trunk = nightlies?
My FF is at 111MB with 2 FF windows and a total of 16 tabs open. Even closing all but one window and one tab won't do much to the memory usage.
Verizon is a telecom company; Comcast is a massive media company. It's highly unlikely Verizon and the RIAA were buddies before RIAA v. Verizon, but considering that Comcast's digital cable service includes digital music channels, I'm willing to bet there's a fair amount of talk -- or money -- between these two entities.
Comcast can afford to lose customers because in reality they won't lose too many to this incident. Heck, most people will never hear about it because it'll never make the local news. Those that do won't drop Comcast because 1) too much of a hassle to switch providers, 2) assume they are safe because they engage in no illegal downloading (though this isn't always true -- my paper on RIAA v. Verizon details a defendant who was wrongfully sued), or 3) can't get comparable service in their area.
Report on the Today show (NBC) just mentioned that passwords were among the stolen data.
Aren't all of these passwords one-way encrypted, and therefore only compromised if guessed by brute-force means (possible but unlikely as the complexity of that password increases)? Sounds like typical media hype to me.
What are Windows alternatives to MythTV? I have a Linux box but nowhere to put it, so I'm stuck with my Windows machine. And Beyond TV doesn't qualify, since it's not free.
Even though it seems like MMOs make a ton of money per month, remember that they'll never see a lot of that money upfront. The money they get from selling the game to retailers and the monthly fee from subscribers (I don't play WoW, but do they give you the first month free like FFXI did? If so that's no subscriber revenue for the first month) must first cover the cost of development and buying servers, before covering the cost of patch/expansion development and continued server maintenance. I think it took Final Fantasy XI (run by Square Enix/PlayOnline, *not* Sony Online Entertainment btw) a little over a year to finally make a profit because they had high development and server costs.
The goal of a business is to turn a profit as soon and as large as possible; that means they're only going to buy as many servers as they think they'll need, and expand with the demand. In this case they severely underestimated demand, and now they're paying for it.
(Slightly OT, but still deserves mentioning.) Someone mentioned the way that the FFXI servers work. There's 32 "Worlds"; I assume that's equivalent to WoW "realms," where everyone on that server can talk to/meet each other, but can't access anyone on other servers. I don't know how Blizzard has their servers set up, but FFXI actually divides each World into multiple servers, each responsible for a number of zones/areas in the game. That way, if a server conks out, it only affects 5-10 zones, and on only one server. The way WoW is being described makes it sound as though everyone on a realm is literally on the same server; that, IMO, is asking for trouble. FFXI's method is more expensive, but a hell of a lot more redundant and stable. Perhaps they should take a clue from the folks at Square Enix/PlayOnline.
"They bought TechTV for the market penetration it had spent years acquiring"
Great, they got their market. That's like a pirate on his sinking ship saying "I'm rich." They already lost their TechTV audience, and I guarantee you they won't be picking up a lot of gamers with show titles that are bad knockoffs of shows aired on scrambled channels at 2 AM.
"Internet users watch television for one hour and 42 minutes a day, compared with the national average of two hours."
Maybe Internet users aren't sucked into that big corporate void of ADVERTISING! ADVERTISING! ADVERTISING!
An 18-minute difference is about the amount of commercials in an hour (hour-long dramas, for instance, run about 45 minutes; half-hour sitcomes run about 22-23 minutes).
Between this and the Halo 2 problems, this sounds like quality control and alpha/beta testing has become more focused on complex, obscure problems as the products themselves have become more complex. You'd think that a filesystem bloat of this size would be caught pretty quickly, but if the people breaking the software/hardware are so busy looking at relatively minor issues, they might not think to try something as simple as doing a sync with an almost-full Treo. It's like the tech who spends an hour taking a computer apart to find out what the problem is, to realise that it won't turn on because it's not plugged into the wall.
Over the past few years Uematsu has been "phased out," if you will, from the Final Fantasy series. He didn't do much for FFX (there were two other composers on the game as well) and IIRC had no involvement on FFX-2. Other than the "Memory" song and the harp prelude in FFXI, Uematsu was only listed as producer. For FFXII I don't even think he's involved (please correct me if I'm wrong). He obviously wants to do other projects -- a few years ago, the CD "Phantasmagoria," and now the Black Mages album -- and is probably taking a hint from other high-profile game industry names (composers, producers, the head artistic people) leaving the large corporations like Square Enix and forming their own small, independent companies, and working on a freelance basis. Uematsu gets more time to produce what he wants with his name on it when he wants, and Square Enix still gets their Uematsu music, just on a freelance basis.
