Yes, but since the core of Intel's marketplace consists of people who see a monitor and think it is the computer, this is a barrier that Intel can easily hurdle.
Steve Jobs called. Something about iMac G5 and some rather unpleasant remarks about Intel.
I myself am convinced that neither Windows nor Linux are superior solutions if one's to have an objective view. In my humble opinion, the "superiority" of a system lies in the hands of the administrator responsible for said system and not with the type of software used, in this case. For example, a good Window system administrator with some good experience and the right tools can easily maintain a server just like a well trained and experienced Linux system administrator can maintain his servers. Quite a few people agree on this and recognize the fact that the skills of the responsible administrator are more significant then the software platform used.
The question is, what is your position on this? Do you agree with the aforementioned idea about system administrator capabilities being more important? Or are you convinced that the software platform used is more important?
Write a book about it and start your own lunatic semi-religious, semi-military organization based on giving you lots of money. You could call it "Scientology"!
We are not an advocacy group. Our purpose is to promote secure programming practices within the PHP community, not promote PHP to other groups. PHP is already taken very seriously by some of the web's largest and most heavily trafficked sites.
Yes, true. However, there are also large companies that take very questionable ideas very seriously. The whole "It is good because large organization X uses it." idea no longer applies because large companies and websites, in general, tend to be run by idiots. ( Both on technical and economical level )
Give us some free and good tutorials online as to how to secure PHP code. Show us some old exploits and how to avoid falling in the same traps like that again. Give courses all over the world that go in-depth regarding these matters. I love working with PHP but the constant screwing around with globals, superglobals and what-have-ye-not really make security a nightmare on it.
Those among us who are serious about PHP want actions, not propaganda.
I'm more worried about EA quality of games that get "pushed" into the market, rather then overal originality and novelty.
Think of The Sims 2. How HORRIBLY EA screwed it up by shipping it too early. Yes, it's been delayed a few times before launch but it was still too soon; less then a month after the game was launched the first game-crippling bugs started to hit players all over. I predict that the same will happen with Battlefield 2 ( or whatever they're gonna call it ) and whatever other high-profile game EA will publish. And even if somehow, miraculously, the game works as it should, it's a poor game 99% of the time.
I don't know what it's like for other MMORPGs, but Lineage 2 makes me feel.... icky. First of all, there's client stability and overall design that just seem poor. Sure, it looks good but there are several weird in-game glitches that make me wonder just how qualified the people at NCSoft are. These issues range from playability issues to client stability. Playability is not so bad, just a few minor glitches like monsters getting stuck and all that.
Client issues are a bit worse really, with the client regulary crashing on me for no good reason at all. The game often freezes as well, has weird graphic glitches that can lock up my entire PC and I get sudden disconnects for no real reason. All very annoying. While L2 boasts about having hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers, it's pretty evident that none of the monthly money they get go into development of the game, except perhaps a sequeal which would only serve to bring in more money.
I've heard stories about most MMORPGs being like this; the game appears to be nothing more then a poor release based on a proven addictive concept along with pre-existent competitive ( sometimes hostile ) player behaviour. The actual client or storyline doesn't really matter just as long as these two elements are in there. The question is, though, why the hell would anyone want to pay for such lousy services? I mean, I play L2, sure. But I do so on a free server at no cost at all. I don't pay a single cent for this worthless client I'm stuck with and the actual server runs on donations from the users.
But despite this and the fact that at least some people agree with me on this, MMORPGs keep popping up like bad weeds. Is it just a fad like all the "* Tycoon" games we had?
( On a different note, heard Slashdot solved the issues about the 503s and generally atrocious performance lately. Maybe they even decided to stop banning my subnet the whole damn day! Anyways, giving this a try again, so here goes... )
... when Biggus Dickus' chariot was stolen from him by Longus Wangus in Toronto, upon which he spoke the now immortal words "Fuck you, Longus Wangus! I'll kick your dog!"
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Even now, a decade after the platform basically folded up, there are large groups of people who want to revive the spirit of the Amiga.
Okay, objectivity. Focus Seth. Focus. Objectivity. Yes, even here on Slashdot I tend to be objective from time to time. Okay, let's go!
The reasons Amigas are still worshipped these days are because back in the days they were wonderful little machines; 10% of the price of a Mac, pretty good specifications AND it was easier to modify an Amiga one way or another then it is to pick your nose. Anyone with some spare time and soldering skills could start building expansions for his Amiga. In the end, there were CD-players, IDE controllers, SCSI controllers, USB controllers, NICs, "flicker-fixer"s (larger resolutions causes scanline glitches which appeared to cause the screen to flicker) and what have ye not.
