I recall that piracy meant copyright infringement + profiting from it. Just simple copying a CD and giving it to your friend isn't piracy, selling that copied CD is.
Umm, assuming you are shopping, shouldn't you be using HTTPS and that would kill any caching. And with unique url (which doesn't need to be ugly) would only kill caching for the actual html-page, all resources and images still would be nicely cached. And with correctly implemented url-rewrite-session-scheme, there is no security issues that cookies won't also have. A good session system has a counter that prevents reusing old urls, so they are always unique. The only thing you lose is the ability to autologin to a site, though this could be done by giving the user a HTTPS URL which he can then bookmark and hopefully not share with anyone. But in any case, it would be more secure if sites would always ask for a password rather than just let the user in if he happens to have the right cookie.
And if you don't wanna use cookies, you could either use Ajax or frames. Both can store the information to variables whilst you browse around and don't lose it unless you go and press the back button or something of that sorts.
Or you could just have a form on the page with hidden field containing all the session information encrypted so that the user cannot decypher it, but your server can. This way the server doesn't need to store any session data. Just need some javascript to submit the form when user clicks a link. Or use form image buttons for graphical links.
There are plenty of options and in any case, I think you can use cookies as long as you ask the user for permission to use them. So with a webshop, no cookies until you add something to the shopping cart, then have a small dialog asking for the permission, and then begin using cookies.
Unfortunately GPS loggers until recently usually had very small internal flash. I have a Pretec GPS logger and it can store about 30000 datapoints with all info and little bit more without elevation. Still that allows me to record data point every 3 seconds for 25 hours.
Actually that depends on the GPS. Mine updates the speed and heading information every second but stores the information only every 15 seconds. So each saved record contains the average speed for the past second, not the average speed of the 15 second interval.
I think it is somewhat pointless to throttle the speeds beyond your connection to the ISP. Usually (always?) your upload bandwidth is the limiting factor. Azureus has had a autospeed plugin for ages that monitors your latency and adjusts the upload speed based on that. It is responsive enough to detect when you are watching streaming video etc and lower the upload speed when needed. And just to spite the ISP I usually make Azureus (not rTorrent) to open 4000+ connections and run 10-100 torrents simultaneously just to make sure I get to use all my bandwidth I pay for:)
I think Apple delivers some kind of deviceid with the sales report so you can easily compare that to the deviceid you send with the highscores. The reason why this cannot be used for piracy prevention is that it takes weeks for Apple to deliver those reports so by the time you get them, a pirate has already finished playing the game.
I am not sure what you count as Southern Finland, but I live 100km north from Helsinki and we have had plenty of -20C winter days and -30C is not that unusual.
Where did you pull that 60%? Income tax caps at 60% and is progressive, thus majority of people pay 7-30% of income tax. Even if you include VAT from goods you buy, you wont get to 60%.
Most likely they have combined the old ISDN laws with the broadband laws. That would mean that the local telco has to offer internet connectivity to anyone who wants it, but the price is the same if the telco needs to dig 5km of copper to the ground or just connect one cable at the town center. To prevent high prices, the telcos also need to give access to virtual-ISPs that can then compete with the real ISP/telco and the telco only gets basic fee from the loan of the phoneline.
Thank you, finally a person who seems to know about PAE. I always growl when people speak about 32bit versus 64bit cpus and don't seem to have any clue.
Ah, but when you talk about someone in English, you probably would use she or he. Perhaps you should try languages like Finnish that are truely gender/status neutral. We even write the words as they are pronounced.
That is why games allow you to reconfigure the keys, like I always use SZXC instead of WASD. At most I need to relearn 1-3 new keys for each game, and that is only if they have radically different controls compared to "normal" FPS games.
Weapons are changed by the scrollwheel on the mouse, windows are opened with E (and are doors and other object manipulation), jumping is done with D. And I'll just jump on that wall with the help of rocket launcher, just like in the real world.
Also I wonder why people don't use pseudonyms etc registering to blogging services or any other free no creditcard required internet site. Sites only need correct information if they need to bill you and even then one should keep the info at minimum.
