Harvest all the links on a webpage, cache them on disk while you view the page content, if you still don't go anywhere, harvest links on the cached pages, and so on. If you type some URL and go elsewhere, discard everything. Results for you: You click on a link and you have it immediately - from harddisk cache. Result for others: A major part of the bandwidth is wasted, everyone's connection gets slower. Effects: Everyone installs accelerators to have the net working faster. Bandwidth usage jumps 10 or so times, prices rise, connection speed drops far below what was before the accelerators. Nobody gives up the evil accelerators because without them it goes even slower.
Humidity? Temperature? How lame. Just get the CDs to spin fast enough to make their edges reach near c speed and store the data near that edges and you're safe about aging - a year for such data will last ages for us:)
...were the ones where you could hardly catch a breath. Anyone remembers "Killing Games Show" from Amiga? I got that game with a trainer. Boooring. But one day I got a badsector on the game disk and by lucky occurence the badsector happened to hit the trainer file. I recovered the game, but I was forced to play without cheating. WOW! Incredible. I lost maybe 200 times before I finished the first level, and then I thought "Hell, 2nd level is about twice as hard!". After a while I had no more trouble finishing lv 1, but 2 took me a month or so (and despite it's "arcade extreme", I had to work on a very strict tactic to succeed). And then the "bonus level" where level 1 and 2 were child's play...
To make the long story short, each level was about twice as hard as previous, it took me about 2 years to reach something like bonus level of world 4 (some 8 levels since startup, and about 20 from the end) until I found a bug that allowed me to cheat. And that effectively killed the game. Pity.
I'd disagree at the "75% success ratio". Make that 5% BUT by skill, not by luck. And definitely by gameplay, not by bugs/broken AI. (I hate when instead of cautious standoff one of my characters rushes into crowd of enemies just asking to get killed, or can't ignore unavoidable damage and must answer with pathetic fire, getting exposed to certain death. Or even worse rushes at enemy on sight, triggering all the hidden traps possible.)
Yahoo claims all of the above are already in use. Do you believe them?
That's one of the reasons why I stopped using Netscape Mail, my original account name was deleted (supposedly it conflicted with someone when Netscape joined its all services. I really doubt so), and I couldn't come up with anything nearly decent. More and more our usernames start to resemble really good passwords, in digits and punctation characters in them... And I bet the "huge services" reserve ALL the possible good names (i.e. no digits in them) for some potential VIPs and lie that they are "already taken".
Not surprisingly so. It would be interesting to see a company based solemnly on profits from lawsuits -that company- against -rest of the world-. Let me suggest a business plan without the tricky '???' part.
1. Start a company, without any real production but with bunch of lawyers. 2. Patent whatever you can, most common daily use items recommended. 3. Sue EVERYONE!!! 4. PROFIT!!!
Stop using LYNX, load up some gfx browser and open the 3 links:)
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Using wireless without encryption is asking for trouble.
It's the right way...
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I think the future of the net is like this: when every wireless device is a router - so you're almost never out of range, no matter where you are - simply the signal is sent to the nearest neighbour and then relayed to the next etc, till it reaches some fixed broadband access point, and then again "hops" over several people's cellphones, webpads, home PCs, car computers etc, till it reaches its destination.
Gosh. Imagine every toothpick with an unique IPv6 address....Internet-enabled toothpick, that automatically sends your dental records to the central database.
I'm not talking about Spamming. Make that a virtual picket - activity that does not block normal activity but can't go unnoticed. I doubt if anyone of EU parliament will notice Knoppix is down, but if he will have to wait 1-2 minutes for his schedule to load, that will make them think.
...and in the meantime, link main page of Slashdot to the EU parliament, asking people to write petitions, visit all its pages etc... Effectively slashdotting it to a crawl - showing what REAL POWER stands behind the protesters.
Their recent actions prove that! They don't have a plan to sue anyone for Linux! Completely! Not a sign of any plan, PURE IMPROVISATION from the beginning to end!!!
I've been using this motherboard for quite a while and I like it, the HPT 370 chipset works fine as plain IDE ATA100 driver, I'm pondering buying some "twin drives" though and setting up some RAID. Anyone with some experience on setting up RAID on that hardware?
...is when as the strongest points of the game they mention:
"There are many expansion packs expected"...
In short that means you get bare bones, a game engine with barely playable content and unless you pay more for selected "expansion pack", playablity is just enough to encourage you to pay for more.
