I have been going through the DVDs and at the end of each episode I think to myself "Damn you Fox! This is one of the best series I have seen in a long long time and ranks right up there with Band of Brothers in terms of TV quality. How could you have screwed this up?"
By looking at the air dates of the episodes and seeing how everything was played on TV out of order (it's a linear series, it's not a good idea to play a series that was written in order all jumbled up) I can understand how a whole lot of people would have just given up on in.
But thank goodness for the DVDs and if this movie is as good as the series I will be very excited come next spring.
Everyone is buying each other, getting newer and fancier phones, getting fancy high speed internet, but still no one can match Verizon in terms of actually being able to get a signal and make a call... how come they are not focusing on that before all the extra fluff?
I would think most of us just don't care. I am a pretty hardcore gamer, get everything that comes out, try most demos, upgrade my pc all the time, want the greatest graphics card there is..
but..
I have never found a need to get anything other then my 5 year old Sound Blaster Live Value card. Just makes no difference to me at all. I know a guy who bought a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 EX (or something) and I really can't tell a difference between his $200 card and my old $15 (today's price) card.
Between approximately 8:30 AM ET and 10:45 AM ET (GMT +4 hours) on Tuesday, June 15, 2004, some Akamai customers using Global Traffic Manager (FirstPoint), NetStorage (Akamai Content Storage), and Akamai services that utilize Global Traffic Manager and NetStorage experienced performance and availability issues.
This incident resulted from a sophisticated, large-scale attack on Internet infrastructure. This attack impacted Akamai's Internet naming functionality (Domain Name Service or DNS), and resulted in delays in DNS name resolution and, in some cases, timed-out DNS requests. Some end users trying to reach affected sites would have experienced slow responses from the Akamai name servers, potentially resulting in page time-outs. The attack did not cause an outage in Akamai services, as Akamai continued to serve DNS requests. However, the amount and nature of attack traffic created degradation in performance.
The problem was quickly detected by Akamai's automated monitoring systems, and Akamai personnel identified the root cause as a large Internet attack. The attack was mitigated by a combination of actions by Akamai to adjust our infrastructure in response to the attack, along with working with network partners to shut down the source of the attack.
As result of these actions, all Akamai services had returned to normal operating performance by 10:45 AM ET.
Akamai is continuing to work closely with several network partners and legal authorities around the world to identify both the nature of the attack and its intended targets.
We regret any inconvenience this may have caused you or your users. Please contact your Akamai Customer Care representative at 1-877-4-AKATEC (1-877-425-2832) if you have any questions.
Service Note: One of the actions taken during the attack was to temporarily increase the DNS TTL (time to live) on responses being returned from Akamai. This action is helping end-users cache successful responses for longer, thus improving service.
Between 8:10 AM EST and 9:30 AM EST on Monday, May 24, 2004, Akamai customers using EdgeSuite and other Akamai Services experienced extensive performance and availability issues.
This incident stemmed from processing an invalid command generated from one of Akamai's backend content control management tools. This tool controls the expiration of content on the Akamai network.
Although there are numerous safety checks designed to engage before commands are sent to Akamai's servers, an invalid command sent out by one of the content control management tools bypassed two key safety checks.
Because Akamai's servers are programmed to restart when presented with an invalid request, once the invalid content control had bypassed these safety checks, Akamai servers continuously halted and restarted in an effort to process all of our customers' pending content management commands.
The problem was immediately detected by Akamai's automated monitoring systems, and Akamai personnel had localized the problem and identified a solution by 8:40AM EST. The solution was immediately deployed on the network and by 9:30AM EST, the problem had been completely resolved.
We regret any inconvenience this may have caused you or your users. Please contact your customer care representative if you have any questions.
More Details: The Akamai content control system manages the expiration (purging) of content on Akamai's EdgeSuite, EdgeSuite Secure, and Streaming networks. It consists of a collection of tools that validate and authorize content expiration requests, and then generates a set of commands for the content servers. These commands are distributed to the content servers every few minutes.
These commands go through a number of safety checks before being sent to the content servers. As part of Akamai's design philosophy and software engineering practices, all control messages go through multiple levels of safety checks, including a test on the code in the live system. However, this morning, an invalid command was sent out because of defects in two key safety checks.
The first safety check was bypassed because the command triggered a specialized, rarely-used configuration for managing content. The second safety check, which causes content servers to reject malformed commands in the live system, had a defect introduced into it during the release of EdgeSuite 5.0 in April 2004 that effectively had disabled this check.
Processing the invalid command caused Akamai servers to halt and restart. When Akamai servers restart, they process all pending content management commands to ensure that the content they serve remains consistent. During restart, the servers would thus attempt to reprocess the invalid command, which would cause Akamai's servers to again halt and restart repeatedly.
