They do seem to still be able to limit upstream bandwidth, I only get 30-50 kbps now.
And their method of accomplishing that are becoming more draconian, they seem to be hitting both ports and encrypted data.
It used to be that you only needed to encrypt the data itself, now you need to encrypt the headers, it's going to get worse before it gets better too:(
There seem to be an awful lot of slashdotters saying buyer beware, and freedom of speech forever. This same tone seems to pop up posts refering to Libertarianism.
The whole small government libertarians envision doesn't regulate speech or commerce, so yes this guy would still be out there, selling shitty drugs through spam under a libertarian system.
"So maybe being smart and not having sex in high school isn't that groundbreaking of a correlation. Why is it so important to have any sex when you're in high school anyways? Shouldn't it be more important to have good sex when you're older? Where's the study on sex lives of single smart twenty- and thirty-somethings? I'd be interested in that study."
Because you're supposed to develop relationships with other people and develop understanding?
It doesn't work for the most part because in general men settle for gratification (while women assume that's all they are capable of wanting)... and women settle for unmitigated support (they just want you to give them what they want and support/listen to them).
Welcome to post-modernism, nothing changes nothing gets better.
Nothing special will happen when we get to space... nerds like us just want to think so.
Celebrities are the butterflies that start hurricanes, and history has really taught us that it's better to have idiots in charge rather than intelligent goal oriented people.
Such people try to accomplish something permanent or real, Stalin wanted to increase people's leisure time and promote artistic and scientific progress result dead people.
Hitler wanted to get rid of areas of the work force he felt weren't productive, result dead people.
Just like you can't logic a woman into bed you can't logic people towards a proper world view (assuming that you even have the correct one)... that's where charm takes over.
Just lean back enjoy the ride, and keep your arms and mouth under lock-down.
VOIP is in their hands far more than Googles with a minimum investment...
If the next microsoft OS came out with a built in phone app and a $5 a month charge (for connecting to POTS services) I'd certainly be tempted, it would be a real value add and something that Microsoft is in a much better position to offer than OSX or Linux.
We're 5 years beyond the point where such service was a possibility, I wonder how long it will be until the deals Microsoft inked with the Teleco's to maintain their distinct monopolies will expire.
Remember Microsoft has a monopoly on computing far in excess of Google's monopoly on search, and when you have a monopoly you can deal for an ENTIRE industry.
Microsoft is going to sell the VOIP market to the highest bidder, it's just a matter of when and how large their active involvement will be.
But they enrage the linux community into moving forward, I think a lot of us will think a second longer before setting up openoffice to default to.doc next time.
We'll wonder if it's another OOo user at the other end of that e-mail.
Example: The captain on band of brothers, was he a dick? Sure! Did he build a great company? Yes!
Sometimes being a dick gets you the results you need.
Adversity builds groups and reverse psychology works on diminutive psyche's:P
The fact that they specify means they acknowledge the possibility of other formats, some of my professors still just demand an e-copy and assume I will submit a.doc.
This semester I have been asked to submit some.rtfs which is fine, except it contains no formatting options (useful for long papers)...
The whole issue is based around the constraint created by small in-boxes, get rid of the 50MB in-box and pdf will emerge (however unfortunately) triumphant.
Thanks so much peter, unfortunately I think we miscommunicated. I have installed the tarball, however I don't know how to change my windows manager or desktop environment. I don't know how to get back into the standard.
As well as not being able to choose my desktop environment I'm having trouble choosing between the "theme" option I've chosen and what's available through gdmsetup.
Basically there are several desktop configuration menus, and none seem to allow me to choose a desktop environment.
Another factor is that computer hardware eventually increases in price, SD ram is now more expensive than DDR... it has been for a while.
If I needed a socket 462 motherboard I've have to shell out quite a bit, the cheapest motherboards are the socket-As (still around because they had so much longevity). People who need specific and hard to find components continually get screwed.
