Will they have an updated level editor to go with this? That's the only real thrill I get out of these games anymore, and the editor that came with UT, well, it's okay but it's much lacking in some features (stability, portability (file format-wise, robustness). A few more primitives would be nice; groups for actors would be nice (correct me if UED2 already has this), selections would be nice (real selections, not that shift-click cruft). A manual would be really nice. And an in-editor screenshot maker!
I don't know about the radio stations where you live, but out here, the DJ will announce the name of a song the first time he plays it and that's it. Took me two months to track down the name of Tracy Chapman's "Telling Stories" by the lyrics.
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How hard would it be for slashdot to keep track of which users visit which articles, and then target ads based on that? Or better yet, just assign ads to articles that relate to them somehow (i.e. Thinkgeek Caffeine ads for the chemical forumlae poll, AMD or TransMeta ads for the processor articles, Sony ads for the PS2 articles, etc.).
Stenography (n): The art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.
Steganography (n): Hiding a secret message within a larger one in such a way that others can not discern the presence or contents of the hidden message.
But what about those of us who dual-boot and keep MP3's and other shared files on the windows drive? Do I have to buy a third drive on which I can keep shared data?
My dad had a friend who had the nasty habit of forwarding anything he received. After about a hundred messages or so, I hacked out a quick perl script to find all the unique e-mail addresses in the headers. I came up with 30,000 addresses. Don't know what Dad did after that, but the forwards stopped coming.
The other prime could also be 5, you know. Although using a perfect square for a RSA key probably violates security specs all over the place.
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I have no idea. I read somewhere, though, that Adams was quite disappointed in America for not getting this riotous joke. Apparently the Ford Prefect enjoyed monumental success for a time.
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Ford first incapacitated the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation salesman who was too stingy to let him make a long-distance phone call to Earth, then he called up the time recording on Earth. Then he re-broadcast the time signal over POLS (plain old light speed) service back to Earth, the idea being that the long-distance and time service charges would continue to rack up until the ship was found. The pencil-thin POLS signal was the only radiation coming out of the ship, so it would be some time before the ship was found.
Moral of the story: always let people named after Ford Escorts (called a Ford Prefect in England) use your phone.
Joker.com gives the sort of service their name implies. They're based in Germany, so you can't call up their offices like you can NSI to get something done quickly. I made an abortive attempt to use them once...I got one host registered, but couldn't register a second so I could actually use the domain. I gave up, but revisited the deal when I moved my server from CA to MT. They claimed that my host was now registered to some guy who works for them, and I couldn't change it. Transferred the domain name (took forever) to godaddy.com and never looked back.
A great deal of the software that college students will download comes not from the internet but from some other student's machine across campus. I could be way off base here, but it seems to me like the computational cost of filtering every packet sent across the network through a single (or even a cluster) of boxes to scan for the thousands of known virus signatures is just a bit unrealistic. Not to mention that many files are compressed to begin with.
Instead, explain to the students that they are responsible for files downloaded from their computer. When a virus is found, post the name of the computer and the infected files and impose a penalty (loss of network connection) for the offender. That's the only thing you as a University have the right to do; these aren't your machines you're talking about. If I were in a dorm situation and the local BOFH handed me a cdrom and said, "Here, install this," I'd be just a tiny bit leery. From the student's point of view, who's to say that the AV kit won't also contain a nice suite of spyware progs?
Ano and anus come from the same latin root which means "circle" or "circular." I can't remember what the latin word is, but this is one of the few things I remember from latin class.
Works fine in theory. In practice? Without looking it up, do you know what involvement your congressmen had in this? Would it change your vote? Would it change anybody else's vote? There is no law that says congressmen shall follow the will of the people.
Elections are like a choice between a) lifetime explosive diarrhea but unlimited sexual prowess and b) fame, fortune, and you die at age 25. Which do you choose? Congressman A understands the 'net but is a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Congressman B is a member of the ACLU and on the payroll of Microsoft.
This does sound like an ideal case for a class-action lawsuit--unless, of course, if UGO is going belly up you're all going to get a rather paltry sized settlement, but it'd be better than buckling under.
