Now the real question is will people be able to make real income off these clones as many have and failed in Second Life?
A lot of people are succeeding making money off Second life. Of course, the people who just go into Second life and have no understanding about it just go about setting up random stuff, trying to make a business without even trying to understand the economy in Second life, absolutely fail.
A lot of people assume making a good amount of money off Second life is easy, it is not.
However if you look at the number of participants in MMO games, you find that second life is one of the worst performers still in business.
Second life isn't that bad as MMOs go, I mean, just look at Furcadia, Planeshifts etc.
Maybe you could come up with some actual sources proving it's not as popular as the MMOs I mentioned? Thus proving that it's "one of the worst performers still in business".
I'd love to see linux in general have better boot times. My install of ubuntu on my PC takes about 2.5 minutes while XP is up and running in about 1.5.
On my HP Pavilion DV6000 laptop, Kubuntu Linux (auto login and screensaver with password protection, ext3 partition) takes 46 seconds.
Windows Vista (HP OEM install) takes 107 seconds to get into the desktop (auto login). I have removed Vista since.
For example, why would one of my friends worry about sending me an email?
Why would my friends use e-mail? We have instant messengers for that. Legitimate senders have plenty to worry if they're businesses, automated verification systems etc.
Adding a cost is just going to discourage using SMTP. Company's can require using another system entirely and there is nothing the consumer can do other than not use it - if people want something, they will do it.
please make sure you know what you are talking about.
I understand that prewritten questions are vulnerable. As I mentioned above. Additionally, even if you add some randomization into the mix, it would be very easy to compensate.
I don't consider my previous post to be rude by the way. Nor do I see anything rude about it.
There are a number of ways to strengthen CAPTCHA generation using Asmor's idea. I'm sure you could come up with a few if you tried.
Not anything that could be widely adopted which would be truly viable against computers breaking it.
At the end of the day. not a single idea, I or you can come up with, defeats the malicious human component in the mix.
There are services out there that charge $1 per one hundred, human assisted CAPTCHA responses (as in, a person will physically type in the CAPTCHA). There are porn sites that ask the user to enter CAPTCHA information, which was taken from yahoo, gmail to automatically sign up fake accounts on yahoo, gmail etc.
The only real way to win, is not to play the game.
Better yet, how about a combination of image recognition and random questions?
E.g. you're shown a randomly-generated picture with a duck, a chicken, a skunk, and a dog, and background noise. You're asked to click the duck. If you correctly click in the general area of the duck, you're verified.
Probably not the best example, since you'd have a reasonable success rate just for guessing, but it seems like a solid concept.
To put it simply...
Okay, I refreshed enough times to get all your questions and wrote a predefined list for all questions.
I don't think you've considered the fact that if this were implemented - People would start stopping using SMTP e-mail and use another free service instead. To the point that companies would start using this other free service and the spammers would very likely catch on.
I remember reading a while ago that Steam was going to also act as a repository for saved games, so you could in effect backup your saves automatically.
No, it does store your achievements and some statistics though.
Nope, they have released a CLI steam client for downloading, updating and installing Linux game servers.
Anyway has anyone had success running steam and valve games in VMware or should I just not bother?
Steam runs fine under Crossover games for me. However due to a screw up by the team at X.org, the X11 server on Ubuntu hardy has some issues that could be problematic for some games.
But if you say you have no interest, it just means, you must stick to windows,as you openly say you are not interested in Great technology.
Look, I am often a fan of great technology. I consider LVM more suitable than ZFS - it maintains the file system layer technology and is compatible over a variety of file systems that out perform ZFS. I use backstepping debuggers like "TotalView Debugger", dtrace isn't offering something that unique anymore. My issue however was more of the fact, ZFS, "stability" and dtrace are the only things people ever come up with which are good with Solaris. Nobody mentions things like Solaris containers or zones - and it's likely because the Linux technologies generally out do Solaris in the majority of areas.
I am fed up of hearing, that after all these years, the only thing people can come up with, is still, ZFS (which one can use under Linux with FUSE by the way) and dtrace. I could come up with so many different technologies on Linux that are 'great', from UML, LVM to adept cpu frequency controls, some of the best diagnostic tools (from wireless to power management).
You generally don't hear people repeating the same technologies all the time when they promote GNU/Linux - it has so many different broad uses.
Please create a 128 bit FS and I agree you are a great and also that I will never make a post in slashdot.
I made a very bad file system for AROS four years ago - I made really stupid assumptions when designing my own ext2-like file system.
Not only that it is a 128-bit fs, it just made a few decades of FS obsolete.
ZFS broke the file system layer model on Unix.
And, by the way, i mentioned three, you didn't read it fully
My rant was over people repeating the first two continuously. I have no opinion about the modular debugger because I haven't used it on anything beyond very simple projects.
I can give a bigger list, which include _more_ stability than Linux(My primary OS is Debian GNU/Linux).
I would like that.
So far my experiences with Solaris have been numerous, but nothing has struck me that ground breaking or amazing to stick to using it (Getting KDE to run on Solaris is really, really a pain). I have messed with networking booting, paranoia security (which reminds me, where are file system ACLs on Solaris?), virtual file systems, zones, containers, RBAC, heartbeat setups etc.
my experience of Solaris is it's about the most stable hardware/OS combination I've ever used. Even with Linux on a server platform, it's still not quite there with the level of stability
There is stability issues with Linux server hardware? I have never seen it.