I like that you brought up streaming video as that's one of the central aspects of a computer, for a lower bit-rate you can get more quality, beyond say 1600x1200 people probably won't care but until then Your 486 couldn't render mpeg1-2 and your current pc can't render 1600x1200 at the best bit-rates we have available.
Moore's law will continue until the bottlenecks are taken out of the single pc space.
Product recognition... which brands do you recognize... this leads to comfort and purchases when there are two competing products. Misplaced quality belief... when you see Tide vs No-Name which makes better detergent?
These things are produced with advertising, not with customer education... that is marketing effectiveness and yes it's totally fking evil.
It's violent economic oppression largely because the U.S. runs the international courts where these issues are examined (And have control of the carrot/stick of the World Bank).
It's really hard to see that "the man" is corrupt when you are "the man"...
It's so interesting to see that Americans can't accept Bin Laden's stated goals on this issue, they allow Fox News to manufacture the whole debate regarding his motivations.
Pretty soon "Office Workers" will be flying these attack drones, they'll be "contractors" or "demolition specialists."
Considering that the security forces are currently being hired from Fiji I'd say it's obvious that the line between civilians, business, and the military is disapearing at an alarming rate.
Some of just feel the desinction disapeared a long time ago, that's imperialism for you, cities get bombed so the Japanese can stay open to Opium imports and Iraq can stay open to Coca-Cola machines and Iraqi payment of contractors who rebuild infrastructure, designed by and purposed, for friendly governments creating debts Iraqis will never be able to pay off.
The idea is to establish a level of quality which other works can either reach or not (thus deciding whether they will join the "canon").
I think 10 is an arbitrary number but you need to be arbitrary in deciding such a cut off so it's a good start, pretty soon other people will bring up games of a similar quality which they think should be included, some will be included other's won't.
That's the purpose, to establish a baseline level of quality for "excellent", "provocative" and "insightful" games.
This is not the bible in that other works CAN be added, this is just establishing a sense of quality to which games will hopefully aspire in the future.
I think Quake 1 is a great game, it's fast paced and the 1 on 1 elements are as deep as chess (I play both quite well)... but I don't think it falls under gaming "canon." They are trying to help people make this distinction. While you might think this is a clear distinction, I imagine your perceptions are probably quite different from that of others.
That is the purpose of a "canon", to coalesce a standard of judging and expose people to games widely considered to be high quality (so they know what their personal preferences are being judged against).
Agreed, this trend with Console's taking a loss is also problematic. Should metrics get back to the gaming aspect of this and look at the number of games shipped (As well as the top selling game which should indicate the total number of gaming systems in use?)... These PS3's are likely sitting around as Blu-Ray players or sitting in stores, these metrics should mean nothing to game developers and without developer interest no console can survive.
a PS2, I was waiting for the PS3 (I wanted backwards compatibility never having owned the earlier consoles) but was disapointed.
I have $3000 I don't know what to do with but I've decided to hold off on a $400 purchase to go with a $100 purchase (Ps2 Craigslist, 1 wireless controller memory card, 40 games) I just didn't want to subsidize Microsoft and the other consoles haven't consolidated yet (:P).
The PS3 kicks ass for 1 reason, downloadable free content, tonnes of demos and previews. Once you get beyond those and start actually looking at it's game library it gets really grim...
The PS3 won't be as successful as the PS2 it's already over, that's what this article is addressing.
I think they pay so they can LEARN about the vulnerability and patch it, the fact that Microsoft isn't paying for these vulnerabilities is that they're maintaining the stance that they don't want to deal with criminals (how ironic from Microsoft) rather than actually admitting they can't fix all the bugs in their POS software in a timely fashion.
The most interesting thing about this is that these vulnerabilites are already available in the wild. Hackers only need 1 or 2 -- of however many are openly available for whatever piece of software, or OS -- you're trying to access to be successful. The fact that they haven't patched the already widely known security flaws leads me to believe they have doubts that they'll be able to patch these relatively unknown hacks.
