If you're willing to use an emulator and ask nicely, I have originals of both Nocturn in the Moonlight and Symphony of the Night here that I wouldn't mind sharing backups of.:)
Dunno. They've been pointing it out over and over again in recent weeks, but no release date. I just played through the US version for the first time this last few weeks. I'd beaten Nocturn several times in Japanese (got it waaaay before it came out over here) and, as if I'm telling anyone here anything new, it beats any other Castlevania hands down.
Might be neat if they released the Saturn version with some graphical touch-ups. What I *really* would like to do is get the sourcecode to that game, re-draw the entire game using vector graphics. Give some of the artists nice wacom pads, trace out the old sprites, and then hand detail them out with vectors, and then update the engine to render the vector graphics in real-time, giving it a smooth-as-silk look even in HD.
Won't ever happen, but I can dream. It's up there with FF7 and FF8 getting graphical updates. Heck, just let us display the game in HD, and anti-alias the textures (or give us higher resolution textures) and not up the poly count.:P 60fps would be nice too!
You could do that. Or you could make good use of that.htaccess, robots.txt, and if it comes right down to it, your firewall.
Access logs will tell you who has been there. If the spider comes a knocking, block it with.htacess and robots.txt. If they decide to get sneaky and bypassthose, block it at the firewall.
That's the fun thing about brute force...there's nothing that says that the first key you try won't work, other than odds and common sense. You could quite possibly break it on the first try.:)
So I say, let the games begin. Right a screen saver to do a distributed brute force on the key, and give it a try. You say we don't have enough CPU power, I say we don't have to have "enough" do do them all, only "enough" to get the right one.:)
Well, the logic surrounding my current mortgage is that it was a 4.5% 5 year fixed, then switches to ARM. I figured this was a starter home, and that we'd be getting out in 5 years. Given the direction that the real estate market is headed, I'm concerned, and considered refinancing into a fixed, but the percentage rates are pretty lousy.:(
That's something I sincerely had not considered, but you have a very valid point. What about the US's rampant use of credit vs. cash at large (everywhere from the individual all the way to the federal level)?
You stopped short of the "bitter reality". Not everyone here has studied economics, so you're going to have to spell it out for them:
When inflation hits a certain point, your currency becomes worth next to nothing, salaries fail to keep up, mortgages are too high (those real estate deals people are so happy about making cash off of...), and we fall into a deep depression. Happened in the early 90's, happened when the tech bubble popped, and the parent is talking about us being on the verge of it happening again.
It's a lousy hole to dig yourself out of, because it's a cycle that no one knows exactly how to break. It just seems to take time (and lots of it) for values to fight their way close enough back to equilibrium and life goes on.
It makes me sick every time I see articles about people flipping real-estate. They HAVE to know properties are over-valued. They just have to. With each sale, the next owner expects the property to either keep its value or go up. When people are flipping properties so quickly, everything has a sale price higher than its actual value. Here in St. Louis, the impact of it has already started to take hold: no one is buying. The market will only bear so much insanity.
As for the mints running money like mad, he's mostly right. For each dollar in circulation, the less each dollar is actually worth. The catch there is circulation. I know many older bills have been coming out of circulation, but I don't know at what rate, so I can't start jumping up and down at that point just yet, but he may very well be right. So we're over-valuing the land we live on, we over-value our money. We're in debt up to our eyeballs to other nations, and we're fighting a war with no clear-cut objective for victory or retreat. Without any bias toward or against our president, we are nearing par with Vietnam, the difference here I have to say is that our body count is not anywhere near the same (thank goodness!) and there is no draft.
Those who study economics have to realize something here too: all of our really serious depressions in the past have been resolved by wars. War creates jobs. War stirs the economy, makes individuals wealthy. Morality aside, each time we've gotten into a bind, a war has bailed us out. This may very well be the first time that *while* at war, this is happening. A war won't bail us out this time (or at least, we'd all best pray it doesn't, because if it does, it means we as a country p*ssed off the rest of the world and they come here to set us straight).
It really is sad to see. I bought my first home 3 years ago. I *thought* the value was a bit high, and managed to buy it just short of what it was appraised at, and was praying my wife and I didn't become too screwed by the real-estate market bombing. Here's to hoping.:\
Being the ISP I feel somewhat obligated to play devil's advocate to this. Of course there's no way to control the environment in the way I'm about to describe, but it's far less evil.
