So yeah, just pass on this very disappointing pseudo-sequel. If Crytek wants to make sales, they need to do better than this, instead of just blaming things on piracy this time around.
Did anybody else notice that both this review and the recent one of Spore were given 4/5 ratings by the same reviewer, Soulskill? Both games are from EA and have draconian DRM from SecuROM?
These two game reviews of totally boring, uninspired EA games give me the feeling that any game publisher can buy a 4/5 review on Slashdot for a few $$.
The standard RF microphone used for stage, television and film production has a peak bandwidth of ~ +/- 56kHz or a grand total of ~112kHz total deviation. With that small usage of bandwidth we can fit three microphones into an operating analog television channel without causing interference to the primary spectrum user.
My question is: Why does the entertainment industry get permission to broadcast in those "white spaces" when Google cannot? What is so special about a few pop singers that want to use wireless mics so they can shake their twat on stage that overrules the public good that whitespace spectrum would provide?
Most likely this is something the entertainment industry lobbyists have bribed the FCC to allow.
Shortly after Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was released, a modder released a "topless" mod for the female characters. The ESRB, fearful of another "Hot Coffee" incident, re-evaluated the game and changed the rating from "T" to "M", forcing 2K Games to republish the game with updated box art. I remember thinking to myself, "well, there goes the mod tools".
I don't disagree that this was part of it, but remember, Oblivion was also extremely violent. I remember killing someone in the sewer and watching as their lifeless body shot across the room with rag doll physics, leaving a trail of spattered blood across the floor until it fell in a lifeless heap and thinking "Damn! I can't believe this thing is rated T."
The real problem is that ESRB doesn't even play the games they rate, so they have no idea what a game is really all about. How many games have you watched gameplay videos for, then bought, and realized they suck? Or the opposite, how many have you watched gameplay videos of and said "meh," then after you actually tried the game at a friend's house realized it was awesome?
Star Wars: Rage of the Wookiees sounds awesome! But I can't seem to find it on ebay?
He means "Rage of the Ewoks" and that's why you can't find it. It was so bad we dumped all of the copies in some trash compactor on the death star before shooting torpedoes into it's exhaust port.
Why do they have so few visitors? Because the site is presented in what I have to say is a very boring fashion. Yes, I have been there.
I would have to say that perhaps the reason it is so boring is that the very buildings were designed to look boring, so the germans wouldn't think anything military was going on there. I would love to tour Bletchley Park with the audio book version of Cryptonomicon playing on my headphones. Why don't they let Neal Stephenson write the tour? That would seriously rock.
We now do not allow any server to be put into production with any kind of write cache on it. Ever.
Who modded this crap up? All enterprise SAN storage has battery backed write cache. Buy gear that is a trusted brand like HP, Hitachi, EMC, etc., which will actually tell you when your battery isn't holding a charge and needs to be replaced.
I challenge you to find one enterprise level SAN storage device that doesn't have battery backed storage. And even if you could find it, why would you want it? Battery backed write cache protects you from data loss due to accidental power failure.
(Oracle don't even use the filesystem they donated to Linux, far as they're concerned, it's abandonware.)
That may be true if you're talking about OCFS, which is deprecated by OCFS2. Oracle does actively use OCFS2, and fully supports it for a variety of purposes. Kernel modules for most commercial Linux distros are released about 24 hours after a patch, and it seems to work great for my purposes. I would be interested in something like Lustre, if it were supported by companies like Oracle and Red Hat.
It tickles me that you think McCain and Obama are fundamentally different.
If you think there's no difference between McCain and Obama then you seriously haven't been paying attention. I suggest you listen to Obama's speech last night, where he clearly laid out the differences in his policy from McCain's.
BOTH US Senators representing New York really represent NYC and Long Island. Upstate NY has no true representation in the Senate.
Yeah, but tons more people live in NYC and Long Island, so what would you rather do, let the minority decide what issues are important for the majority of voters? Also, the Republicans control the state legislature, thanks largely to upstate NY, so they can still write all the crazy state laws they want.