It still is quite difficult, I cannot easily use L1 and L2 simultaneously and moving finger between them is slowish. And I still need the top buttons for jumping, grenades, reloading and other stuff.. Not very convenient, thus I don't play FPS games on consoles.
Humm, when I play games on my PC, I rarely have to move my hand around the keyboard. My default keymap that I try to use and adapt to all games is:
S,Z,X and C for movement, left-shift run/walk modifier D for jump and A for duck/crouch E is for use/activate items/doors/etc R reload, F flashlight Q and W are for weapons modifiers, eg. switch between weapons G is grenade T,V,B,tab,left-ctrl and spacebar for custom stuff and finally 1,2,3,4...0 for quick selecting stuff, usually weapons or spells whatnot
I might be doing this wrong, but when I play FPS games on my PS3, I need three thumbs; left for movement thumbstick, right for aiming/view control thumbstick and third thumb to use those four buttons to fire/shoot. Driving games are usually better as I can use the left side buttons for steering, right side buttons for accelerator/brake. I really really loathe the thumbsticks, they are inaccurate and difficult to use.
I've seen similar contracts, basicly what the vendor does, is that they sell you two identical servers, one they ship to you, one they keep. When you call them about a problem, they take their server with them and if they cannot immediately detect and fix the problem at your end, they just switch the servers.
The iPhone SDK is free to download and use. I think it even can be used to compile & run apps on jailbroken iPhones. You only need to pay Apple if you want to distribute the app via their store or execute your binaries on non-jailbroken iPhone.
Humm, the Cydia version of Wolf3D doesn't seem to come from ID which might be problematic as the maps, graphics, sounds are not under GPL and cannot be distributed without a permission from ID.
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I recall that piracy meant copyright infringement + profiting from it. Just simple copying a CD and giving it to your friend isn't piracy, selling that copied CD is.
Umm, assuming you are shopping, shouldn't you be using HTTPS and that would kill any caching. And with unique url (which doesn't need to be ugly) would only kill caching for the actual html-page, all resources and images still would be nicely cached. And with correctly implemented url-rewrite-session-scheme, there is no security issues that cookies won't also have. A good session system has a counter that prevents reusing old urls, so they are always unique. The only thing you lose is the ability to autologin to a site, though this could be done by giving the user a HTTPS URL which he can then bookmark and hopefully not share with anyone. But in any case, it would be more secure if sites would always ask for a password rather than just let the user in if he happens to have the right cookie.
And if you don't wanna use cookies, you could either use Ajax or frames. Both can store the information to variables whilst you browse around and don't lose it unless you go and press the back button or something of that sorts.
Or you could just have a form on the page with hidden field containing all the session information encrypted so that the user cannot decypher it, but your server can. This way the server doesn't need to store any session data. Just need some javascript to submit the form when user clicks a link. Or use form image buttons for graphical links.
There are plenty of options and in any case, I think you can use cookies as long as you ask the user for permission to use them. So with a webshop, no cookies until you add something to the shopping cart, then have a small dialog asking for the permission, and then begin using cookies.
Unfortunately GPS loggers until recently usually had very small internal flash. I have a Pretec GPS logger and it can store about 30000 datapoints with all info and little bit more without elevation. Still that allows me to record data point every 3 seconds for 25 hours.
Actually that depends on the GPS. Mine updates the speed and heading information every second but stores the information only every 15 seconds. So each saved record contains the average speed for the past second, not the average speed of the 15 second interval.
You mark that as bad and use the backup copy you have as I assume you would be using atleast mirroring or better yet, raidz or raidz2.
I think it is somewhat pointless to throttle the speeds beyond your connection to the ISP. Usually (always?) your upload bandwidth is the limiting factor. Azureus has had a autospeed plugin for ages that monitors your latency and adjusts the upload speed based on that. It is responsive enough to detect when you are watching streaming video etc and lower the upload speed when needed. And just to spite the ISP I usually make Azureus (not rTorrent) to open 4000+ connections and run 10-100 torrents simultaneously just to make sure I get to use all my bandwidth I pay for :)
I think Apple delivers some kind of deviceid with the sales report so you can easily compare that to the deviceid you send with the highscores. The reason why this cannot be used for piracy prevention is that it takes weeks for Apple to deliver those reports so by the time you get them, a pirate has already finished playing the game.
