What I wanna know in regards to FFXI, is what the hell is it doing with all them ports? Look at this page. They want access to ports 25, 80 and 110 among others. Huh? Webpage and email servers? What gives?
There are reasons to use port 135 over the net. People at my ISP's forums were suggesting this port be blocked, but one guy was vociferously against the idea. Turned out he worked in the security industry, and having access to ports under attack at home was extremely valuable for him. ISPs shouldn't just block ports without giving their clueful users a way to opt out (as you mention).
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A lot of this stuff still happens in Australia. Ducted air conditioning isn't as common here as I take it it is in America. Our house has wide eaves. insulation in walls and ceiling and a very eldery air conditioner that doesn't work on heat. Really it's not much of a problem keeping the house livable. You just need to build to suit your climate.
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"You are a dinosaur and we will bury you like the dinosaurs."
And in a few thousand years, we'll dig you up and burn you in our cars like the dinosaurs. How you like them apples?
"anyone who decides to spend money on a PC running Windows deserves what they get"
And there are, like, so many options too. It's fine for me, I build all my computers from parts. But the truth is, most people buy ready-made, plug-em-in-and-they-work type boxes. And most of those come with Windows. Not to mention that anyone who wants to play most games these days has to run Windows. Or just the fact that they know windows, and are comfortable with it.
And lets face it, if clueless newbies adminned Linux boxes, they'd be almost as insecure Windows machines. Unpatched, permanently logged in as root, all files chmodded to 777 so they don't get any errors, no firewall, cause ipchains is just too tricky. I'd agree that Linux is a technically superior OS, but as we all know, technical superiority don't mean jack when it comes to the desktop market.
I said it that the time, but if Square had cinematized any of it's Final Fantasy titles at the time (except for VIII), the results would have been waaaaay different. In particularly VI and VII lend themselves to this sort of thing, although VI would probably need to be done as 2 movies. I couldn't believe how dodgy The Spirit's Within storyline was when I first saw it. Final Fantasy, for me, has always been about excellent story and character, and this was totally blown in the movie.
VI: Comes in at the all-round favorite. It totally trumped all previous NES/SNES titles. Graphics were as good as they got, the story was incredibly large in scope, the characters were well developed, distinct and likable. I also love fantasy and post-apocalyptic stuff. Here I get the best of both:)
VIII: I know everyone hates 8, and for many good reasons, but I just had to stick it in here. I loved the fact that the driving force behind the story was the romance. The weapon system was flawed (I could get 3 of the best weapons before I became a Seed through playing Triple Triad and modding cards), the skill system (Guardian Forces) I thought was terrible, the epic overstory was cliched and forced, but the characters and their inter-relationships were wonderful.
VII was good, I loved the materia system, and Sephiroth was an awesome bad guy, but it just didn't hit me hard enough.
The problem is the whole idea of "third party applications" for Windows is dwindling. Microsoft seem to be focussing mostly on integrating all their user-level applications incredibly tightly with their OS (so as to prevent uninstallation and market-share growth by their competitors is my bet) that too many applications are now part of the operating system. Just try uninstalling Internet Explorer. MSN Messenger? Outlook Express?
It's good to see MS is taking their anti-trust convition seriously and mending their ways, not using their OS monopoly to leverage market-share in areas such as IM and mail clients.
In terms of neat-o concepts and interesting ideas, Reloaded was packed. But cinematically, it was a terrible let down from the first one. It's like the Brothers W forgot all they learned about movie-making. You don't chuck in massive lumps of exposition and you don't have gratuitious scenes only designed to show off your effects, you make them integral to the plot too (the original Matrix did this well).
But conceptually, Reloaded was pretty cool. It's a pity Revolutions was filmed before Reloaded was aired; no chance for critical feedback.
Maybe I'm not reading this right, but the story says the products are immune from liability "when they are purchased by the 22 federal agencies under DHS" and some other branches of government. One of the people angling to get their product (a telecommunications system) sealed says they don't want to be held responsible for mass hysteria caused if the government makes a stupid announcement over their system.
