Usenet is still reserved mainly for geeks. Most have heard of "newsgroups" but have no idea what it is or how to use it. So Usenet represents a tiny financial loss to these media companies.
Kazaa and bittorrent represent a potentially huge threat to their profits. So its not about people stealing. Its about execs getting smaller bonuses. If it were up to them, TCP/IP would be abolished and all Internet traffic would be routed through their filters.
Personally, I enjoy downloading a live Israel Vibration concert that was broadcast on German TV, where I would have no other way of seeing it save for Usenet, or Kazaa. How about Formula 1 races not broadcast in the US? There are other, more obscure examples.
What are my choices?
"Either wait for us to perhaps decide to release this on DVD if we feel there is a big enough market for, or never see it at all. Either way, we'll close all available avenues of media distribution that don't include us in on the action, and all your viewing choices will be controlled by us, and what we think will bring us the greatest profits. That's right, all you can watch is Christina Aguilera in concert. We'll stuff her down your throat until you beg for more."
Thanks god for usenet and its immutaility to big business.
I haven't looked closely at how Kazaa handles file transfers, but I'd feel correct assuming that it creates direct connections between peers. So anyone can connect, start a download and type netstat -na to see a list of IPs they are talking with. Then, if they are the RIAA and they feel they have proof enough, all they have to do is instruct an ISP to hand in a user's info.
I fail to see how Kazaa can protect user privacy short of setting up proxy servers to route traffic between peers to make them entirelyanonymous, like AIM I suppose.
Last time I played Tetris, there was a window on the screen showing you the next block coming right up after the current, falling one.
This allows you to decide the best place to put the current block so that the next one does not end up in an askward, and disadvantageous position.
Add to that the blocks already on the bottom of the pit and there is plenty to keep track of while making decisions. I don't see how that is all that much different than action games like GTA.
> Hell, most of the hotmail/yahoo mail users can't even keep their mailboxes under quota.
Well, when Hotmail hands out your email address, and your mailbox ends up being bombarded with spam, and Hotmail's spam "filters" catch about 13 of the 400 spam messages in your Inbox, emptying your mailbox every other day just to make room for more spam ends up being a pointless exercise.
At least Yahoo mail seems to be an improvement over Hotmail. Over 3 years on the same account and not one spam message.
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Not sure whether the game is free, or cheap, or regular price.
But some show on Tech TV last night (Tech Live?) had a piece about the game.
Apparently the army has its own game development team and they are creating this game in order to show people graduating Highschool who are facing the question of "what next" what the army has to offer, etc. Basically its propaganda, a recruiting tool. And the Army seems to be pretty open about this. Unless of course there are other reasons for it. Maybe hidden survailance software, or the theme song goes along the lines of "Ymra eth nioj".
You can easily get used to the single button track pad. It's no big deal. Press Ctrl and click to right-click. And unless you are playing some game that needs a lot of right clicking, it isn't really an issue. It is even easy to press the combination with one hand (there is no pun here! honest!).
I would agree with you to some extent. I've never ran any sort of an anti virus program on my computer. Ever. And I've never had a virus.
However, I'm not sure one can criticize average computer users who most likely have other careers and matters on their minds, and couldn't care less to look up advisories for Outlook, and security fizes. As long as it downloads their mail, and as long as the box says it will keep their computer safe from hackers, I don't think they care to put in any more investment in this whole technology thing.
Who knows. One thing is for sure though: by publicising their intentions of sabotaging files on Kazaa and distributing viruses, they opened themselves up to such speculation.
For anyone interested, you can download many GPL movies at http://forum.racesimcentral.com/ . You have to register (due to past abuse) but if you like motor sports, you'll find these movies interesting.
Grand Prix Legends (GPL) is a racing simulator created by Papyrus and released in 1998. Aside from its incredibly realistic and spot on graphics, it recreates the golden era of Formula 1 with cars that had no downforce, too much horsepower for their own good and you would be hard pressed to find a clear difference between '69 GP racing and rally. These cars just loved to get sideways, and the online commmunity improved the original so much that it is a great pleasure just to watch mpeg and divx movies of interesting replays.
I loved the game so much I considered persuing computational rigid body dynamics simulation. But that was before I realized I sucked at math beyond precal and that.. I was lazy.
