Back home (the MS Gulf Coast) dial-up is giving way to mom-and-pop wireless connectivity.
The area down there is largely rural north of US I-10, making even dial-up difficult due to the poor quality of telephone service in the remote areas.
So, there are a couple of companies working in partnership with cellular companies like Cingular and Sprint to put WiFi repeaters on the cell phone towers. This is a recent addition to our internet landscape in the area, but I talked to the owner of one of the ISPs and he told me that the demand was pretty high among those out in the severe boondocks...
I don't know the structure of the service, but I do know that the price is about $25/mo.
they're not quite in the same basket, though. With Intel's hyperthreading, there is still only one core, but it just uses queueing, etc. to execute multiple threads. With AMD, we're looking at physically having more than one real core on one slab.
Further, according to MS, the definition of 'cpu' is based on the number of cores located on the package. I.E., according to MS, one core == one cpu ==> one license. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Re: what about the free games they advertised?
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I watched the live webcast and they said that the intial wave of adopters would be able to register their processor and receive free games.
The microsoft rep also said that there is a site where folks can download the WinXP 64bit BETA.
Where are these things? If I could download WinXP64 (Even in BETA) and get free 64-bit games, I'd be willing to give it a whirl since I need an excuse to upgrade my PC anyway.
C'mon Eds....read the previous news posts..
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I try to give a lot of leeway on admin kinds of things, coz I know how hard it can be....
But, c'mon guys. This news bit was already posted on, on the same day. Do the eds even read/. themselves? my theory summises that they do not, given the recent (meaning weeks) slew of repeat posts...OVER AND OVER AND OVER again.
I know, this is probably a troll bait, and I probably have being modded down coming to me, but pardon me for wanting the eds to ensure that news is only reported once.
Have you read the EULA's for these games? I used to be an admin at a cybercafe where we wanted to host tournaments for these games. Our research turned up that the EULA's for these games (espescially the Blizzard titles) specifically prohibits their use in a cybercafe or other money-making venture. Just FYI and my $.02
He's not a troll. He just has the balls to admit the truth. I'm as big of a penguinista as anyone, but I'm also an honest person. This guys hits the nail right one the head. Now, let's see how many other Linux advocates are in denial and can't accept that our beloved Linux isn't as flawless as it is oft purported to be.
If we ever really want to see Linux on the desktop, we need to resolve exactly these issues and a few others: like the air of "superiority" exuded by the OS's current users. Sure, congratulate yourself for converting early; but don't alienate the exact same people you are trying to convert.
This must only apply to CS students, because I am a computer engineering student and I get more than my fair share... I suppose have a nymph for a girlfriend helps, too.:-P
Seriously, though, I sit and laugh at MS's attempts to infiltrate into the last vestiges where they don't currently have a foothold. I attend MS State and yesterday our Computer Security Research Head, Dr. Vaughn said that he sees Microsoft losing their foothold to Apple and *NIX due to their track record with security alone. But, even Apple and *NIX aren't invulnerable to security issues.
To quote him "if people don't trust them when all of the sensitive data is on one machine, what makes them think that people will trust them when their sensitive data is floating around the internet."
Two things are hindering distributed computing the way MS envisions it: deployment of sufficient broadband and TRUST. People don't trust Microsoft anymore. Even if they were to magically fix every bug in every product and release a patch for it tomorrow, people would not trust them because of their history of neglecting their consumers.
Apple is kind of in the same boat, as is Linux. People distrust Apple because Apple is notoriously narciccistic and people distrust Linux because their is no *one* entity to hold responsible for failure.
Personally, I think that this entire distributed computing push is simply a techno-fad. Sure, we will see some terrific apps emerge which can really take advantage of being interconnected via the web. But, I believe the OS and most productivity apps (like Office, Money, etc.) are at home on the client desktop. I feel that in the end, we will see a compromise be reached. Apps stored on the client with all of our custom content like our documents and such stored in a central location. Then, we can still access our work from any interconnected place, but we are not pushing an entire operating system onto the client terminal.
Sure, you lose some of the customization you may be used to having on your native box, but there's a point to that. We're talking about TERMINALS, not our WORKSTATION. The nature of terminals is that they are temporary works spaces. Let all of our custom prefs sit on our normal workstation and give us a generic "get the work done" environ on the terminals.