The article compares it to rules currently applying to defence contractors, which, as far as I can tell, come down to "if the government shoots you with a glock, bitch to the government, don't sue glock". I can't see anything wrong with this seal of approval; it means the government is held responsible for how they use these products rather than the manufacturers.
Of course, this should be the way it is with all products all the time. If people use products to do stupid things, it's people, not manufacturers that should be sued. Manufacturers should only be able to be sued if the product does not behave as advertised.
"the Talmud, Bible, and Koran contain graphic descriptions of adultery, rape and murder"
I don't know about the Talmud or the Koran, I'm just talking Bible here, but I can't recall any graphic descriptions of adultery or rape. It's mentioned often enough, but "Adam lay with her" is about as graphic as it gets. No, too hot!
Now violence, violence I'll give you. Gotta love the sword being swallowed by the fat man's gut in Judges. Adultery is mentioned quite a bit, rape less so, but neither are particularly graphic in descriptions.
So? Why can't there by bi-directional movement through the interface to the Matrix? As long as an agent is sophisticated enough to emulate a human mind closely enough (I take that as a given), then there is no reason an artificial consciousness could not replace a human one. This's been done before in movies (Thirteeth Floor, for example)
It hammered home the point that "Zion", rather than being a wasteland city in the real world, is really just a bit-bucket for storing the minds of those who reject The Matrix
How does it do that? I still don't buy that Zion is another construction. I think that Neo's use of his power outside the Matrix involved the same sort of awakening of awareness as did his use of his powers in the first movie.
In the first movie, he had to truly accept that the Matrix was an artificial construct of bits and bytes before he could use his powers. In the second movie, I think he has just realised that reality is no more than a collection of electrons, and that the same rules apply inside the Matrix as out, not because outside the Matrix is a simulation, but because all of reality is able to be manipluated, as long as you recognise its true nature.
What if I take and spend my own money and gave out 10,000 copies to people standing on the street? Do you know what that is called? It's called MARKETING
You're so right. The RIAA should recognise this as a criminal activity. The sooner we have marketing down on the books as a capital offence, the better the world will be.
You don't need to filter the requests, just the ISP's DNS servers. It can't be too hard to add in a list of domain names that the DNS server will automatically reject. Granted, there's ways around this (manual entry into the hosts file, point to a different DNS service, etc) but these are beyond the average user, and it will nevertheless protect normal users from accidentally encountering child porn.
You solved my problem! I had this really bizarre problem with a program I had written. When I opened up the compiled program in a hex editor, look what I found:
Everything you say points to the current state of affairs. My point is that Australia is still growing. We don't have much of a say in the world yet, but we will. We have decidedly more control over our future than the American public; we don't have stupid rules about lobyists being able to bribe politicians to pass laws for them. If our politicians want to get into power, they've got to make the Australian public as a whole (not just the subset who choose to vote, as in America) happy. No matter who our leader is, we're still going to have to kow-tow to the US for the moment. American favour is too valuable, and enmity too costly.
No, Australia doesn't manufacture much. But the industrial age is over, and the information age just beginning. I don't know about the "tattered remnants" you mention; the Australian education system is one of the best in the world. Many Australian graduates are asked to work overseas, not just heading over there to look for jobs, but being actively recruited. I know that in at least two fields (teaching and nursing), Australian's can earn massive salaries (compared to the earnings back home) in places like the UK.
Tha largest technological advance Australia has had the opportunity to participate in has been the internet. Australia, despite being encumbered by a government-sponsored telecommunications monopoly, has a very high rate of broadband penetration. For a country with such a low population density, our infrastructure is remarkable. Many Australian Universities (Wollongong, Melbourne, UTS) were working on the internet in its infancy.
Australia continues to make innovations in other areas. It was an Australian research group who managed to teleport, not just a single photon as had been done previously, but an entire laser beam. Australia is a world leader in medical research. I really can't see your argument about Australia being backwards technologically.