I'm more angry about the fact that red states with low populations still have 2 senators, meaning blue states with large populations like NY and California don't get equal representation. This affects presidential elections as well. Not only that, blue states pay a higher tax burden. Taxation without representation caused one revolutionary war, and it could very well cause another one in our lifetimes.
Close, but if you want to really fix electronic voting, there's one sure-fire way of doing it.
1. Figure out a way of rigging a vote for a believable candidate.
Or how about just rig it for a totally unbelievable candidate. When Cthulhu wins in 2008, the voters might just say "Hey, McCain is evil, but there's no way I voted for something that evil..."
Your solution *sounds* nice, but in fact, may drive cooling bills UP.
Where I live, it's routinely over 100 degrees (Yup. Ima 'merkin!) outside, today is expected to hit over 110. In order to provide a net savings, the hot air coming out from your server rack has to be even hotter than that, otherwise you're venting 90 degree air outside, then having to compensate for this by cooling down 110 degree air as it gets sucked into your building.
Although his solution does have the advantage of using the building A/C instead of relying on server room A/C to pick up the slack. If his server room is a small room in a large building, this might be fine. If, on the other hand, it's a large server room in a small building, you probably want to stay away from this option.
To my company, the best Lenovo could manage was a "If you bulk purchase 100 laptops of the same type we can negotiate downgrading them to Vista Home, but we will not refund the license.", after about a dozen e-mails.
It sounds like they're trying to weasel out of the license agreement that you get on your screen when you power on a brand new Windows machine, asking you to return the software for a refund if you don't agree. I would recommend contacting the attorney general for whatever state you live in and filing a complaint. License agreements are a double-edged sword. Who knows if they stand up in court or not, but if a reseller or manufacturer is trying to bind their customers to a license agreement, and offering a refund if they don't accept it, then not honoring your refund request, this is a pretty clear cut case of retail fraud. Contact your AG and see how fast you get a call from Lenovo wanting to write you a check.
It does not play "flash" YouTube videos. YouTube on the iPhone is a custom client app that does not use flash at all. It won't even play all the videos YouTube has to offer only the ones that can be accessed in h264 format so the app can use the iPod video decoding software/hardware to play it with their custom interface (flash only videos will not play at all).
However, in practice, almost 99.999% of all Youtube videos are in this format, and the iPhone makes browsing to Youtube videos a seamless experience in that any time you click on a video embedded in a web page, the URL is transmitted directly to the Youtube client and you can begin viewing/streaming right away. The Youtube client on iPhone is also superior to viewing it embedded within a web page because it can use the entire iPhone screen in landscape mode so you don't lose screen real estate to things like address bars, widgets, or web page borders.
New York, in particular, is disgusting. They have a tax policy that reflects decades of liberal orthodoxy and the stupidity of the results just staggers the mind. I mean, they raise taxes on cigarettes, and are suddenly horrified to find that people do not buy cigarettes in New York. Now, what do you think the enlightened liberals do up there? Do you think they set the tax at a more reasonable level? No... they call out the cops and pass even -more- laws designed to try and ban people from cigarettes from out of state.
You make some good points about New York's failed overtaxation policy, but how can you blame this on liberal orthodoxy when the state legislature has been controlled by Republicans for years now. It seems that Republicans are to blame for much of the overtaxation in New York state. Tax and spend Republicans indeed. I never thought I'd utter those words, but it seems lately the Democratic party is less likely to overspend and overtax the people.
I read your article, and the accounts of your bullying seem very lackluster. It's apparently bullying if after 3 months of producing no results or workable code, your manager forgets to greet you with "good morning" before asking if you "have anything for her." Also, this quote was very telling:
I found the workplace to be oppressive with an undercurrent of bullying, being driven by greed and market forces. Basically, if you can't deliver on time, you're out.
