There is no "on time" because they haven't given a date. They've given a goal that they'd like to hit. Given Blizzard's past history, both with release dates and success of their games, we'll see it when they feel it's done and ready. It's a formula that they've used before with great success.
Here's why I disagree with your logic, Twiggy.
1. I do have a choice whether or not to use the connection. The coffee shop, or anyone else who purchases and installs a wireless router, also has a choice whether or not to secure that signal. In this case, the coffee shop chose to leave their access point wide open. As such, the expectation,at least in my world, is that it's available for use for all. In this case, the burden of responsibility is on the coffee shop to secure and/or prevent unauthorized access in whatever way they choose to do it if they don't want people sitting in the coffee shop. I have relatives in Vancouver, I may have to swing by that shop and give them a few pointers on restricting access.
2. You may be technically minded. If so, you will then agree that the coffee shop also knowingly broadcast an open signal with the intent that "customers" could use it. Wireless signals are not bicycles, but the same rules apply. Would you actually leave your bicycle laying on the sidewalk, or would you lock it up?
3. The TOS of the ISP does not bind the customers, but IANAL and have not read the contract. In any case, it's the coffee shops responsibility to abide by their agreement, not the customers as far as I'm concerned.
I'm just as tired of people buying wireless routers and treating them like a television. If you're broadcasting the signal, in the clear, it's public domain. It's a radio transmitter. If you don't take measures to keep people for listening, you're at fault. If I play the radio in my car loudly, should I expect you not to listen because my music? No.
I still don't understand why people continue to pay for these services when they're available for free. You can get Anti-spyware, AV and firewall for free and they are, in almost all cases, better than the commercial, "for a fee" products.
I used Norton for several years. After poor performance and buggy signature files slowing my machine to a crawl, I switched to AVG and haven't looked back. The same can be said for firewalls (the Windows one blows and ZoneAlarm wasn't stable enough. I switched to Kerio.)
My only real gripe is with MS Anti-spyware. I'm said to see that go.
Man, this brings back memories. Way back in 1995/96, the company I worked for was doing support Starwave products. Besides Castle Infinity and ESPN SportsZone, Starwave did multimedia CD's. Sting, Clint Eastwood and The Muppets were the ones that I supported.
Now, the company I worked for was a call center that did outsourcing for Starwave on the Customer Service and Tech Support side. They took me to do training on Castle Infinity. I spent a full day sitting at a Dev's desk playing on their test system. That was it. I was a bit nervous about having to take support calls.
There wasn't a Knowledge Base, and when the system launched I expected a deluge of problems. Launch day happened, and I sat at my desk. No calls, nothing. It went like this for weeks. I received more support calls on their other products than on Castle Infinity.
In retrospect, I think two things happened. The client was stable and ran an almost all systems. Also, I don't think anyone knew about the game. I left the company not long after CI sent live, and later heard about Starwave selling their assets to Go.com, and later Disney Interactive.
I read this article a couple of hours ago, so I did what any self-respecting geek would do: I tried to see if the reporter/bloghead was full of shit or not. If you don't want to read any further, he is.
He used a public machine, presumably using a single logon. The software functioned as expected. It cached, separate from your IE cache, all traffic it was designed to cache. He then was able to search the data that anyone left on the machine. I contend that any douchebag that is dumb enough to send sensitive data from public terminal deserves whatever they get, ignorant or not.
The desktop search stores data in the c:\documents and settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search directory. On any PC that is relatively private, the average user isn't going to be able to search anyone else's data without a little bit of work. I had to actually copy the cache files from another user's profile to my PC in order to read the files. If were sharing a PC, I'd have to have elevate rights and access to the other user's provile in order to see anything of value.
As far as I'm concerned, the reporter that wrote the article doesn't know squat. There's no story here. Well, there is. He should have written abou the dangers of using a public terminal to send personal and/or sensitive data.
Let's not forget that most users (which wouldn't be reading/.) don't have any idea about this stuff. This confuse virus scanners with firewall, and think patching is something you do with clothes. So no, they don't really deserve it.
Like it or not, they want their PC to work like their television. As much as you or I don't like it, they are the people that are keeping Windows suppport folks employed.
I can't say how many times I've helped with someone's machine, and they've had multiple virus infections, spyware and general crap on their machine because they don't know any better. It's a fact of life that Microsoft is going to have to own up to if they want to stay on top. They raised the beast, now they need to teach it the rules.
