By the way, I can't believe nobody made that joke yet.
I can't beleive the script kiddies aren't attacking it yet. But now that you've given them the idea, I give it an hour before somebody tries something (even if it's a simple DOS attack).
The ability to dial a "real" telephone is exactly what I'm waiting for.
I want a VOIP solution for home. Not so I can call internationally, but for local conference calls that don't tie up every phone line I have. Unfortunately, most of the people I "conference" with aren't on broadband, so for this to work it needs to be able to dial multiple phone lines through a VOIP server.
It's only a matter of time before people start squatting on people's names for their "blog" space. As the post said, it'll be the.com frenzy all over again.
I used to work for a well known Australian domain name registrar. Some of the stupidity of the.com goldrush was remarkable. One of our sales guys asked for a list of all.com names (up to 6 characters long) that "haven't" been registered. It took one of my fellow developers (one with the patience, determination and ability to keep a straight face) to explain to him and the general manager that it would take at least a month of processing time to generate the list (by which time it would be useless).
The Community and Public Sector Union, which represents customs officers, has asked for guarantees that none of its members is at risk as a result of the theft.
They've got to be kidding.
IMHO there should be some investigation into this level of incompetence. Procedures should be in place and followed. If procedures were followed, the person responsible for security (and the procedures) should be put out on their arse with zero chance of another job in security. If procedures weren't followed, the staff that didn't follow them should get their arses kicked.
PMG is a distant memory from my childhood. But we opened our PABX switch-box the other week to see if it's possible to switch people's lines for when they moved around the building.
We nearly died (from laughter) when we saw what was there. A bunch of skinny little telephone wires attached to a couple of rows of terminals on the RHS of the box, AND a book with PMG (Post Master General) on the cover with service records (the last one being 1972).
We understood why there was a notice saying that it should only be serviced by a NEC technician. Although, I don't know where they'd find one that still understands how this works.
You forgot to mention that their monopolistic tendencies are supported by our government.
I can't remember whose bright idea it was to "privatise" a government telco and let them keep and control all the infrastructure (which has caused a chronic shortage of expensive bandwidth in this country for almost a decade). But I'd certainly like to get them into one of these.
I'd guess it will definitely be open source and definitely Linux based.
I'm working for a small company in Australia and we've been doing quite a bit of work in Japan (I spent 2 out of my first 6 weeks of employment there). We're currently working on proposals for a number of large projects all over Japan. Our products have historically been Windows based, but they're pushing for Linux solutions.
I don't think the system will be designed to screw people over. If it was only China, I'd be suspicious of that, but not with Japan and South Korea involved. I think it will probably honor the GPL and it will probably be available to foreigners. But I think much of the focus of this will be to produce a system that is built for asian characters. From my understanding, Chinese characters are used to some extent in Japanese and Korean writing systems. So they will reduce effort by collaborating on it.
From the discussions I've had with Japanese people I know, it appears they don't trust the USA as long-term business partners and don't trust Microsoft products. I think the EU will be pushing for a lot more OSS for exactly the same reasons. You don't trust them, and they're doing this (in part) because they don't trust you.
They do. Haven't you heard the other side of the story?
The said: "playing games could help children develop hand-eye coordination", but left out the fact that thousands of pr0n sites exist to help date-less adults develop their hand-eye coordination.
Bah, my girlfriend has played all the civilisation games to death.
I won't even try to compete with her in that game. She plays on god level and wins more often than not. I can still remember her outrage when Civ II crashed at ~254%.
Since then she tries to win in every way other than wiping everyone else out and leaving just one city while she milks for percentage. Be VERY glad she's not running for parliament.
Robostrider is made out of a 7-Up can, stainless steel wire legs and an elastic band coupled to a pulley to power its middle legs.
Too much 7-Up and not enough beer being consumed for it to be a fair contest. They should increase their beer consumption to that of other colleges and level the playing field.
I have a friend who spent a year playing EQ day after day. He racked up over 100 days of playing time during that year.
Did he miss out on friends, family, etc? Not to any great extent.
Was he lonely? Definitely not.
You end up creating some great friendships out of games like this. I've been half way around the world and visited people I've known from EQ. My friend eventually gave up EQ and moved from Austraila to the US where he's now happily married to one of the people he spent much of that time playing with.
At the time he quit EQ, his character was one of the most uber necros on the Tunare server but worth at most $1500 USD at that time.
You can certainly make money from these games, and you won't necessarily become a lonely hermit while doing it. But your social life will suffer and it will take a lot of work to make the same money.
I didn't used to. But, I discovered that I didn't like any job I had. Never liked the managers, the work was always rushed, the hours were always too long, etc, etc, etc. Then I just chose to give up being resentful, frustrated, anxious and over-worked.
Now I'm satisfied with whatever I do. I stopped relating to the managers as morons (and foud out not all of them were), I stopped worrying about having priority or schedule changes (I just do the work as it comes), and I stopped working over time for them (now they appreciate me and I have a life).
If you go to work and expect to enjoy it, you probably will. If you go to work and expect to hate it, you definitely will. The choice is all yours!
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By the way, I can't believe nobody made that joke yet.
I can't beleive the script kiddies aren't attacking it yet. But now that you've given them the idea, I give it an hour before somebody tries something (even if it's a simple DOS attack).
It will be very embarassing if somebody succeeds.
The ability to dial a "real" telephone is exactly what I'm waiting for.
I want a VOIP solution for home. Not so I can call internationally, but for local conference calls that don't tie up every phone line I have. Unfortunately, most of the people I "conference" with aren't on broadband, so for this to work it needs to be able to dial multiple phone lines through a VOIP server.
I'm sure we have the technology to do it.
