A couple years ago I would have been against a company like Verizon trying to traffic shape. But since working in the telecommunications industry my perspective has changed due to my better understanding of how things really work. Verizon owns a good portion of the network infrastructure in north america but not ALL of it. If they were to traffic shape, it would only be on lines and nodes which they own, which would very well probably affect you since if you talk to a remote server somewhere in north america there is a high probability that somewhere along the way, you will go through a verizon network. You must also understand that ISPs and Carriers are not always the same thing. Carriers are companies which own, operate and maintain the actual infrastructure, while ISPs sell the service. Sometimes they are the same company but sometimes they are not. In the end, the Carriers are the ones with the most power since they are the ones who are doing the purchases of everything else. Everything that is done in terms of network equipment industry and mobile phone industry is driven at least in part by the Carrier. If you work in the telecom or mobile phone industry, your ONLY customer is the Carrier. In the mobile phone industry including iphones, android etc, products are not created to interest you directly as the consumer, they are designed to interest the Carrier. Carriers buy mobile phones from Apple, HTC, Samsung, etc, NOT you. You buy from the Carriers. Say you work hard every day and acquire a large sum of money over a long time and through great effort. You build a communications system using a lot of money so that your friends around you can talk to each other. You never change their messages, however sometimes you prioritize the messages of users you think deserve a higher priority. This is all that traffic shaping is, lower priority packets still eventualy get delivered, just slower. Remember you are the one who owns this communications network. You built it, and you maintain it every day. Net neutrality to you would mean having no control over something that YOU own. If you wan't net neutrality, then the infrastructure should ideally be owned by the government instead of multiple private organizations. As long as the infrastructure is divided among multiple private organizations, the policies of one Carrier affects the whole group of users using the communications network. And as long as the Carriers own, operate and maintain the infrastructure on their own, it's not unjustified that they would want at least SOME control over how traffic flows through THEIR network.
Make online games? You can't pirate a game and expect to be able to play online. Look at starcraft, people are still buying that to play on battle.net. I don't buy single player games because there isn't a single player game that doesn't get boring after a couple days.
Actually, there is a non-trivial to crack DRM. A game called "Steel Beasts" uses a hardware dongle. The company hosted hacking competitions for numbers of years to crack the dongle but it was never cracked.
Reminds me of the man without a face, the one that tried to commit suicide by shotgun to face, but failed. He was alive all right, but he literally had no face, his jaw, eyes, cheekbones, cheeks were all blown to bits. He had a large gaping hole in his head for a face. I'm too lazy to look up the article but the gif image of him after he blew up his face was pretty gruesome, almost made me puke so be warned before you go off searching for it.
I think if the people who wrote the bible saw how terminally ill people suffer extended periods of medical treatment before they die in modern times they would have written the bible differently. Back then you didn't need to commit suicide when you were terminally ill because you would die quickly enough that it didn't matter.
Death is a complete unknown. Rather than face the pain he knows, clinging to another few years, days, hours with loved ones, he instead walked headfirst into what could very well be worse pain and debilitation (think any religion's hell), yet clearly in a desire to avoid the pain and debilitation that he knew.
Back in the day when the bible was written if you got a terminal disease, you would die quickly. Today we have hospitals and medical treatments that drag on the process. The people who wrote the bible back then probably lived in a world where suicide was mostly done by people running away from things not related to health, therefore they despised those people who committed suicide. People back then simply didn't commit suicide because of health problems because they would die shortly anyways if they got a disease. I think if they saw how people with terminal diseases have their lives dragged on by medical treatments wouldn't have wrote that you go to hell for suicide.
The point of fiction is that you can make up anything you want and people will like it if its entertaining. No one cares that the stuff isn't realistic, you don't see people arguing about poor design in ghostbusters. Also, star wars copied stuff from an older similar style movie which I forget the name of.
