AS someone stated several times, They are out for our money. But, what is up with their lame excuses? One excuse is
I'll say it flatly--a character record in SWG is FAR larger than you think. There's a business reality to see here. We share fancy databases over multiple servers. Said fancy databases cost $X up to a certain size. Then they cost ten times that if you go over that limit by one byte because you have to buy the "next size up." As it already stands, our programmers are nervous that we're storing too much data per character. Heck, we got asked, "You can live with 20 items in inventory max, right? 150 items total per character across the entire game?" Do the math on the items stored with a character above, and start getting scared.
WTF? THey don't want to spend money for a bigger hard drive? Maybe they should STREAMLINE the databases some. Instead of having my weapon be stored in their database as: $Weapon="Ordinary_Blasater_With_No_Speial_Abilit ies_Unless_Used_By_Smuggler_Damage_Model_Level_3" Use:
$Weapon="Pistol2"
Let my freaking client know that pistol2 = Ordinary_Blasater_With_No_Speial_Abilities_Unless_ Used_By_Smuggler_Damage_Model_Level_3
Grr... I'm going back to reading the rest of the article
[/rant]
If you sat throught this fine review, then ou may also be interested in an article. that states at one point: "The poster child for security glitches is no longer Microsoft; this label now belongs to open source and Linux software suppliers."
One of the best ways to educate kids in this area is to "let them back there." One of the things we did last year was to let some students in our "internet society" build/configure and install a server. We chose E-Smith. These kids were able to help us kick the tires, and they grew a lot in their understanding. They learned a lot about networking, internet protocol, proxies, samba, and the like. The kids in this computer club are not the brainy students either. These are the kids that some teachers or principals might not trust. They may even be script kiddiez. But I'd rather have them "help out" and learn than be excluded and watched when they lash out with their scripts with no understanding of what they are doing.
To get students to "do linux". ALl you need is a teacher that has them use the computers constructively and have working linux computers for the studetns to use... at all grade levels. Get them while they are young. Would this work? You bet. Why do you think Microsoft was giving away software to schools 4 or 5 years ago?
"For those who aren't thoroughly familiar with the "Black Friday" phenomenon (the name of the Friday after Thanksgiving, so called because many retailers operate in the red until the holiday shopping season, which starts that Friday, kicks them into the black)"
This was of course stolen from some random search on google.
From the article: There are 250 Million blank CDRs and tapes bought and used this year for copying music in comparison to 213 Million prerecorded audio media.
I'd like to see where these numbers come from. Personally, (yea I know, I shouldn't put my personal anecdotes on top of the population.) I have bought nearly 2000 CDRs for myself and school.
For school, we put our "Publication/School Newspaper" on the CD and give it to students for a keepsake. For my private use, CDRs are a cheap easy server backup format. Toss in a CD. scribble a date and put it on a spindle. If/when I need to roll back my home network server. viola.There it is.
Have I ever used a CDR to copy a commercial Music CD? Yes. Once. I have a Vitamin C CD (It was a gift--honest) and it wouldn;t play in my CD Player. So I ripped it (methinks there was copy protection on it) and burned it to a CDR. Viola. Now I can listen to the CD that was rightfully mine to listen to.
When The music industy pays to upgrade my listening equipment so that I can listen to their music, then maybe I'll consider not complaining.
Well the slashdottd review isn't the only one out there. (Glad I read it yesterday. (Maybe I should sumbit stories more often.)
Here are a couple more reviews of the extended DVD. This review is a pretty good rundown of the DVDs.
and This one is a rundown of Xoanon's review and there is a nice Question and answer format at the end where fans of, well, the Fan Site write in with their questions. Tons of SPOILERS --you're warned.
Finding a cure for Cancer or AIDS would be great. However, when it is found, all you will have is a cure for Cancer...But I use my spare cycles to hunt for aliens. When Aliens are found, they will already have the cure for cancer, aids, alzheimers, etc.
I know that's silly, The aliens will probably want something in return.
