As someone who has used both, I don't really understand where this sentiment is coming from. PGAdmin is a way better GUI tool than anything that comes with myqsql, and at no point did I ever run into something that wasn't clear and easily accomplished with the GUI for the basic stuff you'd use mysql for. Of course outside of the ease of use argument mysql is a joke compared to postgres too:).
As someone who occasionally follows the SC happenings in Korea, I can attest to the fact that this is a huge story there. The fame of these players really is comparable to that of football or basketball stars in the states.
More to the point, there is real talent, years of honing your skill, and real fans involved here. That's what makes this match fixing a real deal. That's too bad, this young sport deserves better.
LOL, what the %$^$ is a hierarchical page pinning algorithm? You're a troll. Only thing that uses linux at myspace is the media processors and servers, and nothing uses mysql.
Care to elaborate on how asp.net doesn't scale? There are number of very high traffic sites, MySpace.com for example, that use asp.net.
Truth is, asp.net is one of the most performant and easy to use stacks there are. It's main drawback if licensing costs for win2k3 servers.
You posted all this anonymously and didn't provide a single link and said nothing of where this detailed knowledge of yours comes from. Maybe you're right, but i'd like to see something more than just your words.
He does seem like nutcase, but reading this it sounds like there is a chance this is legit research. If this does work, that 200 mil will be nothing in comparison to the acheivement.
Is there someone here who understands what he's trying to do?
How do the Sony Core 2 Duo laptops (SZ/FE/AR) compare to the MacBook Pro? I'm interested in heat/weight/battery life mostly. I know they will both perform well enough. This is going to be a laptop for a non-power user, so comfort/quality is the top priority.
LOL. I'm only replying because this subject is "close to home" and what you said just literally made me laugh out loud. No offense, but you must be like 90 years old if you actually played these games and know fatality's name and yet are so completely clueless about what's going on. OMG HE TOOK ALL THE WEAPONS! Yes, of course he did, that's called map control. That IS the competition. That's what gives the game depth, it's not just who can flick their mouse faster (though there's that too of course). You have to know the map and your opponent, know where to be and when, where to go and when, etc.
Anyways, it's past my bed time.
I've been playing the games fatality has been playing for a long time. I've seen those who came before him, i saw him come up, and i generally know what i'm talking about when it comes to "eSports" and "pro gaming". Fatality was very dominant for a while, especially in quake 3 when it first came out. But honestly, he is being touted as this super gamer because he's just the most serious and dedicated player. He made it his mission to become THE "pro gamer" and dedicated himself entirely to this goal. He has been near the top in q3, unreal tournament, and now painkiller, but he's not the most dominant as far as actual skill and winning goes. Because he is so dedicated, PR is on his side, companies are promoting him because he is the self proclaimed poster boy for fps pro gaming. But there are people better than him in every game he plays. Voo has been convincingly better than him in the CPL World Tour (painkiller), there are people better than him in unreal tournament, and the competition level in q3 in the last couple years has been, i dare say, over his head. What he deserves a lot of recognition for, is being that good in so many different games.
I'm not hating on the guy, i just hate this PR bullshit that's crammed down people's throats on a regular basis without them even knowing it.
He of course still has to be commended for being able to perform at the top level in so many different games and for what he is doing to promote the idea of "pro gaming". And in case you are wondering, there is definitely something to promote. Gaming is truly a skill as long as you are looking at the right games. Being the best in q3, ut, or painkiller, takes intelligence, excellent hand eye coordination and years of dedication. It doesn't take the top players years to learn new games because 90% of their skills carry over, but trust me it took them many years of work (fun work:) to get to their level. And this has nothing with exploiting bugs because these games don't have any to exploit. Counter Strike does, but CS is a lame game, which is probably why it's more popular. There is zero exploitation of some technical glitches or bugs in comptitive play, take my word for it.
On a final note, fatality and this entire discussion is about first person shooters. True pro gaming lives in the world of real time strategy, in Korea. But that's a whole different topic.
The biggest feature for me is how XP rearranges file blocks on your hard drive in the background for frequently loaded files so that they lie consequtively on the disk. That's why everything loads faster in XP, including XP itself. Yes, an n+1'th version of an OS actually makes things run faster!
Men and women are not supposed to be equally represented at all jobs. There are significant differences between the two genders, and the reason feminists are full of shit is because they refuse to realise this.
If a woman wants to do something untraditional, like boxing, that's perfectly fine, but it makes no sense at all to require equal representation of men and women in boxing. Requiring this about any other job is just as ridiculous.
Women make less on average because they like spending more time with their family. Most men enjoy providing for their families. It works out well, and if you see a problem with it you're an idiot.
About religious nutcacses, i agree with you there. How about sending the christian ones to guantanamo bay with the rest of them..
