This article does not apply to MTG:O, it applies to ever online game from AO to EQ. AO, (from what I"ve heard), has handled cheating poorly while in EQ it's about the only thing that gets immediate attention.
But this article is no more than a warning to any online game developer to remember what you are creating when you create a community where people interact and where digital property can be turned into very real currency.
I'm getting a new computer soon and as only a basic linux user I was looking at Redhat 7.3, Suse 8.0, and Mandrake 8.2 as my primary choises for the OS. But I think I and my money will stear clear of all those distrobutions now. I will definately pay for whichever distrobution I go with but this is definately one more reason for me to support Mandrake or possibly Redhat rather than Suse or any of the other United Linux partners.
I honestly don't see a large problem for using this to replace they diary approach. These won't be required by any means. Even if they were used for TV they are just an easier way to keep diaries and an easier way for the companies in charge to get good information. I've done the radio survey (I think I got 5 dollars for the 1 week log) and it would have been much easier just to carry one of these. I honestly don't care if these are used to do the monitoring. It's only if they become rquired, (ie the TV won't work unless it detects one of these).
It's not the existance of the technology,itw what's done with it.
Have you ever tried playing Everquest: Shards of Luclin with full new models on (they upped the models), high quality textures, and all other effects on in a 60-80 person raid?
I don't think a GeForce 4 4600 could handle it so yeah, they can use the processing power =).
Ever get that feeling that the trolls are getting laizier than they used to be? Back in the day, a nice troll would have a well thought out though completely wrong post and would get to laugh as 20 people explained to them how they are wrong.
These days the trolls just aren't giving it their all any more. I miss the good old days.
Thankyou for the Reply Mr. Richards. I"m sorry to cast doubt on such a fine product. It was just some speculation and the date I admit had excaped me. And I should have been more eliquent in my speaking, but I was rushing out the door.
Congradulations on the release of what will hopefully be the premier office suite for Linux and cross platform use if not for all platforms.
Is it possible that the recent release of SOT or SOTO offfice, the Open Office clone spurred the Open Office group to get it out? When I downloaded SOT office I wondered if Open Office would rush to minimimize the number of people getting hooked on SOT office before they were finished.
I find the majority of people who don't believe in religion never got anything out of it asuming they even tried it. Usually if they got nothing out of it it was because they didn't put anything into it.
If you don't like the idea of the non-provable parts of religion, at least accept the rules. The teachings of religion (I'm Catholic so that is what my teachings of religion are) even separated from the supernatural aspect have the cause of making the world a better place.
Catholicism teaches you to be happy in what you do and do what makes others happy. If you think about it, you will never be continiously happy doing things that you find enjoyable. All things enjoyable get old eventually unless you change your mindset to enjoy what you do. And if you enjoy what you do and you help others it is the equivalent of a win-win situation.
10 rules are not because someone omnipotent said, "gee, 11 would just be overbearing". It's because they set a rough set of guidelines. And anyway, the newer teachings of the new testiment are much simpler and broad reaching. Love God and love your neighbor. If you love God, you are happy because you derive your happiness from something non-physical. (Lets face it, physical things never made people happy. If they did we wouldn't have so many rich rock stars/actors/actresses who kill themselves/others/do other stupid shit.) And I"m sure the benefits of loving your neighbor are obvious.
Religion isn't meant to feed those of religious power. Seeing the Pope once will convince you he isn't in the position for his own good. Religion is meant to help people in their day to day lives and ultimately, delving into the supernatural, to help them in their eternal lives.
Lets face it, you always see those old church ladies helping prepair the Church or clean up after mass. How many times have they looked miserable. Now compair that to the number of times the guy in the cubicle next to you wasn't happy w/ what he was doing.
I am studying to be an electrical engineer and since my freshman year I've found it completely pointless to attempt to talk about my academic work with anyone who is not also an engineering student. People are no longer willing to commit their intellect to understanding something new that doesn not immediately apply to their lives. Unless they need to know how what a state machine is or what the fourier transform does to pay their bills, it is excess knowledge that has no place with them.
I find learning enjoyable. I like knowing new things. I like being able to speak on almost any subject and if not able to speak, to be able to listen.
But for most people these days? Small talk is the most intellectually stimulating conversation they are willing to have. Gossip, Quesions about the day, opinions about the latest newsbite bearly thought through far enough to make any sense at all. Thses are the things most people are interested in talking about.
