This is so tiresome. First of all, US didn't build the Internet. US built a network named ARPANet, which evolved into the Internet with help from the whole world, in the same sense the mobile phone network evolved from european inventions. Whoever created the vacuum tube shouldn't get credits for the transistor.
Second, US don't control the Internet. The Internet controls itself. The only thing US can do is cut themselves of the global network (like China). US cannot even shut down the root DNS servers because about 40% of them are distributed systems. The only thing that would happen with the Internet if US disappeared is DNS would be screwed up for a while until UN or whatever just seized control of the thing and just ignored the US controlled DNS servers.
That's weird. Last time I heard, 30% in Finland used Firefox, and 25% or so in Sweden, and it's increasing every month. In fact, Firefox is very common in Europe.
Most statistics are useless however, until Google show theirs.
This is not a troll or flamebait in disguise, it's an honest question.
Whenever US mainstream media writes about piracy they use the word "illegal" over and over again. For example, the link in TFS, SFGate writes "illegal release". Same thing with NYTimes, Washington Post etc... "illegal filesharing" this and "illegal piracy" that. Whenever a new release group is shut down the media use these words along with "stolen", "illicit" (you get the idea).
Why? I live in Sweden. Our mainstream media sure talk about piracy alot, but I have never seen them talk about "illegal" trading etc, even if it is against the law. I have never seen the word "stolen" in the context of piracy either, in Swedish newspapers. Is this something normal for US papers? Do they write about "illegal murder", "illegal robbery" etc too? Or is this just sligtly modified PR?
I compete in online programming contests. This does not mean I am a great programmer, or that the winner in these contents are. It does mean however, that the winner is familiar with lots of algorithms and when, where and how to use them. This is really what it's all about - applying algorithms you have learned, under pressure.
Almost all of the more famous names in programming contents are the guys who, over the years, have practiced and solved thousands of programming problems such as the ones you can find at ACM and TopCoder. You don't have to be a super genius (if you are, you probably have better things to do) just stick with it. After a few hundred problems, you know how to do it. It's like rubiks cube and playing Quake.
Whether it's geeky, useful, boring, fun or manual labour is what you make of it.:)
The review tested all these products in FSG Groups facility, an employee of FSG Group is said to be "sexy" in the review, and a product from FSG Group won? Yeah, right...
Gates: You know Ballmer, I think I'll donate a million dollars to the local orphange . . . When a pengiun fly.
*Both laugh as an airborne pengiun suddenly "flies" by*
Ballmer: Will you be donating that million dollars now sir?
First of all I am neither a Microsoft Troll or a Linux Zealot. I like both OS:es. That said, I am a windows developer, that is I create end user applications for Windows. I used to be very proud of this because lots of people enjoy my programs including non-technical users. Combined with windows being a pretty thoroughly documented OS (in the "how do I do"-sense, not in the "how does it work"-sense) and Visual Studio being a very good IDE and compiler, creating user mode apps for Windows was pretty fun and motivating.
That said, I have abandoned M$ forever and installed Ubuntu. I hate Vista as much as the other guy, but the DRM and all that was not the reason I changed platform (I used Windows 2000, and when Vista was released I would probably have changed to XP). The reason... is because Microsoft obviously don't care a thing about individual developers not working for huge corporations. This only becomes obvious when you have developed Windows applications for a while, unfortunately.
Windows is a very defined OS. Microsoft have thought about pretty much every possible way a developer can screw up the OS or use it in ways "not intended", and tucked away anything remotely advanced in kernel mode. This is partially good because all the sucky shareware you can download on FREE (as in punch-the-monkey) websites can not destroy your system completely. This is a typical large corporation, no hackers, everyone is equally bad-mentality (both Paul Graham and Joel on Software have essays about this).
A "safe" userland is a good idea you may think. The trick is... If you want to develop windows drivers / applications in kernel mode... You have to _pay_ Microsoft for the documentation. The Driver Development Kit costs about $100. It's true.
