Before high speed internet was a "thing" you had to be on the LAN to get optimal multiplayer. Personally for my LAN culture died off when pings fell below 100ms over the internet instead of the 500-1000ms over 56K
You are seriously exaggerating ping times on old dialup connections. I played a lot of Quake in the late 90s and even on my 28.8 modem I could get 200-350ms pings to most servers and 300-500ms to distant servers. I never had 56k because although my ISP offered it, my phone lines then couldn't support it. Also, 200-350 was actually very playable because most other players had similar pings at the time, unless you went to an LPB server. But online multiplayer did thrive even before everyone had a high speed connection.
Only problem I've seen is that some installers seem to think it's Windows server 2003 not Windows XP.
That's because it IS Server 2003. XP x64 is Server 2003 x64 with Serivce Pack 1, just renamed, and with different features enabled/disabled by default. Check the version numbers: they are both Windows 5.2 (true XP is 5.1). Both XP x64 and Server 2003 x64 also use the exact same SP2 and other hotfixes.
I still use it too, and greatly prefer it to Windows 7. As for the other person that said driver support is terrible for it... that's a common myth. It was terrible in 2005, but now drivers for XP x64 (or Server 2003 x64, since they are interchangeable) are actually pretty common unless you have old/obscure hardware.
They checked sites which could contain infringing data. You suggest that check sites where they are guaranteed not to find infringing data. Which is data set is going to be more biased?
That would be fine if they framed it as follows: "Although numerous sites exist for the legitimate exchange of legal software and other data via torrents, sites which allow the option of both infringing and non-infringing data are much more likely to contain infringing data."
Here's how it is framed instead: "Only 0.3% of torrents are legal."
I get so tired of hearing this. Granted, XP x64 edition isn't really XP, it's a 64-bit version of Server 2003 renamed to XP, so technically you're right. That said I've been using it on my main system for over two years now and it works beautifully. I have 4 GB of RAM which is 100% utilized. ALL 32-bit apps I have tried work with no problems (you do have to get used to the two separate Program Files directories and the slight difference in the registry structure). I game a lot and have had no problems there whatsoever. Granted, I took the time when I first built this machine to make sure the hardware all had 64-bit drivers (Logitech in particular has great 64-bit support). I've had just a single blue screen in two years, caused by a failing video card which was quickly replaced. I'm also still using the original install of the OS - I've never needed to reinstall it. I'm no Microsoft fanboy, but if you make smart choices with your hardware, XP x64 is as good as it gets right now. And I'm one of those people that stuck with Windows 2000 over XP.
I like the picture caption that says the robot suit will help you lift "heavy loads", while the picture shows the guy carrying a woman. I'm sure she will be thrilled to find herself described in such a way.;)
I can only speak for myself here, but I've been using USB2.0 in Win2k since 2002 on one of my main systems. By no means does it work "out of the box" but I've never had any problems getting my USB2.0 drivers to work with 2 different motherboards, under both SP3 and SP4. All of my USB2.0 devices work great.
Otherwise, I'm with you guys. I like Win2k and can't stand XP.
Well, you did say "put it on your network"... so I thought it was a fair assumption that TCP/IP was present.
My point, though, was that Windows 95 does have some inherent vulnerabilities out of the box. Of course, on the other hand, no one really cares about them anymore because Win 95 is such a very small percentage of computers on the net.
IF I know the IP of your fresh Win 95 install, I could easily take it down with a number of simple "nuke" attacks, such as the old OOB exploit or the 'teardrop' attack;)
I can't believe how many people I am seeing, on Slashdot no less, saying something along the lines of "What's the big deal if there's no Mozilla suite? Just get Firefox and Thunderbird! It's the same as Mozilla, just separate!"
No. Actually, the Mozilla browser and Firefox are quite different. This is the main reason that many people (myself included) don't want Mozilla to be discontinued. We prefer the Mozilla browser over Firefox. To some of us, Firefox feels like a "dumbed down" version of the Mozilla browser. Now, I understand the intent is for Firefox to appeal to a much wider audience, and that is fine. Believe me, I am behind the Firefox effort 100%, and I install it for people all the time when trying to wean them off IE. But many of us still vastly prefer the Mozilla browser for our own personal use.
