Since I've been given a single publicly-visible IP address, yes, I am personally using NAT/PAT. OTOH, I could segregate the intranet further and isolate the intranet servers from the Windows machine, but considering that I'm the sole user of said Windows machine, it would be far more trouble than it would be worth, all things in my situation considered.
I do like ACLs, but few applications I use explicitly support them. On top of that, they lack, as you stated, greater control over such things as source and destination ports, varios packet types and conditions, etc.
Without the Windows machine, yes, I could do away with the firewall and maintain a secure network. However, considering that the firewall is easier to operate and maintain by atm least a degree of magnitude and has the added bonus of preventing direct contact with any of the systems behind it, I find the idea of doing away with firewalls faddish at best.
[...] ethanol will run in any gasoline engine with modifications.
Not entirely correct. A blend of ethanol and gasoline (which I refer to as gasohol) can run in most gasoline engines at up to a 10% ethanol mix. Some older cars (80s and prior) can't even handle that much ethanol - my first car couldn't, and the one thing I did *not* need at the time was the $700 repair bill.
The same goes for methanol, but generally in a 5% methanol blend.
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I'm running all kinds of crud on the intranet that I don't want exposed to the Internet, such as NetBIOS on Windows and some permissive SAMBA shares on assorted servers.
So, the services are running so that I can use them from the inside (with any device on the inside, without mucking with ACLs, additional equipment aside from a switch, etc.) without having the services exposed to the outside.
Now, if you're running services which aren't being used by legitimage users at all...;)
Sure thing, I'll just run over to K-Mart and pick up a few diamo-discs and an -RW drive!
As for the idea to "archive everything on paper", I'd like to see you "archive" the contents of a typical 80GiB hard drive by using paper. Google tells me that it would take roughly 500 trees to "archive" a single 80GiB drive. (I'd need about 2,000 trees just for myself!)
The real solution is to do what everyone else does: backup to your medium of choice (tape, optical, hard disk, etc.), make a duplicate copy, and re-create (and test) your archive as often as you deem necessary. When some magic, permanent archival medium does make it out into the market, then we can all start using the wonderful holographical goodness. But, of course, that wonderful goodness won't help you today, nor next week.
are you just going to say "screw it" and charge for the use of your site?
... and watch what visitor base you have shrivel up overnight? If folks of my demographic are in that visitor base, we'll be packing up and moving elsewhere. There was free content before ads, and there will be after ads are gone.
One major difference between democracy and a representative republic is that a democracy directly votes for all the members of government, as opposed to a representative republic, people vote for REPRESENTATIVES who then vote/appoint others to political positions. I won't go into the fine details here, but suffice to say that the Founding Fathers were explicitly against democracy.
I fail to see why this is made out to be such a big deal by the consumers. Have any of you read the service agreement/contract for any of the major credit cards? Do you know what you are liable for in the event of a fraudulent/unauthorized charge? If you did, you'd probably be unable to care less about stories like this.
The basic liability for consumers under MasterCard and Visa is $50 (probably per incident). Now, that could be a problem, except for the fact that MC and Visa waive that liability. So, what are your responsibilities when it comes to reporting fraud? Simple: you report the unauthorized charge to your bank, usually via the 800 number on the back of the card, within 24 (or possibly 48) hours after discovering the fraudulent activity. This means that if you don't open your bill for two months, and so discover the charge six weeks after it happened, you can call in the next day and have ZERO liability. The best part is, since it was a credit card, it's not YOUR money that is lost - unlike a debit card. Hint hint: always use a credit card to buy stuff, not debit or ATM cards.
The real losers here are the merchants, who get stuck with the ~4% per transaction fee and often have to eat the cost of the fraudulent purchase. OTOH, how many merchants can afford NOT to honor the major credit cards?
You can have your parallel processors and still play DOOM III at insane fps. At worst, it will just take a bit for folks to start writing programs to take advantage of the additional processors/cores.
BTW, your "average" user hasn't even played DOOM I, let alone DOOM III. Surfing the web and using e-mail doesn't usually put a lot of strain on a PC.
So, YOU want to be the one to tell the whole of the USA that they must buy new cars within the next three years? That, not only must they buy new cars, but they must buy new cars that cost more, are newer (thus more prone to have unknown problems), generally have shorter range and/or less power, etc.?
