What can it do, that Linux and Be can't?
It can fit a full microkernal, a GUI, and a couple of graphical applications (including a web browser) on a 1.44mb floppy.
Four words: Processor Specific MP3 Encryption.
That's right. The new Pentium processors will have built-in unique processor IDs. The Napster client will send the ID to the server, which will in turn encrypt the MP3 with that ID as the key. Then, the MP3 will be send back to you, and the Napster client decrypts it. In addition, if you create any method to circumvent this process, (like using an AMD processor) you are in violation of the DMCA. Even though nobody will do it, Napster will still be able to stay within the law. Woot.
There needs to be a middle ground. The problem that I have is that I have a gaming superstation (Gigahertz processor, Voodoo 5, 768 Mb RAM, 2x 65Gb hard drives, 14" monitor, 1Mb DSL linkup, 5.1 speaker system) that I keep in a room with all of my games and stuff, which would get a whoop-ass benefit from game designers designing for the high end. However, I also have a 100mb ethernet link to six other machines, two of which are ~p 100s, and the rest are ~pII 333s. The 100s don't even have 3d acceleration. The best game I can run over the network is friggn Doom2, because designers make their products for super-powerful systems. This is a real problem, especially since I don't have to have to upgrade the motherboard in this thing for a while, and 1.5 ghz processors are already in the works.
It is more open ended than any other game on the market right now, to my knowledge
By far. I just recently finished playing through Deus Ex for the third time, and although the meta-storyline doesn't flex (You work for UNATCO, you do 'some stuff', you visit Hong Kong, you visit France, and then the ending forks), the sub-storyline does flex. Incredibly. This kind of flexibility really let me 'get into' the game much more than any other game that I had ever played. Although I was greatly disappointed when I found out that the meta-storyline was so rigid, actions in the game don't just go unnoticed. In fact, the only sector that I really disliked because of the lack of options was the sector after you send the signal to NSF, because they make an invincible enemy to force you along one storyline track. That sucks. But aside from that, Deus Ex is very open ended on the sub-storyline level. Of course, as it tends to do in these great games, the multiplayer sucked big time, but that's for the mod makers to figure out. (Plus, 99_endgame4.dx is a shweet map)
Your comment was very enlightening. For the next business meeting our company has, I will propose to our web developer to 'take your M$ standards shit, and shove it up your ignorant 80 IQ ass'. I'm sure that the facts will prove me out.
'You are an idiot fuck', and
'Windows is incompatible with my page.'
With the power of logic on my side, what could possibly go wrong?
Really loses the sexiness of being able to carry around a tangible object that truly is the "key", however:)
No no no, you see, you get an 8mb password that allows the operating system to read the hard drive.. or maybe just dump the filesystem data onto the key and just write raw data to the HD? Either way, the hard disk loses functionality without the 'key'. That would be so sweet. (unless you lost the key, but you could make backups on your main system)
plundering of the continent of Africa. And your ignorance is amazing. The African tribal leaders had been selling slaves (prisioners of tribal warfare) among themselves for centuries before the white man came. We simply acted as a market for the slave trade. Now it seems reprehensible, yes, but it was not our idea. Nor did we 'plunder' them, only engaged in trade that was at that time perfectly acceptable.
to patent and market the drugs Although the generic 'Patents-R-Bad' stand appears to be the case here, patents protect innovation. If patents didn't exist, there would be no competition, because companies would just wait around for eachother to create something, and then steal it. These are corporations, damn it, they work so that they can get more research money. If they can just steal eachothers' ideas, there's no incentive for progress, and we end up with deadlock.
send 5 billion dollars to Isreal every year to torture and commit genocide against Palestinians Ah, instead we should stand back and let the Palestinians commit torture and genocide against the Israelites. Having a total war in the Middle East is just the kind of world stability that this country is interested in. NOT. We are interested in a stable world situation, and that means NO World War IIIs going on in the Middle East. That's just the kind of area where something like that could go on, and we are walking the fine line of maintaining stability in that region.
who our fathers raped and pillaged, and we have benefitted.
