So why not move to somewhere with exquisitely accurate and detailed mapping? I hear that the nuclear reactors in Pyongyang and Iran have been mapped out quite well.
That is one possibility. The other is to move to the middle of nowhere, where there aren't any roads - at least that way you can't complain your road is a meter off.
I wonder how a ghost mode would work out? When you die you turn into a ghost and get to haunt the other players or turn into some sort of undead that requires decapating to "kill". Then again there is always using the reincarnation approach and turning into all bunch of mythical creatures until your next turn as a human.
With some of these crazy patents coming out of IBM these days, I am wondering whether IBM is just trying to prove a point. The point being that the patent system should not be allowing these sort of things, and that they will continue doing this until someone with the power to sort out the patent mess wakes up.
BD requires AACS and ROM-Mark, IIRC. BD players won't play home burned disks, only commercially pressed ones, due to the Rom-Mark and AACS requirements.
Even more reason to wait a few years before going to Blu-Ray. Wait a few years and we will have our players with 'debug' menus that were accidently left it:)
The only place I am tempted to use Blu-Ray is for my home computer, since the extra storage makes for a great back up solution.
The idea/. supporting IPv6 early on the game, would certainly earn it another star on its nerd card. In the meantime I would be curious to know whether anyone has tried out slashcode on an IPv6 based server/network.
Why do they have to make the friendly cars so damn ugly?
Maybe because they aren't really giving high priority to the market or feel that the "environmental hippies care more about function than looks". Truth is, the there is a growing market of "environmental hippies" that have both money and sense of style. Maybe its time they took some of their industrial designers off their 10 tonne Enviro Pollution Vehicles and actually applying them to making environmentally friends vehicles which look good.
There is a lot of feet dragging going on, partly because too many business plans rely on short term spending. The irony is that some of the companies which you expect to be leading the way in IPv6 migration don't even have web sites that are IPv6 enabled. This includes IBM, Apple, Microsoft, RedHat and Cisco. I make the point because they should be picking up the torch now that research sites have already done their part, and showing that it is an achievable goal, and not some sort of pipe-dream./. readers at the same time, should probably get to know and understand the technology, since it is not a question of whether it will happen, but when. When it happens if the IT crowd doesn't understand IPv6, then we really have issues.
If you want to get an IPv6 web site running there are number of solutions, including using Apache 2 with IPv6 support activated and making sure you have an OS that supports an IPv6 stack - most modern OSs do.
Migration technologies for people stuck behind IPv4 NATs include Aiccu and Teredo (Vista includes this, and for other OSs there is Miredo). If you are at home, then one of the 'consumer' routers to support IPv6 out of the box is the Airport Extreme. If others support it out of the box I am not aware of this.
When you are ready see the dancing turtle - if you don't see it you are accessing it via IPv4.
Other stuff you can do in the meantime is checking to see if some your favourite network based applications handle IPv6 and if they don't make some noise. Its best to make the noise now, when it doesn't matter so much, than waiting until it does. On the bonus side they can advertise the fact they are IPv6 ready.
BBC News America with Matt Frei. It's what journalism in this country used to be. It's excellent. Many others seem to be discovering this too, because it runs on at least four separate channels on my cable (DirecTV).
Its a sad state of affairs when the only respectable news source in a country is a foreign one.
Maybe CNN doesn't like the competition scattered independent bloggers are providing to its all-encompassing media empire, and are taking out their anger on one of their own who dared embrace new media?
Are there any respectable news sources left on US TV? If it wasn't for the internet I would have been left believing that we are surrounded by terrorists and that our northern neighbour is hell bent on invading us. Heck, at what point did our news channels become 'based on a true event', instead of being 'about a real event'.
The only threat to US security is the current administration which is comprised of a bunch of common criminals who should all be arrested and charged with a plethora of crimes. I'd like to see both Bush and Cheney hanged!
Is it criminal yet to "behave in a incompetent manner while assuming presidential leadership"? If not, I am sure "allowing an administration to ruin a country" (US and Iraq) should be.
Q: Vista SP1 gets locks up the machines after update.
A: [x] Fiction (wins a T-Shirt)
[ ] Fact (truth but no T-Shirt to you bad boy.)
What? That issue looks like fact. Sure the machines are not technically locking up and are simply rebooting for ever, but their user is locked out of getting back to work.
I am not sure whether I should be more scared of US or UK Canadian copyright laws. Canada on the other hand, while peeving off some US senators about our independent thinking, is actually thinking about something more reasonable: see here
hehehe.. no shit. I don't know if "respect" is the right word though.
This is ironic coming from a company that is either run by crooks or incompetence. How many more people do we need serving jail time in a country where the jails have a high population that some of the states. This sort of stuff, just makes me want to avoid Microsoft products on principle.
At least over in Canada they are considering a more realistic copyight reform.
Seriously, isn't that what you want to hear a politician just come out with? I'm so sick of greedy pricks in suits going around attacking anyone and everyone for infringing on their precious IP, and getting quoted in the media. Ignore them, for god's sake.
