Block it on the way out, but *encourage* its use internally. Therefore, someone gets the file from a BT source off campus, but no external clients will ever find it- but local ones will! These local clients will then save bandwidth by taking much less costly LAN bandwidth rather than expensive WAN bandwidth to get what they need.
Remember that the most proximate reason for universities to ban p2p is the fact that it clogs their feed to the outside world.
Close that outward feed, and then all is better than it was before!
They will be seen in an identical light. Their jobs are identical- a car mechanic fixes cars, and though he understands the theory behind the car and how the parts interact, he's not an engineer- he would have trouble making one from raw steel (although it's not out of the question...) A computer repairman is the same thing.
Linux will give computer repair folks as much work as ever. Maybe the viruses and security issues won't be as bad (although we don't know that! Linux is less than 5% of the consumer desktops on the market...) but all the other stuff (customization, hardware installs, even dog hair removal) will be with us as long as PCs exist in their current form. You try having your mom recompile a kernel.
In fact, it's the Linux spirit that created these jobs in the first place- the hardware can be fixed and configured by the end user, or whoever he chooses for that job. The Microsoft computer appliance of the future will do all it can to be a tamper-sealed box that has to be shipped away to bumfuck for three weeks to be repaired- it's more profitable.
It's so much easier to get high speed networks going when the population density is as high as that of a Chinese city (this is the case across all of Asia- S. Korea is highly wired simply because its population is extremely dense.)
China has two modes: hypermodern and very obsolete. A big Chinese city is like a veneer of chrome and neon put on an old tile-roofed hovel- you walk down the main streets, and the buildings are new and the shops stylish. You take a turn and it's rows upon rows of little houses with carts of vegetables out front and pirated DVD stores in between. An "Internet Cafe" in America is a swanky establishment- modern PCs, business class high speed Internet connection, and lattes to sip. In China, it could be just as sophisticated, downtown. Or, it could be 5 clunker boxes sharing a 56k modem in a random little room on a back street.
Sometimes, the blocking covers most big foreign news sources. Other times, only US stuff is blocked. Sometimes, blogspot and livejournal are blocked. This changes over time.
GeForces and the like are able to squeeze more gaming speed out of their cores because they fudge a lot of calculations. When doing complex modeling, you will notice those fudges and be very unhappy.
They're not saying "ban computers", they're saying "we could do better." If you don't think we could do better- what happened to constant improvement? Kaizen?
One fellow I did some work for had hundreds of spyware programs on his machine, as well as a ridiculous pile of browser hijacks for porn sites. He said he lived in fear of the day that he'd be showing something to a client and the machine would begin spewing advertisements for hot asian teen cunts...
Even if you make the game in such a manner as not to be "professional", you may still have a winner of a game. Stuff written in Flash is very easy to do yet brings out remarkable results.
Not every game has to be a 3d FPS or whatever. Uplink was written by a couple of guys in the UK and is one hell of a good game.
If you want to do more than a Flash game, that's quite doable as well. Writing a high end 3d engine is indeed hard stuff, but that's why we have mods! Not only can you learn a lot from the open sourced engines out there, you can use some of them to make a mod that is high quality stuff.
You mentioned artwork: well, fear not- the stuff you can do with the right tools is shocking. You can grab a copy of Blender, and after a few weeks of beating it up you will be turning out 3d models that are better than what you figured you could have made at the beginning. The GIMP is perfectly good for texturing models, and has just about all you'll need for the task (while the GIMP isn't professional photo editing software, it's great for making textures and web graphics.)
Yeah, I think we can expect women to be more of a force in the physical world of gaming soon... My girlfriend plays more Gunbound than I do and is probably better at it than I am.
The regions are generally the order in which films are released. It takes a while for a movie to officially get to region 5. They want to stop DVDs from appearing before a theatrical release- this has had a 100% failure rate so far.
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Block it on the way out, but *encourage* its use internally. Therefore, someone gets the file from a BT source off campus, but no external clients will ever find it- but local ones will! These local clients will then save bandwidth by taking much less costly LAN bandwidth rather than expensive WAN bandwidth to get what they need.
Remember that the most proximate reason for universities to ban p2p is the fact that it clogs their feed to the outside world.
Close that outward feed, and then all is better than it was before!
cats instinctively fear getting doused in it.
If I had 5 mil on hand, I'd buy it and call it Vault 13.
That'd be excellent.