As too becoming a US vassal state, well, maybe. But there hasn't been a nation on earth who have lasted forever, and when the inevitable decay hits the US, someone's going to pick up the pieces and become the next world power. It could very well be Australia. It may not be, but then, it could be, too.
That stops the user from having to see it, but not the bandwidth cost of having downloaded it. Also, with white lists, theres the problem of initial contact. Sometimes people, for valid reason, want to contact you without having done so before. Example? Many freelance editors advertise their services online. They can't setup a white list, or they won't get any clients. So with white lists, the user only delays the necessity of sorting through the spam; they need to identify the false positives and undo them.
Only sensible I spose. How many colonized countries have come to dominate their colonizers?
Rome was founded by Greeks, wasn't it? And it was the Roman's who colonized England just before they colapsed. And England colonized the US.
Australia's one of the youngest western countries. I wouldn't be surprised if it began to dominate, at within least the western sphere, as time goes by and it starts developing.
The law says you have a right to sell something you own. If a company comes up with a technological method to lock files in such a way as to prevent this sale, then that method is preventing customers from exercising this right.
If they hadn't provided a mechanism to lock the files, then they wouldn't be expected to provide one to unlock them.
No one says that we require a way to resell digital music because we can resell physical media. We're sayin we require a way to resell digital music because we have a right to.
But if, when you purchased a book, the store clerk padlocked it to your wrist. If they deliberately attach the sold item to you, shouldn't they then provide you with the key to the padlock, so you can then sell the book?
If someone sells you an item, then through technological means makes the item unable to be resold, then your right to first sale does not exist. They can say "Oh, it's legal to resell it", but if they've deliberately manufactured it in such a way, then the legality or illegality of reselling it is academic.
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What I wanna know in regards to FFXI, is what the hell is it doing with all them ports? Look at this page. They want access to ports 25, 80 and 110 among others. Huh? Webpage and email servers? What gives?
There are reasons to use port 135 over the net. People at my ISP's forums were suggesting this port be blocked, but one guy was vociferously against the idea. Turned out he worked in the security industry, and having access to ports under attack at home was extremely valuable for him. ISPs shouldn't just block ports without giving their clueful users a way to opt out (as you mention).
A lot of this stuff still happens in Australia. Ducted air conditioning isn't as common here as I take it it is in America. Our house has wide eaves. insulation in walls and ceiling and a very eldery air conditioner that doesn't work on heat. Really it's not much of a problem keeping the house livable. You just need to build to suit your climate.
"You are a dinosaur and we will bury you like the dinosaurs."
And in a few thousand years, we'll dig you up and burn you in our cars like the dinosaurs. How you like them apples?
You're right, should swap over to AMD.
"anyone who decides to spend money on a PC running Windows deserves what they get"
And there are, like, so many options too. It's fine for me, I build all my computers from parts. But the truth is, most people buy ready-made, plug-em-in-and-they-work type boxes. And most of those come with Windows. Not to mention that anyone who wants to play most games these days has to run Windows. Or just the fact that they know windows, and are comfortable with it.
And lets face it, if clueless newbies adminned Linux boxes, they'd be almost as insecure Windows machines. Unpatched, permanently logged in as root, all files chmodded to 777 so they don't get any errors, no firewall, cause ipchains is just too tricky. I'd agree that Linux is a technically superior OS, but as we all know, technical superiority don't mean jack when it comes to the desktop market.
I said it that the time, but if Square had cinematized any of it's Final Fantasy titles at the time (except for VIII), the results would have been waaaaay different. In particularly VI and VII lend themselves to this sort of thing, although VI would probably need to be done as 2 movies. I couldn't believe how dodgy The Spirit's Within storyline was when I first saw it. Final Fantasy, for me, has always been about excellent story and character, and this was totally blown in the movie.
