Mine's circa 1995 or so, and the only "low" setting on it is the refresh rate (no higher than 60 on a decent resolution). 1600x1200x32x60Hz isn't bad for a CRT almost 10 years old.
Skype is VoIP using a P2P network for optimizing transmissions (IIRC), as well as "online" status, as Skype uses a contact list format. Probably for a few other things as well. Either way, it's not JUST a buzz word here.
Also, as Skype is from the guy originally responsible for Kazaa, "P2P", "Kazaa" and "VoIP" all apply to Skype.
See, I see "I haven't read the article" and bells start going off in my head, saying that this person probably has no clue what they're talking about. You know what? This time I was right. Learn to actually find out what you're talking about instead of jumping to incorrect conclusions.
Certainly not legally binding, nor as extensive as the US Do-Not-Call list. I think this is what an earlier poster was referring to (though I could be wrong).
No, I haven't tried to boot to OS9 lately. Why should I? My mac is a linux server now, has been for some time. I haven't even USED MacOS in quite awhile. Apple zealot indeed.
I'd be a bit more careful when slinging that "zealot" term in the future.
The only problem with that is that it's a DIFFERENT medium. This means that you can't just apply the same laws and regulations - that would cause too many legal and logistical problems. What's needed is a parallel set of laws to fit the new medium.
As for those that are saying that it should be left unregulated, you just keep saying that until telemarketers start using VoIP, bogging down your internet connection 24 hours a day, and you have no legal challenge to the government recording every single word you say, or even the paranoid guy next door recording it all.
All I know is that I know a lot more people who finished Zelda II - at least everyone I know who owned it, plus a few who didn't. I only know one person who ever even claimed to have finished Ninja Gaiden without using the game genie, and they claimed they were only able to do it the one time.
But yeah, Zelda II was a difficult game. I never finished it, either. Personally, I always got bored while trying to find the hammer and gave up.
I'd like him to define too easy, because compared to the original, "too easy" might just mean that you DON'T have to cheat or be nigh-superhuman to beat it (save-state in an emulator doesn't count)!
Mind you, that was one of the wonderful things about the original - it was so hard to beat.
Easily one of the hardest, if not THE hardest game on the NES.
I used to play games online on a regular basis, starting with QuakeWorld. Hell, I remember when GameSpy was JUST for Quake. Now I'll rarely play anything online if it's not a game with ONLY friends.
Back then, it was FUN. A little less fun when you lost, but then, losing BADLY in the team-based mods (mostly Team Fortress, for me) wasn't TERRIBLY common, because people would even up the teams either on their own, or with only a little bit of prodding. Even when you DID lose, the winner was usually very gracious about it. The amount of trash talking was generally pretty low. A little bit of boasting and bragging at times, but not with every kill, or even every win.... and almost no cheating accusations.
The same could be said of Half-Life at first. It wasn't until CounterStrike became huge that things REALLY started to go down hill.
As for strategy games, the last time I seriously played any of them online with the public at large (and not just with friends) was the early days of Starcraft, before everyone stopped playing any map that wasn't either "Big Game Hunters" or one of it's variants.
Warcraft 3 does a pretty good job with skill matching (my record is somewhere around 60% wins, and unless you're at the very top or very bottom of the rankings should level out around 50% for each ideally), but the trash talking and insults are still FAR too prevalent for it to be enjoyable.
Skill matching like in Warcraft 3 can work for some, but not all games, but until there's a consistant and reliable way to keep the level of trash talking morons out of the game (don't say server admins - they can't be there ALL the time, and with many games can't monitor everything) online gaming will just keep getting worse and worse.
The fact that it was still officially a hurricane when it made landfall in Canada (or it wouldn't even be LISTED on that page) rather implies that it had an eye, hurricane force winds, and storm surges. Otherwise it wouldn't be a hurricane, would it? It would be a tropical storm or even tropical depression.
Storm surges?
Ruffman stresses that storm surges are not unique to oceans. They can also happen on the Great Lakes. "If you have a wind blowing hard the length of Lake Ontario, you can get a storm surge in the Hamilton and Burlington area. They're not common, but they certainly have occurred," he says. "In one case, at the east end of Lake Erie, there was a sudden rise in the water in an area where people were swimming that caused a number of deaths."
Rise in the lake's water level?
Hurricanes are less common than storm surges in Canada, but they do occur. 81 people died after Hurricane Hazel blew across Lake Ontario in 1954. According to Ruffman, "It had a very low pressure in the centre. So, as it went across the west end of the lake - let's say roughly from St. Catharines over to Toronto - essentially that end of the lake rose because of the low pressure. Then it blew onto the land and dumped huge amounts of rain on the west parts of Toronto." According to Natural Hazards of Canada: A Historical Mapping of Significant Natural Disasters, Hurricane Hazel induced the worst flooding in the Toronto area in 200 years and caused more than $1 billion damage.
Hurricane Hazel (which followed the same path Isabel is predicted to take) hit Ontario AS A HURRICANE.