There are some politicians in the US who don't seem to understand the Canada is a soverign country, not under US rule. Maybe they do understand and are simply peeved about it. As a soverign country we do as we please, and we believe that copyright holders can either charge a copyright levy or sue copyright violators, but not both.
Case in point: My university's primary web portal (http://my.lamar.edu) that every student is REQUIRED to access is totally unusable in ANY browser other than IE, Firefox, or Safari. This includes official university email, financial aid, course registration, online classes, and bill payment.
Just curious is this due to a browser type check or because some particular Javascript is screwing up?
Seems like such a feature would also require a lot of legacy code to remain plugged in. There by increasing file size, and possibly memory footprint.
Yup, since too much legacy support usually brings more issues. Any extension with any following should get the development effort, and if the original author doesn't want to develop it any more then a call for picking up the torch should be made.
I know my favourite extension "Web Developer" is being worked on at this current time, so I am staying with FF 2.x until then. I'll fire up FF 3.x once in a while to see what has changed.
How many versions of the same system do you really need? Having created over six versions of the same operating system, Microsoft should have been aware that there would be confusion. Are people in the company so oblivious to the "Keep it Simple" approach? Generally a desktop and a server edition should suffice, and anything being marked a 'ready' should be indicating the expected experience and not the rationed experience.
A computer allowing me to experience 10% of what the new OS can provide me, is not ready in any shape or form. Games labelling gets this right, why shouldn't hardware? Are we dealing with crooks or incompetence?
I agree that 50 years is too long (or about right).
This may be true, but we need to take into account copyright law as it stands now, when judging this case. If the studios are going to get rich off this copyright law, then surely should the owners of the estate? If they are going to fight the little people with this law, then at least let the little people fight back with the same law.
Lets keep it simple and call it 'Bob'. Its rememberable and short. Sure it probably wouldn't be taken seriously, but then again given the state of the science budget in the USA, I am not sure this is going to change much;)
To all those who like to argue against the ongoing use of analog recording mediums for original masters, let this be a lesson to you.
The lesson is also to keep the digital version in the simplest possible form. Lossy formats and high compression formats will end losing the data if we don't also make sure to keep around the file format too. Analogue how ever bad it is, is much easier to decode, since very little technology is really needed.
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So why not move to somewhere with exquisitely accurate and detailed mapping? I hear that the nuclear reactors in Pyongyang and Iran have been mapped out quite well.
That is one possibility. The other is to move to the middle of nowhere, where there aren't any roads - at least that way you can't complain your road is a meter off.
I wonder how a ghost mode would work out? When you die you turn into a ghost and get to haunt the other players or turn into some sort of undead that requires decapating to "kill". Then again there is always using the reincarnation approach and turning into all bunch of mythical creatures until your next turn as a human.
-- Now switching off crazy imagination mode. --
With some of these crazy patents coming out of IBM these days, I am wondering whether IBM is just trying to prove a point. The point being that the patent system should not be allowing these sort of things, and that they will continue doing this until someone with the power to sort out the patent mess wakes up.
BD requires AACS and ROM-Mark, IIRC. BD players won't play home burned disks, only commercially pressed ones, due to the Rom-Mark and AACS requirements.
:)
Even more reason to wait a few years before going to Blu-Ray. Wait a few years and we will have our players with 'debug' menus that were accidently left it
The only place I am tempted to use Blu-Ray is for my home computer, since the extra storage makes for a great back up solution.
The idea /. supporting IPv6 early on the game, would certainly earn it another star on its nerd card. In the meantime I would be curious to know whether anyone has tried out slashcode on an IPv6 based server/network.
Why do they have to make the friendly cars so damn ugly?
:)
Maybe because they aren't really giving high priority to the market or feel that the "environmental hippies care more about function than looks". Truth is, the there is a growing market of "environmental hippies" that have both money and sense of style. Maybe its time they took some of their industrial designers off their 10 tonne Enviro Pollution Vehicles and actually applying them to making environmentally friends vehicles which look good.
In short: yup, I agree with you
I hope the ISPs are logging everything, to conform to requirements about monitoring for terrorist activity ;)
There is a lot of feet dragging going on, partly because too many business plans rely on short term spending. The irony is that some of the companies which you expect to be leading the way in IPv6 migration don't even have web sites that are IPv6 enabled. This includes IBM, Apple, Microsoft, RedHat and Cisco. I make the point because they should be picking up the torch now that research sites have already done their part, and showing that it is an achievable goal, and not some sort of pipe-dream. /. readers at the same time, should probably get to know and understand the technology, since it is not a question of whether it will happen, but when. When it happens if the IT crowd doesn't understand IPv6, then we really have issues.
If you want to get an IPv6 web site running there are number of solutions, including using Apache 2 with IPv6 support activated and making sure you have an OS that supports an IPv6 stack - most modern OSs do.
Migration technologies for people stuck behind IPv4 NATs include Aiccu and Teredo (Vista includes this, and for other OSs there is Miredo). If you are at home, then one of the 'consumer' routers to support IPv6 out of the box is the Airport Extreme. If others support it out of the box I am not aware of this.
When you are ready see the dancing turtle - if you don't see it you are accessing it via IPv4.
