It's not completely over the name. The real problem is that both games have some thick roots in norse mythology.
It doesn't help that M$ created a fantasy game, called the norseland midgard, included Frost Giants, beserkers and volcanic zones then named it Mythica. (DAoC already has all of these covered)
Truely, they're not stealing ideas from Mythic, they're just not being very creative with the given material. (*pictures the dilbert like product naming meeting that came up with mythica*) They're just rehashing that which has already been done (and played to death IMHO).
in a way yes, if i send you an encrypted email and you plainly forward it. The new recipient should get the encrypted version for which they should have no key right?
Run Linux at work, using mozilla 1.4 now, It is a great browser people just seem to screw up a lot of javascript (especially form submission checks) and table formatting that IE seems to be clumsily ignoring or working with.
It renders all the big sites without problem, just some of the little piddly sites that people don't write in dom compliance then only test in IE. My problem isn't with Netscape itself but with the people that still don't write DOM compliant stuff.
I'm not saying IE is great or even good, but there are still people out there that are only coding for it. One of them seems to be our company intranet.:(
No no, you misunderstand my position. I'm saying that it was concievably useful, but only for HTTP. And that if they really want it to work and not be marginally painfull to the community in general, they should work something out with the browser vendors to optiionally allow 404 to send user to the search rather than just error. That's why I said it should happen at an "application level"(web browser) not a "network level"(dns) perhaps you missed that part or took it as an OSI statement (though it really doesn't fit that way). I'm basically saying they went about it wrong, not that everyone else should adapt.
The biggest impact I say was in mail host lookups for basic spam filtering. It was difficult with the *.com to tell if an address was coming from a legit source.
I don't think that the concept of sitefinder was a bad one. Sure if you end up at a 404, preforming a like name comparison might be a nice touch. The problem with site finder is that it was forced upon the population in an automatic way, changing the rules of how things work without consulting the people that have to abide by those rules. Instead of handling this at a network level it should be handled at an application level. Perhaps a checkbox in a drilldown menu in your web browser that says consult sitefinder on site not found errors.
Change and innovation are generally a good things even if their only usefull purpose is to teach you what not to change.
I would imagine the original is not in divx. Although it would be perfectly resonable to do a direct encode to divx, I would imagine the ppl grabbing the first capture would want a high quality version for themselves.
Anyway if it's not the way they're doing it already, it would be simple enough to switch formats for the primary capture.
And Unlike the $15 pricetag on that latest Kid Biscuit CD, most people don't feel like they've been cheated paying $19 for a DVD where all the content is something that want.
I woun't say that video piracy will never reach the heights that music piracy has achieved, But I certainly would not expect to see it anytime soon, even if the technology/speeds chatch up. Piracy has always been there, and will always be there. Only when there is an imbalance in the market will you see it run rampant.
If you give the people what they want at a price they feel is fair you don't run into a lot of these problems. What you're seeing is a broken market fixing it self.
At your estimations that's about 125 LOC's on a screen, it's gonna take a little more than a . to store it. Something more to the tune of 124x124 pixels. Yes I know these numbers have almost no base in reality, just perpetuationg the maddness cause it's fun!
What you say is quite true, but what most fail to realize is that the 386 was more than fast enough for word processing and basic (non multimedia) websurfing.
Even though there is not much instant gratification behind an increase in processor speed, it will certainly open the door to new innovation and things (although not completely necessary) that are quite exciting.
Being able to go to a website, watch a movie trailer nearly in real time, and buy a ticket for it have all come about due to advances in speed of processors and connections.(hence cost reductions) Could you imagine Google running on 8086 tech?
The exciting point for me is when the technology leads to the computer being about the size of your cellphone while comsuming 2 watts of power. Smaller will eventually bring about faster, but it will be coupled with less power consumption and consequentially less waste.
People keep asking me if their equipment is obsolete, I keep asking them if it can do everything they want it to do. One answer fulfills the other.
Actually, the most common reason for referrer to be missing is watchguard firewalls which seem to block it from getting transmitted in one of their defualt rulesets:(
CF is busy leaving MS-COM for java type things. Making all kinds of backwards but generally beneficial changes along the way and waiting for everyone to catch up and fix their code.
