I regularly transfer about 1.2 GB *a day* so, yes, I should have to pay more than the relatively small sum I pay per month now.:-) As it is, the guys who use their connections for low-traffic everyday uses like checking e-mail and websurfing are paying the same rate I do, and that just isn't fair to them.
Shh, your not supposed to say anything about that.. =)
By the way, should I start selling surfboards cheaper to those who don't know how to surf?
I have adelphia, which they state a normal use of bandwidth is 3.5gigs a month, somewhere around that area..
Im happy about that because they dont enforce it =) Ive transferred about 40gigs up and down one month with no sort of warning.. id just hate to start getting charged per mb on anything higher then 3.5gigs a month, it would be a nightmare.
If you think that Teoma is going to win because its faster your joking yourself. I search for something on google and its returned in about.2 seconds, and its usually right.
Why would getting that data back to me in.1 seconds make me switch?
How can I not sell something to a specific country when im doing this over the internet? Is there any fool-proof way?
Lets say that I lived in some country that had some pretty lax laws. I create a program that, lets say removes the protection on ebooks. I sell this software to everyone except the united states. This software is gets into the united states, in any number of ways. Would I be held liable at that point?
America is the land of the free in the sense that one is given the right to speak out against perceived injustice and voice their unpopular opinion in a public forum without danger of repercussions. This is a privilege that quite a few of us take for granted.
Basically that guy flamed a corporation on a message board, and was sue'd by that company. The crappy part about it is that he didn't find out about any of this until he was served his judgement. A piece of certified mail was sent which he never recieved, or so he says.. The first time he heard about it, it was a judgement for $450,000 defamation lawsuit that he had lost. There are more and more of these types of lawsuits happening every day.
Id say that things are going to have to change at some point. The U.S. is policing the internet a bit too much. Why should someone in the netherlands have to worry about what laws are passed in the U.S. when making a piece of software that would let him watch a movie. Well, if you use the internet, then you seem to fall under the umbrella of U.S. jurisdiction. Im sure its illegal to post certain material that we would find to be ok in other countries, but thats alright. Try to do that the other way around and you'll get yer ass handed to you by the DMCA.
Why should a russian programmer have to worry about laws being passed here. The simple fact that he chose to use a buisness model that involves using the internet to sell software. Its a very common model, it would be silly for them not to do so. They are not breaking any russian laws at all, so it would seem to be ok. First visit to the good ol' USA, and he ends up in the slammer, thanks to the FBI.
Do you want to start living in a world where anytime you log onto the net, your going to have to abide by every law in every country, because someone from that country might not want it or whatever.. I didn't think so. As I once saw on the back of a VW Bus, I love my country but I fear my government. Ya, we as a country had quite a lot to do with the building of the internet, but its grown quite a bit from then and we dont need to police the whole thing. Lets say that the US had solely invented the automobile, without any sort of help or knowledge from any other country. Now look ahead 40 years, do you think that it would be a bit crazy if you saw that the US has been regulating cars across the world the whole time?
My first job involved fixing computers around an office, keeping them running etc..
If I couldn't fix something in about 10-20 min, it was faster for me to format, reinstall everything. Luckily all the data everyone worked on was stored on a server so it wasn't much of a problem at all. My current job involve me fixing things with starting over being a last resort =(
I do phone support for Windows machines, and I would agree that generally, installing a driver on Windows (lets just assume a display driver) doesn't consist of much. The only cards that I see *usually* when on the phones is an nvidia based card, or an ATI card. Both those drivers are fairly easy to install..
Now you take a video card like an sis card, and for some reason they like to split up this 10mb driver in files that will fit on a floppy disk. I have to then give instructions to some end user that doesn't know his desktop from his screensaver how to download 10 seperate files, as well as download winzip if its win98, and generally it is a mess. (I think they have recently changed this, as the last driver I had someone download wasn't setup this way) What would be really nice, is if somebody (id assume it would have to be microsoft, and I think they are doing *something* like this with the WDM driver model) made a standard way of installing drivers. There needs to be an installshield type of setup that lets you extract the files from the exe only, or install drivers, and maybe even uninstall all old drivers (it happens a lot with video).
I can usually get the end user to get the driver installed correctly with no problem.
Now, lets just take the same situation, your a tech that does phone support. Imagine trying to give instructions over the phone (yer customer has a single phone line, so no doing this while on the phone with him/her) on how to install the Nvidia driver on Linux.
I myself, who I would consider a fairly technical person, had a fairly hard time trying to get all this working. Ive done it twice, and I could do it now with a lot more ease, but it would be nicer if I could double click something to get the driver installed.
