A solo game requires an in depth story line and lots of content. An MMO requires a sophisticated power curve and attribute and quest sequence to follow a characters levels.
If you take out the MMO of an MMORPG, everyone would discover the lack of story and content so fast that Blizzard wouldnt know what hit 'em.
Some day an MMO will have both, and I will be in heaven. Until then I still plug away and level up.
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Where do I sign up? Both to code and to play. No, seriously. You have my money and time.
We were facing the same problem and found it cheaper to inject POE right at the phone untill we found that you could buy a 24 port power injector for a couple hundred dollars off of ebay. Put these things next to your switch and inject it there.
Something is wrong with the math currently because a 24 port switch with POE is almost three times as expensive than a 24 port switch & a 24 port POE injector.
Here here. Even though I work with computers all day long and have constant access, when it comes time to learn something new I will always head to the bookstore or amazon.com.
PCI, CISP, ISO 17799, and SAS-70 are just 4 reasons I have to have not one, but two firewalls. I have to say, I think it is overkill. Yet, I sleep well at night knowing that it should be much easier for someone to move on to another company's servers than to get through the layers of security put in place.
The premise is simple. Multiple layers. Sure you could probably build a box that is very difficult to get into, but do you really think anything is 100% safe? If somebody wants in, I have a belief that they will find a way. That is why you have multiple layers that a would be attacker must traverse. Have an IDS/IPS along the way, and monitor the logs.
Bottom line, is even with all this, it isn't 100%.
If I had my way, I would just use iptables on my outside machines and drop any packets I didn't like. But the powers at be have decided this isn't good enough, and so I have to jump through the hoops to make everybody happy.
Well, they dont specify whether Taiwan is a country or a province, so I think they are pretty safe to assume it will always be called Taiwan whether or not it is part of China.
Actually, this particular processor runs enough volume that they fall into a level 1 gateway category for CISP and PCI compliance with Visa and Mastercard.
A level 1 gateway actually requires volumes of procedures in place as well as an on-sight security audit by a certified party of their physical security, network security, and business rules.
The security requirements call specifically for intrusion detection systems, intrusion protection systems, washing of cardholder data before it is written in any kind of logs, and of course encrypting the credit card number before it is stored in the database.
The audit takes weeks and costs thousands of dollars. They must continue to do the vulnerability scan quarterly and then re-do the onsight audit once a year.
According to the news article they were out of compliance, meaning they had not yet done their audit.
Additionally any third party they outsource too must also be CISP/PCI compliant which would mean they would have to go through the exact same in depth on-sight audit of their security systems.
The problem here is that Visa and M/C allowed a processor as big as this one to remain out of compliance. A copy of the audit is sent to Visa and M/C so they both knew they were not yet in compliance.
What you will see after this story is a very large increase in Visa and Mastercard in following up on their processors to insure they have completed their audits.
Just a thought, but wouldn't this suggest that Open Source be done mainly for Microsoft Windows? After all, I hardly think anyone can successfully argue that any other operating system is in fact the mainstream operating system.
Its the fact that Open Source developers do not use mainstream operating systems that they get involved in OS in the first place. If they used the mainstream OS they could just buy the software they wanted. A whole lot cheaper than writing code yourself any which way you look at it.
what happens when it's a big contract and they decide to "see if we won?"
Yeah, I think you want to see if you won a contract.
"x is really going to buy Y?"
And yes, you should check to see if x is going to buy y.
I think you were trying to make a point but left out a few details.
Getting information is an important part of business. While I will agree there are morals invovled, and certain lines that should not be crossed, I dont see any of those in your arguments.
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But this isnt as important as you might think.
For example, FFXI has (or at least had) 500,000 people on 30 different servers. Who needs 500,000 people if you will never know about them? A quick jump over to my microsoft calculator just told me that if you have only one server and 16,000 people it would be the exact same gameplay. I would rather play an MMO that I really like, than one that is popular. Especially considering you only need 16,000 people playing it to fill up a single server.
Obviously of course if you cant even come up with the 16k number then it will be useless.
My Mach 3 razor is really just a piece of plastic that holds a blade. I am very skeptical that they loose any money on those razors, let alone that his has become an addage in marketing.
You stand all day on the street corner and direct people to different locations for different people and locations depending on the drug or illegal item they want to buy.
At least take the analogy all the way through. In your example it would be as if somebody e-mailed a link to a friend to get the content rather than publishing a list of links all to infringed content.
I must have been mislead by statements such as: We never did get any help from Google. -- Tim Finin and statements like:
Please do not write to Google to request permission to "meta-search" Google for a research project, as such requests will not be granted. -- Google.
You may be right, they may have had permission, but all I see is complaints against google for no cooperation--which I would count special permission to use their database as being.