Fusebox is a double edged sword with great benefits if you have a lot of coders with different mindsets working on a large project.
On small projects or large ones with small minded developers it quickly skyrockets the number of files required to do everything. Obfustication is achieved simply from the amount of data you have to wade through to find any give piece of code.
Then again we're just catching up with mx/fb3 right now:)
Couple the full combustion and light weight with the compressed air based regenerative breaking system in pop sci about 2 years ago you might have a winner without all the extra weight and electromagnetic losses. Not to meantion a metric ass load of takeoff torque.
This particular screen technology has been around for a *VERY long time. It was purchasable over three years ago. If it's not popular by now, I'm certainly not holding my breath.
*And here's a quote from the first comment to the article: "Interesting side point: The press on this form of 3d vision on their web site dates back to 1994 so it's not exactly cutting edge (unless they've recently undergone a quantum leap forwards and I haven't picked up on this from the site). "--by fingal (49160) on Saturday February 19, @10:33AM (#1259484)
It seems to me that face recognition would have to be just about the worst thing to try to identify people by programatically.
I'm sure it's all the name of mass scanning the public from an already compiled database, but it's such a difficult metric to attemt to track people by. Besides the obvious failure rate with the method, surgery and facial trauma can gravely affect the outcome of the scans.
If you're trying to check face proportions against a huge database of pictures, you're going to have mass failures. (false negative and positive) It's hard to have labratory conditions at an airport and proportion differences can be very slight.
I'd rather seeing mandatory Iris or Retinal scans at all border points and identification procurements.
You get to a point without your bio in the database, expect to be scruitinized.
With a little luck it's just connected to an intranet, maybe a little firewalled.
I woun't say it's not possible that it's open and inviting all 133t d000dz to come in and play havoc, but it sounds like it might be a commercial solution and hopefully they have at least put in the most trivial of security checks.
alas the single DNC lists are hardly obeyed, most companies just wait a couple of months and call you again.
Does asking your telephone soliciters not to call you work better for you than I? I still get lots of calls, i've asked every one to DNC me.
The mainstay of the problem is you had no proof that they put you on a dnc, and likewise no proof that you asked. In many cases you can't even proove who's calling you. Having the calling companies maintain the DNC list is like letting the fox guard the chickens.
Are you going to sue a company over failure to comply with DNC, not likely, and the number of people who would are so small that they don't matter. But now you get a centralized list, you have some proof your on the list, people can band together and take down these fly by night companies with class action suits.
I think if companies really honored the DNC lists this would never have gotten to the point it is now, where noone can eat dinner in piece, where you get woken up hours before your were ready on a weekend morning, where many a sexual encounter was thrawted by ye old ringer.
as things work now, it would be like requiring a no soliciting sign to specify who can't knock, I just picture this door covered with No Soliciting "sun paper" no soliciting "boyscouts" no soliciting "electrolux" it's assinine to try to stop the calls on a one to one basis.
I think that this list is set to improve the quality of life for most people. Companies have been making money at the cost of soo many peoples misery for such a long time. Just the fact that a company can survive by this intrusive method of marketing is appauling.
you want to get my attention use a commercial, direct mail or a billboard, something that i can choose to ignore if i'm not interested.
only the truely paranoid are going stop here, (or anyone that cant utilize cookies, but face it they're not coming in anyway)
when every site has an ugly annoying nag page at the head of it, and the law is shown to have failed at it's intended purpose, perhaps it will get tossed out.
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If 98% of murders are acquaintances, should we legalize murder by acquaintances?
"Maybe the Patent Office is finally getting a clue?"
More like maybe the Patent Office is finally getting their palms greased?
"Made with 99.9% pure micronized silver"
The half ounce of micronized silver they added to the 4000 gallon batch of silver colored grease was 99.9% pure.
Much in the same way that Made with real fruit juices doesn't gaurentee there's any reasonable ammount of fruit juices in it. Marketing at it's worst.
Finance it with a reality tv show of the candidates competing .....
I'm happy to provide you with something to fill your time ;)
It's not completely over the name. The real problem is that both games have some thick roots in norse mythology.
