'Manufactured Homes' suck rocks, my friend. I know, I owned one. Sure - the cost to buy the home itself isn't bad. But when you buy a $150k house that was built on-site, you're also buying the land under it. Buy your manufactured home, and THEN you have to find somewhere to put it. And THEN you have to get wiring and plumbing piped in. And THEN you have to get it hauled to the site, installed, and pray to GOD that the subcontractor that was hired to do the interior touch-ups and whatnot isn't just jerking off in the spackle and hoping it holds together 2 years down the road.
We had to claim bankruptcy because of ours - mainly because we were in a manufactured home 'park' where you buy the house but rent the land, and they kept raising the friggin' rent every 6 months.
Okay...but who's going to download the pay client when there are free clients? Kazaa has been hacked to keep the ads out, why couldn't the pay client be hacked to keep you from paying?
It's a good idea, but when people just don't want to pay for something, there isn't ANY idea that's good enough, or cheap enough. Unless the FastTrack network is completely shut down, and any clones or off-shoots are killed before they can gain *any* foothold, and the pay client network is the ONLY network available, it won't be a viable solution.
Not a real nasa simulator, but a very impressive operating replica. The construction details are quite interesting too.
I'd hardly call that 'operating'. Did you actually LOOK at the construction details? Most of the knobs/switches and doo-dads aren't even connected to *anything*. I would at LEAST like some of the switches to turn on a light or make something buzz or whirr or SOMETHING. Especially for the list price of $15k.
That's where I saw this mod before. I was looking at the pictures and thought to myself, "Self, where have we seen these before?" Well, somewhere in that BMW chair mod someone posted a link to this one.
No no you got it all wrong. First IBM is going to buy Sun because we all know in our lifetimes its going to happen.
Egads I certainly hope not. Scott McNealy would have a heart attack were that to happen. In reality, Sun is doing better than IBM's high-end server division. I personally don't think that IBM has the capability to manage what Sun does.
I also don't think that we *need* to kill M$, after all it is the bloat in Windows that gives us 2.4Ghz processors and cheap ram and hard disks. We simply need to make THEM restructure themselves to meet OUR needs, not their own.
Plus, if OO/SO get over to the Mac, that will be one more platform on which M$ no longer has a monopoly with the Office suite. I'm all for that.
BMW may make good chairs, but IMHO so does Volvo. Sure, they're not as high-class, but a nice leather 240 seat might set you back $100 (if that) and will be *very* comforable. These seats were made for comfort in mind from the get-go. Pick up something from a 700 or 900 with electric controls just like the bimmer if you want.
You are only holding yourself back by trying to keep with a BMW seat. Think outside the box. Or, if you get a Volvo seat, INside.;)
Who is going to hack a volvo? Not only from the sense of there being no means, motive, or opportunity, who the hell would want to 'hack' a volvo? how anti-l33t can you get?
Well, being a volvogeek, I'd have to say that *I* would hack a Volvo. So would these guys. In fact, they have. They make the best performance products for Volvos of all ages.
Whoa, wait a minute... Did I say 'performance' AND 'volvo' in the same sentence? WTF was I thinking? Oh yeah...that's right, Volvo wasn't the company who won the 94 (or was it 95 or 96?) BTCC series running an 850 WAGON?!? Silly me, yes they were.
Take a look at turbobricks, these guys are into serious performance with their swedish iron. Bork bork bork, my ass.
Look at the zillion unpatched windows boxes out there and think what would happen if they all had a [Apache|OpenSSH|ftp] vulnerability?
Well, see there's a difference between just about every current Linux distro and Windows here:
When it comes to Windows, people want to install the best and greatest. Why settle for XP Home when you can get XP Pro and get a bunch of cool features? Nevermind that it installs IIS and doesn't tell you.
Any Linux distribution will give you a choice when you install: Desktop, Server, or Custom (or more/less, depending on the distro and the granularity). Desktop users will, of course, choose desktop, right? It depends. But that option is there. Plus when you go to configure said packages after installation, it asks about security considerations.