More and more newly released games are more "demo products" than real games.
Border, n: in C64, area of screen where no graphics can be displayed. Therefore it's the favourite place for all Commodore demoscene coders to display various graphics, causing engineers who designed it rip their hair from their heads and jump out through the windows, yelling "THIS CAN'T BE WORKING".
but I've yet to hear about any armed forces worth it's salt that don't use encryption these days.
Hear about Chechenyans:) They've been succesfully opposing Russian army for quite a few years now and they commonly use standard unencrypted FM radios to communicate:) They are cheap, they are available, they are effective. And saved money could buy them more weapons...
Note in military environment it's not that much. Assume a typical new generation guided missile is about $1mln. A million pieces of the "dust" could cost maybe a bit more. Reasonably assuming communication range about 2m you can drop it with 1m spread and maintain communication between almost all of them. That's 50m wide, 2km long stripe of ground (and not only ground. Treetops and such too) monitored in such a way that nobody could pass unnoticed or alive. Now hook this to a few robotised machineguns and rocket launchers and you get a barrier nobody could pass through, no matter what. Except maybe switching a part of it off from the command center, i.e. to let allied troops through... Sounds cheaper and more effective than common missiles.
They drop these. You pick them. They win the war, conquer your country and then sue you for stealing US government property. Sounds probably, doesn't it?
Just let them "bomb" you, pick it, hack it and have a cool wireless p2p box. Imagine porting Kazaa to these!:)
Seriously, remembering times from IIWW when in occupied Warsaw people commonly made grenades from dud bombs, that thing with some technology applied, could provide great means of communication network for the enemy:)
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Harvest all the links on a webpage, cache them on disk while you view the page content, if you still don't go anywhere, harvest links on the cached pages, and so on. If you type some URL and go elsewhere, discard everything.
Results for you: You click on a link and you have it immediately - from harddisk cache.
Result for others: A major part of the bandwidth is wasted, everyone's connection gets slower.
Effects: Everyone installs accelerators to have the net working faster. Bandwidth usage jumps 10 or so times, prices rise, connection speed drops far below what was before the accelerators. Nobody gives up the evil accelerators because without them it goes even slower.
It's called "social trap".
Humidity? Temperature? How lame. :)
Just get the CDs to spin fast enough to make their edges reach near c speed and store the data near that edges and you're safe about aging - a year for such data will last ages for us
...were the ones where you could hardly catch a breath. Anyone remembers "Killing Games Show" from Amiga? I got that game with a trainer. Boooring. But one day I got a badsector on the game disk and by lucky occurence the badsector happened to hit the trainer file. I recovered the game, but I was forced to play without cheating. WOW! Incredible. I lost maybe 200 times before I finished the first level, and then I thought "Hell, 2nd level is about twice as hard!". After a while I had no more trouble finishing lv 1, but 2 took me a month or so (and despite it's "arcade extreme", I had to work on a very strict tactic to succeed). And then the "bonus level" where level 1 and 2 were child's play...
To make the long story short, each level was about twice as hard as previous, it took me about 2 years to reach something like bonus level of world 4 (some 8 levels since startup, and about 20 from the end) until I found a bug that allowed me to cheat. And that effectively killed the game. Pity.
I'd disagree at the "75% success ratio". Make that 5% BUT by skill, not by luck. And definitely by gameplay, not by bugs/broken AI. (I hate when instead of cautious standoff one of my characters rushes into crowd of enemies just asking to get killed, or can't ignore unavoidable damage and must answer with pathetic fire, getting exposed to certain death. Or even worse rushes at enemy on sight, triggering all the hidden traps possible.)
Imagine this: Creating account for Yahoo:
. fang
Sharpfang
Sharpfng
shrpfng
sharp_fang
sharp
sharp-fang
shrpfang
sfang
sharpf
sharpy
sharp
Yahoo claims all of the above are already in use.
Do you believe them?
That's one of the reasons why I stopped using Netscape Mail, my original account name was deleted (supposedly it conflicted with someone when Netscape joined its all services. I really doubt so), and I couldn't come up with anything nearly decent. More and more our usernames start to resemble really good passwords, in digits and punctation characters in them... And I bet the "huge services" reserve ALL the possible good names (i.e. no digits in them) for some potential VIPs and lie that they are "already taken".
