There has been a conspiracy theory for a long time that/. is actually funded by Microsoft... See... any publicity is GOOD publicity (think mindshare.) Furthermore, tons of geeks who could be hacking the Linux kernel are wasting their time here... heh.
Yes.. I waste time here, but I can't code these days. Just got divorced, too depressed. I'll be fine again soon and you won't see me wasting time here anymore.:)
You speak Chinese? Are you Asian? I ask this because Gaijan is a word used for all non-asians. A white guy in Tokoyo isn't going to have it as easy as a malaysian or whatever.
And this I say to the person who posted this story. LEARN JAPANESE (it isn't hard!, it is EASY) And learn slang too, there are books that deal with this very subject. Learn amazing things like, when they sit there and refer to you as an English teacher it is the equivilant of a white guy calling a black guy a cotten picker. Don't be a bitch and look stupid, if it is a girl calling you an English teacher invite her over for a private lesson.;P Don't sit there and say that your job is really programming at Sony or whatever...
Another _easier_ approach to get to Japan is to join the military and make sure you will get stationed there. Military life is much simpler since you won't really have to learn Japanese, and you will probably get to have a lot of sex while you are there (sluts like to hang around military bases to find guys with bigger cocks, heh. wear condoms please.) The onbase life is very shelted from what it is like living in the middle of Tokyo though...
Now I know exactly what CDs NOT to buy thanks to the logos! I wouldn't want to buy a CD and have some of my money go to Microsoft. Same reason I build all my computers from scratch instead of buying prebuilt with the m$ tax already on it... and yes... I do buy CDs:)
A lot of that is due to two reasons... long periods in the summer without rain cause the ground to shift and crack and it screws up roads and building foundations. That is why it is good to water your lawn frequently in the summer, to save your foundation in low rain areas.
Also... when water gets in the cracks between your sidewalk and freezes the ice expands and pushes the cracks further apart. This has devestating effects on roads and sidewalks. The only way to stop this on roads and sidewalks would be to remove the very thing that makes them useful... the rough surface on top;)
Ya... on my Nissan 240sx to reset error codes I either had to disconnect the battery for 15 minutes... get to where the computer is and push a button... or do the easy part and turn the ignition from the on-position to the acc position 37 times in a row real fast.
My friends thought it was silly to see me put my key in and move it back and forth really quick when I installed a new O2 sensor once.. heh. Ohh well.
Homer: Ohhh no! The tape I put over it fell off.....
Or something to that effect. Either way, it is highly probably your mechanic charged your $500 and did some fancy work and just disconnected the check engine light. It happens all the freaking time.
Hmm... I really like peter. Every time I get spam from now on and there is an "opt-out" option where I can go on their web page and make sure they don't send me more spam... I think I will make sure that I put peter's email in there to make sure he doesn't ever get spam from the same people I did. I usually whois the domains of the urls listed in the spam and make sure the domain contacts are added to the nospam lists also. No one should have to suffer.
I doubt you know me, I don't live in Norman. I do live in OKC though. Norman is a college town, it has more places to get drunk than at OKC. Just look in the "Norman Transcript", it usually has a section in there showing all the places.
The Deli is where we usually go, Resident Funk is the best band that shows up there.:)
I hate to reply twice in a row, but a thought hit me right as I hit submit. This is kind of off topic, but who cares.
The Internet itself was founded by the US government. Origionally as we all know it had military applications but it was quickly opened to the public. One of its primary goals was the spread of information and communication. It was also thought that it could possibly eliminate political/social/ethnic boundaries and move the world to a more utopian state.
Sadly this dream never came true or this thread would of never started in the first place:/ And I find myself read a US-centric web site refering to some people as foreign. I guess the more things chance the more they stay the same.
Ya.. I mean.. the US has nothing better to do than put a million dollar weapon on a billion dollar jet just to blind you. No, I think maybe they want this laser to dominate air space and destroy ground based missile systems. I could be wrong though.
Even so, treaties are kept and broken all the time by different countries in the world.
If US thought it was the only country in the world it would of bombed Iraq a long time ago, and probably the entire middle east... Ohh wait, wouldn't there have to be other countries in the world in order to go bomb them?