This is not Sneakers where "There isn't a government in the world that wouldn't kill for this thing," everyone who wants to can already find vulnerabilities and exploit them.
If Microsoft did buy them they'd be admitting they need to keep them hidden, and admit their software is totally insecure (Which it is.)
God, when did books become a sub-genre of media like "Country Music"... this is so sad.
Harry Potter is poor teenage fiction, it's poor fantasy and in it's entirity it's poorly plotted, poorly written, and shallow.
There are plenty of other "fun" books that also stimulate the mind, this isn't an either or proposition and accepting the fact that most people read this drivel (especially in this case, a text that's popular because it's popular).
It's sad that books have become so commercialized and marginalized a product of major media that even the limited marketing buzz generated by Harry Potter can cause such market domination, by such an inferior product.
Definitive Contrary Arguement: "Sword of the Bezerk" Dreamcast...
The game shipped with a bug which made the models rotate randomly (Speed as well as direction) during cut sequences, horses, carts, people, arms, legs etc. Imagine a guy talking about the incoming monster hoard while windmilling his arms and having his head repeatedly fall INTO his chest.
We were all rolling on the floor dying with laughter during each cut sequence, the plot of the game was terrible the gameplay trite and boring. But that bug made it an amazingly fun (and funny) game...
I recommend the dreamcast just for that game... Admittedly I had a pirated version but the bug occured in the retail release as well.
Slashdot Mirror
They do seem to still be able to limit upstream bandwidth, I only get 30-50 kbps now.
:(
And their method of accomplishing that are becoming more draconian, they seem to be hitting both ports and encrypted data.
It used to be that you only needed to encrypt the data itself, now you need to encrypt the headers, it's going to get worse before it gets better too
There seem to be an awful lot of slashdotters saying buyer beware, and freedom of speech forever. This same tone seems to pop up posts refering to Libertarianism.
The whole small government libertarians envision doesn't regulate speech or commerce, so yes this guy would still be out there, selling shitty drugs through spam under a libertarian system.
"So maybe being smart and not having sex in high school isn't that groundbreaking of a correlation. Why is it so important to have any sex when you're in high school anyways? Shouldn't it be more important to have good sex when you're older? Where's the study on sex lives of single smart twenty- and thirty-somethings? I'd be interested in that study."
Because you're supposed to develop relationships with other people and develop understanding?
It doesn't work for the most part because in general men settle for gratification (while women assume that's all they are capable of wanting)... and women settle for unmitigated support (they just want you to give them what they want and support/listen to them).
Welcome to post-modernism, nothing changes nothing gets better.
Nothing special will happen when we get to space... nerds like us just want to think so.
Celebrities are the butterflies that start hurricanes, and history has really taught us that it's better to have idiots in charge rather than intelligent goal oriented people.
Such people try to accomplish something permanent or real, Stalin wanted to increase people's leisure time and promote artistic and scientific progress result dead people.
Hitler wanted to get rid of areas of the work force he felt weren't productive, result dead people.
Just like you can't logic a woman into bed you can't logic people towards a proper world view (assuming that you even have the correct one)... that's where charm takes over.
Just lean back enjoy the ride, and keep your arms and mouth under lock-down.
"Defend the KING!"
"I really think democracy..."
"But our taxes will go UP!"
Weird democracy guy: "Sigh"
More open spectrum is good for Microsoft too.
VOIP is in their hands far more than Googles with a minimum investment...
If the next microsoft OS came out with a built in phone app and a $5 a month charge (for connecting to POTS services) I'd certainly be tempted, it would be a real value add and something that Microsoft is in a much better position to offer than OSX or Linux.
We're 5 years beyond the point where such service was a possibility, I wonder how long it will be until the deals Microsoft inked with the Teleco's to maintain their distinct monopolies will expire.
Remember Microsoft has a monopoly on computing far in excess of Google's monopoly on search, and when you have a monopoly you can deal for an ENTIRE industry.
Microsoft is going to sell the VOIP market to the highest bidder, it's just a matter of when and how large their active involvement will be.
