"'Fedora 15 is really the first mainstream operating system to have a dynamic firewall where you can add or change rules and keep the firewall up and responding while you're making changing.'"
What?
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/
pf will always be better than iptables in every way.
Are you going to outsource your customer support to a company that has no in-game abilities? Or are you going to have GMs that can actually help players in-game with bugged NPCs, quests, items, and characters?
Anyone who has played WoW knows their customer support is terrible. Their useless GMs will happily ban players all day for saying "damnit" in a public chat channel, but when your raid boss refuses to spawn because of a bugged event or your account gets keylogger-hacked and all your items disappear, you are out of luck. EverQuest (the original, never played the sequel) is a shining example of quality in-game customer support with GMs from the community who have power in-game and actually understand/care about the players' problems. I would be very disappointed if other companies followed the Blizzard model when it came to GMs.
Who's brilliant idea was it to set off a rocket in the shop while testing the Confederate Rocket myth? The second I saw what you were planning to do I knew it wasn't going to end well. Are there any other really bad ideas that you've gone through with?
This seems like an okay idea in theory, but I feel the sad reality of it is that the players will ruin everything.
People in MMORPGs are greedy enough as-is with 100% fake items that have little to no real life value. This would only be 100 times worse if there was real money at stake.
Although it seems you're mostly interested in Science Fiction books, you mention a couple of my favorite Fantasy authors.
Firstly, Weis and Hickman. I'm sure you've read a few of these, but here is the path I took through their books:
Chronicles Trilogy, tells the story of the War of the Lance. Dragons of Spring Dawning Dragons of Winter Nights Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Legends Trilogy, tells the story of the Cataclysm and Raistlin's challenge. Time of the Twins War of the Twins Test of the Twins
Second Generation, 4 or 5 short stories that introduce you to the children of the Lance heroes, and other new important characters. Dragons of Summer Flame, The Chaos War and the end of the 4th age.
War of Souls Trilogy, the 5th age Dragons of a Fallen Sun Dragons of a Lost Star Dragons of a Vanquished Moon
Very good reads. Everyone who enjoys fantasy should read all of those books (in that order).
Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles was somewhat recently (1999) released as one big book that contains all 10 volumes, The Great Book of Amber. It is a very interesting series that mixes Fantasy and Sci-Fi, more towards the Fantasy side. I also enjoyed how it was written in 1st person. It was the first epic fantasy book I'd read that was written like that and I must say it was a welcome change.
Everyone wants to release an MMORPG. The fact of the matter is, most companies don't know how to successfully build and support an online game. They have become too used to releasing it, and that is the end of development. Expansion packs not included.
The things that all successful MMORPGs have in common are, decent customer service, a stable client/world/communication setup, and a "world" rich with content and/or things to do, items to gain, monsters to challenge.
We saw Anarchy Online pretty much crash and burn on release. It was horribly unstable. I had been playing AO since the first public beta. When I heard they shipped version 12.1 in a box I couldn't believe it.
Then we saw them crash and burn again on Customer Service. Do GMs exist in that game? As far as I know there is no phone based support what so ever.
My point is, a publishing company better get it's act together if they want to release an MMORPG. It's a very long term investment. With so many companies producing them, there are going to be a lot of sub-par products, with a few games that actually meet the standards a successful MMORPG has.
I'd much rather see $225 million alloted annually to public schooling.
That's 7,500 Teachers making $30,000 a year to educate students.
That's 450,000 $500 computers for kids to learn computers.
That's 9,000,000 $25 desks for more/better places to sit.
That's 56,250,000 $4 paperback books for students to read.
I have a feeling the internet will be fine without a "Federal Technology Czar."
Are they going to respect his decision? Are they going to listen to what he has to say as the official elected homecoming king?
Or are they going to remove his title because he won't play by the rules.
If this kid wants to push it, I'm pretty sure he could set a decent case up in court against the school. That is, if they decide to remove his title.
I totally agree with this guy, I think what he has done, and is doing is awesome.