Using the Japanese System:
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VI: Comes in at the all-round favorite. It totally trumped all previous NES/SNES titles. Graphics were as good as they got, the story was incredibly large in scope, the characters were well developed, distinct and likable. I also love fantasy and post-apocalyptic stuff. Here I get the best of both
VIII: I know everyone hates 8, and for many good reasons, but I just had to stick it in here. I loved the fact that the driving force behind the story was the romance. The weapon system was flawed (I could get 3 of the best weapons before I became a Seed through playing Triple Triad and modding cards), the skill system (Guardian Forces) I thought was terrible, the epic overstory was cliched and forced, but the characters and their inter-relationships were wonderful.
VII was good, I loved the materia system, and Sephiroth was an awesome bad guy, but it just didn't hit me hard enough.
"VB which is a low beer not as low as XXXX or fosters all"
Reminds me of another joke. Why do Queenslanders drink XXXX? Because they can't spell BEER.
Congratulations, you were the first post not modded as funny. I sure as hell don't know why not though.
The problem is the whole idea of "third party applications" for Windows is dwindling. Microsoft seem to be focussing mostly on integrating all their user-level applications incredibly tightly with their OS (so as to prevent uninstallation and market-share growth by their competitors is my bet) that too many applications are now part of the operating system. Just try uninstalling Internet Explorer. MSN Messenger? Outlook Express?
It's good to see MS is taking their anti-trust convition seriously and mending their ways, not using their OS monopoly to leverage market-share in areas such as IM and mail clients.
In terms of neat-o concepts and interesting ideas, Reloaded was packed. But cinematically, it was a terrible let down from the first one. It's like the Brothers W forgot all they learned about movie-making. You don't chuck in massive lumps of exposition and you don't have gratuitious scenes only designed to show off your effects, you make them integral to the plot too (the original Matrix did this well).
But conceptually, Reloaded was pretty cool. It's a pity Revolutions was filmed before Reloaded was aired; no chance for critical feedback.
Maybe I'm not reading this right, but the story says the products are immune from liability "when they are purchased by the 22 federal agencies under DHS" and some other branches of government. One of the people angling to get their product (a telecommunications system) sealed says they don't want to be held responsible for mass hysteria caused if the government makes a stupid announcement over their system.
The article compares it to rules currently applying to defence contractors, which, as far as I can tell, come down to "if the government shoots you with a glock, bitch to the government, don't sue glock". I can't see anything wrong with this seal of approval; it means the government is held responsible for how they use these products rather than the manufacturers.
Of course, this should be the way it is with all products all the time. If people use products to do stupid things, it's people, not manufacturers that should be sued. Manufacturers should only be able to be sued if the product does not behave as advertised.
"the Talmud, Bible, and Koran contain graphic descriptions of adultery, rape and murder"
I don't know about the Talmud or the Koran, I'm just talking Bible here, but I can't recall any graphic descriptions of adultery or rape. It's mentioned often enough, but "Adam lay with her" is about as graphic as it gets. No, too hot!
Now violence, violence I'll give you. Gotta love the sword being swallowed by the fat man's gut in Judges. Adultery is mentioned quite a bit, rape less so, but neither are particularly graphic in descriptions.
So? Why can't there by bi-directional movement through the interface to the Matrix? As long as an agent is sophisticated enough to emulate a human mind closely enough (I take that as a given), then there is no reason an artificial consciousness could not replace a human one. This's been done before in movies (Thirteeth Floor, for example)
It hammered home the point that "Zion", rather than being a wasteland city in the real world, is really just a bit-bucket for storing the minds of those who reject The Matrix
How does it do that? I still don't buy that Zion is another construction. I think that Neo's use of his power outside the Matrix involved the same sort of awakening of awareness as did his use of his powers in the first movie.
In the first movie, he had to truly accept that the Matrix was an artificial construct of bits and bytes before he could use his powers. In the second movie, I think he has just realised that reality is no more than a collection of electrons, and that the same rules apply inside the Matrix as out, not because outside the Matrix is a simulation, but because all of reality is able to be manipluated, as long as you recognise its true nature.
