Any asshole can potentially blast KKK with a huge pair of speaker if he likes, but it's not legal. It's just the same for blasting KKK on FM, it's not legal (in the UK). Raceism is outlawed anyhow, and blasting non-profane content could be twarped by any public order/decency regulation in power in the local area... Most local governments have regulations in place to cover noise and stuff..
You can legally use wlan in the UIK without a license, too... That's 2.4GHz is called unlicensed, because you don't need a license to operate on it; but on the otherhand there's no guarantee that you'll be left alone if you do use it...
Not entirely correct, there are several European countries where FM transmitters (at least for licensed bands) are only sold to people hold licenses to broadcast, or it's illegal to broadcast without one... I'd guess that Britain is only inline with the rest of the European legislation rather than the issue being "purely" British...
Well according to the website, there will be 3 more stages before the game is "released"... All of which will cost money... I'm not refering to the beta version but the S-series... As the programmers probably know, pricing and release-schedules can be make or break for games...
but there's certainly alot of businesses still using NT4, and probably will into the next millenium if nobody stops them... Why upgrade that DB-server with 2 years uptime ?
Just wait until you have to do psql->mysql... that's worse (if you use all the advanced features of psql). But then compare it to migrating from Access or worse ?
How many businesses still run pre-W2K, it's big business that run the internet today... So I guess nothing happens 'till they decide that they want it to happen...
Further having machines that can't talk IP is pretty much useless (you're back to using 6in4 and viceversa, basically where we're today)
It's not really the same... First of all you are subject to being routed through somebody adding quite a bit of latency. More points of failure. Can be a hassle to get working. More and more tunnelbrokers limit what they allow through the tunnel...
NAT is a lousy replacement for a firewall, if you want for make sure your icecube maker doesn't get DDoSed or your toaster getting cracked... get a firewall; you should have one already!
IPv6 has methods and functionality in place to suit roaming devices much better than v4... so get ready for some pretty amazing things when v6 and wireless gets big... I can't wait until I can get IPv6 from my ISP...
Because the way IPs where shared out earlier (class-based, remember good 'ole a/b/c) alot of people got 16,000 IPs just becase they need 257 IPs... The planning didn't really hold water when TCP/IP became mainstream...
Look at the low-end of the IP-range (where most of the big assignements are), IBM are assigned 9.0.0.0/8, leaving them with 255^3 (- unusuables) 16 million addresses. That's enough for a small country. Ironically they don't even use them for their own website which is hosted on 129.42.0.0/16 which is a different subnet also owned by IBM so add another 16,000 addresses to those 16 million and probably countless other subnets held by IBM or IBM subsiduaries in different parts of the world... Get the picture now?
However alot of the home routers also take care of firewalling or at least some degree of firewalling...
The day we get IPv6 end-to-end, I guess we'll see a lot of hacked windowsboxes that used to be nated out of reach... Further there are several Microsoft OSes that doesn't even know IPv6 exists yet; Microsoft certainly have to take a big part of the blame for this issue
I'd say the OP is entirely correct, it is incredibly easy. What you gotta compare with is moving from one proprietary system (Let's say Access) to let's say dbase IV... none of which conform with any SQL standard. This requires you to not only convert more advanced functions like triggers, active databases, temporal databases, rules, orders, transactions, timeliness, atomic actions etc, but also timeconsuming thins like the data itself... Often resulting in problems with proprietary systems not having even having corresponding datatypes, something most SQL RDBMS has...
However every time these guys do big updates they seem to change the activation scheme, leaving your code unusable for the new version... Depending how they play their greedy-card, they might turn out like Microsoft who charge an arm and a leg for minor updates... or be more friendly and give away stuff to keep their users...
says on the site that you have to purchase an activation code, using paypal or similar. This code then unlocks several levels and new cars and let you play both online and offline...
I thought most shareware used this distribution model... It not normal to get shareware that comes in a box. SHAREware kinda implies that you're supposed to share it, and then pay for it if you like it/find it usefull, sometimes that unlocks more functionality or remove a timelimited demo, etc...
They sure gonna need some pretty good product-activation/cd-key scheme, already having downloaded the files... what's gonna stop you from emailing it to all your friends ?
I'm getting a flashback from the HalfLife/CS cd-key problems already... and the site hasn't even loaded in the background (seems mildly slashdotted)
They didn't really have much of a choice... After a few releases of WordPerfect for Windows it didn't really hold together... Word adapted much better to the new windowed system than WordPerfect...
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CVS is really crap when it comes to binary files, how you gonna resolve a conflict in a binary-fileformat you don't even know the structure for ?
But you usually pay through the nose for shipping as these wonders weigh in at a tiny bit more than your usual desktop-wonder...
