If this isn't APK, then why are you double posting, anon? I know of only one net kook who double-posts with slight changes in the follow up when he thinks of a new burn...
It's quite simple. If the game is any good, then there won't be any used copies to by simply because no one wants to sell it.
The publishers' main concern is that first initial rush to buy the game after its released; that translates into money for the developer. Long tail sales are irrelevant and the royalties are crap unless you wrote Starcraft. So if you can make your game last for four weeks before someone gets tired of it, you've succeeded, you will get ample cash money to fund development of the next one.
If your target market is reselling the product at a rate which competes with the all important initial sales in a significant way, THEN YOU SUCK AT MAKING GAMES GET A DIFFERENT JOB. I don't know, work for Hollywood, put those texture and explosion making skills to good use. Lord knows Hollywood doesn't pay anyone the big bucks for a movie because of solid writing.
Don't freak out. The development community went with the code to greener pastures.
Just wait until NextWiki (or whatever it's going to be called) 4.2.4 is released; it'll have a migration tool that will un-Twiki(TM)ify your existing setup.
My hope is that this is like the XFree86 split. It wound up being much better for the forked project and a lot of nice features and changes came out of new governance. I'm glad this happened, Peter was kind of a jerk.
That you don't understand why it doesn't just work means you don't understand the intricacies of having multiple logon authorities with potentially different primary ways of storing password hashes. This is what you have when you have a client and server in no formal relationship (be they Windows or Linux, the issue is still material). This is WHY you do things like use LDAP and kerberos, to promote that interoperability and avoid things like having to update passwords in multiple places. How do you think a Windows domain "just works"?
Samba has supported LM, NTLM, NTLM v2, and kerberos authentication for quite a long time (since v2.2 at least). Your gripe with "unencrypted passwords" is only valid if you want to use PAM for password authentication (which requires the password to be sent over the wire to be "applied" at the server side as if you typed it into the login prompt) and you are not using kerberos or LDAP, as you should be. This feature of windows is purposely disable in XP SP1 and greater because it is retarded and you don't know how to properly set up your linux box in a sane way.
Running your filesystem in userspace could be quite satisfactory provided the service was well written (for example, NTFS-3g). The problem that you couldn't code around with a performance impact was the inability to use mmap to write files. Reading was okay, but writing, no. It would be necessary to fall back to using read/write/seek system calls and more copies of buffers in and out of kernel memory. Recently patches have been added that permit a FUSE user-space process to implement writable-mmaps and the associated performance enhancements, but few FUSE filesystems have been modified to take advantage of this.
DOSBox can probably run these "low level" applications quite nicely and redirect serial port access to the TTY/COMx of your choice. It's designed to emulate a real-mode or x86 protected-mode DOS system with a virtual (and configurable) set of hardware that maps to your real hardware. If it can run all those crazy DOS games from the early to late 90s I don't think router control software is out of the question. They should try it.
Sure, using a Blue Gene/L you can run a radiosity simulation on top of raytracing in approximately real time. Big freaking whoop!
But will we have the model and shading tools, not to mention the physics engines and such to simulate a realistic environment in 5 years? 10? 20? Curiously the article fails to investigate this.
Instead they have a nicely shaded clump of colored balls. Maybe they'll do a teapot next!!!
You could do it in the kernel, but you shouldn't. The kernel keeps track of files using inodes and device numbers, not paths, which may be volatile between reboots (udev+kernel can dynamically assign device numbers to kernel devices, filesystems are identified and mounted by scanning for UUIDs or labels in superblocks, etc). A tracking daemon can monitor system calls and keep a small database with logical paths, access patterns, and so forth; the user-space view of activity tracks intent better so the statistics can be more meaningful.
Moreover the act of caching the file is easily accomplished by a low-priority user-space task which speculatively reads the files which may be referenced soon. In this fashion the kernel memory manager does not need to be changed in any way; we are not creating a new kernel memory pool which would need new logic under memory pressure. In the case that RAM is suddenly needed for storing application pages or an unexpected demand-loaded program binary or library, we can flush these buffered files just like any other cached file; it's not treated any differently. It's just a daemon touching files (with the hope of a benefit in startup times of applications that require them).