Ridiculous, people need to learn to not drag on something that is done and over with. If you're a good author you don't continue a dead guy's novel series which he ended, you write a new story with new ideas perhaps drawing inspiration from hitchhikers guide. Continuing a series that was ended is just a total waste of time. The series was completed, get over it! (also fans of hitchiker need to reed dirk gentlys wholistic detective agency if you havnt already)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubSpace_(video_game) This game + 3d graphics and joystick controls + newtonian physics ( as in, once you start spinning, you keep spinning and once apply thrust, you keep moving ) would be spend-money-worthy. Actually any space game with newtonian physics would buy spend-money-worthy. There was something like this made by the guy who made X-Plane that you can download for free but that isn't really a game although you can fly around and shoot asteroids with a ship that handled like the space shuttle. With a joystick the setup would be your joystick 3d movement ( the 3rd "d" being twist / rudder ) would control the rotational thrusters, meaning that if you thrust in one direction you'll keep going in that direction until you thrust in the opposite direction to stop rotating. The " " axis would control rotational thrusters meaning if you push the joystick -----> you would spin clockwise and ---- would be counterclockwise. Pushing and pulling the joystick would control attitude, the rudder / twist would do the same thing that an airplane does, turning left and right. The hat-switch would be used to control lateral thrusters. I played the above mentioned game made by the guy who made X-Plane ( Austin Meyer I think? ) with this setup and it was quite a robust and awesome way of controlling a space ship. It's a little more complicated than controls for a plane like vehicle since you now have the option of using lateral thrusters to control the way you move, an analogy would be like saying a plane gives you 3 degrees of freedom but this setup gives you 6 degrees of freedom, well the analogy is not entirely correct but if you play that game mentioned by Austin Meyer or "Orbiter" or any space-flight simulator you will notice the difference. I think this kind of physics / control system would be just pure awesome in a multiplayer combat environment as there are pretty much boundless diversity in ways you could maneuver such a space ship. Also realistic weapons the behave like real lasers and gatling guns found on fighter jets with realistic spread would be cool. Also the fact that the velocities of the bullets would be added to relative velocities and that kind of realism, also the fact that moving fast through a debris field would make relative velocities of debris fast enough to damage the ships etc etc blah blah blah you get the idea...
Is TPB the only torrent tracker? I'm pretty sure that there are lots of torrent websites out there that either link to websites and serve as a torrent search engine or host their own torrents but I'm not sure how many trackers there are. What about mininova, isohunt, torrentz, demonoid, etc etc. A lot of torrents have TPB as a tracker even though they are downloaded from different sites. If I download a torrent from mininova, and TPB goes down, is there a chance the torrent wouldn't work because TPB is down?
Keep saying you'll sell TPB to some company and just keep delaying it so it never actually gets sold, say "we don't own the site, its being sold to company X". Meanwhile TBP doesn't change at all and we are all happy:)
Descent was good but Descent: Freespace and Freespace 2 were great too. In particular the epic storyline, intrigue, unpredictability, immersion and voice acting, I feel, is unrivaled even compared to todays games. The missions would start off with really detailed briefings planning how everything should work, making the player think that everything will go according to the briefing, then nothing goes as planned, just like in real life. There were missions where you don't even win or aren't expected to win, whereas nowadays your games are like this "heres the missions go do it, oh you succeeded horay!".
At least he doesn't live on a ticonderoga class cruiser, the phased array radar plates produce dead birds in the vicinity and can hard boil eggs in seconds.
Thinkpads last forever, I hope Lenovo continues to make this a good brand. Although they are a chinese company.... 10 year old think-pads have perfectly working keyboards, even if the letters started to rub off from years of use ( only a cosmetic effect ), they remain perfectly working ( how do they do that?? ). Meanwhile, buy a laptop from futureshop today and within a couple year's you'll be replacing a hard drive, a dvd drive, a monitor, a keyboard etc... A ten year-old think-pad for programmers are great, they do everything you need, do you even need a 1000$ pc? a 1ghz processor is fine unless your programming in java and want to use netbeans/eclipse, even then just use vi as your editor?
