Yep, Rabbi Yeshua, sometimes known as Jesus H. Christ, random founder of a random jewish sect that later developed into a monstruosity known as Christianism thanks to the insight of early converts usually called The Apostles who were really the Marketroids of that time.
Give a man a stolen DVD, and one man will have it. Teach a man to pirate DVDs, and it will spread around for a lifetime.
Tell a man about a new band, he'll know another band. Teach a man how to discover new bands, he'll discover new bands for a lifetime.
Music sharing is also the ability to know what you may want to buy before you actually buy it, it's the ability to make informed choices about buying the first CD of that little band that isn't aired on TV or radio instead of buying the current top album with a crappy single and 7 even crappier other tracks that get all the air time.
it's hardly rocket science to setup cases of various scenarios and derive exactly what they're doing behind the scenes
This is completely false. What SEO guys have managed to do is come up with advices and rough, very rought knowledge of what goes behind the scenes.
Deriving exactly what happens behind the scene would mean managing to reconstruct the Pagerank algorithm -- which hasn't happened yet -- and be able to reliably generate PR10 pages -- which hasn't happened either.
We're talking about an RPG here, not a FPS, this is not much of an issue. Much less than in, say, CS.
display mini-Map data (like loot, monsters, hostile players, etc)
How about not sending the data in the first place? You look like you want to code an EQ-like client: trusted, send everything to it and it'll hide what should be hidden... Flash news, we've known for like 5 years now that THIS DOESN'T WORK. It's security through obscurity, and it's stupid. If you don't want the client/player to see it then don't send it period. Yes, it's much tougher on the servers, but then again you don't run MMORPG servers on a Pentium 100 box.
auto-aim
I don't know any MMORPG that requires aiming per se, and most have autofollow feature to stick to the mobs whatever the lag is.
macro up a farming bot
As if you'd need any access to the client code to setup a farming bot...
Your right. Release the source to the client because Open Source is magically secure.
It's not indeed, but if your idea of security is "Let the client do everything, it's closed source so they won't be able to hack anything hahahaha" then you're set to fail, that just doesn't work.
You really need silence there, and not that many perfs. Go for a notebook drive and a tower rad. If possible, you should also switch the CPU for an Athlon64, a Turion64 or a Core Solo/Duo, halving the heat output of the CPU goes a long way towards silencing it.
Every script kiddie with a compiler would be hacking the game.
Duh? Let them hack the client if they want, if you know anything about coding you'll secure the server as well, and the "script kiddies" will have some trouble "hacking" the server since you are running it, not them.
The thing, you see, is that Kuwait and Qatar don't have a population of a billion people.
There are like 840,000 Quatari and 2.2 million Kuwaiti, that's respective male excedents of 155,400 and 256,000. China's 53% vs 51% for a population of 1,300,000,000 translates into a male excess of 26,000,000...
You could replace the whole Kuwaiti population by women 10 times and you still wouldn't have enough wives for these guys...
Fanned, Zalman's 9500, Thermalright's XP-120, XP-90 and XP-90c are much better (especially if you put Nexus fans on the XPs, good performances for very low noise), but the best cooling/noise ratio is obtained with Tower "Fanless" rads: Scythe's Ninja or Thermalright's HR-01, with a Nexus 120mm at 7-9V (virtually silent).
For the drives, if raw drives performances ain't an issue go with notebook (2.5") drives, for 3.5" go check SilentPCReview's drives guides.
Graphic card, if you only use 2D then it's a perfect setup for fanless cooling.
PSU, Seasonic's S12 430, 500 and 600 are among the bests you can find, they're extremely stable, reliable, silent and efficient (== the PSU is good for your computer, it doesn't make noise and it stays cool instead of heating your whole room and overheating the other components of the computer)
In general, if you're looking for silent stuff just head over to SPCR and see what they say.
uh, they used a Sonata II case (which is better than the Sonata, P180's better though) and a Seasonic PSU (which is better than any PSU Antec offers as far as noise goes, Phantom 300 excluded, and even then...).
Doesn't make the system any less half assed though, the rad sucks (come on, Zalman 7700 Al/Cu? there is like an thousand better rads, ditto for using the stock Zalman fan), the FX-57 is stupid, the WD drives are far from silent,...
Good pick on the OTES motherboard and the 7900 cooling system is not *that* bad (far better than what the 6k generation used to have)
I still fail to see why slashdot accepts advertisement from gaming websites though, if the editors want to promote silent rigs they should mention SPCR's articles on the subject, not ET's.
There are plenty on benchmarks of MySQL vs. Postgres. The Postgres people seem to dispute these but they show MySQL killing Postgres.
I've never seen any MySQL/InnoDB vs Postgresql bench where MySQL was "killing" postgresql. Please do show me one (and not MySQL/MyISAM against Postgresql, that's like comparing SQLite against Oracle, there's just no point)
If you are looking for people to work doing coding for you and you have a project in RoR or Python, you will find it hard to find cheap local coders to maintain etc. This means that all the great Web 2.0 business plansd go out of the window because you cant find reliable local coders.
