Am I correct in saying that the peering relationships for ISPs are set up such that they pay for data put out onto the network? That is, upstream costs, downstream is free.
So if this thing spreads, and Comcast, Verizon, etc... the big boys, start having their upstreams maxed out, what will they do?
Sue Lycos? Maybe.
Jack up the price of service? Definately. They do that regardless.
Cut back all users upstream bandwidth? Hell, if their routers are choking, that's what I'd do.
Once again, FUCK YOU LYCOS YOU ARE NOT THE FUCKING BATMAN OF THE INTERNET. They're not even robin. Not even Robin's gay hair stylist.
I'm going to start work on a program to flood Lycos. It's not a DDoS, it's just going to make it too expensive for them to stay in business, because they've shown that they are not good for the internet.
If I try to shutdown your pipe, it's still a DDoS attempt regardless of whether I succeed.
If you get 10mbit down and I try to fill it with my meager 256kb upstream, I'm still crapflooding and it's still a DoS attempt.
This will accomplish nothing. The spammers will move their IP blocks, send out a new flurry of emails to inform their customers, and we'll all foot the bill for the extra traffic.
I'm tired of hearing the spam-babys cry. It's just part of life, deal with it and move on. There are bigger injustices in the world than clicking "delete" a few times a day.
Obsolete systems will cause you more downtime in the end than incremental upgrades. And, what's worse, it will be all at once instead of at 4am twice a month on Saturday morning.
The problem is, that's at odds with the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" wisdom.
Also, there are no incremental upgrades if you're running custom software under MPE on an HP mainframe. There's only (usually very expensive) migration to something else.
Nope, I have to stay in the office until 6 in case anyone calls for support. I'm the only one here. Noone will call for support because all of our clients have today off.
So I have nothing better to do. Too bad for you, chimpy mcgee.
Just because most people say something, doesn't make it true.
I played HL2 at a friends for a few minutes. It was just another FPS to me, with prettier graphics. But then, it seems graphic quality is the sole yardstick for measuring a games value these days.
It didn't do anything for me, just another entry in a pretty stale genre.
I liked the huge open maps of Far Cry, or the vehicles in Halo. In fact, after Far Cry, I don't think I can play another on-rails FPS.
HL2 and Doom 3 both came off as tech demos to me, something you go ooh and ahh and would expect to get on the bonus CD that shipped with your graphics cards.
It's skewed towards the PC demographic anyways. How did HL2 fare against Doom 3?
I wish people wouldn't compare Halo to PC FPS's, it's a completely different sub-genre, IMO.
Yeah, sure, you can be more accurate shooting with a mouse and keyboard. But who the hell wants to drive a warthog or fly a banshee with a mouse? My point being, the FPS legacy is only part of Halo's overall gameplay.
Of course, I should point out that it's entirely possible for more than one game to be good. Just because you like HL2 doesn't mean you have to hate on everything else.
Halo 2 is what it is, a great console game. Just like HL2 is what it is, forced anal penetration from Gabe Newell himself.
What kind of response times do you get from mars? I mean, could you interactively fly this thing, or would you just kind of point it and it would end up in some random location, in that general direction?
If the latter, what's the advantage over, say, one of those tumbleweed style bots. What about a tumbleweed with "brakes", that can stop, expore, then curl back up into a ball and move along?
Mars exploration sounds like a candidate for the KISS principle to me.
This thing could hop around and get a broader view of the planet, compared to the rovers which move what, a meter or two a day?
The terrain might be completely different 100km or so away, but the dirt thats 10 feet from here is probably exactly the same as the dirt you're currently on.
This thing would no doubt have more luck stumbling upon a deposit of water ice or finding bacteria or something of the sort.
The article talks about this being a good way to blast off if you wanted to make a return trip back to earth, which would be good for a potential manned mission, since you'd cut your fuel requirement nearly in half.
The limiting feature of the gashopper is the electricity required to pressurize and heat the carbon dioxide propellant. This process consumes a lot of power, and the gashopper would need more than a month using its solar cells to refuel and recharge its batteries before it could take off again.
I guess if you only travelled a few hundred yards a month, it might work.
