I really enjoyed Ender's Game and the following books in the series, they *are* good sci-fi in my estimation. I also enjoyed Niven's Ringworld and Greg Baer's Eon. I'd enjoy seeing alot of sci-fi movies well constructed but the fact of the matter is, alot of sci-fi is less action and more mental... and that makes a bad movie generally. Ender's game because of the way it was written lends itself well to a movie.
... I'm not that impressed. Technically the product looks to be superior but performance wise it's not doing well... it seems more like a "dud" generation like the early fx series leafbl... graphics cards nvidia put out. I think the next generation of nvidia and ati cards are going to be much more interesting than the present generation. Have to wait and see though.
Not really, first time I hear about ads in a game without an option to disable them 100%, from any company (I don't care who) just means I won't buy that game at all. It's not about shoes, drinks, or car insurance. Shrug. These advertising companies just need to fsck off... we're in a well connected world we don't need marketed to.
However as a writer I have alot of respect for his work and his ability to tell an interesting and complex story. Enders Game and The Tales of Alvin Maker are great stories and series in and of themselves and I think it's nice to see someone who sticks to their guns for a change and won't let their movie be utterly butchered... like ULG's Wizard of Earthsea, that was so sad.:(
That is about the absolute best review I've ever seen for any movie and it's enough to make me go see the movie several days sooner than I had planned... I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie now.
Hopefully OSC can get someone to make Ender's Game the right way, hell I'd even settle for the Tales of Alvin Maker... (speaking of which there is an MMORPG coming out based on that-- same people who did A Tale in the Desert.)
... and I understand alot more than the younger generation does for the most part, but I still wish I had been born 30-50 years later or 10 years earlier.
disintegration is much to nice for telemarketers... i'd prefer a setting like "electrocute just enough for constant convulsions" or "electrocute for partial facial paralysis" or perhaps "electrocute till urination."
Bet if everytime they called your house the company they worked for had to wash the floor you'd get *alot* less calls.
hehe... I gotta say though, I really *love* the DNCL. It's cut my daily telemarketing calls from about 10-12 a day to 1 a week or so. I can live with that, usually the 1 a week is an exempt caller anyways.
There is very little other than spam that is as annoying as telemarketing.
Kinda strange, most everyone I know who has moved to gmail says they can't imagine how they used yahoo mail in the past after using gmail.
Personally, I like gmail alot. It's a really fluid system and is well designed with the user in mind, about the only thing I really disagree with is the sign up method if you don't get an invite.
They can't get a baby book out and look up a few more names? They didn't even get a name for ever letter of the alphabet?! What are we paying them for!!?
The eq2 changes are utter crap basically. I've been in the beta and early on they really seemed to listen once we got down to last 2-3 weeks the devs shut up and quit listening to the players. I wouldn't really call the game playable anymore for alot of classes. I'll be glad to be able to actually play the game again in a reasonable manor in the next month or so after they patch it 30-40 times to fix all the very broken stuff everyone in beta reported the past few weeks.
... 2 KVM, 2 19" LCD, wireless kb/mouse for KVM, ethernet hub, a small file server, cd server, a set of restore disks for whatever computers you use, ghost cds, knoppix cd, "drivers and utilities" cd, antistatic top, grounding strap connections, diagnostic equipment, etc
In my opinion you're going to need a cluster of servers or at least round robin'd mx records for the servers. I personally think sendmail scales the best of the mta packages and offers the best set of features and ease of maintenance, although alot of people would argue it's intrinsicly insecure... I've never had problems, but I kept our mail servers up to date. I would seperate the smtp machines the outside world uses to deliver mail to your space from the servers used by users of your service to deliver mail. I would also move delivery services (imap, pop, webmail) to their own machines instead of having them on the smtp machine and you would probally be best to use a nas for the actual storage medium. This is actually a really interesting project. Good luck and let us know how it turns out:)
... that really sucks, darwina is a *great* game, I had a total ball with it. Unfortunete that the new xcom's and privateers aren't going to see the light of day in a big way because publishers are afraid to step a half inch outside the formula of unoriginal duplicate games they've been selling for two years. It's a large part of whats hurting the game industry at this point. sad really.:(
... if they were any good. 95% of all the publishers put out these days is absolute crap and completely unoriginal showing no innovation or advancement for the industry. All an increase in price of games is going to do is this:
1) Cause me to wait longer to buy games (eg: even if I *think* I'll like it, ill wait a few weeks to see what my non-biased friends think instead of listening to supposed 'non-biased' magazines who get kickbacks.)
