I find it amusing just how many people have been saying that the GameCube is dying. This sounds worse than the BSD is dying posts, and that still isn't dead yet. People also seem to forget that the worldwide sales of the GameCube are still outselling the Xbox, even if only by just a bit.
Seriously now... Nintendo didn't get to be a multi-billion dollar company by making bad business moves. Now while the GC may be behind the PS2 in total sales and the Xbox in American sales, I'd still bet money that it is a good money maker for the company.
Well, they can put things on there besides music. Weird Al's latest CD Poodle Hat, has videos on the CD. I can't imagine that you could pull that off with a cassette tape.
Personally, I do 172.16.10.x since everyone else uses either 10.0.0.0 or 192.168.0.0 Now granted this limits me to 256 IP's, but since I only have 3 computers on the network, it's not a problem. Of course it would be trivial to change that so its like a class B address, instead of a class C.
Though honestly, you could use whatever you wanted with the proper network setup. After all, if the stuff isn't visible to the rest of the world, then it doesn't matter what you use. Worst case scenerio is that you might stumble upon a computer in the real world with the same IP address as you, but that'd be rare. It might not even be a problem if you accessed it by a DNS entry through a DNS server that was external to your network, but I can't say that for sure.
It tells you that nintendo likes to go its own way, like sticking to cartridges when CD's are so much cheaper to produce.
Well, if I remember correctly, they went with cartridges not because of cost, but because of load times. Loading data off of a solid state device is a lot quicker than loading it from a spinning CD. If you'll take a look at the load times of some of the PSX and PS2 games, you'll appreciate why Nintendo did their best to keep their load times low.
Like censorship in games when the other allow any type of game.
I think you're missing something in that sentence, but if you mean that Nintendo won't allow things that Sony and Microsoft will, do you have examples of this? I can see your point in the past when games like Mortal Kombat had the blood in them replaced with sweat instead. But are there current examples of this? I mean, if Nintendo can now release games like BMX XXX, then how much can they really be censoring?
Makes me wonder if Microsoft isn't on their own list of risks.;-)
But seriously, the article stated that "The general economic environment is risk and driver No. 1," he said. "Linux and non-commercial software is risk No. 2." That means that the top risk to Microsoft is something they have no direct control over. Now we all know that a company as big as Microsoft DOES have an effect on the economy in some respect, but there's nothing that they're going to do on their own to pull the country out of an economic slump. If there was, they would have done it by now so that people would buy more Microsoft products.
So that means that out of their list of the top five risks, the #1 risk that they can actually compete directly against is Linux and open source (and other non-commercial) software. Now doesn't that put things in a bit more perspective?
As far as I understand, the faster better cheaper philosophy came from back when NASA was working on several research probes that were to be launched into space, but were having problems with implimenting their plans under the old philosophy.
See, at the time NASA had the "everything and the kitchen sink" philosophy where they would work on building a probe and put every instrument they could think of on it. Problem is that it would take a very long time to build, and it would cost a ton of money. Plus, if they ever lost one, then all that work was down the drain. So they came up with their "faster, better, cheaper" philosophy where instead of launching huge space probes with tons of equipment on them, they started to build smaller ones with less equipment on them. When they did that, they saved costs in what it took to build one, plus they cut down on the build time. And in the event of a failure, they weren't out quite as much on a probe as they were before.
So as far as I know, that's where the faster better cheaper philosophy came from. But like it was noted before... "Pick any two". I mean, you've got to have some give somewhere in there.
The original GTA, GTA2, and GTA London all had multiplayer out of the box. And you could play it over the internet even. I remember this because my friends and I used to spend many hours fragging each other in the game.:-)
The only drawback was that there were no centralized GTA game servers. So you'd have to arrange a game yourself over ICQ or IRC or whatever, and have people connect to the server at the same time. But that was the only drawback to it.
Not sure about other states, but in New York, if you don't like any of the candidates on the ballot, you can write in a vote for whoever you want. You could even vote for yourself for president if you wanted. (It's doubtful you'd get the votes, but you could try)
There's also the option of leaving the ballot blank. It's not required by law that you need to flip a lever or make your mark for a candidate in every position.
