You can flash with bad roms, and its difficult to get it working again.
There are several roms out that are provided for other linksys routers that you can flash the bios with just fine on other linksys routers, and it completely screwes up the router.
I had some stupid ass from india send me a bad rom because he misunderstood teh version number for my wireless router and this happened.
It was a bad thing. I had to take the router back to the store and get a new one after that fiasco.
Just rent them, I have had no reason to see series more than twice with a couple of exceptions.
Berserk, Vandread, and the first 3 disks of the last exile are the only ones I have seen twice, all the other anime has been returned to the rental store without so much as a care.
You can order them from Japan with english subtitles.
They are also in the US if you work at a vid store. My sister works at an independent video rental store and we often get to watch anime several weeks before its on the shelves, depending on the official release schedule set forth by the company.
If its a deep valley, and their are already two connecting roads, then going down the side of the vally and up the other side of the valey could add a great deal of mileage to the drive, uphill and downhill.
So there would be a lot of people who do break work who are angry, and a lot of people who rely on the high gas usage of climbing the side of a valley who are very angry about the bridge im sure (or they should be after they start losing business).
The person being mentioned in the article actually had an interview on NPR where they asked him why he did not feel renewable fuels such as planet alchohol and other such things would be viable.
His answer was that it would take so much landmass to power our economy that humaniy would starve, and thats if you were 100% efficient in harvesting the land.
The best way to go would be solar power, not planet power, planet power would only keep the elite trolling around in their buggies etc, but leave everyone else pushing carts.
Nuclear power is worth it, its clean and safe, even the nuclear accidents in the United States (note not chernobyl) have been less environmentally impactfull than the normal running of a single coal plant.
Well, you could always take the stance of "pastwatch: the redemption of christopher columbus" which figures that there is actually only one time line, but if yuo went back in time, you would exist there, and thus exist in time at that point, but by going back you would obliterate the entire future.
You could easily go back, kill your grandfather, then go back to the original time you started, just, in the new timeline you would never have been born, but since you existed you would not have been obliterated.
IE, in pastwatch redemption, they send back 3 people to alter the landing of christopher columbus in the Americas, by doing so, the instant they all go back, the time from which they came disapeared, immediately, to have never existed except as memories.
When playing at the top level of mech3, you could tell almost how the entire match was going to go after engaging an enemy for 60 seconds or so.
Sometimes it wasnt fun going into a game where it all came down to what mechs the other team took. You could win an entire match simply by being a good guesser, it was very tense at times.
I used to game for money, and I can tell you that at 24 I can no longer compete at the high profile games out there.
I do not have the reflexes I once had for games such as Unreal Tourney, and this is after only 5 years of pursuing other interests.
I used to play games 8 hours a day, now I play them maybe 6 hours a week. It really does make a difference. Though you are correct in one thing, i am a much smarter gamer than I used to be, I can often win by using strategy instead of twitch skills.
When I used to be good at quake, I would just run through the levels, allowing my enemy to get a shot off, and then killing him through simply being manually better at the game, i no longer seem to have that ability;-(
Having supported myself for 2 years winning mechwarrior 3 tourneys, I can say you are way off base.
Gaming was exciting, fun, and rewarding. I still play games as a hobby, but I wish I could still play them for money.
Gaming is a great thing to do for money, if you can compete at the level to make enough at it.
The reason gaming is not popular as a sport, in the same way it is in Korea, is that there is not enough money to be made in the sport of gaming. You do have your success stories, the kid that made 100k playing Unreal Tourney for example, but for every one of those success stories, there are thousands and thousands of people who simply did not win, they got nothing.
In many sports, when you compete at a lower level, you can still make a good, solid, income. In gaming, its all or nothing, you are either 'teh big winnah' or you are jack shit.
There were many times in mechwarrior 3 when I would be in a tourney, and get shoved in the loser bracket because I made a mistake. Second place generally gets you nothing, or something so negligable it does not matter.
For example, in one of the major tourneys I participated in, called "Meltdown" the main prize was a Harley Davidson motorcycle, the second place prize was a 250 dollars + free trip to Seatle. Luckily, I won the cycle that time, but the second place person got to pay half of his car insurance.
I have often thought of getting back into pro gaming, but every time I sit down and try to, I realize that I can no longer compete. This only after 5 years of not participating in the scene.