With VMware you can't arbitarily set your MAC address to whatever you want. How else am I going to virtualize the machines running all my expensive license servers? You can't dynamically add CPUs or RAM to guest instances. You can't migrate running instances without the expensive VMotion add-on. And so forth.
What Xen is missing is a nice console. Maybe in version 4.
Way back in the day (2003), Habbo was of interest only to Europeans; Habbo hotel access cards were placed prominently at checkout counters in drug stores and grocery stores for little kids and tweens to beg for in the EU. Habbo Hotel (a social networking website and Shockwave Flash chatroom of the Sulake Corporation) had yet to break into the US market. With this site you paid for the privilege to access certain areas and get private rooms with furniture and such. That children would beg parents to actually pay to sit around in an isometric 3d chatroom and wait in a line to use a virtual pool when they could beg them to take their lazy asses to a REAL POOL was a completely abhorrent concept that became known to EU and later non-EU 4channers.
The EU 4channers encouraged non-EU/b/tards to create sockpuppet accounts and come to the site to observe the stupidity and screw with the users. Thus began the pasttime of "blocking" access to the pool. Sulake, in their infinite wisdom, designed the pool such that there was only a single egress to the water and few in and out of the popular pooldeck area. Also, users can't move through each other, and you can't chat with anyone you can't see. Which means a small group of griefers has the potential a lot of problems for tweens who want to sit around, swim in a virtual pool and have slowly hunt-n-pecked tinysex.
Everyone who used habbo tended to depict and dress themselves a certain way (spiky hair, tan, whatever). To differentiate themselves,/b/tards adopted a dress code of black skin, afro, dress suit; the complete opposite of everyone else.
Eventually these little invasions drew the ire of the paid staff members at Sulake that moderated the chats. They began banning the afro'd interlopers. Pretty soon, they were banning anyone who had an avatar with black skin. 4channers posted videos documenting this phenomenon. Now they had evidence that the moderators were racists (or just lazy).
So they rallied the troops (using the videos/pictures of summary bans for being black to outrage the apathetic), and then wave after of 4channers, YTMND, etc. members launched coordinated attacks on the various congregation rooms of the chat. Moderators were swamped and couldn't ban fast enough. Habbo forums were brought to their knees by customer and invader alike, and so forth. Invasion forces began forming swastikas near exits to send a message to the site admins and users who too began discriminating against anyone who choose a black avatar.
In short, a small group of individuals were able to bait an internet community into attacking another by manufacturing a racism scenario. The original group's motives were simply to shake up a bunch of kids who were getting fat and poor via a stupid online activity. One could claim Sulake is directly responsible for the weight problem and credit card debt we now suffer! Of course that claim is ludicrious.
But it wasn't random, and there is a core of good intentions there, however horrible and bizarre the outcome.
Many similar early Anonymous activities have the same type of progression. A group of users familiar with the activities of another group they dislike encourage the rest of the community to do something about it. Nothing happens until they manufacture populist drama to sway support. This spins out of control with amusing consequences.
The large majority of the raids on DeviantArt accounts (for example) were to punish those who are utter and complete egomaniacs, plagiarists (especially), and sometimes both.
Fursecution and MySpace fuckery I don't partcularly agree with, but I understand why they don't particularly admire these communities. Not much good goes on there.
They're gotten better and more refined over time. They've successfully jailed that pedophile in Canada, got Hal Turner (white supremacist) off the air, fucked with Tom Greene and made his show funny, hounded a tax-evading dominatrix kindergarten teacher, went after a radical feminist who made hateful remarks and threats against her own son, and so forth.
Scientology is just the latest and most visible stop on the train which coincides with recent exposes, lawsuits and book releases; a public climate sympathetic to their cause.