Not a former hurricane - it was still classified as a hurricane when it blew into Ontario. A weaker hurricane than when it had made landfall from the Atlantic, but still a hurricane. Infact, the eye of the storm had previously dissipated as it travelled inland, but REFORMED while over Lake Ontario.
As for storm surges, Hazel caused storm surges along the waterfront in Toronto off of lake Ontario.
Obviously, (if Isabel repeats what Hazel did) it won't be be as strong coming off the Great Lakes as off the Atlantic, but it's not something to be shrugged off, especially with an area that hasn't seen a storm even HALF that strength in almost 50 years.
Forecasters are warning of the possiblity of Isabel repeating Hazel's path. Your attitude that it's not worth worrying about is exactly what has me concerned, if we DO see a repeat of Hazel. The damage wouldn't be as bad here as it will be in North Carolina, but it could be bad enough for someplace unused to that scale of destruction.
I wonder about companies in Ontario and Quebec...
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...and other areas that usually don't get hurricanes.
As it stands, Isabel stands a good chance of blowing through to that far off the coast.
Unlike most places that may get hit by Isabel, they won't be used to preparing for hurricanes, as Ontario has (supposedly) only ever had one hurricane ever.
And the CD manufacturing company employees, and all the music store staff, and all the people who's taxes go up so others can get cheaper (free) music...
Let's face it... if software authors were only able to make MINOR revisions to existing code (and knew it), there'd probably be far fewer bugs out there because they'd be a lot more careful when they first write the code.
Yes, several of the regulations should apply to both, but I suspect that there are also regulations that are related more to the transmission methods, rather than what the service is.
Honestly, VoIP should probably have it's own set of regulations in parallel with the regulations that the standard telcos have to follow.
Now we can go see even MORE horrible movies based on video games, and even MORE horrible video games based on movies!
But then, maybe I'm just being cynical and they WON'T just sit back on their liscences and rely on the known name of the game/movie for the other to succeed.
What? Spaceflight isn't safe. NASA and it's astronauts KNOW it isn't safe. They SAY it isn't safe. 1/200 odds? I don't consider that safe. Worth the risk? Sure, they know what they're getting into. But it's NOT safe.
And on a per-job basis, I doubt many industries have as many major accidents. And believe that they probably have a lot of accidents that you DON'T hear about, they're just minor accidents that are dealt with before they cause any serious issues. Do you hear about every time some warehouse employee drops a box on his foot? I doubt it.
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Mine's circa 1995 or so, and the only "low" setting on it is the refresh rate (no higher than 60 on a decent resolution). 1600x1200x32x60Hz isn't bad for a CRT almost 10 years old.
Skype is VoIP using a P2P network for optimizing transmissions (IIRC), as well as "online" status, as Skype uses a contact list format. Probably for a few other things as well. Either way, it's not JUST a buzz word here.
Also, as Skype is from the guy originally responsible for Kazaa, "P2P", "Kazaa" and "VoIP" all apply to Skype.
See, I see "I haven't read the article" and bells start going off in my head, saying that this person probably has no clue what they're talking about. You know what? This time I was right. Learn to actually find out what you're talking about instead of jumping to incorrect conclusions.
http://www.the-cma.org/consumer/donotcall/dnc_serv ice.cfm
Certainly not legally binding, nor as extensive as the US Do-Not-Call list. I think this is what an earlier poster was referring to (though I could be wrong).
Alternately, just fake your death!
No, I haven't tried to boot to OS9 lately. Why should I? My mac is a linux server now, has been for some time. I haven't even USED MacOS in quite awhile. Apple zealot indeed.
I'd be a bit more careful when slinging that "zealot" term in the future.
But they don't keep the machine from being able to accept another OS.
The only problem with that is that it's a DIFFERENT medium. This means that you can't just apply the same laws and regulations - that would cause too many legal and logistical problems. What's needed is a parallel set of laws to fit the new medium.
As for those that are saying that it should be left unregulated, you just keep saying that until telemarketers start using VoIP, bogging down your internet connection 24 hours a day, and you have no legal challenge to the government recording every single word you say, or even the paranoid guy next door recording it all.
All I know is that I know a lot more people who finished Zelda II - at least everyone I know who owned it, plus a few who didn't. I only know one person who ever even claimed to have finished Ninja Gaiden without using the game genie, and they claimed they were only able to do it the one time.
But yeah, Zelda II was a difficult game. I never finished it, either. Personally, I always got bored while trying to find the hammer and gave up.
I'd like him to define too easy, because compared to the original, "too easy" might just mean that you DON'T have to cheat or be nigh-superhuman to beat it (save-state in an emulator doesn't count)!
Mind you, that was one of the wonderful things about the original - it was so hard to beat.
Easily one of the hardest, if not THE hardest game on the NES.
I used to play games online on a regular basis, starting with QuakeWorld. Hell, I remember when GameSpy was JUST for Quake. Now I'll rarely play anything online if it's not a game with ONLY friends.