There are many other reasons I prefer the Mozilla browser over Firefox, as well as many reasons I enjoy the full Mozilla suite. But that is not really the point of this post. The point is that the Mozilla browser and Firefox are two different things.
DeBeers is essentially a cartel, and keeps the price of diamonds high by keeping diamonds artificially scarce, as well as using a very successful marketing campaign that goes back something like 70 years - basically, they were the ones who started the idea of a diamond being the primary engagement gift. There are many gems that are more rare than diamonds, though, and not nearly as expensive.
I'm guessing that scenario of your's was mostly successful due to luck. Sure,there was a degree of good human understanding on your part as to what a teacher might pick as a password, but the likelyhood was still quite low - unless there was a particular reason you thought "hello" would be valid, that is?
True, that was mostly due to luck. I probably should've added that the main reason I was able to get even that far was because I knew my way around in DOS... which I don't think the teacher thought any of us were capable of doing at the time.
Jail time for minors is almost never a good idea. There are some very rare cases where it's necessary, but this is not one of them, so I hope it doesn't come to that. We usually go easier on minors because it's widely believed that since they are still young, they still have time to change their ways, and so they deserve another chance. After all, most of us did some fairly stupid and/or illegal things as teenagers, many of which would've gotten us arrested or otherwise in serious trouble if we had been caught. But that doesn't mean we turned out to be criminals. We simply "grew up" and grew out of pulling those kind of stunts. Jail time for something like this is just going to set this kid's whole life back a LONG ways. So let's hope it doesn't happen. He should get a long community service term or something.
It's common knowledge that the kids are smarter than the teachers, computer-wise... but hasn't it always been that way?
This is true. When I was in junior high in the early 90s, we had some basic computer course that involved filling out answers to some questions on a computer. I don't really remember that much about it now. But one day a bunch of us were in the lab and we found the teacher's disk, which had the answers to everything. We entered the disk and the program asked for a password. My friends were ready to give up. I thought for a moment and typed in "hello". It worked... first try. It was hilarious. My friends, most of whom hadn't used computers much by that time, thought I was some kind of serious hacker.
I guess this was a lot funnier in 1992. But the point is... I'm sure then, just like now, the teachers thought everything was secure. There's always someone who's going to prove them wrong.;)
And so ads continue to push and push into places where they don't belong.
Ads originally had a good purpose. They were a great way to support a service that was free or very cheap. You got your free radio or network TV (cable TV at first was meant to be ad-free), or your newspaper for a couple of cents. For getting all that content very cheap or free, it was understood that there would be ads, and these ads kept the service going.
Now modern society is coated with advertisements everywhere in sight. Any space on any object that more than a few people can see is now treated as a potential ad site. It's sickening. Look at stadiums with decades of history and tradition that give up their old name in favor of some corporation's name, and you will realize that nothing is sacred anymore if a big corp wants a piece of it.
The very idea of pushing an ad into the night sky is just perverse. But the really perverse thing is that the average person just accepts all of it. I sit here and struggle to block any and every ad I can from my sight, and make a sincere effort not to buy from corporations that take their ads too far... but the average person just accepts it, and that's what allows it to continue. That's what will allow it to get worse and worse. Consider the film Minority Report, which depicts a future where the ads basically follow you everywhere and address you by your name. It's where we are headed.
I wish it wasn't Robertson that was at the head of all of this, because I would always like a non-DRM music service to succeed. But Robertson got to where he is (insanely rich) by stepping on everyone else back in the late 90s. For example, he did things like stealing tons of bandwidth from a university FTP search project (which, at the time, was at ftpsearch.ntnu.no) and putting it on his "filez.com" site to sell advertising there, never giving any credit to the people who created the search. He also squatted audiograbber.com (Audiograbber being the name of a now well-known CD ripping program... at the time it was still up and coming) and for a long time refused to sell it to the creator of the software, instead directing it to MP3.com where he was advertising for competing programs. I could go on and on. He's just an ass who exploits people. I ran one of the larger MP3 sites around the time when MP3.com was still new (when it was just a garbage list of software, without any real content of its own), and so I managed to talk to him a few times back then. When I took my site down he was waiting like a vulture to buy it up and forward it to MP3.com, but I wouldn't sell...
