First of all, the reply before your's didn't see it as a weak analogy, he made a good point. Second, bandwidth is just as essential to internet use as air is to life. Third, bandwidth isn't that difficult to create and only costs as much money as it does because companies are creating regional monopolies. Fourth, that being said, bandwidth could very easily become just as limitless as air should these monopolies dissolve, and finally, capping users who use "too much" bandwidth is wrong. The ISPs should expand the amount of bandwidth available if they're encountering a shortage. If they honestly cannot afford that kind of expansion, then and only then does capping become moral in my eyes. And I, being the subscriber to what I consider a fairly capped ISP, am no hypocrite.
If I had to use windows lab systems administered by cretins who didn't know how to/remember to turn off booting from CD, I would want to run my own OS too.
That's a good point. Even if they turned it off by default, the bios isnt password protected *wink*
Looks like SOMEONE got slashdotted? Or hit with the new bugs in MySQL? (my server got hit by that too:()
Knoppix.net
SQL/DB Error -- [
1. Error establishing a database connection!Are you sure you have the correct user/password?
2. Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
3. Are you sure that the database server is running?
]
SQL/DB Error -- [
1. Error selecting database knoppix!Are you sure it exists?
2. Are you sure there is a valid database connection?
]
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in/u/knoppix.net/html/inc/ez_sql.php on line 107
SQL/DB Error -- [Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)]
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in/u/knoppix.net/html/inc/ez_sql.php on line 107
SQL/DB Error -- [Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)]
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in/u/knoppix.net/html/inc/ez_sql.php on line 107
SQL/DB Error -- [Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)]
Actually my supervisor finds it fascinating and the network sysadmin who one day realized there was a unix based os floating around the college at various times of the day approached me and found also found it fascinating as well as a little humorous.
And if you think Knoppix is a hacking tool, then you're misguided. It denies you root access and combined with other factors, i'd wager that Knoppix a hell of a lot more secure than those XP machines. And I couldn't imagine Knoppix being any more "bug-laden" than Windows. Your argument is flawed.
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Goto the KDE menu->KNOPPIX->Configure->Create persistant home directory
:P
(or something like that.. I know it's somewhere under the KDE menu->KNOPPIX menu)
Since Windows XP has been released already I don't see the point of this? Is there really a need for more operating systems? XP is all I use, and it does everything I need.
The sad thing is I know people who actually believe in that argument.
Uhh because Knoppix is better than WinXP will ever be. I'm a lab assistant at my college and I run Knoppix live CD to do my every day stuff at work. It's perfect for taking over Winblows computers without ever having created existence of it being there. When I'm done I just shut it off, reboot, and 2 minutes later the original WinXP OS is back and no one cares that I've been using a good OS.
Sorry, but the Chinese and the other peoples of the world were *NEVER* included in the vision of the future morons like you keep ranting about. Take that back. Chinese and other peoples *were* around but "kept in their place"
And just how the fuck do you know that? You don't even know me and you accuse me of being a racist based on a single Slashdot post with only a couple of sentences in it. It's morons like you who give ACs a bad name.
that keeps the world from being united under a truly open computing standard. West competes with east. East competes with west. At this rate we're gonna be doomed for the rest of eternity on this big blue rock and we'll never pull together and blast off into space to colonize other worlds so our species survives even after our star goes supernova in several billion years. [/endrant]
Could it just be that bandwidth costs money, and some people just use way too much of it? That perhaps this usage could hinder others in the area or across the whole network?
What the fuck? That's like saying "could it just be that air is limited, and some people just use way too much of it?" and then inferring that we should kill off some people in order to acquire a larger supply of air. Your argument is flawed big time.
It's cheaper, easier, and quicker to just buy a USB Gravis Gamepad Pro. It's identical to a PS controller minus the analog sticks. But who uses those analog sticks anyway? Their positioning on the controller sucks, just like XBox's. Port a GC controller to the PC and THEN I'll be impressed.
Then, as if that weren't enough, despite pleading cries from die hard Nintendo fans like myself, Nintendo announces they are dropping all plans to develop online games.
Self correction... Nintendo seems to frown upon online gaming, not completely dismiss it. As is obvious in todays article as well.;)
Nintendo partnering with AOL?
C'mon, that's like Ghandi partnering with Satan!
Yeah that pretty much sums it up. But it's not as if Nintendo hasn't fucked themselves in the past though. Don't get me wrong, I love Nintendo. They've always been my favorite console just because they make such wonderful quality games. But I've lost faith in their corporate ability years ago.
It all started when they got rid of Squaresoft. (Or when they let Squaresoft defect. Whichever interpretation you prefer.) No more Final Fantasies on Nintendo. Big problem.
Then they go and shoot themselves in the foot with the N64 / Gamecube. Playstation / Sega was using CDs; 700mb data freedom by now. Nintendo still used cartridges which seemed to max out at 128mb data (based on my ROM ripping experience.) Then Xbox / PS2 come out. They use DVDs. 4.x gigs. GC uses minidisks. 2 gigs is it? Xbox plays DVDs. PS2 plays DVDs. Gamecube? Sorry. You get the picture. Nintendo is using obsolete or less powerful technology in their consoles from, what I've been told, is fear of piracy. And judging from the progress on www.emutalk.net and various other Nintendo emu sites, all that extra effort didn't get them much.
