The company i work for has a tool exactly for this kind of situation called DBMail (available, open source, at http://www.wodan.net./ It does exactly this: store mail in a database, making your system as scalable as your system of choice. We currently have a few setups of half a million users, and there is no reason why a bigger setup wouldn't be possible. If you need help or want to know more, mail me:)
I submitted the story in the morning that day, it got placed late in the afternoon. I guess they chose the first poster of the story. This story does go somewhat further into the whole thing tho.
basing a game on a movie like this is never easy, but imho it's a good game, the look and feel is nice, very nice and the gameplay is decent. I wonder tho, if i would find it just as great a game if it wasn't based on the movie. Purely hypothetical ofcourse, and it's probably THE reason for making this game, but my feeling towards it is undoubtedly affected by the feeling i have for the movie.
I found myself thinking ` ow cool, gotta try that ' just because of having seen the movie...
Funny isn't it? how my brain always fucks me in to spending money....
The question is will they give any of this money to the people bothered by the calls? They were probably bothered once or twice during dinner, or at some other point of the day, but they took the time to call AT&T about it, and were called anyway... Maybe, just maybe, they will get some of this `pain' reimbursed...
This portable version, even with learning features in it, will still be half as nice as the website version, since the web-version can learn from a lot more tries then the portable version.
I think it's not really possible to check on each voting machine if the software on that machine is the one your government told you was safe and good... At least not in a way any non-geek would understand...
A distributed system would be somewhat easier to control, if you only use a `couple of servers' i'm sure you can get some geeks to check a few md5 hashes...
However then it's still your government telling you that it's safe, the same people you might not want to re-elect. So what you really want is a system where they use and open-source, distributed voting system, or you want no electronic voting at all. It's just way to important a thing to treat so simply.
And i know i'm making this distributed thing to easy, but i think that the open-source community would be willing to help figure out how it should be done.
IANAL, but doesn't this give reason for some sort of lawsuit? Joker have, on account of one false complaint about wrong adres info, suspended a service which i presume was still being paid, without any warnings after their first one, though a reply had been given. I don't know which law applies here, but in Holland, this would be reason enough for a court meeting.
On top of that, there is ofcourse the question of: how is this possible? are there rules for actions of this kind? returning a fax is, IMHO, indeed no prove at all, though it will probably hold in court.
And a question to the lawyers here: if you, with bad intentions, use this method to bring down sites, is that a crime? I'd think yes, but then, Joker has to give the name of the person that claimed te info being false.
In all: interesting things may come out of this...
Games without voice acting can be cool too ofcourse, it's just that in some games it adds up to the action. When you're making millions on a game, i'm sure you can fit in a few people to say something...
On the other hand, my game experience is not dependent on voices, it's dependent on the look and feel of a game...
redundant? true was it possible not to be redundant? yeah perhaps, if i had written this even faster.... there were like 20 `double post' or `dupe' replies in a few secs....
From the Reuters story:
Tully said one issue is whether this technology can be produced in volume the way silicon chips are made.
"Because semiconductor manufacturing technology is well developed, you can produce millions at quite low cost," said Tully, who is not familiar with Enlight.
The question is thus how long it will take before they can produce this in great quantities, before that, it will be useful but not in our desktopsystems. Above that the prototype is large and we have yet to see that they can deliver to their promise of a small version.
Other than that: i'd love to have it:).
The contracts we use at the company i work for, allow us to do a lote more then to just fire you for disposing any company secrets we don't want you to expose. We'd give you at least a 5000 euro fine on top. But then again, this guy get's to pay that anyhow for the bandwith his blog is now using:).
But seriously: he was wrong, MS is right in this case. He himself says he was trying not to compromise any rules, he should have thought harder....
If MS wants to be secretive about their location and has her reasons for that, they are fully in title to.
1: who is `we', are we talking about the us here? if u consider that this is the country spending more on the military and space travel then on their own people, i wouldn't use this as an argument.
2: not being able to spend enough money on sociale welfare programs to satisfy everyone is not an excuse; it's a pointer that the problem is bigger than we at this point in time can foresee.
According to studies, every dollar spent in space has returned at least $10 into the wider economy.
`wider economy' being north american and european? with all this money going into aids research, we might have had less money earned but more lives saved. Calculating the profits of research money wise is just one of the problems of our age.
i agree that we got a lot of nice discoveries out of space travel and research, but mankind won't stop inventing once they get less money to be blown into space.
I think we have enough problems we could solve on earth with all the money that goes into space travel. Shrinking the budget by 90% and using that money to get food, medicines, clothing and housing to all people in the world in need is, IMHO, a far better idea than discussing why we need to go in space and doiing it anyways. The other 10% should get us some interesting results in a few decades, by that time we might have more control over our own kinds well being.
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But the contest on booting Windows on Macs made them put this out early?
