A have and have-not culture in the console world is a dangerous thing; look how badly the Jaguar CD failed, or the Mega 32X. Microsoft are already playing with fire by shipping Xboxen with and without hard drives. Do they really need to add pressure by shipping them with different optical drives? Imagine the first publisher to release an HD DVD only title, and then the shrieking of everyone with a regular DVD Xbox360...
Most movie theatres I've been to have crap seats, sticky floors, overpriced food, poor picture quality, too many ads, and irritating people sitting around me. Much better to pay the same, or crucially less the cost of a movie ticket, and rent a DVD with the same (to me and my Dolby Digital/DTS rig) quality of audio, better quality of picture and comfier seats.
And if I like the movie, I can buy it to repeat the same quality of viewing over and over again. That way I don't have to risk projectionists who are asleep at the wheel, and let movies play out with unfocused pictures, poor quality reel switches and glitchy or badly-speakered audio.
are you sure he's not limited to "normal teenage computer interests"? P2P, check. Meeja player, check. Eye candy desktop customisation a la ricer, check.
Previews are necessarily positive because the media doesn't have access to the final game and has to take the developer's word. There's no opportunity to be critical, so they're just hype, but everyone knows that.
You'd think that, but look at the number of previews that are critical: "Oooh, this game is gonna rawk", "we can't wait to see this game" (subtext: neither will you), "even at this early stage...", and so on. This has happened for years, even back in the 8-bit days. As someone said below, how is this news?
Is it just me, or does this read more like pimpage for a new upcoming feature on their (Kotaku's) website? The fact is very well known that the bulk of the videogame press - EDGE excluded - shill for publishers, especially when high profile, high budget titles are delayed or don't meet development expectations. Actually, I'm surprised that the normally-sane Kotaku is making a big thing of it. That/. is interested does not surprise me.
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I'm sure many people avoided Armageddon as much as they could; unfortunately I was one of those suckered in by the trailers full of blinkenlights and Liv Tyler shots. Damn you, Bruckheimer and Bay, damn you all to hell!
As for the "science bit", Phil 'Bad Astronomy' Plait rips the movie to shreds quite succinctly, putting paid to the notion that it includes usable science. Read his review with spoilers, or if you're one of the lucky few never to have seen it, read the spoiler free summary. What would be "easier" would be to catch the object early and gradually change the orbit using electric ion engines or similar to nudge it out of our way.
Yes, yes, yes! If there is a local "no games" policy, the normally pre-installed games such as Solitaire should and must be removed. Who cares that one guy played a game on his lunch break? The local IT bods should be fired for distributing games to all their workstations:)
So put a wideband UHF aerial in your loft / attic; I have one in mine and get a fantastic analogue and digital (DVB-T, Freeview) signal from the local transmitter.
The JWST is not a direct replacement for Hubble, the science overlap between the two has led experts to ask that Hubble be retained once the JWST is in service, and the JWST has been delayed countless times. Current plans have the JWST being deployed two to three years after the Hubble's decommissioning.
If you start at 240, the upper 15 addresses are 240-254; 255 can't be assigned to a machine as a usable address, and nonetheless 240-255 = 16 addresses.
> Let's say there is a problem with the space > shuttle. NASA sends the shuttle to the ISS and > starts planning the rescue mission.
They've already spent two years planning and prepping for the rescue mission; the hope is that it won't be needed. It's certainly not a "oh no, Discovery is broken, let's now think about launching Atlantis... how do we do that?" scenario.
If you're not going to RTFA, at least read the fucking link blurb before you post.
Yawn. Little Britain series one, funny. Little Britain series two, repetitive. At least Python played with their own formula a bit, and the Fast Show managed stay funny within their character base. This series of Little Britain has been the same jokes over and over again. Shame.
An IP address can very much identify you, from ISP authentication logs to static IPs with reverse DNS set to IP allocation lookup tables (i.e. ARIN, RIPE, etc). This is similar to being charged for an offence by car registration - you may not have been driving your car when it sped through safety cameras ahoy, but if the vehicle is registered in your name, you're the first person to get contacted by the authorities.
Similarly, if an ISP gets a takedown notification based on IP address, they can then determine from any given timestamps who was using that IP address (with static IPs, that task is very easy, natch), and then issue the registered owner (i.e. the subscriber) with notification of the takedown notice. The subscriber may not be at fault, as it could have been another householder or someone abusing an open Wi-Fi node, but it's the subscriber who gets it in the neck in the first instance.
But your points re: the legality of the notifier gaining access to the records behind the IP addresses are well made, and I've no doubt that will be the next battleground after this one.
BayTSP routinely send out C&D notices to downloaders (who by BitTorrent's nature are uploaders). We (the ISP I work for) had to hassle BayTSP last month because they were sending takedown notices to customers of another ISP thinking the IP addresses were registered to us - they had their IP-to-provider lookup tables well and truly borked.
Looks like their MX records are back under their own control...
intrepid:~> dnstracer -s . panix.com Tracing to panix.com[a] via A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, maximum of 3 retries A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET [.] (198.41.0.4) |\___ M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET [com] (192.55.83.30) | |\___ ns2.ukdnsservers.co.uk [panix.com] (207.61.90.196) Got authoritative answer | \___ ns1.ukdnsservers.co.uk [panix.com] (142.46.200.67) Got authoritative answer [snip] intrepid:~> host -t mx panix.com panix.com MX 200 mailhost-l2.panix.com panix.com MX 150 mailhost.panix.com intrepid:~> host -t any mailhost.panix.com mailhost.panix.com does not exist, try again intrepid:~> host -t any mailhost-l2.panix.com mailhost-l2.panix.com A 166.84.1.75 intrepid:~> whois 166.84.1.75
OrgName: Panix Public Access Internet OrgID: PPAI Address: 15 West 18th St. Address: 5th Floor City: New York StateProv: NY PostalCode: 10011 Country: US
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A have and have-not culture in the console world is a dangerous thing; look how badly the Jaguar CD failed, or the Mega 32X. Microsoft are already playing with fire by shipping Xboxen with and without hard drives. Do they really need to add pressure by shipping them with different optical drives? Imagine the first publisher to release an HD DVD only title, and then the shrieking of everyone with a regular DVD Xbox360 ...