Then, as if that weren't enough, despite pleading cries from die hard Nintendo fans like myself, Nintendo announces they are dropping all plans to develop online games.
To top it all off? Now they've teamed up with the Devil. Nintendo sure has lost their way.:(
... I am on my 3rd due to breakage. Come to think of it, of all the Sony products i have purchased over the years, only a couple of them still work... I guess it testifies as to how important the stupid thing is to me since I have replaced it twice.
... or how stupid you are for buying it three times.
Have you ever heard:
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
s/Fool me/Replace it/
That concept also applies to the prospect of replacing your console(s) once every year or two as well. If you keep up on the three major consoles and their games with each release, you'll be spending more money than you would buying multiple computers! PC games are the biggest bang for your buck. Besides, if you really want that select consoles game, emulators are widely available.
Sometimes I can't understand why people buy consoles at all when there are emulators, but then I remember that most people are ignorant, lazy, impatient, or all of the above. Just read the forums on emutalk.net sometime. The regular influx of newbie morons who ask for free ROMs and bitch because they can't configure their emu properly is staggering. People seem to forget that emulation is legal but free games is not. People confuse the selfless emu programmers who devote their time and effort to their free software with lowly hackers who pay for nothing. But despite all that, some day the fall of the game console will be seen, bringing rise to further the already dominating PC gaming platform.
This is a bad move for people who want to get a better handle on what the game is all about (and whether or not it sucks) before actually paying money for it.
A bad move indeed. Ultima Online realized that and dropped their private member only "MyUO" forums in favor of a third party, Stratics. Now Stratics is the recognized official forums of UO and these forums are open for anyone to see. As a result (in addition to many other things as well, mind you) UO account subscriptions have risen. UO continues to hold its status as the second most popular MMORPG in the world next to Everquest.
I know a guy who can solve them in under 3 minutes. He memorized all the algorithms and so on. Fascinating concept. I never knew they were actually solvable until I met him. A lot of people joke that "oh gimme a screwdriver and I'll solve it" but when you break it down step by step, they actually do have a simple set of steps that can be taken to solve them, like any other logic problem. Although he did tell me that they can be taken apart and rearranged in such a way that they CAN be made unsolvable. He told me "never try to solve a cube until you've seen it solved. You never know what kinds of assholes will stack the deck on you to make you look stupid."
You misunderstand. Smash Bros and most other Nintendo made games do NOT factor into that equation. Nintendo is the minority console, so many if not most of its games are quality games; classics. But take a look at the hundreds of games for PS2. How many good ones can you name? Not many. You've got your FFX and besides that there's no real incentive to buy that console. On the other hand, me being someone who hates buying consoles finds it almost irresistable to resist the GC because of Metroid Prime, Windwaker, Smash Bros Melee, and other classic titles that Nintendo pumps out on a regular basis. Why isn't the best console (GC) the most popular? Why is it in fact the least popular? Because people are morons and they need their filler games, not classics.
Some consumers want original games, aka not morons. And some consumers will continue to pay for and eat up the majority of recycled crap over years and years and years; aka morons. Unfortunately the world is more populated with morons who eat up the recycled crap than the former, so video game companies will obviously manufacture games for the moronic majority. But every once in a while a true classic is born satisfying the non-morons.
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First of all, the reply before your's didn't see it as a weak analogy, he made a good point. Second, bandwidth is just as essential to internet use as air is to life. Third, bandwidth isn't that difficult to create and only costs as much money as it does because companies are creating regional monopolies. Fourth, that being said, bandwidth could very easily become just as limitless as air should these monopolies dissolve, and finally, capping users who use "too much" bandwidth is wrong. The ISPs should expand the amount of bandwidth available if they're encountering a shortage. If they honestly cannot afford that kind of expansion, then and only then does capping become moral in my eyes. And I, being the subscriber to what I consider a fairly capped ISP, am no hypocrite.
Looks like SOMEONE got slashdotted? Or hit with the new bugs in MySQL? (my server got hit by that too :()
/u/knoppix.net/html/inc/ez_sql.php on line 107
/u/knoppix.net/html/inc/ez_sql.php on line 107
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Knoppix.net
SQL/DB Error -- [
1. Error establishing a database connection!Are you sure you have the correct user/password?
2. Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
3. Are you sure that the database server is running?
]
SQL/DB Error -- [
1. Error selecting database knoppix!Are you sure it exists?
2. Are you sure there is a valid database connection?
]
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in
SQL/DB Error -- [Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)]
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in
SQL/DB Error -- [Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)]
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in
SQL/DB Error -- [Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)]
phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database
Actually my supervisor finds it fascinating and the network sysadmin who one day realized there was a unix based os floating around the college at various times of the day approached me and found also found it fascinating as well as a little humorous.