If you don't like it, just use Altavista's text only search page. It has less images than google even. This used to be my primary search engine (since around 1996 or so), but now I use google with this as a backup.
You raise an interesting point. But you do have to consider the companies as well. I mean, if a company is doing poorly and needs to trim jobs to stay afloat, and they can't... what happens then?
If the company goes out of business then everyone who worked there is out of a job. And regardless of how evil corporations may be at times, we still need them to provide jobs and put money into the economy.
While it is true that you can install IE and not have it install Outlook Express, you can't update IE and not have it install Outlook Express. Ever try putting a service pack on either IE or windows and yet keep Outlook Express off of it at the same time?
Seriously... even on a system with the full version of Outlook, you will get the files for Outlook Express put on it at some point. The only thing you can really do is delete the icons for it. Trying to keep it uninstalled takes way too much work, compared to just letting it slide and deleting the icons that you find for it.
I hope that at some point technology like this makes it out to the hands of the average consumer. It's good to see that at least someone is trying to make wireless access more secure. It would be nice to be able to pick up a secure wireless product at some point, and use it out of the box without worries of it being insecure.
But until then, there's always VPN or SSH tunnels. And as an added bonus, you can impliment SSH tunnels for free. (even for web and other traffic... not just SSH data)
Actually, I used to use pkzip and pkunzip for the command line on my windows 2000 servers/worktops at work.
Since win 2k didn't come with any way of decompressing a.zip file, you had to install something extra. The GUI version had too many ads and such, plus it was a slow interface in general, and I was never too fond of winzip. So I'd install pkzip on a machine and use that. For basic unzipping of a.zip file, it works just fine. You don't really need anything more than "pkunzip filename.zip" anyway.
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Quite honestly... I don't know why everyone complains about AltaVista's appearance for their web portal thing. Honestly, I never was too impressed with it myself though. So what I did was bookmark their text only search page. It uses even less bandwith than google, since there's not even a single graphic on the page... it's 100% text.
But there were several reasons I switched to google over time. I'd say that cached webpages were probably the biggest reason. It's annoying to find most webpages either 404'd or changed since they were spidered by the search engine. At least with google, (at the time) you could see what it looked like at the time it was searched. So you know that even if it wasn't what you were looking for, it would at least show you a cached version of the page that would have your search terms SOMEWHERE in it.
There were also other things too. Being able to search for images, more relavent searches, etc... things like that pulled me away from AltaVista. I visited AV once recently, and I noticed that they are trying to be more google-like. And with this... I'll be willing to try them out again, though I'd be surprised if they'd pull me away from google at all. But even when I switched to google, they've still always been my backup searcb engine, for when I want to see if they'll pull in slightly different results than google. But we'll see how that goes. I'd like to see them do better, I've always been fond of AltaVista.
I don't see what the big deal about this is, it's not like you couldn't find this stuff out in the past without this.... and for free no less.
I work at a college, and the network admin here wanted to try out this mini-distro called PLAC for Portable Linux Auditing CD. Basically it's supposed to be small enough to be burned onto one of those business card sized CD's, and they're bootable. So basically you can pop it into a CD drive and boot a machine to this auditing software.
Well, since he wanted to try it out, we setup a small box just inside the firewall here to see what it could find. Well... to be honest, it found a lot. It could grab URL's that people were looking at, emails that they were sending out, and yes, even AIM messages.
The amazing thing is that it would sniff the network packets, but yet report everything in a simple, easily-readable format. It's amazing how much private stuff on the internet isn't private.
This makes me appreciate licq with an SSL connection even more.
I think that one of my friends had the best idea for how to defeat telemarketers.
Now, it's obvious that you have to pay to have for an unlisted phone number, but what you don't have to pay for is a phone number with the wrong information on it. To make a long story short, my friend's phone number was listed in the phone book under Mark Twain's real name.