There is a company that specially sells linux laptops called "Linux Certified", I work with one of these laptops and it is kick-ass. I heard It wasn't very expensive either, though I didn't buy it. Anyways it has a core 2 duo 2.16 ghz, 4 gb of ram, 1900x1080 resolution screen on a regular sized laptop screen ( 17''? its not particularly large or wide ), the pixel density is insane, full num-pad keyboard. Nvidia GeForce 9600m GT with 512 MB. The brand name label says "Linux Certified", has sleek elegant design, comes with Ubuntu ( 8 or 9, so pretty much the latest ) installed with all the drivers, including the video card and webcam/microphone drivers.
I thought apple relies on chinese manufacturers just as much as any other computer company, as per the recent article about the guy who committed suicide over a lost iphone. Also wikipedia says foxconn manufactures like 90% of apples goods.
Also the screens are generally a lot better on the business brands, these days they make widescreen laptops with low pixel-density, whereas the really old think-pad I mentioned that I have has a 1280x1024 resolution display fit in I think like a 14'' screen? Also even though it's so old the the pixels are still good and bright, whereas a couple years ago I bought a hp laptop just for kicks and now the screen is noticeably dimmer and just generally looks reduced in quality since I first bought it.
Get a think-pad those are the best laptops. They used to be made by ibm but the brand got sold to lenovo and now they make them, but they still make them the same way and quality. I have a think-pad running windows xp with a 1 ghz processor, made a really long time ago it doesn't even have a dvd drive its so old, but it works fine. The new ones are much nicer. They always include the middle blue mouse-alternative joystick-like stub, which is a really wonderful feature for lazy people too lazy to use a mouse or even a touchpad. They last forever pretty much, made of thick indestructible plastic. Basically when buying a laptop do not buy the brands that are for personal use, like the ones advertised as home / family computers, instead buy the brands they sell to businesses and industry, they are made a lot better, the ones they advertise to home / family use are shit and are just sold to make quick bucks and generally aren't designed to last long.
You're forgetting that windows users have something called piracy, whereby they get all their software for free, even the operating system. Updates for AV can also be got through piracy.
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A couple years ago I would have been against a company like Verizon trying to traffic shape. But since working in the telecommunications industry my perspective has changed due to my better understanding of how things really work. Verizon owns a good portion of the network infrastructure in north america but not ALL of it. If they were to traffic shape, it would only be on lines and nodes which they own, which would very well probably affect you since if you talk to a remote server somewhere in north america there is a high probability that somewhere along the way, you will go through a verizon network. You must also understand that ISPs and Carriers are not always the same thing. Carriers are companies which own, operate and maintain the actual infrastructure, while ISPs sell the service. Sometimes they are the same company but sometimes they are not. In the end, the Carriers are the ones with the most power since they are the ones who are doing the purchases of everything else. Everything that is done in terms of network equipment industry and mobile phone industry is driven at least in part by the Carrier. If you work in the telecom or mobile phone industry, your ONLY customer is the Carrier. In the mobile phone industry including iphones, android etc, products are not created to interest you directly as the consumer, they are designed to interest the Carrier. Carriers buy mobile phones from Apple, HTC, Samsung, etc, NOT you. You buy from the Carriers. Say you work hard every day and acquire a large sum of money over a long time and through great effort. You build a communications system using a lot of money so that your friends around you can talk to each other. You never change their messages, however sometimes you prioritize the messages of users you think deserve a higher priority. This is all that traffic shaping is, lower priority packets still eventualy get delivered, just slower. Remember you are the one who owns this communications network. You built it, and you maintain it every day. Net neutrality to you would mean having no control over something that YOU own. If you wan't net neutrality, then the infrastructure should ideally be owned by the government instead of multiple private organizations. As long as the infrastructure is divided among multiple private organizations, the policies of one Carrier affects the whole group of users using the communications network. And as long as the Carriers own, operate and maintain the infrastructure on their own, it's not unjustified that they would want at least SOME control over how traffic flows through THEIR network.
Make online games? You can't pirate a game and expect to be able to play online. Look at starcraft, people are still buying that to play on battle.net. I don't buy single player games because there isn't a single player game that doesn't get boring after a couple days.