Good work!
And hell, I might as well borrow their html of the description:
Billions of years from now, only one of these two galaxies will remain.
Until then, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart,
creating tides of matter, sheets of
shocked gas, lanes of
dark dust, bursts of
star formation, and streams of
cast-away stars.
Astronomers predict that NGC 2207, the larger galaxy on the left, will
eventually incorporate IC 2163, the smaller galaxy on the right.
In the most
recent encounter that peaked 40 million years ago,
the smaller galaxy is swinging around counter-clockwise,
and is now slightly behind the larger galaxy.
The space between stars is so vast that when
galaxies collide,
the stars in them
usually do not collide.
I don't really have too big of a problem with typo squatting. I'm not the best speller in the world so I seem to run into a lot of stupid domains (ie microwharehouse.com).
Overall it's an honest mistake and isn't a big deal. The one thing that pisses me off to no end is when you goto a "typo-squat" domain and it leads you into an unescapeable vortex of banners and popups. Ugghhhh, usually if I'm expecting to hit a buncha pop-ups and banners I'll just turn java*, cookies, etc off. They don't even give you time to prepare!
Anyway, pointless rant. No useful information in post. Speaking the mind =)
Hrm, I didn't even realize it was a book review for a sec. Maybe a 'Book Review: " would be appropiate? Maybe a book review section?
Putting it under news just didn't feel right.
Offtopic blah blah.. at least I'm not trolling or flaming. Constructive critism!
When was the article on actually confirming that someone _took_ the code. I don't think anyone has seen it.
I can understand assuming that anyone who cracks into corporate computers would be capable, and willing to steal propietary source code. The script kiddies of the planet has destroyed an honest cracker's reputation long ago.
It seems to me that this is what we call hype. Maybe I'm just being ignorant, sorry if I am.
Well, I don't mean to be redundant or to flame VA for not mirroring things, but would some folks post a few mirrors? =)
I tried to set one up but after 30 tries I still couldn't get onto the FTP. Hope someone else is having better luck!
You can compare an exploit to a fully-loaded weapon.
No you can not. A loaded gun will kill someone. Death, ends existance, heart discontinues to function. An exploit is used by script kiddies to change a webpage, piss off an admin.
This article pisses me off, it supports security through obscurity and that idea is horrible. Ugh. If I continue ranting anymore this will be -1 flamebait.
What sort of controllers will be used? My experiance with PC "gamepads" has been moderate to poor.
PC games are designed to use a mouse and a keyboard. Console games are designed for that systems control pad. It's how it is, and it's probably how it's going to stay.
Will their controllers provide support for PS2's pressure sensative buttons? Will they be sleek and comfy? Will it provide enough buttons to satisfy an every-key-used-game like THPS? Will it still be simple enough to play Puzzle Fighter on?
I think that the chip is an ok idea, but there is a fine line between PC games and Console games. Look at Quake* for example. On PC for a while, huge hit, great game. N64 (or whatever your favorite console gaming system is) version of it comes out and sure its fun to play for a little bit. But does it really compare to the PC version? I think not.
The line must be drawn! All arrows point to this system failing or doing moderatly well.
Very interesting idea. I'm quite curious about that myself. Being a loyal SuSE whore and all =)
My guess is that it's about the same. Unless Germans, or other Europeans, use Linux more than the US.
I think that another part of what makes these pictures so interesting is that, when you have a photo of a piece of history, its sometimes not the best quality in the world. Sure, some of the events shown have excellent quality real-life pictures. But some don't.
Take for instance the Martin Luther King picture. I have never seen a very high quality photograph of that event, because at the time cameras and video wasn't as advanced as it is today.
What gives these games a unique aspect is that the quality is quite synthetic, yet quite realistic.
The lighting is excellent of all of them, they are simple, the graphics are clean and high quality.
It all adds up to more of a eye-pleasing picture. Not that any of the events shown were meant to please the eye, speaking from a strictly graphic/photograph position.
