In 1997, I was in college, had a Cable Modem and surfed the Web using a graphical browser which had already been the norm for quite a couple of years (I remember being on the net in 95 with Trumpet Winsock, Windows 3.1 and Netscape 2.XX). I used Yahoo or Altavista as a search engine and while there were others (hotbot comes to mind), those were the principal ones.
Aaahh the memories!. I used to browse the internet usnig Gopher, in my father's office in a research centre (CINVESTAV) in Mexico. That was around 1993 IIRC.
Of course I did all that you mentioned... (anyone remember Win32s... for Win311?? we used it to isntall GetRight [which RULED at that time]). Also, can you believe I still have a [female] friend which I befriended while luring at Wbs.net ?? anyone here remember wbs? shit... those old times.
Oh and something interesting that happened to me is that when I was 16 years old, one night I was surfing on the net just looking here and there when I started looking at news items saynig that a princess from some country had died. It was so cool to see the news that Princess Diana had had an accident one day later in the national Mexico news =OD.
This is an interesting post. As far as I knew, things like logic in some way part of AI. One of my PhD supervisors is a monster in logics, and he has published in AI Journal [Elsev.](one of the most presigious journals for AI).
I think a lot of research on Agents is related with logics, including but not limited to CTL, ATL, first order L., that combined with game theory.
What I would suggest you is looking at academia, mostly in Europe (UK, Netherlands [they are good at theoretical research], Germany). If you are good, you surely can get a get a post-doc (you can easily do a PhD, if you get funded by someone in your home country) and afterwards a full time post which will lead you to a proffesorship.
Of course, if what you want is to specifically work for the government, I do not think that any government agency (besides of the ones related to academia) would fund theoretical research (as it is assumed that such thing is done at Universities).
Artificial Intelligence is deemed to always be a disappointment... this is because of its nature of trying to mimic "Intelligence" with machines.
The problem with chasing that dream is that, every time a new advance is developed that sucessfuly mimics a process which was deemed as "intelligence", then somewhat it is agreed that such think was not really intelligence.
Thus no matter whatever AI researchers come up with, it will be regarded as "not intelligent enough".
The real push here is to prevent any perceived piracy risk by preventing backups from playing.
It is funny to read comments in slashdot where people is talking out of their asses.
The "real push" has nothing to do with preventing piracy. The Twilight patch does *not* provide a way to play pirate Wii titles (so called "back-ups"), the way to accomplish that is witi a mod chip (which interfaces with the disk drive).
Therefore, the upgrade did not prevented "back-ups" from being played. It just tried to prevent the execution of the Zelda exploit.
That was a very specific attack against homebrew, given that even after upgrading, you can continue to play your "back-ups" if you have a mod-chip
The vast majority of the people out there buying stuff just want to pay, plug, and play. That means standards, simplicity, and - unfortunately - lockdown.
Nope, that does not have to equate to lockdown, but to Warranty.
Seriously, every manufacturer (of anything I can imagine) will void their warranty if you in some way modify the bought item. They do not have to lock down in order to "manage" their service. They only have the state that, if you modify the product, then you will be out of warranty.
Back on topic, what Bushing did was really nice in my opinion. The guy disassembled the two or three new functions (which were added to attack just the specific Zelda hack) and he reconstructed the source code in C. Now that is all cool, but what I think was great is that he published the source code in his page and asked people to find bugs.
I think you pretty much can not win on such kind of situation. Pretty much every hacker (every decent C programmer) can look at the code and find bugs in the program. And IIRC, that was the way it happened, some guy wrote his comments about the code as a comment which was an effective way to bypass the "added security".
Just a comment on that. On one side, I have heard several comments regarding how Chinese are spreading (people have even used the work "Invading") all the countries, and that they should stay out of America/UK/Europe/Mexico/etc...
On the other side I read people like you whining about the government policy for overpopulation control.
The UK does provide some real gems though, such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, for a more reasonable budget, but I'm not sure how well they did outside the UK.
And this is where the potential of the UK lays on. Just take a look at Battle Toads, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Worms, among others. The English humour is something that is really nice. I am not English (I am Mexican) but I know that the Battletoads games were a big success for my generation of videogame players (nes/snes).
Just when the market is tired of full blown million-polygons-per-second games which are deadly boring, UK studios should create games which are simple, funny and with a lot of personality. And of course, the presumably best console to publish them is the Wii.
Of course any other console would be all right, but people would compare such games in the PS3 with the last interactive-video Metal Gear instalment, which is not the case.
There are people with the necessary skills and intellect coming out of UK universities. I'd wager the real problem is that they're ending up working in finance, which has far larger salaries than the games industry.