Granted, I haven't used anything but Debian recently, and my server is pretty tightly locked down. But even so, it's still NOT the OS's fault that the users are so clueless. And even IF Apache/Bind/Sendmail or whatever was vulnerable on *that* one box, only *that* one box would be r00ted. Not every box on its subnet + a class-A or two. AFAIK, there aren't any Code-Red type worms out there in the wild for Linux/Unix. I could be wrong.
Games with huge numbers of people like EverQuest will suffer from a certain number of bad apples, just like the real world. They're ultimately going to need to rely on policing, technology can't solve everything.
I've seen this in EQ. And you know what those bad apples did? They created an entire guild of ASSHOLES. On our server, there were actually TWO guilds like this. At least...before I quit. From what I've heard though, more and more of the people in the game are just playing to F with people. After 3 years, EQ just isn't fun anymore, so the only enjoyment for those who have 3+ 55-60 characters is to ruin others' fun.
There will ALWAYS be people who live off the pain of others. It happens in RL, and it happens online. There's very little you can do about it, unless you hire a 'police force' like we have here in RL. And even then, who says the bad people will straighten out?
'Course, the fact that there was a honeypot elsewhere on the network seems a bit shifty...
If I were in charge of a high-profile system on the net, you can be DAMNED sure I'd stick a honeypot RIGHT NEXT to the secure server. I'm *much* rather have script-kiddies and wannabe hackers going after something I could give a damn about rather than my data.
Anyone else remember the scene in the Naboo cruiser where Jar-Jar popped the head off of the red droid? Said droid then went crazy around the droid bay while R2 and the others went up to fix the shield generators?
It was in the movie, but NOT in the VHS nor DVD editions.
The article says that Intel is attributing the price cuts to higher yields...
I have some friends who work at Intel, and they said that the chips that they get in award plaques are *functional*. Used to be, when you got an award plaque at Intel (I used to work there too) the chip you got on the plaque was a non-functional garbage-bin chip. Good for looking at, ONLY. Nowadays, it seems the chips they are giving out are _very nearly_ consumer-level chips. I heard that the only reason they are put on the plaques instead of sold to the general public was because they failed ONE test at below acceptable margins. Doesn't mean they won't work, but they might not take a beating.
I noticed all of those as well. If the clones had a slightly reddish tinge to them, it would have been the Matrix: Revisited.
I couldn't help thinking during the chase sequence, "We'll have a chance when we get to the fog. If we make the fog..." in Bruce Willis' voice.
However, I absolutely *loved* Yoda in this film. He's a Jedi, after all. When 850 years old you reach, kick ass as well you will not, eh? (not 900 years because Anakin still has to have Luke, and Luke has to grow up, right?;] )
No, of course not - they have to start *somewhere*. But EQ already HAD a pretty good thing going. DAoC improved on it in thier own way, and then the EQ developers starting snagging stuff that they obviously hadn't thought of from it.
Cases in point:
level-based items
alternate skills based on 'points'
one-time, dynamic quests
I'm sure there are more, but I haven't perused the EQ patch list lately.
Not to mention the fact that EQ is *constantly* releasing new expansion after new expansion, at $30 a pop. And Norrath is getting long in the tooth.
I don't want to start a new character in Freeport and kill rats and snakes only to head out to EC and look for a group at Orc1. Not with the current game engine and not with a *new* game engine.
Most of my friends have migrated to DAoC anyway. And the ones that haven't I keep in touch with via the guild message boards.
And for posterity:
~Vadya Waerr'ess 50 Enchanter Daughters of Innoruuk Innoruuk
Yeah, well if it's the same game with new graphic models and classes - sorry, they already tried that with SOL. And again, they're SOL if they think I'm going to buy it.
At the very least, I hope they make a different world. Traipsing about Norrath for 2 years was enough for me. Back on good old post-Arthurian Earth for me, thankyouverymuch.
Has anyone else noticed that the recent changes in EQ1 basically make it DAoC v0.75? If all Verant/Sony has to go on is another game's success, why are they even bothering?
Hmm, well the *only* system that I own that was bundled with *anything* when I bought it was the Dell Laptop.
All of the other systems were home-built, not store-bought, and so thus did not have *any* pre-installed OS.