I am a frequent reader of Zophar's Domain and am wondering why they are making SwampGas do this. I mean, look at the Zophar store and you can easily see many other items which violate Nintendo's DMCA "rights" I.E., look at the SNES controller to Parallel port adapter. Why aren't they going after that, too? It looks to me like NOA is just trying to bully someone around here because they are a last vestige emu site and NOA couldnt attack them in any other way than this.
But, what if we *Are* God? Not in the Alec Baldwin bad medical melodrama sense, but in the sense that humanity is its own God. We choose our own fate and as such must reap our own consequences...
Go for it. Expand science to the end of the world. Just be prepared to take the heat if you happened to stroll down a less than perfect path.
The light is not ready. They are finalizing info with the manufacturers and wont even be shipping until mid-April.
Of course, I'm buying one, but get the info straight. Maybe that should be the job of the slashdot editors: double check the accuracy of info before they front-page it...
This pisses me off, actually. I go to Miss. State University(Dept. of Computer Engineering). Our computer engineering dept. is one of the top ten in the nation and we were denied our copy of this license. Yet, Southern Miss., who doesnt even have a computer engineering research dept. got one. How messed up is that?
No, it's not unrealistic for a seizure to happen. Yes, the Marshal's need a bench warrant for that. BUT, if the judge thinks that microsoft is a "flight risk," they can issue one as well. Normally, flight risk in this sense means the same thing that it does when someone is arraigned, but in this case I could see a judge extending that definition to mean removing/changing/destroying of materials precious to the feds.
I guess it's a good time to be military where I move about every couple of years. Despite my "home of residence" status, I still need to get a driver's license in the state I currently reside in. And with the majority of states using non-SSN numbers, I'll have a different number several times over very quickly. I wonder how they will handle this? Or will military personnel have our Geneva Conventions cards used as our "national ID" ?
There is a distinct difference here. If you only count "running" IE, then that would mean whenever your Windows machine is up and running with how M$ has integrated IE into the kernel.
However, if it only matters when IE is surfing the web, then we have a little bit of security by ignoring IE.. Just wondering about this point of clarity...
I registered with PayPal a long time ago (nearly a year before their merger with X.com). I had to give them banking info even way back then.
In all that time, I never had a problem with them until recently. I tried to buy a cell phone on eBay and was duped by a nefarious seller. I called PayPal customer support and they told me to contact the "card-issuing bank" for any neccessary chargebacks. I did this and then PayPal treated the chargeback as a stop payment and charged me again for the same transaction.
Highly irritated, I called PayPal back and raised holy hell about it. they told me that they dont do "chargebacks" on completed transactions (which raised the issue that we dont know if a transaction will be a success until after money is transfered and classified as complete by paypal, thus making it nearly impossible to fit into their strict requirement for a chargeback...)
Anywho, they instructed me to file a fraud complaint, which I did. Then I found out during filing the complaint that per some eBay-PayPal agreement, I have to wait 30 days to file a complaint. So, that meant I had to sit idle for over a month without a cell phone and without my bargeld (german slang - "cash").
Finally, nearly 45 days later, I managed to get PayPal to investigate (there was hardly any investigating at all, honestly) and they gave me my money back. But, all the while during their 10-day investigation, they put my account on hold, preventing me from buying sending or receiving money...
Alas, though, we are in a crux. Due to this, I have come to detest PayPal. But, their security measure, however slim, are much better than BidPay or Billpoint. So, what are we to do when our only means of performing some function is also our worst? Sounds eerily similar to the whole Microsoft conundrum.
I know that the software I am suggesting is Windows-based, but a similar solution is more than likely available for Mac. At my girlfriend's house, we use WinGate as our proxy for sharing the cable modem connection. WinGate keeps a log of the URLs (not just IP addresses) for every site that is accessed by every user connected to it. You could let her know that her surfing is being logged. Then, after she is done, you could browse through some of the URLs and see if there is anything "wrong" with them. Just an idea. Quick. Easy to Implement. Easy to maintain. Also, and this is on a different front. You may only see her PART of the time, but you are still a full-time parent. Never underestimate your influence on her even when you are absent. These are words from experience in dealing with my parents and step-parents.;-)
I went and saw the movie with some friends. For me, the best part of the entire ordeal was getting to see the Jurassic Park 3 and Final Fantasy trailers that ran before the movie. Did anyone else notice that The Rock did not have a single line other than a grunt at the very beginning. Pretty sad for one of the central characters.
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Back home (the MS Gulf Coast) dial-up is giving way to mom-and-pop wireless connectivity.
The area down there is largely rural north of US I-10, making even dial-up difficult due to the poor quality of telephone service in the remote areas.