Any company ending in AA is evil. Especially if it doesn't
want you distributing its works without paying for it. Somehow, this mindset
is supposed to make sense.
That's harsh, man! I have nothing against the AAA.
Why, just last week they came and changed my tire when I had a flat and was
without a spare.
Anyway... did you say anything else, or was that pretty much it? Oh, yeah!
Almost forgot:
Slashdot is dead.
Wow! That's pretty big news. But has Netcraft confirmed this???
Don't worry, I'm laughing with you, not at you. No... no,
really.
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Care to give an example of YOUR freedoms that are being continually eroded?
You sound like you don't take some of the current laws very seriously. But I suppose that's what the government is hoping and/or expecting of the average citizen.
Yes, the Patriot Act (which is just one example) does get bashed rather excessively here, but it's for good reason. It gives the government pretty much carte blanche to do what they please with anyone in this country (which includes ME, and includes YOU if you are here). If they want to gather intelligence on you when before they needed a good reason to do so... if they want to search your place without a warrant... if they want to hold you indefinitely without a trial... they can do any of it. It makes no difference if "terrorism" is suspected or not. And it makes no difference if you've even done anything wrong in the first place. AND, it doesn't even matter that it hasn't happened to me personally - just the fact that it could is a freedom lost.
So yes, it's MY freedoms and it's YOUR freedoms that are being eroded, but it's only YOUR nonchalant attitude towards it that will allow it to continue, and probably get much worse before it gets better.
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Before high speed internet was a "thing" you had to be on the LAN to get optimal multiplayer. Personally for my LAN culture died off when pings fell below 100ms over the internet instead of the 500-1000ms over 56K
You are seriously exaggerating ping times on old dialup connections. I played a lot of Quake in the late 90s and even on my 28.8 modem I could get 200-350ms pings to most servers and 300-500ms to distant servers. I never had 56k because although my ISP offered it, my phone lines then couldn't support it. Also, 200-350 was actually very playable because most other players had similar pings at the time, unless you went to an LPB server. But online multiplayer did thrive even before everyone had a high speed connection.
Only problem I've seen is that some installers seem to think it's Windows server 2003 not Windows XP.
That's because it IS Server 2003. XP x64 is Server 2003 x64 with Serivce Pack 1, just renamed, and with different features enabled/disabled by default. Check the version numbers: they are both Windows 5.2 (true XP is 5.1). Both XP x64 and Server 2003 x64 also use the exact same SP2 and other hotfixes.
I still use it too, and greatly prefer it to Windows 7. As for the other person that said driver support is terrible for it... that's a common myth. It was terrible in 2005, but now drivers for XP x64 (or Server 2003 x64, since they are interchangeable) are actually pretty common unless you have old/obscure hardware.
They checked sites which could contain infringing data. You suggest that check sites where they are guaranteed not to find infringing data. Which is data set is going to be more biased?
That would be fine if they framed it as follows: "Although numerous sites exist for the legitimate exchange of legal software and other data via torrents, sites which allow the option of both infringing and non-infringing data are much more likely to contain infringing data."
Here's how it is framed instead: "Only 0.3% of torrents are legal."
XP can not really do 64 bit.
I get so tired of hearing this. Granted, XP x64 edition isn't really XP, it's a 64-bit version of Server 2003 renamed to XP, so technically you're right. That said I've been using it on my main system for over two years now and it works beautifully. I have 4 GB of RAM which is 100% utilized. ALL 32-bit apps I have tried work with no problems (you do have to get used to the two separate Program Files directories and the slight difference in the registry structure). I game a lot and have had no problems there whatsoever. Granted, I took the time when I first built this machine to make sure the hardware all had 64-bit drivers (Logitech in particular has great 64-bit support). I've had just a single blue screen in two years, caused by a failing video card which was quickly replaced. I'm also still using the original install of the OS - I've never needed to reinstall it. I'm no Microsoft fanboy, but if you make smart choices with your hardware, XP x64 is as good as it gets right now. And I'm one of those people that stuck with Windows 2000 over XP.
