Personally I'd say go with the faster connection and strong firewall as suggested earlier... except that instead of virus definitions I'd say go with Linux. But that's just me:-)
Apparently the guys at my school district all want to kill me or something. I remember just a couple years ago, you could get away with just about anything – now they've got a proxy server that blocks everything, even my own Linux system / school project, and (anti-)virus software that never stops running. All the control panels have been locked down, you can't even access the Task Manager or lock your screen to keep other people from using it. And of course they're always spying on us me, too – they think I'm some trying to take them down all because I managed to use an SSH tunnel to pass through to my own machine to work on a LEGITIMATE SCHOOL PROJECT.
Hmm, if that isn't overzealous security I don't know what is.
If Wine implements it, then what does that mean for the likes of ReactOS...? Maybe this is one of those places where an open-source, Windows-based system would make more sense. (Even though I still prefer Linux myself, I have to say that these guys do have a pretty nice thing going; I can remember back in the days of 0.2.3 when almost nothing worked...)
If Micro$oft can document the exact procedure for triggering the bug so well, then that indicates that they have a very good idea how it works. If they have a very good idea how it works, then that implies that they should have been able to fix it sometime long before now. Therefore, if Micro$oft can document the exact procedure for triggering the bug so well, then they should have been able to fix it sometime long before now. QED.
Maybe it's just the fact that I'm a Linux user who's naturally suspicious of anything Micro$oft does, but something does seem kind of fishy here.
I don't even see why those Wine people even continue, they've already got a perfect emulation of Windows. I mean, why else would it refuse to load half my old games and then garble up the rest of the system beyond usability?
This is just fucking ridiculous. Why can't they just use their money on something that (1) actually benefits people and (2) won't make older equipment obselete, like hasn't done yet here>?
Either that, or they just want to ensure that people can still legally run Windows. Either way, though, I'd have to say that if Micro$oft is against censorship no matter what else they've done you have to at least support them on that one.
This coming from a Linux hacker who hasn't run a Micro$oft operating system on any of his computers for several years now.
Ultima Linux, high speed Internet, a 2005 Epson all-in-one printer, a $375 machine built from stuff ordered at TigerDirect.com, a Dell machine I got for $55 on eBay, my 1997 Micron XPE laptop, a 1998-ish Olympus digital camera, and a few other pieces of computing equipment. Just about everything else I own is mostly various other electronics stuff, a lot of it from the 80's and therefore older than me (my TV and VCR both fall into that category). Used to carry around a Palm m125 but after about 2 1/2 years it got a bit worn down, stuff I own tends to get abused.
Damn, I could have sworn I had more than that, it really does look like next to nothing on paper.
First of all I will mention that I don't know either particularly well, but based on what I've seen in other programs I'd say go with Java.
Why?
* You can write standalone programs or Web-based applets (some programs can do both, eg the Java port of Frozen Bubble).
* Java natively runs on Linux, stuff like Mono or Wine can be unreliable because it's never 100% accurate emulation. Maybe I'm wrong here but either way I'd rather have a natively-supported platform.
* Java is free.
* And most importantly, my favorite game ever (Puzzle Pirates) is a Java app.:-)
Oh, and despite what some people say about Java it can run quickly if the program is well written. My 133MHz laptop with 80MB RAM runs Puzzle Pirates rather nicely, even though it's a 100MB+ application. In fact, a lot of non-Java programs are slower to load on the machine, which is kind of interesting.
“Will you be offering to donate $10.000 to the charity of choice of whomever completes this game?”
No, I have a better idea. Being the greedy capitalist bastard that I am, I'll make them donate the $10.000 to the charity of choice of whoever designs this game.
What makes me sad about this is that, while Europe and Asia have these insane high-speed connections that run over 10x faster than ours for barely half the price, our connections only seem to be getting slower and more expensive. We already pay too much each month if we have high-speed Internet – $50 a month is not cheap, and we aren't even getting enough bang for our buck. And now they want to raise that price by making the basic $50 plan run even more slowly on any site they don't like? Sad.