A word of warning about duct tape: The silver stuff is semi-metallic, so it probably wouldn't be the best bet for a custom-built computer. I know they say duct tape can fix anything, but that's just not entirely true. Hop down to your local Radio Shack or Fry's and buy an electronics case. Keep the power supply on the outside.
SETI, distributed.net, and others of that ilk are distributed computing. Napster, freenet, hotline, etc. are distributed storage. Which one of these is considered P2P? Both? I would imagine that distributed.net would be kept in the client/server model until users can easily submit their own calculations to be run on the net. SETI (AFAIK) allows you to use a radio tuner card to join add data to the search, but you can't use SETI for your own purposes, only to search for little green people.
On a completely different note, P2P is an entirely new method of data havening (a la freenet). I would challenge the admin of any college campus to try to get a somewhat popular mp3 or zip off of a resident network. People have been doing this in colleges since the PC became prevalent in the home.
It's a parody, not an exact replication. IANAL, but I believe limited use of copyrighted material is acceptable in a parody. If this isn't true, then Park Wars, TIE-tanic and a lot of other really funny stuff is going to get sued off the 'net.
If I may ask a question and possibly risk my karma:
What marketing and promoting does the RIAA do for an album? I may just be out of touch (a definite possibility...I isolate myself from TV on purpose), but I don't recall seeing very many ads for new artist albums out there. From what I understand, the majority of exposure the market gets to new music is from the radio. You're not going to tell me that it costs $14 for each CD sold to send out copies of songs to radio stations, are you? If it is, they should start sending songs in mp3 format.
I'm not saying that the RIAA is fixing Napster's price. I'm saying that the RIAA is fixing the price of CD's.
That being said, I do agree with you that Napster, except in the case of independant artists, leeches off of the music industry. But my post was trying to point out that the RIAA constitutes a cartel that artificially inflates (or "fixes") the price of CD's.
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Will they have an updated level editor to go with this? That's the only real thrill I get out of these games anymore, and the editor that came with UT, well, it's okay but it's much lacking in some features (stability, portability (file format-wise, robustness). A few more primitives would be nice; groups for actors would be nice (correct me if UED2 already has this), selections would be nice (real selections, not that shift-click cruft). A manual would be really nice. And an in-editor screenshot maker!
Or is this just wishful thinking?
I don't know about the radio stations where you live, but out here, the DJ will announce the name of a song the first time he plays it and that's it. Took me two months to track down the name of Tracy Chapman's "Telling Stories" by the lyrics.
How hard would it be for slashdot to keep track of which users visit which articles, and then target ads based on that? Or better yet, just assign ads to articles that relate to them somehow (i.e. Thinkgeek Caffeine ads for the chemical forumlae poll, AMD or TransMeta ads for the processor articles, Sony ads for the PS2 articles, etc.).
Stenography (n): The art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.
Steganography (n): Hiding a secret message within a larger one in such a way that others can not discern the presence or contents of the hidden message.
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So some kid downloading Britney Spears' MP3s gets flagged as a terrorist.
And this is a bad thing how?
Now why don't they give cars names like "Citation X"? Oh...nevermind.
Okay, cool idea.
But what about those of us who dual-boot and keep MP3's and other shared files on the windows drive? Do I have to buy a third drive on which I can keep shared data?
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/05/29/0117200.shtm l
My dad had a friend who had the nasty habit of forwarding anything he received. After about a hundred messages or so, I hacked out a quick perl script to find all the unique e-mail addresses in the headers. I came up with 30,000 addresses. Don't know what Dad did after that, but the forwards stopped coming.
The other prime could also be 5, you know. Although using a perfect square for a RSA key probably violates security specs all over the place.
I have no idea. I read somewhere, though, that Adams was quite disappointed in America for not getting this riotous joke. Apparently the Ford Prefect enjoyed monumental success for a time.
Ford first incapacitated the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation salesman who was too stingy to let him make a long-distance phone call to Earth, then he called up the time recording on Earth. Then he re-broadcast the time signal over POLS (plain old light speed) service back to Earth, the idea being that the long-distance and time service charges would continue to rack up until the ship was found. The pencil-thin POLS signal was the only radiation coming out of the ship, so it would be some time before the ship was found.
