I run www.icarusindie.com out of house on a 256K up/640K down DSL line for $70 a month through Inficad/Getnet. Last month I did over 50GB of transfer and suffered a number of "Server not found" errors during peak times. It's $200 a month to go to 1Mbit both ways.
With a NAT I can run as many services on as many computers of any OS I want. It's a nice "cheap" way to get your feet wet before going for a professional solution.
When is Mozilla going to recognize the "border" tag for tables? And why does background=#444444 only work in IE? IE recognizes both "background" and "bgcolor." Would it hurt Mozilla to do the same?
It seems like a no brainer and yet the Mozilla team for some reason has decided not to implement it. I needed a solid border for a recent web project and I ended up having to use a spacer graphic (since the cells were empty and would collapse without it) and a background color to create the border out of excess cells. That's absurd.
A table with borders, what a concept. Some little "extras" that IE has are really nice. If you could get off the anti-MS parade for a moment and oh I dunno, implement some of the basic ones, that would be great.
Mozilla nice and all but it's the little things like that which are just annoying so I stick to IE and only use Mozilla when checking compatibility with my site.
If you learn the application of concepts instead of concepts, you're screwed no matter where you go.
I've taught myself how to make games by analizing how games work. I also taught myself how to code. My university is teaching me how to code well.
You don't need a university to teach you how to make games which is obvious since it's very unlikely that too many of those in the game industry went to DigiPen.
If "applications" (like Word, ect) geared university is going to screw you over when it comes to making games then a games based university is going to screw you over when you try to make a supporting app for your game project.
The fact is, you need a rounded understanding of concepts and it shouldn't matter where you start, you should easily beable to do both apps and games. Otherwise you need to come up with a new career idea because the concepts are very much the same.
I wasn't taught how to make games or apps. I was taught how to code. That's the way your education should be.
"In other words, to refute your first sentence, absolutely nobody I know would think that "Windows Backup", presented in an appropriate manner, was produced or sanctioned by M$"
What an amazing refutation. Nobody YOU know?
So you know like what, 2 people? If I saw that on a shelf I would think it was made by MS until I read closer. So would the mass market.
All the people going on about glass widows have apparently come down with selective amnesia. MS is well within their rights to go after people using their software name in other software.
If I want to create a company "Red Hat Carpet Cleaners" "Red Hat" can't do shit. If I start a company "Red Hat Publishing" THEN they have a case.
But this is Microsoft. Slashdot: News for Trolls, Crap that Doesn't Matter.
I wouldn't buy "Windows Backup" because it's obviously deceptive advertising. It's nothing new for foreign companies to rip off US (or other country's) company names and images to sell their stuff.
Only if you're gullible. I'm sure it's there but a little black dot is not going to convince me I'm looking at it. Maybe you've never seen little black dots before. There are many reasons a little black dot would show up in the picture.
If you're trying to convince NASA to use your telescope I think they'd be more impressed if the hair filled a significant portion of the view at that distance. Like the spy satalites that can see newspaper print. It's pretty worthless if you can't actually make out the print.
It's a big giant waste of money to buy a telescope that can't make out the Lunar Lander if the selling point is to see the Lunar Lander. If the selling point is the detail of the moon (like the telescope that gets awesome pictures of the sun) then this is just a moot point.
So no, I'm sticking to my original statement that the assumption is wrong. However, until we see a picture of that hair at 16km, it's a moot point although I think common sense is on my side with this one.
If you want to brag, you sell the smallest RECOGNIZABLE object at the greatest distance. Not a pixel that could be anything.
You're assuming the hair shows up as a single pixel or is barly perceptible as a human hair at that distance.
It's entirely possible the human hair takes up a significant portion of the view at that distance so that anyone who doesn't know the telescope is pointed at a hair ahead of time knows that it is indeed a hair.
Claiming it will only be 2 pixels is ludicrous. Have you seen the image of the hair through the telescope? Do you know how much of the view it takes up? Then why are you claiming to know how much of the view the lander will take up?