50 Years after the death of the artist.
But they enrage the linux community into moving forward, I think a lot of us will think a second longer before setting up openoffice to default to .doc next time.
:P
We'll wonder if it's another OOo user at the other end of that e-mail.
Example: The captain on band of brothers, was he a dick? Sure! Did he build a great company? Yes!
Sometimes being a dick gets you the results you need.
Adversity builds groups and reverse psychology works on diminutive psyche's
The fact that they specify means they acknowledge the possibility of other formats, some of my professors still just demand an e-copy and assume I will submit a .doc.
.rtfs which is fine, except it contains no formatting options (useful for long papers)...
This semester I have been asked to submit some
The whole issue is based around the constraint created by small in-boxes, get rid of the 50MB in-box and pdf will emerge (however unfortunately) triumphant.
To be able to honestly say they walked up-hill both ways.
Thanks so much peter, unfortunately I think we miscommunicated. I have installed the tarball, however I don't know how to change my windows manager or desktop environment. I don't know how to get back into the standard.
As well as not being able to choose my desktop environment I'm having trouble choosing between the "theme" option I've chosen and what's available through gdmsetup.
Basically there are several desktop configuration menus, and none seem to allow me to choose a desktop environment.
In Ubuntu Feisty (using 2.6.16 kernel, don't ask)...
It's not a window manager like my enlightenment or blackbox and I'm not sure where to start it. Seems to have installed fine.
Can I configure it to be an option in my login or do I need to command line it?
Another factor is that computer hardware eventually increases in price, SD ram is now more expensive than DDR... it has been for a while.
If I needed a socket 462 motherboard I've have to shell out quite a bit, the cheapest motherboards are the socket-As (still around because they had so much longevity). People who need specific and hard to find components continually get screwed.
I like that you brought up streaming video as that's one of the central aspects of a computer, for a lower bit-rate you can get more quality, beyond say 1600x1200 people probably won't care but until then
Your 486 couldn't render mpeg1-2 and your current pc can't render 1600x1200 at the best bit-rates we have available.
Moore's law will continue until the bottlenecks are taken out of the single pc space.
Marketing for beginners 101.
Product recognition... which brands do you recognize... this leads to comfort and purchases when there are two competing products.
Misplaced quality belief... when you see Tide vs No-Name which makes better detergent?
These things are produced with advertising, not with customer education... that is marketing effectiveness and yes it's totally fking evil.
Consumer Reports, the American version is probably full of lies so go to the Canadian version (they still punish lying advertisers).
It'll help with decisions like Bounty vs Scott etc...
It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.
Might they listen, certainly not.
It's violent economic oppression largely because the U.S. runs the international courts where these issues are examined (And have control of the carrot/stick of the World Bank).
It's really hard to see that "the man" is corrupt when you are "the man"...
It's so interesting to see that Americans can't accept Bin Laden's stated goals on this issue, they allow Fox News to manufacture the whole debate regarding his motivations.
Pretty soon "Office Workers" will be flying these attack drones, they'll be "contractors" or "demolition specialists."
Considering that the security forces are currently being hired from Fiji I'd say it's obvious that the line between civilians, business, and the military is disapearing at an alarming rate.
Some of just feel the desinction disapeared a long time ago, that's imperialism for you, cities get bombed so the Japanese can stay open to Opium imports and Iraq can stay open to Coca-Cola machines and Iraqi payment of contractors who rebuild infrastructure, designed by and purposed, for friendly governments creating debts Iraqis will never be able to pay off.
The idea is to establish a level of quality which other works can either reach or not (thus deciding whether they will join the "canon").
I think 10 is an arbitrary number but you need to be arbitrary in deciding such a cut off so it's a good start, pretty soon other people will bring up games of a similar quality which they think should be included, some will be included other's won't.
That's the purpose, to establish a baseline level of quality for "excellent", "provocative" and "insightful" games.
This is not the bible in that other works CAN be added, this is just establishing a sense of quality to which games will hopefully aspire in the future.