Try engaging someone about the advances in quantum computing, Hardware design, or even the usefullness of their computer to do things other than IM, email, browse the web, and play video games and the nicest reaction you can hope for is for them to at least nod as they refuse to listen to you.
I just gave SOT Office a whirl w/ a couple of word documents to see how well it imported them. The first was a simple word document with little formatting and all text. It imported w/ no visable changes as far as I could tell.
The second 2 documents were more complex, encompasing images, heavy formatting, tables, etc. The first had many images and tables. The only mistake I could find on this one was that the print margins looked to be much smaller than what the document actually had or required.
The last document was an IEEE formatted paper. This one had a few more problems. Many images were in tables to acomodate a caption and span the 2 columns of the paper. these tables were often misaligned in places (aligned w/ the edge of the page rather than column.) Also, the text incorrectly wrapped around the table, appearing underneath it instead. Finally, at the typ of the paper, the author block appears on top of the paper title rather than immediately under.
I do think it did a relatively good job though. Considering the formatting problems and workarounds I had creating the IEEE paper in word, I wouldn't expect another office suite to pick the document up correctly. The other correct enough to be printed given 10sec to change the margins. Over all I am impressed and will probably use SOT office as my linux office until I can come to a final conclusion for an office suite.
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I wonder how many false positives they'll get.:
Come to think of it, there are more than a few websites I wouldn't mind reporting. I can start w/ microsoft.com, then whats that guy who wrote the trojan and sold it to law enforcement? I'd like to report him too....
Then again, I'm not sure I'd trust a plugin from someone like that not to scan everything I look at and on my drive unless I could see the source for it.
Make a meaningless political statement, buy one of fricka's, (moderator for the safehouse, one of the larger Everquest message board), Tshirts.
Hey, the money isn't going to a good cause, the shirt is bearly just a fad, but the shirt makes a statement to every person who doesn't care that you pass that day!
Force comes in Gravity, electromagnetic, stong and weak neuclear if I remember correctly. Because antimatter is only different in sign and not mass, gravity does not effect it differently.
I can't remember much of my quantum physics since it's been a year or 2, but I"m goin to pull out the book and see if I can help. First, the difference between a particle and antiparticle is that the antiparticle has the exact same properties but an opposite charge (and other properties which are opposite signed)
energy released:
(Energy is released when an antimatter particle comes in contact with it's opposite particle)
e- + e+ (electron plus a positron) releases rougly 1.022MeV of energy
a proton plus an antiproton releases 2 * 938 MeV or 3 * 10^-10 joules per reaction.
(The energy is released as photons)
The problem with detecting them is that light and anti light are identical.
Now lets see what energy of 1kg of protons woudl release: 1kg * 1proton/(1.67*10^-24 gm) = 5.69*10^26 protons
5.69*10^26 protons * 3*10^010 J/(proton reaction) = 1.78 * 10^17 J or about 50 billion Kilowatts
Someone already said. It doesn't make a good main box, but as a support box, a micro-server, or a media machine, not much beats it. The real advantage fo this is that it DOES allow for standard hardware. You can put standard HDD's, standard CDroms, a standard pci, standard ram, and a standard processor in it. It's a mini computer that can be customized to fit specialty needs as a secondary computer for which it fits the niche nicely.
Just a note. I have Suse 7.3 running stable on this as a triple boot with winXP and win2Kpro. I had no installation problems or runtmi problems.
Installing drivers I"m using savagepro, not savage 4 drivers so I'd assume that there is some confusion as to which chip this board uses.
I have a shuttle with a 80gig HDD, DVD drive, and DVD hardware decoder which I use as a media machine. With a soft keyboard, a wireless trackball, and enough cabling, it's VERY portable. The hard drive houses a large amount of music along with TV shows, movies, etc. I plan on getting a few other things including the new external soundcard from creative labs and a second HDD to complete my media machine.
So far it has served it's purpose admirably. I've taken it to friends houses to play DVDs, parties to play music, and just as an extra box at home. I wouldn't recommend it for a primary computer. It just doesn't have the strength. But as a secondary computer and a media box, I don't think anything could beat it.