After the problem was resolved at 9:30 AM EST, the content control management tools were then re-enabled at 12:30 AM EST, with the exception that processing is still disabled for the specialized configuration that bypassed the safety checks. The processing for this specialized configuration will be enabled in the near future. Akamai is also conducting an audit of all safety checks associated with the content control management tools.
I was using a 200 mhz pentium, playing games on my Playstation 1, and surfing the internet on a 28.8 baud modem, and I think I had a Voodoo 2 graphics accelerator card.
6 years from now.. who knows what I will be doing. But there is no way I will be sitting around playing a PS2.
Like my subject says.. 6 years is a really really long time in terms of technology. If Sony sits on their PS2 for that long they are going to be left behind.
It's so bad it makes it hard to choose a game system..
Do I want Halo 2 or do I want Viewtiful Joe?
Do I want the newest Final Fantasy game or do I want Ninja Gaiden?
It's getting to the point that any real gamer can't get away with owning just one system.
It was easy back in the day.. you had once choice..
NES, then SNES (no sega for me, wasn't worth it), then the PS1, and now who knows. There are must have games on every system that are exclusive. If I had a GC I would want x-box games and ps2 games, or the other ways around.
Sat down and played i-Ninja for about 2 hours straight this past weekend.. makes me almost want to go out and buy an X-Box just for that one game alone.
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So it would need to have an explosive charge to make the bullets fire.
What makes you think it wouldnt need air? No air -> no fire -> no explosion -> no propellant.
Maybe in the future they have guns that require air to work.
WOO HOO!
I have been going through the DVDs and at the end of each episode I think to myself "Damn you Fox! This is one of the best series I have seen in a long long time and ranks right up there with Band of Brothers in terms of TV quality. How could you have screwed this up?"
By looking at the air dates of the episodes and seeing how everything was played on TV out of order (it's a linear series, it's not a good idea to play a series that was written in order all jumbled up) I can understand how a whole lot of people would have just given up on in.
But thank goodness for the DVDs and if this movie is as good as the series I will be very excited come next spring.
Everyone is buying each other, getting newer and fancier phones, getting fancy high speed internet, but still no one can match Verizon in terms of actually being able to get a signal and make a call... how come they are not focusing on that before all the extra fluff?
I would think most of us just don't care. I am a pretty hardcore gamer, get everything that comes out, try most demos, upgrade my pc all the time, want the greatest graphics card there is..
but..
I have never found a need to get anything other then my 5 year old Sound Blaster Live Value card. Just makes no difference to me at all. I know a guy who bought a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 EX (or something) and I really can't tell a difference between his $200 card and my old $15 (today's price) card.
It is from http://control.akamai.com
Only Akamai users can view it though.
Summary:
Between approximately 8:30 AM ET and 10:45 AM ET (GMT +4 hours) on Tuesday, June 15, 2004, some Akamai customers using Global Traffic Manager (FirstPoint), NetStorage (Akamai Content Storage), and Akamai services that utilize Global Traffic Manager and NetStorage experienced performance and availability issues.
This incident resulted from a sophisticated, large-scale attack on Internet infrastructure. This attack impacted Akamai's Internet naming functionality (Domain Name Service or DNS), and resulted in delays in DNS name resolution and, in some cases, timed-out DNS requests. Some end users trying to reach affected sites would have experienced slow responses from the Akamai name servers, potentially resulting in page time-outs. The attack did not cause an outage in Akamai services, as Akamai continued to serve DNS requests. However, the amount and nature of attack traffic created degradation in performance.
The problem was quickly detected by Akamai's automated monitoring systems, and Akamai personnel identified the root cause as a large Internet attack. The attack was mitigated by a combination of actions by Akamai to adjust our infrastructure in response to the attack, along with working with network partners to shut down the source of the attack.
As result of these actions, all Akamai services had returned to normal operating performance by 10:45 AM ET.
Akamai is continuing to work closely with several network partners and legal authorities around the world to identify both the nature of the attack and its intended targets.
We regret any inconvenience this may have caused you or your users. Please contact your Akamai Customer Care representative at 1-877-4-AKATEC (1-877-425-2832) if you have any questions.
Service Note: One of the actions taken during the attack was to temporarily increase the DNS TTL (time to live) on responses being returned from Akamai. This action is helping end-users cache successful responses for longer, thus improving service.
They are telling me that it was indeed an attack, but an attack aimed not only at them but other companies as well.
I wonder what really happened and who else was attacked..
What does it mean and what happens to it when it gets nuked?
Summary:
Between 8:10 AM EST and 9:30 AM EST on Monday, May 24, 2004, Akamai customers using EdgeSuite and other Akamai Services experienced extensive performance and availability issues.
This incident stemmed from processing an invalid command generated from one of Akamai's backend content control management tools. This tool controls the expiration of content on the Akamai network.