And if you think Knoppix is a hacking tool, then you're misguided. It denies you root access and combined with other factors, i'd wager that Knoppix a hell of a lot more secure than those XP machines. And I couldn't imagine Knoppix being any more "bug-laden" than Windows. Your argument is flawed.
Goto the KDE menu->KNOPPIX->Configure->Create persistant home directory
:P
(or something like that.. I know it's somewhere under the KDE menu->KNOPPIX menu)
Now your pen drive is your mobile home directory!
Uhh because Knoppix is better than WinXP will ever be. I'm a lab assistant at my college and I run Knoppix live CD to do my every day stuff at work. It's perfect for taking over Winblows computers without ever having created existence of it being there. When I'm done I just shut it off, reboot, and 2 minutes later the original WinXP OS is back and no one cares that I've been using a good OS.
Dammit! I just burned a 3.2 CD on a nonrewritable disk! GRRR
that keeps the world from being united under a truly open computing standard. West competes with east. East competes with west. At this rate we're gonna be doomed for the rest of eternity on this big blue rock and we'll never pull together and blast off into space to colonize other worlds so our species survives even after our star goes supernova in several billion years. [/endrant]
You forgot a step.
1. sell service
2. don't deliver
3. corner the market
4. profit!
That's true. Kind of like the N64 Adaptoid. But even still, the Gravis controller requires no special interfaces and, imo, is better.
It's cheaper, easier, and quicker to just buy a USB Gravis Gamepad Pro. It's identical to a PS controller minus the analog sticks. But who uses those analog sticks anyway? Their positioning on the controller sucks, just like XBox's. Port a GC controller to the PC and THEN I'll be impressed.
Sarcasm aside, this is one court battle I hope Microsoft wins. Trying to patent an algorithm is like trying to patent "one click shopping."
It all started when they got rid of Squaresoft. (Or when they let Squaresoft defect. Whichever interpretation you prefer.) No more Final Fantasies on Nintendo. Big problem.
Then they go and shoot themselves in the foot with the N64 / Gamecube. Playstation / Sega was using CDs; 700mb data freedom by now. Nintendo still used cartridges which seemed to max out at 128mb data (based on my ROM ripping experience.) Then Xbox / PS2 come out. They use DVDs. 4.x gigs. GC uses minidisks. 2 gigs is it? Xbox plays DVDs. PS2 plays DVDs. Gamecube? Sorry. You get the picture. Nintendo is using obsolete or less powerful technology in their consoles from, what I've been told, is fear of piracy. And judging from the progress on www.emutalk.net and various other Nintendo emu sites, all that extra effort didn't get them much.
Then, as if that weren't enough, despite pleading cries from die hard Nintendo fans like myself, Nintendo announces they are dropping all plans to develop online games.
To top it all off? Now they've teamed up with the Devil. Nintendo sure has lost their way.
Damn. If I died at 95 I'd be pretty pissed off about it. I bet he was shooting for the three digits.
I'd like to be able to do that myself ;)
:(
The emulator isn't the problem. Ripping a GC disk and/or getting a real one to play in your CD rom is.
Sometimes I can't understand why people buy consoles at all when there are emulators, but then I remember that most people are ignorant, lazy, impatient, or all of the above. Just read the forums on emutalk.net sometime. The regular influx of newbie morons who ask for free ROMs and bitch because they can't configure their emu properly is staggering. People seem to forget that emulation is legal but free games is not. People confuse the selfless emu programmers who devote their time and effort to their free software with lowly hackers who pay for nothing. But despite all that, some day the fall of the game console will be seen, bringing rise to further the already dominating PC gaming platform.
(/endrant)
I know a guy who can solve them in under 3 minutes. He memorized all the algorithms and so on. Fascinating concept. I never knew they were actually solvable until I met him. A lot of people joke that "oh gimme a screwdriver and I'll solve it" but when you break it down step by step, they actually do have a simple set of steps that can be taken to solve them, like any other logic problem. Although he did tell me that they can be taken apart and rearranged in such a way that they CAN be made unsolvable. He told me "never try to solve a cube until you've seen it solved. You never know what kinds of assholes will stack the deck on you to make you look stupid."
You misunderstand. Smash Bros and most other Nintendo made games do NOT factor into that equation. Nintendo is the minority console, so many if not most of its games are quality games; classics. But take a look at the hundreds of games for PS2. How many good ones can you name? Not many. You've got your FFX and besides that there's no real incentive to buy that console. On the other hand, me being someone who hates buying consoles finds it almost irresistable to resist the GC because of Metroid Prime, Windwaker, Smash Bros Melee, and other classic titles that Nintendo pumps out on a regular basis. Why isn't the best console (GC) the most popular? Why is it in fact the least popular? Because people are morons and they need their filler games, not classics.
Some consumers want original games, aka not morons. And some consumers will continue to pay for and eat up the majority of recycled crap over years and years and years; aka morons. Unfortunately the world is more populated with morons who eat up the recycled crap than the former, so video game companies will obviously manufacture games for the moronic majority. But every once in a while a true classic is born satisfying the non-morons.