Knowing this, one could use the phone book to look for their phone number. But when telemarketers tried to do this, they'd ask for "Samuel Clemens" at which point my friend would reply with "sorry... you have the wrong number."
Worked like a charm.:-) and he didn't have to pay for services to get rid of telemarketers either.
Well, I haven't been paying too much attention to exactly what Intel is claiming with their P4 processors, there is one thing that did bug me.
I could never stand those alien commercials where basically they showed how a P4 processor will give your computer better sound and/or music. After all, I always thought that sound quality was based almost entirely on the quality of speakers and the type of sound card you had, not the speed of your processor.
To be honest, this isn't only a "single-vendor-solution" in instant messaging. There's programs out there like EveryBuddy and Gaim that have the same features, but for Linux instead of windows. I use Gaim personally. (with plugins for Yahoo, MSN and Jabber) EveryBuddy was a bit unstable last I tried it, but that was a long while ago so it's probably better now. But in any case, there still are choices if you want a program that has the ability to use multiple protocols.
And believe it or not, AOL DID try and keep competiting IM programs off of their networks. For a while there, Gaim was releasing a new version literally every 2 or 3 days because AOL kept changing their server protocol and making it incompatable with non-aol clients. Which was annoying because it would disconnect me and tell me to use AOL's "fully featured" Linux version of AIM, which had less features than Gaim did. Eventually I think that they just got tired of changing their protocol literally every few days, and just gave it up. After all, even if AOL's Oscar protocol changed, people could still get on their network with the TOC protocol, even though that didn't have as many features as the Oscar protocol did.
Actually, to answer your question, it's not too hard to get java working on mozilla. It just takes an extra step. I have it working here and I'm using mozilla 0.9.9
First, go to Sun's Java page, and download their SDK for Java. Then run their installer and install that on your system. The next step is to go to the bin directory in the location where you just installed Java, and copy all the.dll's to your mozilla plugins directory. Then close (if it's running) and restart mozilla. After that, java support should work for you.
I seem to recall a long while ago in a James Bond movie something similar to what is being discussed here. Basically it was during a skydiving scene where Bond pulled his arms closer to his body to fall faster. This was before skydiving was as popular as it is now, so most people believed that it was impossible to change the speed at which you drop. Later it was found out that you COULD change the speed at which you fall by changing the surface area of your body, and thus changing the amount of wind resistance against you as well.
Of course I say this without seeing the scene in Spider-Man. I'm just posting like a good slashdot citizen without reading the article first (or seeing the movie in this case):-)
It's just a thought, really. I'm willing to pick up a subsciption to slashdot, after all I started reading it in college about 2 years ago. But given the amount of websites I visit in a day, it's not like I can afford to subscibe to each one I visit. So I guess I would like to see a little something extra for my investment.
Maybe a built-in spell checker for subscibers-only would be nice. I can't imagine that being too hard to implement. I don't know... but little things could be good. After all, it would be more like rewarding people who subscribed, instead of punishing those that didn't (with ads).
Personally, I'd be willing to pay for slashdot, but I'm NOT going to do it just to get rid of the ads. And I think that a lot of other people feel this way too.
I think that the people over at LiveJournal have the right idea. They don't make you pay for subscriptions... they don't beat you down with ads, but they have a way where if you like their site, you can pay them. And in return they reward you with some extra goodies that the unpaid users don't have access too.
I think that solution would work here too... I can think of a couple of decent features you could add to/. to make it worth it. But as for ads... seems like the majority of ads (not counting the banner ads at the top of the page which I really don't mind) are from doubleclick, which I have mozilla block... so as-is I'm not seeing a lot of the ads on/. already.
Besides, there's nothing that says that I can't go to the Palm Pilot version of slashdot, which has no graphical ads at all. So, given that there are a lot of different news sites out there, there's nothing wrong with subscriptions, but you have to make your site stand out above the others if you go to that. If you don't people will just get fed up and go elsewhere.
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I find it amusing just how many people have been saying that the GameCube is dying. This sounds worse than the BSD is dying posts, and that still isn't dead yet. People also seem to forget that the worldwide sales of the GameCube are still outselling the Xbox, even if only by just a bit.
