People here will cut their computer cases to pieces, slit ribon cables, attempt avoid burning up their over-clocked processor by putting WATERcooling in the case, but bitch and moan when a cable in their car is in a place they don't want it... Just move it to where you want it.
When it says "Click Yes to install if you agree with the EULA." and the user does, what is the problem? People install spyware themselves. It's (at least for the most part) an ID-10T error, not an exploit. Are these governments going to MAKE users read and understand EULAs before installing things? Aren't these people warned in the EULA before they install? Granted, I hate spyware as much as the next, but the worst I've had is DoubleClick cookies that AdAware says is spyware. I just click "No" by default now instead of "Ok" when the "install software" box pops up in IE (at work... never had the problem with Safari at home).
Most hosting services come with tracking tools. My host has tools that will even break down IPs to general locations, I believe. It has so many options that it gets difficult to use. So, if you have a good host, you should be able to find out who uses your site w/o any additional work.
If not, as most have said, set a cookie with a tracking ID. Basically, if you make a website without a decent hit counter (when you need one), you're not much of a web designer / developer. I usually log IPs, user agents, and dates, even though I never look at them. Just in case.
Microsoft could walk onto the scene with a FREE, EASY TO USE, and POWERFUL development platform for the XBOX2 and walk out with tons of cash. If it is easy to develop in and powerful, game designers / programmers will use it. If it is free EVERY designer / programmer will use it.
Further, Microsoft would try to lock developers into XBOX2 with proprietary bits so that it would take MORE effort to port to PS3, etc. Developers will still use it.
Historically, see DirectX for PC gaming... They could have a very distinct advantage by relapsing early, as no one would KNOW that their games would be more difficult (*cough* rewrite *cough*) to port than XBOX1 games.
Well, they are selling the general public a load of shite / lies / FUD about Linux. I guess if you box it up, you could call it "UnixWare" and watch no one buy it.
"Here is also an article talking about Aaron's efforts from webpronews.com""
Since we are talking about spam and obtaining more spam, I don't know if I should read the site the article is on as "web pro news dot com" or "web pron ews dot com"...
Sad thing: I finally decided Bluetooth was useful enough to invest in. I got a Nokia 3660 (which required me to get new cell service) and a bluetooth module for my Mac.
And I'll be damned. A month later, there is a new standard on the way. At least it's backward compatible. But I'll still feel less 31337. BluetoothEDR 0wnz m333!!!:(:(:(
Yeah. I go insane when Windows starts freaking out after a month, and I think I need to do a re-install. It wouldn't bother me at all that Windows breaks so quickly if the place I work wasn't an ASP / VB shop. As it is, when Windows freaks, and I need to re-install, I have to install tons of apps. Work keeps me on Windows, and is a frequent reminder why I stay off Windows at home.
Maybe I should just start doing ASP.Net with Mono?
I deleted./trolls right after I installed Red Hat on my PC. It's really a useless directory that clutters up the file system. It's always spamming dumb things like "first post" to my terminal. It's quite annoying. It kept coming back, so I got a Mac instead.
My bad. I should have quoted it. I really meant "person who engages in fair use of CDs (RIAA: a.k.a. pirates)." But, point in case, as far as the RIAA is concerned, we're all pirates, even if we have never seen a music storage device.
Though I'm not sure if "and its cover art and resells it for profit in large quantities" is necessarily true of the consensus interpretation of the verb "pirate." But we don't have to get into it.
My thoughts exactly. In order to keep people from copying CDs, they will have to prohibit the CDs from playing music.
I assume what the RIAA wants to do is facilitate an easy and limiting way to duplicate CDs for the average user. They can "defeat" the average pirate. They cannot, and will not, defeat the geek pirate unless they make their product unusable to everyone (and who wants a CD that doesn't do anything? We could make those for free before buffer under run protection was available on CD-R drives).
What they would do is allow you to render their movie for them, then get confused and sue your ass for having copyrighted material on your computer. They will say distributed computing is basically the same thing P2P. Damn click-through licenses.
Really, though... if they would allow you to earn free tickets for rendering "rent", it'd be worth it. Say a dollar for every second (or so) of video you render, with some cap on how much money in ticket vouchers you can earn. Then go to fandango to redeem them. I'd bet the renting scenario would leverage some of these license / fair use things out some, assuming the people don't rape you from the get-go. We aren't dealing with the MPAA in this instance, but rather someone like Weta or Pixar (maybe bad examples, as they may be tied to a Studio, but I'm not an expert here)... someone hired to do work for a film paid for by MPAA studios (maybe). The 3D companies that work for MPAA Studios aren't EVIL, AFAIK.
Average solar power high in a winter month (I think it was from a winter month) = 6 KWh/M2/Day taken from here
Should equal 2190 kwh/M2/year
1 acre = 4046.85642 M2
Should equal 8862615.5598 kwh/acre/year
High (maybe overstated based on PDF?) of 20 thousand megawatthours (MWh / year) from coal taken from here (Specifically this pdf)
or 20,000,000 kwh / year total
vs 8,862,615 kwh / year (for one acre of cells)
So, the question that I think it hangs on, which I couldn't find an answer for, is how many acres on average is a coal facility (including coal storage)? Then we can multiply the 8,862,615 by the size of an average coal plant and then determine which is better in theory. Assuming my math is correct, which I am not, 4 acres of cells at peak could (theoretically) far out produce a coal plant.