2) Cause me to wait until a mediocre game hits the bargain bin.
Shrug, they can charge anything they want, if it's crap people arent gonna like buying it... all they're doing is alienating their customers really.
Sgt.Smith: "Damnit Jones, firefox. Another criminal goes free." Lt.Jones: "You you know Smith, I sometimes wonder if we just were competant with computers if we could well, you know, understand basic computer forensics instead of relying on software to do it for us?" Sgt.Smith: "Shutup Jones, theres a way we do things here, it's the microsoft way, all other ways are abhorant and methods of the terrorists." Lt.Jones: "Good call Smith!"
*sigh* It's only sad because it could be true. Police forces need to hire security professionals and train them to be computer forensics. Not hire police officers and rely on them to learn the ins and outs of computer security.
It's basically crap. It uses RBL's that have been proven time and time again to be extreme loose cannons, RBL's like ahbl that block netblocks up to the size of a/16 to catch a few specific hosts.
Silly. One of the many reasons alot of people are going to URIBLs.
In summary- Just another RBL that no one can use because they block to much legitimate traffic.
... after hosting using Exim3 and Exim4, Postfix, and Sendmail... if i were doing a "Large" config again (read 1000+ domains, 30k+ accounts) I wouldn't consider anything *but* sendmail. It's not the easiest, newest, or anything like that, but it does scale extremely well. The setup I'm currently using (about 10 domains, 70ish accounts) is:
Exim4 SMTP Dovecott IMAP and POP3 Bogofilter Spamassassin (SA-Exim) Clam-AV
It's a rocking system, I'm currently having about 18000 messages a day tossed at me of which about ~17000 are spam. My personal accounts were getting about 2500 spam/day until I enabled all the anti-spam software and virus removal. I now get about 1-2 Spam a day and I've not had a single false positive.
For a small mid range setup I would probally use exim4. It's simple, has great features, and it's nice to have spamassassin at smtp time instead of having to process the entire message.
I don't recommend standard RBL's, however, the URI RBL's are *extremely* effective and an order of magnatude more sane in what they block (eg: if the message contains a link to viagraforyou.com it blocks the message, rather than blocking random dsl servers and/16 netblocks of ip addresses to catch a single spammer... some of the standard rbl's are nutzo.)
Theres a nice tutorial and informational link about using all the good features of sendmail and several additional ideas and theories on what is effective and what isn't at http://acme.com/mail_filtering/ the guy gets *insane* quantities of mail (mostly spam) and tells how he deals with it.
Synopsis: Large site- Sendmail, Medium/Small Site- Exim4.
Alot of people like qmail and postfix over sendmail and exim, but I just don't care for them having used them. Although if forced to choose between postfix and qmail it would be qmail.
When was the last time you bought a retail video card? They come with an average of 5-6 games, not to mention that you'll get more with the sound too (if you're not using onboard.)
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I really enjoyed Ender's Game and the following books in the series, they *are* good sci-fi in my estimation. I also enjoyed Niven's Ringworld and Greg Baer's Eon. I'd enjoy seeing alot of sci-fi movies well constructed but the fact of the matter is, alot of sci-fi is less action and more mental... and that makes a bad movie generally. Ender's game because of the way it was written lends itself well to a movie.