All you know is that the lander will take approximatly 2.4x the amount of the view as the hair at 16km.
I bet it will be obviously perceptible as the lander.
Many advertisers don't pay per impression. They pay per click. The days of pay per click died years ago. If you don't see the ad, you're not going to click on it so there's no chance of the site owner making anything.
As someone was mentioning though, trying to pay for yourself by ads is a very poor way of doing it. At my web-site I have ads in the DevZone. You probably won't see them though. They're text and blend in because they're not out of place. For instance I recommend certain books I've used. And I have referal links to games for which I have the source posted (Quake, NOLF, ect). I had around a 10% click thru on one of them and have yet to make a dime. After 70,000+ impressions without a single penny I've considered dropping it but they're not intrusive so I'm just leaving them.
I'm currently brainstorming services I can offer to offset the costs. It's a much more effective means of making money.
"For the same reason so many people in India drink arsenic tainted wellwater, they feel they have no easy alternative."
I use Win2K because Linux is crap. I don't want some stupid operating system trying to act like an overprotective mother. I'm very happy that Win2K will hand me a loaded gun and let me shoot by brains out if I want. It's not up to the OS to tell me what I can and can't do.
Decreased functionality is not equal to increased security. Forcing the user to not be able to do things the OS deems "insecure" is rediculous. Linux wouldn't be so bad if it at least had a decent amount of userfriendliness. But since it's a pain to use and won't let me do what I want to do anyway, forget it. I'll use Windows.
I had my web-server running on Linux for all of a day before I whiped it clean and installed Win2K. It's been running great doing everything I want it to do for nearly two years now problem free.
"I've yet to see a Windows box reliably stay both stable and fast"
Hmmm...well I've been running my web-server (www.icarusindie.com) off of Win2K with Apache for nearly 2 years now and have yet to see a BSOD caused by Windows. The only time I reboot is when I change the hardware or update the software and that's only every few months. I've actually left it for months without a reboot. If you look at that netstats page it shows my average up time at 29 days if you don't believe me.
So yeah, if your computer is crapping out either your hardware sucks or you have too much residual crap you never cleaned up from various installations.
"Dating rock strata is a very accurate method of determining age."
That requires a constant rate of deposit to call it accurate. It's only accurate in the ideal environment where everything is constant for infinity. At 77 million years it's quite a stretch to say it was a constant rate of deposit.
It's a guess. And a highly unreliable one at that. Were any scientists around 77 million or even 10 million years ago to verify the rate of deposit?
Didn't think so. The world is a constantly and unpredictably changing place. When science can predict the worlds weather precicely even just 50 years in advance, then maybe I'll start to take their assumption seriously on the millions of years.
How many factors change the rate of decay of any given element?
In 77 million years you have X volcanos, X earthquakes, X storms, X shifting water flows, ect ect ect. It's only 77 million years old in the labratory environment where there exist only a few predictable variables. In the real world there exist dozens if not thousands of unpredictable variables. Many of which may have had a significant impact but will never be known.
It's old. That's about all they know with any certainty.
I don't know why that little blurb got in the summary. Actually reading the article you find the typical "explaination" that you should let someone else do it or read a book on Bind.
When I went to get my server set up I looked all over for how to set up DNS so I could have a real domain name. Then I just went with DNSMadeEasy.com
http://www.icarusindie.com/dotcom/
gives a run down of all the components you need to get a web-server up and running and where to get them. My server has been running on Win2K Pro for 1 year 8 months and hasn't had a single crash.
If someone has a REAL tutorial (step by step guide) on getting your computer set up as a name server or knows where to find one please post it. I'd personally like to run my own name server so I don't have to pay someone else or use a crappy ad ridden service.
This is actually a premise we can test, and it's simply false. Many studies have been done comparing religious and non-religious people, and it's never been found that religious people end up with "better luck" (better health, better livelyhood, better children, etc) that non-religious people."
No kidding.
People tend to think that means temporal good. Jesus beat it into his disciples that when God said he would reward the faithful it didn't have anything to do with this world.