You can not have a real life when the top prizes for many tourneys is worth maybe twice the cost it took to actually drive there, and the events only take place 3-4 times per year.
Pro Gaming could be HUGE in the United States, but we just haven't figured out a way to market it.
I look at South Korea and I wonder what is different there. My opinion is strictly on the fact of population density. When someone does well, they can get to tourneys relatively quickly, and can also have an easier time of promoting themselves without having to canvas such a large area. I am also sure it does not cost 300-400 dollars to fly to Seattle or Texas to compete in a major tourney.
I think your opinion that gaming should only be a hobby should really be presented to proffesional basketball, baseball, championship chess, GO, etc. etc. etc. On-line video games are just as legitimate.
I just read a great chunk of the google-watch site, and I came to this conclusion. I now know why we get better page hits on google lately than before.
5-6 months ago, no matter what you seemed to search for you would get porno, e-commerce spam sites. The kind that return things like "Search for bird poop on e-bay!"
Which was rather pointless. One pointed example was to search for "batteltech cartoon" to search for an old, unpopular battletech cartoon that was out in the 90's. You had to go 3 pages down before you could get a legit link, and not something like "eshoplink.com - search for battletech cartoon on e-bay!" bullcrap.
Now when you search for battletech cartoon, you get smart, concise, and easy to view hits.
Seems like google improved thier algorithm by getting rid of the people that attempt to abuse the search engine to get their links up. Googles entire purpose is to return valuable informatino, getting linked to a web site asking if you would like to look at "battltech hardcore porn" is not what I would deem as usefull information. This has the side effect of screwing over people that are putting up worthless information in an attempt to get page hits on google, which completely violates googles mission statement.
The fella on google watch seems totally against the fact that google is trying to provide a useful search capability that does not cater to people who abuse systems simply for fun and profit.
I am glad google-watch.org exists, it shows me how google is pro-actively trying to protect itself from becoming what yahoo was for many years. Pointless, and worthless.
I also got a "bad" version of CW, here is how to get rid of it.
STart ad-aware
start spybot
start cw shredder (do not execute their cleaning)
hit ctrl + shift + esc, this will bring up task manager.
Browse Processes and turn of all instances of internet explorer and "explorer.exe"
Now run ad-aware, run spybot, then run cwshredder.
explore the windows directory and delete the random folders created by cool www search, i think they all have random naems with a common "msiesh.dll" file./
After that is finished, restart the computer, and it should be gone.
This was what finally got rid of it on my worst case scenario.
This would be even bigger deterrent. you could not sue someone properly, because no one could afford your lawyer, if they could afford your lawyer, they can afford bigger lawyers on there side, who would have provisions to get paid by the winner because the loser would likely to be poor.
Unless you have played a game similar to planetarion, or similar game, you have no idea how much on-line games can have huge political conflicts.
The entire game was a "strategy" game but it really involved simple uot and out politics. There were two kinds of successfull players.
1. Players that were good at the game, and good at the politics (the top tier)
2. Players that were bad at the game, but good at the politics.
Being Good at the game, that involves management of resources, being on till 3 am and getting up every 2 hours via an alarm clock.
Being good at politics was to find a lot of friends to help you.
When I started in round 3 of the game, you simply did not have to be good. All that you required was that you had friends that would CRUSH ANYONE THAT FOUGHT YOU.
I was a "good" player, which means I stayed up way to late, and got up way to early to monitor my fleet. I got crushed several times because I was picking on players who were not as good players but had better political connections.
The next round I actually got a couple friends together and we constantly were sending messages/e-mails/sitting in chat to constantly improve our political situation. My goal for that round was to get my galaxy (which i controlled a group of 25 people) to get into the top 800, instead we got into the top 400, mostly because of strong strategic alliances.
The game was pure rampant capatilism, except all companies had the same product and a few got a relative monopoly (the top 400 galaxies controled well over 90% of all resources)...
The game always reminds me as the best argument for government controls on large companies.
Planetarion sucked later on, but it really was exciting during that time.
Ken Macleod has done some GREAT and fantastic writing on how societies could develop once absolute perfect nano tech comes along, in his books it is called "smartmatter" where it can take any matter, and manipulate it to other matter.