Microsoft want me to pay them to write applications to their OS.
Yet another unacceptable thing from M$. If anything, they should pay me (yeah, this is stupid, but not as stupid). I will now concentrate on userland applications for Linux instead. No one can screw me over now!:-)
What this does is simply to take one of those files with meta info about a stream and translate it to a human readable format. The meta file looks like this:
[Address] Time To Live=0x00000002 URL=023m000000001WQ01q07G0S00w02y 0Bm1Z06y0P01b06C0Sm0k06q0QG1Z0780Rm1p06y0PW 1q02u 0Om1l06q0Bm1f07C0OG1m06a0Bm1j0700TG1m06S0SW1X06G0P G0k06G0R01i0000 Player Version=020m000000000MD00k0300BW0n02u0Cm0u03K0C000 00 NSC Format Version=029G0000000008Cm0k0300000 Channel Version=0x00000083 Name=026G000000000UKW1b06m0QG1 X06C0OG1p07G0KW1X06G0QG1l0000 IP Address=02EG000000000KCW0p03C0BW0p02u0Cm0k0340000 IP Port=0x00000457 Delivery Mode=0x00000002
The utility translates it to this:
[Address] Time To Live=64 URL=/media/files/Cisco.asx Name= Demonstration Content IP Address=169.254.10.1 IP Port=22593
So you can grab the stream without using the MS program and netstat.
The utility is more like a utility like base64 decoders (this is not base64 though) than a circumventing tool.
I don't like the sound of this. Feel free to block whatever IP's your like, but do it quietly so no dumb government types will get the idea to segment the entire internet. The music industry controlled ISP in UK where you can share music all you like except to other ISP's is enough. No interoperability whatsoever, sounds like microsoft strategies. This is no better than chinas own "great firewall".
"Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.
Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.
We have seen this before with anti-Linux campaigns. Nothing new.
1. Tell the world there will be no computer related jobs in the future.
2. Wait for the nobodys to choose other careers.
3. More jobs for real computer geeks.
79% is considered bad? Game reviews have always been inflated, why not do anything about it? 79% is practically the same as 8/10 or 4/5, and that's considered really good in, say, book or movie reviews. Look at IMDB, the best movie there, The Godfather, has a score of 9/10.
Really, a score of 40-60% should be an avarage game, but it appears the game reviewers give this score to games that suck completely.
"The house always wins". Whatever films or books you may have seen or read about beating the Las Vegas casinos - through fair means or foul - reality will always bring you back to that simple statement of fact.
Now when I think about it, this is probably not so bad. Blizzard has a very good art department. The art book you get with WoW:Collectors Edition is gorgeous and the drawings in the Warcraft 2 manual were incredibly cool. I might buy a few of these cards if the artwork is good enough.
I'm not surprised. There already exist a Warcraft pen and paper RPG based on the d20 system, so a card game is the next logical step. The paper RPG is actually very good though, so I wouldn't shout "sold out" just yet. I don't like the sound of the game affecting your play ingame though...
Children nowadays are given more and more freedom and less and less resonsponsibilites. You can get away with pretty much anything short of murder if you're under 16. What are parents getting in return in order to combat this? Well they're told that it's not their responsibility, and this is reinforced over and over. For those that realise that this is completely stupid and dare actually try and rase their child sensibly, they're attacked for doing so.
I'm getting very tired of all the hardware manufacturers designing their products "for gaming". We have ABIT and their "Fatality" product line, D-link creates "gaming routers". Almost all the mice and keyboards from the larger manufacturers are targeted for gamers. We have Creative with their gaming sound cards. And all these mouse pads for gaming. Not to mention the super-responsive "designed for gaming" TFT-monitors. And the kids who seriosly belive AMD processors are "designed for gaming".