The rain falls on the good and the evil. David wrote psalms about the wicked prospering while the righteous suffered.
Most of Jesus' follows back in the day didn't get it either. The whole "bread of life" thing. They thought he was talking about the bread you eat.
So yes you have a point, but it does nothing to negate what the Bible ACTUALLY teaches. It's actually one part of what the Bible teaches. Faith in God makes you no better off on earth than anyone else. It makes you better of when you die. None of this matters. You won't remember any of it anyway.
Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Many of the arguments against what certain Christians believe aren't arguments against the Bible. They're arguments against their misunderstanding of the Bible.
"I'd hazard a guess that DOOM3 won't really be playable over the net unless you have broadband."
Actually it should have no problem playing over the same connections as previous versions. The significant improvement in graphics doesn't change the amount of data that needs to be sent.
If I shoot a rocket all I need to send everyone else is the velocity, angle and starting position of the rocket which can be done in less than 20 bytes. If it hits a wall, all the clients will know about it and destroy the wall (or anything else that's destructable) without any further information being sent.
The only data being sent on a regular basis is still position, velocity and angle like every other FPS multiplayer game.
If you can play Quake III on-line you'll be able to play Doom3 on-line.
Instead of replacing paper ballots the computer should be used to automate them. Touch a button, the computer spits out the vote on register tape with a tally after the name.
At the end of the day, the readout is compared to what's in the computer. If there's a discrepency (tape says 1000 votes Gore, computer says 1 million votes Gore), the tape is examined to see what went wrong where and the votes are recounted based on the tape.
It's very easy to change bytes. It's very difficult to cut and paste register tape to match the changes.
Death used to be an expense now it's an investment.
How much would you say grandma will go for when her grandkid's retire?
Ben
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From a financial standpoint MS doesn't have much to lose from this as it has next to no mass market appeal. The average Joe buys the XBox and plays the games made for it like he's done with every console since Atari. If he doesn't like the selection of games for one system he looks at other systems.
For programmers, this is potentially a great thing. If you want to get into console development you need a console that allows you to write your own software. The GameBoy (all versions) is an excellent system to code for since everything you need to get started is so readily available without hacks.
Instead of trying to use an entirely different OS (break the system), historically, writing your own games for a console was done by emulating the system as is.
Until they learn how to emulate the XBox so that Linux can run without modifications to the system itself. John Q Public won't care. But if they emulate the XBox, there really isn't a need for Linux since you could just as well write your games directly for the system without the extra layer of Linux.
Multiplatform is neat but introducing extra layers to do it is a giant waste. The whole point of consoles is so you can avoid overhead and do more with less.
Having worked at a restaurant I got to see the prices on everything. If I remember correctly, the premix was 10 cents or less an ounce and they lasted quite awhile. The amount of water and carbonation that goes into the mix is significantly more than the premix.
That's why they can sell it so cheap and in such large quantities. Even at 99 cents for 80 ounces, it's still a huge markup.
One of them was seen over Phoenix in March 1997 and the news picked up on it real quick because so many people saw it. If it was trying to be stealth like it picked the wrong place to do it. I still have the original news article about it from the Arizona Republic lying around somewhere.
The follow up article from 2002 from the AZ Repubic is cached on Google here titled "Mystery lingers over sighting of Phoenix Lights"
Actually if you set your computer's clock to 11:59pm December 31st 2099 your clock will stop at midnight and things will go wrong. My network card stopped functioning.
Adaptions of three of the books were already made into movies for PBS in the late 80's and early 90's if you're wondering what they might look like on the big screen.
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I run www.icarusindie.com out of house on a 256K up /640K down DSL line for $70 a month through Inficad/Getnet. Last month I did over 50GB of transfer and suffered a number of "Server not found" errors during peak times. It's $200 a month to go to 1Mbit both ways.
With a NAT I can run as many services on as many computers of any OS I want. It's a nice "cheap" way to get your feet wet before going for a professional solution.
dotcom
has everything listed you need to get a server going.
