It seems I jumped to conclusions there, in downloading an ISO only having one purpose. I'm not even sure why, seeing as how I've done exactly the same thing myself, to replace lost games.
However, at the most that makes them equally grey areas.
This isn't really intended for people who want to make SuperAwesomeLinux 17, although it could certainly be used for that. It's target audience is software companies, and open source projects, who want to provide a quick and easy way to create virtual machines to run their software.
It's designed to get around the problem that to get your software into a company at the moment, you need to provide installation instructions, which may or may not work, and could take hours to follow. This is just what's needed to get anyone to *look at* your software. By providing virtual machines it becomes a lot simpler to get people to take a look at your software, because they just need to download it, and fire up VMWare or similar.
And then, when they want to put it into production, they can move the VM to their virtual servers (most large companies have them now, it's our standard method of deployment), and start it up.
That's me paraphrasing badly, if you want it from the horse's mouth, have a read of Nat Friedman's blog entry on the subject.
That's actually quite a cunning plan - I hadn't thought of doing that before, but will give it a try next time I have to do something that's pulling content from external systems.
So very true, my fiance suffers from manic depression, with occasional paranoia, and it's terrifying when it happens. Obviously not enough to stop me marrying her, but still very scary.
Usually she's absolutely fine, and you wouldn't be able to tell if you didn't know, but every now and then something completely off the wall will happen. Recently I was going to sleep, when I noticed that she was sitting at the end of the bed crying. Turns out she was trying not to go to sleep, because she needed to stand guard in case anything happened in the night. Thankfully it's very rare, and usually there are other things which trigger it (in this case that we've just moved into a new house), but I'm still incredibly happy to see some progress being made to treating it more effectively.
The best way to deal with this sort of thing is to do regular checks as to how long hitting the address that's going to be loaded takes, in a cron job or whatever, and if it goes over a certain threshold, turn off that provider.
Sure, you'll lose a bit of ad revenue, but you won't have pissed off users who think your site is broken.
Personally, while I enjoy a challenge, I don't enjoy playing the same level for hours on end, and never getting any further. I'll be using the "I'm bored, please let me play the next bit" button sometimes.
I feel I need to put some of that in perspective - BT aren't saints, but they're not as bad as you're making out. This is from experience working for a UK ISP (not BT, one of the other ones).
These are the same guys that were holding back broadband in the UK a couple of years (all the while broadband adoption in the rest of Europe was taking of like crazy) ago until laws were passed forcing them to allow other ISPs to use their lines. Even now, they will still make it extra hard to use ISPs other than themselves.
That was indeed the case, but is not nearly as bad now. BT Broadband (the ISP), and BT OpenReach (the infrastructure operator) are required by law to be separate entities, and can not give each other preferential treatment. In my experience that's also the case, with it being no more hassle to get a line setup regardless of who you're subscribing to.
They currently censor their customers connection using the list from the Internet Watch Foundation (a state controlled quango) - the same guys that were blocking Wikipedia some months ago
So does every other major ISP in the country. There's an agreement in place since the government essentially said "do this voluntarily, on your terms, or we'll make it a legal requirement". Believe me, the terms written up by a bunch of network engineers are far better - the original request included logging anyone who hit something on the list, which was thrown out early on due to the possibility of false positives.
and will voluntarily give contact data for an IP address to any "content owner" who asks for it.
I'll concede that. It's a terrible move to screw over your own customers like that.
These guys are not the good guys and they haven't been so for many years now.
Of course they aren't, they're a large company. Large companies are never the good guys.
I hate to say it, seeing as how for anything other then playing games I use Linux, but I did a Windows 7 install this weekend and it did indeed install NVidia drivers with DirectX 10 support.
How do you guys deal with such crappy mobile operators?
My G1 was free, on a £30 a month contract. Annoyingly that only comes with 2Gb of data, but I've only hit that once, when I first got it, and used it for everything.
At least in theory this was dealt with in the UK by making BT (the company which maintained the infrastructure, and worked as an ISP) split out the infrastructure side into a separate company (BT Openreach) which is required to sell bandwidth at the same price to BT and their competitors.
As with anything like that it hasn't been a complete success, but on the whole it seems to be working, with some excellent competition between providers.
Bets on how long they try to extend this voluntary code which covers all the UK's main mobile providers to hardwired, static internet connections?
They already have. The ISP I work for have been dropping any packets destined for sites on the IWF's blacklist for several years now.
I should clarify that most of us aren't happy about it, but a gentleman's agreement is in place that we can either do it voluntarily, or the government can make it a legal requirement and heap more trouble to implement.
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It seems I jumped to conclusions there, in downloading an ISO only having one purpose. I'm not even sure why, seeing as how I've done exactly the same thing myself, to replace lost games.
However, at the most that makes them equally grey areas.
No, you've got that backwards.
Downloading a game ISO has only one purpose. The playing of that game, without paying for it.
Modding an Xbox, as you say yourself, allows you to run XBMC on it. A legitimate use of the hardware, which harms nobody.
At which point it should have control of everything, and be able to take over.