I've got news for you. Every workplace in the world is like that. Companies exist to make money. If you can't deliver the code or product they hired you to deliver within a reasonable amount of time, you're out. Sorry if this sounds a little harsh and not understanding, but it seems to me that you worked there for a few months, didn't deliver any code, then, when you were confronted about your lack of productivity, immediately went to a doctor and got a note saying you needed to be home from work for 2 weeks due to "stress", then turned in your resignation notice and never showed up to work again.
This is the very definition of a lazy employee, and if I were your manager, I would have dismissed you. I'm sorry, but we don't live in a society that is all fluffy bunnies and lollipops where you don't need to work if you feel "stressed" and asking you if you have any code ready is considered bullying... This is the real world where if you don't produce work or something of value, you shouldn't expect a paycheck or something of value in return.
I also heard Sen Biden is against network neutrality. Perhaps it's time to pop over to johnmccain.com.
Yeah, because a candidate who not only doesn't believe in Network Neutrality, but works with telcos to write laws actively subverting it (McCain) is better than a candidate that supports net neutrality but happens to have a VP that doesn't. Send me some of whatever you're smoking because it must be great.
Soon to get modded down as offtopic or troll, but why exactly is it that CS students think they're the smartest? What is it about knowing how to use a computer that makes for elitism?
I'm not saying I agree with this, but perhaps it is that:
A. They are young and haven't had a lot of years to gain wisdom. B. Observe that so-called "smart" people, such as doctors, lawyers, and engineers often have trouble operating computers. C. Observe that they are more talented at operating computers than so-called "smart" people. D. Therefore they must be smarter than those so-called "smart" people.
I don't think this is a good thing, but it's easy to see how CS students might make that mistake. Hell, I might have made the same mistake a few times myself, when I was a younger and less wise CS student.
Adi Shamir and Bruce Schneier also have no concern about doing their banking from a WiFi hot spot.
Sorry, I thought you were disagreeing and saying that it was unsafe to surf from a wifi hot spot. If you read back up in the thread you'll see we're both saying basically the same thing. Surfing from an untrusted network is fine as long as you check the validity of the SSL cert, which I'm more likely to do if I'm on an untrusted network. At the same time I'm actually a lot more likely to freak out if I get a big WARNING popping up saying the cert is invalid or has changed if I'm on a wifi hot spot...:-)
Why the hell not? As long as I've got end-to-end encryption between the bank and me, and no one is shoulder-surfing me, it's absolutely the same as doing it from home.
Or do you think that all of the hops between your cable modem and the bank are trustworthy?
Do you even know what a man in the middle attack is, and how it can happen even though you're encrypting data? You only think you're encrypting it for the bank, when in reality, you're encrypting it for the man in the middle, and he has a separate encrypted channel he's communicating to your bank on. He can even log in (by impersonating you) and send back your account information so you're none the wiser. Meanwhile, he captured your username and password and logs in a couple hours later to drain your account.
Also, I assume this means any historic packages, signed with the old key, not already in your possession at the time of the intrusion cannot be trusted. With this I mean any old versions of packages downloaded after the time the attacker got his hands on the passphrase.
Good point. If the attacker still has the private key and passphrase, he can trivially repackage any older RPMs and sign them again.
You do your banking at a local free wireless hotspot? Really?
Not normally, but I would have no problems doing my banking at a local free wireless hotspot as long as I get a valid SSL certificate. I might be a little more likely to double-check the validity of the cert at the local wireless hotspot before I login though.
Or we could infer that the system was used for its purpose by the attacker. He signed those packages. Redhat looked at the logs, no other packages were signed. So the passphrase is still very likely to be save.
God, I seriously hope they don't have the passphrase saved so that you don't need to type it in to sign a package. If that is the case their security is very lax. Also, if it's saved, it almost certainly is compromised, because it's stored on disk somewhere. It would be trivial for the attacker to pull it out of whatever script or text file it's saved in.
