I want more maps.. or even perhaps a good SDK so other modders can make good maps / etc.
Better yet, get the Dystopia team into Valveworld... http://www.dystopia-game.com/ -- heck Dystopia is probably a better put together game than either CS or DOD were (considering they were mods at one time). Some bugs, yes, but CS and DOD were (and sometimes still are) buggy as hell..
Oh, and for the obligatory Portal joke..
Check out what happens when you're NOT playing in Portal..
On some of the HP Lasers we have @ the office, they have a little chip affixed to the toner cartridge. If the chip isn't there, the printer won't function. Even though the cartridge is identical to one of the lesser models, you have to have the chip or the printer will NOT function.
Our re-filler got a bunch of chips from somewhere, but none of them worked. We found that if we pulled the chip off the old toner cartridge and put it on the new one, it worked just dandy..
So, you're going to make the cheat developers jump ahead. Instead of injecting their software into the wall code, they're going to have to inject their software into the anticheat code, to pass keystrokes into it as it shoots the guy down the alley..
Why waste money with this? Blizzard's Warden is pretty robust from an anticheat stand. Ok, sure, it's spyware too. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4385050.stm - See this or google Blizzard Warden spyware.. of course don't mind the lag that Warden causes.
You can clap all the DRM and encryption on this issue you want,but it won't do any good. At the end of the day, the PC still has to keep stuff in ram, unencrypted, for the CPU to be able to run it. Until Intel makes some kind of RSA type on the fly on-cpu encryption (which I'm going to patent, btw) so you just encrypt your program with their public key... Then cheating, extracting HD-DVD keys, etc will still succeed.
It's bigotry, IMO, to discriminate against kids playing.
I've run countless FPS servers, and whenever a squeaky comes on the voice chat, they're almost always harassed and teased (but usually by kids who were just in the very same position not long before that themselves).
I've ALWAYS stuck up for them, because as long as they're being respectful and good team players, they're usually GOOD. Better than this old man is..
The EPA doesn't actually test the cars under real situations.
The car manufacturers test their OWN cars, but not in real-world. They put them on a Dynamometer, drive it in varying conditions, and collect the carbon it produced. From that, they calculate how much fuel the car burned and then derive the MPG from that.
Of COURSE a hybrid would SHOW a huge MPG rating by that government standard. A total electric would show ~ (infinity) as it produces NO carbon itself.
Oh, and for anyone who thinks I'm just blowing smoke out of my ass (pun intended)
I owned my last name.com (poe) WAAAAY back in the mid 90's. Someone spoofed an email from me and stole it out from under me -- nobody wanted to do anything about it..
"Scalix Community Edition is a product we've packaged and made available for free so every organization can try out and use our robust messaging solution. It includes Scalix Collaboration Platform - which serves as the foundation for all our product editions - and 25 Premium User mailboxes. As such, Community Edition is a field-proven, commercial grade email platform. As with all Scalix editions, it has a flexible, open architecture, and supports Outlook, Evolution, Scalix Web Access, and any IMAP or POP client. It can be customized, extended and integrated."
I've not had any of those kinds of things. I ordered on a Friday, got it Monday afternoon. Small technical glitch (which was not a result of their f* up), resolved in a very short time.
Never needed any more than that. I've heard that it used to be a bit slower, but they're really on the ball to get things looked @..
The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software - to make sure the software is free for all its users.
YET...
we have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those products.
So which way is it? Are you giving or just not giving for everyone?
Well, with the different snippets of news that come out, they're doing SOMETHING.
Mobile shipping containers (to negate a datacenter fire?), buying out the fiber, building massive data centers, etc..
Perhaps he's right, but perhaps Google is planning something a little LESS sinister.
Like, maybe Gubuntu is a reality that they're developing to grab the little old lady market. Just run down to wallymart and grab a $50 device that will "just work(TM)", be fast and lean (and ROM based so it can't be futzed up). They'll need content servers for that.
Or maybe they REALLY think they'll have a corporate market. Plug and play device that will take on 90% of the corporate market (oh, and yeah, sorry, all your data are belong to us!), putting those legacy Win32 apps on Citrix servers (provided by Goog?).
Or maybe they're just hedging their bets and controlling the majority of dark bandwidth to interconnect their servers and make a low-latency cheap GoogleWAN.
Are there any IT admins out there thinking about trying Open Office, either with a few users or all of them?"
Naaah.
I posted an "Ask Slashdot" on deploying OpenOffice 2.0 to a corporate environment. About 40-50 desktops.
The thing I needed was for OOo to default save documents as MS Word (or MS Excel) since that's what that government agency has to produce (or PDF) to fit with the other agencies they share information with.
I got a range of answers.. mostly to "Well, you have to edit the.MSI file with ORCA", or "Well download and compile the source yourself.