The company i work for has a tool exactly for this kind of situation called DBMail (available, open source, at http://www.wodan.net./ It does exactly this: store mail in a database, making your system as scalable as your system of choice. We currently have a few setups of half a million users, and there is no reason why a bigger setup wouldn't be possible. If you need help or want to know more, mail me :)
I submitted the story in the morning that day, it got placed late in the afternoon. I guess they chose the first poster of the story. This story does go somewhat further into the whole thing tho.
basing a game on a movie like this is never easy, but imho it's a good game, the look and feel is nice, very nice and the gameplay is decent. I wonder tho, if i would find it just as great a game if it wasn't based on the movie. Purely hypothetical ofcourse, and it's probably THE reason for making this game, but my feeling towards it is undoubtedly affected by the feeling i have for the movie.
I found myself thinking ` ow cool, gotta try that ' just because of having seen the movie...
Funny isn't it? how my brain always fucks me in to spending money....
The question is will they give any of this money to the people bothered by the calls? They were probably bothered once or twice during dinner, or at some other point of the day, but they took the time to call AT&T about it, and were called anyway... Maybe, just maybe, they will get some of this `pain' reimbursed...
This portable version, even with learning features in it, will still be half as nice as the website version, since the web-version can learn from a lot more tries then the portable version.
I think it's not really possible to check on each voting machine if the software on that machine is the one your government told you was safe and good... At least not in a way any non-geek would understand...
A distributed system would be somewhat easier to control, if you only use a `couple of servers' i'm sure you can get some geeks to check a few md5 hashes...
However then it's still your government telling you that it's safe, the same people you might not want to re-elect. So what you really want is a system where they use and open-source, distributed voting system, or you want no electronic voting at all. It's just way to important a thing to treat so simply.
And i know i'm making this distributed thing to easy, but i think that the open-source community would be willing to help figure out how it should be done.
IANAL, but doesn't this give reason for some sort of lawsuit? Joker have, on account of one false complaint about wrong adres info, suspended a service which i presume was still being paid, without any warnings after their first one, though a reply had been given. I don't know which law applies here, but in Holland, this would be reason enough for a court meeting.
On top of that, there is ofcourse the question of: how is this possible? are there rules for actions of this kind? returning a fax is, IMHO, indeed no prove at all, though it will probably hold in court.
And a question to the lawyers here: if you, with bad intentions, use this method to bring down sites, is that a crime? I'd think yes, but then, Joker has to give the name of the person that claimed te info being false.
In all: interesting things may come out of this...
True, but as game makers are artists, they might want to bring over what kind of speech they had in their head when thinking of a certain scene...
Games without voice acting can be cool too ofcourse, it's just that in some games it adds up to the action. When you're making millions on a game, i'm sure you can fit in a few people to say something...
On the other hand, my game experience is not dependent on voices, it's dependent on the look and feel of a game...
redundant? true
was it possible not to be redundant? yeah perhaps, if i had written this even faster.... there were like 20 `double post' or `dupe' replies in a few secs....
This post was made yesterday already:0 /29/143420 3&mode=thread&tid=137
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/1
From the Reuters story: Tully said one issue is whether this technology can be produced in volume the way silicon chips are made. "Because semiconductor manufacturing technology is well developed, you can produce millions at quite low cost," said Tully, who is not familiar with Enlight. The question is thus how long it will take before they can produce this in great quantities, before that, it will be useful but not in our desktopsystems. Above that the prototype is large and we have yet to see that they can deliver to their promise of a small version. Other than that: i'd love to have it :).
The contracts we use at the company i work for, allow us to do a lote more then to just fire you for disposing any company secrets we don't want you to expose. We'd give you at least a 5000 euro fine on top. But then again, this guy get's to pay that anyhow for the bandwith his blog is now using :).
But seriously: he was wrong, MS is right in this case. He himself says he was trying not to compromise any rules, he should have thought harder....
If MS wants to be secretive about their location and has her reasons for that, they are fully in title to.
Hmmm these pics look like this movie i've seen.... What's it called again? `Money's to tight to mention? '
1: who is `we', are we talking about the us here? if u consider that this is the country spending more on the military and space travel then on their own people, i wouldn't use this as an argument.
2: not being able to spend enough money on sociale welfare programs to satisfy everyone is not an excuse; it's a pointer that the problem is bigger than we at this point in time can foresee.
According to studies, every dollar spent in space has returned at least $10 into the wider economy.
`wider economy' being north american and european? with all this money going into aids research, we might have had less money earned but more lives saved. Calculating the profits of research money wise is just one of the problems of our age.
i agree that we got a lot of nice discoveries out of
space travel and research, but mankind won't stop inventing once they get less money to be blown into space.
i will as well, when it is the subject of conversation :). I think that is ridicolous to, but hell, i can complain about loads of things.
I think we have enough problems we could solve on earth with all the money that goes into space travel. Shrinking the budget by 90% and using that money to get food, medicines, clothing and housing to all people in the world in need is, IMHO, a far better idea than discussing why we need to go in space and doiing it anyways.
The other 10% should get us some interesting results in a few decades, by that time we might have more control over our own kinds well being.
Windows only beta client.
OK, back to work.