Try again, friend. I don't pay WoW, so I'm not a rabid fan boy defending it to the the death. Still I realize that a game that has to track, store and host massive amounts of player data is a far cry from a simple login server + lobby with cient-side hosting and would require a considerably larger amount of money. You're trying to compare apples to oranges in order to make some statement against WoW that isn't even an issue.
You miss the scope of this project. Darkstar is for servers that handle massive connections where the data has to interact in unknown ways, such in MMOs and social networking sites. It has little to do with game-specific hosted servers like you're thinking about. I do not think that very many of us are running machines that could handle a massive number of connections transmitting large amounts of data like what a MMO's zone server does.
We're going to see rappers really getting into astronomy and space travel now. Only in an attempt to be the first rapper with a diamond pool in one of his videos. Or maybe have a tap with running diamonds in his mansion to one up Dave Chappelle sprinkling diamonds on his dinosaur eggs. Once 106 & Park gets involved in space aeronautics we may actually start seeing videos like this. You know, to get the kids involved.
in Century of The Self. This is an amazing documentary that makes me question the motives of everyone trying to sell me something. I only started watching it two days ago and Apple was one of the first companies on my mind and now here's a news article practically about the same thing.
Hitting a drum or pressing a piano key without any intimate knowledge of exactly what is happening behind the scenes does not a musician make. You do loose functionality, which is why they are classified as altogether different instruments. But it still doesn't make the player any less of a musician.
Actually, it looks like this one hsa frets that you must precisely press. It's NOT a guitar, but that is specifically mentioned in the description and the instrument lookd difficult in it's own right. An electronic piano is NOT a piano, either, but they can be sampled so as to sound much like a grand, or mated with a synthesizer to produce an unlimited number of sounds. This is music. This is technology. Sorry, if it doesn't fit your interpretation of music, but things like this have been around for a long time and are getting more and more popular each year. Take a look at digital drumsets. Are you going to tell me next that those are fake instruments and require no skill to perform on?
And yes, there are a lot of people who quit playing a musical instrument because it's hard. Which is exactly why you don't go out and buy a good expensive instrument! I keep on trying to get involved in programming, but I end up quitting because it's hard. I'm sure there are's a few programmers out there who'd like to be able to learn a musical instrument like I have, but end up quitting also.
Is your skin anything but the purist of whites? Do you speak with an accent (from MY frame of reference)? Do you have a beard? Wear funny-looking clothes (again, from MY frame of reference)?
Then congratulations! YOU can be our next international terrorist! But, don't count yourself out just because you look like a white American. If you've ever visited one of the countries on our list and especially if you happened to be photographed while wearing the local fashions (we really like turbans), then you can join in too!
16 petabytes storage in production, two dozen or so unix machines, two mainframes, a godzillion Windows servers of the real and virtual variety, and 12 sites to service, two of which have not been migrated to our mainframe system yet and are using old, out of service systems that are not being properly maintained. 12 hour 1-man shifts after the last lay-offs (firings). All of that is shared between two sites and only two people per day. God yes, we are understaffed. Granted, we're in a transitory period, but still. It sucks. I used to love my job, but now I leave work praying that I managed to catch everything that might have gone haywire before I left out of fear that the two ass-hat tattle-tales who never lift a finger to help anyone but themselves will go straight up and tell the boss(es) that I'm not doing my job in an attempt to make themselves look better. Back when we had two men onboard each night, we had each others back. Now everyone's trying to stab each others back and we can't even cover our own backs enough because there's almost too much work for one person to do.
So just because it's never happened to you or someone you know then it either doesn't happen at all or it's the victim's fault? I've never had any home I live in broken into, either. Does that mean burglars only prey on people who don't lock up their homes? This discussion shouldn't even have gotten this far off topic.
And yes, I do think that if public charging stations become popular (it really doesn't seem that far fetched to me) then phones will be a bit more susceptible to theft.
Car makers have spent the last 100 years not inventing anything new
You forgot one thing: Car makers have spent the last 100 years not inventing anything new... and strong-arming everyone who was trying to invent something new out of the market.
Oh, so NOW you wanna jump on the tin-foil bandwagon. Well, sorry. I've got news for ya. You're too late. They started making tin-foil so that it actually TRANSMITS the signal now man, and that's all they sell. You can't GET the good old tin-foil anymore, unless you stocked up back when we were telling you to. I ain't sellin' mine.
I finally got around to reading some of these and the first link I click on about halfway down is one of our boxes sending an ticket notification. heh. What a coincidence.
Oh how right you are. It should have been protected before it was sent. With encryption. And it's more than just scaren people's messages. It's everything from systems dialing home to report problems to police dispatch chatter.
My wording was wrong. I still do play D20 games, mostly D&D 3rd/3.5 and Star Wars occasionally. But I have stopped supporting 4th. I don't even look at 4th stuff cause I won't buy it. I don't need the game and the license repackaged just so that Hasbro can effectively do the same thing GW is doing here if they decide to. They forgot that it was the game worlds like Forgotten Realms that sold the product in the good old days, not the actual D&D game.
And by open, I just mean games published under the open game license or something similar. It doesn't have to be completely open for me to play it, although I am in the process of developing my own system while my group plays the above mentioned games or GURPS, which I don't mind and isn't open. Just as long as they aren't douchebags about it like GW is being.
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If it costs them $1 Mil in labor to recover the machines vs. $0.8 Mil to simply replace the machines with new ones, then the machines are "destroyed."
Because you already have one.