You should really take a look at his work. Within the same universe in his fall revolution series, he shows three completely different cultures based on nano tech.
One is a completely capitolist anarchist society, full communism, and a "post human" society where people upload themselves into nano bot constructs called macros that they then use to live out hundreds of years of subjective time in minutes of objective time.
It was great reading and really painted a poor future for the world before the societies settled down.
But Ken Macleod is a socialist bastage anyway, but it makes good reading.
How many missions have the Russians launched with 7 people on board? How many manned space missions have they made? And how many trips to the moon have Russian cosmonauts made?
DO not use logic, we arent here for that.
You do have a big and valid point. Americans are the leaders in this technology, have been for years, we won the space race. Sadly, space is a very dangerous place to be, and sometimes shortsited people forget that. Or, remembering it, forget that its important to explore space and possibly use it for our advantage. We are getting pretty big real fast, and unless someone wants to take steps to de-populate earth in a very unfortunate manner, we are going to have to go somewhere.
i didnt know a thing about this patent, but for shits and giggles (and it was my job hehe) i wrote a program for IIS that re-directs any traffic to the server to a certain web page until the server authenticates them with a key device.
And no one invented it there, it was just the most obvious solution to the problem that was presented.
Slashdot Mirror
You can flash with bad roms, and its difficult to get it working again.
There are several roms out that are provided for other linksys routers that you can flash the bios with just fine on other linksys routers, and it completely screwes up the router.
I had some stupid ass from india send me a bad rom because he misunderstood teh version number for my wireless router and this happened.
It was a bad thing. I had to take the router back to the store and get a new one after that fiasco.
Just rent them, I have had no reason to see series more than twice with a couple of exceptions.
Berserk, Vandread, and the first 3 disks of the last exile are the only ones I have seen twice, all the other anime has been returned to the rental store without so much as a care.
You can order them from Japan with english subtitles.
They are also in the US if you work at a vid store. My sister works at an independent video rental store and we often get to watch anime several weeks before its on the shelves, depending on the official release schedule set forth by the company.
That is weird, I cannot remember the link, I think I still have it somewhere. I will take a gander at it after work.
It was a link to MIT (the school) where they provided the text on-line for free to the students.
We used this all the time, and it did not seem to matter if you were a student or not to be able to view the link.
I too reccommend the little schemer. The outside picture is childish, but it also has an on-line version you can use for free at MIT press.
It is the best book for learning scheme that I have seen, and I have had to endure 3 books on scheme.
It is pretty straight forward, at least it was to me.
Of course I cant program a lick of scheme now, but thats neither here nor there.
If its a deep valley, and their are already two connecting roads, then going down the side of the vally and up the other side of the valey could add a great deal of mileage to the drive, uphill and downhill.
So there would be a lot of people who do break work who are angry, and a lot of people who rely on the high gas usage of climbing the side of a valley who are very angry about the bridge im sure (or they should be after they start losing business).
The bridge is saving road mileage.
File sharing is definately ILLEGAL!
The thing is, its not UNETHICAL.
There is a big difference. Ethical actions can be illegal, and Unethical actions can be legal.
LEgality has nothing to do whether an action is right or wrong.
The person being mentioned in the article actually had an interview on NPR where they asked him why he did not feel renewable fuels such as planet alchohol and other such things would be viable.
His answer was that it would take so much landmass to power our economy that humaniy would starve, and thats if you were 100% efficient in harvesting the land.
The best way to go would be solar power, not planet power, planet power would only keep the elite trolling around in their buggies etc, but leave everyone else pushing carts.
Nuclear power is worth it, its clean and safe, even the nuclear accidents in the United States (note not chernobyl) have been less environmentally impactfull than the normal running of a single coal plant.
Well, you could always take the stance of "pastwatch: the redemption of christopher columbus" which figures that there is actually only one time line, but if yuo went back in time, you would exist there, and thus exist in time at that point, but by going back you would obliterate the entire future.
;-)
You could easily go back, kill your grandfather, then go back to the original time you started, just, in the new timeline you would never have been born, but since you existed you would not have been obliterated.
IE, in pastwatch redemption, they send back 3 people to alter the landing of christopher columbus in the Americas, by doing so, the instant they all go back, the time from which they came disapeared, immediately, to have never existed except as memories.