Seriously now... Nintendo didn't get to be a multi-billion dollar company by making bad business moves. Now while the GC may be behind the PS2 in total sales and the Xbox in American sales, I'd still bet money that it is a good money maker for the company.
Well, they can put things on there besides music. Weird Al's latest CD Poodle Hat, has videos on the CD. I can't imagine that you could pull that off with a cassette tape.
Personally, I do 172.16.10.x since everyone else uses either 10.0.0.0 or 192.168.0.0 Now granted this limits me to 256 IP's, but since I only have 3 computers on the network, it's not a problem. Of course it would be trivial to change that so its like a class B address, instead of a class C.
Though honestly, you could use whatever you wanted with the proper network setup. After all, if the stuff isn't visible to the rest of the world, then it doesn't matter what you use. Worst case scenerio is that you might stumble upon a computer in the real world with the same IP address as you, but that'd be rare. It might not even be a problem if you accessed it by a DNS entry through a DNS server that was external to your network, but I can't say that for sure.
It tells you that nintendo likes to go its own way, like sticking to cartridges when CD's are so much cheaper to produce.
Well, if I remember correctly, they went with cartridges not because of cost, but because of load times. Loading data off of a solid state device is a lot quicker than loading it from a spinning CD. If you'll take a look at the load times of some of the PSX and PS2 games, you'll appreciate why Nintendo did their best to keep their load times low.
Like censorship in games when the other allow any type of game.
I think you're missing something in that sentence, but if you mean that Nintendo won't allow things that Sony and Microsoft will, do you have examples of this? I can see your point in the past when games like Mortal Kombat had the blood in them replaced with sweat instead. But are there current examples of this? I mean, if Nintendo can now release games like BMX XXX, then how much can they really be censoring?
Makes me wonder if Microsoft isn't on their own list of risks. ;-)
But seriously, the article stated that "The general economic environment is risk and driver No. 1," he said. "Linux and non-commercial software is risk No. 2." That means that the top risk to Microsoft is something they have no direct control over. Now we all know that a company as big as Microsoft DOES have an effect on the economy in some respect, but there's nothing that they're going to do on their own to pull the country out of an economic slump. If there was, they would have done it by now so that people would buy more Microsoft products.
So that means that out of their list of the top five risks, the #1 risk that they can actually compete directly against is Linux and open source (and other non-commercial) software. Now doesn't that put things in a bit more perspective?
As far as I understand, the faster better cheaper philosophy came from back when NASA was working on several research probes that were to be launched into space, but were having problems with implimenting their plans under the old philosophy.
See, at the time NASA had the "everything and the kitchen sink" philosophy where they would work on building a probe and put every instrument they could think of on it. Problem is that it would take a very long time to build, and it would cost a ton of money. Plus, if they ever lost one, then all that work was down the drain. So they came up with their "faster, better, cheaper" philosophy where instead of launching huge space probes with tons of equipment on them, they started to build smaller ones with less equipment on them. When they did that, they saved costs in what it took to build one, plus they cut down on the build time. And in the event of a failure, they weren't out quite as much on a probe as they were before.
So as far as I know, that's where the faster better cheaper philosophy came from. But like it was noted before... "Pick any two". I mean, you've got to have some give somewhere in there.
Actually I still have a working ColecoVision. I even play it on occasion too. :-)
The original GTA, GTA2, and GTA London all had multiplayer out of the box. And you could play it over the internet even. I remember this because my friends and I used to spend many hours fragging each other in the game. :-)
The only drawback was that there were no centralized GTA game servers. So you'd have to arrange a game yourself over ICQ or IRC or whatever, and have people connect to the server at the same time. But that was the only drawback to it.
Not sure about other states, but in New York, if you don't like any of the candidates on the ballot, you can write in a vote for whoever you want. You could even vote for yourself for president if you wanted. (It's doubtful you'd get the votes, but you could try)
There's also the option of leaving the ballot blank. It's not required by law that you need to flip a lever or make your mark for a candidate in every position.