I wish more of my fellow countrymen felt the same way.
William Safire's "On Language" column in the New York Times not only talked about the different (and confusing) terms that can be used on election night -- maybe something that could influence the election a la 2000? -- but also that the phrase "my fellow countrymen" is redundant.
[end slightly OT grammar-nitpicking section]
Almost everyone's setting up an election "hotline" to report voting problems. NBC (1-866-MY-VOTE-1) reports 60,000 calls, most coming from...you guessed it, Florida. Winning legally and properly means that by the time a winner is determined, we'll be ready for the next election.
ME is still *supported* AFAIK, but from what I read 95 isn't and I don't know about 98...but even if it is, it's not still generating MS money.
Support for Windows products up to Windows 95 was discontinued some time ago, and IIRC Windows 98 support will end next year. MS's plan is to only support ME and XP for home users, and Server 2000/2003 for...well...servers, just about forcing businesses and schools that run nonsupported OS's to upgrade.
The infamous freeipods.com site doesn't play well with Firefox.
For a more realistic example, the online surveys I take (in return for cash via PayPal) don't play with Mozilla, and consequently, Firefox. I have to launch IE in order to use them.
Not only does the public need to use a more secure browser, but the companies and web designers need to put together browser-independent sites. In this day and age, there is no excuse for anything being proprietary, because people can and will find an alternative to it or a way around it.
You can check "Make my data private" under the Sharing and Security tab for the properties of something (hard drive, My Documents, etc.) but this is for network purposes if I'm not mistaken. However, you can enable encryption for folders by going to Properties and Attributes/Advanced. Don't know if this would hide data from Google, but as previously mentioned, it's an inherent security risk installing indexing software on a public terminal.
I mean, really...800+ *car* comments from self-proclaimed geeks?
Now that I think about it.../.ers probably could code their cars to "malfunction" in their spare time.
I monitored my network this morning (working Comcast connection) to see what ports and servers POL is using when it first loads up (this is captured Ethereal data from startup of POL to about thirty seconds after I successfully logged in):
TCP 34707 to 51240
TCP 443 (https) to 4072
TCP 51220 to 4068
TCP 51220 to 4067
TCP 51220 to 4065
TCP 51220 to 4064
TCP 51220 to 4063
TCP 51240 to 34707
TCP 51304 to 4071
UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, pt008.pol.com)
TCP 4060 to 54000
UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, ci000.pol.com)
TCP 36022 to 51240
TCP 4060 to 54000
TCP 34707 to 51240
TCP 36022 to 51240
UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, pp000.pol.com)
TCP 4061 to 51220
UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, ma000.pol.com)
UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, pp000.pol.com)
TCP 4062 to 51260
UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, po000.pol.com)
TCP 4062 to 51220
TCP 4063 to 51220
TCP 4064 to 51220
TCP 4065 to 51220
UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, wh000.pol.com)
As you can see, other than the high-range nonspecific ports (4000-52000), POL is using 53 for DNS queries and 443 for SSL. The suggestion was made that it could be that OO's network is confusing the TCP 443 to 4072 connection for a web server, but it could also be DNS problems, since some people can get far into the login process while others cannot (and there are a lot of DNS queries made).
It'll be interesting to see as production and post goes on how the publicity works out. Remember that wonderful network called Fox and their marketing department that royally screwed over this show? Since Universal bought the movie rights to a defunct show, it obviously has more of a vested interest in Firefly, but are they looking to be The Next Big Thing in Hollywood or simply appeal to Firefly fans.
Releasing it with a game is unlikely. There aren't any FF games at a point in their production cycle that Square Enix could release FFVII:AC with (FFXI will see its second expansion in a little more than a week, FFXII has already been pushed back, Before Crisis: FFVII is already in a Japanese beta, but that's a cellphone game).
It was already announced as a direct-to-market video (in DVD and PSP UMD format). The question now is whether it sees a theatrical release, which it probably could in the US if it does well in Japan first.
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trunk = nightlies? My FF is at 111MB with 2 FF windows and a total of 16 tabs open. Even closing all but one window and one tab won't do much to the memory usage.
Verizon is a telecom company; Comcast is a massive media company. It's highly unlikely Verizon and the RIAA were buddies before RIAA v. Verizon, but considering that Comcast's digital cable service includes digital music channels, I'm willing to bet there's a fair amount of talk -- or money -- between these two entities.