Sure, Racer may not be as polished as your run-of-the-mill arcade racer released by an entire development team, but at least it strives to achieve something commendable: creating an auto simulator that allows for easily made add-on cars and tracks. I am sure there are many more features as I haven't followed it that closely. It is based on ODE, an open source rigid body dynamics library and is being written by one person who is more concerne with the physics than making another arcade racer, selling a few copies and having the game totally forgotten within 3 months. Racer might go the way of Grand Prix Legends, which, 5 years after being released, is still being actively updated by the community and is THE greatest racing simulator available today ( next to NACAR{2002,2003} ).
TuxRacer will disappear into the oblivion and Racer, like GPL, might be THE shit as far as 6 years from now.
If I remember correctly, that Midnight Racing game was bundled with TNT2 video cards to show off the graphics, pretty much. It was bottom of the barrel, bargain bin demo-ware when it was released however many years ago.
But it was good for a few hours ofmindless racing with little in terms of physics. Decent graphics, pretty colors, so there might be some value to it.
I appologize to go off on a tangent here, but were you ever around Apple's repair service?
The reason that I ask is that I had more experience with ApppleCare than I would have liked. Had to replace the LCD and they sent me one with dozens of tiny bad pixels and 3 washed out spots.
If you are qualified to answer, do the AppleCare guys ever use LCDs from refurbished or scrapped PowerBooks as replacements? Because thats what I suspect happened during the first install. But who knows.
After the initial repair, my line out jack stopped working. Do these guys monkey around so much that it is possible for them to screw up the hardware inside?
(Sent it a second time for repairs - lcd and line out - and got back a good lcd, but the line out untouched... Have to send it in a third time)
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Usenet is still reserved mainly for geeks. Most have heard of "newsgroups" but have no idea what it is or how to use it. So Usenet represents a tiny financial loss to these media companies.
Kazaa and bittorrent represent a potentially huge threat to their profits. So its not about people stealing. Its about execs getting smaller bonuses. If it were up to them, TCP/IP would be abolished and all Internet traffic would be routed through their filters.
Personally, I enjoy downloading a live Israel Vibration concert that was broadcast on German TV, where I would have no other way of seeing it save for Usenet, or Kazaa. How about Formula 1 races not broadcast in the US? There are other, more obscure examples.
What are my choices?
"Either wait for us to perhaps decide to release this on DVD if we feel there is a big enough market for, or never see it at all. Either way, we'll close all available avenues of media distribution that don't include us in on the action, and all your viewing choices will be controlled by us, and what we think will bring us the greatest profits. That's right, all you can watch is Christina Aguilera in concert. We'll stuff her down your throat until you beg for more."
Thanks god for usenet and its immutaility to big business.
I haven't looked closely at how Kazaa handles file transfers, but I'd feel correct assuming that it creates direct connections between peers. So anyone can connect, start a download and type netstat -na to see a list of IPs they are talking with. Then, if they are the RIAA and they feel they have proof enough, all they have to do is instruct an ISP to hand in a user's info.
I fail to see how Kazaa can protect user privacy short of setting up proxy servers to route traffic between peers to make them entirelyanonymous, like AIM I suppose.
OK I have to ask. What the heck is this?
I was willing to tolerate *nix, since it might, however remote and esoteric, be an attempt to gather all Unixes under a single label. But *n*x?
I sure hope it does not deteriorate to a four-letter-word-like ***x. Or maybe *x or x^ ?
This gives me motivation to create and post my "hack" of installing Slackware on my CDROM-less and floppy-less ThinkPad.
Remove drive.
Connect to desktop via IDE converter kit ($5 on eBay)
Install OS.
Replace drive in laptop.
Screw it back up.
I was a hardware hacker without even realizing it!
These guys are entitled to wear the "I read your email" tshirts.
But I wanted to see the peek-tures!
Yeah, it would be interesting to know if ipfw has a logging facility, stateful connection tracking, pipes, or, really, anything more than allow/deny.
How would one stretch their hand?
> - The solitariness of most games.
You mean 'solitude'?
Not trolling. And I don't think it's the best word to use anyway. Maybe 'seclusion'.
> I've been using one for about 20 years, and my eyesight is still 20/20.
So what is your secret?
Last time I played Tetris, there was a window on the screen showing you the next block coming right up after the current, falling one.
This allows you to decide the best place to put the current block so that the next one does not end up in an askward, and disadvantageous position.
Add to that the blocks already on the bottom of the pit and there is plenty to keep track of while making decisions. I don't see how that is all that much different than action games like GTA.
I wonder whether the filter also looks at the headers for the letter.
> Hell, most of the hotmail/yahoo mail users can't even keep their mailboxes under quota.