Other stuff you can do in the meantime is checking to see if some your favourite network based applications handle IPv6 and if they don't make some noise. Its best to make the noise now, when it doesn't matter so much, than waiting until it does. On the bonus side they can advertise the fact they are IPv6 ready.
BBC News America with Matt Frei. It's what journalism in this country used to be. It's excellent. Many others seem to be discovering this too, because it runs on at least four separate channels on my cable (DirecTV).
Its a sad state of affairs when the only respectable news source in a country is a foreign one.
Any behavior comes with a risk of psychological addiction. To stipulate a health warning on devices is absolutely ludacris.
Exactly. Just imagine someone getting addicted to reading warning labels and the having to write a warning label that reads:
"This device can be considered addictive, get a life*.
*Reading warning labels is considered addictive, don't read.
If you have to hide your identity to say what you want, the terrorists have won.
Are you accusing CNN of being terrorists? Hmm.
Maybe CNN doesn't like the competition scattered independent bloggers are providing to its all-encompassing media empire, and are taking out their anger on one of their own who dared embrace new media?
Are there any respectable news sources left on US TV? If it wasn't for the internet I would have been left believing that we are surrounded by terrorists and that our northern neighbour is hell bent on invading us. Heck, at what point did our news channels become 'based on a true event', instead of being 'about a real event'.
The only threat to US security is the current administration which is comprised of a bunch of common criminals who should all be arrested and charged with a plethora of crimes. I'd like to see both Bush and Cheney hanged!
Is it criminal yet to "behave in a incompetent manner while assuming presidential leadership"? If not, I am sure "allowing an administration to ruin a country" (US and Iraq) should be.
Q: Vista SP1 gets locks up the machines after update.
A: [x] Fiction (wins a T-Shirt)
[ ] Fact (truth but no T-Shirt to you bad boy.)
What? That issue looks like fact. Sure the machines are not technically locking up and are simply rebooting for ever, but their user is locked out of getting back to work.
I am not sure whether I should be more scared of US or UK Canadian copyright laws. Canada on the other hand, while peeving off some US senators about our independent thinking, is actually thinking about something more reasonable: see here
hehehe.. no shit. I don't know if "respect" is the right word though.
This is ironic coming from a company that is either run by crooks or incompetence. How many more people do we need serving jail time in a country where the jails have a high population that some of the states. This sort of stuff, just makes me want to avoid Microsoft products on principle.
At least over in Canada they are considering a more realistic copyight reform.
I'm assuming it's just browser detection - he said it worked once he forged the user agent string.
Doh, looks like my coffee hadn't kicked in yet and I was too fast on the reply button.
Seriously, isn't that what you want to hear a politician just come out with? I'm so sick of greedy pricks in suits going around attacking anyone and everyone for infringing on their precious IP, and getting quoted in the media. Ignore them, for god's sake.
There are some politicians in the US who don't seem to understand the Canada is a soverign country, not under US rule. Maybe they do understand and are simply peeved about it. As a soverign country we do as we please, and we believe that copyright holders can either charge a copyright levy or sue copyright violators, but not both.
Case in point: My university's primary web portal (http://my.lamar.edu) that every student is REQUIRED to access is totally unusable in ANY browser other than IE, Firefox, or Safari. This includes official university email, financial aid, course registration, online classes, and bill payment.
Just curious is this due to a browser type check or because some particular Javascript is screwing up?
Seems like such a feature would also require a lot of legacy code to remain plugged in. There by increasing file size, and possibly memory footprint.
Yup, since too much legacy support usually brings more issues. Any extension with any following should get the development effort, and if the original author doesn't want to develop it any more then a call for picking up the torch should be made.
I know my favourite extension "Web Developer" is being worked on at this current time, so I am staying with FF 2.x until then. I'll fire up FF 3.x once in a while to see what has changed.
Looks good. All we need now are for the extension developers to make their extensions Firefox 3.0 friendly.
How many versions of the same system do you really need? Having created over six versions of the same operating system, Microsoft should have been aware that there would be confusion. Are people in the company so oblivious to the "Keep it Simple" approach? Generally a desktop and a server edition should suffice, and anything being marked a 'ready' should be indicating the expected experience and not the rationed experience.
A computer allowing me to experience 10% of what the new OS can provide me, is not ready in any shape or form. Games labelling gets this right, why shouldn't hardware? Are we dealing with crooks or incompetence?
I agree that 50 years is too long (or about right).
This may be true, but we need to take into account copyright law as it stands now, when judging this case. If the studios are going to get rich off this copyright law, then surely should the owners of the estate? If they are going to fight the little people with this law, then at least let the little people fight back with the same law.
Lets keep it simple and call it 'Bob'. Its rememberable and short. Sure it probably wouldn't be taken seriously, but then again given the state of the science budget in the USA, I am not sure this is going to change much ;)
To all those who like to argue against the ongoing use of analog recording mediums for original masters, let this be a lesson to you.
The lesson is also to keep the digital version in the simplest possible form. Lossy formats and high compression formats will end losing the data if we don't also make sure to keep around the file format too. Analogue how ever bad it is, is much easier to decode, since very little technology is really needed.