But, I also think a "greener" solution should score bonus points. I'm not a tree hugger, but I do like to breath clean air on occasion.
Disclaimer: This post was based on VERY QUICK research. I'm not suggesting that these claims are real-world or even really possible, esp. if my math, which you may have gathered, could be utterly wrong.
The simple fact that it produces that much more engergy than traditional methods is a sure sign that we will never see it used.
The sun has existed for a very long time, and solar energy is still greatly lacking both in r&d (we only have about 12% to 60% efficiency on average depending who you ask, when higher should be possible) and implementation (e.g. as a replacement for fossile fule and/or nuclear).
A good implementation could requier relativly little or no maintenance and relativly little attention by employees while making a hell of a lot more energy. And the sun is FREE and READY NOW.
Unfortunatly, you have to be REALLY good at these games to make money. If you think you are really good, then you have to be even better.
I used to do Quake 3 WFA. So, I ended up hearing things about good Quake 3 players, which were, at the time, Fat1ity (or WTF ever you put that "1").
He apparently played lots of tennis and trained on the virtual field for long periods of time. The real-life sports, he said, helped him with coordination and prediction. So, you can just be a geek sitting on his haunches all day if you buy into Fata1ity's views.
What I'm getting at is: this isn't a bunch of part time gamers. This is a job, and, as with most jobs, once you get paid, the fun level drops. Kindof like when you decide to concieve a child and it isn't working as quick as you thought, the sex turns into a task instead of something fun to do (or so I hear from many people, as I've never tried to concieve).
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I'd be more worried about electrocution than breaking my PC in some of these instances.
godlike stature
Only in Huntsville, Alabama... They sort of worship him at UAH, it seems, and ignore / sweep-under-the-carpet his ties to the Nazis.
Werner Von Braun as Saruman (Sorry Jim M., but instead you can play Aragorn, son of Araplane)
Werner Von Braun - leading Nazi and then U.S. rocket scientist
You did not attend the University of Alabama at Huntsville, like I did for a year, or you would know that your summarization is wrong. It should be:
Werner Von Braun - A god amongst men.
Actually, it reminds me of something Microsoft would do / has done.
What about iPod for my feet you insensitive clod!?
Oh, wait... don't I feel stupid.
People here will cut their computer cases to pieces, slit ribon cables, attempt avoid burning up their over-clocked processor by putting WATERcooling in the case, but bitch and moan when a cable in their car is in a place they don't want it... Just move it to where you want it.
;)
I just don't understand sometimes...
When it says "Click Yes to install if you agree with the EULA." and the user does, what is the problem? People install spyware themselves. It's (at least for the most part) an ID-10T error, not an exploit. Are these governments going to MAKE users read and understand EULAs before installing things? Aren't these people warned in the EULA before they install? Granted, I hate spyware as much as the next, but the worst I've had is DoubleClick cookies that AdAware says is spyware. I just click "No" by default now instead of "Ok" when the "install software" box pops up in IE (at work... never had the problem with Safari at home).
Most hosting services come with tracking tools. My host has tools that will even break down IPs to general locations, I believe. It has so many options that it gets difficult to use. So, if you have a good host, you should be able to find out who uses your site w/o any additional work.
If not, as most have said, set a cookie with a tracking ID. Basically, if you make a website without a decent hit counter (when you need one), you're not much of a web designer / developer. I usually log IPs, user agents, and dates, even though I never look at them. Just in case.
Microsoft could walk onto the scene with a FREE, EASY TO USE, and POWERFUL development platform for the XBOX2 and walk out with tons of cash. If it is easy to develop in and powerful, game designers / programmers will use it. If it is free EVERY designer / programmer will use it.
Further, Microsoft would try to lock developers into XBOX2 with proprietary bits so that it would take MORE effort to port to PS3, etc. Developers will still use it.
Historically, see DirectX for PC gaming... They could have a very distinct advantage by relapsing early, as no one would KNOW that their games would be more difficult (*cough* rewrite *cough*) to port than XBOX1 games.
Well, they are selling the general public a load of shite / lies / FUD about Linux. I guess if you box it up, you could call it "UnixWare" and watch no one buy it.
"Here is also an article talking about Aaron's efforts from webpronews.com""
Since we are talking about spam and obtaining more spam, I don't know if I should read the site the article is on as "web pro news dot com" or "web pron ews dot com"...
I guess I'll figure it out sometime.
It must be an exploit in the SCO code that is in the Linux kernel!
;)
Sounds alot like something Microsoft has been saying...