I think Quake 1 is a great game, it's fast paced and the 1 on 1 elements are as deep as chess (I play both quite well)... but I don't think it falls under gaming "canon." They are trying to help people make this distinction. While you might think this is a clear distinction, I imagine your perceptions are probably quite different from that of others.
That is the purpose of a "canon", to coalesce a standard of judging and expose people to games widely considered to be high quality (so they know what their personal preferences are being judged against).
Agreed, this trend with Console's taking a loss is also problematic. Should metrics get back to the gaming aspect of this and look at the number of games shipped (As well as the top selling game which should indicate the total number of gaming systems in use?)... These PS3's are likely sitting around as Blu-Ray players or sitting in stores, these metrics should mean nothing to game developers and without developer interest no console can survive.
a PS2, I was waiting for the PS3 (I wanted backwards compatibility never having owned the earlier consoles) but was disapointed.
I have $3000 I don't know what to do with but I've decided to hold off on a $400 purchase to go with a $100 purchase (Ps2 Craigslist, 1 wireless controller memory card, 40 games) I just didn't want to subsidize Microsoft and the other consoles haven't consolidated yet (:P).
The PS3 kicks ass for 1 reason, downloadable free content, tonnes of demos and previews. Once you get beyond those and start actually looking at it's game library it gets really grim...
The PS3 won't be as successful as the PS2 it's already over, that's what this article is addressing.
I think they pay so they can LEARN about the vulnerability and patch it, the fact that Microsoft isn't paying for these vulnerabilities is that they're maintaining the stance that they don't want to deal with criminals (how ironic from Microsoft) rather than actually admitting they can't fix all the bugs in their POS software in a timely fashion.
The most interesting thing about this is that these vulnerabilites are already available in the wild. Hackers only need 1 or 2 -- of however many are openly available for whatever piece of software, or OS -- you're trying to access to be successful. The fact that they haven't patched the already widely known security flaws leads me to believe they have doubts that they'll be able to patch these relatively unknown hacks.
This is not Sneakers where "There isn't a government in the world that wouldn't kill for this thing," everyone who wants to can already find vulnerabilities and exploit them.
If Microsoft did buy them they'd be admitting they need to keep them hidden, and admit their software is totally insecure (Which it is.)
"Why did the Lizard Cross the Pond?"
:P
"To get to the other side..."
That joke is NEVER getting stale
God, when did books become a sub-genre of media like "Country Music"... this is so sad.
Harry Potter is poor teenage fiction, it's poor fantasy and in it's entirity it's poorly plotted, poorly written, and shallow.
There are plenty of other "fun" books that also stimulate the mind, this isn't an either or proposition and accepting the fact that most people read this drivel (especially in this case, a text that's popular because it's popular).
It's sad that books have become so commercialized and marginalized a product of major media that even the limited marketing buzz generated by Harry Potter can cause such market domination, by such an inferior product.
Definitive Contrary Arguement: "Sword of the Bezerk" Dreamcast...
:P
The game shipped with a bug which made the models rotate randomly (Speed as well as direction) during cut sequences, horses, carts, people, arms, legs etc. Imagine a guy talking about the incoming monster hoard while windmilling his arms and having his head repeatedly fall INTO his chest.
We were all rolling on the floor dying with laughter during each cut sequence, the plot of the game was terrible the gameplay trite and boring. But that bug made it an amazingly fun (and funny) game...
I recommend the dreamcast just for that game... Admittedly I had a pirated version but the bug occured in the retail release as well.
Now THAT was a B game
Who says they were wrong?
World Trade Centre, centre for American economic imperialism.
It was a valid military target, when you think about it.
As a result America attacked Iraq and are now forcing a new oil agreement on the Iraqi people.
Capitalism in the U.S. is becoming tied to the military, and the military isn't about choice or freedom, no matter what politicians say.
If they make a "Drone: American Destruction" video game I'm so playing it! Everyday!
I hear it'll have a realistic damage model!