graveyhead writes "When I purchased World Domination for Dummies, I expected a clear, concise tutorial on how to take over the world. I'm new to the world of world domination, and, having had luck with the Dummies series before, thought this the best place to start off. How very wrong I was."
This article announces Suns' intention to create a DRM product that spans cell phones, smart cards & desktop Java.
Is sun receiving pressure from RIAA/MPAA, or are they just jumping on the IP protection bandwagon here? I suppose they must have received requests from *someone* for the technology, because they seem to think that it will increase their Java device sales, and therefore would also increase the sales of the servers to which these devices connect. I don't believe it will work, though. I can't see DRM driving consumer-end sales.
I hope the networks (in addition to the advertisers which will of course snap it up... thank god for keyword 'aggregate') will look at this data as well. I have always thought that I effectively have a Nielson box sitting under my TV, so why shouldn't they take advantage of it? Maybe Firefly would still be on the air with statistics from our Tivo boxes...
NAT is totally seamless in our VPN. When I fire up a browser with the VPN active, he is temporarily my ISP. All requests for hosts + DNS go through his machine. We ran into trouble early on in the setup, because he refuses to use manual IP addresses on his network, so I had to set mine manually to a high number that his DHCP server is unlikely to use, and he had to check a configuration that allowed me to do so. Also, there was a bit of DNS trouble until I put the address of the PPP server as DNS server.
Now, everything works fine when connected, just a bit slower. The only thing I wish was that I had the ability to control per application which IP address is used. It would be nice to say "for IE, Outlook and Trillian, use regular addr, for everything else, use VPN if available." If I could do that, life would be perfect:) Really it just means having to quit & restart apps when connecting, but that's about it. A minor inconvienience.
Once you've set it up for a firewall, the f/w effectively vanishes inside the VPN. A friend and I struggled with firewall configs for years tweaking for the game of the day. Enter VPN, and now we have a private TCP network without firewalls. Any game supports that, no reconfiguration required.
The other thing is that it is built into w2k (my gaming platform of choice) and XP (friends platform). This means you can be up and running after reading some quick instructions on setting up the server, your shares (properly!), forward one TCP port (yes, only one) from your firewall to desktop, and that's it forever.
Add an uber-IM like Trillian, and that's all you will ever need.
I don't know which planet YOU are from, but in my book SCO (the f**kedcompany formerly known as Caldera) is an extremely innovative company. I mean, when I installed their version of Caldera Linux back in 1998, they had a game of Tetris that you could play while the installer ran. Tetris! WHILE YOUR OS INSTALLED! Now, if that's not real innovation worthy of IP protection, I don't know what is. So don't you dare come along mister and say that SCO has no real effective Unix IP to license:P
The thing is, I got two interesting replies that went largely unnoticed:
I would be so happy if IBM stole that bit of IP and got it into every distro. That would be schweet, and well worth another billion dollar lawsuit.
OK, so why not? I second Onerous Cowards' motion. Except, instead of stealing, IBM should immediately obtain a contract with The Tetris Company to redistribute Tetris. Then they should file lawsuits against SCO for infringement. Even if the lawsuits are frivilous, it would still be a thorn in the side of SCO when it is realized publicly that they very blatantly stole the IP from The Tetris Company.
On a side note, it seems to me that Caldera has a serous history of copying technology... DOS and Tetris are the ones I know about, plus they came up with a Linux distribution... ooh there's originality at work. Also, I believe they bought those rights to UNIX (acquired when they bought the original SCO, IIRC) How can this company turn around and sue IBM for infringement?! It doesn't make any sense. As far as I can tell, that install+game really is the most innovative they've ever been as a company. God that was brilliant. I hate waiting.
I had that idea a couple years ago too, except you forgot: network chess becomes amazingly fun when your friend is in your house as a ghost! They should build this & bundle with Chessmaster ?000 with network capability, so friends without the board can play on their PC!
