Miranda ICQ is a GPLed ICQ clone for Win32 with a nice, slim design. Its very plugin oriented, so developers start developing some plugins for this thing for those of us who are still bound to the Win32 platform. Miranda doesnt have file transfer, yet, but Im sure it will soon.
The Mach 5 just isnt safe because its always being attacked by ninjas. Mostly these ninjas drive really good cars, but they just aren't as good as the Mach5 so they really want it. Ninjas need nice cars, and the Mach 5 is their #1 target. As long as there are ninjas in the world, the Mach 5 will never be safe. Be afraid.
Becausing routing systems are currently illogical. Even if your website is connected to a major backbone, you may have quite a few hops before you reach that backbone. If it is off of the backbone, you may go through dozens of routers before reaching your final destination. This makes it extremely difficult for end-users of the internet to share data effeciently since they are obviously not on any backbone. Ive had experiences where its taken dozens of hops just to get to a person who is a few blocks away. Im very sleepy, so my explanation may not be very technical or very good at all. Please, somebody with a degree in networking step in here and help me out.:)
Let me correct myself... I dont think the current inernet was poorly designed, it just wasnt designed to accomodate every man woman and child on this planet downloading their favorite Britney Speares(sp?) mp3s at the same time. I think the best hope for salvaging this internet is compression technology, honestly. I think there is a lot of room for better and faster compression schemes to take over.
My super-precise calculations indicate that 50% of the world's bandwidth is currently wasted on college students playing quake. The other 50% is college students downloading pr0n. Therefore, if all the colleges of the world start using internet2, we will all have super fast connections too since they will not be downloading pr0n and playing quake on our internet!! yay internet2!!;)
Seriously though, this technology seems pretty impressive. The current internet was so poorly designed. Its barely even salvageable. We need a new system designed from the ground up to be fast and efficient. Too bad internet2 probably wont be that for home users for many years to come. Even if we all get DSL, our packets will not be routed in a reasonable manner. Traceroute your connection to your favorite websites and you'll see what I mean.. you never know when your packets will reach the next bottleneck.
Yeah you get support. You get support from Loki Games since they are distributing it.
And they want to sell different boxes so they can know how much of a market there is for Linux games. If Quake3 sells well for Linux, we may see many more Linux games in the future. Also, they will not release binaries for converting between OSes until they release the first patch to the game.
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Miranda ICQ is a GPLed ICQ clone for Win32 with a nice, slim design. Its very plugin oriented, so developers start developing some plugins for this thing for those of us who are still bound to the Win32 platform. Miranda doesnt have file transfer, yet, but Im sure it will soon.
http://miranda-icq.sourceforge.net
The Mach 5 just isnt safe because its always being attacked by ninjas. Mostly these ninjas drive really good cars, but they just aren't as good as the Mach5 so they really want it. Ninjas need nice cars, and the Mach 5 is their #1 target. As long as there are ninjas in the world, the Mach 5 will never be safe. Be afraid.
Becausing routing systems are currently illogical. Even if your website is connected to a major backbone, you may have quite a few hops before you reach that backbone. If it is off of the backbone, you may go through dozens of routers before reaching your final destination. This makes it extremely difficult for end-users of the internet to share data effeciently since they are obviously not on any backbone. Ive had experiences where its taken dozens of hops just to get to a person who is a few blocks away. Im very sleepy, so my explanation may not be very technical or very good at all. Please, somebody with a degree in networking step in here and help me out. :)
Let me correct myself... I dont think the current inernet was poorly designed, it just wasnt designed to accomodate every man woman and child on this planet downloading their favorite Britney Speares(sp?) mp3s at the same time. I think the best hope for salvaging this internet is compression technology, honestly. I think there is a lot of room for better and faster compression schemes to take over.
My super-precise calculations indicate that 50% of the world's bandwidth is currently wasted on college students playing quake. The other 50% is college students downloading pr0n. Therefore, if all the colleges of the world start using internet2, we will all have super fast connections too since they will not be downloading pr0n and playing quake on our internet!! yay internet2!! ;)
Seriously though, this technology seems pretty impressive. The current internet was so poorly designed. Its barely even salvageable. We need a new system designed from the ground up to be fast and efficient. Too bad internet2 probably wont be that for home users for many years to come. Even if we all get DSL, our packets will not be routed in a reasonable manner. Traceroute your connection to your favorite websites and you'll see what I mean.. you never know when your packets will reach the next bottleneck.
Yeah you get support. You get support from Loki Games since they are distributing it.
And they want to sell different boxes so they can know how much of a market there is for Linux games. If Quake3 sells well for Linux, we may see many more Linux games in the future. Also, they will not release binaries for converting between OSes until they release the first patch to the game.