There's two way a priority can be defined (or a firewall rule, or any type of ACL really):
block company a
or
allow company b allow company c allow company d etc
Now, what I specifically stated was a local tv station pays me to prioritized their station so that the picture is guaranteed to be clear vs their competitors, so I do:
priority channel 5 - fastest priority channel 4 - normal priority channel 3 - normal priority p2p - worst
What I, and most others fear, would be this that everyone gets tossed to the bottom of the scrap heap unless either the site is linked to the ISP somehow financially, or you cough up cash. In my mind I'd offer an *improvement* of what is normal, vs the big telcos that would take away service in order to sell it back in pieces.
I know that is an awfully fine line. Prioritization is easily abused.:(
Meh. This is always a mess. From the ISP side, unless I have a business connection or the rare "clueful end user", I do traffic shaping on all connections, basically tossing p2p to the bottom of the stack, VOIP and video services to the top, and everything else to the middle. Now the kicker of Net Neutrality is that *technically*, I become a bad guy if I do this. It's entirely possible for me to decide that someone has paid me additional funds (say the local tv station) to prioritize their video feed above others to make sure it gets a nice clear picture, vs their competitors video feeds.
Sounds pretty harmless when you're talking about Joe Tiny ISP. It's these big guys that start to give you the willies when you think about the implications of it. Net Neutrality in its purest form is somewhat of a myth these days anyway, given that almost no one runs a perfectly open router. We all firewall, we all segment and exclude, etc, etc, etc. Prioritization of packets is a natural next step in that chain. It just urks me that some PHB got the idea to make that into a profiteering mechanism, so now prioritization is evil, and will either be abused, or outlawed.
The absurdity of it all abounds. Packet prioritization is not evil unto itself. I guess if I started squelching any and all requests from microsoft.com and msn.com but gave high priority to google.com....pfft, this is all insane.
Being arrested for a civil matter? No. That shouldn't be happening. Perhaps he gets a court summons, and loses his shirt in court, but being raided and tossed in jail? Hm.....no.
You're replying to someone that runs a company on open source software and heavily utilizes telecommuting, so I think I know how that sits.:) I'll rephrase. It costs *my* company nothing to do it. In fact, most of my guys provide their own workstations, and just sync their home directories to the data center. Simple.
I can believe this if this is (lord help me) an "old economy" company. As business look to reduce costs (or heck, find a way to afford startup costs) it makes sense to utilize home offices which, in essence, cost you nothing.
That said, in companies where employees are managed by individuals that are not skilled in the art of their employees (take IT, for instance), then there's the risk of being perceived as not working as hard.
I know, been there. Don't toss the baby out with the bathwater though. Telecommuting certainly has its benefits...and its place.
Now wait just a second. I'm no cryptographer here, but I think you're making some presumptions that may be out of whack.
As you get more keys, wouldn't it be feasible to create a table by which to speed up the decryption process? As you get more keys, theoretically speaking you could derive the base equation used to generate the keys, thus being able to arbitrarily generate your own. So yes, it's slow now, but as more keys get cracked, more energies can be put into determining that base equation through brute force rather than into getting more keys. Of course I could be off my rocker there too.
Sounds like a job for distributed computing IMHO.:D Someone want to work up a screen saver for this?
You know, I had one of the dumbest thoughts this afternoon that came about from the seti article earlier.
Perhaps there is other intelligent life out there. Let's say that our radio signals take a long time to get to whomever is listening...perhaps decades (probably longer). Then whomever out there, after researching our radio signals, decides to attempt sending a response...which in turn takes decades to get back to us. It's entirely possible we get a response to radio signals sent 50 years ago....well, 50 years from now.
Problem is, about 25 years from now, they're going to send another response...."Never mind, we really don't want to get to know you. You're all a bunch of freaks!", but we won't get that until 2075 and by that time we'll be sending battle cruisers....and it all won't matter.:D
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If you're willing to use an emulator and ask nicely, I have originals of both Nocturn in the Moonlight and Symphony of the Night here that I wouldn't mind sharing backups of. :)
No need. Playstation emulator and an old disc do nicely. From what I understand, they haven't updated the graphics at all, which is a pity. :(
Dunno. They've been pointing it out over and over again in recent weeks, but no release date. I just played through the US version for the first time this last few weeks. I'd beaten Nocturn several times in Japanese (got it waaaay before it came out over here) and, as if I'm telling anyone here anything new, it beats any other Castlevania hands down.
:P 60fps would be nice too!