For the end user, what is the point of making someone go to a config file and edit lines in there that will change video drivers. From a support standpoint its a shitty deal. For those who know the system well, it is a great thing, because you have a lot more control then if you were using windows, and on how it loads this stuff. If linux is going to be something that will replace windows on the desktop, then its going to have to be a lot easier to do simple things for someone who doens't read the code from the kernel when sitting on the can.
Sometimes I try to teach the customers that call me, and usually it helps them out, but some customers could give a rats ass about how it works, they just want it to work. They see it as something like their car, they would never want to look inside, they just put gas in and go.
Im not saying any of this is bad, and im not saying one is better then the other. In my opinion its a waste of time to really argue over which is better. I had just read the interview with Linus that was posted earlier, and he had a great atitude about Microsoft and Linux, pretty much that he doesn't care about them, and he's not trying to compete with them, which is how it should be really.
Im a fairly big gamer, so Windows is going to be better for me, so my fastest machine has WinXP on it. I have another machine here that I usually toy around with other operating systems, when linux is on there, I usually have apache going and i try to figure out how to use php or perl, things like that. In my opinion I like working on a webserver that runs linux vs. a windows machine. I hate the point and click interface of IIS, and for the life of me, I can't create an FTP site, and make it so I can have a simple account that is not an anon account, and I cant figure it out. Ive used apache on Win2k before but it seems easier to find good docs on apache running on linux.
Im not going to be some sort of hardcore advocate of either OS, they both do what I want them to do. I think its fairly silly to use a tool for something it wasn't intended to, just because its the 'cool' thing to do. I don't want to have to worry about getting WINE to run any games, heck, I want EVERY last ounce of performance I can get from my machine, and doing that defeats that purpose quickly. The games I did play (all from Loki, their program you downloaded to chose what to try and buy was really slick stuff) ran great under Linux, they were all 3d FPS games, and they ran better under Linux then they did under Windows it seemed like, but I got tired of the 3 games that I liked heh..
I see windows as a glorified bootup screen for my fancy nintendo, anything I do on windows usually has something to do with games (ive been getting more and more into recording music from guitars and such on my computer, but Im looking at getting a mac for that), but windows does those things well. I play ultima online (which I think had a linux client at one point), all I need to do is have a way to IM my friends, open web pages, and run the game.. I also check email once in a while, something Windows does well also. Well anyway, im ranting for too long and i need to stop. Leave with these words, use the tools given to you wisely, as there is no one tool that will accomplish every job perfectly or something..
And by the way, much worse can happen on windows then hitting a key on startup and selecting use last best config =).
What happens if that doesn't work, your getting closer to having only one option, formatting and reinstalling =)
I live in a fairly small area (probably.. 50,000 people in a 20mile radius, and the city has not let cell phone companies put up new towers in the city limits for a while. The places they haev towers up are usually in someone's back yard (yes, we have yards here with grass and all that) so people are not happy about it. They might have some way to put them up, but ive read in the news around here that there have been a lot of problems about how and where they put the towers. In a large city this wouldn't be bad at all, because you have buildinds everywhere and you put them on the top of them.
And in other somewhat related news, someone in my city (kinda in a part where there are a lot of acre lots, outskirts of the city I guess you could call it) someone had put up a tower with a large fan that charges batteries for him, not sure how much power he gets from this, but he was on the news cause his next door neighbor bitched becuase she thought it would be 'loud'.. Not sure what kind of fans she is thinking of, but I dont think even sitting in a large field of these fans you dont hear much but maybe air being moved by the fans.. I think the citizens of my city have some sort of complex over any sort of tower for some reason.
I think a lot has to do with the fact is that every ISP that sells bandwidth (cable, dsl, wireless) will have plans in place for a buisness account, one that provides a much higher cap for upstream, but at a much higher price.
What kinda ticks me off is that with my cable modem, its against the 'rules' to host ANY sort of server. Here is a clip from these 'rules' (this is adelphia.net by the way).
v) to run a server of any type in connection with the Service, nor may you provide network or host services to others via the Service. Prohibited uses include, without limitation, running servers for PPP, FTP, HTTP, DNS, POP, SMTP, NNTP, PROXY, DHCP, IRC, TELNET, TFTP, SNMP and multi-user interactive forums, or remapping of ports for the purpose of operating a server on the network.