Comcast can afford to lose customers because in reality they won't lose too many to this incident. Heck, most people will never hear about it because it'll never make the local news. Those that do won't drop Comcast because 1) too much of a hassle to switch providers, 2) assume they are safe because they engage in no illegal downloading (though this isn't always true -- my paper on RIAA v. Verizon details a defendant who was wrongfully sued), or 3) can't get comparable service in their area.
My paper on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and RIAA v. Verizon
...which I asked for in $2 bills.
Did you mean: "University of Wahington English Department"
And coming soon to Google:
Google Video Transcript Beta
For those too lazy to watch Internet video
"I guess you'd prefer to pay fileplanet for the privilege, hmm?" I'd bet that the **IA have a "financial relationship" with Fileplanet.
Report on the Today show (NBC) just mentioned that passwords were among the stolen data. Aren't all of these passwords one-way encrypted, and therefore only compromised if guessed by brute-force means (possible but unlikely as the complexity of that password increases)? Sounds like typical media hype to me.
What are Windows alternatives to MythTV? I have a Linux box but nowhere to put it, so I'm stuck with my Windows machine. And Beyond TV doesn't qualify, since it's not free.
Even though it seems like MMOs make a ton of money per month, remember that they'll never see a lot of that money upfront. The money they get from selling the game to retailers and the monthly fee from subscribers (I don't play WoW, but do they give you the first month free like FFXI did? If so that's no subscriber revenue for the first month) must first cover the cost of development and buying servers, before covering the cost of patch/expansion development and continued server maintenance. I think it took Final Fantasy XI (run by Square Enix/PlayOnline, *not* Sony Online Entertainment btw) a little over a year to finally make a profit because they had high development and server costs.
The goal of a business is to turn a profit as soon and as large as possible; that means they're only going to buy as many servers as they think they'll need, and expand with the demand. In this case they severely underestimated demand, and now they're paying for it.
(Slightly OT, but still deserves mentioning.) Someone mentioned the way that the FFXI servers work. There's 32 "Worlds"; I assume that's equivalent to WoW "realms," where everyone on that server can talk to/meet each other, but can't access anyone on other servers. I don't know how Blizzard has their servers set up, but FFXI actually divides each World into multiple servers, each responsible for a number of zones/areas in the game. That way, if a server conks out, it only affects 5-10 zones, and on only one server. The way WoW is being described makes it sound as though everyone on a realm is literally on the same server; that, IMO, is asking for trouble. FFXI's method is more expensive, but a hell of a lot more redundant and stable. Perhaps they should take a clue from the folks at Square Enix/PlayOnline.
Windows? In a command line mode? Isn't that a paradox?
"They bought TechTV for the market penetration it had spent years acquiring"
Great, they got their market. That's like a pirate on his sinking ship saying "I'm rich." They already lost their TechTV audience, and I guarantee you they won't be picking up a lot of gamers with show titles that are bad knockoffs of shows aired on scrambled channels at 2 AM.
...penguin refugees flee to Chile.
"Internet users watch television for one hour and 42 minutes a day, compared with the national average of two hours." Maybe Internet users aren't sucked into that big corporate void of ADVERTISING! ADVERTISING! ADVERTISING! An 18-minute difference is about the amount of commercials in an hour (hour-long dramas, for instance, run about 45 minutes; half-hour sitcomes run about 22-23 minutes).
I guess the FCC will also pass a law requiring pilots to use hands-free devices when at the controls?
Between this and the Halo 2 problems, this sounds like quality control and alpha/beta testing has become more focused on complex, obscure problems as the products themselves have become more complex. You'd think that a filesystem bloat of this size would be caught pretty quickly, but if the people breaking the software/hardware are so busy looking at relatively minor issues, they might not think to try something as simple as doing a sync with an almost-full Treo. It's like the tech who spends an hour taking a computer apart to find out what the problem is, to realise that it won't turn on because it's not plugged into the wall.
Over the past few years Uematsu has been "phased out," if you will, from the Final Fantasy series. He didn't do much for FFX (there were two other composers on the game as well) and IIRC had no involvement on FFX-2. Other than the "Memory" song and the harp prelude in FFXI, Uematsu was only listed as producer. For FFXII I don't even think he's involved (please correct me if I'm wrong). He obviously wants to do other projects -- a few years ago, the CD "Phantasmagoria," and now the Black Mages album -- and is probably taking a hint from other high-profile game industry names (composers, producers, the head artistic people) leaving the large corporations like Square Enix and forming their own small, independent companies, and working on a freelance basis. Uematsu gets more time to produce what he wants with his name on it when he wants, and Square Enix still gets their Uematsu music, just on a freelance basis.
