Firstly issuing several thousand pings is legitimate under certain conditions. When we were experiencing problems with our uplinks at work we would be pinging other routers with 10,000 count pings to see how the packets were being dropped.
Secondly, assuming all DDoS are just simple ping is very short sighted. A much more effective DDoS is to spoof packets from IP addresses that arent being routed on the internet, when these reach the routers that connect to the name servers, depending on their configs, they would end up flooding their ip routing cache with useless entries, leading to the routers going down, leading to the nameservers being down.
This would make sense if he lived in say something like Germany, where the government takes care of its citizens. But you never get anything for free, Germany doesnt have the same free market as America, so you have a greater chance of striking it rich here, but you have to give up something in the process. What you give up is government protection, you have no health care, no free or near free tuition, etc. etc.
In reality, or rather, in other countries besides America its not ludicrious for the government to care for its citizens and make certain that they are employed and not losing their jobs overseas or to foreigners.
And star wars isnt an aging franchise. Not to start a flame war, but I see no problem with another Mad Max film. Mel Gibson isnt that old, I liked Mad Max, even if Thunderdome sucked. If the plot has really been in the works for three years there may be a chance that it wont suck, certainly Im willing to give this film the benefit of the doubt, simply because there has been such a huge stretch between this film and the last.
At least this long stretch should tell you its not a sequel thats only trying to capitalize off of the success of the first film(s). Sequels to successful first films usually suffer as a result, but here we have will have the fourth installment, where there were good and bad sequels, so hopefully they figured out what to do and not to do. Not to mention technology has advanced and the budget is definitely bigger, so there is potential to really close out the Mad Max franchise with a bang. So long as they dont get carried away with stupidity (Thunderdome).
Instead of spending so much energy focusing on DRM, which everyone realizes is useless, they should instead focus on a service and ease of use.
DRM wont work unless each piece of hardware used to play music is tagged and then submitted to their service so that the music you download can be authorized to play on those hardware. Not to mention, that all DRM will eventually, if not the day of its release, be cracked anyway. Instead of limiting consumers (temporarily) the music industry should focus on making music downloads quick and easy. Give us our choice of bit rates, easy menus for selection, the ability to mix and match songs from various albums and artists, allow quick and easy payment, and by god not only will you turn a profit, but people will purchase more music. In addition they should be able to sell more music, since personally I buy a very varied range, and some rare and difficult to find CDs can be just as easily offered online for download as the latest Pop Top 40.
I never goto the store to buy a music CD anymore, its just much easier online, but offer me a service online to download mp3s from and I would purchase much more, there is no charge for shipping, I can mix, and I can get them already in mp3 at high bit rates, which saves me the hassle. (98% of my listening to music is solely on PC). Thats just my take on it.
I was with you until you said that DDR doesnt much resemble dancing. Dont bag on it just because you cant shake your grave thang like the rest of me. -_^
I will not be posting any new pictures of my geek pad, as it is currently ablaze in a three alarm fire after my website was slashdotted the AMD without heatsink that I was running spontaneously combusted.
They should really release those things with a Slashdot warning. -_^
If these are real and were leaked by MS then why does the desktop have CuteFTP and Nero Burning Rom installed? I know plenty of/.'ers use Nero, but I just cant picture an MS employee using it. Maybe I'm just brainwashed?
I read through your little comparison of the two films and besides the water melon shot and the distinctive use of columns and how they fracture without sparking (GITS only sparks when the bullets hit the metal framework), are the only two comparisons with any merit. I certainly would not amount that to equating the two films, especially when you completely avoided discussing the plot of both, which is the one area where some truly interesting parrallels could have been drawn.
I mean come on, they both use elevators in the movie, Conspiracy rating:3, you may as well have said, characters in both films wear shoes on their feet, Conspiracy Rating:4.
"I've been a fan of the anime for many years and understood which elements would have to be brought to a live-action translation of it," Robinson told Daily Variety.