Ok so Sun created SunOS using BSD code and gave nothing back to the BSD project.
If BSD was licensed under GPL-like terms there wouldn't be a SunOS in the first place!
Sure some companies like linksys are fine with using linux, but i'm sure there are many products that could have been made that did not get made because of how the GPL code is licensed.
If you TRULY want your code in the public domain, you would not use the GPL. If you side with the GPL you are not really interested in contributing your code to the society at all. You are contributing it to a subset of society, where it also happens to be impossible to use it commercially. If that's what you want to do, fine, but at least be strait about what you're doing and don't bitch about Sun and others who have used BSD code for doing EXACTLY what the makers of the BSD wanted them to do.
lol.. anonymous P2P is a much bigger problem than you imagine. The proxy will get shut down, its log files subpoenaed, and if no log files were kept, ISP log files showing access to the proxy will be subpoenaed.
Plus who will donate the huge amounts of bandwidth a proxy like this will require?
Freenet attempts at this by making it so that you don't know whether the node you're sending the data to is the node that requested the data or just a middleman, but even this setup is vulenrable to analysis of traffic at the IP level. If you subpoena traffic reports from the ISP or get the court to allow you to monitor it live (which is happening as we speak at various isp's) you can see where each request originates and ends.
Coming up with a system that is anonymous AND efficient is very hard. When someone does, it will change everything.
Did anyone notice the google style text ads next to searches? I thought it was actual google ads at first, but the "see your ad here" link takes you to an MS site (which doesn't open with firefox and the download IE link is the same color as the background:)
D3's scare factor comes almost entirely from the surprise element. It just doesn't get inside your head like a good horror flick does. After watching a horror movie you're still afraid after it's over. Suddenly the light's on in the wholse house through the night:). In D3 this doesn't happen at all, you just get startled every couple of mins when you open the door and some crap leaps out at you just as your frames drop to 0.5 so you can't shoot or dodge it. It startles you at first, but gets old in a hurry.
I would recommend everyone to go through the hell level though. It is amazing from the art point of view. The coolest level in a 3D game i've ever seen.
Well there's 65k of them and who cares what they were supposed to be when they were created.. but ok maybe for a huge corporate network that wouldn't be enough. You still need the other part of the solution - a way of leting the outside world know those "public" services exist. Who knows if your subneted network is running on the 10.* block or the 172 block and what exact ip's in those blocks it uses. That's the real problem.
I don't think there exists a problem with addressing individual machines behind a nat. There are 65536 ports that can be used for this. People will want to run and access services, they will learn about the problems and technology will be developed to help them. Basicly people will know they have to "enable" certain services on their router, and their routers will make it easy for them to do so. RIAA conspiracy theorists will say something different, but who cares about them.
The problem is exposing standard services from behind the NAT by more than one machine. For services like web serving this could be fixed with DNS. Simply add the port to your DNS record www.slashdot.com -> 1.2.3.4:8001.
Another seperate problem is with broadcast protocols like ones used by Kazaa. Suppose two machines behind a NAT want to run kazaa clients. Both want to you use standard kazaa ports. I think the best solution to this problem is a service that will run on NAT'ing routers that on request will describe the local network the way the owner of that network wants to describe it. It will basicly say there are two kazaa clients, one on port X and another on Y, two web servers, one on port X and another on Y, etc. Kind of similar to DNS, because it will have records with standard names with numbers assigned to them. Local DNS if you will.
This could be combined with subnetworking support within IP that you propose, but i think just ports are prefectly enough.
This is just another half assed way to try to do what you CAN'T - make money from your software and provide the source openly.
I think what many people don't realise is that software provides a SERVICE, and people pay for that service. When you pay $400 (or whatever) to Microsoft for ms office, you're not paying for the cd it is on, or for the source code, or for the license, you're paying for something that does spell checking, double spaces and prints (and a whole lot of other crap you prolly don't need). Open source is good for everyone, but if a programmer invests his time and ability into making a usefull service (program), he MUST have the option to be rewarded for it. This is how our society works, you do work, society gives food and cars. Even in communism it works like that, you just get less food and no cars.
I LIKE open source, it benefits everyone. But there is no way to have open source and still charge money for the service (program) you provide. Like someone above commented, charging for manuals, tech support and t-shirts is just not the same. That's a shitty compromise. If you want to make money from your software you SHOULD be charging for software, and then maybe also for tech support. If there was a way to do that and still provide the source openly, it would be perfect. But that simply doesn't exist. You're stuck giving your work away completely free (which might be something you like to do.. not most people who like to eat tho), and provide the source openly, OR you don't provide the source. Escrowing the source doesn't really change that. RMS's vision of utopia is STILL not compatible with any economic system out there, you still don't get rewarded for your work.
