You were very rarely forced into 3rd person, it just gave you an advantage of situational awareness, wrt other cars and seeing into corners. And it was better, because the perspective of 1st person was so shit because of tech (640x480 and even 1024x768 does NOT cut it), and so now - take EA Need for Speed SHIFT or GT or Forza, those games give you working cockpits that still have enough resolution out the windscreen to see into corners and feel speed properly, and dirve in a more realistic manner.
The death of 3rd person is coming, the tech is now here to simulate proper driving - so we are doing something in real life that was anachronistic to begin with....
Now - read the story of Maija the not-so-l33t hacker and pay special attention to how the story explains how the Chinese special intelligence services work. The whole thing is outsourced, loose affiliation. The blackwater-ization of hacking, where for the government is most interested in a plausible denial.
Then tell me again how the Chinese intelligence services aren't funding and running Ghostnet.
The way I see it, these hackers probably get treated as well as Bobby Kotick treats his people. Do thy bidding and get hookers sent over for lunch, maybe two if you find a 0-day.
I saw Sunshine last night. Danny Boyle's 2007 Sci-Fci movie about a crew that is heading to the sun to fire a nuke into it, to restart it.
Without spoiling any more than the preview gives away, as the ship approaches the sun the crew starts getting a little... weird. Ok, a lot weird. It's an okay movie, but the change in behavior isn't really ever explained. Maybe this is the pseudo-scientific rationale....
In other news, a man named 'Rainz' bought the plot next to British on the moon, and wondered if Lord British wanted some bread as a housewarming present.
Isohunt is treading the same line, you can go to Isohunt's main page and read up on the legal fights. Much of it has to do with the perception that it is actively aiding users in finding or distributing illegal content. It's the equivalent, here in Chicago, to the old Maxwell Street market. Everybody knew if you lost your hubcaps, you went to Maxwell Street to buy them back. But as long as the street organizers themselves kept up some semblance of actual legit commerce, they city turned a blind eye.
In this case, Usenet contains what I affectionately call a "Rared Sale" (get it?) - where everything is less than a quarter. In fact, it's free! And as long as we all remember the First Rule of Usenet: Nobody talks about Usenet, then it's all fine. Apparently, these blokes forgot that rule.
It's like when you're groping a drunken cheerleader, and she's all like "Oh no, I'm not that sort of girl... ooh, OK then, just don't tell Chad... oh, that's goooood.... AARGH! Wrong hole! WRONG HOLE!"
I get the feeling this whole showdown is a Larry and Sergey thing. And that Eric Schmidt is against it, and probably the rest of the board is as well. They would rather be pusillanimous like John Chambers and just make as much money off China as possible, even if it means aid and abet totalitarianism and not standing for anything except quarterly share price (again: see John Chambers).
I applaud refusing to censor information on the internet, this is a line in the sand they have drawn, to perhaps 'do no evil' and in Slashdot spirit we should all be behind it....
I.... I..... didn't show enough voice and wasn't unique enough, but you know.... that's okay... because I know who I am and I know the Lord.... he will never keep me down... I will just keep on keepin' on, ya know?
PLEASE stop using Rob Enderle as a source for analysis. Time and time again this guy has managed to be wrong, yet people STILL go to him for quotes on anything related to technology.
In Japan, it's pretty easy even in rural areas like Kyoto to order a 100Mb connection and get it at a reasonable rate.
In the States, we're playing on DSL lines that have 2Mb down, when they train up right (which they only do maybe 50% of the time) and other people are using Cable (Charter, Comlast, etc) and maybe that is 5 or maybe 10Mb down. If you are very lucky (and have the coin) maybe you are on AT&T uVerse or Verizon FIOS, and they could give you 100Mb, but you'd pay through the nose for it, and it would be asymmetrical. Most likely (the UVerse people I know) you are getting 10 down.
Now here comes Johnny Chambers saying this beast in the core could give GIG (1000Mb/s) to every person in San Francisco. Johnny's comb over is going to his brain. Just because a TR2N sized CRS-2 with enough horsepower to make the TRON MCP break down and cry comes into the provider core doesn't mean SHIT to you, the end user. Here in the states we won't see Japanese style connectivity for another 10 years. We're being left in the fucking stone age, because they money isn't there to build out past the core.
