Earthlink is dropping all traffic to site finder (64.94.110.11). If you DNS any bogus.com or.net it will still resolve though. Drop to a console and ping www.verisigncanbitemyshinymetalass.com. I noticed Comcast cable blocking traffic but not resolves too. Verizon DSL isn't blocking site finder (as of yesterday).
Games will always appeal to an exclusive audience, and that audience will enjoy their game much much more than any TV series or blockbuster movie.
Games usually require thinking and decision making. Maybe the majority doesn't find this fun. I always have and always will spend more time with video games than TV or movies. A one size fits all mindset just alienates everyone. Comparing the success of video games next to movies, TV, and music is just wrong. It's not the same medium.
Wine Is Not an Emulator. It runs x86 binaries on x86 platforms only. It works by providing the Windows API to the X windowing system, not by emulating other architectures.
On another more disturbing note I just went to http://www.winehq.com/ and it's been closed?! Anyone know the story behind that?
It only makes sense from their point of view. They have enough weight to throw around lawsuits, even if they have no chance of winning. What it does, though, is scare off funding for other file sharing projects. So basically, they are losing a battle to win the war.
Someone already mentioned hooking up an IR controller to their serial port, but what about for over the net multiplayer? Some strategicly placed cameras, 4 tanks, 4 players. I'd do this to have battles with my friends over fields of 486 hardware. I'm sure you could figure out some cool scenarios too with extra IR receivers/senders on the battle field. Stationary guns for defense, minefields, etc. Maybe a game where one team must defend an IR target while the other attacks. This is a must have toy.
PHP isn't exactly a hard language. I learned it from the online docs at www.php.net and if I had a hard time with a function used google with keywords "function example". I know a lot of others that have done this too.
PHP is also a rapidly developing language, as usually any computer technology is. Print copies will always be chasing it.
I don't know, I'm always torn between losing my uptime and installing the latest kernel. Its a lose/lose situation. If slashdot wouldn't announce the new 2.2 kernel I could just go on believing I had the latest code and it wouldn't bother me. But now that I know there's a new kernel, I'll have to compile it and bear the pain of losing my (not much, but around 130 days now) uptime. Thanks again for dragging me out of my sheltered update life.
I'm sorry I hit a touchy spot with you. My own brother would not be alive without modern medicine. We are intelligent enough to side step most evolution. We have to be smart enough to know exactly what we're doing. You know, I didn't say treating burn victims was a bad thing. If it was a complete accident that never should have happened, then it is a wonderfully good thing.
Good point, someone should mod this up. But when does the infrastructure become so complex and huge that it cannot support itself? It might not happen, and if it's going to happen, it'll be a long ways away. But a little planning never hurt anything. That's all I was saying, we should realize what we're doing before we do it. I wouldn't want to live independent of society anymore than the rest of us.
Then why don't we find burn victims attractive? It's because of primitive instincts that tell us to shy away from those who are ugly or different. Just because someone who was burned does not mean that they are necessarily unhealthy, but our primitive "yes or no" can't look at the details like that. The burn victim might be burned out of his own stupidity, a candidate for natural selection. It could have been a terrible accident that noone could have prevented. The brain does not care that far though. When you see if this way, my post is still relevant.
A lot of study has been put into what beauty really is. If you look at it from an evolutionary point of view, it's to show us which mates would best carry our genes.
When you change someone's face, you can't help but wonder if you're throwing a wrench into a system thats evolved over so many thousands of years. This argument would apply not only to this, but plastic surgery and what not.
It seams every day, medical technology is weakening the race more and more by causing people to depend on a large infrastructure to survive. At what point do you draw the line between leaving people out in the cold for the greater good or helping them?
I've always thought of tree houses as an insult to injury. First, you're wounding the tree, that's ok. But then you're attaching another dead tree to it. It's almost like beating someone with their own arm. The trees in the forest must riducule thier members with dead trees nailed to them. (its funny...laugh)
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We have this technology, it's called the internet. It's not worth the trouble for most stores to setup an entire interface for customers to see their stock while they aren't open. That's why it won't happen. Government prodding? Are you suggesting to make laws against not having a publically available electronic inventory? And if the store is closed, what good is knowing they have it in stock when you have to wait till their open to buy it!
With the ever evolving linux kernel, won't getting it signed be sorta pointless? Games usually have one release, and Microsoft signs the binaries. I don't think MS would agree to sign a new kernel every month.
Say some one wanted to hack the kernel a bit, well, their new kernel wouldn't boot. This would kill development of the kernel. MS policies and GPL style development do not mix.
I know all the unfortunate evils of Punk Buster, it's a lose-lose situation. Cheats were destroying my favorite Quake3 mod - Urban Terror. It's still optional for everyone, but if I don't install it I can't play on my favorite servers. I have been a fan of id software since the Wolf3D era, and if id ok's Punk Buster, I'm inclined to trust their decision.
Nope, MAC addresses won't work. You'd have to have a unique number that's hard coded into something expensive. The Pentium III's CPUID feature would work. However, as much as I hate cheaters in my favorite games, I don't like an ID number open to abuse.