I like the picture caption that says the robot suit will help you lift "heavy loads", while the picture shows the guy carrying a woman. I'm sure she will be thrilled to find herself described in such a way. ;)
I can only speak for myself here, but I've been using USB2.0 in Win2k since 2002 on one of my main systems. By no means does it work "out of the box" but I've never had any problems getting my USB2.0 drivers to work with 2 different motherboards, under both SP3 and SP4. All of my USB2.0 devices work great.
Otherwise, I'm with you guys. I like Win2k and can't stand XP.
French President Jacques Chirac would consider a partnership with Microsoft 'since he has so many views in common with its president, Bill Gates'.
Chirac siding with an American president. Now I've seen it all!
Well, you did say "put it on your network"... so I thought it was a fair assumption that TCP/IP was present. My point, though, was that Windows 95 does have some inherent vulnerabilities out of the box. Of course, on the other hand, no one really cares about them anymore because Win 95 is such a very small percentage of computers on the net.
IF I know the IP of your fresh Win 95 install, I could easily take it down with a number of simple "nuke" attacks, such as the old OOB exploit or the 'teardrop' attack ;)
I can't believe how many people I am seeing, on Slashdot no less, saying something along the lines of "What's the big deal if there's no Mozilla suite? Just get Firefox and Thunderbird! It's the same as Mozilla, just separate!"
No. Actually, the Mozilla browser and Firefox are quite different. This is the main reason that many people (myself included) don't want Mozilla to be discontinued. We prefer the Mozilla browser over Firefox. To some of us, Firefox feels like a "dumbed down" version of the Mozilla browser. Now, I understand the intent is for Firefox to appeal to a much wider audience, and that is fine. Believe me, I am behind the Firefox effort 100%, and I install it for people all the time when trying to wean them off IE. But many of us still vastly prefer the Mozilla browser for our own personal use.
There are many other reasons I prefer the Mozilla browser over Firefox, as well as many reasons I enjoy the full Mozilla suite. But that is not really the point of this post. The point is that the Mozilla browser and Firefox are two different things.
Hmm. At first, I was headed over to the right. But your offer of magic juice on the left intrigues me.
DeBeers is essentially a cartel, and keeps the price of diamonds high by keeping diamonds artificially scarce, as well as using a very successful marketing campaign that goes back something like 70 years - basically, they were the ones who started the idea of a diamond being the primary engagement gift. There are many gems that are more rare than diamonds, though, and not nearly as expensive.
I'm guessing that scenario of your's was mostly successful due to luck. Sure,there was a degree of good human understanding on your part as to what a teacher might pick as a password, but the likelyhood was still quite low - unless there was a particular reason you thought "hello" would be valid, that is?
True, that was mostly due to luck. I probably should've added that the main reason I was able to get even that far was because I knew my way around in DOS... which I don't think the teacher thought any of us were capable of doing at the time.
Jail time for minors is almost never a good idea. There are some very rare cases where it's necessary, but this is not one of them, so I hope it doesn't come to that. We usually go easier on minors because it's widely believed that since they are still young, they still have time to change their ways, and so they deserve another chance. After all, most of us did some fairly stupid and/or illegal things as teenagers, many of which would've gotten us arrested or otherwise in serious trouble if we had been caught. But that doesn't mean we turned out to be criminals. We simply "grew up" and grew out of pulling those kind of stunts. Jail time for something like this is just going to set this kid's whole life back a LONG ways. So let's hope it doesn't happen. He should get a long community service term or something.
It's common knowledge that the kids are smarter than the teachers, computer-wise... but hasn't it always been that way?
;)
This is true. When I was in junior high in the early 90s, we had some basic computer course that involved filling out answers to some questions on a computer. I don't really remember that much about it now. But one day a bunch of us were in the lab and we found the teacher's disk, which had the answers to everything. We entered the disk and the program asked for a password. My friends were ready to give up. I thought for a moment and typed in "hello". It worked... first try. It was hilarious. My friends, most of whom hadn't used computers much by that time, thought I was some kind of serious hacker.