So, there are a couple of companies working in partnership with cellular companies like Cingular and Sprint to put WiFi repeaters on the cell phone towers. This is a recent addition to our internet landscape in the area, but I talked to the owner of one of the ISPs and he told me that the demand was pretty high among those out in the severe boondocks...
I don't know the structure of the service, but I do know that the price is about $25/mo.
If all you want is portable games, buy a portable game device (GBA, NeoGeoPocket, etc)
If you want other functionality, buy a PDA.
Period.
Why is this an issue?
they're not quite in the same basket, though. With Intel's hyperthreading, there is still only one core, but it just uses queueing, etc. to execute multiple threads. With AMD, we're looking at physically having more than one real core on one slab.
Further, according to MS, the definition of 'cpu' is based on the number of cores located on the package. I.E., according to MS, one core == one cpu ==> one license. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
I watched the live webcast and they said that the intial wave of adopters would be able to register their processor and receive free games.
The microsoft rep also said that there is a site where folks can download the WinXP 64bit BETA.
Where are these things? If I could download WinXP64 (Even in BETA) and get free 64-bit games, I'd be willing to give it a whirl since I need an excuse to upgrade my PC anyway.
I try to give a lot of leeway on admin kinds of things, coz I know how hard it can be....
/. themselves? my theory summises that they do not, given the recent (meaning weeks) slew of repeat posts...OVER AND OVER AND OVER again.
But, c'mon guys. This news bit was already posted on, on the same day. Do the eds even read
I know, this is probably a troll bait, and I probably have being modded down coming to me, but pardon me for wanting the eds to ensure that news is only reported once.
very VERY good point. Kudos to you...
to photoshop, to "play nintendo", to "order a coke"... the list goes on...
Have you read the EULA's for these games? I used to be an admin at a cybercafe where we wanted to host tournaments for these games. Our research turned up that the EULA's for these games (espescially the Blizzard titles) specifically prohibits their use in a cybercafe or other money-making venture. Just FYI and my $.02
He's not a troll. He just has the balls to admit the truth. I'm as big of a penguinista as anyone, but I'm also an honest person. This guys hits the nail right one the head. Now, let's see how many other Linux advocates are in denial and can't accept that our beloved Linux isn't as flawless as it is oft purported to be.
If we ever really want to see Linux on the desktop, we need to resolve exactly these issues and a few others: like the air of "superiority" exuded by the OS's current users. Sure, congratulate yourself for converting early; but don't alienate the exact same people you are trying to convert.
This must only apply to CS students, because I am a computer engineering student and I get more than my fair share... I suppose have a nymph for a girlfriend helps, too. :-P
Seriously, though, I sit and laugh at MS's attempts to infiltrate into the last vestiges where they don't currently have a foothold. I attend MS State and yesterday our Computer Security Research Head, Dr. Vaughn said that he sees Microsoft losing their foothold to Apple and *NIX due to their track record with security alone. But, even Apple and *NIX aren't invulnerable to security issues.
To quote him "if people don't trust them when all of the sensitive data is on one machine, what makes them think that people will trust them when their sensitive data is floating around the internet."
Two things are hindering distributed computing the way MS envisions it: deployment of sufficient broadband and TRUST. People don't trust Microsoft anymore. Even if they were to magically fix every bug in every product and release a patch for it tomorrow, people would not trust them because of their history of neglecting their consumers.
Apple is kind of in the same boat, as is Linux. People distrust Apple because Apple is notoriously narciccistic and people distrust Linux because their is no *one* entity to hold responsible for failure.
Personally, I think that this entire distributed computing push is simply a techno-fad. Sure, we will see some terrific apps emerge which can really take advantage of being interconnected via the web. But, I believe the OS and most productivity apps (like Office, Money, etc.) are at home on the client desktop. I feel that in the end, we will see a compromise be reached. Apps stored on the client with all of our custom content like our documents and such stored in a central location. Then, we can still access our work from any interconnected place, but we are not pushing an entire operating system onto the client terminal.
Sure, you lose some of the customization you may be used to having on your native box, but there's a point to that. We're talking about TERMINALS, not our WORKSTATION. The nature of terminals is that they are temporary works spaces. Let all of our custom prefs sit on our normal workstation and give us a generic "get the work done" environ on the terminals.
But, that's just my opinion...
