BZZZZZ Wrong. I'm sorry, you didnt get that right, and there's no parting gift for you.
Late last year/early this year, Bell Canada sold it's Phonebook business to a third party. So in Canada, the phone comapnies are not necessarily the book publishers.
Anyone else feel like innovation in the FPS genre has stagnated since the introduction of Counter-Strike?
I would definately not call Counterstrike innovative. It was a copy of stuff that was already around.
Now if you wanna try something that's a bit different, try America's Army. Not only is it different, it's also free to download and play:) (well, if you're American, you sorta already paid for it with your tax dollars). Very strategic FPS, even moreso than BF1942. Wthout team strategy, you lose. You also need to be able to successfully pass standalone missions before certain maps and weapons are made available to you for online play (so no one is a total newbie).
Topic icons appear under Netscape/Mozilla, but for some reason stopped working under Internet Explorer (at least the windows version). I haven't tested with any other browser.
It's just you. CGI, or Computer Generated Images, has been used as a movie term for many years. It's a good thing to leave your parents' basement more than once a decade.
There was a lot of controversy on your run of DC's Hellblazer, which seemed to start with the (understandably) cancelled Columbine-like issue. What can you tell us on what's happened (without naming names) and how does it affect your relationship with DC to this day?
Second question, if I may. We often hear about which book/character that a comicbook writer would love to work on. What character or book from the big 2 wouldn't you touch with a 10 foot pole?
Dead? I don't think so. Get back to me when they start using Non-volatile RAM and the price per byte is equal or less than the price for harddrives. Until then, the HD is going to be alive and kicking.
One thing I've always wondered though. Why not release an OS on an EPROM? It would make boot time and OS operations extremely fast. I'm still surprised to this day that this isn't mainstream. Ahhh, the good ol' days of Commodore when you OS was instantly on when you turned on the PC.....
*GASP* motion cpature is not the same thing as inserting a complete animated CG character out of thin air.
As far as motion capture goes, I remember seeing a Phantom Menace special which showed exactly that. Ahmed Best in a motion capture shoot, and a rough CG of JarJar on a monitor moving along with the actor. So to those neisayers out there, this was being done way before WETA did it for LotR.
According to a friend of mine who's in tight with GW, this is not only affecting Internet Sals, but also mailorder. You'll only be able to mailorder stuff directly through GW, and not anywhere else.
This is the sound of a company shooting their own brains out.
Something's even easier, and it already exists: Authenticated SMTP. You need to authenticate with the SMTP server when you send mail, just like you authenticate for POP/IMAIL. If this was adopted everywhere, it would solve many problems:
It would cut down on the amount of spam from 'spam newbies'.
It would allow for the creation of a blacklist on non-authenticated SMTP servers. This would encourage those not running authenticated SMTP to do so.
It would also fix the 'no roaming' SMTP problem. I could travel abroad and still send mail thru my ISP's SMTP server, since there would no longer be any need to restrict SMTP access by IP address space (though doing both would allow for extra security measures).
You could trace back the originating user. Now, user accounts could still get hacked, but it's an added measure of security.
There's also a big flaw in your suggestion. Such a system would allow for easier harvesting of email addresses. Someone could easilly write a piece of software to check for valid accounts, with the added benifit of not suffering from bounceback messages!
That is, unless you don't mind not being routed by more than half the backbones on the Internet, since most only accept/19 or bigger BGP advertisements.
And yes, I do know what I'm talking about, being an ex-WAN Admin and current syusadmin for a big national backbone provider.
Sure you can. But you also have to remember that most backbone providers will not accept BGP advertisements smaller than/19 (32 Class Bs). To get that kind of range at Arin, you have to prove something like 75% utilisation now, and up to 100% utilisation within 3 months. So unless you're an ISP/backbone/server/web farm or a big company, you'll have a tough time proving you need 8 class Bs.
You can't purchase IPs anymore. All IPs are now RENTED from the ISP in question. With routing protocols the way they are, there are very few portable classes available, and those are grandfathered. You can no longer buy a class and expect to keep it if you change providers. The IPs belong to the ISP/provider. All you're doing is renting them.