I'll start actually using my real email address for stuff on the web (appropriately unchecking the subscription buttons). Oh yeah, and I'll turn off that Slashdot SpamGuard(tm) thingy, and maybe put my real email there. Since I am a CA resident, I'll just keep a good record of which emails I receive which are unsolicited. Since I'm a nerd, I should have no problems creating a whitelist or similar to filter stuff out. Then I've got loads of evidence for the very large class action lawsuit which is sure to follow.
"Court awards Graveyhead $500,000,000 for 1,000,000 offensive messages received"
Well, I can dream, can't I? Someone's gotta fund this video game I've been spending nights and weekends working on for the last two years! I gotta eat too!:P
1) Get to the top of the video card market. 2) Get lazy. 3) Competitor gets to the top of video card market.
Rinse, lather, repeat as necessary.
Didn't NVIDIA learn from 3DFX? Hell, they bought them. I'm hoping this is a driver issue and that subsequent optimized releases of Detinator will speed it up. If not, it is a sad day for NVidia.
I read several articles that said that PC3200 is not worth the price difference and that in many casses PC2700 is faster.
Before I plunk down $$$ for PC3200, I wanted to know if it is worth it. I was hoping this article would help answer the question, but it looks like he is only testing various BIOS settings with a single DIMM, and not comparing memory with different access speeds. Any/.ers have experience with this? Is PC3200 worth the price?
There is no real effective Unix IP for SCO to license
I don't know which planet YOU are from, but in my book SCO (the f**kedcompany formerly known as Caldera) is an extremely innovative company. I mean, when I installed their version of Caldera Linux back in 1998, they had a game of Tetris that you could play while the installer ran. Tetris! WHILE YOUR OS INSTALLED! Now, if that's not real innovation worthy of IP protection, I don't know what is. So don't you dare come along mister and say that SCO has no real effective Unix IP to license:P
Does anyone else find it ironic that one of the founders of SCO is named "Ransom Love"? I'm not sure exactly why, but in the context of the current lawsuit and now this possible merger, I find that extremely funny:P
Seriously, though, some people take that number *way* too seriously. When I worked in retail in my youth, I came across more than one customer who would actually purchase something else to change their total. I always wanted to say to them:
"It's not the total of your video and candy that's going to send you to hell, I promise."
I was talking about stuff similar to what another poster pointed out in this thread (which I can't seem to find right now) for example when Bugs comes and replaces the wounded soldier with a tire. Without the foreknowledge of the rubber shortage, as the other poster mentioned (damn this sucks, where did it go?!) it is just a silly scene where for some unknown reason the tire is more valuable than the soldier. As an adult it is much easier to figure out why the tire is more valuable. These subtle details are the things that you learn in history classes, ect. that you might not necessarily have known about as a younger kid.
Frequently, only one of these modules may be encountering trouble, but when a user reboots a computer, all the software it is running stops immediately. If each of its separate subcomponents could be restarted independently, however, one might never need to reboot the entire collection. Then, if a glitch has affected only a few parts of the system, restarting just those isolated elements might solve the problem.
OK, how is this different from the scripts in/etc/rc.d that can start, stop, or restart all my system services? Any daemon process needs this feature, right? It doesn't help if the machine has locked up entirely.
Maybe I just don't understand this part. The other points all seem very sensible.
Holy Crap! I guess I must have really hit on something. That's the fastest I've ever been moderated up.
DUDE!! You've broken the unwritten rule of slashdot... when that happens you're supposed to quietly pat yourself on the back, or tell your SO about it. The "offtopic" mod is "karma" coming back to bite you in the ass;)
These cartoons were written for adult audiences. The early Tom & Jerry cartoons were the same way. In fact, they used to air these during USO shows for army troops abroad. That's why they are still funny, even when you watch them again as an adult. There are puns all kinds of other humor in there that I'm sure kids miss (I did).
Anyways it seems to me like sometime in the early seventies, they started making them more kid-oriented (hence Scoobie-Doo, Flinstones, Jetsons, et.al.) and therefore not as all around entertaining.
Anime, as you suggest, is the only thing that comes close because it doesn't pretend to be a product for kids.