Haha, I just read your post... this is true at least from my position.
Recently my father visited me and we went to see an old friend of him. In the middle of a discussion of why the UK is importing slate from Brazil rather than mining it, we thought that the main reason was because of the employment wages.
We then went to try to realize what does the UK export? What is the UK's main market? and the answer we agreed on was that what the UK economy is better at is money. Money and finance (which is of course closely related).
Therefore, if there is a field in the UK which guarantees a good job and QOL, finance is it.
The problem with game development (in the UK at least) is that it is impossible to pay UK wages and be competitive enough to sell games, compared to companies say, in the US or Spain...
The only remaining reason to choose a game programming career is because of pure love to the art. But the corporatism introduced by the huge programming studios have removed whatever was left for attracting people.
I just finished a PhD in the UK. Granted, although I am not originary from Great Britain, I have the possibility of working here.
I have always wanted to be a game programmer. I have been programming small games since I was in secondary (school 12 y/old). While I was doing my Bachelors degree, I read loads of books on OpenGL, DirectX, game programming, game AI, etc. I even played with Open Source games (small contribs, patches, etc).
However, as I have got older, I have also realised that being a game programming does not have all the "magic" that it used to have (in the Amiga/PC DOS days).
Now I have two options, one is to kick-start in the game industry (say, as a Q-A at Sony, Rare, R* or any other UK game studio) or I can get into a Hedge fund as a junior Quant Developer.
When you compare the payment, benefits and vacations, it is evident that the game developer job has *no chance* against the quant job.
Both include maths and algorithms (I am specialized in A.I.) and both are very interesting for me. But I believe the obvious choice is to keep the game development as as hobby and get playing where the money is.
No, I have never done anything like that. But I have been attempted to print several (say 200) containing nothing but Hidely-ho, neighborino! using their shared lasetjet printer:D
"intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access")."
Then, I have never stolen WiFi. I have never accessed without authorization; as I have never cracked a WEP or WPA password scheme.
Everytime I use an available wireless network, I instruct my computer to ask for permission to connect to the router and enter to the wireless network. And most of the time the router gives me such permit and assigns my router an IP. When it does not happen, then I assume the owner has instructed the router to give permission to specific machines (as in, machines with a specific MAC adddress) and hence I do not use such networks.
Seriously, someone must create an interface in which a person is able to send the commands manually to the router (like the AT commants in a modem) to ask for connection permission (i.e., DHCP protocol). That way, when you are in court, you could use that program along the court's wifi to show them how you are indeed asking for permission and the software is granting you the permission.
Haha, that reminded me of an anectode that happened to my brother... when he was in 3rd year of basic school (in a catholic school), he got low grades in religion one month.
The teacher told him to call my mother, and when they were talking, the teacher told my mother that the reason that my brother got low grades was because, almost everytime when she started the religion hour class, my brother just picked up his history or geography or any other books and started reading.
She told my mom that she could not tell him to stop reading because, he was *reading* and it was something good... I think it was a sensible choice talking to my mother.
Of course, we are both atheists:P, simlarly to my parents.
So, someone is unhappy with the modification of a service in a site... shit ScreenSelect got bought by lovefilm and the service sucks [about 2 years ago]... did I posted a story on slashdot ranting about it?? no, I just stopped using the service...
The price of gas in the uk is £1 for a litre. which would be about 1.27132 euros according to XE.
That would make it cheaper than in the Netherlands (if your figures are accurate)... It is however still very expensive, if you think that in Mexico the litre is about MX$10 (£0.5)...
But I agree with GP when he says that Americans should stop whinning about gas price... I know a lot of people from Tijuaan and other border cities go to the USA to fill up their cars because it is cheaper than in Mexico's gas stations.
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But Carl Sagan documentaires were *a must* when I was a kid.
Oh, and Isaac Asimov's non-SF books are great too (the book about Physics and the one about Maths are great).
Don't worry... I am sure RAZR or other group will provide such patch just days after the game is released.
GeoCities page
SunsetStrip FTW!!
In 1997, I was in college, had a Cable Modem and surfed the Web using a graphical browser which had already been the norm for quite a couple of years (I remember being on the net in 95 with Trumpet Winsock, Windows 3.1 and Netscape 2.XX). I used Yahoo or Altavista as a search engine and while there were others (hotbot comes to mind), those were the principal ones.
Aaahh the memories!. I used to browse the internet usnig Gopher, in my father's office in a research centre (CINVESTAV) in Mexico. That was around 1993 IIRC.