This isn't really intended for people who want to make SuperAwesomeLinux 17, although it could certainly be used for that. It's target audience is software companies, and open source projects, who want to provide a quick and easy way to create virtual machines to run their software.
It's designed to get around the problem that to get your software into a company at the moment, you need to provide installation instructions, which may or may not work, and could take hours to follow. This is just what's needed to get anyone to *look at* your software. By providing virtual machines it becomes a lot simpler to get people to take a look at your software, because they just need to download it, and fire up VMWare or similar.
And then, when they want to put it into production, they can move the VM to their virtual servers (most large companies have them now, it's our standard method of deployment), and start it up.
That's me paraphrasing badly, if you want it from the horse's mouth, have a read of Nat Friedman's blog entry on the subject.
Because providing internet access there would require you to go to Hull.
That's actually quite a cunning plan - I hadn't thought of doing that before, but will give it a try next time I have to do something that's pulling content from external systems.
So very true, my fiance suffers from manic depression, with occasional paranoia, and it's terrifying when it happens. Obviously not enough to stop me marrying her, but still very scary.
Usually she's absolutely fine, and you wouldn't be able to tell if you didn't know, but every now and then something completely off the wall will happen. Recently I was going to sleep, when I noticed that she was sitting at the end of the bed crying. Turns out she was trying not to go to sleep, because she needed to stand guard in case anything happened in the night. Thankfully it's very rare, and usually there are other things which trigger it (in this case that we've just moved into a new house), but I'm still incredibly happy to see some progress being made to treating it more effectively.
The best way to deal with this sort of thing is to do regular checks as to how long hitting the address that's going to be loaded takes, in a cron job or whatever, and if it goes over a certain threshold, turn off that provider.
Sure, you'll lose a bit of ad revenue, but you won't have pissed off users who think your site is broken.
Yes, that would also be nice, but Mario is a platform game.
The whole principle of that type of game is to give you awkward bits that require a precise combination of movements to get through them.
If this was an RTS, or FPS game, then I'd be less happy about them slapping a band-aid on it.
If you want a challenge, don't use it.
Personally, while I enjoy a challenge, I don't enjoy playing the same level for hours on end, and never getting any further. I'll be using the "I'm bored, please let me play the next bit" button sometimes.
It's times like this I wish I had mod-points.
Sadly though, I doubt the record companies will see things quite the same way when they bust you for using the evil bittorrent.
Which one?
Yes, just imagine.
It would be just like we had a copy of Apache installed on our laptop, but without having to lug a server around with us.
Oh... wait... hang on a minute.
Good ones love it - they know that if helpdesk know how to do whatever needs doing, they don't have to get woken up at 2am to do it themselves.
That, and most geeks love to talk about the latest toys they're playing with.
Maybe they're planning to get them all stolen at some point, claim for the gold on insurance, and then sell it anyway.
It's the only way I can see them making any money on this.
I'd think the line
currently only runs in Safari4
probably answers that question.
I feel I need to put some of that in perspective - BT aren't saints, but they're not as bad as you're making out. This is from experience working for a UK ISP (not BT, one of the other ones).
That was indeed the case, but is not nearly as bad now. BT Broadband (the ISP), and BT OpenReach (the infrastructure operator) are required by law to be separate entities, and can not give each other preferential treatment. In my experience that's also the case, with it being no more hassle to get a line setup regardless of who you're subscribing to.
So does every other major ISP in the country. There's an agreement in place since the government essentially said "do this voluntarily, on your terms, or we'll make it a legal requirement". Believe me, the terms written up by a bunch of network engineers are far better - the original request included logging anyone who hit something on the list, which was thrown out early on due to the possibility of false positives.
I'll concede that. It's a terrible move to screw over your own customers like that.
Of course they aren't, they're a large company. Large companies are never the good guys.
Have you seen the video?
That's what it does. Exactly.
You can split the thread into further sub-threads at any point, and also limit certain threads to a specific group of people.
I'd suggest using the button which turns it off.
I hate to say it, seeing as how for anything other then playing games I use Linux, but I did a Windows 7 install this weekend and it did indeed install NVidia drivers with DirectX 10 support.
How do you guys deal with such crappy mobile operators?
My G1 was free, on a £30 a month contract. Annoyingly that only comes with 2Gb of data, but I've only hit that once, when I first got it, and used it for everything.
At least in theory this was dealt with in the UK by making BT (the company which maintained the infrastructure, and worked as an ISP) split out the infrastructure side into a separate company (BT Openreach) which is required to sell bandwidth at the same price to BT and their competitors.
As with anything like that it hasn't been a complete success, but on the whole it seems to be working, with some excellent competition between providers.
What, like Windows does?
They already have. The ISP I work for have been dropping any packets destined for sites on the IWF's blacklist for several years now.
I should clarify that most of us aren't happy about it, but a gentleman's agreement is in place that we can either do it voluntarily, or the government can make it a legal requirement and heap more trouble to implement.
You must not have worked in IT support before.
Being fried by global warming is far, far, preferable.