Yes, I'm biased. Yes, I have an A500 hidden away in protective coverings. Yes, I'm also technically too young to have experienced the full force of an Amiga community. Yes, I still despise PCs and long for the days of Workbench, digital joysticks and Lotus Turbo Challange 2.:(
Of course it could backfire and I'd end up instead getting an apology letter from a pornstar with an offer for free...you know.
Well, I've contacted a few friends of mine and guess what... Your dream will come true! Tonight you will have free sex with a true genuine pornstar! Isn't that great? Don't worry, everything has been taken care of; he will bring a jar of vaseline, so you needn't worry about that...
They are actually a bit of both. The marines themselves are a purely military organization that fall under the navy. However, because of name recognition, they also registered marines.com for easy access. I don't know how.mil sites are distributed or regulated, considering it's an internal US army issue, but I know of several military units and bases with their own sites, but without.com presence on the internet. Why? Because the units themselves nor the bases need to recruit people.
Most people think of the USMC as "the marines" and thus will search for marines..mil is also pretty much unknown to the general public. I know, it's a bit of a vague situation, but as a branch which handles it's own recruitment, it's well served with a more 'public' presence online. It also seperated the internally orientated info from the externally orientated info such as recruitment info.
Brand name recognition: Face it, the internet really made porn a viable business for anyone. WHile the major cost used to be publishing a magazine or video, it's all cheap as hell nowadays considering you can get quite a nice setup on the internet for 1000 USD a year. These companies ae solely online and their brand often includes their TLD. For businesses with a good foothold in offline publishing, such as Playboy or Hustler, it wouldn't really matter, because their brand name is pretty much universal, both online and offline. When anyone says Playboy everyone over the age of 15 can associate with it.
If it can see websites and afford internet, it might be a future customer: Porn sites WANT accidental visits. Suppose that 1 in every 100 accidental visitors becomes interested and joins the site. This is also why some common misspelling domains are camped by porn sites. After all, those people are there for profit, not because they want to be naked on camera for you or because it is their "mission" to bring you porn. It's a business, a very serious one with strangling competition.
You are perceiving Google to be the ultimate solution to everything, a viable "endlösung" to all of the world's problems ( Yes, I spelled it right this time! ) including war, famine and Celine Dion. Google might be a good company that seems to know where to put it's efforts, as both Google itself and Gmail are wonderfully clean and fast, I highly doubt they would risk themselves in the OS market. the Gbrowser itself already seems a bit far-fetched, but a rebranded Firefox with standard Google utils ( Think of Google Toolbar for Firefox, Gmail notifier in Firefox, ?logger utililities within reach ) seems a nice thought.
But a Google OS would be downright silly. They'd be taking a bite of the pie too large for them to swallow. Doing so would immediately draw a lot of fire from Microsoft who would dislike having to see google chew away at more of their precious monopolies. So far Google spanked them in search engines, is spanking them at free email services yet MS is clever and rich enough to stop them from creating/rebranding an OS.
Anyways, why can't they just treat the games like movies and have bold warnings on the package and allow the reatailers to self-enforce the restrictions on child use of video games?
Lack of lobbyist organisations. If Aussieland were to ban... Say, the Alien vs Predator movie, the entire aussie equivalent of the MPAA would get worked up and fight the goverment over it. Maybe we should form a gamer's lobbyist group called the Gamer's Network Association of America, or GNAA for short.
Out of context it could be regarded as blatant anti-MS fanboyism, indeed. However, C# seems like a good enough programming language, to be honest with you. The main problem was that this class was called "Advanced programming", with special attention toward those who will continue their education after this at HBO level. ( Dutch educational system is impossible to understand; think of HBO as the average US or UK university. ) I asked around at the HBO I plan to attend and no where do they use ASP.NET or anything with a similiar syntax. Instead they focus on Java and C instead. So, regarding that, I asked the guy who was in charge of that class wether or not we could use C# instead. It resembles other programming languages enough so that any experience with C# will be applicable to most C-like languages.
No cookie, the moron insisted on ASP.NET. Even using regular ASP or VB would be against his rules because he insisted on ASP.NET at all costs. Another issue would be the entire "web-based" bullshit the guy kept forcing down our throat. This isn't 1998 anymore and no one cares or wants a college-level webmonkey. Besides, there were many MANY more things wrong with that course, but I'll digress about rambling about it too much...
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Steve Jobs called. Something about iMac G5 and some rather unpleasant remarks about Intel.
African or European pigeon?