I have heard that when working along at a good pace, it is possible to create up to around 3 to 5 seconds of stop motion film in a day.
Now when you think about how long a typical film is...
If you don't like it, just use Altavista's text only search page. It has less images than google even. This used to be my primary search engine (since around 1996 or so), but now I use google with this as a backup.
You raise an interesting point. But you do have to consider the companies as well. I mean, if a company is doing poorly and needs to trim jobs to stay afloat, and they can't... what happens then?
If the company goes out of business then everyone who worked there is out of a job. And regardless of how evil corporations may be at times, we still need them to provide jobs and put money into the economy.
Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee for the GameCube had the Atari logo splashed all over it, both on the cover of the box and in the game itself.
While it is true that you can install IE and not have it install Outlook Express, you can't update IE and not have it install Outlook Express. Ever try putting a service pack on either IE or windows and yet keep Outlook Express off of it at the same time?
Seriously... even on a system with the full version of Outlook, you will get the files for Outlook Express put on it at some point. The only thing you can really do is delete the icons for it. Trying to keep it uninstalled takes way too much work, compared to just letting it slide and deleting the icons that you find for it.
I hope that at some point technology like this makes it out to the hands of the average consumer. It's good to see that at least someone is trying to make wireless access more secure. It would be nice to be able to pick up a secure wireless product at some point, and use it out of the box without worries of it being insecure.
But until then, there's always VPN or SSH tunnels. And as an added bonus, you can impliment SSH tunnels for free. (even for web and other traffic... not just SSH data)
Actually, I used to use pkzip and pkunzip for the command line on my windows 2000 servers/worktops at work.
.zip file, you had to install something extra. The GUI version had too many ads and such, plus it was a slow interface in general, and I was never too fond of winzip. So I'd install pkzip on a machine and use that. For basic unzipping of a .zip file, it works just fine. You don't really need anything more than "pkunzip filename.zip" anyway.
Since win 2k didn't come with any way of decompressing a
Quite honestly... I don't know why everyone complains about AltaVista's appearance for their web portal thing. Honestly, I never was too impressed with it myself though. So what I did was bookmark their text only search page. It uses even less bandwith than google, since there's not even a single graphic on the page... it's 100% text.
But there were several reasons I switched to google over time. I'd say that cached webpages were probably the biggest reason. It's annoying to find most webpages either 404'd or changed since they were spidered by the search engine. At least with google, (at the time) you could see what it looked like at the time it was searched. So you know that even if it wasn't what you were looking for, it would at least show you a cached version of the page that would have your search terms SOMEWHERE in it.
There were also other things too. Being able to search for images, more relavent searches, etc... things like that pulled me away from AltaVista. I visited AV once recently, and I noticed that they are trying to be more google-like. And with this... I'll be willing to try them out again, though I'd be surprised if they'd pull me away from google at all. But even when I switched to google, they've still always been my backup searcb engine, for when I want to see if they'll pull in slightly different results than google. But we'll see how that goes. I'd like to see them do better, I've always been fond of AltaVista.
I don't see what the big deal about this is, it's not like you couldn't find this stuff out in the past without this.... and for free no less.
I work at a college, and the network admin here wanted to try out this mini-distro called PLAC for Portable Linux Auditing CD. Basically it's supposed to be small enough to be burned onto one of those business card sized CD's, and they're bootable. So basically you can pop it into a CD drive and boot a machine to this auditing software. Well, since he wanted to try it out, we setup a small box just inside the firewall here to see what it could find. Well... to be honest, it found a lot. It could grab URL's that people were looking at, emails that they were sending out, and yes, even AIM messages.
The amazing thing is that it would sniff the network packets, but yet report everything in a simple, easily-readable format. It's amazing how much private stuff on the internet isn't private.
This makes me appreciate licq with an SSL connection even more.
I think that one of my friends had the best idea for how to defeat telemarketers.
:-) and he didn't have to pay for services to get rid of telemarketers either.