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Did anybody else notice that both this review and the recent one of Spore were given 4/5 ratings by the same reviewer, Soulskill? Both games are from EA and have draconian DRM from SecuROM?
These two game reviews of totally boring, uninspired EA games give me the feeling that any game publisher can buy a 4/5 review on Slashdot for a few $$.
My question is: Why does the entertainment industry get permission to broadcast in those "white spaces" when Google cannot? What is so special about a few pop singers that want to use wireless mics so they can shake their twat on stage that overrules the public good that whitespace spectrum would provide?
Most likely this is something the entertainment industry lobbyists have bribed the FCC to allow.
I don't disagree that this was part of it, but remember, Oblivion was also extremely violent. I remember killing someone in the sewer and watching as their lifeless body shot across the room with rag doll physics, leaving a trail of spattered blood across the floor until it fell in a lifeless heap and thinking "Damn! I can't believe this thing is rated T."
The real problem is that ESRB doesn't even play the games they rate, so they have no idea what a game is really all about. How many games have you watched gameplay videos for, then bought, and realized they suck? Or the opposite, how many have you watched gameplay videos of and said "meh," then after you actually tried the game at a friend's house realized it was awesome?
Your post is spot on, but I find it quite a bit more entertaining if you just read the capitalized words...
Edit: Damn lameness filter won't let me type all caps...
He means "Rage of the Ewoks" and that's why you can't find it. It was so bad we dumped all of the copies in some trash compactor on the death star before shooting torpedoes into it's exhaust port.
I would have to say that perhaps the reason it is so boring is that the very buildings were designed to look boring, so the germans wouldn't think anything military was going on there. I would love to tour Bletchley Park with the audio book version of Cryptonomicon playing on my headphones. Why don't they let Neal Stephenson write the tour? That would seriously rock.
Who modded this crap up? All enterprise SAN storage has battery backed write cache. Buy gear that is a trusted brand like HP, Hitachi, EMC, etc., which will actually tell you when your battery isn't holding a charge and needs to be replaced.
I challenge you to find one enterprise level SAN storage device that doesn't have battery backed storage. And even if you could find it, why would you want it? Battery backed write cache protects you from data loss due to accidental power failure.
That may be true if you're talking about OCFS, which is deprecated by OCFS2. Oracle does actively use OCFS2, and fully supports it for a variety of purposes. Kernel modules for most commercial Linux distros are released about 24 hours after a patch, and it seems to work great for my purposes. I would be interested in something like Lustre, if it were supported by companies like Oracle and Red Hat.
If you think there's no difference between McCain and Obama then you seriously haven't been paying attention. I suggest you listen to Obama's speech last night, where he clearly laid out the differences in his policy from McCain's.
Yeah, but tons more people live in NYC and Long Island, so what would you rather do, let the minority decide what issues are important for the majority of voters? Also, the Republicans control the state legislature, thanks largely to upstate NY, so they can still write all the crazy state laws they want.
I'm more angry about the fact that red states with low populations still have 2 senators, meaning blue states with large populations like NY and California don't get equal representation. This affects presidential elections as well. Not only that, blue states pay a higher tax burden. Taxation without representation caused one revolutionary war, and it could very well cause another one in our lifetimes.
Or how about just rig it for a totally unbelievable candidate. When Cthulhu wins in 2008, the voters might just say "Hey, McCain is evil, but there's no way I voted for something that evil..."
Although his solution does have the advantage of using the building A/C instead of relying on server room A/C to pick up the slack. If his server room is a small room in a large building, this might be fine. If, on the other hand, it's a large server room in a small building, you probably want to stay away from this option.
It sounds like they're trying to weasel out of the license agreement that you get on your screen when you power on a brand new Windows machine, asking you to return the software for a refund if you don't agree. I would recommend contacting the attorney general for whatever state you live in and filing a complaint. License agreements are a double-edged sword. Who knows if they stand up in court or not, but if a reseller or manufacturer is trying to bind their customers to a license agreement, and offering a refund if they don't accept it, then not honoring your refund request, this is a pretty clear cut case of retail fraud. Contact your AG and see how fast you get a call from Lenovo wanting to write you a check.
