...the IT department. After all, what they see are soooo many students connecting to that same damn IP for hours on end. The IT department at my college would certainly raise a big stink, since the ISP really stinks (it's supposed to be a T1, and it gets a 230ms ping; can you say, "get another ISP"?)
"As a QA tester, i can assure you that a developer is not the best person to assure quality. They just don't see their own bugs, or code that isn't to spec. (This may not always apply to OSS projects)."
Damn right on that one. Tim sweeney coded the Unreal Engine, complete with mouselag, sound system lag, and network code that outright sucked (even he admits to this). And he STILL won't address the lag problems in Unreal Tournament; he seems too arrogant to even admit defeat.
Right now, I don't trust anything GPL. Not solely because it's free, but because it's free to be hacked, cracked, and whatnot. Sure, it's illegal to do that, but who says that it's impossible? Haven't you heard stories about someone using the source code for an ftpd and using it to DDoS FTP sites? That's a very possible scenario, and that's why I'm partially opposed to open source: the L337 H4X0R factor. Just look at what happened to Gnutella; flatplanet.net used the source code to force advertising on all the clients.
Releasing the source code to your software means taking the risk of having someone hack it for malicious purposes. If it wasn't for Pure Server, Q3 would have cheaters all over the world due to one unethical programmer fiddling around with the source code (wait, that's already happened!). Q2 is a good example too; remember the Ratbot? Counter-Strike has the aimbot. Let's face it, there's plenty of immature programmers out there who don't want to play fair (in more ways than one).
I installed the 1.25 patch, and played a CTF match with the bots, it was great! That is, until it froze up (in Windows 2000; that means there's something wrong). I told Paul Jaquays, and he's gonna relay the message. So just hold off until they're sure it's ready.
Also notice the red bordering on the console; that's an indication that it's BETA.
Ever seen a list of what the Gnutella client is wading through when it performs a search? I have, and it's not pretty: Metallica, Eminem, Photoshop, Win2k, DivX, Natalie Portman, Britney Spears, 3DSMAX, and a whole slew of smut which I'll omit for the sake of decorum.
Gnutella was a good idea; it was just taken the wrong way by the moronic serverops who can't avoid sticking a ruler between their legs. Personally, I'd prefer having separate servers for content (mp3 specific network, DivX specific network, binary specific network, etc.).
if NVidia started making network controllers and soundcards? Now that would rock! Considering that numerous Aureal employees are now working for NVidia, and Guillemot is a trusted partner, this could spell a new era for soundcards. Enough of this AC97, skimpily buffered, below 64 hardware channels crap; it's time for a MAN's soundcard!
"I thought I'd take a minute and toot my own horn and mention my article on the O'Reilly Network..."
Yeah, nice, nice. What kind of horn are you tooting, a butt-trumpet? Definetly a fecal baritone.
IMHBNSHO (In my honest but not so humble opinion), Linux is still too young to deserve a certification course. First, it must be certified that Linux can run very close to 100% of the time, in a corporate environment, without requiring a squadron of bible thumpers in the mail room to storm the refrigerated rooms every day. So far, that goal has been far from fulfilled. Web servers around the world still have suspendered, snorting nerds at a terminal feeding in hacked and re-hashed scripts (be they Java, Perl, or PHP). A true "set-and-forget" Linux server is still far from reality; at least, for now.
This is just so funny. A hardware manufacturer putting "free" hardware pieces in Forbes and Wired, and then telling you in the EULA that it's "on loan." According to Title 9, Section 3009 of the USPS Code, you have "the right to retain, use, discard, or dispose of it in any manner [you see] fit without any obligation whatsoever to the sender." Therefore, the EULA is null and void. I interpret this to say that you can do anything with said gift as long as it doesn't violate any copyright laws or other laws. And scanning barcodes certainly doesn't violate any copyright laws. This is the same for those credit cards you receive in the mail. You can bend the cards, cut them, put them in your wallet (as long as you don't start committing credit card fraud), or make a house of cards with all those other ones you received in the mail. But once you call the creditors, you're engaged in their contract, and that's where the façade ends. Books, CD-ROMs, and DVDs received in the mail go the same way: you can retain/use/dispose them as long as you don't break any copyrights or laws.
I'm gonna start getting concerned, though, if someone else tries something like this (like Sony shipping Music Clips, and then charging you your immortal soul for the software).
Really. I plugged in the Sony Music Clip, and Win98 gave me the BSOD. Good thing I now have Windows 2000 and a Rio 500, they work well together. In Win2k, USB devices (except for the mouse and keyboard) are treated like PC Card devices (i.e.: you stop services to them before you remove them; it's nice having the power to tell programs when to shut up).
Yeah, are they trying to make an allusion to Canon, the company that makes the BubbleJet printers, the EOS camera, and the color copiers? No, they probably were referring to a cannon, a very powerful long-range artillery piece.
I see it this way: Frankel gets bought by AOL, and AOL puts its restrictions on him. So, in retaliation, he tweaks with AIM to get the ads out! Now all that he needs to do to achieve the coup de Case is to release the source code/protocol details of AIM! The open source crowd would love that!
