This is GAMES.slashdot.org, not GAMES-ADVOCACY.slashdot.org. I think most would agree that we're here to read about games, not the shitstorm politicians are trying to keep fueling so they can get get/keep their cushy office jobs.
I bought a Ti5600 when I upgraded my main linux box. I ended up not using it very much so I swapped my Ti4600 in my windows box with the Ti5600 in my linux box hoping to get better performance. In Battlefield: 1942, I'm almost 100% certain I got better framerates with the 4600 than I am with the 5600. I think if my performance sucks with HL2, I'll swap them out again and see if it improves.
"The thing is, we're not trying to do Vice City. Driver actually started the whole city, car-chase environment, so it'd be a big mistake to say, 'Let's do [all the GTA features], instead.'"
Hello! McFly! Driver wasn't first at anything. Carmageddon came before Driver and did whole city car-chase environments. Grand Theft Auto(the original) came before Driver and did WHOLE(wow those were big cities) city car-chase environments. And before these was Test Drive, which did city/city limits car-chase environments with the police chasing you. These games did exist before the Playstation 2 and Grand Theft Auto 3. I love how developers get selective memory when hyping up their new shovelware game.
There's a lot more to calculating the amount of "worth" an article or page has, than just bandwidth. In fact, I'd say bandwidth is the least of your worries. The whole premise of the poster's article is based on, "The biggest problem facing webmasters these days is the cost of bandwidth". This may be true for small websites but not so for larger ones.
What is going to pay for the people maintaining site? What is going to pay the people writing the articles?
The author's idea of using the htaccess file for user accounts is horrible. It's great, again, for a very small site, but fails horribly when you get more than 25 users. You can't disable them easily, you can't group them and the file access is slow. The encryption for the passwords is particularly weak.
The author doesn't even include how to account for usage, taking payments, etc. His ineptitude is complete with this statement: "I'm not aware of any software available to parse Apache logs and report user information so I wrote my own." I guess he's never heard of the great software program called analog.
*sigh* This should be called, "The Total Idiot's Guide to Setting Up Apache for Basic User Controlled Access"
> First, you can't get a decent Geforce4 Ti for ~$100. Maybe a Geforce4MX, but that is a severly crippled GF4, so much so that even John Carmack said not to get one. A Geforce4 4200 (which is the lowest Geforce 4 is about $150.
Try using Pricewatch. I found the same price, $110 for a GeForce4 Ti4200. This is not an MX model.
On the second day of Christmas my computer said to me...please format me
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LOTR: The Two Towers
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Yeah, it's just GREAT to hear cell phones go off, people coughing, watch alarms ringing, babies crying and the ultra common dorkus-maximus yammering on to his buddies about the next big scene("Watch this!"). No thanks, I like to go when it's nice and quiet or watch at home on my Olympus EyeTrek.
Okay retard, let's spell it out for you with some hypothetical math. There are over 400,000 registered users(I just glanced around for the highest user number in these threads, probably more than that) and articles posted get maybe an average of 400-500 comments before they are closed. Even if you looked at 50 articles about Microsoft with 500 comments and each of those comments were posted by a different user that's still only 25,000 users. Which, if we go with the low 400,000 users estimate, leads to roughly 6% of Slashdot's population. To conclude that "the majority of Slashdotters" are hypocritical in their arguments against Microsoft IS retarded and assumes Slashdot has a monolithic view.
You're just making yourself look stupid by assuming anything about "the majority" of Slashdotters. Argue about your real issues, people claiming the demise of Microsoft via free software and people claiming Microsoft is a monopoly(which according to a court ruling, they are) and stop trying to base your arguments on baseless assumptions about the people arguing for/against you.
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And after a few years their eyes bug out like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall when he gets pushed out on to the surface of Mars when the window breaks and the room decompresses.
Why can't someone come up with a CHEAP way of doing mouse input by tracking the pupil. I'd gobble that up in a second.
Couldn't ebay break apart the login username from the bidding username? This wouldn't eliminate the problem, but it could certainly help since the attacker wouldn't immediately know which account to attempt to block out through bad access violations.
