What if your servers are busy with other tasks, like decoding other people's TOR traffic? It seems to me that busy servers are pretty chaotic and this attack would be pretty dicey in the real world.
Paranoia is defiantly designed for fun one-off game sessions anyway. I mean they practically tell the GM that if the characters last more than a day then they're doing it wrong.
I have to admit, I'm not a huge fan of D20 based systems (most of the time it's too random for my taste, I don't want my characters to have a 5% chance of failing to tie a shoe), but a great number of alternate systems seem to be published only half baked or basically end up requiring a ton of improv on the DMs part. While that isn't necessarily bad, it does make DMing more difficult than it would otherwise have to be. Even worse is when a game includes a ton of mechanics, but words them vaguely and forces the DM to make lots of judgment calls on what the authors probably meant when they wrote that.
A good example is the Silhouette system, which while it has an elegant core (although with rather coarse granularity), lots of the fringe elements are vague and poorly written.
It's not designed to stop Goatse trolls, it's designed for the thousands of people who already put "NSFW" on stuff they think might be objectionable. It's a tag to help the good, not a tag to punish the wicked. I think it would work fairly well actually, assuming people know about it.
The question here of course is "how much power does it draw in Standby mode?" I know there is a lot of gnashing of teeth about the power draw from standby mode, but most of the appliances I've tested draw only 300mA or so in standby, which is like leaving your front door open for an extra 3 seconds when entering the house.
Did your parents and grandparents selectively breed (focusing on specific traits) for generations to produce you? Selective breeding is a specific procedure and the results are not necessarily something that "god intended". That said, I think it's a stretch to get a patent on a crop that you merely bred to improve some characteristic of, but if you want to have major agri-businesses like Monsanto and ADM, they need some way to protect their investments. Selective breeding is expensive and time consuming. With no protections for them, it is entirely likely that the market sector wouldn't exist at all and we wouldn't have the seeds that farmers are willing to pay extra money for. Agri-business works, even if it seems (and is) greatly unethical with the way it handles patents. There is an advancement of the state of the art that we would not get with just individual farmers trying to do small scale breeding on their own.
You may not have been paying attention, but that's exactly what happened in the last election (at least to the degree that an off-year election can cause massive change).
It remains to be seen if it will actually change anything (my money says: not much).
Heck, I never thought massive MPGs were really the point of Hybrids. You can get massive MPGs out of tiny compact cars with little lawnmower engines. The point of the Hybrids to me is to get decent MPG while not accelerating like a fat kid on a tricycle and not bogging down when you need to move three of your friends somewhere in stop and go traffic.
You're not paying extra for a car that gets exceptionally good MPG. You're paying extra for a car with good MPG that doesn't suck to drive.
While Microsoft might have a legitimate worry with the 360, it's plainly obvious to me that it's too early to be calling the PS3 in trouble. I mean every single one they've manufactured and shipped has sold shortly after arriving at the store (or well in advance). That's hardly a sales failure (although it is a supply failure). More importantly, rough launches have hardly doomed consoles in the past. Both the PSx and especially PS2 had rough launches and look how they turned out.
There are a lot of things you can criticize about the PS3, but the sales are not one of them. Really, you can't say much at all about the sales until they start sitting on the shelves for more than 5 minutes. Even if total sales during the holidays are slow due to lack of supply, it doesn't really matter that the total volume is low until the boxes finally stop selling instantly.
The only problem with making every printer/scanner/etc... an Ethernet device is that Ethernet is relatively complex compared to USB and Firewire. It's going to bring the price of the components up, especially stuff like cheap printers and scanners where the margins are really thin already (except on the consumables).
That wasn't always the case though. One of these days I hope someone in Congress finally gets the balls to say "wait, bypassing laws limiting our power by dicking around with someone's essential funding is wrong, we should stop doing it". Sadly, it's pretty hard to get Congress to vote to limit their own power, even if they are misusing it.
In West Virginia they lowered the drinking age to 18 for awhile. The legislature panicked and put it back to 21 when the news started carrying stories about how 14 and 15 year olds were drinking now that the age was lowered to 18. Effectively, in America the drinking age IS 18, because a good percentage of the people start early apparently.
It's also a good life lesson on how being a good citizen and following the law can be a drag. It's basically punishment for doing the right thing.
Er, the parent post had a link to an Atari 2600 game.
Anyway, as I understand it, it's easier to max out the GPU than it is the CPU (extra work can always just go into drawing more frames into the buffer, even if you can't actually get all of those frames out onto the screen), you can also max out the memory by using the extra for caching textures. Still, it doesn't make sense to talk about using "100% of the machine", and ultimately it's an empty marketing point.
Sure you could use all of the memory fairly easily, but could you soak up every single CPU cycle available to you, especially during the H Blanks? Even if you did that, could you soak up all of the cycles during the (relatively long) V Blank? Remember, even a cycle or two of "slack" would mean you're not using 100% of the machine, and worse, even if you did use up every single cycle of CPU time, you can bet that some marginal machines with slightly marginal processors will roll the screen if you do that.