The LotR CD is protected also, I'd assume cactus though I honestly don't know. It has 2 sessions, the first having the CD audio and the second having The application player interface. All the CD drives I put it in, (a normal drive, burner and dvd drive (iomagic)) came up with the flash interface. But friendly audioCatalyst 2.1 had no problem seeing the audio tracks and subsiquently ripping them all, (except for the last one which required using isoBuster to pull off the CD, due to audiocatalyst missreading it's length.)
Do record company people honestly think any type of protection will help? The real problem is not direct copying of cd's, but sharing of files. And as long as there is any way for one person to start distribution of a file, they will be distributed. And there is always a way. As was said, it's a social problem not a technical one, and technical means will never solve it.
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But this article is no more than a warning to any online game developer to remember what you are creating when you create a community where people interact and where digital property can be turned into very real currency.
Man, now I'm really going to have to find what's pulling my network down to 10Mbps or I'll ever be able to face my friends.
I realized my mistake. The PATCHES are thursday. This is only the security flaw announcement
Humm, it's early this week.
I'm getting a new computer soon and as only a basic linux user I was looking at Redhat 7.3, Suse 8.0, and Mandrake 8.2 as my primary choises for the OS. But I think I and my money will stear clear of all those distrobutions now. I will definately pay for whichever distrobution I go with but this is definately one more reason for me to support Mandrake or possibly Redhat rather than Suse or any of the other United Linux partners.
It's not the existance of the technology,itw what's done with it.
I don't think a GeForce 4 4600 could handle it so yeah, they can use the processing power =).
Apon hearing this, the federal magistrate remarded that he/she was too busy kissing other asses to take any more orders.
These days the trolls just aren't giving it their all any more. I miss the good old days.
Thankyou for the Reply Mr. Richards. I"m sorry to cast doubt on such a fine product. It was just some speculation and the date I admit had excaped me. And I should have been more eliquent in my speaking, but I was rushing out the door. Congradulations on the release of what will hopefully be the premier office suite for Linux and cross platform use if not for all platforms.
Is it possible that the recent release of SOT or SOTO offfice, the Open Office clone spurred the Open Office group to get it out? When I downloaded SOT office I wondered if Open Office would rush to minimimize the number of people getting hooked on SOT office before they were finished.
If you don't like the idea of the non-provable parts of religion, at least accept the rules. The teachings of religion (I'm Catholic so that is what my teachings of religion are) even separated from the supernatural aspect have the cause of making the world a better place.
Catholicism teaches you to be happy in what you do and do what makes others happy. If you think about it, you will never be continiously happy doing things that you find enjoyable. All things enjoyable get old eventually unless you change your mindset to enjoy what you do. And if you enjoy what you do and you help others it is the equivalent of a win-win situation.
10 rules are not because someone omnipotent said, "gee, 11 would just be overbearing". It's because they set a rough set of guidelines. And anyway, the newer teachings of the new testiment are much simpler and broad reaching. Love God and love your neighbor. If you love God, you are happy because you derive your happiness from something non-physical. (Lets face it, physical things never made people happy. If they did we wouldn't have so many rich rock stars/actors/actresses who kill themselves/others/do other stupid shit.) And I"m sure the benefits of loving your neighbor are obvious.
Religion isn't meant to feed those of religious power. Seeing the Pope once will convince you he isn't in the position for his own good. Religion is meant to help people in their day to day lives and ultimately, delving into the supernatural, to help them in their eternal lives.
Lets face it, you always see those old church ladies helping prepair the Church or clean up after mass. How many times have they looked miserable. Now compair that to the number of times the guy in the cubicle next to you wasn't happy w/ what he was doing.
I find learning enjoyable. I like knowing new things. I like being able to speak on almost any subject and if not able to speak, to be able to listen.
But for most people these days? Small talk is the most intellectually stimulating conversation they are willing to have. Gossip, Quesions about the day, opinions about the latest newsbite bearly thought through far enough to make any sense at all. Thses are the things most people are interested in talking about.
Try engaging someone about the advances in quantum computing, Hardware design, or even the usefullness of their computer to do things other than IM, email, browse the web, and play video games and the nicest reaction you can hope for is for them to at least nod as they refuse to listen to you.
I just gave SOT Office a whirl w/ a couple of word documents to see how well it imported them. The first was a simple word document with little formatting and all text. It imported w/ no visable changes as far as I could tell.