Reliable isn't cheap. Good isn't cheap either. Good web apps, innovative "web 2.0" stuff, isn't created by grunts. You need intelligent people, builders with a vision and abilities. There are smart people in the PHP trade, a lot of them, but the number of PHP guys is so high that most of the PHP coders are actually grunts. That's much less the case for RoR (at the moment at least) or Python. Read Paul Graham's "The Python Paradox" and Joel Spolsky's "Hitting the High Note" for more informations on the concept of "having cheap coders available isn't necessarily a good thing".
I think what you really mean is that a lot of people can write half-baked code which becomes unstable quickly. Code is only as good as the design + coder.
No, I mean that PHP promotes bad code, sloppy code, and that PHP requires an extremely high level of work and dedication to actually be kept clean, especially when multiple coders are involved in the application. PHP is akin to Perl scripts without use strict;. Ruby or Python, on the other hand, promote readability and clean code, it nearly takes more effort to write sloppy code than to write good code.
Remember business is there to make money (ie spend as little as possible to get as much income as possible), you cant make money if your business grinds to a halt because you cant find programmers.
You see programmers as you'd see pens or desks, furnitures, go for the lowest price, you'll save more.
Successful (web) businesses didn't start that way, they started with the smart guys, they started with the rare, interresting languages, check Amazon for example, want to know the requirements they had when it started? Which languages were allowed? C and Lisp. period. They didn't go for the numbers, and they never feared not being able to find programmers. Because they were smart guys, and they knew that there were other smart guys that knew Lisp out there, and that they could eventually get them if they needed, especially if the other smart guys had to code in Java or C++ for a living at their current jobs.
Using a "great" language (Python, Ruby, Lisp) instead of using a well-spread one (PHP) gives you less choice when you want programmers, but it gives you a smarter average population instead of grunts, and it gives you people who can give up on perks because you'll allow them to use a language they actually like. It gives you people who wouldn't hesitate jumping ships to come to you.
With some of the public defenders we've got --ever hear that phrase "you get what you pay for?"
I think that's pretty much what he was saying: if you can't pay, you're not equal to someone who can. If you can't pay, being guilty or not will not matter because you'll lose anyway. In a word, if you can't pay there is no justice for you.
I'm sure you'll find arguments to tell me that I'm wrong and that it's perfectly normal, that justice should only be upheld for the richest and that the poorest don't have any use from it, but I still find it... a fairly strange conception of the "Justice" concept.
A small, minimully funded government is a lot less able to violate your rights than a very well funded, gigantic government.
But it doesn't have the ability to protect or help you protect and enforce your rights either, equality becomes function of your personal wealth, you're only equal to those as wealthy as you and you become inferior to everyone more wealthy than you.
Wrong. Void cannot be flawed, PHP has NO design to speak of, PHP has never been designed, it grew without lead or control from a bunch of macros, it can't have a fucked up design if it doesn't have a design to being with.
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Yep, other than that I haven't seen any modification of the Javascript interpreter mentioned anywhere.
Yep, Rabbi Yeshua, sometimes known as Jesus H. Christ, random founder of a random jewish sect that later developed into a monstruosity known as Christianism thanks to the insight of early converts usually called The Apostles who were really the Marketroids of that time.
Either mods preferred considering that the GP was joking, or they decided to mock GP.
Tell a man about a new band, he'll know another band. Teach a man how to discover new bands, he'll discover new bands for a lifetime.
Music sharing is also the ability to know what you may want to buy before you actually buy it, it's the ability to make informed choices about buying the first CD of that little band that isn't aired on TV or radio instead of buying the current top album with a crappy single and 7 even crappier other tracks that get all the air time.
You're aware that you're supposed to pay for your Windows license if you want to run Windows from within a Virtual PC or a VMWare station right?
True dat, the competition is... wait, the competition isn't either, so maybe the point is moot and you're just *shudder* an anti-nvidia troll?
Well, anyone who's seriously played something like evercrack had multiple 12-h sessions.
And a few camps were more like 48 hours sessions...
This is completely false. What SEO guys have managed to do is come up with advices and rough, very rought knowledge of what goes behind the scenes.
Deriving exactly what happens behind the scene would mean managing to reconstruct the Pagerank algorithm -- which hasn't happened yet -- and be able to reliably generate PR10 pages -- which hasn't happened either.
Depends of the game, playing platform games (mario-style, especially 2D) or good ol' Double Dragon or Ghouls and Ghosts plain sucks on a keyboard.
On the other hand, you can't beat keyboard'n mouse for FPS or 3D RPGs.
We're talking about an RPG here, not a FPS, this is not much of an issue. Much less than in, say, CS.
Ouch.
You really need silence there, and not that many perfs. Go for a notebook drive and a tower rad. If possible, you should also switch the CPU for an Athlon64, a Turion64 or a Core Solo/Duo, halving the heat output of the CPU goes a long way towards silencing it.
Duh? Let them hack the client if they want, if you know anything about coding you'll secure the server as well, and the "script kiddies" will have some trouble "hacking" the server since you are running it, not them.
The thing, you see, is that Kuwait and Qatar don't have a population of a billion people.