I want to say that the DC protest (that I attended as a citizen on the street, uncounted) was probably one of the most "on-target" and organized as evidenced by videos so far uploaded, even if it was only a middling size (~150). Many passers-bye were engaged and genuinely interested, they ran out of fliers, Arnie Lerna speaking, ex-scientologists were speaking, pre-med students were speaking, not that there weren't any Anon-specific momemnts like Rick Rolling but it was more of a morale boost than a mixed message.
I think the one thing that needed to be improved was that clearly there is a division of opinion; that the organization is the problem, and that the tenets of the 'religion' are the problem. Some of us (myself included) think that both are problematic. The message was supposed to focus on the former (because that is the thing that is tangible and easier to change for the better), but many in attendance who made their own signs clearly believed also in the latter. In any caseiIt is important for people to see that this actually matters and it is not something which is a funny folly of those zany actors in Hollywood; I am certain that this was achieved.
Some say that this was a mere practice run for the 15th of March. I hope that leadership organizing this later event, now with the experiences of one protest under their belts, can learn and improve and really have a clear agenda with an even bigger impact.
Quote: After 9/11, the church received a commendation from the New York Fire Department for its relief efforts, but critics accused it of applying therapies such as rhythmic massages that some mental health professionals considered medically dubious.
"The public needs to understand that the Scientologists are using this tragedy to recruit new members," Michael M. Faenza, the president of the National Mental Health Association said in 2001. "They are not providing mental health assistance."
In Minneapolis, the group said it's working with the Red Cross. Yet members of the Red Cross working at the disaster zone questioned by ABC News weren't aware of the Church's assistance.
They show up, use the fact that they show up to make themselves look good, and proceed to basically get in the way and hand out Dianetics, pamphlets, and generally intercept you before you think about going to a mental health practitioner to handle the shell shock. It's really slimy, like ambulance chasers.
She was dehydrated and had insect bites on her hands (meaning she couldn't keep them off her). This is a textbook definition case of felony Neglect / Reckless Manslaughter. However, after a deluge of information and testimony from any expert that was willing to accept CoS's money (directed at the M.E.'s office, I might add), the original M.E. threw up her hands and a different, more sympathetic M.E. gave a revised recommendation to the D.A. 18 months after the fact.
Blood clots in the legs, dehydration and insect bites are NOT accidental. That ruling smells worse than her dessicated corpse.
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court for Hillsborough County, State of Florida, Estate of Lisa McPherson vs Church of Scientology Flag Service Org, Case No.97-01235 SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA, State of Florida vs. Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc. Case No. CRC 98-20377CFANO-S
None of the people they terrorized were "everyday people". Not that there hasn't been collateral damage. But the targets of lulz are, generally speaking, asking for it. You never hear why Anonymous attacks anybody because that doesn't make sensational news and the affected users who have blogs don't reveal their own faults. Keep in mind that the activation energy of Anonymous is very high and people spend weeks trying to make the case to get an invasion going. The usual response is "We're not your personal army".
* Hal Turner (white supremacist, FBI informant) * Tom Green (just not a funny guy who somehow had a call-in talk show, anon needed to make the show funny)
They also fight perceived threats to people's sanity and internet culture... too much to list but anyone who has Unwarranted Self Importance. I.E:
* Furry that take themselves too seriously * Fan-fiction writers that take themselves seriously * DeviantArt (in a nutshell) * MySpace, Youtube, etc.
The IRS allowed the Church to be considered a charitable non-profit. Religious organizations are not recognized at a federal level. Each state has differing laws about recognizing religious organizations and conferring them special statuses or protections.
Slashdot Mirror
Or ... whatever.
That's some real deep throat shit right there, man. My eyes are like friggin' open now.
And I don't like what I see!
(i.e. your posts)
If this isn't APK, then why are you double posting, anon?
I know of only one net kook who double-posts with slight changes in the follow up when he thinks of a new burn...
Oh no, we understand that.
It's quite simple. If the game is any good, then there won't be any used copies to by simply because no one wants to sell it.