See, there actually was a point in time when the US tried to be the only country in the world. This was back during WWI and you had a movement in the world where we wanted to stay out of world affairs and just be isolated. Of course, we were shorly bombed by Japan at Pearl Harbor.
Every time there is a Slashdot story about US and what new weapon they have all the foreign people start feeling penis envy and start bashing the US right away.:)
On a follow up to my own post, hehe. Does Linux offer a way you can declare certain ports as non privlidged? It would simplify certain things... ie, if you are just running anonymous ftp there is no reason to run it as root and you wouldn't have to make firewall entries...
We use FreeBSD at work primarly and we don't mind using a firewall... but who knows....
It is pretty much impossible to realistically keep machines secure.... even if you patch every single day.
Keep all your services jailed, preferably not running as root. If a server has to run as root to access a privlidged port (ie http) have your firewall redirect all packets sent to port 80 to port 8080.
You can setup a cron job to do the following at 3am in the morning. This example I use is for a web server but will work with just about anything.
1) back up the _data_ (web pages in our example) of the path that is jailed. 2) shut down the web server 3) delete everything on the path that is jailed 4) restore a master backup that you made when you first installed the web server program to the path that is jailed. 5) restore the data back to the path that is jailed. 6) restart the web server.
This works well So maybe this kills your web server uptime a little. It takes about 10 seconds on a normal web site. The good news is, even if you get hacked... it will all be undone 24 hours later.:)
Most "hacking" is done by script kiddies. Uber hackers usually won't attack your site unless you have something they want... i.e. credit card numbers. Even then... you don't HAVE to store credit card numbers... but even if you wanted you could encrypt each credit card number with a public key and load all the encrypted codes via floppy to another computer and decrypt with a private key.
Script kiddies hack your site usually as a place to store warez/porn. So they use some script and spend a few hours uploading crap over their 56k dial-up modem.... the next day.. it is all gone.
Of course.. none of this stuff can reliably be done with windows... but hey, if you were halfass serious about hosting a site you would use a serious OS.
Parents? What are those... Ohh you mean those people who usually got home after I had already gone to bed even when I was 6 or so?:)
But seriously... IANAP (psychologist) there are different types of influences out there. I played a crap load of Doom and Grand Theft Auto in my life but it was just a video game so it never had much influence. In fact, I have never in my life physically harmed another human except in self defence. Even then, I have been jumped before and won fights without hurting the other person...
But books and stories and movies are a little different... It isn't that what you watch on TV can MAKE YOU DO THINGS.;) But it does influence your PERSONALITY. Especially when see some type of role-model in what you are watching... when I was a kid I used to worship Cyrano (not from video games... from the french play). I always tried to be well rounded and good at everything I did. If a kid is growing up and really likes Snoop Dog or whatever he may get really engrossed in him and act like him as much as possible. But that doesn't mean this kid is going to go out and sell dope.
I guess what I am trying to say is... everything you see influences you in someway. But you ultimatly have say in your behavior. We know the difference between right and wrong and the rules are explained to us very clearly through our life. But no one really sits down and tells your how to dress, or how to think, or how to talk, etc...
They started designing FFXII and FFXI at the same time.:) I saw screen shots of FFXII almost a year ago. I would send you the link, but I seem to be lacking the macromedia programs necessary to view squaresoft.com:/
I do remember this, the chick in this one has a bare midrift;)
Isn't that the whole point behind Final Fantasy XI? To actually be able to roleplay? With the technical expertise and the sheer amount of time they have been working on this. Playonline.com which is what was made to host FFXI was registered back in 2000. They started planning it long before then. I seriously hope it is a world where I can play a role and get fame and build social characters from it. Evercrack really failed in that aspect.
Though I do agree, if Square made a table top Final Fantasy with a GM and the whole 9 yards it would totally kick ass. But I doubt it would sell to well:(
And people who just kill things to get exp and have strong characters are not roleplayers... we call them rollplayers:)
Ya, I mean... drawing magic/refining items/juctions in Final Fantasy VIII was just a repackaging of the materia system from Final Fantasy VII. I swear, they never change anything.:) The level up system in Final Fantasy X was soooo similar to the one in Final Fantasy IX. Not to mention how similar the plot was between Final Fantasy IX and Final Fantasy VIII.