Freespace 1 and 2
Actually, there is a non-trivial to crack DRM. A game called "Steel Beasts" uses a hardware dongle. The company hosted hacking competitions for numbers of years to crack the dongle but it was never cracked.
I'm pretty sure thats a mateba, an auto-revolver, like a revolver, only automatic.
Theres other fox named russian fighters: foxbat, foxhount etc...
Reminds me of the man without a face, the one that tried to commit suicide by shotgun to face, but failed. He was alive all right, but he literally had no face, his jaw, eyes, cheekbones, cheeks were all blown to bits. He had a large gaping hole in his head for a face. I'm too lazy to look up the article but the gif image of him after he blew up his face was pretty gruesome, almost made me puke so be warned before you go off searching for it.
I think if the people who wrote the bible saw how terminally ill people suffer extended periods of medical treatment before they die in modern times they would have written the bible differently. Back then you didn't need to commit suicide when you were terminally ill because you would die quickly enough that it didn't matter.
Death is a complete unknown. Rather than face the pain he knows, clinging to another few years, days, hours with loved ones, he instead walked headfirst into what could very well be worse pain and debilitation (think any religion's hell), yet clearly in a desire to avoid the pain and debilitation that he knew.
Back in the day when the bible was written if you got a terminal disease, you would die quickly. Today we have hospitals and medical treatments that drag on the process. The people who wrote the bible back then probably lived in a world where suicide was mostly done by people running away from things not related to health, therefore they despised those people who committed suicide. People back then simply didn't commit suicide because of health problems because they would die shortly anyways if they got a disease. I think if they saw how people with terminal diseases have their lives dragged on by medical treatments wouldn't have wrote that you go to hell for suicide.
The point of fiction is that you can make up anything you want and people will like it if its entertaining. No one cares that the stuff isn't realistic, you don't see people arguing about poor design in ghostbusters. Also, star wars copied stuff from an older similar style movie which I forget the name of.
Ridiculous, people need to learn to not drag on something that is done and over with. If you're a good author you don't continue a dead guy's novel series which he ended, you write a new story with new ideas perhaps drawing inspiration from hitchhikers guide. Continuing a series that was ended is just a total waste of time. The series was completed, get over it! (also fans of hitchiker need to reed dirk gentlys wholistic detective agency if you havnt already)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubSpace_(video_game) This game + 3d graphics and joystick controls + newtonian physics ( as in, once you start spinning, you keep spinning and once apply thrust, you keep moving ) would be spend-money-worthy. Actually any space game with newtonian physics would buy spend-money-worthy. There was something like this made by the guy who made X-Plane that you can download for free but that isn't really a game although you can fly around and shoot asteroids with a ship that handled like the space shuttle. With a joystick the setup would be your joystick 3d movement ( the 3rd "d" being twist / rudder ) would control the rotational thrusters, meaning that if you thrust in one direction you'll keep going in that direction until you thrust in the opposite direction to stop rotating. The " " axis would control rotational thrusters meaning if you push the joystick -----> you would spin clockwise and ---- would be counterclockwise. Pushing and pulling the joystick would control attitude, the rudder / twist would do the same thing that an airplane does, turning left and right. The hat-switch would be used to control lateral thrusters. I played the above mentioned game made by the guy who made X-Plane ( Austin Meyer I think? ) with this setup and it was quite a robust and awesome way of controlling a space ship. It's a little more complicated than controls for a plane like vehicle since you now have the option of using lateral thrusters to control the way you move, an analogy would be like saying a plane gives you 3 degrees of freedom but this setup gives you 6 degrees of freedom, well the analogy is not entirely correct but if you play that game mentioned by Austin Meyer or "Orbiter" or any space-flight simulator you will notice the difference. I think this kind of physics / control system would be just pure awesome in a multiplayer combat environment as there are pretty much boundless diversity in ways you could maneuver such a space ship. Also realistic weapons the behave like real lasers and gatling guns found on fighter jets with realistic spread would be cool. Also the fact that the velocities of the bullets would be added to relative velocities and that kind of realism, also the fact that moving fast through a debris field would make relative velocities of debris fast enough to damage the ships etc etc blah blah blah you get the idea...