The publishers' main concern is that first initial rush to buy the game after its released; that translates into money for the developer. Long tail sales are irrelevant and the royalties are crap unless you wrote Starcraft. So if you can make your game last for four weeks before someone gets tired of it, you've succeeded, you will get ample cash money to fund development of the next one.
If your target market is reselling the product at a rate which competes with the all important initial sales in a significant way, THEN YOU SUCK AT MAKING GAMES GET A DIFFERENT JOB. I don't know, work for Hollywood, put those texture and explosion making skills to good use. Lord knows Hollywood doesn't pay anyone the big bucks for a movie because of solid writing.
I suppose you just didn't have friends who wanted to play with you. Poor baby, awwww... Now you can woo them with BUSKING . Now you're cool!
The articles elude to but do not specify whether this is an exclusive. If anyone is dictating those terms my gut says that it is Apple Corp.
Don't freak out. The development community went with the code to greener pastures.
Just wait until NextWiki (or whatever it's going to be called) 4.2.4 is released; it'll have a migration tool that will un-Twiki(TM)ify your existing setup.
My hope is that this is like the XFree86 split. It wound up being much better for the forked project and a lot of nice features and changes came out of new governance. I'm glad this happened, Peter was kind of a jerk.
That you don't understand why it doesn't just work means you don't understand the intricacies of having multiple logon authorities with potentially different primary ways of storing password hashes. This is what you have when you have a client and server in no formal relationship (be they Windows or Linux, the issue is still material). This is WHY you do things like use LDAP and kerberos, to promote that interoperability and avoid things like having to update passwords in multiple places. How do you think a Windows domain "just works"?
http://linux.ittoolbox.com/documents/popular-q-and-a/how-to-set-up-a-samba-server-with-encrypted-passwords-2278
Samba has supported LM, NTLM, NTLM v2, and kerberos authentication for quite a long time (since v2.2 at least). Your gripe with "unencrypted passwords" is only valid if you want to use PAM for password authentication (which requires the password to be sent over the wire to be "applied" at the server side as if you typed it into the login prompt) and you are not using kerberos or LDAP, as you should be. This feature of windows is purposely disable in XP SP1 and greater because it is retarded and you don't know how to properly set up your linux box in a sane way.
Running your filesystem in userspace could be quite satisfactory provided the service was well written (for example, NTFS-3g).
The problem that you couldn't code around with a performance impact was the inability to use mmap to write files. Reading was okay, but writing, no. It would be necessary to fall back to using read/write/seek system calls and more copies of buffers in and out of kernel memory. Recently patches have been added that permit a FUSE user-space process to implement writable-mmaps and the associated performance enhancements, but few FUSE filesystems have been modified to take advantage of this.
At least not yet.
New kernels/updates since August of 2005 have the patch.
DOSBox can probably run these "low level" applications quite nicely and redirect serial port access to the TTY/COMx of your choice. It's designed to emulate a real-mode or x86 protected-mode DOS system with a virtual (and configurable) set of hardware that maps to your real hardware. If it can run all those crazy DOS games from the early to late 90s I don't think router control software is out of the question. They should try it.
Also, DOSBox runs on XP and Vista. (Boggle!)
Sure, using a Blue Gene/L you can run a radiosity simulation on top of raytracing in approximately real time. Big freaking whoop!
But will we have the model and shading tools, not to mention the physics engines and such to simulate a realistic environment in 5 years? 10? 20? Curiously the article fails to investigate this.
Instead they have a nicely shaded clump of colored balls. Maybe they'll do a teapot next!!!
I can think of a few people who worked on Formula 1 teams who would be happy to have an odd but iconic little auto to play around with in the shop. :-D
You could do it in the kernel, but you shouldn't. The kernel keeps track of files using inodes and device numbers, not paths, which may be volatile between reboots (udev+kernel can dynamically assign device numbers to kernel devices, filesystems are identified and mounted by scanning for UUIDs or labels in superblocks, etc). A tracking daemon can monitor system calls and keep a small database with logical paths, access patterns, and so forth; the user-space view of activity tracks intent better so the statistics can be more meaningful.
