want to and their viewers will believe it.
Much more important: use screenshots that aren't from cutscenes.
Anytime I see a game using nothing but cutscene art I know the actual in game graphics will blow. Cutscenes aren't the game, and showing cutscenes is just pathetic.
At Tokyo Game Show this year the preview of the new Metal Gear game was one of the more crowded areas, but no one got to see what the game would look like. We saw an impressive CG movie with all sort of nifty looking stuff, but I have no idea what actual gameplay will look like. Metal Gear has a pretty good history, so I'm sure the actual gameplay might be good. I *hope* that when it comes out the box will show what the game really looks like.
Well, despite the fact that the GPL is directly related to software, it doesn't really take any understanding of software, computers, etc to understand its legal implications. I'd assume that, since the guy was a judge, he understands copyright law, and that's really all you need to understand to get the GPL.
You're talking about the leak from the White House that outed a covert CIA agent endangering both her, her contacts, and possibly her husband, right?
Japan is still having problems with its relations to fellow Asian countries such as China and South Korea
No shit? Might that have something to do with the evil behavior of Japan back during the 1930's through 1940's? City named Nanjing ring a bell? Forcing large numbers of young Korean women to serve as sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army?
I'm something of a Japanophile, I'm working on a degree in East Asian Studies (focused on Japan), I'm learning the Japanese language, and I'll eventually be doing international law (again, focused on Japan). Point is I like Japan. But I can definately see how people from the nations Japan invaded during WWII would feel differently. They've got to get over it, just like the people in Europe had to get over their anti-German feelings, but their feelings are understandable.
I'd prefer it if they didn't focus on the war much, but rather used it as a background instead of trying to follow the whole war from start to finish. Someone else mentioned that the Jaina Proudmoore vs. her father storyline could be interesting. The fall and subsiquent redemption of Grom Hellscream might also be nice. Naturally they could just follow the fall of Arthus as outlined in the game, but for some reason that doesn't sound as interesting to me, don't know why.
There's one other significant thing about Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. It just plain sucked. The plot was a rehash of a rehash of a rehash without a single original aspect. Oh look, hacknied and completely unoriginal characters who act in steriotypical ways! What a great concept for a movie!
The CG was the best thing about FF:TSW, and it really wasn't as great as what we can do now. But don't say that the Final Fantasy movie failed because it was CG, it failed because as a movie it was grade B crap.
Ahem. Typo. That should be "Guh-new Line-uks"
And naturally you have demographic evidence to back up your statement that over 50% of men will refuse to buy the Nintendo Wii simply on the basis of its name, yes? Of course not, you were just talking out of your ass.
Personall I'm a man, and I'll be buying one even if they decide to rename it "My Dick is Small" or the "For Men Who Need Viagra" or whatever. I'll be buying one, and not a Sony or Microsoft for two reasons: Zelda and Metroid. I can't afford multiple consoles, and those two games series are important to me, thus Nintendo gets a sale no matter what they call the console.
Besides, no one I know actually calls their Game Cube a Game Cube, they just call it a Nintendo. That's what they'll call the Wii too.
In general though, people use all sorts of stupid sounding products every day. I'm running GNU/Linux (Guh-new Luh-nux) for my OS, someone already mentioned the Gimp for photo editing, when you think about it the PS3 sounds like "piss three", UNIX sounds a lot like "eunichs" (and people make stupid jokes about it too), I write programs in a language called "PHP" which also has the potential for urine jokes, etc, etc, etc. Stupid names abound, and they don't stup things from being used.
What is the primary reason why MS Word is a bad idea? Everyone here knows the answer: closed format. If MS decides to take their marbles and go home, your documents may be unrecoverable [1]. You don't put your critical information in a closed format, because if you do the owners of that format own you.
This is at least five million times worse because you don't even have the closed format documents yourself, they're stored on *their* webservers. They go down? You don't have your documents. They go out of business? You don't have your documents. They decide to cancel your account? You don't have your documents. Also, legally, are they even your documents? How does copyright enter into this, if you write something on their servers, which is stored on their servers, can you really claim exclusive ownership?
I cannot imagine a worse idea.
Hard drives are big these days, putting a word processor onto your computer is not difficult, nor even costly since OpenOffice is free. This system *will* go down, all systems do eventually, and when it does I will do nothing but laugh and say "I told you so, but you wouldn't listen" to the suckers who suddenly find their documents unavailable.
[1] Yes, I know OO.o can read Word format, currently. Who's to say what the next release will bring, no?
Agree. Copyright covers a specific arrangement of words, or a specific image. An image that is similar to a copyrighted image is not a copyright violation.
Now, maybe if his family had patented his artistic style they could claim Google violated their patent. Hmmm... I wonder if I could patent an artistic style and exploit the US patent system for my own profit. To heck with business model patents, can you imagine owning the patent for slasher flicks?
I fail to see any "innovation" in the monitor's design. The review seems to be saying: "OMG!!! They made their monitor *black* instead of *white* how astonishing!!! This is an amazing innovation!!!"
I say, BFD. The monitor isn't ugly, but it looks exactly the same as every other flatpanel monitor I've seen except a) its black, and b) its based is burnished metal. I admit that there isn't really much room for artsy design in monitors, the function has fixed the form pretty severely, but are people really so desperate to see something new in monitor design that a simple color change is viewed with awe and astonishment?
My Japanese teacher, a native of Tokyo, uses romanji for his input and when I asked he said that everyone he knows uses romanji too. Apparently the kana keyboard options simply aren't used by most Japanese.
While I vastly prefer subs, the one time I watched my copy of Mononoke dubbed I actually liked Thorton's voice acting, and I thought he fit the character well. Surely I'm not the only one who liked it?
What really disturbs me is that the folks at Gamespot came up with what sounded like a pretty workable way to put in a race like the Zerg into an MMORPG as an April fool's joke. I thought the whole idea of World of Starcraft sounded extremely cool, but the Zerg race notes sounded like it might be a workable game mechanic...
It aint frugality in my case, its poverty. I have to eat ramen for a while if I want to upgrade something cheap like my memory. I paid less for my entire PC, including monitor (bought at an auction) than even one of those cards costs; again, not because I really wanted to, but because otherwise I simply couldn't have afforded it.
The car analogy is a good one. I bought a cheap car because I need to get from point A to point B, talk about how cool BMW's are is great for those who can afford 'em, but it sure isn't meant for me.
What, is there some sort of luddite movement that forbids digital watches at certain jobs? Are digital watches considered socially unacceptable among the upper crust?
I'm not being an ass, I'm honestly asking. Until I saw your post I had no idea that there was even the possibility that a digital watch might be considered a faux pas...