They will be seen in an identical light. Their jobs are identical- a car mechanic fixes cars, and though he understands the theory behind the car and how the parts interact, he's not an engineer- he would have trouble making one from raw steel (although it's not out of the question...) A computer repairman is the same thing.
Linux will give computer repair folks as much work as ever. Maybe the viruses and security issues won't be as bad (although we don't know that! Linux is less than 5% of the consumer desktops on the market...) but all the other stuff (customization, hardware installs, even dog hair removal) will be with us as long as PCs exist in their current form. You try having your mom recompile a kernel.
In fact, it's the Linux spirit that created these jobs in the first place- the hardware can be fixed and configured by the end user, or whoever he chooses for that job. The Microsoft computer appliance of the future will do all it can to be a tamper-sealed box that has to be shipped away to bumfuck for three weeks to be repaired- it's more profitable.
Just like there's no Bullfrog or Origin.
EA has eaten them all.
It's so much easier to get high speed networks going when the population density is as high as that of a Chinese city (this is the case across all of Asia- S. Korea is highly wired simply because its population is extremely dense.)
China has two modes: hypermodern and very obsolete. A big Chinese city is like a veneer of chrome and neon put on an old tile-roofed hovel- you walk down the main streets, and the buildings are new and the shops stylish. You take a turn and it's rows upon rows of little houses with carts of vegetables out front and pirated DVD stores in between. An "Internet Cafe" in America is a swanky establishment- modern PCs, business class high speed Internet connection, and lattes to sip. In China, it could be just as sophisticated, downtown. Or, it could be 5 clunker boxes sharing a 56k modem in a random little room on a back street.
Sometimes, the blocking covers most big foreign news sources. Other times, only US stuff is blocked. Sometimes, blogspot and livejournal are blocked. This changes over time.
It's really quite mysterious sometimes.
GeForces and the like are able to squeeze more gaming speed out of their cores because they fudge a lot of calculations. When doing complex modeling, you will notice those fudges and be very unhappy.
No shit. Modern floppies are total fucking garbage, and it makes me sad that some people still rely on them for anything whatsoever.
ahahahahhaa
oh my god, I haven't heard someone mention that shit in years.
Perspective is only useful for some things. I also like put things into orthographic views.
Read the article- it refers to the 2.5 TB space being used as temporary query data storage for a 100TB+ databank.
I'm so glad I don't have to use win98 anymore.
They're not saying "stop using" anything.
They're saying that there is room for improvement.
You don't believe in improvement? My god, what a neanderthal.
They're not saying "ban computers", they're saying "we could do better." If you don't think we could do better- what happened to constant improvement? Kaizen?
Stop being a crypto-socialist.
No kidding.
One fellow I did some work for had hundreds of spyware programs on his machine, as well as a ridiculous pile of browser hijacks for porn sites. He said he lived in fear of the day that he'd be showing something to a client and the machine would begin spewing advertisements for hot asian teen cunts...
Too busy not watching TV to do that.
Now, old DOS games... that's another matter entirely.
Even if you make the game in such a manner as not to be "professional", you may still have a winner of a game. Stuff written in Flash is very easy to do yet brings out remarkable results.
Not every game has to be a 3d FPS or whatever. Uplink was written by a couple of guys in the UK and is one hell of a good game.
If you want to do more than a Flash game, that's quite doable as well. Writing a high end 3d engine is indeed hard stuff, but that's why we have mods! Not only can you learn a lot from the open sourced engines out there, you can use some of them to make a mod that is high quality stuff.
You mentioned artwork: well, fear not- the stuff you can do with the right tools is shocking. You can grab a copy of Blender, and after a few weeks of beating it up you will be turning out 3d models that are better than what you figured you could have made at the beginning. The GIMP is perfectly good for texturing models, and has just about all you'll need for the task (while the GIMP isn't professional photo editing software, it's great for making textures and web graphics.)
Yeah, I think we can expect women to be more of a force in the physical world of gaming soon... My girlfriend plays more Gunbound than I do and is probably better at it than I am.
I just use "chinese astronaut" myself. Taikonaut does sound cooler though.
The regions are generally the order in which films are released. It takes a while for a movie to officially get to region 5. They want to stop DVDs from appearing before a theatrical release- this has had a 100% failure rate so far.
And of course, 2 billion of that is goddamn blogs.
I believe it was Heinlein who said that the best appreciation of his art he ever got was found in "Make Payable To:".