Might be neat if they released the Saturn version with some graphical touch-ups. What I *really* would like to do is get the sourcecode to that game, re-draw the entire game using vector graphics. Give some of the artists nice wacom pads, trace out the old sprites, and then hand detail them out with vectors, and then update the engine to render the vector graphics in real-time, giving it a smooth-as-silk look even in HD.
Won't ever happen, but I can dream. It's up there with FF7 and FF8 getting graphical updates. Heck, just let us display the game in HD, and anti-alias the textures (or give us higher resolution textures) and not up the poly count.
So where does Carhenge fit in?
You could do that. Or you could make good use of that .htaccess, robots.txt, and if it comes right down to it, your firewall.
.htacess and robots.txt. If they decide to get sneaky and bypassthose, block it at the firewall.
Access logs will tell you who has been there. If the spider comes a knocking, block it with
I'd mod you up, but my points all just expired.
:)
:)
That's the fun thing about brute force...there's nothing that says that the first key you try won't work, other than odds and common sense. You could quite possibly break it on the first try.
So I say, let the games begin. Right a screen saver to do a distributed brute force on the key, and give it a try. You say we don't have enough CPU power, I say we don't have to have "enough" do do them all, only "enough" to get the right one.
Compliment accepted. :)
(sorry, couldn't must a sufficiently sarcastic remark)
Well, the logic surrounding my current mortgage is that it was a 4.5% 5 year fixed, then switches to ARM. I figured this was a starter home, and that we'd be getting out in 5 years. Given the direction that the real estate market is headed, I'm concerned, and considered refinancing into a fixed, but the percentage rates are pretty lousy. :(
If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears.
Oh, well in that case - cool. :)
;)
Add in encode, and mpeg4 encode/decode and I'm in.
That's something I sincerely had not considered, but you have a very valid point. What about the US's rampant use of credit vs. cash at large (everywhere from the individual all the way to the federal level)?
:(
We're in it bad, no two ways about it.
Not to mention.. "rich audio and video"?
:P
;) Back to your normal slashdotting.
Do they mean that it will have hardware to encode and decode to offload from the main cpu? Of course not.
Sorry, marketing buzzword alarm went off.
The first thing I want to say is - bravo for persistence.
:( But hey, it's still on the market, and could still sell many copies for years to come.
The second is, wow that sucks. 15 years to get it to market, 4000 copies, margins being what they are, say after all expenses he makes $3/copy sold.
$12,000.
Not so good.
You stopped short of the "bitter reality". Not everyone here has studied economics, so you're going to have to spell it out for them:
:\
When inflation hits a certain point, your currency becomes worth next to nothing, salaries fail to keep up, mortgages are too high (those real estate deals people are so happy about making cash off of...), and we fall into a deep depression. Happened in the early 90's, happened when the tech bubble popped, and the parent is talking about us being on the verge of it happening again.
It's a lousy hole to dig yourself out of, because it's a cycle that no one knows exactly how to break. It just seems to take time (and lots of it) for values to fight their way close enough back to equilibrium and life goes on.
It makes me sick every time I see articles about people flipping real-estate. They HAVE to know properties are over-valued. They just have to. With each sale, the next owner expects the property to either keep its value or go up. When people are flipping properties so quickly, everything has a sale price higher than its actual value. Here in St. Louis, the impact of it has already started to take hold: no one is buying. The market will only bear so much insanity.
As for the mints running money like mad, he's mostly right. For each dollar in circulation, the less each dollar is actually worth. The catch there is circulation. I know many older bills have been coming out of circulation, but I don't know at what rate, so I can't start jumping up and down at that point just yet, but he may very well be right. So we're over-valuing the land we live on, we over-value our money. We're in debt up to our eyeballs to other nations, and we're fighting a war with no clear-cut objective for victory or retreat. Without any bias toward or against our president, we are nearing par with Vietnam, the difference here I have to say is that our body count is not anywhere near the same (thank goodness!) and there is no draft.
Those who study economics have to realize something here too: all of our really serious depressions in the past have been resolved by wars. War creates jobs. War stirs the economy, makes individuals wealthy. Morality aside, each time we've gotten into a bind, a war has bailed us out. This may very well be the first time that *while* at war, this is happening. A war won't bail us out this time (or at least, we'd all best pray it doesn't, because if it does, it means we as a country p*ssed off the rest of the world and they come here to set us straight).
It really is sad to see. I bought my first home 3 years ago. I *thought* the value was a bit high, and managed to buy it just short of what it was appraised at, and was praying my wife and I didn't become too screwed by the real-estate market bombing. Here's to hoping.