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Self-Heating Can
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And a battery attached to a food container = possible toxic contaminants. I don't think the FDA is going to approve something like that any time soon. I imagine the chemicals they are using for the self heating cans are non-toxic.
It's not for profit, that's just a bonus. The true fans, including myself, have already paid for this album through donations. The silver edition and unlimited edition is just a way for the composers to recoup some of their time spent for working so long and hard on this album.
Okay, this company would be violating the "spirit" of the license, but that's not illegal, so they could probably get away with this. However, there is one thing they do have to be careful with and that's the 30% of the GPL'd code they haven't written but plan on using. If they obfuscate this code and then attempt to claim copyright of it, there could be some big consequences. This is clearly illegal and doesn't involve the GPL at all. I'm also not sure how the system would work if they obfuscated the original 30% GPL'd code but the attributed copyright to the original owner. I'd assume that they'd still get in trouble because the copyright owner of that code did not produce the obfuscated mess. Might be slander or defamation of character(or one of those goofy legal terms).
But regardless, I think this company is going about things the wrong way. To the original Anon poster of the story, please, let us know when this code is released, I love a challenge and would be happy to go through and un-obfuscate this code.
The Warcraft III client simply verifies it's key with an authentication server before it even is allowed to connect to battle.net or any other server. If the key isn't authenticated, no online play for you. This is how Quake 3, RTCW etc do it, it works perfectly AND allows third party servers to operate. All these suggestions about letting a bnetd server get the key from the client and then verify with Blizzard are just ludicrous and asking for someone to just develop a server that grabs the key and then disconnects the client.
Isn't the editor obvious?
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Don't forget to read the print in the credits either. Every person's charity gets $10,000 regardless of the amount won at the end. So the network is already getting $80k per charity show in tax-deductions.
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This is GAMES.slashdot.org, not GAMES-ADVOCACY.slashdot.org. I think most would agree that we're here to read about games, not the shitstorm politicians are trying to keep fueling so they can get get/keep their cushy office jobs.
I bought a Ti5600 when I upgraded my main linux box. I ended up not using it very much so I swapped my Ti4600 in my windows box with the Ti5600 in my linux box hoping to get better performance. In Battlefield: 1942, I'm almost 100% certain I got better framerates with the 4600 than I am with the 5600. I think if my performance sucks with HL2, I'll swap them out again and see if it improves.
You need to spraypaint more buildings instead of huffing that gold spraypaint away.
"The thing is, we're not trying to do Vice City. Driver actually started the whole city, car-chase environment, so it'd be a big mistake to say, 'Let's do [all the GTA features], instead.'"
Hello! McFly! Driver wasn't first at anything. Carmageddon came before Driver and did whole city car-chase environments. Grand Theft Auto(the original) came before Driver and did WHOLE(wow those were big cities) city car-chase environments. And before these was Test Drive, which did city/city limits car-chase environments with the police chasing you. These games did exist before the Playstation 2 and Grand Theft Auto 3. I love how developers get selective memory when hyping up their new shovelware game.
And you're an idiot if it takes you four hours and you STILL can't figure out how to set up a mime type under any browser, in any operating system.
Hey Johnny, would you be willing to answer a few questions about Java development? Send me an email at dodger@thewretched.org if you are.
There's a lot more to calculating the amount of "worth" an article or page has, than just bandwidth. In fact, I'd say bandwidth is the least of your worries. The whole premise of the poster's article is based on, "The biggest problem facing webmasters these days is the cost of bandwidth". This may be true for small websites but not so for larger ones.
What is going to pay for the people maintaining site? What is going to pay the people writing the articles?
The author's idea of using the htaccess file for user accounts is horrible. It's great, again, for a very small site, but fails horribly when you get more than 25 users. You can't disable them easily, you can't group them and the file access is slow. The encryption for the passwords is particularly weak.
The author doesn't even include how to account for usage, taking payments, etc. His ineptitude is complete with this statement: "I'm not aware of any software available to parse Apache logs and report user information so I wrote my own." I guess he's never heard of the great software program called analog.
*sigh* This should be called, "The Total Idiot's Guide to Setting Up Apache for Basic User Controlled Access"
> First, you can't get a decent Geforce4 Ti for ~$100. Maybe a Geforce4MX, but that is a severly crippled GF4, so much so that even John Carmack said not to get one. A Geforce4 4200 (which is the lowest Geforce 4 is about $150.