It pisses me off when Johnny tries to hype and pimp that stock price up, and they use multi-threading and distributed fabrics to get that speed, but we all know it's moving at snail's pace, the industry is consolidating, and unless you live where fiber is, forget it. And save me the "USA is so much bigger than Japan" argument, too. We don't see these speeds in our major cities, like NYC or Atlanta, SF or Chicago. Nothing even close. the SONET rings in these cities are still selling OC multiples at insane prices. It's still fucking 1996 in America.
The US owns the sea. the Chinese know this. Their sub technology is borrowed from the Soviets, and the Akula class is a barge underwater and it's all they got, and their Navy sucks.
The US has shown it possess the technology to splice underwater fiber cables and tap them. Google it, they've already done it in the North Sea.
And that is the trump card. China launches a major offensive against the world, they better have routes down through Korea, because every trans-pacific cable leading to the mainland will get cut in minutes.
Slashdot Mirror
You were very rarely forced into 3rd person, it just gave you an advantage of situational awareness, wrt other cars and seeing into corners. And it was better, because the perspective of 1st person was so shit because of tech (640x480 and even 1024x768 does NOT cut it), and so now - take EA Need for Speed SHIFT or GT or Forza, those games give you working cockpits that still have enough resolution out the windscreen to see into corners and feel speed properly, and dirve in a more realistic manner.
The death of 3rd person is coming, the tech is now here to simulate proper driving - so we are doing something in real life that was anachronistic to begin with....
The best bit of journalism in the last year on this subject:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/business/global/02hacker.html?emc=eta1
Now - read the story of Maija the not-so-l33t hacker and pay special attention to how the story explains how the Chinese special intelligence services work. The whole thing is outsourced, loose affiliation. The blackwater-ization of hacking, where for the government is most interested in a plausible denial.
Then tell me again how the Chinese intelligence services aren't funding and running Ghostnet.
The way I see it, these hackers probably get treated as well as Bobby Kotick treats his people. Do thy bidding and get hookers sent over for lunch, maybe two if you find a 0-day.
Pirate sites will go, and others will replace them, but there is a constant: like death and taxes, piracy will go on.
And with that sentiment... it's time for this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1loyjm4SOa0
Come on... you forgot Bill Pullman as the kick-ass Fighter Pilot President. His role was so influential, GW Bush actually mimicked the role!
I saw Sunshine last night. Danny Boyle's 2007 Sci-Fci movie about a crew that is heading to the sun to fire a nuke into it, to restart it.
Without spoiling any more than the preview gives away, as the ship approaches the sun the crew starts getting a little... weird. Ok, a lot weird. It's an okay movie, but the change in behavior isn't really ever explained. Maybe this is the pseudo-scientific rationale....
In other news, a man named 'Rainz' bought the plot next to British on the moon, and wondered if Lord British wanted some bread as a housewarming present.
In italics, it looks like it says "Surviving the Penis of Black Holes".
Gives it a new twist...
Isohunt is treading the same line, you can go to Isohunt's main page and read up on the legal fights. Much of it has to do with the perception that it is actively aiding users in finding or distributing illegal content. It's the equivalent, here in Chicago, to the old Maxwell Street market. Everybody knew if you lost your hubcaps, you went to Maxwell Street to buy them back. But as long as the street organizers themselves kept up some semblance of actual legit commerce, they city turned a blind eye.
http://home.netcom.com/~cowdery/maxwell/mamoser.html
In this case, Usenet contains what I affectionately call a "Rared Sale" (get it?) - where everything is less than a quarter. In fact, it's free! And as long as we all remember the First Rule of Usenet: Nobody talks about Usenet, then it's all fine. Apparently, these blokes forgot that rule.
Parasites? Oh, don't be a spoil sport! Oh... wait... never mind...
It's like when you're groping a drunken cheerleader, and she's all like "Oh no, I'm not that sort of girl... ooh, OK then, just don't tell Chad... oh, that's goooood.... AARGH! Wrong hole! WRONG HOLE!"
Is your real name Ben Rothlesberger?
I get the feeling this whole showdown is a Larry and Sergey thing. And that Eric Schmidt is against it, and probably the rest of the board is as well. They would rather be pusillanimous like John Chambers and just make as much money off China as possible, even if it means aid and abet totalitarianism and not standing for anything except quarterly share price (again: see John Chambers).