Quake III has recently enabled anti-cheat software called Punk Buster. It does a ban via your Quake III CD-Key, so you can't play on any Punk Buster enabled servers if you get banned. But with the game under $20 at BestBuy, I'm not sure if it will stop many of the problems.
Maybe we can evolve an OS or even daemon that protects on a whole. Just make a batch with random attributes and let them simulate breeding and survival. You could attack them with a lot of nasty stuff and keep using the ones that "survive". Best yet, they wouldn't have to stop evolving.
On another note, the OS' might find disabling keyboard and mouse input is the best way to survive.:)
Would the speed of the VRAM be affected by the AGP read back bandwidth issue? I'm looking for the story that was posted on slashdot a while back, but the search function is less than adequate.
On another note, this would be usefull for older machines that only have SIMMS and use EDO/FP RAM which is a lot more expensive than todays SD/DDR RAM. But, alas, those old machine don't have AGP ports. So, really, I don't see the point to this.
I don't know what's with insurance companies. It's their business to insure the driver, and they know very well that a lot of people speed, take risks, etc. Insurance is a risky business, they should accept that, not violate everyone's privacy. If it wasn't a law in many states to have insurance, the companies wouldn't be around. Noone would stand for what they get away with. It's a flawed business model. I myself pay a high price because of my frequent violations. There is noone hurt, no property damage, it's just because I speed a lot.
I don't think AT&T has gotten greedy yet. They provide me with a 1.5 Megabit downstream and 384 Kilabit upstream 24 hours a day / 7 days a week. To get this kind of link with a DSL line, the prices start around $80 a month in my area, and AT&T is giving me this for around $50. I don't think it's in any of our rights to complain. They have the best deal going! Come on people, get real. Bandwidth isn't cheap. At least it's not a 3GB cap or something stupid like that.
They can release the whole source for their linux OS. The playstation and playstation 2 have copywrite protection that searches for "bad" areas of the disc, know as the boot sector. Domestic CD-RW drives cannot perfectly duplicate these discs, so you have to "modify" your console to get it to boot these discs. Sony has recently been going after the makers of the devices that allow you to boot CD-R's and DVD-R's. So, most people, even with the PS2 linux source, couldn't use it without buying Sony's disc. They could also make it so big that you can't fit it on a 700MB disc, being a DVD release only, which would further prevent most from getting it for free.
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Earthlink is dropping all traffic to site finder (64.94.110.11). If you DNS any bogus .com or .net it will still resolve though. Drop to a console and ping www.verisigncanbitemyshinymetalass.com. I noticed Comcast cable blocking traffic but not resolves too. Verizon DSL isn't blocking site finder (as of yesterday).
Games will always appeal to an exclusive audience, and that audience will enjoy their game much much more than any TV series or blockbuster movie.
Games usually require thinking and decision making. Maybe the majority doesn't find this fun. I always have and always will spend more time with video games than TV or movies. A one size fits all mindset just alienates everyone. Comparing the success of video games next to movies, TV, and music is just wrong. It's not the same medium.
Wine Is Not an Emulator. It runs x86 binaries on x86 platforms only. It works by providing the Windows API to the X windowing system, not by emulating other architectures.
On another more disturbing note I just went to http://www.winehq.com/ and it's been closed?! Anyone know the story behind that?
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
It only makes sense from their point of view. They have enough weight to throw around lawsuits, even if they have no chance of winning. What it does, though, is scare off funding for other file sharing projects. So basically, they are losing a battle to win the war.
Someone already mentioned hooking up an IR controller to their serial port, but what about for over the net multiplayer? Some strategicly placed cameras, 4 tanks, 4 players. I'd do this to have battles with my friends over fields of 486 hardware. I'm sure you could figure out some cool scenarios too with extra IR receivers/senders on the battle field. Stationary guns for defense, minefields, etc. Maybe a game where one team must defend an IR target while the other attacks. This is a must have toy.
PHP isn't exactly a hard language. I learned it from the online docs at www.php.net and if I had a hard time with a function used google with keywords "function example". I know a lot of others that have done this too.
PHP is also a rapidly developing language, as usually any computer technology is. Print copies will always be chasing it.
I don't know, I'm always torn between losing my uptime and installing the latest kernel. Its a lose/lose situation. If slashdot wouldn't announce the new 2.2 kernel I could just go on believing I had the latest code and it wouldn't bother me. But now that I know there's a new kernel, I'll have to compile it and bear the pain of losing my (not much, but around 130 days now) uptime. Thanks again for dragging me out of my sheltered update life.
I'm sorry I hit a touchy spot with you. My own brother would not be alive without modern medicine. We are intelligent enough to side step most evolution. We have to be smart enough to know exactly what we're doing. You know, I didn't say treating burn victims was a bad thing. If it was a complete accident that never should have happened, then it is a wonderfully good thing.
Good point, someone should mod this up. But when does the infrastructure become so complex and huge that it cannot support itself? It might not happen, and if it's going to happen, it'll be a long ways away. But a little planning never hurt anything. That's all I was saying, we should realize what we're doing before we do it. I wouldn't want to live independent of society anymore than the rest of us.