Now, it's obvious that you have to pay to have for an unlisted phone number, but what you don't have to pay for is a phone number with the wrong information on it. To make a long story short, my friend's phone number was listed in the phone book under Mark Twain's real name.
Knowing this, one could use the phone book to look for their phone number. But when telemarketers tried to do this, they'd ask for "Samuel Clemens" at which point my friend would reply with "sorry... you have the wrong number."
Worked like a charm.
Well, I haven't been paying too much attention to exactly what Intel is claiming with their P4 processors, there is one thing that did bug me.
I could never stand those alien commercials where basically they showed how a P4 processor will give your computer better sound and/or music. After all, I always thought that sound quality was based almost entirely on the quality of speakers and the type of sound card you had, not the speed of your processor.
To be honest, this isn't only a "single-vendor-solution" in instant messaging. There's programs out there like EveryBuddy and Gaim that have the same features, but for Linux instead of windows. I use Gaim personally. (with plugins for Yahoo, MSN and Jabber) EveryBuddy was a bit unstable last I tried it, but that was a long while ago so it's probably better now. But in any case, there still are choices if you want a program that has the ability to use multiple protocols.
And believe it or not, AOL DID try and keep competiting IM programs off of their networks. For a while there, Gaim was releasing a new version literally every 2 or 3 days because AOL kept changing their server protocol and making it incompatable with non-aol clients. Which was annoying because it would disconnect me and tell me to use AOL's "fully featured" Linux version of AIM, which had less features than Gaim did. Eventually I think that they just got tired of changing their protocol literally every few days, and just gave it up. After all, even if AOL's Oscar protocol changed, people could still get on their network with the TOC protocol, even though that didn't have as many features as the Oscar protocol did.
Actually, to answer your question, it's not too hard to get java working on mozilla. It just takes an extra step. I have it working here and I'm using mozilla 0.9.9
.dll's to your mozilla plugins directory. Then close (if it's running) and restart mozilla. After that, java support should work for you.
First, go to Sun's Java page, and download their SDK for Java. Then run their installer and install that on your system. The next step is to go to the bin directory in the location where you just installed Java, and copy all the
I seem to recall a long while ago in a James Bond movie something similar to what is being discussed here. Basically it was during a skydiving scene where Bond pulled his arms closer to his body to fall faster. This was before skydiving was as popular as it is now, so most people believed that it was impossible to change the speed at which you drop. Later it was found out that you COULD change the speed at which you fall by changing the surface area of your body, and thus changing the amount of wind resistance against you as well.
:-)
Of course I say this without seeing the scene in Spider-Man. I'm just posting like a good slashdot citizen without reading the article first (or seeing the movie in this case)
It's just a thought, really. I'm willing to pick up a subsciption to slashdot, after all I started reading it in college about 2 years ago. But given the amount of websites I visit in a day, it's not like I can afford to subscibe to each one I visit. So I guess I would like to see a little something extra for my investment.
Maybe a built-in spell checker for subscibers-only would be nice. I can't imagine that being too hard to implement. I don't know... but little things could be good. After all, it would be more like rewarding people who subscribed, instead of punishing those that didn't (with ads).
Personally, I'd be willing to pay for slashdot, but I'm NOT going to do it just to get rid of the ads. And I think that a lot of other people feel this way too.
/. to make it worth it. But as for ads... seems like the majority of ads (not counting the banner ads at the top of the page which I really don't mind) are from doubleclick, which I have mozilla block... so as-is I'm not seeing a lot of the ads on /. already.
I think that the people over at LiveJournal have the right idea. They don't make you pay for subscriptions... they don't beat you down with ads, but they have a way where if you like their site, you can pay them. And in return they reward you with some extra goodies that the unpaid users don't have access too.
I think that solution would work here too... I can think of a couple of decent features you could add to
Besides, there's nothing that says that I can't go to the Palm Pilot version of slashdot, which has no graphical ads at all. So, given that there are a lot of different news sites out there, there's nothing wrong with subscriptions, but you have to make your site stand out above the others if you go to that. If you don't people will just get fed up and go elsewhere.