Well, when Hotmail hands out your email address, and your mailbox ends up being bombarded with spam, and Hotmail's spam "filters" catch about 13 of the 400 spam messages in your Inbox, emptying your mailbox every other day just to make room for more spam ends up being a pointless exercise.
At least Yahoo mail seems to be an improvement over Hotmail. Over 3 years on the same account and not one spam message.
Not sure whether the game is free, or cheap, or regular price.
But some show on Tech TV last night (Tech Live?) had a piece about the game.
Apparently the army has its own game development team and they are creating this game in order to show people graduating Highschool who are facing the question of "what next" what the army has to offer, etc. Basically its propaganda, a recruiting tool. And the Army seems to be pretty open about this. Unless of course there are other reasons for it. Maybe hidden survailance software, or the theme song goes along the lines of "Ymra eth nioj".
IIRC Leisure Suit Larry 7 had that option, which would bring up some kind of a productivity-looking mock application.
You can easily get used to the single button track pad. It's no big deal. Press Ctrl and click to right-click. And unless you are playing some game that needs a lot of right clicking, it isn't really an issue. It is even easy to press the combination with one hand (there is no pun here! honest!).
I would agree with you to some extent. I've never ran any sort of an anti virus program on my computer. Ever. And I've never had a virus.
However, I'm not sure one can criticize average computer users who most likely have other careers and matters on their minds, and couldn't care less to look up advisories for Outlook, and security fizes. As long as it downloads their mail, and as long as the box says it will keep their computer safe from hackers, I don't think they care to put in any more investment in this whole technology thing.
Who knows. One thing is for sure though: by publicising their intentions of sabotaging files on Kazaa and distributing viruses, they opened themselves up to such speculation.
Yes, since it is so easy to miss ole Howie nowadays.
I think that after one cuts out all the commercials, one is left with a 2 hour show.
Seems reasonable, since every time I tune in these days, the probability that I will hit one of his 30 minute commercials is about 80%.
Last I heard Eidos was making Thief 3 and the development team included members of the old Looking Glass team. Details are few so far, though.
For anyone interested, you can download many GPL movies at http://forum.racesimcentral.com/ . You have to register (due to past abuse) but if you like motor sports, you'll find these movies interesting.
Grand Prix Legends (GPL) is a racing simulator created by Papyrus and released in 1998. Aside from its incredibly realistic and spot on graphics, it recreates the golden era of Formula 1 with cars that had no downforce, too much horsepower for their own good and you would be hard pressed to find a clear difference between '69 GP racing and rally. These cars just loved to get sideways, and the online commmunity improved the original so much that it is a great pleasure just to watch mpeg and divx movies of interesting replays.
I loved the game so much I considered persuing computational rigid body dynamics simulation. But that was before I realized I sucked at math beyond precal and that.. I was lazy.
Sure, Racer may not be as polished as your run-of-the-mill arcade racer released by an entire development team, but at least it strives to achieve something commendable: creating an auto simulator that allows for easily made add-on cars and tracks. I am sure there are many more features as I haven't followed it that closely. It is based on ODE, an open source rigid body dynamics library and is being written by one person who is more concerne with the physics than making another arcade racer, selling a few copies and having the game totally forgotten within 3 months. Racer might go the way of Grand Prix Legends, which, 5 years after being released, is still being actively updated by the community and is THE greatest racing simulator available today ( next to NACAR{2002,2003} ).
TuxRacer will disappear into the oblivion and Racer, like GPL, might be THE shit as far as 6 years from now.
If I remember correctly, that Midnight Racing game was bundled with TNT2 video cards to show off the graphics, pretty much. It was bottom of the barrel, bargain bin demo-ware when it was released however many years ago.
But it was good for a few hours ofmindless racing with little in terms of physics. Decent graphics, pretty colors, so there might be some value to it.
I appologize to go off on a tangent here, but were you ever around Apple's repair service?
The reason that I ask is that I had more experience with ApppleCare than I would have liked. Had to replace the LCD and they sent me one with dozens of tiny bad pixels and 3 washed out spots.
If you are qualified to answer, do the AppleCare guys ever use LCDs from refurbished or scrapped PowerBooks as replacements? Because thats what I suspect happened during the first install. But who knows.
After the initial repair, my line out jack stopped working. Do these guys monkey around so much that it is possible for them to screw up the hardware inside?
(Sent it a second time for repairs - lcd and line out - and got back a good lcd, but the line out untouched... Have to send it in a third time)