I'm pretty sure gravity is an issue, though. Gravity's a real bitch. Newton should never have invented it. Or he should have at least patented it so noone could use it.
A standard composite-in jack for C64s, and the luminance/chrmanance ones for 128s and other commie machines that displayed 80 columns. That's all I can remember.
The 64 was really cool to tinker with, since it's user port was an RS-232 but at TTL voltage levels. It's hard to find a proper connector for it, but little alligator clips work since the lines are nice and fat, and you can POKE/PEEK values straight onto or from it.
You could fry it and it'd be no problem, usually just a resistor or two to be replaced. We used to use them extensively in high school electronics shop for hooking up our gizmos.
Building a 232C adaptor is just a matter of changing the voltage levels. They were en vogue back in the day, since you could use them to interface to PC external modems and obtain ludicrously high speed of 2400 baud.
Sigh... I miss the days when you were not only allowed, but encouraged to hack around with your personal computer. They published a full schematic for the thing in the official Programmers Reference Guide (of which I still posess an extremely well worn first edition).
One of the neat cases on mini-itx.com was a gutted C64 luggable with the original 5" (or was it 9") CRT screen in it.
ARRRGHH. That is not "neat". That is sacrelige. To take such a wonderfully rare piece of computer history, and jam a half-assed plain jane PC into it, it makes steam come out of my ears, I tell ya!
I hook them up and screw around from time to time. I have a homebuilt RS-232C adaptor so I can link it to the serial port on my PC, then use the old VT-100 terminal emulator to "run linux" on my 64.
It's fun to screw with my friends heads when they see me doing Google searches or having IRC chats on a 64.
They make for surprisingly good dumb terminals.
As far as just playing the games, it's easier to grab an emulator and the billions of free disk images across the web.
All my old Commie monitors are busted, no doubt from overuse. They were awesome. I had my old betamax jacked into one as a tuner, and used it for years, and the image was much sharper than a comparably sized TV. I don't see the point in hacking it for S-Video, since I can't see any difference in quality.
They were also great just to quickly set up Nintendo off in the spare bedroom to entertain visiting kids.
A modern, networked Spy vs Spy would rock. Keep the original game formula, translate it into 3D, with really wacky and cool booby trap animations.
Throw like 16 or so spies into a match. It would be a cool change from the FPS or MMOG genres. Dispatching your opponents by shooting them just isn't the same as perching a bucket of acid over the door, or tying the trigger of a shotgun to a doorknob, etc..
Yeah, I was slow and reluctant to "convert" to the gamepad too. Once consoles started having more than two buttons (Genesis), the benefit of a gamepad made much more sense.
Of course, it didn't help that the original NES controller was that little box that would dig into my palm as I tried to hold it. It was hard to compare that little plastic piece of shit to my 5 pound steel bad-ass joystick.
That's what made the all-steel shaft on the Wicos so great. I'd beat the everliving crap out of it in stuff like Epyx' games series or track & field.
And like I said in the OP, I still have it, and it still works. Once after a friend slammed it against the floor in frustration I had to open it up and crazy glue one of the leaf switches back into position. No biggie.
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Am I correct in saying that the peering relationships for ISPs are set up such that they pay for data put out onto the network? That is, upstream costs, downstream is free.
So if this thing spreads, and Comcast, Verizon, etc... the big boys, start having their upstreams maxed out, what will they do?
Sue Lycos? Maybe.
Jack up the price of service? Definately. They do that regardless.
Cut back all users upstream bandwidth? Hell, if their routers are choking, that's what I'd do.
Once again, FUCK YOU LYCOS YOU ARE NOT THE FUCKING BATMAN OF THE INTERNET. They're not even robin. Not even Robin's gay hair stylist.
I'm going to start work on a program to flood Lycos. It's not a DDoS, it's just going to make it too expensive for them to stay in business, because they've shown that they are not good for the internet.
If I try to shutdown your pipe, it's still a DDoS attempt regardless of whether I succeed.
If you get 10mbit down and I try to fill it with my meager 256kb upstream, I'm still crapflooding and it's still a DoS attempt.
This will accomplish nothing. The spammers will move their IP blocks, send out a new flurry of emails to inform their customers, and we'll all foot the bill for the extra traffic.