We've already made great headway in turning our nation into a nanny-state, but the last thing any politician wants at this point is to tell all the USAians that they are no longer allowed to drive their fancy SUVs and Hummers.
OTOH, the USA is a lot larger than the main island of Japan... One of the biggest obstacles for hybrid/alternative-fueled vehicles in the USA has been the lack of range.
Keep in mind that the UK gallon (Imperial?) is larger than the US gallon. That said, gasoline/gasohol is still more expensive in the UK. That's why everyone there drives Austin Power-mobiles.
I assume everyone here has already played Fallout and Arcanum (ideally as a minimum-intelligence half-orc); PLAY PLANESCAPE TORMENT. One great story. One fantastic story with good gameplay, superb characters, interesting universe.... *drool*twitch*
I didn't consider Dark Fury a movie; whenever I've seen an anime version/continuation of a live-action film, something always seems cheesed-up. The characters in the 'Riddick' world were rather believable. Anime-ish films usually trash that feeling double-quick.
... and of course "The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay". That was one fine example of a game that completly blows Mr. Miyamoto's opinion out of the water. (Note: I'd never heard of Riddick before I picked up the game - now I own both movies on DVD.)
That game seemed too short by a couple orders of magnitude.:)
... because most of them are boring rehashes of previous games. Where is the Elite of today? Why don't we see more well-done hybrid games like the original Deus Ex? What about the old 'innovative' games that fell through the cracks (witness: "Hardwar")?
Generally speaking, companies like making money. Now, there's nothing wrong with making money, but when it's almost a proven fact that people will buy due to the eye-candy over gameplay, then it's easy to see why so many of today's games are just... mediocre rehashes.
Still, there are a few that have managed to make the grade: - Thief: Deadly Shadows - Babylon 5: I've Found Her - Elder Scrolls: Morrowind - Lock On: Modern Air Combat - Aliens vs Predator 2 - Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty ... and about a half-dozen others whose names I cannot immediately recall.
In summary, the problem is not that games are too short, but that most games suck.
Have you ever given money to a stranger? Ever been mugged? Ever had anything that belonged to you stolen? Well then, by sheer virtue of making the money/items-to-be-sold-for-money available to be purloined by a miscreant, YOU are responsible for the next person the miscreant shoots/stabs/bludgeons with the gun/knife/object he acquired using the money/goods you so carelsssly provided!
All this garbage about avoiding personal responsibility for one's own actions really is disgusting.
The blame for any (current/future/potential) deaths caused by this falls squarely on the shoulders of the people launching the rockets.
No such thing as "free energy". All those items listed under said link are bogus, at least in terms of the details. I.e., yes, a fusion reaction can be started and maintained, but it requires more energy to sustain the reaction than the reaction produces.
So, if there were only a few million humans alive, there would be no problem here? Cool! I guess we all just need to start committing suicide to save the planet; easy enough, I suppose...
My old card was a Radeon 9800 pro. I didn't have stability issues with my old card, but 3d performance was abysmal. Thus I want nvidia.
You had an ATi Radeon 9800 Pro and had "abysmal" 3D performance?? I'm *still* using an ATi-built 9800 Pro 128 and haven't upgraded because there has been no reason to - I play games from DOOM III to UT2K4 to Guild Wars, and not a single performance related problem I have (well, GW's text is so small, it's almost unreadable at 1280x1024).
The 9800 Pro was my first card from ATi - I switched to them after seeing how nVidia was trying to milk its customer base around the time when ATi rolled out the 9700. ATi's drivers have always been their Achilles heel, but at this point, I have about as many issues with ATi's drivers as I had with nVidia's (i.e., almost zero). All this to say that if you had "performance issues" with the 9800 Pro, there was very likely other factors involved. It's even still a decent card, speedwise, for all but the most FPS-crazed.;)... which means it's almost time for me to buy a new card.:D
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Since I've been given a single publicly-visible IP address, yes, I am personally using NAT/PAT. OTOH, I could segregate the intranet further and isolate the intranet servers from the Windows machine, but considering that I'm the sole user of said Windows machine, it would be far more trouble than it would be worth, all things in my situation considered.
I do like ACLs, but few applications I use explicitly support them. On top of that, they lack, as you stated, greater control over such things as source and destination ports, varios packet types and conditions, etc.