Haven't the comic stylings of Chris Knight, Mitch Whazzisname, and freaky guru Lazlo taught us anything? This can only lead to a house full of popcorn:)
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graveyhead writes "When I purchased World Domination for Dummies, I expected a clear, concise tutorial on how to take over the world. I'm new to the world of world domination, and, having had luck with the Dummies series before, thought this the best place to start off. How very wrong I was."
This article announces Suns' intention to create a DRM product that spans cell phones, smart cards & desktop Java.
Is sun receiving pressure from RIAA/MPAA, or are they just jumping on the IP protection bandwagon here? I suppose they must have received requests from *someone* for the technology, because they seem to think that it will increase their Java device sales, and therefore would also increase the sales of the servers to which these devices connect. I don't believe it will work, though. I can't see DRM driving consumer-end sales.
It should read "I am NaN, I am a Free Man!" which I think would be more appropriate for this and any other RIAA/MPAA discussion
Anyone wanna take bets? My guess is Bruce and Eric.
Are just like money, but more fun!
[walks into amusement park, signs everywhere that say "Peer Points not accepted here"]
Doh!
I hope the networks (in addition to the advertisers which will of course snap it up... thank god for keyword 'aggregate') will look at this data as well. I have always thought that I effectively have a Nielson box sitting under my TV, so why shouldn't they take advantage of it? Maybe Firefly would still be on the air with statistics from our Tivo boxes...
Novel isn't so sure about your "smoking gun"...
Novell Douses 'Smoking Gun' Against SCO
NAT is totally seamless in our VPN. When I fire up a browser with the VPN active, he is temporarily my ISP. All requests for hosts + DNS go through his machine. We ran into trouble early on in the setup, because he refuses to use manual IP addresses on his network, so I had to set mine manually to a high number that his DHCP server is unlikely to use, and he had to check a configuration that allowed me to do so. Also, there was a bit of DNS trouble until I put the address of the PPP server as DNS server.
:) Really it just means having to quit & restart apps when connecting, but that's about it. A minor inconvienience.
Now, everything works fine when connected, just a bit slower. The only thing I wish was that I had the ability to control per application which IP address is used. It would be nice to say "for IE, Outlook and Trillian, use regular addr, for everything else, use VPN if available." If I could do that, life would be perfect
Err, no. One TCP port.
All other packet types are converted. Including UDP as some other moron AC pointed out.
VPN is better if you're a gamer...
Once you've set it up for a firewall, the f/w effectively vanishes inside the VPN. A friend and I struggled with firewall configs for years tweaking for the game of the day. Enter VPN, and now we have a private TCP network without firewalls. Any game supports that, no reconfiguration required.
The other thing is that it is built into w2k (my gaming platform of choice) and XP (friends platform). This means you can be up and running after reading some quick instructions on setting up the server, your shares (properly!), forward one TCP port (yes, only one) from your firewall to desktop, and that's it forever.
Add an uber-IM like Trillian, and that's all you will ever need.
The thing is, I got two interesting replies that went largely unnoticed:
dvNull (235982) wrote:
and An Onerous Coward (222037) wrote:
OK, so why not? I second Onerous Cowards' motion. Except, instead of stealing, IBM should immediately obtain a contract with The Tetris Company to redistribute Tetris. Then they should file lawsuits against SCO for infringement. Even if the lawsuits are frivilous, it would still be a thorn in the side of SCO when it is realized publicly that they very blatantly stole the IP from The Tetris Company.
On a side note, it seems to me that Caldera has a serous history of copying technology... DOS and Tetris are the ones I know about, plus they came up with a Linux distribution... ooh there's originality at work. Also, I believe they bought those rights to UNIX (acquired when they bought the original SCO, IIRC) How can this company turn around and sue IBM for infringement?! It doesn't make any sense. As far as I can tell, that install+game really is the most innovative they've ever been as a company. God that was brilliant. I hate waiting.
what, like this?
I had that idea a couple years ago too, except you forgot: network chess becomes amazingly fun when your friend is in your house as a ghost! They should build this & bundle with Chessmaster ?000 with network capability, so friends without the board can play on their PC!