It doesn't help that M$ created a fantasy game, called the norseland midgard, included Frost Giants, beserkers and volcanic zones then named it Mythica. (DAoC already has all of these covered)
Truely, they're not stealing ideas from Mythic, they're just not being very creative with the given material. (*pictures the dilbert like product naming meeting that came up with mythica*) They're just rehashing that which has already been done (and played to death IMHO).
Hmm. Is that because he's planning to outrageously throw the averages off by becomming fithly stinking rich? :) (j/k)
in a way yes, if i send you an encrypted email and you plainly forward it. The new recipient should get the encrypted version for which they should have no key right?
Run Linux at work, using mozilla 1.4 now, It is a great browser people just seem to screw up a lot of javascript (especially form submission checks) and table formatting that IE seems to be clumsily ignoring or working with.
:(
It renders all the big sites without problem, just some of the little piddly sites that people don't write in dom compliance then only test in IE. My problem isn't with Netscape itself but with the people that still don't write DOM compliant stuff.
I'm not saying IE is great or even good, but there are still people out there that are only coding for it. One of them seems to be our company intranet.
Unfortunately a lot of websites are designed to look and work their best on that lousy W3C compliant browser.
No no, you misunderstand my position. I'm saying that it was concievably useful, but only for HTTP. And that if they really want it to work and not be marginally painfull to the community in general, they should work something out with the browser vendors to optiionally allow 404 to send user to the search rather than just error. That's why I said it should happen at an "application level"(web browser) not a "network level"(dns) perhaps you missed that part or took it as an OSI statement (though it really doesn't fit that way). I'm basically saying they went about it wrong, not that everyone else should adapt.
The biggest impact I say was in mail host lookups for basic spam filtering. It was difficult with the *.com to tell if an address was coming from a legit source.
I don't think that the concept of sitefinder was a bad one. Sure if you end up at a 404, preforming a like name comparison might be a nice touch. The problem with site finder is that it was forced upon the population in an automatic way, changing the rules of how things work without consulting the people that have to abide by those rules. Instead of handling this at a network level it should be handled at an application level. Perhaps a checkbox in a drilldown menu in your web browser that says consult sitefinder on site not found errors.
Change and innovation are generally a good things even if their only usefull purpose is to teach you what not to change.
I would imagine the original is not in divx. Although it would be perfectly resonable to do a direct encode to divx, I would imagine the ppl grabbing the first capture would want a high quality version for themselves.
Anyway if it's not the way they're doing it already, it would be simple enough to switch formats for the primary capture.
And Unlike the $15 pricetag on that latest Kid Biscuit CD, most people don't feel like they've been cheated paying $19 for a DVD where all the content is something that want.
I woun't say that video piracy will never reach the heights that music piracy has achieved, But I certainly would not expect to see it anytime soon, even if the technology/speeds chatch up. Piracy has always been there, and will always be there. Only when there is an imbalance in the market will you see it run rampant.
If you give the people what they want at a price they feel is fair you don't run into a lot of these problems. What you're seeing is a broken market fixing it self.
oops my mistake, I missed the third from the last sentence fragment :)
too much time on my hands!
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"10 Terabytes: Printed collection of the U. S. Library of Congress" --appears to be the public standard estimate for the LOC unit***
1250000(GB/screen)/10000GB = 125/screen (LOC)
1600px * 1200px = 1920000 px
1920000px / 125LOC = 15360 px/LOC ~ 124^2 px
At your estimations that's about 125 LOC's on a screen, it's gonna take a little more than a . to store it. Something more to the tune of 124x124 pixels. Yes I know these numbers have almost no base in reality, just perpetuationg the maddness cause it's fun!
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What you say is quite true, but what most fail to realize is that the 386 was more than fast enough for word processing and basic (non multimedia) websurfing.
Even though there is not much instant gratification behind an increase in processor speed, it will certainly open the door to new innovation and things (although not completely necessary) that are quite exciting.
Being able to go to a website, watch a movie trailer nearly in real time, and buy a ticket for it have all come about due to advances in speed of processors and connections.(hence cost reductions) Could you imagine Google running on 8086 tech?
The exciting point for me is when the technology leads to the computer being about the size of your cellphone while comsuming 2 watts of power. Smaller will eventually bring about faster, but it will be coupled with less power consumption and consequentially less waste.