... I'm not that impressed. Technically the product looks to be superior but performance wise it's not doing well... it seems more like a "dud" generation like the early fx series leafbl... graphics cards nvidia put out. I think the next generation of nvidia and ati cards are going to be much more interesting than the present generation. Have to wait and see though.
Not really, first time I hear about ads in a game without an option to disable them 100%, from any company (I don't care who) just means I won't buy that game at all. It's not about shoes, drinks, or car insurance. Shrug. These advertising companies just need to fsck off... we're in a well connected world we don't need marketed to.
As a person I don't have alot of respect for OSC.
:(
However as a writer I have alot of respect for his work and his ability to tell an interesting and complex story. Enders Game and The Tales of Alvin Maker are great stories and series in and of themselves and I think it's nice to see someone who sticks to their guns for a change and won't let their movie be utterly butchered... like ULG's Wizard of Earthsea, that was so sad.
That is about the absolute best review I've ever seen for any movie and it's enough to make me go see the movie several days sooner than I had planned... I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie now.
Hopefully OSC can get someone to make Ender's Game the right way, hell I'd even settle for the Tales of Alvin Maker... (speaking of which there is an MMORPG coming out based on that-- same people who did A Tale in the Desert.)
... there can be only one.
Shhhhiinnnng.
I think we've only got EBWorld's left around here... all others have fell before them.
... the better technology IF space isn't an issue.
If you've got the space for the extra servers clusters are great, if you don't have that kind of excess space then fault tolerance is top of the mark.
... and I understand alot more than the younger generation does for the most part, but I still wish I had been born 30-50 years later or 10 years earlier.
disintegration is much to nice for telemarketers... i'd prefer a setting like "electrocute just enough for constant convulsions" or "electrocute for partial facial paralysis" or perhaps "electrocute till urination."
Bet if everytime they called your house the company they worked for had to wash the floor you'd get *alot* less calls.
Our society is to nice really.
hehe... I gotta say though, I really *love* the DNCL. It's cut my daily telemarketing calls from about 10-12 a day to 1 a week or so. I can live with that, usually the 1 a week is an exempt caller anyways.
There is very little other than spam that is as annoying as telemarketing.
... be more fun if they had it shock the hell out of the doctors for each mistake. Say bout like a cattle prod.
Kinda strange, most everyone I know who has moved to gmail says they can't imagine how they used yahoo mail in the past after using gmail.
Personally, I like gmail alot. It's a really fluid system and is well designed with the user in mind, about the only thing I really disagree with is the sign up method if you don't get an invite.
They can't get a baby book out and look up a few more names? They didn't even get a name for ever letter of the alphabet?! What are we paying them for!!?
... testing says, IE is crap, FF is not. That and FF actually fixes its bugs.
Test:
Run IE For One Week, With Virus Detection of your choice.
Run Firefox for One Week, With Same Virus Protection.
End of Each Week, run adaware and spybot. Which browser has more cruft built up in a week?
IE. Everytime.
The eq2 changes are utter crap basically. I've been in the beta and early on they really seemed to listen once we got down to last 2-3 weeks the devs shut up and quit listening to the players. I wouldn't really call the game playable anymore for alot of classes. I'll be glad to be able to actually play the game again in a reasonable manor in the next month or so after they patch it 30-40 times to fix all the very broken stuff everyone in beta reported the past few weeks.
... 2 KVM, 2 19" LCD, wireless kb/mouse for KVM, ethernet hub, a small file server, cd server, a set of restore disks for whatever computers you use, ghost cds, knoppix cd, "drivers and utilities" cd, antistatic top, grounding strap connections, diagnostic equipment, etc
In my opinion you're going to need a cluster of servers or at least round robin'd mx records for the servers. I personally think sendmail scales the best of the mta packages and offers the best set of features and ease of maintenance, although alot of people would argue it's intrinsicly insecure... I've never had problems, but I kept our mail servers up to date. I would seperate the smtp machines the outside world uses to deliver mail to your space from the servers used by users of your service to deliver mail. I would also move delivery services (imap, pop, webmail) to their own machines instead of having them on the smtp machine and you would probally be best to use a nas for the actual storage medium. This is actually a really interesting project. Good luck and let us know how it turns out :)
heh, thats actually a unit in the game. Good ol recogniser eh? :)
... that really sucks, darwina is a *great* game, I had a total ball with it. Unfortunete that the new xcom's and privateers aren't going to see the light of day in a big way because publishers are afraid to step a half inch outside the formula of unoriginal duplicate games they've been selling for two years. It's a large part of whats hurting the game industry at this point. sad really. :(
... i'd just love to know what feature they're requiring that everyone else DOESN'T have... I wonder if opera using it's browser masking could do it?