That is basically why I signed onto AOL in '92. I was doing BBS stuff for music discussions and playing games like Trade Wars (Shameless plug for a Trade-Wars-Like game). I had the internet through the university. (Getting PPP to work with windows 3.1 was interesting)
Anyway, AOL, for me, was a BIGGER BBS. I could communicate with the whole country, not just my local community. The internet was something different. The internet was using Gopher to find info from another university for a paper I was writing.
After I got my first 200$ AOL bill for playing Neverwinter nights non-stop, (No, I didn't die.) I then discovered KALI, and I could play over the internet.
Now, it seems, (I haven't had AOL since 93-so I could be wrong.) AOL is just an over-glorigfied BBS that also has (ping-poor) internet access also.
Everything about weblogs...
on
The Weblog Handbook
·
· Score: 5, Interesting
that I ever learned, I learned at Movable Type's website. They've got a great customizable sytem, and EASY install setup. (I've got my non-techie teacher pers to set it up.) And it is easy to use with all sorts of options...
If Timothy can advertise books on the front page, I can advertise a blog in the posts.;-)
Does this mean I am going to go out and sue all glove makers because they don't make a right hand glove with no thumb? No. That is plain stupid. The term disability means, acording to Dictionary.com
2. A disadvantage or deficiency,...
3. Something that hinders or incapacitates.
Why can we not accept that there are things that we cannot do and not sue others while pretending it is someone else's fault that we have a disability.
Are these (the ADA) the people that made it so that there is Brail on Drive up ATM machines?
Only in Lake Wobiegon (sp?) is everyone above average...
CNN is carrying a small article titled, "New telescope as big as Earth itself" about radio telecopes that cover 3 continents and work in unison to peer at the galaxy. If yer interested... read on.
Damnit! Release a new bon Jovi song. I'm sick of the only damn radio station in my BFE town playing the same Bon Jovi song from the mid 80's. Maybe they'll play a new bonjovi song with the old one and double the damn playlist.
(Watch, I'll be modded as troll/offtopic while others that say "not releasing Bon Jovi is good" will not be modded as redundant.
Slashdot Mirror
But, what is up with their lame excuses? One excuse is
WTF? THey don't want to spend money for a bigger hard drive? Maybe they should STREAMLINE the databases some. Instead of having my weapon be stored in their database as:
$Weapon="Ordinary_Blasater_With_No_Speial_Abili
Use:
$Weapon="Pistol2"
Let my freaking client know that pistol2 = Ordinary_Blasater_With_No_Speial_Abilities_Unless
Grr... I'm going back to reading the rest of the article
[/rant]
If you sat throught this fine review, then ou may also be interested in an article. that states at one point:
"The poster child for security glitches is no longer Microsoft; this label now belongs to open source and Linux software suppliers."
It isn't a movie, but it's sort of like an adventure.
burning off the karma...
Time to whip out those Star Wars Name Generators.
One of the best ways to educate kids in this area is to "let them back there." One of the things we did last year was to let some students in our "internet society" build/configure and install a server. We chose E-Smith.
These kids were able to help us kick the tires, and they grew a lot in their understanding. They learned a lot about networking, internet protocol, proxies, samba, and the like. The kids in this computer club are not the brainy students either. These are the kids that some teachers or principals might not trust. They may even be script kiddiez. But I'd rather have them "help out" and learn than be excluded and watched when they lash out with their scripts with no understanding of what they are doing.
To get students to "do linux". ALl you need is a teacher that has them use the computers constructively and have working linux computers for the studetns to use... at all grade levels. Get them while they are young. Would this work? You bet. Why do you think Microsoft was giving away software to schools 4 or 5 years ago?
For those that don't know...
"For those who aren't thoroughly familiar with the "Black Friday" phenomenon (the name of the Friday after Thanksgiving, so called because many retailers operate in the red until the holiday shopping season, which starts that Friday, kicks them into the black)"
This was of course stolen from some random search on google.
Feel free to use this.
What's yer CPU speed?
[]2.8 GHZ+
[]2.5GHZ+
[]1.5 GHZ+
[]1ghz+
[]500Mhz+
[]233 Mhz+
[]Cowboyneal runs the cage the powers my CPU.
From the article:
There are 250 Million blank CDRs and tapes bought and used this year for copying music in comparison to 213 Million prerecorded audio media.
