(I a male adult of the bisexual persuasion, who recently began playing WoW with my boyfriend, who is gay himself.)
The virtual world offered (for a fee) to Blizzard's customer base, however removed from reality, is very much populated by real players, (script farmers notwithstanding,) which have a given sexual orientation, whether or not this fact is relevant to the actual game play. In this game, individuals will find all sorts of reasons to relate to each other and/or form guilds, possibly based on real-world geographical proximity, shared/anecdotal game history, stereotypical familiarity or whatever they might see as relevant criteria.
While playing the game, it didn't take long before I learned about fun things like the "/kiss", "/hug" and other such commands, and I also quickly confirmed that these actions were possible between any players, regardless of perceived gender or race. On the other hand, MSN Messenger's original emoticons assumed that a hug was given by a boy, and returned by a girl.
Which of these two services may be adding some restrictions of expression, knowingly or not, to its users?
Now, let us imagine that the next time I play this game, I should decide to form a new guild, or join an existing one, based on a common interest in photography. Which means that as we all wait endless minutes while everyone gets ready for the next raid, we can all chat about something we have in common, photography, something that others around us might be at least mildly interested in, and might even have something to share with the other guild members as well.
Obviously, if I simply lacked any interest in photography, I'd join some other group, or simply keep marching on my way, because in the end, I am playing this particular game in order to have a little fun, period.
The main link in this article, pointing to the Unofficial Suprnova Closure FAQ, seems to have been rendered useless. Anyone have a mirror, saved copy available?
Visio Enterprise has many a tool set that will both allow theoretical design and actual representation of a network and it's content. The whole thing is based on a database you can build from scratch or modify following an SNMP sweep of your devices. It does a fair job at keeping things contextual and allows you to consult your devices as objects with properties, rather than simply as icons on a piece of paper. No matter what, as complexity grows you will have to give up the convenience of paper as the main media of communication. I'm assuming that some sort of visual representaion is the goal here. Instead, if you are merely looking for a way to document your network for efficient access, and wish to minimize your upkeep, look into products such as Network Node Manager, which will regularly poll inventory information from supported SNMP nodes, or (for servers) IT Operations which will run local agents and gather similar info. There are plenty of rival products and I'm not pushing for HP here, but the most important thing to ask yourself is: how do you intend to use the information? (Rather than how will I gather it.)
The first DVD I inserted was a zone/region 1 disk and thus my drive and the Apple DVD Player were set.
Using DVDInfo 2 (and booting in OS 9) I confirmed that I had 4 changes and 4 resets left on my 14.1" dual-USB (with no reset button) RPC-2 iBook combo (Sony) drive.
(Note: Don't you love the way one specifies a Mac model?)
This is despite having watched a zone 2 movie purchased online through a French site. The movie's cover (and the online site) clearly states that this is a zone 2 DVD. Yet I've not registered a zone change!!! Mind you I'm not complaining; the movie cost me dearly and I'll be able to watch it as many times as I like. But I'd just love to understand what is taking place here!!! Is that DVD really a zone 2 disk?
and I'm a network analyst. When Apple asked for comments from PC users, I sent in my two cents. Never got a reply yet spent all summer looking at models, specs, features and prices. I am now the very proud owner of an iBook 14.x" G3 700 with the base 256MB RAM. I will boost the memory anyhow but I have yet to run out. Mind you I have not installed anything big yet, just War3. As a user experience, everyday I notice or discover something else and I think: "How neat that they thought of that". I almost purchased an extra power supply for nothing, thanks to the design of the one that comes with it, I don't need to buy another one when on the road. It really 'just works'. Very intuitive. I had done some dev work on System 7.0.x a long time ago, but I'm not lost even though I've used and supported all versions of Windows (station and server), many versions of Novell Netware, Solaris (Sparc and Intel), Slackware, Mandrake, Redhat, OS/2, GeoWorks, AIX, HP-UX (a little) and I must forget some. I did buy a Wacom Pen/Mouse pad for home, abd I admit to using the iBook mostly at home for now. But I've had to use a trackpad in the past and I don't mind them, but enough about that religious debate. I switched to Mac for the "Unix with a real desktop" experience and even though I haven't really dug into the Unix side, I'm impressed. Any time I want to know something about my system and might not assume that there's a gui app for it (and there usually is) I lauch Terminal and I'm right at home. The next step is to go get some of the apps I've become accustomed to and expect to use frequently. For example, due to financial constraints, I prefer to use Gimp rather than Photoshop. I've heard of MacGimp but it's slightly outdated and I didn't find anything about an upgrade path, so I'll be doing it the old way, which is an investment I don't mind to make since it'll pay off later when I want to install other X-Window dependant software or tools. Perhaps rpm-for-OSX would be a nice thing, haven't checked if that's in progress.