I wish more of my fellow countrymen felt the same way.
William Safire's "On Language" column in the New York Times not only talked about the different (and confusing) terms that can be used on election night -- maybe something that could influence the election a la 2000? -- but also that the phrase "my fellow countrymen" is redundant.
[end slightly OT grammar-nitpicking section]
Almost everyone's setting up an election "hotline" to report voting problems. NBC (1-866-MY-VOTE-1) reports 60,000 calls, most coming from...you guessed it, Florida. Winning legally and properly means that by the time a winner is determined, we'll be ready for the next election.
ME is still *supported* AFAIK, but from what I read 95 isn't and I don't know about 98...but even if it is, it's not still generating MS money.
Support for Windows products up to Windows 95 was discontinued some time ago, and IIRC Windows 98 support will end next year. MS's plan is to only support ME and XP for home users, and Server 2000/2003 for...well...servers, just about forcing businesses and schools that run nonsupported OS's to upgrade.
The infamous freeipods.com site doesn't play well with Firefox. For a more realistic example, the online surveys I take (in return for cash via PayPal) don't play with Mozilla, and consequently, Firefox. I have to launch IE in order to use them. Not only does the public need to use a more secure browser, but the companies and web designers need to put together browser-independent sites. In this day and age, there is no excuse for anything being proprietary, because people can and will find an alternative to it or a way around it.
You can check "Make my data private" under the Sharing and Security tab for the properties of something (hard drive, My Documents, etc.) but this is for network purposes if I'm not mistaken. However, you can enable encryption for folders by going to Properties and Attributes/Advanced. Don't know if this would hide data from Google, but as previously mentioned, it's an inherent security risk installing indexing software on a public terminal.
I mean, really...800+ *car* comments from self-proclaimed geeks? Now that I think about it... /.ers probably could code their cars to "malfunction" in their spare time.
I monitored my network this morning (working Comcast connection) to see what ports and servers POL is using when it first loads up (this is captured Ethereal data from startup of POL to about thirty seconds after I successfully logged in): TCP 34707 to 51240 TCP 443 (https) to 4072 TCP 51220 to 4068 TCP 51220 to 4067 TCP 51220 to 4065 TCP 51220 to 4064 TCP 51220 to 4063 TCP 51240 to 34707 TCP 51304 to 4071 UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, pt008.pol.com) TCP 4060 to 54000 UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, ci000.pol.com) TCP 36022 to 51240 TCP 4060 to 54000 TCP 34707 to 51240 TCP 36022 to 51240 UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, pp000.pol.com) TCP 4061 to 51220 UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, ma000.pol.com) UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, pp000.pol.com) TCP 4062 to 51260 UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, po000.pol.com) TCP 4062 to 51220 TCP 4063 to 51220 TCP 4064 to 51220 TCP 4065 to 51220 UDP 1036 to 53 (dns query, wh000.pol.com) As you can see, other than the high-range nonspecific ports (4000-52000), POL is using 53 for DNS queries and 443 for SSL. The suggestion was made that it could be that OO's network is confusing the TCP 443 to 4072 connection for a web server, but it could also be DNS problems, since some people can get far into the login process while others cannot (and there are a lot of DNS queries made).
It'll be interesting to see as production and post goes on how the publicity works out. Remember that wonderful network called Fox and their marketing department that royally screwed over this show? Since Universal bought the movie rights to a defunct show, it obviously has more of a vested interest in Firefly, but are they looking to be The Next Big Thing in Hollywood or simply appeal to Firefly fans.
Releasing it with a game is unlikely. There aren't any FF games at a point in their production cycle that Square Enix could release FFVII:AC with (FFXI will see its second expansion in a little more than a week, FFXII has already been pushed back, Before Crisis: FFVII is already in a Japanese beta, but that's a cellphone game).
It was already announced as a direct-to-market video (in DVD and PSP UMD format). The question now is whether it sees a theatrical release, which it probably could in the US if it does well in Japan first.
"The highest quality OS we have ever shipped" Like that statement makes me feel any better about Windows...
Same thing Universal did for the Firefly movie. Took the original designs (or as close to original as they could get) and rebuilt the set.