... if they were any good. 95% of all the publishers put out these days is absolute crap and completely unoriginal showing no innovation or advancement for the industry. All an increase in price of games is going to do is this:
1) Cause me to wait longer to buy games (eg: even if I *think* I'll like it, ill wait a few weeks to see what my non-biased friends think instead of listening to supposed 'non-biased' magazines who get kickbacks.)
2) Cause me to wait until a mediocre game hits the bargain bin.
Shrug, they can charge anything they want, if it's crap people arent gonna like buying it... all they're doing is alienating their customers really.
Sgt.Smith: "Damnit Jones, firefox. Another criminal goes free."
Lt.Jones: "You you know Smith, I sometimes wonder if we just were competant with computers if we could well, you know, understand basic computer forensics instead of relying on software to do it for us?"
Sgt.Smith: "Shutup Jones, theres a way we do things here, it's the microsoft way, all other ways are abhorant and methods of the terrorists."
Lt.Jones: "Good call Smith!"
*sigh* It's only sad because it could be true. Police forces need to hire security professionals and train them to be computer forensics. Not hire police officers and rely on them to learn the ins and outs of computer security.
It's basically crap. It uses RBL's that have been proven time and time again to be extreme loose cannons, RBL's like ahbl that block netblocks up to the size of a /16 to catch a few specific hosts.
Silly. One of the many reasons alot of people are going to URIBLs.
In summary- Just another RBL that no one can use because they block to much legitimate traffic.
I have 5 personal domains and host several others, I'm well aware.
... after hosting using Exim3 and Exim4, Postfix, and Sendmail... if i were doing a "Large" config again (read 1000+ domains, 30k+ accounts) I wouldn't consider anything *but* sendmail. It's not the easiest, newest, or anything like that, but it does scale extremely well. The setup I'm currently using (about 10 domains, 70ish accounts) is:
/16 netblocks of ip addresses to catch a single spammer... some of the standard rbl's are nutzo.)
Exim4 SMTP
Dovecott IMAP and POP3
Bogofilter
Spamassassin (SA-Exim)
Clam-AV
It's a rocking system, I'm currently having about 18000 messages a day tossed at me of which about ~17000 are spam. My personal accounts were getting about 2500 spam/day until I enabled all the anti-spam software and virus removal. I now get about 1-2 Spam a day and I've not had a single false positive.
For a small mid range setup I would probally use exim4. It's simple, has great features, and it's nice to have spamassassin at smtp time instead of having to process the entire message.
I don't recommend standard RBL's, however, the URI RBL's are *extremely* effective and an order of magnatude more sane in what they block (eg: if the message contains a link to viagraforyou.com it blocks the message, rather than blocking random dsl servers and
Theres a nice tutorial and informational link about using all the good features of sendmail and several additional ideas and theories on what is effective and what isn't at http://acme.com/mail_filtering/ the guy gets *insane* quantities of mail (mostly spam) and tells how he deals with it.
Synopsis: Large site- Sendmail, Medium/Small Site- Exim4.
Alot of people like qmail and postfix over sendmail and exim, but I just don't care for them having used them. Although if forced to choose between postfix and qmail it would be qmail.
When was the last time you bought a retail video card? They come with an average of 5-6 games, not to mention that you'll get more with the sound too (if you're not using onboard.)