On yet another serious unsarcastic point... our entire society is repackaging of something else. I mean... Doom was just a reitiration of Wolfenstein was no real innovation. I bet no one has writen an origional song since the Medieval ages. Even Elvis just got rich singing music already written by African Americans. Most of the shows on TV are just remakes of movies, which are remakes of other movies. Disney likes to release cartoons already made in Japan. We just elected a repackaged president in America, another Bush. I can't believe they made the internal space station, no innovation over Mir. And all these new medicines in the world, when will doctors give up and just making more stuff to make money? You know what is even worse?!? They released another Nirvana song, wtf? That is sooo 10 years ago. It sounds like all the other Nirvana songs back then. Microsoft the other day invented symbolic links! And Linux... they just reiterated Minix. Every story on slashdot is just a reiteration of a real story posted by a real news site which covers an event that has already happened before--because HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
In short, who cares. If you like something, do it. I like Dr. Pepper, it always taste the same yet I still drink it. I wake up in the morning and enjoy seeing my daughter, who hasn't really innovated herself much since yesterday. I enjoy fresh releases of music that really offers nothing new. If you live your life looking for innovation you will not find what you are looking for. Square will release more Final Fantasy titles, and people will buy them... and have fun.:)
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Try scoop. Even the developers of PHP hate php-nuke... when I was an op on efnet's #php we would ban people who even said phpnuke...
There has been a conspiracy theory for a long time that /. is actually funded by Microsoft... See... any publicity is GOOD publicity (think mindshare.) Furthermore, tons of geeks who could be hacking the Linux kernel are wasting their time here... heh.
:)
Yes.. I waste time here, but I can't code these days. Just got divorced, too depressed. I'll be fine again soon and you won't see me wasting time here anymore.
You speak Chinese? Are you Asian? I ask this because Gaijan is a word used for all non-asians. A white guy in Tokoyo isn't going to have it as easy as a malaysian or whatever.
;P Don't sit there and say that your job is really programming at Sony or whatever...
And this I say to the person who posted this story. LEARN JAPANESE (it isn't hard!, it is EASY) And learn slang too, there are books that deal with this very subject. Learn amazing things like, when they sit there and refer to you as an English teacher it is the equivilant of a white guy calling a black guy a cotten picker. Don't be a bitch and look stupid, if it is a girl calling you an English teacher invite her over for a private lesson.
Another _easier_ approach to get to Japan is to join the military and make sure you will get stationed there. Military life is much simpler since you won't really have to learn Japanese, and you will probably get to have a lot of sex while you are there (sluts like to hang around military bases to find guys with bigger cocks, heh. wear condoms please.) The onbase life is very shelted from what it is like living in the middle of Tokyo though...
Now I know exactly what CDs NOT to buy thanks to the logos! I wouldn't want to buy a CD and have some of my money go to Microsoft. Same reason I build all my computers from scratch instead of buying prebuilt with the m$ tax already on it... and yes... I do buy CDs :)
You have to admit, it is ironic that a chick wrote an entire song about irony and didn't mention one ironic thing in the entire song.
It is very compatible... with players licensed by Microsoft to play it ;)
A lot of that is due to two reasons... long periods in the summer without rain cause the ground to shift and crack and it screws up roads and building foundations. That is why it is good to water your lawn frequently in the summer, to save your foundation in low rain areas.
;)
Also... when water gets in the cracks between your sidewalk and freezes the ice expands and pushes the cracks further apart. This has devestating effects on roads and sidewalks. The only way to stop this on roads and sidewalks would be to remove the very thing that makes them useful... the rough surface on top
Ya... on my Nissan 240sx to reset error codes I either had to disconnect the battery for 15 minutes... get to where the computer is and push a button... or do the easy part and turn the ignition from the on-position to the acc position 37 times in a row real fast.
My friends thought it was silly to see me put my key in and move it back and forth really quick when I installed a new O2 sensor once.. heh. Ohh well.