I guess this was a lot funnier in 1992. But the point is... I'm sure then, just like now, the teachers thought everything was secure. There's always someone who's going to prove them wrong.
And so ads continue to push and push into places where they don't belong.
Ads originally had a good purpose. They were a great way to support a service that was free or very cheap. You got your free radio or network TV (cable TV at first was meant to be ad-free), or your newspaper for a couple of cents. For getting all that content very cheap or free, it was understood that there would be ads, and these ads kept the service going.
Now modern society is coated with advertisements everywhere in sight. Any space on any object that more than a few people can see is now treated as a potential ad site. It's sickening. Look at stadiums with decades of history and tradition that give up their old name in favor of some corporation's name, and you will realize that nothing is sacred anymore if a big corp wants a piece of it.
The very idea of pushing an ad into the night sky is just perverse. But the really perverse thing is that the average person just accepts all of it. I sit here and struggle to block any and every ad I can from my sight, and make a sincere effort not to buy from corporations that take their ads too far... but the average person just accepts it, and that's what allows it to continue. That's what will allow it to get worse and worse. Consider the film Minority Report, which depicts a future where the ads basically follow you everywhere and address you by your name. It's where we are headed.
I wish it wasn't Robertson that was at the head of all of this, because I would always like a non-DRM music service to succeed. But Robertson got to where he is (insanely rich) by stepping on everyone else back in the late 90s. For example, he did things like stealing tons of bandwidth from a university FTP search project (which, at the time, was at ftpsearch.ntnu.no) and putting it on his "filez.com" site to sell advertising there, never giving any credit to the people who created the search. He also squatted audiograbber.com (Audiograbber being the name of a now well-known CD ripping program... at the time it was still up and coming) and for a long time refused to sell it to the creator of the software, instead directing it to MP3.com where he was advertising for competing programs. I could go on and on. He's just an ass who exploits people. I ran one of the larger MP3 sites around the time when MP3.com was still new (when it was just a garbage list of software, without any real content of its own), and so I managed to talk to him a few times back then. When I took my site down he was waiting like a vulture to buy it up and forward it to MP3.com, but I wouldn't sell...
Let's see your fancy "salt water" and "electricity" do this!
Finally, a real chimera. But the article lacks some important information. For example, what is this creature's AC and THAC0?
Yeah, but they left out "paradigm" and "synergy" - upper management will never take them seriously without those!
This brings new meaning to the phrase: "Free(BSD) as in beer."
Any company ending in AA is evil. Especially if it doesn't want you distributing its works without paying for it. Somehow, this mindset is supposed to make sense.
That's harsh, man! I have nothing against the AAA. Why, just last week they came and changed my tire when I had a flat and was without a spare.
Anyway... did you say anything else, or was that pretty much it? Oh, yeah! Almost forgot:
Slashdot is dead.
Wow! That's pretty big news. But has Netcraft confirmed this???
Don't worry, I'm laughing with you, not at you. No... no, really.
Care to give an example of YOUR freedoms that are being continually eroded?
You sound like you don't take some of the current laws very seriously. But I suppose that's what the government is hoping and/or expecting of the average citizen.
Yes, the Patriot Act (which is just one example) does get bashed rather excessively here, but it's for good reason. It gives the government pretty much carte blanche to do what they please with anyone in this country (which includes ME, and includes YOU if you are here). If they want to gather intelligence on you when before they needed a good reason to do so... if they want to search your place without a warrant... if they want to hold you indefinitely without a trial... they can do any of it. It makes no difference if "terrorism" is suspected or not. And it makes no difference if you've even done anything wrong in the first place. AND, it doesn't even matter that it hasn't happened to me personally - just the fact that it could is a freedom lost.
So yes, it's MY freedoms and it's YOUR freedoms that are being eroded, but it's only YOUR nonchalant attitude towards it that will allow it to continue, and probably get much worse before it gets better.
Is there anything that could possibly have less consequence?
;)
If there is, I'm sure Slashdot will find that too.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 621498 times, shame on me."
GWB said that, right?