That's crap. First of all, most Americans aren't descendants of slaveholders. Even those few who had ancestors who lived in America back in the 1800s, before the mass immigrations from Europe, very few people actually owned slaves. So don't send our money to get a clear conscience for what your ancestors did. That's your job as a person, not our job as Americans.
Goddamnit, read the contract! I thought that everybody learned this. Don't they? You never sign something legally binding without reading it, whether that involves writing your name in pen or clicking 'I Agree'. There is nothing to protect you if you get fucked over because you legally bound yourself to a bad contract. The best you can get is protection for some of your rights so that you can't be legally killed or so on. (companies can't break the law)
Your characters are not like 'documents' created in word.
Ironically, on Sony's servers, in the data file, they are EXACTLY like documents created in word (or notepad, or xedit, or whatever), except highly compressed.
Perhaps you don't know how legally binding contracts work, but yes, Sony could demand whatever they wanted from you if you signed a contract that let them.
reinforce team-play and cooperation to accomplish shared goals.
Yeah, like when that newbie playing as CT starts grenading the CT starting point, causing us to begin firing warning shots at him. Then, he starts shooting at us, and before we know it some intrepid terrorist runs in with an AK and knocks us all down. Damn it.
"Hey, that looks like, yes, I'm certain that I just shot out that monster's pancreas! There it goes flying across the hall. I think that I should examine it with the crowbar."
No. The 'Reich's were unifications of the German people. The first Reich was the Holy Roman Empire (after the actual Roman Empire) under Charlemagne, around 800 A.D. The second Reich was the new German government that formed after industrialization, and went up to the loss in World War One. Finally, the third Reich, which was supposed to "last a thousand years" was lead by a powerful, charismatic leader of the national socialist party, who came to power in the interregnum after World War One and forged an empire in Europe during World War Two, until he was defeated by combined American and Soviet forces. The Nazis are referred to as the 3rd Reich because thhat was what they called themselves; much like the American Republic is referred to as the 'United States'.
The United States of America is or should be a democracy.
The United States shouldn't be a democracy, but if these recounts keep going on it will be. Remember, the democrats are trying, essentially, to overthrow the electoral college and establish a presidency based on the popular vote. Don't let them tell you otherwise.
state thinks are appropriate for my interests, vs. my own conception and determination of my interests
Yeah, but everything that the over-oppressive government we have in America has been doing for so many years is taking away freedoms that people have for 'the good of the many'. Take social security. They take away an ungodly amount of money that you earn and lock it up from you. Why? Because they know what's best for you, not you. Take welfare. They take money from you and give it to those that they think would benefit more from the money. No, not you giving it to charities that you think deserve it, they just take and give as they please. That's the whole philosophy of the tax-n-spend Democrats.
they will better the state of the worker
That's right. The entire idea is that they know what's best for you, not you. They regard the average American as an incompetent fool, incapable of managing their own life. Now, that may or may not be the case, but in a democracy that's not the way the government is supposed to view the people. Actually, it sounds distinctly Marxist...
No, more like counting people that walk up to your door and jiggle the handle to make sure that it's locked, and tap on the windows to see if they can open any.
Plus, logging portscans has some serious psycho-analytical value. If somebody is portscanning the first 1024 for standard services, they're a script kitty. However, if somebody is portscanning a small subset, or single one, in a high order 1025+, where they *are* running a service, then that calls for an immediate notification. Why? If somebody managed to 'hit gold' the first time, and find an accessible service, then they most likely had a contact, either from somebody inside or from somebody who used to be inside. The same holds true for an actual attack that is not preceded by a portscan. Knowing where to shoot for the first time is just asking to be watched.
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A server OS?
It is an OS for embedded systems.
What can it do, that Linux and Be can't?
It can fit a full microkernal, a GUI, and a couple of graphical applications (including a web browser) on a 1.44mb floppy.
Four words: Processor Specific MP3 Encryption.