Being the ISP I feel somewhat obligated to play devil's advocate to this. Of course there's no way to control the environment in the way I'm about to describe, but it's far less evil.
:(
There's two way a priority can be defined (or a firewall rule, or any type of ACL really):
block company a
or
allow company b
allow company c
allow company d
etc
Now, what I specifically stated was a local tv station pays me to prioritized their station so that the picture is guaranteed to be clear vs their competitors, so I do:
priority channel 5 - fastest
priority channel 4 - normal
priority channel 3 - normal
priority p2p - worst
What I, and most others fear, would be this that everyone gets tossed to the bottom of the scrap heap unless either the site is linked to the ISP somehow financially, or you cough up cash. In my mind I'd offer an *improvement* of what is normal, vs the big telcos that would take away service in order to sell it back in pieces.
I know that is an awfully fine line. Prioritization is easily abused.
Meh. This is always a mess. From the ISP side, unless I have a business connection or the rare "clueful end user", I do traffic shaping on all connections, basically tossing p2p to the bottom of the stack, VOIP and video services to the top, and everything else to the middle. Now the kicker of Net Neutrality is that *technically*, I become a bad guy if I do this. It's entirely possible for me to decide that someone has paid me additional funds (say the local tv station) to prioritize their video feed above others to make sure it gets a nice clear picture, vs their competitors video feeds.
Sounds pretty harmless when you're talking about Joe Tiny ISP. It's these big guys that start to give you the willies when you think about the implications of it. Net Neutrality in its purest form is somewhat of a myth these days anyway, given that almost no one runs a perfectly open router. We all firewall, we all segment and exclude, etc, etc, etc. Prioritization of packets is a natural next step in that chain. It just urks me that some PHB got the idea to make that into a profiteering mechanism, so now prioritization is evil, and will either be abused, or outlawed.
The absurdity of it all abounds. Packet prioritization is not evil unto itself. I guess if I started squelching any and all requests from microsoft.com and msn.com but gave high priority to google.com....pfft, this is all insane.
Agreed. Just take the heat from your GPU to heat the pipe for your cpu. done. :D
Steep consequences, perhaps.
Being arrested for a civil matter? No. That shouldn't be happening. Perhaps he gets a court summons, and loses his shirt in court, but being raided and tossed in jail? Hm.....no.
OMG Ponies!!!!11
;) No hard feelings.
Sorry man, had to do it.
All will be well with TBP...until the Ninjas come, and they will come.
Arr mateys.
You're replying to someone that runs a company on open source software and heavily utilizes telecommuting, so I think I know how that sits. :) I'll rephrase. It costs *my* company nothing to do it. In fact, most of my guys provide their own workstations, and just sync their home directories to the data center. Simple.
I can believe this if this is (lord help me) an "old economy" company. As business look to reduce costs (or heck, find a way to afford startup costs) it makes sense to utilize home offices which, in essence, cost you nothing.
That said, in companies where employees are managed by individuals that are not skilled in the art of their employees (take IT, for instance), then there's the risk of being perceived as not working as hard.
I know, been there. Don't toss the baby out with the bathwater though. Telecommuting certainly has its benefits...and its place.
Now wait just a second. I'm no cryptographer here, but I think you're making some presumptions that may be out of whack.
:D Someone want to work up a screen saver for this?
As you get more keys, wouldn't it be feasible to create a table by which to speed up the decryption process? As you get more keys, theoretically speaking you could derive the base equation used to generate the keys, thus being able to arbitrarily generate your own. So yes, it's slow now, but as more keys get cracked, more energies can be put into determining that base equation through brute force rather than into getting more keys. Of course I could be off my rocker there too.
Sounds like a job for distributed computing IMHO.
I'll deal with it later. :\
You know, I had one of the dumbest thoughts this afternoon that came about from the seti article earlier.
:D
Perhaps there is other intelligent life out there. Let's say that our radio signals take a long time to get to whomever is listening...perhaps decades (probably longer). Then whomever out there, after researching our radio signals, decides to attempt sending a response...which in turn takes decades to get back to us. It's entirely possible we get a response to radio signals sent 50 years ago....well, 50 years from now.
Problem is, about 25 years from now, they're going to send another response...."Never mind, we really don't want to get to know you. You're all a bunch of freaks!", but we won't get that until 2075 and by that time we'll be sending battle cruisers....and it all won't matter.
Dirty sig man, just plain dirty. :(