At any rate, if I misunderstood the Tim Finin, then I do apologize--but I do have to say that the way they talk about working around Google's restrictions and their lack of help sure makes it sound like they have never received any such permission.
From the article: For each new site S we encounter, we give Google the narrower query 'filetype:owl site:S', which will often end up getting some additional results not included in the earlier query.
From the Google TOS:You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without express permission in advance from Google.
I am serious. These researches just used a lot of resources from Google that they had no permission to use. Researchers especially should try to be good citizens on the net and not do tons of automated querying to websites without permission--especially when it is specifically prohibited.
Google has spent a lot of time and money to get the information that they wanted; and when asked for copies of it google didnt give it to them--so instead they just took it without permission.
I would call that stealing, except I wont because that will start a whole other thread thelling me that information cannot be stolen.
My point is, if you want to do research, at least play by the rules that you are given. It may take longer and require more work, but that seems better than using information that you dont have permission to use.
What is the minimum? I know it doesnt make for good news, but could probably help the discussion here. Is the minimum a fine?
Everybody seems all pissed that this guy is getting 25 years. No, actually he is not. He is has been arressted. The charge carries a maximum sentance of 25 years. There is still a trial, and then if found guilty will be sentanced. Besides the paranoid readers, who really thinks any judge will sentence him to the maximum? I would say there is a VERY good chance he would be sentenced to the maximum.
I guess you would be very disapointed to know that probably most of the queries that you write are rewritten by your database to be optimized whether you optimize them by hand or not.
You would be surprised at how much your database knows about itself, and what it is able to do with that information in optimizing your queries.
But then I am sure you know all this better than me, since you sound like the DBA here, and I just rely on highler level stuff.
As long as we are offtopic...
Any opinions on power dns? I just happened to be looking around for some DNS software that is a little more dynamic when I spotted this thread tonight...
It is always amazing to me how great the divide is between XP advocates and XP Cynics. The desparity between your post and the review is amazing, and in fact I get a similar separation of extreme opinions when reading any message board, articles, or even books for that matter.
What is it that is keeping programmers from reaching a consensus on this. Was Object Oriented design as controversial as XP is?
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I have to admit, this is just was I was looking for. I really enjoy MMOs but enjoy trying different ones, instead of just one. Thanks!
It would never work.
A solo game requires an in depth story line and lots of content. An MMO requires a sophisticated power curve and attribute and quest sequence to follow a characters levels.
If you take out the MMO of an MMORPG, everyone would discover the lack of story and content so fast that Blizzard wouldnt know what hit 'em.
Some day an MMO will have both, and I will be in heaven. Until then I still plug away and level up.
Where do I sign up? Both to code and to play. No, seriously. You have my money and time.
We were facing the same problem and found it cheaper to inject POE right at the phone untill we found that you could buy a 24 port power injector for a couple hundred dollars off of ebay. Put these things next to your switch and inject it there.
Something is wrong with the math currently because a 24 port switch with POE is almost three times as expensive than a 24 port switch & a 24 port POE injector.
Here here. Even though I work with computers all day long and have constant access, when it comes time to learn something new I will always head to the bookstore or amazon.com.
PCI, CISP, ISO 17799, and SAS-70 are just 4 reasons I have to have not one, but two firewalls. I have to say, I think it is overkill. Yet, I sleep well at night knowing that it should be much easier for someone to move on to another company's servers than to get through the layers of security put in place.
The premise is simple. Multiple layers. Sure you could probably build a box that is very difficult to get into, but do you really think anything is 100% safe? If somebody wants in, I have a belief that they will find a way. That is why you have multiple layers that a would be attacker must traverse. Have an IDS/IPS along the way, and monitor the logs.
Bottom line, is even with all this, it isn't 100%.
If I had my way, I would just use iptables on my outside machines and drop any packets I didn't like. But the powers at be have decided this isn't good enough, and so I have to jump through the hoops to make everybody happy.
Well, they dont specify whether Taiwan is a country or a province, so I think they are pretty safe to assume it will always be called Taiwan whether or not it is part of China.
Actually, this particular processor runs enough volume that they fall into a level 1 gateway category for CISP and PCI compliance with Visa and Mastercard.
A level 1 gateway actually requires volumes of procedures in place as well as an on-sight security audit by a certified party of their physical security, network security, and business rules.
The security requirements call specifically for intrusion detection systems, intrusion protection systems, washing of cardholder data before it is written in any kind of logs, and of course encrypting the credit card number before it is stored in the database.
The audit takes weeks and costs thousands of dollars. They must continue to do the vulnerability scan quarterly and then re-do the onsight audit once a year.
According to the news article they were out of compliance, meaning they had not yet done their audit.
Additionally any third party they outsource too must also be CISP/PCI compliant which would mean they would have to go through the exact same in depth on-sight audit of their security systems.