What if I take and spend my own money and gave out 10,000 copies to people standing on the street? Do you know what that is called? It's called MARKETING
You're so right. The RIAA should recognise this as a criminal activity. The sooner we have marketing down on the books as a capital offence, the better the world will be.
You don't need to filter the requests, just the ISP's DNS servers. It can't be too hard to add in a list of domain names that the DNS server will automatically reject. Granted, there's ways around this (manual entry into the hosts file, point to a different DNS service, etc) but these are beyond the average user, and it will nevertheless protect normal users from accidentally encountering child porn.
You solved my problem! I had this really bizarre problem with a program I had written. When I opened up the compiled program in a hex editor, look what I found:
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Everything you say points to the current state of affairs. My point is that Australia is still growing. We don't have much of a say in the world yet, but we will. We have decidedly more control over our future than the American public; we don't have stupid rules about lobyists being able to bribe politicians to pass laws for them. If our politicians want to get into power, they've got to make the Australian public as a whole (not just the subset who choose to vote, as in America) happy. No matter who our leader is, we're still going to have to kow-tow to the US for the moment. American favour is too valuable, and enmity too costly.
No, Australia doesn't manufacture much. But the industrial age is over, and the information age just beginning. I don't know about the "tattered remnants" you mention; the Australian education system is one of the best in the world. Many Australian graduates are asked to work overseas, not just heading over there to look for jobs, but being actively recruited. I know that in at least two fields (teaching and nursing), Australian's can earn massive salaries (compared to the earnings back home) in places like the UK.
Tha largest technological advance Australia has had the opportunity to participate in has been the internet. Australia, despite being encumbered by a government-sponsored telecommunications monopoly, has a very high rate of broadband penetration. For a country with such a low population density, our infrastructure is remarkable. Many Australian Universities (Wollongong, Melbourne, UTS) were working on the internet in its infancy.
Australia continues to make innovations in other areas. It was an Australian research group who managed to teleport, not just a single photon as had been done previously, but an entire laser beam. Australia is a world leader in medical research. I really can't see your argument about Australia being backwards technologically.
As too becoming a US vassal state, well, maybe. But there hasn't been a nation on earth who have lasted forever, and when the inevitable decay hits the US, someone's going to pick up the pieces and become the next world power. It could very well be Australia. It may not be, but then, it could be, too.
That stops the user from having to see it, but not the bandwidth cost of having downloaded it. Also, with white lists, theres the problem of initial contact. Sometimes people, for valid reason, want to contact you without having done so before. Example? Many freelance editors advertise their services online. They can't setup a white list, or they won't get any clients. So with white lists, the user only delays the necessity of sorting through the spam; they need to identify the false positives and undo them.
Only sensible I spose. How many colonized countries have come to dominate their colonizers?
Rome was founded by Greeks, wasn't it? And it was the Roman's who colonized England just before they colapsed. And England colonized the US.
Australia's one of the youngest western countries. I wouldn't be surprised if it began to dominate, at within least the western sphere, as time goes by and it starts developing.
The law says you have a right to sell something you own. If a company comes up with a technological method to lock files in such a way as to prevent this sale, then that method is preventing customers from exercising this right.
If they hadn't provided a mechanism to lock the files, then they wouldn't be expected to provide one to unlock them.
No one says that we require a way to resell digital music because we can resell physical media. We're sayin we require a way to resell digital music because we have a right to.
But if, when you purchased a book, the store clerk padlocked it to your wrist. If they deliberately attach the sold item to you, shouldn't they then provide you with the key to the padlock, so you can then sell the book?
If someone sells you an item, then through technological means makes the item unable to be resold, then your right to first sale does not exist. They can say "Oh, it's legal to resell it", but if they've deliberately manufactured it in such a way, then the legality or illegality of reselling it is academic.
Yeah, my grandpa sleeps with a magnet-studded blanket under him. I'm gonna have to buy him one of these babies for Christmas.
*click*
*HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM*
No more arthritis Grandpa?