Errr, J&SBSB did not make a "fortune" at the box office. I think it brought in something like $30 million. Blockbusters do that just in their opening weekend.
Not to say I didn't enjoy J&SBSB. I'm a big Kevin Smith fan and I really enjoyed the movie (for what it was: dick&fart jokes). Most of the 30 million was probably due to the cult following Kevin Smith has, and not advertising.
What's needed is not only the capability of suing the spammer, but also suing the business which hired the spammer in the first place (which is much easier to find than the spammer him/herself). This way, it would discourage companies from hiring spammers, since they themselves would be liable.
I myself am in the process of building a file server. I put in a videocard that supports TV OUT. The fileserver itself will be sitting in the living room. I also got a wireless keyboard+mouse. The PC will also be hooked up to the stereo for sound. This not only allows me to listen to MP3s, but also removes the need for a monitor or switch (plus I cn also watch movies from the PC)
Anyone know when this was originally patented? I can't seem to find it at the Patent Office online. I remember watching streaming video/audio in Real Player around 95, and videoconferencing in 90-91 (which is streaming video). Unless they patented this in the early 80's, there's TONS of prior art to this.
Hmmmm, maybe I'll patent the idea of prior art. Wonder if it's been tried already.
Prior Art: The process of which indicates if an already existing patent and/or use was already pre-existing. If anything remotely acts/looks/operates/functions to/like anything already existing, they are in violation of this patent.
Cajuns are Acadians who migrated from Nova Scotia to Louisiana. Cajuns, are in fact, Acadians in Louisiana.
Acadians is a group of people/culture/region (Acadie) from Nova Scotia. They are alive and well IN Nova Scotia, still living and breathing to this day.
Bell Canada did this 5-6 years ago. If I remember the specs, each building was connected up to a full OC3, with a router somewhere in the building, and each apartment was hooked up via ethernet (and each apt having it's own static IP address to boot). It never left the testing phase however (it was in full blown production for those apartment buildings, but it never was released to market). This is just an assumption, but DSL was just around the corner at the time, so they probably assumed that DSL was a cheaper alternative.
I know I'll probably lose karma points for this...
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! Not only is this a dupe, but the dupe appears on the front page, it's not even archived yet!!!! Don't the so-called 'editors' read the site??? What's worst is that these guys get paid for what they do! I ran an RPG newssite that posted more news than slashdot on any given day. Did we ever have any dupes? Nope. Why? Cause we read our own damn site!!!! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! Dupes is probably the #1 complaint on slashdot, and no one seems to be doing a damn thing about it.
Bah, I'm a sysadmin and you won't find me glued to consoles at 7pm on a Friday, unless I'm on pager and something breaks. I much prefer spending my weekends with my gf and/or friends.
There must be a balance in life... cuz in the end, what was it all for? Your servers and your bosses won't be at your bedside when you're really sick and/or dying. But family, friends and loved ones will.
(Damn, I have been watching way too much SouthPark:P )
I was somewhat torn on the issue until I read "I'm going to release these at 7pm on Friday, so that sysadmins don't know about this and can't do anything about this til Monday morning" (paraphrased).
Any inkling of having me agree with posting these advisories just went out the window with this one. He's not trying to help anyone by divulging these, except for maybe script kiddies and crackers. With such a statement it's obvious he's not trying to help vendors release a quicker fix.
I'm wondering if this affects hardware as well as software. Not that I ever buy anything at Office Depot (since they don't exist in this neck of the woods, so all mmy office needs except hardware/software are purchased at Staples), but it begs to question.
My ATI 8500DV has never had any drivers that are WindowsXP certified. Does this mean Office Depot will not carry that piece of hardware, or carry it without any drivers (since it can use the crappy standard SVGA drivers)? Same goes with one of my NICs, and my extra HD controller card drivers...
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BZZZZZ Wrong. I'm sorry, you didnt get that right, and there's no parting gift for you.