I'm tired of hearing the spam-babys cry. It's just part of life, deal with it and move on. There are bigger injustices in the world than clicking "delete" a few times a day.
As a cable customer who shares my uplink bandwidth with the whole neighbourhood, I'd like to say:
FUCK YOU LYCOS. YOU ARE IRRELEVANT FILE FOR FUCKING CHAPTER 11 AND GO JOIN THE REST OF THE DOTBOMB FAILURES
Luckily noone in my neighbourhood gives a rats ass about the interweb or the advertisements on it.
They can move their site.
If people cant find it, they can drop them an email with the new address.
Any way you try to excuse it, this is ignorant asshat behavior from lycos.
Obsolete systems will cause you more downtime in the end than incremental upgrades. And, what's worse, it will be all at once instead of at 4am twice a month on Saturday morning.
The problem is, that's at odds with the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" wisdom.
Also, there are no incremental upgrades if you're running custom software under MPE on an HP mainframe. There's only (usually very expensive) migration to something else.
Yeah, I think I remember holding those guys heads in the toilet while my buddy flushed.
Nope, I have to stay in the office until 6 in case anyone calls for support. I'm the only one here. Noone will call for support because all of our clients have today off.
So I have nothing better to do. Too bad for you, chimpy mcgee.
Just because most people say something, doesn't make it true.
I played HL2 at a friends for a few minutes. It was just another FPS to me, with prettier graphics. But then, it seems graphic quality is the sole yardstick for measuring a games value these days.
It didn't do anything for me, just another entry in a pretty stale genre.
I liked the huge open maps of Far Cry, or the vehicles in Halo. In fact, after Far Cry, I don't think I can play another on-rails FPS.
HL2 and Doom 3 both came off as tech demos to me, something you go ooh and ahh and would expect to get on the bonus CD that shipped with your graphics cards.
It's skewed towards the PC demographic anyways. How did HL2 fare against Doom 3?
I wish people wouldn't compare Halo to PC FPS's, it's a completely different sub-genre, IMO.
Yeah, sure, you can be more accurate shooting with a mouse and keyboard. But who the hell wants to drive a warthog or fly a banshee with a mouse? My point being, the FPS legacy is only part of Halo's overall gameplay.
Of course, I should point out that it's entirely possible for more than one game to be good. Just because you like HL2 doesn't mean you have to hate on everything else.
Halo 2 is what it is, a great console game. Just like HL2 is what it is, forced anal penetration from Gabe Newell himself.
Now grab your ankles and install steam, bitches.
...You aren't using gas from Uranus.
HAahhahahah get it!?
Oh, fuck off you aren't funny either.
What kind of response times do you get from mars? I mean, could you interactively fly this thing, or would you just kind of point it and it would end up in some random location, in that general direction?
If the latter, what's the advantage over, say, one of those tumbleweed style bots. What about a tumbleweed with "brakes", that can stop, expore, then curl back up into a ball and move along?
Mars exploration sounds like a candidate for the KISS principle to me.
That's not just a nose, that's a warhead with which to assault martian religious fundamentalists.
"It's a trap! Get those ships away from the Creationism deflector shield!"
This thing is equipped with a warhead of PURE SCIENCE!
This thing could hop around and get a broader view of the planet, compared to the rovers which move what, a meter or two a day?
The terrain might be completely different 100km or so away, but the dirt thats 10 feet from here is probably exactly the same as the dirt you're currently on.
This thing would no doubt have more luck stumbling upon a deposit of water ice or finding bacteria or something of the sort.
The article talks about this being a good way to blast off if you wanted to make a return trip back to earth, which would be good for a potential manned mission, since you'd cut your fuel requirement nearly in half.
The limiting feature of the gashopper is the electricity required to pressurize and heat the carbon dioxide propellant. This process consumes a lot of power, and the gashopper would need more than a month using its solar cells to refuel and recharge its batteries before it could take off again.
I guess if you only travelled a few hundred yards a month, it might work.
I'm pretty sure gravity is an issue, though. Gravity's a real bitch. Newton should never have invented it. Or he should have at least patented it so noone could use it.
No, no UHF/VHF connectors.
