I actually find the yahoo 100mb to be so splendidly enough for my needs that Gmail is of little consequence... which is probably a good thing for yahoo!
But anyone wanting to throw one this way... *cough*
+5 insightful post at top is the worst ever!;-) "disinfranchised"....
It is more a case of terminals
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Semper WiFi
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· Score: 4, Interesting
There is nothing much new in the setup they are proposing, perhaps the biggest thing is that they are proposing it.
I would suggest wireless dumb terminals with certificate based security, going through a WEP that is MAC configured and keeping a tabs on all terminals as much as possible.
No, the thing that shocks me is the reference to ehowa...
Governments spend unbelievable ammounts of money on military equiptment, can't some of it be appropriated to communications?
I thought 'battlefield' communications would be very good - I am utterly mystified how a country can have so many troops in a place and not have a solid redundant communciation netwrok that could be accessible to the troops.
Perhaps this could be an oppourtunity for some community aid? Let the students get involved in configuring the units (after all, we are talking email and video messaging, nothing secret?)
I love Red Dwarf, and I love how it is not understodd by non-brits (or at least, doesn't seem to have been heard of, probably becuse of licensing or suchlike)
That and changing the alert colour bulbs will forever tickle me...:-)
Nobody wants DRM or Malware type software destroying their freedom to use PC's.
No software company wants to invest 30 million into a (small?) project where sales are predicted by a declining history and diminishing market, or perhaps could disappear given the alarming ability to download gigs of data in a day.
In a perfect world, they would produce X, you want X, you buy X.
In a semi-perfect world. People Copy X, like it, Buy X
In todays world, a bit more perfect: People who copy and don't buy X, wouldn't have bought it anyway. (so does this mean copying impacts software?)
What does happen. People want games, if copying didnt exist, they would buy them, prices would drop. However, peope who say they wouldn't have bought the game anyway, shouldn't have needed to copy it.
OK, that bit over: If you purchase games, do you put up with measures that, in the end, are there for your benefit, as a games consumer (i.e., if they did stop copying)
Perhaps the issue is not so clear cut as music (which has always been way overpriced and overcontrolled)
Computer games used to be 1.99 casettes, 4.99 etc... not they are 49.99 at tops. Considering lower costs of marketting, vast market size, limitless and cheap distribution (electronically) and cheaper CD/DVD case distribution, the companies hsould be able to create games which sell for less, and meets a price that brings more consumers.
Sometimes it is easier to copy a game than physically walk out and buy it. This is the mentality they are dealing with.
At the end of the day - don't steal from people, no matter how rich they are.
No need to impose any library additions onto the core libraries of Java, or gripe at the JCP, however flawed, I have yet to see a similar process that works.
W3C use similar methods to develop the web standards we use every day.
Jade is a useful and in particular thier XML parsing libraries are interesting.
Look deeper and you see some interesting components. I am a little perplexed at the underlying ethos of trying to patch the core libraries with this library though.
I think the whole of Jade should be living in commons.apache.org somewhere, there is an example in invaluable libraries that I take for granted every day. That doesn't mean another programmer does, or that they should be shipped by default.
Kudos on the new version! If I ever need it, I will surely be grateful!
I thought of a very light weight helicopter with rotors that can hardly support thier own weight, but get straightened out by the G forces. Also the spin up speed for the rotors would be long, as the gearing system would strain the small motor.
However, when airborn with high enough rpms, small twists to the frame could give agile peformance.
About how useful this (cool looking) bot is: I expect to see some 'ferrying' a few grams of this and that between dorms on cold days at uni!:-)
Microsoft not only are getting license fees, but consulting fees.
Isn't this illegal? If this is classed as consultation I am sure that there is somethign to stop conflicts of interest.
The guy responsible is Contact: Richard Steel, Head of ICT Tel 020 8430 4301 richard.steel@newham.gov.uk.
richard.steel@newham.gov.uk You can petition here sensibly.
