> Here's the catch, the original still dies. > Meaning you still die, but a backup lives on.
Better yet...brain transplant... meaning the copy dies and my brain gets moved. To get there we only need to be able to figure out now to cause nerves to reconnect correctly and how to keep the brain from deteriorating over time.
> (How many times have we heard on here > "You've got the code! Fix it!").
About as many times as I've heard people whining over a product that I'm producing in my freetime, for no money, because it does something *I* need it to do, which I decided might benefit someone else so I made the code public domain.
Idealism and Youth are generally associated togeather because once you get about 30 you have generally become so jaded that you loose all of your idealism:). Hell I was only idealistic until about 17, then I realized the world isn't a nice place, people don't give a shit, and the government will screw you at any opportunity so long as it lines the pockets any number of given politicians. Being grown up isn't boring at all it's simply a different state of mind, you've lived a bit and learned alot. Shrug.
... that this isn't a hoax. How long till all of the said players fix their security? A week? Tops? Hell if it isn't a hoax, I wouldn't be surprised if they made some changes to make buffer overflows from the headers of mp3s impossible.
If they transmitted alot of peoples media library back to RIAA... boy you talk about your DDOS attack:P RIAA would DDOS themselves off the net if they did this... I know people with MP3 libs of over 2.4mb when you do a straight "dir/s *.mp3 > filelist.txt"...
I was also always under this impression, never cared for rpg and the derivitives... hated slackware's 'package management' *cough*. Then I tried Gentoo's portage based system... a week of using that and I was totally sold. I replaced all the debian stuff on my network with gentoo, it is easier to work with, its more optimized, and it seems to have less cruft by default. Good stuff. The *bsd* people had the right idea with the portage stuff.
heh... SWG is going to do fine, they've added in all the addictive features of everquest, tossed in a genre several generations have grown up loving, and made it class based and time eating. People will flock to this game, infact-- if this game doesn't have more subscribers inside the first year than everquest does presently, I'll eat a dozen raw habanaro peppers (very slowly with alot of milk of course.)
Shadowbane however, I don't feel will do as well as eq2, eq, or swg. It focuses to much on pvp-- dont get me wrong, the game will do well I belive, just not as well as the previously mentioned games. I think shadowbane will have probally 30k-75k players that stick... I look for swg to hit about 250-500k that stick. EQ2 will eat better than half of the eq players I think... not to mention pick up hmm 75k of it's own. The market is getting more diluted, I dont think you are going to see any games do as well as swg for a long long time... swg has alot of massmarket appeal the others don't have.
(Side Note: I've played ac, ac2, uo, daoc, ao, eq, lineage, and many many many muds over the years and gotten fairly high in most of them... (57 in ac, 30 in ac2 (thus far), 3xGM in uo, 35 in daoc, 55 in eq, max levels in many of the muds, and got sick of being pk'd in lineage before i got far.) Honestly, I don't like eq, but it is the most popular for very obvious reasons, and sony/verant knows those reasons as well as the players... swg will have those same features guarenteed... and it is much better branded than eq could ever HOPE to be.)
AMD System: Motherboard - ASUS A7V8X 108.98 Ram - 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CORSAIR DDR cL2 171.00 Ram - 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CORSAIR DDR cL2 171.00 Processor - AMD ATHLON XP 2700/333 320.88 Hard Disk 1 - EIDE 200.0GB 7200 RPM 8MB CACHE 320.99 Hard Disk 2 - EIDE 200.0GB 7200 RPM 8MB CACHE 320.99 Video Card - ATI Radeon 9700 PRO 128MB 8X 287.00 Sound Card - Creative Audigy2 Platinum 137.85 CD-RW - Lite On 52x24x52x CD-RW 63.00 DVD-R - Lite On 16x DVD, 48x CD-ROM 36.85 Ethernet - 3Com 3C905C-TX 27.00 Speakers - Creative Inspire 6.1 6600 113.00 Floppy - Teac 1.44 Floppy Drive 12.00 Keyboard/Mouse - Microsoft Wireless Optical KB/M 82.00 Case - Lian-Li PC-60 USB Alum Case 120.00 Power Supply - Antec TRUE550 Power Supply 105.95 Monitor - Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2060u 890.99 ---- Grand total: $3289.48
Intel System: Motherboard - ASUS P4G8X DELUXE 259.00 Ram - 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CORSAIR DDR cL2 171.00 Ram - 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CORSAIR DDR cL2 171.00 Processor - Intel Pentium 4 HyperThread 3.06GHz 706.00 Hard Disk 1 - EIDE 200.0GB 7200 RPM 8MB CACHE 320.99 Hard Disk 2 - EIDE 200.0GB 7200 RPM 8MB CACHE 320.99 Video Card - ATI Radeon 9700 PRO 128MB 8X 287.00 Sound Card - Creative Audigy2 Platinum 137.85 CD-RW - Lite On 52x24x52x CD-RW 63.00 DVD-R - Lite On 16x DVD, 48x CD-ROM 36.85 Ethernet - 3Com 3C905C-TX 27.00 Speakers - Creative Inspire 6.1 6600 113.00 Floppy - Teac 1.44 Floppy Drive 12.00 Keyboard/Mouse - Microsoft Wireless Optical KB/M 82.00 Case - Lian-Li PC-60 USB Alum Case 120.00 Power Supply - Antec TRUE550 Power Supply 105.95 Monitor - Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2060u 890.99 ---- Grand total: $3824.62
I scribbled up both of these systems for a friend who wanted to look at the equiv intel and amd systems... top of the line style single processor.