Kind of hard to explain
I would note I did say the following thing
"8 hours a day, now I play them maybe 6 hours a week. It really does make a difference"
I did correllate most of it with time.
When I was 18 I had a lot less responsibility.
HA! I completely know what you mean!
When playing at the top level of mech3, you could tell almost how the entire match was going to go after engaging an enemy for 60 seconds or so.
Sometimes it wasnt fun going into a game where it all came down to what mechs the other team took. You could win an entire match simply by being a good guesser, it was very tense at times.
It was half of his, that was just from what he said. They were all good guys, it was a great experience.
I used to game for money, and I can tell you that at 24 I can no longer compete at the high profile games out there.
;-(
I do not have the reflexes I once had for games such as Unreal Tourney, and this is after only 5 years of pursuing other interests.
I used to play games 8 hours a day, now I play them maybe 6 hours a week. It really does make a difference. Though you are correct in one thing, i am a much smarter gamer than I used to be, I can often win by using strategy instead of twitch skills.
When I used to be good at quake, I would just run through the levels, allowing my enemy to get a shot off, and then killing him through simply being manually better at the game, i no longer seem to have that ability
and Im only 24!
Having supported myself for 2 years winning mechwarrior 3 tourneys, I can say you are way off base.
Gaming was exciting, fun, and rewarding. I still play games as a hobby, but I wish I could still play them for money.
Gaming is a great thing to do for money, if you can compete at the level to make enough at it.
The reason gaming is not popular as a sport, in the same way it is in Korea, is that there is not enough money to be made in the sport of gaming. You do have your success stories, the kid that made 100k playing Unreal Tourney for example, but for every one of those success stories, there are thousands and thousands of people who simply did not win, they got nothing.
In many sports, when you compete at a lower level, you can still make a good, solid, income. In gaming, its all or nothing, you are either 'teh big winnah' or you are jack shit.
There were many times in mechwarrior 3 when I would be in a tourney, and get shoved in the loser bracket because I made a mistake. Second place generally gets you nothing, or something so negligable it does not matter.
For example, in one of the major tourneys I participated in, called "Meltdown" the main prize was a Harley Davidson motorcycle, the second place prize was a 250 dollars + free trip to Seatle. Luckily, I won the cycle that time, but the second place person got to pay half of his car insurance.
I have often thought of getting back into pro gaming, but every time I sit down and try to, I realize that I can no longer compete. This only after 5 years of not participating in the scene.
You can not have a real life when the top prizes for many tourneys is worth maybe twice the cost it took to actually drive there, and the events only take place 3-4 times per year.
Pro Gaming could be HUGE in the United States, but we just haven't figured out a way to market it.
I look at South Korea and I wonder what is different there. My opinion is strictly on the fact of population density. When someone does well, they can get to tourneys relatively quickly, and can also have an easier time of promoting themselves without having to canvas such a large area. I am also sure it does not cost 300-400 dollars to fly to Seattle or Texas to compete in a major tourney.
I think your opinion that gaming should only be a hobby should really be presented to proffesional basketball, baseball, championship chess, GO, etc. etc. etc. On-line video games are just as legitimate.
Ok, I will bite.
I just read a great chunk of the google-watch site, and I came to this conclusion. I now know why we get better page hits on google lately than before.
5-6 months ago, no matter what you seemed to search for you would get porno, e-commerce spam sites. The kind that return things like "Search for bird poop on e-bay!"
Which was rather pointless. One pointed example was to search for "batteltech cartoon" to search for an old, unpopular battletech cartoon that was out in the 90's. You had to go 3 pages down before you could get a legit link, and not something like "eshoplink.com - search for battletech cartoon on e-bay!" bullcrap.
Now when you search for battletech cartoon, you get smart, concise, and easy to view hits.
Seems like google improved thier algorithm by getting rid of the people that attempt to abuse the search engine to get their links up. Googles entire purpose is to return valuable informatino, getting linked to a web site asking if you would like to look at "battltech hardcore porn" is not what I would deem as usefull information. This has the side effect of screwing over people that are putting up worthless information in an attempt to get page hits on google, which completely violates googles mission statement.
The fella on google watch seems totally against the fact that google is trying to provide a useful search capability that does not cater to people who abuse systems simply for fun and profit.