There are like 840,000 Quatari and 2.2 million Kuwaiti, that's respective male excedents of 155,400 and 256,000. China's 53% vs 51% for a population of 1,300,000,000 translates into a male excess of 26,000,000...
You could replace the whole Kuwaiti population by women 10 times and you still wouldn't have enough wives for these guys...
Fanned, Zalman's 9500, Thermalright's XP-120, XP-90 and XP-90c are much better (especially if you put Nexus fans on the XPs, good performances for very low noise), but the best cooling/noise ratio is obtained with Tower "Fanless" rads: Scythe's Ninja or Thermalright's HR-01, with a Nexus 120mm at 7-9V (virtually silent).
For the drives, if raw drives performances ain't an issue go with notebook (2.5") drives, for 3.5" go check SilentPCReview's drives guides.
Graphic card, if you only use 2D then it's a perfect setup for fanless cooling.
PSU, Seasonic's S12 430, 500 and 600 are among the bests you can find, they're extremely stable, reliable, silent and efficient (== the PSU is good for your computer, it doesn't make noise and it stays cool instead of heating your whole room and overheating the other components of the computer)
In general, if you're looking for silent stuff just head over to SPCR and see what they say.
uh, they used a Sonata II case (which is better than the Sonata, P180's better though) and a Seasonic PSU (which is better than any PSU Antec offers as far as noise goes, Phantom 300 excluded, and even then...).
Doesn't make the system any less half assed though, the rad sucks (come on, Zalman 7700 Al/Cu? there is like an thousand better rads, ditto for using the stock Zalman fan), the FX-57 is stupid, the WD drives are far from silent, ...
Good pick on the OTES motherboard and the 7900 cooling system is not *that* bad (far better than what the 6k generation used to have)
I still fail to see why slashdot accepts advertisement from gaming websites though, if the editors want to promote silent rigs they should mention SPCR's articles on the subject, not ET's.
No, it's the fact that Sony Online "Entertainments" had a hand in that stuff.
It's doomed.
Apple did it to Jobs some time later (which is why he went and created NEXT)
I switched to an electricity supplier who could guarantee that at least 74.5% of their supplies come from nuclear plants: http://www.edf.fr/
I've never seen any MySQL/InnoDB vs Postgresql bench where MySQL was "killing" postgresql. Please do show me one (and not MySQL/MyISAM against Postgresql, that's like comparing SQLite against Oracle, there's just no point)
I shall inform you that PunBB does run on PostgreSQL if you wish it to.
Reliable isn't cheap. Good isn't cheap either. Good web apps, innovative "web 2.0" stuff, isn't created by grunts. You need intelligent people, builders with a vision and abilities. There are smart people in the PHP trade, a lot of them, but the number of PHP guys is so high that most of the PHP coders are actually grunts. That's much less the case for RoR (at the moment at least) or Python. Read Paul Graham's "The Python Paradox" and Joel Spolsky's "Hitting the High Note" for more informations on the concept of "having cheap coders available isn't necessarily a good thing".
No, I mean that PHP promotes bad code, sloppy code, and that PHP requires an extremely high level of work and dedication to actually be kept clean, especially when multiple coders are involved in the application. PHP is akin to Perl scripts without use strict;. Ruby or Python, on the other hand, promote readability and clean code, it nearly takes more effort to write sloppy code than to write good code.
You see programmers as you'd see pens or desks, furnitures, go for the lowest price, you'll save more.
Successful (web) businesses didn't start that way, they started with the smart guys, they started with the rare, interresting languages, check Amazon for example, want to know the requirements they had when it started? Which languages were allowed? C and Lisp. period. They didn't go for the numbers, and they never feared not being able to find programmers. Because they were smart guys, and they knew that there were other smart guys that knew Lisp out there, and that they could eventually get them if they needed, especially if the other smart guys had to code in Java or C++ for a living at their current jobs.
Using a "great" language (Python, Ruby, Lisp) instead of using a well-spread one (PHP) gives you less choice when you want programmers, but it gives you a smarter average population instead of grunts, and it gives you people who can give up on perks because you'll allow them to use a language they actually like. It gives you people who wouldn't hesitate jumping ships to come to you.
I think that's pretty much what he was saying: if you can't pay, you're not equal to someone who can. If you can't pay, being guilty or not will not matter because you'll lose anyway. In a word, if you can't pay there is no justice for you.
I'm sure you'll find arguments to tell me that I'm wrong and that it's perfectly normal, that justice should only be upheld for the richest and that the poorest don't have any use from it, but I still find it... a fairly strange conception of the "Justice" concept.
But it doesn't have the ability to protect or help you protect and enforce your rights either, equality becomes function of your personal wealth, you're only equal to those as wealthy as you and you become inferior to everyone more wealthy than you.
It prevents it from dying, which is the best thing that could happen to it.
Wrong. Void cannot be flawed, PHP has NO design to speak of, PHP has never been designed, it grew without lead or control from a bunch of macros, it can't have a fucked up design if it doesn't have a design to being with.
PHP is a fucked up language period.