Any asshole can potentially blast KKK with a huge pair of speaker if he likes, but it's not legal. It's just the same for blasting KKK on FM, it's not legal (in the UK). Raceism is outlawed anyhow, and blasting non-profane content could be twarped by any public order/decency regulation in power in the local area... Most local governments have regulations in place to cover noise and stuff..
You can legally use wlan in the UIK without a license, too... That's 2.4GHz is called unlicensed, because you don't need a license to operate on it; but on the otherhand there's no guarantee that you'll be left alone if you do use it...
Not entirely correct, there are several European countries where FM transmitters (at least for licensed bands) are only sold to people hold licenses to broadcast, or it's illegal to broadcast without one...
I'd guess that Britain is only inline with the rest of the European legislation rather than the issue being "purely" British...
not to mention a ton of VCR-players..
Well according to the website, there will be 3 more stages before the game is "released"... All of which will cost money...
I'm not refering to the beta version but the S-series...
As the programmers probably know, pricing and release-schedules can be make or break for games...
Or linux compiled with BSD-accounting, and using the acct-package (which contains acct, sa, ac, etc.)...
My bad... i meant 65535, but the figure 16k just stuck in there for some reason...
but there's certainly alot of businesses still using NT4, and probably will into the next millenium if nobody stops them... Why upgrade that DB-server with 2 years uptime ?
Just wait until you have to do psql->mysql... that's worse (if you use all the advanced features of psql).
But then compare it to migrating from Access or worse ?
How many businesses still run pre-W2K, it's big business that run the internet today... So I guess nothing happens 'till they decide that they want it to happen...
Further having machines that can't talk IP is pretty much useless (you're back to using 6in4 and viceversa, basically where we're today)
It's not really the same...
First of all you are subject to being routed through somebody adding quite a bit of latency.
More points of failure.
Can be a hassle to get working.
More and more tunnelbrokers limit what they allow through the tunnel...
I'd like to have several, so my fridge could have a choice of vhosts when going on IRC to tell me that I'm out of coke...
NAT is a lousy replacement for a firewall, if you want for make sure your icecube maker doesn't get DDoSed or your toaster getting cracked... get a firewall; you should have one already!
IPv6 has methods and functionality in place to suit roaming devices much better than v4... so get ready for some pretty amazing things when v6 and wireless gets big...
I can't wait until I can get IPv6 from my ISP...
Because the way IPs where shared out earlier (class-based, remember good 'ole a/b/c) alot of people got 16,000 IPs just becase they need 257 IPs...
The planning didn't really hold water when TCP/IP became mainstream...
Look at the low-end of the IP-range (where most of the big assignements are), IBM are assigned 9.0.0.0/8, leaving them with 255^3 (- unusuables) 16 million addresses. That's enough for a small country. Ironically they don't even use them for their own website which is hosted on 129.42.0.0/16 which is a different subnet also owned by IBM so add another 16,000 addresses to those 16 million and probably countless other subnets held by IBM or IBM subsiduaries in different parts of the world...
Get the picture now?
However alot of the home routers also take care of firewalling or at least some degree of firewalling...
The day we get IPv6 end-to-end, I guess we'll see a lot of hacked windowsboxes that used to be nated out of reach...
Further there are several Microsoft OSes that doesn't even know IPv6 exists yet; Microsoft certainly have to take a big part of the blame for this issue
I'd say the OP is entirely correct, it is incredibly easy. What you gotta compare with is moving from one proprietary system (Let's say Access) to let's say dbase IV... none of which conform with any SQL standard.
This requires you to not only convert more advanced functions like triggers, active databases, temporal databases, rules, orders, transactions, timeliness, atomic actions etc, but also timeconsuming thins like the data itself...
Often resulting in problems with proprietary systems not having even having corresponding datatypes, something most SQL RDBMS has...
A check made out for these guys, signed by the person giving the present ?
However every time these guys do big updates they seem to change the activation scheme, leaving your code unusable for the new version...
Depending how they play their greedy-card, they might turn out like Microsoft who charge an arm and a leg for minor updates... or be more friendly and give away stuff to keep their users...
rtfa
I thought most shareware used this distribution model... It not normal to get shareware that comes in a box. SHAREware kinda implies that you're supposed to share it, and then pay for it if you like it/find it usefull, sometimes that unlocks more functionality or remove a timelimited demo, etc...
They sure gonna need some pretty good product-activation/cd-key scheme, already having downloaded the files... what's gonna stop you from emailing it to all your friends ?
I'm getting a flashback from the HalfLife/CS cd-key problems already... and the site hasn't even loaded in the background (seems mildly slashdotted)
They didn't really have much of a choice... After a few releases of WordPerfect for Windows it didn't really hold together... Word adapted much better to the new windowed system than WordPerfect...