I can understand some of those, but I really dont see what the problem is. I myself run an ftp site, as well as a webpage from my computer with the cable line. I have to use port 8080 for my webpage, but port 21 works just fine for ftp. I maybe transfer.. 10mb of data a month using those 2 servers. Usually im just messing around with apache and php from work on a page hosted on my home machine.
If im only using about 10mb a month of transfers there should be not a single problem in what I am doing. If I dont configure my server right, and it gets attacked, its my fault, id sign a paper saying so if thats what they are worried about. Why not just close the accounts of those who do use too much bandwidth.. Now the other thing is that last october, a month or two after I got my cable modem, I had a total transfer of 40gigs, about 20 up and 20 down (from audiogalaxy.com =). I never got a single complaint or anything from adelphia.. Even though this is another 'rule'.
(A) excessive use of bandwidth (e.g. exceeding 2.5GB of traffic in a given month);
This is a joke really, I dont think they check anything unless they get complaints.. Not a very consistant set of rules, some of them half the rules apply, some rules are just there to be there, and are not followed..
Anyway, one quick question. My friend has a site up on geocities.com, they tell him he has a monthly transfer limit of 1gb. He has had the page up for a few days and is already getting it shut down because he has already transferred over the limit, even though its been a week. They seem to have a scale that goes along, so if your first day, you transfer 100mb you might get shut down.. Anyway, I told him that he could host it off my computer, and its only going to be about.. 100-300mb of transfers a month, so I doubt they would care.. Anyway, port 80 is blocked, any way that I can use some sort of system like no-ip.com has that will forward someone from another machine to my machine on port 8080, without having the user having to manually type www.whatever.com:8080..
The copy protection for Diablo 2 is during setup, when it asks me for my cd key. The only time I would need to ever use that key would be for battle.net.
Now, here is my opinion.
The local lan setting in the game should be considered a circumvention device. I can take 10 computers, and by using that option, have all of them play from one cd key. Or does circumventing copy protections only apply when you are on the internet? Why does single player not check the cd key? The ONLY place that checks that key is battle.net.
According to them, Its ok to pirate the game if you play on a network that the machines are fairly close by. As soon as you try to do this over the internet, by using bnetd, its now wrong.
I dont think that they have a very good case here (blizzard and vivendi (sp?)). IANAL, and im sure they can twist this stuff pretty good..
"No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter."
The only measure in place that controls the access of said work is when setup asks for the cd key. Once that step is done, the user has full access to all the data. Bnetd does not give them any more access.
(2)
No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that -
(A)
is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
Bnetd is primarily designed to let people play a game over the internet. I feel that there is too much play when it comes to this. I also think that DeCSS would have had a much stronger case if they had waited to release the code with the DVD player, as it could have been just a small part of a larger package. Not too sure how much it would have helped though.
(B)
has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or
Once again, not the case with bnetd
(C)
is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
None of that going on here, if they marketed it at all, i doubt they waved a flag saying it bypasses the key check.
(3)
As used in this subsection -
(A)
to ''circumvent a technological measure'' means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and
This seems to only apply if the said device was primarily designed to circumvent the copy protection.
(B)
a technological measure ''effectively controls access to a work'' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
Well if someone can decode that, id love to see what it really means. Id say what its talking about is that they are classifying what is an effective enough measure to protect access to a piece of work. You can play multiplayer on a LAN without any cd key checks, that is essentially the same experience as you get on Battle.net. Sure they have secure characters and things like that, but its the same game, same art, same everything. So, my arguement would be that battle.net is not an effective means of protecting the work, because the work is available to you without battle.net or bnetd.
So with quantum crypto you can send from A to B without any real crypto and you will be assured that an eavesdropper cannot get the message.
I think an evesdropper could intercept the messagse just fine, its just that the reciever would know its been intercepted.. I might be wrong about this, but from what you say here
.g. an eavesdropper than they will change the spin of the photons and B will know [and in turn A].
Sounds like to me that they will still be able to look at the data, but they would know.
Well wow heh..
The PS2 is a gaming box already, why limit its potential by adding the overhead of Linux? The whole point of consoles is to deliver maximum performance with a stable platform.
I have a question for ya. Do you have a hobby? When you do whatever your hobby is, do you compare yourself to pro's that make a career out of what you do as a hobby?
While it was cool playing Doom on Dreamcast Linux, this is definitely for personal amusement and not for "real" gaming. Commercial developers won't touch it, and the inability to produce games on removable media will limit the usefulness of the PS2 as a homebrew game maker. In short, this entire kit is a waste of time.