Of course I did all that you mentioned... (anyone remember Win32s... for Win311?? we used it to isntall GetRight [which RULED at that time]).
Also, can you believe I still have a [female] friend which I befriended while luring at Wbs.net ?? anyone here remember wbs?
shit... those old times.
Oh and something interesting that happened to me is that when I was 16 years old, one night I was surfing on the net just looking here and there when I started looking at news items saynig that a princess from some country had died. It was so cool to see the news that Princess Diana had had an accident one day later in the national Mexico news =OD.
This is an interesting post. As far as I knew, things like logic in some way part of AI. One of my PhD supervisors is a monster in logics, and he has published in AI Journal [Elsev.](one of the most presigious journals for AI).
I think a lot of research on Agents is related with logics, including but not limited to CTL, ATL, first order L., that combined with game theory.
What I would suggest you is looking at academia, mostly in Europe (UK, Netherlands [they are good at theoretical research], Germany). If you are good, you surely can get a get a post-doc (you can easily do a PhD, if you get funded by someone in your home country) and afterwards a full time post which will lead you to a proffesorship.
Of course, if what you want is to specifically work for the government, I do not think that any government agency (besides of the ones related to academia) would fund theoretical research (as it is assumed that such thing is done at Universities).
Artificial Intelligence is deemed to always be a disappointment... this is because of its nature of trying to mimic "Intelligence" with machines.
The problem with chasing that dream is that, every time a new advance is developed that sucessfuly mimics a process which was deemed as "intelligence", then somewhat it is agreed that such think was not really intelligence.
Thus no matter whatever AI researchers come up with, it will be regarded as "not intelligent enough".
[s]earch for /java/ /flash/
and replace it with
[g]o!
well... that is how I understand it, I have used it in sed but I think python also use it doesn't it?
Nowadays you can browse most of the web without retarded applets popping up
Yeah, instead now you have those annoying closed source Flash (TM)(C) animations showing smilies shouting all over the place.
The real push here is to prevent any perceived piracy risk by preventing backups from playing.
It is funny to read comments in slashdot where people is talking out of their asses.
The "real push" has nothing to do with preventing piracy. The Twilight patch does *not* provide a way to play pirate Wii titles (so called "back-ups"), the way to accomplish that is witi a mod chip (which interfaces with the disk drive).
Therefore, the upgrade did not prevented "back-ups" from being played. It just tried to prevent the execution of the Zelda exploit.
That was a very specific attack against homebrew, given that even after upgrading, you can continue to play your "back-ups" if you have a mod-chip
The vast majority of the people out there buying stuff just want to pay, plug, and play. That means standards, simplicity, and - unfortunately - lockdown.
Nope, that does not have to equate to lockdown, but to Warranty.
Seriously, every manufacturer (of anything I can imagine) will void their warranty if you in some way modify the bought item. They do not have to lock down in order to "manage" their service. They only have the state that, if you modify the product, then you will be out of warranty.
Back on topic, what Bushing did was really nice in my opinion. The guy disassembled the two or three new functions (which were added to attack just the specific Zelda hack) and he reconstructed the source code in C. Now that is all cool, but what I think was great is that he published the source code in his page and asked people to find bugs.
I think you pretty much can not win on such kind of situation. Pretty much every hacker (every decent C programmer) can look at the code and find bugs in the program. And IIRC, that was the way it happened, some guy wrote his comments about the code as a comment which was an effective way to bypass the "added security".
Well after all, Peanut butter disproved evolution a while ago.
3) right to decide how many children you have
Just a comment on that. On one side, I have heard several comments regarding how Chinese are spreading (people have even used the work "Invading") all the countries, and that they should stay out of America/UK/Europe/Mexico/etc...
On the other side I read people like you whining about the government policy for overpopulation control.
Someone has to do something to stop the over population of a country, and the only one who can do it is the government of such a country. In México we had a program several years ago, it was nothing as strong as the Chinese one but there were several advertisements (TV, radio, newspaper, etc) by the government giving the message "Pocos hijos para darles mucho" (few children to give them a lot).
Democracy does not inherently mean that the best result will be the outcome.
A democracy guarantees you that the outcome will be what the majority of the people wants. Of course, such majority could be just the 50.1% of the people (see Bush/USA or CalderÃn/México).
The UK does provide some real gems though, such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, for a more reasonable budget, but I'm not sure how well they did outside the UK.
And this is where the potential of the UK lays on. Just take a look at Battle Toads, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Worms, among others. The English humour is something that is really nice. I am not English (I am Mexican) but I know that the Battletoads games were a big success for my generation of videogame players (nes/snes).