Although there are numerous safety checks designed to engage before commands are sent to Akamai's servers, an invalid command sent out by one of the content control management tools bypassed two key safety checks.
Because Akamai's servers are programmed to restart when presented with an invalid request, once the invalid content control had bypassed these safety checks, Akamai servers continuously halted and restarted in an effort to process all of our customers' pending content management commands.
The problem was immediately detected by Akamai's automated monitoring systems, and Akamai personnel had localized the problem and identified a solution by 8:40AM EST. The solution was immediately deployed on the network and by 9:30AM EST, the problem had been completely resolved.
We regret any inconvenience this may have caused you or your users. Please contact your customer care representative if you have any questions.
More Details:
The Akamai content control system manages the expiration (purging) of content on Akamai's EdgeSuite, EdgeSuite Secure, and Streaming networks. It consists of a collection of tools that validate and authorize content expiration requests, and then generates a set of commands for the content servers. These commands are distributed to the content servers every few minutes.
These commands go through a number of safety checks before being sent to the content servers. As part of Akamai's design philosophy and software engineering practices, all control messages go through multiple levels of safety checks, including a test on the code in the live system. However, this morning, an invalid command was sent out because of defects in two key safety checks.
The first safety check was bypassed because the command triggered a specialized, rarely-used configuration for managing content. The second safety check, which causes content servers to reject malformed commands in the live system, had a defect introduced into it during the release of EdgeSuite 5.0 in April 2004 that effectively had disabled this check.
Processing the invalid command caused Akamai servers to halt and restart. When Akamai servers restart, they process all pending content management commands to ensure that the content they serve remains consistent. During restart, the servers would thus attempt to reprocess the invalid command, which would cause Akamai's servers to again halt and restart repeatedly.
After the problem was resolved at 9:30 AM EST, the content control management tools were then re-enabled at 12:30 AM EST, with the exception that processing is still disabled for the specialized configuration that bypassed the safety checks. The processing for this specialized configuration will be enabled in the near future. Akamai is also conducting an audit of all safety checks associated with the content control management tools.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com Boardgames are HUGE buisness.
Can't you just kick people out of your house or put them on ignore?
How come everyone says crime is rampant in the Sims Online?
The DS is nothing new!
Buy it now, wait one year, sell it on eBay.. profit!
In 6 years the PS2 will be as usefull as the PS1 is today.. as in not at all.
You might like its legacy games and quaint graphics, but, its useless.
What need to they have to keep around aging technology for so long?
6 years ago was 1998.
I was using a 200 mhz pentium, playing games on my Playstation 1, and surfing the internet on a 28.8 baud modem, and I think I had a Voodoo 2 graphics accelerator card.
6 years from now.. who knows what I will be doing. But there is no way I will be sitting around playing a PS2.
Like my subject says.. 6 years is a really really long time in terms of technology. If Sony sits on their PS2 for that long they are going to be left behind.
Bah.
:(
My pc is effected by the dreaded bittorent bug and it crashes my computer when I try to use it.
Sucks for me and everyone else who can't use bittorent.. someone should release a fix for it but I doubt anyone ever will.
If you dont belive me go google it.. just search for bittorent crashes computer and see what I mean.
Screw this new version.. just give me MAME and the original and I am a happy man.
I hope the new one has the rocket launcer.. it was so much fun to blow away drug dealers with a rocket launcher!
Except bittorent crashes half of the pcs that use it!
Go look it up on google for proof.
..otherwise it will become obsolete because everyone will have memorized all of the answers..
Unlike other games like DDR or Pac-Man where you can improve your skill this game would involve the players to simply learn the answers.. right?
It's so bad it makes it hard to choose a game system..
Do I want Halo 2 or do I want Viewtiful Joe?
Do I want the newest Final Fantasy game or do I want Ninja Gaiden?
It's getting to the point that any real gamer can't get away with owning just one system.
It was easy back in the day.. you had once choice..
NES, then SNES (no sega for me, wasn't worth it), then the PS1, and now who knows. There are must have games on every system that are exclusive. If I had a GC I would want x-box games and ps2 games, or the other ways around.
Sat down and played i-Ninja for about 2 hours straight this past weekend.. makes me almost want to go out and buy an X-Box just for that one game alone.
Anyone?
Why is that game rated "M"?
HA!
Another problem with their games.
Your post goes hand in hand with mine below talking about very serious flaws in BG&E and Splinter Cell.
Good work Ubisoft!!!
When you are in the slaughterhouse and need to beat the 3 robots to get the second triangle key.
For a whole slew of people the key just does not appear. Then when you try to leave the room the game just exits.
No key, no progressing in the game. Hence game over. No point in playing if you cant do anything but walk around in one room for the rest of eternity.