DVDR isos have been around for a couple years now, slowly gaining popularity (especially among console gamers). But this is going to be the real step towards mainstream DVDRs.
DVD Player $40 DVD Burner $80 DVD Media $1/pop MPAA going down like a $2 hooker... priceless.
It is now a lot cheaper to pirate DVD movies than it is to rent. Forget your Divx, delete your P2P programs. It's time to embrace the new age of digital piracy. I'll see ya all on alt.binaries.dvdr;)
I also liked the part where they explained 'brane theory. I had been reading about it, but could never quite visualize it. The animation really worked for me.
Yes they really did a tremendous job really bringing everything to life in visual terms. Most people find it hard thinking in terms of 4 dimensions, let alone 11. The whole series had a very professional presentation and did a good job of being interesting, while not resorting to cheap Cheech and Chong LSD effects.
While I have no real background education in physics, I naturally have the strong human curiousity of where we're from and where we're going. I watched this show in awe. It really did a great job of demonstrating all of the history and evolution of the theories as well as how to really understand what string theory is all about.
PBS and NOVA really earned their keep on this one.
Most of the shows you're talking about are available on the Net, or can be listened to while driving on Sirius Satalite.
I own a radio, but I haven't found the power-coord since my last move... and frankly don't feel like finding it when I can download Howard Stern in the mornings and listen to far better programming like i.e. America Radio Network throughout the day (ieARN is available both as a free stream and on Sirius).
The mail box on this number is full... but the system let's you jump to all other mailboxes!
Listen to the message, go through the menu, hit 1 to access other mailboxes or you can use the company directory (HintHint) to leave messages for all your favorite ATA associates!
I believe the mailboxes are all 3 digit numbers, the number Dave Berry Posted is mailbox #104.
As one of the many people who betaed this for years; I have to say this doesn't come as surprise in the least.
This is probably just an exploit from in the game, rather than someone r00ting the server or anything remotely interesting. I had many instances where the server accidently gave me dialogs with GM powers, I imagine that's just what happened here. The culprit(s) may have figured out how to gain access to the GM dialogs dilberatly, but that's about the extent of the "hack" here.
SB was so buggy in the last few weeks of beta that I was finnaly convinced it would not be a worth while game in retail. I likened it to being slightly less bug riddled than UO, and now it appears I was correct. I will say though that OSI never prosecuted (or even remotely punished) me for exploiting their game to "House Loot", because at the time they had the sense not to sue fans for their own mistakes.
I'm not 100% sure on this, but... Isn't it usually pretty easy to triangulate the position of a cell phone? I would hope that if I dial 911 and cannot speak for whatever reason and the operator hears something odd in the background they would try to find me...
Somewhat on the subject, the promotional guy for The Russ Martin Show (a big talk show in the Dallas area) was mugged and while the mugging was occuring his girl-friend who was with him dialed 911. The recording of all the stuff going on in the background (because obviously she couldn't talk at the time) is now being used as evidence.
I know what you're saying about quality, my neighbors have Sprint and cannot get a decent connection unless they stand out in the parking lot of our apt building ("Can you hear me now?"). But I've got AT&T's Digital mLife and haven't had a problem, and I'm really pleased with the quality.
At this point most people use their cell for everything. Especially with the competing providers offering more and more free minutes, you may actually find it's a lot cheaper to go cell only. I'm personally saving $15 a month.
But here's the sweet bit... You never get telemarketed at! (Obviously you shouldn't be doing stupid stuff like giving it out to businesses.) And you don't have to worry about annoying late-night calls, as most providers give you free voice mail, so you can just turn off the phone or put it in silent mode.
Blah I had a sign there, but I must have hit back space.
I started playing with 512 PC2700 DDR and was "okay"... but once I upgraded to a gig things really started flying. Memory is dirt cheap, and if you're a FPS fan you should probably already have a gig anyhow.
As long as you have a beefy system (People with 1GB Ram need not apply) you will be very pleasantly surprised. The server clusters handle like a dream for the most part and it's always non-stop action. Almost every night I find myself deep in a battle of 50+ vs 50+ vs 50+. You might think that this would promote chaotic and completely spastic combat, but this is only true of people with little-to-no FPS experience. If you know what you're doing you can stay alive, at least long enough to take out a dozen of the spastic guys. And if your squad has good leadership you'll have already secured a near-by place to spawn up in when you die.