I'd like to see where these numbers come from. Personally, (yea I know, I shouldn't put my personal anecdotes on top of the population.) I have bought nearly 2000 CDRs for myself and school.
For school, we put our "Publication/School Newspaper" on the CD and give it to students for a keepsake. For my private use, CDRs are a cheap easy server backup format. Toss in a CD. scribble a date and put it on a spindle. If/when I need to roll back my home network server. viola.There it is.
Have I ever used a CDR to copy a commercial Music CD? Yes. Once. I have a Vitamin C CD (It was a gift--honest) and it wouldn;t play in my CD Player. So I ripped it (methinks there was copy protection on it) and burned it to a CDR. Viola. Now I can listen to the CD that was rightfully mine to listen to.
When The music industy pays to upgrade my listening equipment so that I can listen to their music, then maybe I'll consider not complaining.
No.. I mean Last Post!
hehe.
there is this /. article. that showcases someone's ideas about how to unbalance a game with exploits in the economy.
Here is a flag.
;-)
or this flag,
or how about This!
Well the slashdottd review isn't the only one out there. (Glad I read it yesterday. (Maybe I should sumbit stories more often.)
Here are a couple more reviews of the extended DVD.
This review is a pretty good rundown of the DVDs.
and
This one is a rundown of Xoanon's review and there is a nice Question and answer format at the end where fans of, well, the Fan Site write in with their questions. Tons of SPOILERS --you're warned.
Finding a cure for Cancer or AIDS would be great. However, when it is found, all you will have is a cure for Cancer...But I use my spare cycles to hunt for aliens. When Aliens are found, they will already have the cure for cancer, aids, alzheimers, etc.
I know that's silly, The aliens will probably want something in return.
That is basically why I signed onto AOL in '92. I was doing BBS stuff for music discussions and playing games like Trade Wars (Shameless plug for a Trade-Wars-Like game). I had the internet through the university. (Getting PPP to work with windows 3.1 was interesting)
Anyway, AOL, for me, was a BIGGER BBS. I could communicate with the whole country, not just my local community. The internet was something different. The internet was using Gopher to find info from another university for a paper I was writing.
After I got my first 200$ AOL bill for playing Neverwinter nights non-stop, (No, I didn't die.) I then discovered KALI, and I could play over the internet.
Now, it seems, (I haven't had AOL since 93-so I could be wrong.) AOL is just an over-glorigfied BBS that also has (ping-poor) internet access also.
They are asked to hand over the pengaol.org domain name. Not the pengaol.com
From the article:
"And that was pretty much it: you know, build the belt, go out and make a lot of money, and that was it."
Which translates into:
1. Build a belt.
2. Profit!
(maybe I sohould be anonymous)
Young Korean needs food...badly.
that I ever learned, I learned at Movable Type's website. They've got a great customizable sytem, and EASY install setup. (I've got my non-techie teacher pers to set it up.) And it is easy to use with all sorts of options... ;-)
If Timothy can advertise books on the front page, I can advertise a blog in the posts.
Try this "Speak IT" site and install the readers...
Then come back to Slashdot, Highlight this whole discussion and listen...
Does this mean I am going to go out and sue all glove makers because they don't make a right hand glove with no thumb? No. That is plain stupid. The term disability means, acording to Dictionary.com ...
2. A disadvantage or deficiency,
3. Something that hinders or incapacitates.
Why can we not accept that there are things that we cannot do and not sue others while pretending it is someone else's fault that we have a disability.
Are these (the ADA) the people that made it so that there is Brail on Drive up ATM machines?
Only in Lake Wobiegon (sp?) is everyone above average...
probably is not apropriate in this forum.
CNN is carrying a small article titled, "New telescope as big as Earth itself" about radio telecopes that cover 3 continents and work in unison to peer at the galaxy. If yer interested... read on.
Damnit! Release a new bon Jovi song. I'm sick of the only damn radio station in my BFE town playing the same Bon Jovi song from the mid 80's. Maybe they'll play a new bonjovi song with the old one and double the damn playlist.
(Watch, I'll be modded as troll/offtopic while others that say "not releasing Bon Jovi is good" will not be modded as redundant.