I installed 'b3d Projector' as a part of 'b3d Exporter for Maya'. The latter would seem a legitimate software to install, and including the Projector would make sense to preview the exported work. However, how do I know if this intentionnal package (not hidden) also includes the functionalities of their 'Brilliant Network'?
(Do understand me, it did not get installed without my knowledge. But my intent was to gain the ability to export Maya work for playback or viewing using their 'Projector' player, not chip in for the new 'Brilliant Internet'.)
There are quite simply two sides one can take.
Onthe one hand, I sware by Linux's i386 support at home. My fw is a 486dx and my server is a P166mmx. Both are running just fine, my server is even running Lotus Domino!, and they're both on a shelf in the living room closet.
However, Redhat's lack of i586/i686/etc. dist. means that I cannot consider it seriously at work. It's difficult to use some of the other dist. that have scaled up, but it gets even more difficult to hire tech resources with the proper experience and expertise for these. It's tough enough with RedHat, but at least many hw/sw manufacturers support it.
Two years ago, I was asked to consider this line of work for SPAM of a physical nature. A one hour scan on geocities gave a 70% return of properly formatted and unique email addresses out of 1721 'mailto' links found. I then proceeded to try to send myself messages in such a way that I could not be traced back. The results of my tests were not to my satisfaction since I needed to make use of remote (victim) machines to take the (smtp connection) blame.
At the time, the potential clients were not educated enough to know the difference between a message sent (or attempted), and a message that was actually delivered. I exposed this to them when the discussion came to my potential 'pricing' (which would have revolved on a per-email address basis). Basically they did not care. Once I explained this to them, they let me know that they appreciated my honesty, but they simply didn't want to account for it.
As for my 'pricing', I pretty much could 'name it'. Again, they didn't care. Some business associates of theirs had recently gotten involved in SPAM distribution and apparently the returns were ridiculously high. I tried to find a comfortable 'moral' ground for myself, but in the end couldn't take the job.
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(I a male adult of the bisexual persuasion, who recently began playing WoW with my boyfriend, who is gay himself.)
The virtual world offered (for a fee) to Blizzard's customer base, however removed from reality, is very much populated by real players, (script farmers notwithstanding,) which have a given sexual orientation, whether or not this fact is relevant to the actual game play. In this game, individuals will find all sorts of reasons to relate to each other and/or form guilds, possibly based on real-world geographical proximity, shared/anecdotal game history, stereotypical familiarity or whatever they might see as relevant criteria.
While playing the game, it didn't take long before I learned about fun things like the "/kiss", "/hug" and other such commands, and I also quickly confirmed that these actions were possible between any players, regardless of perceived gender or race. On the other hand, MSN Messenger's original emoticons assumed that a hug was given by a boy, and returned by a girl.
Which of these two services may be adding some restrictions of expression, knowingly or not, to its users?
Now, let us imagine that the next time I play this game, I should decide to form a new guild, or join an existing one, based on a common interest in photography. Which means that as we all wait endless minutes while everyone gets ready for the next raid, we can all chat about something we have in common, photography, something that others around us might be at least mildly interested in, and might even have something to share with the other guild members as well.
Obviously, if I simply lacked any interest in photography, I'd join some other group, or simply keep marching on my way, because in the end, I am playing this particular game in order to have a little fun, period.
The main link in this article, pointing to the Unofficial Suprnova Closure FAQ, seems to have been rendered useless. Anyone have a mirror, saved copy available?
Visio Enterprise has many a tool set that will both allow theoretical design and actual representation of a network and it's content. The whole thing is based on a database you can build from scratch or modify following an SNMP sweep of your devices. It does a fair job at keeping things contextual and allows you to consult your devices as objects with properties, rather than simply as icons on a piece of paper. No matter what, as complexity grows you will have to give up the convenience of paper as the main media of communication. I'm assuming that some sort of visual representaion is the goal here. Instead, if you are merely looking for a way to document your network for efficient access, and wish to minimize your upkeep, look into products such as Network Node Manager, which will regularly poll inventory information from supported SNMP nodes, or (for servers) IT Operations which will run local agents and gather similar info. There are plenty of rival products and I'm not pushing for HP here, but the most important thing to ask yourself is: how do you intend to use the information? (Rather than how will I gather it.)