Just when the market is tired of full blown million-polygons-per-second games which are deadly boring, UK studios should create games which are simple, funny and with a lot of personality. And of course, the presumably best console to publish them is the Wii.
Of course any other console would be all right, but people would compare such games in the PS3 with the last interactive-video Metal Gear instalment, which is not the case.
There are people with the necessary skills and intellect coming out of UK universities. I'd wager the real problem is that they're ending up working in finance, which has far larger salaries than the games industry.
Haha, I just read your post... this is true at least from my position.
Recently my father visited me and we went to see an old friend of him. In the middle of a discussion of why the UK is importing slate from Brazil rather than mining it, we thought that the main reason was because of the employment wages.
We then went to try to realize what does the UK export? What is the UK's main market? and the answer we agreed on was that what the UK economy is better at is money. Money and finance (which is of course closely related).
Therefore, if there is a field in the UK which guarantees a good job and QOL, finance is it.
The problem with game development (in the UK at least) is that it is impossible to pay UK wages and be competitive enough to sell games, compared to companies say, in the US or Spain...
The only remaining reason to choose a game programming career is because of pure love to the art. But the corporatism introduced by the huge programming studios have removed whatever was left for attracting people.
I just finished a PhD in the UK. Granted, although I am not originary from Great Britain, I have the possibility of working here.
I have always wanted to be a game programmer. I have been programming small games since I was in secondary (school 12 y/old). While I was doing my Bachelors degree, I read loads of books on OpenGL, DirectX, game programming, game AI, etc. I even played with Open Source games (small contribs, patches, etc).
However, as I have got older, I have also realised that being a game programming does not have all the "magic" that it used to have (in the Amiga/PC DOS days).
Now I have two options, one is to kick-start in the game industry (say, as a Q-A at Sony, Rare, R* or any other UK game studio) or I can get into a Hedge fund as a junior Quant Developer.
When you compare the payment, benefits and vacations, it is evident that the game developer job has *no chance* against the quant job.
Both include maths and algorithms (I am specialized in A.I.) and both are very interesting for me. But I believe the obvious choice is to keep the game development as as hobby and get playing where the money is.
I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die
:)
Good southpark quote... makes me LOL every time I read it
Nah, it probably runs netBSD
No, I have never done anything like that. But I have been attempted to print several (say 200) containing nothing but Hidely-ho, neighborino! using their shared lasetjet printer :D
If you leave the network, the bandwidth will still be there.
That could presumably be false if whoever is paying for the service pays for a limit GB/month allowance
"intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access")."
Then, I have never stolen WiFi. I have never accessed without authorization; as I have never cracked a WEP or WPA password scheme.
Everytime I use an available wireless network, I instruct my computer to ask for permission to connect to the router and enter to the wireless network. And most of the time the router gives me such permit and assigns my router an IP. When it does not happen, then I assume the owner has instructed the router to give permission to specific machines (as in, machines with a specific MAC adddress) and hence I do not use such networks.
Seriously, someone must create an interface in which a person is able to send the commands manually to the router (like the AT commants in a modem) to ask for connection permission (i.e., DHCP protocol). That way, when you are in court, you could use that program along the court's wifi to show them how you are indeed asking for permission and the software is granting you the permission.
Haha, that reminded me of an anectode that happened to my brother... when he was in 3rd year of basic school (in a catholic school), he got low grades in religion one month.
:P, simlarly to my parents.
The teacher told him to call my mother, and when they were talking, the teacher told my mother that the reason that my brother got low grades was because, almost everytime when she started the religion hour class, my brother just picked up his history or geography or any other books and started reading.
She told my mom that she could not tell him to stop reading because, he was *reading* and it was something good... I think it was a sensible choice talking to my mother.
Of course, we are both atheists
So, someone is unhappy with the modification of a service in a site... shit ScreenSelect got bought by lovefilm and the service sucks [about 2 years ago]... did I posted a story on slashdot ranting about it?? no, I just stopped using the service...
seriously
rantslashdot
Maybe the oil prices variation has a mean reverting tendency, however this graph show there has really been an increment in the current years.
The complete article has other interesting charts
The price of gas in the uk is £1 for a litre. which would be about 1.27132 euros according to XE.
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That would make it cheaper than in the Netherlands (if your figures are accurate)... It is however still very expensive, if you think that in Mexico the litre is about MX$10 (£0.5)
But I agree with GP when he says that Americans should stop whinning about gas price... I know a lot of people from Tijuaan and other border cities go to the USA to fill up their cars because it is cheaper than in Mexico's gas stations.