I really hoped that the interviewer would have asked Robinson if he read the manga, because the manga is epic compared to the movie. A lot of first time viewers, and rightly so, complained that alot of Akira didnt make sense. And thats because it was a movie that that tried to capture a story the size of the Bible in just two hours. I really dont see how he can stay true to Akira if he never read the manga, and from his comments, he gives no indication that he has. Personally I think the money could have been much better spent creating a high quality Akira animated series, like the GITS2 series being made now.
But then again hollywood is going ape over superhero movies, and they figure they should give anime/manga a shot, but for a live action movie, especially for the first anime live action American movie, I think Ghost in the Shell would have been a better fit. It would have been much easier to accomplish visually, it is on many levels an equal to Akira, and it is certainly more understandle for the larger audience, even without reading Shirows manga.
On a personal note, if the movie does not contain the
"KANEDA!!"
"TETSUO!!"
"KANEDA!!"
shout sequence at the Olympic stadium then it isnt worth watching.
Yup, I dont think that anyone will take AMD seriously for any fault tolerant systems until they deal with the heat issue.
Personally I dont even think its so much a matter of running hot, which although a nuisance isnt deadly, but more so that there are no safegaurds against overheating. Intel on the other hand, besides running cooler, downgrades the CPU if its overheating. AMD's XP does the same unless the temperature rises more than 1C per second, in which case it craps out anyway.
Deal with the heat and they may be taken seriously, they certainly have the performance, not to mention it should total up to a nice savings for a couple thousand processor system.
Beyond what you will find people already mentioning as risks associated with Lasik surgery, the real problem is that this is a relatively new technique in the medical world. Because the oldest patients have only lived with the procedure for less than a decade, thus there is no information on the long term effects of the surgery.
Even if you luck out and avoid any complications and end up with 20/20 eyesight, there is no garauntee that ten years or 15 years from now the procedure wont have adverse side effects. Sure you could say but thats so far down the line, but then again you only have one pair of eyes, and if you arent dying from wearing your glasses, hold out a bit longer till some long term patients are reviewed and the results of the procedure are re-examined.
That is no longer an available option. If I recall correctly Microsoft exerted enough influence on the major resellers to stop them from offering no-OS computers. There is a chance that this being a white box, and not branded as Dell, and since its only 1% of their revenue MS might not notice/care, that they will be allowed to ship them no-OS, but its doubtful.
Then again, would alot of 0-100 businesses be interested in no-OS PCs. Perhaps the price savings are a nice incentive, but have there been any statistics on the percent of small, medium, and large businesses that actually use non MS OSes?
Its nice how you write it like a book report, perhaps you missed the whole Chia talking with her friends in a VR world bit that introduces her to the reader. But I guess a better example would be WALLED CITY.
And certainly an online version of Walled city would be quite an interesting project. So I guess you should go re-read Idoru and stop being such a jackass ^_^
This is definitely a cool idea, and its just another step towards William Gibson's view of the future web (read Idoru). Its definitely more fun to actually traverse a DustCity instead of forum categories, and it certainly does better to make your online conversations more interesting.
I think it would be interesting if someone setup an open source project/community for a similar deal. Have everyone build up their own identities, instead of just being limited to nicks you can finally have 3d physical representations of yourself. But I guess that would be moving towards the idea of a virtual city, but then again that would definitely be interesting.
Would also be fun to see how people would hack such a project.
Actually the military is doing research on this. I know that a professor at NYU doing Fluid Dynamics is involved because I attended one of his presentations. But they arent interested in something the size of a small R/C copter, but rather almost insect size. Which is why most of the work that is being done on this at such a small stage doesnt revolve around propellers but wings.
It appears that the motion of the wings of insects creates almost instant and quite powerfull lift. The motion also isnt vertical, it is much more complex, where the wings are rotating and following elliptical orbits and such. So mathematicians are trying to model these wing motions and apply them to mechanics to create tiny wings capable of lift and sustained flight. Further it has to have tremendous hovering capabilities, as the interest is to send these "insects" into a building or room and have them sneak out vital information. Making stationary listening kinda important.
