But e-mail doesn't need a provider. Any system with an IP address can send a properly formatted message to any system that is willing to listen on port 25.
That works great until you use some encryption that isn't SSL...
Yeah, it would be a cat and mouse game at that point, but at the end of the day the fact of the matter is that they can only ever log the data they aren't interested in. Anybody who wants to keep something from them will be able to hide everything but the fact that they were hiding something.
It's not a capacity issue. Google can do that because it all happens on their own servers. An ISP only passes traffic through. If the traffic is encrypted, only the endpoints know what the data is, and if it is routed via proxy, the ISP doesn't even know what the destination is. There is no data for them to log at all.
That would be an interesting theory if the growth of power was actually fueled by those in power. In reality, it is fueled by the citizens demanding more from their government under the delusion that it will help them. People don't understand that when the government gives you something, it has to take it from you first. Even with progressive taxation, it comes out of everybody's pockets. Giving money to the rich may not cause it to "trickle-down" to the lower classes, but if you stick it to the rich, they'll figure out (Actually there isn't any figuring out involved, but...) how to pass the costs down the chain.
If an idea starts with "The government should..." and doesn't end with something about providing infrastructure or protecting you from physical harm, it's a bad idea... And even some things that fit the formula are bad ideas too.
Yeah, that would do a great job of logging all the boring traffic of law-abiding people. How are going to log the traffic of the law-breakers who use an SSL enabled proxy? Just because it's the law doesn't mean it is possible.
Screw the hardware costs. It's just plain impossible. How can the ISP know which data is e-mail, IMs, etc?
I don't know about you, but I connect to a mail server using SSL, and the server is not operated by my ISP. Are they going to log some unintelligible bits? Are they going to force people to use their ISP's mail server? Who is an ISP? Anybody who resells bandwidth? How will they know you're reselling bandwidth? Etc...
People keep telling me that, but when I go look and put one in my cart it says all my local stores are out of stock, and that the expected arrival date if I have it shipped is 14-20 days in the future. (Except that right now it says "Out of stock online" so I can't even give you an example date right now).
If any circuit city in the country has a PS3 in stock, their website says it's in stock. In reality if you want to get one, you have to spend your day hitting F5, be lucky enough to find one in a store, or buy a bundle.
He suggested that if you want a Wii, go wait outside one of these stores on a Sunday morning. The Target manager said the same thing. You can complain all you want about them being "assholes", but as the Nintendo rep put it, "We can't tell them how to run their stores". It's a fact of life - one which you seem a little out of touch with...
We can trade insults all day... But it will get old. The fact of life is that not all stores do this. Only the ones that are run by jerks who like making their customers suffer. If we just accept it as a "fact of life" then it will become common practice. Or, we can take our business to a store that doesn't do that. There are plenty of them out there, and that includes Target stores. The Target near me gets a shipment of Wiis every Wednesday around 10:00 AM. They put them on the shelf as soon as they're done verifying the quantity, and they sell out by sometime the next morning. If they held them until Sunday, maybe they'd sell out in 10 minutes, but at the end of the day they'd have made it so they had inventory instead of cash for 3 days. Cash earns interest, and inventory doesn't.
How can you say the PS3 isn't selling when it *is* selling? Sure, it's not keeping up with the Wii, which is probably going to turn out to be the fastest selling console of all time, but it's keeping up with what the PS2 did at launch, and it's outperforming what the 360 did at launch. All that for an overpriced machine that has no good games.
So either the name is selling it or the BluRay is selling it. "It's not selling" isn't a valid option.
Unlike other combos when fighting ordinary peons (where you only have to press [attack] and then you can release x till the next time your sword glows) you actually have to keep [attack] held down, then when the sword glows you have to release then press.
What? That's not how it worked for me... The combos were just like in the rest of the game, only longer (more times to hit X). The window of time when your sword was glowing was also very short...
Unfortunatly, I kept getting killed climbing up to his third form.
I got stuck in PoP:TT too... I got to the last boss, but I had a nasty case of Tennis Elbow from holding down the shoulder buttons so much that I couldn't beat it. Now, after six months of NSAIDs and an ulcer, the pain is gone but I'm afraid to finish it.
As somebody who doesn't consider himself a "supporter" of any of the platforms, this seems dubious to me.
In order to be on the defensive for "slower sales" it would have to be in last place in that category. Currently, it isn't. The adoption slope for the launch of the PS3 looks more like the PS2 than it does the 360. (In other words, the number of sales per unit time for the launch windows is greater for the PS3 than it was for the 360.) Since there are no good games out for the system (no good reason to actually buy a PS3 right now), it appears that the brand alone is enough to sell the machine.
Give it up. Just because you saw some PS3s on the shelf one time doesn't mean anything.
The fact of the matter is that you're still more likely *not* to see a PS3 on the shelf than you are to see one available. You can find as many pictures of people playing in a pile of empty boxes as you'd like and it won't change it. When you can buy one online at any hour of the day without buying a bundle, then they'll be readily available.