That's right. The new Pentium processors will have built-in unique processor IDs. The Napster client will send the ID to the server, which will in turn encrypt the MP3 with that ID as the key. Then, the MP3 will be send back to you, and the Napster client decrypts it. In addition, if you create any method to circumvent this process, (like using an AMD processor) you are in violation of the DMCA. Even though nobody will do it, Napster will still be able to stay within the law. Woot.
There needs to be a middle ground. The problem that I have is that I have a gaming superstation (Gigahertz processor, Voodoo 5, 768 Mb RAM, 2x 65Gb hard drives, 14" monitor, 1Mb DSL linkup, 5.1 speaker system) that I keep in a room with all of my games and stuff, which would get a whoop-ass benefit from game designers designing for the high end. However, I also have a 100mb ethernet link to six other machines, two of which are ~p 100s, and the rest are ~pII 333s. The 100s don't even have 3d acceleration. The best game I can run over the network is friggn Doom2, because designers make their products for super-powerful systems. This is a real problem, especially since I don't have to have to upgrade the motherboard in this thing for a while, and 1.5 ghz processors are already in the works.
By far. I just recently finished playing through Deus Ex for the third time, and although the meta-storyline doesn't flex (You work for UNATCO, you do 'some stuff', you visit Hong Kong, you visit France, and then the ending forks), the sub-storyline does flex. Incredibly. This kind of flexibility really let me 'get into' the game much more than any other game that I had ever played. Although I was greatly disappointed when I found out that the meta-storyline was so rigid, actions in the game don't just go unnoticed. In fact, the only sector that I really disliked because of the lack of options was the sector after you send the signal to NSF, because they make an invincible enemy to force you along one storyline track. That sucks. But aside from that, Deus Ex is very open ended on the sub-storyline level. Of course, as it tends to do in these great games, the multiplayer sucked big time, but that's for the mod makers to figure out. (Plus, 99_endgame4.dx is a shweet map)
- 'You are an idiot fuck', and
- 'Windows is incompatible with my page.'
With the power of logic on my side, what could possibly go wrong?clown spiders with goat tits.
Wow, where can I get some of those?
Really loses the sexiness of being able to carry around a tangible object that truly is the "key", however :)
No no no, you see, you get an 8mb password that allows the operating system to read the hard drive.. or maybe just dump the filesystem data onto the key and just write raw data to the HD? Either way, the hard disk loses functionality without the 'key'. That would be so sweet. (unless you lost the key, but you could make backups on your main system)
I have to ask myself why I don't just switch my server to FreeBSD.'"
Because FreeBSD is the great Satan?
Well, all the MS people were out eating milk and cookies, and so nobody noticed the servers go down. But they can still run YOUR servers!!
plundering of the continent of Africa.
And your ignorance is amazing. The African tribal leaders had been selling slaves (prisioners of tribal warfare) among themselves for centuries before the white man came. We simply acted as a market for the slave trade. Now it seems reprehensible, yes, but it was not our idea. Nor did we 'plunder' them, only engaged in trade that was at that time perfectly acceptable.
to patent and market the drugs
Although the generic 'Patents-R-Bad' stand appears to be the case here, patents protect innovation. If patents didn't exist, there would be no competition, because companies would just wait around for eachother to create something, and then steal it. These are corporations, damn it, they work so that they can get more research money. If they can just steal eachothers' ideas, there's no incentive for progress, and we end up with deadlock.
send 5 billion dollars to Isreal every year to torture and commit genocide against Palestinians
Ah, instead we should stand back and let the Palestinians commit torture and genocide against the Israelites. Having a total war in the Middle East is just the kind of world stability that this country is interested in. NOT. We are interested in a stable world situation, and that means NO World War IIIs going on in the Middle East. That's just the kind of area where something like that could go on, and we are walking the fine line of maintaining stability in that region.
who our fathers raped and pillaged, and we have benefitted.
That's crap. First of all, most Americans aren't descendants of slaveholders. Even those few who had ancestors who lived in America back in the 1800s, before the mass immigrations from Europe, very few people actually owned slaves. So don't send our money to get a clear conscience for what your ancestors did. That's your job as a person, not our job as Americans.
