Having read "The Rules of Play" during my schooling at The Guildhall, I can honestly say that book is a complete waste of paper. The author's tone was almost child-like, so much so I expected to see "Gee Wiz! and "COOOOL DUUUDE!" at the end of any particular paragraph... Upon seeing it listed, I immediately agreed with the above poster. Mod him up.
Come on, did she not even bother to watch Hackers? Don't compare her to angelina jolie. At least Jolie helped hacked the gibson from a telephone booth.
This poor excuse for a script kiddie tried to change her grades from her dorm room and was caught she was logged from her residential IP address. LAME!
The least she could do was consult her local Blockbuster and rent a movie that would teach her not to be dumb as a tack. Not that I'm condoning Hackers as a movie with any real redeeming technical information (aside from mentioning the Dragon Book -- which owns)...
"Even Linux developers know that there is no miracle cure in Linuxland."
That lovable character GNU/Mouse, the rides like Kernel Mountain! The magestic Torvalds Castle! Oh My! I got the next boat on "Its a small patch after all!"
That quote right there was worth reading the whole crappy article.
Its not about a CPU bottleneck. Its about being able to run pixel and vertex shaders on the card faster and more efficiently thereby reducing the load on the CPU.
"Tversky and a colleague once asked subjects whether they'd prefer to be making thirty-five thousand dollars a year while those around them were making thirty-eight thousand or thirty-three thousand while those around them were making thirty thousand. They answered, in effect, that it depends on what the meaning of the word "prefer" is. Sixty-two per cent said they'd be happier in the latter case, but eighty-four per cent said they'd choose the former."
With the recent Grokster ruling it is legal to operate a search engine which catalogs public INTERNET shares indiscriminant of content. That being said 'search engines' such as Phynd and Flatlan are then legal to operate since they indiscriminantly catalogs user shares without reguard to content on an INTRANET.
Mr. Lessig: Do you think that along with fair use, the definition of 'legal file sharing within an INTRANET' as opposed to the 'legal file sharing within the INTERNET' is an important definition to make legally?
If so do you see this recent lawsuit against college students as a missed opportunity to define this share space?
Continuing, Mr. Oppenheim: I might be uninformed (as I am not a lawyer) but I was under the impression that in a Federal Civil Lawsuit Plaintiffs (RIAA) can only seek damages from the defendents' Fixed Assets. If this is correct, gargantuan 97+ billion dollar civil suits are being used as scare tactics against poor in-debt college students. yield no monetary assets.Why use scare tactics such as the aforementioned to shut down what is now ruled to be 'legal filesharing'?
Do you feel action like this will improve the image of the RIAA to future consumers of the following generations?
Damn - did you have that prewritten? I wouldnt be able to write that much BS in the first 2 mins of an article post even if the comment wasnt on topic.
Oh and btw. your a troll. that post has nothing to do with the NTBUGTRAQ article.
Man it seems like every day we find out how to define the 'trustworthy' in "trustworthy computing"
First Windows, then the Outlook bugs, then the Hotmail bugs, now the Windows Update security issues - not to mention the Shatter Exploit (fundamental unfixable Win API flaws)
when you underfund an operation that walks the razor edge between safety and firey inferno. With enough human checks of equipment much of this could have been avoided, but I believe budget cuts and lack of funds (even though Robert F. Thompson states that the costs for the operation well exceeded what they originally proposed to Nixon) were mainly to blame.
In essence, the 97-odd billion dollars the RIAA was suing for was moot. I know some of the people involved in this -- the suit was a FEDERAL civil suit. This means that they could not be sued for assets they would make in the future - but only for assets they currently posessed.
So poor college students with 0 net worth due to student loans might at worst have their car and their computer taken away but nothing more.
That is all they would be able to sue for. Frankly tho, the kids did not want to have to deal with the situation and it was easier to get out easy than for a bunch of seniors in college to have to deal with the matter.
Duke Nukem Manhattan Project was groundbreaking in its method of presentation. Truely a 3d Sidescroller - and nice to look at. We need an adventure game to utilize the same concepts so that we can satisfy Mr Wizz Bang marketers and 12 yr olds while still bringing elements of story, plot, adventure and humor to videogames.
Same with me man. Same with me. I thought OH Cool! Another beta to try.
I am in 'There' but I stopped playing once i found out that there was no way to make money in the game and that you had to pay real world $$ to get in game bucks just to buy crap like a tee-shirt...