I had a similar problem when I originally got my SGI 1600sw flat panel LCD a few years back. It ran at 1600x1024 native, and to accomodate this unstandard (at the time) resolution, you were forced into using one of their "pre-approved" graphics cards. At the time they were fairly decent, but eventually they got old, without being able to upgrade, since the default connection was OpenLDI digital (not DVI), you had to buy an adapter (Usually out of stock and $600 retail) or get a new monitor.
If there are enough monitors made at 16:9 instead of 16:10 in time 16:9 resolutions will be standardized. So if you plan to use this monitor for a few years, I think eventually you wont have any graphics cards problems. But until then, I would say the GeForce cards are very accomodating to non standard resolutions. I cant say much for 16:9 but I know that all VisionTek GeFroce2+ cards and certainly 4+ cards support 16:10 resolutions. GeForce2 was one of the few vendors that also supported 16:10 when there were only a handful of monitors running at that resolution.
If you cant find anything that runs 16:9 and that monitor can rescale to 16:10 then I think a decent Geforce4 wont be much of a compromise. Plus, you should be able to hook up your DVD directly to it and still have it hooked up to your PC so you can still watch your movies at 16:9.
My next monitor is the SGI F220 which im ordering next week, and lucky me I can get a GeForce4 to render, now I just have to find out if its compatible with non-SGI systems. ^_^
Exactly how lazy are you that you cant wait an additional 12 seconds for the FBI warnings to scroll by?
Use that valuable time to pick your nose I say.
Slashdot Mirror
This gives new meaning to the phrase:
"Honey do I look fat in this?" Put on Gzip glasses. "Of course not dear."
Firstly issuing several thousand pings is legitimate under certain conditions. When we were experiencing problems with our uplinks at work we would be pinging other routers with 10,000 count pings to see how the packets were being dropped.
Secondly, assuming all DDoS are just simple ping is very short sighted. A much more effective DDoS is to spoof packets from IP addresses that arent being routed on the internet, when these reach the routers that connect to the name servers, depending on their configs, they would end up flooding their ip routing cache with useless entries, leading to the routers going down, leading to the nameservers being down.
This would make sense if he lived in say something like Germany, where the government takes care of its citizens. But you never get anything for free, Germany doesnt have the same free market as America, so you have a greater chance of striking it rich here, but you have to give up something in the process. What you give up is government protection, you have no health care, no free or near free tuition, etc. etc.
In reality, or rather, in other countries besides America its not ludicrious for the government to care for its citizens and make certain that they are employed and not losing their jobs overseas or to foreigners.
And star wars isnt an aging franchise. Not to start a flame war, but I see no problem with another Mad Max film. Mel Gibson isnt that old, I liked Mad Max, even if Thunderdome sucked. If the plot has really been in the works for three years there may be a chance that it wont suck, certainly Im willing to give this film the benefit of the doubt, simply because there has been such a huge stretch between this film and the last.
At least this long stretch should tell you its not a sequel thats only trying to capitalize off of the success of the first film(s). Sequels to successful first films usually suffer as a result, but here we have will have the fourth installment, where there were good and bad sequels, so hopefully they figured out what to do and not to do. Not to mention technology has advanced and the budget is definitely bigger, so there is potential to really close out the Mad Max franchise with a bang. So long as they dont get carried away with stupidity (Thunderdome).
"Im glad I dont work for that company any more, they were more into making a profit then helping their customers."
Oh yes, how silly of them, a company actaully caring about profits.
Instead of spending so much energy focusing on DRM, which everyone realizes is useless, they should instead focus on a service and ease of use.