Of course, any system I have that isn't going to be used by a human will be relegated to the closet and put in the cluster of linux boxen. So I won't be donating anything anytime soon.:)
I really don't understand what all of the hubbub is about the installer program. If it works, and gives you a workable system with a shell prompt, who cares how 'pretty' it is?
Granted, Debian's (current) installer isn't very user-friendly. However, it wasn't an issue for me, really. I've been through numerous RH installs (pre 6.2) and IIRC the installer wasn't much different from Debian's. RH6.2+ might have changed, but I've never used them, so I don't know.
But hell, I installed an OLD version of Debian - 2.0 - and apt'ed up to Sid without a hitch. The installer is only a very miniscule part of the picture. After the system is working, do you REALLY tell yourself, "Boy, that was a really froody installer," or do you amaze your friends and family with apt-get?
I once had a baptist minister who wondered why a WHOIS on his domain showed his nameserver as Lucifer.
Sounds like something I saw on TV a while back. Ad for a gospel album or something otherwise extremely religious. Phone number, (and I shit you not) was 1-800-666-xxxx. So, being the conscientous citizen I was, I called said number and told the person who answered about the problem. She had no idea what to do about it, of course, as she was only paid to take orders.
However, the next time I saw the commercial, the phone number had changed.:)
All in a day's work. The wife and I had quite a laugh over it though. >:)
And the scary bit is that for the most part, they're right...
So what? Let them make PC's. The *consumers* don't *have* to purchase the PC's. And I'm sure that someone, somewhere, will buy one just to hack it and summarily post a patch to every known OS to bypass the copy protection.
Not that I advocate piracy, but the MPAA/RIAA are zealots who want things before they realize what will *actually* happen when they get them. Sue Napster! Okay, Napster dead - 500 other P2P programs pop up overnight. Yeah, that worked.
Plus, they don't have control over the hundreds of millions of PC's that already exist. Let them eat cake. We can get along just fine without them...or we can ignore them after the fact.
Sounds to me like they're promoting doing what teenagers around the world have done for decades: make music mixes.
Only Apple has made it easier to do via CD's. If you own the CD's, how is that piracy? Since if you're RIPping, you have to have the actual CD in the drive, correct? MIXing is rearranging tracks, and BURNing is putting the mix BACK on the CD.
I, for one, am tired of all of the legal bullshit that's being tossed around over the same damned issue time and time again. Do these people have nothing CONSTRUCTIVE to do, for crying out loud?
Wasn't there a story not too long ago that mentioned how Sun was going to support Linux on lower-end machines, but NOT on the high-end Enterprise systems? (bah, I can't find the link) Anyway, people were saying "Well, Linux isn't ready for Enterprise-type systems yet, so keeping the proprietary *nices on these systems isn't a big deal."
Now, Sun comes right out and says this, and people start complaining? Sure, perhaps Sun is trolling for/. Yeah, right.
You may think I'm biased: I work for Sun, after all. Don't get me wrong - I'd absolutely *love* to take one of the *THIRTY* E10k's I have sitting around me at the moment and install Linux on it. Or, rather - I'd love to TRY. But I don't have any real notion that any version of Linux, AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW, will work as well as Solaris on that box.
Sure, Solaris isn't very user-friendly. GNU/Solaris (Solaris with GNU Tools) is better, but still not anywhere near what most Linux folks are used to when it comes to command-line fun. However, Solaris is *made* to work with Sun hardware. And it does, very well.
I doubt it highly that someone is going to go buy a US$4M E10k/E15k box and start porting Solaris tools and system utilities *just* so people can run Linux on those systems. Right now, the only reason people have installed Linux at ALL on those systems is for bragging rights.
If you want to outlay the cash and start-a-porting, I applaud you. I really do. But I won't hold my breath.
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'Manufactured Homes' suck rocks, my friend. I know, I owned one. Sure - the cost to buy the home itself isn't bad. But when you buy a $150k house that was built on-site, you're also buying the land under it. Buy your manufactured home, and THEN you have to find somewhere to put it. And THEN you have to get wiring and plumbing piped in. And THEN you have to get it hauled to the site, installed, and pray to GOD that the subcontractor that was hired to do the interior touch-ups and whatnot isn't just jerking off in the spackle and hoping it holds together 2 years down the road.