I'm a geek, but am not a programmer and I don't have time to go through all that just to set a default. And setting it for ONE user requires "hands on".. installing it globally on the workstation is damn near impossible, or so I've found. Even if you go to the all users and set the.XML file that way, it doesn't remember the setting.
It wouldn't be THAT hard to put a command line switch on the installer, or a checkbox if you're not installing it silently, or even a registry entry, to tell OOo to default to MS file formats.
Oh, and document compatibility is another reason.. I sent a state form we use (that's unfortunately a MS Word document, not a PDF form) to the OOo list, with a challenge to make it OOo format (as OOo totally jacked it up format wise) and never got anything worth using back...
As much as I hate to say, it's a Microsoft world out there, and if you want to unsurp the MS beast (which I'm ALL for), then you've got to play the game at LEAST as well as MS)..
Something gets promoted, gets big.. then gets killed off by greedy b@st@rds...
The cure for cancer? May be soon to come.. saw it on Google News I think.. and the people who may have found it are patenting it before the release the details..
Great, so Grandma can die while they're waiting for the red tape.
Slashdot Mirror
I want more maps .. or even perhaps a good SDK so other modders can make good maps / etc.
... http://www.dystopia-game.com/ -- heck Dystopia is probably a better put together game than either CS or DOD were (considering they were mods at one time). Some bugs, yes, but CS and DOD were (and sometimes still are) buggy as hell..
..
..
Better yet, get the Dystopia team into Valveworld
Oh, and for the obligatory Portal joke
Check out what happens when you're NOT playing in Portal
The Turrets visit the Portal Cafe http://picasaweb.google.com/robpoe
OOo in the communities hands will suffer, much as the rest of most big OSS projects.
Too much vanilla..
and why are you running on port 22 on the interweb w/o a firewall restricting who can hit port 22???
I surely hope that this vaccine is proven safe, and is available in the USA VERY SOON!!!
I have a close relative with MS and know several others..
Microsoft doesn't have to fracture the OSS community. It does a fine job at fracturing itself.
.. What the fuck ever .. Why even argue over this shit.
"RMS IS A GOD"
"RMS IS AN IDIOT"
"YOU'RE AN IDIOT FOR NOT SEEING RMS IS A GOD"
"YOU'RE AN IDIOT FOR THINKING IM AN IDIOT FOR THINKING RMS IS A GOD"
And so on..
We make people into these cult-like status symbols, when in actuality, they shit like the rest of us do... Free software is good. Yes. OSS is good.
Freedom as in
GPL isn't freedom. Want freedom? Release all code as Public Domain, TOTALLY free.
Who fucking cares if Tivo uses it in their device. Means it was GOOD CODE.
I'll get modded down and flamed for this post, which will further fracture the community.
Good job!
There's no place like 127.0.0.1!!!
..
followed by
ET iPhone 127.0.0.1
On some of the HP Lasers we have @ the office, they have a little chip affixed to the toner cartridge. If the chip isn't there, the printer won't function. Even though the cartridge is identical to one of the lesser models, you have to have the chip or the printer will NOT function.
Our re-filler got a bunch of chips from somewhere, but none of them worked. We found that if we pulled the chip off the old toner cartridge and put it on the new one, it worked just dandy..
So, you're going to make the cheat developers jump ahead. Instead of injecting their software into the wall code, they're going to have to inject their software into the anticheat code, to pass keystrokes into it as it shoots the guy down the alley..
.. of course don't mind the lag that Warden causes.
... Then cheating, extracting HD-DVD keys, etc will still succeed.
Why waste money with this? Blizzard's Warden is pretty robust from an anticheat stand. Ok, sure, it's spyware too. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4385050.stm - See this or google Blizzard Warden spyware
You can clap all the DRM and encryption on this issue you want,but it won't do any good. At the end of the day, the PC still has to keep stuff in ram, unencrypted, for the CPU to be able to run it. Until Intel makes some kind of RSA type on the fly on-cpu encryption (which I'm going to patent, btw) so you just encrypt your program with their public key
It's bigotry, IMO, to discriminate against kids playing.
..
I've run countless FPS servers, and whenever a squeaky comes on the voice chat, they're almost always harassed and teased (but usually by kids who were just in the very same position not long before that themselves).
I've ALWAYS stuck up for them, because as long as they're being respectful and good team players, they're usually GOOD. Better than this old man is
The EPA doesn't actually test the cars under real situations.
The car manufacturers test their OWN cars, but not in real-world. They put them on a Dynamometer, drive it in varying conditions, and collect the carbon it produced. From that, they calculate how much fuel the car burned and then derive the MPG from that.
Of COURSE a hybrid would SHOW a huge MPG rating by that government standard. A total electric would show ~ (infinity) as it produces NO carbon itself.