Also, the stores in your area suck ass if they make people wait out in the cold in the morning. Shop somewhere that puts the high-demand merchandise out when it comes in. I haven't noticed Wii's out of stock any more frequently than I've noticed PS3s out of stock (I see them both from time to time). Of course that doesn't mean the PS3 is selling just as well, since there are more Wiis per shipment, but lines in the early morning are a thing of the past unless the local BestBuy manager is an asshole.
I bought a PS2 on release day. I got my DVD player for less than $100 months before the PS2 was even available. The DVD capability drove PS2 sales, not the other way around. When we look back on this year in the future, we'll see that the same ends up being true for the PS3 and BluRay (assuming BluRay doesn't flop).
BluRay, HD-DVD players, and combo players will be under $200 for Christmas 2007.
Sounds like somebody here (and no offense, since most mainstream gaming writers are the same way) learned everything they know about writing game engines from press releases.
Sure, it's not just a recompile, but it's close, and I exaggerated slightly to drive the point home.
Why do people forget that Square made much more than the Final Fantasy series... And I'm not just talking about 'B' games either. They've done some of the best side scrollers, third person platformers, and fighting games ever.
Personally, I hope they use the Unreal engine for a new Bushido Blade...
What version of the Unreal engine didn't support "high def" resolutions?
Oh, that's right... None of them... Yet they all managed to support running at a lower resolution too. This is a huge load of marketing bullshit.
Besides, they'll change their mind and compile it for the Wii (and the PS2) as soon as not doing it costs them a licensing agreement. (Unless Microsoft or Sony is paying them actual cash to be High-Def only?)
You're exactly correct, but... This is no different than what's been going on with fingerprints for years.
Basically, just do your best to stay out of the database if you don't want to be a suspect in every unsolved crime for the rest of your life. Good luck though... It won't be long until they start taking fourth graders on a field trip to the police station, where they get fingerprinted and swabbed "for fun". They already do it for fingerprints, so why not DNA too?
You're innocent until they're not sure who is guilty.
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If I don't keep the logs, how will they know I received the messages that I didn't keep logs for?
Heh... Apparently I got moderated "-1, I disagree with you".
But e-mail doesn't need a provider. Any system with an IP address can send a properly formatted message to any system that is willing to listen on port 25.
I do have something to hide.
It's my password. If anybody learns what it is they can use my server as a spam relay, read my mail, etc.
Its not the brand that is selling it though; its the fanboys and you damn well know that.
What's the difference? Isn't "fanboy" just a derogatory term for brand loyalists?
That works great until you use some encryption that isn't SSL...
Yeah, it would be a cat and mouse game at that point, but at the end of the day the fact of the matter is that they can only ever log the data they aren't interested in. Anybody who wants to keep something from them will be able to hide everything but the fact that they were hiding something.
It's not a capacity issue. Google can do that because it all happens on their own servers. An ISP only passes traffic through. If the traffic is encrypted, only the endpoints know what the data is, and if it is routed via proxy, the ISP doesn't even know what the destination is. There is no data for them to log at all.
That would be an interesting theory if the growth of power was actually fueled by those in power. In reality, it is fueled by the citizens demanding more from their government under the delusion that it will help them. People don't understand that when the government gives you something, it has to take it from you first. Even with progressive taxation, it comes out of everybody's pockets. Giving money to the rich may not cause it to "trickle-down" to the lower classes, but if you stick it to the rich, they'll figure out (Actually there isn't any figuring out involved, but...) how to pass the costs down the chain.
If an idea starts with "The government should..." and doesn't end with something about providing infrastructure or protecting you from physical harm, it's a bad idea... And even some things that fit the formula are bad ideas too.
Yeah, that would do a great job of logging all the boring traffic of law-abiding people. How are going to log the traffic of the law-breakers who use an SSL enabled proxy? Just because it's the law doesn't mean it is possible.
Screw the hardware costs. It's just plain impossible. How can the ISP know which data is e-mail, IMs, etc?
I don't know about you, but I connect to a mail server using SSL, and the server is not operated by my ISP. Are they going to log some unintelligible bits? Are they going to force people to use their ISP's mail server? Who is an ISP? Anybody who resells bandwidth? How will they know you're reselling bandwidth? Etc...
They may as well legislate that gravity be lessened to solve the obesity problem. It's just as feasible from a technical sense.
People keep telling me that, but when I go look and put one in my cart it says all my local stores are out of stock, and that the expected arrival date if I have it shipped is 14-20 days in the future. (Except that right now it says "Out of stock online" so I can't even give you an example date right now).
If any circuit city in the country has a PS3 in stock, their website says it's in stock. In reality if you want to get one, you have to spend your day hitting F5, be lucky enough to find one in a store, or buy a bundle.
He suggested that if you want a Wii, go wait outside one of these stores on a Sunday morning. The Target manager said the same thing. You can complain all you want about them being "assholes", but as the Nintendo rep put it, "We can't tell them how to run their stores". It's a fact of life - one which you seem a little out of touch with...