I applaud refusing to censor information on the internet, this is a line in the sand they have drawn, to perhaps 'do no evil' and in Slashdot spirit we should all be behind it....
' Neptune May Have Eaten a Planet and Stolen Its Moon'
In this way, it is just like Rosie O'Donnell.
I.... I..... didn't show enough voice and wasn't unique enough, but you know.... that's okay... because I know who I am and I know the Lord.... he will never keep me down... I will just keep on keepin' on, ya know?
Rustok was a real piss cock
Who was very rarely stable.
Cutwail, Cutwail was a woozy beggar
Who could dos you under the table.
Bobax aka Kraken could out-consume
Nagle!
And Maazben was a leery swine
Who was just as poorly coded as Bagle!
There's nothing Grum couldn't teach ya
'Bout the razing of the kernel.
Mega-D, itself, was permanently pissed.
Festi-ville, of its own free will,
On half a gig of pipe was particularly ill.
Xarvester, they say, could stick it away--
Half a dozen XP machine every day.
Donbot, Donbot was a bugger for the lot.
Conficker was fond of its spam,
And Gregory King was a drunk on bling.
'I spam, therefore I am.'
Yes, ZeuS, itself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when it's pissed!
-- Apologies in advance to the Pythons
Yo Dawg, I heard you like quantum replication, so I put a you besides you, so you can duplicate while you duplicate!
Kids in 2082 studying history:
Teacher: And in 1960, it was John Kennedy who said 'It is better to light a LED than to curse the darkness....'"
PLEASE stop using Rob Enderle as a source for analysis. Time and time again this guy has managed to be wrong, yet people STILL go to him for quotes on anything related to technology.
Larry King. He'll still be alive.
John Chambers thinks he's John Wayne.
Is that the insurance company really did owe him, and we're trying to screw him over.
In Japan, it's pretty easy even in rural areas like Kyoto to order a 100Mb connection and get it at a reasonable rate.
In the States, we're playing on DSL lines that have 2Mb down, when they train up right (which they only do maybe 50% of the time) and other people are using Cable (Charter, Comlast, etc) and maybe that is 5 or maybe 10Mb down. If you are very lucky (and have the coin) maybe you are on AT&T uVerse or Verizon FIOS, and they could give you 100Mb, but you'd pay through the nose for it, and it would be asymmetrical. Most likely (the UVerse people I know) you are getting 10 down.
Now here comes Johnny Chambers saying this beast in the core could give GIG (1000Mb/s) to every person in San Francisco. Johnny's comb over is going to his brain. Just because a TR2N sized CRS-2 with enough horsepower to make the TRON MCP break down and cry comes into the provider core doesn't mean SHIT to you, the end user. Here in the states we won't see Japanese style connectivity for another 10 years. We're being left in the fucking stone age, because they money isn't there to build out past the core.
It pisses me off when Johnny tries to hype and pimp that stock price up, and they use multi-threading and distributed fabrics to get that speed, but we all know it's moving at snail's pace, the industry is consolidating, and unless you live where fiber is, forget it. And save me the "USA is so much bigger than Japan" argument, too. We don't see these speeds in our major cities, like NYC or Atlanta, SF or Chicago. Nothing even close. the SONET rings in these cities are still selling OC multiples at insane prices. It's still fucking 1996 in America.
The US owns the sea. the Chinese know this. Their sub technology is borrowed from the Soviets, and the Akula class is a barge underwater and it's all they got, and their Navy sucks.
The US has shown it possess the technology to splice underwater fiber cables and tap them. Google it, they've already done it in the North Sea.
And that is the trump card. China launches a major offensive against the world, they better have routes down through Korea, because every trans-pacific cable leading to the mainland will get cut in minutes.
You run a SONICWALL and you HAVEN'T thrown it in the trash yet?
(We still run a ES6000. I feel your pain.)
Larry Wall's Artistic License (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_License) got ripped to shreds under court scrutiny.
Understand when to use the LGPL or the GPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
use them.
I may get modded a troll, but it's absolutely spot on. I may not like it, and it's not a sentiment I appreciate either. But it is true.