Even if you managed that, your game would require two joysticks to play and require constant input on both of them, otherwise you'd be wasting a joystick port. I'm not even going to get into the mode switches and whatnot. It's basically impossible to use 100% of any machine like that.
You are probably right, but most cell phone plugs totally suck in this sense. You can be sure that USB is not worse than most of them. And the advantage of having standard USB cables to pass data is good too.
If only they standardize data protocol...sigh.
The USB port on my phone has held up pretty well to two years worth of connects and disconnect (about 1 per day on each). It certainly doesn't feel flimsy like the charging/data port on my wife's Motorola phone. That thing has this long flat connector that seems to be held on by only two tiny flimsy plastic pieces. The only good news for her phone is that she never remembers to plug it in.
I really don't understand why there isn't a standard USB to Serial protocol either. It seems like something that the standards body would do, but for some reason it doesn't exist. Go figure.
It's not like you can't buy phones in the States or in Europe that use USB for both charging and data. My 2 year old Blackberry 7100t does just that (although if you try to charge it off of a USB 1.1 port it will complain and take forever). It even uses the bog standard headphone port. When on the road, my charger consists of one 3 foot standard USB cable that I hook to my laptop. Should I forget the cable on a long trip (the battery life on this phone is pretty good, it's never been a problem) all I have to do is hit any electronics or even department store and pick up a new one.
The biggest problem I saw was that while the vertexes are streamed from each one of the several thousand "region" servers, the textures are all stuck coming from one severely overloaded texture server. Apparently distributing this load is very technically challenging (although I'm not sure why) so they're stuck with that pile of molten metal that is the texture server.
You know, considering how many Daleks the Doctor has run across now, I have to wonder if he's not going to run into another Timelord at some point. Thus far he's been galactically wrong about the "everybody died" part, at least W.R.T. the Daleks.
It would have been pretty confusing not to have "Rose" first I'd think. Perhaps they just needed to write a better doctor-companion introduction episode?
That said, my wife really enjoys Dr. Who (despite never seeing the series before then), and she hasn't gotten into BSG at all (too heavy for her apparently).
Don't forget the one where (spoiler alert)Leela discovers who her parents are(end of spoiler). I ended up picking up the Pizzacato 5 CD based on that ending alone.
I dropped a brand new box of those strike anywhere matches on the floor once when I was a kid. It was still pretty tightly sealed so after the heads burned the wood didn't go anywhere, but it was still pretty scary.
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What if your servers are busy with other tasks, like decoding other people's TOR traffic? It seems to me that busy servers are pretty chaotic and this attack would be pretty dicey in the real world.
Paranoia is defiantly designed for fun one-off game sessions anyway. I mean they practically tell the GM that if the characters last more than a day then they're doing it wrong.
I have to admit, I'm not a huge fan of D20 based systems (most of the time it's too random for my taste, I don't want my characters to have a 5% chance of failing to tie a shoe), but a great number of alternate systems seem to be published only half baked or basically end up requiring a ton of improv on the DMs part. While that isn't necessarily bad, it does make DMing more difficult than it would otherwise have to be. Even worse is when a game includes a ton of mechanics, but words them vaguely and forces the DM to make lots of judgment calls on what the authors probably meant when they wrote that.
A good example is the Silhouette system, which while it has an elegant core (although with rather coarse granularity), lots of the fringe elements are vague and poorly written.
It's not designed to stop Goatse trolls, it's designed for the thousands of people who already put "NSFW" on stuff they think might be objectionable. It's a tag to help the good, not a tag to punish the wicked. I think it would work fairly well actually, assuming people know about it.
The question here of course is "how much power does it draw in Standby mode?" I know there is a lot of gnashing of teeth about the power draw from standby mode, but most of the appliances I've tested draw only 300mA or so in standby, which is like leaving your front door open for an extra 3 seconds when entering the house.
Did your parents and grandparents selectively breed (focusing on specific traits) for generations to produce you? Selective breeding is a specific procedure and the results are not necessarily something that "god intended". That said, I think it's a stretch to get a patent on a crop that you merely bred to improve some characteristic of, but if you want to have major agri-businesses like Monsanto and ADM, they need some way to protect their investments. Selective breeding is expensive and time consuming. With no protections for them, it is entirely likely that the market sector wouldn't exist at all and we wouldn't have the seeds that farmers are willing to pay extra money for. Agri-business works, even if it seems (and is) greatly unethical with the way it handles patents. There is an advancement of the state of the art that we would not get with just individual farmers trying to do small scale breeding on their own.
You may not have been paying attention, but that's exactly what happened in the last election (at least to the degree that an off-year election can cause massive change).
It remains to be seen if it will actually change anything (my money says: not much).
