* A topological map
* A list of all IP address with a human-parseable desccription of what they are
* A special list for all the crucial machines (servers, routers)
* A password list
And, even more important, a who-knows-what list that your successor will be able to use to track down very specific informations (Bill is the one who hacked the internal website together, Anita is the one who deals with our ISPs, Jeremiah has the key to server bay X, etc...)
But I'd really prefer if my locks remain off any kind of network and have my security system talk over good old-fashioned copper.
Then I learned about lock-picking and bump keys.
Here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_keys
I'll use encryption on my doors the day it becomes cheap enough (and I become an owner). Anyway, all the burglars I have heard of do not use lock-picking but rather brute force...
Airport wifi is usually bad and expensive too. I wonder what this results really shows. I think wifi where I have to enter a credit card number to get a connexion is completely useless while a free wifi access is a very appreciated commodity.
Nowadays, I find it indecent to sell intellectual works of someone on his/her death's birthday. It makes IP laws look completely pointless : "Oh, you know, it is now 50 years since this author died but remember that if you dowload it, you are stealing from her/him !"
So we should pay for atoms but not for electrons ? This is discrimination against nucleus-free matter ! I protest vehemently against this anti-american behaviour ! Electrons around the world ! Follow me into a strike that will leave the world on its knees !
Well, as a peacenik myself, I am fairly happy to see two very insightful research topics to help foster world peace :
* Accelerated Development and Production of Therapeutics: rapidly and inexpensively manufacture millions of doses of life saving drugs or vaccines in weeks, instead of the years required to ramp up today's manufacturing practices
* Real-Time Accurate Language Translation: real-time machine language translation of structured and unstructured text and speech with near-expert human translation accuracy.
Note how only one theme is dedicated to the creation of more powerful weapons. This is truly American military research and damn yeah, this is sommething you should be proud of (not me, I am a surrendering froggy)
In the world of 2009, planning for anything instead of waving frantically in all directions while shouting that all the bugs are another's person fault passes for ritualistic voodoo thing.
I don't care that you have a fetish for planning kid, but do this at home, a workplace has some standards to hold.
Oh, another person asked me today how open source efforts could work by only using people's free time...
I don't care about politicians acting in a cynical way. What worries me is that acting in a foulish way that will probably be said by a court to be ridiculous will effectively make him receive votes.
That and OEM support. Somehow I think that a PC "that can't run games" is a niche that could be marketed, if Microsoft let it happen. Once there would be a 10% marketshare, there would likely be as many games running on linux than on the Mac.
Games can be art without focusing on a narrative. Things like Myst and Riven do, in my opinion, qualify as literature. Games can be interactive art. It is a new form, but not a lower one.
I think the OK-ness mainly depends on your target demographic's openness. You don't present the same things to people who download New York's map for Flight Simulator for the fun and to people who get offended by Janet Jackson's nipple.
In Battlefield II you can play in Vietnam as Americans or as viet-congs. I could have a game where you could play as a GI or as an insurgent (or terrorist, Iraqis or Iranian, whatever your scenario is).
People would protest about any inaccuracies that there would be (and they would be right in doing so). And many people would say that it is unethical to have fun while virtually killing GIs or Iraqis. But don't worry, it is roughly the Jack Thomson crowd. In a world where GTA 4 is accepted by mainstream audience, I don't think that Gulf War II Arena would be rejected.
Installing new software and new hardware is now easier on the latest Ubuntu than it is under Windows Vista. Linux is not mature : it is simply superior. As a pre-installed OS it would be a dangerous competitor for wiindows on the non-gaming market.
Yes and several solutions have been proposed to solve this. None of them require 100 million dollars : having a smaller system in Jita, forbidding scanning or fight when the number of players is too high, trying to favor the emergence of new market hubs, have another system for trade, use different servers for the different stations of the system (makes sense if scanning is disabled).
Seeing how long-distance traveling is a pain in EVE, I think that a bigger universe would just create more commercial hubs. A second one has already begun to appear in EVE.
I was very surprised to discover the concept of shards when I first got interested into MMORPG. Such games are not MMO but simply multiplayer games... That makes the whole thing sound like a crooked deal : "yeah, there are 5 millions people connected but don't worry, you will be alone in the most popular dungeon. Oh, and don't worry you won't have any impact in the world since the place where you are is just instanced and will be respawned identically once you finish it."
EVE is a very good example of the interest of having a single universe where players actions do have an influence, but it is not for everyone, some people will get intimidated by it. However, I don't understand why they think that the EVE model won't scale. They already have 300 000 players and their system is quite simple : different stellar systems can run on different servers. You cannot interact with something that is not in the same solar system, for that you have to "jump". It is easy to add more systems by adding more servers. It does scale up.
It is a French-speaking website, but In Libro Veritas has this model since 2005. It proposes to host novels and short stories under free licenses, including CCs and Art Libre. If commercial derivatives is allowed, In Libro Veritas tries to sell books or compilation of short stories to its readers (while maintaining a free web access to the texts) and redistributes 50% of the profits to the authors. It keeps afloat, not many authors manage to live from that but it is trying to prove that this model can succeed.
They also have a big list of public domain texts that are classics of literature.
In my humble opinion of enthusiastic open source developer, a cheap robotic body that anyone can use is a prerequisite to the apparition of good softwares.
Power supplies are sufficient for research purposes. Mass production will make them cheaper, they already have a good long lasting power supply...
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* A topological map
* A list of all IP address with a human-parseable desccription of what they are
* A special list for all the crucial machines (servers, routers)
* A password list
And, even more important, a who-knows-what list that your successor will be able to use to track down very specific informations (Bill is the one who hacked the internal website together, Anita is the one who deals with our ISPs, Jeremiah has the key to server bay X, etc...)