Try using Pricewatch. I found the same price, $110 for a GeForce4 Ti4200. This is not an MX model.
On the second day of Christmas my computer said to me...please format me
Yeah, it's just GREAT to hear cell phones go off, people coughing, watch alarms ringing, babies crying and the ultra common dorkus-maximus yammering on to his buddies about the next big scene("Watch this!"). No thanks, I like to go when it's nice and quiet or watch at home on my Olympus EyeTrek.
Okay retard, let's spell it out for you with some hypothetical math. There are over 400,000 registered users(I just glanced around for the highest user number in these threads, probably more than that) and articles posted get maybe an average of 400-500 comments before they are closed. Even if you looked at 50 articles about Microsoft with 500 comments and each of those comments were posted by a different user that's still only 25,000 users. Which, if we go with the low 400,000 users estimate, leads to roughly 6% of Slashdot's population. To conclude that "the majority of Slashdotters" are hypocritical in their arguments against Microsoft IS retarded and assumes Slashdot has a monolithic view.
You're just making yourself look stupid by assuming anything about "the majority" of Slashdotters. Argue about your real issues, people claiming the demise of Microsoft via free software and people claiming Microsoft is a monopoly(which according to a court ruling, they are) and stop trying to base your arguments on baseless assumptions about the people arguing for/against you.
No, I think he meant that he's a dumbshit.
I personally like, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Twin Towers".
The transport costs would kill you if the material prices didn't.
Dodger_
Resident Evil the movie rocks, it's the game(Gamecube version included) that sucked.
*zips up Varia suit*
And after a few years their eyes bug out like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall when he gets pushed out on to the surface of Mars when the window breaks and the room decompresses.
Why can't someone come up with a CHEAP way of doing mouse input by tracking the pupil. I'd gobble that up in a second.
WTF?! How can it ever claim the "best pinball game ever" title with a crappy digital switch for ball launches?!
Couldn't ebay break apart the login username from the bidding username? This wouldn't eliminate the problem, but it could certainly help since the attacker wouldn't immediately know which account to attempt to block out through bad access violations.
And a battery attached to a food container = possible toxic contaminants. I don't think the FDA is going to approve something like that any time soon. I imagine the chemicals they are using for the self heating cans are non-toxic.
It's not for profit, that's just a bonus. The true fans, including myself, have already paid for this album through donations. The silver edition and unlimited edition is just a way for the composers to recoup some of their time spent for working so long and hard on this album.
Okay, this company would be violating the "spirit" of the license, but that's not illegal, so they could probably get away with this. However, there is one thing they do have to be careful with and that's the 30% of the GPL'd code they haven't written but plan on using. If they obfuscate this code and then attempt to claim copyright of it, there could be some big consequences. This is clearly illegal and doesn't involve the GPL at all. I'm also not sure how the system would work if they obfuscated the original 30% GPL'd code but the attributed copyright to the original owner. I'd assume that they'd still get in trouble because the copyright owner of that code did not produce the obfuscated mess. Might be slander or defamation of character(or one of those goofy legal terms).
But regardless, I think this company is going about things the wrong way. To the original Anon poster of the story, please, let us know when this code is released, I love a challenge and would be happy to go through and un-obfuscate this code.
The Warcraft III client simply verifies it's key with an authentication server before it even is allowed to connect to battle.net or any other server. If the key isn't authenticated, no online play for you. This is how Quake 3, RTCW etc do it, it works perfectly AND allows third party servers to operate. All these suggestions about letting a bnetd server get the key from the client and then verify with Blizzard are just ludicrous and asking for someone to just develop a server that grabs the key and then disconnects the client.
[inside cover of book]
Dot.Con
by Stephan Paternot
Editors: CmdrTaco and Roblimo
Don't forget to read the print in the credits either. Every person's charity gets $10,000 regardless of the amount won at the end. So the network is already getting $80k per charity show in tax-deductions.
Why don't you just modify the drawing code to flip it? You shouldn' have to do anything fancy, just draw from the opposite end.