However, in practice, almost 99.999% of all Youtube videos are in this format, and the iPhone makes browsing to Youtube videos a seamless experience in that any time you click on a video embedded in a web page, the URL is transmitted directly to the Youtube client and you can begin viewing/streaming right away. The Youtube client on iPhone is also superior to viewing it embedded within a web page because it can use the entire iPhone screen in landscape mode so you don't lose screen real estate to things like address bars, widgets, or web page borders.
You make some good points about New York's failed overtaxation policy, but how can you blame this on liberal orthodoxy when the state legislature has been controlled by Republicans for years now. It seems that Republicans are to blame for much of the overtaxation in New York state. Tax and spend Republicans indeed. I never thought I'd utter those words, but it seems lately the Democratic party is less likely to overspend and overtax the people.
Wait a minute, don't MMOs do that already?
World of Warcraft, harvesting geek mojo since 2004.
I read your article, and the accounts of your bullying seem very lackluster. It's apparently bullying if after 3 months of producing no results or workable code, your manager forgets to greet you with "good morning" before asking if you "have anything for her." Also, this quote was very telling:
I've got news for you. Every workplace in the world is like that. Companies exist to make money. If you can't deliver the code or product they hired you to deliver within a reasonable amount of time, you're out. Sorry if this sounds a little harsh and not understanding, but it seems to me that you worked there for a few months, didn't deliver any code, then, when you were confronted about your lack of productivity, immediately went to a doctor and got a note saying you needed to be home from work for 2 weeks due to "stress", then turned in your resignation notice and never showed up to work again.
This is the very definition of a lazy employee, and if I were your manager, I would have dismissed you. I'm sorry, but we don't live in a society that is all fluffy bunnies and lollipops where you don't need to work if you feel "stressed" and asking you if you have any code ready is considered bullying... This is the real world where if you don't produce work or something of value, you shouldn't expect a paycheck or something of value in return.
Yeah, because a candidate who not only doesn't believe in Network Neutrality, but works with telcos to write laws actively subverting it (McCain) is better than a candidate that supports net neutrality but happens to have a VP that doesn't. Send me some of whatever you're smoking because it must be great.
I'm not saying I agree with this, but perhaps it is that:
A. They are young and haven't had a lot of years to gain wisdom.
B. Observe that so-called "smart" people, such as doctors, lawyers, and engineers often have trouble operating computers.
C. Observe that they are more talented at operating computers than so-called "smart" people.
D. Therefore they must be smarter than those so-called "smart" people.
I don't think this is a good thing, but it's easy to see how CS students might make that mistake. Hell, I might have made the same mistake a few times myself, when I was a younger and less wise CS student.
Sorry, I thought you were disagreeing and saying that it was unsafe to surf from a wifi hot spot. If you read back up in the thread you'll see we're both saying basically the same thing. Surfing from an untrusted network is fine as long as you check the validity of the SSL cert, which I'm more likely to do if I'm on an untrusted network. At the same time I'm actually a lot more likely to freak out if I get a big WARNING popping up saying the cert is invalid or has changed if I'm on a wifi hot spot... :-)
Good point. If the attacker still has the private key and passphrase, he can trivially repackage any older RPMs and sign them again.
Not normally, but I would have no problems doing my banking at a local free wireless hotspot as long as I get a valid SSL certificate. I might be a little more likely to double-check the validity of the cert at the local wireless hotspot before I login though.
God, I seriously hope they don't have the passphrase saved so that you don't need to type it in to sign a package. If that is the case their security is very lax. Also, if it's saved, it almost certainly is compromised, because it's stored on disk somewhere. It would be trivial for the attacker to pull it out of whatever script or text file it's saved in.
Nice George Orwell reference... It's creepy how much those chain forwarded emails always seem like brainwashing government propaganda to me.