I am glad google-watch.org exists, it shows me how google is pro-actively trying to protect itself from becoming what yahoo was for many years. Pointless, and worthless.
Jordan Ceased to Exist?
You probably missed it, but its in the fine print probably, you opt in just by using e-mail, and the only way to explicitly opt-out is to stop!
I also got a "bad" version of CW, here is how to get rid of it. STart ad-aware start spybot start cw shredder (do not execute their cleaning) hit ctrl + shift + esc, this will bring up task manager. Browse Processes and turn of all instances of internet explorer and "explorer.exe" Now run ad-aware, run spybot, then run cwshredder. explore the windows directory and delete the random folders created by cool www search, i think they all have random naems with a common "msiesh.dll" file./ After that is finished, restart the computer, and it should be gone. This was what finally got rid of it on my worst case scenario.
The risk is too high.
This would be even bigger deterrent. you could not sue someone properly, because no one could afford your lawyer, if they could afford your lawyer, they can afford bigger lawyers on there side, who would have provisions to get paid by the winner because the loser would likely to be poor.
its bad.
Unless you have played a game similar to planetarion, or similar game, you have no idea how much on-line games can have huge political conflicts.
The entire game was a "strategy" game but it really involved simple uot and out politics. There were two kinds of successfull players.
1. Players that were good at the game, and good at the politics (the top tier)
2. Players that were bad at the game, but good at the politics.
Being Good at the game, that involves management of resources, being on till 3 am and getting up every 2 hours via an alarm clock.
Being good at politics was to find a lot of friends to help you.
When I started in round 3 of the game, you simply did not have to be good. All that you required was that you had friends that would CRUSH ANYONE THAT FOUGHT YOU.
I was a "good" player, which means I stayed up way to late, and got up way to early to monitor my fleet. I got crushed several times because I was picking on players who were not as good players but had better political connections.
The next round I actually got a couple friends together and we constantly were sending messages/e-mails/sitting in chat to constantly improve our political situation. My goal for that round was to get my galaxy (which i controlled a group of 25 people) to get into the top 800, instead we got into the top 400, mostly because of strong strategic alliances.
The game was pure rampant capatilism, except all companies had the same product and a few got a relative monopoly (the top 400 galaxies controled well over 90% of all resources)...
The game always reminds me as the best argument for government controls on large companies.
Planetarion sucked later on, but it really was exciting during that time.
Ok, a serious post.
Ken Macleod has done some GREAT and fantastic writing on how societies could develop once absolute perfect nano tech comes along, in his books it is called "smartmatter" where it can take any matter, and manipulate it to other matter.
You should really take a look at his work. Within the same universe in his fall revolution series, he shows three completely different cultures based on nano tech.
One is a completely capitolist anarchist society, full communism, and a "post human" society where people upload themselves into nano bot constructs called macros that they then use to live out hundreds of years of subjective time in minutes of objective time.
It was great reading and really painted a poor future for the world before the societies settled down.
But Ken Macleod is a socialist bastage anyway, but it makes good reading.
As a time traveller from 2025 escaping from the nano wars, I find this post highly Ironic.
I have been playing FarCry, and I think half-life 2 would have to kick it up a BIG notch to be a lot "better" than farcry.
This game stands out, I bought it today (this morning? yesterday?) and I cannot emphasise just how cool this game is enough.
It has stunning graphics, what I have seen from HalfLife2 vids. It has an immersive single player as well.
I think half-life 2 is going to really have to kick it up a level to be in the league of the new games, its strength will be its mod ability.
How many missions have the Russians launched with 7 people on board? How many manned space missions have they made? And how many trips to the moon have Russian cosmonauts made? DO not use logic, we arent here for that. You do have a big and valid point. Americans are the leaders in this technology, have been for years, we won the space race. Sadly, space is a very dangerous place to be, and sometimes shortsited people forget that. Or, remembering it, forget that its important to explore space and possibly use it for our advantage. We are getting pretty big real fast, and unless someone wants to take steps to de-populate earth in a very unfortunate manner, we are going to have to go somewhere.
i didnt know a thing about this patent, but for shits and giggles (and it was my job hehe) i wrote a program for IIS that re-directs any traffic to the server to a certain web page until the server authenticates them with a key device.
And no one invented it there, it was just the most obvious solution to the problem that was presented.