Isn't the Nissan altima drive-by-wire? or was it the Maxima.. I haven't paid much attention to Nissan since they stoped making the 240sx :(
Reminds me of the Simpsons...
....
Marge: Homer! The check engine light is on!
Homer: Ohhh no! The tape I put over it fell off.
Or something to that effect. Either way, it is highly probably your mechanic charged your $500 and did some fancy work and just disconnected the check engine light. It happens all the freaking time.
Hmm... I really like peter. Every time I get spam from now on and there is an "opt-out" option where I can go on their web page and make sure they don't send me more spam... I think I will make sure that I put peter's email in there to make sure he doesn't ever get spam from the same people I did. I usually whois the domains of the urls listed in the spam and make sure the domain contacts are added to the nospam lists also. No one should have to suffer.
I doubt you know me, I don't live in Norman. I do live in OKC though. Norman is a college town, it has more places to get drunk than at OKC. Just look in the "Norman Transcript", it usually has a section in there showing all the places.
:)
The Deli is where we usually go, Resident Funk is the best band that shows up there.
> The treaty was a bit unclear, and unfourtunatly I don't have the deatials,
Which is why...
A) You should not write about things you do not know about.
B) Read all of the 500 posts above speaking about this.
> You can't negotiate with people who want nothing more than to see you dead.
:)
Yup, that is why divorce trials are such a bitch.
I hate to reply twice in a row, but a thought hit me right as I hit submit. This is kind of off topic, but who cares.
:/ And I find myself read a US-centric web site refering to some people as foreign. I guess the more things chance the more they stay the same.
The Internet itself was founded by the US government. Origionally as we all know it had military applications but it was quickly opened to the public. One of its primary goals was the spread of information and communication. It was also thought that it could possibly eliminate political/social/ethnic boundaries and move the world to a more utopian state.
Sadly this dream never came true or this thread would of never started in the first place
Thank God for beer.
Ya.. I mean.. the US has nothing better to do than put a million dollar weapon on a billion dollar jet just to blind you. No, I think maybe they want this laser to dominate air space and destroy ground based missile systems. I could be wrong though.
:)
Even so, treaties are kept and broken all the time by different countries in the world.
If US thought it was the only country in the world it would of bombed Iraq a long time ago, and probably the entire middle east... Ohh wait, wouldn't there have to be other countries in the world in order to go bomb them?
See, there actually was a point in time when the US tried to be the only country in the world. This was back during WWI and you had a movement in the world where we wanted to stay out of world affairs and just be isolated. Of course, we were shorly bombed by Japan at Pearl Harbor.
Every time there is a Slashdot story about US and what new weapon they have all the foreign people start feeling penis envy and start bashing the US right away.
On a follow up to my own post, hehe. Does Linux offer a way you can declare certain ports as non privlidged? It would simplify certain things... ie, if you are just running anonymous ftp there is no reason to run it as root and you wouldn't have to make firewall entries...
We use FreeBSD at work primarly and we don't mind using a firewall... but who knows....
It is pretty much impossible to realistically keep machines secure.... even if you patch every single day.
:)
Keep all your services jailed, preferably not running as root. If a server has to run as root to access a privlidged port (ie http) have your firewall redirect all packets sent to port 80 to port 8080.
You can setup a cron job to do the following at 3am in the morning. This example I use is for a web server but will work with just about anything.
1) back up the _data_ (web pages in our example) of the path that is jailed.
2) shut down the web server
3) delete everything on the path that is jailed
4) restore a master backup that you made when you first installed the web server program to the path that is jailed.
5) restore the data back to the path that is jailed.
6) restart the web server.
This works well
So maybe this kills your web server uptime a little. It takes about 10 seconds on a normal web site. The good news is, even if you get hacked... it will all be undone 24 hours later.
Most "hacking" is done by script kiddies. Uber hackers usually won't attack your site unless you have something they want... i.e. credit card numbers. Even then... you don't HAVE to store credit card numbers... but even if you wanted you could encrypt each credit card number with a public key and load all the encrypted codes via floppy to another computer and decrypt with a private key.