My school's network admin used to say that when he didn't have to do anything at all during a work day, he completely deserved his pay.
Ha! People tend to forget that counter-strike is a mod for Half Life ! A game that notoriously sucked, in multiplayer mode...
But I'd really prefer if my locks remain off any kind of network and have my security system talk over good old-fashioned copper.
Then I learned about lock-picking and bump keys.
Here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_keys
I'll use encryption on my doors the day it becomes cheap enough (and I become an owner). Anyway, all the burglars I have heard of do not use lock-picking but rather brute force...
Airport wifi is usually bad and expensive too. I wonder what this results really shows. I think wifi where I have to enter a credit card number to get a connexion is completely useless while a free wifi access is a very appreciated commodity.
Who cares about Americans ? Douglas Adams was English. Obviously you got lost on a UK-centric thread...
Nowadays, I find it indecent to sell intellectual works of someone on his/her death's birthday. It makes IP laws look completely pointless : "Oh, you know, it is now 50 years since this author died but remember that if you dowload it, you are stealing from her/him !"
So we should pay for atoms but not for electrons ? This is discrimination against nucleus-free matter ! I protest vehemently against this anti-american behaviour ! Electrons around the world ! Follow me into a strike that will leave the world on its knees !
Well, as a peacenik myself, I am fairly happy to see two very insightful research topics to help foster world peace :
* Accelerated Development and Production of Therapeutics: rapidly and inexpensively manufacture millions of doses of life saving drugs or vaccines in weeks, instead of the years required to ramp up today's manufacturing practices
* Real-Time Accurate Language Translation: real-time machine language translation of structured and unstructured text and speech with near-expert human translation accuracy.
Note how only one theme is dedicated to the creation of more powerful weapons. This is truly American military research and damn yeah, this is sommething you should be proud of (not me, I am a surrendering froggy)
In the world of 2009, planning for anything instead of waving frantically in all directions while shouting that all the bugs are another's person fault passes for ritualistic voodoo thing.
I don't care that you have a fetish for planning kid, but do this at home, a workplace has some standards to hold.
Oh, another person asked me today how open source efforts could work by only using people's free time...
Right to time-shift, right to space-shift, right to reverse-engineer, right to publish information anonymously, right to use cryptography
I don't care about politicians acting in a cynical way. What worries me is that acting in a foulish way that will probably be said by a court to be ridiculous will effectively make him receive votes.
Agreed. I want to change to the correct window in one click. I don't want to enter a menu then clic.
That and OEM support. Somehow I think that a PC "that can't run games" is a niche that could be marketed, if Microsoft let it happen. Once there would be a 10% marketshare, there would likely be as many games running on linux than on the Mac.
Games can be art without focusing on a narrative. Things like Myst and Riven do, in my opinion, qualify as literature. Games can be interactive art. It is a new form, but not a lower one.
I think the OK-ness mainly depends on your target demographic's openness. You don't present the same things to people who download New York's map for Flight Simulator for the fun and to people who get offended by Janet Jackson's nipple.
In Battlefield II you can play in Vietnam as Americans or as viet-congs. I could have a game where you could play as a GI or as an insurgent (or terrorist, Iraqis or Iranian, whatever your scenario is).
People would protest about any inaccuracies that there would be (and they would be right in doing so). And many people would say that it is unethical to have fun while virtually killing GIs or Iraqis. But don't worry, it is roughly the Jack Thomson crowd. In a world where GTA 4 is accepted by mainstream audience, I don't think that Gulf War II Arena would be rejected.
Installing new software and new hardware is now easier on the latest Ubuntu than it is under Windows Vista. Linux is not mature : it is simply superior. As a pre-installed OS it would be a dangerous competitor for wiindows on the non-gaming market.
Yes and several solutions have been proposed to solve this. None of them require 100 million dollars : having a smaller system in Jita, forbidding scanning or fight when the number of players is too high, trying to favor the emergence of new market hubs, have another system for trade, use different servers for the different stations of the system (makes sense if scanning is disabled).
Seeing how long-distance traveling is a pain in EVE, I think that a bigger universe would just create more commercial hubs. A second one has already begun to appear in EVE.
I was very surprised to discover the concept of shards when I first got interested into MMORPG. Such games are not MMO but simply multiplayer games... That makes the whole thing sound like a crooked deal : "yeah, there are 5 millions people connected but don't worry, you will be alone in the most popular dungeon. Oh, and don't worry you won't have any impact in the world since the place where you are is just instanced and will be respawned identically once you finish it."
EVE is a very good example of the interest of having a single universe where players actions do have an influence, but it is not for everyone, some people will get intimidated by it. However, I don't understand why they think that the EVE model won't scale. They already have 300 000 players and their system is quite simple : different stellar systems can run on different servers. You cannot interact with something that is not in the same solar system, for that you have to "jump". It is easy to add more systems by adding more servers. It does scale up.
It is a French-speaking website, but In Libro Veritas has this model since 2005. It proposes to host novels and short stories under free licenses, including CCs and Art Libre. If commercial derivatives is allowed, In Libro Veritas tries to sell books or compilation of short stories to its readers (while maintaining a free web access to the texts) and redistributes 50% of the profits to the authors. It keeps afloat, not many authors manage to live from that but it is trying to prove that this model can succeed.
They also have a big list of public domain texts that are classics of literature.
In my humble opinion of enthusiastic open source developer, a cheap robotic body that anyone can use is a prerequisite to the apparition of good softwares.
Power supplies are sufficient for research purposes. Mass production will make them cheaper, they already have a good long lasting power supply...
$100K intelligently spent can produce a lot more results than $100M distributed by a public committee.
To put it in one word : think about it as HAL, not as Google.
Oh! The cruelty of a competing market.
All of this has happened before and will happen again