I've been playing since early exclusive beta and have seen this only get better. Unlike every other MMOG that's come through the pipes this one is actually stable (both client and server) in beta!
You won't have any WW2 Online-like problems, but that doesn't mean there won't be invisible killers;) There's a certification that allows you to train in using a Infiltrator suit. You become nearly invisible like the predator while running, and completely invisible while standing still. (This can be countered with an implant that allows you to see cloaked enemies). Fortunatly the Infiltrator provides no armor protection so if you stay alert and keep your eyes peeled you should be able to kill these guys without much problem.
Staying alert seems to be the biggest learning curve for players, though the beta is heavily populated with EQers who are too busy trying to "Hail!" each other and cyb0r some elf. I suspect as a more diverse player base comes in at retail fewer people will be falling victim to Infiltrators.
I feel the exact opposite way about it. I got BF1942 because I was all gung-ho for the vehicles in the Demo, but eventually that got boring after I mastered them all. DOD gets way more play time from me.
DOD is so gritty, nasty and realistic. BF1942 is too arcadey with it's unrealistic physics and insane damage model (10 bullets to kill someone?!). After playing a couple rounds of DOD I think about my Grandpa and other WW2 vets, wondering how the hell they survived. I just don't get that same sense of dread and oppression from BF1942 which feels more to me like Urban Terror with circa 1942 weapons.
Granted BF1942 does have much prettier graphics and really wide maps, but at the end of the day when you want a good WW2 *sim* DOD is the only option.
The bigger issue for game development is that memory management is turned over to the system, which takes a lot of control away from game developers... these are people that put inline assembly code to speed up certain sections...
Oh how I fear for anyone whose source of.NET information is/.
The memory managment is not "turned over" to the system. There is an automagic Garbage Collector like Java, but you still have control if you don't want to wait for the automagic processes.
What you need to do is make the consumer want to purchase this hunk of plastic. So package the hunk of plastic with some jerk off material like T.A.T.U.'s CD with wet-tshit pics.
Where is this "land of Freedom to the south" of which you speak?
Ummm Mexico? I guess that's a pretty free an open society. Though the government is slightly more corrupt than most.
Oh I know Puerto Rico? Yea it has to be Puerto Rico you're talking about, right? No DMCA, no Disney sponsored FBI; truly the land of the free! Via con dios, amigo!
How can this promote or invigorate amateur radio at all? I have had the opportunity to explore the world of amateur radio with friend's equipment and I believe I have a fair understanding of the prinicples involved, but I cannot for the life of me imagine any opportunities granted through the use of 802.11 that are not already available.
I have "played" with Shortwave on a 15-25(I forget) meter antena and spoken to the Ukraine, it was crap and barely destinguishable. I have also "played" with the IRLP (a project I would have expected/. to embrace ages ago, since it is bringing new people to Linux daily by providing an actuall use for average pc users) and found quite the opposite. On a little mobile car radio I was able to speak clearly to the UK and Australia as though I was using a really high quality cell phone service.
So what exactly does this project do to "reinvent" Amateur Radio that is in any way more attractic/effective/efficient/etc. than the IRLP which has already been around for years and has relays now all over the world?
This would be a lot easier to swallow if the RIAA.org wasn't so blatently easy to hack, then you could reasonably assume that the RIAA even knows a decent hacker let alone contracts them.
But seriously, let's say this isn't a hoax. Big Effing Deal. So the RIAA gets one day to make the P2P networks all DDOS themselves to hell. Yippie. That's just one day of interupted service. Within hours of this hyrda going off there will be virus definitions and patches from all the anti-virus vendors to fix the issue. And all of the software that is being exploited would also recieve patches.
Does anyone seriously believe that any significant percentage of P2P users are going to suddenly say "wow the RIAA has been right all along I better start paying for things" because they get exploited by Hilary & Friends?
I mean seriously here, the dilema is: a) Don't pay for anything and risk getting hacked by the RIAA *maybe* once. b) Pay for everything. Wow that's sure gonna be a tough choice for the P2P crowd. What an insane waste of money for the RIAA to even bother with this nonsense.
Anyone whose even stepped foot into a "Computer Crimes" department (or whatever your local police call their Info Warriors) knows they have been using *nix since day 1 in forensics.
This is not news, and the idea we should be getting all excited over this suggests that *nix is such a desperatly useless pos as to warrant mass praise whenever anyone actually finds a use. Is that really the message/. wants to convey?