This isn't a cheap dev kit that they are releasing for all gaming companies to use instead of the real dev kit. Sure commercial developers wont touch it, they have a dev kit already. Sure they aren't going to touch it, because their dev kit is professional use that comes with much more documentation then this does.
And im wondering where you get the idea that you will not be able to produce games on removable media. Sure, if your about as smart as a rock you might think that, but anyone with a half a brain will figure out a few things to get around this. And trust me this isn't a mountain were trying to get around. If you get a ps2, with this kit, your going to have quite the amount of choices when it comes to 'produce' games on removable media. Well first off, you are probably not going to be producing your games on removable media, unless its just a copy or two. Your not going to be making mass copies of your game to send out, its just not going to happen. Doesn't reall matter much, its a very good way to blow a ton of money that you wouldn't have to. But for someone who's as smart as a rock you may chose to do that. I myself will probably take advantage of the network card that comes with the kit. Hmm.. im on a pc now with a cd burner, and im pretty sure its possible to take something off of one hard drive, and put it onto another. So, theres one way, copy the file to my pc and burn it. Don't have a pc, buy a usb burner, use it on the ps2. Dont want to spend that kind of cash? Go make some friends with cd burners and have them do it. In fact, you could even *post* your game someplace on the internet for anyone with a kit to download. Wow, there is a couple ways right there.
Im not going to be buying this box because its fast. I do not care whatsoever how much 'overhead' linux might cause, cause frankly I wont be able to code good enough for the thing anyway to maximize the performance in the first place. Im not going to try to create quake 5 or anything, but it will give me something that I can create, and have game controllers built into it that will work. Im sure this is probably the case for many who are interested in this. Im frankly appalled at your post, you must have mistaken this 'hobby-ist' tool to the dev kit that probably costs a few thousand bucks. Remember, 200 bucks for this kit. Heck, mount this thing in a car for a great mp3 player, and if your rich enough, you could have another in your house and use the hard drive as a removable one to switch between the two, and add new sonds from your home ps2. Theres all sorts of shit that you can do with this thing, but, if you can count the amount of brain cells left on your hands, then the "entire kit is a waste of time" as you so politely put it.
Now, id like you to come up with a single response to that. I didn't think so...
I dont really see the big problem with the dvd drive in the ps2 not being able to read cdr's and such, just use an external drive, and it shouldn't have that problem.. If it does it wont for long =).
You can't release games "as a retail product" because its probably on line 5443 of the EULA that states you wont be able to do that, as this is going to be a hobbyist machine.. But, with that website mentioned above, they have space available to do a sourceforge type of thing, so you will be able to 'release' your creations, and others would just download it and save it to the HD.
Im gonna buy one of these.. I probably wont buy an external cdrom, because I can just share out a drive on my network and pull it across that way. I dont really plan on doing that much, as most of the programs and other stuff i get comes from my cable connection anyway. What im really lookin for is some good tutorials and guides on creating games on this thing, even something like a final fantasy 1 type of game, using the ps2 controller would be great.
Could you not burn the data to an external usb writer?
And I dont think Sony ever wanted this to be a cute thing to do before popping in your ps2 game disks, so ya, it would be neat to be able to be in linux, and start a ps2 game from the desktop, im not going to boycott it because you cant if you understand what im sayin.. not that big of a deal.
"You know what cracks me up though? The fact that he says: "Yeah. umm.. you just have to do it right." hehehe.. well duh! I could do all that crap in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon if I "did it right."
Ya, sounds like some sort of bumper sticker, "ANYTHING can be done, you just got to do it right"
Well, in my opinion the gov't has no problems with spending more then enough money on projects, and if this is put under Bush's homeland defense idea, then it'll get as much money as it needs.
Now we still have the problem of the actual people that get hired to do this, I just hope that they care about their job and do it correctly.
Ya I agree. I have a sealed box in my truck, with a 12" sub, with a soundstream amp running it. The amp I have is a very clean amp, and is stable at 1ohm I believe, so it can be pushed really hard without introducing any sort of distortion.
I chose a sealed box because they are more accurrate then a ported box, and like the above poster stated, you can hear every bass note, and treble note with good clarity. I have half my amp powering that sub, with the other half powering mids and highs, and it works great. Can't really hear bass outside the truck, unless you open the doors, but inside its quite a different story.
Ok, now the dumbass in his gremlin that has an 18 with a jensen amp (those real nice ones that say 500 watts peak for 99 bucks) dont give a crap about quality, their main goal is to annoy others as much as they can.