Maybe X86+Linux will overtake Sun+Solaris, but it's not there yet.
Considering Sun's shift to x86 systems... Their 'Sun' hardware isn't that special anymore.
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Oh yes, I am a furry. But by the original poster's logic, I would certainly know if this was the case, no? :)
There are more non-furs in Second life than there are furs.
Nice troll.
A lot of people are succeeding making money off Second life. Of course, the people who just go into Second life and have no understanding about it just go about setting up random stuff, trying to make a business without even trying to understand the economy in Second life, absolutely fail.
A lot of people assume making a good amount of money off Second life is easy, it is not.
Second life isn't that bad as MMOs go, I mean, just look at Furcadia, Planeshifts etc.
Maybe you could come up with some actual sources proving it's not as popular as the MMOs I mentioned? Thus proving that it's "one of the worst performers still in business".
Not here.
There is no firm in this country called "Blue Raven". Seems to be some American thing.
HTTPS certificates are specific to one hostname per IP address.
You want us to ask Microsoft who still use md4 hashes for passwords over the network with no salt?
On my HP Pavilion DV6000 laptop, Kubuntu Linux (auto login and screensaver with password protection, ext3 partition) takes 46 seconds.
Windows Vista (HP OEM install) takes 107 seconds to get into the desktop (auto login). I have removed Vista since.
Why would my friends use e-mail? We have instant messengers for that. Legitimate senders have plenty to worry if they're businesses, automated verification systems etc.
Adding a cost is just going to discourage using SMTP. Company's can require using another system entirely and there is nothing the consumer can do other than not use it - if people want something, they will do it.
I understand that prewritten questions are vulnerable. As I mentioned above. Additionally, even if you add some randomization into the mix, it would be very easy to compensate.
I don't consider my previous post to be rude by the way. Nor do I see anything rude about it.
Not anything that could be widely adopted which would be truly viable against computers breaking it.
At the end of the day. not a single idea, I or you can come up with, defeats the malicious human component in the mix.
There are services out there that charge $1 per one hundred, human assisted CAPTCHA responses (as in, a person will physically type in the CAPTCHA). There are porn sites that ask the user to enter CAPTCHA information, which was taken from yahoo, gmail to automatically sign up fake accounts on yahoo, gmail etc.
The only real way to win, is not to play the game.
See this post.
To put it simply...
Okay, I refreshed enough times to get all your questions and wrote a predefined list for all questions.
I don't think you've considered the fact that if this were implemented - People would start stopping using SMTP e-mail and use another free service instead. To the point that companies would start using this other free service and the spammers would very likely catch on.
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a canine pet.
A feline.
All of them?
Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 7.3).
No, it does store your achievements and some statistics though.
Actually, you can. You just can't use the Steam friends network (instant messaging bit of Steam) at the same time on both computers.
Nope, they have released a CLI steam client for downloading, updating and installing Linux game servers.
Steam runs fine under Crossover games for me. However due to a screw up by the team at X.org, the X11 server on Ubuntu hardy has some issues that could be problematic for some games.
There, fixed that sentence for you.
Look, I am often a fan of great technology. I consider LVM more suitable than ZFS - it maintains the file system layer technology and is compatible over a variety of file systems that out perform ZFS. I use backstepping debuggers like "TotalView Debugger", dtrace isn't offering something that unique anymore. My issue however was more of the fact, ZFS, "stability" and dtrace are the only things people ever come up with which are good with Solaris. Nobody mentions things like Solaris containers or zones - and it's likely because the Linux technologies generally out do Solaris in the majority of areas.
I am fed up of hearing, that after all these years, the only thing people can come up with, is still, ZFS (which one can use under Linux with FUSE by the way) and dtrace. I could come up with so many different technologies on Linux that are 'great', from UML, LVM to adept cpu frequency controls, some of the best diagnostic tools (from wireless to power management).
You generally don't hear people repeating the same technologies all the time when they promote GNU/Linux - it has so many different broad uses.
I made a very bad file system for AROS four years ago - I made really stupid assumptions when designing my own ext2-like file system.
ZFS broke the file system layer model on Unix.
My rant was over people repeating the first two continuously. I have no opinion about the modular debugger because I haven't used it on anything beyond very simple projects.
I would like that.
So far my experiences with Solaris have been numerous, but nothing has struck me that ground breaking or amazing to stick to using it (Getting KDE to run on Solaris is really, really a pain). I have messed with networking booting, paranoia security (which reminds me, where are file system ACLs on Solaris?), virtual file systems, zones, containers, RBAC, heartbeat setups etc.
I do get fedup of hearing these two features recited continuously. I have no need or interest for either.
There is stability issues with Linux server hardware? I have never seen it.
Considering Sun's shift to x86 systems... Their 'Sun' hardware isn't that special anymore.
Windows and Linux is currently used extensively more than SunOS and Solaris in the Enterprise. I think you need to reevaluate things.
Who claimed it did? I can only find someone claiming Mac had 95%.
I have sent him numerous MMS messages, but none of them are getting through!
You are correct. Apple will begin fixing this by suing Slashdot for revealing their trade secrets.