Late last year/early this year, Bell Canada sold it's Phonebook business to a third party. So in Canada, the phone comapnies are not necessarily the book publishers.
Anyone else feel like innovation in the FPS genre has stagnated since the introduction of Counter-Strike?
:) (well, if you're American, you sorta already paid for it with your tax dollars). Very strategic FPS, even moreso than BF1942. Wthout team strategy, you lose. You also need to be able to successfully pass standalone missions before certain maps and weapons are made available to you for online play (so no one is a total newbie).
I would definately not call Counterstrike innovative. It was a copy of stuff that was already around.
Now if you wanna try something that's a bit different, try America's Army. Not only is it different, it's also free to download and play
Topic icons appear under Netscape/Mozilla, but for some reason stopped working under Internet Explorer (at least the windows version). I haven't tested with any other browser.
It's just you. CGI, or Computer Generated Images, has been used as a movie term for many years. It's a good thing to leave your parents' basement more than once a decade.
There was a lot of controversy on your run of DC's Hellblazer, which seemed to start with the (understandably) cancelled Columbine-like issue. What can you tell us on what's happened (without naming names) and how does it affect your relationship with DC to this day?
Second question, if I may. We often hear about which book/character that a comicbook writer would love to work on. What character or book from the big 2 wouldn't you touch with a 10 foot pole?
Dead? I don't think so. Get back to me when they start using Non-volatile RAM and the price per byte is equal or less than the price for harddrives. Until then, the HD is going to be alive and kicking.
One thing I've always wondered though. Why not release an OS on an EPROM? It would make boot time and OS operations extremely fast. I'm still surprised to this day that this isn't mainstream. Ahhh, the good ol' days of Commodore when you OS was instantly on when you turned on the PC.....
*GASP* motion cpature is not the same thing as inserting a complete animated CG character out of thin air.
As far as motion capture goes, I remember seeing a Phantom Menace special which showed exactly that. Ahmed Best in a motion capture shoot, and a rough CG of JarJar on a monitor moving along with the actor. So to those neisayers out there, this was being done way before WETA did it for LotR.
According to a friend of mine who's in tight with GW, this is not only affecting Internet Sals, but also mailorder. You'll only be able to mailorder stuff directly through GW, and not anywhere else.
This is the sound of a company shooting their own brains out.
It would cut down on the amount of spam from 'spam newbies'.
It would allow for the creation of a blacklist on non-authenticated SMTP servers. This would encourage those not running authenticated SMTP to do so.
It would also fix the 'no roaming' SMTP problem. I could travel abroad and still send mail thru my ISP's SMTP server, since there would no longer be any need to restrict SMTP access by IP address space (though doing both would allow for extra security measures).
You could trace back the originating user. Now, user accounts could still get hacked, but it's an added measure of security.
There's also a big flaw in your suggestion. Such a system would allow for easier harvesting of email addresses. Someone could easilly write a piece of software to check for valid accounts, with the added benifit of not suffering from bounceback messages!
Yeah, I meant class Cs, not class Bs Note to self: Don't post when suffering from lack of sleep.
So unless you're an ISP/backbone/server/web farm or a big company, you'll have a tough time proving you need 8 class Bs
Sorry, I meant 32 class Bs, not 8.
I forgot to add:
/19 or bigger BGP advertisements.
That is, unless you don't mind not being routed by more than half the backbones on the Internet, since most only accept
And yes, I do know what I'm talking about, being an ex-WAN Admin and current syusadmin for a big national backbone provider.
Sure you can. But you also have to remember that most backbone providers will not accept BGP advertisements smaller than /19 (32 Class Bs). To get that kind of range at Arin, you have to prove something like 75% utilisation now, and up to 100% utilisation within 3 months. So unless you're an ISP/backbone/server/web farm or a big company, you'll have a tough time proving you need 8 class Bs.
You can't purchase IPs anymore. All IPs are now RENTED from the ISP in question. With routing protocols the way they are, there are very few portable classes available, and those are grandfathered. You can no longer buy a class and expect to keep it if you change providers. The IPs belong to the ISP/provider. All you're doing is renting them.