Hmm.. I think I remember that there were going to be 2 sails, and when it wanted to slow down, it would release one sail and make it so the craft has a sail going in front of it, and one trailing it. The laser would bounce off of the leading sail, and get reflected onto the trailing sail, thus slowing it down.
Now if it will work I have no idea. Seems hokey to me, but I dont know much about this stuff..
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Shh, your not supposed to say anything about that.. =)
By the way, should I start selling surfboards cheaper to those who don't know how to surf?
I have adelphia, which they state a normal use of bandwidth is 3.5gigs a month, somewhere around that area..
Im happy about that because they dont enforce it =) Ive transferred about 40gigs up and down one month with no sort of warning.. id just hate to start getting charged per mb on anything higher then 3.5gigs a month, it would be a nightmare.
If you think that Teoma is going to win because its faster your joking yourself. I search for something on google and its returned in about .2 seconds, and its usually right.
.1 seconds make me switch?
Why would getting that data back to me in
How can I not sell something to a specific country when im doing this over the internet? Is there any fool-proof way?
Lets say that I lived in some country that had some pretty lax laws. I create a program that, lets say removes the protection on ebooks. I sell this software to everyone except the united states. This software is gets into the united states, in any number of ways. Would I be held liable at that point?
Probably the one that you get to when you click parent under his post =)
You would hope so
Basically that guy flamed a corporation on a message board, and was sue'd by that company. The crappy part about it is that he didn't find out about any of this until he was served his judgement. A piece of certified mail was sent which he never recieved, or so he says.. The first time he heard about it, it was a judgement for $450,000 defamation lawsuit that he had lost. There are more and more of these types of lawsuits happening every day.
Id say that things are going to have to change at some point. The U.S. is policing the internet a bit too much. Why should someone in the netherlands have to worry about what laws are passed in the U.S. when making a piece of software that would let him watch a movie. Well, if you use the internet, then you seem to fall under the umbrella of U.S. jurisdiction. Im sure its illegal to post certain material that we would find to be ok in other countries, but thats alright. Try to do that the other way around and you'll get yer ass handed to you by the DMCA.
Why should a russian programmer have to worry about laws being passed here. The simple fact that he chose to use a buisness model that involves using the internet to sell software. Its a very common model, it would be silly for them not to do so. They are not breaking any russian laws at all, so it would seem to be ok. First visit to the good ol' USA, and he ends up in the slammer, thanks to the FBI.
Do you want to start living in a world where anytime you log onto the net, your going to have to abide by every law in every country, because someone from that country might not want it or whatever.. I didn't think so. As I once saw on the back of a VW Bus, I love my country but I fear my government. Ya, we as a country had quite a lot to do with the building of the internet, but its grown quite a bit from then and we dont need to police the whole thing. Lets say that the US had solely invented the automobile, without any sort of help or knowledge from any other country. Now look ahead 40 years, do you think that it would be a bit crazy if you saw that the US has been regulating cars across the world the whole time?
Ya I agree..
My first job involved fixing computers around an office, keeping them running etc..
If I couldn't fix something in about 10-20 min, it was faster for me to format, reinstall everything. Luckily all the data everyone worked on was stored on a server so it wasn't much of a problem at all. My current job involve me fixing things with starting over being a last resort =(
Well.. If you think about it that way..
Microsoft is worth over 100 billion dollars id imagine, but lets say for this analogy, they are worth 50 billion dollars.
If they spent 1 billion dollars (and I thought only the gov't could spend that much on something like that), thats 1 / 50th of what they are worth.
So, that would be saying the same thing as a person that is worth 1.5 million dollars, buying a car worth 30,000 dollars.
So, I would say that the comparison has relevance to the discussion, but thats just me..
I do phone support for Windows machines, and I would agree that generally, installing a driver on Windows (lets just assume a display driver) doesn't consist of much. The only cards that I see *usually* when on the phones is an nvidia based card, or an ATI card. Both those drivers are fairly easy to install..
Now you take a video card like an sis card, and for some reason they like to split up this 10mb driver in files that will fit on a floppy disk. I have to then give instructions to some end user that doesn't know his desktop from his screensaver how to download 10 seperate files, as well as download winzip if its win98, and generally it is a mess. (I think they have recently changed this, as the last driver I had someone download wasn't setup this way) What would be really nice, is if somebody (id assume it would have to be microsoft, and I think they are doing *something* like this with the WDM driver model) made a standard way of installing drivers. There needs to be an installshield type of setup that lets you extract the files from the exe only, or install drivers, and maybe even uninstall all old drivers (it happens a lot with video).
I can usually get the end user to get the driver installed correctly with no problem.