What? Both of 'em?
Speed issues.
With p2p networks you do not want just anonimity, you want speed as well.
Mr Taylor,
I myself am convinced that neither Windows nor Linux are superior solutions if one's to have an objective view. In my humble opinion, the "superiority" of a system lies in the hands of the administrator responsible for said system and not with the type of software used, in this case. For example, a good Window system administrator with some good experience and the right tools can easily maintain a server just like a well trained and experienced Linux system administrator can maintain his servers. Quite a few people agree on this and recognize the fact that the skills of the responsible administrator are more significant then the software platform used.
The question is, what is your position on this? Do you agree with the aforementioned idea about system administrator capabilities being more important? Or are you convinced that the software platform used is more important?
That's a lot of bullshit you got there.
Write a book about it and start your own lunatic semi-religious, semi-military organization based on giving you lots of money. You could call it "Scientology"!
Yes, true. However, there are also large companies that take very questionable ideas very seriously. The whole "It is good because large organization X uses it." idea no longer applies because large companies and websites, in general, tend to be run by idiots. ( Both on technical and economical level )
Give us some free and good tutorials online as to how to secure PHP code. Show us some old exploits and how to avoid falling in the same traps like that again. Give courses all over the world that go in-depth regarding these matters. I love working with PHP but the constant screwing around with globals, superglobals and what-have-ye-not really make security a nightmare on it.
Those among us who are serious about PHP want actions, not propaganda.
So, to compare it to the earlier example, it would be like hitting a piece of foam with a 700mph rabbit?
Where can I find a rabbit and a piece of foam? :D
I'm more worried about EA quality of games that get "pushed" into the market, rather then overal originality and novelty.
Think of The Sims 2. How HORRIBLY EA screwed it up by shipping it too early. Yes, it's been delayed a few times before launch but it was still too soon; less then a month after the game was launched the first game-crippling bugs started to hit players all over. I predict that the same will happen with Battlefield 2 ( or whatever they're gonna call it ) and whatever other high-profile game EA will publish. And even if somehow, miraculously, the game works as it should, it's a poor game 99% of the time.
EA is not an Evil Alliance for nothing...
Odd definition of lucky. How about working in a place where they actually treat you as a human being? (No cubicles at all?)
The answer can be found here.
Remember, be generous when applying the solution.
Then again, neither do I have a girlfriend, for that matter...
Right. Carry on...
I don't know what it's like for other MMORPGs, but Lineage 2 makes me feel.... icky. First of all, there's client stability and overall design that just seem poor. Sure, it looks good but there are several weird in-game glitches that make me wonder just how qualified the people at NCSoft are. These issues range from playability issues to client stability. Playability is not so bad, just a few minor glitches like monsters getting stuck and all that.
Client issues are a bit worse really, with the client regulary crashing on me for no good reason at all. The game often freezes as well, has weird graphic glitches that can lock up my entire PC and I get sudden disconnects for no real reason. All very annoying. While L2 boasts about having hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers, it's pretty evident that none of the monthly money they get go into development of the game, except perhaps a sequeal which would only serve to bring in more money.
I've heard stories about most MMORPGs being like this; the game appears to be nothing more then a poor release based on a proven addictive concept along with pre-existent competitive ( sometimes hostile ) player behaviour. The actual client or storyline doesn't really matter just as long as these two elements are in there. The question is, though, why the hell would anyone want to pay for such lousy services? I mean, I play L2, sure. But I do so on a free server at no cost at all. I don't pay a single cent for this worthless client I'm stuck with and the actual server runs on donations from the users.
But despite this and the fact that at least some people agree with me on this, MMORPGs keep popping up like bad weeds. Is it just a fad like all the "* Tycoon" games we had?
( On a different note, heard Slashdot solved the issues about the 503s and generally atrocious performance lately. Maybe they even decided to stop banning my subnet the whole damn day! Anyways, giving this a try again, so here goes... )
Okay, objectivity. Focus Seth. Focus. Objectivity. Yes, even here on Slashdot I tend to be objective from time to time. Okay, let's go!
The reasons Amigas are still worshipped these days are because back in the days they were wonderful little machines; 10% of the price of a Mac, pretty good specifications AND it was easier to modify an Amiga one way or another then it is to pick your nose. Anyone with some spare time and soldering skills could start building expansions for his Amiga. In the end, there were CD-players, IDE controllers, SCSI controllers, USB controllers, NICs, "flicker-fixer"s (larger resolutions causes scanline glitches which appeared to cause the screen to flicker) and what have ye not.