I am not sure what you count as Southern Finland, but I live 100km north from Helsinki and we have had plenty of -20C winter days and -30C is not that unusual.
Where did you pull that 60%? Income tax caps at 60% and is progressive, thus majority of people pay 7-30% of income tax. Even if you include VAT from goods you buy, you wont get to 60%.
Most likely they have combined the old ISDN laws with the broadband laws. That would mean that the local telco has to offer internet connectivity to anyone who wants it, but the price is the same if the telco needs to dig 5km of copper to the ground or just connect one cable at the town center. To prevent high prices, the telcos also need to give access to virtual-ISPs that can then compete with the real ISP/telco and the telco only gets basic fee from the loan of the phoneline.
Thank you, finally a person who seems to know about PAE. I always growl when people speak about 32bit versus 64bit cpus and don't seem to have any clue.
And one most not forget that the backlight CFL in LCD-panels does leak some UV-radiation and the high voltage creates some EMF.
The topic went past the event horizon and isn't part of this universe anymore.
Ah, but when you talk about someone in English, you probably would use she or he. Perhaps you should try languages like Finnish that are truely gender/status neutral. We even write the words as they are pronounced.
That is why games allow you to reconfigure the keys, like I always use SZXC instead of WASD. At most I need to relearn 1-3 new keys for each game, and that is only if they have radically different controls compared to "normal" FPS games.
Weapons are changed by the scrollwheel on the mouse, windows are opened with E (and are doors and other object manipulation), jumping is done with D. And I'll just jump on that wall with the help of rocket launcher, just like in the real world.
This video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3o_2mwRPdw , does show exploding Li-Po's (in various degrees of exploding).
Here is a video of exploding Li-Po battery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3o_2mwRPdw
Also I wonder why people don't use pseudonyms etc registering to blogging services or any other free no creditcard required internet site. Sites only need correct information if they need to bill you and even then one should keep the info at minimum.
Remember not to read Dune.
It still is quite difficult, I cannot easily use L1 and L2 simultaneously and moving finger between them is slowish. And I still need the top buttons for jumping, grenades, reloading and other stuff.. Not very convenient, thus I don't play FPS games on consoles.
Humm, when I play games on my PC, I rarely have to move my hand around the keyboard. My default keymap that I try to use and adapt to all games is:
S,Z,X and C for movement, left-shift run/walk modifier
D for jump and A for duck/crouch
E is for use/activate items/doors/etc
R reload, F flashlight
Q and W are for weapons modifiers, eg. switch between weapons
G is grenade
T,V,B,tab,left-ctrl and spacebar for custom stuff and finally
1,2,3,4...0 for quick selecting stuff, usually weapons or spells whatnot
I might be doing this wrong, but when I play FPS games on my PS3, I need three thumbs; left for movement thumbstick, right for aiming/view control thumbstick and third thumb to use those four buttons to fire/shoot. Driving games are usually better as I can use the left side buttons for steering, right side buttons for accelerator/brake. I really really loathe the thumbsticks, they are inaccurate and difficult to use.
I've seen similar contracts, basicly what the vendor does, is that they sell you two identical servers, one they ship to you, one they keep. When you call them about a problem, they take their server with them and if they cannot immediately detect and fix the problem at your end, they just switch the servers.
The iPhone SDK is free to download and use. I think it even can be used to compile & run apps on jailbroken iPhones. You only need to pay Apple if you want to distribute the app via their store or execute your binaries on non-jailbroken iPhone.
Humm, the Cydia version of Wolf3D doesn't seem to come from ID which might be problematic as the maps, graphics, sounds are not under GPL and cannot be distributed without a permission from ID.