Let me preface this by saying: My memory as a child is surprisingly good. I have 2 destinct memories of being in a craddle (one when all my extended family was around me, another when I fell down trying to get out), my first trip to the ocean when I was 2,and very vivid and detailed memories (as any other memory I have as an adult) starting at age 3.
But at age 3 there are disturbing blanks.
1) The first time I was slapped. (My parents didn't believe in corporal punishment, and it was my grandmother who slapped me at the age of 3) This was the very first time in my life I experienced violence, and I remember being stunned for a long while there, everything after the initial shock is a blank. (While this is not a traumatic event in comparison to mothers drowning their babies, it was an extremely traumatic event for a 3y/o who trusted and loved everyone, especially grandma who brought me toys!)
2) When I was 3 I was also placed in a pre-preschool. It was some sort of advanced new age yuppie kid program designed to get kids acclimated to school life early so that they would excell later in school life. I have a great deal of memories about this place because I had a lot of fun, imagination was encouraged and mine ran wild... but there are distubing blanks whenever we were taken into a special room (which my mind associates today with a church.) I can honestly remember the whole walk leading up the room, and infact one of the walls in the room (there were old fashion candle holders on the walls for light) but everything after that just blanks out. Now I seem to remember walking to the room very frequently, but only remember seeing that wall once... and never the other contents of the room like a church.
So for someone who can remember as early back as the craddle, and can vividly describe what it was like to hold my new born baby brother at age 3; but suddenly there are huge blanks... suggests that the mind is trying to block out very specific events that it didn't want to bother copeing with.
Slashdot Mirror
Scary headline to read while I'm in the middle of installing it right now!
This has to be one of the funnier comments I've ever read on /.
Congratulations for actually earning that "Funny" rating.
DVDR isos have been around for a couple years now, slowly gaining popularity (especially among console gamers). But this is going to be the real step towards mainstream DVDRs.
;)
DVD Player $40
DVD Burner $80
DVD Media $1/pop
MPAA going down like a $2 hooker... priceless.
It is now a lot cheaper to pirate DVD movies than it is to rent. Forget your Divx, delete your P2P programs. It's time to embrace the new age of digital piracy. I'll see ya all on alt.binaries.dvdr
I also liked the part where they explained 'brane theory. I had been reading about it, but could never quite visualize it. The animation really worked for me.
Yes they really did a tremendous job really bringing everything to life in visual terms. Most people find it hard thinking in terms of 4 dimensions, let alone 11. The whole series had a very professional presentation and did a good job of being interesting, while not resorting to cheap Cheech and Chong LSD effects.
While I have no real background education in physics, I naturally have the strong human curiousity of where we're from and where we're going. I watched this show in awe. It really did a great job of demonstrating all of the history and evolution of the theories as well as how to really understand what string theory is all about.
PBS and NOVA really earned their keep on this one.
Most of the shows you're talking about are available on the Net, or can be listened to while driving on Sirius Satalite.
I own a radio, but I haven't found the power-coord since my last move... and frankly don't feel like finding it when I can download Howard Stern in the mornings and listen to far better programming like
i.e. America Radio Network throughout the day (ieARN is available both as a free stream and on Sirius).
The mail box on this number is full... but the system let's you jump to all other mailboxes!
Listen to the message, go through the menu, hit 1 to access other mailboxes or you can use the company directory (Hint Hint) to leave messages for all your favorite ATA associates!
I believe the mailboxes are all 3 digit numbers, the number Dave Berry Posted is mailbox #104.
Wow, /. a phone number in the early morning hours of a sunday. Nice work guys! Let's see if we can keep it that way for a while.
As one of the many people who betaed this for years; I have to say this doesn't come as surprise in the least.
This is probably just an exploit from in the game, rather than someone r00ting the server or anything remotely interesting. I had many instances where the server accidently gave me dialogs with GM powers, I imagine that's just what happened here. The culprit(s) may have figured out how to gain access to the GM dialogs dilberatly, but that's about the extent of the "hack" here.
SB was so buggy in the last few weeks of beta that I was finnaly convinced it would not be a worth while game in retail. I likened it to being slightly less bug riddled than UO, and now it appears I was correct. I will say though that OSI never prosecuted (or even remotely punished) me for exploiting their game to "House Loot", because at the time they had the sense not to sue fans for their own mistakes.