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As someone who has used both, I don't really understand where this sentiment is coming from. PGAdmin is a way better GUI tool than anything that comes with myqsql, and at no point did I ever run into something that wasn't clear and easily accomplished with the GUI for the basic stuff you'd use mysql for. Of course outside of the ease of use argument mysql is a joke compared to postgres too :).
As someone who occasionally follows the SC happenings in Korea, I can attest to the fact that this is a huge story there. The fame of these players really is comparable to that of football or basketball stars in the states.
More to the point, there is real talent, years of honing your skill, and real fans involved here. That's what makes this match fixing a real deal. That's too bad, this young sport deserves better.
LOL, what the %$^$ is a hierarchical page pinning algorithm? You're a troll. Only thing that uses linux at myspace is the media processors and servers, and nothing uses mysql.
Care to elaborate on how asp.net doesn't scale? There are number of very high traffic sites, MySpace.com for example, that use asp.net. Truth is, asp.net is one of the most performant and easy to use stacks there are. It's main drawback if licensing costs for win2k3 servers.
You posted all this anonymously and didn't provide a single link and said nothing of where this detailed knowledge of yours comes from. Maybe you're right, but i'd like to see something more than just your words.
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Here is a reply from Bussard on JREF (comment 27)
http://www.randi.org/forumlive/showthread.php?s=7
He does seem like nutcase, but reading this it sounds like there is a chance this is legit research. If this does work, that 200 mil will be nothing in comparison to the acheivement.
Is there someone here who understands what he's trying to do?
How do the Sony Core 2 Duo laptops (SZ/FE/AR) compare to the MacBook Pro? I'm interested in heat/weight/battery life mostly. I know they will both perform well enough. This is going to be a laptop for a non-power user, so comfort/quality is the top priority.
LOL. I'm only replying because this subject is "close to home" and what you said just literally made me laugh out loud. No offense, but you must be like 90 years old if you actually played these games and know fatality's name and yet are so completely clueless about what's going on. OMG HE TOOK ALL THE WEAPONS! Yes, of course he did, that's called map control. That IS the competition. That's what gives the game depth, it's not just who can flick their mouse faster (though there's that too of course). You have to know the map and your opponent, know where to be and when, where to go and when, etc. Anyways, it's past my bed time.
I've been playing the games fatality has been playing for a long time. I've seen those who came before him, i saw him come up, and i generally know what i'm talking about when it comes to "eSports" and "pro gaming". Fatality was very dominant for a while, especially in quake 3 when it first came out. But honestly, he is being touted as this super gamer because he's just the most serious and dedicated player. He made it his mission to become THE "pro gamer" and dedicated himself entirely to this goal. He has been near the top in q3, unreal tournament, and now painkiller, but he's not the most dominant as far as actual skill and winning goes. Because he is so dedicated, PR is on his side, companies are promoting him because he is the self proclaimed poster boy for fps pro gaming. But there are people better than him in every game he plays. Voo has been convincingly better than him in the CPL World Tour (painkiller), there are people better than him in unreal tournament, and the competition level in q3 in the last couple years has been, i dare say, over his head. What he deserves a lot of recognition for, is being that good in so many different games.
:) to get to their level. And this has nothing with exploiting bugs because these games don't have any to exploit. Counter Strike does, but CS is a lame game, which is probably why it's more popular. There is zero exploitation of some technical glitches or bugs in comptitive play, take my word for it.
I'm not hating on the guy, i just hate this PR bullshit that's crammed down people's throats on a regular basis without them even knowing it.
He of course still has to be commended for being able to perform at the top level in so many different games and for what he is doing to promote the idea of "pro gaming". And in case you are wondering, there is definitely something to promote. Gaming is truly a skill as long as you are looking at the right games. Being the best in q3, ut, or painkiller, takes intelligence, excellent hand eye coordination and years of dedication. It doesn't take the top players years to learn new games because 90% of their skills carry over, but trust me it took them many years of work (fun work
On a final note, fatality and this entire discussion is about first person shooters. True pro gaming lives in the world of real time strategy, in Korea. But that's a whole different topic.
The biggest feature for me is how XP rearranges file blocks on your hard drive in the background for frequently loaded files so that they lie consequtively on the disk. That's why everything loads faster in XP, including XP itself. Yes, an n+1'th version of an OS actually makes things run faster!
Men and women are not supposed to be equally represented at all jobs. There are significant differences between the two genders, and the reason feminists are full of shit is because they refuse to realise this.
If a woman wants to do something untraditional, like boxing, that's perfectly fine, but it makes no sense at all to require equal representation of men and women in boxing. Requiring this about any other job is just as ridiculous.
Women make less on average because they like spending more time with their family. Most men enjoy providing for their families. It works out well, and if you see a problem with it you're an idiot.
About religious nutcacses, i agree with you there. How about sending the christian ones to guantanamo bay with the rest of them..