Seriously, get a fucking console. Where are the hardware designed to be reliable? Or the hardware designed to look good, and not like sci-fi props from 30 year old movies? What about hardware for real work? I never thought I'd say this, but it appears the only serious large manufacturer (excluding the likes of APC, Tandberg etc of course) this day is Apple. Everyone else apperantly tries to appeal to high school kids.
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30 comments yet and not a single post about the name "Gaiman"! Has the slashdot crowd grown up?
If you say that out loud it sounds like Iraqi Park - Where WMD's roam freely.
But then I'm from sweden AND i'm drunk, so my pronounciation is probably screwed up.
Try www.punbb.org instead. Small, fast, slick.
"It's my internet! *waves flag*" sigh..
This is so tiresome. First of all, US didn't build the Internet. US built a network named ARPANet, which evolved into the Internet with help from the whole world, in the same sense the mobile phone network evolved from european inventions. Whoever created the vacuum tube shouldn't get credits for the transistor.
Second, US don't control the Internet. The Internet controls itself. The only thing US can do is cut themselves of the global network (like China). US cannot even shut down the root DNS servers because about 40% of them are distributed systems. The only thing that would happen with the Internet if US disappeared is DNS would be screwed up for a while until UN or whatever just seized control of the thing and just ignored the US controlled DNS servers.
Cheers.
That's weird. Last time I heard, 30% in Finland used Firefox, and 25% or so in Sweden, and it's increasing every month. In fact, Firefox is very common in Europe.
Most statistics are useless however, until Google show theirs.
This is not a troll or flamebait in disguise, it's an honest question.
Whenever US mainstream media writes about piracy they use the word "illegal" over and over again. For example, the link in TFS, SFGate writes "illegal release". Same thing with NYTimes, Washington Post etc... "illegal filesharing" this and "illegal piracy" that. Whenever a new release group is shut down the media use these words along with "stolen", "illicit" (you get the idea).
Why? I live in Sweden. Our mainstream media sure talk about piracy alot, but I have never seen them talk about "illegal" trading etc, even if it is against the law. I have never seen the word "stolen" in the context of piracy either, in Swedish newspapers. Is this something normal for US papers? Do they write about "illegal murder", "illegal robbery" etc too? Or is this just sligtly modified PR?
Thanks.
I compete in online programming contests. This does not mean I am a great programmer, or that the winner in these contents are. It does mean however, that the winner is familiar with lots of algorithms and when, where and how to use them. This is really what it's all about - applying algorithms you have learned, under pressure.
:)
Almost all of the more famous names in programming contents are the guys who, over the years, have practiced and solved thousands of programming problems such as the ones you can find at ACM and TopCoder. You don't have to be a super genius (if you are, you probably have better things to do) just stick with it. After a few hundred problems, you know how to do it. It's like rubiks cube and playing Quake.
Whether it's geeky, useful, boring, fun or manual labour is what you make of it.
The review tested all these products in FSG Groups facility, an employee of FSG Group is said to be "sexy" in the review, and a product from FSG Group won? Yeah, right...
This is not funny, it's true.
Gates: You know Ballmer, I think I'll donate a million dollars to the local orphange . . . When a pengiun fly.
*Both laugh as an airborne pengiun suddenly "flies" by*
Ballmer: Will you be donating that million dollars now sir?
First of all I am neither a Microsoft Troll or a Linux Zealot. I like both OS:es. That said, I am a windows developer, that is I create end user applications for Windows. I used to be very proud of this because lots of people enjoy my programs including non-technical users. Combined with windows being a pretty thoroughly documented OS (in the "how do I do"-sense, not in the "how does it work"-sense) and Visual Studio being a very good IDE and compiler, creating user mode apps for Windows was pretty fun and motivating.
That said, I have abandoned M$ forever and installed Ubuntu. I hate Vista as much as the other guy, but the DRM and all that was not the reason I changed platform (I used Windows 2000, and when Vista was released I would probably have changed to XP). The reason... is because Microsoft obviously don't care a thing about individual developers not working for huge corporations. This only becomes obvious when you have developed Windows applications for a while, unfortunately.