And even if you design a tee-shirt yourself, to submit it for resale in game you must pay the developers to put it in the game! I put all the time in making a tee-shirt, modeling it to their specs, and then i have to pay to use it in game! WTF!
Synapse is great idea and all but the name calls to mind the movie Antitrust -- which then calls to mind evil Microsoft. I know this was developed under linux and by students at universities, but WHERE IS THE SOURCECODE!?
Honestly, i'd feel safer if this was under peer review rather than just some downloadable exe or linux binary that does who knows what and sends out god knows what to people I dont know.
What the heck! I swear. My roomate came up with that idea last year and was going to try to implement it. Oh well. Caltech got it too and finished it first. I cant wait to play!
Phynd and Flatlan are Local Area Network Topography scanners. They indiscriminately catalogue all information on a network and give that information a searchable web frontend. Its not like these services were designed to pirate mp3s specifically, they were designed to provide a cumulative list of a network's content. Just because students are sharing mp3s on the network shouldnt make the student running the website responsible for the network's content. It isnt up to him to selectively remove offensive content. Its up to the person who is sharing the information. I for one know that this tool has been used by my university to stop the spreading of the Nimbda and ILOVEYOU viruses from spreading all over our network. It was possible to search for all computers sharing infected files and their IPs, disable their network connections, and wait for them to call to complain about their internet not working. At that point the school's tech support staff could inform the user they were infected with a virus. Overall it took about a week or so, but the network is now free and clear of the viruses. A feat I do not think would have been possible without services like this being run.
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Having read "The Rules of Play" during my schooling at The Guildhall, I can honestly say that book is a complete waste of paper. The author's tone was almost child-like, so much so I expected to see "Gee Wiz! and "COOOOL DUUUDE!" at the end of any particular paragraph... Upon seeing it listed, I immediately agreed with the above poster. Mod him up.
I'm working on one. Here is a link to my development blog.
It isnt piracy when your operating system and all of its software is Free.
During the install Peerguardian detected communication to/from:
Sitefinder (ip: 12.158.80.10:80) on local ports 3901->3906
Upon installing the google web accelerator, during web browsing my box immediately started trying to send information to/from
http://www.ctyme.com/ (ip address: 209.237.228.10:80) from ports 3978->4108
I have run peerguardian for a LONG time now and have never seen communication to either of these sites until installing the Google Web Accelerator.
Can anyone else confirm/deny?
This chick is like a lame script kiddie!
Come on, did she not even bother to watch Hackers? Don't compare her to angelina jolie. At least Jolie helped hacked the gibson from a telephone booth.
This poor excuse for a script kiddie tried to change her grades from her dorm room and was caught she was logged from her residential IP address. LAME!
The least she could do was consult her local Blockbuster and rent a movie that would teach her not to be dumb as a tack. Not that I'm condoning Hackers as a movie with any real redeeming technical information (aside from mentioning the Dragon Book -- which owns)...
I'm pretty much just calling her stupid.
Why would the porn industry be interested in conducting a survey of the lifetime of digital media?
I say porn industry because its DVDA.org... Double vag... come on, you all watch southpark.
"Even Linux developers know that there is no miracle cure in Linuxland."
That lovable character GNU/Mouse, the rides like Kernel Mountain! The magestic Torvalds Castle! Oh My! I got the next boat on "Its a small patch after all!"
That quote right there was worth reading the whole crappy article.
Its not about a CPU bottleneck. Its about being able to run pixel and vertex shaders on the card faster and more efficiently thereby reducing the load on the CPU.
"Tversky and a colleague once asked subjects whether they'd prefer to be making thirty-five thousand dollars a year while those around them were making thirty-eight thousand or thirty-three thousand while those around them were making thirty thousand. They answered, in effect, that it depends on what the meaning of the word "prefer" is. Sixty-two per cent said they'd be happier in the latter case, but eighty-four per cent said they'd choose the former."
62+84 != 100.
I make the choice to not believe that. HAH!
This is what I posted:
With the recent Grokster ruling it is legal to operate a search engine which catalogs public INTERNET shares indiscriminant of content. That being said 'search engines' such as Phynd and Flatlan are then legal to operate since they indiscriminantly catalogs user shares without reguard to content on an INTRANET.
Mr. Lessig: Do you think that along with fair use, the definition of 'legal file sharing within an INTRANET' as opposed to the 'legal file sharing within the INTERNET' is an important definition to make legally?
If so do you see this recent lawsuit against college students as a missed opportunity to define this share space?