The price on both of these systems have dropped between 250-500$ since I wrote these up... a 'equiv' dell system (removing all the tech support options and software options possible) runs about 4200$ (Just built an intel 3.06 ht on the site, gig of ram, single 200g hd, etc-- as close as I could get to the intel system above). That's not a very close comparison (Minimum of 650$ difference in price from above systems.) Not to mention the quality of the components is MUCH higher in the above systems (Oh and the price of shipping each component above is included in the price-- even the massive 21" fs monitor.)
1. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader. The followers of such a religion or sect. 2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual. 3. The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual. 4. A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease. 5. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing. The object of such devotion. 6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.
Every religion is a cult.
Some cults are beneficial to the members some aren't, popular media has given the word cult a bad name however and many many people seem to associate the word occult with cult (being that they pronounce it as 'a cult'.)
End of the story is christian or otherwise, people tend to view their own religion as being the one great 'truth' and all others as being cults of infidels and heretics who are going to [insert bad thing per said relgion].
if ($Religion eq $myReligion) {
print "We are the truth.\n"; } else {
print "Bad Cult Member! Bad!\n Join the true religion be... \'saved\'"; }
... is nVidia blew 3dfx out of the water by slower introducing and supporting new stuff faster. Now it appears ATI is doing the same thing... and nVidia is LETTING it happen... Stupid.
... for a pretty large isp, I can say spam is the woe of your existance. orbs and similar services help to a degree, but users get mad when they cant get mail from/to certain domains. Alot of it comes down to server side filtering which ends up eatting ALOT of processing power on the machines. Spam costs isps big money in hardware to support growing filters and in time spent by employees cleaning up spam messes and tracking down people who spam from them. We had a zero tolerance policy which I liked alot... you spam, we keep your money, charge you $5/spam, and close your account. Pity when we got bought out all that changed... we had it to where no one in our neck of the woods would dare spam from us:)~ Now if only we could have figured out a way to prevent all the incoming spam... *sigh*
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... didn't work this time, but keep trying, I'm sure you'll manage eventually!
The correct way would be to have the sat itself drop a probe that is able to slow itself down to a rate slightly slower than the probe itself as soon as soon as it's in acheived the maximum speed it will go. It will eventually loose contact but that would greatly extend it.
Secondly, we're looking for computers that do real scientific work, not just graphics design. *grin*
To be completely honest-- Macs aren't bad. They're just a niche market, the hardware is better than *MOST* pc hardware, however in pc hardware you have alot of say in what kinda of quality you get... in Macs, you really don't. Also it's nice to have entertainment software to use, which is the real problem with Macs... and with Linux for that matter.
#2, you can do already with ac2 (which is a pretty decent game actually (at least compared to eq/ac1/daoc/uo/ao/etc -- i dont think it will do well against eq2/swg)). The problem with this option and the reason alot of people start over is, it can take a *DAMN* long time to untrain a skill you've put alot of points into. I suspect swg will have a similar issue... i'd rather see them have a quest that you can do once every 3mo that will drop all your skills to notta... but they wont do that, it doesn't increase the ammount of time you need to play... it decreases it... and that means they might miss more money... which means they'll make you take the route that takes FOREVER.
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> Here's the catch, the original still dies.
> Meaning you still die, but a backup lives on.
Better yet...brain transplant... meaning the copy dies and my brain gets moved. To get there we only need to be able to figure out now to cause nerves to reconnect correctly and how to keep the brain from deteriorating over time.
> (How many times have we heard on here
> "You've got the code! Fix it!").
About as many times as I've heard people whining over a product that I'm producing in my freetime, for no money, because it does something *I* need it to do, which I decided might benefit someone else so I made the code public domain.
... that current laws against technology abuse are adaquete and what kind of changes do you feel should be made if not?