Sad thing: I finally decided Bluetooth was useful enough to invest in. I got a Nokia 3660 (which required me to get new cell service) and a bluetooth module for my Mac. And I'll be damned. A month later, there is a new standard on the way. At least it's backward compatible. But I'll still feel less 31337. BluetoothEDR 0wnz m333!!! :( :( :(
RSS isn't too bad if you ignore all the Dublin Core additions.
Yeah. I go insane when Windows starts freaking out after a month, and I think I need to do a re-install. It wouldn't bother me at all that Windows breaks so quickly if the place I work wasn't an ASP / VB shop. As it is, when Windows freaks, and I need to re-install, I have to install tons of apps. Work keeps me on Windows, and is a frequent reminder why I stay off Windows at home.
Maybe I should just start doing ASP.Net with Mono?
Just wait until they start doing Machinima with Doom 3. That will rock your ass right. Well... almost right, anyway.
I deleted ./trolls right after I installed Red Hat on my PC. It's really a useless directory that clutters up the file system. It's always spamming dumb things like "first post" to my terminal. It's quite annoying. It kept coming back, so I got a Mac instead.
My bad. I should have quoted it. I really meant "person who engages in fair use of CDs (RIAA: a.k.a. pirates)." But, point in case, as far as the RIAA is concerned, we're all pirates, even if we have never seen a music storage device.
Though I'm not sure if "and its cover art and resells it for profit in large quantities" is necessarily true of the consensus interpretation of the verb "pirate." But we don't have to get into it.
My thoughts exactly. In order to keep people from copying CDs, they will have to prohibit the CDs from playing music.
I assume what the RIAA wants to do is facilitate an easy and limiting way to duplicate CDs for the average user. They can "defeat" the average pirate. They cannot, and will not, defeat the geek pirate unless they make their product unusable to everyone (and who wants a CD that doesn't do anything? We could make those for free before buffer under run protection was available on CD-R drives).
What they would do is allow you to render their movie for them, then get confused and sue your ass for having copyrighted material on your computer. They will say distributed computing is basically the same thing P2P. Damn click-through licenses.
Really, though... if they would allow you to earn free tickets for rendering "rent", it'd be worth it. Say a dollar for every second (or so) of video you render, with some cap on how much money in ticket vouchers you can earn. Then go to fandango to redeem them. I'd bet the renting scenario would leverage some of these license / fair use things out some, assuming the people don't rape you from the get-go. We aren't dealing with the MPAA in this instance, but rather someone like Weta or Pixar (maybe bad examples, as they may be tied to a Studio, but I'm not an expert here)... someone hired to do work for a film paid for by MPAA studios (maybe). The 3D companies that work for MPAA Studios aren't EVIL, AFAIK.
I suck at math, but here is my best attempt.
Average solar power high in a winter month (I think it was from a winter month) = 6 KWh/M2/Day taken from here
Should equal 2190 kwh/M2/year
1 acre = 4046.85642 M2
Should equal 8862615.5598 kwh/acre/year
High (maybe overstated based on PDF?) of 20 thousand megawatthours (MWh / year) from coal taken from here (Specifically this pdf)
or 20,000,000 kwh / year total
vs 8,862,615 kwh / year (for one acre of cells)
So, the question that I think it hangs on, which I couldn't find an answer for, is how many acres on average is a coal facility (including coal storage)? Then we can multiply the 8,862,615 by the size of an average coal plant and then determine which is better in theory. Assuming my math is correct, which I am not, 4 acres of cells at peak could (theoretically) far out produce a coal plant.
But, I also think a "greener" solution should score bonus points. I'm not a tree hugger, but I do like to breath clean air on occasion.
Disclaimer: This post was based on VERY QUICK research. I'm not suggesting that these claims are real-world or even really possible, esp. if my math, which you may have gathered, could be utterly wrong.
The simple fact that it produces that much more engergy than traditional methods is a sure sign that we will never see it used.
The sun has existed for a very long time, and solar energy is still greatly lacking both in r&d (we only have about 12% to 60% efficiency on average depending who you ask, when higher should be possible) and implementation (e.g. as a replacement for fossile fule and/or nuclear).
A good implementation could requier relativly little or no maintenance and relativly little attention by employees while making a hell of a lot more energy. And the sun is FREE and READY NOW.
What does that make Kevin Mitnick?
Oh, yeah... I remember him. I forgot that guy after existed he was free and not a symbol of everything that was wrong with the legal system in the US.
Unfortunatly, you have to be REALLY good at these games to make money. If you think you are really good, then you have to be even better.
I used to do Quake 3 WFA. So, I ended up hearing things about good Quake 3 players, which were, at the time, Fat1ity (or WTF ever you put that "1").
He apparently played lots of tennis and trained on the virtual field for long periods of time. The real-life sports, he said, helped him with coordination and prediction. So, you can just be a geek sitting on his haunches all day if you buy into Fata1ity's views.
What I'm getting at is: this isn't a bunch of part time gamers. This is a job, and, as with most jobs, once you get paid, the fun level drops. Kindof like when you decide to concieve a child and it isn't working as quick as you thought, the sex turns into a task instead of something fun to do (or so I hear from many people, as I've never tried to concieve).