Oh, and for anyone who thinks I'm just blowing smoke out of my ass (pun intended)
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/how_tested.shtml
It's not ready.
There is a lot of software that won't run on it.
It's buggy - feels rushed. There are things in it that are still broken - things that were broken during beta.
Honestly, if Intuit released Quickbooks for Linux (yeah, right) - there are a lot of businesses that would probably switch..
Even stupider,
.com (poe) WAAAAY back in the mid 90's. Someone spoofed an email from me and stole it out from under me -- nobody wanted to do anything about it ..
.. link farming away since ..
... for $45k
I owned my last name
And it sits
They offered to sell it to me
S.P.A.C.E.
Statically
Practical
Application
(for)
Countering
Extra-Terrestrials
That will be great, until some script kiddy decides to pwnz0r the sat link ...
Not terribly free ..
"Scalix Community Edition is a product we've packaged and made available for free so every organization can try out and use our robust messaging solution. It includes Scalix Collaboration Platform - which serves as the foundation for all our product editions - and 25 Premium User mailboxes. As such, Community Edition is a field-proven, commercial grade email platform. As with all Scalix editions, it has a flexible, open architecture, and supports Outlook, Evolution, Scalix Web Access, and any IMAP or POP client. It can be customized, extended and integrated."
Isn't the GPL about FREEDOM ?
If you have freedom, you have to take the bad with the good.
Ya' know, kinda like the First Ammendment.
I've not had any of those kinds of things. I ordered on a Friday, got it Monday afternoon. Small technical glitch (which was not a result of their f* up), resolved in a very short time.
Never needed any more than that. I've heard that it used to be a bit slower, but they're really on the ball to get things looked @..
http://www.layeredtech.com/
Rock solid for me. I've got a dual Xeon 2.8 / 2g ram / 2x500g SATA (RAID1). 10mb internet connection with 2(something) terabytes of transfer.
Check out their specials.
YET ...
we have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those products.
So which way is it? Are you giving or just not giving for everyone?
This is not flamebait.
It's contrary to the Slashdot hordes, but it's the first thing *I* thought of when I saw this article.
Like it's MySpace's fault for
(1) not controlling the kids (isn't that the PARENT'S responsibility?)
(2) letting the kids go meet said predator
Well, with the different snippets of news that come out, they're doing SOMETHING.
Mobile shipping containers (to negate a datacenter fire?), buying out the fiber, building massive data centers, etc..
Perhaps he's right, but perhaps Google is planning something a little LESS sinister.
Like, maybe Gubuntu is a reality that they're developing to grab the little old lady market. Just run down to wallymart and grab a $50 device that will "just work(TM)", be fast and lean (and ROM based so it can't be futzed up). They'll need content servers for that.
Or maybe they REALLY think they'll have a corporate market. Plug and play device that will take on 90% of the corporate market (oh, and yeah, sorry, all your data are belong to us!), putting those legacy Win32 apps on Citrix servers (provided by Goog?).
Or maybe they're just hedging their bets and controlling the majority of dark bandwidth to interconnect their servers and make a low-latency cheap GoogleWAN.
Or maybe they're scared of "Net Neutrality"..
Or MAYBE they're building SKYNet
Naaah.
I posted an "Ask Slashdot" on deploying OpenOffice 2.0 to a corporate environment. About 40-50 desktops.
The thing I needed was for OOo to default save documents as MS Word (or MS Excel) since that's what that government agency has to produce (or PDF) to fit with the other agencies they share information with.
I got a range of answers .. mostly to "Well, you have to edit the .MSI file with ORCA", or "Well download and compile the source yourself.
I'm a geek, but am not a programmer and I don't have time to go through all that just to set a default. And setting it for ONE user requires "hands on" .. installing it globally on the workstation is damn near impossible, or so I've found. Even if you go to the all users and set the .XML file that way, it doesn't remember the setting.
It wouldn't be THAT hard to put a command line switch on the installer, or a checkbox if you're not installing it silently, or even a registry entry, to tell OOo to default to MS file formats.
Oh, and document compatibility is another reason .. I sent a state form we use (that's unfortunately a MS Word document, not a PDF form) to the OOo list, with a challenge to make it OOo format (as OOo totally jacked it up format wise) and never got anything worth using back...
As much as I hate to say, it's a Microsoft world out there, and if you want to unsurp the MS beast (which I'm ALL for), then you've got to play the game at LEAST as well as MS)..
This gets so tiring ...
.. then gets killed off by greedy b@st@rds ...
.. saw it on Google News I think .. and the people who may have found it are patenting it before the release the details..
Something gets promoted, gets big
The cure for cancer? May be soon to come
Great, so Grandma can die while they're waiting for the red tape.
We had a diagnostic device that you hooked to it .. and it would tell you where in the line the break was (i.e. how many feet).