We had to claim bankruptcy because of ours - mainly because we were in a manufactured home 'park' where you buy the house but rent the land, and they kept raising the friggin' rent every 6 months.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
Okay...but who's going to download the pay client when there are free clients? Kazaa has been hacked to keep the ads out, why couldn't the pay client be hacked to keep you from paying?
It's a good idea, but when people just don't want to pay for something, there isn't ANY idea that's good enough, or cheap enough. Unless the FastTrack network is completely shut down, and any clones or off-shoots are killed before they can gain *any* foothold, and the pay client network is the ONLY network available, it won't be a viable solution.
Not a real nasa simulator, but a very impressive operating replica. The construction details are quite interesting too.
I'd hardly call that 'operating'. Did you actually LOOK at the construction details? Most of the knobs/switches and doo-dads aren't even connected to *anything*. I would at LEAST like some of the switches to turn on a light or make something buzz or whirr or SOMETHING. Especially for the list price of $15k.
*snaps fingers*
That's where I saw this mod before. I was looking at the pictures and thought to myself, "Self, where have we seen these before?" Well, somewhere in that BMW chair mod someone posted a link to this one.
Funny that the URL didn't get submitted sooner.
No no you got it all wrong. First IBM is going to buy Sun because we all know in our lifetimes its going to happen.
Egads I certainly hope not. Scott McNealy would have a heart attack were that to happen. In reality, Sun is doing better than IBM's high-end server division. I personally don't think that IBM has the capability to manage what Sun does.
I also don't think that we *need* to kill M$, after all it is the bloat in Windows that gives us 2.4Ghz processors and cheap ram and hard disks. We simply need to make THEM restructure themselves to meet OUR needs, not their own.
Plus, if OO/SO get over to the Mac, that will be one more platform on which M$ no longer has a monopoly with the Office suite. I'm all for that.
BMW may make good chairs, but IMHO so does Volvo. Sure, they're not as high-class, but a nice leather 240 seat might set you back $100 (if that) and will be *very* comforable. These seats were made for comfort in mind from the get-go. Pick up something from a 700 or 900 with electric controls just like the bimmer if you want.
;)
You are only holding yourself back by trying to keep with a BMW seat. Think outside the box. Or, if you get a Volvo seat, INside.
Who is going to hack a volvo? Not only from the sense of there being no means, motive, or opportunity, who the hell would want to 'hack' a volvo? how anti-l33t can you get?
Well, being a volvogeek, I'd have to say that *I* would hack a Volvo. So would these guys. In fact, they have. They make the best performance products for Volvos of all ages.
Whoa, wait a minute... Did I say 'performance' AND 'volvo' in the same sentence? WTF was I thinking? Oh yeah...that's right, Volvo wasn't the company who won the 94 (or was it 95 or 96?) BTCC series running an 850 WAGON?!? Silly me, yes they were.
Take a look at turbobricks, these guys are into serious performance with their swedish iron. Bork bork bork, my ass.
Well, see there's a difference between just about every current Linux distro and Windows here:
- When it comes to Windows, people want to install the best and greatest. Why settle for XP Home when you can get XP Pro and get a bunch of cool features? Nevermind that it installs IIS and doesn't tell you.
- Any Linux distribution will give you a choice when you install: Desktop, Server, or Custom (or more/less, depending on the distro and the granularity). Desktop users will, of course, choose desktop, right? It depends. But that option is there. Plus when you go to configure said packages after installation, it asks about security considerations.
Granted, I haven't used anything but Debian recently, and my server is pretty tightly locked down. But even so, it's still NOT the OS's fault that the users are so clueless. And even IF Apache/Bind/Sendmail or whatever was vulnerable on *that* one box, only *that* one box would be r00ted. Not every box on its subnet + a class-A or two. AFAIK, there aren't any Code-Red type worms out there in the wild for Linux/Unix. I could be wrong.I don't know about you all, but the day X10 gets ANY of my money is the day that hell freezes over.