Now, lets just take the same situation, your a tech that does phone support. Imagine trying to give instructions over the phone (yer customer has a single phone line, so no doing this while on the phone with him/her) on how to install the Nvidia driver on Linux.
I myself, who I would consider a fairly technical person, had a fairly hard time trying to get all this working. Ive done it twice, and I could do it now with a lot more ease, but it would be nicer if I could double click something to get the driver installed.
For the end user, what is the point of making someone go to a config file and edit lines in there that will change video drivers. From a support standpoint its a shitty deal. For those who know the system well, it is a great thing, because you have a lot more control then if you were using windows, and on how it loads this stuff. If linux is going to be something that will replace windows on the desktop, then its going to have to be a lot easier to do simple things for someone who doens't read the code from the kernel when sitting on the can.
Sometimes I try to teach the customers that call me, and usually it helps them out, but some customers could give a rats ass about how it works, they just want it to work. They see it as something like their car, they would never want to look inside, they just put gas in and go.
Im not saying any of this is bad, and im not saying one is better then the other. In my opinion its a waste of time to really argue over which is better. I had just read the interview with Linus that was posted earlier, and he had a great atitude about Microsoft and Linux, pretty much that he doesn't care about them, and he's not trying to compete with them, which is how it should be really.
Im a fairly big gamer, so Windows is going to be better for me, so my fastest machine has WinXP on it. I have another machine here that I usually toy around with other operating systems, when linux is on there, I usually have apache going and i try to figure out how to use php or perl, things like that. In my opinion I like working on a webserver that runs linux vs. a windows machine. I hate the point and click interface of IIS, and for the life of me, I can't create an FTP site, and make it so I can have a simple account that is not an anon account, and I cant figure it out. Ive used apache on Win2k before but it seems easier to find good docs on apache running on linux.
Im not going to be some sort of hardcore advocate of either OS, they both do what I want them to do. I think its fairly silly to use a tool for something it wasn't intended to, just because its the 'cool' thing to do. I don't want to have to worry about getting WINE to run any games, heck, I want EVERY last ounce of performance I can get from my machine, and doing that defeats that purpose quickly. The games I did play (all from Loki, their program you downloaded to chose what to try and buy was really slick stuff) ran great under Linux, they were all 3d FPS games, and they ran better under Linux then they did under Windows it seemed like, but I got tired of the 3 games that I liked heh..
I see windows as a glorified bootup screen for my fancy nintendo, anything I do on windows usually has something to do with games (ive been getting more and more into recording music from guitars and such on my computer, but Im looking at getting a mac for that), but windows does those things well. I play ultima online (which I think had a linux client at one point), all I need to do is have a way to IM my friends, open web pages, and run the game.. I also check email once in a while, something Windows does well also. Well anyway, im ranting for too long and i need to stop. Leave with these words, use the tools given to you wisely, as there is no one tool that will accomplish every job perfectly or something..
And by the way, much worse can happen on windows then hitting a key on startup and selecting use last best config =).
What happens if that doesn't work, your getting closer to having only one option, formatting and reinstalling =)
And in other somewhat related news, someone in my city (kinda in a part where there are a lot of acre lots, outskirts of the city I guess you could call it) someone had put up a tower with a large fan that charges batteries for him, not sure how much power he gets from this, but he was on the news cause his next door neighbor bitched becuase she thought it would be 'loud'.. Not sure what kind of fans she is thinking of, but I dont think even sitting in a large field of these fans you dont hear much but maybe air being moved by the fans.. I think the citizens of my city have some sort of complex over any sort of tower for some reason.
What kinda ticks me off is that with my cable modem, its against the 'rules' to host ANY sort of server. Here is a clip from these 'rules' (this is adelphia.net by the way).
v) to run a server of any type in connection with the Service, nor may you provide network or host services to others via the Service. Prohibited uses include, without limitation, running servers for PPP, FTP, HTTP, DNS, POP, SMTP, NNTP, PROXY, DHCP, IRC, TELNET, TFTP, SNMP and multi-user interactive forums, or remapping of ports for the purpose of operating a server on the network.
I can understand some of those, but I really dont see what the problem is. I myself run an ftp site, as well as a webpage from my computer with the cable line. I have to use port 8080 for my webpage, but port 21 works just fine for ftp. I maybe transfer.. 10mb of data a month using those 2 servers. Usually im just messing around with apache and php from work on a page hosted on my home machine.