The second 2 documents were more complex, encompasing images, heavy formatting, tables, etc. The first had many images and tables. The only mistake I could find on this one was that the print margins looked to be much smaller than what the document actually had or required.
The last document was an IEEE formatted paper. This one had a few more problems. Many images were in tables to acomodate a caption and span the 2 columns of the paper. these tables were often misaligned in places (aligned w/ the edge of the page rather than column.) Also, the text incorrectly wrapped around the table, appearing underneath it instead. Finally, at the typ of the paper, the author block appears on top of the paper title rather than immediately under.
I do think it did a relatively good job though. Considering the formatting problems and workarounds I had creating the IEEE paper in word, I wouldn't expect another office suite to pick the document up correctly. The other correct enough to be printed given 10sec to change the margins. Over all I am impressed and will probably use SOT office as my linux office until I can come to a final conclusion for an office suite.
Come to think of it, there are more than a few websites I wouldn't mind reporting. I can start w/ microsoft.com, then whats that guy who wrote the trojan and sold it to law enforcement? I'd like to report him too....
Then again, I'm not sure I'd trust a plugin from someone like that not to scan everything I look at and on my drive unless I could see the source for it.
Oh, and her other tshirt: EQWarning
Hey, the money isn't going to a good cause, the shirt is bearly just a fad, but the shirt makes a statement to every person who doesn't care that you pass that day!
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Force comes in Gravity, electromagnetic, stong and weak neuclear if I remember correctly. Because antimatter is only different in sign and not mass, gravity does not effect it differently.
I meant Kilowatt hours, not Kilowatts for those who follow units.
energy released: (Energy is released when an antimatter particle comes in contact with it's opposite particle) e- + e+ (electron plus a positron) releases rougly 1.022MeV of energy
a proton plus an antiproton releases 2 * 938 MeV or 3 * 10^-10 joules per reaction. (The energy is released as photons)
The problem with detecting them is that light and anti light are identical.
Now lets see what energy of 1kg of protons woudl release: 1kg * 1proton/(1.67*10^-24 gm) = 5.69*10^26 protons
5.69*10^26 protons * 3*10^010 J/(proton reaction) = 1.78 * 10^17 J or about 50 billion Kilowatts
Someone already said. It doesn't make a good main box, but as a support box, a micro-server, or a media machine, not much beats it. The real advantage fo this is that it DOES allow for standard hardware. You can put standard HDD's, standard CDroms, a standard pci, standard ram, and a standard processor in it. It's a mini computer that can be customized to fit specialty needs as a secondary computer for which it fits the niche nicely.
Just a note. I have Suse 7.3 running stable on this as a triple boot with winXP and win2Kpro. I had no installation problems or runtmi problems. Installing drivers I"m using savagepro, not savage 4 drivers so I'd assume that there is some confusion as to which chip this board uses.
I have a shuttle with a 80gig HDD, DVD drive, and DVD hardware decoder which I use as a media machine. With a soft keyboard, a wireless trackball, and enough cabling, it's VERY portable. The hard drive houses a large amount of music along with TV shows, movies, etc. I plan on getting a few other things including the new external soundcard from creative labs and a second HDD to complete my media machine. So far it has served it's purpose admirably. I've taken it to friends houses to play DVDs, parties to play music, and just as an extra box at home. I wouldn't recommend it for a primary computer. It just doesn't have the strength. But as a secondary computer and a media box, I don't think anything could beat it.
The LotR CD is protected also, I'd assume cactus though I honestly don't know. It has 2 sessions, the first having the CD audio and the second having The application player interface. All the CD drives I put it in, (a normal drive, burner and dvd drive (iomagic)) came up with the flash interface. But friendly audioCatalyst 2.1 had no problem seeing the audio tracks and subsiquently ripping them all, (except for the last one which required using isoBuster to pull off the CD, due to audiocatalyst missreading it's length.) Do record company people honestly think any type of protection will help? The real problem is not direct copying of cd's, but sharing of files. And as long as there is any way for one person to start distribution of a file, they will be distributed. And there is always a way. As was said, it's a social problem not a technical one, and technical means will never solve it.
I guess we'll be driving to Canada to buy our computesr if this passes.
Both my Senate Representatives got letters today.
I think this bill is a bit over the top and won't pass, but we are stepping closer and closer to the world of 1984 every day. and it scares me.