...probably listens to They Might Be Giants all day. Speaking of TMBG, anyone know what song has the lyrics "Everybody needs to have a rock to tie a string around"?
Now we'll have to submit a drop of blood to the electric company. Hospitals will store our entire genomes for "informational" purposes. Companies will fire us just because we have a gene for a certain disease, even if we haven't exhibited symptoms yet. If DNA technology gets any farther, a breach of privacy is imminent.
I went to the Pi website, and about 3 minutes were spent downloading Java classes. The next 2 minutes were spent with the mouse frozen (on an NT4 machine). Then, it began to calculate the value of pi as far as it could go. Kinda shows where Java stands; on a 386SX 20MHz, the value of pi to the 2000th place can be calculated with a C program in only 7 seconds. How pathetic.
Java(TM). The only language proven to freeze Windows NT and Unix.
Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc., LLC, CRAP, ETC.
...placing the offending domains on my/etc/hosts file (actually, my E:\WINNT\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file) as 127.0.0.1. That way, all the DoubleClick banner ads are replaced with "Cannot Find Server."
What exactly do you mean by "proprietarize" the movie & music industry?
Just look around, you'll see that Time Warner is a member of the RIAA and MPAA, which means that they want to proprietarize the formats (i.e., shun MP3 and go for SDMI). They are already screwing with the DVDs; my copy of The Green Mile won't let me jump to a chapter until I stop that stupid WB logo thing and press play AGAIN.
How are you figuring that their broadband service will get a crappy ping?
By the very well known fact that AOL makes its users connect with a proprietary protocol (AOLNet) which is translated to TCP by a very unstable network adapter emulator. On the same hardware that would get a 200 ping with standard PPP, an AOL connection usually never goes below 400ms. Also, webpages and UDP transmissions are routed through AOL's main servers, cached there, then transferred to the user (case in point, AOL's FTP client which shows a "Downloading 144K..." before you download the actual file. With this setup, AOL users can only play a Q2 multiplayer game for 30 seconds before the connection is lost. Heretic 2 works, but it really stinks. Same for Quake 3. Also, users are FORCED to use AOL on Windows 9X or MacOS(Windows 2000 can run AOL almost perfectly; the "AOL adapter" won't load as a true network adapter, so the Internet is inaccessible). Also, have you ever noticed that the Mac side of AOL gets treated a whole lot better than the PC side? That's because Steve Case is a Mac user; always was, always will be. There are even rumors of him consorting with Steve Jobs (in more ways than one). AOL's legacy of hypocrisy will eventually be its downfall; look at their commercials ("AOL is about security"), and then read the thousands of stories about hackers breaking into AOL and stealing personal information (as easy as fish in a barrel).
Isn't this why IBM has their worldwide campaign?
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Seriously, IBM went to India and upgraded the technology there from 13th century to 19th century. They currently have connections in Africa, where they flaunt their servers by leaving them out in the barren savannah. IBM is becoming the Red Cross of the Internet.
DC made one of the biggest mistakes that any hardware designer can make: using the beta stage prototype as the final product. If they had used their brains, they would've used ALL the wires to transmit the ID code. And they would've used a MUCH more complex algorithm for encrypting the protocol. Obviously, these brainless capitalists only thought of one thing: profit. Go to any business college and you'll see the greek letter pi numerous times, but it won't stand for 3.1415926535897932384626433...; it will stand for profit.
The url of CNet's story(http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2826868 .html?tag=st.ne.1002.tgif.ni) just makes me wonder: Isn't CNet also playing the "demographics" game? They could log where you are by you by your IP, your OS by your browser string, and other things.
Just goes to show how corruptly curious companies are getting this day in age.
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...the IT department. After all, what they see are soooo many students connecting to that same damn IP for hours on end. The IT department at my college would certainly raise a big stink, since the ISP really stinks (it's supposed to be a T1, and it gets a 230ms ping; can you say, "get another ISP"?)
I'm just saying that I'm free from the proprietarizing clutches of Microsoft's Revenue Enhancement team (otherwise known as Micro$haft).
Damn right on that one. Tim sweeney coded the Unreal Engine, complete with mouselag, sound system lag, and network code that outright sucked (even he admits to this). And he STILL won't address the lag problems in Unreal Tournament; he seems too arrogant to even admit defeat.
This reminds me of George Carlin talking about prostitution: "Selling is legal, Fscking is legal. Why isn't selling fscking legal?!"
so there, I'm fine for now.
Releasing the source code to your software means taking the risk of having someone hack it for malicious purposes. If it wasn't for Pure Server, Q3 would have cheaters all over the world due to one unethical programmer fiddling around with the source code (wait, that's already happened!). Q2 is a good example too; remember the Ratbot? Counter-Strike has the aimbot. Let's face it, there's plenty of immature programmers out there who don't want to play fair (in more ways than one).
Also notice the red bordering on the console; that's an indication that it's BETA.
Gnutella was a good idea; it was just taken the wrong way by the moronic serverops who can't avoid sticking a ruler between their legs. Personally, I'd prefer having separate servers for content (mp3 specific network, DivX specific network, binary specific network, etc.).