What's especially disappointing is that ISP's don't seem to like people like me who want to run their own Web sites from home. My own connection only has 384 kB/s upload, which makes it almost impossible to run stuff like my Linux distribution that requires a great deal more bandwidth, particularly for FTP downloads. Not only that, but apparently their AUP doesn't allow for that type of thing, so I'm hoping I'm not caught... but anyway, the only alternative would be to pay someone lots of money to run it full-time, which is just as bad because I'd have to deal with their server configuration, their bandwidth limitations, their limited disk space... and not to mention paying thousands of dollars a year that I don't even have.
Please, somebody listen to the people for a change...
Let's capitalize on all these video game lawsuits and design an entirely new game based on them: You're playing as one of the major game companies, and you have to do as many sneaky under-handed things as you possibly can before the sharks – er, lawyers representing players, EA employees, and concerned parents – catch up with you!
There's a very good reason I use WordPress myself... in fact, there's several, partially because I got fed up with Blogger and partially because it lets me run everything on my server, on my terms.
The one problem is that this server is a single 700MHz Duron system with 256MB of memory that my friend and I have running out of my house (it was at his originally, long story about why it moved). And it doesn't help that it's on my home Internet connection, and also running (along with my blog) the homepages of Ultima Linux, several other, smaller projects, and not to mention the rest of my homepage.
One of the worst disasters in our country's history, and all those bastards can think of is "hmm, let's not give them the building, 'cause now we have competition and we want their money". Only in America.
Maybe we should sell this to FEMA and put them in charge of creating all natural disasters in the United States. (You know, they could change their name to the Federal Emergency Making Agency...) That way we'd have hurricanes that could destroy the world, but it would take six to eight weeks before anything actually happened, giving us plenty of time to actually prepare for the disaster when it finally did arrive.
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“Even in Windows I have no problems.”
I never have any problems either – in fact, the 286 I have my only copy of 3.1 running on hasn't gotten a single virus in its entire life!
Personally I'd say go with the faster connection and strong firewall as suggested earlier... except that instead of virus definitions I'd say go with Linux. But that's just me :-)
Apparently the guys at my school district all want to kill me or something. I remember just a couple years ago, you could get away with just about anything – now they've got a proxy server that blocks everything, even my own Linux system / school project, and (anti-)virus software that never stops running. All the control panels have been locked down, you can't even access the Task Manager or lock your screen to keep other people from using it. And of course they're always spying on us me, too – they think I'm some trying to take them down all because I managed to use an SSH tunnel to pass through to my own machine to work on a LEGITIMATE SCHOOL PROJECT.
Hmm, if that isn't overzealous security I don't know what is.
I thought everyone knew that the proper /. question was, “but does it run Linux?” Back to Trolling 101...
If Wine implements it, then what does that mean for the likes of ReactOS...? Maybe this is one of those places where an open-source, Windows-based system would make more sense. (Even though I still prefer Linux myself, I have to say that these guys do have a pretty nice thing going; I can remember back in the days of 0.2.3 when almost nothing worked...)
If Micro$oft can document the exact procedure for triggering the bug so well, then that indicates that they have a very good idea how it works. If they have a very good idea how it works, then that implies that they should have been able to fix it sometime long before now. Therefore, if Micro$oft can document the exact procedure for triggering the bug so well, then they should have been able to fix it sometime long before now. QED.
Maybe it's just the fact that I'm a Linux user who's naturally suspicious of anything Micro$oft does, but something does seem kind of fishy here.
I don't even see why those Wine people even continue, they've already got a perfect emulation of Windows. I mean, why else would it refuse to load half my old games and then garble up the rest of the system beyond usability?
Google really is Big Brother! They're even moving onto the telescreens!
This is just fucking ridiculous. Why can't they just use their money on something that (1) actually benefits people and (2) won't make older equipment obselete, like hasn't done yet here>?
Either that, or they just want to ensure that people can still legally run Windows. Either way, though, I'd have to say that if Micro$oft is against censorship no matter what else they've done you have to at least support them on that one.
This coming from a Linux hacker who hasn't run a Micro$oft operating system on any of his computers for several years now.
A car with something more dangerous inside than a cell phone or a drunk driver!