Windows is a very defined OS. Microsoft have thought about pretty much every possible way a developer can screw up the OS or use it in ways "not intended", and tucked away anything remotely advanced in kernel mode. This is partially good because all the sucky shareware you can download on FREE (as in punch-the-monkey) websites can not destroy your system completely. This is a typical large corporation, no hackers, everyone is equally bad-mentality (both Paul Graham and Joel on Software have essays about this).
A "safe" userland is a good idea you may think. The trick is... If you want to develop windows drivers / applications in kernel mode... You have to _pay_ Microsoft for the documentation. The Driver Development Kit costs about $100. It's true.
Microsoft want me to pay them to write applications to their OS.
Yet another unacceptable thing from M$. If anything, they should pay me (yeah, this is stupid, but not as stupid). I will now concentrate on userland applications for Linux instead. No one can screw me over now!
The utility translates it to this:
So you can grab the stream without using the MS program and netstat.
The utility is more like a utility like base64 decoders (this is not base64 though) than a circumventing tool.
I don't like the sound of this. Feel free to block whatever IP's your like, but do it quietly so no dumb government types will get the idea to segment the entire internet. The music industry controlled ISP in UK where you can share music all you like except to other ISP's is enough. No interoperability whatsoever, sounds like microsoft strategies. This is no better than chinas own "great firewall".
Paul Graham has an essay about this: The Submarine.
"Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.
Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.
We have seen this before with anti-Linux campaigns. Nothing new.
At least they are not homemade endoscopes.
Thanks alot for telling the whole world this...
1. Tell the world there will be no computer related jobs in the future.
2. Wait for the nobodys to choose other careers.
3. More jobs for real computer geeks.
Play along folks.
79% is considered bad? Game reviews have always been inflated, why not do anything about it? 79% is practically the same as 8/10 or 4/5, and that's considered really good in, say, book or movie reviews. Look at IMDB, the best movie there, The Godfather, has a score of 9/10.
Really, a score of 40-60% should be an avarage game, but it appears the game reviewers give this score to games that suck completely.
Oh well.
"The house always wins". Whatever films or books you may have seen or read about beating the Las Vegas casinos - through fair means or foul - reality will always bring you back to that simple statement of fact.
Tell that to Ken Uston...
Now when I think about it, this is probably not so bad. Blizzard has a very good art department. The art book you get with WoW:Collectors Edition is gorgeous and the drawings in the Warcraft 2 manual were incredibly cool. I might buy a few of these cards if the artwork is good enough.
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Examples of Chris Metzen and Samwise art:
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I'm not surprised. There already exist a Warcraft pen and paper RPG based on the d20 system, so a card game is the next logical step. The paper RPG is actually very good though, so I wouldn't shout "sold out" just yet. I don't like the sound of the game affecting your play ingame though...
Richard Stallman created that, not Einstein! And the current release is 21.4, not 2!
It's a joke, laugh.
This is the first time the bots and spammers goatse-links will be of actual use!
I've been in cyberspace for decades from my parents basement.
I'm getting very tired of all the hardware manufacturers designing their products "for gaming". We have ABIT and their "Fatality" product line, D-link creates "gaming routers". Almost all the mice and keyboards from the larger manufacturers are targeted for gamers. We have Creative with their gaming sound cards. And all these mouse pads for gaming. Not to mention the super-responsive "designed for gaming" TFT-monitors. And the kids who seriosly belive AMD processors are "designed for gaming".
Seriously, get a fucking console. Where are the hardware designed to be reliable? Or the hardware designed to look good, and not like sci-fi props from 30 year old movies? What about hardware for real work? I never thought I'd say this, but it appears the only serious large manufacturer (excluding the likes of APC, Tandberg etc of course) this day is Apple. Everyone else apperantly tries to appeal to high school kids.