I am a frequent reader of Zophar's Domain and am wondering why they are making SwampGas do this. I mean, look at the Zophar store and you can easily see many other items which violate Nintendo's DMCA "rights" I.E., look at the SNES controller to Parallel port adapter. Why aren't they going after that, too? It looks to me like NOA is just trying to bully someone around here because they are a last vestige emu site and NOA couldnt attack them in any other way than this.
But, what if we *Are* God? Not in the Alec Baldwin bad medical melodrama sense, but in the sense that humanity is its own God. We choose our own fate and as such must reap our own consequences...
Go for it. Expand science to the end of the world. Just be prepared to take the heat if you happened to stroll down a less than perfect path.
The light is not ready. They are finalizing info with the manufacturers and wont even be shipping until mid-April.
Of course, I'm buying one, but get the info straight. Maybe that should be the job of the slashdot editors: double check the accuracy of info before they front-page it...
This pisses me off, actually. I go to Miss. State University(Dept. of Computer Engineering). Our computer engineering dept. is one of the top ten in the nation and we were denied our copy of this license. Yet, Southern Miss., who doesnt even have a computer engineering research dept. got one. How messed up is that?
No, it's not unrealistic for a seizure to happen. Yes, the Marshal's need a bench warrant for that. BUT, if the judge thinks that microsoft is a "flight risk," they can issue one as well. Normally, flight risk in this sense means the same thing that it does when someone is arraigned, but in this case I could see a judge extending that definition to mean removing/changing/destroying of materials precious to the feds.
I guess it's a good time to be military where I move about every couple of years. Despite my "home of residence" status, I still need to get a driver's license in the state I currently reside in. And with the majority of states using non-SSN numbers, I'll have a different number several times over very quickly. I wonder how they will handle this? Or will military personnel have our Geneva Conventions cards used as our "national ID" ?
There is a distinct difference here. If you only count "running" IE, then that would mean whenever your Windows machine is up and running with how M$ has integrated IE into the kernel.
However, if it only matters when IE is surfing the web, then we have a little bit of security by ignoring IE.. Just wondering about this point of clarity...
I registered with PayPal a long time ago (nearly a year before their merger with X.com). I had to give them banking info even way back then.
In all that time, I never had a problem with them until recently. I tried to buy a cell phone on eBay and was duped by a nefarious seller. I called PayPal customer support and they told me to contact the "card-issuing bank" for any neccessary chargebacks. I did this and then PayPal treated the chargeback as a stop payment and charged me again for the same transaction.
Highly irritated, I called PayPal back and raised holy hell about it. they told me that they dont do "chargebacks" on completed transactions (which raised the issue that we dont know if a transaction will be a success until after money is transfered and classified as complete by paypal, thus making it nearly impossible to fit into their strict requirement for a chargeback...)
Anywho, they instructed me to file a fraud complaint, which I did. Then I found out during filing the complaint that per some eBay-PayPal agreement, I have to wait 30 days to file a complaint. So, that meant I had to sit idle for over a month without a cell phone and without my bargeld (german slang - "cash").
Finally, nearly 45 days later, I managed to get PayPal to investigate (there was hardly any investigating at all, honestly) and they gave me my money back. But, all the while during their 10-day investigation, they put my account on hold, preventing me from buying sending or receiving money...
Alas, though, we are in a crux. Due to this, I have come to detest PayPal. But, their security measure, however slim, are much better than BidPay or Billpoint. So, what are we to do when our only means of performing some function is also our worst? Sounds eerily similar to the whole Microsoft conundrum.
All I really want for Christmas is Trainz by Auran and Strategy First...
Oh the hours I will widdle away with that one recreating our local lines...
I know that the software I am suggesting is Windows-based, but a similar solution is more than likely available for Mac. At my girlfriend's house, we use WinGate as our proxy for sharing the cable modem connection. WinGate keeps a log of the URLs (not just IP addresses) for every site that is accessed by every user connected to it. You could let her know that her surfing is being logged. Then, after she is done, you could browse through some of the URLs and see if there is anything "wrong" with them. Just an idea. Quick. Easy to Implement. Easy to maintain. Also, and this is on a different front. You may only see her PART of the time, but you are still a full-time parent. Never underestimate your influence on her even when you are absent. These are words from experience in dealing with my parents and step-parents. ;-)
I went and saw the movie with some friends. For me, the best part of the entire ordeal was getting to see the Jurassic Park 3 and Final Fantasy trailers that ran before the movie. Did anyone else notice that The Rock did not have a single line other than a grunt at the very beginning. Pretty sad for one of the central characters.