Without the Windows machine, yes, I could do away with the firewall and maintain a secure network. However, considering that the firewall is easier to operate and maintain by atm least a degree of magnitude and has the added bonus of preventing direct contact with any of the systems behind it, I find the idea of doing away with firewalls faddish at best.
[...] ethanol will run in any gasoline engine with modifications.
Not entirely correct. A blend of ethanol and gasoline (which I refer to as gasohol) can run in most gasoline engines at up to a 10% ethanol mix. Some older cars (80s and prior) can't even handle that much ethanol - my first car couldn't, and the one thing I did *not* need at the time was the $700 repair bill.
The same goes for methanol, but generally in a 5% methanol blend.
I'm running all kinds of crud on the intranet that I don't want exposed to the Internet, such as NetBIOS on Windows and some permissive SAMBA shares on assorted servers.
;)
So, the services are running so that I can use them from the inside (with any device on the inside, without mucking with ACLs, additional equipment aside from a switch, etc.) without having the services exposed to the outside.
Now, if you're running services which aren't being used by legitimage users at all...
Nooo, ACLs are Access Control Lists are ACLs. Firewalls are routers. Use each tool where applicable.
But SGI doesn't sell IRIX machines any more. Maybe that's why they're dying.
Here now, what's this, then? And this? Certainly, I don't have a use for an IRIX server/supercomputer, but they do indeed appear to be available.
Sure thing, I'll just run over to K-Mart and pick up a few diamo-discs and an -RW drive!
As for the idea to "archive everything on paper", I'd like to see you "archive" the contents of a typical 80GiB hard drive by using paper. Google tells me that it would take roughly 500 trees to "archive" a single 80GiB drive. (I'd need about 2,000 trees just for myself!)
The real solution is to do what everyone else does: backup to your medium of choice (tape, optical, hard disk, etc.), make a duplicate copy, and re-create (and test) your archive as often as you deem necessary. When some magic, permanent archival medium does make it out into the market, then we can all start using the wonderful holographical goodness. But, of course, that wonderful goodness won't help you today, nor next week.
are you just going to say "screw it" and charge for the use of your site?
... and watch what visitor base you have shrivel up overnight? If folks of my demographic are in that visitor base, we'll be packing up and moving elsewhere. There was free content before ads, and there will be after ads are gone.
Bzzzt! Please try again.
One major difference between democracy and a representative republic is that a democracy directly votes for all the members of government, as opposed to a representative republic, people vote for REPRESENTATIVES who then vote/appoint others to political positions. I won't go into the fine details here, but suffice to say that the Founding Fathers were explicitly against democracy.
I fail to see why this is made out to be such a big deal by the consumers. Have any of you read the service agreement/contract for any of the major credit cards? Do you know what you are liable for in the event of a fraudulent/unauthorized charge? If you did, you'd probably be unable to care less about stories like this.
The basic liability for consumers under MasterCard and Visa is $50 (probably per incident). Now, that could be a problem, except for the fact that MC and Visa waive that liability. So, what are your responsibilities when it comes to reporting fraud? Simple: you report the unauthorized charge to your bank, usually via the 800 number on the back of the card, within 24 (or possibly 48) hours after discovering the fraudulent activity. This means that if you don't open your bill for two months, and so discover the charge six weeks after it happened, you can call in the next day and have ZERO liability. The best part is, since it was a credit card, it's not YOUR money that is lost - unlike a debit card. Hint hint: always use a credit card to buy stuff, not debit or ATM cards.
The real losers here are the merchants, who get stuck with the ~4% per transaction fee and often have to eat the cost of the fraudulent purchase. OTOH, how many merchants can afford NOT to honor the major credit cards?
... good thing the USA is still a Constitutional Republic, eh?
You can have your parallel processors and still play DOOM III at insane fps. At worst, it will just take a bit for folks to start writing programs to take advantage of the additional processors/cores.
BTW, your "average" user hasn't even played DOOM I, let alone DOOM III. Surfing the web and using e-mail doesn't usually put a lot of strain on a PC.
So, YOU want to be the one to tell the whole of the USA that they must buy new cars within the next three years? That, not only must they buy new cars, but they must buy new cars that cost more, are newer (thus more prone to have unknown problems), generally have shorter range and/or less power, etc.?