I've used ethereal on Win32, but didn't the like gtk wierdness. So..my recommendation if you're on windows network is Packetyzer. It's free, it's based on Ethereal, and it runs great on Windows.
I'm curious, what exactly are you looking for that you'd need to be sniffing packets? Is your large network running on daisy-chained hubs and you're getting broadcast traffic? Spit? Bailing wire?
This is the same type of anti-Linux FUD that Microsoft was pandering a couple of years ago. Microsoft was, at least, smart enough to realize that the FUD wasn't working and decided to switch tactics.
SCO has the same mis-interpretations of the GPL, where the term free, to them, means no money. Their whole arguement appears to be based on the incorrect interpretation.
The GPL, to the best of my knowledge, allows for source code to be freed, and all subsequent products based on that source code be freed as well. It does not, however, preclude any company from using that code in a product, charging for said product, and, God forbid, make a profit from that product.
Heck, it doesn't forbid private companies from writing add-ons and charging for those, and they aren't required to license the new code with the GPL.
Darl's logic is so flawed and full of holes that you could drive a truck through it. I have to give him credit though, he uses all of the right FUD-words on our congressman. This is the saddest part, as most legislators, like equity traders, don't do enough research on the issues and pass bad laws.
As someone who has worked in the investment industry for almost 6 years, I have to agree with Koreth on this. A rise in stock price means absolutely nothing. The line traders no little or nothing about Linux, SCO or the dispute. They know what they read in the papers, what the read from Bloomberg, and what analysts say.
Recent news tells us that all of these people can and are wrong sometimes. The fines imposed on the likes of Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan should tell use wonders.
Personally, I'm waiting to see if SCO can produce anything substantial in court, which is where they will live and die with this. Here's my prediction: If SCO cannot produce any substantial evidence to their claims, the price will drop to the sub-$.25 level faster than Bill Clinton's trousers with an intern.;-)
Most of the question here center around your involvment in the gaming industry. With the exception of your love for Ferrari's, what do you do when you're not coding, playing, or turning the gaming industry on its ear?
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If you're doing both Dev and IT work, then you might have a shot, especially if you were originally hired to write code.
There is no "on time" because they haven't given a date. They've given a goal that they'd like to hit. Given Blizzard's past history, both with release dates and success of their games, we'll see it when they feel it's done and ready. It's a formula that they've used before with great success.
Here's why I disagree with your logic, Twiggy. 1. I do have a choice whether or not to use the connection. The coffee shop, or anyone else who purchases and installs a wireless router, also has a choice whether or not to secure that signal. In this case, the coffee shop chose to leave their access point wide open. As such, the expectation,at least in my world, is that it's available for use for all. In this case, the burden of responsibility is on the coffee shop to secure and/or prevent unauthorized access in whatever way they choose to do it if they don't want people sitting in the coffee shop. I have relatives in Vancouver, I may have to swing by that shop and give them a few pointers on restricting access. 2. You may be technically minded. If so, you will then agree that the coffee shop also knowingly broadcast an open signal with the intent that "customers" could use it. Wireless signals are not bicycles, but the same rules apply. Would you actually leave your bicycle laying on the sidewalk, or would you lock it up? 3. The TOS of the ISP does not bind the customers, but IANAL and have not read the contract. In any case, it's the coffee shops responsibility to abide by their agreement, not the customers as far as I'm concerned. I'm just as tired of people buying wireless routers and treating them like a television. If you're broadcasting the signal, in the clear, it's public domain. It's a radio transmitter. If you don't take measures to keep people for listening, you're at fault. If I play the radio in my car loudly, should I expect you not to listen because my music? No.
I still don't understand why people continue to pay for these services when they're available for free. You can get Anti-spyware, AV and firewall for free and they are, in almost all cases, better than the commercial, "for a fee" products.
I used Norton for several years. After poor performance and buggy signature files slowing my machine to a crawl, I switched to AVG and haven't looked back. The same can be said for firewalls (the Windows one blows and ZoneAlarm wasn't stable enough. I switched to Kerio.)
My only real gripe is with MS Anti-spyware. I'm said to see that go.
Man, this brings back memories. Way back in 1995/96, the company I worked for was doing support Starwave products. Besides Castle Infinity and ESPN SportsZone, Starwave did multimedia CD's. Sting, Clint Eastwood and The Muppets were the ones that I supported.