I *was* going to fully X10 my house at one point. The key word here being 'was'. About that time, X10 started the pop-up/under ad campaign.
They've lost my respect, AND my business. Sorry charlie.
Games with huge numbers of people like EverQuest will suffer from a certain number of bad apples, just like the real world. They're ultimately going to need to rely on policing, technology can't solve everything.
I've seen this in EQ. And you know what those bad apples did? They created an entire guild of ASSHOLES. On our server, there were actually TWO guilds like this. At least...before I quit. From what I've heard though, more and more of the people in the game are just playing to F with people. After 3 years, EQ just isn't fun anymore, so the only enjoyment for those who have 3+ 55-60 characters is to ruin others' fun.
There will ALWAYS be people who live off the pain of others. It happens in RL, and it happens online. There's very little you can do about it, unless you hire a 'police force' like we have here in RL. And even then, who says the bad people will straighten out?
'Course, the fact that there was a honeypot elsewhere on the network seems a bit shifty...
If I were in charge of a high-profile system on the net, you can be DAMNED sure I'd stick a honeypot RIGHT NEXT to the secure server. I'm *much* rather have script-kiddies and wannabe hackers going after something I could give a damn about rather than my data.
That's NOT shifty my friend, that's common sense.
He already DID.
Anyone else remember the scene in the Naboo cruiser where Jar-Jar popped the head off of the red droid? Said droid then went crazy around the droid bay while R2 and the others went up to fix the shield generators?
It was in the movie, but NOT in the VHS nor DVD editions.
The article says that Intel is attributing the price cuts to higher yields...
I have some friends who work at Intel, and they said that the chips that they get in award plaques are *functional*. Used to be, when you got an award plaque at Intel (I used to work there too) the chip you got on the plaque was a non-functional garbage-bin chip. Good for looking at, ONLY. Nowadays, it seems the chips they are giving out are _very nearly_ consumer-level chips. I heard that the only reason they are put on the plaques instead of sold to the general public was because they failed ONE test at below acceptable margins. Doesn't mean they won't work, but they might not take a beating.
But then again, what do you expect for FREE?
I noticed all of those as well. If the clones had a slightly reddish tinge to them, it would have been the Matrix: Revisited.
;] )
I couldn't help thinking during the chase sequence, "We'll have a chance when we get to the fog. If we make the fog..." in Bruce Willis' voice.
However, I absolutely *loved* Yoda in this film. He's a Jedi, after all. When 850 years old you reach, kick ass as well you will not, eh? (not 900 years because Anakin still has to have Luke, and Luke has to grow up, right?
Come on, CmdrTaco, April Fools was a couple of months ago! Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you.
Cases in point:
- level-based items
- alternate skills based on 'points'
- one-time, dynamic quests
I'm sure there are more, but I haven't perused the EQ patch list lately.Not to mention the fact that EQ is *constantly* releasing new expansion after new expansion, at $30 a pop. And Norrath is getting long in the tooth.
I don't want to start a new character in Freeport and kill rats and snakes only to head out to EC and look for a group at Orc1. Not with the current game engine and not with a *new* game engine.
Most of my friends have migrated to DAoC anyway. And the ones that haven't I keep in touch with via the guild message boards.
And for posterity:
~Vadya Waerr'ess
50 Enchanter
Daughters of Innoruuk
Innoruuk
If people want to sit around and practice virtual jewelcrafting for hours and hours and be charged for it, bring it on!
Oh dear Innoruuk, don't remind me. Yes, I was an Enchanter who did Jewelcrafting.
What a time/platinum sink that was.
Yeah, well if it's the same game with new graphic models and classes - sorry, they already tried that with SOL. And again, they're SOL if they think I'm going to buy it.
At the very least, I hope they make a different world. Traipsing about Norrath for 2 years was enough for me. Back on good old post-Arthurian Earth for me, thankyouverymuch.
Has anyone else noticed that the recent changes in EQ1 basically make it DAoC v0.75? If all Verant/Sony has to go on is another game's success, why are they even bothering?