Ben
When is Mozilla going to recognize the "border" tag for tables? And why does background=#444444 only work in IE? IE recognizes both "background" and "bgcolor." Would it hurt Mozilla to do the same?
It seems like a no brainer and yet the Mozilla team for some reason has decided not to implement it. I needed a solid border for a recent web project and I ended up having to use a spacer graphic (since the cells were empty and would collapse without it) and a background color to create the border out of excess cells. That's absurd.
A table with borders, what a concept. Some little "extras" that IE has are really nice. If you could get off the anti-MS parade for a moment and oh I dunno, implement some of the basic ones, that would be great.
Mozilla nice and all but it's the little things like that which are just annoying so I stick to IE and only use Mozilla when checking compatibility with my site.
Ben
An RTS is just graphical accounting software.
If you learn the application of concepts instead of concepts, you're screwed no matter where you go.
I've taught myself how to make games by analizing how games work. I also taught myself how to code. My university is teaching me how to code well.
You don't need a university to teach you how to make games which is obvious since it's very unlikely that too many of those in the game industry went to DigiPen.
If "applications" (like Word, ect) geared university is going to screw you over when it comes to making games then a games based university is going to screw you over when you try to make a supporting app for your game project.
The fact is, you need a rounded understanding of concepts and it shouldn't matter where you start, you should easily beable to do both apps and games. Otherwise you need to come up with a new career idea because the concepts are very much the same.
I wasn't taught how to make games or apps. I was taught how to code. That's the way your education should be.
Ben
It Sounded Like a Good Idea (actual quotes from Carter on Larry King Live not too long ago)
We can use all those unused military outfits to make a nice big "Kick Me" sign for the White House.
Ben
"To me, it seemed like the kind of movie that humanity will appreiciate more a long time from now, when we're much more mature as a race."
They wouldn't give you your money back would they?
Ben
"In other words, to refute your first sentence, absolutely nobody I know would think that "Windows Backup", presented in
an appropriate manner, was produced or sanctioned by M$"
What an amazing refutation. Nobody YOU know?
So you know like what, 2 people? If I saw that on a shelf I would think it was made by MS until I read closer. So would the mass market.
All the people going on about glass widows have apparently come down with selective amnesia. MS is well within their rights to go after people using their software name in other software.
If I want to create a company "Red Hat Carpet Cleaners" "Red Hat" can't do shit. If I start a company "Red Hat Publishing" THEN they have a case.
But this is Microsoft. Slashdot: News for Trolls, Crap that Doesn't Matter.
I wouldn't buy "Windows Backup" because it's obviously deceptive advertising. It's nothing new for foreign companies to rip off US (or other country's) company names and images to sell their stuff.
Ben
"It would be enough to ID for you and me"
Only if you're gullible. I'm sure it's there but a little black dot is not going to convince me I'm looking at it. Maybe you've never seen little black dots before. There are many reasons a little black dot would show up in the picture.
If you're trying to convince NASA to use your telescope I think they'd be more impressed if the hair filled a significant portion of the view at that distance. Like the spy satalites that can see newspaper print. It's pretty worthless if you can't actually make out the print.
It's a big giant waste of money to buy a telescope that can't make out the Lunar Lander if the selling point is to see the Lunar Lander. If the selling point is the detail of the moon (like the telescope that gets awesome pictures of the sun) then this is just a moot point.
So no, I'm sticking to my original statement that the assumption is wrong. However, until we see a picture of that hair at 16km, it's a moot point although I think common sense is on my side with this one.
If you want to brag, you sell the smallest RECOGNIZABLE object at the greatest distance. Not a pixel that could be anything.
Ben
You're assuming the hair shows up as a single pixel or is barly perceptible as a human hair at that distance.
It's entirely possible the human hair takes up a significant portion of the view at that distance so that anyone who doesn't know the telescope is pointed at a hair ahead of time knows that it is indeed a hair.