Details of the settlement from the minutes of the council: http://moderngov.newham.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.Asp ?CommitteeId=294&CF=Cabinet&MeetingID=2149&DF=22/0 4/2004&Ver=4#AI2970
From the Newham Council website (where you can http://www.newham.gov.uk/content/Environment/aband oned_vehicle_form.jsp? report an abandoned car...). This guy should loose his job, and there should be a public investigation, as there is call for one in this instance, we are not talking peanuts here, millions of pounds that will be invested into systems that are inheretly costly and have huge running costs - not to mention the costs of viruses. Newham have had thier fair share of virus related incidents (news on website).
I have been having some fun in the palm of my hand, err, developing for PDA's. I use several models daily, and they suck!
However the potential for a mobile PC with camera / peripherals, and more importantly, instant, fast, GPRS or local connectivity (WiFi) that can easily be built into games (and lets not forget GPS) will make a whole new breed of gaming.
This is already happening, and the whole of Tokyo is host to the first (?) real life MUD, where people can walk around the city using GPS to reposition themselves in the game, and taking different commutes to work to fight new monsters.
Pocket PC's are shockingly cheap now, and except for thier bland input keys, the stylus mode of input can be used as an analogue stick (by orbiting around a fixed center)
Quake2 plays nicely on my Axim30. Of course, this is about 'console' handhelds. As the price barriers blur between the two, it is hard to say what is what.
A sony and nintendo will have something that PPC will not have - a distribution chain. Even though we want digital distribution, cartidges will probably still be developed, or a mini dvd disc.
Perhaps games will come on SD cards in the near future, bringing their costs down for all other users.
The good thing about OTA distribution is the ability to on the fly encode some DRM (yuck!) that would disable the full game if copied onto another device, unless the person 'transfers' the license somehow....
Of course, if you name the 'law' that is thought to exist governing things, after the person who described it, then it makes sense. In which case it adds more weight/mass to my argument - Moores 'law' doesn't govern the computing market, it is an observation of the computing market.
If we just waited 10 years, computers wouldn't make themselves faster, following some law.
Look, it is too silly to even discuss. Moores Law is -1 100% overrated.
Less true than you think
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Star Wars on DVD
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· Score: 4, Funny
Star wars is fictional, there is no 'dark side'.
Anakin is a fictional character...
If George had strayed to the dark side, you would be floating in mid air clutching your throat:-)
Well it should be called Boyles Observation. I guess any crazy gas breaking it ain't gonna do time. Boyle studied the nature of the physical, measurable, unchanging nature of gases. It is not as if Boyle said, "Article 1: You shall behave as ideal gases, and let P1V1 = P2V2, otherwise I'll send the boys around". If he did he is Gayer than Gay Lussac;-) *sorry had to be said*
Moores law is just an idle, incidental observation that has no foundation in reality - only circumstancial observation. It is like throwing ten dead monkeys into the air, and then prediciting how the next ten monkeys will fall, then using that to predict the 10 pandas you are going to throw next year.
No animals were harmed in the making of this post. Several small children were placed in pressurised heated gas chamber, each holding a barometer, just for empirical research.
I know there is no dismemberment in HL/CS. I like Soldier of Fortune for that. And Hitman CN47 has the *best* rag doll physics engine for body hits. Hit them int he head, it acts like a skull being hit, the arm acts like an arm. A clean shot through the neck gives a nice vertical decent.
The best Jerry.
Maybe liking dismemberment is a little sick... but it is funny as heck in GTA:VC et al!:-)
It is all well an good talking about mergers, the gaming industry is going the way of the mobile phone industry.
Publishers have a strangle hold on the gaming industry, games live and (more often) die by them.
We need to use simple ditribution chains (downloads, amazon - heck, bit torrents) to send quality games at lower prices.
Hardware has matured. Take a computer from 1 year ago, it can play Half Life 2, Doom 3, and CounterStrike Source (read a modded HL 2)
Of course, anyone can change a 256x256 texture to a 1024x1024 texture...
What we have is viable 3d engines, and many open and free... spark that with a true 'over the air' distribution method, and we can see many more companies producing more games.
Of course, GTA:SA and Doom3 do require bigger budgets, because more money is spent outside programming.
Art, directing, scripting, acting, stories are now more important in games than graphics etc... there is no break through in graphics in doom3, only detail.
Wow! they are half way to eliminating the blue screen, now we get them, but without messages! They were the only chance I had to brush on my hex reading!