Yippie for War-Dialers. :(
I'm affraid I don't have a secret. I just never give my number out to businesses (unless in a professional context).
I'm not 100% sure on this, but... Isn't it usually pretty easy to triangulate the position of a cell phone? I would hope that if I dial 911 and cannot speak for whatever reason and the operator hears something odd in the background they would try to find me...
Somewhat on the subject, the promotional guy for The Russ Martin Show (a big talk show in the Dallas area) was mugged and while the mugging was occuring his girl-friend who was with him dialed 911. The recording of all the stuff going on in the background (because obviously she couldn't talk at the time) is now being used as evidence.
I know what you're saying about quality, my neighbors have Sprint and cannot get a decent connection unless they stand out in the parking lot of our apt building ("Can you hear me now?"). But I've got AT&T's Digital mLife and haven't had a problem, and I'm really pleased with the quality.
At this point most people use their cell for everything. Especially with the competing providers offering more and more free minutes, you may actually find it's a lot cheaper to go cell only. I'm personally saving $15 a month.
But here's the sweet bit... You never get telemarketed at! (Obviously you shouldn't be doing stupid stuff like giving it out to businesses.) And you don't have to worry about annoying late-night calls, as most providers give you free voice mail, so you can just turn off the phone or put it in silent mode.
Blah I had a sign there, but I must have hit back space.
... but once I upgraded to a gig things really started flying. Memory is dirt cheap, and if you're a FPS fan you should probably already have a gig anyhow.
I started playing with 512 PC2700 DDR and was "okay"
As long as you have a beefy system (People with 1GB Ram need not apply) you will be very pleasantly surprised. The server clusters handle like a dream for the most part and it's always non-stop action. Almost every night I find myself deep in a battle of 50+ vs 50+ vs 50+. You might think that this would promote chaotic and completely spastic combat, but this is only true of people with little-to-no FPS experience. If you know what you're doing you can stay alive, at least long enough to take out a dozen of the spastic guys. And if your squad has good leadership you'll have already secured a near-by place to spawn up in when you die.
;) There's a certification that allows you to train in using a Infiltrator suit. You become nearly invisible like the predator while running, and completely invisible while standing still. (This can be countered with an implant that allows you to see cloaked enemies). Fortunatly the Infiltrator provides no armor protection so if you stay alert and keep your eyes peeled you should be able to kill these guys without much problem.
I've been playing since early exclusive beta and have seen this only get better. Unlike every other MMOG that's come through the pipes this one is actually stable (both client and server) in beta!
You won't have any WW2 Online-like problems, but that doesn't mean there won't be invisible killers
Staying alert seems to be the biggest learning curve for players, though the beta is heavily populated with EQers who are too busy trying to "Hail!" each other and cyb0r some elf. I suspect as a more diverse player base comes in at retail fewer people will be falling victim to Infiltrators.
I feel the exact opposite way about it. I got BF1942 because I was all gung-ho for the vehicles in the Demo, but eventually that got boring after I mastered them all. DOD gets way more play time from me.
DOD is so gritty, nasty and realistic. BF1942 is too arcadey with it's unrealistic physics and insane damage model (10 bullets to kill someone?!). After playing a couple rounds of DOD I think about my Grandpa and other WW2 vets, wondering how the hell they survived. I just don't get that same sense of dread and oppression from BF1942 which feels more to me like Urban Terror with circa 1942 weapons.
Granted BF1942 does have much prettier graphics and really wide maps, but at the end of the day when you want a good WW2 *sim* DOD is the only option.
The bigger issue for game development is that memory management is turned over to the system, which takes a lot of control away from game developers... these are people that put inline assembly code to speed up certain sections...
.NET information is /.
Oh how I fear for anyone whose source of
The memory managment is not "turned over" to the system. There is an automagic Garbage Collector like Java, but you still have control if you don't want to wait for the automagic processes.
What you need to do is make the consumer want to purchase this hunk of plastic. So package the hunk of plastic with some jerk off material like T.A.T.U.'s CD with wet-tshit pics.
Keep it simple and descriptive:
technological janitors.
I prefer the term "Custodian". It is a better description of the job. Face it, if you're not a developer you're a care-taker.
My suggestions:
Custodian of Technology
Infrastructure Custodian
Grounds-Keeper Willy
Where is this "land of Freedom to the south" of which you speak?
Ummm Mexico? I guess that's a pretty free an open society. Though the government is slightly more corrupt than most.