Then why don't we find burn victims attractive? It's because of primitive instincts that tell us to shy away from those who are ugly or different. Just because someone who was burned does not mean that they are necessarily unhealthy, but our primitive "yes or no" can't look at the details like that. The burn victim might be burned out of his own stupidity, a candidate for natural selection. It could have been a terrible accident that noone could have prevented. The brain does not care that far though. When you see if this way, my post is still relevant.
A lot of study has been put into what beauty really is. If you look at it from an evolutionary point of view, it's to show us which mates would best carry our genes.
When you change someone's face, you can't help but wonder if you're throwing a wrench into a system thats evolved over so many thousands of years. This argument would apply not only to this, but plastic surgery and what not.
It seams every day, medical technology is weakening the race more and more by causing people to depend on a large infrastructure to survive. At what point do you draw the line between leaving people out in the cold for the greater good or helping them?
I've always thought of tree houses as an insult to injury. First, you're wounding the tree, that's ok. But then you're attaching another dead tree to it. It's almost like beating someone with their own arm. The trees in the forest must riducule thier members with dead trees nailed to them. (its funny...laugh)
We have this technology, it's called the internet. It's not worth the trouble for most stores to setup an entire interface for customers to see their stock while they aren't open. That's why it won't happen. Government prodding? Are you suggesting to make laws against not having a publically available electronic inventory? And if the store is closed, what good is knowing they have it in stock when you have to wait till their open to buy it!
With the ever evolving linux kernel, won't getting it signed be sorta pointless? Games usually have one release, and Microsoft signs the binaries. I don't think MS would agree to sign a new kernel every month. Say some one wanted to hack the kernel a bit, well, their new kernel wouldn't boot. This would kill development of the kernel. MS policies and GPL style development do not mix.
I have a blue intellimouse, I found that you have to use a white mousepad and it works fine. The blue doesn't work on dark surfaces well.
My porche only has a grill and some chairs, yours has an onboard computer?!
I know all the unfortunate evils of Punk Buster, it's a lose-lose situation. Cheats were destroying my favorite Quake3 mod - Urban Terror. It's still optional for everyone, but if I don't install it I can't play on my favorite servers. I have been a fan of id software since the Wolf3D era, and if id ok's Punk Buster, I'm inclined to trust their decision.
Nope, MAC addresses won't work. You'd have to have a unique number that's hard coded into something expensive. The Pentium III's CPUID feature would work. However, as much as I hate cheaters in my favorite games, I don't like an ID number open to abuse.
Quake III has recently enabled anti-cheat software called Punk Buster. It does a ban via your Quake III CD-Key, so you can't play on any Punk Buster enabled servers if you get banned. But with the game under $20 at BestBuy, I'm not sure if it will stop many of the problems.
Maybe we can evolve an OS or even daemon that protects on a whole. Just make a batch with random attributes and let them simulate breeding and survival. You could attack them with a lot of nasty stuff and keep using the ones that "survive". Best yet, they wouldn't have to stop evolving. On another note, the OS' might find disabling keyboard and mouse input is the best way to survive. :)
Would the speed of the VRAM be affected by the AGP read back bandwidth issue? I'm looking for the story that was posted on slashdot a while back, but the search function is less than adequate.
On another note, this would be usefull for older machines that only have SIMMS and use EDO/FP RAM which is a lot more expensive than todays SD/DDR RAM. But, alas, those old machine don't have AGP ports. So, really, I don't see the point to this.
I don't know what's with insurance companies. It's their business to insure the driver, and they know very well that a lot of people speed, take risks, etc. Insurance is a risky business, they should accept that, not violate everyone's privacy. If it wasn't a law in many states to have insurance, the companies wouldn't be around. Noone would stand for what they get away with. It's a flawed business model. I myself pay a high price because of my frequent violations. There is noone hurt, no property damage, it's just because I speed a lot.
I don't think AT&T has gotten greedy yet. They provide me with a 1.5 Megabit downstream and 384 Kilabit upstream 24 hours a day / 7 days a week. To get this kind of link with a DSL line, the prices start around $80 a month in my area, and AT&T is giving me this for around $50. I don't think it's in any of our rights to complain. They have the best deal going! Come on people, get real. Bandwidth isn't cheap. At least it's not a 3GB cap or something stupid like that.
Who appointed the USA supreme rulers of the Internet anyway ?
FYI: The internet began as the ARPAnet, a U.S.-funded research project. History of ARPAnet.
They can release the whole source for their linux OS. The playstation and playstation 2 have copywrite protection that searches for "bad" areas of the disc, know as the boot sector. Domestic CD-RW drives cannot perfectly duplicate these discs, so you have to "modify" your console to get it to boot these discs. Sony has recently been going after the makers of the devices that allow you to boot CD-R's and DVD-R's. So, most people, even with the PS2 linux source, couldn't use it without buying Sony's disc. They could also make it so big that you can't fit it on a 700MB disc, being a DVD release only, which would further prevent most from getting it for free.