Heck, I never thought massive MPGs were really the point of Hybrids. You can get massive MPGs out of tiny compact cars with little lawnmower engines. The point of the Hybrids to me is to get decent MPG while not accelerating like a fat kid on a tricycle and not bogging down when you need to move three of your friends somewhere in stop and go traffic.
You're not paying extra for a car that gets exceptionally good MPG. You're paying extra for a car with good MPG that doesn't suck to drive.
While Microsoft might have a legitimate worry with the 360, it's plainly obvious to me that it's too early to be calling the PS3 in trouble. I mean every single one they've manufactured and shipped has sold shortly after arriving at the store (or well in advance). That's hardly a sales failure (although it is a supply failure). More importantly, rough launches have hardly doomed consoles in the past. Both the PSx and especially PS2 had rough launches and look how they turned out.
There are a lot of things you can criticize about the PS3, but the sales are not one of them. Really, you can't say much at all about the sales until they start sitting on the shelves for more than 5 minutes. Even if total sales during the holidays are slow due to lack of supply, it doesn't really matter that the total volume is low until the boxes finally stop selling instantly.
I wonder how long until some RIAA exec is found dead with massive radiation poisoning or something of that effect?
The only problem with making every printer/scanner/etc... an Ethernet device is that Ethernet is relatively complex compared to USB and Firewire. It's going to bring the price of the components up, especially stuff like cheap printers and scanners where the margins are really thin already (except on the consumables).
That wasn't always the case though. One of these days I hope someone in Congress finally gets the balls to say "wait, bypassing laws limiting our power by dicking around with someone's essential funding is wrong, we should stop doing it". Sadly, it's pretty hard to get Congress to vote to limit their own power, even if they are misusing it.
Yeah, I mean it had probably only been in the shop once or twice at that point.
In West Virginia they lowered the drinking age to 18 for awhile. The legislature panicked and put it back to 21 when the news started carrying stories about how 14 and 15 year olds were drinking now that the age was lowered to 18. Effectively, in America the drinking age IS 18, because a good percentage of the people start early apparently.
It's also a good life lesson on how being a good citizen and following the law can be a drag. It's basically punishment for doing the right thing.
Er, the parent post had a link to an Atari 2600 game.
Anyway, as I understand it, it's easier to max out the GPU than it is the CPU (extra work can always just go into drawing more frames into the buffer, even if you can't actually get all of those frames out onto the screen), you can also max out the memory by using the extra for caching textures. Still, it doesn't make sense to talk about using "100% of the machine", and ultimately it's an empty marketing point.
Sure you could use all of the memory fairly easily, but could you soak up every single CPU cycle available to you, especially during the H Blanks? Even if you did that, could you soak up all of the cycles during the (relatively long) V Blank? Remember, even a cycle or two of "slack" would mean you're not using 100% of the machine, and worse, even if you did use up every single cycle of CPU time, you can bet that some marginal machines with slightly marginal processors will roll the screen if you do that.
Even if you managed that, your game would require two joysticks to play and require constant input on both of them, otherwise you'd be wasting a joystick port. I'm not even going to get into the mode switches and whatnot. It's basically impossible to use 100% of any machine like that.
Or at the very least he had the sense to make sure it wasn't written down in an attributable way.
I really don't understand why there isn't a standard USB to Serial protocol either. It seems like something that the standards body would do, but for some reason it doesn't exist. Go figure.
It's not like you can't buy phones in the States or in Europe that use USB for both charging and data. My 2 year old Blackberry 7100t does just that (although if you try to charge it off of a USB 1.1 port it will complain and take forever). It even uses the bog standard headphone port. When on the road, my charger consists of one 3 foot standard USB cable that I hook to my laptop. Should I forget the cable on a long trip (the battery life on this phone is pretty good, it's never been a problem) all I have to do is hit any electronics or even department store and pick up a new one.
The biggest problem I saw was that while the vertexes are streamed from each one of the several thousand "region" servers, the textures are all stuck coming from one severely overloaded texture server. Apparently distributing this load is very technically challenging (although I'm not sure why) so they're stuck with that pile of molten metal that is the texture server.
You know, considering how many Daleks the Doctor has run across now, I have to wonder if he's not going to run into another Timelord at some point. Thus far he's been galactically wrong about the "everybody died" part, at least W.R.T. the Daleks.
It would have been pretty confusing not to have "Rose" first I'd think. Perhaps they just needed to write a better doctor-companion introduction episode?
That said, my wife really enjoys Dr. Who (despite never seeing the series before then), and she hasn't gotten into BSG at all (too heavy for her apparently).
Don't forget the one where (spoiler alert)Leela discovers who her parents are(end of spoiler). I ended up picking up the Pizzacato 5 CD based on that ending alone.
Yeah, you're right, it's a D-Link. It's sitting in a box in my closet and was working from memory.
I dropped a brand new box of those strike anywhere matches on the floor once when I was a kid. It was still pretty tightly sealed so after the heads burned the wood didn't go anywhere, but it was still pretty scary.