Oh I know Puerto Rico? Yea it has to be Puerto Rico you're talking about, right? No DMCA, no Disney sponsored FBI; truly the land of the free! Via con dios, amigo!
Sean Connery: "It looks like this is my lucky day. I'll take The Rapists for $200."
Alex: "That's Therapists... not The Rapists"
Sorry, I know I know... But it had to be said.
IANAH (I am not a Ham) but...
/. to embrace ages ago, since it is bringing new people to Linux daily by providing an actuall use for average pc users) and found quite the opposite. On a little mobile car radio I was able to speak clearly to the UK and Australia as though I was using a really high quality cell phone service.
How can this promote or invigorate amateur radio at all? I have had the opportunity to explore the world of amateur radio with friend's equipment and I believe I have a fair understanding of the prinicples involved, but I cannot for the life of me imagine any opportunities granted through the use of 802.11 that are not already available.
I have "played" with Shortwave on a 15-25(I forget) meter antena and spoken to the Ukraine, it was crap and barely destinguishable. I have also "played" with the IRLP (a project I would have expected
So what exactly does this project do to "reinvent" Amateur Radio that is in any way more attractic/effective/efficient/etc. than the IRLP which has already been around for years and has relays now all over the world?
This would be a lot easier to swallow if the RIAA.org wasn't so blatently easy to hack, then you could reasonably assume that the RIAA even knows a decent hacker let alone contracts them.
But seriously, let's say this isn't a hoax. Big Effing Deal. So the RIAA gets one day to make the P2P networks all DDOS themselves to hell. Yippie. That's just one day of interupted service. Within hours of this hyrda going off there will be virus definitions and patches from all the anti-virus vendors to fix the issue. And all of the software that is being exploited would also recieve patches.
Does anyone seriously believe that any significant percentage of P2P users are going to suddenly say "wow the RIAA has been right all along I better start paying for things" because they get exploited by Hilary & Friends?
I mean seriously here, the dilema is: a) Don't pay for anything and risk getting hacked by the RIAA *maybe* once. b) Pay for everything.
Wow that's sure gonna be a tough choice for the P2P crowd. What an insane waste of money for the RIAA to even bother with this nonsense.
[i]Powell should've gotten a ReplayTV 4000 to share TV shows, and home movies like "Wings over the Gulf", with his sister...[/i]
Wrong Powell! You're thinking of General Colen
Powell, who is in no way shape or form involved with the FCC.
Anyone whose even stepped foot into a "Computer Crimes" department (or whatever your local police call their Info Warriors) knows they have been using *nix since day 1 in forensics.
/. wants to convey?
This is not news, and the idea we should be getting all excited over this suggests that *nix is such a desperatly useless pos as to warrant mass praise whenever anyone actually finds a use. Is that really the message
Hax0rs make the stupidest names for their programs. (see also: Ogg Vorbis)
Let me preface this by saying: My memory as a child is surprisingly good. I have 2 destinct memories of being in a craddle (one when all my extended family was around me, another when I fell down trying to get out), my first trip to the ocean when I was 2,and very vivid and detailed memories (as any other memory I have as an adult) starting at age 3.
But at age 3 there are disturbing blanks.
1) The first time I was slapped. (My parents didn't believe in corporal punishment, and it was my grandmother who slapped me at the age of 3) This was the very first time in my life I experienced violence, and I remember being stunned for a long while there, everything after the initial shock is a blank. (While this is not a traumatic event in comparison to mothers drowning their babies, it was an extremely traumatic event for a 3y/o who trusted and loved everyone, especially grandma who brought me toys!)
2) When I was 3 I was also placed in a pre-preschool. It was some sort of advanced new age yuppie kid program designed to get kids acclimated to school life early so that they would excell later in school life. I have a great deal of memories about this place because I had a lot of fun, imagination was encouraged and mine ran wild... but there are distubing blanks whenever we were taken into a special room (which my mind associates today with a church.) I can honestly remember the whole walk leading up the room, and infact one of the walls in the room (there were old fashion candle holders on the walls for light) but everything after that just blanks out. Now I seem to remember walking to the room very frequently, but only remember seeing that wall once... and never the other contents of the room like a church.
So for someone who can remember as early back as the craddle, and can vividly describe what it was like to hold my new born baby brother at age 3; but suddenly there are huge blanks... suggests that the mind is trying to block out very specific events that it didn't want to bother copeing with.