Ok. Here's how it all went as far as I know.
Machine stolen.
Machine bought by unknowing buyer.
Buyer realizes machine is stolen, holds it for ransom.
Buyer sends machine to random news reporter.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who is thinking "Wtf." This chain of events just doesn't make any sense at all. The most obvious solution is simply eliminating step 2, making the person who stole it the person who was demanding ransom. Saying you bought it unknowingly just feels like a half assed excuse to look innocent.
And on top of that, lets think about the type of person who would buy this sort of machine. Probably a normal computer nerd who wants a piece of history. This type of person doesn't seem like they would hold it hostage! I know if I bought a stolen computer unknowingly I'd return it myself to the proper owner and bite the bullet.
None of it makes sense. Come on you.eu detectives! Do some detecting!
Recently I went to pickup my 6th grade little sister at her school, and I was sort of shocked to see that they still had P-90 computers. She goes to a public school in a middle class neighborhood.
Do you have any plans to take money out of projects that are not working (ie. the war on drugs) and put them into public schools for computers and better computer classes for younger students?
When ever a question like this is asked, all canidates reply with a "what you want to hear" answer. I'd expect nothing less this year, but maybe someone should actually start making some changes in the way public education money is spent.
Slashdot Mirror
"'Fedora 15 is really the first mainstream operating system to have a dynamic firewall where you can add or change rules and keep the firewall up and responding while you're making changing.'"
What?
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/
pf will always be better than iptables in every way.
Are you going to outsource your customer support to a company that has no in-game abilities? Or are you going to have GMs that can actually help players in-game with bugged NPCs, quests, items, and characters?
Anyone who has played WoW knows their customer support is terrible. Their useless GMs will happily ban players all day for saying "damnit" in a public chat channel, but when your raid boss refuses to spawn because of a bugged event or your account gets keylogger-hacked and all your items disappear, you are out of luck. EverQuest (the original, never played the sequel) is a shining example of quality in-game customer support with GMs from the community who have power in-game and actually understand/care about the players' problems. I would be very disappointed if other companies followed the Blizzard model when it came to GMs.
Who's brilliant idea was it to set off a rocket in the shop while testing the Confederate Rocket myth? The second I saw what you were planning to do I knew it wasn't going to end well. Are there any other really bad ideas that you've gone through with?
Pretty common little box, still runs like a champ (relatively speaking):
/proc/cpuinfo
discore@oasis:~$ cat
cpu : Fujitsu or Weitek Power-UP
fpu : Fujitsu or Weitek on-chip FPU
promlib : Version 2 Revision 2
prom : 2.3
type : sun4c
ncpus probed : 1
ncpus active : 1
BogoMips : 39.83
This seems like an okay idea in theory, but I feel the sad reality of it is that the players will ruin everything.
People in MMORPGs are greedy enough as-is with 100% fake items that have little to no real life value. This would only be 100 times worse if there was real money at stake.
It's too bad he can't spend some of his money to redesign the horrible eyesore that is the EMP building in downtown Seattle.
I'm pretty sure a colorblind person drew out the plans while stationed on a boat in the middle of a typhoon.
Although it seems you're mostly interested in Science Fiction books, you mention a couple of my favorite Fantasy authors.
Firstly, Weis and Hickman. I'm sure you've read a few of these, but here is the path I took through their books:
Chronicles Trilogy, tells the story of the War of the Lance.
Dragons of Spring Dawning
Dragons of Winter Nights
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Legends Trilogy, tells the story of the Cataclysm and Raistlin's challenge.
Time of the Twins
War of the Twins
Test of the Twins
Second Generation, 4 or 5 short stories that introduce you to the children of the Lance heroes, and other new important characters.
Dragons of Summer Flame, The Chaos War and the end of the 4th age.
War of Souls Trilogy, the 5th age
Dragons of a Fallen Sun
Dragons of a Lost Star
Dragons of a Vanquished Moon
Very good reads. Everyone who enjoys fantasy should read all of those books (in that order).
Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles was somewhat recently (1999) released as one big book that contains all 10 volumes, The Great Book of Amber. It is a very interesting series that mixes Fantasy and Sci-Fi, more towards the Fantasy side. I also enjoyed how it was written in 1st person. It was the first epic fantasy book I'd read that was written like that and I must say it was a welcome change.
Everyone wants to release an MMORPG. The fact of the matter is, most companies don't know how to successfully build and support an online game. They have become too used to releasing it, and that is the end of development. Expansion packs not included.
The things that all successful MMORPGs have in common are, decent customer service, a stable client/world/communication setup, and a "world" rich with content and/or things to do, items to gain, monsters to challenge.
We saw Anarchy Online pretty much crash and burn on release. It was horribly unstable. I had been playing AO since the first public beta. When I heard they shipped version 12.1 in a box I couldn't believe it.
Then we saw them crash and burn again on Customer Service. Do GMs exist in that game? As far as I know there is no phone based support what so ever.
My point is, a publishing company better get it's act together if they want to release an MMORPG. It's a very long term investment. With so many companies producing them, there are going to be a lot of sub-par products, with a few games that actually meet the standards a successful MMORPG has.
PROMPT='%{^[[255D^[[0;1m%}[%h]%{^[[36m%}(%n@%m %{^[[37m%}%~%{^[[36m%})%# %{^[[0;39m%}'
RPROMPT='[%T]'
ZSH friendly. Gotta love RPROMPT.
Slashdot ran a great ZSH article a few months ago. It made me convert. If you haven't read it before I'd suggest taking a look.
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/18/0248243.shtm l
Live near the facility?
Live in the facility. Seems logical.
I'd much rather see $225 million alloted annually to public schooling.
That's 7,500 Teachers making $30,000 a year to educate students.
That's 450,000 $500 computers for kids to learn computers.
That's 9,000,000 $25 desks for more/better places to sit.
That's 56,250,000 $4 paperback books for students to read.
I have a feeling the internet will be fine without a "Federal Technology Czar."
it's sort of a love-hate kinda score.
what scares me is how it went from score:3 funny to score: -1 funny in about 15 seconds. seriously.
Are they going to respect his decision? Are they going to listen to what he has to say as the official elected homecoming king?
Or are they going to remove his title because he won't play by the rules.
If this kid wants to push it, I'm pretty sure he could set a decent case up in court against the school. That is, if they decide to remove his title.
I totally agree with this guy, I think what he has done, and is doing is awesome.
Good work!
Wow, that site is really cool. I remember going to it a long time ago, they certainly have kept it going.
Anyway, here's another great pic of 2 more galaxies collding.
http://www.phy.mtu.edu/apod/ap991109.h tmlAnd hell, I might as well borrow their html of the description:
Billions of years from now, only one of these two galaxies will remain. Until then, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart, creating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas, lanes of dark dust, bursts of star formation, and streams of cast-away stars. Astronomers predict that NGC 2207, the larger galaxy on the left, will eventually incorporate IC 2163, the smaller galaxy on the right. In the most recent encounter that peaked 40 million years ago, the smaller galaxy is swinging around counter-clockwise, and is now slightly behind the larger galaxy. The space between stars is so vast that when galaxies collide, the stars in them usually do not collide.
I don't really have too big of a problem with typo squatting. I'm not the best speller in the world so I seem to run into a lot of stupid domains (ie microwharehouse.com).
Overall it's an honest mistake and isn't a big deal. The one thing that pisses me off to no end is when you goto a "typo-squat" domain and it leads you into an unescapeable vortex of banners and popups. Ugghhhh, usually if I'm expecting to hit a buncha pop-ups and banners I'll just turn java*, cookies, etc off. They don't even give you time to prepare!
Anyway, pointless rant. No useful information in post. Speaking the mind =)
Hrm, I didn't even realize it was a book review for a sec. Maybe a 'Book Review: " would be appropiate? Maybe a book review section?