The problem here is that Visa and M/C allowed a processor as big as this one to remain out of compliance. A copy of the audit is sent to Visa and M/C so they both knew they were not yet in compliance.
What you will see after this story is a very large increase in Visa and Mastercard in following up on their processors to insure they have completed their audits.
Balancing classes with MMO's. Balancing life and MMO's is very very difficult, especially classwork.
But thats another story for another time, as I'm sure everyone else here will let me know that they have no problem blancing their time.
Damn MMOs! Damn them to hell! I want my life back..
Ok, ok, I feel better now. Thank you all for the therapy.
A door opening to a brick wall.
Of course.
Just out of curiosity, where did you get the donation figures for Microsoft, and what years exactly are you comparing?
Just a thought, but wouldn't this suggest that Open Source be done mainly for Microsoft Windows? After all, I hardly think anyone can successfully argue that any other operating system is in fact the mainstream operating system.
Its the fact that Open Source developers do not use mainstream operating systems that they get involved in OS in the first place. If they used the mainstream OS they could just buy the software they wanted. A whole lot cheaper than writing code yourself any which way you look at it.
what happens when it's a big contract and they decide to "see if we won?"
Yeah, I think you want to see if you won a contract.
"x is really going to buy Y?"
And yes, you should check to see if x is going to buy y.
I think you were trying to make a point but left out a few details.
Getting information is an important part of business. While I will agree there are morals invovled, and certain lines that should not be crossed, I dont see any of those in your arguments.
No they don't. Watch this...
Karma Burn.
But this isnt as important as you might think.
For example, FFXI has (or at least had) 500,000 people on 30 different servers. Who needs 500,000 people if you will never know about them? A quick jump over to my microsoft calculator just told me that if you have only one server and 16,000 people it would be the exact same gameplay. I would rather play an MMO that I really like, than one that is popular. Especially considering you only need 16,000 people playing it to fill up a single server.
Obviously of course if you cant even come up with the 16k number then it will be useless.
My Mach 3 razor is really just a piece of plastic that holds a blade.
I am very skeptical that they loose any money on those razors, let alone that his has become an addage in marketing.
But I could be wrong.
Try this one
You stand all day on the street corner and direct people to different locations for different people and locations depending on the drug or illegal item they want to buy.
At least take the analogy all the way through. In your example it would be as if somebody e-mailed a link to a friend to get the content rather than publishing a list of links all to infringed content.
I must have been mislead by statements such as:
We never did get any help from Google. -- Tim Finin
and statements like: Please do not write to Google to request permission to "meta-search" Google for a research project, as such requests will not be granted. -- Google.
You may be right, they may have had permission, but all I see is complaints against google for no cooperation--which I would count special permission to use their database as being.
At any rate, if I misunderstood the Tim Finin, then I do apologize--but I do have to say that the way they talk about working around Google's restrictions and their lack of help sure makes it sound like they have never received any such permission.
From the Google TOS: You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without express permission in advance from Google.
I am serious. These researches just used a lot of resources from Google that they had no permission to use. Researchers especially should try to be good citizens on the net and not do tons of automated querying to websites without permission--especially when it is specifically prohibited.
Google has spent a lot of time and money to get the information that they wanted; and when asked for copies of it google didnt give it to them--so instead they just took it without permission.
I would call that stealing, except I wont because that will start a whole other thread thelling me that information cannot be stolen.
My point is, if you want to do research, at least play by the rules that you are given. It may take longer and require more work, but that seems better than using information that you dont have permission to use.
What is the minimum? I know it doesnt make for good news, but could probably help the discussion here. Is the minimum a fine?
Everybody seems all pissed that this guy is getting 25 years. No, actually he is not. He is has been arressted. The charge carries a maximum sentance of 25 years. There is still a trial, and then if found guilty will be sentanced. Besides the paranoid readers, who really thinks any judge will sentence him to the maximum? I would say there is a VERY good chance he would be sentenced to the maximum.
I guess you would be very disapointed to know that probably most of the queries that you write are rewritten by your database to be optimized whether you optimize them by hand or not.
You would be surprised at how much your database knows about itself, and what it is able to do with that information in optimizing your queries.
But then I am sure you know all this better than me, since you sound like the DBA here, and I just rely on highler level stuff.
In other words, I'm sure it's all the rage on college campuses.
More acurately, the rage of Europe.
Whether the argument is valid or not, it does come from a large number of people and countries, not just some liberal movement.
As long as we are offtopic... Any opinions on power dns? I just happened to be looking around for some DNS software that is a little more dynamic when I spotted this thread tonight...
It is always amazing to me how great the divide is between XP advocates and XP Cynics. The desparity between your post and the review is amazing, and in fact I get a similar separation of extreme opinions when reading any message board, articles, or even books for that matter.
What is it that is keeping programmers from reaching a consensus on this. Was Object Oriented design as controversial as XP is?
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