Continuing, Mr. Oppenheim: I might be uninformed (as I am not a lawyer) but I was under the impression that in a Federal Civil Lawsuit Plaintiffs (RIAA) can only seek damages from the defendents' Fixed Assets. If this is correct, gargantuan 97+ billion dollar civil suits are being used as scare tactics against poor in-debt college students. yield no monetary assets.Why use scare tactics such as the aforementioned to shut down what is now ruled to be 'legal filesharing'?
Do you feel action like this will improve the image of the RIAA to future consumers of the following generations?
Ok it does mention Windows Update. But its still quite a TROLL post.
Damn - did you have that prewritten? I wouldnt be able to write that much BS in the first 2 mins of an article post even if the comment wasnt on topic.
Oh and btw. your a troll. that post has nothing to do with the NTBUGTRAQ article.
Man it seems like every day we find out how to define the 'trustworthy' in "trustworthy computing"
:)
First Windows, then the Outlook bugs, then the Hotmail bugs, now the Windows Update security issues - not to mention the Shatter Exploit (fundamental unfixable Win API flaws)
Mmm I love days like today.
when you underfund an operation that walks the razor edge between safety and firey inferno. With enough human checks of equipment much of this could have been avoided, but I believe budget cuts and lack of funds (even though Robert F. Thompson states that the costs for the operation well exceeded what they originally proposed to Nixon) were mainly to blame.
Good luck X Prize competitors
In essence, the 97-odd billion dollars the RIAA was suing for was moot. I know some of the people involved in this -- the suit was a FEDERAL civil suit. This means that they could not be sued for assets they would make in the future - but only for assets they currently posessed.
So poor college students with 0 net worth due to student loans might at worst have their car and their computer taken away but nothing more.
That is all they would be able to sue for. Frankly tho, the kids did not want to have to deal with the situation and it was easier to get out easy than for a bunch of seniors in college to have to deal with the matter.
Duke Nukem Manhattan Project was groundbreaking in its method of presentation. Truely a 3d Sidescroller - and nice to look at. We need an adventure game to utilize the same concepts so that we can satisfy Mr Wizz Bang marketers and 12 yr olds while still bringing elements of story, plot, adventure and humor to videogames.
Same with me man. Same with me. I thought OH Cool! Another beta to try.
I am in 'There' but I stopped playing once i found out that there was no way to make money in the game and that you had to pay real world $$ to get in game bucks just to buy crap like a tee-shirt...
And even if you design a tee-shirt yourself, to submit it for resale in game you must pay the developers to put it in the game! I put all the time in making a tee-shirt, modeling it to their specs, and then i have to pay to use it in game! WTF!
These guys need a better business model.
Synapse is great idea and all but the name calls to mind the movie Antitrust -- which then calls to mind evil Microsoft. I know this was developed under linux and by students at universities, but WHERE IS THE SOURCECODE!?
Honestly, i'd feel safer if this was under peer review rather than just some downloadable exe or linux binary that does who knows what and sends out god knows what to people I dont know.
What the heck! I swear. My roomate came up with that idea last year and was going to try to implement it. Oh well. Caltech got it too and finished it first. I cant wait to play!
Phynd and Flatlan are Local Area Network Topography scanners. They indiscriminately catalogue all information on a network and give that information a searchable web frontend. Its not like these services were designed to pirate mp3s specifically, they were designed to provide a cumulative list of a network's content. Just because students are sharing mp3s on the network shouldnt make the student running the website responsible for the network's content. It isnt up to him to selectively remove offensive content. Its up to the person who is sharing the information. I for one know that this tool has been used by my university to stop the spreading of the Nimbda and ILOVEYOU viruses from spreading all over our network. It was possible to search for all computers sharing infected files and their IPs, disable their network connections, and wait for them to call to complain about their internet not working. At that point the school's tech support staff could inform the user they were infected with a virus. Overall it took about a week or so, but the network is now free and clear of the viruses. A feat I do not think would have been possible without services like this being run.
Too bad they're gone now.
Finally, the mathematics we need to generate the 1.21 jigawatts to go ...
WHAT THE HELL IS A JIGAWATT!
nuff said.
What I really wanted was an ethernet port on my toaster...
:)
Oh well... Imagine a beowulf... No no... i'm not going there.
Just when i wanted to get a 17 inch powerbook. Damn those rotten apples
Point well taken.
;)
Note to self, be sure to reread before posting after a long night of festivities
no that'd be me. Okay so forget my last post.
In the words of the french guy from sealab...
"Aww beep."