Now, the company I worked for was a call center that did outsourcing for Starwave on the Customer Service and Tech Support side. They took me to do training on Castle Infinity. I spent a full day sitting at a Dev's desk playing on their test system. That was it. I was a bit nervous about having to take support calls.
There wasn't a Knowledge Base, and when the system launched I expected a deluge of problems. Launch day happened, and I sat at my desk. No calls, nothing. It went like this for weeks. I received more support calls on their other products than on Castle Infinity.
In retrospect, I think two things happened. The client was stable and ran an almost all systems. Also, I don't think anyone knew about the game. I left the company not long after CI sent live, and later heard about Starwave selling their assets to Go.com, and later Disney Interactive.
I read this article a couple of hours ago, so I did what any self-respecting geek would do: I tried to see if the reporter/bloghead was full of shit or not. If you don't want to read any further, he is.
He used a public machine, presumably using a single logon. The software functioned as expected. It cached, separate from your IE cache, all traffic it was designed to cache. He then was able to search the data that anyone left on the machine. I contend that any douchebag that is dumb enough to send sensitive data from public terminal deserves whatever they get, ignorant or not.
The desktop search stores data in the c:\documents and settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search directory. On any PC that is relatively private, the average user isn't going to be able to search anyone else's data without a little bit of work. I had to actually copy the cache files from another user's profile to my PC in order to read the files. If were sharing a PC, I'd have to have elevate rights and access to the other user's provile in order to see anything of value.
As far as I'm concerned, the reporter that wrote the article doesn't know squat. There's no story here. Well, there is. He should have written abou the dangers of using a public terminal to send personal and/or sensitive data.
Let's not forget that most users (which wouldn't be reading /.) don't have any idea about this stuff. This confuse virus scanners with firewall, and think patching is something you do with clothes. So no, they don't really deserve it.
Like it or not, they want their PC to work like their television. As much as you or I don't like it, they are the people that are keeping Windows suppport folks employed.
I can't say how many times I've helped with someone's machine, and they've had multiple virus infections, spyware and general crap on their machine because they don't know any better. It's a fact of life that Microsoft is going to have to own up to if they want to stay on top. They raised the beast, now they need to teach it the rules.
I've used ethereal on Win32, but didn't the like gtk wierdness. So..my recommendation if you're on windows network is Packetyzer. It's free, it's based on Ethereal, and it runs great on Windows.
I'm curious, what exactly are you looking for that you'd need to be sniffing packets? Is your large network running on daisy-chained hubs and you're getting broadcast traffic? Spit? Bailing wire?
This is the same type of anti-Linux FUD that Microsoft was pandering a couple of years ago. Microsoft was, at least, smart enough to realize that the FUD wasn't working and decided to switch tactics.
SCO has the same mis-interpretations of the GPL, where the term free, to them, means no money. Their whole arguement appears to be based on the incorrect interpretation.
The GPL, to the best of my knowledge, allows for source code to be freed, and all subsequent products based on that source code be freed as well. It does not, however, preclude any company from using that code in a product, charging for said product, and, God forbid, make a profit from that product.
Heck, it doesn't forbid private companies from writing add-ons and charging for those, and they aren't required to license the new code with the GPL.
Darl's logic is so flawed and full of holes that you could drive a truck through it. I have to give him credit though, he uses all of the right FUD-words on our congressman. This is the saddest part, as most legislators, like equity traders, don't do enough research on the issues and pass bad laws.
As someone who has worked in the investment industry for almost 6 years, I have to agree with Koreth on this. A rise in stock price means absolutely nothing. The line traders no little or nothing about Linux, SCO or the dispute. They know what they read in the papers, what the read from Bloomberg, and what analysts say.
;-)
Recent news tells us that all of these people can and are wrong sometimes. The fines imposed on the likes of Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan should tell use wonders.
Personally, I'm waiting to see if SCO can produce anything substantial in court, which is where they will live and die with this. Here's my prediction: If SCO cannot produce any substantial evidence to their claims, the price will drop to the sub-$.25 level faster than Bill Clinton's trousers with an intern.
I use TeamSpeak, hosted by OSG, on a nightly basis for MMORPG's. It's fast, stable, and VERY reliable. You can't beat it.
Most of the question here center around your involvment in the gaming industry. With the exception of your love for Ferrari's, what do you do when you're not coding, playing, or turning the gaming industry on its ear?