I hate Moored law, what bullshit it is. Some guy looked at the rate of CPU growth (probably using excel version 1.0 or something...) and now its catching up with things.
Lets all forget Moores law! Lets call it my law, market forces spur on investors to give money to intelligent people who find ways of making things go faster. This happens at a rate that may seem predictable.
(think doom and todays GPU's)
OK, back to reality. Yes, and No. Yes, brute forcing is a weakness, but it takes a small ammount of time to encrypt something 'small' with a 10k bit key today. And as computers get faster, we can more readily use huge key sizes.
It will always be so much faster to encrypt a large key than to brute force one.
Unless they find that they have been thinking the wrong way, and you can reverse these hashes using a codex from a pack of lucky charms. (or a whistle from a pack of captain crunch...)
So that wraps it up. The worse part is not knowing. If they find it, you had better hope you used two algorithms to encrypt your data!
I XOR all my stuff with DEADBEEF, but don't tell anyone, else they will find a way to hack it!
Slashdot Mirror
Do I get a GMAIL account invite? :-)
;-) "disinfranchised" ....
I actually find the yahoo 100mb to be so splendidly enough for my needs that Gmail is of little consequence... which is probably a good thing for yahoo!
But anyone wanting to throw one this way... *cough*
+5 insightful post at top is the worst ever!
There is nothing much new in the setup they are proposing, perhaps the biggest thing is that they are proposing it.
I would suggest wireless dumb terminals with certificate based security, going through a WEP that is MAC configured and keeping a tabs on all terminals as much as possible.
No, the thing that shocks me is the reference to ehowa...
Governments spend unbelievable ammounts of money on military equiptment, can't some of it be appropriated to communications?
I thought 'battlefield' communications would be very good - I am utterly mystified how a country can have so many troops in a place and not have a solid redundant communciation netwrok that could be accessible to the troops.
Perhaps this could be an oppourtunity for some community aid? Let the students get involved in configuring the units (after all, we are talking email and video messaging, nothing secret?)
This may be nice.
I love Red Dwarf, and I love how it is not understodd by non-brits (or at least, doesn't seem to have been heard of, probably becuse of licensing or suchlike)
:-)
That and changing the alert colour bulbs will forever tickle me...
*stiffle smirk*
Nobody wants DRM or Malware type software destroying their freedom to use PC's.
No software company wants to invest 30 million into a (small?) project where sales are predicted by a declining history and diminishing market, or perhaps could disappear given the alarming ability to download gigs of data in a day.
In a perfect world, they would produce X, you want X, you buy X.
In a semi-perfect world. People Copy X, like it, Buy X
In todays world, a bit more perfect: People who copy and don't buy X, wouldn't have bought it anyway. (so does this mean copying impacts software?)
What does happen. People want games, if copying didnt exist, they would buy them, prices would drop. However, peope who say they wouldn't have bought the game anyway, shouldn't have needed to copy it.
OK, that bit over: If you purchase games, do you put up with measures that, in the end, are there for your benefit, as a games consumer (i.e., if they did stop copying)
Perhaps the issue is not so clear cut as music (which has always been way overpriced and overcontrolled)
Computer games used to be 1.99 casettes, 4.99 etc... not they are 49.99 at tops. Considering lower costs of marketting, vast market size, limitless and cheap distribution (electronically) and cheaper CD/DVD case distribution, the companies hsould be able to create games which sell for less, and meets a price that brings more consumers.
Sometimes it is easier to copy a game than physically walk out and buy it. This is the mentality they are dealing with.
At the end of the day - don't steal from people, no matter how rich they are.
No need to impose any library additions onto the core libraries of Java, or gripe at the JCP, however flawed, I have yet to see a similar process that works.
W3C use similar methods to develop the web standards we use every day.
Jade is a useful and in particular thier XML parsing libraries are interesting.
Look deeper and you see some interesting components. I am a little perplexed at the underlying ethos of trying to patch the core libraries with this library though.
I think the whole of Jade should be living in commons.apache.org somewhere, there is an example in invaluable libraries that I take for granted every day. That doesn't mean another programmer does, or that they should be shipped by default.
Kudos on the new version! If I ever need it, I will surely be grateful!
" Man, this just isn't SCO's week. "
Amen.
A sotry on newscientist a long while ago about a robot that learned to fly.