The first DVD I inserted was a zone/region 1 disk and thus my drive and the Apple DVD Player were set. Using DVDInfo 2 (and booting in OS 9) I confirmed that I had 4 changes and 4 resets left on my 14.1" dual-USB (with no reset button) RPC-2 iBook combo (Sony) drive. (Note: Don't you love the way one specifies a Mac model?) This is despite having watched a zone 2 movie purchased online through a French site. The movie's cover (and the online site) clearly states that this is a zone 2 DVD. Yet I've not registered a zone change!!! Mind you I'm not complaining; the movie cost me dearly and I'll be able to watch it as many times as I like. But I'd just love to understand what is taking place here!!! Is that DVD really a zone 2 disk?
and I'm a network analyst. When Apple asked for comments from PC users, I sent in my two cents. Never got a reply yet spent all summer looking at models, specs, features and prices. I am now the very proud owner of an iBook 14.x" G3 700 with the base 256MB RAM. I will boost the memory anyhow but I have yet to run out. Mind you I have not installed anything big yet, just War3. As a user experience, everyday I notice or discover something else and I think: "How neat that they thought of that". I almost purchased an extra power supply for nothing, thanks to the design of the one that comes with it, I don't need to buy another one when on the road. It really 'just works'. Very intuitive. I had done some dev work on System 7.0.x a long time ago, but I'm not lost even though I've used and supported all versions of Windows (station and server), many versions of Novell Netware, Solaris (Sparc and Intel), Slackware, Mandrake, Redhat, OS/2, GeoWorks, AIX, HP-UX (a little) and I must forget some. I did buy a Wacom Pen/Mouse pad for home, abd I admit to using the iBook mostly at home for now. But I've had to use a trackpad in the past and I don't mind them, but enough about that religious debate. I switched to Mac for the "Unix with a real desktop" experience and even though I haven't really dug into the Unix side, I'm impressed. Any time I want to know something about my system and might not assume that there's a gui app for it (and there usually is) I lauch Terminal and I'm right at home. The next step is to go get some of the apps I've become accustomed to and expect to use frequently. For example, due to financial constraints, I prefer to use Gimp rather than Photoshop. I've heard of MacGimp but it's slightly outdated and I didn't find anything about an upgrade path, so I'll be doing it the old way, which is an investment I don't mind to make since it'll pay off later when I want to install other X-Window dependant software or tools. Perhaps rpm-for-OSX would be a nice thing, haven't checked if that's in progress.
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I installed 'b3d Projector' as a part of 'b3d Exporter for Maya'. The latter would seem a legitimate software to install, and including the Projector would make sense to preview the exported work. However, how do I know if this intentionnal package (not hidden) also includes the functionalities of their 'Brilliant Network'?
(Do understand me, it did not get installed without my knowledge. But my intent was to gain the ability to export Maya work for playback or viewing using their 'Projector' player, not chip in for the new 'Brilliant Internet'.)
There are quite simply two sides one can take. Onthe one hand, I sware by Linux's i386 support at home. My fw is a 486dx and my server is a P166mmx. Both are running just fine, my server is even running Lotus Domino!, and they're both on a shelf in the living room closet. However, Redhat's lack of i586/i686/etc. dist. means that I cannot consider it seriously at work. It's difficult to use some of the other dist. that have scaled up, but it gets even more difficult to hire tech resources with the proper experience and expertise for these. It's tough enough with RedHat, but at least many hw/sw manufacturers support it.
Two years ago, I was asked to consider this line of work for SPAM of a physical nature. A one hour scan on geocities gave a 70% return of properly formatted and unique email addresses out of 1721 'mailto' links found. I then proceeded to try to send myself messages in such a way that I could not be traced back. The results of my tests were not to my satisfaction since I needed to make use of remote (victim) machines to take the (smtp connection) blame.
At the time, the potential clients were not educated enough to know the difference between a message sent (or attempted), and a message that was actually delivered. I exposed this to them when the discussion came to my potential 'pricing' (which would have revolved on a per-email address basis). Basically they did not care. Once I explained this to them, they let me know that they appreciated my honesty, but they simply didn't want to account for it.
As for my 'pricing', I pretty much could 'name it'. Again, they didn't care. Some business associates of theirs had recently gotten involved in SPAM distribution and apparently the returns were ridiculously high. I tried to find a comfortable 'moral' ground for myself, but in the end couldn't take the job.