I agree. After all, the RIAA only speaks one language: money.
if NVidia started making network controllers and soundcards? Now that would rock! Considering that numerous Aureal employees are now working for NVidia, and Guillemot is a trusted partner, this could spell a new era for soundcards. Enough of this AC97, skimpily buffered, below 64 hardware channels crap; it's time for a MAN's soundcard!
Yeah, nice, nice. What kind of horn are you tooting, a butt-trumpet? Definetly a fecal baritone.
IMHBNSHO (In my honest but not so humble opinion), Linux is still too young to deserve a certification course. First, it must be certified that Linux can run very close to 100% of the time, in a corporate environment, without requiring a squadron of bible thumpers in the mail room to storm the refrigerated rooms every day. So far, that goal has been far from fulfilled. Web servers around the world still have suspendered, snorting nerds at a terminal feeding in hacked and re-hashed scripts (be they Java, Perl, or PHP). A true "set-and-forget" Linux server is still far from reality; at least, for now.
I'm gonna start getting concerned, though, if someone else tries something like this (like Sony shipping Music Clips, and then charging you your immortal soul for the software).
It was on a Dell OptiPlex GX 110 with a T1 connection. Strange thing is, slower computers seem to run Javascript faster.
Really. I plugged in the Sony Music Clip, and Win98 gave me the BSOD. Good thing I now have Windows 2000 and a Rio 500, they work well together. In Win2k, USB devices (except for the mouse and keyboard) are treated like PC Card devices (i.e.: you stop services to them before you remove them; it's nice having the power to tell programs when to shut up).
I hope it is more like USB in Windows 2000, and less like USB in Win98 (Once, just plugging in a USB device would cause win98 to crash. True story.)
Yeah, are they trying to make an allusion to Canon, the company that makes the BubbleJet printers, the EOS camera, and the color copiers? No, they probably were referring to a cannon, a very powerful long-range artillery piece.
I see it this way: Frankel gets bought by AOL, and AOL puts its restrictions on him. So, in retaliation, he tweaks with AIM to get the ads out! Now all that he needs to do to achieve the coup de Case is to release the source code/protocol details of AIM! The open source crowd would love that!
...probably listens to They Might Be Giants all day. Speaking of TMBG, anyone know what song has the lyrics "Everybody needs to have a rock to tie a string around"?
Now we'll have to submit a drop of blood to the electric company. Hospitals will store our entire genomes for "informational" purposes. Companies will fire us just because we have a gene for a certain disease, even if we haven't exhibited symptoms yet. If DNA technology gets any farther, a breach of privacy is imminent.
Java(TM). The only language proven to freeze Windows NT and Unix.
Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc., LLC, CRAP, ETC....placing the offending domains on my /etc/hosts file (actually, my E:\WINNT\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file) as 127.0.0.1. That way, all the DoubleClick banner ads are replaced with "Cannot Find Server."
Just look around, you'll see that Time Warner is a member of the RIAA and MPAA, which means that they want to proprietarize the formats (i.e., shun MP3 and go for SDMI). They are already screwing with the DVDs; my copy of The Green Mile won't let me jump to a chapter until I stop that stupid WB logo thing and press play AGAIN.
By the very well known fact that AOL makes its users connect with a proprietary protocol (AOLNet) which is translated to TCP by a very unstable network adapter emulator. On the same hardware that would get a 200 ping with standard PPP, an AOL connection usually never goes below 400ms. Also, webpages and UDP transmissions are routed through AOL's main servers, cached there, then transferred to the user (case in point, AOL's FTP client which shows a "Downloading 144K..." before you download the actual file. With this setup, AOL users can only play a Q2 multiplayer game for 30 seconds before the connection is lost. Heretic 2 works, but it really stinks. Same for Quake 3. Also, users are FORCED to use AOL on Windows 9X or MacOS(Windows 2000 can run AOL almost perfectly; the "AOL adapter" won't load as a true network adapter, so the Internet is inaccessible). Also, have you ever noticed that the Mac side of AOL gets treated a whole lot better than the PC side? That's because Steve Case is a Mac user; always was, always will be. There are even rumors of him consorting with Steve Jobs (in more ways than one). AOL's legacy of hypocrisy will eventually be its downfall; look at their commercials ("AOL is about security"), and then read the thousands of stories about hackers breaking into AOL and stealing personal information (as easy as fish in a barrel).
Seriously, IBM went to India and upgraded the technology there from 13th century to 19th century. They currently have connections in Africa, where they flaunt their servers by leaving them out in the barren savannah. IBM is becoming the Red Cross of the Internet.
DC made one of the biggest mistakes that any hardware designer can make: using the beta stage prototype as the final product. If they had used their brains, they would've used ALL the wires to transmit the ID code. And they would've used a MUCH more complex algorithm for encrypting the protocol. Obviously, these brainless capitalists only thought of one thing: profit. Go to any business college and you'll see the greek letter pi numerous times, but it won't stand for 3.1415926535897932384626433...; it will stand for profit.
Just goes to show how corruptly curious companies are getting this day in age.