Yes, I'm biased. Yes, I have an A500 hidden away in protective coverings. Yes, I'm also technically too young to have experienced the full force of an Amiga community. Yes, I still despise PCs and long for the days of Workbench, digital joysticks and Lotus Turbo Challange 2. :(
Well, I've contacted a few friends of mine and guess what... Your dream will come true! Tonight you will have free sex with a true genuine pornstar! Isn't that great? Don't worry, everything has been taken care of; he will bring a jar of vaseline, so you needn't worry about that...
That's what I thought, so I clicked a few random things of a p2p network to download, a few years ago.
Had to burn my HD in a holy, cleansing fire on consecrated ground with the blessing of the Goddess. You can't simply delete EVIL.
They are actually a bit of both. The marines themselves are a purely military organization that fall under the navy. However, because of name recognition, they also registered marines.com for easy access. I don't know how .mil sites are distributed or regulated, considering it's an internal US army issue, but I know of several military units and bases with their own sites, but without .com presence on the internet. Why? Because the units themselves nor the bases need to recruit people.
Most people think of the USMC as "the marines" and thus will search for marines. .mil is also pretty much unknown to the general public. I know, it's a bit of a vague situation, but as a branch which handles it's own recruitment, it's well served with a more 'public' presence online. It also seperated the internally orientated info from the externally orientated info such as recruitment info.
None will use it for several reasons:
Brand name recognition: Face it, the internet really made porn a viable business for anyone. WHile the major cost used to be publishing a magazine or video, it's all cheap as hell nowadays considering you can get quite a nice setup on the internet for 1000 USD a year. These companies ae solely online and their brand often includes their TLD. For businesses with a good foothold in offline publishing, such as Playboy or Hustler, it wouldn't really matter, because their brand name is pretty much universal, both online and offline. When anyone says Playboy everyone over the age of 15 can associate with it.
If it can see websites and afford internet, it might be a future customer: Porn sites WANT accidental visits. Suppose that 1 in every 100 accidental visitors becomes interested and joins the site. This is also why some common misspelling domains are camped by porn sites. After all, those people are there for profit, not because they want to be naked on camera for you or because it is their "mission" to bring you porn. It's a business, a very serious one with strangling competition.
Oh noes! He escaped!
Quickly, someone tazer him and bring him back in here!
You are perceiving Google to be the ultimate solution to everything, a viable "endlösung" to all of the world's problems ( Yes, I spelled it right this time! ) including war, famine and Celine Dion. Google might be a good company that seems to know where to put it's efforts, as both Google itself and Gmail are wonderfully clean and fast, I highly doubt they would risk themselves in the OS market. the Gbrowser itself already seems a bit far-fetched, but a rebranded Firefox with standard Google utils ( Think of Google Toolbar for Firefox, Gmail notifier in Firefox, ?logger utililities within reach ) seems a nice thought.
But a Google OS would be downright silly. They'd be taking a bite of the pie too large for them to swallow. Doing so would immediately draw a lot of fire from Microsoft who would dislike having to see google chew away at more of their precious monopolies. So far Google spanked them in search engines, is spanking them at free email services yet MS is clever and rich enough to stop them from creating/rebranding an OS.
Lack of lobbyist organisations. If Aussieland were to ban... Say, the Alien vs Predator movie, the entire aussie equivalent of the MPAA would get worked up and fight the goverment over it. Maybe we should form a gamer's lobbyist group called the Gamer's Network Association of America, or GNAA for short.
Then again, maybe not...
Out of context it could be regarded as blatant anti-MS fanboyism, indeed. However, C# seems like a good enough programming language, to be honest with you. The main problem was that this class was called "Advanced programming", with special attention toward those who will continue their education after this at HBO level. ( Dutch educational system is impossible to understand; think of HBO as the average US or UK university. ) I asked around at the HBO I plan to attend and no where do they use ASP.NET or anything with a similiar syntax. Instead they focus on Java and C instead. So, regarding that, I asked the guy who was in charge of that class wether or not we could use C# instead. It resembles other programming languages enough so that any experience with C# will be applicable to most C-like languages.
No cookie, the moron insisted on ASP.NET. Even using regular ASP or VB would be against his rules because he insisted on ASP.NET at all costs. Another issue would be the entire "web-based" bullshit the guy kept forcing down our throat. This isn't 1998 anymore and no one cares or wants a college-level webmonkey. Besides, there were many MANY more things wrong with that course, but I'll digress about rambling about it too much...
Not really, more as in... "This is why Seth ended with a 2 ( or E for silly people ) as his grade for German classes all those years ago."