It's funny because it's true.
Good.
Most movie theatres I've been to have crap seats, sticky floors, overpriced food, poor picture quality, too many ads, and irritating people sitting around me. Much better to pay the same, or crucially less the cost of a movie ticket, and rent a DVD with the same (to me and my Dolby Digital/DTS rig) quality of audio, better quality of picture and comfier seats.
And if I like the movie, I can buy it to repeat the same quality of viewing over and over again. That way I don't have to risk projectionists who are asleep at the wheel, and let movies play out with unfocused pictures, poor quality reel switches and glitchy or badly-speakered audio.
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Without a doubt the most glorious keyboard in the world.
are you sure he's not limited to "normal teenage computer interests"? P2P, check. Meeja player, check. Eye candy desktop customisation a la ricer, check.
snips, crimp tool, rj45 and rubber cable boot; why use 100 when you can use 3 and have 97 left over?
Bah, beat me to it, puny Anonymous Coward! Morbo is glad he read threads in entirety first! Aaaargh!
Fair enough, I should have said "relatively sane" :)
You'd think that, but look at the number of previews that are critical: "Oooh, this game is gonna rawk", "we can't wait to see this game" (subtext: neither will you), "even at this early stage ...", and so on. This has happened for years, even back in the 8-bit days. As someone said below, how is this news?
Is it just me, or does this read more like pimpage for a new upcoming feature on their (Kotaku's) website? The fact is very well known that the bulk of the videogame press - EDGE excluded - shill for publishers, especially when high profile, high budget titles are delayed or don't meet development expectations. Actually, I'm surprised that the normally-sane Kotaku is making a big thing of it. That /. is interested does not surprise me.
Next on Slashdot: Movie critics shill for movie studios, film at 11.
I'm sure many people avoided Armageddon as much as they could; unfortunately I was one of those suckered in by the trailers full of blinkenlights and Liv Tyler shots. Damn you, Bruckheimer and Bay, damn you all to hell!
As for the "science bit", Phil 'Bad Astronomy' Plait rips the movie to shreds quite succinctly, putting paid to the notion that it includes usable science. Read his review with spoilers, or if you're one of the lucky few never to have seen it, read the spoiler free summary. What would be "easier" would be to catch the object early and gradually change the orbit using electric ion engines or similar to nudge it out of our way.
"Bon Jour", is that like Bon Jovi?
Yes, yes, yes! If there is a local "no games" policy, the normally pre-installed games such as Solitaire should and must be removed. Who cares that one guy played a game on his lunch break? The local IT bods should be fired for distributing games to all their workstations :)
So put a wideband UHF aerial in your loft / attic; I have one in mine and get a fantastic analogue and digital (DVB-T, Freeview) signal from the local transmitter.
Taking the analogy to extremes, I'd hate to see the room where BillG subjects naked FOSS-/Google-friendly staff to the treatment ...
The JWST is not a direct replacement for Hubble, the science overlap between the two has led experts to ask that Hubble be retained once the JWST is in service, and the JWST has been delayed countless times. Current plans have the JWST being deployed two to three years after the Hubble's decommissioning.
So the "mass" is just a bunch of people who use one particular browser with one particular implementation of wiki software?
What was the obvious? Beat him to a pulp? Fuck him in the ass? The tense masses demand to know!
If you start at 240, the upper 15 addresses are 240-254; 255 can't be assigned to a machine as a usable address, and nonetheless 240-255 = 16 addresses.
> Let's say there is a problem with the space
... how do we do that?" scenario.
> shuttle. NASA sends the shuttle to the ISS and
> starts planning the rescue mission.
They've already spent two years planning and prepping for the rescue mission; the hope is that it won't be needed. It's certainly not a "oh no, Discovery is broken, let's now think about launching Atlantis
If you're not going to RTFA, at least read the fucking link blurb before you post.
Yawn. Little Britain series one, funny. Little Britain series two, repetitive. At least Python played with their own formula a bit, and the Fast Show managed stay funny within their character base. This series of Little Britain has been the same jokes over and over again. Shame.
You're not getting that via BT's nameserver, whois records come from whois servers, not DNS servers.
An IP address can very much identify you, from ISP authentication logs to static IPs with reverse DNS set to IP allocation lookup tables (i.e. ARIN, RIPE, etc). This is similar to being charged for an offence by car registration - you may not have been driving your car when it sped through safety cameras ahoy, but if the vehicle is registered in your name, you're the first person to get contacted by the authorities.
Similarly, if an ISP gets a takedown notification based on IP address, they can then determine from any given timestamps who was using that IP address (with static IPs, that task is very easy, natch), and then issue the registered owner (i.e. the subscriber) with notification of the takedown notice. The subscriber may not be at fault, as it could have been another householder or someone abusing an open Wi-Fi node, but it's the subscriber who gets it in the neck in the first instance.
But your points re: the legality of the notifier gaining access to the records behind the IP addresses are well made, and I've no doubt that will be the next battleground after this one.
BayTSP routinely send out C&D notices to downloaders (who by BitTorrent's nature are uploaders). We (the ISP I work for) had to hassle BayTSP last month because they were sending takedown notices to customers of another ISP thinking the IP addresses were registered to us - they had their IP-to-provider lookup tables well and truly borked.
Looks like their MX records are back under their own control ...