Script kiddies hack your site usually as a place to store warez/porn. So they use some script and spend a few hours uploading crap over their 56k dial-up modem.... the next day.. it is all gone.
Of course.. none of this stuff can reliably be done with windows... but hey, if you were halfass serious about hosting a site you would use a serious OS.
Actually the international treaty just banned the use of lasers designed for no reason other then to blind soldiers.
It is ok to make lasers that kill or destroy objects.
Hehe, good points. :)
Regarding your last couple of sentences.. I go to a club down here in Norman, OK and on the front door it says..
"You are a unique person. Just like everyone else."
Parents? What are those... Ohh you mean those people who usually got home after I had already gone to bed even when I was 6 or so? :)
;) But it does influence your PERSONALITY. Especially when see some type of role-model in what you are watching... when I was a kid I used to worship Cyrano (not from video games... from the french play). I always tried to be well rounded and good at everything I did. If a kid is growing up and really likes Snoop Dog or whatever he may get really engrossed in him and act like him as much as possible. But that doesn't mean this kid is going to go out and sell dope.
But seriously... IANAP (psychologist) there are different types of influences out there. I played a crap load of Doom and Grand Theft Auto in my life but it was just a video game so it never had much influence. In fact, I have never in my life physically harmed another human except in self defence. Even then, I have been jumped before and won fights without hurting the other person...
But books and stories and movies are a little different... It isn't that what you watch on TV can MAKE YOU DO THINGS.
I guess what I am trying to say is... everything you see influences you in someway. But you ultimatly have say in your behavior. We know the difference between right and wrong and the rules are explained to us very clearly through our life. But no one really sits down and tells your how to dress, or how to think, or how to talk, etc...
So why would it have been on a Square web site?
They started designing FFXII and FFXI at the same time. :) I saw screen shots of FFXII almost a year ago. I would send you the link, but I seem to be lacking the macromedia programs necessary to view squaresoft.com :/
;)
I do remember this, the chick in this one has a bare midrift
Isn't that the whole point behind Final Fantasy XI? To actually be able to roleplay? With the technical expertise and the sheer amount of time they have been working on this. Playonline.com which is what was made to host FFXI was registered back in 2000. They started planning it long before then. I seriously hope it is a world where I can play a role and get fame and build social characters from it. Evercrack really failed in that aspect.
:(
:)
Though I do agree, if Square made a table top Final Fantasy with a GM and the whole 9 yards it would totally kick ass. But I doubt it would sell to well
And people who just kill things to get exp and have strong characters are not roleplayers... we call them rollplayers
Ya, I mean... drawing magic/refining items/juctions in Final Fantasy VIII was just a repackaging of the materia system from Final Fantasy VII. I swear, they never change anything. :) The level up system in Final Fantasy X was soooo similar to the one in Final Fantasy IX. Not to mention how similar the plot was between Final Fantasy IX and Final Fantasy VIII.
:)
On yet another serious unsarcastic point... our entire society is repackaging of something else. I mean... Doom was just a reitiration of Wolfenstein was no real innovation. I bet no one has writen an origional song since the Medieval ages. Even Elvis just got rich singing music already written by African Americans. Most of the shows on TV are just remakes of movies, which are remakes of other movies. Disney likes to release cartoons already made in Japan. We just elected a repackaged president in America, another Bush. I can't believe they made the internal space station, no innovation over Mir. And all these new medicines in the world, when will doctors give up and just making more stuff to make money? You know what is even worse?!? They released another Nirvana song, wtf? That is sooo 10 years ago. It sounds like all the other Nirvana songs back then. Microsoft the other day invented symbolic links! And Linux... they just reiterated Minix. Every story on slashdot is just a reiteration of a real story posted by a real news site which covers an event that has already happened before--because HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
In short, who cares. If you like something, do it. I like Dr. Pepper, it always taste the same yet I still drink it. I wake up in the morning and enjoy seeing my daughter, who hasn't really innovated herself much since yesterday. I enjoy fresh releases of music that really offers nothing new. If you live your life looking for innovation you will not find what you are looking for. Square will release more Final Fantasy titles, and people will buy them... and have fun.