DRM wont work unless each piece of hardware used to play music is tagged and then submitted to their service so that the music you download can be authorized to play on those hardware. Not to mention, that all DRM will eventually, if not the day of its release, be cracked anyway. Instead of limiting consumers (temporarily) the music industry should focus on making music downloads quick and easy. Give us our choice of bit rates, easy menus for selection, the ability to mix and match songs from various albums and artists, allow quick and easy payment, and by god not only will you turn a profit, but people will purchase more music. In addition they should be able to sell more music, since personally I buy a very varied range, and some rare and difficult to find CDs can be just as easily offered online for download as the latest Pop Top 40.
I never goto the store to buy a music CD anymore, its just much easier online, but offer me a service online to download mp3s from and I would purchase much more, there is no charge for shipping, I can mix, and I can get them already in mp3 at high bit rates, which saves me the hassle. (98% of my listening to music is solely on PC). Thats just my take on it.
The new indiglo clock server mod, counts the number of seconds between being slashdotted and the server dieing! Reverse your kit today! ^_^
I was with you until you said that DDR doesnt much resemble dancing. Dont bag on it just because you cant shake your grave thang like the rest of me. -_^
I will not be posting any new pictures of my geek pad, as it is currently ablaze in a three alarm fire after my website was slashdotted the AMD without heatsink that I was running spontaneously combusted.
They should really release those things with a Slashdot warning. -_^
If these are real and were leaked by MS then why does the desktop have CuteFTP and Nero Burning Rom installed? I know plenty of /.'ers use Nero, but I just cant picture an MS employee using it. Maybe I'm just brainwashed?
Looks like they got a Rice Server to host their Rice mods :-)
Maybe that NOS sticker I tacked on my AMDXP1600+ doesnt improve performance? Oro?
Simple..
:)
Many many many many many many pigeons.
You know it had to be some ebay junkie who just had to win an auction, so he blocked out half the internet.
I read through your little comparison of the two films and besides the water melon shot and the distinctive use of columns and how they fracture without sparking (GITS only sparks when the bullets hit the metal framework), are the only two comparisons with any merit. I certainly would not amount that to equating the two films, especially when you completely avoided discussing the plot of both, which is the one area where some truly interesting parrallels could have been drawn.
I mean come on, they both use elevators in the movie, Conspiracy rating:3, you may as well have said, characters in both films wear shoes on their feet, Conspiracy Rating:4.
"I've been a fan of the anime for many years and understood which elements would have to be brought to a live-action translation of it," Robinson told Daily Variety.
I really hoped that the interviewer would have asked Robinson if he read the manga, because the manga is epic compared to the movie. A lot of first time viewers, and rightly so, complained that alot of Akira didnt make sense. And thats because it was a movie that that tried to capture a story the size of the Bible in just two hours. I really dont see how he can stay true to Akira if he never read the manga, and from his comments, he gives no indication that he has. Personally I think the money could have been much better spent creating a high quality Akira animated series, like the GITS2 series being made now.But then again hollywood is going ape over superhero movies, and they figure they should give anime/manga a shot, but for a live action movie, especially for the first anime live action American movie, I think Ghost in the Shell would have been a better fit. It would have been much easier to accomplish visually, it is on many levels an equal to Akira, and it is certainly more understandle for the larger audience, even without reading Shirows manga.
On a personal note, if the movie does not contain the
"KANEDA!!"
"TETSUO!!"
"KANEDA!!"
shout sequence at the Olympic stadium then it isnt worth watching.
Yup, I dont think that anyone will take AMD seriously for any fault tolerant systems until they deal with the heat issue.
Personally I dont even think its so much a matter of running hot, which although a nuisance isnt deadly, but more so that there are no safegaurds against overheating. Intel on the other hand, besides running cooler, downgrades the CPU if its overheating. AMD's XP does the same unless the temperature rises more than 1C per second, in which case it craps out anyway.
Deal with the heat and they may be taken seriously, they certainly have the performance, not to mention it should total up to a nice savings for a couple thousand processor system.
Beyond what you will find people already mentioning as risks associated with Lasik surgery, the real problem is that this is a relatively new technique in the medical world. Because the oldest patients have only lived with the procedure for less than a decade, thus there is no information on the long term effects of the surgery.