I'll start actually using my real email address for stuff on the web (appropriately unchecking the subscription buttons). Oh yeah, and I'll turn off that Slashdot SpamGuard(tm) thingy, and maybe put my real email there. Since I am a CA resident, I'll just keep a good record of which emails I receive which are unsolicited. Since I'm a nerd, I should have no problems creating a whitelist or similar to filter stuff out. Then I've got loads of evidence for the very large class action lawsuit which is sure to follow.
:P
"Court awards Graveyhead $500,000,000 for 1,000,000 offensive messages received"
Well, I can dream, can't I? Someone's gotta fund this video game I've been spending nights and weekends working on for the last two years! I gotta eat too!
1) Get to the top of the video card market.
2) Get lazy.
3) Competitor gets to the top of video card market.
Rinse, lather, repeat as necessary.
Didn't NVIDIA learn from 3DFX? Hell, they bought them. I'm hoping this is a driver issue and that subsequent optimized releases of Detinator will speed it up. If not, it is a sad day for NVidia.
Submitted this, but of course:
within like 10 seconds of submitting it :)
How should Buffy end?
( ) David Lynch Ending: The entire series was just a masterbatory fantasy for Zander. Somehow he still manages to lose an eye.
( ) Kubrick Ending: Calib chases buffy around the hedge maze and ends up freezing to death.
( ) Spielberg Ending: Buffy is revived by alien robots in the year 3010 who create the illusion of Angel for one day and then they euthanize her.
( ) Lucas Ending: "Buffy, you've turned off your targetting computer! What's wrong?"
( ) Joss Whedon Ending: The gangs carrers' suddenly end when they decide to write a sci-fi western.
( ) CowboyNeil Ending: CowboyNeil doesn't end.
I read several articles that said that PC3200 is not worth the price difference and that in many casses PC2700 is faster.
/.ers have experience with this? Is PC3200 worth the price?
Before I plunk down $$$ for PC3200, I wanted to know if it is worth it. I was hoping this article would help answer the question, but it looks like he is only testing various BIOS settings with a single DIMM, and not comparing memory with different access speeds. Any
Does anyone else find it ironic that one of the founders of SCO is named "Ransom Love"? I'm not sure exactly why, but in the context of the current lawsuit and now this possible merger, I find that extremely funny :P
Actually isn't that:
;)
number-of-the-beast
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100
Which is the number of the micro-beast, IIRC.
Seriously, though, some people take that number *way* too seriously. When I worked in retail in my youth, I came across more than one customer who would actually purchase something else to change their total. I always wanted to say to them:
"It's not the total of your video and candy that's going to send you to hell, I promise."
But I never really had the balls to say it
I was talking about stuff similar to what another poster pointed out in this thread (which I can't seem to find right now) for example when Bugs comes and replaces the wounded soldier with a tire. Without the foreknowledge of the rubber shortage, as the other poster mentioned (damn this sucks, where did it go?!) it is just a silly scene where for some unknown reason the tire is more valuable than the soldier. As an adult it is much easier to figure out why the tire is more valuable. These subtle details are the things that you learn in history classes, ect. that you might not necessarily have known about as a younger kid.
Maybe I just don't understand this part. The other points all seem very sensible.
These cartoons were written for adult audiences. The early Tom & Jerry cartoons were the same way. In fact, they used to air these during USO shows for army troops abroad. That's why they are still funny, even when you watch them again as an adult. There are puns all kinds of other humor in there that I'm sure kids miss (I did).
Anyways it seems to me like sometime in the early seventies, they started making them more kid-oriented (hence Scoobie-Doo, Flinstones, Jetsons, et.al.) and therefore not as all around entertaining.
Anime, as you suggest, is the only thing that comes close because it doesn't pretend to be a product for kids.
Haven't the comic stylings of Chris Knight, Mitch Whazzisname, and freaky guru Lazlo taught us anything? This can only lead to a house full of popcorn :)