Try again, friend. I don't pay WoW, so I'm not a rabid fan boy defending it to the the death. Still I realize that a game that has to track, store and host massive amounts of player data is a far cry from a simple login server + lobby with cient-side hosting and would require a considerably larger amount of money. You're trying to compare apples to oranges in order to make some statement against WoW that isn't even an issue.
You miss the scope of this project. Darkstar is for servers that handle massive connections where the data has to interact in unknown ways, such in MMOs and social networking sites. It has little to do with game-specific hosted servers like you're thinking about. I do not think that very many of us are running machines that could handle a massive number of connections transmitting large amounts of data like what a MMO's zone server does.
It's time to play Pathfinder!
We're going to see rappers really getting into astronomy and space travel now. Only in an attempt to be the first rapper with a diamond pool in one of his videos. Or maybe have a tap with running diamonds in his mansion to one up Dave Chappelle sprinkling diamonds on his dinosaur eggs. Once 106 & Park gets involved in space aeronautics we may actually start seeing videos like this. You know, to get the kids involved.
in Century of The Self. This is an amazing documentary that makes me question the motives of everyone trying to sell me something. I only started watching it two days ago and Apple was one of the first companies on my mind and now here's a news article practically about the same thing.
Hitting a drum or pressing a piano key without any intimate knowledge of exactly what is happening behind the scenes does not a musician make. You do loose functionality, which is why they are classified as altogether different instruments. But it still doesn't make the player any less of a musician.
Actually, it looks like this one hsa frets that you must precisely press. It's NOT a guitar, but that is specifically mentioned in the description and the instrument lookd difficult in it's own right. An electronic piano is NOT a piano, either, but they can be sampled so as to sound much like a grand, or mated with a synthesizer to produce an unlimited number of sounds. This is music. This is technology. Sorry, if it doesn't fit your interpretation of music, but things like this have been around for a long time and are getting more and more popular each year. Take a look at digital drumsets. Are you going to tell me next that those are fake instruments and require no skill to perform on?
And yes, there are a lot of people who quit playing a musical instrument because it's hard. Which is exactly why you don't go out and buy a good expensive instrument! I keep on trying to get involved in programming, but I end up quitting because it's hard. I'm sure there are's a few programmers out there who'd like to be able to learn a musical instrument like I have, but end up quitting also.
Oh yeah? Well I once logged out of Slashdot to play a game of Shadowrun.
Is your skin anything but the purist of whites? Do you speak with an accent (from MY frame of reference)? Do you have a beard? Wear funny-looking clothes (again, from MY frame of reference)?
Then congratulations! YOU can be our next international terrorist! But, don't count yourself out just because you look like a white American. If you've ever visited one of the countries on our list and especially if you happened to be photographed while wearing the local fashions (we really like turbans), then you can join in too!
16 petabytes storage in production, two dozen or so unix machines, two mainframes, a godzillion Windows servers of the real and virtual variety, and 12 sites to service, two of which have not been migrated to our mainframe system yet and are using old, out of service systems that are not being properly maintained. 12 hour 1-man shifts after the last lay-offs (firings).
All of that is shared between two sites and only two people per day. God yes, we are understaffed. Granted, we're in a transitory period, but still. It sucks. I used to love my job, but now I leave work praying that I managed to catch everything that might have gone haywire before I left out of fear that the two ass-hat tattle-tales who never lift a finger to help anyone but themselves will go straight up and tell the boss(es) that I'm not doing my job in an attempt to make themselves look better. Back when we had two men onboard each night, we had each others back. Now everyone's trying to stab each others back and we can't even cover our own backs enough because there's almost too much work for one person to do.
A Beowulf cluster fuck?
So just because it's never happened to you or someone you know then it either doesn't happen at all or it's the victim's fault? I've never had any home I live in broken into, either. Does that mean burglars only prey on people who don't lock up their homes? This discussion shouldn't even have gotten this far off topic.
And yes, I do think that if public charging stations become popular (it really doesn't seem that far fetched to me) then phones will be a bit more susceptible to theft.
DON'T DATE ROBOTS!
Sorry. One just killed me in Midkemia and pissed me off. Otherwise they're okay.
You misspelled "get back in the kitchen."
You forgot one thing: Car makers have spent the last 100 years not inventing anything new... and strong-arming everyone who was trying to invent something new out of the market.
PARRY! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT9vBMhSn5U
Un gancho al corazón Boxing, race car driving and hot ass Latin bitches.
Yes! A spanking. And then the oral sex!
Oh, so NOW you wanna jump on the tin-foil bandwagon. Well, sorry. I've got news for ya. You're too late. They started making tin-foil so that it actually TRANSMITS the signal now man, and that's all they sell. You can't GET the good old tin-foil anymore, unless you stocked up back when we were telling you to. I ain't sellin' mine.
I finally got around to reading some of these and the first link I click on about halfway down is one of our boxes sending an ticket notification. heh. What a coincidence.
Oh how right you are. It should have been protected before it was sent. With encryption. And it's more than just scaren people's messages. It's everything from systems dialing home to report problems to police dispatch chatter.
My wording was wrong. I still do play D20 games, mostly D&D 3rd/3.5 and Star Wars occasionally. But I have stopped supporting 4th. I don't even look at 4th stuff cause I won't buy it. I don't need the game and the license repackaged just so that Hasbro can effectively do the same thing GW is doing here if they decide to. They forgot that it was the game worlds like Forgotten Realms that sold the product in the good old days, not the actual D&D game. And by open, I just mean games published under the open game license or something similar. It doesn't have to be completely open for me to play it, although I am in the process of developing my own system while my group plays the above mentioned games or GURPS, which I don't mind and isn't open. Just as long as they aren't douchebags about it like GW is being.