Here's your answer to the woody release problem - add the follow line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
Then, run 'apt-get update', and then 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.
And that will get you packages that are even NEWER than Woody's! How cool is that?!?
Hmm, well the *only* system that I own that was bundled with *anything* when I bought it was the Dell Laptop.
:)
All of the other systems were home-built, not store-bought, and so thus did not have *any* pre-installed OS.
Of course, any system I have that isn't going to be used by a human will be relegated to the closet and put in the cluster of linux boxen. So I won't be donating anything anytime soon.
I really don't understand what all of the hubbub is about the installer program. If it works, and gives you a workable system with a shell prompt, who cares how 'pretty' it is?
Granted, Debian's (current) installer isn't very user-friendly. However, it wasn't an issue for me, really. I've been through numerous RH installs (pre 6.2) and IIRC the installer wasn't much different from Debian's. RH6.2+ might have changed, but I've never used them, so I don't know.
But hell, I installed an OLD version of Debian - 2.0 - and apt'ed up to Sid without a hitch. The installer is only a very miniscule part of the picture. After the system is working, do you REALLY tell yourself, "Boy, that was a really froody installer," or do you amaze your friends and family with apt-get?
I once had a baptist minister who wondered why a WHOIS on his domain showed his nameserver as Lucifer.
:)
Sounds like something I saw on TV a while back. Ad for a gospel album or something otherwise extremely religious. Phone number, (and I shit you not) was 1-800-666-xxxx. So, being the conscientous citizen I was, I called said number and told the person who answered about the problem. She had no idea what to do about it, of course, as she was only paid to take orders.
However, the next time I saw the commercial, the phone number had changed.
All in a day's work. The wife and I had quite a laugh over it though. >:)
And the scary bit is that for the most part, they're right...
So what? Let them make PC's. The *consumers* don't *have* to purchase the PC's. And I'm sure that someone, somewhere, will buy one just to hack it and summarily post a patch to every known OS to bypass the copy protection.
Not that I advocate piracy, but the MPAA/RIAA are zealots who want things before they realize what will *actually* happen when they get them. Sue Napster! Okay, Napster dead - 500 other P2P programs pop up overnight. Yeah, that worked.
Plus, they don't have control over the hundreds of millions of PC's that already exist. Let them eat cake. We can get along just fine without them...or we can ignore them after the fact.
Sounds to me like they're promoting doing what teenagers around the world have done for decades: make music mixes.
Only Apple has made it easier to do via CD's. If you own the CD's, how is that piracy? Since if you're RIPping, you have to have the actual CD in the drive, correct? MIXing is rearranging tracks, and BURNing is putting the mix BACK on the CD.
I, for one, am tired of all of the legal bullshit that's being tossed around over the same damned issue time and time again. Do these people have nothing CONSTRUCTIVE to do, for crying out loud?
Wasn't there a story not too long ago that mentioned how Sun was going to support Linux on lower-end machines, but NOT on the high-end Enterprise systems? (bah, I can't find the link) Anyway, people were saying "Well, Linux isn't ready for Enterprise-type systems yet, so keeping the proprietary *nices on these systems isn't a big deal."
/. Yeah, right.
Now, Sun comes right out and says this, and people start complaining? Sure, perhaps Sun is trolling for
You may think I'm biased: I work for Sun, after all. Don't get me wrong - I'd absolutely *love* to take one of the *THIRTY* E10k's I have sitting around me at the moment and install Linux on it. Or, rather - I'd love to TRY. But I don't have any real notion that any version of Linux, AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW, will work as well as Solaris on that box.
Sure, Solaris isn't very user-friendly. GNU/Solaris (Solaris with GNU Tools) is better, but still not anywhere near what most Linux folks are used to when it comes to command-line fun. However, Solaris is *made* to work with Sun hardware. And it does, very well.
I doubt it highly that someone is going to go buy a US$4M E10k/E15k box and start porting Solaris tools and system utilities *just* so people can run Linux on those systems. Right now, the only reason people have installed Linux at ALL on those systems is for bragging rights.
If you want to outlay the cash and start-a-porting, I applaud you. I really do. But I won't hold my breath.