Idealism and Youth are generally associated togeather because once you get about 30 you have generally become so jaded that you loose all of your idealism :). Hell I was only idealistic until about 17, then I realized the world isn't a nice place, people don't give a shit, and the government will screw you at any opportunity so long as it lines the pockets any number of given politicians. Being grown up isn't boring at all it's simply a different state of mind, you've lived a bit and learned alot. Shrug.
I'm not a collector of ancient hardware.
Last I checked none of those were us's either.
... that this isn't a hoax. How long till all of the said players fix their security? A week? Tops? Hell if it isn't a hoax, I wouldn't be surprised if they made some changes to make buffer overflows from the headers of mp3s impossible.
Ogg is your friend?
... if this turns out to be a hoax, I wonder if RIAA will sue G* for libel? That would be *funny*... and ironic and appropriate.
If they transmitted alot of peoples media library back to RIAA... boy you talk about your DDOS attack :P RIAA would DDOS themselves off the net if they did this... I know people with MP3 libs of over 2.4mb when you do a straight "dir /s *.mp3 > filelist.txt"...
At best, scare tactic. At worst, bullshit.
... you know, based on people i've talked to if the tv networks did this... I *might* actually watch tv occasionally...
I was also always under this impression, never cared for rpg and the derivitives... hated slackware's 'package management' *cough*. Then I tried Gentoo's portage based system... a week of using that and I was totally sold. I replaced all the debian stuff on my network with gentoo, it is easier to work with, its more optimized, and it seems to have less cruft by default. Good stuff. The *bsd* people had the right idea with the portage stuff.
heh... SWG is going to do fine, they've added in all the addictive features of everquest, tossed in a genre several generations have grown up loving, and made it class based and time eating. People will flock to this game, infact-- if this game doesn't have more subscribers inside the first year than everquest does presently, I'll eat a dozen raw habanaro peppers (very slowly with alot of milk of course.)
Shadowbane however, I don't feel will do as well as eq2, eq, or swg. It focuses to much on pvp-- dont get me wrong, the game will do well I belive, just not as well as the previously mentioned games. I think shadowbane will have probally 30k-75k players that stick... I look for swg to hit about 250-500k that stick. EQ2 will eat better than half of the eq players I think... not to mention pick up hmm 75k of it's own. The market is getting more diluted, I dont think you are going to see any games do as well as swg for a long long time... swg has alot of massmarket appeal the others don't have.
(Side Note: I've played ac, ac2, uo, daoc, ao, eq, lineage, and many many many muds over the years and gotten fairly high in most of them... (57 in ac, 30 in ac2 (thus far), 3xGM in uo, 35 in daoc, 55 in eq, max levels in many of the muds, and got sick of being pk'd in lineage before i got far.) Honestly, I don't like eq, but it is the most popular for very obvious reasons, and sony/verant knows those reasons as well as the players... swg will have those same features guarenteed... and it is much better branded than eq could ever HOPE to be.)
Anyways, my 2 gold pieces.
AMD System:
Motherboard - ASUS A7V8X 108.98
Ram - 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CORSAIR DDR cL2 171.00
Ram - 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CORSAIR DDR cL2 171.00
Processor - AMD ATHLON XP 2700/333 320.88
Hard Disk 1 - EIDE 200.0GB 7200 RPM 8MB CACHE 320.99
Hard Disk 2 - EIDE 200.0GB 7200 RPM 8MB CACHE 320.99
Video Card - ATI Radeon 9700 PRO 128MB 8X 287.00
Sound Card - Creative Audigy2 Platinum 137.85
CD-RW - Lite On 52x24x52x CD-RW 63.00
DVD-R - Lite On 16x DVD, 48x CD-ROM 36.85
Ethernet - 3Com 3C905C-TX 27.00
Speakers - Creative Inspire 6.1 6600 113.00
Floppy - Teac 1.44 Floppy Drive 12.00
Keyboard/Mouse - Microsoft Wireless Optical KB/M 82.00
Case - Lian-Li PC-60 USB Alum Case 120.00
Power Supply - Antec TRUE550 Power Supply 105.95
Monitor - Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2060u 890.99
----
Grand total: $3289.48
Intel System:
Motherboard - ASUS P4G8X DELUXE 259.00
Ram - 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CORSAIR DDR cL2 171.00
Ram - 512MB DDR400 PC3200 CORSAIR DDR cL2 171.00
Processor - Intel Pentium 4 HyperThread 3.06GHz 706.00
Hard Disk 1 - EIDE 200.0GB 7200 RPM 8MB CACHE 320.99
Hard Disk 2 - EIDE 200.0GB 7200 RPM 8MB CACHE 320.99
Video Card - ATI Radeon 9700 PRO 128MB 8X 287.00
Sound Card - Creative Audigy2 Platinum 137.85
CD-RW - Lite On 52x24x52x CD-RW 63.00
DVD-R - Lite On 16x DVD, 48x CD-ROM 36.85
Ethernet - 3Com 3C905C-TX 27.00
Speakers - Creative Inspire 6.1 6600 113.00
Floppy - Teac 1.44 Floppy Drive 12.00
Keyboard/Mouse - Microsoft Wireless Optical KB/M 82.00
Case - Lian-Li PC-60 USB Alum Case 120.00
Power Supply - Antec TRUE550 Power Supply 105.95
Monitor - Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2060u 890.99
----
Grand total: $3824.62
I scribbled up both of these systems for a friend who wanted to look at the equiv intel and amd systems... top of the line style single processor.