We've already made great headway in turning our nation into a nanny-state, but the last thing any politician wants at this point is to tell all the USAians that they are no longer allowed to drive their fancy SUVs and Hummers.
Considering that 2.6.12 hasn't been released yet, it just might be the case that they are still, oh, I don't know, working on it?
OTOH, the USA is a lot larger than the main island of Japan... One of the biggest obstacles for hybrid/alternative-fueled vehicles in the USA has been the lack of range.
Keep in mind that the UK gallon (Imperial?) is larger than the US gallon. That said, gasoline/gasohol is still more expensive in the UK. That's why everyone there drives Austin Power-mobiles.
And yes, this includes allowing African countries to have fusion power plants.
Just as soon as we invent a fusion reactor that produces more energy than it takes to sustain the reaction, that is...
I assume everyone here has already played Fallout and Arcanum (ideally as a minimum-intelligence half-orc); PLAY PLANESCAPE TORMENT. One great story. One fantastic story with good gameplay, superb characters, interesting universe.... *drool*twitch*
I didn't consider Dark Fury a movie; whenever I've seen an anime version/continuation of a live-action film, something always seems cheesed-up. The characters in the 'Riddick' world were rather believable. Anime-ish films usually trash that feeling double-quick.
... and of course "The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay". That was one fine example of a game that completly blows Mr. Miyamoto's opinion out of the water. (Note: I'd never heard of Riddick before I picked up the game - now I own both movies on DVD.)
:)
That game seemed too short by a couple orders of magnitude.
... because most of them are boring rehashes of previous games. Where is the Elite of today? Why don't we see more well-done hybrid games like the original Deus Ex? What about the old 'innovative' games that fell through the cracks (witness: "Hardwar")?
... and about a half-dozen others whose names I cannot immediately recall.
Generally speaking, companies like making money. Now, there's nothing wrong with making money, but when it's almost a proven fact that people will buy due to the eye-candy over gameplay, then it's easy to see why so many of today's games are just... mediocre rehashes.
Still, there are a few that have managed to make the grade:
- Thief: Deadly Shadows
- Babylon 5: I've Found Her
- Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
- Lock On: Modern Air Combat
- Aliens vs Predator 2
- Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty
In summary, the problem is not that games are too short, but that most games suck.
Have you ever given money to a stranger? Ever been mugged? Ever had anything that belonged to you stolen? Well then, by sheer virtue of making the money/items-to-be-sold-for-money available to be purloined by a miscreant, YOU are responsible for the next person the miscreant shoots/stabs/bludgeons with the gun/knife/object he acquired using the money/goods you so carelsssly provided!
All this garbage about avoiding personal responsibility for one's own actions really is disgusting.
The blame for any (current/future/potential) deaths caused by this falls squarely on the shoulders of the people launching the rockets.
No such thing as "free energy". All those items listed under said link are bogus, at least in terms of the details. I.e., yes, a fusion reaction can be started and maintained, but it requires more energy to sustain the reaction than the reaction produces.
So, if there were only a few million humans alive, there would be no problem here? Cool! I guess we all just need to start committing suicide to save the planet; easy enough, I suppose...
You first.
They just stick out some webbing and catch the wind and float off, right into your face.
That is precisely the reason why I always wear a helmet with a full face shield. Oftentimes I will also carry a (mostly) full can of RAID.
And some eye drops.
My old card was a Radeon 9800 pro. I didn't have stability issues with my old card, but 3d performance was abysmal. Thus I want nvidia.
;) ... which means it's almost time for me to buy a new card. :D
You had an ATi Radeon 9800 Pro and had "abysmal" 3D performance?? I'm *still* using an ATi-built 9800 Pro 128 and haven't upgraded because there has been no reason to - I play games from DOOM III to UT2K4 to Guild Wars, and not a single performance related problem I have (well, GW's text is so small, it's almost unreadable at 1280x1024).
The 9800 Pro was my first card from ATi - I switched to them after seeing how nVidia was trying to milk its customer base around the time when ATi rolled out the 9700. ATi's drivers have always been their Achilles heel, but at this point, I have about as many issues with ATi's drivers as I had with nVidia's (i.e., almost zero).
All this to say that if you had "performance issues" with the 9800 Pro, there was very likely other factors involved. It's even still a decent card, speedwise, for all but the most FPS-crazed.