Moral of the story: always let people named after Ford Escorts (called a Ford Prefect in England) use your phone.
even if you let it in front of your home for some weeks
Grammatically, there's nothing wrong with that sentence. What Taco needs is a good proofreader.
IIRC the constitution never excluded blacks and women.
Joker.com gives the sort of service their name implies. They're based in Germany, so you can't call up their offices like you can NSI to get something done quickly. I made an abortive attempt to use them once...I got one host registered, but couldn't register a second so I could actually use the domain. I gave up, but revisited the deal when I moved my server from CA to MT. They claimed that my host was now registered to some guy who works for them, and I couldn't change it. Transferred the domain name (took forever) to godaddy.com and never looked back.
> I guess they'd be in jail for life.
On the plus side, they'd have had practice breaking out of said jail.
Instead, explain to the students that they are responsible for files downloaded from their computer. When a virus is found, post the name of the computer and the infected files and impose a penalty (loss of network connection) for the offender. That's the only thing you as a University have the right to do; these aren't your machines you're talking about. If I were in a dorm situation and the local BOFH handed me a cdrom and said, "Here, install this," I'd be just a tiny bit leery. From the student's point of view, who's to say that the AV kit won't also contain a nice suite of spyware progs?
Okay, you can call me paranoid now.
Ano and anus come from the same latin root which means "circle" or "circular." I can't remember what the latin word is, but this is one of the few things I remember from latin class.
Works fine in theory. In practice? Without looking it up, do you know what involvement your congressmen had in this? Would it change your vote? Would it change anybody else's vote? There is no law that says congressmen shall follow the will of the people.
Elections are like a choice between a) lifetime explosive diarrhea but unlimited sexual prowess and b) fame, fortune, and you die at age 25. Which do you choose? Congressman A understands the 'net but is a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Congressman B is a member of the ACLU and on the payroll of Microsoft.
I'll put the gluestick down now.
This does sound like an ideal case for a class-action lawsuit--unless, of course, if UGO is going belly up you're all going to get a rather paltry sized settlement, but it'd be better than buckling under.
A word of warning about duct tape: The silver stuff is semi-metallic, so it probably wouldn't be the best bet for a custom-built computer. I know they say duct tape can fix anything, but that's just not entirely true. Hop down to your local Radio Shack or Fry's and buy an electronics case. Keep the power supply on the outside.
SETI, distributed.net, and others of that ilk are distributed computing. Napster, freenet, hotline, etc. are distributed storage. Which one of these is considered P2P? Both? I would imagine that distributed.net would be kept in the client/server model until users can easily submit their own calculations to be run on the net. SETI (AFAIK) allows you to use a radio tuner card to join add data to the search, but you can't use SETI for your own purposes, only to search for little green people.
On a completely different note, P2P is an entirely new method of data havening (a la freenet). I would challenge the admin of any college campus to try to get a somewhat popular mp3 or zip off of a resident network. People have been doing this in colleges since the PC became prevalent in the home.
It's a parody, not an exact replication. IANAL, but I believe limited use of copyrighted material is acceptable in a parody. If this isn't true, then Park Wars, TIE-tanic and a lot of other really funny stuff is going to get sued off the 'net.
If I may ask a question and possibly risk my karma:
What marketing and promoting does the RIAA do for an album? I may just be out of touch (a definite possibility...I isolate myself from TV on purpose), but I don't recall seeing very many ads for new artist albums out there. From what I understand, the majority of exposure the market gets to new music is from the radio. You're not going to tell me that it costs $14 for each CD sold to send out copies of songs to radio stations, are you? If it is, they should start sending songs in mp3 format.
I'm not saying that the RIAA is fixing Napster's price. I'm saying that the RIAA is fixing the price of CD's.
That being said, I do agree with you that Napster, except in the case of independant artists, leeches off of the music industry. But my post was trying to point out that the RIAA constitutes a cartel that artificially inflates (or "fixes") the price of CD's.