If im only using about 10mb a month of transfers there should be not a single problem in what I am doing. If I dont configure my server right, and it gets attacked, its my fault, id sign a paper saying so if thats what they are worried about. Why not just close the accounts of those who do use too much bandwidth.. Now the other thing is that last october, a month or two after I got my cable modem, I had a total transfer of 40gigs, about 20 up and 20 down (from audiogalaxy.com =). I never got a single complaint or anything from adelphia.. Even though this is another 'rule'.
(A) excessive use of bandwidth (e.g. exceeding 2.5GB of traffic in a given month);
This is a joke really, I dont think they check anything unless they get complaints.. Not a very consistant set of rules, some of them half the rules apply, some rules are just there to be there, and are not followed..
Anyway, one quick question. My friend has a site up on geocities.com, they tell him he has a monthly transfer limit of 1gb. He has had the page up for a few days and is already getting it shut down because he has already transferred over the limit, even though its been a week. They seem to have a scale that goes along, so if your first day, you transfer 100mb you might get shut down.. Anyway, I told him that he could host it off my computer, and its only going to be about.. 100-300mb of transfers a month, so I doubt they would care.. Anyway, port 80 is blocked, any way that I can use some sort of system like no-ip.com has that will forward someone from another machine to my machine on port 8080, without having the user having to manually type www.whatever.com:8080..
And yes, I want one of those phones =)
Hehe i have to admit that made me laugh =).
You could probably look at an aquarium supply store.. =)
And use the power of google Luke!
The copy protection for Diablo 2 is during setup, when it asks me for my cd key. The only time I would need to ever use that key would be for battle.net.
Now, here is my opinion.
The local lan setting in the game should be considered a circumvention device. I can take 10 computers, and by using that option, have all of them play from one cd key. Or does circumventing copy protections only apply when you are on the internet? Why does single player not check the cd key? The ONLY place that checks that key is battle.net.
According to them, Its ok to pirate the game if you play on a network that the machines are fairly close by. As soon as you try to do this over the internet, by using bnetd, its now wrong.
I dont think that they have a very good case here (blizzard and vivendi (sp?)). IANAL, and im sure they can twist this stuff pretty good..
"No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter."
The only measure in place that controls the access of said work is when setup asks for the cd key. Once that step is done, the user has full access to all the data. Bnetd does not give them any more access.
(2)
No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that -
(A)
is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
Bnetd is primarily designed to let people play a game over the internet. I feel that there is too much play when it comes to this. I also think that DeCSS would have had a much stronger case if they had waited to release the code with the DVD player, as it could have been just a small part of a larger package. Not too sure how much it would have helped though.
(B)
has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or
Once again, not the case with bnetd
(C)
is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
None of that going on here, if they marketed it at all, i doubt they waved a flag saying it bypasses the key check.
(3)
As used in this subsection -
(A)
to ''circumvent a technological measure'' means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and
This seems to only apply if the said device was primarily designed to circumvent the copy protection.
(B)
a technological measure ''effectively controls access to a work'' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
Well if someone can decode that, id love to see what it really means. Id say what its talking about is that they are classifying what is an effective enough measure to protect access to a piece of work. You can play multiplayer on a LAN without any cd key checks, that is essentially the same experience as you get on Battle.net. Sure they have secure characters and things like that, but its the same game, same art, same everything. So, my arguement would be that battle.net is not an effective means of protecting the work, because the work is available to you without battle.net or bnetd.
I think an evesdropper could intercept the messagse just fine, its just that the reciever would know its been intercepted.. I might be wrong about this, but from what you say here
Sounds like to me that they will still be able to look at the data, but they would know.
I have that same screening but in a video cd format, and its 4 disks, its nice I can watch it on my tv with my normal dvd player.
Just put the ps2 on your home network and use your pc's cdrom drive =).
I have a question for ya. Do you have a hobby? When you do whatever your hobby is, do you compare yourself to pro's that make a career out of what you do as a hobby?
While it was cool playing Doom on Dreamcast Linux, this is definitely for personal amusement and not for "real" gaming. Commercial developers won't touch it, and the inability to produce games on removable media will limit the usefulness of the PS2 as a homebrew game maker. In short, this entire kit is a waste of time.
This isn't a cheap dev kit that they are releasing for all gaming companies to use instead of the real dev kit. Sure commercial developers wont touch it, they have a dev kit already. Sure they aren't going to touch it, because their dev kit is professional use that comes with much more documentation then this does.