People keep asking me if their equipment is obsolete, I keep asking them if it can do everything they want it to do. One answer fulfills the other.
Actually, the most common reason for referrer to be missing is watchguard firewalls which seem to block it from getting transmitted in one of their defualt rulesets :(
CF is busy leaving MS-COM for java type things. Making all kinds of backwards but generally beneficial changes along the way and waiting for everyone to catch up and fix their code.
:)
Fusebox is a double edged sword with great benefits if you have a lot of coders with different mindsets working on a large project.
On small projects or large ones with small minded developers it quickly skyrockets the number of files required to do everything. Obfustication is achieved simply from the amount of data you have to wade through to find any give piece of code.
Then again we're just catching up with mx/fb3 right now
Couple the full combustion and light weight with the compressed air based regenerative breaking system in pop sci about 2 years ago you might have a winner without all the extra weight and electromagnetic losses. Not to meantion a metric ass load of takeoff torque.
This particular screen technology has been around for a *VERY long time. It was purchasable over three years ago. If it's not popular by now, I'm certainly not holding my breath.
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2-19-2000 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/19/12172
*And here's a quote from the first comment to the article:
"Interesting side point: The press on this form of 3d vision on their web site dates back to 1994 so it's not exactly cutting edge (unless they've recently undergone a quantum leap forwards and I haven't picked up on this from the site). "--by fingal (49160) on Saturday February 19, @10:33AM (#1259484)
incidentially here is a good article on how these work
http://www.dti3d.com/technology.asp
It seems to me that face recognition would have to be just about the worst thing to try to identify people by programatically.
I'm sure it's all the name of mass scanning the public from an already compiled database, but it's such a difficult metric to attemt to track people by. Besides the obvious failure rate with the method, surgery and facial trauma can gravely affect the outcome of the scans.
If you're trying to check face proportions against a huge database of pictures, you're going to have mass failures. (false negative and positive) It's hard to have labratory conditions at an airport and proportion differences can be very slight.
I'd rather seeing mandatory Iris or Retinal scans at all border points and identification procurements.
You get to a point without your bio in the database, expect to be scruitinized.
With a little luck it's just connected to an intranet, maybe a little firewalled.
I woun't say it's not possible that it's open and inviting all 133t d000dz to come in and play havoc, but it sounds like it might be a commercial solution and hopefully they have at least put in the most trivial of security checks.
if not, no gas 4 uuuuuuuuu
alas the single DNC lists are hardly obeyed, most companies just wait a couple of months and call you again.
Does asking your telephone soliciters not to call you work better for you than I? I still get lots of calls, i've asked every one to DNC me.
The mainstay of the problem is you had no proof that they put you on a dnc, and likewise no proof that you asked. In many cases you can't even proove who's calling you. Having the calling companies maintain the DNC list is like letting the fox guard the chickens.
Are you going to sue a company over failure to comply with DNC, not likely, and the number of people who would are so small that they don't matter. But now you get a centralized list, you have some proof your on the list, people can band together and take down these fly by night companies with class action suits.
I think if companies really honored the DNC lists this would never have gotten to the point it is now, where noone can eat dinner in piece, where you get woken up hours before your were ready on a weekend morning, where many a sexual encounter was thrawted by ye old ringer.
as things work now, it would be like requiring a no soliciting sign to specify who can't knock, I just picture this door covered with No Soliciting "sun paper" no soliciting "boyscouts" no soliciting "electrolux" it's assinine to try to stop the calls on a one to one basis.
I think that this list is set to improve the quality of life for most people. Companies have been making money at the cost of soo many peoples misery for such a long time. Just the fact that a company can survive by this intrusive method of marketing is appauling.
you want to get my attention use a commercial, direct mail or a billboard, something that i can choose to ignore if i'm not interested.
you are about to enter the abc123 site
[proceed]use cookies
[go back]don't use cookies
only the truely paranoid are going stop here, (or anyone that cant utilize cookies, but face it they're not coming in anyway)
when every site has an ugly annoying nag page at the head of it, and the law is shown to have failed at it's intended purpose, perhaps it will get tossed out.