Errr, J&SBSB did not make a "fortune" at the box office. I think it brought in something like $30 million. Blockbusters do that just in their opening weekend.
Not to say I didn't enjoy J&SBSB. I'm a big Kevin Smith fan and I really enjoyed the movie (for what it was: dick&fart jokes). Most of the 30 million was probably due to the cult following Kevin Smith has, and not advertising.
(BTW, I also really enjoed Donnie Darko)
What's needed is not only the capability of suing the spammer, but also suing the business which hired the spammer in the first place (which is much easier to find than the spammer him/herself). This way, it would discourage companies from hiring spammers, since they themselves would be liable.
I myself am in the process of building a file server. I put in a videocard that supports TV OUT. The fileserver itself will be sitting in the living room. I also got a wireless keyboard+mouse. The PC will also be hooked up to the stereo for sound. This not only allows me to listen to MP3s, but also removes the need for a monitor or switch (plus I cn also watch movies from the PC)
Anyone know when this was originally patented? I can't seem to find it at the Patent Office online. I remember watching streaming video/audio in Real Player around 95, and videoconferencing in 90-91 (which is streaming video). Unless they patented this in the early 80's, there's TONS of prior art to this.
Hmmmm, maybe I'll patent the idea of prior art. Wonder if it's been tried already.
Prior Art: The process of which indicates if an already existing patent and/or use was already pre-existing. If anything remotely acts/looks/operates/functions to/like anything already existing, they are in violation of this patent.
Cajuns are Acadians who migrated from Nova Scotia to Louisiana. Cajuns, are in fact, Acadians in Louisiana.
Acadians is a group of people/culture/region (Acadie) from Nova Scotia. They are alive and well IN Nova Scotia, still living and breathing to this day.
Bell Canada did this 5-6 years ago. If I remember the specs, each building was connected up to a full OC3, with a router somewhere in the building, and each apartment was hooked up via ethernet (and each apt having it's own static IP address to boot). It never left the testing phase however (it was in full blown production for those apartment buildings, but it never was released to market). This is just an assumption, but DSL was just around the corner at the time, so they probably assumed that DSL was a cheaper alternative.
I do.. do you????2 8/1751226&mode=thread&tid=99
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/
Guess you don't.
I know I'll probably lose karma points for this...
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! Not only is this a dupe, but the dupe appears on the front page, it's not even archived yet!!!! Don't the so-called 'editors' read the site??? What's worst is that these guys get paid for what they do! I ran an RPG newssite that posted more news than slashdot on any given day. Did we ever have any dupes? Nope. Why? Cause we read our own damn site!!!! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! Dupes is probably the #1 complaint on slashdot, and no one seems to be doing a damn thing about it.
Bah, I'm a sysadmin and you won't find me glued to consoles at 7pm on a Friday, unless I'm on pager and something breaks. I much prefer spending my weekends with my gf and/or friends.
:P )
There must be a balance in life... cuz in the end, what was it all for? Your servers and your bosses won't be at your bedside when you're really sick and/or dying. But family, friends and loved ones will.
(Damn, I have been watching way too much SouthPark
I was somewhat torn on the issue until I read "I'm going to release these at 7pm on Friday, so that sysadmins don't know about this and can't do anything about this til Monday morning" (paraphrased).
Any inkling of having me agree with posting these advisories just went out the window with this one. He's not trying to help anyone by divulging these, except for maybe script kiddies and crackers. With such a statement it's obvious he's not trying to help vendors release a quicker fix.
I'm wondering if this affects hardware as well as software. Not that I ever buy anything at Office Depot (since they don't exist in this neck of the woods, so all mmy office needs except hardware/software are purchased at Staples), but it begs to question.
My ATI 8500DV has never had any drivers that are WindowsXP certified. Does this mean Office Depot will not carry that piece of hardware, or carry it without any drivers (since it can use the crappy standard SVGA drivers)? Same goes with one of my NICs, and my extra HD controller card drivers...
Makes you wonder....