It's only a matter of time before people start squatting on people's names for their "blog" space. As the post said, it'll be the .com frenzy all over again.
.com goldrush was remarkable. One of our sales guys asked for a list of all .com names (up to 6 characters long) that "haven't" been registered. It took one of my fellow developers (one with the patience, determination and ability to keep a straight face) to explain to him and the general manager that it would take at least a month of processing time to generate the list (by which time it would be useless).
I used to work for a well known Australian domain name registrar. Some of the stupidity of the
10 acres of that premium land in Queensland for $200 an acre and a first class seat on the Scientologists spaceship.
After the spaceship arrives...
Why don't they just spike the football and turn this on at one end of the stadium?
The Community and Public Sector Union, which represents customs officers, has asked for guarantees that none of its members is at risk as a result of the theft.
They've got to be kidding.
IMHO there should be some investigation into this level of incompetence. Procedures should be in place and followed. If procedures were followed, the person responsible for security (and the procedures) should be put out on their arse with zero chance of another job in security. If procedures weren't followed, the staff that didn't follow them should get their arses kicked.
PMG is a distant memory from my childhood. But we opened our PABX switch-box the other week to see if it's possible to switch people's lines for when they moved around the building.
We nearly died (from laughter) when we saw what was there. A bunch of skinny little telephone wires attached to a couple of rows of terminals on the RHS of the box, AND a book with PMG (Post Master General) on the cover with service records (the last one being 1972).
We understood why there was a notice saying that it should only be serviced by a NEC technician. Although, I don't know where they'd find one that still understands how this works.
You forgot to mention that their monopolistic tendencies are supported by our government.
I can't remember whose bright idea it was to "privatise" a government telco and let them keep and control all the infrastructure (which has caused a chronic shortage of expensive bandwidth in this country for almost a decade). But I'd certainly like to get them into one of these.
"I was about to give up hope of Telstra returning to its clueful roots."
Err, what clueful roots? They've never had a clue and I doubt they'll inherit one within the next decade.
I'd guess it will definitely be open source and definitely Linux based.
I'm working for a small company in Australia and we've been doing quite a bit of work in Japan (I spent 2 out of my first 6 weeks of employment there). We're currently working on proposals for a number of large projects all over Japan. Our products have historically been Windows based, but they're pushing for Linux solutions.
I don't think the system will be designed to screw people over. If it was only China, I'd be suspicious of that, but not with Japan and South Korea involved. I think it will probably honor the GPL and it will probably be available to foreigners. But I think much of the focus of this will be to produce a system that is built for asian characters. From my understanding, Chinese characters are used to some extent in Japanese and Korean writing systems. So they will reduce effort by collaborating on it.
From the discussions I've had with Japanese people I know, it appears they don't trust the USA as long-term business partners and don't trust Microsoft products. I think the EU will be pushing for a lot more OSS for exactly the same reasons. You don't trust them, and they're doing this (in part) because they don't trust you.
They do. Haven't you heard the other side of the story?
The said: "playing games could help children develop hand-eye coordination", but left out the fact that thousands of pr0n sites exist to help date-less adults develop their hand-eye coordination.
Bah, my girlfriend has played all the civilisation games to death.
I won't even try to compete with her in that game. She plays on god level and wins more often than not. I can still remember her outrage when Civ II crashed at ~254%.
Since then she tries to win in every way other than wiping everyone else out and leaving just one city while she milks for percentage. Be VERY glad she's not running for parliament.
MIT is number one in engineering.
Robostrider is made out of a 7-Up can, stainless steel wire legs and an elastic band coupled to a pulley to power its middle legs.
Too much 7-Up and not enough beer being consumed for it to be a fair contest. They should increase their beer consumption to that of other colleges and level the playing field.
Damn, I thought I was good at killing conversation with geek talk. Remind me never to invite an astronomer to a party.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!!!
Awww, too bad Microsoft won't see any profits from the 80% reduction in software piracy.
informing people that a company is running Windows?
"McBride said pattern-recognition experts SCO hired have ferreted out a slew of infringing code in Linux."
Hey, they've got one's and zero's all through their code just like ours. They must have copied it! $$$
Go on hollidays.
Then it's not your problem.
I have a friend who spent a year playing EQ day after day. He racked up over 100 days of playing time during that year.
Did he miss out on friends, family, etc? Not to any great extent.
Was he lonely? Definitely not.
You end up creating some great friendships out of games like this. I've been half way around the world and visited people I've known from EQ. My friend eventually gave up EQ and moved from Austraila to the US where he's now happily married to one of the people he spent much of that time playing with.
At the time he quit EQ, his character was one of the most uber necros on the Tunare server but worth at most $1500 USD at that time.
You can certainly make money from these games, and you won't necessarily become a lonely hermit while doing it. But your social life will suffer and it will take a lot of work to make the same money.
It can also be found here:
t /e xt-2003-045.pdf
http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/other/ex
how long until somebody buys these guys to get hold of the patents.
Looks up the genome for Chinese people and quietly patents it
Nothing like shelling into my box at home to continue my Nethack game on the way to work.
I didn't used to. But, I discovered that I didn't like any job I had. Never liked the managers, the work was always rushed, the hours were always too long, etc, etc, etc. Then I just chose to give up being resentful, frustrated, anxious and over-worked.
Now I'm satisfied with whatever I do. I stopped relating to the managers as morons (and foud out not all of them were), I stopped worrying about having priority or schedule changes (I just do the work as it comes), and I stopped working over time for them (now they appreciate me and I have a life).
If you go to work and expect to enjoy it, you probably will. If you go to work and expect to hate it, you definitely will. The choice is all yours!