Ok so Sun created SunOS using BSD code and gave nothing back to the BSD project.
If BSD was licensed under GPL-like terms there wouldn't be a SunOS in the first place!
Sure some companies like linksys are fine with using linux, but i'm sure there are many products that could have been made that did not get made because of how the GPL code is licensed.
If you TRULY want your code in the public domain, you would not use the GPL. If you side with the GPL you are not really interested in contributing your code to the society at all. You are contributing it to a subset of society, where it also happens to be impossible to use it commercially. If that's what you want to do, fine, but at least be strait about what you're doing and don't bitch about Sun and others who have used BSD code for doing EXACTLY what the makers of the BSD wanted them to do.
lol.. anonymous P2P is a much bigger problem than you imagine. The proxy will get shut down, its log files subpoenaed, and if no log files were kept, ISP log files showing access to the proxy will be subpoenaed.
Plus who will donate the huge amounts of bandwidth a proxy like this will require?
Freenet attempts at this by making it so that you don't know whether the node you're sending the data to is the node that requested the data or just a middleman, but even this setup is vulenrable to analysis of traffic at the IP level. If you subpoena traffic reports from the ISP or get the court to allow you to monitor it live (which is happening as we speak at various isp's) you can see where each request originates and ends.
Coming up with a system that is anonymous AND efficient is very hard. When someone does, it will change everything.
Did anyone notice the google style text ads next to searches? I thought it was actual google ads at first, but the "see your ad here" link takes you to an MS site (which doesn't open with firefox and the download IE link is the same color as the background :)
D3's scare factor comes almost entirely from the surprise element. It just doesn't get inside your head like a good horror flick does. After watching a horror movie you're still afraid after it's over. Suddenly the light's on in the wholse house through the night :). In D3 this doesn't happen at all, you just get startled every couple of mins when you open the door and some crap leaps out at you just as your frames drop to 0.5 so you can't shoot or dodge it. It startles you at first, but gets old in a hurry.
I would recommend everyone to go through the hell level though. It is amazing from the art point of view. The coolest level in a 3D game i've ever seen.
Well there's 65k of them and who cares what they were supposed to be when they were created.. but ok maybe for a huge corporate network that wouldn't be enough. You still need the other part of the solution - a way of leting the outside world know those "public" services exist. Who knows if your subneted network is running on the 10.* block or the 172 block and what exact ip's in those blocks it uses. That's the real problem.
I don't think there exists a problem with addressing individual machines behind a nat. There are 65536 ports that can be used for this. People will want to run and access services, they will learn about the problems and technology will be developed to help them. Basicly people will know they have to "enable" certain services on their router, and their routers will make it easy for them to do so. RIAA conspiracy theorists will say something different, but who cares about them.
The problem is exposing standard services from behind the NAT by more than one machine. For services like web serving this could be fixed with DNS. Simply add the port to your DNS record www.slashdot.com -> 1.2.3.4:8001.
Another seperate problem is with broadcast protocols like ones used by Kazaa. Suppose two machines behind a NAT want to run kazaa clients. Both want to you use standard kazaa ports. I think the best solution to this problem is a service that will run on NAT'ing routers that on request will describe the local network the way the owner of that network wants to describe it. It will basicly say there are two kazaa clients, one on port X and another on Y, two web servers, one on port X and another on Y, etc. Kind of similar to DNS, because it will have records with standard names with numbers assigned to them. Local DNS if you will.
This could be combined with subnetworking support within IP that you propose, but i think just ports are prefectly enough.
This is just another half assed way to try to do what you CAN'T - make money from your software and provide the source openly.
I think what many people don't realise is that software provides a SERVICE, and people pay for that service. When you pay $400 (or whatever) to Microsoft for ms office, you're not paying for the cd it is on, or for the source code, or for the license, you're paying for something that does spell checking, double spaces and prints (and a whole lot of other crap you prolly don't need). Open source is good for everyone, but if a programmer invests his time and ability into making a usefull service (program), he MUST have the option to be rewarded for it. This is how our society works, you do work, society gives food and cars. Even in communism it works like that, you just get less food and no cars.
I LIKE open source, it benefits everyone. But there is no way to have open source and still charge money for the service (program) you provide. Like someone above commented, charging for manuals, tech support and t-shirts is just not the same. That's a shitty compromise. If you want to make money from your software you SHOULD be charging for software, and then maybe also for tech support. If there was a way to do that and still provide the source openly, it would be perfect. But that simply doesn't exist. You're stuck giving your work away completely free (which might be something you like to do.. not most people who like to eat tho), and provide the source openly, OR you don't provide the source. Escrowing the source doesn't really change that. RMS's vision of utopia is STILL not compatible with any economic system out there, you still don't get rewarded for your work.