Back then, it was FUN. A little less fun when you lost, but then, losing BADLY in the team-based mods (mostly Team Fortress, for me) wasn't TERRIBLY common, because people would even up the teams either on their own, or with only a little bit of prodding. Even when you DID lose, the winner was usually very gracious about it. The amount of trash talking was generally pretty low. A little bit of boasting and bragging at times, but not with every kill, or even every win.... and almost no cheating accusations.
The same could be said of Half-Life at first. It wasn't until CounterStrike became huge that things REALLY started to go down hill.
As for strategy games, the last time I seriously played any of them online with the public at large (and not just with friends) was the early days of Starcraft, before everyone stopped playing any map that wasn't either "Big Game Hunters" or one of it's variants.
Warcraft 3 does a pretty good job with skill matching (my record is somewhere around 60% wins, and unless you're at the very top or very bottom of the rankings should level out around 50% for each ideally), but the trash talking and insults are still FAR too prevalent for it to be enjoyable.
Skill matching like in Warcraft 3 can work for some, but not all games, but until there's a consistant and reliable way to keep the level of trash talking morons out of the game (don't say server admins - they can't be there ALL the time, and with many games can't monitor everything) online gaming will just keep getting worse and worse.
Storm surges?
Rise in the lake's water level?
Did you READ the link that I was talking about?
Hurricane Hazel (which followed the same path Isabel is predicted to take) hit Ontario AS A HURRICANE.
Not a former hurricane - it was still classified as a hurricane when it blew into Ontario. A weaker hurricane than when it had made landfall from the Atlantic, but still a hurricane. Infact, the eye of the storm had previously dissipated as it travelled inland, but REFORMED while over Lake Ontario.
As for storm surges, Hazel caused storm surges along the waterfront in Toronto off of lake Ontario.
Obviously, (if Isabel repeats what Hazel did) it won't be be as strong coming off the Great Lakes as off the Atlantic, but it's not something to be shrugged off, especially with an area that hasn't seen a storm even HALF that strength in almost 50 years.
Forecasters are warning of the possiblity of Isabel repeating Hazel's path. Your attitude that it's not worth worrying about is exactly what has me concerned, if we DO see a repeat of Hazel. The damage wouldn't be as bad here as it will be in North Carolina, but it could be bad enough for someplace unused to that scale of destruction.
...and other areas that usually don't get hurricanes.
As it stands, Isabel stands a good chance of blowing through to that far off the coast.
Unlike most places that may get hit by Isabel, they won't be used to preparing for hurricanes, as Ontario has (supposedly) only ever had one hurricane ever.
IIRC, it was after they'd sold Kazaa that spyware started showing up in it, or at least after they started having legal problems.
EXACTLY!
As soon as someone registers the page and points it somewhere, the DNS listing for that address would take over from the typo-redirection.
50 year old proof-of-concept. New technology.
And the CD manufacturing company employees, and all the music store staff, and all the people who's taxes go up so others can get cheaper (free) music...
Psst..... both infringe on copyrights!
The difference is that the other copyrights aren't held by Sharman.
.....to do it right the FIRST time.
Let's face it... if software authors were only able to make MINOR revisions to existing code (and knew it), there'd probably be far fewer bugs out there because they'd be a lot more careful when they first write the code.
But "hard-core" survival horror players aside....
Anybody who lists Resident Evil among their favourite movies has GOT to have serious issues and an all-round hatred of life.
Either that, or they REALLY need to see more movies.
ALmost fair enough.
Yes, several of the regulations should apply to both, but I suspect that there are also regulations that are related more to the transmission methods, rather than what the service is.
Honestly, VoIP should probably have it's own set of regulations in parallel with the regulations that the standard telcos have to follow.
Could you possibly get around those laws by "quitting", and being rehired as a contractor?
Just a thought.
The Register also has an article on this.
Basically the same core facts, but also talks about the ethical issues with "good" worms.
Now we can go see even MORE horrible movies based on video games, and even MORE horrible video games based on movies!
But then, maybe I'm just being cynical and they WON'T just sit back on their liscences and rely on the known name of the game/movie for the other to succeed.
I'd love to know where you get your stats, because they're nowhere NEAR that of the article:
"The operating system is now deployed on 14% of servers and its market share is growing at a torrid pace of 60% a year"
14%, or 70%?
70% running Apache maybe, but not on Linux. And you know what? Apache isn't Linux. They're 2 different projects, that happen to commonly go together.
What? Spaceflight isn't safe. NASA and it's astronauts KNOW it isn't safe. They SAY it isn't safe. 1/200 odds? I don't consider that safe. Worth the risk? Sure, they know what they're getting into. But it's NOT safe.
And on a per-job basis, I doubt many industries have as many major accidents. And believe that they probably have a lot of accidents that you DON'T hear about, they're just minor accidents that are dealt with before they cause any serious issues. Do you hear about every time some warehouse employee drops a box on his foot? I doubt it.