Moreover the act of caching the file is easily accomplished by a low-priority user-space task which speculatively reads the files which may be referenced soon. In this fashion the kernel memory manager does not need to be changed in any way; we are not creating a new kernel memory pool which would need new logic under memory pressure. In the case that RAM is suddenly needed for storing application pages or an unexpected demand-loaded program binary or library, we can flush these buffered files just like any other cached file; it's not treated any differently. It's just a daemon touching files (with the hope of a benefit in startup times of applications that require them).
With VMware you can't arbitarily set your MAC address to whatever you want. How else am I going to virtualize the machines running all my expensive license servers? You can't dynamically add CPUs or RAM to guest instances. You can't migrate running instances without the expensive VMotion add-on. And so forth.
What Xen is missing is a nice console. Maybe in version 4.
Way back in the day (2003), Habbo was of interest only to Europeans; Habbo hotel access cards were placed prominently at checkout counters in drug stores and grocery stores for little kids and tweens to beg for in the EU. Habbo Hotel (a social networking website and Shockwave Flash chatroom of the Sulake Corporation) had yet to break into the US market. With this site you paid for the privilege to access certain areas and get private rooms with furniture and such. That children would beg parents to actually pay to sit around in an isometric 3d chatroom and wait in a line to use a virtual pool when they could beg them to take their lazy asses to a REAL POOL was a completely abhorrent concept that became known to EU and later non-EU 4channers.
/b/tards to create sockpuppet accounts and come to the site to observe the stupidity and screw with the users. Thus began the pasttime of "blocking" access to the pool. Sulake, in their infinite wisdom, designed the pool such that there was only a single egress to the water and few in and out of the popular pooldeck area. Also, users can't move through each other, and you can't chat with anyone you can't see. Which means a small group of griefers has the potential a lot of problems for tweens who want to sit around, swim in a virtual pool and have slowly hunt-n-pecked tinysex.
/b/tards adopted a dress code of black skin, afro, dress suit; the complete opposite of everyone else.
The EU 4channers encouraged non-EU
Everyone who used habbo tended to depict and dress themselves a certain way (spiky hair, tan, whatever). To differentiate themselves,
Eventually these little invasions drew the ire of the paid staff members at Sulake that moderated the chats. They began banning the afro'd interlopers. Pretty soon, they were banning anyone who had an avatar with black skin. 4channers posted videos documenting this phenomenon. Now they had evidence that the moderators were racists (or just lazy).
So they rallied the troops (using the videos/pictures of summary bans for being black to outrage the apathetic), and then wave after of 4channers, YTMND, etc. members launched coordinated attacks on the various congregation rooms of the chat. Moderators were swamped and couldn't ban fast enough. Habbo forums were brought to their knees by customer and invader alike, and so forth. Invasion forces began forming swastikas near exits to send a message to the site admins and users who too began discriminating against anyone who choose a black avatar.
In short, a small group of individuals were able to bait an internet community into attacking another by manufacturing a racism scenario. The original group's motives were simply to shake up a bunch of kids who were getting fat and poor via a stupid online activity. One could claim Sulake is directly responsible for the weight problem and credit card debt we now suffer! Of course that claim is ludicrious.
But it wasn't random, and there is a core of good intentions there, however horrible and bizarre the outcome.
Many similar early Anonymous activities have the same type of progression. A group of users familiar with the activities of another group they dislike encourage the rest of the community to do something about it. Nothing happens until they manufacture populist drama to sway support. This spins out of control with amusing consequences.
The large majority of the raids on DeviantArt accounts (for example) were to punish those who are utter and complete egomaniacs, plagiarists (especially), and sometimes both.
Fursecution and MySpace fuckery I don't partcularly agree with, but I understand why they don't particularly admire these communities. Not much good goes on there.
They're gotten better and more refined over time. They've successfully jailed that pedophile in Canada, got Hal Turner (white supremacist) off the air, fucked with Tom Greene and made his show funny, hounded a tax-evading dominatrix kindergarten teacher, went after a radical feminist who made hateful remarks and threats against her own son, and so forth.