Putting it under news just didn't feel right.
Offtopic blah blah.. at least I'm not trolling or flaming. Constructive critism!
When was the article on actually confirming that someone _took_ the code. I don't think anyone has seen it.
I can understand assuming that anyone who cracks into corporate computers would be capable, and willing to steal propietary source code. The script kiddies of the planet has destroyed an honest cracker's reputation long ago.
It seems to me that this is what we call hype. Maybe I'm just being ignorant, sorry if I am.
Well, I don't mean to be redundant or to flame VA for not mirroring things, but would some folks post a few mirrors? =)
I tried to set one up but after 30 tries I still couldn't get onto the FTP. Hope someone else is having better luck!
You can compare an exploit to a fully-loaded weapon.
No you can not. A loaded gun will kill someone. Death, ends existance, heart discontinues to function. An exploit is used by script kiddies to change a webpage, piss off an admin.
This article pisses me off, it supports security through obscurity and that idea is horrible. Ugh. If I continue ranting anymore this will be -1 flamebait.
I realize this article is speaking specifically of a chip, but the point of "lines between pc and computer games" is quite clear.
What sort of controllers will be used? My experiance with PC "gamepads" has been moderate to poor.
PC games are designed to use a mouse and a keyboard. Console games are designed for that systems control pad. It's how it is, and it's probably how it's going to stay.
Will their controllers provide support for PS2's pressure sensative buttons? Will they be sleek and comfy? Will it provide enough buttons to satisfy an every-key-used-game like THPS? Will it still be simple enough to play Puzzle Fighter on?
I think that the chip is an ok idea, but there is a fine line between PC games and Console games. Look at Quake* for example. On PC for a while, huge hit, great game. N64 (or whatever your favorite console gaming system is) version of it comes out and sure its fun to play for a little bit. But does it really compare to the PC version? I think not.
The line must be drawn! All arrows point to this system failing or doing moderatly well.
Very interesting idea. I'm quite curious about that myself. Being a loyal SuSE whore and all =)
My guess is that it's about the same. Unless Germans, or other Europeans, use Linux more than the US.
I think that another part of what makes these pictures so interesting is that, when you have a photo of a piece of history, its sometimes not the best quality in the world. Sure, some of the events shown have excellent quality real-life pictures. But some don't.
Take for instance the Martin Luther King picture. I have never seen a very high quality photograph of that event, because at the time cameras and video wasn't as advanced as it is today.
What gives these games a unique aspect is that the quality is quite synthetic, yet quite realistic.
The lighting is excellent of all of them, they are simple, the graphics are clean and high quality.
It all adds up to more of a eye-pleasing picture. Not that any of the events shown were meant to please the eye, speaking from a strictly graphic/photograph position.
Ok. Here's how it all went as far as I know.
.eu detectives! Do some detecting!
Machine stolen.
Machine bought by unknowing buyer.
Buyer realizes machine is stolen, holds it for ransom.
Buyer sends machine to random news reporter.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who is thinking "Wtf." This chain of events just doesn't make any sense at all. The most obvious solution is simply eliminating step 2, making the person who stole it the person who was demanding ransom. Saying you bought it unknowingly just feels like a half assed excuse to look innocent.
And on top of that, lets think about the type of person who would buy this sort of machine. Probably a normal computer nerd who wants a piece of history. This type of person doesn't seem like they would hold it hostage! I know if I bought a stolen computer unknowingly I'd return it myself to the proper owner and bite the bullet.
None of it makes sense. Come on you
Recently I went to pickup my 6th grade little sister at her school, and I was sort of shocked to see that they still had P-90 computers. She goes to a public school in a middle class neighborhood.
Do you have any plans to take money out of projects that are not working (ie. the war on drugs) and put them into public schools for computers and better computer classes for younger students?
When ever a question like this is asked, all canidates reply with a "what you want to hear" answer. I'd expect nothing less this year, but maybe someone should actually start making some changes in the way public education money is spent.