Claiming it will only be 2 pixels is ludicrous. Have you seen the image of the hair through the telescope? Do you know how much of the view it takes up? Then why are you claiming to know how much of the view the lander will take up?
All you know is that the lander will take approximatly 2.4x the amount of the view as the hair at 16km.
I bet it will be obviously perceptible as the lander.
Ben
Many advertisers don't pay per impression. They pay per click. The days of pay per click died years ago. If you don't see the ad, you're not going to click on it so there's no chance of the site owner making anything.
As someone was mentioning though, trying to pay for yourself by ads is a very poor way of doing it. At my web-site I have ads in the DevZone. You probably won't see them though. They're text and blend in because they're not out of place. For instance I recommend certain books I've used. And I have referal links to games for which I have the source posted (Quake, NOLF, ect). I had around a 10% click thru on one of them and have yet to make a dime. After 70,000+ impressions without a single penny I've considered dropping it but they're not intrusive so I'm just leaving them.
I'm currently brainstorming services I can offer to offset the costs. It's a much more effective means of making money.
Ben
"For the same reason so many people in India drink arsenic tainted wellwater, they feel they have no easy alternative."
I use Win2K because Linux is crap. I don't want some stupid operating system trying to act like an overprotective mother. I'm very happy that Win2K will hand me a loaded gun and let me shoot by brains out if I want. It's not up to the OS to tell me what I can and can't do.
Decreased functionality is not equal to increased security. Forcing the user to not be able to do things the OS deems "insecure" is rediculous. Linux wouldn't be so bad if it at least had a decent amount of userfriendliness. But since it's a pain to use and won't let me do what I want to do anyway, forget it. I'll use Windows.
I had my web-server running on Linux for all of a day before I whiped it clean and installed Win2K. It's been running great doing everything I want it to do for nearly two years now problem free.
Ben
"I've yet to see a Windows box reliably stay both stable and fast"
Hmmm...well I've been running my web-server (www.icarusindie.com) off of Win2K with Apache for nearly 2 years now and have yet to see a BSOD caused by Windows. The only time I reboot is when I change the hardware or update the software and that's only every few months. I've actually left it for months without a reboot. If you look at that netstats page it shows my average up time at 29 days if you don't believe me.
So yeah, if your computer is crapping out either your hardware sucks or you have too much residual crap you never cleaned up from various installations.
Ben
"Dating rock strata is a very accurate method of determining age."
That requires a constant rate of deposit to call it accurate. It's only accurate in the ideal environment where everything is constant for infinity. At 77 million years it's quite a stretch to say it was a constant rate of deposit.
It's a guess. And a highly unreliable one at that. Were any scientists around 77 million or even 10 million years ago to verify the rate of deposit?
Didn't think so. The world is a constantly and unpredictably changing place. When science can predict the worlds weather precicely even just 50 years in advance, then maybe I'll start to take their assumption seriously on the millions of years.
How many factors change the rate of decay of any given element?
In 77 million years you have X volcanos, X earthquakes, X storms, X shifting water flows, ect ect ect. It's only 77 million years old in the labratory environment where there exist only a few predictable variables. In the real world there exist dozens if not thousands of unpredictable variables. Many of which may have had a significant impact but will never be known.
It's old. That's about all they know with any certainty.
Ben
Here we thought the world would end because 9 planets lined up in 2000. Turns out we needed to wait for 10 planents to get lined up.
Ben
"My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas Quickly"
But I don't know how much longer she can keep this up.
Ben
I don't know why that little blurb got in the summary. Actually reading the article you find the typical "explaination" that you should let someone else do it or read a book on Bind.
When I went to get my server set up I looked all over for how to set up DNS so I could have a real domain name. Then I just went with DNSMadeEasy.com
http://www.icarusindie.com/dotcom/
gives a run down of all the components you need to get a web-server up and running and where to get them. My server has been running on Win2K Pro for 1 year 8 months and hasn't had a single crash.