Ultima Linux, high speed Internet, a 2005 Epson all-in-one printer, a $375 machine built from stuff ordered at TigerDirect.com, a Dell machine I got for $55 on eBay, my 1997 Micron XPE laptop, a 1998-ish Olympus digital camera, and a few other pieces of computing equipment. Just about everything else I own is mostly various other electronics stuff, a lot of it from the 80's and therefore older than me (my TV and VCR both fall into that category). Used to carry around a Palm m125 but after about 2 1/2 years it got a bit worn down, stuff I own tends to get abused.
Damn, I could have sworn I had more than that, it really does look like next to nothing on paper.
First of all I will mention that I don't know either particularly well, but based on what I've seen in other programs I'd say go with Java.
:-)
Why?
* You can write standalone programs or Web-based applets (some programs can do both, eg the Java port of Frozen Bubble).
* Java natively runs on Linux, stuff like Mono or Wine can be unreliable because it's never 100% accurate emulation. Maybe I'm wrong here but either way I'd rather have a natively-supported platform.
* Java is free.
* And most importantly, my favorite game ever (Puzzle Pirates) is a Java app.
Oh, and despite what some people say about Java it can run quickly if the program is well written. My 133MHz laptop with 80MB RAM runs Puzzle Pirates rather nicely, even though it's a 100MB+ application. In fact, a lot of non-Java programs are slower to load on the machine, which is kind of interesting.
Puzzle Pirates. Proof that Java isn't dead.
By the way even though I appreciate the moderation it wasn't meant as funny. It's true.
posted by martinultima, 12/19/2005 4:21pm
omg, get a load of this lol – bloggers are teh tech world's new 31337! this is like, totally cool!!11!!!one!!!1! u got 2 check this out http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/07/19542
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“Will you be offering to donate $10.000 to the charity of choice of whomever completes this game?”
:s/10\./10\,/g
:wq
No, I have a better idea. Being the greedy capitalist bastard that I am, I'll make them donate the $10.000 to the charity of choice of whoever designs this game.
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What makes me sad about this is that, while Europe and Asia have these insane high-speed connections that run over 10x faster than ours for barely half the price, our connections only seem to be getting slower and more expensive. We already pay too much each month if we have high-speed Internet – $50 a month is not cheap, and we aren't even getting enough bang for our buck. And now they want to raise that price by making the basic $50 plan run even more slowly on any site they don't like? Sad.
What's especially disappointing is that ISP's don't seem to like people like me who want to run their own Web sites from home. My own connection only has 384 kB/s upload, which makes it almost impossible to run stuff like my Linux distribution that requires a great deal more bandwidth, particularly for FTP downloads. Not only that, but apparently their AUP doesn't allow for that type of thing, so I'm hoping I'm not caught... but anyway, the only alternative would be to pay someone lots of money to run it full-time, which is just as bad because I'd have to deal with their server configuration, their bandwidth limitations, their limited disk space... and not to mention paying thousands of dollars a year that I don't even have.
Please, somebody listen to the people for a change...
Let's capitalize on all these video game lawsuits and design an entirely new game based on them: You're playing as one of the major game companies, and you have to do as many sneaky under-handed things as you possibly can before the sharks – er, lawyers representing players, EA employees, and concerned parents – catch up with you!
There's a very good reason I use WordPress myself... in fact, there's several, partially because I got fed up with Blogger and partially because it lets me run everything on my server, on my terms.
;-)
The one problem is that this server is a single 700MHz Duron system with 256MB of memory that my friend and I have running out of my house (it was at his originally, long story about why it moved). And it doesn't help that it's on my home Internet connection, and also running (along with my blog) the homepages of Ultima Linux, several other, smaller projects, and not to mention the rest of my homepage.
Hmm, maybe if I had my own data center...
It's Oceania... in Oceania! Orwell would be proud.
Even I'm a (small-time) blogger, and I think this whole thing's just stupid. It would probably do well to read some more Maddox, if you ask me.
Welcome in my new Linux-powered DSP overlords!
One of the worst disasters in our country's history, and all those bastards can think of is "hmm, let's not give them the building, 'cause now we have competition and we want their money". Only in America.
Maybe we should sell this to FEMA and put them in charge of creating all natural disasters in the United States. (You know, they could change their name to the Federal Emergency Making Agency...) That way we'd have hurricanes that could destroy the world, but it would take six to eight weeks before anything actually happened, giving us plenty of time to actually prepare for the disaster when it finally did arrive.