:-)
A genetic algorithm that judged the fitness rate of how high the robot was able to get for each generation of code.
Robot learns to fly
I thought of a very light weight helicopter with rotors that can hardly support thier own weight, but get straightened out by the G forces. Also the spin up speed for the rotors would be long, as the gearing system would strain the small motor.
However, when airborn with high enough rpms, small twists to the frame could give agile peformance.
About how useful this (cool looking) bot is: I expect to see some 'ferrying' a few grams of this and that between dorms on cold days at uni!
Imagine if the /. effect sent everyone to the same location... the whole universe might suddenly be replaced with something even more inexplicable.
Some say this has already happened.
'Tis a wild thought!
I didn't put 'IANATP' anywhere in my post.
What made you think I am not a tax payer?
I have been spoilt by BBS's auto parse urls:
Minutes of meetings
Report abandoned car
Microsoft not only are getting license fees, but consulting fees.
p ?CommitteeId=294&CF=Cabinet&MeetingID=2149&DF=22/0 4/2004&Ver=4#AI2970
d oned_vehicle_form.jsp? report an abandoned car...). This guy should loose his job, and there should be a public investigation, as there is call for one in this instance, we are not talking peanuts here, millions of pounds that will be invested into systems that are inheretly costly and have huge running costs - not to mention the costs of viruses. Newham have had thier fair share of virus related incidents (news on website).
/.?)
Isn't this illegal? If this is classed as consultation I am sure that there is somethign to stop conflicts of interest.
The guy responsible is Contact: Richard Steel, Head of ICT Tel 020 8430 4301 richard.steel@newham.gov.uk.
richard.steel@newham.gov.uk You can petition here sensibly.
Details of the settlement from the minutes of the council: http://moderngov.newham.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.As
From the Newham Council website (where you can http://www.newham.gov.uk/content/Environment/aban
(what happened to this stoy on
I have been having some fun in the palm of my hand, err, developing for PDA's. I use several models daily, and they suck!
However the potential for a mobile PC with camera / peripherals, and more importantly, instant, fast, GPRS or local connectivity (WiFi) that can easily be built into games (and lets not forget GPS) will make a whole new breed of gaming.
This is already happening, and the whole of Tokyo is host to the first (?) real life MUD, where people can walk around the city using GPS to reposition themselves in the game, and taking different commutes to work to fight new monsters.
Pocket PC's are shockingly cheap now, and except for thier bland input keys, the stylus mode of input can be used as an analogue stick (by orbiting around a fixed center)
Quake2 plays nicely on my Axim30. Of course, this is about 'console' handhelds. As the price barriers blur between the two, it is hard to say what is what.
A sony and nintendo will have something that PPC will not have - a distribution chain. Even though we want digital distribution, cartidges will probably still be developed, or a mini dvd disc.
Perhaps games will come on SD cards in the near future, bringing their costs down for all other users.
The good thing about OTA distribution is the ability to on the fly encode some DRM (yuck!) that would disable the full game if copied onto another device, unless the person 'transfers' the license somehow....
Of course, if you name the 'law' that is thought to exist governing things, after the person who described it, then it makes sense. In which case it adds more weight/mass to my argument - Moores 'law' doesn't govern the computing market, it is an observation of the computing market.
If we just waited 10 years, computers wouldn't make themselves faster, following some law.
Look, it is too silly to even discuss. Moores Law is -1 100% overrated.
Star wars is fictional, there is no 'dark side'.
:-)
Anakin is a fictional character...
If George had strayed to the dark side, you would be floating in mid air clutching your throat
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Is it just me or does LOAF sound like a cure for SPAM? Cure... spam... cured... meat... blah.
Hash codes that you can query, and find out if you know that person, who knows that person...
As you grow your 'friends' you can highten your spam security...
just a thought...
We know things mutate. We know things can change. We can even fire dna sequences into plant cells and change thier makeup.
Evolved yeast will bring about better beer.
But Darwin was a biggot. His grand ideas are absurd, yet easily veiled as the truth.
If it is not the truth, then the above statement may be true.
If it is the truth, then I am wrong.
or:
Iamright: reality & !truth;
truth: darwin & reality;
reality: true;
darwin: ?
troll:!reality;
I just find that people anchor themselves to a true predicate when analysing anything that may be false.