Not surprisingly so. It would be interesting to see a company based solemnly on profits from lawsuits -that company- against -rest of the world-. Let me suggest a business plan without the tricky '???' part.
1. Start a company, without any real production but with bunch of lawyers.
2. Patent whatever you can, most common daily use items recommended.
3. Sue EVERYONE!!!
4. PROFIT!!!
Going to attach a GPS to each tree growing by the track, in case wind breaks it and it falls on the track obstructing it?
Stop using LYNX, load up some gfx browser and open the 3 links :)
Using wireless without encryption is asking for trouble.
I think the future of the net is like this: when every wireless device is a router - so you're almost never out of range, no matter where you are - simply the signal is sent to the nearest neighbour and then relayed to the next etc, till it reaches some fixed broadband access point, and then again "hops" over several people's cellphones, webpads, home PCs, car computers etc, till it reaches its destination.
:)
It's the future... but it's a far future
Ok. It's for home use, no critical data, I'm not really interested in mirroring, I'm more into speed - what about striping mode?
Gosh. Imagine every toothpick with an unique IPv6 address. ...Internet-enabled toothpick, that automatically sends your dental records to the central database.
GET ME HELL OUTA THIS PLANET!!!
I'm not talking about Spamming. Make that a virtual picket - activity that does not block normal activity but can't go unnoticed. I doubt if anyone of EU parliament will notice Knoppix is down, but if he will have to wait 1-2 minutes for his schedule to load, that will make them think.
...and in the meantime, link main page of Slashdot to the EU parliament, asking people to write petitions, visit all its pages etc... Effectively slashdotting it to a crawl - showing what REAL POWER stands behind the protesters.
Their recent actions prove that! They don't have a plan to sue anyone for Linux! Completely! Not a sign of any plan, PURE IMPROVISATION from the beginning to end!!!
TRIPS. Lemme guess. The name says all about reliability of the system.
I've been using this motherboard for quite a while and I like it, the HPT 370 chipset works fine as plain IDE ATA100 driver, I'm pondering buying some "twin drives" though and setting up some RAID. Anyone with some experience on setting up RAID on that hardware?
Recent RPGs (final fantasy, Baldur's Gate, NWN, etc.) just don't give that complexity.
Don't confuse beat'em up games disguised as RPG with real RPGs.
Scrolling shooters -> FPP shooters
Text adventures -> Adventure (Sierra) -> cRPG
Labyrinth -> 3PP adventures (Tomb Rider)
Any other examples?
You don't need a book to play RPG games! It's lame to count lines and words on given page anyway! Just get a crack instead!
...is when as the strongest points of the game they mention:
"There are many expansion packs expected"...
In short that means you get bare bones, a game engine with barely playable content and unless you pay more for selected "expansion pack", playablity is just enough to encourage you to pay for more.
More and more newly released games are more "demo products" than real games.
Border, n: in C64, area of screen where no graphics can be displayed. Therefore it's the favourite place for all Commodore demoscene coders to display various graphics, causing engineers who designed it rip their hair from their heads and jump out through the windows, yelling "THIS CAN'T BE WORKING".
Understand now?
but I've yet to hear about any armed forces worth it's salt that don't use encryption these days.
:) They've been succesfully opposing Russian army for quite a few years now and they commonly use standard unencrypted FM radios to communicate :) They are cheap, they are available, they are effective. And saved money could buy them more weapons...
Hear about Chechenyans
Note in military environment it's not that much.
Assume a typical new generation guided missile is about $1mln. A million pieces of the "dust" could cost maybe a bit more. Reasonably assuming communication range about 2m you can drop it with 1m spread and maintain communication between almost all of them. That's 50m wide, 2km long stripe of ground (and not only ground. Treetops and such too) monitored in such a way that nobody could pass unnoticed or alive. Now hook this to a few robotised machineguns and rocket launchers and you get a barrier nobody could pass through, no matter what. Except maybe switching a part of it off from the command center, i.e. to let allied troops through...
Sounds cheaper and more effective than common missiles.
They drop these. You pick them. They win the war, conquer your country and then sue you for stealing US government property. Sounds probably, doesn't it?
Just let them "bomb" you, pick it, hack it and have a cool wireless p2p box. Imagine porting Kazaa to these! :)
:)
Seriously, remembering times from IIWW when in occupied Warsaw people commonly made grenades from dud bombs, that thing with some technology applied, could provide great means of communication network for the enemy