Even if you luck out and avoid any complications and end up with 20/20 eyesight, there is no garauntee that ten years or 15 years from now the procedure wont have adverse side effects. Sure you could say but thats so far down the line, but then again you only have one pair of eyes, and if you arent dying from wearing your glasses, hold out a bit longer till some long term patients are reviewed and the results of the procedure are re-examined.
Undetectables website is now undetectable.
That is no longer an available option. If I recall correctly Microsoft exerted enough influence on the major resellers to stop them from offering no-OS computers. There is a chance that this being a white box, and not branded as Dell, and since its only 1% of their revenue MS might not notice/care, that they will be allowed to ship them no-OS, but its doubtful.
Then again, would alot of 0-100 businesses be interested in no-OS PCs. Perhaps the price savings are a nice incentive, but have there been any statistics on the percent of small, medium, and large businesses that actually use non MS OSes?
Its nice how you write it like a book report, perhaps you missed the whole Chia talking with her friends in a VR world bit that introduces her to the reader. But I guess a better example would be WALLED CITY.
And certainly an online version of Walled city would be quite an interesting project. So I guess you should go re-read Idoru and stop being such a jackass ^_^
This is definitely a cool idea, and its just another step towards William Gibson's view of the future web (read Idoru). Its definitely more fun to actually traverse a DustCity instead of forum categories, and it certainly does better to make your online conversations more interesting.
I think it would be interesting if someone setup an open source project/community for a similar deal. Have everyone build up their own identities, instead of just being limited to nicks you can finally have 3d physical representations of yourself. But I guess that would be moving towards the idea of a virtual city, but then again that would definitely be interesting.
Would also be fun to see how people would hack such a project.
What happens when trains sometimes get rerouted, wouldnt the adds then be running in reverse?
Actually the military is doing research on this. I know that a professor at NYU doing Fluid Dynamics is involved because I attended one of his presentations. But they arent interested in something the size of a small R/C copter, but rather almost insect size. Which is why most of the work that is being done on this at such a small stage doesnt revolve around propellers but wings.
It appears that the motion of the wings of insects creates almost instant and quite powerfull lift. The motion also isnt vertical, it is much more complex, where the wings are rotating and following elliptical orbits and such. So mathematicians are trying to model these wing motions and apply them to mechanics to create tiny wings capable of lift and sustained flight. Further it has to have tremendous hovering capabilities, as the interest is to send these "insects" into a building or room and have them sneak out vital information. Making stationary listening kinda important.
I had a similar problem when I originally got my SGI 1600sw flat panel LCD a few years back. It ran at 1600x1024 native, and to accomodate this unstandard (at the time) resolution, you were forced into using one of their "pre-approved" graphics cards. At the time they were fairly decent, but eventually they got old, without being able to upgrade, since the default connection was OpenLDI digital (not DVI), you had to buy an adapter (Usually out of stock and $600 retail) or get a new monitor.
If there are enough monitors made at 16:9 instead of 16:10 in time 16:9 resolutions will be standardized. So if you plan to use this monitor for a few years, I think eventually you wont have any graphics cards problems. But until then, I would say the GeForce cards are very accomodating to non standard resolutions. I cant say much for 16:9 but I know that all VisionTek GeFroce2+ cards and certainly 4+ cards support 16:10 resolutions. GeForce2 was one of the few vendors that also supported 16:10 when there were only a handful of monitors running at that resolution.
If you cant find anything that runs 16:9 and that monitor can rescale to 16:10 then I think a decent Geforce4 wont be much of a compromise. Plus, you should be able to hook up your DVD directly to it and still have it hooked up to your PC so you can still watch your movies at 16:9.
My next monitor is the SGI F220 which im ordering next week, and lucky me I can get a GeForce4 to render, now I just have to find out if its compatible with non-SGI systems. ^_^
Exactly how lazy are you that you cant wait an additional 12 seconds for the FBI warnings to scroll by? Use that valuable time to pick your nose I say.