And im wondering where you get the idea that you will not be able to produce games on removable media. Sure, if your about as smart as a rock you might think that, but anyone with a half a brain will figure out a few things to get around this. And trust me this isn't a mountain were trying to get around. If you get a ps2, with this kit, your going to have quite the amount of choices when it comes to 'produce' games on removable media. Well first off, you are probably not going to be producing your games on removable media, unless its just a copy or two. Your not going to be making mass copies of your game to send out, its just not going to happen. Doesn't reall matter much, its a very good way to blow a ton of money that you wouldn't have to. But for someone who's as smart as a rock you may chose to do that. I myself will probably take advantage of the network card that comes with the kit. Hmm.. im on a pc now with a cd burner, and im pretty sure its possible to take something off of one hard drive, and put it onto another. So, theres one way, copy the file to my pc and burn it. Don't have a pc, buy a usb burner, use it on the ps2. Dont want to spend that kind of cash? Go make some friends with cd burners and have them do it. In fact, you could even *post* your game someplace on the internet for anyone with a kit to download. Wow, there is a couple ways right there.
Im not going to be buying this box because its fast. I do not care whatsoever how much 'overhead' linux might cause, cause frankly I wont be able to code good enough for the thing anyway to maximize the performance in the first place. Im not going to try to create quake 5 or anything, but it will give me something that I can create, and have game controllers built into it that will work. Im sure this is probably the case for many who are interested in this. Im frankly appalled at your post, you must have mistaken this 'hobby-ist' tool to the dev kit that probably costs a few thousand bucks. Remember, 200 bucks for this kit. Heck, mount this thing in a car for a great mp3 player, and if your rich enough, you could have another in your house and use the hard drive as a removable one to switch between the two, and add new sonds from your home ps2. Theres all sorts of shit that you can do with this thing, but, if you can count the amount of brain cells left on your hands, then the "entire kit is a waste of time" as you so politely put it.
Now, id like you to come up with a single response to that. I didn't think so...
I dont really see the big problem with the dvd drive in the ps2 not being able to read cdr's and such, just use an external drive, and it shouldn't have that problem.. If it does it wont for long =).
You can't release games "as a retail product" because its probably on line 5443 of the EULA that states you wont be able to do that, as this is going to be a hobbyist machine.. But, with that website mentioned above, they have space available to do a sourceforge type of thing, so you will be able to 'release' your creations, and others would just download it and save it to the HD.
Im gonna buy one of these.. I probably wont buy an external cdrom, because I can just share out a drive on my network and pull it across that way. I dont really plan on doing that much, as most of the programs and other stuff i get comes from my cable connection anyway. What im really lookin for is some good tutorials and guides on creating games on this thing, even something like a final fantasy 1 type of game, using the ps2 controller would be great.
Could you not burn the data to an external usb writer?
And I dont think Sony ever wanted this to be a cute thing to do before popping in your ps2 game disks, so ya, it would be neat to be able to be in linux, and start a ps2 game from the desktop, im not going to boycott it because you cant if you understand what im sayin.. not that big of a deal.
"You know what cracks me up though? The fact that he says: "Yeah. umm.. you just have to do it right." hehehe.. well duh! I could do all that crap in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon if I "did it right."
Ya, sounds like some sort of bumper sticker, "ANYTHING can be done, you just got to do it right"
Well, in my opinion the gov't has no problems with spending more then enough money on projects, and if this is put under Bush's homeland defense idea, then it'll get as much money as it needs.
Now we still have the problem of the actual people that get hired to do this, I just hope that they care about their job and do it correctly.
Ya I agree. I have a sealed box in my truck, with a 12" sub, with a soundstream amp running it. The amp I have is a very clean amp, and is stable at 1ohm I believe, so it can be pushed really hard without introducing any sort of distortion.
I chose a sealed box because they are more accurrate then a ported box, and like the above poster stated, you can hear every bass note, and treble note with good clarity. I have half my amp powering that sub, with the other half powering mids and highs, and it works great. Can't really hear bass outside the truck, unless you open the doors, but inside its quite a different story.
Ok, now the dumbass in his gremlin that has an 18 with a jensen amp (those real nice ones that say 500 watts peak for 99 bucks) dont give a crap about quality, their main goal is to annoy others as much as they can.
Id like you to take a mass of people that had that same attitude, and see where it gets you in 50 years..
Hmm.. I think I remember that there were going to be 2 sails, and when it wanted to slow down, it would release one sail and make it so the craft has a sail going in front of it, and one trailing it. The laser would bounce off of the leading sail, and get reflected onto the trailing sail, thus slowing it down.
Now if it will work I have no idea. Seems hokey to me, but I dont know much about this stuff..