A standard composite-in jack for C64s, and the luminance/chrmanance ones for 128s and other commie machines that displayed 80 columns. That's all I can remember.
The 64 was really cool to tinker with, since it's user port was an RS-232 but at TTL voltage levels. It's hard to find a proper connector for it, but little alligator clips work since the lines are nice and fat, and you can POKE/PEEK values straight onto or from it.
You could fry it and it'd be no problem, usually just a resistor or two to be replaced. We used to use them extensively in high school electronics shop for hooking up our gizmos.
Building a 232C adaptor is just a matter of changing the voltage levels. They were en vogue back in the day, since you could use them to interface to PC external modems and obtain ludicrously high speed of 2400 baud.
Sigh... I miss the days when you were not only allowed, but encouraged to hack around with your personal computer. They published a full schematic for the thing in the official Programmers Reference Guide (of which I still posess an extremely well worn first edition).
That's the only "safe" way to write. There's some expirimental code that's almost guaranteed to fubar the whole filesystem if you use it to much.
Thats just the kernel filesystem driver, though, you can access NTFS via window's own NTFS.SYS driver.
One of the neat cases on mini-itx.com was a gutted C64 luggable with the original 5" (or was it 9") CRT screen in it.
ARRRGHH. That is not "neat". That is sacrelige. To take such a wonderfully rare piece of computer history, and jam a half-assed plain jane PC into it, it makes steam come out of my ears, I tell ya!
I hook them up and screw around from time to time. I have a homebuilt RS-232C adaptor so I can link it to the serial port on my PC, then use the old VT-100 terminal emulator to "run linux" on my 64.
It's fun to screw with my friends heads when they see me doing Google searches or having IRC chats on a 64.
They make for surprisingly good dumb terminals.
As far as just playing the games, it's easier to grab an emulator and the billions of free disk images across the web.
All my old Commie monitors are busted, no doubt from overuse. They were awesome. I had my old betamax jacked into one as a tuner, and used it for years, and the image was much sharper than a comparably sized TV. I don't see the point in hacking it for S-Video, since I can't see any difference in quality.
They were also great just to quickly set up Nintendo off in the spare bedroom to entertain visiting kids.
MAME cabinets are a pain to build, and are limited to a few free designs
.99 a piece, but the selection would be limited to Oregon Trail and Stickybear titles.
A few free designs? Design your own. It isn't that hard to engineer a big wooden box, after all.
As for this happening to the Apple IIe series, talk to Steve Jobs about it.
If they released such a thing, it'd probably cost $300 bucks, and you'd have to download the games seperately from iGames.
They'd only be
Although, it'd be entertaining to read the endless slashdot articles about how amazing it is and how Apple "invented" the game-in-a-stick.
A modern, networked Spy vs Spy would rock. Keep the original game formula, translate it into 3D, with really wacky and cool booby trap animations.
Throw like 16 or so spies into a match. It would be a cool change from the FPS or MMOG genres. Dispatching your opponents by shooting them just isn't the same as perching a bucket of acid over the door, or tying the trigger of a shotgun to a doorknob, etc..
Yeah, she's hot!
That GIANT FUCKING ADAMS APPLE is especially hot.
Until I see a full frontal nude (and examine the original negatives for signs of tampering), my jury is still out.
You don't, at least not simultaneously.
Most games on the list are single player, and Winter Games was mostly turn based, though my memory is hazy.
Yeah, I was slow and reluctant to "convert" to the gamepad too. Once consoles started having more than two buttons (Genesis), the benefit of a gamepad made much more sense.
Of course, it didn't help that the original NES controller was that little box that would dig into my palm as I tried to hold it. It was hard to compare that little plastic piece of shit to my 5 pound steel bad-ass joystick.
That's what made the all-steel shaft on the Wicos so great. I'd beat the everliving crap out of it in stuff like Epyx' games series or track & field.
And like I said in the OP, I still have it, and it still works. Once after a friend slammed it against the floor in frustration I had to open it up and crazy glue one of the leaf switches back into position. No biggie.
Depend's what you mean by finish.
If you shoot the little kid or prostitute then they can't tell you about the stagecoach or bank robberies.