Goddamnit, read the contract! I thought that everybody learned this. Don't they? You never sign something legally binding without reading it, whether that involves writing your name in pen or clicking 'I Agree'. There is nothing to protect you if you get fucked over because you legally bound yourself to a bad contract. The best you can get is protection for some of your rights so that you can't be legally killed or so on. (companies can't break the law)
Your characters are not like 'documents' created in word.
Ironically, on Sony's servers, in the data file, they are EXACTLY like documents created in word (or notepad, or xedit, or whatever), except highly compressed.
Perhaps you don't know how legally binding contracts work, but yes, Sony could demand whatever they wanted from you if you signed a contract that let them.
reinforce team-play and cooperation to accomplish shared goals.
Yeah, like when that newbie playing as CT starts grenading the CT starting point, causing us to begin firing warning shots at him. Then, he starts shooting at us, and before we know it some intrepid terrorist runs in with an AK and knocks us all down. Damn it.
Then study, then frag
"Hey, that looks like, yes, I'm certain that I just shot out that monster's pancreas! There it goes flying across the hall. I think that I should examine it with the crowbar."
maybe China or Greece or something
No. The 'Reich's were unifications of the German people. The first Reich was the Holy Roman Empire (after the actual Roman Empire) under Charlemagne, around 800 A.D. The second Reich was the new German government that formed after industrialization, and went up to the loss in World War One. Finally, the third Reich, which was supposed to "last a thousand years" was lead by a powerful, charismatic leader of the national socialist party, who came to power in the interregnum after World War One and forged an empire in Europe during World War Two, until he was defeated by combined American and Soviet forces. The Nazis are referred to as the 3rd Reich because thhat was what they called themselves; much like the American Republic is referred to as the 'United States'.
Or like using BSD to run Hotmail?
They're switching over to Win2000. First time my account was 'temporarily unaccessible' in months.
Nobody would listen when I did this. You all thought that I had gone off the overclocking deep end. But who's laughing now?
hmmm...
/proc /proc]# ls | wc -w /proc]# kill *
[r00t@localhost r00t]#
[r00t@localhost r00t]# cd
[r00t@localhost
108
[r00t@localhost
Woohoo, another hundred thousand dollars!
No, I don't think that that is standard practice.
Anyways, one could claim that the Linux community is very good at cloning prior art, but not very receptive to radical developments of it's own.
You mean, Linux isn't innovative enough?
The United States of America is or should be a democracy.
The United States shouldn't be a democracy, but if these recounts keep going on it will be. Remember, the democrats are trying, essentially, to overthrow the electoral college and establish a presidency based on the popular vote. Don't let them tell you otherwise.
state thinks are appropriate for my interests, vs. my own conception and determination of my interests
Yeah, but everything that the over-oppressive government we have in America has been doing for so many years is taking away freedoms that people have for 'the good of the many'. Take social security. They take away an ungodly amount of money that you earn and lock it up from you. Why? Because they know what's best for you, not you. Take welfare. They take money from you and give it to those that they think would benefit more from the money. No, not you giving it to charities that you think deserve it, they just take and give as they please. That's the whole philosophy of the tax-n-spend Democrats.
they will better the state of the worker
That's right. The entire idea is that they know what's best for you, not you. They regard the average American as an incompetent fool, incapable of managing their own life. Now, that may or may not be the case, but in a democracy that's not the way the government is supposed to view the people. Actually, it sounds distinctly Marxist...
Was that supposed to refute what I was saying?
No, more like counting people that walk up to your door and jiggle the handle to make sure that it's locked, and tap on the windows to see if they can open any.
Plus, logging portscans has some serious psycho-analytical value. If somebody is portscanning the first 1024 for standard services, they're a script kitty. However, if somebody is portscanning a small subset, or single one, in a high order 1025+, where they *are* running a service, then that calls for an immediate notification. Why? If somebody managed to 'hit gold' the first time, and find an accessible service, then they most likely had a contact, either from somebody inside or from somebody who used to be inside. The same holds true for an actual attack that is not preceded by a portscan. Knowing where to shoot for the first time is just asking to be watched.