The story is interesting, but leave Darwinism for those who urinate on electricity cables.
if(Lucasarts)
...
post.replace("SP", "EP", 0);
Look, SP2 sucked, noone liked it, we are all waiting for SP3, although most of us have this feeling that it will be more of the same.
It gets complicated with SP4-6 due to something called the time-space continuum.
Well it should be called Boyles Observation. I guess any crazy gas breaking it ain't gonna do time. Boyle studied the nature of the physical, measurable, unchanging nature of gases. It is not as if Boyle said, "Article 1: You shall behave as ideal gases, and let P1V1 = P2V2, otherwise I'll send the boys around". If he did he is Gayer than Gay Lussac ;-) *sorry had to be said*
Moores law is just an idle, incidental observation that has no foundation in reality - only circumstancial observation. It is like throwing ten dead monkeys into the air, and then prediciting how the next ten monkeys will fall, then using that to predict the 10 pandas you are going to throw next year.
No animals were harmed in the making of this post. Several small children were placed in pressurised heated gas chamber, each holding a barometer, just for empirical research.
Boyle and Lussac are dudes, they rock.
I am just gonna pick up some nearby guns, you can play 'frisk the freak' by yourself ;-)
I know there is no dismemberment in HL/CS. I like Soldier of Fortune for that. And Hitman CN47 has the *best* rag doll physics engine for body hits. Hit them int he head, it acts like a skull being hit, the arm acts like an arm. A clean shot through the neck gives a nice vertical decent.
:-)
The best Jerry.
Maybe liking dismemberment is a little sick... but it is funny as heck in GTA:VC et al!
It is all well an good talking about mergers, the gaming industry is going the way of the mobile phone industry.
Publishers have a strangle hold on the gaming industry, games live and (more often) die by them.
We need to use simple ditribution chains (downloads, amazon - heck, bit torrents) to send quality games at lower prices.
Hardware has matured. Take a computer from 1 year ago, it can play Half Life 2, Doom 3, and CounterStrike Source (read a modded HL 2)
Of course, anyone can change a 256x256 texture to a 1024x1024 texture...
What we have is viable 3d engines, and many open and free... spark that with a true 'over the air' distribution method, and we can see many more companies producing more games.
Of course, GTA:SA and Doom3 do require bigger budgets, because more money is spent outside programming.
Art, directing, scripting, acting, stories are now more important in games than graphics etc... there is no break through in graphics in doom3, only detail.
GTA:SA - detail detail detail. Lighting - detail. Handshakes - detail.
There is a whole world where detail doesn't cost bucks, like motion capture bucks.
Lets still have block busters, but let cheaper games be that - cheaper.
I just gone and bought a license from SCO as well... and now you say they don't have a leg to stand on?
www.ebay.com
For sale, hardly used, SCO unix licenses.
You beat their ass good big blue! I don't want thier own mothers to recognise them!
SCO shows that everyone can hate you, and you can still try and make money. At least Microsoft stole thier crap from someone fair and square.
Wow! they are half way to eliminating the blue screen, now we get them, but without messages! They were the only chance I had to brush on my hex reading!
You will have to wait until SP3 for those, and no spoilers please!
I hate Moored law, what bullshit it is. Some guy looked at the rate of CPU growth (probably using excel version 1.0 or something...) and now its catching up with things.
Lets all forget Moores law! Lets call it my law, market forces spur on investors to give money to intelligent people who find ways of making things go faster. This happens at a rate that may seem predictable.
(think doom and todays GPU's)
OK, back to reality. Yes, and No. Yes, brute forcing is a weakness, but it takes a small ammount of time to encrypt something 'small' with a 10k bit key today. And as computers get faster, we can more readily use huge key sizes.
It will always be so much faster to encrypt a large key than to brute force one.
Unless they find that they have been thinking the wrong way, and you can reverse these hashes using a codex from a pack of lucky charms. (or a whistle from a pack of captain crunch...)
So that wraps it up. The worse part is not knowing. If they find it, you had better hope you used two algorithms to encrypt your data!
I XOR all my stuff with DEADBEEF, but don't tell anyone, else they will find a way to hack it!