Is TPB the only torrent tracker? I'm pretty sure that there are lots of torrent websites out there that either link to websites and serve as a torrent search engine or host their own torrents but I'm not sure how many trackers there are. What about mininova, isohunt, torrentz, demonoid, etc etc. A lot of torrents have TPB as a tracker even though they are downloaded from different sites. If I download a torrent from mininova, and TPB goes down, is there a chance the torrent wouldn't work because TPB is down?
Interesting, but I don't think there are any botnets that are capable of distributed computing.
Keep saying you'll sell TPB to some company and just keep delaying it so it never actually gets sold, say "we don't own the site, its being sold to company X". Meanwhile TBP doesn't change at all and we are all happy :)
Descent was good but Descent: Freespace and Freespace 2 were great too. In particular the epic storyline, intrigue, unpredictability, immersion and voice acting, I feel, is unrivaled even compared to todays games. The missions would start off with really detailed briefings planning how everything should work, making the player think that everything will go according to the briefing, then nothing goes as planned, just like in real life. There were missions where you don't even win or aren't expected to win, whereas nowadays your games are like this "heres the missions go do it, oh you succeeded horay!".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_a_steel_sky would make an awesome movie.
At least he doesn't live on a ticonderoga class cruiser, the phased array radar plates produce dead birds in the vicinity and can hard boil eggs in seconds.
Thinkpads last forever, I hope Lenovo continues to make this a good brand. Although they are a chinese company.... 10 year old think-pads have perfectly working keyboards, even if the letters started to rub off from years of use ( only a cosmetic effect ), they remain perfectly working ( how do they do that?? ). Meanwhile, buy a laptop from futureshop today and within a couple year's you'll be replacing a hard drive, a dvd drive, a monitor, a keyboard etc... A ten year-old think-pad for programmers are great, they do everything you need, do you even need a 1000$ pc? a 1ghz processor is fine unless your programming in java and want to use netbeans/eclipse, even then just use vi as your editor?
There is a company that specially sells linux laptops called "Linux Certified", I work with one of these laptops and it is kick-ass. I heard It wasn't very expensive either, though I didn't buy it. Anyways it has a core 2 duo 2.16 ghz, 4 gb of ram, 1900x1080 resolution screen on a regular sized laptop screen ( 17''? its not particularly large or wide ), the pixel density is insane, full num-pad keyboard. Nvidia GeForce 9600m GT with 512 MB. The brand name label says "Linux Certified", has sleek elegant design, comes with Ubuntu ( 8 or 9, so pretty much the latest ) installed with all the drivers, including the video card and webcam/microphone drivers.
I thought apple relies on chinese manufacturers just as much as any other computer company, as per the recent article about the guy who committed suicide over a lost iphone. Also wikipedia says foxconn manufactures like 90% of apples goods.
Also the screens are generally a lot better on the business brands, these days they make widescreen laptops with low pixel-density, whereas the really old think-pad I mentioned that I have has a 1280x1024 resolution display fit in I think like a 14'' screen? Also even though it's so old the the pixels are still good and bright, whereas a couple years ago I bought a hp laptop just for kicks and now the screen is noticeably dimmer and just generally looks reduced in quality since I first bought it.
Get a think-pad those are the best laptops. They used to be made by ibm but the brand got sold to lenovo and now they make them, but they still make them the same way and quality. I have a think-pad running windows xp with a 1 ghz processor, made a really long time ago it doesn't even have a dvd drive its so old, but it works fine. The new ones are much nicer. They always include the middle blue mouse-alternative joystick-like stub, which is a really wonderful feature for lazy people too lazy to use a mouse or even a touchpad. They last forever pretty much, made of thick indestructible plastic. Basically when buying a laptop do not buy the brands that are for personal use, like the ones advertised as home / family computers, instead buy the brands they sell to businesses and industry, they are made a lot better, the ones they advertise to home / family use are shit and are just sold to make quick bucks and generally aren't designed to last long.
You're forgetting that windows users have something called piracy, whereby they get all their software for free, even the operating system. Updates for AV can also be got through piracy.