Scientology is just the latest and most visible stop on the train which coincides with recent exposes, lawsuits and book releases; a public climate sympathetic to their cause.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23387891@N05/
I want to say that the DC protest (that I attended as a citizen on the street, uncounted) was probably one of the most "on-target" and organized as evidenced by videos so far uploaded, even if it was only a middling size (~150). Many passers-bye were engaged and genuinely interested, they ran out of fliers, Arnie Lerna speaking, ex-scientologists were speaking, pre-med students were speaking, not that there weren't any Anon-specific momemnts like Rick Rolling but it was more of a morale boost than a mixed message.
I think the one thing that needed to be improved was that clearly there is a division of opinion; that the organization is the problem, and that the tenets of the 'religion' are the problem. Some of us (myself included) think that both are problematic. The message was supposed to focus on the former (because that is the thing that is tangible and easier to change for the better), but many in attendance who made their own signs clearly believed also in the latter.
In any caseiIt is important for people to see that this actually matters and it is not something which is a funny folly of those zany actors in Hollywood; I am certain that this was achieved.
Some say that this was a mere practice run for the 15th of March. I hope that leadership organizing this later event, now with the experiences of one protest under their belts, can learn and improve and really have a clear agenda with an even bigger impact.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=3445882&page=2
Quote: After 9/11, the church received a commendation from the New York Fire Department for its relief efforts, but critics accused it of applying therapies such as rhythmic massages that some mental health professionals considered medically dubious.
"The public needs to understand that the Scientologists are using this tragedy to recruit new members," Michael M. Faenza, the president of the National Mental Health Association said in 2001. "They are not providing mental health assistance."
In Minneapolis, the group said it's working with the Red Cross. Yet members of the Red Cross working at the disaster zone questioned by ABC News weren't aware of the Church's assistance.
They show up, use the fact that they show up to make themselves look good, and proceed to basically get in the way and hand out Dianetics, pamphlets, and generally intercept you before you think about going to a mental health practitioner to handle the shell shock. It's really slimy, like ambulance chasers.
She was dehydrated and had insect bites on her hands (meaning she couldn't keep them off her). This is a textbook definition case of felony Neglect / Reckless Manslaughter. However, after a deluge of information and testimony from any expert that was willing to accept CoS's money (directed at the M.E.'s office, I might add), the original M.E. threw up her hands and a different, more sympathetic M.E. gave a revised recommendation to the D.A. 18 months after the fact.
Blood clots in the legs, dehydration and insect bites are NOT accidental. That ruling smells worse than her dessicated corpse.
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court for Hillsborough County, State of Florida, Estate of Lisa McPherson vs Church of Scientology Flag Service Org, Case No.97-01235
SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT IN AND FOR PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA, State of Florida vs. Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, Inc. Case No. CRC 98-20377CFANO-S
None of the people they terrorized were "everyday people". Not that there hasn't been collateral damage. But the targets of lulz are, generally speaking, asking for it. You never hear why Anonymous attacks anybody because that doesn't make sensational news and the affected users who have blogs don't reveal their own faults. Keep in mind that the activation energy of Anonymous is very high and people spend weeks trying to make the case to get an invasion going. The usual response is "We're not your personal army".
... too much to list but anyone who has Unwarranted Self Importance. I.E:
* Hal Turner (white supremacist, FBI informant)
* Tom Green (just not a funny guy who somehow had a call-in talk show, anon needed to make the show funny)
They also fight perceived threats to people's sanity and internet culture
* Furry that take themselves too seriously
* Fan-fiction writers that take themselves seriously
* DeviantArt (in a nutshell)
* MySpace, Youtube, etc.
Daily News (take with grain of salt, but here's corroboration) Will Smith is giving out free auditing to the cast members of his latest film.
So, is he or isn't he???
The IRS allowed the Church to be considered a charitable non-profit. Religious organizations are not recognized at a federal level. Each state has differing laws about recognizing religious organizations and conferring them special statuses or protections.