The price on both of these systems have dropped between 250-500$ since I wrote these up... a 'equiv' dell system (removing all the tech support options and software options possible) runs about 4200$ (Just built an intel 3.06 ht on the site, gig of ram, single 200g hd, etc-- as close as I could get to the intel system above). That's not a very close comparison (Minimum of 650$ difference in price from above systems.) Not to mention the quality of the components is MUCH higher in the above systems (Oh and the price of shipping each component above is included in the price-- even the massive 21" fs monitor.)
boy and all this time, I've had a pretty nice sun us on my desktop that cost less than my desktop pc. Hard to get a sun, expensive too. Yah.
...
Slide1: Embrace
Slide2: Extend
Slide3: ???
Slide4: Profit
It definetly has worked in the past for ms products.
> what is missing? why is it so important
> that your genetic code is passed on?
Because passing your genetic code on is the entire reason for procreation in the first place...
Sounds about as reasonable as assuming we were made from a pile of mud neh?
1. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader. The followers of such a religion or sect.
2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
3. The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
4. A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
5. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
The object of such devotion.
6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.
Every religion is a cult.
Some cults are beneficial to the members some aren't, popular media has given the word cult a bad name however and many many people seem to associate the word occult with cult (being that they pronounce it as 'a cult'.)
End of the story is christian or otherwise, people tend to view their own religion as being the one great 'truth' and all others as being cults of infidels and heretics who are going to [insert bad thing per said relgion].
... is nVidia blew 3dfx out of the water by slower introducing and supporting new stuff faster. Now it appears ATI is doing the same thing... and nVidia is LETTING it happen... Stupid.
... for a pretty large isp, I can say spam is the woe of your existance. orbs and similar services help to a degree, but users get mad when they cant get mail from/to certain domains. Alot of it comes down to server side filtering which ends up eatting ALOT of processing power on the machines. Spam costs isps big money in hardware to support growing filters and in time spent by employees cleaning up spam messes and tracking down people who spam from them. We had a zero tolerance policy which I liked alot... you spam, we keep your money, charge you $5/spam, and close your account. Pity when we got bought out all that changed... we had it to where no one in our neck of the woods would dare spam from us :)~ Now if only we could have figured out a way to prevent all the incoming spam... *sigh*
... didn't work this time, but keep trying, I'm sure you'll manage eventually!
... "I'm not dead!"
and NASA answered: "You will be soon!"
The correct way would be to have the sat itself drop a probe that is able to slow itself down to a rate slightly slower than the probe itself as soon as soon as it's in acheived the maximum speed it will go. It will eventually loose contact but that would greatly extend it.
First of all, "They're called Macs."
Secondly, we're looking for computers that do real scientific work, not just graphics design. *grin*
To be completely honest-- Macs aren't bad. They're just a niche market, the hardware is better than *MOST* pc hardware, however in pc hardware you have alot of say in what kinda of quality you get... in Macs, you really don't. Also it's nice to have entertainment software to use, which is the real problem with Macs... and with Linux for that matter.
> (Help us to sue every spammer than sent mail :) )
:P
> to you and get $9.95 disount on your next
> bill
No, no, no... actually if my ISP was willing to sue all the spammers who spammed me, *I* would be willing to pay them an extra $9.95 on every bill
#2, you can do already with ac2 (which is a pretty decent game actually (at least compared to eq/ac1/daoc/uo/ao/etc -- i dont think it will do well against eq2/swg)). The problem with this option and the reason alot of people start over is, it can take a *DAMN* long time to untrain a skill you've put alot of points into. I suspect swg will have a similar issue... i'd rather see them have a quest that you can do once every 3mo that will drop all your skills to notta... but they wont do that, it doesn't increase the ammount of time you need to play... it decreases it... and that means they might miss more money... which means they'll make you take the route that takes FOREVER.