If someone has a REAL tutorial (step by step guide) on getting your computer set up as a name server or knows where to find one please post it. I'd personally like to run my own name server so I don't have to pay someone else or use a crappy ad ridden service.
Ben
We only have till the 12th to hack the server and save Linux!
For great justice!
Ben
"God is good to people who really look for him.
This is actually a premise we can test, and it's simply false. Many studies have been done comparing religious and non-religious people, and it's never been found that religious people end up with "better luck" (better health, better livelyhood, better children, etc) that non-religious people."
No kidding.
People tend to think that means temporal good. Jesus beat it into his disciples that when God said he would reward the faithful it didn't have anything to do with this world.
The rain falls on the good and the evil. David wrote psalms about the wicked prospering while the righteous suffered.
Most of Jesus' follows back in the day didn't get it either. The whole "bread of life" thing. They thought he was talking about the bread you eat.
So yes you have a point, but it does nothing to negate what the Bible ACTUALLY teaches. It's actually one part of what the Bible teaches. Faith in God makes you no better off on earth than anyone else. It makes you better of when you die. None of this matters. You won't remember any of it anyway.
Isaiah 65:17
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Many of the arguments against what certain Christians believe aren't arguments against the Bible. They're arguments against their misunderstanding of the Bible.
Ben
"I'd hazard a guess that DOOM3 won't really be playable over the net unless you have broadband."
Actually it should have no problem playing over the same connections as previous versions. The significant improvement in graphics doesn't change the amount of data that needs to be sent.
If I shoot a rocket all I need to send everyone else is the velocity, angle and starting position of the rocket which can be done in less than 20 bytes. If it hits a wall, all the clients will know about it and destroy the wall (or anything else that's destructable) without any further information being sent.
The only data being sent on a regular basis is still position, velocity and angle like every other FPS multiplayer game.
If you can play Quake III on-line you'll be able to play Doom3 on-line.
Ben
Instead of replacing paper ballots the computer should be used to automate them. Touch a button, the computer spits out the vote on register tape with a tally after the name.
At the end of the day, the readout is compared to what's in the computer. If there's a discrepency (tape says 1000 votes Gore, computer says 1 million votes Gore), the tape is examined to see what went wrong where and the votes are recounted based on the tape.
It's very easy to change bytes. It's very difficult to cut and paste register tape to match the changes.
Ben
Death used to be an expense now it's an investment.
How much would you say grandma will go for when her grandkid's retire?
Ben
From a financial standpoint MS doesn't have much to lose from this as it has next to no mass market appeal. The average Joe buys the XBox and plays the games made for it like he's done with every console since Atari. If he doesn't like the selection of games for one system he looks at other systems.
For programmers, this is potentially a great thing. If you want to get into console development you need a console that allows you to write your own software. The GameBoy (all versions) is an excellent system to code for since everything you need to get started is so readily available without hacks.
Instead of trying to use an entirely different OS (break the system), historically, writing your own games for a console was done by emulating the system as is.
Until they learn how to emulate the XBox so that Linux can run without modifications to the system itself. John Q Public won't care. But if they emulate the XBox, there really isn't a need for Linux since you could just as well write your games directly for the system without the extra layer of Linux.
Multiplatform is neat but introducing extra layers to do it is a giant waste. The whole point of consoles is so you can avoid overhead and do more with less.
Ben
Having worked at a restaurant I got to see the prices on everything. If I remember correctly, the premix was 10 cents or less an ounce and they lasted quite awhile. The amount of water and carbonation that goes into the mix is significantly more than the premix.
That's why they can sell it so cheap and in such large quantities. Even at 99 cents for 80 ounces, it's still a huge markup.
Ben
The follow up article from 2002 from the AZ Repubic is cached on Google here titled "Mystery lingers over sighting of Phoenix Lights"
It was seen for 2 hours.
Ben
Actually if you set your computer's clock to 11:59pm December 31st 2099 your clock will stop at midnight and things will go wrong. My network card stopped functioning.
Ben
All are available on August 27th.
The Silver Chair
Prince Caspian
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Ben