We can trade insults all day... But it will get old. The fact of life is that not all stores do this. Only the ones that are run by jerks who like making their customers suffer. If we just accept it as a "fact of life" then it will become common practice. Or, we can take our business to a store that doesn't do that. There are plenty of them out there, and that includes Target stores. The Target near me gets a shipment of Wiis every Wednesday around 10:00 AM. They put them on the shelf as soon as they're done verifying the quantity, and they sell out by sometime the next morning. If they held them until Sunday, maybe they'd sell out in 10 minutes, but at the end of the day they'd have made it so they had inventory instead of cash for 3 days. Cash earns interest, and inventory doesn't.
Did you even read my comment?
How can you say the PS3 isn't selling when it *is* selling? Sure, it's not keeping up with the Wii, which is probably going to turn out to be the fastest selling console of all time, but it's keeping up with what the PS2 did at launch, and it's outperforming what the 360 did at launch. All that for an overpriced machine that has no good games.
So either the name is selling it or the BluRay is selling it. "It's not selling" isn't a valid option.
Unlike other combos when fighting ordinary peons (where you only have to press [attack] and then you can release x till the next time your sword glows) you actually have to keep [attack] held down, then when the sword glows you have to release then press.
What? That's not how it worked for me... The combos were just like in the rest of the game, only longer (more times to hit X). The window of time when your sword was glowing was also very short...
Unfortunatly, I kept getting killed climbing up to his third form.
I hit that too. It sucked.
I got stuck in PoP:TT too... I got to the last boss, but I had a nasty case of Tennis Elbow from holding down the shoulder buttons so much that I couldn't beat it. Now, after six months of NSAIDs and an ulcer, the pain is gone but I'm afraid to finish it.
Getting old sucks.
As somebody who doesn't consider himself a "supporter" of any of the platforms, this seems dubious to me.
In order to be on the defensive for "slower sales" it would have to be in last place in that category. Currently, it isn't. The adoption slope for the launch of the PS3 looks more like the PS2 than it does the 360. (In other words, the number of sales per unit time for the launch windows is greater for the PS3 than it was for the 360.) Since there are no good games out for the system (no good reason to actually buy a PS3 right now), it appears that the brand alone is enough to sell the machine.
Give it up. Just because you saw some PS3s on the shelf one time doesn't mean anything.
The fact of the matter is that you're still more likely *not* to see a PS3 on the shelf than you are to see one available. You can find as many pictures of people playing in a pile of empty boxes as you'd like and it won't change it. When you can buy one online at any hour of the day without buying a bundle, then they'll be readily available.
Also, the stores in your area suck ass if they make people wait out in the cold in the morning. Shop somewhere that puts the high-demand merchandise out when it comes in. I haven't noticed Wii's out of stock any more frequently than I've noticed PS3s out of stock (I see them both from time to time). Of course that doesn't mean the PS3 is selling just as well, since there are more Wiis per shipment, but lines in the early morning are a thing of the past unless the local BestBuy manager is an asshole.
This is a common misconception.
I bought a PS2 on release day. I got my DVD player for less than $100 months before the PS2 was even available. The DVD capability drove PS2 sales, not the other way around. When we look back on this year in the future, we'll see that the same ends up being true for the PS3 and BluRay (assuming BluRay doesn't flop).
BluRay, HD-DVD players, and combo players will be under $200 for Christmas 2007.
Sounds like somebody here (and no offense, since most mainstream gaming writers are the same way) learned everything they know about writing game engines from press releases.
Sure, it's not just a recompile, but it's close, and I exaggerated slightly to drive the point home.
High-def apparently means whatever people care to pull out of their asses at the time to best suit their point.
Why do people forget that Square made much more than the Final Fantasy series... And I'm not just talking about 'B' games either. They've done some of the best side scrollers, third person platformers, and fighting games ever.
Personally, I hope they use the Unreal engine for a new Bushido Blade...
What version of the Unreal engine didn't support "high def" resolutions?
Oh, that's right... None of them... Yet they all managed to support running at a lower resolution too. This is a huge load of marketing bullshit.
Besides, they'll change their mind and compile it for the Wii (and the PS2) as soon as not doing it costs them a licensing agreement. (Unless Microsoft or Sony is paying them actual cash to be High-Def only?)
Doom? I don't recall the original even having multiplayer...
But if you're going to include two quake games, how can you not include Marathon?
If copyright terms were returned to their original, more reasonable length, this would be a non-issue.
You're exactly correct, but... This is no different than what's been going on with fingerprints for years.
Basically, just do your best to stay out of the database if you don't want to be a suspect in every unsolved crime for the rest of your life. Good luck though... It won't be long until they start taking fourth graders on a field trip to the police station, where they get fingerprinted and swabbed "for fun". They already do it for fingerprints, so why not DNA too?
You're innocent until they're not sure who is guilty.